~ Chapter 49 ~
"I can hear it faintly." Chrono said, looking up at the ceiling above him. "The sound of a large number of people running in the same direction. Which means they already know where they want to go. They probably already know where this place is, too."
"It happened sooner than I thought it would." Chisaki said, walking through the hallway as Chrono follow after him. "We cannot be found right now. 'They acted violently on their own.' Let's make that the story. That's what those pieces were groomed for."
"The Eight Bullets of the Hassai Group." Chrono said.
"While they're buying time for us, we'll take Eri and everything with her and hide her away completely." Chisaki said, opening the door of the room where Eri is sitting on the bed in fear. "Bring the velociraptor as well."
Chrono nodded and opened the door to see Blue snarling at him. He slowly opens the cage door, hiding something behind him. Blue stood up and roars viciously and charges him. He quickly brought out his taser and electrified her. She roared in pain and collapsed on the floor. He brought out a metal collar with a chain attached to it and wrapped it around her neck. He then placed a muzzle around her mouth.
Chrono then pulled her up by the chain as Blue struggled to move away from him as he lead her out of the cage and the room.
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Y/N and Anjali runs forward with Mirio and Izuku, wanting to save Eri.
"It's an emergency!" Fat Gum exclaimed, him and the heroes bursting through the mansion doors. "Excuse us for not taking off our shoes! They haven't done anything suspicious yet!"
"I'm getting kind of worried, man." Rock Lock confessed. "We have no choice but to keep going now that we've started, though."
"I wonder if someone leaked information to them," Amajiki suggested. "I feel like they're all gathered in one place for some reason..."
"If someone had, I think they'd be avoiding us more smartly." Detective said, glancing over his shoulder. "They should all be used to working together with one will already."
"They devote their all to their bond with their boss and brothers," Aizawa informed, running alongside Y/N and Midoriya. "They might feel ashamed now, but that makes them more importance on their old bonds. This commotion... And Chisaki and the top brass haven't shown themselves yet. They're probably underground getting ready to hide or flee right now."
Eijiro grits his teeth. "That's not loyalty! Forcing their henchmen to take responsibility and running away themselves isn't manly."
"Yeah!" Fat Gum voiced.
Nighteye and those in his agency stop, everyone who followed stopped too as well. Nighteye stands in front of a indented part of the wall that has a vase with flowers in it. There's a words painted on a canvas that's right behind the vase.
"It's here," Nighteye said, looking at the vase. "There's a device here to open a hidden passage."
Nighteye moves the vase to the side, his hands pressing down on the wooden floorboards.
"By holding down these wooden floorboards in a specific order... it'll open."
Y/N's eyes widen a little in surprise, hearing the door click on the inside before making a louder clicking noise as the spot moves aside.
"It's like a ninja residence! Right?" Bubble Girl commented.
"If you hadn't seen it with your Foresight, we wouldn't have noticed it," Centipeder added.
Nighteye, Bubble Girl, and Fat Gum step away from the door.
"Be careful of Quirks we haven't seen yet."
"Someone's there!" Y/N yelled, new smells hitting her nose.
A hand grabs the secret door and there's more thugs that come out of the opening. She raised her fists about to bring out her atomic fire. Anjali bared her teeth about to chomp them. She sees that one of the three thugs has knife and another one has a trumpet front coming out of his mouth while the last one doesn't even have a weapon on him.
"What the hell, bastards!?"
"Bubble Girl!" Centipeder exclaimed, extending his arms. "Take one of them!"
Y/N drops her fists, watching as Centipeder is able to grow out his arms and grab hold of the two thugs. The last thug that needed to get captured is the one holding the knife. The last thug charges at Bubble Girl and she effortlessly dodges the knife, using her Quirk, the bubbles, and the bubbles pop in the thug's face.
"My eye!"
Bubble Girl grabs the thug's arm.
"Right, sorry."
She apprends the thug easily, having one hand on the back of his neck and the other one holding his arm.
"I'll make them stay here and not follow us. Please go on ahead."
"Let's go!" Nighteye said, looking at everyone else.
"I'll join you again soon!"
Nighteye goes down the stairs, everyone else following after him as Centipeder and Bubble Girl say behind for those three thugs. They make it down the stairs easily, finding themselves in a hallway with pipes on the ceiling and Y/N doesn't see the end of the hallway. It's a dead end and everyone stops moving. Y/N knows it's not a dead end and could be a trick.
"It's a dead end...!" Detective stated. "You sure you're not mistaken?
"Explain yourself, Nighteye!" Rock Lock demanded.
"It's not a dead end, idiot!" Y/N yelled, glaring at Rock Lock.
"Language!" Owen scolded, making her roll her eyes.
Mirio walks forward.
"I'll go take a look."
