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Unforeseen Simulation Joint

Flood Zone

"Did you have to hit me so hard?!" Denki hissed as he glared at both Tooru and Mina. He was nursing a smoking bump that was peaking over his blond hair, not at all pleased with being assaulted. Around his wrists was a single thick, red mark, indicating he had his hands bound at some point.

"Well, what did you expect?!" the pink girl loudly replied. "You don't catch a girl by surprise, especially in a scary situation!"

"I was gagged and locked in a closet by some jerk with a mask! You think that wasn't scary?! I was just glad I got out when I did!"

"Who laughs like a crazy psycho when they're happy?" Tooru asked as she wrapped a towel around her invisible body.

"That doesn't matter right now!" Hanta interrupted. "So, uh… was it Kirishima?"

"It's Kaminari," replied an irritated Denki.

"Right, sorry. You two have similar last names. Do you know who put you in the closet? Maybe that can give us a clue as to who did it and who's behind this whole thing."

"I don't know! It was dark! And my eyes were still adjusting from when that flash of light happened. The only reason why I knew he had a mask was because they were glowing in the dark."

"Well, that didn't help at all."

The quintet of students was suddenly brought back to their situation when the ship jerked to the side for split second, causing everyone to tumble towards the guardrail. They barely had enough time to collect their bearings when another impact jerked it forward.

"What the hell was that?!" yelled Denki in a panic.

"It appears we are in danger, mes amies (my friends)," said the sparkly blond with a frightened version of his usual smile. He purposely left out that it was possibly his fault.

"IN DANGER OF WHAT?! Someone tell me what's going on out— Hey, what are those?"

Denki pointed out the legion of metallic humps pushing through the water, not yet making the connection between what hit them and what was swimming about.

"Um… Well, remember when I said we were in a scary situation?" Mina said with a deceptively frightened smile on her face. She didn't wait for a response before she continued. "Well, those things are why… Hehe… We're in danger."

A stiff, dumbfounded silence engulfed the group before they were knocked off their feet when the ship suddenly dropped and tilted slightly on its side. It had enough force to have Denki fall onto the guardrail, the top half of his body dangling over the edge. It was there where he spotted a terrifying sight.

One of the robotic bugs had latched itself onto the side of the vessel and was now slowly making its way to the students.

Denki was frozen in fear for a second before his brain rewired itself when he heard the same robotic creature moved one of its terrestrial limbs upward and latched onto the ship with a heavy thud. And it could be the hysteria sitting in, but he also heard a brief suction sound when it made contact.

"We're in deep shit trouble!" he shouted in a panicked voice.

"What are we going to do?!" Tooru shouted as she gripped the towel even harder than before. "There's nowhere to run from them! We're trapped!"

"Ce fut un honeur de vous connaître, même si je ne me soucie pas beaucoup de vous tous," (It was an honor knowing you, even if I don't care much about you all.) Yuga said in a surprisingly calm voice. Though his face betrayed any sort of tranquility that should have went with voice tone.

"C'mon, there's got to be something we could do!" Mina exclaimed as she waved her arms around frantically. It came to an abrupt stop when she realized something obvious. "Oh wait. How could I forget!?"

She leaned her body over the guardrail to get a good angle on the mechanical bug. She reared one of her arms back as her other one gripped the guardrail. Beginning from the palm of her hand and slowly dripping down her wrist and forearm was a clear, viscous liquid.

"Eat acid, you fiend!"

Mina threw her Quirk's namesake directly onto the robot's red, glowing optical sensors. There was a subtle hissing sound and a small amount of smoke coming from where the acid made contact. Some of it also splashed onto one of the joints that connected the limb to the main body, though there was nothing indicating it was doing anything to it. That being said, the visor containing the optical sensors was beyond recognizable when her Quirk had finished eating through.

It seemed to be somewhat effective, as their damaged target seemed to be moving slower compared to before. But it didn't stop all together or drop back into the water like the group of five expected. On top of that, the limbs it was using to climb the ship was taking more time to latch onto the side compared to before and the body was fidgeting every time it moved its limbs, oddly enough.

"Oh c'mon!" Mina exclaimed. "Why are you still coming up?! I melted your stupid face off!"

The mechanical insect stopped fidgeting when it heard the pink girl speak. There was an unsettling mechanical groaning as its body turned towards the source of the voice.

Mina let out a quiet and drawn out squeak of fear when she saw the action occur in front of her, the other four bracing themselves for something to happen. The low, humming sound was grinding against their ears and composure like a grindstone.

With a single movement, the robotic creature leaped from its position and right up to the group with the sight and sound of splintering wood. Mina moved out of the way when it reared itself back for its jump, but failed to tell the rest of her group to get out of the way. The other four had been thrown back when the floor in front of them collapsed under the weight of the robotic creature.

Denki let out a frightened swear, which caused the creature to shift its body in their direction.

