Chapter 19: Born Underground
Our gang was sitting on the street curb outside of Matteo's restaurant, as at the moment he was closing it down for the night. It was beautiful outside as the moonshine made the dark empty streets look more like pieces of art and the wind blew softly picking up leaves here and there. Midoriya and the rest were enjoying a simple. but good, vanilla milkshake from the restaurant made by Himiko so that they could actually last more than 5 seconds. Jiro had called her parents and they were on the way to pick her up, Midoriya had already called his mom asking her if he could drive Denki home, of course, she was more than happy to do so.
Midoriya took a sip from his to-go cup, enjoying the sweet and cool drink. "You got the concept of what a stand is so let me give you an abridged version of how stands work so you can easily remember Denki." Midoriya took another sip. "First rule, stands can only be seen by other stands or stand users."
"Except for when they don't" Himiko added while she and Jiro played together on their phones.
"Stands can only harm other stands"
"Except for when they don't" Himiko added once more without looking up while grinning maniacally as Jiro looked a bit angry
"And all damage done to stand will reflect on their user or vice-versa"
"Except for when they d-"
"FUCK THIS STUPID GAME!" Jiro yelled making Denki and Izuku turned their heads around to where the girls were. Himiko giggled uncontrollably while Jiro was losing her mind. "This time you didn't even let me play once!"
"Am sorry, I guess am just to good at 8-ball!"
"This game is old anyways who cares!"
"Obviously you"
Jiro growled but it quickly changed to a laugh. "Ok, you got me there." She calmed down "So Midoriya..."
"Yea?"
"Was the guy who attacked you a stand user?" Jiro drank from her cup. "Stand users attract other Stand users right? I mean we weren't able to see the attack coming, only the sound of the glass shattering, and it also affected "ZA WARUDO" if it didn't, you wouldn't have lost that arm, right?."
"Well Jiro, you're completely right!" Midoriya took another sip. "Am impressed! You figured it out before I said anything."
"Are there any other stand users besides you and Matteo?" Jiro asked.
"My mentor is the other stand user that I know of," Midoriya said a bit too quickly.
Jiro squinted her eyes, fully knowing that there was someone else but she put it to the side. If he didn't want to say anything she won't force him. "Ok, but why are stand users attracted to each other?"
"I don't know... it's like an unknown force pulling stand users closers, my mentor told me it's like gravity. Once you get a stand you're entering orbit, the force is not that strong but before you know it, It's crushing you down and users are everywhere heck! Just being near me could give you a stand!"
"Oh! Do you think I can get a stand!?" Kanimari asked excitedly.
"You could, but there is a good chance of dying" Himiko answered for Midoriya.
"So what you are telling me... that there is a chance?"
"Even if you were to get a stand" Izuku took a second to recollect his thoughts "It would be bad for you, Stands, tend to have an ability similar to your quirk, and because your quirk hurts you, your stand would also damage you and it probably would be way worst, It could just fry your brain and kill you"
"On second thought I don't NEED to get a stand now, I can wait for a few more years until my quirk doesn't hurt me anymore." Kaminari drank his shake to make the thoughts of frying himself disappear.
"Hold on a sec," Jiro said while she put her phone on the ground. "Why would a stand also get your quirk? Isn't a Stand the representation of your fighting and mental, spirit, and not your body?"
"I...I never thought about that" Midoriya looked down at the floor thinking.
"It could be your blood that connects to your stand," Kaminari said out loud as he looked at the moon in the sky.
"What do you mean Denki?" Izuku grabbed his Stand Science notebook and wrote everything that Jiro had said, and now he was ready to write more.
"Now, I know that I am not the sharpest crayon on the Christmas tree, so this might be false, but I read once on the internet that your DNA might hold memories like how your brain does, maybe a stand its also connected to someone's DNA. I mean your brain holds your memories and so does your DNA, so maybe because stands are connected to you mentally they are also connected to blood?" Kanimair was trying his best to put his thoughts into words "I might be jumping to conclusions tho"
"No, no, you might be up to something!" Midoriya was writing stuff down like a madman, on cocaine "Zeppelisaidthatstandscanhereditary,meaningthatteyarealsoobtainedthroughtDNAitcouldexplainwhy..." Izuku looked at Himiko for a second and slammed his book close suddenly, making his friends jump a little"I should probably stop going down this spiral staircase, or I will stay here all day diving down and down." Izuku smiled as all of his friends nodded. "Hey look it's my mom!" Izuku pointed at a car that was pulling in to park beside the restaurant.
Inko got out of her car and walked towards Izuku and his friends, all of them stood up as she approached them.
"Hey mom! sorry for making you drive here" Izuku shamelessly looked to his side
"It's not your fault dear, you know how your mom is, I was so worried because you weren't home at your usual time, I should of listening to you father, I need to stop worrying so much or I might get a heart attack" Inko giggled "So are these the friends you hang out with most of the time?" Inko looked at the other two teens. "It's nice to meet you, and thank you for being friends of Izuku, you don't understand how happy this makes me." You could see how Inko was trying her best to not shed a tear.
"It's nice to meet you Ms. Midoriya" Jiro and Kaminari bowed.
"Also thank you for letting me drive with you" Kaminari added.
"No problem dear!"
Inko walked to Himiko and gave her a quick hug. "How is my future daughter doing?" Inko asked in a whisper, Himiko giggled, while in the background Jiro was trying her best to hold in her laughter as to not interrupt their conversation.
"Am doing great! Just a bit tired from work, today we were super busy I had to stay all night and work."
"You're such a responsible young lady. am going to say it again am glad Izuku meet you. Well, Let me talk to Matteo for a bit ok?"
"Of course!"
Inko went inside the restaurant and when the door closed Jiro erupted in laughter while the boys looked at her weird, Himiko knew why, she was laughing and she joined her with giggling.
