Chapter 21: Distressing Fellowship
"hey, Izuku, wake up~" A voice whispered on Izuku's ear, Izuku turned around ignoring the voice.
"Izuku~ Wake up~" Izuku ignored it once more.
Himiko wrapped her hair around Izuku and pulled him off the bed, with a loud *thump* Izuku had been awakened.
"Good morning sleepy beauty!," Himiko giggled as Izuku rubbed the back of his head. "Come on! Jiro and Kyoka are already eating breakfast!"
Izuku finally got up from the floor and with Himiko, they finally headed downstairs where his friends were eating omelets and pancakes.
"Goodmorning everyone!" Izuku and sat down on one of the chairs among the kitchen bar where everyone else was eating while Himiko grabbed two plates and started to serve herself and Izuku.
"Good*chew*mor*chew*ning" Kaminari and Jiro tried to say in between bites of food. After swallowing his food kaminari was able to say something. "Sorry, we tried waiting for you, but you know how good Mateo's food is! We were barely able to wait!"
"We waited a whole 10 seconds before we started eating, so at least we tried" Jiro drank some coffee from her cup.
"I totally get it! don't worry" Himiko handed Izuku two plates one with an omelet and the other one stacked with pancakes while holding her own plates with her hair.
"So I'm guessing that Matteo already left, what time is it?" Izuku asked
"two-ish" responded Himiko
"My God, we slept a lot"
"To be fair, we did stop a criminal, and we're not heroes yet, so I think we deserve it."
"I guess you're right Denki"
"Of course I'm always right!"
Everyone went back to eating their brunch and once done, they started to clean their dishes, it was a small favor that Matteo asked for, before leaving the house, "Clean the dishes after you finish" Matteo sweetly smiled "Or else you'll make me really angry capiche?" "Capiche sir!" Denki, Jiro, and Himiko answered like soldiers.
With dishes done, they all sat down in the living room and decided to put on the news as background noise while they chatted. While talking Jiro got a notification from her phone, she decided to read said notification out loud.
"Due to the recent attack at USJ, and the damage that has been done, We have decided to close our schools for three days in order to allow whoever was injured to rest, and repair the damages the school has taken. Thank you for understanding, have a good day, and stay safe." Jiro quoted the message she received from the school as the others listened.
"So, we have three more days off?" Kanimair asked with excitement
"Basically yea"
Kaminiari jumped off the couch. "FUUCCCKKKKKKKK YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!"
"Oooowww!"
"Sorry, Jiro!" kanimari apologized but Jiro simply waved her hand.
"I would be mad, but dude, I'm so down for more days off, this past couple of days have been hell!" The collective nodded in agreement. Kaminari sat back down, and everyone resumed the conversation they were having before the school news was shared. After a little while, Jiro and Kanimair decided to head back home, in order to not worry their parents, and also go back to sleep for a little longer. Izuku stayed at Himiko's home for a little bit longer, before he decided to head back home and see his mother before she had a panic attack. Himiko reluctantly said goodbye to Izuku. She herself decided to go to work and help Matteo out, Sundays were always busy and she didn't want Matteo to come home at 3:00 am again.
Izuku's life this last couple of day was nothing but hectic, he finally made it to the school of his dreams, he fought against a monster and used a road roller as a weapon, he 'fought' against another vampire and lost an arm, he went to the mall with his friends something he never thought he would be able to do, and also fought another stand.
"I guess this must be the life of a hero, in some sense I'm really living my dream" and with those thoughts going over his head, he finally made it home. He unlocked the door, turned the doorknob, and pushed it. He went towards the living room where his parents were watching T.V. Inko Midoriya noticed that his son has finally made it back home and jumped off the couch to tackle her son into a loving hug "IZUKU!". Izuku used his stance to keep himself and his mother from hitting the floor.
"M-om you-you're crushing me!" Inko didn't let go anyways, "This is your punishment from making me worried!, and not telling me about the attack at U.A!, and not telling me about the mall!" She hugged her son even tighter, Izuku's head looked like it was about to pop, making Hisashi chuckle. "Don't you dare laugh! you also tried to hide it from me!" Hisashi cleared his throat and took a sip from the cup he had in his hands. "Mo-m ple-ase so-sorry! Inko decided that it was enough punishment and had finally let go of Izuku. Izuku took a long breath before he said anything. "I'm sorry I didn't want to scare you, but I guess that didn't work out"
"It totally backfired honey" Inko sat on the couch again
"I know, I also know that this might sound selfish, but can I go to my room? I really want to get some sleep."
