I am Devastated
Just outside The Shie Hassaikai Compound, Chisaki Kai hit the ground hard, with the playing field leveled, now was the time to end this. My armor was pretty much torn to shreds save for my gauntlets and boots. I tapped my chest three times as I made my way to the yakuza leader. All the armor that was still functioning stayed on me, I was now in my civilian clothes and with each step I ripped off the remaining staggering pieces of the damage armor. "You disgusting brat, just who the hell do you think you are!" His voice sickens me to the core, I pull off the red diamond from my chest, it tapped out leaving what was functional, as I reach my target. I block a right cross and nail him with three quick strikes up his center mass in stacked succession, then parry a jab nailing him with the back of my fist to his temple.
"An akuma." Three powerful blocks, "I will show you no mercy." two strikes to his sternum then a strike to his throat. He kicks me but I catch his leg taking the hit, "RAGH!" I come down with an elbow followed by kicking out his support leg forcing him to split.
"ROBLES!" I hear a voice calling to me but I ignore it. Chisaki Kai had to pay for his crimes.
27
One month ago…
I left school early, along with the others that had work studies to Fat Gum. My little interview/test had wrecked the place so now we had to clean up our mess. "Responsibility was the first step to being a hero." We collectively rolled our eyes, "Besides I'm not gonna pay for the disaster workers to also clean up when I have able bodies more than willing to do it." I popped my neck and stretched out, "Now I know you all cannot do the repairs but you can at least clear the area for the workers." Eli, Tetsutetsu Tetsutetsu, and Amajiki Tamaki just looked at me, their eyes were dagger like. I was to blame for this extra work, I knew it, they knew it, and so did Fat Gum.
"Clear out." I said flatly, I had to gain their respect.
"You arogan…" I raised my hand to Tetsutetsu causing him pause.
"Clear out, this was my error in judgement." It truly was, I didn't want to play-
"What and make you out to be martyr." Eli slugged my arm, "No,no, no." The others stood there looking at me. I rubbed my arm I was still feeling bad, they didn't deserve this.
"Bro, thanks but if I didn't poi…" Amajiki raised his hand, "Amajiki."
"I hold no grudge Robles." He looked away, "Besides I wanted… " his voice trailed off as I walked towards him. He looked at me and I humbled myself in a bow. "Robles."
"Robert." He smiled
"Tamaki." In that moment it was all that was needed and we shook hands. I could tell Tamki was a good guy, he wasn't like the other Big Three, quite the opposite in fact. Tetsutetsu just looked on in confusion, he heard of my encounter and victory over the others. He was trying to figure out why now I was trying to befriend Tamaki? "You are good…Rob…Robert, none of us doubt that." He was referring to Tōgata and Hado. I smile at him.
"Its okay Tamaki, you don't have to walk on egg shells, I rather you be direct."
"You're an asshole." He covered his mouth after he said it.
"Guilty as charged." I said busting out with laughter, "See, as for you." I turn to Tetsutetsu, "Eli knows this and now Tamaki here, I want to get along with everyone." He crosses his arms and grins, "Words can be misinterpreted when dancing around civility, be direct, if you don't agree with something I do or say, say so and why." Now Fat Gum was grinning, "Communication is key, I might get offended, but so what, we will all offend each other at some point." Eli cheered me on, "But its a far worse offense if you are purposely candy coating as to not be offensive." I could see I won Testsuetsu over, "That shit don't fly bro."
"This is great and all and I am glad you all have broken the Ice Ro-"
"Please sir just call me Robert, sensei."
"Heh, Robert then. Its nice and all but humm, this disaster is not gonna clean itself." With those words we got started, Fat Gum smiled and retreated back to his office. He had to review the case he was working.
Eli and Tetsu's quirks made the job quite easier to manage. As we got most of the dry wall and insulation out I suggest that Tamaki eat a piece of cement. He looked at me as if I was stupid or loco, in his defense he wasn't wrong.
"Why the hell would I do that?" He tried to understand my nonsense.
"You see that dumpster?" His eyes went to it, "Now look at the debris we brought out." The debris would have filled the dumpster before we could even scratched the surface of our pile of rubble.
"Ok but why though?"
"Your quirk, with the cement you could make spiked balls and crush this debris then, with Eli and Tetsu, grind it down so everything would fit in there." He looked at me like I had three heads.
"That's freaking amazing." He called out to the others, who came out straight away. "Do go on please." I then told them of my plan. They complied and our task was complete.
They were cheering me on and high fiving me as we entered the building, "Holy crap who's the babe." That was Tetsu and the 'babe' he so eloquently described was-
"Roberto!" My mom ran to me and nearly suffocated me in a hug.
