Octavia, Aurora, Jet, And Ichirou
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Aurora(Iron Volt), Ichirou,
Jettitare(Dark Matter), Octavia, Actress, and Galmi
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Cause i am sleepy and iwaku is mean on its coding saves
"And when the beast fell to its grave the entrance to the sworn treasure my eyes did lay," A woman quotes a rather old japanese mythical movie as she sat upon the office desk as two rathe burly security guards were thrown impressively high crashing into the ceiling before landing down knocked out cold… well if they were lucky. "Definitely know how to keep a girl entertained, Galmi. Am I pronouncing that right," she tilted her head with a questitive eyebrow raised turning to a dozen or so people trapped in a yellow like quartz crystal structure. Most of them were workers with a few security guards here, and there. Her outfit was that out of a fantasy adventurers design almost more prone to belong to a hero then the villain who wore it. The person she was really talking to was a rough looking customer with a scared right eye, and numerous flower like tattoos that surprisingly came off more ominous then they should have. As numerous black garbed henchmen worked with hasted effort. It had taken a few months, but the female villain in disguise had risen in rank fast, and gathered all viable security data plus shipment dates into a beautiful pay off. Giving the two pro villains at play a massive payday with a large exquisite selection of a high regarded jewelry shipment coming into their hands. Of course there was a split with the henchmen drones, but the big cuts belonged to them alone. She smiled at her actress skills playing so sharply.
"Indeed a complement to your requisite of knowledge you have pronounced it right as the hebrews would have," the rough man answered with a ashened serious tone noting the last two guards he had thrown to be the last of security. "I must admit I never took the idea to group effort, but this has changed my opinion," he responded rather impressed how the two had set up this elaborate effort. They even had fake security guards at the entrances as they broke down the shipments into five vehicles. That way if anything went south there was still a potential for profit as long as they themselves got away. "No police skulls to crack, and no heroes backs to break. It's a nice change though I do miss the thrill. I imagine a past action star who did her own stunts can understand that," The tall man spoke as the teams starte to get near completion.
"Of course, but it is a beautiful experience to get away without a trace to leave a line for mystery, and publicity to one's name," she smiled devilishly as she looked out the window to the ocean view. It was near time to back up, and go. However as she turned around a rather fiery explosive could be heard from above as the building shook causing her to growl, and the man to chuckle.
"Well sounds like the fun's started I'll go greet are guests then," he smiled as the woman hissed at the near perfection of her plan being cracked as she walked to the two downs security men touching their backs as crystals grew out of control sticking them to the spot as she pulled away to the camera's.
"And who's the party crashers today?"
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"I see very few ways to break into this place. The building was clearly built flawed to be a death trap in this scenario," Jettitare signed into his communication earpiece to his fellow party crashers Octavia who was reconning on the other side of the building along with Ichirou & Aurora who were both hiding out watching the main entrance from afar watching the fake security guards do their rounds with the main lobby door locked down.
"We were lucky to be aware of this at all if we're being honest," Aurora answered looking at Ichirou who only a few minutes ago had been run up to by a civilian who had recognized him showing the video his wife had secretly recorded and sent to him before she was encased in quartz crystal.
Ichirou was lucky they managed to get the report when they did. There was no telling if that man's wife was still alive in that quartz, assuming her mouth or nose was left uncovered. But until they knew that information, they needed to treat this as if that were not the case. Time was brain.
"A few ways is better than none. Risky, but we don't have much of a choice." He responded to them, looking over the building. The "easiest" way would have been to break in guns blazing, but it was also the most reckless. "What do you have, Octavia?"
Octavia sat with her eyes closed, focusing her vision through Fosc and another crow she had summoned. The two hopped from buildings and flew around, inspecting every corner of the outside while passing off as simple birds. Jet was right; there were not many entry points they could enter. Maybe an air vent if they were lucky… But if they had air vents available, then it would allow her an entry point and the opportunity to open another for her teammates.
"There isn't much, but it may be just enough for someone to infiltrate. An air vent perhaps? If we want as little suspicion as possible without risk of capture or injuries, we can send one of my crows into the building and open a safer entry point. If the building is a death trap, then my bird can scout the facility and I will alert you the dangers."
She offered this as a possible route to take, but if Jet didn't want to stand by, then he could accompany her somehow... Ichirou could not tag along as fire for he would burn her crows before they could get inside, and Aurora was much too heavy for any sort of climbing or stealth missions.
"I have a confirmed air vent. Better yet there's a good sized hole caused by rust that Octavia can fit her birds through if she can get down two floor she can open up the only windows in the building on the seventh floor where I can stealth in," Jet finally scouted out as he continued to stay out of sight for the most part. Keeping a count on the "workers" on the floor.
"Once me, and Octavia are in the element of surprise will be over. It would be best if you can create a diversion, and start handling the bottom elements," Jet added to Ichi, and Aurora in particular.
"Can you one shot the camera's and give us a little more time?"
"If Octavia can silence her first floor targets, and get a location on all camera's yes," Jet answered.
"Alright we got a plan. Once they get down a few floors we can strike a second element of surprise through the front entrance. Octavia send a bird my way to pick up my hacking tool. Once you find a power box plug it in, and shut off the power. That should allow you and Jet to do what you do best in darkness," Aurora motioned a plan together given the building structure the hostages would be split up in half. Meaning while Octavia, and Jet would rescue their half. There would still be the potential risk of a threatened hostage moment, but they couldn't do much about that as a good chunk of the rest of the building was underground.
"Once they shut off the power we better bulldoze in, and ko quickly."
"I'll do my best."
With that, Octavia summoned her crows. One for scouting and opening the window, one to locate the cameras, and one to redeem Aurora's hacking tool. If the building wasn't well lit, she could have her crows stay in the shadows; they were small enough to get away with it, right?
The hacking tool crow flew to Aurora to retrieve the device, and when it was finished, the birds all flew their way towards the opening Jet mentioned. However, they wouldn't enter just yet without scoping out what was around that entry first.
