Chaotic Hero
Chapter 5
Time for the training montage. Though this will be a little different compared to some others. And it will include Izuku experimenting and practicing with his various cards to get a feel for what he could do in combat. As well as the effects of some mugics. Given those tend to vary from creature to creature and what they can do. So he'll have to figure out the possible effects. On with the show.
(No POV)
Izuku hummed while looking at his cards. Contemplating each that would be useful for the fight to come. "I need to get the girl out first. So it would be better to use….. yeah. Gotta go with a Mipedian. Maybe Zhade. Given I'm Green Might, still sticking with Maxxor. And then-"
"Over thinking things again you damn nerd?" Izuku hears behind him. He turns and sees Bakugo stalking him. He looks ready for a fight, but that is nothing new for him. Izuku rolled his eyes and barely acknowledged his bully.
But that only incises Bakugo and he gets ready to strike Izuku. Only to be surprised when the nerd dodges him nonchalantly. "How!? What?! Why are you dodging?!" the blonde exclaims. "Because I don't want to get hit." Izuku says flatly.
The brat snarls before standing to strike again. Only to be met with Izuku's elbow to his face. While he is groaning in pain, Izuku finally addresses Bakugo. "Can you not be picking a fight for ten seconds? I want to talk to you about something."
Bakugo sniffles a bit and wipes a bit of blood away before being surprised by the look in Izuku's eyes. He stops wanting to fight for a moment and is willing to listen to what Izuku has to say and talk about.
"So the pro didn't or couldn't do anything because they need to make a case or whatever about it? Guess that's the side we don't know about." Bakugo says while sitting on a wall. He notes that he'd still want to fight them and be the hero for that girl. "It's more than you can do. But then again, I'd probably get arrested for doing vigilante stuff. If you had some way to fight and without a quirk, you wouldn't have anything to worry about. Not like that's possible."
Izuku subtly rolls his eyes but does agree with the explosive blonde. He doesn't thank Bakugo and reminds him that they were a little late. "Let's hurry. I don't know about you, but I don't want to have to listen to a lecture from the teacher." Izuku says before running off.
Bakugo yells at Izuku but he leaves the matter alone for the time being. 'What's he thinking? Or planning, whatever! It's not like he can really do anything. He's just a deku.' While Bakugo is thinking this, Izuku is scheming and planning his next moves.
After school, he heads for the woods around Dagobah Beach. "Good place to at least start. Now then. I'll keep it simple and use Maxxor, with a…. Cyclance. And I'll include a Geoflourish to test it out."
With that, Izuku transforms into the hero of the Overworld. "Right. First things first." Maxxor says before summoning his Cyclance. He tests a few attacks on the piles of garbage. Melting some with fire, burying and compressing them with earth, and testing the shock and other potential of the Cyclance.
Barely noticing that someone else had arrived. That being Yagi Toshinori, or All Might. He was currently in his true form and was inspecting the area as a place to potentially train a successor. Or just somewhere he could clean as well. 'We all do forget where many heroes began and….. well now. This is interesting.'
He steps out and sees the strange person he met the other day as All Might. And he was currently damaging a large amount of garbage. To the point some of it was going out into the ocean. "Little much don't you think?" he called out after getting out of his car.
Izuku as Maxxor was a little surprised to see anyone, but he did what he could to not let it show. 'Who's this guy?' was Izuku's main thought and he later voiced that. Toshinori just introduced himself as Yagi and said he was an associate of All Might.
"He mentioned you in passing. What are you doing out here?" the deflated hero asked with a slightly suspicious look. Izuku cleared his throat and tried to come off as accurate to the character as possible. "I….. recently learned how to do many….. special things. And I wanted to test them in a place where no one could get hurt. Or possibly turn me in."
Toshinori nods but asks what Green Might could do that would require that. And the size of his eyes matches the size of his pecs in buff form when he sees Green Might unleash a torrent of lava, a few fireballs, and then a punch created a ridge of rock.
The green man chuckled before saying, "yeah. So, you can see why I'd like to be safe about this. Let alone finding a bunch of these." He gestured with his Cyclance, and then used a Tornado Tackle through it as well as a Lightning Burst.
The pro has to pinch himself before letting out a slightly maddened chuckle. "Um… Okay….. weird and I guess that means you technically didn't freeze that villain with your quirk. But instead did it thanks to some….. strange support item?!"
"Uh. Sure let's go with that." Green Might says and then tries to move the conversation along. He asks that Toshinori keep quiet for now. "I'm not really ready to reveal a lot of things given I don't know much about my abilities. I didn't have any for a long time."
