'Stand up'

'Pick yourself up'

'You're the only one here'

'You have to do this'

'Stand your ground'

Mentally yelling to himself, Leizcio has fully risen were. He sees clearly from a crack in his goggles, the monster in front of him.

A true monster. Eyes that stare and threaten your soul. A body of a beast that may as well have been a demon from someone's nightmares. His punches were like getting rammed by a car. His entire presence was damning, striking fear to whoever would be unfortunate to fight this monster.

Leizcio wants to cry out of pure fear, he doesn't know what to do. He could barely make the monster flinch at one of the strongest attacks he has. He's been dealing with just regular people this whole time. He's never had to face someone who could make his speed inferior.

The monster leaps at him once again, ready to slam his fists down and bury Leizcio 6 feet underground. Mustering what he could, Leizcio gets out of the way. But he trips up and rolls onto the ground. The pain is starting to get to him, messing up his train of thought and derailing it.

But he can't stop now, he has to find a way to neutralize this monster. All the pro-heroes that were available are dealing with all the other villain attacks in the area. If Leizcio is defeated, there's no telling what damage the monster would do to the surrounding streets.

Coming up with the best that he could, he runs over to a lamppost, in hopes that the beast attempts to attack him. And that it did, running on all fours, swiping his fist at Leizcio. But in turn, he breaks the lamp post, leaving parts of it on the ground. As fast he could, Leizcio grabbed a large shard from the debris.

When the beast attacks again, Leizcio barely dodges, and he quickly goes to the back of it.

He slashes at the monster's back, but yet it barely did anything but leave a small scratch. In a desperate attempt, he drives the metal shard into the beast.

The monster screams in pain, and slaps Leizcio off of him, sending him flying.

Leizcio groans in pain, as he could hear one of his ribs cracking from that impact. While he was able to inflict some damage, it wouldn't be nearly enough to actually do anything. He tries getting up, but he's punched in the face once again, barely able to put his guard up.

He's thrown to the floor again, his forehead is bleeding. His mouth starts to bleed as well, his eyesight becoming blurry.

...

"Mom! Mom! Look!"

"What Lei?"

A young Leizcio tugs on his mom's shirt, trying to get her attention. He sees a hero saving a family from some villain who had blades coming out of their wrists. The hero was struggling however, His quirk was something like wires coming out of his hands.

But he continued to fight as the family was behind him, worried for their safety and that of the hero. Leizcio and his mother were also watching, but his mother was calling the cops since the villain was preoccupied.

The hero had slashes over his body, some small cuts here and there but the villain was able to scar him on his chest. The hero had a face of concern as if he didn't know he could take down this villain. But he had to, he had to save the family behind him.

In a turn of events, he uses his wires like a whip, aiming for the eyes of the villain. The villain of course protected his eyes. And that's when the hero took his chance. He quickly wired the arms of the villain and proceeded to tie his legs together to make sure that the villain wouldn't escape. Just for extra measure, however, he hit the villain hard over the head to knock him out.

The family quickly hugged the hero, thanking him for saving his life. Leizcio quickly ran toward the hero as well, with his mother chasing after him. Leizcio tugged at the hero's suit, hoping to get his attention as well. The hero turned around and looked down, and saw a young kid with a notebook out.

"Hey, kid! What can I do for ya!"

"Can you sign this, please! You were so cool!" Leizcio said excitedly, jumping up and down from anticipation.

"Of course!" The hero said, writing down his hero name and leaving a small logo with it.

"You did well against that villain sir, I take it that you're a bit new?" Leizcio's mom asked.

"Yeah, guess I was just lucky enough that my plan worked. How'd you know?"

"I heal heroes whenever they're injured, so I've seen quite the amount of fights. Here let me heal you."

Leizcio's mom put her hand on his shoulder, and the scars were slowly healing. The rookie pro hero was taken by surprise, but grateful nevertheless. Leizcio would wave bye to the hero, as both him and his mom walked their way back home.

"Mom wasn't that cool! He saved those guys and beat up the villain!"

"Yeah, he was really good!" Leizcio's mom said, patting him on the head.

"Mom! I wanna be a hero like him! I wanna save people from nasty people! Leizcio exclaimed, smiling wide with the idea of him saving others in his head.

"You can be one Leizcio, and I know you'll be a great one."

...

Leizcio's vision starts to clear up, having had some strange memory play quickly in his mind. He still laid on the ground with the monster slowly approaching, almost as if it was an animal closing in on its prey. But Leizcio refuses to go down.

He stands back up, he remembered why that memory was so important to him. It's what inspired him to become a hero. To save others, make sure that no life is lost. So that nobody has to miss their friend or family from an accident. Didn't matter if he'd be quirkless or not, he'd find a way to save others.