"Don't be afraid to retreat if you have to, Octavia. Let us know everything." Ichirou reassured her, who thanked him in appreciation. He then turned to Aurora, "Got a backup plan in case this all goes to shit?"
"Well of course any tactician worth their weight has at least one back as minimal required. If things go haywire too soon we crash the party, and I personally drain the buildings main source of electricity. Then you use the darkness to set up your flame traps to teleport all around the building, and get everyone out. Then me and you start capturing the baddies in a more aggressive style," Aurora anointed one back up plan. At such a point given how perfect Octavia, and Jet were for blackout type fights they would catch up real fast meaning they could all converge onto the underground parking lot final floor.
"Well then let's begin," Jet motioned on the comm as he watched Octavia. On the top floor there would be five fake guards a good warm up for any hero.
"So why are we pretending to work on a floor that no one can see from the ground," one of the guards complained while walking around bored out of their mind.
"Cause the boss says we need to keep the illusion up regardless of what's seen. Better to be prepared and all that play the whole part as she said," the other answered unaware of the crows slowly making it into the building
Octavia closed her eyes for a moment, giving her crows their commands all the while searching for shadowy areas that they could sit in while she handled the henchmen on the top floor. They didn't look experienced, and the mastermind of this operation most likely anticipated heroes or police to burst through the front door. That, or the villain behind this just wanted a warning via the sounds of men getting tossed around.
She quietly calculated her move, then when she saw an opening, Octavia turned into bird form and flew over to the group of men.
Octavia dove downwards, regaining human form halfway through and landing a powerful kick to one of the men's jawline, knocking him unconscious immediately. She drew her electric sword. A click of her tongue gave her a reading of where the rest of the men were, and with that, Octavia was on the move again.
She switched on the blade, the electricity cackling through the air.
"Hyah!"
Octavia swung her blade quickly, the weapon a blur as it made contact with one of the henchman. A powerful controlled shock would course through his body, forcing him to the ground. She would move again, swiftly dodging a punch that went her way and recovering behind the next henchman, hitting him in the back and forcing him to go down as well. All that was left was the final two.
The poor men seemed too paralyzed to move. They certainly weren't trained for these types of situations.
Still, criminals were criminals.
Using the grip of her blade, Octavia swung hard downwards onto the nose of a brunette henchman. A loud crunch sounded, blood running from his nose but before he could scream, she swung her leg and delivered a back kick to his jaw, rendering him unconscious as well.
Now there was one.
He rose his hands up in a surrendering motion, making this much easier. Octavia hit him on the side with her sword, rendering him unconscious as well.
"The floor is clear." She communicated to Jet.
Ichirou gave Aurora a nod and a little smile, "Figured you did, was just checking." He assured her. The battle between Octavia and the henchman ended pathetically quickly, making him wonder just how experienced this villain was that they would put inexperienced fighters at the main entry points to the building.
"Confirmed," Jettitare spoke as the window was opened . Taking a few steps back his mist production began to go wild the moment he started to bolt forward like a mad dog. As he neared the end of the roof a sort of trampoline formed from the mist as he jumped, landed, and was propelled high up towards the other building right for the window. As he neared his destination in a downward descent he spread his hands out releasing a quick burst of mist cancelling his momentum, and allowing him to dive right into the window in a rolling fashion making nary a sound as he halted right next to Octavia standing up as he eyed the room. From the video feed he had received as soon as he had entered his mist had spiked out and masked the camera's in the room meaning Octavia's silent takedown had not cost her reveal to the enemy just yet. Unfortunately it seemed the electrical box for the upper half of the building wasn't in this room meaning the next one might be more fruitful yet would still be without cover.
"I'll take the next floor," Dark Matter sighed high fiving Octavia in a sort of tag in fashion as the two neared the staircase. With a sneak peak of the scene Jet could place six more fake security guards, an odd pattern to be noted for sure. With a soft breath more mist started to be produced quickly forming into Mist Marbles as he motioned to himself how to proceed without startling them to use their firearms, and give way their descent. It didn't take long to come to a conclusion.
"Ohhh I am excited for this payout. Easy in, and little work," one guard chuckled excitedly as he sat down at one of the many desks strung about the room.
"Best thing no heroes to nag us to death, or ANVIL to string are guts up," another responded.
"Hahaha..haha… ha they don't actually do that… do they," the first guard asked his nerves riled up a bit by the notion. As he asked, two of the other men started to head towards the back near the staircase.
"Oh ya they do. New to this whole villain gig are ya," a third older henchman spoke. When the first nodded the man chuckled. "Heh, back when it was just heroes all you had to worry about was bruises, and broken bones. There was of course the occasional insane anti hero like The Grudge who would kill on the flip of a dime rather than attempt to take you in if it was a clear cut scenario, but oh those ANVIL suckers they are a worst breed of trouble.," the man spoke, hitting the desk in front of the first hard spooking the newbie.
"Heh you heard about the priestess from hell right," the second henchman asked with a wide smile as he joined the third in the spook factor. The first shook his head causing the second to smile bigger. "Nastiest of the ANVIL lot I hear smiling as she splatters her quarry amongst the battlefield stained red with madness overtaking the senses of her victims freezing them in place as she comes to reap the wicked hahaha," he laughed as the four henchmen suddenly noticed the two who had headed for the staircase were… gone. Raising an eyebrow as his cohorts scared the crap out of the newbie the fourth henchmen headed over as the third took over the tale.
"Heard she's the child of a warrior priest out in the sticks, but her mother a demon of the worst kind who had come from a land of red snow raised by non stop war. Apparently she traveled to this land looking for worthy warriors to carve to death with her godly strength until there was nothing left of them," as the third one talked the fourth made it near the end of the room noticing a weird shadow like wisp coming from one of the desks. Curiosity overtaking him to investigate first caused him to kneel down to a rather horrid sight of one of his allies wrapped up by some purple mass. Turning around he found the other missing man trapped underneath the desk across from the other in a similar scenario. The sound of their capture clearly being covered by the desk slam. Though before he could warn the others who were distracted in their scary story tentacles shot off grabbing the man, and pulling him under the desk. The sudden attack pulled the attention of the last three with no sound to cover the snatch this time. However seeing no sign of the situation the three were immediately brought to the fact something was very wrong.
