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If the 1-A and 1-B girls were all…
Chapter twelve: An offer that can't be refused
The audience that was summoned to the theater room by the Realmcrafter Talespinner69 had just settled down after the latest realm had just finished playing on Tale's big screen. The reactions were mixed as to how the realm went. Mineta, as per usual, was notably upset, but then again he just saw himself get killed off in the latest realm that was played; according to Tale, the Realmcrafter race was, as a whole, not all that fond of the lewd short statured teen.
"Wow, that was one of the best ones yet!" Mina remarked from where she sat in the audience, "The end was especially hilarious." A few others in the audience, such as Dabi, chuckled in agreement with what the pink-skinned girl had said. As to be expected, not everyone was as amused, notably Mineta and Endeavor. But those are just the minority that are in disagreement with what the audience had seen in the latest realm.
As the audience was discussing things amongst themselves, the attention of Izuku, Bakugo and Todoroki was drawn to the front of the theater room by hearing Tale say to the self-summoned Kotaro, "Hey, I like them, and there's still plenty of available seats in the audience." Kotaro shrugged and gestured to the Realmcrafter to go on ahead with whatever it was that he was going to do.
Once more, Tale wove a few of those ninja hand signs of his before saying, "Ninpo: Kuchiyose no Jutsu!" A number of white smoke clouds poofed into existence before fading away, revealing who all Tale had just summoned to the theater room; the heroes Fat Gum, Edgeshot, Gran Torino, Cementoss and Hound Dog, as well as the villains Gentle Criminal, La Brava, Kendo Rappa, Stain, Mr. Compress, and then finally Skeptic.
As the newly summoned persons began to express confusion, Tale conjured multiples of the same lights that he sent into the minds of Inko, Mitsuki and Shigaraki when they were summoned; each newly summoned person had a light sent into their minds, thus catching them up on everything up to this point. A good number of the newly summoned persons were a bit surprised with what all they had just learned, but they all settled down and proceeded to sit down around the theater, with Hound Dog, Ishiyama and Gran Torino joining the other UA staff, Fat Gum and Edgeshot joining the pro heroes, and the villains joining the four that were already present.
"Yeah, I'll be summoning others here and catching them up periodically," Tale said, "But more on that later. For now, the next realm is ready to play." With those words, everyone in the audience turned to look at the big screen as Tale and Kotaro got the next realm playing...
...
(If the 1-A and 1-B girls were all 'princesses')
"Hey, we're princesses this time?" Hagakure in the audience remarked in a tone of piqued interest, "This is going to...wait, why is princesses in quotation marks?"
"Maybe we'll see in a moment," Kyoka replied, understanding the slight spike of concern in the invisible girl's tone at the end. The rock music lover, as well as the other 1-A and 1-B girls, was likewise concerned.
Izuku, Bakugo and Todoroki were following along behind Endeavor through the hallway of a very expansive house, the kind that was virtually a mansion. "Boys, it is imperative that all of us behave perfectly when we see the man that I need to speak with here," Endeavor said to his son and two of said son's friends. ...Well, Izuku was friends with Todoroki; the jury was still out on whether or not Bakugo qualified.
The three boys could pick up on the hint of nervousness in the Flame Hero's tone as he spoke, as if he were afraid of possibly offending the person he was here to see in any way. Eventually, the party came to a corner that they turned, but the boys all stopped short due to seeing the villain Dabi standing along one of the walls in the hallway that they just entered, his arms folded over his chest as he stood in front of a double-door that led into a room.
It was Izuku who first noticed that Dabi wore a black suit top with a dark purple men's dress shirt underneath and a black dress tie, a pair of black pants that matched the suit top, a simple and plain but stylish black leather belt holding the pants up, and a pair of sleek, shiny black shoes. Despite being dressed up in a suit like that, it was clear that the blue flame villain was not any manner of business man.
"Oh, looks like Dabi's in security now," Toga in the audience said, a hint of amusement in her tone as she and some of the other villains turned to regard him.
Right away, the three boys tensed up upon spotting Dabi, with Bakugo even going right into a stance for battle. However, they all relaxed at Endeavor's command. "...That one there is no longer in the business of villainy, boys," Endeavor said in an understanding tone, "He and a number of other former villains now work for the man that we're here to see." This drew a lot of confused looks from Izuku, Bakugo and Todoroki.
