"So, what did you want to show me?" Izuku asked Nikku as he stood in her "office".
"These." Nikku took out a plastic bag that was filled with a bunch of small spider-shaped devices. "Spider-trackers. Attach one of these on a villain and their location will be uploaded onto the hud of your costume. I'll have access to their locations as well."
"That's amazing!" Izuku quickly took the trackers and smiled at them. "Knowing a villain's exact location! This will be amazing for ambushes!"
Suddenly Nikku's phone started vibrating. She picked up, read something on it, before looking back up at Izuku. "Ingenium is chasing a B-class villain through the streets nearby. If you move fast you should be able to intercept them."
"Right!" Izuku quickly ran out of the room, going to don his costume once again.
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"Come back here villain!" Ingenium was starting to get tired of this fucker.
B-Class villain, Kangaroo had robbed an A.T.M and was running away with a bag of money.
Or rather, running and jumping away.
His quirk, Super Legs, made his legs extremely powerful. A simple quirk, but very effective.
Kangaroo was parkouring around the city, all the other heroes had already lost track of him, and Ingenium was also starting to lose pace, getting farther and farther from his target.
"Get lost heroes! You can't catch me!" Kangaroo shouted out.
He jumped from the street to the top of a car, to the side of a building, and then into the air, about to jump back onto the street.
However suddenly Izuku dove down from the building and tried to punch Kangaroo's lights out.
Fortunately for the villain, Izuku missed slightly, his fist grazing the villain's back as the Kangaroo managed to narrowly pass Izuku's lunge.
"Whew." Kangaroo got really nervous when he saw Izuku diving for him, but as he quickly hopped away, seeing Spider-Man and Ingenium getting farther and farther, he was more confident that he got away scot-free.
Meanwhile, Ingenium had finally run out of steam, and came to a stop, rapidly trying to catch his breath, while Izuku stood beside him, making no effort to chase after the villain.
"You ok?" Izuku asked the tired hero. "Sorry I don't really have any grape juice. I do have a few energy bars."
"I'm fine...the villain...he's getting away!" Tensei didn't like putting this matter into the hands of a vigilante. But he liked leaving a dangerous criminal on the streets even less.
"For now. Remember that dive I did? Well I thought just in case I missed him, I'd try to attach one of these to him." Izuku took out a spider tracker.
"A tracking device?" Tensei asked.
"Exactly. I figured that catching him maybe a bit tricky. So instead I'll just wait till he's inside, and spring an ambush on him." Izuku explained.
"Oh...so...that energy bar." Tensei inquired.
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After making sure he lost the heroes, Kangaroo had made it to his small apartment/hideout.
"Hehe." Kangaroo sat down on his torn-up couch and took out something from his pocket.
A diamond. He'd found this pretty little gem in a jewelry store, as one would, and after he liberated it, that is when he got into his chase with the heroes.
"Now. How to pawn this thing." Kangaroo stood up and started pacing around the room, admiring his stolen gem.
And then he made the mistake of standing in front of the window.
CRASH!
Suddenly Izuku burst through the window and kicked Kangaroo to the floor.
"Wha-AGH!" Kangaroo didn't have any time to react or get off the floor, before Izuku stomped his head through the floor, knocking him unconscious.
Izuku picked up the unconscious villain and flipped him on his back, where he placed the tracer. "Spider tracers worked like a charm."
"Of course they did. I'm building a brand you know? What would it do to my reputation if I gave you faulty equipment?" Nikku asked.
"Probably nothing because you're blackmailing me." Izuku pointed out.
"I mean yeah, but you get the point," Nikku said. "The police should be there in a few minutes so web him and leave."
"Right." Izuku threw the villain up to the ceiling, and webbed him to it, leaving his legs dangling in the air. "Why don't you just...hang out...I really need to get better at these."
And with his business done, Izuku jumped out the window and swung away.
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After changing out of his costume, Izuku made his way home, going through the front door and immediately he smelled his mother's cooking.
Ahhh. I'm so glad my identity hasn't gotten exposed. Izuku could have only imagined what would have happened if he didn't have that invisibility power. If his face really had been shown on live T.V.
He couldn't show his face again. Couldn't come home again. Couldn't see his mother again. Couldn't eat her cooking again.
Izuku needed to be more careful in the future.
"I'm home!" The green teen called out to his mother.
"Welcome back home dear, just sit down on the couch, dinner will be done soon!" Inko told him.
Izuku grinned and quickly dove for the couch, shooting a web at the remote to bring it to him, before turning on the T.V. to watch the news.
"Breaking news. B-class villain Kangaroo had committed a robbery. During his escape, several heroes had attempted to give chase, most notably, Ingenium, as well as the vigilante Spider-Man. However, while the villain did seemingly escape, he was later captured by Spider-Man. How Spider-Man tracked down the villain was revealed in an interview with Ingenium."
The camera switched to show Ingenium on the streets, talking to a reporter.