After waiting for a while Jiro's dad finally made and the first thing he did was yell from within the car. "YOU TWO BOYS BETTER HAVE NOT DONE ANYTHING TO MY DAUGHTER, OR YOU WILL SERIOUSLY GET HURT" Jiro facepalmed and groaned a small blush appeared in her face. "STOP ACTING TOUGH DAD THEY ARE MY FRIENDS" Midoriya Denki and Himiko started to laugh at the Jiro embarrassment. Jiro turned around and stabbed her two male friends who yelped in pain as they started to rub the area where they got stabbed. "Well, I'll see you guys tomorrow at the mall right?" Jiro grabbed her backpack.
"Yes mam!, 6:00 pm tomorrow" Himiko answered
"Ok then, I'll catch you later, say goodbye to your mom and Matteo for me Midoriya, night Kaminari... and Himiko" Jiro looked at her dead in the eyes "I'll win next time"
"We'll see about that" Himiko winked as Jiro walked away and got in her father's car.
Not too long after Matteo finally locked down his restaurant and got ready to go. Himiko gave a goodnight kiss to Izuku before she got in Matteo's car, embarrassing Izuku due to both Inko and Denki going "aaawwww" for the display of affection.
Inko drove while Izuku and Denki talked in the back of the car and after 15 mins of driving they finally made it to the Kaminairi household, it was a nice looking Traditional Japanese home, nothing too special but it's wasn't bad.
"Thanks for the ride ," Kaminari said from the outside of the car.
"Don't mention it, dear!"
"Goodnight Izuku and you too Midoriya"
"You too dear"
"I'll see you tomorrow Denki!" Izuku waved as Inko drove off.
Kaminari watched them drive away. "I wish my parents were like that" Kaminari said to himself as he walked towards the door of his empty home.
Izuku and his mother finally made it home, Inko went directly to bed exhausted for all the worrying she did. Izuku took a shower allowing himself to relax from all that happened today, the loss of his arm even though short it was weird for him the have missing arm and getting back not long after. While showering Izuku remembered something really important that he need it to do. Once done with the shower Izuku got to this room and sat down on his desk. He grabbed his phone and called his dad.
"Hey son, everything ok?, it's kind of late for you" Hisashi answered the phone trying his best to talk with all the background noise.
"Yea, I'm fine, well not really there is something that has been bothering me." Izuku grabbed his notebook and started writing some stuff that came to his mind while showering.
"What is it?" Hisashi at the moment was on the supernatural floor of the SPW building drinking a cup of coffee while studying the artifacts that were on said floor.
"What do you know about the stand [STARMAN]" Hisashi put his cup of coffee down. "Izuku, how do you know about that stand?"
"That was the stand that attacked me in school," Izuku said as he looked at his right arm.
"So Robert is working with the villains this could be bad... but why? He was never evil from what learned when working with him, does transforming to a vampire turn someone evil? " Hisashi stared at the mask.
"WAIT! That's impossible! He was standing in direct sunlight! He can't be a vampire!"
"His quirk is what keeps him alive while still being in the sun. Izuku, that man was responsible for killing the pillar men, his 'mirror' quirk absorbs light but reflects UV's and when he transformed into a vampire his quirk only got better."
"This is getting worse, but what about his stand? What can it do?"
"He had his stand before his transformation but back then it was barely that strong, [STARMAN] is a stand that looks like a spaceship, what it does, is that it travels a few 5 kilometers up in the air and then it slams back down. The attack was just enough to hurt one, but I never saw it do damage as it did to you, I wonder how much stronger it has gotten."
"I see..." Izuku stopped writing " *sigh* Well dad, that's all that I wanted to ask. I should let you work now"
"Hey Izu, remember that you're not alone. You have a whole company to fight beside you ok. So have a good night's sleep and relax, enjoy tomorrow, with your friends ok?"
"Thank you, dad, I will."
"Love you son"
"Love you too dad"
it was 1:30 in the morning and Izuku was finally asleep. but the sound of his phone going "OHH~ What's becoming of me~" woke him up. Izuku used his stand to grab his phone as he was too tired to even move, even his stand reflected that as [ZA WARUDO]' s eyes had bags under his eyes and he looked super annoyed. Izuku lifted a single finger and press the accept call button on the floating phone.
"He-" "Izu please open your window!" It's super cold outside and the front door it's locked!"
"Wha- Himiko!?" Izuku stood up "What do you mean?" *clunk* *clunk* *clunk* Izuku heard something tapping on his window. He got up from the bed and went to his window to see a small tentacle of hair knocking Izuku opened the window and finally allowing Himiko, who was wearing an overly large sweater and her backpack, to get inside his room.
"Took you long enough, it's cold out there," Himiko said while shivering.
"What are you doing here it's like 2 in the morning" Izuku closed the window. and Himiko dropped her backpack and walked towards Izuku's bed and got in it.
"I wanted to stay with you. You really had me worried Izu, and I couldn't sleep... so here I am. Now..." Himiko grabbed Izuku and put him in his bed using her hair. "let's sleep" Himiko grabbed the sheets and covered the both of them.
"This feels nice"
"I know night, Izu," Himiko said as she closed her eyes and hugged Izuku like a stuffed animal
"Goodnight" Izuku gave her a small kiss on the forehead making Himiko giggle."
Izuku woke to the warmth of the sun and the beautiful song of the morning birds, but he also woke up to the sound of a chainsaw cutting through wood also called Himiko's snoring. Izuku chuckled finding amusing how such a cute girl could make those types of noises. Midoriya stopped time to get out of bed and avoid waking up Himiko. While wearing a pair of shorts and a tanktop Izuku left his room. He went to the kitchen and started to heat up some water. While the water was warming up Izuku could not stop thinking of what Jiro and Kanimari had said yesterday.