"Where's the others," the first spooked out henchmen asked, pulling out his gun as the third hissed doing the same heading forward. Yet as the second went to do the same both his and the third henchmen's guns were pulled away by a purple whip like attack that pulled them to behind the first henchmen. Panic fueled to a fault now the first henchmen saw into the eyes of his scared comrades. As he himself turned around his own gun was pulled straight out of his hands by Jettiare who had snuck past them all during the whole event. With barely a bat of an eye Jet placed a single clawed finger on the man's temple before a wave of mist overtook him trapping the poor man inside a purple coffin. With only two left Jet turned his attention to them pulling out a set of handcuffs throwing them to the third henchmen who barely caught them. When he looked up the henchmen realized the cameras were all outed with some strange purple mass meaning it was unlikely help would be sent, and they would be considered a lost cause.
"I am assuming at this point we can agree that it's easier for you to just surrender, yes," the purple dragon man asked as the two nodded in confirmation as sweat flooded down their faces. After collecting all twelve outed henchmen, and tying them up with good measure Octavia, and Jet had now taken over the seventh, and sixth floor of the building.
"Seems Kanna has helped create quite the nightmare bedtime story for ANVIL," Jet spoke to Octavia as they waited for Octavia's crows to properly scan out the fifth floor. For a moment his thoughts went to Mimi, and her missions for ANVIL. He knew she was strong, but still part of him worried the criminal underworld was starting to have a shoot first police on contact with Anvil operative as the stories on their actions grew.
"Hm… no doubt Kanna was always a force to reckon with, and all stories have truth to them. Kanna has executed many villains, and criminals in madness inducing fear," Aurora responded on the ear piece as she smiled at Ichi's positive remark. A soft sigh escaped the blonde as her thoughts went to Anvil, and Kanna especially to that night at the hospital with the words they clashed with.
"Alright the switch board for the upper half of the building should be on the fifth floor once you knock out the power me, and Ichirou will start our part," Aurora motioned to Octavia.
Jet made wonderful work clearing out the next floor of henchmen, ending it with another surrender as the heroes gradually made progress in eliminating their opponents. With her and Jet getting a moment to breathe, Octavia readied her crows to enter phase two of the plan.
'Search'
The silent command was given, and the small flock went about their different directions. One sweeping the floor for more hostiles and another in search of the fuse box. However, as the second crow was searching, the first encountered a surprising sight.
The hostages, all kept in slowly eroding crystal which, curiously, was left unguarded.
"I've found the hostages. They're all unguarded and trapped in some kind of crystal." Octavia reported to her team.
"Unguarded?" Ichirou repeated, then looked at Aurora. "Any villain worth their name wouldn't abandon their only means of negotiation. They have to be making plans to leave." He said to his friend. "Octavia, what floor specifically?"
"Fifth floor. I've found the fuse box too. I'll cut out the lights; be ready for infiltration and extraction."
"Understood." He responded, waiting for their cue.
"Distractions. Those twelve men, and the hostages were just a distraction, the leader of this group was very willing if not hopeful to sacrifice them to any potential rescues. Lost weight means more shares," Aurora hissed this was indeed a pro they were dealing with. Silent take over, knew the building in & out, and was willing to cut off their own allies for the end game.
"Octavia, Jet set up the hostages to be teleported out by Ichi. We have a safe zone ready for them," Aurora spoke, adding at the end.
"Also be prepared for professional villains. I highly doubt there's one master mind at work here, and the coordination of this operation is way above the henchmen working it. Aight Ichi let's go with a Teleport Hammer." With that Aurora took a few steps away before running into a jump right at Ichirou.
The building went dark, and as soon as it did the fake guards at the door were all startled out of their minds by a well placed fireball bursting through the glass door landing inside the lobby setting the rug. Rather disoriented by the sudden attack the henchmen were quickly met with Ichirou bursting in teleport into the scene their guns all aimed, but they were distracted by a added surprise of Iron Volt upside down in the air holding onto the fire heroes hand as she let go and landed in flip hard onto the floor creating a mini tremor that displaced all the henchmen. In that moment of chaos Aurora's hair came to life growing rapidly, snaking out, and capturing all the henchmen in the lobby without fail pulling them all into one brutal slam against each other before wrapping them up into inescapable weaves. Slicing her hair with one stroke of the blonde revealed her right hand with finger nails at knife length. Over the years she had perfected her mother's style with her own twist of reaction time being much faster. At the distress of the noise both Ichirou, and Aurora could hear voices from the second floor as the blonde winked at the fireman.
"Your turn nitro," she joked as she started to head for the staircase ready to wreck everything that got in her way. Upon her forward march a man hiding behind the desk rolled out taking three shots at the blonde. The first two pressured in, and fell off her body as the last nearing her eyes was slapped away by a few of her strands of hair redirecting it into the desk causing the man to yell before he was snatched by her hair and slammed into the ground before being weaved up. With a sigh Aurora flickered one of her pissed Grudge smiles.
"Okay rough play it is," with that, Aurora entered the staircase leading to the underground garage followed by the screams, and gun fire of the henchmen unfortunate enough to get in her way.
Ichirou and Aurora had successfully executed their attack, though by the looks of it, he would need to be incredibly careful with his fire if he didn't want to burn the entire building down. A nearby window was his best bet for easier teleportation, but would they be cocky enough to put the hostages in a room next to a window?
No, that's wishful thinking.
He rushed quickly towards the next floor, where a group of henchmen awaited him. Ichirou growled at the sight of them, his flames burning brightly.
"I don't have time for this!"
Ichirou grabbed the wall next to him and ripped out a large chunk. Holding it in front of him, he charged forward. The men shot at the piece of wall and the surrounding area in the hopes that one of the bullets would land, but unfortunately for them that wasn't the case.
He bulldozed the men, hitting them hard with the concrete and successfully incapacitating the opponents. Ichirou tossed the piece of wall to the side, running through the surprisingly empty third floor before making it to the fourth.
