author's note : I have never seen Kamen Rider but if i imitated it... it is an awesome coincidence.
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Chapter 33 : Hoshu - Moonfish
"So… This is how you got engaged by Moonfish. You didn't seek him out or…" Aizawa deadpanned at the group.
Izuku interrupted his teacher by raising his hand.
"Sir, I have a personal list of the scariest villains. Moonfish is on it because the man is a serial-killer and a cannibal. I wouldn't want to engage him without someone like Miruko, All-Might, or even Endeavor, if not all three." Izuku all but sieve through his teeth,
Tsukauchi nodded in approbation when Aizawa turned to him for confirmation. Thank god, Izuku had a sense of self-preservation. He should continue to cultivate that. Might save more than just the boy in time.
"Self-defense it is, then. You had your orders to save Iida, especially as Izuku requested backup, both properly and with his phone to be sure to reach someone in time, and you once again had to fight, just this time against Moonfish." Aizawa recapped the knowledge he knew. He wasn't paid enough for all of this and wanted to sleep with his wife.
The Media were vultures and always seeking an opportunity to find fault with UA, as it sold to more people. Or sheeples as Aizawa thought of them, at least sometimes. There was a reason he kept his marriage a secret, after all. Outside, a lot of journalists were waiting for the young to go out in order to attack them with questions. Aizawa wondered if he could be charged if he asked Snipe to shoot some warning rounds at them. Warning rounds aimed at their heads… Rubber bullets but still.
"Still, I am going to schedule you with a therapist. Either Hound Dog or Shinso's father." The hobo looking man said with a matter of fact tone.
From Aizawa's voice, it was non negotiable, and clearly he knew what he was talking about. Even though he was still going to a therapist.
"… I mean, it was my first time seeing a dead body." Izuku admitted with a shiver.
Izuku was still frightened a bit by the sight, and the same could be said for Katsuki and Yui… Yet, the blonde man tried to quip.
"Second, I mean. Uncle Hisashi, remember?" Katsuki's narrow eyes pointed out EXACTLY how much the so-called uncle was cared for by him.
"Wasn't dead yet that day." Izuku remarks with an… odd tone. Was this Hisashi really his father or.. back on topic Shota. The man stopped himself.
Tsukauchi, not in god's knowledge, raised an eyebrow. "What?"
"Izuku's father had a weird incident, and well…" Katsuki starts to explain.
Yui sighed wistfully. "Makes me remember the day I tried my quirk near a hospital, and I hit a man in the head, with a marble the size of a bowling ball."
Everyone looked at her weirdly… And Katsuki said to the detective. "On an unrelated note, the statute of limitations does apply there too."
Aizawa was suspiciously eyeing Katsuki as to why he knew such a thing, before deciding to let it go. He wasn't clean either, in this case after all. "Anyway. What happened next?"
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"So, what do we have here… Three trainees but I need only one alive. So… the first who tells me where Stain is, gets to live." The kids didn't know why, but they were fairly certain the man in front of them, with his Cheshire smile (and with way too many teeth) was most likely lying.
Izuku ran the situation in his mind. In front of him was a villain probably on par with Stain, if not stronger, who would probably kill them for shits and giggles (not to mention him taking a bite) and Katsuki as well as Yui were still down.
"SWORDS OF REVEALING LIGHT!" The blinding blades surround the villain as Joker reaches for a new set of cards.
Honestly, it was among his rarest cards, but if he was dead, it had no fucking meaning anyway. Moonfish was clearly weirded out by the fact he was constrained inside three swords of light, unable to move. Meanwhile, Izuku had already summoned an Arcanine to grab Yui and Katsuki. Yui on the dog's back and Katsuki in its maw.
"LET'S RUN AWAY!" He yelled as the dog turned and ran out of the alleyway.
Sometimes, you should know when to pull out. Fighting now would just be carnage, and everyone would end up dead. They needed help, quickly.
Sadly, they couldn't run far from the alley, as several blades ran through the Arcanine and down the street into the road and buildings, extending the alley into the one across the street.
"NICE TRY!" The open maw of the villain said as his teeth broke off and he grew new ones.
Shit, Joker had truly hoped the card would have stopped the villain just a bit longer. Knowing he had little choice, even if it would take a toll on him, he screamed at the top of his lungs.