"Don't worry dear, you must be tired, after fighting whatever attacked the mall." Izuku froze where he was standing. he trembled just a little bit but before his mouth could even open Inko talked.
"Izuku, you're my son, A mother needs to know what her son is up to, you know? Now go to sleep and get some rest I'll wake you up once I finish cooking dinner." Izuku nodded and went to his room. Once he got comfy he finally said it ."What the fuck?" Sadly that question was not going to be answered. During dinner, the Midoriyas ate quietly but the happy aura around them was still there.
The following day wasn't too special, Izuku went to Himiko's house to hang out, there, they watched tv among other...things until it was time to do their patrol. During the night Izuku decided to join Himiko for their patrol, just to make sure things don't go crazy. Besides stopping a robbery in a corner store in less than a second, nothing too spectacular happened, they did receive a message from Jiro with a clip of Kaminari playing the beginning riff of Thunderstruck, In the background, they could hear her giggling uncontrollably, as Kaminari got angrier and angrier whenever he pressed on the wrong string or the wrong fret, or just any mistake really, Jiro would occasionally say "It's not that hard!", which made Kanimari angry to the point of short-circuiting, at the moment Jiro lost it and started to laugh like a maniac, but she stooped laughing when she realized that Kaminari was about to drop her electric guitar "Don't you fuckin-" and the video ended. Izuku and Himiko laughed while they watched the video. After stopping a mugging, they headed back to SPW then they went home.
Then it Was Tuesday
Tuesday the day after Monday and before Wednesday. Many consider Tuesday as a better Monday while others hated even more. But for our green hero, this Tuesday was going to be special.
The broccoli haired teen woke up a bit later than usual, it was already 12:00 when he decided to enjoy breakfast. He made himself some eggs and cereal to start the day. Once done with his food, he decided to head to Takoba and look at the beach. Izuku had this beach hold a special place in his heart. Meeting with Himiko, his training, and his many battles with his mentor, made him fall in love with this place. Whenever he came here he couldn't help himself from smiling while looking at the waves that reflected the light from the sun, or at the birds that walked around the sand. He was proud of the work he did here. Izuku left the beach after a few more minutes of enjoying himself and headed to Matteo's where he ate his lunch with Himiko and headed to work. After getting in their Vigilante attire they left the SPW and started patrol, this time however they headed somewhere different as Gentle was going to take care of their usual route. The location they headed to, was somewhere close to the agency of a well-known-former-side-kick, Sir Nighteye.
"So he used to be All-Might's sidekick? What happened?" Himiko asked as she and Izuku landed on a random building where they could see Nighteye's agency from a safe distance.
"Nobody knows, they just suddenly went their own ways and that's the end of that." They left that building and headed somewhere else. After searching for a little bit longer they decided to stop for the night. It didn't seem that they were too many crimes happening, and if they were, someone already took care of it. The vigilante due however decided to stop and watch what seemed to be a fight between a random Pro Hero, and random villain from afar on top of one of the many structures that were around. People gathered around to watch the fight and recorded while they chanted on the Hero.
"This fight is taking to looooooooooong Dio! Let's just head home he has it under control, or if you really want too, you can K.O him in a split second.."
"I know he does but I just want to be safe, unlike the other ones, there is no police around or backup, if someone else joins."
Himiko sighted, she pulled out her phone while Izuku kept watching while scrolling around her phone Himiko's ear twitched as they picked up on the sound of footsteps.
"Dio listen." She whispered as she taps Izuku's shoulder. Izuku stopped starring at the fight and started to concentrate on his hearing. The sound of footsteps and someone panting could be heard echoing in the alley. They got closer to the edge of the building and they quickly noticed a little girl running at full speed, running away from something. The little girl exited the alley and because she was looking back she didn't notice that she was running straight towards a road. The two of them jumped down and Dread-Locks used her hair to catch the little girl before her feet touched the road.
"Hey! be careful there, watch where you're going or else you might get hurt" Himiko smiled as she put the little girl down in front of her and kneeled to see her at eye level. However, her smile quickly diapered and her eyes narrowed as the little girl who was covered in bandages was trembling in fear. "Hey wha-" Himiko wasn't able to finish her question as the girl hugged her with all the strength she had left. As her body shivered she whispered a quiet "please... help me" Himiko was about to ask what she needed help with, but that answered itself as the sound of other footsteps approached. From within the shadows of the alley, a person walked out. Said the person who was wearing a plague doctor's mask, sighted.
"This couldn't get more irritating. Hello Dread-Locks, and Hello who-ever you are" Himiko's expression went from confusion to anger her brain needed but a second to figure out who he was, Gentle had told them about him, he was one of Gentle's prime targets.
