Despite his cool calm and reserved demeanor, Stallion is a very emotional person. Through his years of wandering the land he discovered however that it helps to act calmly and gentle whenever you are dealing with humans. Deathclaws, mutants and wild beasts however don't care. As a result the boy had developed what he called "Nerd Rage". Whenever he or someone he cared about was in brutal danger, all the anger and emotion built up from seeing families murdered or good men dying in vain came out. When he was impaled by the Deathclaw that's exactly what happened.
Stallion let out a guttural scream as he focused all his built up hate and frustration on the beast. He snapped the creature's middle claw like it was a toothpick. Using his newly found weapon he proceeded to stab it into the chameleon's arm.
It howled in pain as it's own tool of destruction was turned against it.
The reptilian dropped its arm and attempted to pull out the claw, giving Stallion the opportunity to slide himself off of the creature's claw. He would have usually taken a Stimpack however at the moment he wasn't really thinking.
The Deathclaw attempted to swipe down with both arms before it discovered the flaw in its plan.
Stallion caught both arms of the beast with ease and without even realising it had cracked the monster's bones. He grabbed it's left arm with both hands and spun around, using the momentum to slam his opponent into a nearby rock. Not that he needed the momentum as he felt the bones of the monster snap halfway through the move.
It writhed in pain as it attempted to recover. The boy didn't give it a chance as he swiftly pulled out his Tri-Beam Laser rifle and jammed it into the monster's mouth. Stallion felt a few of the creature's teeth crack loose as he pulled the trigger.
The trio of energy beams easily burned through the beast's throat and continued onwards to fry it's brain, killing it.
His classmates simply watched in a combination of shock, fear and admiration. They had just watched a boy who had just been stabbed through his torso rip apart his impaler without even breaking a sweat.
The villains however had a different thought on their minds.
"RUN!" several of them yelled as the group of villains scrambled away from the boy.
Stallion would have gone after them however the aggravated injury in his stomach didn't exactly agree with the plan. The boy fumbled out a Stimpack with shaky hands and proceeded to stab it into the wound and pull the trigger. The wound instantly began to heal up. Working in conjunction with his rapidly healing body the hole was sealed shut and all that was left was three scar marks to add to the teenager's collection.
Realising the two girls and brain dead Denki were probably scared half to death the boy turned to them and gave a thumbs up.
It was then that he realised that his clothes were stained with blood of both him and the corpse of the giant mutant chameleon behind him.
After the events in the Mountain zone the four students were escorted back to the entrance and led to a bus where a detective made sure that all students were present.
"17, 18, 19, 20, 21...Everyone seems to be unharmed except for that boy whose legs were all messed up" the detective said as he held a sheet of the class's students.
He turned to look at Stallion, who now had his helmet off, his normally neat and well kept hair was messed up from the fight and his costume was stained a dark purple in places due to the blood.
"You there uh...Guardian was it?" the detective asked as he pointed at Stallion.
The wastelander nodded and replied with.
"Yeah thats me, Stallion is fine. I'm from the U.S. I prefer to be called by my first name"
"Well when you were first coming out of the facility your classmates insisted that the paramedics look you over as they claimed you had been stabbed and you have blood all over your costume yet you appear to be unharmed. How is that?" the investigator said quizically
The wastelander was slightly flustered at this. Momo and Kyouka had tried to get the paramedics to attend to him however they deduced that he was completely fine, which he was.
"Well uh you see sir my quirk, Cyborg as I call it. Part of it lets me heal from otherwise fatal wounds without consequence besides some scars and bruises"
The detective looked down at his paper before looking up and tipping his hat. The class began to mingle amongst themselves about the event.
Eijirou, Kouji, Fumikage and Denki were talking about the villains they fought. Stallion overheard part of the conversation.
"Interesting, so the people you fought were also low level thugs" Fumikage said inquisitively
"Yeah! They messed with the wrong kids, huh!" Eijirou said as he punched his palm.
"Actually the guy's we fought were really tough, or at least I heard from Jirou" Denki began talking about their experience
"Woah really! How did you beat em?!" Eijirou exclaimed in his usual psyched up mood.
"Well actually we beat most of the easy guy's it was Guardian over there who took out the big villain" The electric type said as the whole group turned to look at the teenager in question.
After the class asked about the injuries of their teachers and Izuku, all of whom were going to be ok, they loaded up into the bus to head back to campus.
Stallion sat cleaning the blood off of his weapons. He had wiped most of it off and was now polishing the Deathclaw gauntlet when Emma pointed out the obvious to the class.