"GRIMLOCK! TRANSFORM!" The command sounded almost inhuman as Joker's form bathed in a flash of green light.
"… What?" Moonfish said as the sound of metal rubbing on metal came from behind him.
Maybe Moonfish thought the giant robot, on low energy after the fight against Stain, was just a huge rock. Maybe he simply didn't see it. Maybe Moonfish had myopia and should get his eyes checked by Garaki. Who knew, really?
It still didn't change the fact that he suddenly had to deal with what seemed like a robot T-Rex.
"Grimlock PROTECT CHILD!" Dinobot said as he charged the villain.
Moonfish, as the monster moved towards him, wondered if he could somehow get some T-Rex teeth. That would be awesome! He opened his mouth wide as the bot got closer.
When Grimlock tried to eat the bad guy, something weird happened. Using his quirk, Moonfish created a ball of blades to protect himself. As a result, the robot couldn't crush him (yet) in his jaw, so of course, the bot started to swing the villain around in his own maw slamming him into each wall around them, hoping to break the toothy cage..
Joker, on his side, was still trying to find some cards to evacuate both Katsuki and Yui quickly. "Shit… I didn't plan to run that much today!"
"DEKU, FUCKING CALM DOWN. You are always the one who tells us to use our brains outside the box. Don't panic!" Katsuki's wrathful yet calming yell grounded Joker for a moment, long enough to look at Katsuki and inhale some air back into his lungs, calming himself down.
"You are right. Sorry." He apologizes as he looks over the cards he has left of this deck..
Let's see what he could come up with as a tactic to save his life. To start, the main issue here was Yui and Katsuki's paralysis. There was a better solution than running away while carrying them.
"Let's try something I haven't had the time to test yet," Joker said, before taking out some cards from yet another pouch on his costume. It would also be really useful to test the limits of his power.
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Meanwhile, at the restaurant, La Brava was using some drones, to have a good vision on all the noumus, and help the various heroes and the vigilante to coordinate their attacks and the defense of the zone. The issue was… Well… It was actually quite noticeable, as she had to be, for once, at the center of everything for it to work properly.
Garaki, while using one of his flying noumus which doubled as a drone, saw that too, while being in the security of his bunker, far from there.
He was far from being a mastermind like All For One or Nedzu. However, he was smart enough to see his babies getting killed by the heroes and knew he could increase the casualties if they took out the one person that is coordinating them all.
"Noumu #54, hit the target in the center marker."His student did a great job teaching the beastial noumu to attack the target designated by an operator. With a large screen in front of him, he had a simple list of commands. He could touch said screen to activate or speak for more precise orders, kill-capture-brutalize-avoid were among the most common he used. The screen shows a red triangle above the small pink haired women's head.
La Brava meanwhile… Well…
"Gentle! On your three, some heroes are struggling with another humanoid noumu! I think it might be a gorilla, though.
Death Arms, on your 6, a chacal noumu broke the perimeter, pin him down!"
Staring at 4 screens while moving the drones to have a good picture on the battlefield, while taking her own side into account as well, as a sort of limitation…
For many people, this multitasking would have been way too much. For La Brava, it wasn't different from coordinating a three guild raid during a PVP war on her favorite MMO.
"I NEED MORE COFFEE TOO!" As soon as she said that, La Brava, already on her 6th cup, got a seventh. Apparently, no one dared to interrupt the girl who was single-handedly managing their defense and security.
However, her cameras had one default: they could only show what was visible. As a result, when she got splashed by the blood of the waiter who brought her a cup of coffee, she could only say. "Oh, shit."
In front of her was now a giant chameleon with a chainsaw tongue, bringing it back into its mouth… Munching quietly on the waiter. Whoever made such a design should get interned, fast.
La Brava didn't want to stay near such a foul beast longer than necessary and as a result, tried to run. Key word being "tried" as the chameleon jumped in front of her and was ready to eat her when suddenly…
"NOBODY TOUCHES MY FRIEND!"
A bike, from Gentle and La Brava's house, crashed into the monster, before a woman grabbed La Brava, helping her to get up. A shit-eating grin was on her face, as La Brava was almost crying seeing her.
