Kapitel 24: Dragon
Once again, in the early morning, team AICA had gathered in the arena, getting ready to watch the first finals match between Yang Xiao Long and Pyrrha Nikos.
As opposed to earlier days, certain team members were looking a bit more anxious with Selina playing with her hair, her eyes darting around the arena while All Might is sitting hunched over, ready to activate his quirk at any time. Despite that, the smile was still present on his face.
Tony and Ancient One appeared to be much more relaxed, but both were keeping their eyes open, knowing full well that the main event for their mission would be today, with the tournament nearing its end.
Tony had his armor programmed to be sent to him immediately when he called for it by a rocket-propelled storage shuttle.
Oobleck and Port were already visible on the large screens, talking about the previous matches and showing the highlights they try to analyze and predict who wins this match.
"...and that's why I think miss Nikos has the higher chance to win this fight against miss Xiao Long" Port finishes his lengthy analysis before the two girls walk into the arena. "Now then, let's get this underway as the two contestants are ready."
Both girls looked ready to fight, with Yang having a slight grin on her face, doing small hops from side to side, unable to stand still from the anticipation.
The display changes from the two commentators to a large three as the countdown starts.
"THREE!" The crowd shouts, not noticing the large shadow slowly appearing over the arena.
"TWO!" Selina looks up as her face turns to shock.
"ONE!" She signals to her teammates to look up, and the three react immediately, despite their surprise at the giant creature in the sky.
All Might activates his quirk, and Tony calls for his armor, telling Jarvis to keep his "eye" out for any possible disturbances for what's about to happen.
Before the match can start, people finally start to notice the creature in the sky as they start yelling in fear and running toward the exit, trampling over those who are slower to react.
By now, the whole creature was visible in the sky. It was roughly 100 meters long from head to tail, with large red wings waving as it flew toward Beacon Academy.
"Looks like we got our target," Tony says as a metal storage container lands behind him, opening to display the blue Iron Man armor.
Putting on the armor, he hears as the two commentators are telling people over the radios to calm down and that the professional huntsmen and the atlesian military would take care of the grimm. The loud sirens sounding out really didn't help the situation, though.
With the crowd panicking not only in the arena but also in the nearby city, grimm from all around the kingdom of Vale start marching toward the city, drawn to the mass of negative emotions.
"How do we get out of the arena? Pushing through that crowd would be way t-" Selina's words are cut off as All Might punches the wall hard enough to create a large hole.
"Well, okay then," She shrugs. All Might jumps down, not worried about hurting himself from this height, and Ancient One uses magic to levitate down.
Looking down, Selina is about to say that she doesn't have a way to get down unharmed but before she can, Tony grabs her, and the two fly down.
On the streets, fighting is already rampant as numerous grimm are being held off by the atlesian robot army.
The group's eyes, however, are on the much larger prey. Chasing after the dragon, Tony fires off a dozen missile while the Ancient One pummels it with magic bolts, but neither have much effect other than enraging the monster.
"Well, at least we got its attention," the Ancient One says
"Doesn't do us much good though, we need a way to bring it down to the ground if we want to have a fighting chance against that thing." All Might says, unable to do much to the flying grimm.
Thankfully the solution to their problem presents itself to them quickly as a group of huntsmen rush toward them, taking down grimm along the way.
"Hey, aren't you the boy who was wearing a dress at the dance?" Selina asks one of the huntsmen who approach.
Hearing the question, the boy's eyes widen before his whole body droops. "Why is that what I'm remembered by."
Patting his shoulder, the red-haired girl who the group recognizes as being one of the finalists, Pyrrha Nikos, says, "Don't worry Jaune, I think you looked fabulous."
"Focus." the Ancient One says. "We need to bring down this grimm somehow."
Hearing this, the short-haired girl starts jumping, raising her right-hand high. "Me! Me! Choose me!"
Skeptically Tony looks at her. "And what exactly can you do to bring this thing down?"
Pointing the blunt end of her hammer at All Might, she says. "From what I saw from your match, you were really, really powerful, punching down buildings and all. Toss me at its head, and I'll give it a good whack!"