"No longer villains?" Shigaraki in the audience sneered, confusion and mild annoyance clear in his tone, "What the fuck does that mean?"
The other villains in the audience, as well as most of the others who aren't villains, were all similarly as confused, Dabi especially so. However, Stain was watching with piqued interest, his finely honed instincts giving him an idea as to what wad going on in the currently playing realm. Those same instincts were also the reason why he had a darkly amused smirk on his face as he watched the currently playing realm unfold.
Endeavor and his interns approached Dabi, who the Flame Hero got the attention of with a simple forced cough. Dabi, a look of casual amusement on his face, arched a wry eyebrow as he turned his attention to the guests that he was receiving. "...About damn time you got here," the apparent former villain said, annoyance clear in his tone as he regarded someone who he still by no means liked, "The Godfather has been expecting you."
"Godfather?" Itsuka in the audience remarked, confusion clear in her tone, "Wait, I thought that the girls and I are going to be princesses in this realm. What the hell is the mafia involved in this realm for?"
"My guess," Rappa in the audience began, folding his well-toned arms over his muscular chest, "Is that this is a play on the idea of a 'mafia princess', which is a female relative, usually a daughter, of the head of a mafia family." When a number of the audience members all turned to look at him, Rappa said, "Hey, I'm not all fighting all the time. I can know things."
Dabi opened the double door that he stood in front of, gestured for Endeavor and the boys to go on in. At the end of the room, sitting at a large and ornate wooden desk turned so that the person sitting at it can see people enter the room, was a man dressed as what Izuku and the other boys would imagine a mafia godfather to be dressed as. However, that was not what shocked the boys about the man; rather, it was WHO the man was that shocked them.
The man was Ganma Asui.
"My dad's a mafia godfather?!" Tsuyu in the audience exclaimed out of sheer surprise and shock; the other girls were likewise surprised, mostly knowing now that they would most likely be seeing their dads as the heads of various crime families. Similarly, Endeavor was annoyed to see himself seemingly having to answer to the head of the mafia.
"Thank you for agreeing to see me, sir," Endeavor said, clearly a bit cowed as he was in the presence of so influential and powerful of a man. Ganma nodded once in acknowledgement before gesturing to the Flame Hero to continue. "The reason that I needed to speak with you was on the matter of a dead villain that my sidekick Burnin found in an alleyway during a patrol that she was on."
Ganma nodded along, showing that he was understanding where this was leading. "The villain was identified by the examiners as Clothes Horse," the Flame Hero further explained, "Who had recently rose to infamy rather quickly due to brazen attacks against clothing stores and a few malls, mostly stealing vast amounts of both cash and clothing." Gulping a bit out of being nervous, Endeavor said, "The alleyway where Burnin discovered Clothes Horse's body in is part of territory that I remember you telling me was yours."
The godfather nodded in understanding a few times. "...Ah yes. I had my man Rappa take care of the matter for me. Clothes Horse's last act was at a store that my oldest daughter was shopping at during the time of the attack." Ganma leaned back in his seat, a firm, serious look on his face. "...I was not happy to hear that Tsuyu was in danger."
"Well there's one good thing about your dad being a mafia godfather," Yaoyorozu in the audience said when she turned to face Tsuyu, a hint of uncertainty in the rich girl's tone, "...I guess."
"Ah, I see," Endeavor remarked in an understanding tone that gave off an air that had a hint of brown-nosing in it, "You were looking out for your first born is all." The Flame Hero bowed his head to the godfather in a respectful manner. "Thank you for your time to help clear up a small bit of confusion on my end."
A good number of the audience members were chuckling at the sight of the normally brash and proud Endeavor bowing to...pfft, anyone really. Tsuyu was a bit embarrassed to see her father as a mafia godfather, and Endeavor himself was pretty steamed to see himself acting in so embarrassing of a manner.
