I was walking home slowly, so I wouldn't worry mom with my anger. Sometimes, I took a bit too much after my dad and his quirk, fire breathing, came out as anger issues.
"I hate it when he talks heroes." I tensed up and turned to see Bakugo and his two friends walking in an alleyway.
"Hey, I got an idea, we should go to the Arcade," one of them suggested. "Get your mind off it, ya know?"
"Fine," Bakugo agreed quietly and I couldn't help but feel myself get angrier at him. He's been picking on Izuku since we'd met him and today he told my brother to jump off the roof, and he needed to get his "mind off it"!
"Or we can sneak into the bar at the station," his other friend suggested. "Pick up some ladies." I made my way to them without them seeming to notice.
"Now that's a good idea."
"Idiots!" Bakugo shouted at them. "If we get caught, there's no way UA would let me in."
"How about if they know you told someone to jump off a roof?" I asked him and they all turned to me shocked. "What would they say then?"
"And how would they know that?" Bakugo asked glaring down at me.
"Well you do remembers how people have these things called phone, right?" I mocked him.
"Hey, what's that?" I turned to see a large slime villian growing in front of us.
"Perfect. I like a skin suit with some fire," he laughed before opening his mouth in front of us. Out of instinct I placed a barrier between the two of us and the villian as it overtook us. I heard Bakugo's friends run away screaming in the darkness that was the slime villian's body. Sparks lit up behind me and I turned to see Bakugo glaring at the slime with his quirk going off in his hands.
"You set those off in here you'll end up killing us both," I warned him.
"Then let me out of here!"
"I do that and he'll take one of us over and that person will die!" I shouted at him. "What kind of idiot are you?!"
"We don't do something you'll eventually hit your limit and we'll die without anyone knowing what's going on!" We just glared at eachother before I glanced down at his hands.
"I'm going to bring in the barrier around us, except for your hands," I told him. "You can use your quirk to light this guy up which will also bring in the heroes with the explosions." He glared down at me before scoffing.
"No shit, dumbass! Just hurry up and do it!" I turned from him and took a few deep breaths. This would be the first time I was trying to place a barrier around only part of a person.
"Hope I don't chop off your hands," I mumbled before bringing it in. When the barrier was in enough he started setting off explosions and I smiled. This would bring the pros and get innocent people to run away. I could feel the weakness in the barrier around his arms and I focused on making sure the villian couldn't get to him through it without hurting him. I was suddenly pulled back against him making me lose focus. "What the hell, Bakugo?!"
"Pay attention to yourself, dumbass!" He growled and tried to focus again, but the sludge was crawling up our bodies quickly. I placed a barrier around our faces just as it got to them before sighing in slight relief.
"It's a monster!" I looked up to see we'd moved into a flaming street and three pro heroes staring at us.
"It's taken someone hostage!" I heard Death Arms shout. "How dare you prey on children!" I watched him run at us before leaping into the air. He slammed his fist into the villian as he landed, but the sludge villian just grunted before chuckling as his arm was swallowed by his body. "What the hell is this? Some kinda goo?" The villian used another part of its body to swat Death Arms off him, forcing the hero to hit a metal door of a closed chop. The other two heroes came towards us looking at both their collegue and the villian.
"You okay, Death Arms?!" The villian sent a hit towards the other two heroes, who quickly backed away as he tightened his hold on mine and Bakugo's bodies.
"Ha!" Stay back, or I'll snap their necks!" Sure enough, the sludge tightened around my neck and I tried forcing my arms out of their cocoon as Bakugo did the same.
"You picked the wrong guy to mess with!" Bakugo shouted at him. "I'm gonna sed you back to whatever sewer you crawled out of!" Bakugo set off more explosions right next to me and I braced for whatever the hothead was about to do. "Let us go!" I closed my eyes as 4 or 5 explosions happened around my body, but I didn't feel any pain. I opened my eyes in surprise before glancing back at the blond behind me. How was I not hurt in all that? I started using my abilities to try and push the sludge off our bodies, but it wasn't like we had a lot of experience with this sort of thing! Bakugo's quirk brought the heroes here, but what did mine really do? Keep us clean? NO! I shook my head of my negative thoughts and focused on what I needed to do. Keeping the barriers on our faces was probably keeping this guy from taking control of our bodies and if I could get the sludge off us more then one of the heroes could do something about him. Right?
"You've got so much power," the villian complimented. "I really hit the jackpot. With a quirk like yours under my control, I can take All Might down with one punch!" Tendrils of the sludge flew into the air as though he was trying to create his own blockade from them getting to us.
"Whoa, is that some kind of special move?" I heard someone ask. "This dude is a legit supervillian."
"It's her!" The sludge pulled my hair back, trying to get me to lose focus but I'd always been more stubborn than my mother liked. "That new hero, Mt. Lady will stop him!"
"My only weakness!" I heard Mt. Lady gasp. "I need at least a two lane road if I'm gonna make my way through here." Out of the corner of my eye I watched Kamui Woods running through the fires with people wrapped in his arms.
