Chapter 19: The Wrap-up
"Who the heck are you?" Stain asked as he saw two shadows following him. A blue flame erupted, "My question exactly," Dabi stepped out with Toga behind him. Stain looked at Dabi for a while before smirking, "You are the one who saved the electric kid. I recognize the flames," Stain commented. "Then you should know, what I'm going to do to you," Dabi replied with menace.
Stain laughed, "Relax, we are both on the same side. I have no reason to go after you, your intentions seem better than most heroes, Vigilante-san,"
A tick grew on Dabi's head, "I am not a vigilante! I'm a villain!"
Stain looked at him with surprise, "Your actions say different. Nevertheless, I do not wish to fight with you at the moment, I assume you are here because of the news of an attack?"
Dabi nodded gruffly, "So what, you are here to protect those two as well?"
"I believe that they have proved to be better heroes than most actual heroes," Stain replied.
"Whatever, keep your reasons to yourself! If you want to help, then help," Dabi said and sped off into an alley, where he had seen a few people lurking. Toga smiled at Stain and ran after Dabi too. Dozens more appeared to try and beat Dabi and Toga. Stain shook his head but went to help. On the corner of his eye, he saw the barrel of a gun glistening. With lightning-fast reflexes, he pulled out a shorter knife and threw it, impaling the man straight in the neck, "Snipers too, huh?" he thought to himself and jumped up to the roof. He monitored the situation and saw three more snipers. Two were aiming for the house while one was trying to get Dabi and Toga. Stain smirked sadistically and made quick work of the snipers. On the ground, none of the villains were a match for Dabi's fire and Toga's sneaky blade attacks.
Aizawa cursed to himself, Nedzu had asked him to make sure that both the Kaminari residence and Midoriya residence was protected from the flames. He had been waiting for Mic as backup but it seemed that the villains were here already. Aizawa ran across the roofs. He swerved left and saw someone drop on a sniper and throw him to the ground. The man turned around and Aizawa and he locked eyes. Without a sound, the man vanished, climbing down the side of the roof. Aizawa cursed, he didn't have time to go after him. He swerved into the main fight and flinched at the smell of burnt skin. He saw blue flames retreat around a corner. Aizawa desperately tried to catch up but they had vanished without a trace. Aizawa couldn't think too much about them as he heard shots being fired. His eyes widened and he tried to find the source from the roof. He sighed in relief, as he saw that it was the police, shooting the rest of the attacking villains. He made a mental note to report to Nedzu and went to help.
Dabi sighed as Aizawa headed in the opposite direction. He and Toga had ducked behind a dumpster, sure it wouldn't work but they had been wrong. They silently creeped out of the alley and threw away their masks and cloak. Dabi pulled up his phone and cursed, "Damn it! I missed Storm and Chaos' live chat!"
"You are really obsessed with them huh?" Toga commented and Dabi replied haughtily, "Look who's talking!"
"What did they say?" Toga ignored her friend.
If Endeavour acted like that with children in front of a JUDGE, how does he treat his own children?
Chaos
Dabi stopped short and stood in the middle of the street, in shock. Toga stared at her friend uncomfortably, not sure what to say, "Um, you ok?" she asked trying to be compassionate.
"I'm... fine," he lied. While Dabi's respect for Chaos had increased tenfold since he had called out Endeavour, he was in thought. Chaos didn't know how close he or she was to the truth. It had been a jab more than a theory. For a moment Dabi wondered if he should contact Storm and Chaos privately on the forums. However, he realized that Toga was standing beside him silently in uncomfortable silence. He shrugged off his thoughts temporarily, to the back of his mind, "Anyway, Storm replied it seems,"
I doubt he'd do that to his own kids, hero commission is there!
Storm
Dabi laughed, "Didn't know Storm could be sarcastic,"
Toga hummed in response, "Are you going to cut them when you meet them?" Dabi sighed and started walking again, "You really need to get over cutting people,"
Yagi stumbled around in the dark, careful not to make too much noise lest Torino wake up. His old teacher had deemed it too strenuous to take the train back and had decided to stay with Yagi. So, here he was, trying to get dressed for Izuku's training without waking up Torino. He didn't want his students to experience Torino just yet, nor did he want Torino anywhere near him. He put on his shoes and sighed with relief as the door opened silently, without a creak. He was about to leave when his phone rang out loud, making him yelp and knock off a lamp. The lamp fell with a crash. Immediately, Yagi felt his skull kicked twice, "Can't even get a good sleep," Torino grumbled, "Get the call, brat," he said and disappeared into the bathroom.
Yagi groaned in pain but picked up the call, "What is it Tsukauchi?"