"Lemillion, wait! Your clothes might--" Eijiro stammered.
Mirio takes off his helmet and he runs over to the dead end.
"Mirio's costume is made of a special fiber made from his own hair," Amajiki explained.
Mirio puts his hand on the wall and puts his face through the wall.
"It's made so it becomes permeable when he activates his Quirk."
Mirio pulls his head from the wall, looking over his shoulder.
"It's just been blocked off by a wall. But it's a pretty thick wall."
"With Chisaki's ability to break down and restore things, even this is possible?" Rock Lock questioned.
Fat Gum clenches his fist. "A cheap trick..."
"It's like he's telling us he'll be in trouble if we go this way," Izuku said, narrowing his eyes at the wall.
"Yeah," Eijiro said and hardened his fist, pulling it back. "Good luck to him if he think that'll stop us!"
He turned to Y/N with a grin.
"Ready for this?"
"You bet it." Y/N smirked, bringing out atomic fire from her hands, powering it up.
Owen and Claire were in awe at her fire power while Anjali backs away for the trio to smash down the wall with their own ultimate move.
"Wow..." Claire said in awe.
"They beat me to the punch," Fat Gum said.
"Let's keep going," Mirio advised.
Y/N and Anjali along with everyone else following continue with Y/N, Eijiro, and Izuku taking the lead. Y/N stops walking though, her eyes on the floor as she can hear someone groaning and she's not sure where it's coming from. Anjali, Izuku, and Mirio noticed, looking at her.
"Y/N, what's wrong?" Izuku questioned.
Izuku's words made the pro heroes stop and look at her. Y/N looks up, opening her mouth, but it's already too late. The flooring, the walls, and the ceiling start moving around, the rumbling of the mansion hitting.
"The path is rolling!" Y/N yelled.
Anjali wobbled around the path, struggling to keep her balance.
"It's changing!" Izuku yelled.
"It's not Chisaki!" Detective yelled, informing everyone. "It's different... The only one it could be... is the director, Irinaka! Irinaka's Quirk, Mimic, lets him go into objects and control them freely from within! He's gone into the concrete that makes up the underground, and it's turned into a living maze!"
"But it's not too big of a scale!" Rock Lock said. "He shouldn't be able to enter and control objects bigger than a fridge!"
Y/N almost falls, but a firm hand grabs her arm. She looks to see who saved her and she blushed, seeing Mirio's face. He quickly pushes her against the wall to keep her steady as he held her close. Y/N's face turned red, flashbacking the day when the alarm went off on her first day and when Mirio came to her rescue in a most embarrassing way. Now it's happening again. Mirio looked down at her, blushing as well with a nervous smile.
"Deja vu?"
Y/N looked away.
"Why do we always end up like this?!"
"Maybe it's fate." he chuckled.
"Shut up!"
Mirio lets go and gets off of her as Y/N gladly move away from him a bit, still looking embarrassed.
"If he gets a big enough boost, it's not impossible, huh?" Fat Gum questioned, looking around. "I was bein' careful about what he'd turn into, but I didn't think he'd turn into the underground. This has got to be hard on him physically. Eraser, you can't get rid of it?"
"Not if I can't see the main body..." Aizawa informed.
"If the path keeps getting changed and remade..." Amajiki trailed off, looking around. "...then they can prepare as many escape routes as they want. To have the judgement to be able to deal with this so quickly... Oh, it's no use anymore... Far from being able to save the girl, the velociraptor, we're also..."
"Tamaki!" Mirio exclaimed.
He appears at his best friend's side and grasps his shoulder.
"That's not going to happen. You're the Suneater! Besides, this is just a stopgap! No matter how much they try to warp the path, as long as we know the direction of our goal, I can get there!"
"Lemillion!" Nighteye exclaimed.
"Senpai!"
"Mirio..."
"Time is of the essence!" Mirio yelled, running down the hallway. "Those guys know this, too. That's why they're stalling for time. I'm going ahead!"
Y/N watches Mirio slip through the walls, going in the direction of where Eri and Blue are. She lets out a gasp as she stumbles to the side and crashes into Eijiro. The redhead blushing as he holds Y/N and she glances around, hearing a rumble. That rumble is the ground underneath them caused everyone to fall through the floor. Anjali noticed their falling and quickly grabs Y/N and Eijrio and threw them onto her back and landed on the ground roughly as she managed to land on her feet. Anjali was about to move, but realized that they're heavy and she has not grown big yet and collapsed on the floor.
Eijiro and Y/N groaned, opening their eyes to find themselves in a new room along with everyone else that are on the floor. They looked down to see Anjali beneath them with a loud groan. They quickly got off of her.
"You alright, Anjali?"
Anjali gave a low rumble and said something that made Y/N mad a little.
"Lose some weight?! How dare you?!"
