Kuin summoned a swarm of bees from her eyepatch and her goons readied their guns. She turned to look at Midoriya who began to cower in fear while clutching his silver briefcase against his chest.

"What's the matter with you!? Use your quirk!" She spat at him.

Midoriya was taken aback by her sudden shift in tone. Before she seemed nice, almost bubbly. But now she was different. Her face was twisted with rage as the cops began to surround them in their patrol cars.

"I-I don't have one!" Midoriya shouted back at her, raising his voice over the sound of the blaring sirens.

Queen Bee scoffed and motioned for one of her goons to toss a gun to Midoriya. He dropped the briefcase and caught it, but he was shaking still. He never thought that he would ever have to shoot a gun, at least not before he joined the Police Academy. But now he was going to apart of a shootout against the police themselves!

"We have you surrounded!" A cop yelled as he pointed his gun at the gang of criminals. His partners did the same as they shieded themselves behind their cars, only their faces, arms, hands and guns were visible over the hood of their police cars.

Midoriya's eyes grew wide. He recognized the cop. It was Detective Tsukauchi. However, it seemed that the detective hadn't noticed him since the boy quickly turned away.

"Surrender or we will be forced to use lethal force!"

Kuin smirked a toothy grin and ordered her bees to attack. They swarmed around the cops to distract them while her goons began to open fire indiscriminately.

Not wanting to get caught in the crossfire, Midoriya took shelter behind one of the pillars of the parking garage.

All he could think in that moment were all of his decisions that lead him up to this one single moment. Technically, this all happened because he got shot, right? Because if he had never gotten shot, then he would not have been in the hospital, and he would not have met All For One, and he would not have been offered this job!

Or better yet, perhaps it was his dad's fault for not responding to his mom, keeping her in the dark and having his family on the edge of eviction!

Hell, maybe if he had a Quirk, then he wouldn't have gotten shot in the first place!

He could go around in circles all day if he wanted to, but right now he had a decision to make.

"Aaaagh!" He heard Queen Bee shout out in pain. He peaked around the corner to see blood drip from her eye and a few of her bees had gotten shot by the police.

Midoriya looked down at his gun as well at his briefcase and gulped.

He would risk everything for his mother. No questions asked. He would risk his future, and he would risk his life without a second thought. Everything that he had done up until this point he had done for her. Now he was put into a position where she could be taken care of for the rest of her life, whether his dad was in the picture or not.

Midoriya had to do it.

He rushed out from behind the pillar with his gun in hand. He had seen Snipe shoot a dozen times over. How hard could it be?

The quirkless boy turned criminal grabbed Kuin and dragged her to safety behind one of the pillars.

When the Detective saw his protege, Midoriya, run out from behind the pillar he immediately shouted for his men to stop firing.

"Stop firing! Stop!" The Detective ordered. Just what in the world was going on here?! Where did Midoriya come from? Was he being held hostage? Was he forced to work with them against his will? That would be the only explanation that made any sense to him.

One of the cops readied another shot but the Detective placed his hand on the cop's arm.

"Don't fire! They have a school student with them!" The detective shouted.

Midoriya attempted to fire back a shot at one of the police officers just to scare him, but the recoil caused him to miss badly. He heard his bullet ricochet off of the top of the parking garage.

The Detective frowned at first at Midoriya's actions, but he then realized that the quirkless boy was more than likely being used or held hostage. How or why, he could not say, but Tsukauchi was confident enough to know that Izuku wouldn't want to hurt a fly, let alone a cop. So he reasoned that he had to make it appear as if that he was doing something so that they wouldn't kill him on the spot for "leading" the cops to them.

"Take out the goons but don't shoot at the boy! He's on our side!" The Detective ordered.

While Queen Bee's goons continued the fire fight Midoriya tended to Queen Bee and handed her the silver briefcase which held the payment inside.

"Please, I have a favor to ask of you," Midoriya began to say as he used his shirt to wipe away the blood from her eye.