"DNA connected to Stands... It makes sense, It could explain how Himiko got her Stand without the need of an arrow and not being born with one, once she drank my blood and copied my DNA... she got infected? Both of us got sick and then our Stands appeared... So by copying my DNA she almost died and got stronger, she evolved... we evolved... but why would DNA unlock a Stand, if my stand IS my soul, if it dies I die... If [ZA WARUDO] is the real me, my soul. That means my body it's the fake version of my DNA and when the arrow struck me it unlocked a connection to the real one. If by having just a small connection to my soul, I am able to stop time, what would happen if I had a full one?... Jesus, I think I might be overthinking this...Jesus...Could it be... If God is real
"Izuku"
"then he created us in his image, we even got his power"
"Izuku"
"We got a bit of his DNA in us maybe, the gravity that brings stand users is fate"
"Izuku!" Himiko slapped the back of his head stopping his rant.
"Ow! what did I do?"
"I called you twice and the water is already boiling!" Himiko rubbed one of her eyes with the back of her hand.
"Why is she so cute?" "Oh am sorry!" Izuku turned off the stove.
"What were you mumbling about? Am to sleepy to keep up"
"Oh nothing just some dumb stuff that am overthinking"
Himiko yawned while pulling out two mugs from a cabinet. "Oh really? Than why were you so invested in it?t" She filled the mugs halfway with water.
"It has to do with stands, and possible Jesus" Izuku pulled out sugar and coffee from another cabinet.
"That sounds way to bizarre for sleepy me, I am just going to take your word and forget it about." Himiko grabbed the milk from the fridge and started to mix it with the water and coffee, she then added the sugar and finished preparing their morning drink. She handed one of the mugs to Izuku and then walked to the living room and turned on the tv to see the news. The first thing she noticed was the time, it was 1:30 in the afternoon. The screen was covered in big red letters that said 'BREAKING NEWS'
"A body filled and covered with holes has been found in near the Musutafu Hospital, We are lead to believe that the villain that caused this had to have an ice quirk, as the victim's body internal temperature is way to low for the outside temperature of today."
"Why is the news covering stuff like this all the time? Where is the feel-good stuff?"
"In other news: Multiple heroes save animals from a burning animal shelter." The T.V showed multiple camera shots of different types of animals from dogs and cats to things like snakes and falcons."
"Oh look at the puppies they're soooo cute!" Himiko pointed at the T.V
"I thought the falcon looked kind of cool."
Once they had enough of the T.V Himiko turned it off started to prepare breakfast... Lunch at this point, I am sure food at 3:00 pm in no longer considered breakfast. Once they ate their meal they decided to shower and change. Izuku dressed like he usually does, with his favorite red-shoes, green pants, and a black shirt with the words, Polo shirt, written on them.
Himiko decided to dress not too crazy, She wore white vans blue ripped jeans, a red shirt underneath a yellow unzipped hoodie with multiple small green hearts on the back and to top it off her ruby heart necklace.
5:00 pm was the moment they decided to leave home and go. Izuku had sent a text to the group chat they made for this day.
Holy Diver: Hey guys! Himiko and I are heading already heading to the mall.
High Voltage: Bet! I am closer than all of you so I'll wait a couple of minutes before heading out.
Purple Floyd: Did you really have to name us after songs?
Hight Voltage: It was That or boring ass names, plus your's is a band name!
Purple Floyd: Ugghh, I guess... At least be more original with my name, also heading out that way, I'll meet you guys at the entrance.
Love Love Deluxe: Jiro, rematch?
Eclipse: No thank you, last night was enough bullshit.
Love Love Deluxe: All am hearing is "Am trash" but that's just me¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Hight Voltage: Oof. F in the chat.
Holy Diver: F
Love Love Deluxe: F
Purple Floyd: So that's how It's going to be... Ok I'll bite, but Himiko if I win you're going to tell me what your quirk does.
Love Love Deluxe: I was going to tell you my quirk anyway so... nothing to lose here :)
Izuku and Himiko finally made it near the mall entrance where Jiro and Kaminari were supposed to be. Thanks to the enhanced sight of [ZA WARUDO] They were able to easily locate their friends. who were wearing their normal civilian clothes
"Finally for someone who can stop time you sure took your time to get here"
"Denki That's literally what I did to make to the subway in time" Izuku greeted his friend.
"Hey, Jiro, are you still mad?" Himiko asked.
"Hmmm."
"I'll take that as a yes." Himiko looked at the back of Jiro to see her wearing a backpack just like her. "Hey. Why do you have a backpack?"
"I need to buy some stuff."
"What kind of stuff"
"Don't worry about it."
"Ok geez, am sorry I beat you 25 times in a row" Himiko playfully poke Jiro
The squad went inside the mall and headed to where Kanimari wanted to go.
"I cannot believe Jiro lost 25 times... in a ROW!"
"Shut it Kanimari" Jiro raised her jacks
"Ok ok, I won't say how bad you're at the ga- Ouch! Hehehe" Kaminari chuckled.
"Calm down Jiro its just a game, not need to be as salty as instant noodles"
"Well, Himiko, It's easy for you to say, you didn't lose 25 times in a row in a game where you thought you were one of the best since middle school."
"Ok enough trash-talking Jiro. Ouch. We are here!" Kaminira said as he stretched his arms wide open. "This place here is relatively new, It's been here for around two weeks, I haven't had the chance to come, but this place is super cool! It has new games, and some really old school ones, We are talking from VR games, all the way to Galaga isn't that crazy!" Kanimari said excitedly
"What's a Galaga?" Himiko asked
"You will find out! Come on let's go!"
"You three can go, am going to buy what I need first before I forget" Jiro looked at her friends.
"Aww, I wanted the four of us to go together!" Kaminari looked a bit sad.
