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Chapter 5 - Chapter 5 - Heroes Fight Back

"Yes, emergency service 110 on duty, is there an incident or an acci-"

"HELP! PLEASETHERESABOMBINTHEMALLPLEASESENDHELP!!!"

"Ma'am? Could you repeat that?! Hello ma'am!!?"

"THERE'S AN EXPLOSION AT THE GATE J-JUST THEN EVERYBODY'S RUNNING AWAY NOW PLEASE HELP!!"

"I understand ma'am we will be there immediately and you are Miss Kajita Hiroe correct? At Aeon Mall Funabashi?"

Clack!

But the only reply the officer received was the sound of a dropped phone..

"Hello!? Hello, Miss Hiroe!!?"

No more reply came, but the sound of a panicking crowd can still be heard through the phone.

All that could be heard was the voice of the crowd, until the voice of one man was loud enough to cut through the commotion.

"HEY! HEY YOU! WHAT ARE YOU DOING THERE, THE EXPLOSION WAS RIGHT THERE! GET AWAY!

W-WAIT W-W-WHAT ARE YOU DOING DON'T, DON'T NO STOP! GET AWAY! GET AWA––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––"

Connection terminated.

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13:03:49 | First Bomb Detonated

The first explosion happened on the North Entrance of the mall, where Masa and Takahisa were carrying the explosives inside their backpack.

While casually walking towards the glass door, both of them planned to place the explosives just outside the mall, on both sides of the door, but when they nearly reached their destination, one of them was momentarily confronted by a mall security personnel.

Unexpectedly the personnel, who were oblivious to Masa and Takahisa's intention, helped them carry one of the explosive bags to its final place just right before its detonation.

The resulting explosion killed him and 10 other passersby while wounding 14 more people.

The immediate attack that followed only grew those numbers even more.

13:04:09 | Mass Hysteria Ensues

The explosion was big enough to shake the entire building to its foundation, and after a short moment of pure confusion, panic naturally came rushing in.

With the North Entrance destroyed, every possible exit way quickly became the most sought after and crowded place in the entire mall.

The South, East, and West Entrances became so packed that the glass doors began cracking from the sheer pressure of the crowd, but glass isn't the only thing that cracks under such pressure, with more and more people rushing towards the exit nearly causing a stampede in their wake.

13:06:36 | Second, Third, Fourth Bomb Detonated Simultaneously

With all main exits being utterly packed with the fleeing visitors, this presents an insidious opportunity that the attacker enacted without mercy.

2 minutes and 27 seconds after the first bomb detonated, three more bombs carried by the rest of the attackers followed suit, straight through the fleeing crowds.

The nearest first responder had just managed to reach the building's perimeter when the second explosion happened.

13:07:02 | Heroes First Contact

A pair of heroes are the first to answer the emergency call, the duo of The Greedy Hero: Junkie and The Greatest Hero: Don Cutei arrived at the scene with their eyes widened upon the dead and dying covering the ground.

After a short argument with the leading police on the site, the duo was instructed to free up the North Entrance and create an exit for the trapped visitors.

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Besides a parking police car, the duo was immediately confronted by the leading police in the area stopping them from immediately entering the building.

The lance welding heroine and her seemingly unarmed partner were arguing with the lead officer on site, Inspector Dumdum, leader of the 11th defence platoon.

"WE DON'T HAVE ANY TIME! WE NEED ONE OF THE GATES TO OPEN NOW!! KASHIRA" The oblivion yellow haired heroine frustratingly tried to reason with the leading officer.

"WE HAVE NO BACKUP YET! WE DON'T KNOW THEIR QUIRKS, WE DON'T KNOW IF THEY'RE ARMED, WE KNOW NOTHING!!! YOU WOULD'VE BEEN DEAD BEFORE WE KNOW IT! DEAD!" The gruff looking policeman barked back.

As of now they are the only two heroes present in the vicinity, with people actively trapped inside the building, creating a safe exit is of the utmost priority with no argument.