"I need you to come to the station right now. There's been another attack, on Midoriya and Hattori," Tsukauchi's urgent voice replied.
Immediately, Yagi's demeanor changed, "I'll be there right away," he replied. "What's wrong?" Torino asked gruffly, coming out of the bathroom.
"Ah, Tsukauchi was calling me to come to the station," Yagi excused.
"I'll come too," Torino said as he grabbed his coat.
"What? N-no you don't have to!" Yagi tried to excuse himself but was promptly smacked once more, "I know you are going to train those kids again. On top of that, I want to talk with Tsukauchi too. He was always smarter than you,"
"How come you like Tsukauchi so much?" Yagi replied indignantly,
"You asked Nana and me to help train Tsukauchi for the police academy, remember? That's why you didn't mind Watanabe and Kaminari figuring out about Izuku's training. You did the same thing by telling Tsukauchi about One for All. At least, in Izuku's case, his cousin figured it out, you straight up blurted everything out," Torino laughed. Yagi grumbled as he closed the door behind him, "Why don't you try lying to someone with a lie-detector quirk?"
Torino laughed, "Fair point," A short walk later, the two had reached the police station and found Nedzu and Aizawa waiting for them with Tsukauchi.
Aizawa gave a confused look and stared at Torino, "Who is this?" Torino twitched and sped up, kicking Aizawa in the head, "Disrespectful brat! Respect your elders!"
Aizawa groaned in pain, "Who is this?" he demanded to Yagi. "Manners!" Torino said angrily and hit Aizawa multiple times, "Check your tone,"
"Nothing to see here," Tsukauchi chuckles nervously to the passing officers, "My office, come on," he whispered. Nedzu nodded and ushered an angry and confused Aizawa into the office.
Once they were in, Nedzu spoke, "It's a good thing, you brought Torino with you too, Yagi. Best to have more people on our side,"
Yagi nodded nervously. "How do we know we can trust him?" Aizawa interjected. Evidently, Nedzu knew this guy, but still.
Torino laughed, "I taught this idiot over here and beat into him, the little common sense that he has," he motioned to Yagi.
Aizawa's eyes widened, "You're All Might's teacher?"
"I was a teacher at UA too. Not to mention, it's only because of me and Nedzu that only part of the hero commission is corrupt,"
Aizawa went silent. This guy knew what he was talking about. To teach All Might and keep up with Nedzu, the guy must be terrifying.
"All right," Tsukauchi sighed, "Let's get on with it. Aizawa, please give me a report of the attack,"
Aizawa nodded, holding his bruised head, and gave a recollection of the events. Nedzu scowled, "The commission is taking things too far,"
"The police didn't expect to look for snipers too, they had enough manpower to take down the main assault squad. We are lucky the vigilantes in the area took care of the snipers, or who knows what would have happened,"
"What's our next course of plan?" Torino asked.
"Nothing," Tsukauchi replied.
"Nothing?" Nedzu asked confused.
"Yes. The police commissioner told me he has an undercover cop planted. Apparently, they can't get anyone to take up their assassination jobs at the moment because they are scared of being fried to death,"
"And you are sure of this?" Nedzu asked.
Tsukauchi nodded, "The commissioner is a good guy, he's not against us, otherwise, he'd have wanted to keep you out of this, Nedzu. But he did order us to not do anything for now. Just asked Nedzu and All Might to win heroes to our side,"
"This plan might go bad at any moment. While the article on quirk discrimination was important, it also weakened society's belief in heroes. One wrong move and the commission can turn on us by calling us an uprising," Torino assessed.
Nedzu sighed, "We best lay low for now then. Don't garner too much attention. All Might, play to their wishes so that they think they have you fooled too. Endeavour is a lost cause. I will handle the other top heroes. Aizawa, select your most trustworthy underground heroes and help Tsukauchi with everything,"
Aizawa nodded, "Is that it?"
"Yes. Aizawa come, let's go. It's suspicious for us to meet suddenly with the police," Nedzu said. Aizawa nodded and exited the office with him. Once the door had closed, Torino smiled to Tsukauchi, "So, how have you been,"
"Good. I see you have been tormenting Toshinori,"
"Not any more than he deserved,"
Tsukauchi laughed. Yagi pouted, "I thought you were my friend,"
"I'm more scared of Torino-sensei, thanks,"
"And here I was telling you are my favorite," Torino replied with mock sadness in his voice.