"I am going to join Jiro am also going to buy what I need, before playing." Himiko kissed Izuku on the cheek and left Midoirya's side and walked closer to Jiro.
"But!" Jiro and Kaminari said at the same time. "No buts Izuku can stay with you and I won't let Jiro just go by herself and that's final"
"Ok," they said in unison while looking down. "Ok, Izuku let's not waste any more time" Kaminari grabbed him by the shoulder and walked past the automatic sliding doors while the girls walked away
Himiko and Jiro walked around the mall until Himiko came to the store that she was looking for, a store that focused on selling kitchen items for those who quirks made it hard to.
"The materials that they use here are much better than any other regular store, that's why I come here," Himiko said as she and Jiro walked out the door.
"I get it but why did you need to buy soo many of the same knives," Jiro asked as Himiko put the knives in her backpack
"Well most of them are for when I and Matteo are bored, we throw them for fun at a bullseye we have in the kitchen for when the restaurant is dead."
"That sounds questionable"
"It's fun! You should try it! Ok, all set! Let's go get whatever you came here for" Jiro suddenly trembled "I-I don't-How about we got to the arcade the guys are probably waiting for us!" Himiko squinted her eyes and like a cat looking at its pray, she started circling, Jiro.
"It been around 10 minutes, I would of said yes if it had been at least half an hour"
"We-I- Mean, I can come here any other time- I mean you know how busy we all are! We shouldn't waste any more time!" Jiro started to sweat.
"Mmm, since we got here you tried your best to hide what you wanted to buy... Could it be..." Himiko got closer to her ear, "Is it for pleasure...? Jiro's face turned bright red. "NO!" She yelled and everyone around them turned their heads to see an embarrassed Jiro. Jiro grabbed Himiko by the armed and pulled her away to somewhere else.
"Look Himiko if I tell you, do you promise that you won't tell anyone?" Himiko she put one arm on her chest and lifted the other one. "I promise!"
"Ok follow me" Jiro walked to where she wanted to go while Himiko did as she was told. They finally stopped in front of a music store.
"Ok, what is it that you didn't want to tell the others?" Jiro looked down at the floor "My hobby is playing music" She said in a whisper while looking ashamed, it was just loud enough for Himiko to hear.
"And?" Himiko waited for Jiro to continue, but she didn't say anything. "Is there something I am missing? Are you ashamed because you're capable of playing music?" Why?"
"Its because it's not heroic" Jiro turned her hand into fists angry at herself, "Midoriya trained by cleaning an entire beach, and what does he do after school he trains! Kaminari trained by forcing himself going into short-circuit, and what does he do after school? He also trains! and the rest of our class... the power that they have..., I can't begin to imagine how hard they trained, while I learned to play music, what kind of hero can I be? I don't have the looks, I don't have the power and I don't even have the talent of a hero..." She sat down on a bench that was nearby and covered her face with her hands, Himiko sat beside her. "Jiro. Music is superheroic, so there is no shame in learning it"
"How!? I play guitar and that's it how can that help me in becoming a hero?"
"Jiro music is such a beautiful thing, it inspires people, it motivates, and a lot of cases it saves them. Izuku listened to a lot of music while training even though I barely understood the lyrics, at specific times in a song he would stand up and shout whenever he collapsed to the ground exhausted, and at one point so did I, maybe the words of that song didn't eco in me, but it did for Midoriya. Music makes you feel things in moments of sadness they bring you happiness, in moments of boredom they give you energy. The words you say have weight and there is always more weight in words when it's accompanied with music. Jiro music is heroic as hell and so are you!" Jiro looked up at Himiko with some tears in her eyes. "You think so?" "Of course I do, why else would I say it?" Jiro squeezed Himiko in a hug while saying "thank you." and after a minute of hugging, she let go and wiped her eyes with the back of her hand.
"Jiro, want to know my quirk?
"huh?"
"Jiro... you have a lack of self-confidence."
"How did you-"
"Please you basically told me" Jiro looked down again. "And I was the same" She looked up again. "My quirk 'Transformation' allows me to transform into someone else, but to that, I need to drink some one's blood" Himiko showed one of her more wicked smiles while pointing at her fangs. "and when I was a kid I had an affinity for blood, the first time I drank it, was amazing it tasted like heaven... and when my parents saw me do that... they called me a demon, that they wanted their daughter back"
"Oh my God Him-"
"Wait not done yet. So what they did, they forced me to stop drinking blood and forced me to act "normal". So I had to act like if I was someone else, and that hurt me mentally, whenever I drank blood, I cried, I kept saying to myself that I was a monster, that I shouldn't exist. I actually wanted to be a hero like everyone else, but I always put to side how could I? be a hero?"
"Jesus I-"
"Just wait a little more. For years I went through that until I meet Midoriya, He saw me drink blood, and I asked him "Can I have some of your blood?" you know what he said?"
"What?"
"Yes, he let me drink some of his blood, after years of hating myself, calling myself a monster, I finally was able to feel normal and have a friend. and so like any other person would do I ran away from home, Midoriya punched my dad in the dick, and the rest is history" Himiko finally finished her story remembering the good times.
"You ran away from home!? Where do you live now!?"
"Look there is a ton of info you're missing and I will tell you later, and for the other Matteo adopted me, I live with him. So Jiro doesn't be ashamed of yourself, there are people who like you because of who you are ok?"
"Thanks, Himiko, I won't be"
"Good! Now that is settled let's go buy you..."
"Guitar strings and a new set of drumsticks"
"That!" Himiko stood up and Jiro did the same.
"Hey, Himiko?"
"Yea?"
