Despite having his prior memories locked away, it seems Cry's still got that hero gene running through him strong. And it looks as though he's not totally on board with the whole "we save you, you owe us," deal that Deimos and his crew go by. But that's just how these Anti-Heroes roll. Yep, now that we finally have a set of anti-heroes, we've covered each and every type of faction in the hero world: Heroes, Sidekicks, Villains, Anti-Heroes/Villains, and Vigilantes. And more importantly, Cry is no longer safe, at least not with Stroman eyeing him now. And with what Cry's done to the league in the past, you best bet he's gonna want to deal with him A.S.A.P. Now, let's get back into the action! Enjoy!

-POV: Third Person-

While Cry and his new friends enjoyed their relaxing evening, whilst also having a pair of unwanted eyes spying on them, another group had been working hard for the past month on finding their target. 

One week after Cry disappeared, Jiro, Tetsutetsu, Kendo, and Monoma all came together and headed out, traveling the country until they found Cry and brought him back home where he belongs to help him remember who he really is. 

Having been given her credit card and one of her cars, Jiro and her group took on the job from Wrath Queen and set out, picking up rumors and clues, and even possible sightings, closely following but never coming across Cry. To this day, Jiro and the other three have spent over $23,000 while on this job. But knowing Queen, she surely won't care how much of her money was spent, so long as she gets her son back.

The four were currently taking residence in a motel, a place they'd become quite accustomed to since they've been traveling for so long. Jiro, Kendo, and Tetsutetsu rested inside their room, taking a break from searching for a few hours. Only Monoma had gone out so far, gone for about 3 hours now since the sun went up.

Jiro laid on one of their beds, scrolling through social media for anyone who may have posted anything related to Cry's whereabouts. As for Kendo, she was just getting out of the shower, drying herself off before getting dressed. And as for Tetsutetsu, he was shaving off some of the beard he'd grown over the month. Kendo had told him to keep some of it though because she liked it. However, all 4 of them just wanted this to end. They just wanted to find their friend so badly. 

"HEY!!! HEY, EVERYONE, I'VE GOT SOMETHING BIG!!" They all heard Monoma scream as he quickly opened the door to their room, breathing heavily, almost like he was in a panic. 

"Holy crap, calm down dude! What the heck happened out there!?" Tetsutetsu asked him as Phone whipped out his phone and put it down onto a table, opening his image gallery. 

"You're not gonna believe this, but check out these pictures I took. I found out a building had caught fire earlier today, so I went to the site, only to see the building had crumbled down, but everyone who had been trapped inside was safe..." Monoma explained. 

"So what? I'm sure the heroes who showed up saved everyone. Why is this so important, it's nothing out of the ordinary." Kendo questioned as Monoma shook his head. 

"No official pro heroes were on site in time, and neither was the fire department. The people inside were saved by these 5 people! Take a look at them all!" Monoma said as they got a look at 4 of the 5 pretty clearly. Deimos, Marnie, Konner, and Felix were all in the shot perfectly, albeit wearing their masks to they couldn't actually be identified. As for the 5th person, Monoma pointed to both of his hands, showing off two key features with them. 

"Hey, wait a minute! A missing ring and pinky finger on the left hand, and then, is that right one made of diamond!?" Jiro questioned as Monoma nodded in confirmation. 

"Holy shit, it's actually Cry!?" All of them shouted in disbelief as this was the first major piece of evidence that they were close to him. 

"There's more. I tried to follow this little group he's with, but Cry used his portal ability to take them away to who knows where. So, I started asking around about who these people were. They call themselves "The Lost." They're a group of hoodlums who do whatever the hell they want. They generally try and save people, but they believe they deserve equal rewards when they complete their jobs. They take things from people." Monoma explained to them. 

"So they're thieves then. God know how Cry ended up with these people." Tetsutetsu said as Monoma continued on. 

"While I couldn't follow them, I met someone who has seen where this group lives...." Monoma explained as he opened up google maps on his phone and showed the location he was given. "It's still in New York City, closer to the harbor. An old abandoned steel mill."

"Finally, we have a confirmed spot where he could be. But, it's too light out to go in, they could see us coming. We wait for the sun to go down, then we go in, grab Cry, and hopefully avoid a fight with these people." Kendo said as everyone agreed with the plan. And so, for the rest of the day, everyone geared up in their hero costumes, preparing to finally take back the one they lost. 