"Seriously Robert, you know her?" Tetsu's eyes beamed with jealousy, she spots Eli, "Red Riot! My Hero!" She leaps off me and kisses Eli on the cheek pulling him in a death grip hug.
"Hero?" Tetsu was confused for a moment, then it hit him, "You're that sexy officer he saved." She nodded happily, and beamed at Tetsu's commentary on her person. "Wait then that means." I face palm. "Heh, heh, you're mom's hot."I cringe and look towards the ceiling begging for a rafter to fall on me. Tamaki laughs at my embarrassment, mom slowly walks over to Tetsu.
"You're not so bad yourself…" She runs a finger down his chest, his quirk activates on its own, "Hard as steel I see." She licks her lips as sweat drips down Tetsu's face and I die a little on the inside. "What's your name handsome."
"Real Steel." She frowns at the name and like that mom instantly lost interest followed by Tetsu's soul leaving his body. She returns to Red Riot who wraps his arm around her waist pulling her to him.
"DUDE!" I yell at him
"What?" Mom laughs at me. "I don't mind, he earned it." Red Riot is beaming as all color leaves Tetsu's body. "Aww poor baby." She winks at him reviving him instantly. Now it was my turn to shoot daggers at them. "Sorry boys, I have to see your boss, Robert honey." My neck cracks as I turn to her, "I brought pizza for your team it's in the car, can you along with your handsome-" Before she even finishes all three of them are out the building. "Ara, ara, maybe I should come by more often?"
"Please don't mom, this about the case?" her eyes widen and tear up with her fists covering her mouth. I sigh looking back up to the ceiling.
"I barely get to see you as is, what have I done to deserve such a mean son?" I look at her and point at my fellow classmates coming in with food. "You don't want me here." She swoons, suddenly Eli and Tetsu are on me with their quirks fully activated. I grit my teeth and face palm again.
"STOP!" I plea as she's about to faint, Tetsu nearly runs Eli and me over to be the one who catches her. She springs back to life leaving Tetsu heartbroken. I sigh shaking my head. She giggles then kisses him on the forehead.
"Maybe next time sweetie." I swear I see steam shoot from his nostrils and I cringe some more. Mom just laughs it off then goes into Fat Gum's office. I see him dying of laughter as the door closes. I just shake my head and sit at the conference table where Tamaki has set up the food. I sit next to him with my slice.
"She is hot though." I look at him, his face remaining fixed on his pizza, "You said talk straight." I fall back on my chair.
"Touché." I raise my slice high.
It was Friday, since starting the work study my time in class was close to none, much of our lessons were in the hero agency. Basics on patrol, civilian interaction with occasional police assistance on petty crimes. Our PHL limited a lot of what we could and could not do, it mostly served for legal purposes and liability insurance. Our work studies at the agency that took us were meant as real-time observation, like medical students watching a real surgery being done on a patient. Sure we occasionally were used like sidekicks and what not, but its main purpose was to observe.
Today I was paired with Tamaki, "So senpai are we gonna patrol in pairs or." I pull out a commlink from my belt storage, I already was in my hero uniform. It was like the one I gave Bakagō during my match with Lemillion, an ear bud that was directly linked to me. "Separate and cover more ground?"
"You really wanna get away from me that badly huh?" He says calmly, what the hell I thought we were past this?
"No…Why would you think that?" My question was direct, then he gave me a small smile, "If that were the case I would not offer you the commlink." I then realized it was his way of telling a joke. He took the commlink from my hand.
"Why not just trade numbers?" I raised an eyebrow, I actually would like that.
"We still can, this I figured would be easier, remember my spiel on communication?" He put the ear bud on and tapped it, I smiled. "Tap once and you will get me directly, tap again to close." He tapped it again and gave a weak smile, I then held out my mobile, he pulled his out and we exchanged numbers.
"Smart, what about Red Riot and the others?" I smiled then told him I'd give them one as well when we get back. "Well our area is not that big, maybe two city blocks give or take." I smiled at this notion, especially since I got Spectre V4, Mei's upgrades were amazing. "Why are you smiling like that?" I pop my wing suit out, "Spectre?"I took to the air I got some altitude and placed my hands together and fired a sonar blast. I then landed, Tamaki was confused as I took his wrist and attached the cpu from my gauntlet on it. I pressed a button revealing a 3-d holo-map of our patrol section. He looked at me blankly "Couldn't you have just downloaded a map from google or just use google maps?" I bowed my head and muttered to myself, "You just wanted to show off didn't you?" I sighed as he rolled his eyes.
"But its 3-d though."
"Really, meet you back here in 2 hours." He began to walk away, "Thanks for the commlink." I smiled as I hear him through my ear bud then take off into the air.