"I took this job because I needed the money for my mother. My dad works abroad and he suddenly stopped responding to her calls. Now we are on the verge of eviction, but this briefcase had enough money in it to ensure that she will never have to worry about it ever again."

Kuin couldn't help but notice his choice of words.

"Enough money to ensure that she will never have to worry about it?"

Midoriya nodded and gave her a half-hearted smile.

"Yes, I'm going to take the fall for you. I will create a diversion while you escape," Midoriya said.

Kuin perked a brow.

"And how will you do that?"

Midoriya turned his gun over to her.

"Take me hostage, I will pretend as if you put me up to it. When I shot at them, I missed completely. One of the cops out there is my mentor, Detective Tsukauchi. Right now he's probably thinking that I missed on purpose, or that the only reason I fired the shot was to make it look like I was on your side so that you and your goons wouldn't kill me," Midoriya began to say.

Queen Been's eyes grew wide with shock, which caused Midoriya to give her a sheepish grin.

"It-It's a long story," He said. "But he trusts me, and we can use that against him."

Queen Bee grabbed the gun and held it against the boy's head.

"I like the way you think," She said. "It's a shame that I had orders to betray you, but it's funny how things work out in the end."

"Huh?!"

Queen Bee tossed the silver briefcase across the parking garage to one of her cronies who grabbed it in mid air. She then tossed the black briefcase to another one of her goons who grabbed it as well.

"Okay, show time!" The crime boss said with a fiendish smile.

She appeared from behind the pillar with her arm around Midoriya's neck and her gun pointed to his head.

"Stop shooting!" Detective Tsukauchi ordered. And just as he commanded, the shooting on both sides stopped.

"Let's talk," Queen Bee began to say as she took a step forward.

"What do you want?" The Detective asked darkly.

"One of your cars to go please," She said sweetly.

The Detective gave her an impassive expression, indicating that he wouldn't take her request seriously.

Midoriya used the opportunity to use his free hand that was down by his side to tap Kuin's thigh. This got her attention, and when she looked down at him she saw him motion to his arm. At first she didn't understand what he was trying to say, but then she quickly picked up on his signal.

"We know how much this boy means to you, Detective," She began to say as she pointed her gun at Midoriya's arm and shot him.

The boy yelled out in agonizing pain and in retaliation several cops pointed their guns at her. However, Queen Bee pointed her gun back at the quirkless boy's head and waved her finger at them.

"I wouldn't do that if I were you. I can decorate this garage with this boy's brains before any of you can get to me. Would you want that on your conscience?"

The Detective clenched his fist and signaled for the remainder of his cops to stand down. Afterward, he motioned for his partners to clear a path for Queen Bee as well as her goons to walk toward one of their patrol cars.

However, Midoriya noticed that the Detective gave a signal for another one of the cops to take a shot. Although he already had it in his mind to distract them, it seemed that he would truly have to out himself. He was in a lot of pain due to his gunshot wound which he clutched onto, but he figured that he could still manage to warn her and her goons to get out of dodge.

As soon as Queen Bee turned her back, Midoriya freed himself from her grasp and shoved her toward the car with his shoulder.

"Move! Get out of here!" He shouted as the cop that was supposed to take the shot missed entirely.

Kuin quickly hopped into the driver's seat of the car and her goons piled inside of it with the two briefcases. When the Detective ordered them to open fire Midoriya stood in front of them with his arms spread out.

This move bought her enough time to drive out of harm's way.

Detective Tsukauchi narrowed his eyes at Midoriya.

"What are you doing?!" He questioned him. Just the other day he and Midoriya were training together. The boy was eager to join the Police Academy and to protect and serve innocent civilians. But now here he was, protecting wanted criminals who flooded drugs onto the streets. It didn't make any sense. What changed in such a short amount of time?

Midoriya remained resolute. All he could do was mouth the words, "I'm sorry."

Exasperated, the Detective motioned for one of the cops to place handcuffs on Midoriya.

Then, Midoriya heard six words that he never thought he'd hear in a million years.

"Izuku Midoriya, you are under arrest."