Sophie smiled at her friend.
"Hey, I told you I would prefer to take a bullet than let a teammate get hurt."
As the chameleon, clearly not down after merely getting hit by a bike, got up. It readied its tongue and used it against the two women.
Sadly for it, something made its chainsawed tongue bounce back and a furious Gentle was walking toward it.
"NOTHING HURTS MY FIANCE!"
Sophie, not one to let the situation go to waste, grabbed a cup of water before turning to La Brava. Now that the hacker could look at her friend quietly while hugging her dearly, she could see that her hair color became blue as well as her eyes.
"But how?!"
"Remember when I said my quirk was a bit messy? Well… I call it Dust Phoenix for a reason. When I die, I turn into dust. The more dust there is, the quicker I heal. Since Compress marbled me quickly, it only took a few days."
La Brava could suddenly see why Sophie didn't like to speak or use her quirk: many people would be interested in such an immortality quirk. "Damn… And how did you discover that?! Because otherwise, you might have been quirkless."
Sophie sighed, as Gentle finished impaling the noumu on a pole and La Brava was getting back into position. "Well… My family was involved in a quirk incident and my brother went missing. Since I was apparently dead… I used that opportunity to disappear too, and I have been searching for my brother since then."
La Brava sighed, as she turned on her drone and looked at her friend, apparently truthful for the first time. "Next time, tell us. I would be happy to help you Sophie. and knowing what you look like… what you REALLY look like might help us track down said brother. "
Sophie smiled as she head patted her friend. Maybe she should open up to someone different than Compress and Stain, indeed?
"Please, call me Hana."
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In the middle of the wrestling match, Tenko started coughing, when Nejire came with a glass of water, he downed it in an instant as she looked worried. "Should we go back to games?"
"Nah, I don't know what was with that. Felt like a lung stopped taking in air for a moment. I'm fine… Though we can go back to the game… after i win this match!" he fell into a fighting stance as he tossed the cup away.
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"IT FUCKING SMELLS"
Katsuki protested as he moved back to his feet. Izuku sprayed him and Yui with a weird liquid, coming from one of his cards.
"… Note to self: Healing objects do work on things not supposed to be the target."
Izuku had just used a "Full Heal" card from Pokemon, something that doesn't heal per se, but cures you from any afflictions.
"GRIMLOCK PROTECT!" He said as the caged villain's defense started to crack under his all-powerful jaw
"Grimlock died." As if he suddenly decided he didn't want to play anymore, Moonfish's teeth rotated and the man spat some acid inside the leader of the Dinobot. Sadly for the kind prehistoric leader, he wasn't immune to an acid vastly superior to Mina's and the three young heroes could easily see and smell the rust coming from the melting robot's jaw and chest…
"Ok, Izuku, do you have more weapons on you we could use?" Katsuki stood as he set up for a few larger scale explosions.
"As usual, Kacchan. I would need some time. In this situation, I am not sure he is ready to wait for us." His voice wavering only a moment as a smaller plan comes to mind.
Moonfish smiled at them, before noticing something and taking out a picture. To Izuku's credit, he immediately started to burn every card he had for his next summon, while Katsuki and Yui groaned.
"Hey, the kid with the mask! Aren't you Izuku Midoryia?" Moonfish says with glee.
Skeptical of his response, the Joker didn't confirm "… Maybe?"
The villain grinned even more. "Hell, even without Stain, it seems the mission will be a goddamn success. How about this: Come with me quietly, and I won't kill your friends. Villains promise!"
The only answer Moonfish got was Yui pulling out an airsoft rifle and shooting him with yet another plastic pellet.
"Suddenly, I can see why you are such a match with Kacchan," Joker stated as he burns a few more cards, the ash pile in front of him only grows larger as he burns more cards.
"Thanks." Being the woman of little words she is, she resumed shooting again. Sadly, apparently, Moonfish didn't only get shark teeth as an upgrade. A loud bang could be heard and the only reason Yui wasn't turned into a kebab was that Katsuki deflected the attack with an explosion of his.
In front of them, among the dust, Moonfish was on his four members, and with his mouth wide open. His teeth turned into giant bolts, after which he resumed shooting, forcing the students to get under cover.
