Chapter 8
Four days later
-Office of the Minister of Heroes activities-
Early Morning
A man who looked to be at his early 50 was sat behind a desk reading a folder, he had a light skin tone, black eyes that were behind a pair of square glasses and black hair that were turning gray do to age or do to stress and was dressed in a formal black suit with a silver watch on his left wrist, he was reading a folder making him sigh. "The situation is getting worse" he said as his answering machine turn on.
"Minister Daishin, your guests have arrived," the voice of his secretary came out from the machine making the man sigh as he pressed a button on the device.
"Send them in," he said letting go of the button, he stood up and unplugged the device as the door was opened to reveal All might, Naomasa and Nezo walking in the room and closed the door. "Morning gentlemen."
"Morning Minister Daishin," they greeted as the man nodded.
"Sorry for asking but did you follow my request?" Daishin asked getting nods from the three making him nod opening, his hand making a silver-ish glow emit from it and then expand covering the room in the same glow. "Then we can start please sit down," he said gesturing at the three chairs in front of his desk.
They walked to the chairs and sat down while Daishin sat on his own chair. "Once again morning and thank you for coming to the meeting, as you know we are here to discuss the matter of Omuni," he said grabbing the folder.
"Four days ago the villain known Toxic Chainsaw was found dead and the cause of death was as, I could say unique," he said giving the folder to the them opening it to see pictures and notes but what caught there attention was the picture of the villain's decomposing body.
All of the color was drained from the body but instead of looking pale he looked like an ashen gray green, some of his skin was missing from his chest and face allowing to see his inner organs that looked to be very damaged and even his skull, some of his hair was gone and on his wrist showed that they were cut making it a gruesome sight to say the least.
"His body was found in that condition in a warehouse close to the docks and by the looks of it, he has been there for one or so months," Daishin said as they each took their turn looking at the files.
"If that's true then, we aren't certain it was Omuni since, his calling card is expose first then execute," Naomasa said getting a nod from Daishin.
"That's true but we can't ignore that the level of brutality that his victims die it depends on the crimes, they have committed and from what we know Toxic has the highest level of crime committed compared to the previous victims," Daishin said getting a nod from the detective.
"Were we able to get any kind of information or lead on Omuni with this?" Allmight asked the minister who shook his head.
"No, we couldn't find any leads at the crime scene," Daishin said making the hero sigh and mutter as Nezo looked at the folder once again.
"But I do believe there is another reason for just the four of us meeting here," Nezo said getting a nod from Daishin.
"Yes, there is another reason why, I brought you here..." Daishin started giving a small pause. "The reason is why would Omuni do this," he said getting confused looks from All might and Naomasa.
"What do you mean?" Allmight asked.
"As Naomasa pointed out, Omuni normally kills in an order exposing his victim and only later he kills his target but this time he only killed his target and didn't expose his crimes," Daishin pointed. "And besides that, his other victims had a somewhat quick death while from the autopsy Toxic didn't die in a day nor two," he said grabbing the folder once again and went to the page that detailed the cause of death. "He died in a period of a week as his bodily functions shut down," he said.
"If Omuni went to this length to make Toxic suffer then he must have done something to anger him to this point," Allmight said getting a nod from Daishin.
"Yes, and if I were to guess it I would say Toxic might have harm or killed someone close to him," Daishin said making Naomasa think a little on that theory.
"That would kind a of explain why he would kill Toxic to this level and being a personal matter wanting to keep it to himself is understandable," he said a little perturbed at the level of brutality and cruelty Omuni could reach.
"If I may Minister Daishin, why are we the only ones getting this information?" Allmight asked.
Daishin looked at the three and sighed once again. "The reason why Is that I believe their are spies among us."
"The reason for this Is because Omuni has been steps ahead of us and even the military police force hasn't given any fruit, and so I made a decision that a secret task force will be assembled to put a stop to Omuni."
"And who are members of this task force?" Naomasa asked.
"Besides of you three, the top fives heroes, Sir Nighteye and Gran Torino" he said.
"And the others, will they be kept in the dark of Omuni's activities?" Naomasa questioned getting a shook of the head from the minister.