But going in blind risks also deteriorates the already grim situation, especially with the confirmation of multiple bombs owned by the attacker.

"THERE IS NO CHOICE DUN! MORE TIME WE WAIT THE LONGER THOSE PEOPLE STAY TRAPPED! DESUWA" The Blonde hero cut in.

The policeman tried to think of anything, anything that could help their situation with sending heroes blindly to a possible hostage situation.

But once again, time presents itself as their greatest opponent.

"Grrrhh!"

With a heavy grunt, the policeman finally relented and gave the order.

"You two! Go to the North Entrance and create an exit, expect a fight, there are at least two villains on every entrance! After you comprehend the villains come back here immediately understood?!"

Even as he said it, the tremble in his hands never left.

"Kek! You can't possibly think we're that weak do you Officer Dumdun? Desuwa"

"Uh-huh! We're the greatest hero duo there is old man, remember that! Kashira"

And so they launched off, leaving the officer looking at their back as they departed, and only then did the worry in his heart leak through his eyes.

"Those two..."

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13:07:21 | Freeing Up The Northern Entrance

Upon reaching the location, Don Cutei immediately used her massive blood lance to blow several holes into the rubble that covered the entryway.

Immediately upon doing so, she came under an ambush by Souma Takahisa and Okamoto Masa attempting to catch her off guard.

But their attempt is thwarted by her partner Junkie, who had already foreseen their attempt.

After realising their ambush failed, they immediately pop a syringe from their pocket and inject themselves with the Trigger drug contained inside.

Fighting continued for another seventeen minutes until the Northern Entrance came under the hero's control.

13:09:29 | First Relief Group Arrived

The Plumber Hero: Mario, The Electrician Hero: Wario, and Spy Man arrived on the site, they were instructed to assist the still struggling duo on the Northern Entrance.

But even with reinforcement, the now five heroes struggle to contain the raging crocodile mutant and his gravity defying support actively using Trigger.

13:11:26 | Arai and Okada Mariko Reached The Mall's Rooftop

The Mariko siblings managed to force an entry to the mall's rooftop.

Upon entry, the older brother, Arai, began exploding various structures surrounding the rooftop with his quirk creating varying sizes of rubble.

The younger sister, Okada, then used her quirk to glue those rubbles together into more IQBEs (Improvised Quirk Based Explosive).

13:12:57 | Second Stage of Bombing Start

With 13 police personnel and 5 more active heroes arriving sporadically on site, field command began planning to open another front at the Eastern Entrance as soon as more heroes arrive, but whilst they were planning the attacker decided to enact their second stage of operation.

With the police helicopter now in the air they were able to watch as Arai Mariko prepared to throw the newly crafted IQBEs from the rooftop.

Using his quirk like an explosive propeller to launch IQBEs through the air right towards the surrounding police, heroes, and reporters.

This sudden escalation caused another 41 deaths and 105 more people were wounded before the evacuation notice could be released due to the bomber attack on further buildings, vehicles, and even helicopters.

The bombing only stopped after they were both confronted by the second relief group, finally ending their onslaught.

More than 20.000 people are forced to flee their homes due to the danger of falling bombs.

Emergency calls are sent out to every top heroes that are currently located in the Greater Tokyo Area.

13:16:47 | All Might On Call

Chiba Prefectural Police Headquarters managed to get in contact with All Might who had just arrived in Central Tokyo from a train journey.

13:17:44 | Official Evacuation Order

With the constantly escalating situation in Funabashi Aeon Mall, the government issued an official evacuation order to every citizen within a 10 km radius around the mall.

13:18:29 | Second Relief Group Arrived

The Lovely Hero: Uruwashi, Ding-Dong; The Homely Hero, Frameless, and Crimson Riot arrived at the location.

Upon their arrival, they're ordered to take on the Western Entrance, but unexpectedly upon entering they found only hiding visitors who said that the villains who entered through here had gone up the mall.