"Since WHEN CAN THAT FUCKER DO THAT?!" Katsuki yelled with a blast that sent him up over the wall, Yui holding on to him like a koala. Nice but not the time.
"I FUCKING DON'T KNOW!" Joker says as he runs under a broken booth in the wall and into the street once again.
Moonfish broke through his own wall only to see an empty street of collapsed buildings and overturned cars."YOU CAN HIDE, KIDS, BUT YOU CAN'T RUN!" The shriek that came from his maw sounded less and less human as his voice dropped a few octaves and a rumbling growl mixes in with each word as he stalks down the road.
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"Sir, wasn't it overkill to give Moonfish the quirk to shoot his teeth?" His assistant says with a raised eyebrow.
"It makes him highly effective. Besides, it is always fun to watch him have to grovel on his hands and knees to use it." All for One turned from his undead butler to the screen again. "Moonfish? Once you grab the target and dispose of the two witnesses, we will extract you."
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Moonfish was having the time of his life, as he was attacked relentlessly by the children, already salivating at the idea of their meat in his mouth. They peeked out of alleys and cars to attack before hiding once again. He couldn't chase them far into those ways but for as long as he followed the green one, the others HAD to follow him.
His teeth changed forms to attack through the covers, and he felt some pain, as the blonde one jumped in the air and slid on his attack. Propelling himself with his explosion quirk, Katsuki decided to buy some time for Izuku, but also to test how strong the man was in close combat. As far as they knew, the villain was at his strongest when he attacked from afar.
So what was he like when faced against someone specializing in close range?
It was a tactic that would have been suicidal in a fair one-on-one. However, it wasn't a one-on-one fight. That's something Katsuki will capitalize on.
Katsuki didn't need to look behind him to know Yui was covering his back, shooting and forcing Moonfish to divide his attention between the two of them.
"HEY ASSHOLE; TRY TO EAT THIS!"
Katsuki was fighting for some time now, and he had a lot of sweat in his gauntlets. When Moonfish faced him, Katsuki saw the teeth plunge toward him… And in the same vein, Moonfish saw the explosion, condensed in front of him. The enhanced villain thanked the numbed feeling of pain, as he felt the explosion destroying his teeth… Once again.
"MORTAR IMPACT!"
The explosion threw Katsuki back, to his friend, panting a bit. The rush was heavy after all and the explosion was easily two times what he did against Shouto. Hell, unless he pulled the same move as against Izuku, he would have a hard time doing a bigger explosion right now.
It was why he couldn't dodge when a pearly spear shot through the dust, piercing his shoulder, and nailing him to the wall a few feet off the ground.
"Ah fuck. That one hurt." Moonfish, naked but not in the slightest afraid, came through the dust and his skin seemed to darken and split at the seams as he slowly regenerated the burnt skin and flesh, though clearly not well. It seemed to grow in tendrils falling from his body, never covering his form but rather forcing a new one.
"Fuck. I should tell the Doc that the regeneration isn't working well." Unknown to Moonfish, the regeneration was indeed working. His issue was actually Native's last attack: he had bitten him with the spirit of a venomous snake, hoping to be a pain in the ass. This in turn is making the venom and Hyper Regen fights each other as the healing is botched in the process.
To make sure Katsuki wouldn't escape, he smashed him on the ground, while he used some more teeth as a shield between him and the rest of the street, so he could calmly finish the blond one.
"Thank you for rushing, I was wondering who the most dangerous was out of you all. I wonder if your meat is naturally cooked?" The cannibal wondered out loud.
Katsuki, as he saw the villain grow a bit as his flesh began to unravel at the seams, felt a new feeling. Fear. Pure unadulterated fear. The villain in front of him wanted to kill him, Yui, and kidnap Izuku and he doubted it was to bring him to his family.
As a result, he actually tried to explode his own arm, as a flight reaction, his brain having registered he couldn't harm the villain. The bloody shoulder is burned as another Explosion breaks the tooth and Katsuki slumps to the ground. now he just needed to force himself up and run… if he could stop screaming from the acid burning in the wound.
"HEY, KID CALM DOWN." The worry in the villain's voice broke Katsuki out of his focus.
"WHY?!" He spat back.
