Following The Light.

When the people in the command center saw the slaughter of the people tasked with protecting them, the warden figured it was time.

"Shut it all down. We're evacuating."

No one questioned him as they began shutting down all their systems. If a Villain like Lucian were to escape, they knew he'd eventually come back here for his brothers and sisters.

They don't want to be anywhere near those prisoners that, if working together, could actually take over the planet. Their combined strength was monstrous.

"Warden. We were able to get a hold of them." Gram passed him a telephone as he got up and followed his fellow employees out of the room.

They were going to a secret exit point that held a submarine big enough to hold 200 hundred passengers.

"Cathleen, it's me, the Warden."

"It's nice to hear from you Warden! Tell me, how are things! Is everyone behaving nicely over there?! Do you need me to come and put anyone in line??"

"Actually, everything that could go wrong,… went wrong…"

"What…do you mean, Warden?"

Her tone calmed as The Warden began explaining the situation to her. He told her everything down to even the most minor details. When he finished speaking, she sat on the phone in silence.

"Are you still there? What are you going to do?"

The warden seemed to snap her out of her thoughts as she then said, "Lucian was defeated by one of my predecessors, but at the cost of their own life. However, he's been stripped of his quirk for years now and so it'll be hard for him to adapt at first."

She walked back and forth as she kept thinking of a plan that could turn out to be a really good one or easily turn out to be a terrible one.

"Warden, I'll send a team.."

"A team?! We need YOU Cathleen. Not some random ass team!"

"Don't worry, Warden. This team isn't exactly a normal one. It's full of people with some… crazy level of powers. One of them even has a quirk far superior to mine."

"Wha-? Just who the hell are these people, Cathleen?" Hearing her say that this group had an even stronger powerhouse than she herself intrigued him to ask.

"Freshmens! You are in for a real treat, Warden!"

"…."

"Call the president and tell him to put the U.S. on lockdown. Maybe then she'll see the true importance of what I'm saying."

The warden told a random office worker as they passed him. She flinched before nodding and running off.

"Don't do that, Warden. The group will be led by S.H., so there's really no need to worry."

"Oh, Andrews leading them? So the kids are just there to watch. You should've said that, Cathleen. Making it seem like they were the ones who were going to fight.."

The Warden laughed hysterically as he wiped away tears of laughter.

"Oh, uh… Yes, exactly! There's no way I'd let those kids fight Lucian by themselves, never.." She nervously laughed and continued.

"Alright. Let me go and tell them the news. It'll take a few hours to prepare them though."

"Try to hurry it up. He's just roaming the halls and killing all of our…"

The Warden dropped the telephone as his eyes honed in on the screen. A bright golden light had filled his eyes and in the next moment, a dead Warden slopped to the floor with a scorched face.

"Warden?" Cathleen repeatedly asked, hearing the loud thump. He was talking for one moment then in the next, he wasn't. Why was that? What happened to him? He wasn't the type to joke around in any given situation, so something serious really must've happened.

"Shit!"

She shouted and hung up the phone. The Wardens pool of blood covered the phone and leaked down the stairway.

The Warden eyes were fixed on the monitor as the yellow light slowly dimmed down then completely disappeared soon after.

Whatever said light was, it was powerful enough to kill him through a screen.

Truly a terrifying quirk.

….

"Where's the Warden?" The orange haired woman, Sabrina, said to the last boarding member of the submarine, Nemo.

"He stayed behind to have a talk with the number one hero of the United States. It shouldn't take long." The desk worker then continued into the submarine, leaving Sabrina to look back with a face of worry.

'He'd yell at me if I go back and leave the group behind. But still…' She of coursed worried for the man who gave her everything that she had today. If it wasn't for him, she'd probably still be a desk job worker for some crappy company.

Now she owned multiple companies and even though she made money passively, she decided that she wanted to be involved with something and so hearing that he was looking for someone to manage his prison, he asked Sabrina and she happily agreed to it.

'I'll go anyways. Underneath that thick skin, I know he cares a lot about-"

BOOM!!

She heard a explosion so loud that it busted her eardrums. Holding her ears and screaming at the top of her lungs, the ground began shaking and pieces of rock from the ceiling began falling down.

'What the hell was that?!' She said as tears fell. The sudden earthquakes caused her to fall flat onto her butt, springing her ankle in the process.

'I-I can't…' The submarines hatch closed and sirens went off before it slowly submerged underwater, leaving Sabrina behind.

'Am I going to die? Here?!' The tears weren't just from the pain anymore, but the despair she was feeling. 'If this is really it then…'

A rock as big as a car fell down from the ceiling and headed towards Sabrina. 'I can at least die knowing that I did some justice…' and so using her quirk, she conjured a single pen and paper and began writing on the rugged ground.

What she wrote was a list of 'names' and quirks. These names were of all the people imprisoned in Apophis. She knew that even if this placed collapsed, there were those that could still escape.

She wanted to warn the world of the dangers that would eventually wreak havoc, hoping that this one

Last-ditch effort would help the heroes of this world.