Hanta shot off two streams of tape, each one latching onto one of the front limbs and to the overhead ceiling and wall. It was a meager effort to slow it down, but they only needed a few extra seconds.

"Aoyama, hit it with your Quirk!" he desperately called out.

"It did not work the first time, mon camarade," Yuga said whilst trying to remain calm.

"Well, now you got an easier shot! And it has a weak point for you to fire at. Now do it!"

The sparkly blond eyed the still smoking hole Mina made earlier, exposing a mess metal and sparking parts inside the seemingly unstoppable enemy. His first shots from earlier clearly didn't do any damage to the creature's back, as the slight scuff indicated. But now, with it so close and so vulnerable, there was no possible way his Quirk will fail him this time. He had to make up for his mistake!

Pulling his arms behind his head, leaning back slightly, and bracing his knees, Yuga unleashed a full powered blast directly from his reflective belt buckle. And unlike the first time, the beam ripped straight through. There was a brief moment where it still had some life in it, but immediately stilled unresponsive and fell back into the water.

"J'ai attaint ma cible," (I have hit my target.) Yuga said with confidence.

"Alright!" Tooru called out. "It's dead!"

"That was a close one," Denki said as he placed a hand over his chest.

"Totally killed it!" Mina shouted.

"Okay that's one down," Hanta muttered as everything began winding down. "Now what do we do about the rest?"

The other four students slowly turned their heads towards the tape teen as an awful realization dawned on them. Turning their heads towards the open water, they all spotted the metallic humps still circling some distance the sea faring vessel. It was then they realized their 'great accomplishment' was a little victory compared to the entire situation. As if on cue, when they turned to see the remaining enemies, they all appeared to be getting closer while retaining their circling formation.

"Oh…" Mina lamely said. "I forgot about those."

Denki let out a soulless squeal in fear.

Tooru was unable to form words, so her speech was jumbled.

"Merde (Crap)," Yuga plainly said, already feeling his Quirk catch up to him.

Main Plaza

The group that was previously on the Mountain Zone had just made it to the main plaza after a short bit of walking. It would have been a longer walk if it weren't for Shoto's action, as tactless and unexpected as it seemed.

While they were making their way to a large, stone fountain, a notable landmark of the main plaza, Setsuna had sent her head upward to see if she could spot any of her classmates in any of the neighboring zones. The immediate problem the greenette experienced with her search was the fact that the USJ was HUGE. Even at the location where every zone was relatively close, she still had a lot of trouble picking out what tiny details stuck out the most. Even some of the zones weren't entirely shown from her position, such as the large buildings just behind the main entrance of the Collapsed Zone or the ridiculous amount of rain pouring down that made the Typhoon Zone nearly indistinguishable from there. And then there are the oddities, like the tiny waves occurring at the Flood Zone or the… was it the Conflagration Zone? She really couldn't tell with just the burnt buildings.

'Where's the fire?' she thought as her head laid suspended in midair.

As her eyes scanned over the zone, she spotted some movement at the entrance. As she was squinting to get a better picture, she could barely make out a yellow dot, something white, a black thing, maybe another black thing, and several splotches of pink with some black…

A relieved smile broke out on Setsuna's face as her head returned to her body.

"Did you find anything, Tokage?" Tsuyu asked, a quiet croak escaping her throat.

"I found the guys we're supposed to rescue!" she replied.

She drew looks from Izuku and Momo, both relieved that their classmates, friends, and Katsuki were fine. It wasn't everyone, but it was a good start.

It took some time for the team from the Conflagration Zone to make it to the fountain, but they were in fair spirits when they did meet up.

Ochako was the first one to run up to them when they arrived at the fountain.

"You guys okay?" she called out, immediately going to Momo and Izuku.

"We're all fine, Uraraka," Momo answered for both herself and her group. "What about you?"

"I'm okay. Everyone else is okay. Iida, maybe."

Izuku furrowed his brows before saying, "What happened with Iida?"

"Poor bastard almost got flattened by one of those shitty bug things," Katsuki bluntly said. "Had to get Round Face to bail him out. That's what the moron gets for not paying attention."

"Katsuki…"

"I told him to walk it off, but he kept pussing out and getting help from Tentacles."

"Katsuki."

"And speaking of Round Face, the extra wouldn't stop shaking like a snot nosed brat from how much of a coward she was during that whole thing."

"KATSUKI!"

"THE FUCK DO YOU WANT, DEKU?!"

A serious expression was on Izuku's face when he spoke with the volatile blond. Normally, he'd be a lot more expressive or outright ignoring his anger banter when he addressed him. That face and voice tone typically meant no screwing around, or 'no bullshit' in Katsuki's case.

"This isn't the time for that right now. We still need to find the teachers and the rest of our class. So keep yourself in check, would you?"

A deep frown stretched across Katsuki's face before he replied, "Tch… Alright, fine. I'll talk about the extras' disappointments later."