Leizcio raises his fist to the sky.

He's been blessed with this quirk, almost perfect for saving everyone in time. In a short amount of time, it's reinforced his ideals. He remembers telling Lavania why he went and fought his first villains. He remembers telling Uraraka why he wanted to become a hero that'd save everyone, pros, and civilians.

Electrical energy shoots into his fist.

"I'M NOT GOING TO ALLOW YOU TO HURT ANYONE ON A RAMPAGE JUST BECAUSE YOU WANTED SOME QUICK MONEY!"

"I'LL END THE DARKNESS THAT YOU BROUGHT UPON OTHERS!"

Leizcio charges ahead, ignoring his limits. The monster tries to swat him away, but he doesn't move fast enough. The energy from Leizcio's punch violently exits his fist, striking the monster with a large amount of energy. With the metal previously impaled into it, the monster screeches, and it begins to grow smaller.

Leizcio doesn't waste a single second and begins to start running. He starts sending multiple high mass punches at once, each hurting the beast and leaving it helpless to defend itself.

The monster is then reduced back to the frail man it originally was.

The man is wheezing, exhausted, and damaged. He tries to escape, crawling on the floor moving away from Leizcio. Leizcio simply grabs him by the head, and sends a small voltage, knocking him unconscious.

Leizcio is running on adrenaline and is running on willpower at this point. Hearing sirens from afar, he has no choice but to run back home. Leizcio reaches an alleyway close by and takes off his prototype suit and changes into casual clothes. Limping his way back to the cafe he sees another villain on the floor, with a dark bruise on the head. Lavania looks at Leizcio and smirks, proud that she beat up that villain. Leizcio chuckles a bit, but he falls to the floor, exhausted and damaged.

...

Leizcio wakes up in a hospital, multiple IV bags connected to him, and Lavania and another doctor standing next to her.

"Hey kid, how're you feeling right now?"

"I think I'm doing okay, not really any pain right now."

"Figures, you had 3 broken ribs, a fractured fist, and a bunch of bruises on your body."

Leizcio began panicking internally unsure how he's going to explain how he got them without saying that he fought a big-time villain.

"Your sister over here tells me that you were defending her and yourself from some villains is that correct?"

"Yeah, those guys were brutal."

"Well, we're glad that you're okay now. Since you don't have a quirk that could be used for combat, you're fine, so rest up a bit if you need."

"Wait what do you mean not used for combat?"

"Well we figured that you had some self-healing quirk, your body must've gone overdrive and boosted it. You were able to heal your own damage in about a day. A rather impressive quirk."

"Huh, well thank you, sir."

As the doctor leaves the room, Leizcio looks up to his sister.

Screw that guy he fought, his sister was glaring at him with menacing eyes. Probably the scariest thing in existence. Before Leizcio could beg for mercy, Lavania grabbed his ear and whispered to him.

"While what you did was very stupid, it was a good thing. You didn't get revealed or anything and you took down the plan by taking out that one guy."

Lavania let go of his ear and patted his shoulder. Leizcio was glad to hear all of that. He slowly began to pick himself up and get off the hospital bed. Unsurprised, Lavania walks with him as they both check him out of the hospital.

As they were returning home in Lavania's car, Leizcio checked his phone and got a few messages. He got some from his friend Hamada, mostly asking if the cafe was okay after the attacks last night. There was also some from Uraraka asking if he was okay knowing that he'd pull a vigilante stunt. While he was responding to them, he was interrupted by an incoming call from Tamashi. Mentally preparing himself for the yelling he's about to hear from the phone, he answers the call.

"Leizcio?! Are you okay?! I saw what happened from a video someone posted online!"

Leizcio was not surprised, his luck that someone was watching.

"But don't worry! Your face didn't show! And your voice sounded like you were vibrating your vocal cords or something!"

That caught Leizcio off guard, but he's glad that it was an out-of-the-blue sort of thing.

"Hey, Tamashi! I'm fine now! Just got out of the hospital fully healed!"

"That's a relief to hear! But make sure that you take a break from all the vigilantism now okay? You got school coming up and you have to focus on that!"

"Of course Tamashi. I'll talk to you later, until then."

Shortly after, Leizcio and Lavania arrived back home and were greeted by a worried pech. They gave him scratches and pets as he rolled around the floor. Leizcio quickly grabbed something from the fridge, he need some sustenance after a crazy day.

After eating, he went upstairs and into his room. Looking at his bed, he smiled and threw himself on it. His mind was tired after everything and wanted some rest. He fell asleep after a short while and pech entered his room and slept on his back as well. Leizcio went to sleep knowing that he could finally catch a break for the time being.

Chapter 9

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