Chapter 4
Hana walked to the train station, taking a train back to the apartment, deep in thought. Everything they had learned today was a lot to take in. But the reason that Hiro was caught in the first place was because of Mr. Uraraka. Hana's inside went cold with rage, everything was his fault. Everything was the heroes fault. If mom never died, if dad never got killed. If heroes didn't exist.
Hana smiled darkly. Seemed like joining the League of Villains was the right choice. Everyone else be damned. They were going to enjoy watching the world burn.
...
The next day Hana said goodbye to Toga after eating lunch with her. Toga true to her word had kept the apartment clean, and Ginzo was still out on business.
They dressed in plain clothes, with a bright red zipped hoodie, in case It got chilly.
Hana walked to the train station. They checked their phone and were texting Uraraka Ochako.
Ochako: Morning Hana. I'll meet you at the mall. I'm going with some classmates too. Lida and Midoriya, I think you've met them before.
Hana: Ahhh cool. Yep meet you there.
Hana: So, any plans for the summer?
Ochako: Huh. We're actually meeting at the mall to buy supplies for a school trip!
Hana: Oh cool. What trip is it?
Ochako: Oh, it's like a school training camp thing.
Hana: Oh neat! I'll meet you at the mall, almost there :).
Ochako: Ok. See you!
Hana walked into the mall, a tad behind schedule. Shigaraki under the contact name "Handy man" had angrily texted them several times saying they were there.
Hana ignored all the texts and phone calls and left their phone on vibrate in their pocket. Walking inside the mall, the amount of people was staggering. They walked past a store that read 'Underground' and it had a small display of 'Stain' costumes. Hana glanced at the display without a second thought. They turned around, trying to find Ochako, before noticing a girl with brown hair.
"Heya Ochako!" greeted Hana walking towards her. "How are you doing?"
"Wahhh Hana!" so nice to see you again said Uraraka. "How are you doing?"
"Oh you know, the usual. Busy with school and extracurricular," they said. "How are you doing?"
Ochako sighed, "so busy. The exam was tough, I passed though! And then the practical exam was hard. We had to fight our teachers! It was like an escape of fight scenario, so our teachers were the villains and we were the heroes."
"Ohh? Who did you fight?" asked Hana.
"Hero: 13! They're so cool."
Hana laughed. "You always did like 13. Who did your friends go against? Midoriya? And Lida?"
"Oh, Midoriya partnered with Bakugo and they went against All Might! And Lida and Ojiro went against Power Loader. They all won, though," she reassured.
"Oh Bakugo?" Hana asked. "The guy that won number 1 at the UA sports festival and the one your fought against?"
"Hahaha…." Laughed Ocahko. "Yeah, he's really strong."
"Yeah," said Hana. "You were close too. So, what are you and your classmates looking to buy here?"
"Oh! We're looking for some stuff we need for a summer camping trip we're all going on."
"Oh, really now. Do you know where it is," beamed Hana brightly.
"Err," thought Ochako, mulling it over. "Not too sure, they were really secretive about it."
"Ahh, were they," laughed Hana. That's UA for you!"
"Oh," said Ochako looking very flustered. "Before finding you I sort of ditched my friend Deku."
"Deku?"
"Oh, MIdoroiya Izuku. Deku is his nickname."
Hana stood up, eyes glinting. "Oh? Do you have a crush on him? Why don't we find him then?"
"What!" said Ochako. "I don't have a crush on him!" she said face red, trailing behind Hana as they walked.
"Sure," smirked Hana. "Let's go find him then."
"Urgh! Hana!" they called as Hana walked away teasingly.
"There, there, I'm only joking," they said patting Ochako on the head kindly. But like, let's find him," they said looking around the mall for a hint of green hair.
They walked around the mall, looking in stores and around. "I don't know where he could have gone…" trailed Ochako.
"Don't worry," placated Hana. "We'll find them."
"Oh, I see them now," she said as they neared the fountain. He was sitting beside a hooded figure. The figure had a hand wrapped around Midoriya's neck and they looked to be in a deep discussion.