'If the Warden is dead, he's really gonna give me hell in the after life. I can already see him yelling at me for dying…'

The giant rock was just inches away from her. With her last thoughts that were filled with rings that never stopped ringing, she smiled and mumbled,

"I-"

Blood splattered everywhere and on everything. The rock was literally inches away from her. At the speed it was going, there'd be no way for her to complete that sentence.

She need to wake up fr.

Oh wait.

….

"Seeing as this will be your first mission and all, after completing it, what do you say we got out to celebrate? I'm thinking pizza and hot wings."

Aboard the D77- TC, or more commonly known as The Stalker, were Andrew and [<The Watchers>]. They were flying in a personalized aircraft made by Chris himself which featured an A.I that could control the plane by itself.

Battle ready, but heavily nervous, [<The Watchers>] were trying to calm themselves down by taking their thoughts off the current situation they were in. They were ordered to fight and detain an S-Ranked Villain with as minimum help from Andrew as possible.

"I see that your all nervous and that totally understandable. Though I'd snap out of it if I were you. The missions already in progress so you might as well.."

He sighed and went towards the cockpit. The group of 5 sat in silence for a while before Orion broke it.

"So uhm, anyone else's spandex riding up on them." He lifted his right thigh up and plucked out his wedgie.

They were able to wear their superhero costumes, but underneath, had to wear these black carbon fiber outfits that provided basic things for survival.

Things such as features that made them adapt to any temperature, or even translating languages automatically for them.

It was uncomfortable, but really useful and so they chose to cope with it. "They are a little, yeah…" Iker seemed too shy to pull them out in front of everyone whilst the other party causally did it.

"Our first mission man… I'm nervous but at the same time a little excited. We're getting an opportunity that no other kid gets, aren't we?"

"Yeah, not many 14 year olds have to put their life on the line just after entering high school. Definitely a once and a lifetime kind of thing.." Orion retorted.

They agreed with him for the most part. "But YOU can't possibly be worried, right?" Orion sighed and shook his head at Accel. "Oh, I'm worried. Just not for myself…" He glanced at all of them before putting his head down.

He read the mission report. Not only is being able to manipulate sun light itself such an overpowered quirk, but being stated to rival the powers of 100 conjoint suns when going all out is no joke. 'I mean, how is that even possible, especially for someone in this world. I do see how my predecessor was able to defeat them at the cost of their own life however.'

One thing that Orion was 'happy' about was that the dude himself wasn't as fast as his light powers. He could be, but we figured out that moving at such speeds causes him to quickly waste away his life span as no human was ever created to move at such speeds.

God had to nerf him in some way. More ways than one actually.

'Light based attacks will thankfully move at speeds the eye can't comprehend which people interpreted as light speed attacks. So yes, they are avoidable, just hard to do…'

Still though, could they do it? Rin could block out any attack passively, but there have been cases of people bypassing such restrictions when fighting someone with passive like abilities. Takes speed and overbearing strength though which was exactly what the enemy had.

'The others are screwed. Accel and Iker are too slow and Percy might just kill himself by pushing his probability to 100% and asking for an instant win. Anything less than 100% will probably not work on this guy.

Sigh…'

So broken that everything could be easily accomplished. The downside is seeing how useless everyone else could be.

'I don't wanna take all the glory for this. I want it to be a team effort. Otherwise I might really set the boundary between us as superior and inferior. A team shouldn't have those sort of boundaries..'

"Alright guys, mask on. We're almost there.." Andrew came out the cockpit eating a bag of chips. The kids all then put on their mask and looked at Andrew.

"Overview is that a guy locked up for seventy years has escaped. He gets his powers from the sun and is a force that even Cathleen might have trouble dealing with."

That put them more on edge than they already were.

"To be honest here, we aren't expecting you to kill the guy, hell not even to detain him. We just want to deal a blow that'll put him into hiding. Is that clear?"

They all nodded and Andrew smiled. "Good, good. I've proclaimed myself as the strongest but not the fastest. Doesn't mean I can't completely react to him of course. Just maybe not chase him down, get it?"

They understood.

"Okay then. Any final questions before we land?"

They all raised their hands, but he only picked on Rin.

"What if he kills us?"

"Ah, good question. There's actually another reason why we sent you guys on this mission. And that's because he doesn't kill kids. He literally only ever slaughter those above 18 and stared so himself. None of you older than that, right?"

'I'm body, no. And also, why should we trust his word?'

They all shook their heads no.

"Wait, but wouldn't that mean he'll be gunning for you then?"

"That's true, Percy, but I ain't an easy target. I can take a few hits, you know? A shame we'll be battling on an small island. I'll have to tone it down to a 3."

He always said these numbers that referred to the amount of strength he could use out of ten. He says he stays at a 5 on average.

<5 minutes until arrival. All passengers are advised to stay in their seats and buckle in.>

The A.I system said over the intercom. Andrew took a seat next to Iker and buckled in. "Good luck everyone. You may not, but we all believe in your abilities.

The next generation sure is promising…" He doubted whether the could be genuine heroes or not, but they for sure had the power to protect the people of this world.

""Thank you.""

The kids aid in unison as their aircraft touched down on the grassy green ground.

….

AN: Merry Christmas everyone. Hope you all got something you liked.