The rush of adrenaline, of energy pulsed through every bit of Izuku's body, as he swung through the city at massive speeds. In movements, it was a little different from how Izuku had been moving all day. Which was a limitation he hadn't really thought about before.
Unlike running, there was no pushing yourself to go even faster than your regular top speed with web-swinging. He'd built up momentum a lot with the swing after the skyscraper, but now, after that momentum had died down after a few swings, he couldn't simply regain it with some effort.
This form of movement was based on momentum, of keeping the pendulum going. An eternal consistency. That reliability of the pattern was a strength, but also a limitation in how hard it was to push it beyond it's regular speed, at least beyond having a good start point to jump off.
"BOOOOOMMMM!!!"
The massive sound shook him and venom through the webline, the shock feeling like an earthquake had rocketed the entire city.
Off in the distance, at the spot where Black Cat had told them NOT to go, he saw massive fires burst into the sky.
So that was presumably where she was heading.
He didn't need to worry about it.
At least that was what he told himself, as he saw a large building lighting up like a candle.
As he continued moving, he felt, rather than heard Mina follow right behind him, as more explosions went off in the distance.
"Which one we headed for first?!"
It was a good question. One which highlighted something Izuku logically knew the moment he'd jumped off the skyscraper.
They could only choose one of the centers of explosions to go to at a time.
It was blatantly obvious of course, but despite his great strides in mastering his own abilities, Izuku was now faced with a harsh reality. For all their powers, he and Mina were only two people. They could only be at one place at a time.
Even if they split up(Which he was not planning on suggesting, as the idea that these brain guys might be even a fraction as strong as the man that had gone up against All Might, made any suggestion that they could divide their total fighting power in any way, something he wouldn't even consider), they couldn't cover even half of the sites of the explosions at once.
No matter where they went, someplace or another would be left to fend for themselves.
It was a galling thought. And the more he thought about it, the worse it seemed to him.
What if they weren't strong enough to deal with these villains? Or they ended up having to fight just one for half the night?
What if he chose a villain they couldn't defeat while choosing another spot might have ended with an easy victory?
He understood, no, he KNEW in his bones that lives could and would depend on the answer.
The only thing he could hope for was that any spot he and Mina didn't choose, other heroes would go to. He could only pray that any who were, were up to the task of the coming battle.
In the end, fears and doubts were thrown aside, as screams made themselves clearly known, as to their right, on a set of train tracks the second half of a train had been disconnected(Though ripped off from its front half was a better description.) was currently the site where at least one villain was to be found.
Izuku had almost completely missed it, due to the lack of loud explosions. Even though it was right by.
He made the choice without considering it.
"The train tracks!"
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As Black Cat studied her target from behind, she considered how to go about dealing with him.
The white-haired man who had led the raid that had targeted the class of her pride and joy was standing on top of a water tower alongside the mist man that had played such a crucial role there.
She noticed that the man was wounded on his right shoulder, with some basic patchwork over the wound.
Both of them had their backs turned to her, as she surveyed them from the top of a roof, 5 buildings over.
Had they been at the edge of said roof, she would have ended it immediately. Them being up on the water tower made it much, much more complicated.
She'd need to either scale it from below or jump up.
Against regular foes, she might have risked it. Unfortunately, the white-haired guy happened to have one of THOSE powers. The instant kill kind. If he managed to touch you with his hands, you disintegrated. Along with being "Ludicrously fast" according to Uraraka, that was the worst kind of enemy.
She had seen way too many heroes making a jump attack against this kind of foe, only to be hit with whatever instant win power they had as they were in the air, without the capacity to dodge.
Scaling the tower wouldn't be hard. She'd make that in less than 4 seconds. If his reaction times were as good as his massive speed though, he'd react before she hit him.
He could attack her directly, which could be bothersome… Or he could simply disintegrate the tower itself on the spot, robbing her of any solid foothold, as his companion could simply turn into a giant cloud and attack her midair.
An image of her successfully knocking white hair out, only to suffer the fate of being bisected by a portal cut by way of the black mists danced through her head.
That's how Drew had died.
Not a good way to go.
As it happened though, she had another way to deal with the two of them, which would not involve her feet leaving the ground.
She made her move in a burst of a
speed, one, two, four rooftops cleared in practically no time at all.
She cleared the fence around the uppermost floor of the final building.
Then, she hit the final rooftop, feet running.
She moved right towards the water tower.
It was a well-made one, though obviously not all that well well-kept. Still, not a fleck of rust-covered it that she could see. Each of its four pillars was nice and strong.
Perfect.
She stopped her momentum forward as she ended up underneath the water tower. Then she went to work.
Four kicks, one after the other hit each of the four-tower beams with such speed and rapid movement between each beam that the tower was only beginning to shake as she hit the final one.
Then, she grabbed the now freefalling beam she had just separated from the ground, and as it had just barely begun falling, she moved forward, and using the beam, she WRENCHED the entire tower forward in an arch.
"CRRRRAAAASSSSSHHHHH!!!"
The water tower exploded into water and shrapnel of steel, coating the entire roof in both… Though other than some droplets of splashing water and the suddenly wet floor coating her boots, it did not affect Felicia much.
She had been shielded by the large, square floor the water tower itself was standing on though.
Wrenching the beam loose from said floor, Felicia made her way around the remains of the water tower, wary and on guard.
"Owww….."
What greeted her was the sight of the two villains lying on the floor, both soaking wet, and with tons of bleeding cuts from the busted metal all around.
Both of them weakly tried to get to their feet to face her, though the white-haired man slipped and fell straight on his ass again.
Just like she'd been told, he wore a severed hand over his face, along with clothing that looked like a set of all-black pajamas.
His wound had opened right back up again she realized.
Unfortunately for him.
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