Bodies littered the surrounding area, Jet and Octavia standing over them as the crow woman kicked one man in the jaw to render him unconscious.
"We got you covered, Inferno. Go ahead." Octavia told him with a smile, though she wasn't looking directly at him.
He smiled in turn, "Thank you." and rushed forward onto the fifth floor.
Within a room, the hostages were trapped in their crystals. Whether they could still see and hear him, he wasn't sure. But he needed to get them out of here first.
Seeing that his theory was correct and there were no windows, he decided not to waste time and make one himself.
"Hyah!"
A powerful punch into the wall and Ichirou created a large hole to the outside, showering the interior with natural daylight. He set up a trail of fire to the outside, then one by one and two by two he moved the hostages from the inside to a safe distance out. This continued until all of the hostages were moved from the building.
"Hostages extracted." He communicated to his team.
"Stairwell to the underground entrance is cleared as well. Lets meet up at my location for the final confrontation. Also after a talk with my new friend here," Aurora responded waiting for her team to meet up with her eyeing her most recent henchmen trapped victim who had clearly been smacked a little around for information.
"I have confirmed one of the masterminds as Galmi any of heard of him damage left eye with a notable scar, flower tattoos all over both hands," she asked using a pocket mirror with her hair to look out the corner of the entrance doors window to check out the sight there was no one near the control point as all hands were finishing loading up the jewel crates into five vehicles with no license plates. The bigger problem however as she eyed the big guy she was sure Galmi was what he had one of his hands wrapped around. A red head who looked like she worked there with a sharp grip around her neck from the big guy… a hostage, and the very reason she had yet to run in.
"I ask cause he has a hostage," Aurora added hissing a bit at the sour turn to the operation that had been rather fluid up to this point.
"I have, and I recommend we use caution. He's a hero killer," Jet responded as both him, and Octavia started to head for the underground entrance.
"Two years ago Jin Omachi, and his sister were hostages to a mad man named Pavel Turgenev, a russian outcast who had gone insane during a failed bioengineering test, and fled his home country. Pavel had chosen the siblings for their combative-like quirks, and was only figured out by an anonymous tip given to a hero called Proxy, and Anvil at the same time. Not much to say but Proxy was an inexperienced hero not well equipped for the scenario, but had rushed into it only making it through because Anvil caused a good distraction," Jet explained calling back to what he had heard from of the tale from recounts given by Mimi who had been on scene to the situation. Jet had remembered the case for its rather tragic scenario, and dark end result.
"From what I heard, the scenario played into a hostage moment where Pavel gave the hero two options: let him leave, and save the hostages, or capture him, and watch the girl die. From what Mimi told me of the scenario, There was a fight between Pavel and Proxy that critically wounded and eventually caused the sister to die. Pavel himself was killed on site as well," Octavia expressed, adding into the situation what she had heard as well to help paint a picture of Galmi.
"Proxy shared the glory with Anvil on the capture, but everyone ignored the consequential death of Galmi's sister caused by Proxy."
"Wait, Proxy? Didn't he die two years ago," Aurora asked the hero's name, jingling her memory to a hero death she had seen on the news. From what she remembered it was pretty gory with Proxy being torn apart, and grinded into a paste almost.
"Correct. Anvil had hands investigating that situation, and it wasn't hard to find out who did it. Jin made it very clear with the bloody note stating the crime of Proxy all over his household walls that had been ignored," Jet finished the story adding.
"From there Jin became known as Galmi, a dark stalker of people in both Anvil, and Hero society whose mistakes he labeled for faulty spilled blood. Intriguing thing though was he disappeared off the map a year ago," Jet finished rather surprised, and concerned why such a person would reappear on a crime so far off of their original mo. The bigger problem though was the aggressive quirk he had been told the hero killer had.
"That's very worrisome," Aurora spoke. Galmi was off his mo, and reappearing after a long term disappearance making the information they had on him potentially useless now as many things could have changed from what he was like. Yet what did match his m.o. was the lack of killed innocents, but introducing heroes to the situation was a potential trigger to incite Galmi's wraith on his hostage.
Ichirou took note of the information, making him a bit nervous, but not for their sake. The hostages were removed from this madman, but was that really all of them? Why would they leave so many alone unless they had an ace up their sleeve?
Apparently, that was the case. The man that they were talking about was out in the open, clutching a red haired woman. A hostage that wasn't crystallized… They must have anticipated the hostages being rescued, but knew heroes wouldn't leave one behind. Without warning Ichi went in grabbing all attention from the threat element as soon as he did. Galmi immediately locked eyes on Ichirou.
"How do you want us to proceed?" Ichirou asked the villain.
"Octavia get back outside through the front, and prepare to halt those vanes at the parking lot exit," Aurora spoke, breaking out a new plan in case negotiations were to short circuit fast. With that she took back her hacking device, and turned to watch the play out. From what she saw the henchmen were holding fast with Galmi, but with how quick the goon was to give that info from earlier it felt a bit off. From what she had been informed Galmi had no actual tact for this sort of thing nor the background. So did he just spend two years planning a robber life?
"Doubtful," Aurora growled, pushing out the door to walk next to Ichirou after signaling Jet to stay hidden as a surprise attack if needed. The tension grew very little with the second hero's appearance which intrigued Aurora a bit, but she left it alone for now.
"Let's just wait for the trucks to finish up Blue Inferno," Galmi directly answered Ichirou clearly knowing of him. At those words the henchmen on hand went back to what they were doing. From the reactions it was clear Galmi thought there were only two heroes at play meaning Octavia, and Jets camera cover had done its part, and the two were still invisible pieces to this match. If not Galmi would have probably called them out by now, or had an exit plan in mind.
Octavia stayed quiet on the comms to ensure her voice would not be given away. Taking bird form, she quickly flew through the front of the building and briefly searched for the vans Aurora was talking about.
Once she found them, Octavia summoned a couple more birds to work as her flock. Slashing their tires would be the quickest way to go about this.