-8 Hours Later-

When the sun finally disappeared, the 4 headed out, taking their car to the steel mill where the Lost resided. Each one was prepared for a fight, knowing that that's probably how it all was going to go down. But each were more determined than every, as success here would mean getting their friend back. 

They parked in between some old rusty shipping crates t avoid being seen, then exited their vehicle and approached the building. They could see lights inside, meaning the 5 were indeed home. All 4 of them came up to the side of the building, Jiro inputting one of her earphone jacks into the wall, and the rest trying to peer through some broken windows.

"To successful rescues, and many more to come!" Deimos cheered from inside as Jiro listened in on everything they were saying. 

"We've got a visual on Cry. They're all sitting on some couches on the far side. There's a side room just behind them too. If Cry goes in there, that may be our chance to nab him." Monoma suggested as no one else had better ideas. So all 4 crept along the building until they came to the window to that side room. Luckily for them, the window wasn't actually there, so they'd be able to enter without making any noise. 

"Hey, Cry, mind getting me a beer from the fridge?" Jiro heard Felix ask him. 

"Yeah sure, brb." Cry said as they saw him get up and head towards the side room. They saw the fridge inside too, meaning he really was coming right for them.

"Okay, when he turns his back, we go in." Jiro said as all 4 of them prepared to snatch up Cry. They saw him enter the room and go to the fridge, giving them the moment they needed to enter the building. Kendo went in first, and snuck her way over to Cry as the others came in shortly after. And when she was close enough, Kendo enlarged her hands and grabbed Cry, engulfing majority of his body, minus one arm, his shoulders, and his head, in her grip. Cry went to scream but Jiro came in quick and injected one of her jacks into his head, shorting out his brain and rendering him unconscious. Cry went limp in Kendo's grip, meaning their plan was a total success. Only, as Cry fell unconscious, he dropped the bottle of beer he had in his hand, it smashing on the ground as it made a loud echoing noise. 

"Cry, you alright?" Marnie asked as she and Konner then entered the room to see what made the noise. An awkward silence rose over the whole room, neither side knowing what to say as they didn't really know what to do. But once Marnie and Konner saw Cry in Kendo's giant hands, they knew the situation was bad. 

"DEIMOS!!! FELIX!!!" Konner shouted as the two rushed over and came in to see what was going on. 

"Oh shit! Who the fuck are you people!?" Felix asked as Monoma touched Tetsutetsu on the shoulder, knowing a fight was unavoidable now.

"We are Cry's friends. His actual friends, from U.A High. And we're here to take him back with us. We been looking for him for over a month." Jiro explained as Deimos stepped forward, approaching Kendo as he stopped about 6ft away. 

"No, I don't think so. We don't really care who you dipshits are, Cry there is staying with us. He can do whatever the fuck he wants when he's here, he's literally free. Besides, he's still being a hero, just doing it the way we do it." Deimos said to the students as they all briefly looked to each other over what he had just said to them.

"So then you know who Cry is then? Then surely you realize what he's gone through. Please, just let us take him back home, where he belongs." Jiro pleaded with them but none looked like they wanted to give him up. Deimos held his cane over his right shoulder, while all the others cracked different parts of their bodies. 

"Not gonna happen because he belongs here with us. So why don't you 4 go on back to wherever the fuck you came from and just let us do our thing, okay? Thanks." Marnie told them all as Tetsutetsu turned his skin to steel. 

"We know you guys aren't on the nice side of the law either. If taking Cry back means arresting you all as well, then so be it." He said to them as, all the while, the service bot that the Lost had stolen was watching from the entrance to the room. Victor Stroman, who was still watching the live feed from the bot, was quite enjoying what he was seeing. 

"So, it would seem some of Cry's U.A friends have found him as well. Perhaps this is our chance to kill 2 birds with one stone." Stroman said as he pushed the worker on the monitor aside and then started typing away on his keyboard, entering in some coding before entering in a command. "Wakey wakey, it's time to play."

As both sides readied to brawl, the tension was briefly broken when the service bot began to beep loudly. They all turned their heads to look at it and saw the bot was starting to shake now. 