"Yeah so apparently Spider-Man has tracking devices. Probably made that Tinkerer person he was talking about. Guess the Tinkerer is no joke." Tensei said.
"Sir, witness report that you made no attempts to stop or capture Spider-Man when he arrived? Why is that?" One reporter asked.
"I was already exhausted, and he is Spider-Man. Not someone you want to try catching when you're not at a hundred percent." He explained.
"It's been noted that many other heroes have also not pursued Spider-Man? Instead choosing to ignore this Vigilante? Do you know why this is?" Another reporter asked.
"Well…" Tensei sighed. "That comes down to a few reasons. Firstly, do you know how fast Spider-Man goes? The guy can outrun most cars and some trains, both on foot and with his webs. Most heroes can't go that fast. And secondly, he can maneuver through the air. A lot of heroes just can't reach him, and when you combine that with his ridiculous speed and it means that like, seventy percent of heroes just can't catch him at all. And let's say you do catch up to him. Then what? You then have to subdue a guy who deadlifts buses and move like a bullet. Also, I heard he can turn invisible now? Not really sure what's up with that, but we can add it to the list of things that make Spider-Man hard to catch. Add that all up, and you can see that the vast majority of heroes just don't have a way of dealing with him on their own. So they have to ask themselves if it's worth it to try and go catch him."
"You don't think catching a highly dangerous, high-profile vigilante like Spider-Man is worth it?" Asked another reporter.
"Honestly, for most people...no," Tensei answered, knowing very well that he was gonna be hearing about this statement for a while. "Listen, if you're All Might, or Endeavor, or Hawks. Then yes, you should go out of your way to take him down. Because they're capable of doing so. But for most heroes, chasing him down is a waste of time, because you're not gonna catch him. And as a hero, if you waste time, people could die. And it's not like Spider-Man is much a menace anyway. He's never killed anyone, never let a civilian get hurt during his escapades, and has caused very little property damage during his fights. Really the most damage you can say he's caused is to the villains themselves, with many of them having broken bones as a result of his punches. But considering what we've seen of his strength, the fact that he hasn't killed anyone speaks to his skill. And it's a huge shame he became a vigilante because I easily see someone like getting into the top ten."
Izuku was so, so torn when he heard this.
On one hand, holy crap Engenium was praising his skill! And had even said he could have gotten into the top ten!
...Could have. Of course, Ingenium was still looking at him like a vigilante. A highly skilled and powerful vigilante. Someone the heroes would have to take down.
He was still far from the point where people were crying out to let him into the hero course.
Izuku knew he still had a lot of work ahead of him.
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"AHHHHHHH!"
"Help! Help!"
CRASH!
"GAH!" Kamui Woods screamed out in pain, as he was smashed through a building and into a car. "Agh."
Kamui was covered in bruises and cuts, including a big bleeding gash in his side, and several parts of his costume were torn and broken. In other words, he had taken quite the beating.
And the one who had given him that beating, was currently climbing through the building he just punched through.
He was eight feet tall, with an entirely grey and extremely muscular body. He wore only a pair of brown shorts. And he had a huge horn on top of his head.
This was the A-rank villain, Rhino.
"You dead hero!" Rhino shouted out, as he stamped his foot, and got ready to charge.
"Shit." Kamui cursed, as he tried to pull himself up.
But Rhino was already charging at him and as he came closer Kamui only saw death approaching.
THWIP!
And suddenly, a web-line hit Kamui's chest, and he was pulled into the air, narrowly avoiding death at the horn of Rhino, as the villain ran through the car, tearing it apart, before he slammed into the opposite building, going right through it like a wrecking ball.
"Huh?" Kamui was confused, as he found himself being lifted up to the roof of a building, where he came mask to mask with Izuku. "Spider-Man?"
"In the flesh." Izuku tried to quip, but Kamui could very clearly make out the anxiety and fear in his voice.
"...I'd love to get you back for what happened last time, but it seems like...I may need your help."
"I can see that." Izuku looked down and saw that Rhino was slowly climbing out of the hole he made in the building. "But you're too injured to take him on."
"I can still fight." Kamui insisted, forcing himself onto his feet, but he was clearly struggling. "I am a hero I-"
"Have to save the people." Izuku interrupted him. "One more hit from that guy and you're dead. And you can't help anyone like that. Focus on evacuating the people still in the area. I'll take on Rhino."
"...He's tough. I could barely even scratch him. Do you think you can take him?" Kamui asked, his tone reflecting the weight of the situation.
Izuku paused for a second before answering. "We'll see. I'll keep him away from the people. Go!"
And with that Izuku jumped onto the roof, and onto the back of Rhino, who had just been looking around wondering where Kamui went. "Wha?"
"Hey, there tall grey and ugly! The name's Spider-Man! I'll be kicking your butt today!" Izuku said in the cockiest tone he could muster.
"Get off me!" Rhino reached up to pull Izuku off his back, but Izuku jumped off into the air, doing a flip before landing on all fours a few feet away from Rhino.
"Man you are so slow! No wonder you're endangered!" Izuku silently apologized to all the endangered Rhinos for that joke.
