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"They laughed! They jeered! Who's laughing now, huh?! WHO'S LAUGHING NOW!?" A large man yelled as people ran away from the street, cars veering off road as the man drummed on his sizable belly and blasts of force erupted from his belly button, knocking away nearby vehicles and civilians.
"HAH! My Belly Drum Quirk isn't so funny now, is it!?"
Nearby a local hero groaned, knocked down and stuck under rubble, bleeding from her wounds as civilians ran away.
'This one's aggressive,' Tenno commented as Izuku approached the disaster area from the rooftops. 'Unlike the others who stole and only got aggressive after confrontation, this one's whole goal is to cause damage and seed chaos. Be vigilant Izuku.' Izuku silently affirmed his sensei's words and ducked into the shadows, analyzing the situation further while assisting nearby civilians to escape towards the containment zone set up by the police.
Whilst doing that he continued observing the villain, who drummed on his belly and blasts of energy escaped from his bellybutton like a ripple in the air, strong enough to knock a nearby car away and onto its hood.
And yet comparing the damage caused from the beginning of the villain's rampage to the damage he was causing now it was obvious he had gotten weaker.
'Activating the quirk requires certain conditions, in this case the villain requires to hit his stomach, the activation also requires either some type of energy or significant strength behind the strikes due to the decreased power of his quirk, he has obviously wasted tons of energy throughout his rampage,' Izuku thought as he moved from one spot to another, carrying civilians away, 'Its not worth it to wait till he tires himself out, who know how much more damage he will cause until then. The time between the strikes should give me enough of an opening to take him down.'
Following his analysis, Izuku, now finished with evacuating a significant chunk of the civilians, approached from the villain's blindspot, flash-stepped and struck his elbow against the villain's nape, only for the force of the hit to reverberate within the villain and erupt out of his belly button.
Yet while the hit was stronger than the drumming strikes of the villain, the blast generated appeared to posses the same if not less strength than his previous blasts.
'Crap! It's not just the stomach, his whole body acts as a conduit for kinetic energy needed for his quirk's activation.' Seeing his mistake, Izuku flash-stepped away before the villain had time to turn around, 'not only that but it appears that the strength of the strike doesn't matter, meaning he must be going off of some internal energy.' He thought, shifting his focus on clearing the area and strategizing on how to take down the villain.
The villain recovering from Izuku's strike but not seeing the one who struck him, got enraged.
"HAH! You dare try to hit me?! You think you can push me down and bully me into submission, while you hid in shadows!? Never! NEVER AGAIN!" the villain yelled as he pulled something out of the bag he was wearing and jabbed it into his belly.
"Ultimate move, Belly Drum: GRAGADON!"
His belly seemed to ripple, all over his body his veins started to expand and blacken, as he started hopping from one leg to the other and spinning around whilst continuously drumming on his belly.
The blasts of energy that exited his belly button appeared to become exponentially more powerful, blasting off in every direction as he continued to spin and dance with surprising agility. The belly blasts appeared much more powerful as they rumbled through the ground, even the building started shaking as a localized seismic activity was caused by the villain's new rampage.
Moving as fast as he could while maintaining control, Izuku dashed around the area clearing the rest of the civilians and smashing any falling rubble that would've hit them.
Thinking he had the area cleared, Izuku prepared to strike the villain again but he heard a groan come from a pile of rubble across the street near the villain.
"Still alive huh? Buried under all that shit, who's the worm now?!" While the villain didn't have enhanced senses like Izuku, he was much closer to the rubble and managed to also hear the groan, turning towards it with rage clear on his face, the villain struck before Izuku had a moment to think.
A blast rippled out from his belly button and a wall of force passed over the rubble tossing it away and breaking it all down further into dust, the blast tossed the rubble covering the fallen hero's body tossing her into the air as well.
The villain had sent another blast before the first even hit, and it would've hit the unconscious hero if not for the body to blur mid air and disappear.
Within the same moment, Izuku in his vigilante outfit appeared near the police line, and deposited the injured hero.
He'd finally gotten her and everyone else out of harm's way, watching as a few police officers took away the unconscious hero and brought her to the paramedics while others stared at him warily, now he could freely face the villain without worrying about getting innocents caught up if he made another mistake, 'Punches and kicks aren't the only way to take down an opponent, you just need to think outside the box Izuku.' Izuku thought about Tenno's words for a moment as he watched the villain rampage around, finally he nodded as he disappeared again from the police line.