Anjali gave a low chuckle, making Eijiro cover his mouth to prevent him from laughing.
"A hall?" Izuku asked, looking up.
Fat Gum looks at the ceiling too.
"We're getting further and further away from our goal!"
"It looks like they've got us good!" Rock Lock hissed.
Y/N's ear twitched.
"There's people here!"
"Hey, hey hey, hey," a new voice said. "Some government authorities have fallen from the sky. Strange things happen, huh?"
There's three guys. A blonde guy with a broken, bird beak mask on his face with a katana resting on his shoulders. The middle guy has a whole mask covering his face with only circles cut out for his eyes as the mouth of the mask is stitched. The last guy is tall and buff, a white mask covering half of his face.
"It looks like they're really ready for a fight," Fat Gum said, cracking his knuckles. "It's about time we showed them the strength of pro--"
Amajiki throws his arm out, signaling Fat Gum to stop.
"Save the strength of pros for the goal. For the ones stalling for time... I'll be enough by myself."
"What are you saying? Let's work together!" Eijiro suggested.
"Yeah, work together," the blonde, Toya Setsuno said, looking at the pros. He moves the katana a little bit. "I'll kill all of you."
"It's Setsuno!" Detective informed. "We can't use our guns against him! Heroes, it's up to you!"
"You figured it out, huh?" Setsuno questioned, moving the katana.
He charges forward.
"Oh well. It just makes it easier to go wild!"
"We won't let you." Aizawa said. "Throw away your sword."
Aizawa pulls at his scarves and Setsuno looks down at his hand. Aizawa has his hair flared up and the bald man, Yu Hojo, pulls out a gun and points it at Aizawa.
"I can't use it." Setsuno mumbled.
"He erased his Quirk?" Hogo questioned, aiming the gun at Aizawa. "An inferior version of Eri's Quirk. I've heard that a hero like that exists But that doesn't matter. What we should be doing is blocking them. That's all."
"Swords and bullets will just sink into my body," Fat Gum announced, his glare directed towards the thugs. "It'll be better for you if you give up now."
"Threats like that just make you sound like you fear for your life," Setsuno said, holding the katana with one hand.
The detective and the police pull out their guns.
"Since Eraser's erasing your Quirk, we can use our weapons! Resign yourselves and surrender!"
Y/N's eyes widen, seeing octopus tentacles come out of Amajiki's fingers and he grabs the three thugs and their weapons. She wasn't expecting Amajiki to act so fast to capture the thugs and finds it cool.
"Larceny, Toya Setsuno. Crystallize, Yu Hojo. Food, Soramitsu Tabe," Amajiki said, pulling his arm back.
He throws the thugs over to the wall, scowling at them.
"I've looked over the documents with their info! I'll take these guys on. At Fat Gum Agency, we eat tons of takoyami, so I'm really good at using octopus. Since I was shot before, I'm more alert to things like this."
Amajiki changes his hand that was once octopus tentacles into a crab's claw and destroys the thugs' weapon.
"But Suneater!" Eijiro voiced.
"It won't do any good for us to all fight against them." Amajiki stated, throwing the broken weapons aside. "With so many pro heroes stopped here, we're playing right into their hands."
The three thugs stand up, still in Amajiki's octopus's tentacles.
"We should save the pros' Quirks, including Eraser's, for later! We should save the power to get through the wriggling underground, too! And the police officers and their guns! Fat Gum! If it's me, I can completely shut down all three of them."
"Let's go!" Fat Gum announced.
"Fat!" Eijiro shouted.
"To that door!"
"Hey, hey, hey! Wait, wait!" Setsuno said.
Aizawa looked at him and Setsuno looks at his hand.
"Again...!"
Aizawa moves quickly, knocking out Tabe and using his Quirk on them.
"Amajiki, I used my Quirk on the three of them. Bind them up before the effect wears off."
"Everyone!" Amajiki shouts, throwing the three thugs into the wall. "Please take care of Mirio! He's definitely going to try too hard, so please help him."
Y/N looks at Amajiki and nods.
"Please take care of yourself too, Amajiki!"
"Brave boy!" Owen commented.
With that Y/N, Anjali, and Midoriya follow after the others.
"Fat! You're going to leave him alone like that?" Eijiro questioned, looking to Fat Gum. "What are you thinking?"
"He's from your agency, so I left that decision to you, but frankly, isn't he in trouble?" Rock Lock questioned, looking over his shoulder at Fat Gum.
"He's stronger than anyone here," Fat Gum started, his eyes narrowed. "But he was weak emotionally. He crushed himself with pressure to do things perfectly. He climbed up to become part of U.A.'s Big Three under those conditions. Someone like that declared that he could completely shut them down! So... all I can do is leave it to him!"
"He's right! Have faith in him!" Y/N agreed.
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