The honest but shark fanged grin that came from the maw of that man only seemed to set Katsuki into fight mode. "Meat is spoiled when the prey is too agitated." The worry in Moonfish's voice was true, but somehow it didn't make Katsuki feel better.
"How ABOUT YOU TASTE THIS!" A grave bound voice took root in their ears.
Another fighter entered the ring and Torino kicked Moonfish in the head, using his full strength. The elderly hero even felt his legs crack under the impact, the villain's skin absorbing the impact.
"Aïe." The jumping hero then got pierced by 5 teeth for his efforts. One into his shoulder, two into his feet shutting down his quirk, and two into his thighs ripping his legs from his body. Moonfish didn't give him any more attention, snickering only a bit. "Sorry, but I don't like elderly meat. Bad for the liver."
Sadly, unlike a novel, the unexpected rescue wasn't always working and Torino only bought a few seconds.
"DON'T DO THAT!"
"Bitch, who is going to stop me?"
"I think it would be me."
This time, the new raspy voice actually got Moonfish's attention, as someone landed near him. His shield was in the position to parry the incoming attack…
Which Cut his arm like butter, making it fall to the ground.
"… What?"
The question was general, as the one who saved the situation and freed Bakugou was a certain noseless villain.
Stain looked upon Torino and Katsuki.
"Kid, you should cauterize this old man bleeding. Otherwise, he will die soon."
As soon as he did that, Stain parried the incoming onslaught of teeth with his blade, as Moonfish suddenly stopped to pull his punches. Still, the blade-wielding warrior was facing his enemy, who was now branching his attack to attack his target from multiple sides.
"YOU MOTHERFUCKER!" The cannibal was mad, whether from missing his objective, his meal or that stain is back and he isn't dead yet, not even he knew.
Stain said nothing in return, rushing against the noumu villain and licking his blade.
Suddenly, Moonfish felt his limbs go limp, almost falling on the ground, as he managed to use a few teeth to propel himself into the air. He wasn't an idiot. Someone like Stain could still cut him, even with his new skin. As a result, he preferred to take the high ground. Shit… However, he felt the pain from his missing limb as blackened bubbles of flesh burst into tendrils of the same color.
Still, he would win. Mainly because otherwise, he would be left in the city which would be crawling with a shit ton of heroes soon enough.
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"Kurogiri? Prepare the contingency plan." The words came from the one and only AFO. Kurogiri moved to obey.
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"So, that's how Stain got hurt… By protecting you?" The detective asked.
The kids nodded as the cop noted it. Not that he wanted Stain to have a lessened sentence, but facts were facts. Even the fact the hero killer put his life on the line to protect some hero trainee.
Besides, having control of the narrative meant knowing every fact. How it happened exactly.
"And what was Izuku's plan?"
"Oh, right. I still don't know what his plan was supposed to be, as he clearly changed it." Katsuki sighed.
"Actually, not really. I simply switched my target." Izuku interrupted Katsuki, before continuing. "It was supposed to be you."
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Stain wasn't happy. Even if the kids could actually give him decent help. He had to admit that both Native and the kids tired him out before and as a result, he could hardly fight at his best.
The result? Well, Moonfish apparently had teeth capable of slicing through concrete and he was attacking with all of them at the same time. Hell, even the kids were having trouble dodging everything.
The man had to admit… It was hard.
Then, the villain felt something sticking on his back, before looking at Izuku, who smiled at him.
"THE TWENTIETH ARCANA! THE JUDGMENT!"
Stain suddenly felt his body surging with energy, as Izuku actually fell backward, only to be caught by Yui before he hit the ground, exhausted but awake.
The villain felt a vigor in his muscles, which he never felt before, and smiled, as he saw Moonfish attack and noticed something. They were… Slow.
If before, he had trouble noticing all of them, now, the teeth spears were only as fast as a man walking. Stain wondered what the hell was happening, before deciding it was not that important. Instead, he would just end the abomination in front of him.
From Katsuki's point of view, it seemed like Stain cracked the ground with his mere footing, before he turned himself into a powerful missile, destroying the incoming attacks on every single one of the teeth like blades in a bladed ball of movement.
"MONSTER! I NOW HAVE THE POWER TO JUDGE YOU! AND I CONDEMN YOU!"