"It's not as bad as you're acting like it is, Enji," Gran Torino remarked from where he sat in the audience, prompting the Flame Hero to turn his head to face the retired old hero. Torino had his arms folded over his chest. "This is a mafia family that we're looking at here. I'm not too sure how much the mafia differs from the yakuza, but if they have enough in common like I recall them having the last time the two groups were compared, then brown-nosing here is the best thing you can do at the moment."
As much as he still didn't like being shown cowering to anyone, Endeavor begrudgingly decided to drop the manner. Besides, the current realm that was still playing on the theater screen was still going on.
"Now then," Ganma began, drawing everyone's attention, "I have some business that I need to attend to with some...old friends of mine." The godfather turned to face the boys. "In the meanwhile, why don't you boys stay for the party that's going on? After all, you boys should know what today is, given that you are classmates of my daughter."
"Oh!" Izuku exclaimed, acting mildly surprised and seemingly forgetting that he's in the presence of the godfather, "Today is Tsuyu's sixteenth birthday!"
"This realm's taking place on my birthday?" Tsuyu said with piqued interest, "Huh. The last one had my little brother's birthday."
...
Izuku, Bakugo and Todoroki were standing out in the middle of a large backyard that had been set up for a girl's sixteenth birthday party. The only part that wasn't normal was how a bunch of former villains, now all of them loyally working for a mafia family, were so casually mingling with some of the other students in the respective homeroom classes of Aizawa and Sekijiro; Izuku even saw Rappa and Gentle Criminal, both dressed similarly as Dabi was, skipping through the party area together going "La, la-la, la-la, la!"
As the three boys looked on, more confused than anything, they were approached by Tsuyu and Tokoyami, both dressed casually. Dark Shadow, now looking like he was wearing a fedora for some odd reason, was out and hanging next to Tokoyami. "I'm glad that you guys could make it to the party kero," Tsuyu remarked, "Pretty much everyone in both our class and class 1-B is here."
The three boys looked around, with Bakugo saying after a quick glance around, "I'm not seeing Grape Head anywhere here at your party, Frog Face."
"Fumikage's lewd classmate has drawn the displeasure of the godfather," Dark Shadow explained, sounding as if he was already a loyal follower of Tsuyu's dad, "So naturally the pervert was told to go eat shit." Dark Shadow nodded once in a confident manner, his arms folded over his chest. "Hell, I wouldn't be surprised if the pervert is sent to go sleep with the fishes soon."
In the audience, Mineta sighed in a resigned tone as he gently faced palmed. "...I think I know how I'm going to die in this realm..."
As the boys, Tsuyu and Dark Shadow continued to talk, they were approached by their classmates Uraraka and Kirishima, as well as class 1-B student Kinoko, who was dragging Kirishima along with her by his left arm, which the mushroom girl was practically hugging close to her.
Bakugo in the audience clapped his hands together loudly. "Boom! There's Kirishima and Shrooms being together! Now all that's left is to see how Grape Head's killed off by the mafia!" Over where he sat in the audience, Mineta signed in a resigned, knowing tone; although he did not like it, he knew that the inevitable was coming.
"Oh, hey Izuku!" Uraraka said, a hint of pleasant surprise clear in her tone, "Glad to see you here! Tsuyu's dad really went all out for her birthday party, huh?"
"Oh yeah," the green-eyed boy replied, still sounding mildly unsure given that he had just learned that one of his classmates is the daughter of a mafia godfather. On a similar note, Todoroki and Bakugo were similarly as unsure, and Tokoyami seemed to be resigned to the matter, if only because Dark Shadow was very clearly on board with the idea of working for the mafia for some odd reason.
"Wow, Dark Shadow seems to be quite a character, huh?" Shoji in the audience remarked to Tokoyami, who merely shrugged and said that, given what all they've seen in the realms that have played thus far, it'd take a lot at this point to surprise him.
Letting out a troubled sigh, Izuku remarked as he changed the subject, "You know, I'm still troubled by that recent court case where Shigaraki, Overhaul and that Re-Destro fellow all got off. I mean, the case against them was so solid that it should have been guaranteed that they'd be chucked into Tartarus for life." Izuku threw his arms up into the air in a gesture that was clearly one of feeling defeated. "But they got off."
"Hells yeah I got fucking off!" Shigaraki in the audience exclaimed, pumping a fist into the air as he cheered over a win that his self in the currently playing realm had just scored.