"Please call me Kyoka"
"All right Kyoka, let's go! Now we are late, the boys are probably doing nothing waiting for us"
Izuku and Denki were panting, their chest moving up and down, sweat going down their heads. This is it this was their last chance to win, it was all or nothing from here. The people around them and the music in the background brought nothing but a distraction in this situation. Their opponents at the opposite of them were in the same condition, ready to go. A person from the crowd got closer, and put down what they need it to start again, she put the down the puck at the middle of the big table. Kanimari acted fast and with force smacked the puck with his paddle. *tak tak tak* the puck bounced around the table and was about to land inside the goal of the opposite team, but it was intercepted by one of the other players sending the puck into a straight line to the goal, Midoriya quickly hit it back forcing the puck to hit the side of the table, one of the other team hit as hard as he could, the puck hit Kaminari's paddle making it fly away from the table, Izuku quickly used his stand to grab it and slammed back down, Kaminari hit it as soon as it sat on the table, *Tak tak tak* It bounced from left to right with ferocious speed, the other team tried to hit but it worked against them as when the puck hit the paddle it made bounce directly into the goal
"LET'S FUCKING GO!" Kaminari yelled as did the rest of the crowd who gathered around the game of air hockey. "Oh MY GOD, THAT WAS SO CLOSE!" Midoriya yelled as he high-fived his friend, the game was 7-6 the intensity of the match made people look at their game and soon enough it became a crowd, but once the match was over everyone left and let our protagonists to breath for a second.
"That was fun!" Midoriya as he reclined on the hockey table,
"Hell yeah it was!, too bad the girls missed it"
"Missed what?" Jiro and Himiko walked in.
"Didn't you see the entire crowd? They were watching our game! It was hella intense."
"I heard them, they hurt my freaking ears dude, especially, your yelling was the loudest," Jiro said as he rubbed her ears.
"Sorry, it was way too fun, anyways what took you so long it's been like 40 minutes?"
"When we got to the music store, I got distracted, and started to play with one of the guitars that were on display"
"You can play guitar!? That's amazing! Can you teach me!? I always wanted to play the guitar!" kaminari asked excitedly.
"She can't just play guitar, she amazing at it! And her singing is AMAZING!" Himiko exalted.
"Really!?" Kaminari got closer to Jiro. "Can you teach me!" Jiro blushed due to the proximity of him.
"Ye-yea sure, whatever, just send me a text whenever you want to start"
"Deal!"
Once the squad got together they started to play games around the arcade. Something about this arcade is that it prohibits the usage of quirks so that everyone has a decent chance of winning whatever game there was. The gang played all sorts of games from simple kart games to the advance and crazy fast rhythm games, minutes of fun turned to hours, the sun had left and the moon had settled. To finish the night everyone deiced to go to the retro games area. Once they got there, they saw all types of games, classic platforms like Dk, Mario and Pacman to fighting games like Mortal Kombat, Street Fighter, and Tekken. Hell they even had pong game. but what they got their attention was that on top of every game there was a type of holographic leaderboard, so you could see the high scores but what caught their eye was that a lot of the games had the same guy at the top of the leaderboard.
"Hitoshi Shinso" Kaminari read. "This man is virtuous at videogames! every single game here has his name on it. If it's not no.1 he is at the top 5! I want to meet this guy"
"Well how about we just go back to playing we only have like 2 hours left before we need to go," Jiro said as she looked at her phone.
"She is right you know, we be-oof" Izuku got interrupted "Hey are you ok" Izuku asked at the man who fell to the floor.
"I am fine thank you! I just tripped, am a bit clumsy, sorry" The man who seemed to be in his early twenties stood up
"Oh don't worry! It's fine" Izuku said as he looked at the man.
"Well I won't waste your time, have a good day" and with that, the man walked away.
"Well like I was saying we don't have much more time let's play!" and so they did and once the clock hit eleven they were burned out and they decided to leave.
"Well, it was fun!, let's do it again another time!" Kaminari cheered as he and the rest of the group started to leave the retro-area.
"Yea... Hey does anyone else have this feeling of something following us?" Izuku asked.
"No, no I don't think so," Kaminairi said.
"Neither do I" Jiro added.
"Same here" Himiko joined.
"Hmmm, I would normally say that it was just my imagination, but my mind is telling me that something is very wrong" Izuku put his arm were his knife would have been if he had brought it. Himiko noticed and she started to get a bit worried.
"Do you think it... could it be a stand?" Himiko asked.
"It could or maybe just a normal villain"
"Izuku, do you think the guys from school are trying to finish the job?" Kaminari asked with slight panic in his voice.
"I hope not... let's just stay close together ok? Jiro try using to pick any suspicious sounds"
"It's going to be hard due to all the arcade noises, but am on it."
"Ok let's leave here, before, and if anything happens." The rest nodded and slowly walked towards the entrance, looking around the area to find anything that could stand out, Izuku got his stand ready to attack. They walked closer, each step they took felt heavier, they finally were close enough for the doors to open and when they did *VROOOOOOOOOOOOM* Something humanoid that was wearing a biker's outfit with a black jacket, black jean's and a black helmet with the symbol of a stag beetle, that was riding a black motorcycle, appeared out of thin air, a powerful cold gust of wind came with it too.
"Everyone get back! [ZA WARUDO]" [ZA WARUDO] attacked with a barrage of punches that hit its target while punching it though, Izuku seemed to have been struck with multiple small ice crystals, the stand was sent flying back, breaking the sliding doors, now outside of the arcade the 'person' that seemed to be riding the motorcycle fell off with a shattered helmet.
"What was that? huh?" Izuku looked puzzled, why was he able to see his breath? and why was it super cold?
"Iz-izu-Izuku wha-wha What the hell did you punch!?" Kaminari was shivering and so was everybody in the arcade.
"You didn't see it!? Then this must be a villain's stand! We gotta go now!" Izuku used his stands precision to pull out the shards of ice from his now semi-bloody face.
"Why is it snowing!?" Jiro ear's bright red, the cold was affecting them badly.