They concluded that the mentioned villains are the ones that's currently throwing explosives on the rooftop and begin rushing towards it as fast as they can while one of them stayed behind to help evacuate the visitors.

13:21:01 | All Might's Arrival

After less than five minutes of travel time, All Might arrives at the area.

Upon arrival, he decided to manage the final unopened entrance, the Southern Entrance which is guarded by Furukawa Yu and Morinou Akihisa, two of the most senior members of the attacker.

While the attacker had cleverly destroyed any CCTV present in their area, leaving police operators blind to their position.

All Might said not to worry.

But as he entered the building, he was immediately faced with a crowd of trapped visitors held at fingerpoint by Morinou Akihisa.

13:24:09 | Northern Entrance Fully Controlled and Discovery of Kill Switch

After seventeen minutes of nonstop fighting, Don Cutei and Junkie managed to simultaneously hit Souma Takahisa with both of their ultimate moves leaving him unconscious.

His partner is also quickly taken down by the team effort of the first relief group.

But shortly after falling unconscious, both villains began twitching and shaking uncontrollably, akin to someone having an epileptic seizure, as one of the heroes recalled.

Not long after it started it also suddenly stopped, but after checking the pulse of both villains, the heroes present found out that both of them had died during both of their seizures.

12:24:31 | Southern Gate Fully Controlled

After a short and tense hostage situation, All Might managed to catch one of the villains off guard and quickly stopped them from firing on the crowd.

After a short fight, he reported that he had successfully comprehended the villains but they had somehow managed to knock every victim in the area unconscious using some kind of invisible gas that had a minor mind altering affect, making all victims forget most of their experience inside.

After further investigation by the HPSC, this was confirmed to be true by the recovery of used canisters left behind by the attacker.

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12:21 | Southern Entrance

Suguru looked around concerned, still looking for his parents amongst the crowd.

He, and a bunch of other people, are currently gathered near one of the entrances of the mall, with two villains constantly monitoring them at all times in fact, they're actually so close that from where he's sitting he could even hear most conversations they're having.

He even tried to join in once.

"Do you guys do this often? Or is this more of an occasional thing?" Suguru asked.

Furukawa Yu and Morinou Akihisa look at the random child with mild bewilderment.

"Kid, what are you doing?" The younger of the two villains asked back.

"I was supposed to go home right now. What are YOU doing?"

"ᴷᴵᴰ ᴰᴼᴺ'ᵀ ᵀᴬᴸᴷ ᵀᴼ ᴴᴵᴹᵎᵎ" Someone beside him whisper yelled.

It wasn't always like this of course.

He was scared at first, a massive explosion was heard from the north and suddenly he was yanked away from his seat by Chī telling him that they needed to go home now.

"my soba.."

"Don't worry Suguru we'll buy you more when we're home, okay?"

She was trying to sound calm to him, but Suguru could tell that she was panicking.

Ōshiro was right in front of them as they ran, parting crowds and making a way for them to go past.

But when the second explosion hit and two villains suddenly appeared, he was pulled away from Chī's arm as a human wave pushed them along its current.

That was the last time he saw them.

And now he's here, no parents, no soba, not even a chair, trying to have a conversation with a mass killer.

"Suguru!!?" A woman's voice came from the crowd.

Suguru looked over recognising the voice as he saw his mother standing out from the crowd.

"Mama! Over here!"

And her face lost all of its colour as her eyes landed on Suguru, her son, and the two villains looking over his shoulder.

The older of the villains looked at the mother with the smallest drip of sympathy that Suguru had ever seen on someone,

That is right before-

CRASH!

"HAHAHAHA~~!"

A booming laugh echoed through the whole floor as something massive penetrated straight through the rubble blocking the entrance.

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First look of three at my recurring oc, Junkie, Cutei, and Officer Dun.

They each have their own little stories, and brainstorming them was honestly really fun.

Thanks for reading.

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