Seeing no objections from the girl's team other than a resigned sigh from the boy next to her, All Might shrugs thinking they probably know their own abilities the best before grabbing the hammer pointed at him.
Twirling in circles to gather momentum, the girl's feet lift from the ground before she starts flying at the grimm at high speeds as All Might lets go of the hammer.
"WHEEEEEEEEEEEEE!" Is all they hear as the girl heads at the head of the grimm and, as she promised, gives it a violent hit straight on its head.
As the skull on the dragon's head cracks and it starts spiraling down to the ground, Tony decides to fly up to catch the girl, just in case.
With the atlesian army taking care of most grimm, the huntsmen, both professional and those still in training, all bolt toward the downed dragon who is already trying to get back up and hitting it with everything they got.
Semblances of all kinds are going off to either keep it down on the ground or pummel it, making it scream out in anguish. Huntsmen can be seen carrying all sorts of weapons like scythes, miniguns, crossbows, and even hoverboards as they hack away at the creature.
Unable to escape the mass of bodies, the dragon is forced to stay down, unable to do anything as its wings and tail get cut off, and in the course of several minutes, it dies a slow and agonizing death.
"Well, that wasn't as bad as it looked," Jaune says, not really having done anything against the grimm other than giving a few slashes. Looking around, he notices his partner is missing. "Hey, where is Pyrrha?"
Next to Jaune, All Might looks around, not seeing the woman. He gets worried and asks Tony in the air to look if she can spot her anywhere.
"The gladiator girl? Yea, I see her running off together with the Headmaster," Tony says after looking around the battlefield.
"What? Are they running away?" All Might asks, shocked that the headmaster of the school, who they know to be one of the strongest, would be fleeing the fight.
"Could be related to one of the bonus missions," Selina says, still trying to figure out what all the bonus missions are.
So far, it seems they could be related to killing the giant dragon, saving a certain amount of the population, or winning the tournament, but there are still other possibilities.
Turning herself invisible with magic, the Ancient One boosts her speed with magic and chases after them, "I'll keep an eye on them. They won't be able to detect me."
Tony and All Might get back to killing the grimm both to help out the civilians and keep an eye out for anything that could be a bonus mission.
Selina follows them shortly after grumbling at the fact that its day time, or she would have been just as good for the stealth mission with her ability to hide in the darkness.
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[Atlesian Airship]
Roman Torchwick follows his aide Neopolitan, who uses her umbrella to take down the atelsian guards in their path with a smile, looking like she is enjoying this immensely.
"Enjoying yourself, Neo?" Roman asks, stepping over the dead bodies, heading to the control center of the ship.
Obviously not answering with words, Neo just continues her work, giving one of her silent giggles in reply.
Reaching the control room, Neo takes down the few guards that are still there instead of down on the ground fighting the grimm, and Roman steps forward to the control panel.
"Oh, so many buttons, I wonder what they all do." Roman thinks aloud before pressing a random one and looking at the camera display, seeing the door of a deployment point open and send a bunch of unsuspecting soldiers falling to their death. "Oops."
Feeling a tap on his shoulder, he turns around to see Neo hand him a scroll with a giant grin on her face. "Oh, this will be fun."
Inserting the scroll into the control panel, he sees a loading bar that quickly starts filling up.
He waits in anticipation, knowing that according to the plan with Cinder, this would cause all the robot soldiers to turn aggressive to the huntsmen.
After around 30 seconds, the loading bar reaches 99% before freezing.
"Is this thing broken? Neo, you didn't accidentally drop this, right?" Neo shakes her head, not knowing what's causing this.
Turning back to the screen, the loading bar disappears, and a message appears.
"Access denied"
Not even a second later, the many doors to the control room open, and nearly 50 soldiers, both human and robots, rush in, pointing their weapons at the duo.
"Well, I suppose we are screwed, huh," Roman says, getting a slight nod from Neo.
Knowing full well that even if he and Neo teamed up, they would be unable to take down the surrounding forces, Roman decides to throw down his cane, and surrender hoping that Cinder remembers to rescue them after taking down Beacon.
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