"What the heck's it doing?" Felix asked as the bot suddenly stopped shaking and then opened up from the top. An empty vial was risen up while attached to some small claw component, and all of them watched as the vial, from the bottom up, was filled with a black liquid. And when it was full, the vial exploded and the black goo went everywhere. But as it splattered all over the floor, it started to move like it was alive, gathering together as the black mass grew in size by the second. Eventually, the goo began to harden into a dark fleshy material, taking a humanoid shape. 

The being stood about 10ft tall, had large muscles all over its body, a dark coloured body, an exposed brain, razor sharp teeth, and eyes of that of a wild animal. This creature, known very well by the students, was a High-End Nomu. And as it let out a mighty roar, Stroman spoke into a microphone to give it its orders. 

"Kill the 4 U.A students and bring me Tenshonoma Cryshiki alive." He ordered it as its eyes locked onto the students. Kendo dropped Cry as they stood off with the beast, Deimos and his crew backing off to the side completely oblivious as to what the hell was going on or what the creature was. 

"What the fuck is that thing!?And how the hell was it in that tiny little robot!?" Konner questioned as the Nomu charged the students, Tetsutetsu doing the same as he bashed into it, only to be effortlessly overpowered and sent flying across the room into the side of a wall. The Nomu then reached out and grasped Jiro by her head, holding her up in the air as it began to squeeze her in its tight grip. Kendo and Monoma went in to help her before she was killed, Monoma using his copy quirk to turn his skin to steel like Tetsutetsu, and Kendo using her giant hands to land vicious blows to the Nomu. The two were strong enough to harm the Nomu as they made it stumble back and let go of Jiro, dropping her to the floor. 

"Hey, come on, let's grab Cry and get the fuck out of here!" Deimos shouted to his friends as they ran over, picked up Cry and then went to the window and hopped out of it. 

"Hey wait! Please, you have to stay and help us beat this thing!" Jiro shouted to them as they all looked back at the heroes. 

"No we don't. And this ain't our fight, it's yours. Have fun! We'll take care of Cry for you!" Marnie yelled back at they all ran off, leaving the students behind to deal with the Nomu. 

"Hmm, seems acquiring Cry will be more annoying than expected. No matter. Nomu 428, hold off on capturing Cryshiki until after you have killed these students." Stroman ordered it as the Nomu let out another roar in response. Jiro had run over to Tetsutetsu to help him get back up onto his feet as Kendo and Monoma continued to attack the creature. 

"Hey, you okay?" Jiro asked him as Tetsutetsu rubbed the top of his head a bit. 

"Yeah.... i'll be fine. Where'd the others go though?" He replied. 

"Those new friends of Cry's took him and ran away. Kendo and Monoma are still taking the Nomu too. Come on, we have to help them!" Jiro said as Tetsutetsu turned his skin to steel again. 

"What about Cry? We're going to lose him again." Tetsutetsu suggested as Jiro shook her head at him. 

"Forget about him, we have more important issues now! If we don't stop this Nomu, it could ransack the whole city! It's of primary concern now!" Jiro told him as he gave her a nod, the two running back to help Kendo and Monoma deal with this High-End Nomu. 

"Aim for its brain, that's the weak spot!" Monoma shouted as Kendo tried reaching up with her giant hands and grab the Nomu's head. But the Nomu grabbed her hands and easily pushed her back, moving her along the ground until she was shoved up against a wall. Monoma tried to help by attacking the Nomu from behind, but the creature raised up its left leg behind it and kicked Monoma away from them. Kendo tried to escape by shrinking her hands but the Nomu adjusted and grabbed her by her shoulders now, keeping her pinned against this wall. And as it brought its head down over her, it opened its mouth wide, bearing its sharp teeth at Kendo as it went to chomp down on her head. 

"Let's see how you like this!!" Jiro shouted as she came up from behind and injected both of her jacks into the Nomu's chest. She started reverberating sound through the creature, causing it to shake as it let go of Kendo to grab its head. It let out a different roar, this one of pain as Kendo slipped away from it. Jiro tried to amp up the frequency of the sound, but before she could the Nomu swung one of its arms back and struck her in the face, sending her flying back as her jacks dislodged themselves from the creature.