"We are standing right here, Bakugo," Tenya said in an irritated voice.

"Not without a damn crutch, Glasses."

The other three that were with Katsuki in the Conflagration Zone gave their own version of the stink eye towards the blond; not at all please with being put down even after he said he would mellow out.

"How bad are your injuries, Iida?" Izuku asked the speedy teen, ignoring Katsuki's ceaseless pursuit of being an egotistical jerk. From a quick once over he could see some bits of his armor missing, more notably around his shins and chest piece. On top of the chips, there was a large crack down the middle of the plate armor.

"It is nothing life threatening, Midoriya," Tenya responded, trying and failing to hide a wince. "I simply miscalculated the durability of our opponents and wound up paying for it."

"He took a direct hit from one of the robots, though the blow was lessened with Uraraka's Quirk," Fumikage spoke up.

"Yes, I never did thank you for your assistance, Uraraka."

The brunette girl laughed awkwardly before she replied with, "Well, I just kinda reacted. It wasn't a big deal!"

"Did you find anyone else in the Conflagration Zone?" Momo asked as she was tinkering with a radio device.

"We didn't," Mezo answered for the group. "It was just the five of us there."

Momo simply nodded before she flipped a switch on the radio device. She had everything set up properly, from the radio frequency to the outgoing signal strength. A quiet sigh escaped her mouth when she heard static coming from the single speaker. All eyes were now on her and the radio.

'Okay, it works,' she internally thought. 'Now to see if I can establish communication.' She clicked a red button on the base of the microphone and spoke into it.

"U.A., this is Class 1-A. We're under attack by villains in the USJ. Do you read me?"

Only static was heard when she released the button. She held down the button again to repeat her message.

"U.A., this is Momo Yaoyorozu of Class 1-A. We're at the USJ and we're under attack by villains. Can anyone read me?"

More static was her reply when she once again released the button. She could feel the nerves beginning to get to her at the lack of response, but she remained composed and continued to hope for the best. Taking a deep breath, she repeated her message.

"U.A., if you're receiving my message, please respond! We're under attack by villains and we need assista—"

A loud crash, followed by crumbling concrete, startled the dark haired girl from her message. Everyone present turned their attention to the cause of the shockingly loud crash. At the Collapsed Zone, a building was slowly coming down onto the main gateway of the zone, kicking up dust and debris. The cloud of dust was quick to settle around the students, but it still brought out the concern of what caused it.

Heavy thumps permeated the entire USJ and a large, hulking, silhouetted figure made its way over the rubble that had been a building not a minute ago.

"Well, what do we have here?" he said with a deep echo in his voice, as if it was passing through a voice filter. "More Heroes? No. You're nothing more than runts under these excuses for Pros."

As more dust settled around the destroyed building, more of the villain's appearance was shown. He had a grey gas mask with yellow, vertical stripes over the eyepieces on his face; a black, tight-fitting, long sleeved shirt that showed off his impressive physique; tan, camouflage-patterned pants stuffed inside a pair of black, military-style boots; black knee pads with spikes protruding from the center; and around his arms were metallic gauntlets with yellow highlights.

As the student's eyes landed below the gauntlets, their blood ran cold at the sight.

In the villain's hands were the battered bodies of their teachers, one held by her hair while the other by the back of her costume. Nemuri's body suit was torn everywhere and her face was caked in her own blood. There was barely any movement happening with her, but the subtle motions of her breathing indicated she was still alive. But overall, she was in really bad shape.

Thirteen was missing the dome portion of her space helmet, giving everyone a look at her horribly bloodied face. Her purple and blue, star-studded, twinkling hair was dulled with dust and discolored with dark crimson. Her costume-less, similarly patterned arms hung limply from their sockets. It was difficult to tell if she was alive or not from the lack of movement.

The students couldn't believe what they were seeing with their eyes. Two Pro-Heroes, one of them their own homeroom teacher, were beaten by a villain. Not only beaten but, from the lack of damage on the villain himself, overwhelmed.

Momo couldn't feel herself breathe. Nemuri, the one person to push and comfort her on the path in controlling 'Hakai', beaten and barely hanging on to life was overwhelming to the young woman. She didn't think something like this could ever happen to her.

"BASTARD!" shouted two raging voices.

Dashing faster than the two have shown before were Izuku and Katsuki, both sporting faces that screamed livid. The blond was letting off rapid-fire explosions while the greenette was firing off continuous jets of fire from his fists. It completely caught the students off guard from how sudden and reckless the action was.

Seeing as he was being approached by two students, the hulking villain casually tossed the unconscious Heroes behind him.

"So, you choose to fight, Heroes?" he said, adding a mocking emphasis in the last word. He didn't make any attempt to move as the two students drew closer.

Katsuki, having been the one ahead of Izuku, unleashed an explosion that both sent him upward and created a heavy smoke screen. At the same time, the greenette transformed the fire around his gloves, in addition to the flaming torrent of breath he unleashed, and launched it in a large fireball.

