Chapter 11: The Nomu

**Pringelina:** "See you around the school then, I'm going to clean here regularly."

Roger is in the cafeteria eating his lunch

**Mr. Matthews**: “That was strange.”

Tor Magne was also eating lunch nearby. Roger goes to sit by Magne. Tor Magne heard Roger come to sit beside him.

**Tor Magne**: "Greetings Roger, I've been analyzing your performance in class and I think you made a good start in the class."

**Roger**: “Thanks, but how did you know it was me?”

Pringelina is putting away her equipment. She found a mysterious note that must be put there by one of the students or teachers. Meanwhile, Mr. Matthews continued to ask Laurick questions about his quirk.

**Mr. Matthews**: “How exactly does your quirk work?”

**Tor Magne**: "I have good hearing due to me being blind, have also a good sense of touch and smell."

**Roger**: “Sounds cool so you wanna be friends?”

**Laurick**: "Well, sometimes when I get scared, I produce this smoke which can give people nightmares. I also have some sort of 'Nightmare commanders' which I meet when I dream."

Laurick then continued to explain his quirk in full detail.

**Tor Magne**: "Sure, why not."

**Roger**: “Ok we can eat together tomorrow.”

**Tor Magne**: "Ok, see you later at class."

The bell then rang, signaling that the lunch was over. It was now time for class.

While the bell rang into class, Laurick was still explaining his quirk to Mr. Matthews. After getting the details about Laurick's quirk, he learned that Laurick's quirk may be one of the most dangerous quirks that he has ever come across.

On the note Pringelina found it said:

'Meet me outside behind the dumpsters when you're done cleaning.'

**Mr. Matthews**: “I’m gonna need a beer after hearing that.”

**Laurick**: “Ok, btw should I go back to class since the bell rang, or do you advise me to get some more recovery?”

**Mr. Matthews**: “Go home knowing that class is canceled today. I need a break.”

Pringelina met up with Charlie Moss, the janitor who gave her the note.

Roger is walking home

Laurick went back to where Laura lived. Everyone else went back home. The other teachers wondered why Mr. Matthews made that decision.

**Maximus**: Care to explain why you just canceled class today?

Charlie Moss told Pringelina that he has heard of her and wondered why an evil assassin is doing here since this is an academy for heroes.

**Mr. Matthews**: “I'd rather be fired for letting kids skip class than allow them to continue knowing their classmate got hurt or being in a possible danger."

**Maximus**: “Well, you got a good point there. Do you want me to tell what his background story is?”

Mr. Matthews pours a cup of wine

**Mr. Matthews**: Sure

Pringelina told that she helped save Laurick from Abraham even though she tried to kill him in the past by the orders of Rost.

Roger was walking home when he felt that something unnatural was in the midst of a nearby alley.

**Maximus**: “I'm pretty sure you know the Skandevik incident where lots of people and heroes alike died. It all started when Mr. Anderson (Laurick's dad) and Norway's number 3 hero at the time went missing. Well, he found both Mr. Andersons' corpse and her wife's corpse. This caused Laurick's quirk to go berserk, resulting in letting out what he called 'Nightmare Commanders' free. The 'Nightmare Commanders' then began to attack everything (except for Laurick), resulting in lots of deaths and causalities.”

**Charlie**: “Who's Rost?”

**Pringelina**: “Well, I really don't know him that well. He seems very mysterious and is into some shady business. I mean he has a lot of assassins at his disposal. He looks a little emo with black clothes and sunglasses.”

**Maximus**: “Thanks to outside help, we managed to stop this, but when we did, Laurick was already unconscious with a high body temperature. It also didn't take long before the police took him in custody and found him guilty for all the destruction and death that was caused. But thanks to Laura, his sentence was reduced. He thereafter zoned 7 years in prison, where he was in a coma for 5 of those 7 years. As of right now, he knows almost nothing of his past.”

**Mr. Matthews**: “I didn't know that, as this was a little after I reformed from being a gangster.”

Roger looks into the alley and sees a Nomu devouring a little boy.

**Charlie**: “Rost sounds like a madman. Good thing we have hero academies scattered around Norway, so we can catch bad guys like him.”

Roger stands there in fear petrified as the Nomu slowly turns around devouring the last remainings of the child.

Laurick notices Roger’s fear and began walking towards it, not knowing that he may put himself in danger.