"No, if we do that then Omuni might know something is up, we are going to inform the other heroes but we won't tell them all of the details like I did here," he said getting nods from the three. "With that our meeting is over," he said as the three stood up.
"I'll inform the others myself," Daishin said as the three left his office and he sighed once again leaning into his chair, he grabbed the folder as the silver that covered the room disappeared. "What Is your goal with all of this Omuni?" he asked himself reading once again the folder.
-Ben's house-
"Achoo!" Ben sneezed into his hand making Izuku and Lilith look at him. "Sorry guys," he said taking a napkin and blew his nose. "I don't know why but I've been sneezing a lot."
The three were at the dining room having breakfast dressed in their casual attire minus Izuku who was in his school uniform. "Maybe someone is talking about you," Izuku suggested making Ben shrug.
"If they are, I hope they are talking good things about me," he said returning to his meal making Izuku sigh as he looked at his watch.
"Of course they are aniki," he said with a hit of sarcasm on his voice as he stood up. "I have to go," he said putting on his backpack and started to leave. "Bye Aniki, Nesan."
"Bye Ototo/ Lil Green" Ben and Lilith waved at the boy who nodded and was about to leave but stopped.
"Where's Yusei?" he asked only now, he realised that the silver-head wasn't there with them.
"He's in the lab doing some work," Lilith said taking a sip of her tea as Izuku walked towards the elevator.
"Well you're carrying his name with less malice this time," Ben said as he he took another bite of his omelet.
Lilith lowered her cup of tea and looked at him. "You asked me to tolerate him and I'm doing that," she said getting a nod from Ben as he got closer to her and kissed her on her cheek.
[Merci mon amour,] he said in French making Lilith giggle.
"You gotten better in it, but your accent is still off," she said making Ben grumble as he went back to his meal while she did the same.
Yusei was typing on the main computer, he looked at the screen with bags under his eyes as he yawns.
Izuku walked out of the elevator and walked up besides the man. "Yo Yusei, I'm heading to school," he said getting a nod from him.
"Okay Bye," he said still focused on his work, Izuku frown slightly but didn't say anything just went back to the elevator and left the house.
Izuku made his way to school, but his mind was else where. "He started acting like this when, Nesan arrived," he thought as he walked up to the train station. "Did something bad happened between them?" he asked himself as the train stop and opened its door making the boy step in the train and sat down. "Maybe I should ask Aniki?"
-Back at Ben's house-
Yusei yawned as he typed for a few more minutes. "And done," he said rubbing his eyes as he tried to get up from the chair but nearly falling if it wasn't for it. "I've been working for too long," he thought trying to get back to his feet but he fell to the ground too tired to move, he stared at the ceiling with tired eyes. "Looks like I over did it again," he thought as he closed his eyes and fell asleep.
-Back with Izuku-
Izuku sighed as he took out his phone and started to do his search on any recent hero battle but surprisingly, he only managed to find very few mostly criminals robbing convenient stores. "Is this really the effect of Aniki?" he questioned himself.
Ever since he joined Ben's side, he has seen how hard Ben worked to wipe out crime but even if it was working and for a good cause killing was something that still made, Izuku feel uneasy about Ben on the fact how he can so easily take a life but now, he still disliked the idea but not as much as before.
He sighed as he went to recent events not finding much beside, of Titan Enterprises releasing new products on the market and after surfing the net for a while the train reached the station.
Izuku walked out of the station but he soon stopped when, he felt something off as he could feel someone watching him as he walked through the crowd of people stopping, he closed his eyes as he started to breathe in and out as he started to sense the people around him giving a somewhat out of body third person view, most people that walked passed him had a blue aura while another had a red like aura and it was aimed at him and it was getting closer making Izuku to start walk towards an alleyway in the case he would need to fight.
He slowed down using Ki again to enhance his senses, he was able to hear footsteps that were getting closer. 'Who's this guy?" he asked himself as he augmented his body and stopped in front of a dead end as the footsteps came to a halt.
"So you were Minogashita's brat after all," a raspy voice said making Izuku sigh turning around to see Tomura dressed in the same way he was dressed when they first met.
"Shigaraki," Izuku said looking at the man neutrally. "What do you want from me?" he asked.
"I just came to talk what, is this also against our treaty?" Tomura asked getting a shook of the head from Izuku.
