-You know, it would be easier just to kill this guy.-
Izulu ignored him as he punched his unfortunate foe once more, with enough force to send him flying straight in the increasingly disintegrating rubble of the train tracks.
-Just get Mina to conjure up a pool of acid, and then dunk him in that, and watch as he disintegrates away into nothing. It's like having someone able to conjure Lava, only without all the inconvenience of everything catching fire. Amazing for dealing with regeneration enemies.-
As their undead foe ripped out of the ground again, and once more made an attack that was strong enough to be genuinely dangerous if it hit, but nowhere near the level the two of them couldn't deal with, he once more was hit by a blow from Mina, sending him skywards.
Truth be told, Venom had a point.
Mina could end this fight in an instant.
Hell, so could he. Assuming this guy was dependent on oxygen(and judging by his currently heavy and wrecked breathing, he most definitely was) despite being a walking corpse, he could simply overpower him, shove his arm down his throat and fill the insides of his throat with black web.
Then simply sit back, and let oxygen deprivation do the job.
It was at times like this that he realized just how terrifying this power would have been in the hand of a villain.
Luckily for everyone else though, he was a hero. That, however, meant there were things he could not do.
He trusted Venom on what he was saying regarding their foe. That he was a reanimated corpse, brought back by some nefarious quirk. It… Probably was the right thing to do to put him out of his misery and put his soul to rest.
He would have a hell of a time convincing the authorities of that fact though.
He could see the headlines that would come from that road in his mind.
"New hero "The Spectacular Spiderman" is a murderous menace who kills villains without care and without mercy!"
There were legal situations where the use of lethal force was perfectly legal for a hero. If you had to make use of all your powers protecting innocent people, regular self defence, working alongside the police during a raid, and so on. He was better acquainted with the details of that part of the law than most, given his mother had been a defence lawyer.
In that regard, he did not have any wiggle room here.
The corpse was not a danger he couldn't deal with without using legal force, as the last 10 minutes had illustrated rather clearly. There were also no civilians that he could claim he was protecting, as thankfully, some actual pros have come around and begun to evacuate people from the nearby area(including the train above, according to Venom), leaving the villain to the two of them to deal with.
Legally speaking, he didn't have a leg to stand on using lethal force here.
But that was just the legal argument.
The more pressing reality… Was that he doubted he was mentally able to bring himself to kill this guy, even if he wanted to.
And he did not want to kill him. At all.
The fact that Mina was there, only added to that.
As the corpse climbed out of the rubble once more, he put his foot down, preparing for another leap… Then, suddenly, and without any warning, he just fell over.
Izuku blinked, surprised by the sudden end to their enemy's ability to fight, but as he collapsed, his body did not heal the various scratches still open.
Izuku did not waste time, and shortly afterwards, the man was a giant cocoon of black, with only his creepy, brain-exposed face open to the air.
"FINALLY!" Mina exclaimed loudly. Holy shit that jackass would just not go down!"
"Yeah, The bastard was really bloody resilient."
The voice startled Izuku, and Mina both as they turned to look at who it belonged to.
The man speaking was an older hero, dressed in a ragged, tattered two-piece suit with fur outlines, which along with his mane of hair and fangs, gave him the appearance of a humanoid lion.
"Do we… Know you?" Mina asked, cocking her head sideways while looking at his face inquisitively.
Izuku didn't recognize him either, but Venom helpfully chimed in with: " He's from the train."
The man nodded.
"Aye, I'm the guy who was fighting the bastard before you two rookies showed up to save my sorry ass."
There was a clear self-deprecating tone in his voice. Izuku instinctually felt a need, a want to try and cheer him up.
"I'm-I'm sure you would have been fine…"
The lion-man snorted.
"Don't patronize me, boy. I would have died. And so would every single person on the train."
His eyes went from the two heroes in training to look at the locked-down undead guy in disgust, then softened as he turned back to them.
"Thanks for saving my life. That said… Not to sound ungrateful or anything, but you two really need to get moving right away. Given you're way stronger than the city's regulars like me, soooo…. To put it mildly, you're pretty important to solving this right now."
Izuku nodded, though his thoughts had already begun to leave this guy, and worry about the rest of the city. They needed to move on and-
"Yo-YOU HAVE GOT TO BE FUCKING KIDDING ME!!! YOU TWO BRATS AGAIN?!"
Izuku and Mina both snapped their heads around at the source(And so did all the pro heroes still near them).
There, at the end of the road, quite a distance away from anyone else was a woman Izuku had hoped not to have to see again ever in his life.
Tel, the teleporter from the Invasion of Yuei!
Judging by her facial expressions, the woman did not seem particularly happy to see them.
Neither was Izuku and Mina, though their reactions were rather different.
Izuku's hidden expression was one of immediate weariness, and being on guard, while Mina looked more annoyed along with being angry.
"Midori! It's the damn teleporter hag! So you American leaguers are involved in this too!"
"I'M 24, YOU LITTLE BRAT!"
In his mind, Izuku very much thought that Tel looked like a middle-aged woman in her late 30's, but right then, there were quite a few things going through his mind that were quite a bit more pressing than Tel's age.
"Suuuuure you are lady… Now, you actually gonna fight us this time, or are you planning on just porting out and in with more competent people to face us again?"
The teleporter snorted.
"As if the boss would let me do that after what happened the last time, with Rhino. No thanks, I LIKE living. I'm just gonna leave, Allen to do his thing, go home and-"
4 black balls, composed of a black Inky substance soared through the air and slammed into Tel's face, her left arm just above her elbow, which she had just been using to motion with, and both her legs above her shins.
Both legs broke where they hit, with similar results for the arm, while the one hitting her face was considerably less powerful, and "Only" broke her nose. Learning control and precision was really paying off it would seem.
As she fell and collided with the ground, Tel let out some curse words in a language Izuku did not know, before disappearing in a burst of purple.
Mina whistled appreciatively.
"Nice! I've wanted some payback on her for leaving us with The Rhino and Shocker."
"I-It would have been better if I managed to knock her out. But I wasn't confident enough that I wouldn't break her head trying that."
Eh, I wouldn't worry about it. She's not going to be able to do much, with just one hand."
Izuku was about to answer when the spot where Tel had just been flashed purple once more. This time, however, rather than just a small flash of purple light, it was a cloud of glowing, purple energy, that pulsated violently, looking more like a purple volcanic eruption than anything else.
Needless to say, it made absolutely everyone jump into a guard position, or focus rather decisively on getting out of here, right now.
Then, the purple mass began to crystalize, as if it was one, giant ice crystal, before exploding into regular, purple light once more.
Izuku, one of the only two people there who managed to look directly at the light with no issue(The other being Mina) focused on the first figure that materialized out of the light, which was… Tel, lying on her back, her head looking up in Izuku's direction.
As the other figures materialized into place, the teleporter from the Carribeans lifted her one remaining arm, and from her shaking hand, she raised her middle finger skywards.
"HEY MIDORIYA! FUCK-! YOU-! "
Then she teleported out, leaving behind the figures she had brought here.
5 more brain guys, everyone unique in shape and form, but every one of them large, muscular, powerful, with their brains outside their heads. And every single one of them, looking directly at him and Mina.
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