"LAV! Hold On!" Leizcio yelled, grabbing Lavania, dodging a beam of water from the mugger. He looks to see the damage the beam had done, seeing a wide and shallow hole left in the sidewalk. The Trigger drug does seem to work, having increased the output and strength of the mugger's water quirk.
"Why do you continue to attack me?! You got something against me other than flipping you?!"
"DOESN'T MATTER! NOW JUST FUCKING DIE!"
The mugger begins to power up, with the orbs of water glowing a dark blue, his body shaking, seems like his body is barely able to handle the power increase from Trigger. But at this point, he could care less, he just wants to get rid of the kid who humiliated him.
"How did I ever even humiliate you?! You tried to mug me?! You don't get to say shit!"
"YOU DON'T GET IT KID! SOME MAN WANTED TO GET RID OF YOUR FATHER! I KNOW HE'S STRONG AS SHIT, I'M NOT FIGHTING HIM! BUT A KID? AND ONE HE LEFT BEHIND? IT WOULD DAMAGE HIS REPUTATION! THE ONLY THING IMPORTANT TO HIM!"
'I'm not sure who'd actually put some bounty on him, and I hate him, but that doesn't matter right now. I have to knock this guy out... Somehow...' Leizcio thought to himself, slowly building up energy in his fists.
As electrical sparks began to dance around Leizcio, he starts to speed himself up. But he sees that the water beam starts to accelerate toward him quickly. Wasting no time, he runs Lavania over to the car, putting her phone in her hand in hopes that she gets the message and calls for the cops. As it may be, he'll have to face this human-sized water pressure cannon by himself.
"So uh, buddy, you sure you wanna keep doing this? I mean, electricity doesn't mix well with water!"
"SHUT THE FUCK UP AND FIGHT"
'Oh shit'
Another blast nearly hits Leizcio, the fact that he isn't as fast as he was before and the guy's water moves faster with the enhancement is making this extremely difficult. He's running out of options here, those beams are nearly as fast as he is right now.
'Shit I can barely dodge them, and it keeps damaging the property around here. Wait, I can up my speed and my heat is kinda like my stop sign right? Just gotta make sure I don't heat up too much, not trying to get hurt right now. Beat this guy, and we're both safe. Just gotta hit him with this punch with that energy I've been building up since he first shot at us. Just got to find an opening.'
From then on, Leizcio stays silent, he begins to speed up, he feels the electricity coursing through his body, a tingling sensation follows after, and a warm feeling envelops him, realizing he's hit a higher level of speed, the beam slows down as if it was the first confrontation all over again.
'Whew, okay, feeling a little bit warm right now. If I can just land this one punch on him, I should be able to make him unconscious, I guesstimated the amount of energy I needed so it's like a taser punch. God bless past me for watching those random videos at 3 in the morning.'
Now having the energy needed, he runs to the mugger, moving fast enough that he can see the water droplets standing still in midair around the beam. As he approaches him, energy begins to coat his fist, focusing the rest of his electricity into his right fist, his punch connects with the mugger's rib. Beginning to slow down back to a normal speed, he sees the electricity from his fist leave as it attacks the mugger, launching him back, leaving him to lay on the sidewalk unconscious. Leizcio may not realize it now, but this battle with a drugged-up petty mugger, saving his sister, and defeating the villain, would be his first heroic act.
Putting his hands behind his head and catching his breath, he savors the moment after beating up this random attacker. But what intrigued him is what he said about his father and the man after him. There may not be much he can do about it now, but it's something he'll run into another day.
"Damn that was quick, oh shit Lav!"
"Lav! Are you okay?"
Coming from behind the car, Lavania reveals herself, a bit shaken from the recent events, but glad that Leizcio doesn't seem to be majorly hurt.
"Lei are you okay? You're the one that fought that guy!"
"I'm fine, he's unconscious right now. You already called for some help right?"
"Yeah called a bit after you dropped me off here."
"Okay good, guess we just wait now huh?"
"Yeah, should probably keep an eye on him though. Did you see what he stabbed himself with?"
"More or less, but it's for sure trigger, his attacks were much stronger than when I first confronted him. But did you hear what he said?"
" Yeah, and while Mashito isn't important, it is still concerning that they're after him, even more, so that they also see you as a way to hurt him. But judging from the looks of it, the man doesn't have much money sending a drugged-up hooligan after him."
"Yeah, and seeing him beat hopefully sends the message through that his money was a waste and it's pointless."
"Yeah, and thank you, Lei, you did well going up against him."
As they both have become calm, police sirens began to grow louder as they approached the area. Once the cops have arrived, Leizcio and Lavania explained the situation but bent the story so that it seemed like the mugger tired out while Leizcio just dodged without his quirk. After having to answer some questions, they tried to bring up the threat that the mugger spoke, but the cops brushed it off as the guy being delusional. After an eventful few hours, they return home to the cafe, wobbling inside, struggling to stay awake. Today was indeed quite the mentally exhausting day for them both. And mostly physically exhausting for Leizcio.
"The cafe is already set up for tomorrow right? Lav?"
"... No..I had planned on doing it when we returned but that obviously changed."
