"Hey don't sell your self short. I would have died in the entrance exam if it wasn't for you." I punched his shoulder. We reached the dorm and walking down the steps bouncing horrible puns off of each other was...
"Oh hey sis, what are you doing here?" Yang asked as she rode Togata's shoulders.
"It's a male Yang." I just stared at the smiling blondes. "WHY IS THERE TWO OF YOU!"
"Hey we're just Yanging out." Togata smiled.
"I should have known." I paced.
"Togata told me about your classes massacre against him. You really Rose to the occasion." She pointed finger guns at me. "Heard it was a Riot."
"I see what you mean by her sense of humor is the worst." Kiri whispered to me.
Chapter 19: The Debut of Red Riot: The Unbreakable Hero
"Come on Amajiki, you have to introduce us to the Hero you do your work studies with." Kirishima cornered the reclusive third year in front of his door.
"Yeah, we need your help." I told him as we closed in on the third year.
"Perhaps you should talk to Togata. He offered to help you." He tried to look for a way out.
"But we want your help, come on man. You have to help us." We sad at the same time.
"Fine, I'll do it. Meet me at the School gates in the morning, and bring you're hero gear."
"YES!"
I played a game on my scroll as we waited for Amajiki. "What's taking him so long?" Kirishima paced back and forth. He held his case while I sat on a stack of three.
"Sorry I'm late, I had a big breakfast." Amajiki said as he ran over. "Well... um we should get going."
We took the train to the next city. I entertained my self by reading a book. "So Rose... I'm sorry about what happened to your... mother." Amajiki said suddenly, "It must be hard knowing that she's out there."
"She'll be fine." I said, we couldn't tell anyone about the mission to Remnant, but the public was growing more and more concerned about her everyday, whether she would remerge a hero, or a monster. "I know that much."
"Yeah... your right. She was... is a great hero." And with that we rode is silence.
We walked to the Hero agency and walked in, the few sidekicks doing paperwork, or training. A large round man in a yellow and white hoodie waved at Amajiki. "Suneater, who are your friends?" He asked.
"Their first years who wanted to do work studies." He found the ground very interesting. "They we're quite insistent about it."
"Hey head up. Come into my office, I'm Fatgum by the way. Candy?" He offered us each a piece of candy which we took.
He sat behind his desk as he went over the papers we gave him. "Why do you want to be heroes?" He asked.
"Well I grew up idolizing Crimson Riot. I want to be a man like him, with a..." Kirishima started.
"Chivalrous heart. I remember his ideals well. I see that your well on your way to that goal. What of you Rose?" He asked.
"When I was little, my older sister would read me stories of heroes and villains, and I wanted to be just like them. Adventures, help the less fortunate. I know the real world isn't a fairy tale, but that's why heroes exist, to make it a better place." I said as I looked at the pro.
"I see, well Reds, I would be more then happy to take you on as work studies." He stood up. "Welcome to the team." We both smiled. "Now for the paper work. I just need you to sign these." He put two stacks of papers half and inch thick in front of us. My head hit the table.
It was late at night as we went on our patrol, we we're in our hero costumes. "You two really have great costumes." Fatgum said as he ate from a tray of desserts he brought with him.
"Thanks, I had redesigned it after the training camp." I took ate a cookie from a small bag I had brought with me. I had taken the rime to sew in a flaming Rose emblem on my chest with a low grade burn dust.. Kirishima had added black sleeves to his costume. His twin axes rest in his hips.
"I can see that. Nice a simple." The pro smiled. "Perhaps some of you two's confidence will rub off on Suneater."
The Hero in question seemed to sink further into his cape. "I'm not sure about that."
"Oh come on, keep that chin up. We're heroes after all." Kirishima punched him in the shoulder.
"So Huntress, I noticed on your papers, you're referred to as your class's secondary support gear supplier, What have you made so far?" He asked.
"Well I made Earphone Jack's gauntlets. Pinki's gloves, Iida's new shields, I refitted Yuga's belt with a new lens. I'm working on a under suit for Deku. Kiri's mobility axes as well, along with the bracers that go with them."
"I see. You're a talented kid." He ruffled my hair. "A good hero as well given your exam results."
"My grades aren't the best." I said as I looked away.
"Hey, as important grades are, your heart is what matters the most." He continued to snack. "But yeah, stay on top of your class work."
As I smiled at the pro I felt a large spike in fear before we heard a woman scream. "That's what you get for not paying the price!" I group of armed men in unbuttoned suits ran out of a casino, bags full of money, which they certainly didn't win. The large majority ran into Fatgum who trapped them in a bear hug, one stumbled back from the pro and pointed his pistol at him. I stood in front and let the lead round impact my aura before I pulled out Penny's sword, it was too crowed for my scythe.
"Hey one managed to slip out." Fatgum called out as I struck the man's wrist with the blunt edge of my weapon forcing him to drop the firearm as he yelped in pain.
"You bitch!" Tried to punch me but all he did was break his hand on my aura. "Fuck!" I swept his leg out from under him with the blade and pointed the tip at his throat.
I glanced behind me where Suneater had pinned down the thug that had escaped Fatgum, his legs were chicken legs, tentacle writhed from his hand, and wings stuck out from his back. "The wings we're a bit overkill." He said as he kept him pinned.
"Do you know who we are!" The one I had taken down yelled. I glared at him, my eyes burning a violent purple, he shut up.
