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"MOAB Strike!"
Dynamight's manic battle cry is the last thing Muscular and many villains hear.
It pulls their attention away from their current goals, mainly rushing toward the army of Pro Heroes entering the city, and above the middle of the city where their Warlord and the Pro Hero collide.
Dabi, while enveloped in brilliant white flames, glances to his left without pausing his flight toward his father.
"Shi—" He barely raises a wall of fire in time as the blinding orange light of Dynamight's explosion rocks the entire city.
The air pressure from Dabi's flames cushions him, but he still finds himself being rag dolled through many buildings, making him more thankful than ever for his Super Regeneration Quirk.Across the city, moments before the explosion, Red Riot and Aux were charging at a group of villains when they noticed Dynamight ascend.
'Bakugo,' Red Riot smiles, a mouth full of razor-sharp jagged teeth that scares the villains he's closing in on. 'He's right on time…'
Dynamight's battle cry signals the more durable Pro Heroes to advance. Their goal is simply to survive the ground explosion and assist him with Muscular in the aftermath.
However, either they overestimated themselves, or underestimated Dynamight, because the explosion was truly worthy of its namesake.
"Oh, shit!" Red Riot punches away one of the villains and hardens his entire body, using his unbreakable form and tackling Aux.
She's startled for just a moment, as are the Villains who witness this.
Until Red Riot digs his feet ankle deep into the road and shields her with his body.
She uses her Earphone Jacks via Hero Equipment to project a wall of sound in front of them, and they both watch as a city block's worth of rubble, concrete, iron, and dust, washes over them.
After just shy of a minute, the dust begins to settle. Some Pro heroes pull themselves out of the rubble. Most were still at the edge of the city, as was the plan.
And as expected, Dynamight's assault punched a massive hole in the Villain's forces, as well as Jaku City.
Leaving almost half a kilometer of rubble and debris inside a shallow crater. And in the middle of it, Pro Hero Dynamight stands atop the crumpled corpse of Muscular, surrounded by the horrified cries of Villains who lost much of their forces to the same attack.
"Is that the best you weaklings have?!" Dynamight screams out, seeing a few Villains gather at the edge of the crater, hesitant to fight him after such a display. "I came here for a challenge, so who do I get to blow up next?!"
He flashes a primal smile, all while bluffing. 'My arms are already hurting. I may have overdone it with my Awakening, but this guy would have been a problem if we let him fight the regular Pro Heroes. I hope these weaklings are too scared to attack right now. That should give me enough time to recover.'
The Villains continue to hesitate, until Dabi flies over to them, standing in the air with white flames at his feet, glaring down at Dynamight.
Their gazes meet, glaring at each other. Then Dabi smiles. "I know the look of someone who needs to cool down between big attacks. Hell, that used to be me a few months ago."
'Shit.' Dynamight clenches his hands, palms still sore from that last explosion.
"He's bluffing. He can't do another one of those for a while, kill him like the rest," Dabi says to the Villains as he begins flying away. "I have a family reunion to get to!"
'Mandalay, I need backup!' Dynamight screams telepathically through their connection.
'Ouch! No shouting! And you already have backup incoming. I'm more concerned with the normal Pro Heroes. People like you can handle these Villains no problem.'
Her Telepathy Quirk allows her to connect to multiple people. However, she can only communicate with them and have them speak to her, therefore, she always acts as the middleman during any conversation.
Because of this, her Quirk is best utilized in collaboration between the leaders of each team. Endeavor, Deku, Dynamight, and the people leading the subjugation of the middling Villains.
Dynamight sees dozens of Villains charging him, willing to test the waters and call his bluff, while others wait on the sidelines. And knowing his Quirk still needs a few seconds to recover, he raises his hand and pulls the pin on his left grenadier gauntlet.
In a nearby forest, a few miles away from Jaku City, Lady Nagant is leaning against a tree with her right arm transformed into its sniper rifle form.
Through her new visor, she's able to see Dynamight unleashing his second gauntlet and charging a group of Villains.
He fights valiantly until she sees a particularly powerful High End Nomi descend on him.
She aims at it, seeing the danger it poses to her teammate, but stays her hand, not willing to waste her one shot on this.
The correct decision, as a moment later, Lemillion launches out of the ground and slams his knee into its face, making it stagger back before Nejire-Chan arrives and hits it with an energy wave, grinding it into the mountain of rubble beneath them.
"What the hell are you doing here, idiot?!" Dynamight screams at Lemillion. "Go help Deku!"
Lemillion smiles awkwardly and phases through the ground, rushing off to assist Deku's team before Aux, Red Riot, Edgeshot, Ryukyu, and a few other top Pro Heroes arrive.
Lady Nagant reverts her arm to its regular form, ending with a massive spiraling bullet held carefully in her palm.