"Uh, Stallion is that blood?" She asked out of concern.
The boy stopped his polishing and looked at her
"Hm? Oh yeah this is my blood. I'm fine though, just got a few scratches fighting some villains" He brushed the question off.
Momo spoke up.
"A few scratches! You were impaled!" She pointed out.
"What!? No way. Look he's perfectly fine" Eijirou tried to reassure the class of Stallion's health by pulling up his shirt to show he was fine.
Stallion blushed intensely as the class stared collectively at his wounds.
"A-are those scars?!" Ochaco exclaimed as she covered her mouth in shock.
Stallion shoved away Eijirou's hand and straightened his shirt, he would normally be wearing his bulletproof vest but it was too badly damaged.
Most the entire class had seen it, there was no use denying things.
Lying just beneath his shirt was a field of scars from burns, radiation and claws.
"Yes, yes those are scars" The boy ran his hands through his hair, trying to some way to make a cover story.
Stallion already had one large scar running through his eye but that could be played off as a childhood accident. These were ones that couldn't be explained that simply.
"Oh man thats so manly! You gotta tell me how you got some of those!" Eijirou, much to the wastelanders surprise was ecstatic about the idea of someone surviving that much.
Stallion finally figured out a backstory for himself.
Mina looked rather concerned
"I-if you don't want to talk about it that's ok…" she said softly.
The wastelander wasn't one for playing the "I don't wanna talk about it" card. He found it to be an overdramatic excuse that shouldn't be used besides the most serious circumstances.
"No it's ok. It isn't really a secret" he replied in a kind voice.
"When I was ten there was a villain attack on my hometown, my mother died giving birth to me and my father was killed trying to stand up to the villain. I got most of my scars from the injuries I sustained there" he tried to look as genuinely sad as possible.
"Thats horrible!" Momo exclaimed
Emma knew of course that the man was lying but attempted to look sympathetic. She was horrible at it.
The rest of the ride was spent in small talk as nobody could really return to normal conversation after Stallion's story.
After the students arrived at campus all of their parents or guardians in Stallion and Emma's case were called and informed of the incident. The Lee's however were currently out of town as the detective wanted to spend some more time with his children. They had insisted on Stallion coming but he declined as he felt bad about missing a day of school again.
The wastelander stood outside the school's gates thinking about what to do next when he noticed Emma running past on her way to the same vehicle that her guardian, Stacy, drove.
She noticed the boy leaning against the wall and stopped to say hello.
"Oh, hey didn't see you there" She said smiling.
It was odd, you would think that after all that happened she would be so happy.
Her hair was a dark blue today but her usual pink irises were just as recognisable as ever.
The girl's teeth still sort of creeped the wastelander out. She had what most people would call a "Cute" look to her and yet she had three large fanged teeth, two on the top where they were located for humans and one on the bottom in the middle.
"Is there something in my teeth?"
Stallion realised that he was staring.
"Hm? Oh no sorry it's just I'm not used to people having fangs" He said as he scratched the back of his head
The familiar sound of the girl's guardian came from the parked car.
"C'mon Emm! Ask him to come to supper with us!" The bubbly woman called out.
She looked extremely flustered at this and managed to stutter out.
"S-so uh, would you like to have supper at our place? We are having fried salmon…"
Stallion questioned the ethics of Emma eating seafood considering she was a squid.
"I guess squids are predators"
The courier nodded.
"Sure. The Lee's aren't home so I would just be eating take-out anyway"
The two of them walked over to the car. Stallion got in the backseat of the vehicle.
He couldn't help but notice how pristine the car was. There wasn't a speck of dust on a thing.
As the car pulled up to the Brown residence Stallion nearly fainted from shock.
"Wait that's where you live!" He exclaimed
The place was quite literally a mansion.
Stacy looked at him quizzically.
"Well of course. Being a hero pays pretty well and being a scientist along with that helps"
Stallion was shocked. Emma told him she was a scientist but she left out the hero part
The Inkling noticed Stallion's shock and felt the need to elaborate further.
"Stacy is also known more commonly by the name Miss Reaction. She's a chemistry hero, she has holes on her arms, legs and back that can produce different elements. As a result she can use her quirk to make different compounds on the fly. However she can only produce elements that she has consumed within the last 24 hours" The Inkling explained proudly.
Stacy seemed deeply flattered by the praise but said nothing as a man wearing a tuxedo opened the woman's door.
"Apologies madam, I had to put the fish in the oven and the timer was acting up again. We really should hire a mechanic Ms. Browns the oven barely even works at all" The man spoke with a british accent, he had greying hair and a moustache. Essentially the stereotypical butler.