I heard another gun shot behind me. I glanced back and saw that we had missed one of the villains, in his shaky hand he held a revolver. "Wait I'm sorry!" he yelled as he pulled the trigger again, before dropping the weapon and running. The round glanced off Kirishima's hardened forehead. I spun on my heel kicking the Villain I had taken down in the side of the head knocking him out.
"My quirk won't activate!" Suneater yelled in surprise.
"We'll get this one!" Me and Kirishima yelled in unison. He threw his ax into the side of a building and the crystal in the bracer glowed purple as he was lifted off his feet. We swung into a dead end street, a small group of civilians stood to the sides as the man looked for a way out.
"Get back! I only wanted to help my friends!" His eyes we're panicked.
"You shot a man and ran, that really didn't help." Kirishima stood between me and him.
"I said get back!" He reached for a woman but Kirishima charged him, decking him in the face. The thug cried on the ground. "I just wanted to get stronger, but my quirk... it's so weak. I thought if I hung out with strong people I would get stronger."
"Look I know where your coming from, but a life of crime isn't the way to get stronger, now stop crying and get up. It isn't manly." Kiri went to capture him, but I noticed a sadistic grin at the last second as blades erupted from the mans body. I was hit by one and was lifted off the ground.
"What the, what did you just inject your self with!?" The thug stood up, a look of mania in his eyes.
"Come on heroes." I dashed around cutting blades away from the civilians with my scythe and Kirishima tried to get closer to subdue the man. "Let's see who dies first.
His chest exploded as a seemingly never ending amount of blades crashed into Kiri. They broke his weak aura with ease and shattered on his hardened skin.
"NO!" I yelled as I tried to get closer only to be forced retreat as more blades attacked the civilians.
"I got this!" Kiri glanced back at me. "I promise you that." The look of determination held me for a second. As I stared at him his body hardened even more, his fingers became stone like claws, his chest formed ridges as he pushed himself to the limit. "RED RIOT; UNBREAKABLE!" He charged the man, blades splintering on his skin. "RED GUN TURRET!" His fist smashed into the face of the villain, knocking him to the ground.
His body returned to normal as he huffed out. "Stay away from me!" The man cried on the ground as he scrambled back.
"This again? Come on. You'll be put under arrest." He went to grab the man but he used a long blade to propel himself down the alley way, straight into Fatgum, he held onto the man until he stopped fighting, blades trying to cut through the hero.
"With these thugs you have to keep your eyes on them or they will use every opportunity to attack and escape." Slowly the man submitted, only his butt and legs hung out of the pro hero.
"That was amazing." A older man walked up to us. "I don't think I've seen you two heroes before."
"They were at the UA sports festival." A woman said as she bowed her thanks to us.
"Your White Huntress' daughter!"
"These two are Red Riot and Red Huntress." Fatgum put his hands on our shoulders. "A pair of prodigies, if you ask me."
I smiled at Kiri. And he smiled back. "I'll keep my ears open on news on these two." The old man smiled as we shook his hand.
A small boy ran up to us, "That was so cool! I want to be like you two!" he flexed his small arms.
"I'm sure you can be." Kiri picked him up. "You'll be a big strong man one day."
"Yay!" The boy smiled at my lover.
"You two made a bigger splash then I did at my debut." Fatgum smiled down at us.
It took a little while but we managed to escape the crowd, we leaned on a railing on the side of a foot bridge. I brushed my hair out of my face as I looked at him. "I'm sorry I doubted you." I grabbed his hand. "The emotions of those around us had started to get to me."
"Don't worry." He smiled at me. His hero costume had seen better days. "If you hadn't been there, I hate to think what might have happened." he grabbed my hand as the clouds moved out of the way of the moon. I stood on the tips of my toes to kiss him. It was a slow kiss. One that I didn't want to end. We broke it and looked at each other. "I love you."
"Ah young love." Fatgum said as he walked over to us with Amajiki. "I have news on the villains. They have all been detained, and we have recovered several drug vials, quirk enhancers. But Huntress I want you to take a look at this." He handed me the revolver the runner had used on Kiri and Amajiki.
"Barrel's to small for regular bullets, and it isn't riffled in the same way mass produced weapons are." I opened the weapon up and sitting there was four rounds. "This is disguised dart gun, those rounds can't hold enough gun powder to break the skin deeply enough to injure, let alone kill. So that means it's either poison or some other type of drug."
"I have to agree with you on that one. I think it's a weapon designed to fire round full of a quirk cancelling drug. The one SunEater was shot with clearly had some sort of quirk affecting drug. I have heard of stuff like that being used to perform surgery on people with invincibility quirks. The police will do a full investigation into it. We also have the round Red Riot was shot with, we'll break that one down in case there are any fail safes on the ones in the weapon." Fatgum said. "Suneater we'll run some tests in the morning if your quirk hasn't come back."
"Okay." He nodded as he looked at his hand like he expected something to happen.
"We'll head back to the agency, you can rest up there. You have school in the morning."
I laid in the cot that me and Kirishima shared, my arms wrapped around him. I was happy. Happy that everything went okay. Happy with the man Kiri was becoming. 'My friends at Signal would never believe me.' I chuckled a bit. 'I wonder what they are up to? I wonder how everyone else's work studies went?' And I drifted off to sleep.
And done, next time is Yang's work study.
