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A few minutes before,
"Alright! Fifth Team!" Pixie-Bob cheered. "Your turn!"
Tsuyu and Uraraka walked into the forest, hand-in-hand.
Suddenly, a scream echoed through the forest, making the hair on the backs of their necks stand up.
This wasn't the first scream they had heard, but it didn't make it any less horrifying for them.
"I will rain spiders on their faces!" Uraraka said, pouting.
Tsuyu doubted that, though. Uraraka was too good for her own good to be mean to others, even if it was for an event. "Hagakure alone will win the event for us," she commented. "We just need to…"
The gossip between the two girls came to a sudden end.
One by one, little sparks crackled in their surroundings, the smell of burnt rubber blasting their noses. It was like a wave of electricity had just coursed through the entire forest, frying hidden electronic systems.
Tsuyu and Uraraka had already put their hands over their ears, their noses scrunching up because of the smell.
"Hey!" Uraraka said. "That's going too far!"
Only silence answered them.
"Something's wrong," Tsuyu remarked, pressing her back against Uraraka's. "Let's go back."
Uraraka had just nodded when… another smell hit their noses, a sheet of purple smoke rolling toward them.
…
The Heroes had been prepared for a USA-style entry of the Villains.
To some extent, they had been prepared for Villains tunneling their way to the Training Camp as well.
What they hadn't, and couldn't have, prepared for was one of the most broken and dangerous Quirks in the world—Compress!
The Claws of Conformity had learned their lesson from the fiasco that had occurred at the LA Villains Detention Center in the USA.
For this mission, both Kurogiri and Shigaraki became the puppeteers, controlling the mission from the background, sending their puppets forward.
Instead of sending the group into the forest together, Kurogiri used his Quirk to open several small portals at random locations beneath the forest floor.He already knew the general location of the Training Camp using the GPS device before it had stopped working.
Then, Mr. Compress used his Quirk to take out large chunks of earth through these portals.
Mustard, another Villain with a Gas Quirk, filled those empty chambers with the sleep-inducing gas… pressurizing it so much that the gas tore through the upper layer of earth like lava from a volcano.
So, when the Villains finally appeared, the gas had already reached the furthest corners, draping the dark forest under a thick blanket of purple poison.
The only difference between the Vanguard Action Squad's Invasion this time and the one from Luke's previous life, unknown to him, was that…
… the total number of Villains appearing in the forest wasn't just ten, but… eighteen!
…
At the starting point of the Pussycats' Horror House event, the Pros and students had also picked up on the weird smell.
After Class 1-B students had taken their positions on the oval path, which had its starting and ending point at this place, and with five teams of Class 1-A already gone, not many people were left here.
The four members of the Wild, Wild Pussycats and Lemillion were the only Pros.
Other than them, there were Midoriya, Ojiro, and Mineta.
If the odd smell wasn't enough of an indication, then, soon, swaths of black smoke began rising from the forest, carrying an intense burnt smell.
"… Oi…" Mineta's face paled. "What's going on…"
"Everyone!" Pixie-Bob shouted. "Prepare…"
The Pro Hero couldn't complete her words, though.
An ethereal reddish force covered her entire body, lifting her off the ground. As a scream escaped Pixie-Bob's mouth, she flew back like a bullet and disappeared into the forest some fifty meters away.
The speed with which she had flown backward was so great, in fact, that even Lemillion failed to catch up to her, despite activating his Quirk almost at the same time.
Soon, steps rang among the crackle of the fire as two figures walked out of the forest.
One of them was wearing an orange shirt over blue jeans and had long, red hair, carrying a massive pillar wrapped under layers of cloth. The other figure was like a green lizard with purple hair, wielding an enormous sword on its back, also wrapped in cloth.
As they approached the stunned group of students, the first figure lifted its right hand… and flung a body across the distance like a doll.
With a thud, the doll-like figure bounced off the earth, rolled, and came to a stop.
All faces fell, a chill running down their spines.
It was Pixie-Bob—covered in blood.
"Pixie-Bob!" Midoriya shouted, running toward the Pro.
But Lemillion stepped in front of him, cutting him off. "… Wait," he said, narrowing his eyes, without looking back at Midoriya. "What's that…"
As the Pussycats began spreading out, Midoriya looked at the Villains again.
Because of the sudden attack and the forest catching fire, he seemed to have missed out on a crucial detail regarding the two Villains.
And the moment he noticed that detail, even Midoriya stumbled back, old trauma making his heart bang against his chest.
"No…" Midoriya mumbled, Mineta and Ojiro already shaking next to him. "… It can't be… That's a… Quirk Amplification Device!"
Lemillion's eyes widened.
Not only he, but even Mandalay, Ragdoll, and Tiger looked shaken from the sudden reveal.
"Hey… I know you…" The lizard-like Villain said, grinning ear to ear at Midoriya. "Big Sis Magne, isn't he the one who fought against Stain and survived?"
"Don't start looking for friends now, Spinner…" Magne said, smacking the back of the lizard-like Villain's head. She had a build that rivaled that of Lemillion and Tiger, and even her voice was thick, almost rumbling over the hill.
And despite wearing a Quirk Amplification Device on her head, she was acting normally, Midoriya observed.
"… Who are you?" Mandalay asked, staring at the device.
Magne grinned, slamming the large pillar she carried on her shoulder onto the earth.
"We are the Vanguard Action Squad of the Claws of Conformity…" she declared. "And we…"
Instantly, all the Pros and students lifted off the ground against their wishes and, with a BANG, slammed into each other.
"… are here to condemn you!"
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