'Shigaraki!' thought Hana smirking.
"Deku?" asked Uraraka, approaching the green haired boy and Shigaraki. Hana followed behind from a distance. "He's not… a friend of yours… is he…?" she asked. "Let go of him?"
Hana peered behind Ochako, noticing Shigaraki without his hand hovering over his face. His face was hard to tell from this distance, but it looked to be covered in scars and scratches. His lips dry and scarred. He noticed Hana and quickly let go, hands open to appear in a less threatening manner.
"Oh, so he had company?" asked Shigaraki, smiling. "My bad, my bad! Right then, see ya!" he said turning around.
"Deku!" yelled Uraraka running to her friend. Hana followed behind.
The boy, 'Deku,' was leaning forward coughing. He managed to spit out, "Wait… Shigaraki..! What is All for One's ultimate goal?"
"All for one?" questioned Hana, surprised this kid knew such a name.
"Huh? Did you say… 'Shigaraki'…" said Uraraka worried turning to watch Shigaraki's retreating back.
"….. Dunno whatever," He concluded. "But you should focus on taking care of yourself. Because when next we meet, it'll be because I decided to kill you."
Quickly Ochako took out her phone and phoned the police. "Hello, is this the police? There's a villain! Right now we're at, uh, uh," Uraraka faltered.
"Here let me," offered Hana. "Take care of your friend." Uraraka gave them a relieved smile and handed Hana her cell phone. "Hi! We're at the Kiyashi ward. The Kiyashi ward shopping mall: wookiees. We're close to the middle of the mall beside the fountain. Come quick please, there was a villain," they finished in a scared sounding voice.
Turning their back to Uraraka and Deku and giving out some more details to their location, Hana planted a small tracker device inside the side of the phone making it impossible to get out. Hana hung up and turned towards Uraraka and Deuku. They were both too distracted and didn't notice anything wrong.
"They're coming now," Hana said walking towards the pair and handing Uraraka her phone back. "You don't have to worry, they'll be here soon."
Uraraka looked grateful. "Thanks Hana-kun you were a great help."
"Ahhh," said Hana waving their hands in dismissal. "What are friends for. Midoriya are you ok?" they asked as Midoriya looked shaken up and was trying to catch his breath.
"What was Shigaraki doing here?" he muttered.
"You know him?" asked Hana.
"Yeah, he was one of the guys that attacked the USJ…"
"Oh, I see," said Hana. "What infor-"
They began to say but were cut off.
"Midoriya!" yelled a teen with blue hair and glasses.
"Midoriya?! Are you alright?!" asked a boy with blond hair and a black lightning bolt in his hair.
Midoriya looked at Hana with a confused look on his face, wondering what they were trying to ask. Hana just shrugged and patted him on the arm sympathetically. Hana turned to Ochako, giving her a quick smile. "It was nice to see you again, I have to go."
Ochako looked worriedly at her friend Deku and then back to Hana. "Ok, be careful getting home though."
"Yeah, I will, see you later," they waved goodbye before any more of her classmates came. They followed a crowd, got checked and were escorted out of the mall.
After Shigaraki had made his leave, the mall was in chaos. Hana not wanting to get stuck and have their face being seen more than necessarily by the cops, faded into the crowd. During the shutdown, Toga, had texted them several times wondering where they were. They just texted them back they were stuck in the mall cause of the 'Hand Guy' and that they would explain what had happened. Toga just replied with laughing emoji's.
They walked past the security after being cleared. Their plan of Shigaraki meeting Midoriya hadn't gone exactly as they had planned. They really weren't sure what to expect, the animosity between Shigaraki and Midoriya was palpable just being a few feet within the two. But after Urakraka and Hana had arrived to greet them, and in Uraraka's case to defuse the situation. Shigaraki had looked pleased, as if the Stain incident never occurred. But all would be rectified if their plan to get Shigaraki to talk to Midoriya and figure out what Shigaraki's next move was. He was a lost soul with only Sensei to guide him with his very loose counsel. From Hana's point of view it just seemed like Sensei let Shigaraki do whatever he wanted to a certain degree. Even making tons of mistakes and Sensei never appeared to be upset with the loss resources, as if teaching a student how to build a house for the first time with all the tools at hand regardless of the cost.
