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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"Black Cat… This is… A most unlikely encounter." The teleporter groaned with the voice of someone trying to put on a slick and smooth voice after having fallen into shit.
She laughed.
"If you don't wanna be spotted, roosting on the tallest spot like cockerels isn't a good way to go about it. Not that you're gonna have to worry much about that in the future."
Quicker than one would have believed, the leader made his move, lunging at her. One second he was stumbling to his feet, the next he was barreling right at her, clearing the distance in the blink of an eye.
At least in the blink of an eye of regular people.
Felicia lazily brought up the steel bar and pointed it so that the tip would hit the wounded shoulder.
With a burst of blood, it did just that, and the man moving at such speed slammed into the thing hard, blood immediately bursting out of the reopened wound that the steel beam hit so nicely.
She'd expected him to fall flat on his ass after that, and he did indeed do so, but before that his hand went up despite the obvious pain he must be in and gripped the beam.
She immediately let go of the beam, and moved back away from it, just in case the disintegration might spread from it to her or from it to the ground to her.
Neither happened.
Then, Black Mist exploded from the teleporter.
Instinctually she thought he was targeting her, and acted accordingly with a massive burst of speed to the side, but instead, the mists engulfed… The remains of the water tower.
This time, she did a move backwards and away from the two of them, as, just as she predicted, the entire mess of steel dropped from above, in front of the two villains, where she had just been two seconds ago.
It was a basic and effective, if horribly unimaginative use of teleportation portals.
As the entire thing slammed into the ground and burst to pieces a second time, Felicia kept her distance, certain that a follow-up attack would be coming from the white-haired guy. That was what any competent and experienced team would do, coordinate their deadly abilities for maximum effect.
Instead, as the sounds of crashing steel died down, the man was just standing there, having gotten to his feet again(same with the mist guy), and glaring at her, most of his face covered by that ridiculous hand Mina had described.
"Dammit, all…"
The whiny tone of his voice took her completely out of it.
"We really need to get a healer in the party… This is just getting ridiculous… And why is one of the optional bosses here? This wasn't at all meant to be a hidden boss level."
It could have sounded at least somewhat dignified, but the voice and tone he used as he said it… She couldn't help but think of every time one of her kids had thrown a tantrum over the years.
It had the exact kind of energy as Mana crying because she didn't get the final slice of cake on her 6th birthday.
This was the guy who would usher in another apocalypse? An edgy manchild who spoke like life was an RPG?
Miles Warren was a college professor, she reminded herself. Looks can be deceiving, Felicia, you learned that lesson long ago.
Right. She had to finish this.
"Wow, you idiots sure didn't prepare much for this outing. Not only did you miss me, but Endeavor's here too tonight. You're bloody lucky you didn't run into him. He would just have killed you. Me? I'll be satisfied just ripping your arms clean off since your powers have such a blatant method of disarming ."
It was as she began moving, that black mist exploded once more, this time engulfing the white-haired brat with a hand on his face, as well as the man spawning it completely.
Barely in the nick of time too.
Had it been half a second later, his buddy would have suddenly found himself without a right arm.
As it was, the punch that made a sound like a bullcrack whip, only found empty air where Shigaraki's shoulder had been.
The mists dissipated, leaving only her and the busted remains of the water tower on the lonely rooftop.
She sighed.
Great. She'd had one simple, easy shot at this. And she'd wasted it by overestimating her opponents' combat capacity.
Had she known they were this inexperienced at the art of battle, she'd have risked it all by taking them out at the start. Judging from what she'd seen just now, she'd had little to fear by doing so.
That was the problem with relying on hearsay and reports to judge your foes' combat capacity.
It was easy to make mistakes, one way or another.
Another huge explosion went off in the distance, and she turned her head towards it.
Right, there were still the Nomu-like guys to deal with. As well as that other problem.
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Izuku landed on the train's roof, Mina following just behind him.
As he quickly made his way over to the ripped open part of the train, he heard noises from inside.
Screams, crying, people needing help.
He did not hesitate, and as he jumped down onto the ground from the train roof, he twisted midair and landed facing the interior of the train.
He recognized the villain immediately.
Long spindly arms and legs, with a sick grey color, wearing nothing but a set of jeans. Just like the villain All Might had fought during the invasion.
He was covered in blood. And before it was a young woman and a younger girl, most likely a child or a daughter, both looking absolutely terrified.
He didn't think. He just acted.
A black line slammed into the man from behind, taking him straight in the back. Then, with strength so massive, that had it been a regular creature, the sheer force of the pull would have broken the villain's spine if he had been a normal man. Instead, he was wrenched out of the train and sent flying in a sideways arc out over the other train tracks, then slamming into the concrete sides of the tracks with enough force that they cracked.
Izuku didn't stop though, instead sending 4 balls of inky blackness straight into the villain, as it wrenched itself free of the line and got onto its feet again.
The four balls were followed by a scream, but unlike the web, Izuku hadn't thrown restraint to the wind with his cannonballs, so rather than making 4 circle-shaped holes in the villain's body, they instead just slammed into him. Still, they broke the skin every single spot they hit, and blood coated the ground.
The balls of black, having now served their purpose, disintegrated immediately.
For a moment Izuku expected the man to fall over, either in pain or from the internal damage.
Instead, the wounds began to close. Then a few seconds later, it was like there had never been a wound at all.
So a powerful healing factor. Great.
It was the first time Izuku got a full, good look at the man, and frankly, what he saw churned his stomach.
He was different than the man called Nomu, who attacked class 1-A and battled All Might, but there was no mistaking a clear connection.
Whereas that man had been a hulking Behemoth only barely smaller than The Rhino, this man was also tall but rather than thick, sturdy muscles, he was instead lanky, with long, overly elongated limbs. His skin color was a grey-green, but just like Nomu, he had one, immediately obvious feature, that even in the world of Quirks, stood out immediately.
A gross, exposed brain, where his upper skull should have been.
That would have been disgusting enough, but there was also the fact that, unlike Nomu, this guy had 4 eyes, all of which were located inside of that exposed brain.
Mina put it best.
"Holy shit that's disgusting."
Then as if in response to her comment, the guy moved forward at high speed.
Izuku immediately tensed, and thinking the man was attacking Mina in response to her comment, he prepared to act accordingly… Only for the man to lunge at him instead, raising his long, elongated arm high above his head while preparing to smash it down on him.
Which was cut off by several things.
Firstly, a black leather boot hitting his left ankle with the force of a shotgun, and a black
line slamming into his jaw.
The ankle broke with a sickening "CRACK!", immediately setting him off balance, making the force as Izuku forced him down,
impossible to resist.
The uppercut that hit the four-eyed abomination's jaw lifted him a good 9 meters off the ground, and as he fell, he went down over the railing.
If there was one good thing about fighting someone with a healing factor, it was that one didn't really need to hold back.
They heard the squelching sound as he slammed down into the pavement below.
Both of them made their way over to and then jumped on top of the railing at lightning speed, only to be met with the sight of the small crater below being empty.
"Where'd he go?"
"Below us."
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