Author Notes:

Officially all I know about Tensei is what has been seen in the anime. He's a cool dude with engines in his arms; that is now paralyzed from the waist down. He looks like an older cooler version of Tenya up to and including the speedy eyebrows and blue hair. So, yeah I'm just making him up as I go.

DECKER

ARC TWO – A MOST FEARSOME CRUMBLING WILL

PREVIOUSLY ON DECKER….

"Good, now we're waiting here until our backup arrives," he tells her snuggling down into his seat. "I suggest you take a nap."

So she did, only to be woken what seemed like moments later, but was really about a half hour or so by a knock on her window and a white-helmeted face looking at her from the dark.

Ingenium.

CHAPTER THIRTEEN: FINDING TROUBLE

Ended up being not at all what she expected. Seriously when she thought of Ingenium, the Turbo Hero with 60 odd sidekicks she thought of a speedy but serious man. It turns out Ingenium wasn't at all like that.

He was actually pretty cool, including her in his and Eraserhead's preparations for their search for the night and asking for her opinion on what they were planning. She felt included and like a part of the team instead of just a middle/high school girl tagging along playing hero.

Izu quickly decided she liked the man and that was that.

"So let me see if I understand this correctly," Izu piped up as the two men finished hovering over a map of the back alleys and pointing to different areas of interest on it that they would each be checking and patrolling for the night.

Eraserhead looked up with a raised eyebrow and smirks at her, waiting.

"You two have been tracking down a fucking Yakuza cell operating out of, what you suspect to be, these alleyways."

"Yes," Eraserhead nodded.

"This Yakuza Gang which you also suspect to be of the Kane family?"

"Yes," Ingenium nodded.

"The Kane family which even I know is the Family responsible for most if not all of the Human Trafficking and sex trade workers within Japan? That Kane family?"

Ingenium and Eraserhead looked at each other and then back at her and nodded, "yes."

"And we're just going to walk into their back yard and look around? Are you stupid?" Izu hissed pointing to the network of confusing alleyways in front of the car.

"Well, apparently," Ingenium laughed leaning back as he looked at her. Thought through the helmet she couldn't really get his mood other than amused. "What would you suggest little lady?"

"Not knocking on their front door!" She hissed, glaring at the two men who were laughing at her she could just tell. "Oh sure laugh it up you're not the ones they'll drug out the ying-yang and sell to the highest bidder while tied like a starfish to a bed when caught!"

The men stilled and stared at her with wide eyes and Izu couldn't believe they hadn't thought of that as being a possibility. Men!

"Jesus," Eraserhead swore, "I'm sorry Hero-girl."

Ingenium stopped and brought a hand up to his chin as he thought about what she had said, it was something that could happen to her if they were caught. And it was an actual legitimate concern, a smart one. Two men would get their asses kicked, maybe even killed but a fourteen or fifteen-year-old girl would suffer something much worse from the likes of the men they were looking for.

He hummed and nodded, "Safety is important and yours especially. What would you do then Hero-girl is it? What an odd Hero name."

"Oh!" She said startled. "No, it's just what Eraserhead calls me, a nickname. I don't have a hero name, Izu is fine.

"As to what I would do, well I would send in a scout. Eraserhead would count I suppose, he's sneakier than any ninja. But you, you stand out and honestly," she said pointing to her brightly red kimono, "so do I."

"So you would suggest that we let Eraserhead knock on their front door alone?"

"Nope," Izu shook her head, "because I have a better idea then even that!"

With a flick of her wrist and a shower of glitter, she summons of a car from nowhere and showed it to the two men. Black Cat. It was her sneakiest card and she thought watching at Aizawa grinned down at her with more teeth than was probably necessary, a better idea then just looking for trouble.

"A tarot card?" Ingenium asked taking it from her fingers to look at it more closely. She twitched and snatched it back faster then she had even thought of how uncomfortable having her card taken without permission had made her feel.

"Don't just snatch things that don't belong to you!" She hissed glaring up at the man, "You don't see me snatching out your engines do you?"

He chuckled embarrassedly, "well no, but then that's my quirk, not some fancy fortune telling playing card."

Aizawa sighed and cleared his throat, "her quirk is called Decker, Ingenium. She can transform powerful will and emotions into Decker Cards that she can then use in combat and in life. You literally snatched her quirk out of her hands."

Izu figures Ingenium was shocked because he didn't move for a bit before twisting around and apologizing profusely to her.

"It's fine, but don't do that again okay?"

"You have my word, little fortune teller!" He said sincerely bowing once more in apology. "But I still don't understand how this card of yours would work for us?"

"Oh!" She grinned, "Black Cat is my old cat Toko. He's made up of smoke, fire and ash; his primary role is to act as recon and gather Intel for me in places it's not safe for me to go."

Eraserhead nodded and she grinned at them, flicking her card and calling out, "Come Forth! Black Cat!"