" *SHUU*" A noise was heard from the stand as it was back again on top of its bike. Another more powerful gust of wind came as the motor roared loudly but it was only heard by two people and for the rest... they were sent flying away from the bike. With the snow now falling harder everywhere, the stand once again went on the offensive and started to drive directly towards Midoriya.
"EVERYONE PLEASE EVACUATE THE MALL, A VILLANS SEEMS TO BE ATTACKING THE MA- [ZA WARUDO]!" Izuku interrupted the intercom as he shouted the name of his stand freezing everything in place. Izuku used all of his three seconds of stoppable time to *MUDA* the hell out of the biker, once time resumed the stand was sent flying once more, but it seemed to do jack-shit of damage. "LL PLEASE AVOID USING YOUR QUIRKS, PLEASE EVECAUATE THE MALL, THE SHOP OWNERS WILL LEAD YOU TO THE EMERGENCY EXITS" Once the intercom finished its sentence everyone started running in a panic, the owner of the arcade did as the intercom said and lead everyone away from the front doors of the store.
"[ZA WARUDO] punched it with all it had, and it didn't do anything! We gotta run!" Izuku yelled as he grabbed his friends with his stand and started to run towards the back of the arcade while a loud *SHUU* noise was heard from behind them.
"WHAT THE FUCK IS HAPPENING!?" Jiro yelled.
"I ALSO WANT TO KNOW!" Kaminari did the same.
*VROOOM* the motor rumbled as it got closer to them, multiple large. ice crystals grew from the bike and were shoot towards Midoriya and his friends. "HIMIKO!" "I GOT IT [LOVE DELUXE]" Himiko's hair grew and it grabbed the ice crystals from the air, she threw the crystals back at the stand, the stand tried to avoid them, but due to his movement the stand crashed into some arcade machines. Izuku instead of going through the emergency exit as you should, he opted for kicking the concrete wall of the arcade and jumping through it and into the night. Even though they were located on the highest floor of that section of the mall.
"God, if you exist please, let me live another day" Prayed Kaminari, as he looked down below
Izuku stopped time, and in the middle of the air he threw his friends as hard as he could towards the roof of the mall as he fell to the ground. At the moment time resumed Izuku reached the ground and waited. Himiko grabbed the two of her friends with her hair and used large strands of her hair to slow their descent onto the roof.
The bike jumped from the whole Izuku made. While flying through the air the bike grew large Icicles and shoot them at Midoriya. Izuku simply jumped out of the way and started to run into the trees in front of him.
"Explanation please!?" Jiro demanded from Himiko who was sitting on the ground with her phone in her hands.
"A stand attacked, It looked like some type of person riding a bike" Himiko quickly tap her password to unlock her phone.
"How exactly were you able to see it?" Kanimari asked as he looked to where Izuku was heading to.
"She has a stand, Love Deluxe, it's her blonde hair," Jiro said while squinting her eyes.
"Yep you got it."
"Who would have thought, Himiko is Dread-Locks " Jiro commented
"What!?" Kaminari turned around to look at Himiko. She nodded.
"Blonde hair that turns white. It would explain why you had white strands of hair yesterday, and also why you have them now, I read many articles about you, and every villain who was able to talk, and or civilian would say the same, blonde her that turns white after many attacks." Jiro closed her eyes recollecting moments from yesterday
"That's why Izuku tried to hide the fact that you had a stand even though he didn't have to because you never told us your quirk, you could of call your stand a quirk and it would've been fine."
Himiko taped her phone and it started to ring. "So what are you going to do Kyoka?"
Jiro looked at her. "Help you, I know that you're not a bad guy and I know why you turned to vigilantism" Jiro and Himiko smiled as their new acquired trust was shown.
"I can not help but think that I am missing something. Anyways what are we going to do?" Kaminari said as he pulled out his phone. "Should I call the firefighters?"
"No. hold on. Izuku just picked up." Himiko put the phone on speaker and everyone gather closer to hear.
"Himiko! Are you guys safe!? Are you being attacked!?" Izuku sounded breathless and the rough sound of the wind passing by, made it harder to hear him.
"We are good! The stand is only trying to attack you."
"Ok, this stand is an Automatic-long-range-stand, It follows a single target at a time! That being me! It also makes the temperature decrease creating snow, and its able to shoot ice crystals. I reached the city! Hopefully getting at the top of a building will stop him from chasing me!, but more importantly we need to find who and where the Stand user could be, to stop this ability until I figure out its limits or how it works."
"But that would be impossible! We were at the mall the whole day! It could be anyone!" Kaminari yelled.
"Well there are cameras everywhere in the mall! if we somehow were able to look at the feed, we might be able to find someone who was following me specifically.!" *Thump* "I made it to the top of a building, I can rest for a second! The thing seems to be getting faster!"
"I know what to do! Izuku I got to call someone else o.k!? You gotta keep running!" Himiko already started to go to her contacts
"Don't worry, with time stop, I can keep a good distance! Wait... is he making a fucking ice ramp! Oh my GOD! Himiko do whatever you need to do!" Izuku hanged up.
"Ok, so what now?"
"We call for backup" Himiko taped her phone
Francesco Zeppeli was sitting down at his desk drinking his wine, signing papers, paying bills, and getting checks ready to go, but he was interrupted by the ringtone of his phone, he looked at the caller I.D. and answered the phone.
"Ciao! Himiko how is it going!?" Zeppeli said as he put his phone closer to his ear. "You're being attacked! by what!?" Zeppeli got out of his desk and walked out of his office. "Long-range-automatic-stand" he started sprinting to the elevator while avoiding everyone walking in the hallway. "The wookies mall? between 6:00 and 9:00 pm in the arcade" Zeppeli got on the elevator and used his i.d card to reveal the secret floors. " O.k, stay there, if it's automatic then the user has to be close to where the stand was activated, he could either have left to where Midoriya is or stayed to avoid suspicion" the doors open to the vigilante room. "Either way, am already on it," "Gentle, Brava, I don't think you are going to be able to record this one"
We see Izuku jumping from building to building while a black motorcycle is chasing after him. It made ramps out of ice to keep pace with Izuku.
