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Chapter 5: Jet Set Run Into Battle


It was shockingly quiet when you were on your own. You kept tapping your shoes against the chair, your fingers against your legs, and your eyes kept being drawn back to back between the case holding your things and the clock slowly ticking away.

'What's taking them so long? Are they discussing me now? Was I too transparent? No, no, you couldn't break down right now, not when-'

Your trail of thought was instantly derailed as you felt a tremendous rumble in the building, nearly knocking you from your seat, and prevented only by the timely gripping of the bolted down table before you.

"Holy Whoa! What was that, an earthquake? But there are no after-shocks..." You exclaim once you get your bearings, making sure that your belongings are still beside you and that the room wasn't about to crumble around or atop you. That would suck.

Luckily, aside from a few cracks here and there along the walls now, the room seemed largely unharmed.

"Still, what caused that shaking just now...The sheer force needed to shake a building would have to be in the tons..." You muttered to yourself as you walked closer to the door, now slightly ajar from the shaking.

Once you began to approach the door however, you retracted the last step and flushed against the wall, having caught the voices coming down the hall... and you did not like what you heard.

"This BETTER be where the Shrimp is at. Otherwise, me and you are gonna have a problem."

"I-I swear it is! Just please, don't hurt me or the boy! I wouldn't be able to live with myself if you..." Anything else was cut off with a harsh grunt from the man, and the menacing voice cut in again.

"Oh, don't worry. By the time I'm done with him, he won't be FEELING anything. Hehehee." The deeper voice said with a deep chortle.

Okay, that was all you needed to hear. You only had a moment to do this, and it would pretty much be throwing away your 'secret' identity, but between keeping a secret and saving lives, including your own?

Well, it was really no choice at all.

"Ready: Jet, Set, Run." You spoke with a deliberate pause between each word, seemingly to the empty air, as you set down your breifcase flat on the ground.

That was, until the case answered back.

"Acknowledged. Hero Suit: Deploy." The case pronounced in its synthesized voice as it quickly sprang its hidden compartment, shooting your suit onto your body, wrapping around and locking into place at your wrists and ankles. From there, it was only a moment to put on your reinforced gloves, pull up the hood, and lock the now inside out case to your lower back at each side.

In another moment, you felt One For All fill you again with the power to do what had to be done, and now you were going to act.

[3rd Person Point of View]

"Heh. I can't wait to see the look on that Little Shrimp's face when he sees me. Thinking he's big shit, but wait till he sees just how small a fish he is..." Raging Muscle muttered to himself as he clenched and released the cop in his grip like a stress ball. The old man tried to get in his way, but was too weak to stop him. Like everyone else in the world. The mere thought brought a smile to his twisted face, and another grunt of pain from the cop.

Still, he had bigger fish to fry.

As Raging Muscle got within feet of the door, he reared back a fist, ready to enter the small room with a bang.

Someone beat him to it.

The door he was about to cave in was instead blown outwards, hitting Muscle with the majority of its massive weight. As the sheer force behind the door hit the villain, he was forced to let go of the officer in his grip, sending him tumbling away. That was, until the reason for the door suddenly gaining its dream of flight zipped out and caught the poorly treated cop.

He was a small figure, barely reaching 5 ft 10, but he still had no issue stopping and supporting a fully grown man. And when the two came to a solid stop upon the ground, his eyes remained locked on the now rising form of the villain.

"You need to get out of here. Evacuate the building, the less people caught up in this, the better."

It took the cop a moment to realize where the voice came from, partially due to the disorientation of the sudden flight and the sheer difference between the voice and the figure beside him.

It was a juvenile voice, one that barely sounded out of puberty...but it held steel and resolve like you had heard in some of the older detectives.

"You need to go. NOW!" The green figure, no, Izuku, demanded, shaking you from the last of your spiraling thoughts.

"Right, right. Listen, don't take any stupid chances kid. I hate that I can't help you here... but I can at least make sure he doesn't do any more damage!" Victor said as he got to his feet and began to stumble his way out of the fight, never taking his eyes far away from either figure in their bright colours.

"Don't worry. Any chances I take, I'll be sure to make good on." Izuku said. But it wasn't his words that caught you this time.

It was his Smile. He wasn't afraid, it didn't shake in fear, or anticipation. It didn't steel tight to prepare for the fight to come. It was... hope.

'So...That's a superhero, huh?' Was Victors last thought as he made his way around the corner and prepared to evacuate the building.

"You'd better come back in one piece so I can get my answers, boyo." Victor muttered under his breath, even as a small smile grew on his own face.

"Though make sure to give him a knock or two for me."

[Izuku/Deku POV]

You made sure that the detective, who you know recognized as Victor, if a little more purple, got out of the impact range of the fight before turning to your opponent, who had now freed himself from his position beneath the door.

Seeing how he picked it up with no issue and then proceeded to tear it in too in the same manner one would a phone-book already told you quite a bit about him.

Wait, he noticed you now.

"What the? Ho? A little green midget with some muscle to him? PERFECT! You can be practice for RAGING MUSCLE before he tears the other little Shrimp in two!" This villain, apparently named Raging Muscle, hollered upon seeing you, causing you to shift into your battle stance in case of any surprise attacks.

So he didn't know that the other supposedly green shrimp was you as well? All the better.

"I won't let you hurt anyone else today. As a Hero, it's my job to make sure the people are safe!" You declared, feeling the lightning around your knuckles beginning to shine all the brighter.

Muscle was silent now, letting loose only a wicked grin and the sound of knuckles cracking as he hunched over.

NEXT CHAPTER!

RAGING MUSCLE: THE BIGGEST FISH IN THE POND

VS

DEKU: THE HERO WHO HOLDS BONDS IN HIS FISTS

END OF CHAPTER!

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