Chapter 64 : Ruse

After leaving a clone in Recovery Girl's office, Izuku went to his personal gym as he had to test out the last two synergies he got which were Debilitate, and Technopathy. Walking into the gym, he stood in the middle of it and closed his eyes activating Technopathy. The darkness of his closed eyes remained but wire meshes of wires and terminals lit the dark world.

Flows of binary and electricity could be seen as well as pulses of distorted air representing the WiFi upstairs. Opening his eyes the meshes remained but at lower opacity. He could now see how each wire powered or supported each item in the gym along with the building. Following the wires he finds his computer and accesses it remotely with a screen appearing in front of him along with a keyboard. Izuku walked to his room where the computer was with the screen still following him and he saw that the computer remained off.

Izuku then warped to the middle of the sea of Japan still followed by the screen of his computer which he still had full control of. Looking underwater he sees the undersea cable line which connects Japan and Russia. Tapping into the line he found he had access to all devices connected to its services as tens of millions of screens appeared around him stretching into the horizon.

Dismissing the screens, Izuku warps back into the gym and produces some Overhaul clones. Activating Debilitate the clones stumble but try to keep themselves up as they are sweating and becoming gaunter. Izuku falls onto his knees as his body splits open allowing tendrils to writhe around him before they lunge and stab into the clones with newly formed sharp metal blades making the clones dissipate. Without a target Debilitate deactivates which allows Izuku to try and get his body in order but it doesn't listen as the tendrils refuse to retract.

'I'm... starving. That's new.'

Using Item Creation, it generates a large mound of flesh and the tendrils immediately converge upon it tearing the mound into pieces. The tendrils mutated mouths of sharp jagged teeth and consumed the now shredded flesh. After a few minutes, the floor was clear of all signs of the feast with Izuku's body returning to what it once was.

Generating another mound he tested the quirk again with the same amount of clones. The clones stagger again the same with Izuku but the amount of tendrils released was about half of what it was. Before the tendrils could move Izuku used Horus to try and quell his hunger which worked a charm as the tendrils obediently retreated back into his body. The mound of flesh disappeared into dust using Decay as Izuku solidified his findings.

'Technopathy allowed a complete view and control of technology regardless of range while Debilitate was best for one on one fights with using it on large groups needed to be trained to not cause unnecessary causalities.'

With that done, Izuku returned to the public to resume his patrol though that was kinda a moot point as with the recent capture of the CRC the villains had gone into hiding with only small muggings taking place.

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The next day, Walter seemed to have made up his mind. He would stay in UA as a teacher specialising in information gathering and time management but he wanted to be in the loop when Alucard was found. Izuku began his search for Alucard within Japan just in case he was brought here like Walter but unfortunately, he was not. With his whereabouts currently unknown Izuku gets in contact with La Brava through Nezu to look through over a hundred years of records to determine where he might be.

With the search now out of his hands, he fell back into the routine of going to UA, patrol, and Rumi. Izuku wanted to search outside of Japan himself but the Japanese government was not willing to let their strongest out for something as trivial as a search.

Now that the CRC was mostly gone with a few fringe members scatted across Japan, the Inhuman Supremacy Group was moving to get closer to him as they believed that Invincible was at least sympathetic to their cause. Their protests and campaigns were getting more and more violent leading to property damage and heroes needed to mediate.

Invincible and Miruko were doing their usual patrol stopping for a snack as there were no incidents so far though there was a high concentration of emmiter and transformation quirk users hidden in areas near them as if waiting for something. "Patroling" into the center of the mass Izuku receives a convenient call from the Hero system that informs heroes of urgent incidents. A Nomu breakout had happened in Nagoya and they were tearing the city apart.

Looking around with X-ray he sees the emitter quirk users looking tensed at their phone or out of windows at Invincible. Wanting to see their plan in motion, Invincible decides to go along with the ruse.

"Miruko I'm needed in Nagoya."

"Just go I'm sure I'll be fine. Been a while since I could stretch my legs."

Nodding Invincible warps away leaving an excited Miruko who was getting warmed up as a crowd of people began to surround her. Invincible appeared above Nagoya and saw the city with a few pillars of smoke coming from multiple buildings. People were running away from what appeared to be nomu but they were anything but convincing. The Fomu were villains in disguise who had strength enhancers or transformation/emitter quirks.

Warping the civilians to a safe house Invincible sends multiple clones to the smoke and lands in front of the Fomus closest to him who visibly flinched upon his arrival.

"For hired thugs, you're not very good at acting. Did your employers tell you why you were doing this?"

The villains are compelled to answer.

"We are to attack and show the world that we, the pure are best."

Fiction

"Yeah, not happening."

The large Fomu rushed at Invincible while the other shot fire needles. The large Fomu kept punching at Invincible but it was having no effect yet he didn't stop. The same was happening to the fire needles which broke upon contact with Invincible's hero costume.

"I can at least commend you both for your commitment to try and slow me down and distract me but I think we're about done here."

With a wave of his hand, the large villain was knocked into the other making them both pass out and for their disguises to fall off. Invincible then used Overhaul to fix the damaged buildings. After warping the villains to a gathering site prepared by one of the clones, he opened the Hero system and reported the incident as a false alarm. It was just the remaining members of the CRC pulling a Hail Mary.

Invincible warps back into the air overlooking the city seeing it now repaired he warped the civilians back to where they were before the attack. The citizens looked up to see Invincible floating in the air and cheered thanking him for his help. Giving them a salute goodbye, he warps away to the villain-holding area outside the station to help the officers contain and process the villains arrested.

After a few minutes, with the processing done Invincible bids the officers farewell and warps back above where he left Miruko. Looking down he sees her next to a mound of unconscious bodies still fighting an evercoming swarm of bodies. Turning into a small fly with Beast Boy he lands on the side of a building and waits for the eventual big boss to show themselves.

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Next time

Chapter 65 : Deluded Cause