Toshinori notices the slightly sad way the man (from his perspective) said that and he had a feeling on the situation. "A very late awakening or something? So you've never had training or anything like that?" Izuku clears his throat and says it was something like that.
The blonde man nods and agrees to keep it a secret for the time being. "But you still should register the changes eventually. Just to be safe." Green Might gives a slow nod before changing the subject to ask what Toshinori was doing there. Only for him to acknowledge he was there for similar reasons to Green Might. "Mostly in that this place is out of the way."
The two share a smile and Toshinori offers to have a truck brought out so the man could clear or move the pieces of trash better than with just blasting things. "That would be helpful. Thank you." Green Might says with a hand extended. And Toshinori shakes it with a smile on his face.
Once he was gone though, Izuku let out a sigh of relief. "Okay. Gonna have to try some other things and maybe work on avoiding people. As best I can." Izuku says before deactivating his transformation. He sighed before thinking about the next ways to use his new abilities.
"Hmmm. Well. It might be best to get more comfortable with Zhade. I don't play as a Mipedian that often." Izuku muses before switching to said lizard and pulling up a Destructozoka card. As well a Fanfare of the Vanishing mugic. "Gotta test these sooner or later."
Once he had turned into said creature he took a breath to try and turn invisible. 'Like Tom and Peyton said. Go with the Mipedian I'm in…. or transformed into. Whatever.' Izuku thinks before doing just that and vanishing. He then tries out a few air attacks and other skills as the sun starts to set.
He then realizes that he could get into trouble with his mom if he doesn't tell her what is going on. So he sends a quick message to say he got caught up with something and would be a little late for dinner. "Man that is weird to say aloud when I look like this."
Izuku thinks this while looking at his reflection in the water. He sneaks around a bit, even getting used to Zhade's ability to climb along walls. Letting him keep a close eye on some of the goings on.
In one alley, he hears a scream and goes invisible to see what was wrong. He spots a pair of larger thugs intimidating a young woman. Though the woman in this case was rather large herself. Looking like a teal fox. But yet the two around were pushing her around and down.
"Now then how about you hand over your money. That or we could find an…. Alternate solution," one says with a poke toward the woman's chest. And before she can cover up, the villain (who had hidden claws from his sabertooth cat quirk) slashed her shirt. Making her breast spill out and her squeak in fear once more.
Izuku snarls before calling out "Lightning Burst!" and shocking the cat villain then using his tail to wrap up and body slam the villain. "Why you little – Whoa, whoa, WHOA!" the other says before Izuku starts to use a Tornado Tackle and makes the villain spin and fly in the air. And when he lets it up, the villain is dropped in the trash.
"Are you alright?" Zhade asks before extending a hand to the woman. She doesn't move her arms given her current state of dress, and the lizard like being looks around and rips off some of the shirt on the first villain. "This should help for a minute."
The woman has tears in her eyes before gently taking the cloth. Izuku turns his back and waits for the girl to be decent. "Thank you. Who are you mister lizard?" she says while wiping the tears from her eyes. "I'd like to know that as well," a new voice calls out.
From the shadows, a black-haired man with a black body suit and a long scarf around his neck appears. He has a very scruffy face and tired look in his eyes. And his eyes were fixated on Izuku or rather Zhade. "So. Care to tell me who you are?" the man says before his eyes flash red and his hair rises.
Izuku narrows his own while contemplating who this could be. 'Given the entrance, the hair, and that glare… gotta be Eraserhead. But I don't think he can counter my invisibility. Though I guess I could give him…. Them. An answer.'
"You can call me….. Hide Sight. And you'll see why soon enough." Zhade says before checking again to see if the girl was alright. He notices that the two villains were starting to wake up and he quickly cast Wall of Flame to stop them.
Eraserhead is shocked as he knows he's using his quirk to negate what he believed to be a quirk. "I just stepped in because someone needed help. And I don't plan to ignore that. So long." Zhade says this before turning invisible and surprising both observing.
Once a fair distance away, Izuku sighs before sneaking around more and getting a feeling for how long he could stay invisible. He was near the outskirts of the city, and he saw another group of people being threatened. From their appearances and what he overheard some saying, the ones being attacked were quirkless.
"Let's get rid of these Neanderthals! Yeah, they don't belong in our world! They should have died out long ago!" Izuku growls in anger and recorded some of what was said. And then he grabbed his Fanfare of the Vanishing and asked it to hide the victims.
And it did just that to the shock of the villains. "You called them Neanderthals? I'd say every one of you are the devolved ones in this place!" Izuku says while staying invisible. The bigots look around and try to find the source. But they instead get shocked or blasted with wind before they can react.