" Hold on, I've got you!" Monoma yelled as he caught Jiro in his arms and put her back on her feet. Tetsutetsu went in next, followed by Kendo who grew her hands again, picking up Tetsutetsu to throw him with all her might at the Nomu. Tetsutetsu struck the Nomu with his right fist and broke through it, his fist busting through until it emerged out the back of the creature. But the Nomu barely reacted, grabbed Tetsutetsu by his head, pulled him out of itself and then tossed him through a wall. The hole Tetsutetsu had made then started to close in on itself, giving the students the same thought. That this fight was going to be a lot harder than they already thought it would be. 

"It can regenerate too....? It's already freakishly strong, but now it can heal itself!? How are we supposed to deal with this thing!?" Jiro questioned as Stroman leaned back in his chair and watched the carnage. 

"What now, children? Seems none of you can truly harm one of our beats. What can you do but die?" He said to himself as Dabi came into the monitoring room to see the progress that was occurring. 

"The Nomu spawn was a success then?" He asked Stroman who had a bottle of wine next to him. He poured them both a glass as they cheered and watched the live feed. 

"Oh yes. And by how things are going, we might have 4 less U.A students to deal with very, very soon." Stroman told him.

"And what about Cry?" Dabi asked as Stroman took a quick sip of his wine. 

"His little friends he's been with lately took him away. But don't worry, once Nomu 428 is done killing these students, I ordered him to track down and acquire Cryshiki. I'm sure we'll have him by the morning." He replied as the two watched the battle in the steel mill ensue. 

"Screw this, i'm doing it!" Monoma said as his veins began to glow with a purple hue, similar to Cry's when he would activate his reality quirk.

"No, Monoma, you can't! Not here!" Kendo pleaded to him but Monoma ignored her and created two portals at his sides. 

"Sorry, Kendo, but we've got no choice! Now let's see if this thing will burn!" He shouted as he unleashed two huge bursts of flames from the portals which engulfed the huge Nomu. The creature wailed but it remained strong, approaching Monoma as he kept on torching it. 

"How the hell can Monoma be using Cry's quirk!? He didn't touch him before so he couldn't copy it!" Tetsutetsu questioned as Jiro had the exact same thought. Only Kendo knew the answer, but she couldn't tell them unless she reveal the secret of One for All.

The Nomu withstood the fire and managed to knock Monoma away. The Nomu then put out the fire on itself as it let out a much louder roar. 

"Nothing we're doing to this thing is working! We need to find some way to at least hurt it!" Kendo shouted as Tetsutetsu suddenly ran over and jumped out the window to leave the building. "Wait, where the fuck are you going!? Get back here and help!"

"Forget him, just focus on the Nomu!" Jiro shouted as she injected her jacks into her own neck and took in a very deep breath. 

"Ultimate Move: Sonic Roar!!!!" Jiro roared as she unleashed a relentless barrage of soundwaves from her mouth, bombarding the Nomu until it was smashed against the side of a wall. Jiro pinned it there for a moment but the Nomu dug its fingers into the concrete wall and broke off a chunk in its hand. It then threw the chunk with all the strength it could muster right at Jiro who had closed her eyes in the process of using her strongest attack. 

"Jiro, look out!" Kendo shouted as she enlarged her left hand and grabbed Jiro, pulling her away before she could be struck by the concrete chunk. The Nomu the charged them, Monoma getting in between to try and stop it. He turned his body to steel once more, but it did nothing as the Nomu batted him away like a fly, sending Monoma through a wall. The Nomu then rushed Kendo and Jiro, both girls trying to get up and attack it before it got too close, but they were way too slow to do anything. The Nomu came up and grabbed them both by their necks, lifting them off the ground as it squeezed them, choking them until they eventually die.

With Monoma incapacitated at the moment and Tetsutetsu having run away, there was no help for the girls in this situation. They were done, just waiting for the Nomu to either suffocate them or crush their throats. But the sound of a car horn blaring in the distance made the Nomu ease up as it turned its attention to the wall outside. Busting through the wall was Tetsutetsu, driving their car straight into the Nomu, crashing into it as the creature dropped te girls. Tetsutetsu turned his body to steel as he and the Nomu collided with another wall, not breaking through it this time as the car exploded, engulfing both Tetsutetsu and the Nomu. 

"Tetsutetsu, no!!" Kendo screamed in horror as she and Jiro watched as Tetsutetsu broke off the driver side door to the car and fell out of it. With his body made of steel, he severely reduced the damage he took in the crash. He got up to his feet and limped his way over as Monoma returned to the room as well. 