Needless to say patrol was as boring as it sounds, I knew this from my training at the police academy. Granted a boring patrol was a good patrol, I land on a roof top and take a moment to rest. As I look out at the cityscape, "Is that a bunny?" My holo-visor zooms in on it, "It is, where she going?" I run to the edge of the roof and leap into the air. "Hey Suneater."
"Status?"
"All clear, no criminal activity, and one bunny girl."
"Nani?" Suneater pauses then looks behind him, "Repeat that?"
"A bunny girl." I know Suneater can hear me gliding. "I'm curious."
"Is the bunny girl white in a blue leotard?" I can hear a slight irritation in his voice only adding to my curiosity.
"Yeah, how'd you guess?" I ask inquisitively.
"Leave her be, that's a pro hero, Mirko." Suneater then gave me the details on her, "She's not a team player, she sees teams as a weakness."
"Huh. Spectre out." I smile to myself as I cut the comm.
"ROBLES!" He sighs cutting his comm. I knew senpai was fuming but I saw this as an opportunity. I was not going to interfere, just observe how another hero, other than All Might and Erasure Head acted. Just then my mobile rings, Fat Gum, dammit Suneater, I then tap my ear bud.
"Return to Patrol Spectre."
"This is an opportunity to observe a pro in action."
"Robles."
"My sector was clear, come on boss, I just want to observe from a far."
"Normally I would let you Spectre, but she's the #6 hero."
"And you think that will stop my curiosity?"
"No, but as Suneater told you, she's not a team player. I.E. hostile to observers."
"HEY KID!" The bunny girl calls out to me and Fat Gum hears it.
"Ah crap baskets." I suppress a chuckle and look at her.
"What's your name kid?" She looks up at me hovering inquisitively, being the smart ass I am I reply.
"Hero or name name?"
"Preferably both, why are you following me?" Was that a hint of sas?
"Spectre, as for my name, well lady's first." I say politely.
"Miruko, and no, are you a fanboy?" I sense a slight irk in her voice.
"Sorry never heard of you til just now from my boss Fat Gum." She looks away her ego hurt.
"Fat Gum, I don't do agencies." She concluded I was there to recruit her.
"I'm not here for recruitment, just a work study with him." This seems to ease her, "To answer your first question, I was on patrol when I saw you. Got curious and here I am."
"Work study, which high school, flyboy." Now she was amused by the smart ass kid in armor.
"Flyboy huh, I can dig it, UA Thumper." I fire back with my own nickname for her.
"Ha, how original, UA, good school." I land in front of her, she was just shy of 5'5", I looked her over up and down then tilted my head, she then struck a pose, "Enjoy the view, just don't touch." I smirk, she was rather muscular all around.
"Not even a handshake?" She shook her head no stretching her arms giving me a good look at her from all angles, "Thumper is not shy is she?"
"Nope, besides you don't look stupid, trying to figure out my quirk, no, that's not it." She sends jab towards me and I parry it. She kicks and I dodge feeling the wind from it I'm caught off guard. She's powerful as I continue to dodge, "Not going to attack?"
"No, I'm sorry, normally I would but honestly, I'm just curious to where you were going." I duck just in time to miss a round house but she nails me with a following kick sending me flying back into an A/C unit. "FAWK, cheeze lady." I try to get out but I'm somewhat stuck. "Look I do not want to interfere with whatever case you're on, I only wish to observe from a far." She humphs like some sort of a tsundere, "Com'on don't be like that, let me learn from afar, no team up, please." She walks over and pulls me out.
"No interference?" I raise my hands, "Guess that won't be too bad, you hear that Fat Gum."
"Well! Fine Spectre go ahead, but seriously how?" I smirk at his reply and look at a curious Miruko.
"He asking how I managed this." I smile at her as she does the same.
"He's charming." That actually made me blush, "Wait that's not your quirk is it?"
"Huh oh Spectre." I could feel my boss' cringe.
"Truthfully?" She nods suddenly covering herself, "Really Thumper? Now you're shy, cut the crap." She goes into a tropey superhero pose laughing, "I have no quirk."
"WHAT!" They both yell at me for different reasons. Normally my answer would shy away most, but not her once she got acclimated.
"You got some stones kid." She looks towards an adjacent building, I follow her eyes and take off. "Stay there." I toss her some of my pellets in a small attachable pouch. "What the hell are these?" I smile as I land on the building and I hang up on Fat Gum.
"I wanna hear everything" my voice comes from the bag, she opens it and takes the ear bud and puts in her ear and smirks. "Not interfering, the other stuff is a gift for your kindness."
"Awww cute, guess this means we are dating now." she attaches the pouch to her hip and I blush again.
"If I was single, I no doubt take you up on your offer Thumper."