"Where are you!" one who got sent through a wall screams. After she steps out to find her enemy. Izuku climbed along the wall he sent the villain through and slipped behind her. He put his clawed fingers next to her neck and whispered, "here! Lightning Burst!"
The electrifying attack paralyzes and knocks out the villain as Zhade appears. "It should be okay now. Are you alright?" the vigilante young man asks as the mugic starts to wear off. The family gulps before recoiling because of his appearance.
Izuku chuckles while thinking, 'I wonder if this is some of what those who hate mutant types feel? Can't exactly blame them though. If they've had to deal with this more than once.' He tells them he means them no harm and that he just happened upon someone who needed help.
"Who are you mister?" a little boy asks while looking up at Izuku. And he relaxes his eyes before saying he was Hide Sight. "It fits for a very good reason. Be careful." With that, Izuku turns invisible and slips away before recovering his phone and sending the recordings to heroes and the police.
He returned home and rested up for the night. Though he laughed as his Hide Sight persona was lauded as a hero to an extent. Given he saved a few different people. But Eraserhead calling him tantamount to a villain was infuriating. "Not like he did much of anything." Izuku mutters with annoyance.
He sighs before using his scanner to send himself to Chaotic. He met up with Peyton to ask for something special. "I need an Interlude of Consequence mugic. Do you know where to get one?"
"That's a pretty big ask little bro. But I do know the fella who makes that mugic. We need to head to Rao'pa Sahkk. I'm sure Sobtjek has a few. And he's a good buddy." The two port to Perim and meet with the high muge of the Mipedians. Who is happy to let some be scanned. "You have aided the Mipedians and many others of Perim more than most Chaotic players. It would be rude to not reward such compassion."
Izuku thanks the muge before asking if he could scan him as well. And with permission given, Izuku has the power of the lizard wizard. They explore around a bit more and Izuku gets some new scans. Including a new scan of Intress. "Natureforce? Huh. Well the extra elements and this ability will be pretty helpful." Izuku thinks after scanning the tiger woman.
With that done, Izuku participated in a few Chaotic matches and went over some details with Peyton on what some mugic and gear could do. "Hey listen, I know you're planning to go all superhero and save that girl. But it would probably be a good idea to get some info on the guys you're going against."
Peyton notes that his own encyclopedic knowledge of Chaotic has helped him plenty of times. And while not the same kind of power, battle, or challenge one thing was constant. "Knowledge is power bro! And if you don't know what your up against, they you could be powerless."
"I had been considering that, but I wasn't sure on the best way to go about it. Not like I can sneak around those thugs without knowing who they are and where they might live or anything." Izuku says while looking over some cards. "Well then you just need to steal the info from someone who has it."
Kaz said this as he was returning from a scan quest. He sat down and reminded Izuku that there was someone already making a case. "That probably means they have what you need. You just have to get it from them. Or copy it at least."
Izuku is a little wide eyed at the implication, but he can't deny the potential and advantage it would give him. Before Izuku ports back though, Kaz stops him. "Listen. I'm guessing you might be going for a mixed team. So I have a suggestion to slow or turn the tides." He then brought up an image of Magmon, but he looked very different.
"This is Magmon the Retaliator. Extra elemental power and energy. I'd be willing to trade it….. if you've got a few new pieces of battlegear." Kaz says with a cunning smirk. Izuku thinks a moment before bringing up a few things he'd scanned.
Maxxor's Torch, Mipedian Fulgurite, and Elementalist's Pauldrons. "Hm. Not bad…. But I think I'll go with the Fulgurite. I'm usually not one for Elementalists and I don't have a Maxxor." Kaz says before setting his scanner into the trade table.
Izuku spends the next few hours in the dromes and around the Port Court. After catching a few zs in a monorail, he ported back to his world. Roughly when his home self would be waking up to get ready for school.
"Well that was a productive night I guess. Something special for the strongest or leader. Now…. I'll have to think more on what they said." Izuku's day goes about as normal. And in the afternoon he practices and helps as both Maxxor and Zhade.
Before switching to a different one. That being his new Intress scan. "This is so weird being in a female body. I wonder if this is what it's like for trans people?" Izuku questions before leaping around the woods and practicing some attacks.
"Impressive acrobatics young lady. And I have to wonder if you are related to Big Red Dot with those water manipulations." Izuku hears after unleashing a Riptide attack. He turns and sees someone….. intimidating and opposite to his current power set. That being the number 2 hero, Endeavor. Though without his flame roiling.