Tsukauchi laughed, "I owe you for training me for the police and detective exams,"
"Well, it seems you two have a lot to talk about, so I'll just be going," Yagi tried to dump Torino on his friend. But Torino slapped his arm away before he could reach the handle, "You aren't getting away that easy. I'm going to train those 3 kids. Naomasa, let's go,"
"What? Why?" Tsukauchi argued.
"You need exercise. You must have gotten too slow,"
"But I-" Tsukauchi started but was hit several times by Torino, "Wasn't asking you to,"
Yagi smirked evilly at his friend who just gulped in fear.
"Why are you two laughing?" Izuku asked.
"Are you seriously telling me, your comment as Storm on the forums wasn't sarcastic?" Kaminari asked.
"No! I meant it! Why are people calling it sarcastic?"
"Izu, even the people on the forum hate hero commission so much that they thought you are being sarcastic. You should have asked me," Watanabe said.
"Whatever the reason, you aren't supposed to be awake at 3 A.M,"
"Ah, Yagi-sensei!" Kaminari yelped, "When did you get here? Why is the Aldera detective here?"
"You can call me Tsukauchi," Naomasa replied.
Yagi sighed, "Torino-sensei asked him to be here,"
"Ah, you are Torino-sensei. Nice to meet you. Izuku and Watanabe were talking about you a lot yesterday,"
Torino smiled, "See, this one has proper manners, and what about you two,"
"Are you training us today?" Watanabe asked.
"Correction: I'm training all of you!" Torino said.
"You might get hurt, old man," Denki said worryingly.
Torino smacked Denki hard on the head, "Who are you calling old? I trained All Might and Naomasa!"
"Wh-what!?"
"He isn't lying. All Might told me about him," Yagi half-lied. Denki stood in awe.
Torino ignored him, "Today all 5 of you have to try and keep dodging me. No fighting back or anything,"
"That's a bit too easy," Watanabe said.
"Oh, I forgot to mention, I can use my quirk, but you can't use yours!" Torino grinned.
"I knew I should have taken a holiday," Naomasa grumbled.
"When do we start?" Izuku asked hesitantly and was immediately kicked back, "Now," Torino smiled evilly.
Bakugou had a slight scowl on his face. Apparently, Inko and his mom had decided he needed to do community service. He did tell that he felt bad about what he did to Izuku, so why the hell did he need to this shit. At last, Mitsuki pulled into a run-down neighborhood, "Let's go brat!"
Bakugou didn't bother to fight and just followed her into a building that seemed to be faring better than the other ones in the area. His eyes widened when he saw Gang Orca there.
"Ah, Mitsuki-san, this is your son, I believe?" Orca asked.
"Yes, sorry we ran a little late,"
"It's fine. I'll take care of him for now,"
Mitsuki nodded, "Please make sure he doesn't do something stupid again,"
"Of course, you and Inko-san have discussed his situation and I'm willing to help,"
Mitsuki nodded and left, but not before giving Bakugou a stern glance. Katsuki ignored her, he was more interested in the fact that Gang Orca would be helping him. Normally, he'd go on bragging that the number 10 hero was teaching him, but he knew that that wasn't the case here.
"Sit down," Orca said gruffly. Bakugou obliged.
"Alright, everyone. Welcome to our community outreach program. For those who are new, my agency provides quirk counseling in poorer areas to help you control your quirks. We also help those with, 'villainous' quirks," Orca emphasized, "Not only that, we help in villain and vigilante rehabilitation too. So, as usual, introduce yourself, your quirk, and why you are here. Don't be shy,"
"Ok, uh, my name is Kawari. I have a gigantification quirk. I'm here because I used to be a villain because everyone kept telling me my quirk is villainous. But then, I saw Mt. Lady and told her about my situation and she brought me here for help,"
Katsuki grunted under his breath, "Weak quirk," Kawari twitched but didn't do anything under Orca's eye. "Next," Orca said.
"My name's Kawatsume. My quirk is an animal mutant where I can turn into a bat. People call me a villain too but I'm excited to learn how to use my quirk otherwise," he said excitedly. Bakugou muttered something again, but Kawatsume picked it up with his enhanced ears and scowled. He moved towards him but Orca stopped him. "Next, Bakugou," he said with menace.
Bakugou scoffed, "I am Bakugou Katsuki. My quirk is explosion. My mom made me come here but it doesn't matter because I will be the number 1 hero. I will be strongest!"
Orca didn't say anything, mainly because the other started laughing, "Ahaha. Really, Orca-san? This brat wants to be a hero? We'd make better heroes!"
"Even his quirk isn't special. What did he do against the slime villain, huh?" Another said.
