Chapter 27:

Bakugou was busy watering the plants when the door of the greenhouse got kicked down. He looked a little annoyed as he faced the one responsible. Shiozaki is busy with her group project for Math class so the responsibility is on him today. "For the last time, Hatsume, you're not attaching rockets to my wheelchair."

"Aw…" The pink-haired mechanic sighed disappointingly and left without saying another word. He's gonna have to get someone else to fix that door.

"Bakugou, what happened to the door?" He sighed as the one who annoys him a lot more than usually enters the greenhouse. He turned to face Shiozaki to explain.

"Mei Hatsume."

"Ah." She didn't need an explanation after that. The support course student made a big impression on everyone about herself since the Sports Festival. Rumours said that she's been hanging out with a Class 1A student lately.

"I'll just get her to fix that on her next visit." He continued watering some of the plants in the greenhouse. "That's about enough work done for me today."

He nodded at Shiozaki, who hummed in response while watering her side of the greenhouse. He was about to leave on his wheelchair until a bucket load of water was dumped on him as he went out of it. Shiozaki was the first to rush to his side to see if he's fine.

"Bakugou!" She quickly handed him a towel. Shiozaki glared at the person responsible and spoke with the rare venom in her voice. "Monoma."

"Know your place, crippled trash of society." The sociopathic maniac smirked at a recently doused Bakugou. The latter didn't show any reaction other than drying himself with a towel. "Lots of people are dead because of what you did!"

"That is enough!" Shiozaki quickly rushed to his side while glaring at Monoma. "I will not tolerate any wrongdoings committed on my club members."

"If you want wrongdoings," Monoma sneered while pointing at Bakugou. "Look no further than the person responsible for all the deaths that happened because of that villain."

"You're not exactly a saint either." They heard Shinso's voice from behind Monoma. His kusarigamas near the copycat's throat. "Here's the difference between you two: He's making an effort to be better. You're just an asshole. Scram!"

Shinso let his weapons down with Monoma walking away, seething. "Hey, I got your back. Don't let his words get to you."

Bakugou remained silent while giving the towel to Shiozaki. Shinso nodded at the Gardening Club President before walking away. "Good thing the greenhouse is near the dorms."

"Shinso is right, Bakugou," Shiozaki knelt to the person sitting on the wheelchair. With only Shiozaki left, he let himself look upset. "Please, don't listen to Monoma."

"I… don't know," Bakugou said.

"You're not whoever you were in the past. Not to me, and not anymore." Ibara reassured him.

Meanwhile, at a theme park…

"WOOOOOOOO!" Mina raised her hands as the rollercoaster goes downhill after a big climb. Izuku, on the other hand, was scared shitless. He already passed out before they reached the peak. Mina had to carry him off the ride.

"Sheesh, for a guy who faced off against All Might, you're not good with rides." Mina teased him, which he brushed off with a simple hum. "You know you don't have your mouth stitched, right?"

"Right. I keep forgetting." He rubbed the back of his head, a little embarrassed. That's enough rides for them. He took her to one of those shooting games. "Let's see how you do against me."

"Against you in your specialty? Really, Izuku?" Mina raised her eyebrow while smiling playfully. There is no way this has been awkward. Except for the fact that people everywhere are calling the police on their phones as Izuku passes by. They could be here any moment. "You sure are confident that you won't get caught."

"I'm gonna be fine, don't worry about it." He brushed it off like it was nothing. This had been their dynamic for a while now. They go on a date, Mina calls the police, he escapes. Very romantic.

"You're on." Mina held her toy rifle and began shooting at the targets, having near misses and all that. Izuku absolutely demolished the game, hitting every single target. The guy on the booth thinking he could scam them gave Izuku the big zebra plushie with his lower jaw hanging open in shock.

"Here's your date gift!" Izuku handed her the plushie, which Mina accepted. He kissed her on the cheek as a bonus before pulling out his revolver and shooting the nearby policeman's gun off his hands. "Anyway, I need to go now. This was a fun date, Mina!"

"Hey, you made it possible, Izuku." She grabbed him for a quick kiss on the cheek. "Of course, I can't just let you get away."

She gripped his shoulder tightly, amusing the both of them. Izuku grabbed her wrist and squeezed hard to force her to lose her grip. "Yeah, if you squeeze that part, you can force someone's hand open. Useful for disarming someone."

"Dang, that's effective. I might use this during battle training when I get the chance."

"CIVIL WAR! FREEZE!"

*BANG*

The policeman's gun was yet again shot out of his hand. Izuku started making a run for it while waving his hand farewell to his girlfriend. He shot two more guns off a couple of cops while running away. He jumped off the ledge and landed on a bike with a sidecar. Spinner had been waiting for him.

"Thanks for this, Spinner!"

"Hey, anything for you, boss." Spinner started up the motorcycle and they hauled ass. Izuku quickly grabbed the shotgun prepared in the sidecar and started shooting the wheels off the cop cars chasing them. "Oh shit."

"What is it, Spinner?" Izuku asked. Without warning, the lizard villain swerved to the left, going off course. "Okay, this is worrying. What's the big pro-"

A big ass truck is chasing them. A heavily modified big ass truck. Flamethrowers on the side, a big metal mouth at the front, opening, and closing, ready to chew them to bits. Not only that, but the roof of the truck also has miniguns attached.

