Chapter 15: Eye for a Nighteye
Later at night, Izuku, joined with Momo, Iida, Shoto, Katsuki, Uraraka and Kirishima were walking in the streets of Hosu. They were part of a special mission that involved taking down the boss of the organization that Stain was a part of. This was under Aizawa's order.
Flashback
"What I'm about to say is important so it would be wise to listen," Aizawa said before turning to a few classsmtes, "Midoriya. Yaoyorozu. Todoroki. Iida. Kirishima. Bakugo. Uraraka. You 7 have been selected to be part of a mission to take down the boss of that organization. The rest will join, but will be on standby for the time being. Normally, we'd leave this to higher ups, however thanks to Midoriya's negotiation, we were able to find a safe way to organize this."
Izuku nodded.
"If the time comes where you have to fight, don't hesitate," Aizawa said, "But keep damage to a minimum."
"You don't have to tell us twice," Izuku stated.
"You have a few hours. Prepare yourselves."
"I think we'll need some disguises," Iida said, "Chances are this boss may have seen our faces."
"I have an idea," Momo said, "But its pretty old fashioned."
She was pointing to a store. A few minutes later, everyone came out in fresh disguises.
"This is brilliant Momo, but you could've made something for us."
"Technically I could have, but its important to keep the flow of economy running," Momo stated.
"Alright, let's roll," Izuku said.
Stain was following them in the shadows, planning to guide them directly to the location of the boss. As the search continued, Izuku noticed something.
"Guys look," he said.
Everyone else looked at a strange looking building. Izuku saw some guards watching. He conjured some fire in his hand and threw it in their direction. The fireball flashed, temporarily blinding the guards. He then jumped in and started beating them up.
"I forgot I had these quirks," Izuku said, "Come on guys."
They started walking up the tower to the main location of the base. Momo heard swords clashing.
"Stain must've beat us," she said.
"Then we should help!" Katsuki said.
He started blasting his way up to the top of the tower, taking down any guards he came across. The only difference is that he started pulling his punches and holding back when it was necessary.
"He's finally learning," Izuku said.
One of the guards had his sword near Izuku's head.
"Don't move," he said.
The sword was suddenly webbed away. The guard looked up and saw Ritchie fly down and take the guard out. He was joined by The Big 3, lead by Mirio.
"Nice of you to drop by," Izuku said.
"Well, I was given an assignment to help you guys," Ritchie told him, "So what's the sitch."
"We'll see when we get there," Mirio said.
After a few seconds our heroes made it to the top where the room was empty. Someone was sitting in a chair. Izuku saw Stain chained up.
"I've been expecting you," the boss said, "I've been watching you Izuku Midoriya. Testing you, while you worked on that quirk you had no right to have."
"Well I know all about what you're doing too," Izuku said, "Having Stain do your dirty work, and going after innocent people."
"Innocent? In the world of good vs evil, there is no innocence. There are no vigilantes. And there are no quirkless heroes. This is how life is, and how it should remain."
"Looks like someone is dead set on keeping a reality where there's only one All Might, and only one symbol," Izuku said, "Isn't that right… Nighteye."
The person turned around revealing himself to be Nighteye. Everyone was shocked, especially Mirio.
"That's right," Nighteye said, "I've been pulling the strings this whole time, just waiting for you to eventually come."
"Why?" Mirio asked, "Why would you go through all of this trouble?"
"For you Mirio," Nighteye said, "It was unfair that All Might chose some quirkless boy over you to be his successor. By doing this, he unknowingly made a change to the perfect world. He made it as if anyone quirk or no quirk could be a hero. It is a mistake that I plan to correct."
He had a quirk erasing bullet loaded into a revolver.
"The last bullet I could get my hands on," Nighteye said, "Since Hisashi couldn't get the job done, it now falls on me to recorrect this perfect society. I don't care what happens afterwards."
"Innocent people got caught in the crossfire," Mirio said quietly.
He then turned to Nighteye with anger in his voice.
"So many people are risking their lives, quirk or no quirk, and you don't see that as heroism?!"
"So naive Mirio," Nighteye said, "Quirks are the only means of being a hero, and this 'deku' is stomping all over it. This is something the world can no longer tolerate."
"The world, or you?!" Momo asked, "Is it really that important that things stay as they are?!"
"Yes," Nighteye said, "What you all need to realize is that the world would never adapt to the idea of change. The world needs All Might to continue to be its pillar. In order to maintain that status quo, a deal had to be made... With All For One."