The villain simply cocked one of his legs back and kicked skyward with immense power. This created an insanely strong gust of wind that snuffed out the fireball and threw Katsuki off from his initial path. Then he shot from his spot and threw another kick at Izuku, who barely had enough time to raise his arms to protect himself. He may have saved his face from damage, but the kick was strong enough to send him flying past the group of students. Katsuki called out to Izuku in surprise, but was then sent falling to earth by a bicycle kick from the same villain that just punted his friend. He hit the ground at an angle and tumbled to the same location as the greenette.

'Just like that?' Momo shakily thought. She couldn't believe the two strongest students in her class were just thrown away effortlessly; a sentiment shared by most of her other classmates. From their position, both students weren't moving. 'He took them down so easily…'

"I must say I'm quite disappointed," the villain said as he patted his pants of gathered dust. "Two Heroes rising to the challenge of fighting off a villain that attacked their school, and they both end up flat on their face. All the while, eight others are simply here to watch as I put them into the ground. Have you no shame, Heroes?"

With anger rising at being taunted, Shoto stepped forward and unleashed a massive amount of ice towards the villain in an attempt to capture him. But just as it was getting close, he unleashed a powerful kick that completely destroyed the iceberg into little ice shards.

"Did you really think that was going to work, young man?" he asked mockingly. What followed was Shoto getting launched away from the group with a strong kick, leaving the villain standing in front of them with his leg outstretched to the side. "You're fighting a top tier villain. Simple tricks like that will not work on me."

Momo and Ochako felt like crying right now. Three of their strongest classmates were down without the villain even breaking a sweat. Both of their teachers were near death when they saw them. And now here he was, towering over all of them with a menace that no one has ever felt before in their life. It was as if a giant was standing before them, and they were mere ants.

The dual Quirked girl couldn't feel the mesh around her right hand begin disintegrating into purple particles. She couldn't feel herself breath. She couldn't even think. For the first time in her life, she feared something other than her secondary Quirk.

She was shocked out of her despair when the villain jumped to the side to avoid a fast-moving stream of crimson. As the villain dodged the flaming bullet, Katsuki went to intercept him with a powerful string of explosions.

"If you extras are just gonna gawk at this asshole, then get the fuck out of my way!" the volatile blond violently roared. Immediately after Katsuki shouted and set off some powerful explosions, three more streams of fire shot passed the students. From behind them, Izuku had his apparatus over his mouth anew with his arms forward and the ring and pinky fingers down.

"Everyone, get away from here!" the greenette shouted in urgency. His suit had a couple of scuffs and his visor was smashed to bits. He had a bit of blood dripping from his forehead from where his head scraped the ground, but he didn't seem to notice or care. Additionally, the top portions of his suit's sleeves were completely gone, as if it was burned off from how the edges of the remaining fabric were blackened. "We'll keep him busy enough for you to get to the main entrance! The plaza isn't safe anymore!"

That wasn't what the students expected Izuku to say, especially after getting knocked away by a behemoth of a man.

"What about you and Bakugo?!" Ochako loudly replied. She, alongside the others, didn't like the idea of leaving behind their fellow classmates to fight a villain by themselves.

"We can handle it fine! Just go!" The pyrokinetic Quirk user ran ahead of the group of students to backup his blond friend.

Those words seemed to have snapped Momo out of her funk, but it wasn't out of relief. The words that her… friend?... said implied both he and Katsuki were going to sacrifice themselves to keep them safe, which didn't sit well with her at all. She understood why he told them that in the first place, those two having demonstrated their teamwork and practical skills during the team exercise yesterday, but it didn't justify it. Tactics and teamwork don't mean anything if your opponent can simply bulldoze through all of it.

The self sacrifice trope may have been a cliché in many forms of media, but those typically didn't have any real stakes. This did. And there was a possible chance that this villain can kill everyone here, including the students they haven't found yet. All the meanwhile, she and the other students would be sitting back and only reacting to the situation when the villain turned his attention to her and her other classmates.

This is a very real situation, and it required the best she and everyone could bring right now. Any sort of submission or hesitation would result in dire consequences.

The regal teen addressed the rest of her remaining classmates when she slapped her own face with both of her hands. She felt like it was the only way to hype herself up and get everyone's attention at once. She also wiped away any moisture that threatened to spill not a minute ago.

'I can't fall apart now,' Momo thought with a familiar fire behind her eyes, her body panting from overcoming the emotional stress. 'I need to make sure everyone gets out safe.'

"Everyone, I'm going to need your cooperation for this," she said in a commanding tone. "Shouji, I need you to get Iida away from here. If his injuries make him unable to use his Quirk and if you are able, get him outside of the USJ. I'll make a smoke signal flare so you can signal U.A. for help. If they didn't get my radio message, then that should be our next option."