Sensei had hinted something in the short conversation they had had about MIdoriya being an obstacle in Shigaraki's way, and Hana noticing such a statement was willing to use an innocent bystander's safety to achieve their own goal. Maybe not so innocent was the word to describe Midoriya Izuku. Through Giran's wealth of underground information he had caught word that Hero Killer: Stain wasn't done in by Endevour, as the newspapers had reported, but by 3 high school students, heroes in training. A tad surprising considering the skill level of the Hero Killer. But working into Shigaraki's awful mood about Stain and his disgust about a certain green haired teenager. Putting the two together wasn't hard to do.
Stain's ideals of a 'perfect' world brought villains together, brought them to the League of Villains. But Hana was a single person that couldn't at all bring down hero society by themselves. And they we're crazy enough to try. Looking at the example of their Father brought home that fact. … But a group of villains with a powerful leader, something could become of it.
Hana thought through the day while playing with their phone absent mindedly. They're Uncle hadn't called or texted them anything so they were most likely on their business trip still. They decided to go back to the apartment. The day's job done. They didn't know what Shigaraki and Midoriya had discussed, but it seemed Shigaraki was in a better mood. While waiting at the train station for the train, Giran had texted them saying that Kurogiri had said that Shigaraki had given the 'ok' for the recruits for the League of Villains. They said they had also deposited the money into their account under a disguise of a small-time work at a moving company. Hana replied with a 'thanks,' and said that they had a couple other people they were interested in meeting and recruiting. Giran said 'ok' and that they were beginning to set a date where everyone would meet for the first time.
It would be interesting to see Shigaraki again. He might not be too pleased to have been set into a 'trap' one could see it as. But Hana saw it more as a learning experience. Shigaraki would never become the leader Sensei wanted him to be if he kept inside his room doing God's knows what all day. Hana would know.
They got off their train stop and walked the 10mins back to the apartment. They took their keys out and jiggled them around in their hand. Reaching the door, it opened wide. Ginzo opened the door as Hana was putting in their key.
"Hi dear nephew, niece of mine," he sang dramatically. He was wearing his dark navy blue suit, so he had just gotten home.
"Uncle," acknowledge Hana, blinking at the surprise. "How was your trip?"
"It was good. Very fruitful…"
Hana stared at the steps. There was an extra pair of shoes by the door. "Whose shoes are those?" they pointed.
"Oh," laughed Ginzo innocently. "An acquaintance of mine."
"Erhh.."
Ginzo laughed, "Don't worry. I think you'll like him."
He led Hana to the kitchen table. At the table was Toga and a strange man wearing a black vest over a red dress shirt, over his head sat a burgundy top hat with a yellow feather sticking out of it. The strange man had a cup of tea in front of him and Toga was sipping some tea from her own cup.
"Who are you?" asked Hana.
"Ahh, this must be the young Tachibana Hana, I've heard so much about," he said politely. "My name is Sako Atsuhiro, I also go by the name Mr. Compress."
Hana blinked and nodded, good manners enforced in them. "Nice to meet you too," they said sitting down at the table. "Mind if I ask. Why are you here?"
"I'm actually here to join the League of Villains," he said behind the mask.
"Oh, ok." Said Hana. They turned to look at their Uncle as he sat at the table as well. "Uncle, how are we going to house all these people for the League of Villains.."
Ginzo laughed, "Ahh, we actually bought the apartment next door for such the occasion.
"Huh?" asked Hana. "How does that even work. And, we're housing villains."
"This whole property is under my name," Ginzo continued going to sit in the extra chair. "I'm a business man that works for the bank, with no priors. I'm very under the radar," smirked Ginzo. "I wouldn't be here if I wasn't."
Hana just stared at their Uncle. It explained a lot. How he could do so many underground dealings without being noticed by the police or the heroes.
"Well, it was nice to meet you… Mr. Compress. I'll be in my room," Hana said, getting up from their chair and nodding goodbye.