"No, it isn't but I don't see what you'll gain with talking to me."
"I'll be honest, I didn't know too but now you got my attention," he said while Izuku kept looking at Tomura neutrally.
"What do you mean?"
"Well, I want to know more about you and especially why would Minogashita care about you," He said making Izuku raise an eyebrow.
"And why do you care if Ben cares about me?" he asked.
Tomura chuckled. "Because, I know something Minogashita isn't an idiot and if he appeared to you is because there's a reason and I just want to know what is it?" he asked making Izuku shrugged.
"Neither do I," he answered still in his neutral tone.
"I doubted it, if Minogashita added you to his side there's must be a good reason for it but, I just can't understand what," he said. "The only thing I know is that he's using you to get info in UA," was the only thing Tomura knew about the boy.
Izuku almost yelled at him but kept his mouth shut and tighten his fist. "Yeah, that's it can I go now?" he asked as he started to walk towards the man's direction to leave the alley way.
"Go ahead, I just wanted to know what type of pawn were you," he said making Izuku stop besides him and look at him.
"Takes one to know one," he said walking out of the alleyway leaving Tomura alone as Kurogiri appear besides him.
"Are you happy now?" the mist man asked making Tomura grumble.
"That brat is hiding something, I don't know what but something," he grumbled as Kurogiri sighed opening a portal for the hooded man who walked in it and soon disappeared from the alleyway.
Izuku walked towards UA still thinking on what Tomura told him. "I just wanted to know the type of pawn you were," those words repeated again in his head but he shook them off. "Like Aniki would use me like that since, he could get that information easily," he thought with a smile as he walked towards his class but he didn't notice the other person who followed him since he walked out of the alleyway.
A few hours later
Late Afternoon
-At Ben's house-
Yusei opened his eyes expecting to feel the cold ground of the lab instead, he was in a bed in his room, he looked to the left to see a tray with steak and chips along side a grape soda and card with a chibi Ben holding a sign.
"I made one of your favorite plates and also you need to rest man," he read out loud sighing as he sat up and started eating. "I don't really deserve a friend like him," he thought as he eat slowly.
Ben was on the living room with Lilith watching a horror movie. "Chop his head off," Lilith said laughing at the stupidity of the characters of the movie.
"Well this sure remembers me of that time we were in Serbia," Ben chuckling at her making the woman look at him with a pout.
"That was my first time facing something like that," she said making Ben chuckle even more. "And how did you expect me to know, I needed to cut off its head?" she asked getting laughter as her answer.
"Oh, I know but your screams of kill it will always make me laugh," he said making the woman elbow him on the side.
"You're mean," she said making Ben wrapped his arms around her waist and pulled her on his lap.
"Ah, I'm so sorry my little vampire," he said making the woman sigh as she turn around to face him, shortening the distance between their faces touching noses.
"You're lucky that you're very cute," she said with a smile.
"You know it better than anyone else," he said back leaning closer but stopped when they heard the door open.
"I'm home!" Izuku yelled as he closed the door and walked into the living room to see the two. "I'm ruining something aren't I?" he asked getting a nod from Lilith.
"Yeah, kind of," she said making Izuku back away and walk upstairs. "Well his reaction is better than my sister."
Ben shrugged. "I think so but anyway where were we?" he asked with a smile getting the same from Lilith as she shorten the distance of their faces again.
"Well we were about to suck faces and possibly go a little farther then that," she said leaving a quick kiss on Ben's lip.
"I'm pretty sure we can arrange that," he said kissing her.
Izuku sighed. "Now I can't go to the living room until they are done," he thought not wanting for what happen on the first time he interrupted the two to repeat itself, he sighed once again as he saw Yusei walk out of his room. "Hey Yusei, don't go downstairs they are at it again," he said to the man who nodded.
"Thanks for the warning," he said yawning.
"Yusei did you just wake up?" he asked getting a nod from the silver head.
"Yeah, I have been up since yesterday to get things ready for tonight's mission," he said getting a confused look from Izuku.
"Really but Aniki didn't say anything about a mission tonight."
Yusei placed his hand under his chin. "Well maybe it's because of the nature of this mission," he said only increasing Izuku's curiosity.