She received a nod from the large, multi-armed teen.

"Uraraka, Asui, you need to retrieve Midnight and Thirteen, and get them to the main entrance. With the villain being preoccupied, now is the best chance we will have to get them out of here safely."

The two girls gave their own versions of agreement, with one looking more determined while the other looked a little less blank.

"Tokage, you will look for Todoroki." She pointed to a group of trees near the Landslide Zone. "He should be in that general direction. If he's seriously hurt, do the same with him as the others will with Iida and the teachers."

"But what about the robots?" Tsuyu asked. "Shouldn't we be worried about those on the way to the main entrance? Or even outside of the USJ?"

"When I did my flyby, I didn't see any of those things by the entrance," spoke up Setsuna. "Nothing was out of the ordinary from what I saw up there."

"And the USJ is outfitted with perimeter scanners," Momo added. "So even if the warning systems inside the facility itself are disabled, the ones outside the facility should still be operational."

"But what will you and Tokoyami do, Yaoyorozu?" Ochako questioned.

"I'll have to discuss a plan with him first," Momo replied as she lowered her eyes for a brief moment before turning them back on her classmates. "For now, do your roles. We need proper execution if we are to get out of this in one piece."

She quickly made an intricate-looking flare gun with a short barrel and wide nozzle, and a single shell that she loaded and locked into place. She gave it to one of Mezo's many arms and gave him instructions to simply point it straight up when they were outside. The smoke signal should have enough vertical range for the campus to see it. With that, the two rescue pairs were on their way to fulfill their given roles.

Now it was time for the hard part. How to support Izuku and Katsuki with only Fumikage and a low amount of lipids at her disposal?

"What do you have planned for myself and Dark Shadow, Yaoyorozu?" asked the black clad teen. At the same time, his Quirk appeared from his abdomen, the sentient shadow being giving off a 'Yo!' as a greeting.

Momo furrowed her eyes with a grimace as she racked her brain for some ideas. Her right hand was holding her chin in a thinking position.

"What's your range with your Quirk, Tokoyami?" she asked.

Without skipping a beat, he answered with, "I can control Dark Shadow from a maximum distance of about 20 meters."

"Defense and attack parameters?"

"He is exceptionally durable in defense and he can be quite powerful physically, depending on how much darkness is around me. His only real weakness is light, which could be a problem if I am to be involved with a fight with Midoriya or Bakugo."

'That's a predicament,' she thought. 'Those two would clash in a team up with Tokoyami. But…'

It was then she snapped her right hand in a 'eureka!' moment.

'Wait, the mesh material I use to cover up my arm! It won't limit his Quirk's movements and all I need to do is make a layer that is able to absorb light without making it permeable enough for it to be affected by it! That could work!'

She quickly pulled out her oversized encyclopedia using her left hand and flipped through the pages until she found a page on paint coatings. Several complicated molecule diagrams with descriptions in the models completely covered the page, something Fumikage couldn't even begin to make sense of.

'Souzou' came to life from Momo's left arm. From her bicep and forearm ever so slowly emerged a large, pitch black, mesh material with sleeves and a hood-like attachment with eye holes. Had she not been holding the material by the inside of the material, it would have been nearly impossible to tell which end was the top without spreading or feeling it out. It surprised the avian-headed boy from how black the garment was. It's like an abyss opened up right in front of him.

"This mesh material should be able to absorb surrounding light without your Quirk absorbing it as well, Tokoyami," stated Momo as she lightly panted.

Adding the pitch black coating was more complicated than she expected. Normally, a mesh that size would take very little time and energy to make, but the light-absorbing coating made it a lot more complicated to make. She was dangerously close to being spent. If she had to guess, she estimated her lipid reserves to be around 11 percent, which means she only had about 1 percent to work with until the Heroes show up.

This is where everything counts.

Several Minutes Earlier

Landslide Zone

"Take this!" shouted Eijiro with a powerful uppercut.

The armored redhead managed to knock one of the mechanical bugs into another one with his hardened fist. Stuck on its back, along with the rest of them, were many purple and very sticky balls, the bane of their robotic existence. For all their strength and dexterity a tiny, cowardly boy's Quirk was enough to stop them in their tracks.

As much as the other members of the group didn't want to admit it, Minoru's Quirk was incredibly handy to have around in this situation. Kyoka's plan to have the little pervert throw his sticky balls onto the robots' backs and then knock them into each other using Rikido and Eijiro was simple, but effective. Yet, it never would have worked out without the keystone of the entire operation.

The little grape boy was relishing his importance to the plan… by bleeding profusely from the scalp and struggling to stay conscious. They almost lost Koji when he saw how much Minoru was bleeding from his head, but a good pep talk from Kyoka and Eijiro kept him together.

"Okay, that should stop them for now," Kyoka said as she assessed the damage.