Hana went to their room and closed the door. Once settled on their bed they heard a knock from the door. "Come in," said Hana, as Toga opened the door peering inside.
"Sooo, what happened today," she laughed.
Hana gave her a look, and "you wouldn't believe it."
"Was it to do with Handsy?"
"Hmm, yeah. So, I told him to meet me at the mall. And he ran into the guy that he's been having problems with is all. I think everything got sorted out," as their phone chimed with a call. "Speak of the devil," they said as they checked their phone screen ID, 'Black Mist Bar' shown on the screen, "Hello?" they answered.
"Tachibana-san?" the voice asked.
"Yes, this is them. Mr. Black Mist."
"Yes, this is him. I don't know what happened today, but Shigaraki came back in a good mood. And he said he's letting your recruits join the Villain Alliance. I've also informed Giran and made payment."
Hana laughed, "That's excellent to hear. When can we meet up then."
There was a pause on the phone, "Why not two days from now, at the bar around 2pm."
"Sure, sounds good to me, please let Giran know, goodbye," and they hung up.
"Who was that, Handsy?" asked Toga.
"No, the other guy from the bar."
"Ohhh. His quirk was really weird, he could like teleport my hand when I tried to stab Handsy!"
"Yeah," hummed Hana. "It was something."
They took out their labtop and placed it on a giant book on their bed. Opened it and turned it back on. They typed back into the website they saved and read back to the two people they had messaged. They had given them both a day and a half to reply and they both replied with instant success.
Both 'S_T_A_I_N' and 'Villain_M' were interested in meeting with the League of Villains. Hana sent them their phone number from their phone. A phone that couldn't be traced or tapped. They didn't set up a meeting place, or time yet, deciding to do it when Kurogiri finalized the time to meet. They weren't too sure they'd want recruits barging in like last time and Shigaraki accidentally killing one of them because he was in a bad mood.
They both agreed.
...
The next two days flew in a blur. Giran and Hana called back and forth about recruits. GIran himself had recruited from people from his connections and had built a small group he found would be of use to the League. Giran gave Hana their contact information, ones that could be contacted and let Hana do their job. All they did for the past 2 days was gain information from each individual member. Some of it through discussion or doing a quick internet search.
They created a simple spread sheet of information. On it was the soon to be member's real name, their alias if they had one, their quirk in simple words, and if they had any prior infractions. The list was for more keeping track of who was planning to join the Villain Alliance. As before they let anyone join when they attacked USJ and it was a disaster. When they finished the list, they sent it to Giran and Kurogiri and left it at that.
Quickly the day came to meet everyone at the bar. Hana had their list with them waiting at the entrance to the building with a bored look on their face. 'This feels like camp, what the hell,' they thought. The sun was beginning to peek out of the clouds and as they opened a can of cold milk tea. The streets weren't completely empty, some people walking past paying no attention to the red headed looking teen.
Giran had texted them that'd he be late and to just start the meeting. Everyone was told to come varying times to distract suspicion. Right now, nobody had come yet. Suddenly a teenager with ashy blonde hair wearing a black gakuran approached them. They both stared at each other uncertainly. "The forum and the phone call?" the teen asked. "I'm 'Villain_M', your 'Hunter101'?"
Hana blinked sheepishly, "Yeah. You go by 'Mustard'?" The teen nodded. "Ok, go inside, and wait at the entrance. Don't go in yet, if you wanna possibly get killed, be my guest." The teen looked a bit shocked at that statement but didn't say anything else and walked in.
...
Slowly people trickled in, Toga Himiko, Dabi, Mr. Compress.
After they had entered the building, a muscular looking man with red shoulder length hair and full lips approached Hana. "Well aren't you a cute thing!" they said.
"Huh?" said Hana.
They laughed. "I'm Magne, you can call me 'Big Sis Magne'."
"Oh, Hikiishi-san," said Hana noting on their paper. "Continue in." She nodded and walked into the entrance. Behind her was a lizard looking guy with bright pink hair.