Ichirou inwardly hummed in thought. If Octavia was disabling the trucks, then he'd need to buy her some time. Surely his henchmen wouldn't leave behind their ringleader, right? Keep him talking… Ichirou didn't need good answers; he just needed to keep him talking. There were no feelings to report on, save for him being aloof… Hmmm...
"Trucks, huh? And what's your plan from here?"
He knew he wouldn't get a direct answer from the other man; Ichirou just needed to avoid "yes or no" questions and keep Galmi talking.
However in response Galmi only smirked at the hero as if he had full control of the situation. Clearly there would be no long winded monologue, or nefarious speeches just direct to business. Yet there would be one solid question in return.
"You want the woman correct," his grip momentarily tightened causing the red head to whimper in response as Galmi kept his eyes interlocked with Blue Infernos barely nothing to Iron Volt herself who found it all that more perplexing a situation. Dark Matter himself stayed silent in place waiting for any sudden situation to advance as he kept producing a heavy supply of his mist marbles.
Ichirou's eyes widened a bit hearing the woman whimper. This bastard really was "no nonsense," wasn't he? Still, they couldn't risk letting the hostage be killed. So, best to play at the man's mercy until taking immediate action was necessary.
"Yes."
"We're ready," one of the henchmen spoke as the vans were loaded and revved up ready to go.
"Then have her," Galmi responded, throwing the woman at Blue Inferno. At first it was an easy ascertain let Ichi grab the girl then Aurora would clash with Galmi. All the while Jet would give cover, and go for the trucks with Ichi joining in after teleporting the woman out. Yet as that all played out fine in theory as Aurora moved to go in she noted a strange oddity as the woman headed for Ichi in the air. Her movement was too well designated… shit. Aurora halted her steps, but it was too late as the woman removed her fake red hair, and flung it into Ichi's view of vision. With him blinded a quick throw of her hands sent strange small particles that as soon as they made contact with the heroes hand crystallized rapidly into a cluster.
Revealing herself the second mastermind as she rather impressively cartwheeled back Aurora aimed to knock the woman's daylights out, but was intercepted by Galmi's own fist causing the blonde to switch to defense as she was rather surprisingly pushed back by the hit. Negating most of the damage with her hands crossed Aurora hissed as her hair came to life quickly forming into massive braids… entanglement was not an option with this one.
"A good act on your side, but I was ready to see this through any interfering plot," the woman saluted the hero's as she got on the second van as they all started to move out. With everything out of wack Jet burst through the doors causing the woman a sour look as she had not been prepped for a third hero's appearance. As the vans moved out one was a little slow on the go, and in perfect aim of the fire hero.
"I'll take the actress," Jet yelled out as he burst forward past the first van causing it to buckle on the brack's giving Ichi a good support to remove that crystal with.
"Octavia their heading out with four vans," Jet updated to his avian partner.
"There is no way there's not someone waiting for us at the exit. Use your high beams," the actress yelled at the driver who after flinching to the unexpected command prompted his high beams right before the darkness ended at the exit of the parking lot.
It'd been too easy. There's no way a villain would lose the only leg they had to stand on by just surrendering the hostage so easily. He was proven right when the red haired woman was suddenly flinging a wig at him. Ichirou easily knocked it away, but that split second of distraction was enough to get his arm crystallized.
Thankfully though, it didn't render him useless.
"Is that really all she's got?" He asked himself, using the support Jet provided to shatter the crystal to piece.
Now that there was nothing to protect the villains, there was no reason to hold back.
Ichirou, spotting the van perfectly in reach, moved quickly.
"Aurora!" He called to her as his fist was ensnared by his blue fire. His plan was obvious, and as he thought, Aurora was quick to catch on and join him.
Fire and lightning intertwined as the two stood side by side. The van had accelerated at top speed, and due to the load it carried, it was either skidding or ramming through the heroes. The driver didn't want to take the risk of skidding, and so floored it completely. The miles were quickly picking up, and much to the driver's dismay, neither Aurora or Ichirou looked phased.
Simultaneously, both heroes slammed their fists down against the hood of the van, the impact nearly flipping it over but instead the vehicle made a right angle with the street. Not only was the contents within the hood completely destroyed, rendering the vehicle useless, but when the van dropped back down, the tires popped due to not being able to sustain the weight.
With that done, Ichirou needed to engage in battle. If the driver and anyone with him tried to run… Well, they wouldn't get far.
Octavia had been the one waiting at the exit, herself and a murder of her crows catching sight of the vehicle that sped towards them.
She cawed her command, then she and her crows all zipped through the air, flying at high speeds to try and slash the tires.
However, the high beams suddenly blinded her and her birds, the suddenness catching her off guard, but not totally incapacitating her as the villain would have expected.
Using the noise the truck made as a guide, Octavia counted the seconds before she and her crows dove downwards, flying next to the vehicle's tires. Each crow flew past, speeding through to slash at the rubber in the hopes of incapacitating it. Luckily, she was able to fully take out two.
As the two vehicles swerved, Jettitare came bolting in jumping midair as his mist launched off his horns, and hands overtaking the vans to pull out their occupants. Quickly dispatching them by flinging them into the wall ways of the parking lot tunnel as he, and the vans exited into the light. Flinging his marbles ahead of the now out of control vans. Before they could cause any damage to the populace they rammed into the quickest mist wall Jet could make target rapid in thought at the fast motion of it all as he landed a bit behind the controlled wreck. With three trucks down, but no sign of the actress Jet hissed as he looked to the shores noticing an unnatural flock of birds to his right. With another burst of mist Jet was midair lassoing himself to the nearest rooftop as he gave pursuit.
"Octavia the mastermind is in one of those vans. Proceed with caution I am closing in to meet up," he radioed as he picked up his pace parkouring from rooftop to rooftop.
Octavia heard her comrade loud and clear, which meant she and her flock must be careful 'less they all wanted to be trapped… But could she trap them all? That question was really not something she wanted to find out the hard way.
The van swerved around the street, making it difficult for Octavia to get a good read on how to disable the last two tires without endangering her own life… Hmm…
Well, she didn't become a hero to be safe.