He aimed a quirk erasing gun at Izuku, prepared to end his career once and for all. However, Mirio jumped in the way and the bullet flew at his hand, piercing his skin! Mirio felt pain crawling around his body. He felt his quirk begin to fade away.
"What... have you... done?!" Izuku asked.
Nighteye realized what just happened. He accidentally erased his student's quirk. But the shock slowly turned to rage as he turned to Izuku.
"This is YOUR FAULT!" Nighteye said
He lunged at Izuku and they fell through a glass mirror. Nighteye tried strangling Izuku, only for him to use Blackwhip to get away.
"No you don't!"
Nighteye grabbed Izuku's leg and threw him down. People were watching the whole scenario.
"I see the only way to keep this world as it once was, is to kill you," he said.
"Get your hands off of him!" shouted Shoto.
He came at Nighteye with flames on his left hand. Nighteye dodged each of the flame attacks as he was coming closer to Shoto. He then hit him at his pressure points taking him down. Katsuki came flying at Nighteye, enraged at what he did.
"DIEEEEEEEEE!"
Nighteye threw his staff at Katsuki hitting him in the face, and he fell to the floor, losing his momentum. Some police cars arrived on the scene, with Eraserhead, Mahoro and Katsuma in one car. Nighteye turned to Izuku enraged.
"Where do you get the gall to do this to me?" he asked.
Izuku struggled to get back up.
"You were…. You were gonna have Stain kill a child," Izuku said.
Everyone gasped at this.
"It's true," Mahoro said to the officer.
"I hate it when someone gives away the ending," Nighteye said as he kicked Izuku down once again, "You should know by now that you can't beat me you weakling. No wait, I'm wrong. You're lower than a weakling. You're worse than someone who is quirkless, before you stole All Might's quirk!"
Everyone gasped at this revelation.
"That's right," Nighteye said, "The reason his quirk is so similar to All Might's is because he took it for himself, all because he wanted to defy his fate to remain quirkless for the rest of his life."
Izuku tried to get back up but he couldn't due to the pain he was in.
"Let this be a lesson to ANYONE who is quirkless," Nighteye said to the crowd, "Attempting to do the impossible is a dangerous idea. My quirk lets me see the future. And I saw this boy fail miserably at his dream. Because he wasn't good enough. If you were born without a quirk or with a weak quirk, you were not meant to achieve greatness. You were put on this earth to stand by the sidelines. Born to be failures!"
"You're wrong Nighteye." Someone said.
He turned to Katsuki who turned to help his friend.
"Quirk less people are not meant to be failures," he said, "I've known Deku…. no…. Izuku… my whole life. Despite not having a quirk he's done great things. And he's somehow managed to show me that he can be a hero."
Nighteye started walking over to the pair.
"And you're wrong about another thing, your quirk. Just because you can see the future doesn't mean its set in stone. You claimed that Togata was gonna be All Might's chosen successor, yet your future was changed. People have the power to change their destinies, whether the have someone to believe in them or not."
Nighteye was starting to get enraged that someone would stand up to him like this.
"So-so who's really the weakling? Its not Deku! Its YOU!" Katsuki shouted, "You claim quirkless people to be weak, but in reality, they're a lot stronger. And you know it. Don't you?"
Nighteye knocked KAtsuki to the side. He then turned to Izuku and was about to attack. However someone fired a bullet, knocking his cane out of his hands. He turned to see a woman with purple hair and a sniper for a hand. That was her quirk.
One of the officers restrained Nighteye and handcuffed him, much to his confusion.
"What is the meaning of this!?"
"Sir Nighteye, you are under arrest for the attempted murder of an innocent bystander, and for conspiracy for killing a child," the officer said, "These are your miranda rights."
"Wait you can't arrest me!" Nighteye said.
He turned to Izuku with anger in his eyes.
"I hope you're happy Izuku Midoriya, you've just doomed this society, the era of peace is dead! How can people possibly feel safe now?! The villain situation will only get worse, BECAUSE OF YOU!"
He was forced into a police car. As the police drove off with Nighteye in the back seat of the police car, Izuku looked at the man that Nighteye had killed and saw that he was unrecognizable due to his battered face. A few bystanders looked at Izuku. He was worried about what people would think.
"Hey Deku, we don't believe Nighteye! You'd never steal someone's quirk!"
"I got your back man!"