Turning to face Shigaraki, Dabi remarked, "You know, you shouldn't count your chickens before they hatch. Given that the girls in this realm are apparently the daughters of various mafia family heads, there may be a chance that you and those others getting off of that trial in the court case might be a set-up for said mafia family heads to eighty-six you guys." Where they sat in the audience, both Rappa and Skeptic nodded in agreement.
Scoffing in an annoyed tone, Shigaraki merely told Dabi to screw himself before everyone turned back to face the theater screen.
"Oh, that reminds me kero," Tsuyu began in a causal tone. Turning to face Uraraka, Tsuyu asked, "Didn't my dad lend one of the guys he's got working for him to your dad to take care of something for him?"
Nodding a few times in confirmation, Uraraka replied, "Oh yeah. My dad borrowed Toga from your dad to take care of something for him."
A hint of mildly alarmed confusion appeared in Izuku's features at the mention of Toga. "Hang on a minute. Isn't Toga that girl who attacked us at the training camp?"
"She is," Kinoko spoke up, drawing attention to herself from the others, "But she works for Mr. Asui now, as does a number of others, such as that former yakuza guy that hurt Eijiro during his first stint interning under Fat Gum."
"That explains why Rappa got down on his hands and knees and forced his forehead to the ground in front of me as he apologized," Kirishima remarked.
"Wow, Kinoko's got it bad for Kirishima," Yui in the audience remarked, drawing nods of agreement out of a number of others while Kinoko herself shrank into her theater seat. As for Rappa himself, he merely shrugged and laughed off the bit involving him.
"Yes, Fumi and I got it that Don Uraraka, who is Fumi's classmate Uraraka's father, borrowed Toga from the godfather to...voice some displeasure for him in regards to the recent court case where those three guys got off," Dark Shadow remarked, "Similarly, Don Tokage borrowed the godfather's man Dabi for a job related to said displeasure, and even the godfather's old friend Mr. Torino will take care of a minor problem."
Curious, the boys looked over and saw Ganma talking to Gran Torino, who kissed a ring that was on Ganma's right hand ring finger when said hand was held out.
"Heh, so I'm friends with the mafia here," Gran Torino in the audience remarked, a slight hint of amusement in his tone, "Given how that Realmcrafter guy used his powers to have me learn everything that occurred here prior to me being summoned, I can't say that me being in cahoots with the mafia is the weirdest thing that was in any of the realms shown thus far."
"Oh, Kinoko's dad borrowed that Spinner fellow who works for Tsuyu's dad to do something," Uraraka remarked casually, "But I think it's a job unrelated to what Dabi, Toga and Mr. Torino are going to do." The boys all looked concerned, even Tokoyami; for his own part, Dark Shadow merely chuckled in mildly dark amusement.
"...Hoo boy Sho," Hizashi in the audience said to Aizawa, "Aren't you glad that the girls' respective dads aren't really the heads of various mafia families? Otherwise, your penchant for using expulsion as a threat would make you the wrong kind of enemies."
"Zip it, Mic," the underground hero snapped back in a mildly irritated tone, unable to help it but think about how Hizashi had a bit of a point.
...
Toga could be seen walking up a staircase at a performing arts theater, giggling to herself as she thought about what she was about to do. Given that it was Toga, she found the task ahead of her to be more playtime for her than a job she had to do; but as they say, if you love the work you do, then you aren't exactly working, per say.
...Meanwhile, a large black businesses van with 'Tokage family brand prehistoric pets' written on the side pulled up in a mildly forested area. Dabi climbed out of the driver's side door of said van, walked to the back of the van, opened it and pulled out a large pet carrier; the sounds coming from said pet carrier clearly weren't canine or feline in nature.
Dabi sat the pet carrier down on the ground, closed the back of the van, then opened the pet carrier before quickly making his way back into the driver's seat and closing the door, saying to himself in a mildly self-amused tone as he did so, "Sorry about this, Handy-Man."
In the audience, Shigaraki turned to face Dabi and shot him an unamused look. "...What the fuck are you up to, you burnt chicken nugget motherfucker?"