Octavia flew faster to get ahead of the van, giving herself a good couple of feet in front of it before she made a sharp U-turn. She cawed again, getting a read of where everything was before diving down under the van. From what she gathered, the front tire on the right and the back left needed to be taken out… She'd need to pull a pinball maneuver.
She darted left, forcing her beak into the rubber of the van's right tire and used her momentum to bounce off the pipes above. Though her chest scratched against the street, she pushed onward. Her costume would have been built to withstand these sorts of circumstances.
With the bounce, Octavia darted at the remaining tire and slashed into it again, barrel rolling out from under the van and flapped her wings quickly to get into the air again before following the swerving vehicle once more.
"Okay you wanna play rough," the actress spoke with a hiss as she opened the back door with two henchmen clinging to the cargo for dear life, and a third trying to avoid crashing or hitting anything as they took the back allies path. With a fling of both her hands the actress threw a heavy amount of her crystal dust that quickly started to turn the back alley road into a crystal jag'd nightmare for the crow from all sides worst yet blotching out much chance to just fly up as most of the crystal were bursting to life above her. Having set a good trap the actress flung another wave of dust hoping to hit the little crow to end this farce.
Due to the alley route being turned into a massive diamond jag'd terrain a little ways back the second van still roaming about had halted immediately unable to follow. As this had not been planned for at all the driver was hesitant what route to take to get back on track, and that alone was enough time for Jet to catch up. Putting the vehicle into reverse the men felt a sudden aggressive jolt in the van. They then noticed the vehicle wasn't moving at all though now the tires could be heard spinning outside. Turning to see what was happening through the side mirror the man was met with a panic inducing sight as a massive collection of mist was lifting the van up. That, and the pro hero Dark Matter was literally right next to the vehicle looking at the driver. Shoving his clawed fist through the window Jet unleashed a torrent of mist into the closed van, and as the screams of the occupants pierced into the area their silence signaled their quick defeat as they were all knocked out and tied up. Jet had little time to work with as he returned to the rooftops following the path of the crystals formed by the actress. He needed to catch up as quickly to end this before the last van could get out into a public area.
Octavia mentally cursed and took immediate action to try and avoid the newly formed crystals that had taken out a good portion of her crows. It was difficult to puppeteer herself and her flock, which was why so many were taken out. However, it didn't mean she couldn't replace them, and on top of that, watching the villain use her quirk gave Octavia an idea.
And she was going to have some damn good fun with it.
From outside the van, there was only one crow; Octavia. Cawing soon sounded, this one louder than what was natural for a regular crow. One bird rejoined, then three, then seven, then fourteen; more and more came into view around the villain's van until the vehicle was completely surrounded by the birds.
Another caw, followed by a chorus of answers from the other birds.
Suddenly, a crow slammed into the passenger window, hard enough to leave a small crack at the center. Then another followed, and another, and another, until finally, the window shattered.
The second the birds had an opening, a flurry of crows began speeding into the vehicle all of which began to peck, claw, and bite pieces of skin off of the villains occupying the vehicle. Each bird cawed, making it impossible to hear orders and the flapping of wings covered the clarity of the windshield immensely. Of course, Octavia didn't have plans to actually eat any of them, but putting the villain and the driver in a panicked state of survival meant that there was a higher chance for them to crash and ruin the vehicle.
As the actress screamed in furious pain unable to use her quirk inside the van unless wanting to capture herself she was forced to power through pulling out an electrical baton, and started swatting the birds. As she kicked, punched, and slammed herself to harm the bastards trying to find the main one known as octavia. The others were a bit more to panicked by the "killer" to do anything as they flailed about wildly in terror. The driver luckily was made of tougher stuff even with all the crows attacking was able to keep the vehicle going. The bigger problem was the vehicle was about to make it back into the main streets… into civilians cross hairs. Finally getting enough view away from the birds the driver was to chance it and drive into the populace, but luck was on Octavias side as Jet rather abruptly dropped onto the vehicles hood in a furious display of mist as Jet's mist marbles launched off ahead creating a series of bollards before jumping off the vehicle as it crashed into the blockade thankfully halting it from entering the crowded streets thought the crash was easily seeable by the populace who all halted, and even in panicked watched to see what had happen as the actress was flung out of the van with her baton before Jets attacking mist could snatch her like it was her henchmen inside.
"Come out bitch let's settle this," she yelled as Jet landed back on the top of the now destroyed mist globbed Van.
"Shall I stay out of this," Dark Matter asked, raising an eyebrow at the pissed actress villain.
Octavia nearly reformed on top of the driver just so she could stop the vehicle herself from hurtling into the civilians. Thankfully, Jet was able to stop before a massacre happened, crashing the vehicle into the blockade and incapacitating it from moving any further. She owed Jet a drink or something for that…
Now, all that was left was to arrest the villain… who seemed to be challenging Octavia directly.
Interesting.
The crows shot out from the window, swirling in a tornado-line fashion as they formed a pair of black boots, legs, Octavia's dress and form, up until the whole of the woman was made present with each crow disappearing the more that was revealed. In front of the villain, Octavia licked her lips that had a bit of the other woman's blood on them.
"It's a direct challenge, Dark Matter. Leave this one to me." Octavia responded, taking stance with her electric baton. Turning on the switch, the cackles and flare of the weapon's electricity sounded as it was quickly brought to life. "Let's end this quickly."
"How about you have the whole thing," the actress roared as she rather impressively closed the distance fast pressing both electrical baton against electrical sword creating a unique electrical clash of sparks that burned both combats clothing causing enough distraction for the woman to get first edge as she head butted Octavia forcing her back with enough temporary distortion to bash Octavia's side with a surge of electricity with her weapon.
'Remain calm. Do not lose the whereabouts of your target.' Octavia heard the voice of her mentor clearly within her mind. Though she took a bit of damage, it wouldn't be enough to down her. Ao Oni did not train her so she could fail him. Not now, not ever.
Pain shot through her face and her side. She used crows to pull her away from the electrical current to keep her from becoming trapped via clenched muscles.