"'The forum guy?'" he asked. Hana just stared at the pink hair and nodded. "I'm 'S_T_A_I_N' from the forum, nice to meet you."
"Ahh, likewise," said Hana still staring at the pink hair, "huh go right in, wait with everyone else."
Hana just took a sigh of breath. This was tedious work. And it was almost 2pm. They were planning to go right in at 2pm, since Giran was running late anyways.
"Heyo," waved a tall man with short blonde hair and beady eyes, with a straight scar down the middle of his forehead. "I'm Bubaigawara Jin, you're the guy I spoke too on the phone, right? You looking at me?!" he exclaimed again.
"Huh, yes," said Hana warily.
"Man, you look like a kid," he said again.
"Twice," Hana said calmly. "Please go in."
"Ok kid, sounds grand," he said as he walked in.
Hana sighed, pinching the bridge of their nose. Talking to Twice on the phone was an interesting affair. He had talked for a long time. Split between telling them how great a job they were doing recruiting people to insulting them for not doing a fast-enough job. As well as explaining their life story.
Hana checked his phone, nothing from Giran and it was 2pm. So, show time. They casually surveyed the area around the bar, noting no one looking in their direction they got up and opened the door. Walking in the building it was cool and dry, with some pulled down posters on the walls.
They walked to the entrance of the bar but noticed no one was around. All they could hear was silent conversation in the bar. The opened the door to the bar, everyone was inside already and watched as Hana walked in, "Yo," said Hana.
Shigaraki was sitting on a bar stool looking a bit miffed. Maybe Dabi had said something annoying. "Finally, huh?" he asked.
Hana stared at him in disbelief, "I'm not late," snorted Hana. "Just on time, Giran on the other hand is late."
"Giran is occupied at the moment," said Kurogiri. "He's keeping the other two recruits out of sight… he should be ready now…" he said.
"Huh?" said Hana, as Giran popped out in a spew of black liquid. Two other people followed him, one tall and thin figure covered in a black cloak, and the other a huge broad man. All three of them coughed.
"Geez, what the hell was that!" croaked Giran.
"That was Sensei's quirk. It… takes some time to get used to I've heard," said Kurogiri.
'Gross,' thought Hana.
"Geez," said Shigaraki. "Now that everyone is here, let's get down to business…"
After another round of introductions and people giving out a general idea of their quirk. Hana learned the two newcomers, the tall thing man 'Moonfish' and the tall broad shoulder one, 'Muscular' both on the run murderers, and one recently escaped killer.
"So, what is the idea of this group anyway," said Dabi. "Cause if I don't like it I'm leaving."
Shigaraki twitched in annoyance, Kurogiri giving him a warning look. "Our mission is to kill All Might. We're going to tear down hero society and show people that heroes are nothing."
Spinner looked at him carefully, "works for me," he concluded. "I'm here cause I'm going to bring Stain's world to life. And joining the League of Villains helps me do that."
"Yeah! said Toga. "I wanna make a world that's a bit easier to live in."
Dabi nodded as well.
"Heroes need to bring down a notch," smirked Mustard.
"Well, anybody that wishes to leave. Can do so now," said Kurogiri. "Everything spoken in this room is confidential, for obvious reasons."
"So, making a world of our making, eh?" asked Magne. "I like it."
"Sounds good, Shigaraki!" said Twice. "This is a terrible idea, or is it?" he said.
"What's with you man?" asked Dabi.
"Nothing! What you looking at punk!" Twice replied. Twice started muttering to himself, pulling out a ski mask and putting it on.
"Just don't respond to that, Dabi," said Hana wearily.
"So, what is the plan Shigaraki," said Mr. Compress trying to will the conversation forward.
"Well," Shigaraki thought. "We're going to show UA Highschool how weak heroes are."
"UA, where All Might works?" asked Mustard.
"Yeah, we're going to kidnap one of the students, Bakugo Katsuki and make him work for us."
"How are we going to do that, Tomura," asked Toga excitedly.
"… If you show the UA sports festival. His temper was like a villain. He's basically a villain hiding as a hero. Easily enough to manipulate…" added Kurogiri.