The tip of which holds the Quirk Deleter Round, intended for use against Muscular if needed.
She sees them engage the Villains as other heroes arrive, then shifts her sight to Dabi as he soars to the far edge of the city.
With his body cloaked in flames, she could easily spot him. Even at his current speed, the dark spot within the flames would be easy to hit.
'Too bad those stupid flames would melt my bullet, and the air pressure would alter my shot vector. How annoying…' she thinks while surveying the other battles, hoping not to have to get involved.
After all, she was now a citizen of the United States, therefore, she technically wasn't even here to help. So she relaxes as Dabi finds his father and brother.
Standing in the middle of a large open plaza, Shoto and Endeavor look off in the distance as the sounds of chaotic battle echo through the city.
"I knew he'd gotten stronger, but that was a bit much," Shoto says as he hears explosions raging in the distance.
"Your friends are impressive, as always, but we should focus," Endeavor looks back toward the edge of the plaza where Burnin and his Sidekicks are, ready to keep everyone else away from this battle.
And as he looks forward, his son arrives on the battlefield.
"Hey, dad. Missed me?" Dabi asks with a Cheshire smile.
He descends to the concrete plaza, allowing the white flames to fade away, showing off his burnt flesh rapidly healing.
"This is a nice family reunion," Dabi smiles at them. "Too bad some people are missing…what happened to them?"
Shoto moves to attack, but Endeavor rests a hand on his shoulder, stopping him. "He's just trying to make us emotional, to throw us off balance."
Endeavor steps between his sons.
"Tch, always protecting him, your golden child."
"He and Fuyumi are the only family I have left," Endeavor says.
"Oh, so she's alive, huh? I'll have to visit her after this. But I think you forgot one person, right?"
"And who is that?"
"Me! Your son! The one you abandoned and betrayed for that half and half piece of trash!" White flames erupt around Dabi as he prepares to pounce.
"You're not my son." Bright orange flames erupt on Endeavor while Shoto begins using his ice abilities to cool his own body, preparing to assist his father. "You're just a Villain now. I've already made peace with that. Just as I've made peace with what I must do to you, to protect this world!"
"Then let's burn together!" Dabi rockets forward, as does Endeavor. "We'll burn in hell together, old man!"
"We'll start right here!" Endeavor screams as his flames become even more intense.
As they're a dozen meters apart, they both raise their fists and yell in unison.
"Flashfire Fist: Jet Burn!"
Dabi and Endeavor punch forward, releasing white and orange flames, respectfully.
The emission of fire is so intense that it most closely resembles energy beams, releasing immense heat and air pressure, pushing everyone and everything away as the plaza and buildings around them melt into sludge.
Burnin is forced to retreat, even her fire Quirk is failing to protect her, and many of the nearby Villains aren't so lucky. Their eyes and blood boiled in an instant, flash frying them.
Shoto's entire body is releasing water vapor almost too fast for him to replace it, forcing him to commit all of his energy and focus on creating ice on his body.
After a few seconds, they both back away. Endeavor sporting some burns on the arm he used, the same as Dabi.
Except Dabi's burns quickly heal, allowing him to lunge forward with another attack.
Endeavor raises his hand to match it, but both he and Shoto know his firepower decreases as his body temperature rises, causing his organs to overheat and shut down.
The very problem he sought to solve in Shoto.
Endeavor's weaker attack is quickly overwhelmed by Dabi's, but Shoto rushes forward and stands beside his father.
He rests his right hand on Endeavor's shoulder, using ice to cool both of them, and from his left hand, wildly unleashes all the firepower he can.
His control pales in comparison to his father's, as does his power, but when Endeavor's flames mix with any other, including natural flames, he can control them like his own.
Feeling his body cooling, Endeavor can focus, and uses Shoto's fire to match Dabi's attack once more, causing a massive explosion that completely melts all the surrounding buildings, knocking the three of them back.
Endeavor grabs Shoto while rolling and flies into the air, away from the scent of limestone and scorched air, seeing the concrete plaza turned to sludge beneath them.
"We'll lose the endurance battle," Endeavor says, seeing Dabi healing once more, knee deep in melted concrete. "We have to end this in one attack."
"I'm with you," Shoto says while still cooling his father. He pushes himself until Endeavor is back in top form and frostbite is threatening them both, at which point Endeavor tosses him into the air before rocketing down toward Dabi.
"Dabi!" Endeavor's flames grow hotter by the second while gathering on his chest.
Looking up at his father, Dabi smiles. "That's right! Let's end it now! The whole family tree burns! No more Todorokis!"
Dabi mirrors his father, gathering flames on his chest and crossing his arms. The surrounding heat warps the air, creating intense, scorching winds that push the liquid concrete around his feet away.