Despite still being operational, the mechanical pill bugs weren't able to function whilst being stuck together. Since they were attached by portions of their backs, their body equilibrium was completely offset, so they couldn't walk properly over the softened ground. Add two super-strong teenagers knocking them down the hill and a girl burying them with softened earth using her Quirk's amplified sounds vibrations, and those mechanical creatures may as well be buried treasure.

"Finally…" Minoru muttered in pain, eyes rolled up to where his pupils and irises couldn't be seen.

"Good job team!" Eijiro yelled in accomplishment. "We kicked robot butt and nobody got hurt!"

"Except Mineta," replied a snorting Kyoka. He may have been important to the plan, but she still didn't like him or his perverted tendencies. She hadn't forgotten the tiny boy calling her flat or voicing his desires to grope Momo. She seemed like a nice person, she didn't need a perverted gremlin lusting after her. Nobody needed that.

A hollow groan was all he could reply at the moment.

"Well… at least we're still in one piece."

"Now, let's get out of here before those things try anything desperate to catch us. Keep your distance, guys."

The group had opted to go around the immobile machines, as going over them just spelled disaster on top of stupidity. The only girl in the group had her good earphone jack trained on the group of bots as an extra precaution while they headed to the zone's exit.

Rikido had asked Koji if he wanted to get a break from carrying Minoru, seeing as the quiet boy looked traumatized at holding a bodied body. The only answer the brown-haired boy got was a small body being shoved into his arms by the previous carrier of said body. A quiet groan escaped Minoru's mouth over the roughness of the exchange.

"Should we be concerned about Mineta?" sugar Quirk user asked the others in his group. "He doesn't look too good right now."

"He's fine," Kyoka replied immediately as she pointed her good earphone jack at the tiny boy's head. "See? The blood's already stopped on its own. It's no big deal. He can handle a little blood loss."

"That's one scary Quirk side effect," Eijiro commented as he eyed the grape-haired boy over Rikido's shoulder.

The deafening sound of a powerful impact and crumbling concrete shocked them out of the cooling atmosphere they were just beginning to savor. From above the tree line they eyed one of the buildings coming down in a large cloud of dust.

"What the hell was that?!" Kyoka all but shouted. The other boys were sporting shocked looks as well.

"That was a building, wasn't it?!" Eijiro questioned, his feet frozen in place. "Why did it crash down like that?!"

Koji looked ready to freak out when he saw what happened in front of his eyes and Rikido was on the same boat, but at a lower level.

There were explosions and what sounded like a jet engine in the area close to the destruction zone, which Kyoka clearly picked up with her jacks. They were followed by two heavy impact noises and another explosion, though this one sounded like a rapid expanse of air, like a sonic boom. And what startled her was something hitting the soil that followed another impacting sound, one that was much closer to them than the others. For better or for worse, she also heard pained groaning from where the point of impact occurred.

"Guys, I think someone's hurt!" Kyoka called out to the guys.

Flood Zone

"This… GAH!... is… GAH!… the worst!" Denki shouted as he desperately struggled to keep himself upright. His teammates had shared the same thought as they tried and failed to keep themselves upright after another strong impact forced it backward.

The past few minutes were full of falling over and anxiety for the group in the Flood Zone. When the mechanical creatures closed their circle formation on the students, they began bombarding the yacht with powerful hits to the sides, front, and back. One attack after the other, the floating vessel kept jerking in different directions. It got to the point where the students were putting all their energy into staying upright and trying not to succumb to nausea. The constant movements of the modestly sized ship was taking a toll on some of the students and the ones that don't have much an issue with it had their hands full keeping the sick ones from going over.

It was the equivalent of an earthquake simulator; except replace the 'earth' with 'boat', the 'quake' with 'rocking', and 'simulator' with 'situation'. A 'boat rocking situation', as Denki put it before eating a pole with his face.

"Somebody please make it stop!" Tooru desperately shouted with a wobble in her voice. She was currently hanging on to Mina's back with her arms around her neck (almost strangling her in the process) and her legs around her waist. She may have been able to handle amusement park rides, but they didn't typically last as long as this and were not nearly as dangerous.

"Stupid bug things," Mina hissed out, mostly due to the invisible girl cutting off her airways. Despite having a strong stomach, the continuous movements were beginning to wear her down. It didn't help there was another body weighing her down. "They're fighting dirty."

"Désolé, mes camarades," (Sorry, my comrades) Yuga muttered. His contorted, still smiling face looked to be in pain as he held on to Hanta, much to his chagrin. "It appears I have reached my limit. You can handle the rest, no?"

"Two sentences without French means we're screwed, right?" asked Hanta. Bits of his tape sticking out of his elbows were holding the upper half of his body upright while his legs were doing all the leveling. It was a crude way to hold himself up but then again he could be Denki, struggling to hold onto anything and getting knocked around every time the ship jerked around.

"Make… GAH!... this stop… GAAAH!... you stupid… AGH!... bug things!" the electric Quirk user shouted in broken speech, each one signifying when he fell over.