"Interesting," said Mr. Compress. "How are we going to kidnap him exactly."
"I actually have an idea," spoke up Hana. They took their labtop out of their bag and opened it up. On the screen was a map with a beeping red dot. "When I was at the mall the other day…" they paused to see Shigaraki staring at them. "I met up with an old friend, she actually goes to UA highschool and she's in the heroics course, 1-A class, the same class at Bakugo Katsuki. She mentioned they were going on a school training camp. So, I'd suggest this would be the best time to kidnap him. The only down side is they keep changing their location so… I'm assuming we won't find them. But they're moving to the camp soon."
"Ahhh," said Kurogiri. "Interesting. This will work nicely won't it Shigaraki."
"How the hell did you do that?" asked Twice.
"I put a tracker in her phone while..." they paused thinking it though. "I was calling the police about a villain sighting," they said chuckling. "Sorry Shigaraki."
Shigaraki assumedly narrowed his eyes at Hana, "brat."
Hana shrugged, laughing quietly. "Hey, it worked in the end," they said putting their laptop away.
"So, assuming we kidnap this Bakugo kid, how do we do it," said Dabi.
"We'll split into teams," said Kurogiri. "You will each form teams and distract pro-heroes and the students and when everyone is distracted, Mr. Compress here can kidnap him successfully.
"It'll be a huge blow to the heroes," said Shigaraki. "One of their own precious students taken from a school event, it'll be good. What teams will work best is up to you guys, I trust your judgment."
"Don't worry Shigaraki," said Mr. Compress. "I can work out a plan, and we'll have Bakugo Katsuki with us."
"Sounds fine to me," said Twice, his voice muffled by the ski mask.
"Before you guys go," said Kurogiri. "For some of you, if you require it, need support items and disguises."
"And that's where I come in!" boomed a voice, as a door opened wide open.
"Uncle?!" said Hana staring at Ginzo walked in, arms open wide smiling.
"Hirano Ginzo, 'Villain Support' items extraordinaire, at your service," giving an exaggerated bow. "I'm here to get measurements, for people that need support items for their quirks. Just let me know what you need and my associate can make it." He began walking around talking to each and everyone one of the new members of the Villain Alliance. Some denied needing any support items, stating they already had their own. He walked over to the closest person, Mustard and they began to have a discussion about support items.
Hana began walking over to Toga. "Sup," they said.
She laughed, "Hana, your Uncle is funny."
Hana snorted, "Yeah, I guess. Also, if you want we can start discussing about support items for your quirk. As my Uncle is busy with Mustard right now, looks like they have a lot to discuss."
"Sure!" said Toga.
"Hey, hey, let me join this conversation," said Twice sauntering over.
"Sure," said Hana. "We can get started with you."
"Hmmm," thought Twice. "I want a body suit. A REALLY COOL ONE. A BAD ASS ONE. that covers my whole body. Black and gray. RED AND COLOURFUL. But I also need like measuring tape, to measure people so I can copy them. Maybe on my wrists or something."
"Ok," said Hana writing it down, ignoring his loud outbursts. "Do you want it as a weapon too?"
"Yeah, yeah, that sounds good."
"Ok, I can tell them that. What about you Toga?"
"Something cute!"
Hana blinked at her slowly. "We'll see. For you we'll want something that makes your quirk more powerful. Hmm.." they thought slowly. "What about a machine to suck blood more quickly. Then like cutting them open a bunch of times."
"Ok. I trust you!"
"Ok, I'll just give the notes to Ginzo then. And he'll get them ready for you guys in a couple days before the UA training camp," they said getting up. They suddenly felt a tap on their shoulder, turning around they saw Mr. Compress. "Yes?"
"Tachibana, for the attack, you will be joining me," he said.
"Oh ok. What about the others?" asked Hana looking around the room.
"They will be the distraction vanguard, as Bakugo is the main target. And the area will be full of pro-heroes and students alike. Splitting the pack will be the priority."
Hana's eyes lit up at his analysis of the situation. "It's all in your hands then, Mr. Compress."