"If I slow down, it's game over, That thing freezes thing insanely fast!, When it caught me by surprise when he made that first ramp and got to close, he froze my breath, If it wasn't for time stop that could have been it!" Izuku froze time to get a bit more distance. " I need to stay away from the city, this is thing is leaving ice and snow everywhere" Izuku kept leaping from building to building until he noticed something, there was a figure in the building ahead of him. "I suggest you, to stop now, or everything will get worst for you." The figure said as a large tree branch extended from his right arm. "You have caused enough damage for today with your ice"
"Tree branch? Its Kamui Woods! Oh thank God someone came to help me!" The branch kept extending and Izuku in mid-air finally remembered something. "HE CAN'T SEE STANDS!" From that single branch multiple more appeared surrounding Izuku, The branches started to enclose, making a sphere coffin to trap Izuku in. Kamui Woods did not expect what happened next, his branches exploded, his eyes opened wide in surprise, the person jumping disappeared and was nowhere to be found, but the ice and snow were still coming his way.
"不不不Sorry for this不不不" Kamui tried to turn around and attack with one of his branches, but Izuku who tried covering his face by putting his hand on top of it, Karate chopped the back of Kamui wood's neck with the strength of his stand. Knocking him out. Izuku grabbed the body and leaped away before the stand got in too close. He couldn't leave behind or else he would have frozen to death, however, he couldn't keep him around. So he decided to do the following. He stopped time, He jumped down in between buildings and landed (1) (2) he saw a big trash container and lifted the lid (3) *VROOOOOOOOOOM* The bike appeared again and smacked Izuku across the face with its wheel. Breaking his nose and leaving a large wheel print on his face. Kamui drooped to the ground, Izuku fell with his back against a wall, the blood dripping from his nose, started to freeze, blocking oxygen from passing through his nose. Izuku started breathing with his mouth but his breath also froze, inducing more pain. *VROOOOOOM* *VROOOOM* The bike started to get ready for another attack, as soon as the wheels started to create smoke, the bike accelerated, the stand lifted the front of the motorcycle performing a wheelie ready to smash Midoriya, but before it could land its attack, and before Izuku stopped time. *閉閉閉 SLAM 閉閉閉* The lid of the trash container closed, and the stand disappeared.
Izuku who could barely breathe at this point crawled closer to Kamui. using his stand he broke two branches of Kamui's arm and rubbed them against each other, and in less than a second they caught of fire. Izuku got near the branch and as the temperature around him rose, his nose started to unclog, letting a small river of blood drop from his nose, his throat finally allowed Izuku to get oxygen, yet every time he took a breath he felt a sharp pain in his lungs.
"Ooowww what happened," Kamui said as he shook his hand trying to remember. *WHAM* Izuku used [ZA WARUDO] Once more to knock him out. Izuku crawled towards the wall that was beside the trash can to hide from anyone peaking in between buildings. He lifted his head to stop the blood flow of his nose while grabbing his stomach on instinct to calm his pain. The vision from his eyes was black and white, due to his injuries and head trauma. Izuku used [ZA WARUDO] to pull out his phone but sadly it was broken. His stand crushed the phone with its hand due to Izuku's anger.
"It'-it-its ability activates when something opens *Cough* *Cough*" His chest went up and down with every breath. "It deactivates when something is closed" Izuku spat blood to the side. "It activated when the sliding doors in the mall opened." He tried to keep his eyes opened although it made him dizzy as his surroundings seemed to be spinning slowly. "But when I punched it, it didn't deactivate because the doors shattered" Izuku groaned in anger and pain. "If I had dodged it instead of punching it, this would have been over a long time ago." Izuku's world started to look more colorful and less spinny. "Am going to stay here until I heal a bit more."
Himiko Jiro and Kaminari were on the ground being re-located by the police with the rest of the people who were in the mall, to somewhere safer.
"Himiko when this is all over, you better explain everything if you want me to keep quiet," Jiro said while trying to listen for anything that might help them on their search.
"Hey Jiro, I know there is a lot of explaining but we need to help Midoriya first, you heard what that guy said, the user could be here" Kaminairi kept looking around hoping for someone to stand out from the crowd. While the trio looked at their surroundings Himiko's phone rang, and she instantly picked it up and put it beside her ear.
" Zeppeli?"
"We found Izuku"
"Is he ok!?" Jiro and Kaminari got closer to her to hopefully block any noise that came from the phone for anyone eavesdropping
"He is still breathing, he does have some damage, but don't worry about him now, he was found by Gentle and was brought to the SPW, Matteo is also here preparing him food to heal him up, poor boy, keeps getting into trouble, its like fate has something against him"
"I know but I am glad he is safe! What about her? has she found him yet?"
"Brava hacked into the camera system of the mall, we have a small amount of the SPW to look at the feed and find anything unusual"
"Good"
"Himiko, Izuku also got the nature of the stand and how it works"
"Really!? What is it!?"
"Even though it's pretty powerful it's easy to beat him. The stand activates when something opens, lids, doors, windows, etc. but that doesn't include body parts, like your mouth or eyes, and to cancel its power, you have to close an object."
"Is that it!?"
"Si, that's it" A voice from the background was heard through the phone. "Wait Himiko we found him!"
"Hello!? Zeppeli!?"
"Himiko" A more feminine voice came from the other side of the phone.
"Brava" She whispered.
"We got the bad guy! The guy that tripped on Midoriya before you got attacked, is the user for sure! He was stalking Dio for a while after the game of air hockey."