"You showed Nighteye who's boss!"
People started cheering Izuku's hero name. Katsuma rushed up to the boy and hugged him.
"Thank you Mr. Deku!" he said.
His hands were glowing a bit. Izuku felt as if he was being healed, but unlike Recovery Girl's quirk, he didn't feel tired.
"Whoa, I feel a lot better, is that your quirk?" Izuku asked.
"Yea, but… it's not really good for herowork," Katsuma said.
"Are you kidding? That quirk could help with injured heroes or civilians and get them back on their feet!" Izuku said, "You could definitely be a hero."
Later on the group were in the hospital checking on Mirio. It didn't seem like his quirk had any signs of coming back. The damage was done.
"I don't think there's anything we can do," Recovery girl said, "It seems Le Million may have to retire."
Eri thought about a conversation she had with Izuku. She then got off his lap and went to Mirio's room.
"Eri where are you going?" Izuku asked.
Flashback
"Sure, knives are dangerous, but if you use them the right way and practice with them, they can be used to make a lot of yummy food," Izuku said, "Quirks are the same way. Your quirk could be used for good, to heal others, and possibly bring them back to their prime. I know you'll do great things with your quirk."
Eri smiled.
"Ok then Papa, I'll get better at my quirk," Eri said.
Flashback over
Eri then walked up to Mirio. She climbed on the bed and put her arm on his hand. Her horn started glowing. Mirio felt his quirk coming back to him. He permeated through the wall. Sounds of screams were heard through the other side. Mirio came back with some clothes on.
"I got my quirk back!"
Everyone was surprised. Eri, a little girl who was afraid of her quirk managed to bring Le Million's quirk back! Izuku looked down to his daughter, picked her up and raised her high with a smile on her face.
"Weeeee!" she said.
"I'm so proud of you my little unicorn!" Izuku said.
He then proceeded to prep her with kisses all over.
Eri giggled at this while everyone looked at them in aw.
"Awwwwww!" Everyone said.
"Looks like Le Million is back in business!" Nejire said.
"That's what I'm talking about!" Katsuki said raising his fist up, "Fuck yea!"
He then quickly covered his mouth remembering Eri was right there.
"Papa... what does fuck mean?"
"EVERY MAN FOR THEMSELVES!" Mirio said.
They all ran out of the hospital room, and Izuku turned to Eri.
"Eri sweetheart, why don't you go with Mama and get some apples while I talk with Uncle Kacchan, also that's a bad word," Izuku said.
"Ok Papa," Eri said before being picked up by Ochako who ran out.
Izuku turned to Katsuki with the kanji symbol for 'you're dead' appearing over his head.
"Izuku please, let's talk about this!"
The sound of beatings and punches could be heard from upstairs.
(A few minutes later...)
Izuku came down with his positive, carefree attitude. Katsuki came down looking as pale as a ghost.
"What did Midoriya/Deku do to him," everyone said.
An officer came down.
"Before you go, one of the heroes wants to speak with you for a moment."
The doors opened, revealing the No 3 hero, Hawks.
"Hello kids," he said, "A few months of undercover work were almost wasted when you came in contact with Stain. Although without your help, we never would've guessed this would lead all the way up to Nighteye."
He shook Izuku's hand.
"I may not have his foresight but I can tell you have a bright future ahead Deku," Hawks said.
Izuku smiled at his compliment. Meanwhile back near U.A campus, Aoyama was walking back to the dorms. He saw someone look at him. It was Hisashi.
"Must be nice," he said, "Being a friend of someone so amazing, yet have a quirk that's so garbage."
"I've been practicing with it," Aoyama said.
"Well, I have a friend who could help you learn to control it better," Hisashi told him with a smirk, "However you should do something for me first."
"What?"
"You're gonna help me kill him. And All Might as well."
"Sorry Mon Ami, but I am a hero, and heroes do not betray or murder those that are their friends. So you can count me out."
"I wasn't offering you a choice," he said, "You will help me. Or, those closest to you will suffer."
He showed them a video call of Aoyama's family surrounded by Hisashi's associates.
"Wait... why would you do this?!" Aoyama asked in terror.
"That should be a question for All Might, who stole my wife, and I'm planning to take her back by any means necessary. And I will have her back, or kill everyone in this city trying."
Aoyama knew he had no choice. He yielded, willing to follow orders.
"Now, let's talk about how we're going to destroy All Might and Deku," he said.