Izuku gulps before trying to talk to the flame hero. He first tries to pitch his voice up but remembers that he was already in a female form. "Really gotta get used to this. *cough* yes um. Hello Endeavor sir. I'm a…. little surprised to see you here. This isn't your area of jurisdiction."
"No. But it is near my home. And I used to train out here until….. well it doesn't fully matter." The man seems melancholy and introduces his family name instead since he was out of uniform. Izuku or Intress notices the sadness as he looks around the area. But doesn't ask right away as the teen has to come up with an excuse as to why he was there.
He coughs again before saying, "I um….. I was practicing. I've…. never been able to do some of what you've seen before. And it felt risky to try anything without learning what could happen." Todoroki Enji as he introduced himself nodded and commended 'her' for that.
"I've never heard of a late bloomer that came about at your age. But quirks are quite strange. And I'm glad to hear that a young lady like yourself is taking the time to learn that there can be complications if you try to do too much."
Izuku notices the sad look once more and decides to broach the question of what was bothering the hero. "I've got time. I'm willing to listen. Besides, it could do some good to talk about it." Enji looks to the young lady, then down to the ground, and then his own hand as he created some flames.
He sighed before beginning his tale about his eldest child. "My son had the potential to become far more powerful than I could ever hope to be. I thought he could surpass me, and All Might someday. But there was a problem. While his power was growing, his body couldn't take it."
He revealed that his wife had an ice quirk and that added to the complications. As his son's body was capable of handling extreme cold but not extreme heat. "I tried to stop him. To talk him down and convince him to step away from the dream I….. I pushed onto him. But…. he was as stubborn as I am. Maybe more so."
"His power consumed him didn't it?" Intress finished with a sad look toward the man. Who just nodded and said all they found was a piece of his jawbone. "Since then I've been doing everything I can to make sure my youngest won't fall into similar pitfalls. That he'll give it his all to prove what I sought wasn't entirely wrong. But once again the boy is so damn stubborn!"
Intress laughs at this before saying that it might be some of the problem. "You want so bad to prove you were right or that what you sought wasn't wrong. But that probably compounds the problem and matters. Maybe…. Let go. That or you need someone else who can show him his weaknesses. Though not an adult."
"You may be right. Are you going to keep training out here? I wouldn't mind overseeing. Maybe introduce you to my family. I think my second son is around your age." Izuku has a minor freak out moment about that and just says it would be fine. And that he (she) should be getting home. Bounding off in a panic.
Izuku shivers after getting away and shouts, "okay! Didn't need to think about that!" He had changed back to human once more and decided to test out something else. He turned into Vidav and used a Mugicians Lyre to give himself a third mugician.
He then went over toward Mustafa general hospital. 'Whew. Okay. Let's try a little something else.' Izuku thinks before sneaking to the hospital as the sun was setting. He closed his eyes, put his lynx like ear to a window, and listen to what some of the doctors and nurses were talking about.
Noting the wing and area where some of the worst injured or ill people were. "Especially that one guy. I think Recovery Girl is or has been treating him for a while now. Yeah. Over in the east wing with some of the severe trauma victims." Izuku or Vidav nods and starts to climb up and towards the wing in question.
It's not quite the same, but he can feel some of the people below somehow. "Probably has to do with Vidav's ability to heal. Now then. Song of Rejuvenation. Heal those within as best you can!" Vidav calls out before unleashing his mugician toward the floating mugic.
While not an absolute heals, the mugic provides enough relief to some who were close to dying due to the injuries many of them had endured. And this is when Izuku went to use his mugicians to heal a few others below.
"Hm. Not sure what happened to this guy. But he does seem like he need it. As does this lady." Izuku thinks aloud before sending his last two mugicians to a pair he could sense. The first being Toshinori. Who felt the original healing pulse and then what felt like a spirit enter him and together they partially restored his stomach and lungs. He'd never be quite at his best, but his time limit was not dwindling anymore and he'd even regained some of his time. Able to go at least 6 to 8 hours instead of 3.
The other was a sad woman who was broken by a bit of grief and the obsessive nature of her husband. And his brutal methods following the death of their oldest. This being Todoroki Rei. She felt the comforting light enter her and the heart behind it seemed to bring her peace and some more stability to her mind. Especially as she saw some memories of Izuku talked with Enji and could hear all of the regret in his voice.
Izuku sighed once it was all done and rolled a bit of a kink out of his neck. "Well that gives me an idea on how to make this work. Maybe I can more to save or help people this way." Izuku thought aloud and was surprised once again.
