Chapter 39: Big Day, Part 1 of 2

(Chikyu Trivia: Chikyu's favorite subject is Biology.)

(How would you guys feel about me making a Baki/Kengan Ashura kinda fanfic in the future? It'd basically be about a dude who reincarnates into multiple verses with something like a system with abilities and characters from Baki and Kengan Ashura. Obviously it will have more than just that to it, but that's the basic overview. Would any of you be interested?)

As a few more heroes gathered at the ship, Shio called them all to discuss the plan and the details of the mission.

Three ships were sailing to some nearby docks, but there are suspicions that they are holding something illegal. What it is that they might be carrying is unknown, but the suspicions are numerous and severe enough to get multiple pro heroes involved. There would be three teams with an equal amount of heroes in them. Each team would be responsible for a different ship, and they would have to search the entire ship for anything illegal.

The reason why so many pro heroes were seen as necessary is because an ocean patrol guard who had a life sensing quirk sensed something with an incredible vitality aboard one of the ships. In fact, that was the reason the suspicion started and became so strong. Sure, it might just be a strong person hired to guard the ship, but according to the patrol guard, it was way too strong to simply be that.

The most important members of Team 1 were Shio and Chikyu. The reason Chikyu was considered extremely important was because of all the quirks present, his was the most versatile, and he could use it to help in utility, offense, defence and assistance for the rest of the heroes. Namely, his Drain move, which he had explained in lots of detail to Shio a few days ago. If a fight was necessary, he could use Drain to boost the other heroes.

The most important member of Team 2 was Hanasu. He was quite experienced, and despite what his excitable personality might suggest, he takes hero work very seriously.

The most important member of Team 3 was Sugureta. He had the most experience out of everyone present, and his quirk mastery was incredible. He was also very intelligent.

The discussion over, Shio ordered each Team to get ready, and he ordered the captain to set sail for the boats.

(Small timeskip)

As Chikyu and Shio's boat drew near to their target, the two had just finished going over the plan one more time, and commanded the ship to stop, it doing so shortly after.

Going onto the ship, Chikyu observed all the members on the ship that he could see. During his training, he had slightly improved one of his more subtle abilites: Body sense. He could basically analyse a person's body by observing the minerals within them and the things around them. Using this ability, he tried to find out if one of them was the strong being. However, they were all rather average, so he highly doubted it.

As some other heroes talked up the crewmembers for some information, Chikyu and Shio explored the different parts of the boat. Shio opted to look around all the quarters, and Chikyu opted to check the storage areas, as he believed that there was a possiblity that the crew weren't even aware of what they were carrying. After all, it's not likely that any of the members on board had a quirk that could allow them to measure vitality like Chikyu and the patrol guard who reported what he found.

Having finished checking one of the storage areas, Chikyu moves onto the next one. But before he opened it, he put his hands on the floor to sense if anything unfamiliar was on this level. This was the move he used during the combat lesson soon after joining UA. He used it to sense for the presence of Kirishima and Sero. Back then, he could only guess by sensing the weight of the presences, but now he could get a rough image of anyone he sensed using this move. He called it Eyes In The Ground.

Almost immediately after using it, he sensed something in the room in front of him. It's outline was extremely familiar to him. Big, bulky, and a bird like head.

It was a Nomu!

Why the fuck was there a Nomu on this ship?! He vaguely remembered the Nomu from the USJ when he went berserk, and that one was extremely powerful, so much so that he had to use his most powerful move to kill it. The fact that one was on here was a very bad sign, as it meant that someone was either making them or getting them from something. And if there were lots of Nomus on that level, it was very, very bad news.

He immediately went and found Shio and relayed the news to him, which was just as shocking to him as it was to Chikyu. Shio went above board to tell everyone, and confronted the crew about it, but they seemed just as confused as him, which ruled out the possibility that they knew about what they were carrying.

Shio took out a device and called all the other ships to come to their one, as if this Nomu was anywhere near as powerful as the one that was in the reports about the USJ, they would need all the help they can get. Around 20 minutes later, both boats arrived at theirs, and Hanasu as well as Sugureta met up with Shio and Chikyu.

"Tell them what you told me, Chikyu.", Shio urged.

"I was checking the storage rooms on the ship, and I used one of my abilities to scan for a presence in the room that was in front of me before I entered, just to be safe, and I saw the outline of a Nomu, like the one at the USJ incident.", Chikyu reported.

This news shocked the two heroes. They, like pretty much all other heroes, had read up on the USJ incident, and were aware of what the Nomu was. They were also made aware of how powerful it was. One thing that was kept out of the report however was the fact that it was killed by Chikyu. The only people who knew that were the people present at the fight between the two, like All Might. This was done because it would very likely bring unwanted attention from villains to Chikyu.

After his brief explanation, plans were set into motion.

They were going to fight a Nomu.