"That's not going to make them stop, Kirishima!"

"It's Kaminari! How did… GAH!... How did you get my name wrong again!?"

"I told you, they sound similar!"

"They don't sound similar at all!"

"Uh, guys?" Mina called out.

"They do sound similar, monsieur électrique." (Mr. Electric)

"Oh c'mon! They don't even end in the same kanji!"

"Guys, we've stopped!"

Just as the electric blond was about to open his mouth with another retort, he and the other guys realized the sea fairing vessel had ceased all spastic movement. Some subtle motion remained, but it wasn't like before.

"Oh thank goodness!" Tooru called out, though she didn't let go of Mina from how nauseas she still felt. "It finally stopped! I thought I was going to throw up!"

"Please don't," Mina quietly begged.

"You think something scared them off?" Denki asked as he looked around past the bow of the ship.

"I don't think robots feel fear, dude," Hanta replied, quickly shooting down the thought.

But just as the electric Quirk user was about to offer a rebuttal, he noticed something about the water surrounding the ship.

It was moving in such a way that made it look like it was boiling without bubbles or extreme heat. The ripples were large enough to make tiny waves that reached out to the edges of the Flood Zone. As Denki was looking over the railing into the water he also noticed the mechanical bugs' absence around the ship. Not two seconds ago they were bombarding the vessel with hit after hit, and now they went… somewhere. He didn't quite get a grasp of the situation. Traces of nausea were scrambling his brain a bit.

"I don't like this," Hanta muttered to himself. "Something's gonna happen, but I can't tell what."

"It's quiet…" Mina muttered lowly.

"Is it over?!" Tooru cried out.

"Dang it, Hagakure. You're supposed to say 'Too quiet' when it was your turn."

"Guys, I think the boat is sinking!" Denki cried out.

All eyes widened at the electric blond's announcement. Hanta, with Yuga still wrapped around his back, shakily made his way to the guardrail and peeked over the edge to confirm what Denki said. Parts of the ship's exterior that typically were above water, such as the painted on lines and drainage holes, were much closer to the waterline than before.

"Did those things punch a hole in the boat?!" Mina shouted in surprise.

"How could they not?!" Denki replied in a panicked state. "They were smacking this thing all over the place, so of course they would bust it open!"

"Hey, calm down, Kirishima!" Hanta snapped.

"CAN YOU STOP WITH THE WRONG NAME SHI—"

Any choice words that Denki was going to say to the 'Tape' Quirk user immediately died in his throat when the ship went airborne. All of its occupants were forced into the floor from the force of the ship's upward movement. And after a second of being flattened against the ground, they were weightless for roughly the same time before hitting the hard floor.

The students were disoriented from the unexpected movement and it took them a bit of time to get their bearings straight again.

"What the hell just happened?!" Mina exclaimed in shock.

"I think the ship flew for a second," Hanta replied, looking a bit shaken. "What else could have happened?"

"Kaminari said the thing was sinking! Why did he lie about it?!"

"I don't think he knew what was happening. Hey, Ka—"

Just as Hanta was about to ask the electric blond what he saw over the guardrail before the ship took off, he discovered he couldn't find him anywhere. They were all originally on the deck; Hanta and Yuga were hanging around the area where one of the mechanical bugs broke the floor and Mina and Tooru were hanging on to the one of the guardrails on the other side of the deck. If he fell over there, the girls would have seen something. But Mina hadn't even addressed him directly when she spoke.

So that only meant one thing.

Hanta broke off the tape from his elbows and leaned over the guardrail to see if he could spot any traces of his blond classmate.

But he could only spot dark figures moving away from the boat towards the depths of the artificial lake.

"Oh no…"

Meanwhile

He should have known they wouldn't just leave. Thinking robots had a sense of fear was pretty stupid, even for him. But how could he have known they were going to pull something like this. A better question would be 'how they manage to pull something like this?'

Since his body was leaning over the guardrail when it lifted off the water, Denki took a gut-full of railing on the way up and the rest of his body went overboard on the way down. He hit the water holding his gut in pain and without a full breath of air, so he was panicking a bit when he was fully submerged.

A surprisingly loud, mechanical groaning forced him to open his eyes and what he saw was far worse than what preceded.

He was surrounded by two dozen of the same mechanical monsters that tried to board the boat before. It took the collective teamwork of Mina's 'San' and Yuga's 'Navel Laser' to destroy one of them, and neither of them was here to help him.

Denki felt something build up inside him, something that got bigger the more he heard the deep groaning coming from the multitude of robots. His shaky eyes took in every detail, as much as he wanted to shut his eyes from how much they were stinging from the water and to shut out what was happening to him. The glowing red eyes heavily contrasted with the deep blue water, which, compared to how much their bodies blended in with the surroundings, gave them a far more sinister appearance than above.

As one of the mechanical menaces reached one of its claws out to grab him, he could only do one thing.