Stain was still a bit of a crusader at heart and he would lie if he said that his original hero costume wasn't themed around a crusader and the blood of Christ. However, right now, as he faced Moonfish, he felt justice by his side.
As a result, when he jumped in the air, he used his blade once again…
When both criminals hit the ground, Stain contemplated the wound on his torso that Moonfish gave him with the last attack. Not too bad, and not deep enough to be dangerous immediately.
Meanwhile, Moonfish was now gasping for air, as Stain had actually slashed his lungs and ripped apart his intestines. His regenerative quirk had, between that, the poison and the arms and legs being chopped off, promptly went into overdrive as a last ditch effort to save the villain before he could say anything else Stain was tossed to the side and into a building as the body of Moonfish contorted and writhed with movement before he shredded organs pierced themselves back together.
Tendrils of black oily flesh burst from every part of the cannibal. his maw twisting into pearly colored mandibles and hooks along with normal shark teeth making it looks like he had the skull of a reaper leviathan as the man turned monster stood back up now rather than crawling around with enhanced speed on all fours his legs are one mass of tendrils while each arm was it's own dragging its body around in a writhing mess that left blackened blood in its wake.
Stain bursts from the wall only to see the monster's maw and teeth burst out of his hands looking like claws as a few shot out at the crusader. They were defeated with one swing in stains' new state but the maw was now right above him as the monster grabbed the man in an effort to destroy and consume him.
Stain used his blades to push the maw away as his ribs took the brunt of the claws. Each pearl colored blade ripped in and left burning acid behind as the same acid ate away at the metal in the beast's maw of now hundreds of teeth.
In a last frantic do-or-die thought. Stain uses his katana to hold back the maw as he plunged a knife into the beast's eye and twists before pulling it out in a spray of oil like blood. Claws dig deep as the maw is flung back and then the freed katana finds its mark in the beast's other eye leaving both sockets as empty holes.
it lunges its maw onward into Stain, or where he had been rather than biting into flesh the new skull slammed into a brick wall. stumbling back it looks around with no sight, flames yells, steps, whispers, creaking metal none of it makes any sense as they blur into a canopy of NOISE. Moonfish grabs onto his ears before a large metal tail slams onto the flured beast of a man.
The half rotten mass of metal that was the bot's Trex jaw seemed to almost grin. "Grim..Lock… no… like… monsters." the blue light of the Dino bots eyes blink off as the metal giant fades into ash.
With the creature down and too tired to move as his regeneration quirk worked triple time on a falling body. Not to mention, that said quirk would have to draw strength from somewhere to let him survive … brain function is the least it can take.
As a result, the last thing Moonfish heard that day was Stain's foot, as he smashed his mutant head against the ground one last time.
Stain with the monster dealt with breath an aura of relief all around him. "…Fuck… Anyway… I think… I should be… running away." As soon as the rush went, Stain suddenly felt his new strength slipping away. Face planting in the ground wasn't what he had expected, and the fact he had no strength left was a bit worrying… Especially now.
"… The… Hell… Happened?"
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"The Judgment arcana allows me to buff someone according to how morally just they feel against someone. For all of his faults, Stain was our best fighter and he had a twisted sense of justice, but still enough to hate a child-eating cannibal.
However, there is also a drawback, as it makes you tired suddenly once the effect ends. I used that card because that way, I was making sure Stain would also be captured once Moonfish was dealt with."
"That… was actually a pretty smart idea and good, quick thinking. Why was your original choice Katsuki?"
"Well, I thought his explosions would have been closer to a Kamehameha then, and I would have loved to see Moonfish try to regenerate from that!" Izuku pumped up like a kid on Christmas
Everyone in the room admitted that Izuku had a point, even Katsuki. Shame it would be hard to reproduce such a thing at school, as he would have loved to try that theory.
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Izuku felt relaxed… Before a flying noumu grabbed him, trying to take him in the air, to his boss. Some things, no matter the universes, didn't change after all…
Though in this universe, before Izuku could get too high, something invisible took the flying emu noumu by the throat and began to viciously stab it, covering an invisible girl in blood.