"Plus Ultra—" They both scream in unison. "Prominence Burn!"
Just beyond arm's reach from each other, they both release massive beams of heat from their chests, instantly pushing their Quirks to the limit.
The shockwave created by such insane heat instantly evaporating all the moisture in the air explodes like a controlled nuclear blast wave, sending entire 15-story concrete buildings across the city as molten slag and rubble.
Many Villains suddenly find themselves between the Todoroki battle, which threatens to flash fry them.
The army of Pro Heroes at the edge of the city, which has done phenomenally at arresting everyone thus far.
And the Dynamight crater, where Villains are falling faster than they can send them.
All terrible options, yet they all find themselves moving away from the building heat of this fight, eagerly rushing to fight the army of Pro Heroes.
As Endeavor and Dabi find themselves in a stalemate, Dabi peers through the flames to see burns forming on Endeavor. His Hero Costume was now mostly gone on the arms and torso, the equipment made to help him focus his flames and cool himself instantly destroyed when they clashed.
And looking at Dabi, Endeavor sees much worse burns on him, except they're healing. Nowhere near as fast as before since he's being continuously burned, but still at a visible rate.
Endeavor feels his hope wane at the sight, until a cold hand on his back reminds him why he's fighting.
"Keep pushing forward!" Shoto says while pushing his ice abilities more than ever before, cooling himself and his father. "You're Endeavor! The only thing you're good at is never giving up! Isn't that what you told me?!"
Endeavor grits his teeth, feeling his organs cooled enough to push his Quirk more, and redoubles his efforts against Dabi.
"Argh!" He releases a feral scream and Dabi finds himself being slowly pushed backward into the melted floor around him.
His healing is now slowed to a crawl, and a few seconds later, Endeavor can see him taking damage faster than he can heal it.
"No!" Dabi screams, pushing everything into his Quirk, causing himself to burn away even faster for the sake of killing them all. "We're supposed to die together!"
"You damn Villain!" Shoto says. "Leave my family alone! Leave my sister alone! Leave my father alone!"
Endeavor pushes himself even more, forcing his flames to erupt in bright blue hues.
Dabi's hands begin burning away instantly, causing him to release desperate screams. Not screams of pain, but screams of anguish at seeing his dream be destroyed.
"C'mon, just a bit more!" Shoto says. "You can do this, Dad!"
"ARRRGHHHHHHH!!!" Endeavor damn near unhinges his jaw to release the most primal scream Shoto's ever heard as his flames push past their blue ascendence and become pure blinding white.
Visibly similar to Dabi's, and yet, they punch right through him.
Endeavor's beam of fire pushes through Dabi's with ease and overwhelms the Villain, cremating him to ash in an instant before burrowing through the ground for a hundred meters.
Seeing this, he instantly deactivates his Quirk and blacks out, caught by Shoto, who keeps them in the air with flames on his feet.
He reaches the communication device in his ear to send an update, only to realize it melted in the battle.
"Damn it, I'll have to bother her," he says while flying to a safe place at the edge of the city to treat Endeavor.
The man was covered in burns on most of his torso and arms, treatable, but he'd need time to cool off before he can get back into the fight.
'Mandalay, Dabi is dealt with, that's all.'
'Got it. Move to help the main forces when you can.'
'My dad needs me here to cool him off. We'll update you as we go.'
'Copy.'
Shoto finds a relatively secluded rooftop at the edge of the city and lays his dad there, working to cool his body down immediately.
And not seconds later, he's joined by Burnin.
"Four minutes into the raid, and it's already gotten crazy," she says while handing him some specialized ointment to treat burns.
Shoto nods. "Muscular and Dabi and gone. Re-Destro flipped, so he's also dealt with. Now, just Shigaraki and the doctor. We need to stay on our toes. Getting relaxed in situations like this is what gets Pro Heroes killed."
"Yeah, I know. After you cool him down, get back into the fight, I'll stay and apply the medi—"
Burnin is cut off at an excruciating noise hits everyone in the city.
"—Ah!" She grabs her communicator and sees it's sparking. "What the hell?"
Shoto reaches into her utility belt and takes out her phone, seeing that it's in the same condition. "Shit, that's Radio Wave!"
Burnin is about to speak when Shoto raises a hand to silence her, all the while still cooling Endeavor.
"Mandalay," he says mentally and out loud. "Tell Deku to be careful, tha—"
'Mandalay to all points!' Her worried voice reaches everyone. 'Get away from the hospital facility. Grab who you can and fly if you can. Do it now, Shigaraki is awake!'
Burnin and Shoto feel dread flow through them, and from their position at the edge of the city, they turn to see the hospital atop the hill on the other side of Jaku City.
"Oh god," Shoto mutters as the wave of destruction spreads through the hospital building and to the surrounding area.
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