Shrugging, Dabi replied, "Hey, it's how things play out in that realm. Don't look at me." Shigaraki was still scowling at Dabi who, with an amused smirk on his face, flipped the handy villain the bird with his right hand middle finger.
Meanwhile, Spinner, dressed up fully as an eskimo for some odd reason, got off of a bus while carrying a violin case; the case made it clear that the neck of the violin within must have been absurdly long, given the case looked to be close to six feet in length.
Meanwhile, Gran Torino could be seen walking into the Detnerat building. Torino, dressed casually, could be seen scarfing down a whole thing of broccoli, before opening a bottle of root beer to chase down the vegetable snack.
"Broccoli and root beer?" Gran Torino in the audience said, clearly confused, "What could the me in this realm be planning to do? And at Detnerat of all places?"
"Rikiya Yotsubashi," Skeptic began in an explanatory tone, prompting a lot of the other people in the audience to look at him, "Also known as Re-Destro, is the president and CEO of Detnerat. I should know as I work for him."
At the performing arts theater, a full audience was watching a live river dance performance. The lead dancer leapt to an off stage area hidden from audience view, mostly to catch his breath before going back out. As the man was catching his breath, Kai Chisaki, also known as the villain Overhaul, walked into the audience and sat at a table located right in front of the stage; it was one of those dinner and a show performing arts theaters.
In the off stage area, the lead dancer was taking a drag from a cigarette when someone behind him whacked him in the back of the head hard enough to knock him out. Leaning over the guy she had just knocked out, Toga giggled to herself as she proceeded to drag the knocked out guy to hide him somewhere.
...Meanwhile over at the Detnerat building, Gran Torino got into an elevator and pushed a button so that it would take him to the top floor. As the elevator door closed, the retired pro hero could be seen pulling out another thing of broccoli to scarf down.
In the forested area, Shigaraki was sitting on a log as he played on a handheld game system of some kind. "Gah!" Shigaraki exclaimed in frustration as he played, "The fucking AI is a fucking cheater! Fuck you, you fucking ni-" Shigaraki was cut off when he heard some animal cries that one, sounded reptilian in nature, two, sounded hostile, and three, sounded predatory and rather hungry. Getting scared, Shigaraki got up and ran, dropping his game in the process.
"...What the hell was in that pet carrier that the villain who's apparently doing a job for Setsuna's folk set down and left open before he got the hell out of there?" Juzo in the audience said as he and everyone else watched Shigaraki on the big screen run away from whatever it was that had been sicced on him. For her part, Setsuna looked on at the currently playing realm in wonder, a slight hint of eager excitedness in her expression.
Shigaraki could be seen running through the forest as he ran from whatever it was that was chasing him, but he tripped over a log and fell down out of sight. A bunch of tiny raptor-like dinosaurs, about the size of medium adult turkeys, ran up and jumped over the log and down upon Shigaraki. They immediately began tearing the handy villain to shreds as they ate their fill, all of them jumping onto Shigaraki all at once and too quickly for him to save himself from becoming an all you can eat buffet.
"Holy shit!" a number of the villains in the audience exclaimed as they, Shigaraki especially, watched as the LOV leader was eaten alive by a pack of dinosaurs. Some of the villains, such as Dabi, and a good number of the heroes, all found the scene hilarious, however.
"Gah!" Shigaraki exclaimed as he was eaten alive, soon dying because two of the tiny raptors decided that they wanted human jugular for lunch.
...Back at the performing arts theater, Toga leapt into the river dance performance, having taken the place of the guy that she had knocked out; she was even dressed same as the guy, but Toga had to also include her sports bra as the guy she knocked out was shirtless. Acting perfectly with the other river dancers, Toga eventually made her way closer and closer to the table that Overhaul was sitting at.
When she got close enough, Toga dealt a swift drop kick that struck Overhaul in his chin; the drop kick had such force behind it that it took Overhaul's head clear off, sending it flying halfway through the theater audience area where it landed in some poor old man's salad. Despite how they had just witnessed what was technically murder, everyone in the audience gave Toga a standing ovation. To her credit, Toga bowed to the cheering audience.
"Wow," Toga in the audience remarked, "That was the first time I ever saw a murder that I had committed be celebrated."
