Summary/disclaimer: Time for another chapter of Toxic Relationships. Enjoy the 800-word chapter. I don't own My Hero Academia. Shonen Jump, Kohei Horikoshi and a few others do.

(Japan, night, 1 day after battle with Barricade and Buzzard.)

Gunslinger waited before Blue and Mina joined him and Kyoka, he rested his rifle on his shoulder.

"Your late, me and Ki were waiting for an hour." Gunslinger said, Mina grinned at the nickname Gunslinger had given to Kyoka.

"Sorry, we were talking." Blue said, Gunslinger leaned on the bench next to him before speaking.

"Well, we need to talk about Barricade and Buzzard. We've run into 2 new supervillains and they have henchmen. These guys aren't what we fought before, their better, they have resources." Gunslinger stated before Kyoka hummed.

"And these aren't random attacks, their gearing up for something, they want resources for something. Buzzard had helicopters… One of which Lucas destroyed and crashed into the roof…" Kyoka said, glaring at Gunslinger who pulled out a USB.

"They were taking this, Jack. They weren't planning on sticking around, they were cutting and running. I just want to know what is on this…" Gunslinger said as Kyoka took the flash drive from his hand and blinked.

"You didn't give this to me? You took a flash drive from them and didn't show us?" Kyoka said, raising one of her jacks as Gunslinger leaned into the bench even more.

"It's encrypted, they put a lot of time intro trying to keep me off the drive. I cracked it; it took me 3 hours to crack part of it. I have to keep cracking it, unless you have an expert hacker you can easily contact." Gunslinger said as Kyoka sighed and shook her head before she leaned on the bench.

"So, what does that leave us with? They robbed a bank, then they tried to take a flash drive… What do they want?" Mina said, Blue looked at Gunslinger who was busy thinking of something.

"Gun, you ok?" Blue asked, Gunslinger nodded and then turned to face them.

"The Bank was a diversion." Gunslinger said, the others looked at him in shock before he continued to talk.

"They clearly knew someone would be coming after them, the bank raid was sloppy. They made noise enough for the entire city to hear them. Buzzard might be a crazed psychopath, but he doesn't seem sloppy, neither does Barricade. They did that to draw off attention from whatever else they were going at." Gunslinger stated, Kyoka nodded and finally realized what Gunslinger was talking about.

"So, they staged another break in and got what they needed. We ran into their decoy while they did what they had to do. I should have realized it. They also weren't just fighting us; they were testing us. I was wondering why they were so prepared to ambush us." Kyoka said, Gunslinger nodded.

"They were finding out what we could do, I think Buzzard is in charge of whatever phase of their plan their dealing with right now. That means they're going to be pulling out the big guns the longer we put up a fight. They have a lot of henchmen; we can infer that from the fact that they had a big group with them to fight me and Jack and for their next part of the plan." Gunslinger said, Kyoka turned to them and nodded.

"That means we just fought a warm up, we're going to be dealing with a lot more important business soon." Kyoka said, Blue sighed and rubbed his head.

"So, you mean we haven't even started? You have to be joking, Gun." Blue said, Gunslinger shook his head and held up the flash drive.

"We have to figure out their plan, then we can stop them. We have 2 choices, I crack this drive, or we try and capture them. I doubt we can bring down Buzzard or Barricade unless we're ready or we fight as a team. We handle that, we can think of a way to deal with the rest of that group." Gunslinger stated; Mina kicked at a few rocks.

"We can do both, we have to figure out this plan of them and there's no reason you can't crack the drive and we can't find out the bad guy's super big idea." Mina stated, Blue nodded.

"Then we do what we have to do…. Let's get to work." Gunslinger stated.

Author Notes

Phew, another chapter done! I want to point out the filler chapters like this will be short but will be important to the story. I also want to point out chapters might get a bit infrequent. Next chapter will be either next week or the week after that and will show the heroes coming up with a plan. Until then, Lighting Wolf out!