'Get away from me!'

He let loose.

Above Water

The water surrounding the yacht exploded in color, as the deep blue was replaced with an electric yellow. Sparks jumped from the waterline to the ship, arcs of electricity danced, and the brightness was enough to illuminate the boat. Yuga would have called it 'dazzling!' if he weren't laying face up on the ship's deck.

But considering who was still down there, Hanta could only look on in shock and awe.

"What the heck is going on over there?!" Mina called out, not yet leaving her safe zone. Tooru was still latched on to her back like a seasick puppy. The pink girl received no reply as the electric show continued.

Once it finally died down, he had every intention to make sure he could get Denki back on the ship. When it did, he was preparing himself to jump in when he saw something rise to the surface.

It was blond, clad in black and white, and…

"Wheeeeeeeeeeey…"

…putting on a massive dope face with both of his thumbs up.

…

Hanta had a mix of emotions right then and there: relief, confusion, and an urge to laugh his head off from how ridiculous his classmate looked.

In the end, he decided to put it aside until he got Denki out of there.

AN: I… honestly had no idea how to end this chapter… Also, I said I was going to end the USJ Invasion on this chapter, but then I greatly underestimated how much I was going to write. This chapter is already 7,000 plus, and I still have at least one big fight left. Can someone say 'bruh' for me? I'd do it myself, but I haven't got the brain capacity right now. I haven't been sleeping well recently, so that may be a factor (It's not, but I need something to blame.)

Things of note: There's a minor thing in this fanfic where I use the English spelling of the Japanese version of the Quirk name, such as 'Hakai' (Destruction) (破壊), 'Souzou' (Creation) (創造), and 'Kaen seigyo' (Flame Control) (火炎制御). But in this chapter, I spelled two of them in straight English… Well, when I looked it up on the wiki and when I watched the Japanese dub of the anime, they all pronounced it as if were English words spoken in Japanese. 'Acid' is phonetically pronounced 'Ashiddo' (), but the actual word is 'San' (酸) (weird, I know, but it's legit). 'Tape' is pronounced as 'Teipu' (テープ). And 'Navel Laser' is pronounced 'Nebiru Reizaa' (ネビルレーザー)… Yup. Just to avoid sounding like a weeb in writing, I opted to write in them in straight English.

Anyway, enough of the… I hesitate to call it a Japanese lesson because I looked most of this up. On to the reviews:

aabhasgangwar: Yeah, everyone needs the main character treatment every now and then. Sucks that it doesn't happen that often, though. There's so much potential with the other students! Also, no ships planned for this one so far, but I if do decide on it later down the line, I'll be sure to update the genre tags. Also, I checked out Ao3 and maybe I'll give it a chance later on. For now, no plans for that, but it's a definite MAYBE.

fencer29: Like I said before, it took a while to get it out because I kept getting stuck, but I'm glad it came out good (maybe great, but that feels like bragging.)

Regarding the wetsuit thing, I can see where you're coming from. However, a wetsuit can only keep so much heat in when the temperature drops below a certain temperature (Let's say 45 degrees °F, which I think is reasonable for an entire section covered in Shoto's ice). I think what you're thinking of is a dry suit, one that is designed to keep body heat in and water out rather than having a person's body heat warm up a thin layer of water between the skin and the suit. That's why it's called a wet suit. It needs to be wet on the inside in order to warm up the diver while they're under the water. Also, recall what happened to our dear Froppy during the anime episode… was it 'Class 1-A'? I forget the title. When the air conditioner went stupid cold, Tsuyu went into hibernation and we had that adorable shot of her in a blanket. That's where I got the basis for her incapacitation in the Mountain Zone. I simply provided an explanation as to why it was so. Is it wrong? Eh, probably. I honestly don't know for sure if a wetsuit would provide warmth in near freezing temperatures. I did limited research on this one thing when I was writing that chapter.

Also, curse you for making my reply so long! Okay, not really. I'm only messing.

MightyMouse: Yeah, I got to do the same thing for writing this response. Do I really write Katsuki that well? I just think of what the walking nuke with a short fuse and superiority complex would do in such a situation. I'm glad I made everything clear for you to follow. Though if I had to change one thing about the chapter, which I heavily addressed in this one, it would be to put more emphasis on the Flood Zone. Yup, two imbalances make a balance… I think. It feels like one of those two wrongs make a right thing. It just comes out worse in the end. And about the AN thing you picked up on… I have no idea what you're talking about.

And that's all from me. Stay safe everyone!

-OmegaBox

Tiny Note: For some reason, I didn't copy down the kanji for Hinokanri and as a result, I couldn't figure out what the literal translation of it is. Because it sure as hell isn't 'Pyrokinesis' or 'control of fire'. Oh well. Kaen seigyo sounds cooler anyway. Still a fail on my part. I'll fix it in the earlier chapters, don't worry.