A click of her tongue told her that the villain was in front of her, the weapon she held was short, which gave Octavia the edge of distance over her. Distance was all Octavia needed to win.
"Hyah!"
Octavia swung her electric sword with the intention of creating an opening for herself, then quick as a flash she drew her other sword. With a spin, Octavia closed the distance a bit to get a slash wound onto the villain's leg with her anesthesia sword. A bit of the chemicals would be in the woman's blood, but not enough to cause a knockout. It always required a few more slashes before the villain would fully begin to feel the effects.
Hissing at the pain the actress reeled back at the cut not wanting to take another one as something felt very off on the after effect… that bitch had something on that new sword in particular. It was here though that the woman noted something else with how the woman's head moved… she was blind. Realizing this she stopped moving watching Octavia as she pulled out a few of the jewels she had pockets and flung them all about creating a series of noise to disorient Octavia before rushing in delivering a series of quick baton zap hits before ducking before she could get cut again as she wacked her baton behind Octavia's left foot causing a muscle spasm to force Octavia to kneel as the actress hooked the heroes right hand flipped over her back to fling Octavia onto the ground before bringing the baton down threatening to deliver a painful back shock if Octavia didn't react fast enough.
Meanwhile, Fosc had been eating a piece of skin that had been torn from the female villain. Octavia had not called him since she was not as reliant on him since UA. However, the little bird looked up just in time to see his host get taken to the ground. Octavia had turned into a bird and hopped out of the way to avoid getting hit, but soon, something else was going to help her.
Angry caws came from the large bird as Fosc flew directly into the female villain's face, clawing, pecking, and biting at her in his attempt to get the woman away from Octavia. Meanwhile, Octavia quickly recovered and moved to hit the villain with her electric sword, inwardly thankful that Fosc had come to save the day.
Backing away from the massive bird the villain was quickly jolted from pain from Octavias own electrical type weapon causing the woman to scream in a blood curdling experience. In her pain though she flung her hand right into Fosc instantly encasing the bird into a crystal tomb as she grabbed the crystalled Fosc, and in her frustration and pain slapped Octavia upside the head with it before throwing it away like it was nothing. Thankfully Jet jumped in to catch Fosc as the villain then forward flung her hand right into Octavias shoulder right shoulder encasing it with crystal and making movement impossible for it grabbing the crystal the actress began to pummel the hero with her baton.
"FUCK… YOU…. AVIAN…. BITCH… A YEARS WORTH OF PLANNING DOWN THE DRAIN CAUSE OF YOU BASTARDS," the actress screamed hitting between words wildly as Jet was about to jump in.
A fire ignited in Octavia's eyes. Despite not being to see it through her eyes, she could hear Fosc suddenly go silent, and through his eyes, saw nothing but the yellow of the woman's quirk. It enraged Octavia. She would allow herself to be broken, bloodied, and bruised far before she allowed anyone to touch her beloved, her family, her friends, or her baby.
And this bitch just crystalized her baby.
Copying the woman's action from before, Octavia headbutted the villain's nose then kicked her stomach to put some distance between them.
The villain recovered and drew a knife, swinging it at the purple haired girl. Octavia, with her good hand, deflected the woman's wrist midswing, forcing her to aim upwards. Octavia moved low and to the side with her dodge, hooking her good arm around the woman's elbow and then grabbed the villain's wrist with her right hand. Since she could not do much with her right arm, Octavia quickly used her leg to stop the villain from moving and pulled the arm hard. The administration would pop the villain's arm out of place, rendering it useless.
With this finished, Octavia let go of the villain and used her good arm to elbow the woman. Quickly following this was a back kick that quickly swung down low to sweep the villain off her feet and onto her back. She tried to summon more of her quirk, but with the heel of Octavia's shoe, she nailed the woman's hand back to the ground. Though it didn't penetrate, it was enough to keep her distracted long enough for Octavia to take her anesthesia sword and stab it into the woman's shoulder, keeping her in place.
"Sweet dreams…" Octavia told her, but she wasn't finished, not yet.
She remembered that the woman had swung at her with a blade, and that it clattered nearby.
Summoning a crow, she had the bird retrieve the blade before Octavia set to work with further humiliation. This humiliation was cutting the woman's hair to the scalp, with some hair sections longer than the others.
It was far better than breaking something, and this humiliation would be something that the villain wouldn't forget for a while.
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Back at the underground parking lot the intensity was building fast as Galmi fought not only Ichirou, but Aurora at the same time. From the constant barrage of electrical and fire attacks Galmis hands were bright red glowing like a sword in a forge.
"Gotta admit you're being rather stubborn about this," Galmi taunted, keeping his dukes up ready to swing if any of the two dared to get close again.
"Well you did choose to endanger a good amount of people, are resisting arrest, oh and there's the massive theft going on outside that are friends will handle. Honestly you should just surrender," Aurora rolled out with four of her braids striking breaking the mama guard wide open.
"Doesn't really matter, I already got my part paid," Galmi confusingly answered as he swung straight for the blonde as she dodged the attack Ichi came swinging in..
Ichirou watched Galmi's movement and body language closely as the man talked. Though it looked like an easy win, he knew teamwork and predictability of the villain on hand would be their stepping stones to success. They couldn't assume anything.
"Anything for a couple hundred yen, hm?" Ichirou asked him before speaking again. "First the plan's gone to shit and now you're going to jail. I hope it was worth it."
Though Galmi had his fists ready, Ichirou put his own hands to the ground. He unleashed large streams of blue fire, encircling and surrounding Galmi that didn't leave him much room to run. Aurora could see that with the heat of the fire and the electricity of her hair, they'd force Galmi into a dire situation as such she swung her braids out into a plethora of strains wrestling into grip onto all of Galmi's body as the villain fought to get out of the trap. As her hair was super heated by the fire for added effect the blonde hero unless a devastating jolt of electricity into Galmi being of super strength Aurora could notch up a good ⅓ of what she was capable of causing Galmi to release a thunderous yell in pain. It seemed this would be the end. Then without warning Aurora pulled all her hair back and grabbed Ichi before pushing off a good chunk of distance as with a burst of air Galmi released a massive stone fist that nearly missed the heroes as he transformed into a massive stone golem.