With maybe a little bit more smoke and fire than were necessary Toko jumped up and slinked out of the card with a flurry of ash to stand on graceful paws before them. "Yo, Izu what's up?"

"Wow," Ingenium gasped staring at the knee-high cat standing in front of him with what Izu would only describe as wonder in his voice. "What an amazing quirk!"

"Toko is pretty awesome," Izu grinned down at the cat and caught him as he jumped up and curled up in her arms.

"Yeah," Ingenium nodded, "and so are you."

Eraserhead grinned and snickered, "She's fifteen Ingenium, might want to tone down on that nerdy quirk fanboying before someone gets an idea about you and… Oracle."

Izu blinked up at Aizawa and grinned asking, "Oracle?"

"Well, he called them tarot cards and it made me think of Oracles and you really do need a hero name, at least temporarily. You can change it later." He scoffed blowing it off. But Izu liked it, it sounded, right.

The Decker Hero: Oracle.

Izu grinned and turned to Toko, "Well, what do you think Toko? Are you ready for a sneaky mission into the criminal underground?"

Toko's eye brightened and he grinned with glee, "finally! A mission I can sink my claws into!"

"Well then," Izu nodded letting the cat drop to the concrete floor.

"What do you say, boys? Shall we let Black Cat take a look around tonight and then with actual information plan out a course of action? Or did you all just want to run in gun half-cocked and blazing?" She asked like they had an actual choice in the matter.

Ingenium turned to look at a grinning Eraserhead and huffed, "Your intern's is fucking scary Aizawa."

"Yeah, isn't it great!?" Eraserhead grinned at him with all his teeth and bloodshot eyes.

"Good to see you agree with sense then," Izu huffed pouting. She turned to Toko who was watching with sharp eyes and flexing claws. "Toko, we're looking for the Kane Family. We think their base of operations is hidden somewhere deep within these alleys."

Beckoning her cat over she leaned over the hood of the car and started to point at the area's Eraserhead and Ingenium were talking about earlier as being places of interest. Eraserhead and Ingenium watched as she briefed her card on his mission and kept quite listening to her as she added her own knowledge to the case.

"Their known for being very discrete Toko, but you should be able to recognize them by their way of dress," Aizawa straightened and stared at her with suddenly sharp eyes. "While some of them might dress like thugs and some others like normal people or businessmen you can tell them all apart by the pins their wear. Somewhere displayed on them is going to be a small orange pin with a black fox with two tails on it. It might be a lapel or a briefcase or a hat or glove, but it'll be there. What we're looking for is a bunch of these people in one place."

"Got it!" Toko nodded and slinked off into the darkness.

"How do you know about the pin thing?" Aizawa asked dispassionately.

"Oh, one of the boys in my school is Kane clan," she sighed shrugging, "he's building his own gang from some of the students so all the girls sort of got together and figured out how to keep safe from them, you know? The teachers weren't going to stop him and his buddies, so we figured out how to identify them and stay away."

"Huh," Ingenium grunted. "Can't say I'm happy about your teachers being dicks Oracle but I'm kind of happy you're here with all this information we never knew."

She giggled and hopped up on the car hoot to sit, waiting for Toko to come back.

"Yeah, the school sucks actually but it's where my godbrother begged his mom to send him. So mom sent me to, so he'd keep an eye out for me and all that," she huffed. "Half the upperclassmen are in that gang. It's stupid because once your yakuza you get out. Some of them want to be heroes and as soon as it's discovered that they have ties to the Kane their never going to get accepted anywhere, even if all they did was hang out."

Aizawa snorted when she mentioned Bakugou, "Little shit end up pointing them all in your direction didn't he?"

"Yup," she nodded and then grinned at him. "Tomaki thought I would be an easy target for some… fun. Unfortunately, he decided this after Bakugou was sent to jail. He had an unfortunate run-in with the floor."

"Oh how terrible," Aizawa sighed rolling his eyes. "Good for you Hero-girl… Oracle I mean."

The rest of the night was spent chatting about her time in school and how her grades were holding up with her internship. As well the heroes told funny stories about their worst moments as heroes. Ingenium tripping as he tried to save a little old lady from a bag snatcher and getting walked on for his trouble, Walkers hurt apparently and Eraserhead getting dosed with 'Chocolate' a hallucinogenic, aphrodisiac drug used against heroes by some desperate villains a couple of years ago. Not the funny bit but apparently he had hooked up with Ms. Joke and hadn't yet shaken her.

Izu didn't think that was funny or embarrassing, but he chuckled after telling it so if that's how he wanted to deal with it.

Ingenium had nodded and said embarrassedly that he had an encounter with that drug his first year as a pro, and that he had spent three hours in a cold shower before just dazedly asking his dad to take him to the hospital. Apparently, he had hit on every pretty nurse that day. Aizawa huffed a chuckle and nodded until Ingenium finally admitted that all the nurses were dudes. That was apparently very funny, but Izu didn't get it.

Maybe it was a guy thing?

To Be Continued…