"Overhaul" She growled.
"Good, You already know who I am. Let's skip the introductions and get right to the point." Overhaul looked down at them. "Give me the girl, and we can go our separate ways, neither of us wants to gather attention correct?" Overhaul offered.
"Yea, that's a no from us." Izuku stood in front of them ready to attack at a moment's notice. Overhaul sighed he scratched the side of his head with a single finger and proceeded to start walking back. Which confused the two of them.
"I hate to get my clothes covered in dirty blood, that's why I am walking back." Overhaul raised his hand with two of his fingers pointing up, a dark blue aura started to surround him. Multiple tiny red dots started to appear on Izuku's and Himiko's bodies, those dots where actually lasers that were coming from the roof two in total. Overhaul lowered his hand.
"[BAD COMPANY] Fire" Overhaul gave the order, The sounds of snipers firing reached Izuku's ear. [ZA WARUDO] Was quickly summoned stopping all of the bullets, with minimal damage. Overhaul looked... happy.
"I see, I'm not the only one with a stand, there are more people out there who don't need such a disgusting thing as a quirk, sadly you're on my way."
"Dread-Locks, run away! I'll cover you! Take that girl somewhere safe." Himiko didn't need to replay, She used her hair to hold onto a light post to swing away. Overhaul shook his head. He pointed his fingers at Dread-Locks and at Dio "M202's fire!" 8 tiny cars that looked like little black Lincoln Continental MkV. appeared on the roof, the windows of the little cars rolled down, and 8 little humanoid toys that looked like Chicago mobsters that were holding M202's flash rocket launchers fired 4 rockets at Dio and 4 at Dread-Locks who was currently in Mid-Air.
"What the hell is happening!? "[ZA WARUDO] Toki wo tomare!" Izuku punched the rockets in front of him and leaped away(1) Izuku reached Himiko and threw her away from danger (2) Izuku turned around and punched the rockets (3) *BOOOOOOOM* [ZA WARUDO] crossed his arms in a defending position but his arms were opened wide due to the explosion being more powerful than expected. Izuku was launched backward onto the empty road. With his arms spewing blood everywhere, he screamed in pain. The rockets that were originally headed for Izuku exploded, the explosions were strong enough to destroy the side of the buildings making them collapse. "Dio are you ok!?" Himiko asked through her headset. Izuku looked at his arms, the wounds that he just received were still bleeding making it hard to move his arms.
"I'm Ok, don't worry, keep running, I'll distract him until you get somewhere safe." Izuku looked at his surroundings. There were multiple cars that had stopped in front of Izuku and the people that were supposed to be inside of the vehicles ran away, seeing buildings collapsing meant that there were villains around
"You better come back alive, Dio." Izuku's earpice went mute.
"This is getting annoying, and now my suit is dirty *sigh*" Izuku grabbed a bullet from his pocket and shoot Overhaul. The bullet went at an insane speed, much faster than what a gun can do, however, it never made contact with the enemy, As an army of small gangster holding Tommy guns shoot the bullet mid-air turning it to nothing but dust. Overhaul retaliated by using his snipers, red dots appeared on Izuku's body and the guns were fired. The multiple bullets were flying through the air, Izuku was ready to block them like before due to them previously doing nothing. However, the bullets combined transforming it into a.30-06 sniper bullet. Izuku tried to dodge while stopping time but he took to long and the bullet was able to hit [ZA WARUDO] forearm, go through it, and hit the concrete leaving a hole on the ground. Izuku left hand now was bleeding profoundly he quickly tore off a sleeve of his jacket while screaming in pain to use it as an improvised tourniquet. The army of gangsters started shooting at Izuku intending to finish their job, but all of the bullets hit a building on the other side of the road.
"I'm lost too much blood, my left hand is now useless! Himiko hasn't called me back either!" Midoriya had decided to hide behind on one of the many empty cars on the road, to try and catch a break. Right now thinking was all he could do. He is too far to stop time and land a hit in, and even if he throws a projectile it will get shot down almost immediately. Thankfully Izuku had just gotten good news.
"Dio, Leave that area now!, I'm almost back at the SPW"
"Ok, I'll try to run away." He whispered as quietly as he could. "OK, I just have to leave now! Stopping time once more should be enough to run away" Izuku prepared himself for his escape. He let out some air from his chest "[ZA WARUD-Wait! Is that!?]
"Come out from wherever you're hiding villain! I Kamui Woods will stop you!" A wooden Humanoid hero announced himself for battle.