"What the hell is that?!"

"I don't know, boss!"

Izuku quickly pulled out his phone and called their main guy. "Hey, Paul, you know what that is? Yeah, the thing chasing us. Wait wait wait wait, you mean to tell me, that thing is specifically designed to take ME out?"

The truck's horn ROARED as it continued to chase them. The driver was swat police laughing maniacally. The heroes are also starting to show up to chase after them. "Don't you think they're overestimating me even a little bit? I mean, I'm just a villain with a gun. Okay, you know what? Thanks for the warning, and yeah, I'd appreciate some cover from your drone. I'll figure the rest of this out."

Out of the corner of his eyes, he spotted a wild open sewer for them to escape to. "Spinner."

"Right." His subordinate got the message and went right over. The truck still followed them but with Paul's drones now providing cover fire, the heroes are gonna be the least of their worries. "What now, boss?"

"Good news, Paul is providing cover fire. Bad news, the truck just activated nitrous."

"WHAT?!" Spinner looked at the side mirror in a panic to see the truck slowly gaining ground. Neither of them was expecting this. "Ah shit, ah shit, ah shit."

"If you got nothing to contribute other than 'Ah shit', at least hand me your grenade launcher," Izuku told Spinner. The man driving quickly gave him his grenade launcher. Izuku aimed and shot the grenade at the front of the truck. As he expected, it was built to resist a lot of damage as the grenade only left a small mark on it. "We're gonna need something bigger for that truck."

"That won't be a problem, boss." Spinner said while spotting their ticket out of here. He swerved to the right much to Izuku's surprise and realization.

"Spinner, are you insane?! Are you sure you can handle this?" Izuku argued, not aiming to die today.

"I need you to have faith in me on this one, boss." Spinner answered back. Izuku stared at him for a moment but immediately sat down. "Besides,"

*CHOOOOOOOOOOOOO*

"The truck is an immovable object and the train is the unstoppable force." At the last second, before the train could hit them, Spinner used the momentum of the motorcycle to make it do a loop around the train tunnel. They didn't bother looking back as they heard the sound of the truck and train crashing at each other.

"All right, remind me not to doubt you in getaways ever again." Izuku finally relaxed after that fiasco. Never mind the property damage, of course. They're villains! Property damage is part of the job. He pulled out his phone again and called Paul. "Hey, Paul. Yeah. Yeah. Thanks. Wait, wait, wait, you found the bastards? The people who sold us out? Wait, they weren't even allies, to begin with? They're tracking our movement with a satellite while using an airplane as a gateway?"

Izuku leaned in, losing his comfortability with this news. "Oh, they're also using it to store cash? When are we raiding it? Right. Right. I'll bring Compress, Miroslav, and Vamps. Steal the money, crash the plane, and fight off reinforcements on the ground. Simple enough. Hopefully, you can smuggle us in."

He closed the call and looked at Spinner with a serious face. "Paul found 'em."

"Too bad. I really wanted to be a part of it, boss." Spinner laughed as they drove off into the sunset.

A week later in UA…

"Before we start today's Super Move training, a new student will be joining us today," Aizawa announced to the class. Everyone gathered around, wondering who the new guy might be. Shinso can make a wild guess but he already knew who it'll be. He stood in the back while chatting with Mina.

"I never got to ask but how was your date?"

"It was fun. I did try to turn him over one more time but he escaped. Still, don't you think that truck was overkill even for him?" Mina pondered aloud about the truck that chased Civil War in his getaway last week.

"You might as well join him then since you look the part of a villain, cretin." Monoma barged into the conversation when nobody asked him. Shinso and Mina rolled their eyes, not wanting to deal with him.

"Monoma," Aizawa called to the copycat. "Since you're the new guy, we can't have more than 20 in our class this time, so, you'll be fighting for your position."

"WHAT?!" Monoma exclaimed but quickly regained his composure. "I-I mean, of course, sir. This will be easy for me."

The door to the training hall slammed open. Mei was the first to enter with her tools at hand. She's being accompanied by Bakugou. "-and so, I promise you, that spine I created for you is way tougher than a normal human spine but I still don't recommend it getting hit often. You can visit me anytime for maintenance and my baby and I will deal with it."

"Right, right, thanks." He patted Mei's shoulder while walking towards Monoma. Every step was heavy for him but he pressed forward with no emotion seen on his face. The copycat still had that smug smirk on his face.

"Good to have you back, bro," Kirishima told his friend, who was excited at the idea of Bakugou replacing Monoma.

"Don't thank me yet."

"Well, well, well," Monoma eyed him up and down, inspecting the explosive hero. "If it isn't The Bad Guy: TnT"

"Rocket Man."

"Hmm?"

"I said my new hero name is Rocket Man." Bakugou smiled softly. "Shiozaki's right. I shouldn't just sit on my ass all day thinking of the 'what ifs'. All I really need right now is a punching bag. Like you."

"Smug prick." Monoma snapped at him.

"Enough," Aizawa commanded. "Get in the ring you two."

"Sorry if I can't give you my best. I'm months out of practice." Bakugou bowed to Monoma, who responded with a bitter look on his face. The two went to the opposite sides of the ring and readied themselves.

"START!"

{- To Be Continued...

A bit on the short side but I promise Bakugou will kick the prick's ass next chap.