"NOBODY STEALS MY BOYFRIEND, ESPECIALLY NOT AN OVERGROWN GODDAMN BIRD!" The invisible girl raved out an enraged cry as she kept stabbing the beast till they hit the ground with a roll. she pried the claws away from izuku's arms in their deadlocked grip.
Tooru was not okay, and she was in quite the blood rage. So when she felt Izuku in her arms, she smiled, still covered in red, at her boyfriend.
"Hey, puddin! You need to stop endangering yourself!"She barked out a laugh as she held him in a bridal carry.
Izuku, still exhausted, answered his woman with the smile of a sick child on death row.
"How else could I…"
"Guys. We know you love each other, but there is a better place to flirt than right here and now." Everyone looked at Katsuki, who was checking on Yui…
He had a point.
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AfO, seeing the scene, wasn't happy and broke his wine glass. The operation was a complete failure.
"Kurogiri. Contingency number 7."
"Yes, Sir." Kurogiri set up the response, then grabbed a towel to clean up both blood and wine from his master's hand.
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"And after that well… Miruko arrived, with the cops. Then they brought us here to get some healing and you started interrogating us."
Aizawa and Tsukauchi nodded. At least, they had enough to work with, in order to protect the children. Still, it was a clusterfuck for the adults to deal with now.
"Good. Now, remember the protocol…" Aizawa said sternly.
"We don't speak to the media, nor do we say anything on the internet." All the kids repeated at the same time.
The two adults nodded and let those that could leave the room, before stopping Izuku before he went out with the rest of them.
"Do you have any idea as to why Moonfish or the noumu tried to kidnap you specifically?" The detective asked with his quirk on.
Izuku thought about it for a second… Before shaking his head. "None at all, sir."
"Anything else we should know?" Aizawa said, knowing his students there was probably more.
"Nothing, sir." Now, the last answer, while registering as true, was actually inexact. There was something Izuku knew that Aizawa and Tsukauchi would have liked to know, but weren't supposed to know.
Before Stain got captured, he managed to tell Izuku something…
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"Tell Atsuhiro… I found… Sophie's brother…"
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In any other circumstance, Izuku would have told the police that.. Except that Stain used Compress' real name which meant the stuff was important enough. As a result, he kept his lips sealed, before getting out.
He just hoped Torino would be fine at the end of the day.
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Stain and Moonfish were judged too dangerous to be held in the usual circumstances, before their trial. As a result, both of them were transferred into Tartarus, through a vehicle.
Both criminals were staring at each other, well Stain was, Moonfish could only tell where he was due to the sound coming from the man's breathing. The cannibal was facing him in all his distorted glory, in the most heated staring contest. The hatred was enough to be felt in the air, to the point it seemed to distort itself…
Unless, of course, the air really distorted itself, as Kurogiri stepped inside the vehicle, silently. Both criminals having a steel mouthpiece stopped them from talking.
"Moonfish? The boss would like to have a word with you, even with your… new look." A sentence threatening enough for most villains to soil themselves… Before the cloud man took a long syringe and injected a liquid in Stain.
"As for you, Stain, the Boss thinks you are too good of an influence on Tomura. Not to mention that you know a bit too much about things that should have been… hidden. Nothing personal, I hope you understand. Should you survive and come to the bar, I would refund you about the insurance policy you subscribed to me, in the name of All for One."
Stain had his doubts about Tomura being backed by someone else. Now, he was certain of it, as he felt the liquid burning his body, in an excruciating pain… Threatening the cloud as much as he could with his stare.
"I injected you with the blood of a poisonous eel, three times the lethal dose. The boss likes irony, and I am a slave to his desire… due try to come by the bar."
Without any more words for Stain, the cloud man grabbed Moonfish and disappeared with him.
The Oboro part of the Noumu hoped he did enough, as he literally took a gamble when he interpreted All For One's order… And he hoped he was right about Stain.
He truly hoped that Stain was too angry to die yet and that he could fuck up that bastard's plan.
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The next day at the LoV, any plan to save Stain's got squashed by the news.
During his transfer, the crazy criminal Stain was killed and Moonfish escaped.
Loony was seething and Tomura dusted, for the first time in a long time, many things in the bar.
"I AM GOING TO MURDER THOSE FUCKERS!"