"I jumped in the way, I tried save Aizawa." I said as he set me down.
"Heroes. Now this should be a fight." We turned to two men in plague masks. One massive and muscular, torn white shirt and red dreadlocks. The other smaller, seemingly more reserved.
"Such eagerness to fight is unbefitting of a man, Rappa." The smaller said to his partner.
"Oh like hell it is, now lets get this started fatty." Rappa taunted the pro.
"Damn it." Fatgum growled.
Chapter 34: The Raid part 3
I rounded the corner, Mirio and Ruby not far behind. I spotted them, a group of men, one of whom held a small child. "ERI!" I yelled as I ran full tilt, when all of a sudden I felt sick and nauseous. I fell over. The world was spinning.
"Oh you dizzy? That's why I'm up here." I looked up to the ceiling, where a man hung upside down from a pipe, a bottle of booze pouring into his mouth.
"OUT OF THE WAY!" Ruby yelled as she smashed her scythe into his side, he hit the wall and twitched a bit before stopping. Immediately the sensation was gone.
"Strange, his quirk didn't have a effect on her." Chisaki said. "Must be what All for One did to her. Ask her." He looked to one of his henchmen.
"What is the full nature of your power?" A man in a black trench coat asked her, his full face covered in a plague mask. "How dose your quirk work?"
And Ruby seemed to resist before her mouth opened. "I don't have a Quirk."
I looked at the villains ready to fight. "Time TO DIE!" Rappa charged me.
"RED RIOT UNBREAKABLE!" I put up my arms in a X in front of me. His massive fist smashed and shattered my hardened skin. I was blown back into the wall, blood dripping from my arms. 'Impossible... he broke my hardening? I... I really haven't gotten any stronger.'
Rappa began to rage an assault on Fatgum, screaming how he wants a real challenge. But all the while the two Yakuza seemed to have seen me as a neutralized enemy...
I stood outside my middle school, making my way over to a trio of kids. Two upper class men pressuring a younger student to use his quirk to change leaves into Yen. "It doesn't last long." The boy said.
"Then we'll spend it quickly." One of them said.
"I don't know." the underclassman said.
"Come on, just do it." The other upperclass man pressed.
"Hey, it isn't manly to gang up on a young kid like that." I said as I marched over to them.
"Kirishima, stop trying to play hero." My friends groaned.
The older students ignored me and pulled the younger student along before they got intercepted by Ashido. She first started to berate the students, then they started to laugh, then dance for some reason.
"She'll make a famous hero with her flashy quirk." One of my friends said.
A few days later we walked down the hallway discussing our Highschool choices. "Really you want to get into UA? Your Quirk is too weak."
"No way, with a chivalrous heart I can do anything I set my self to." I snapped back.
"Still holding onto that old hero, Crimson Riot retired years ago man, let it go." They laughed at me.
Walking home that day a villain cornered two of my classmates, 'Wait, where are the heroes?' I looked around in a panic.
"Tell me where the Hero Agency is now." The man growled at the girls.
'Someone do something! Wait... could this be my chance? Then why can't I move?' My body was frozen with fear.
Before the girls could be hurt Ashido leaped in and pointed the villain away from the girls. As the thunderous steps retreated I let go of my breath. I had failed where Ashido had succeeded again.
Late that night I sat in my room, my highschool list in my hand, my computer screen opened up to a article that had happened earlier today.
Today All Might captured a villain with a sludge quirk who had robbed a store and attacked a young middle school student. The child's explosion quirk made it too dangerous for any pros to rescue the boy. But Before All Might arrived on the scene a pair of children interfered. A quirkless student who is the classmate of the villains hostage. And a girl who was discovered to be the number six hero White Huntress long lost daughter Ruby Rose. Using a giant mechanical scythe she tried to cut the boy free from the Villain. She displayed what it meant to be a hero despite the fact that she was breaking the law.
'Even a quirkless kid has more courage then me.' I scratched UA out of the top pick with a pen. "I'll never be a hero." At that moment a loud thud behind me startled me. I turned around and saw that one of my books had fallen off the shelf. "How did..." I picked up the book, it was one on the greatest heroes in the past, a small disk fell out of the cover and hit the floor before turning onto a interview of Crimson Riot I hadn't seen before.
"What dose it mean to be a hero?" The reporter asked.
"Well it means being a good man, with a Chivalrous Heart." He said as he crossed his arms.
I watched the interview for a few minutes until one question caught my full attention.
"How are you not afraid when you go into battle?" She asked.
"Don't ask me such a stupid question. Show me a person who isn't afraid of anything, and I'll show you an idiot. I know that people have died because I hesitated. I always do because I am afraid of what could happen, but if I sit around being afraid, who is going to save those people. A real man has the honor and bravery to overcome his fears in the heat of battle. So long as you can do that, anyone can be a hero regardless of their quirk."
After that day I trained every day, improving my power in every way I could. Soon it came to the entrance exams and I met her.
Ruby... she had proven herself at every step, getting stronger in leaps and bounds. The U.S.J. Incident. The training camp, her kidnapping, not once had she looked down at me despite how much stronger she was, or how much I had failed her she saw me as family now.
"Keep her safe." Her father had make me swear. If I die here I won't be able to keep my promises to them.
I would be the Titan of sturdy hope for her. Even if I never became a major hero, I'll stand by her. For we will achieve immortality together.
"RED RIOT: TITAN!" I slammed my fist into the wall as I commanded the stone to flow over my body "RED RIOT: BARRICADE!" I moved faster then I ever had, appearing in front of Rappa as his fists chipped away at my stone armor. Soon he reached my arms and with each blow he broke the hardened flesh, but I just hardened it again. "I AM THE WALL THAT WILL NEVER CRUMBLE! RED RIOT: BALLISTA!" I punched back, my fist impacting a golden dome but I wouldn't let anything stop me. "RRRRRRAAAAAAAHHHHHH!" The barrier began to crack as I forced my way through. "TAKE THIS!" I blasted through my fist impacted Rappa in the chest as he flew into the other wall Fatgum Glowed with golden light pulsating along his arm as he broke through the smaller villains barrier blasting him into the ceiling.
The stones fell away from my body. I began to fall backwards but Fatgum caught me. "That was amazing!" He hugged me. "I'll get you help."
Hey hey hey. Would you look at this? Why don't you tell me what you thought of it?