"Grrr! Why you little." Rhino got ready to change, but Izuku quickly webbed his huge feet to the ground. "What the! Grrr! Get this off of me!"
Rhino tried to raise his legs, and the webbing was doing its best to keep him from doing so, but it was getting stretched out by Rhino's strength, and it might not hold long.
So Izuku just unloaded a massive web barrage on Rhino. Going from his feet, up. Webbing up his legs making it even harder for him to move, then Izuku got closer, and started jumping around webbing Rhino up at all angles. Webbing his arms to his side to keep him from moving them, until his entire body, except for his head, was webbed up in a giant web cocoon.
"LET ME OUT!" Rhino shouted as he struggled to try and get out of the web.
"Nu-uh. You still haven't eaten your dinner!" Izuku flipped in front of Rhino and cocked his arm back. "A plate full of Knuckle Sandwiches!"
WHAM!
Izuku punched Rhino in the face at full power, knowing he wouldn't need to hold back, and sure enough, after that crack to the face, Rhino seemed only mildly hurt. More pissed off than injured really.
And so Izuku hit him again.
WHAM!
And again.
WHAM!
And again.
WHAM!
Izuku's fist pounded down on Rhino's face like cannonballs being shot out of a machine gun. He was hitting him so fast that too the people around who Kamui was evacuating, it looked like he made multiple arms.
Rhino's face was getting more and more injured, his nose bleeding, bruises forming, and even a few teeth flying out. The villain got angrier and angrier with each punch, and with this anger, he found a bit of extra strength.
WATCH OUT!
Izuku's eyes widened as his spider-sense warned him that Rhino was about to attack, but unfortunately, he was already mid-swing, and it took him too long to cancel his attack.
"RAGHHH!" Rhino's arms burst free and smacked Izuku back.
"GAH!" Izuku was launched back a few dozen feet, before crashing into a car.
Rhino had hit him so hard that it took a few seconds for Izuku to snap back to reality.
"Agh." Izuku sat up and felt a pain on the right side of his chest, where he had been hit. "I think he broke a rib."
Suddenly Izuku felt the ground shaking, and his spider-sense blaring. And he looked up to see Rhino charging at him.
Izuku was about to jump up to avoid the attack, but just when he was standing up to do that, his spider-sense buzzed even harder.
People behind you!
Izuku glanced behind him and saw that a good distance away was a police line, with a bunch of civilians watching from behind it. If he just jumped over then Rhino might crash into the people.
He looked back at Rhino, and he had about five seconds to figure out what to do before Rhino charged him, horn first.
And so in a panic, Izuku charged right back at him.
When the two were only a foot apart, Rhino leaned down to try and impale Izuku with his horn, but Izuku had a plan.
He ducked down as low as he could, going under Rhino's head, and then rising back up, grabbing his chest.
Then, he used Rhino's own forward momentum, to launch him into the air.
CRASH!
Rhino landed a few feet away, the impact of his massive body hitting the street, making a small crater.
Izuku jumped up into the air, over Rhino, and started raining webs onto him, sticking him to the ground for a bit, before Izuku shot a web-line right next to Rhino's face.
"Spider Smash! Izuku shouted, as he yanked down on the web as hard as he could, sending him hurtling down at high speeds, while he cocked back his fist.
SMASH!
Izuku's fist hit Rhino's face with monumental force. The power of this one blow made winds gush around him and kicked up a massive cloud of dust and debris, as Rhino was sent deep into the ground and cracks formed in the surrounding street.
When the cloud of dust dispersed, the people saw Izuku, standing triumphantly over an unconscious Rhino.
Although if you took a closer look, you could see Izuku panting and exhausted. That last punch had taken a bit out of him, so he had to take a second to breathe.
Meanwhile, Kamui was not too far away, looking on at Izuku in shock as he stood over the defeated villain.
He had known that Spider-Man has been rapidly upping his game since they met. Going from taking on nameless thugs to C-class villains, to B-class villains, and now he had taken down an A-class villain.
It was scary how fast this kid was progressing.
And so when Spider-Man started swinging away, Kamui just watched. He was in no condition to pursue him, and besides, he should stay to make sure no one was trapped in the destroyed buildings anyway.
Okay! The next chapter will be a break from the fighting. Before we get to the climax of the arc.
Also, yes Rhino would get beaten by Spider-Man pretty easily too in a one-on-one. Because while Rhino does have the strength to fight Spider-Man, he lacks the speed and mobility, not to mention he is also a giant target. Also, Spider-Man has been shown to be about as strong as Rhino or just a bit weaker, so it's not like it's a huge advantage.
Also, Spider-Man has fought Juggernaut on many occasions so Rhino shouldn't be much of an issue for him
Still, Izuku was inexperienced so Rhino gave him some trouble. Not much, but some. More than most of the other villains he's fought so far. Except for Vulture, but that was when Izuku was at his most inexperienced.
Anyway, that's all for now true believers, please review and have a nice day.