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"HAHAHAHA!" The villain kept dancing around, cracks appearing on the ground as the street continued to shake when Izuku once again appeared in his range, his left hand extended towards the villain, palm facing out.
"Huh?!" the villain didn't have time to react as Izuku's palm struck his opened mouth, but there was no force to the attack, no follow-through, his palm merely sticking over the villains opened mouth like a suction cup. Izuku jerked his hand back and the villain finally stopped moving as he coughed out all the air in his lungs.
While the villain was gagging and coughing, his black tongue lolling out of his mouth as he tried to get some air, Izuku moved behind him and put him in a choke hold, further restricting his breathing.
In the struggle the villain tried to desperately use his quirk, frantically drumming his belly but none of it helped to get the young man clinging to his back off of him.
Finally the lack of air caused the villain to lose consciousness, dropping on the ground.
"Not all challenges end in a dramatic final clash, kid."
Letting out a breath, Izuku made sure the villain was actually unconscious and not pretending, as police cars that were nearby moved up near the two.
A few police officers got out of the car and gestured at Izuku to not move, only for him to bow and flash-step away out of sight.
Due to his priority being the safety of the civilians and downed hero, as well as haste in trying to limit the damage and take down the villain as swiftly as possible, Izuku didn't pay much attention to the villain's appearance nor did he do a search of the villain's possessions.
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Elsewhere in an underground facility Kai Chisaki was hunched over a collection of DNA samples, a beaker in his naked hand turning to dust and back into glass over and over again in a display of his frustration.
Impossible, his goal was slowly but steadily turning out to be impossible. How difficult could it be to isolate the specific Quirk gene from the human genome? Incredibly, turns out to be the answer, due to how deeply the Quirk factor has rooted itself into the whole human genome after awakening, and throughout the generations even an unawakened Quirk factor has infected everything.
Even with his precious cheat code its only a temporary solution to disabling the Quirk factor, due to how deeply it is rooted, it will reawaken on its own through time as well as being able to be forcefully reawakened by external stimuli.
There infected humans had no real Human blueprint for the cure to latch onto and rebuild, all of it has been Corrupted!
The reconstructed beaker in his hand exploded as the door to his laboratory was opened.
"Didn't I order not to be disturbed?" Kai called out without turning as he wiped his hands clean.
"I apologize boss but this is a bit urgent." The Shie Hasaikai member that entered the lab spoke as he bowed deeply.
"I don't care for your apology, speak. You are wasting my time." Kai focused back onto his experiments as he prepared another beaker full of red liquid.
"A Large stash of Trigger samples were confiscated by the police, sir." Those words cause Kai to pause in his work and finally turn to his underling.
"How?" it was only a single word but it caused the man to cower
"One of the buyers used it immediately and killed our dealer, took the whole stash and was later arrested after going on a rampage, whatever was left unused was confiscated." The man stammered, "Sir, they have enough to reverse engineer it and track us down from the materials used, not to mention the possibility of an antidote."
"Hn, that is bad." Kai intoned as he put away the chemical equipment, "which variant did the dealer have?"
"the 3.8A model sir, the one which makes you half as aggressive but also half as strong as the main formula." the random Shie Hasaikai goon replied.
"Which district's dealer did you say it was?"
"Mustafu sir." Kai paused at his underlings answer.
"Mustafu?" he muttered as he looked back at the DNA samples, a spark or recognition flashed in his eyes and alongside it an epiphany arose.
"This is good news! Set up a new distributor in Mustafu, triple the Trigger supply and half the price. Oh and please do keep an eye on all buyers in case they go on a rampage, to collect any and all blood samples."
"What?" The henchman looked back at his boss, confused.
"Go! You are wasting my time and contaminating my samples!" figuratively kicking out the goon, Kai retrieved some documents and his research papers, looking between them frantically.
If he managed to get some samples from the kid, the Quirkless kid who managed to put Kendo in a hospital and continued to cause trouble to multiple other villains while, once again, being Quirkless, it could help with his research.
Increasing the amount of morons going on a rampage in that city would cause that kid to interfere, as according to Kendo's descriptions of that day, the kid couldn't keep his nose out of other people's business and if one of the druggies manages to take out the kid, well, he'd have a bigger sample for more in depth research.
He could handle a bit of loss in profit and a bit more attention from the do-gooders, if it meant progress with his Cure.
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AN: Gragadon [Gragas+Armageddon], yes the villain is basically gragas. The suction cup move was stolen and modified from Baki. This somehow ended up quite short even though I feel like I wrote a lot… whatever.
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