"He was wearing a leather jacket that's all I remember."
"Black leather jacket with a white undershirt, Brown biker boots, blue ripped jeans with a loose leather belt with a beetle-like-buckle, around 5 ft 8 in tall, blond short hair wearing a black Brixton-fiddler-cap with a bike emblem on it, Early twenties with green eyes." Brava described completely how the guy looked like.
"How did I not noticed him?"
"I don't know, anyway let me go back to the live feed." While Brava did that Himiko explained to the other how the guy looked like and how the Stand worked like.
"Ok, Dread-Locks, He is walking away through the front entrance."
"Front entrance let's go!" Jiro and Kaminari nodded and they started moving as fast as they could with all the paramedics, police officers, and news around them.
"Dread-lock, He is getting closer to the subway entrance to the right of the Wookies sign."
"Got it!"
"I need more time to hack into the subway station so you are going to be on your own."
"Don't worry we will be fine" Himiko put her phone in her pocket.
"Ok, This is it" The three of them walked down the entrance of the subway, and they found it almost empty except for one person who was standing beside a pillar with a hand in the pocket of his leather jacket. The three of them slowly got closer to him with Himiko extending her hair. The guy turned around grabbed some of her hair and threw something at Himiko while screaming. "[BORN THIS WAY], on instinct Himiko grabbed it with her hair a bit too hard and realized what she just did. She grabbed a smalled-sized water bottle and squeezed it so hard the lid popped open. *VROOOOOOOM* The bike appeared within Himiko's now frozen and destroyed hair. The motorcycle launched forward but before it could do anything it disappeared.
"*Giggle* Before we got here I opened my backpack and I been holding onto the zipper of it with my hair, so the moment you used your stand I could close it" Himiko pulled out a knife from underneath the sleeve of her hoodie and cut off the hair that was still frozen.
Kaminari and Jiro ran towards the enemy. The enemy stood still letting Kaminari throw the first punch, the guy tilted his head left and punched back with a hook to Kaminris liver but before it made contact, Kaminiari smirked and used his quirk to shock the villain. Making him scream in pain
"That was ea-" Kaminiri got punched on the face before he could finish his sentence, getting knocked out by the green-glowing-eyed villain.
"Thanks for the adrenaline!" The guy made small jumps from left to right, like a boxer would do, to warm up. Jiro used one of her jacks to destroy some of the floor, making the guy lose his footing for a second, Jiro took this opportunity to try and attach her other Jack but the villain regained his footing faster than she expected, and dodge it by spinning around it while putting his hand in his pocket and using the momentum to deliver a spinning kick to the side of Jiro's stomach. Once his leg made contact with its target he pulled his hand off his pocket and threw the object he had underneath the mass of hair that was trying to attack him. The object that he threw was a pen, and it made contact with Himiko's shoe, making the cap of said pan fly off. *VROOOOOM* The motorcycle appeared behind Himiko. [BORN THIS WAY] started making ice crystals, and shooting them at Himiko she used another mass of hair to cover her back but born this way froze it with its cold and shattered it with its's speed and weight hitting Himiko on the back sending her flying forward, Thankfully due to the ice and amounts of hair, the force of the bike wasn't deadly but unthankfully it sent her flying towards the enemy who punched her in the face slamming her down on the ground, with blood pouring out. [BORN THIS WAY] Disappeared.
"What!?" While Himiko was flying through the air she zipped her hoodie up. Canceling the stand's ability. "AAAAAAAAAHHHHHh" Yelled the villain, as his eardrums exploded with blood. Jiro got her jacks closed to his ears when he was distracted by Himiko.
"What you did to my friends, wasn't very kind," Kaminari said while standing behind the villain with pure rage on his eyes. Pretended to have been knocked out. The villain wasn't able to hear him because... you already know. "That's why you are being." Kaminari started to charge. "THUNDERSTRUCK!" Kaminiri yelled as he let out all of the electrify he had on him. The villain yelled in pain as he was being electrocuted. Kanimari let go of the now smoking villain.
"Did we win?" Himiko asked while laying on the floor bleeding
"yay," Kaminiri said while giving a thumbs up and moving around like an idiot.
"Hehe, He looks so dumb. Ow-It hurts to laugh"... TO BE CONTINUED
Stand Stats
Starman a small spaceship that looks like the BFR made by SpaceX, There is a small Austronuat inside the ship named Maj. Tom- A in power, A in speed, A in precision, B in range, E in durability and E in development potential. It takes around 5 minutes for the stand to activate as it needs to launch into space, once in there, the user can let the spaceship fall from orbit into a target, it keeps some of the heat from the fall resulting in burns. The stand itself its very weak and powerful stands could easily destroy it in a single punch, but the chances of actually hitting it are really low, usually because whoever is fighting Robert never have the opportunity to attack it.
Born this Way, D in power, C in speed, E in precision, A range, A in durability, and B in developmental potential. The difference between the original vs this one is that the quirk of the user gives it more potential, as Adrenaline in the body of user increases so does all the stats of the villain, It would also work the same for the stand.
Okie doke, I almost got to 10k words! This is the longest chapter yet! So I hope you like it! I know I said that this chapter wasn't going to be dialogue-heavy but that's why I made this chapter so long!
Last Primaris- I know it was a bit easy getting his arm back, but if there is a guy that can heal you in a matter of seconds with amazing food, why wouldn't you go immediately there? Also Thank you!
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That reminds me. 311 followers! 270 followers! I thank you all! Sorry if I said this before, but When I first wrote this I thought that I was only going to get like 15 followers. I thought to myself. "Well hell if those 15 people want it, I will write more!" So thank you all for reading!
Anyways next chapter, is going to be about, something I promised in the first chapter of this thing... so yea Hasta Luego!