"What's the mission about?" he asked.
"To stop a gang of human traffickers," Yusei said getting a disgusted look from Izuku.
"Oh, and who's going to do it?"
"Well since this will be mostly a stealth mission then it will be Ben and the stealth Unit," he said getting a nod from Izuku.
"Ah, okay and when will it be?"
"At midnight since from what I managed to gathered, they'll send out a new shipment today," he said with a sigh. "Anyway how was your day?" he asked.
"It went well besides Handyman showing up to question me," he said making Yusei sigh.
"What did he asked?"
"He asked me why would Aniki care about me since according to him, there must be a reason for me to be besides him," he explained. "And he came to the conclusion that Ben's using me as a mole in UA."
"Well that's way far off," Yusei said chuckling a little. "Looks like his informant isn't that good," he said.
"Yeah, besides that nothing really happened."
Yusei nodded. "I see well since, I have some time to burn how about I help you with some homework?"
Izuku frown a little. "Are you sure? don't you need all the sleep you can get for tonight?"
Yusei smiled and ruffled Izuku's hair. "Don't worry, I got enough sleep," he said getting a nod from Izuku.
"Okay but if you fall asleep during the mission, I won't be hold responsible," he said getting a nod from Yusei.
"Yeah, yeah so what are the subjects you were given homework?" he asked as they walked towards Izuku's room.
"Math and English," he said getting a grown from Yusei.
"I still hate those two."
"Yeah even Aniki doesn't like those two subjects," he said with a smile getting a dry chuckle from the silver head.
Later that Night
Izuku was in his room already dressed in his Pjs, he was on his bed playing on his console that Ben gave him. "One more level and I'll go to sleep," he said to himself as he was completely focused on the game not hearing the door open or Ben walking in and walk besides him.
"I'm pretty sure that's a lie," he said making Izuku jump slightly and try to compose himself and hide his console only making Ben laugh. "Don't worry, I'm not going to take your console away," he said with a smile getting a huff from Izuku.
"Not funny Aniki," he grumbled making Ben chuckle a little.
"I think otherwise Ototo," he said giving a pause so he could stop laughing at the younger boy. "Well I just wanted to give you a heads up that we are leaving," he said getting a nod. "You'll be okay alone for awhile right?" he asked making Izuku nod.
"Yeah this won't be the first time," he said since Ben usually did his mission during the night and being left alone wasn't a big deal for him.
Ben nodded as he lean to ruffle Izuku's hair with a smile. "That's my little soldier," he said as he straighten himself. "You know the drill, right?" he asked getting a sigh from Izuku.
"There's food in the fridge, if anyone is stupid enough to try to get in the automatic system will turn on and defend me and also if I hurt myself the first aid kits are in the kitchen, bathroom and the lab and also not to go in your or Yusei's room," he recited the list of rules and situations that Ben thought were important for him to know.
Ben nodded. "Good to see you remember them," he said with a smile. "Well good night Ototo, we'll be back by morning," he said about to leave but Izuku stopped him.
"Aniki can I ask you something?" Ben stopped and looked at him.
"Besides of that one sure go ahead."
Izuku didn't know why but he felt a little nervous. "Aniki, Yusei has been acting weird since Nesan came here." he paused a little. "Did something happened between them?"
Ben looked at him and sighed. "Yeah something happened once, we got drunk and some insults went around and they ended up fighting each other and they aren't over that."
"Oh, that's it?" he asked getting a nod from Ben.
"Yeah, but we are patching things up," he said as he looked at his watch. "Anyway, I need to go good night Ototo," he said as he started to walk out of the room.
"Good night Aniki," he said as Ben closed the door, Izuku sighed and grabbed again his console. "I never thought it was because of that and if so what, they said must have been pretty awful," he thought as he went back to his game.
Ben sighed as he walked through the halls of the house but soon stopped in front of a door, it was colored violet with a golden plate were was labeled the name Kara something that made, Ben's fist shake slightly but he closed his eyes and walked passed the door walking downstairs to see Yusei and Lilith waiting for him.
"Well, we are ready to go," he said with a smile getting nods from the two as they walked out of the house and into the car with Yusei sitting on the back, Lilith in the front passenger sit and Ben on the driver sit turning on the engine he drove off.