**Pringelina**: “Rost is badass, but he is kinda annoying and was calling all the time like he was obsessed over killing Laurick, and then he just ghosted me after I failed and became a wanted criminal for escaping Dausa prison.”

Laura notices that Laurick was gone again, and began looking for him.

Roger falls frim fear and starts crawling like prey running from the predator.

Mr. Matthews makes a call to his old gang.

**Mr. Matthews**: “Hey Rey, wanna go to a bar.”

Charlie told why he wanted to meet Pringelina. He had information about Simon's whereabouts and how to save him.

Laurick stumbled upon Roger frightened from the Nomu. Laurick was unfortunately not aware of the Nomu, but he sensed that Roger was scared of something.

**Laurick**: “Hi Roger, do you need help?”

Roger stops cowering for a second and slightly adjusts his posture

**Roger**: “N-No I’m fine so get out of here.”

**The Nomu**: “Fooooood......”

Laurick could tell that something was not right as he still could sense the fear coming from Roger.

Laurick embraced himself for the worst.

**Laurick**: “Who's scaring you?”

Laurick then got an image in his head of Roger being eaten by the Nomu.

**Laurick** thought:

“S\*\*\*, please quirk, do not overreact”

The Nomu approach appears as a Shadowy Demonic Being Gnawing the child’s bones.

**The Moon** then spoke out of nowhere inside of Laurick's mind in a menacing way:

“I can help you.”

**Laurick** spoke back in his mind:

“Just this one time.”

Laurick then gained again the ability to teleport temporarily.

The Nomu used a quirk to transform into the child he ate

**Child Nomu**: “Hello human brethren you will become sacrifices to me, a ***GOD***.”

Laurick immediately rushes towards Roger while shooting a nightmare particle towards the Nomu. When Laurick made contact with Roger, Laurick immediately teleported himself and Roger to a safe place on top of a nearby building.

Roger pulls out a piece of candy and starts to calm down.

[Somewhere Close]

**Child Nomu**: “Damn it I was one step closer to becoming a god among men.”

The Nomu would vanish into thin air, leaping through the sky.

While leaping into the air, the Nomu suddenly got forced into sleep as it got hit by the nightmare particle.

The Nomu realizes what’s happening and goes into a half-conscious state and marches to his base.

The Nomu then got nightmares as it marched to its base.

The Child Nomu's nightmares are about how it was experimented on day and night dreadfully and its past life as an unemployed drug addict dealing with depression over his daughter and wife dying.

Meanwhile back on the rooftop where Laurick and Roger are.

**Laurick**: “That was a close one. Good thing 'The Moon' came to my aid back there, btw what was that thing!?”

Roger calms down enough

**Roger**: “My uncle calls them Nomus he says they’re created when someone has too many quirks but that thing doesn’t look like it has a human origin.”

**Laurick**: “Does that mean there exists someone else with the capability of producing those things. I thought those were only something you could encounter if you lived in Japan. Why is there one Nomu here in Norway?”

**Roger**: “Do you remember the Villain All For One and the other Villain Nine?”

If you do what if someone got a copy of AFO and used it to make Nomus, but that nomu must've gone rogue.

**Laurick**: “I've heard about him, but didn't he got taken down by All Might? And who's Villain 9?”

**Roger**: “Oh, ummm forget what I said about nine.”

**Roger** in his mind:
“I just broke the fourth wall. Let’s go.”

**Laurick**: Ok...

Laurick looks around the rooftop to see if there is a way for them to go down.

Laurick notices a rusty ladder to the side covered in dry oil and dirt.

Laurick then looked down the building and he then felt that his quirk was about to begin to go out of control again, however Laurick quickly walked away from the edge.

**Laurick**: So... just noticed a little problem. Can you come up with any ideas on how we're supposed to leave the rooftop without getting my quirk out of control?

**Roger**: “Well can you try to use your quirk to put yourself in a half-conscious state like that Nomu so that it’ll become inactive.”

**Laurick**: “If I do that without having my Dreamcatcher nearby, my nightmares will attack me again. I will be putting myself in harms way if I do.”

Roger uses his quirk to find a way off

**Roger**: “I sense a flight of stairs under a piece of worn metal.”

Roger puts to the metal

**Laurick**: “Besides, I don't know how the Nomu managed to keep himself half-conscious after getting hit by one of my nightmare particles. Normally, they'll fall unconscious on the spot and then experience a nightmare.”

**Roger**: “Probably because of his unnatural physiology.”

**Laurick**: “Yeah, probably.”