"Fire and wood don't exactly make a good combination. I'll let someone else stop this guy."
"Don't look at me," I heard Backdraft say as he was trying to put out the fire's from Bakugo's quirk. I've got my hands full here. Where are those fire trucks? Can you guys get to them?"
"Can't get a gril on hiw weird body," Death Arms told the others. "Plus, the boy's quirk's causing explosions left and right."
"This is a shutout. We've gotta rally and knock him outta the park somehow." The villian cackled around us moving its mouth in front of Bakugo's. I felt his putting presure on the barrier around his face as mine was completly covered his the sludge. "Incoming!" I heard something hitting the ground and tried harder to get this thing off me. I managed to get part of the sludge off my face and glanced at Bakugo.
"You good back there, Bakugo?"
"Shut up!"
"Wow, even know you're still an as-"
"Keep focused on yourself and what you're doing!" I growled before trying to force the sludge off me again. I heard someone panting in panic getting closer and looked up to see Izuku running towards us!
"Izuku! Stop it! You can't do anything here!" I shouted at him.
"Not this brat again!" Again?"
"Deku?"
"You're toast, kid!" I watched the villian pull back an arm and start to take a swing at Izuku when Izuku took off his backpack and threw it in the villian's face. The villian's head was knocked back off mine and Bakugo's necks allowing us to take in deep breaths for the first time since the heroes had shown up.
"Kacchan! Mina!" Izuku grabbed the sludge body and started digging at it as we looked down at him.
"What the hell? Why are you here?" Bakugo asked him.
"Who cares about that, just get out of here!" I ordered.
"My legs... They just started... moving!" Izukuz told us. The villian moved his body up to our faces again causing grunts of pain. "Kacchan! Mina!" I looked at Izuku and saw him grinning down at us with tears pooled in his eyes. "I couldn't just stand there and watch you two die!"
"Get the hell off me!"
"Take as deep a breath as you can, Bakugo!" I ordered before releasing the barriers on our faces and turning all my focus on getting this guy off us.
"Just a little bit longer, kid," the villian told us before raising a tendril of sludge into the air. "And I'm done playing with you!"
"Save the boy! This thing will kill him!" The appendage slammed down, causing smoke to block us from sight.
"I really an pathetic." My eyes widened at the voice in front of me. As the smoke cleared, I saw the one hero both boys I'd been so close to standing in front of my bother protectivly.
"All Might. But..."
"I told you the traits that make a great champion, but I see now I wasn't living up to my own ideal." When did he have time to tell him that? I felt a large hand wrap around my arm and looked down to see All Might grabbing both me and Bakugo through the villian's body. "Pros are always risking their lives! That's the true test of a hero!"
"Damn you, All Might!"
"Detroit... SMASH!" I felt the villian literally blow off us before grabbing onto Bakugo as we were both forced into a tornado of his strength and power. I felt Bakugo wrap his arm around my head just before the wind finally calmed and we both passed out.
After all the excitment, the heroes collected all the scattered mounds of sludge, and the villian went into police custody where he belonged. Everyone was so impressed by the weather change and All Might, but we weren't forgotten in the chaos. Izuku got a good reprimanding by the pros who weren't getting interviews while Bakugo and I were getting praised.
"Man, you're tough, kids! And those quirks are somethin' else! When you wanna go pro, head over to my agency first! I'd love for you to be my sidekick while you're training!" I just picked up my bag and smiled at the hero. I gave him a small thanks before going to Izuku.
"Hey, you okay?" I asked him worriedly and he quickly jumped up.
"Shouldn't I be asking you that?! What were you doing with Kacchan? You didn't get hurt by all those blasts, did you? How's your neck?" Izuku fired off question after question and I just laughed at him before we were finally able to walk home.
Izuku sighed for the thousanth time as we walked home, and I sent him a worried look.
"Man, Mom is going to kill us," I sighed and Izuku looked at me confused. Good, better confused than depressed. "We are so late. And she probably has seen the news by now, which means I'm going to end up 6ft under for being reckless."
"But you saved Kacchan with your powers," Izuku pointed out and I grinned at him.
"Oh, I won't let him forget that." I chuckled and Izuku just stared at me.
"You can be scary sometimes, Mina."
"Deku! Mina!" We both stopped walking and turned to see Bakugo running towards us.
"Kacchan?"
"What do you want now?" I asked him with a small glare on my face. Bakugo stared at us, panting before he started shaking as he spoke.
"Listen. I would never ask for a weakling like you to help me. Don't think you can look down on me. Huh? Got that? I would have been fine by myself," Bakugo started shouting at us. "You're just a Quirkless failure who won't even cut it as a rent-a-cop! You didn't help me! You did nothing! Don't forget it." He stormed to us and grabbed my arm. "I don't own you anything!"
"Was that supposed to be a thank you?" I asked him.
"Shut up!"
"And why the hell are you dragging me off with you?!"