-sigh-
"One second"
Leizcio, reluctantly, speeds up and begins to set up the cafe so it's ready for tomorrow. He cleans out the pastry case, washes and dries all the baking tools so they're ready for tomorrow morning. He wipes down the tables and windows. To Lavania, it just looked like a streak of lightning was moving everything all over the place. The streak suddenly disappears and Leizcio appears right in front of her.
"Done"
"Thank you so much, you can take the day off tomorrow, today's been a lot for you."
"I'll be okay, just need to get a good night's rest. And you should probably get some as well."
"Okay, you're right, good night then."
"Good night."
As they entered their respective rooms, Leizcio loaded up his computer. While tempted to watch a bunch of dudes build a pool with just their bare hands in the wild, he decided that he'd look at some interviews of his father, hoping to understand more of the electric part of his quirk. He inherited that part of his quirk from Mashito. Unsurprisingly, there's plenty of them, now the question is if any of them actually reveal how his bio-electricity quirk works, or if it's just a bunch of random ones to boost his ego. Grabbing a notebook, he prepares to watch through the most boring shit he's ever seen.
"God I hope I don't fall asleep watching this crap."
15 minutes in, he fell asleep, and you can't blame him, Mashito would just try and talk up his battles, but never really went over how he beat up the villains. All of this combined with the exhaustion, Leizcio falls asleep on his notebook.
-BEEP BEEP BEEP-
Leizcio wakes up groggily and turns off his alarm. He stands up from his chair, losing his balance for a second after sitting for so long. Realizing that opening time is in an hour, he takes a quick shower and changes into his work apparel, and walks downstairs to organize the pastries for the day.
"Morning Lei, thanks for setting up the place yesterday, gave us a bit more time to sleep."
"Yeah no problem, I'm going to treat myself to some donuts from yesterday."
"Of course, go for it."
As Leizcio gets his donuts for breakfast, he feels some furry thing rub against his leg. Who else could it be than Stardew cafe's mascot pech the cat!
"Hi pech! Ready for work today?!" Leizcio talked to pech in a childish voice.
Pech just responds with some purrs and more headbutts into Leizcio's legs. After receiving a few head scratches and belly rubs, pech goes to his glorified cat tower near the pastry case. As opening time approaches, a small line begins to form outside the door. Finishing his food in a flash, he tidies himself and puts on his work apron.
After serving a few customers, he sees someone who comes by practically every day. To the average person, the guy looks like some hobo who just woke up. But Leizcio and Lavania know him as their top customer, and that's all thanks to pech.
"Hello, , a medium black coffee as usual?"
"Yes please."
After Aizawa receives his coffee the next procedure in his routine would be to give attention to pech, the sole reason he comes to Stardew cafe, it was a rational decision to go there for a coffee and to pet a cat. Killing two birds with one stone if you will.
After finishing his coffee and petting pech, he leaves the cafe to go and do whatever he does. Well usually for the most part, but this time, he sat down at one of the tables and pulled out a laptop. It was usually around this time of the year that he'd take some time to work on something. It always made Leizcio curious as to what he'd do. Since there was a bit of a lull of people coming in for the time being, he decided he could use this time to ask Aizawa his question.
" , I do not mean to intrude, but what do you usually work on this time of year?"
"Classes for UA. Teaching the hero course is a pain."
'Hero course? Oh yeah, I can apply for that huh? Now that I have a quirk at least.'
"I can see how that could happen, we're glad that pech can be of help, let us know if you wish to order anything else."
"Of course, thank you Villa."
Going back to work, Leizcio let Aizawa work in peace, however, he'd space out from time to time, wondering what the hero course at UA would be like. But other than that, it was a regular day at the cafe, the majority of pastries were sold, Pech got plenty of attention from new and old customers. Now Leizcio can finally ask the question that's been picking at his mind ever since he spoke to Aizawa today.
"Hey, Lav? You were in the business course in UA a few years ago right?"
"Yeah, why?"
"Do you know anything about the hero course there?"
"Well from some of the friends I knew, it was hell, since they had to train their mind and body and all that jazz you know? Anyways, you probably got inspired to ask that from huh?"
"Yeah, I didn't know that he was a teacher there of all places. It's quite a well-known school."
"Yeah, but he's a really great pro hero even though he's not well known. But he's one hell of a strict teacher. So if you were to get him for your class, know that you'll excel if you listen closely to what he says."
"Wait if? You thought I was going to apply to UA? I mean after talking to Mr. Aizawa, I was, but yeah how'd you know?"
"I just had a hunch, but you're fit to go there and become a pro-hero. With your heart and your quirk combined, you'll help so many people just like mom did."
"Thank you Lav, guess that means I oughta start training my quirk a lot more then huh?"
"Yeah, considering the fact that the UA entrance exam is in about 3 months, you have to catch up in terms of being able to use your quirk."
"Yeah, you're right Lav. But like I've said before, I don't mind working hard to get this quirk of mine to be strong enough to help others!" Leizcio replied enthusiastically. It's fair to say he's thrilled about becoming a pro hero. But first, he has to train that quirk of his and get faster!
Chapter 3
End
[A/N]
Hey y'all! Sorry for forgetting to upload the rest of the chapters! Figured I'll just post them all up rn lmao. Either way, I hope you can continue to enjoy this story. Thank you for reading!