"Heh, even my quirk is explosion. Guess I'll be the next number 1 hero then," Someone else pointed out. The other participants started laughing with each other and laid into Bakugou who kept getting angrier, "SHUT UP YOU EXTRAS!" he finally snapped. Immediately, the room turned hostile but Orca interrupted, "Bakugou, like it or not, they are right. At the moment, your attitude is more villainous than anyone here. Even their quirks would enable them to maybe become better heroes than you can."
Bakugou opened his mouth to argue but Orca put up his hand, "I don't want to hear it. You are lucky your mother brought you here before you actually became a villain," Orca said harshly. Bakugou shut his mouth. Orca smiled slightly, seemed like hearing it from a top hero was doing the job.
"I will help you to correct your attitude and I expect you to change by yourself too, is that understood?" Orca said. Bakugou nodded. "Good," Orca said and added one last thing, "We don't need another Endeavour,"
Tsukauchi sighed, "How did this happen again?" he asked.
Sansa huffed, "Well, the court sentenced Endeavour to community service in the form of manual labor due to his, er, quirk issues. Anyway, we held a lottery of underemployed construction sites to see who would get him as an employee, except everyone was deathly scared of him. So, we chose the company which needed labor the most but they didn't want him either, so we gave them permission to defend themselves with their quirk if needed and also cuffed him with quirk suppressing cuffs. After that, I have no clue how this happened."
Tsukauchi nodded and turned to the owner, "And, could you fill in what happened after?"
He nodded, "Well, my family was scared of Endeavour but I decided to try and have him work but instead he ended up shouting and was about to attack us but my daughter got spooked and used her quirk,"
"And what is her quirk?"
"Zero gravity," he said rubbing the back of his head.
"Makes sense," Tsukauchi said and looked up at the floating Endeavour high up in the air, "Sansa, where is Eraserhead?"
"Right here," Aizawa grunted.
"Oh good, can you please nullify her quirk?" Sansa asked motioning towards Uraraka who seemed to be on the verge of puking.
Aizawa glanced lazily at Tsukauchi, "You know, he's going to fall to his death if I nullify the quirk, not to mention, I shouldn't use my quirk in front of the media,"
Tsukauchi twitched, "What are we supposed to do then?"
Right then, Hawks appeared from nowhere and swooped in bringing Endeavour turned to the ground, "You can release your quirk now," Hawks said kindly to Uraraka who nodded and released the quirk.
"What are you doing here?" Aizawa asked.
"Ah, the hero commission sent me,"
Aizawa nodded, "Is Hawks on their side too, then?" Aizawa thought but could not mull over it as Endeavour had gotten onto his feet and immediately headed towards Uraraka, "YOU INSOLENT BRAT!" he screamed. Aizawa readied his scarfs to hold back Endeavour, in case something happened. However, what happened next was instantaneous. Uraraka puked on Endeavour because of the quirk drawbacks and Tsukauchi tased Endeavour in fear of what he would do. Hawks stood in surprise and the media went silent. The silence was broken by Aizawa sipping his juice packet with a broad grin on his face, "Well that was interesting," Sansa smirked.
Uraraka heard the door being knocked on and opened it, "Um, who are you?" she asked.
"Hi, my name is Midoriya Inko, could I come in and talk to your parents?"
"Uh, I don't really know you though,"
Uraraka's father came to the door, "Excuse me, what do you need?"
"Hi, my name is Midoriya Inko. I'm a lawyer,"
Mr. Ochaco's face paled, "Are you here because of Endeavour?"
"No, no, I'm here to help you against Endeavour. You may know me from the Aldera case,"
"Oh, yes. Please, come in,"
"Thank you," Inko said and entered the house. Her first honest impression was that they were really poor. The parents looked quite hungry but their daughter seemed to be well-fed even though the clothes were a bit tarnished.
"Please, tell us what you need to talk about?" Mr. Ochaco said.
"I would like to help you, to charge Endeavour for child assault and emotional abuse," Inko said seriously.
Uraraka's parents shared a look. Her father sighed, "We really don't want to get into that much trouble. We just think it might be bad for us,"
Inko stared at him straight in the eye, "You can get a huge settlement. He has already been convicted once, so this second conviction might land him in jail but it will at least force him to pay a huge amount to you,"
Uraraka looked up with hope at her parents who held their breath before nodding to each other, "What do we have to do?"
A/N: IMPORTANT: Next chapter will be a TIMESKIP. I do not wish to linger onto pre-UA anymore because there really isn't much left to add, so the next chapter will be Izuku getting One for All AND Watanabe's true potential.
Also, MANGA READERS, what the heck is going on in the latest chapter man? Like, really Horikoshi. That some Itachi Sasuke shit.