"Oh apologies I wasn't aware we had a guest. I'll go put in another fillet. I'm the butler and chef by the way, Mr. Barq" The butler said
They made their way inside the mansion. It was just as stunning on the inside. A maid with butterfly wings and purple hair was fluttering around the living room dusting furniture. She noticed the three of them walking in and landed on the carpet.
"Oh hello Ms. Browns" The girl said enthusiastically. She turned to Stallion.
"Ah you must be Mr. Guardian right? I'm Angelina, the maid around here" She said with a bow.
Emma tugged on his sleeve and gestured for him to follow her. They walked down a hallway before she opened a door to a large room that looked extremely out of place. The rest of the house was very neat and tidy, with a victorian era aesthetic.
This room however had clothes strewn all over the place and had a very skate culture pop feel to it.
"Well make yourself at home I guess. Food should be ready in a couple minutes" She said, exhausted by the events of the day.
"Where did you end up when that villain separated us?" Stallion asked as he removed a pair of undergarments from a lounge chair and sat down.
"Oh yeah. That" the girl sighed, still lying on her poofy bed.
She explained that she managed to get close enough to the edge of the cloud to grab onto Mezou's(the large boy with a mask over his face and six arms)arm and pull herself out of the cloud. They mostly ended up watching Mr. Aizawa fight and tended to No. 13 the best they could.
Stallion explained his tale, leaving out the awkward situation when he woke up of course, talking about how he saved Denki from the electric villain and how he defeated the Deathclaw with his bare hands. He tried to tone it down a bit to be humble but he couldn't really tell the story truthfully without sounding boastful.
"Although there was one thing odd about the Deathclaw" he pondered
Stallion stared aimlessly into the air.
"And what was that?" she responded.
"Well you see Deathclaws have specific way they fight and attack but this one wasn't acting like the others. It seemed smarter, almost as if it wasn't even controlling its actions" Stallion looked down to see that Emma was now wearing a blue T-shirt and short-shorts.
"What? Why are you staring at me" she said as she looked behind her to see if there was something there.
"Did she just change her clothes without me even noticing?"
"For your information I was in the bathroom" she said, flustered about the idea.
Mr. Barq saved the duo from their awkward situation as he called from the kitchen.
"The fish is done!"
Stallion sat down at the table as everyone held hands. He was familiar with this way of doing things. Among his few memories of his father he did remember that the man was a Christian, that was the belief in a God who created everything. Stallion still believed in it but didn't really have time to pray before meals as he wasn't very fond of being jumped by a radscorpion before saying amen.
Stacy began
"Lord, I thank you for delivering Emma's class out from the clutches of villains and pray that you would bless this food and the hands that made it, In Jesus name, Amen"
Stallion went to grab the fork only to realise that all that was there were a pair of chopsticks. The courier had prepared for this however and summoned a fork and knife from his Pip-Boy.
Stacy nearly choked on her food as she saw the boy summon the cutlery out of thin air by pressing a button on his wrist mounted device.
"W-What! How did you do that!" She exclaimed.
He was about to use the same cover-up as he used with his classmates before Emma spoke up.
"It's okay, she already knows about the alternate universe thing"
He breathed a sigh of relief as he began explaining the device.
"This is the Vault-Tec issued Pip-Boy 3000, it monitors my health, radiation levels, includes a geiger counter, automatically records my interactions with people and journals them, has a map and can store all of my equipment and items. It is however limited by a weight limit" Stallion explained the many functions of the Personal Information Processor to the scientific hero.
After the discussion about the Pip-Boy spiraled into a discussion about nuclear thermodynamics which continued into a discussion about hero work the conversation had finally exhausted itself.
Stallion checked his Pip-Boy
"11:30! Sorry I didn't notice the time I better get home" Stallion said as he stood up.
He then realised his problem. He didn't have a car and the mansion was at least ten kilometers away from the Lee's.
"You should stay the night. We live a ways out of town and you wouldn't make it back by morning" Ms. Stacy proposed.
Stallion tried to argue but she insisted.
He settled into the soft guest bed.
"Been awhile since I found any good friends" He thought as the courier drifted into a slumber.
Authors Note: Hey guys. Sorry for the short chapter but I felt that it would be weird to have this chapter lead on too long and I had some pretty big story ideas. I thought it would be appropriate to make Stallion a Christian due to the themes of Fallout 3. Sorry but not sorry if you're too sensitive about that sort of thing. If you notice any inconsistencies in the writing then please point them out and I will fix them. As always thanks for reading.
Sincerely, FabKitty.