The trip was silent with no one saying a word and not even the radio on as they drove towards a part of the city with a high number of abandoned buildings and, Ben drove inside one of them and up to the parking lot where a green and black armor van was parked driving next to it, Ben turn off the car and they all got out of it.
"Well I was expecting a greeting at least," Ben said as the van doors opened walking out two people one was a man that seemed to be the same age as Yusei, he had purple comb back hair and eyes, white tan skin and his attire was of a formal black business suit with a purple tie and had the same type of watch Ben had on his wrist.
The other was a woman that looked to be the same age as the man, she had short red hair and brown eyes, average sized bust, peach ish white skin and she was dressed in feminine version of the man's clothing with high hills and also both had the same type of watch that Ben had on his wrist.
"Sorry Boss, Yuga here didn't think of eating before we got here," the woman said gesturing to the man with purple hair who glared at her.
"Still the same snitch as ever Amber?" Lilith asked with a smile as she walked over to the woman who happily hugged her.
"Not a snitch, I just don't want the Boss to be mad at me," she said getting a chuckle from Lilith while Yuga looked at Ben.
"Don't worry since we have 10 minutes before we start," Ben said getting a nod and a bow from Yuga as Ben looked at them. "Better get things ready," he said getting nods from the four.
Yusei went to the back of the van opening to see a chair that looked to be more like a throne sitting on it as the ceiling, walls and floor of the van glowed then became a slick black then turn on showing maps of the are they were while in front of his a hologram of a keyboard appear. "My system are online," he said as his eyes were glowing silver.
"Well here comes my favorite part," Amber aid with a smile as she pressed her watch as a blackish metallic substance covered her body and when it settle showing a rather simple black bodysuit with the head covered by a helmet with two visors, protective sleeves on the forearms that start at the shoulder to the wrist and legs that start from the lower shin to the waist on each leg and forearm with a protective elbow and knee pad on each one, on the hands were covered by black combat gloves with harden knuckle padding and on the palm and fingers had a grind like pattern, on the feet were black combat boots with the added two pouches in each leg and a knife holder on the side of the waist.
Yuga sighed as he did the same pressing on his watch as his bodysuit settled showing the same purple bodysuit that he used in the warehouse.
Lilith did same as her bodysuit settle it was almost similar to Amber's but her seemed to slightly buckler in terms of protective wear indicating that her suit was more for hand to hand compared to the other two also because of the difference on the gloves used by Yuga and Amber, Lilith's had a slight different design of gloves showed by the small hole in each knuckle and also in each finger tip and palm.
Ben chuckled a bit as he used the thought command as the substance also covered him when it settled it showed a black bodysuit like the rest but this seemed to slightly different from Yuga's suit but the main difference was that Ben's suit didn't come with a helmet but instead a hood that covered the back of his head and a part of his face inside of the hood there was a pitch black visor that covered Ben's eyes and nose only leaving his mouth exposed.
"Well looks like we all are ready," Lilith said looking at her new outfit especially on her gloves and smiled. "I really liked this."
Ben nodded as he lowered his hood to show that the ears were covered by black earpads that were connected to the visor. "Yeah," he said as he walked over to Yusei. "So 8 minutes left."
Yusei nodded as he turn his chair to one of the screens showing the building. "Yeah, the truck is on it's way to the building," he said getting a nod from Ben as he looked over to the edge of the building looking at his watch as Amber, Lilith and Yuga walked besides him. "2 minutes," he said as the three nodded.
"We are going to do our end boss," Amber said getting a nod from Yuga and Lilith.
"You know your mission and like always execute with precision," Ben said as Yuga put his hand on Amber's and Lilith's shoulder.
"Don't worry Benny, we will," Lilith said as they disappeared leaving Ben alone on the building rubbing his wrist he pulled his hood back on and his eyes glowed red making them visible through his visor. "Let's get thing started."
Well there's chapter 8 and sorry for the long wait since I was very busy with my own things and I'll try to update chapter 9 sooner and also something I would like to know who do you think is the main protagonist Ben or Izuku? Leave you comments if you want and if you want to speak to me personally you can find me in my discord OuterEnd07#6192.
That's all until next time