"I hope it's the last," Aizawa said dryly.
At the Detnerat building, Gran Torino was standing at a desk in an office as he lit a large candle that he had placed on the desk. After getting the candle lit, he climbed up onto the desk, as he knew what he was going to do.
Rikiya Yotsubashi could be seen walking to the door that led into his office. Opening the door, Rikiya walked in and closed the door behind him before he saw what was on his desk; Torino stood on the desk, squatting a little so that his butt was a few inches above the lit candle. He turned his head and saw Rikiya standing there. The retired pro hero offered only a casual, indifferent expression.
"Nothing personal, young man. It's business." After that, and to the shocked, worried horror of Re-Destro, Torino cut an incredibly loud and long fart, offering only a simple "Scuse me," as he passed gas right onto the lit candle's flame. Instantly afterwards, the whole of the Detnerat building was destroyed due to exploding from within, killing everyone inside.
In the audience, Torino suddenly burst out laughing. Curious as to why his old mentor was laughing despite seeing himself in a different realm getting killed in an explosion, Toshinori asked, "Hey Torino, why are you laughing? You just saw your alternate realm self getting killed in that explosion."
"Said explosion was caused by me," Torino said through his laughter, "Suicide-bombing the place with my farts!" The older man continued to laugh, and soon others in the theater room began to laugh along with Gran Torino.
...
The following day, Izuku was reading the paper at a counter in the kitchen area of Heights Alliance, with Bakugo, Todoroki, Tokoyami with Dark Shadow, Uraraka and Tsuyu hanging nearby. The article Izuku had just finished reading went over how the villains that got off in that trial were all killed. "...So that's it, then," Izuku said, a hint of knowing resignation in his tone.
"Yeah, I'd say justice has been done," Uraraka said, drawing nods of agreement out of both Tsuyu and Dark Shadow.
Arching a wry eyebrow, Bakugo said, "The fuck? Round Face, as much as those assholes had what happened to them coming, this happened outside of official police and hero work."
Shrugging, Tsuyu said, "I'm going to have to agree with Uraraka on this one."
"You girls cannot be serious," Tokoyami said, looking mildly shocked that the girls would be so casual about the villains being killed off by the mafia.
Getting the boys attention, Dark Shadow explained, "Boys, boys, boys, you all need to relax. When the law, when the heroes, unfortunately fail society, only those who work around all of the legal red tape have the power to do the one deed that benefits all of mankind."
The boys all had looks of contemplation on their faces as they all thought about what Dark Shadow had just said. "...The one deed that benefits all of mankind," Todoroki remarked, "I wonder what that could be?"
...
Spinner was seen walking through the hallway of a hotel somewhere until he found the room that he was apparently looking for. He opened his long violin case, which turned out to be holding a harpoon, took the harpoon and then kicked the hotel room door open. Inside, the tv was showing an adult woman in a suggestive manner, and watching the lewd programming was UA student Minoru Mineta.
The instant that Mineta turned to see who it was that had kicked his hotel room's door open, Spinner chucked his harpoon at Mineta, impaling the short-statured teen through his chest, not only killing him but making him tumble out of the chair that he was sitting in as well. His job complete, Spinner proceeded to leave, dancing in celebration as he made his way through the hotel hallway.
FIN
"Aww, I wanted to be the first from the League to kill that guy," Toga in the audience said in a mildly disappointed tone as most everyone else in the audience proceeded to laugh at how Mineta was killed off this time.
As for the purple ball-haired boy himself, he merely looked on with a dry expression. "...A harpoon to the chest," Mineta said dryly, "Really." Over where the villains sat in the audience, Dabi offered Spinner a high five, which the lizardman villain accepted.
Over where they stood in front of the big screen, Tale and Kotaro were both suppressing some chuckling, with Tale after he had settled down wondering what kind of realm would be next.
END OF CHAPTER
Author's notes;
This chapter was actually done up on my pad; I'm not exactly in a position to update any of my more serious works, given that my computer's down at the moment, but I can do small things in the meanwhile. But more on that later. Anyway, I have a few ideas on what to do next, but as always I am open to suggestions for what the 1-A and 1-B girls could be.