"WHY!? WHY!? WHY!? WHY!? WHY!? WHY!? IS HE HERE!?" Izuku yelled internally
"Are you afraid villain!? Come out and fight me! Before the other heroes get here and things get worse for you, they might not show as much mercy as I" Kamui eyed the area for any sort of movement, yet there was none, He swore that there was someone there just a second ago, what happened!?
What Kamui woods didn't realize is that the villain was already fighting, Only a certain type of people could have seen the attack coming.
"WHY THE HELL ARE YOU HERE!?" Izuku yelled while launching himself at Kamui.
"Where the hell did you-!? * WHACK* [ZA WARUDO] punched the hero hard enough to knock him, He grabbed his body and leaped away from where he was *BOOOM* multiple rockets landed on a car sending the automobile flying across the road.
"This. Is. Enough!" Yelled Overhaul from wherever he was hiding. "[BAD COMPANY] full arsenal!" All they toy mobsters with Tommys, Snipers, and Rockets shot at the same time, sending a storm of bullets at Izuku who was flying through the air. [ZA WARUDO] Turned around and used his legs to kick the sniper bullets away. Izuku's right feet started to bleed. Even if the bullets didn't merge they were significantly more powerful and faster than the others. [ZA WARUDO] started to slow down, this was shown when some of the bullets were able to hit Izuku's chest. What followed behind the Tommy gun bullets, was a single toy missile that was much bigger than the others.
"Overhaul is right I think this enough" Izuku looked down. he was looking for something, and when he found it. He pulled out his knife and handed it to [ZA WARUDO], his stand aimed, and threw the knife at the missile. In the blink of an eye, Izuku disappeared and the rocket exploded. Thankfully it exploded without doing damage to the surrounded area.
As the sound of police sirens echoed closer, Overhaul decided to leave. "I need to calm down, I don't need more heroes looking out for me."
*Thump* Izuku dropped Kamui Woods letting his body hit the ground. Izuku groaned as he took off his jacket and a bulletproof vest. He looked at his chest, it was covered in purple bruises, with red stains here and there. Izuku put his jacket back on and let his body lean on the wall. He slowly started to walk away, or more like limp away, he was barely able to move with a bleeding leg and arm. Izuku looked behind him at Kamui's body that was slowly rising. Midoriya sighed as he used his stand to knock him out. *whack*
"If I had a 1 yen coin for every time I had to knock out, Kamui woods to hide, I'd have 2, not much, but it's weird that it happened twice." Izuku joked as a way to cope with the pain. As he chuckled while coughing. He was able to hear a voice coming from his earpiece.
"Dio are you there?" Izuku exhaled before speaking. "Yea, I'm still here Dread-Locks"
"How is the situation? do you need back up!?" Himiko's worried voice got louder.
"Don't worry, I'm in the sewers. I ran away, and I'm guessing Overhaul did the same, the police was on its way."
"Oh, Thank God! But how are you doing!?"
"I'm fine as long as you and the little girl, are fine."
"That's not what I asked"
"*Sigh* I have multiple holes in my left arm, pretty much lost all feeling. My right leg is still bleeding, but it's not as bad as my arm." Izuku kept limping, he groaned in pain every other step.
"*Sight* Why does this happen every time you work with me." Himiko facepalmed, or that is what Izuku imagined
"I don't know, but I call it gravity. Anyways, can you send an SPW car my way, please? I don't think I have much time before I bleed out."
"They are already on their way, get out of the sewer, as soon as you can."
Once they made it to SPW, Izuku went directly to the clinic. Dr Turchino was able to put Izuku under a more stable condition until Matteo made something good enough to heal him up. Dr. Turchino left the room as soon as she finished to let Himiko in, but Himiko didn't walk in alone, she had a little friend that wanted to say thank you, and sorry to Izuko Midoriya.
"He-hello Mist-mister Izu-Izuku my name is Eri. Thank-thank you for saving me... TO BE CONTINUED
So I know, I said that everything was better on my end... but work recently changed my schedule, so the only times I'm able to write is between 1 and 2 a.m, its also because I spent too much time playing games with my friends, so it's also partially my fault. but hey I got it done right? I also just started working on the Re:Zero fic, it's a bit tough not going to lie, but I'm going to try it anyway.
Soooo, what did you guys think of this ch? I know I'm a bit rusty so please tell me what I need to fix.
Also, stand stats will be explained next chapter.
I want to thank everyone who is still reading this fic even though it updates, every other year.
Well, that's all I have to say, Hasta Luego! and stay safe!