"Ah so this is why the scientist was interested in him," Aurora responded as both hero's shielded their eyes from the pressured air bursting from the transformation. Before they could respond the golem was fast upon them with a push forward slamming its long arms into both heroes sending them hurtling back into the wall causing massing debris to fall about..
"You heroes are always so confident really pisses me off," Galmis spoke with a much deeper voice that echoed in the underground parking lot. "Not even worth the transfor…. Gah," Galmi was caught off guard as the first taken down van was thrown right into him by a grinning Aurora's whose hair spread out hostilely as she chuckled.
"Looks like we're getting in a workout today Blue Inferno," she smiled devilishly as both heroes were still raring to go with a few bruises from the unexpected hit, but nothing they were not used to by any means. As the golem threw off the van he roared charging at them. Grabbing Ichi with her hair Aurora started to spin around rather dangerously before hurtling the Blue Inferno like a comet right at the golem.
"Was that it? I didn't even feel that." Ichirou responded after the attack, brushing some rubble off of himself. While Galmi was certainly strong, Ichirou's inability to feel pain anymore was both a blessing and a curse. The blessing because he could fight without holding back, the curse because he'd have to have Jet check up on him to ensure there were no deep cuts or wounds that needed immediate attention.
The van was tossed by Aurora, giving the two ample opportunity to strike and strike hard. Aurora grabbed and threw him into the air at near blinding speeds. Ichirou activated his quirk midair, the roaring blue fires that trickled behind him making him look exactly what the public had named it.
Blue Comet
Ichirou reeled back his fist, a burning inferno of flames whirring around his hand in a tornado-like fashion as the strength readied for this attack.
In one solid swing, his fist collided with the golem, spiderweb cracks splitting the stone. Within, the crevices were glowing blue; the fire that had been charged on Ichirou's hand spread quickly in the new space created.
In response though the golems massive hands slammed into ichi on both sides causing a load clasp of force as the Golem was trying to crush Ichi between its palms clearly pissed, and in extreme pain at the combo attack. As Ichi unleashed a burst of flames as he fought being squished Aurora revved up with her hair returning to its big braids as she jumped back and pushed off the wall with extreme force to form a crater where her feet , and braids made contact. Flying through the air Ich grinned as he suddenly disappeared teleporting onto the destroyed van from earlier that still carried his flames from his earlier halt of it. Destabilized by the vanished opponent the golem had no time to react as Aurora slammed into his face wrapping her hair, and hands around his throat. With 1 ton of momentum backing her Aurora forced the golem brutally onto his back as her hair extended out capturing his left hand, and feet as he struggled to escape her grasp. With two heavy braids still formed they relentlessly started to wild hammer the areas Ichi had cracked forcing the damage to grow bigger until finally Aurora hair burst back into strands, and dug into the cracks. As Galmi realized what was happening he started to wail on her with his free hand, But with her now on his backside it was to no eval. WIth her hair dug into the cracks Iron volt released a valkyrian warcry as she ripped the golems chest apart revealing a orange goo covered Galmi inside. With the whole right side of his golem form gone Galmi in rage used his left die to push up and Body slammed her with what was left of his golem body. With her hair freed though she pushed up herself causing the whole leftover of the golem to flip reverse body slamming Galmi painfully as Aurora's hair adjusted its grip onto the left golem hand, and feet.
"Time to weed out this asshole," Aurora called out.
"With pleasure."
Ichirou sent a ball of fire back to the golem, teleporting himself quickly to avoid giving Galmi a chance to strike back. He reeled both fists back and slammed them into the cracking golem form, creating deeper crevices until the remainder of the form was almost shattered. It was just loose enough that Ichirou wouldn't risk fatally injuring Galmi.
He grabbed the villain's arm and shirt, using a bit of strength to rip Galmi away from the remaining stone. With nothing to control it, whatever was left of the golem fell to pieces as Ichirou made quick work of knocking out and zip tying Galmi.
"That's one."
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After all the villainous elements were collected, the jewels returned, and the damaged areas cordoned off; the four heroes left the rest to the medical staff, and police to handle as they all recollected themselves at a small diner in civilian clothes. While Jet, and Aurora worked on finishing up the reports required by law, and the U.A for turn in after a case Octavia, and Fosc were still picking off diminishing crystal fragments from the poor bird.
"And done ugghh gotta love paperwork," Aurora groaned handing it to Ichioru to double check it as she rested on the thankfully sturdy diner couch as her hair started to forumale a cup of coffee for everyone.
"At least it's done," Jet responded, handing his papers over as well to Ichirou as Octava was understandably busy. Though as Jet waited he plucked a small crystal fragment off the bird's wings before patting Fosc.
Now that they could get some down time, Octavia could now worry about her pet while Ichirou was assisting Aurora with the paperwork. He held the paper up with one hand and took a sip of his coffee with the other, being careful to keep the sheet away from the beverage. Normally he didn't drink coffee, but after today, he could really go for a cup.
Unfortunately, Octavia's reports were still not finished due to the fact that her crow was caught in crystal. Without him, she couldn't see what she was writing, therefore she had to focus on Fosc before she could even think about work. That, and her poor baby had been hurt because of that she-devil!
She worked on getting the crystal off of Fosc, having worked on getting the head free first so he could breathe before getting to the rest of his body.
Thankfully, with Jet's help, the last of the shards were taken off. Fosc flapped his wings a few times and did a little bird dance to express his gratitude. Octavia smiled, picking her bird up and planting a kiss to his head before letting him sit on her shoulder.
"I'm glad to have you back, darling~" She cooed to her bird.
"Well now should we concentrate on why a villain had a ANVIL baton," Jet asked, looking at the weapon on the table that caused everyone to look at it.
"Aight I'll give Auntie Misoka a visit on this as well as father," Aurora responded as for now the heroes would concentrate on something more important… victory food that was finally coming their way..