"Indeed you could my good man." Izuku turned and saw an old woman in a uniform with a syringe cane and a belt buckle that had RG on it. "Recovery Girl. I didn't actually think you were here when I listened in. Just trying to help." Izuku says while walking toward the edge of the roof. The heroine takes some measure steps toward the lynx man by her perception before asking a few questions.
Lead of which being why he didn't use his quirk to become a healing hero like her. This just made Izuku roll his eyes when he thought about the fact she was obsessing about quirks as well. "It's not exactly something I was able to do for a very long time. Its….. kind of new. And it requires a few things. Besides. I'm not so sure heroes really are heroes anymore."
"You're talking about things like the obsessions with fame. Or the rumors surrounding Endeavor?" Recovery Girl asks with a suspicious eye. Izuku clears his throat before saying he wasn't sure about the latter, but definitely the former. "Too many have…. Lost sight of what it means to be a hero I think. And that's why I'm going a different way."
With that, Izuku steps on the railing of the roof and leaps as hard as he can to reach a different building. Shocking Recovery Girl. She sees the hero getting further away and decides to leave it at that for the moment. "Well played mister Magic Cat. And thank you."
Izuku went home and took care of his homework before pretending to be asleep. Once he was sure his mother was asleep, he opened his window to turn into Zhade and climb down the side.
He remembered the rough area he met Bubble Girl before and waited to see if she was still patrolling. Apparently, she was. As he spotted her walking with Centipeder toward what he assumed was the agency she worked for.
Izuku kept up his invisibility and climbed up the side of the building in question. Only to have a minor geek out moment seeing all of the All Might merchandise in the apparent boss's office. And quickly identifying the man.
'Sir Nighteye?! He's the one who's looking to take down that group that has Eri?!' Izuku thinks with some panic. He shakes out of it though and listens in to hear what the heroes were talking about. "Anything new to report Awata-kun?" Nighteye asked. But Bubble Girl didn't have anything.
Saying, "we checked around the area I found that boy and Overhaul's daughter. We didn't find anything though." Nighteye sighs before reminding her that she was supposed to give a joke to go along with her report. And since she couldn't come up with one, the office worker pro escorts her out to be subjected to Tickle Hell.
Izuku is confused and a bit dumbfounded by all of this, but he sees it as a good thing. Especially when they all leave to discuss and carry out the punishment. 'Thanks for that Bubble Girl. Your sacrifice will not be in vain.' Izuku thinks before slipping into some vents to gain access to Nighteye's office.
Once inside, he checks the computer but finds it all locked by passwords. Luckily, Izuku has a few good ideas on the passwords. The first being the day All Might appeared as a hero in Japan. Second for the files, being when he first started working with All Might.
Third though (to get to the Shie Hissaki records) Izuku was less certain of. He tried a few pertaining to All Might and Nighteye's birthdays or even other noteworthy dates related to the pair. All while trying to ignore the laughter he could hear from Bubble Girl being tickled.
"That is just kind of twisted. But….. he's always been associated with All Might. Even if they aren't working….. together anymore….. I wonder?" Izuku muses aloud before typing in a different date.
One that marked when the two stopped working together and Nighteye went his own way. And that was the last password. Izuku sighs before opening the Shie Hissaki files and inserting a flash drive to copy everything. But he panics when he hears the door opening.
He quickly pulls up the screen saver and covers up the drive as Centipeder and Nighteye talk. "Do you think they'll make a move soon sir?" the insect headed man asks. Nighteye sighs before saying he wasn't sure. "With All Might around, most are less likely to cause trouble. But…. he could be waiting for something specific."
Izuku tempers his breathing so the pros don't catch onto him and hopes they'll leave. 'I mean it's crazy enough they were still in the office this late! It's after two in the morning!' Izuku thinks while worrying about getting up for school tomorrow.
The heroes talk a bit more before Nighteye decides to let Bubble Girl go for the night. "It is ridiculously late as is. And I haven't been sleeping much to get this profile and everything together. Hopefully we can put an end to this case soon."
The two leave and turn off the lights as they go to release the younger sidekick. Izuku sighs before slinking back over to check the status of the copying. Happy to see that it was finally done. With that finished, he quickly closes the files and explorers and ejects his flash drive.
"I still have to build a plan, but now I have the information I need to take out the villains." Izuku says before returning to the vents to escape and then head home. 'Just a bit longer. Hold out a little longer Eri.'
So that is all the set up for the next phase of the Chaotic raid on the Shie Hissaki. I needed to add more to get Izuku ready for the mission. As well as to flush out more of how some with interpret his various transformations. Especially if he goes to a more villainous one like Magmon or any Underworlder. Not to mention playing around with the ideas of what mugic could do in that world. Especially a healing one. Please review!