"So that's why.... you left the building.... Dude, Wrath Queen is gonna kill you.... for wrecking... one of her cars...." Monoma said to Tetsutetsu who just laughed.

"Hey, it was to take that thing down, so I don't think she'll give a damn. Besides, it worked, didn't it?" Tetsutetsu said as the sound of creaking metal could be heard. The four students looked to the car wreck and saw the Nomu trying to pry itself free. Pieces of metal were piercing its skin and were pinning it into the wall, making it difficult for the Nomu to move, but yet it still tried moving the car away so it could continue. 

"No freakin' way!! What does it take to put this thing down!?" Jiro questioned. 

"It's the brain, that's what we need to hit! That's the weak point on it!" Monoma said. 

"But none of us have quirks that can destroy it! We can't beat this thing!" Tetsutetsu said in a panic as Kendo stepped forward, cracking her fingers a bit. 

"I can. I have a way to kill this Nomu." Kendo said as the others, besides Monoma, looked at her totally confused.

"Wait, how?" Jiro asked as, despite her not wanting to use it, Kendo activated One for All at 100%. Her body glowed with a light blue aura as she enlarged her hands as well, readying to strike down the beast. 

"Wha!? And you're telling me I can't use it!? What's this you're doing then!?" Monoma asked as he remember her telling him not to reveal anything when he used his reality powers. 

"We have no choice, Monoma! This is the only way to take this thing out and save the city!" Kendo said as she took a step forward and took off, becoming a bright blue blur that raced for the Nomu. And as she leapt off on one foot, she soared for the Nomu and brought both her giant hands behind her. 

"THIS IS YOUR END, MONSTER!!" Kendo roared as she brought her hands together, clapping the Nomu's head in between then as blood splattered everywhere. The Nomu went limp as Kendo kicked off it and landed back over near her friends, shrinking her hands as she grasped them, the force of One for All severely bruising them. They all looked to the Nomu and saw it was not regenerating anymore. It was dead, and its body began to burn away from the car fire.

"Kendo, that power.... it looked like-" Tetsutetsu began to say but she cut him off. 

"I know but we don't have time to explain. We have to contact Wrath Queen immediately and tell her our discovery! LOVTech is using these service bots to distribute Nomu's across the world!" Kendo said as the four students left the steel mill, heading back to their motel where they could contact Queen and tell her the horrifying news. 

Meanwhile, Stroman and Dabi had watched everything that occurred within the steel mill, up until the point Kendo killed the Nomu and their feed went to static.

"You saw what I saw, right?" Dabi asked as Stroman finished his glass of wine and nodded. 

"Indeed. It seems Midoriya and Cryshiki aren't the only ones who possess One for All." Stroman replied as he rewound the footage and paused just before Kendo killed the Nomu, looking at her blue aura. "But regardless of the failed attempt to kill them and acquire Cryshiki, I would say tonight was a success." 

"How so? The heroes will know of us now and what we're doing here." Dabi said as Stroman just laughed at the thought. 

"And what? Let them come, I say. Shigaraki is nearly complete and even if the heroes were to come here, we have an army of executives and Nomu's here to destroy them all. Them finding out a bit early won't bring harm to our operation at all." Stroman said as he saved the footage they received from the Nomu before switching over to another live feed. 

"Still spying on this group, I see? Any sign of them beginning their big plan yet?" Dabi asked as the two now watched the Injustice Squad. 

"Not yet, but I have the feeling it will happen very soon." Stroman said as the two watched the four members of the Squad gearing up for something. Between guns, disguises, and Tika applying makeup to her sister, Daina, it would seem they were preparing for something big. 

"Well I hope they do it soon. And if they pull it off, i'd say it's a good idea we go and meet them. Wouldn't you agree?" Dabi suggested as Stroman agreed with him. 

"Absolutely. If they can break their companions out of prison, then they just might be the extra power we need here as part of the League....." Stroman said as they continued to view the Squad. 

LOVTech's secret had now been found out by Jiro and her group. They'd been using the service bots to mass produce and distribute High-End Nomu's all over the world. With this infrmation, Queen and her team would finally have the info they need to find the League of Villains. But as they looked into the League, the League themselves looked into some other who've caught their eye. The Injustice Squad was now in preparation to spearhead their big operation which they'd been orchestrating over the last month. It was finally time for them to bust their friends out of prison.