"Ooo, Flyboy is sweet and faithful." She teases and I blush again, as she leaps down to what seemed like a warehouse.
"So am I allowed to ask about your mission?" I ask cautiously, "You know just between us."
"You are."
"But."
"But don't feel like it Flyboy."
"Well now I'm hurt." I sniff and pout, "But onee sama I want to learn." I hear her burst in giggles, "Please onee sama."
"Okay you win just stop." She tries to compose herself.
"O-nee-chan." And fails dropping to her knees and crawls away from a door.
"Spectre I swear I am going to kill you when this is done." I laugh, "Ok, I got intel about a drug shipment about to leave here." I suddenly stop laughing.
"Do they effect quirks?" I ask solemnly.
"Yeah, how'd you… Spectre." Her eyes narrow in suspicion.
"Not in-ter-fer-ing, but if you need more info I'll be more than willing to tell you."
"Ok I believe you, for some reason, whatcha got?" She was listening for now.
"Yakuza ties, namely The Shie Hassaikai." I hear her react with an oh. "Shall I go on."
"That changes things, please do." I could tell in her voice she was getting excited.
"Team work seems more appalling now huh." I jab.
"No, information and team work are two very different things- but you already know that don't you?" I scoff confirming her statement, "Information is power, you also know this, only reason I let you tag along, was that I can tell you're not stupid or you are really good at lying." She moves behind some oil barrels and hides, she's smart.
"Two tangos coming towards you." She goes dark, from where I see, she hears them. "Be careful Miruko." They are right on her, she lays flat cocking her legs, then shoots them out sending the barrels and the goons flying. She leaps into the air, as several other goons come out of the warehouse branding firearms. They fire and my eyes widen as she leaps off of building walls. A stray bullet hits her leg and she lands on a roof top hard. They fire on her as she pulls out some of her own hair and ties off the wound.
"Crap."
"Daijoubu?" I hear her growl, as I yawn "Use one of the pellets I gave you, a solid black one." I yawn again, "Or not, just slam one on the ground or whatever." I hear her click her tongue, "Not interfering." 'Oh dear God please use one!' I try to sound as sarcastic as possible. She pulls a black one, slamming it to the ground and erupts in smoke. She smirks, "You're welcome." I yawn again as she jumps away, the fools keep firing. She comes down and around catching them off guard.
"Luna Ring!" Miruko cartwheels taking out the shooters concussing them all into unconsciousness. "Huh huh, information is power Flyboy." I get the message.
"Red is flashbang." She launches one into the building to a chorus of screams.
"My eyes, got dammit!" They say before she swiftly takes them out. I lean back in my chair stretching.
"Blue is shock." Windows shatter above her from the managers office followed by a barrage of gunfire. Miruko cartwheels around, bouncing off walls then tosses the pellet into the window. The goons scream and are stunned, she leaps in disarming and maiming them with relentless abandon. She sees a hostage through more glass connecting to another room, "Yellow is knockout gas." I open my mobile and shoot a text to Tsu. Miruko sends the pellet through the glass nailing one of the guards in the face before going off. The gas fills the room instantly knocking out everyone in it. "Make sure you use the re-breather before entering anywhere after use." She pulls it out and puts it in her mouth. She then ties up the guards eliminating all threats.
"Aw crap." She stares outside via a window, back up has arrived. They park below my post. 'Would be quicker, its not like we will be teaming up.'
"And that's about it." I finish sending another text to Tsu and notice the backup. "Can I please?" I was bored now.
'Perfect!' "What I'm not entertaining enough for you Flyboy?" She stretches.
"Maybe a smidgen."
"Smidgen?"
"Smidgen."
"Fine." She suddenly hears screams over the comm and races to the window only to see me dive bombing them in what looks like a devil mask. I tackle the first one breaking my fall, out cold. I then throw several darts at once nailing the other three in their hands preventing them from pulling out their weapons. A big brawler type guy comes out of the back seat and empties a clip on me. "KID!" The bullets fall after hitting my shield. 'Aftershock ability ready level 2.' My head suddenly jerks towards him, he sees my devil mask and I rise slowly. The brawler drops his next clip as I shake my finger no-no. The other three fall back on their collective asses, I charge, activating my wing suit making it appear that I have wings. I engulf the middle one, he screams, turns pale,then passes out before I could strike him. I retract my wing suit as the right one leaps up only to be met by a car door knocking himself out. I look to my left and see the other one making a break for it. "Spectre!"
I fire my gauntlet's grapple, "COME HERE!" He screams as he tries to claw away but is trapped by me. The brawler is shitting a brick as I activate my wing suit and pull my target in. 'Time to test if Mei really did bullet proof the wing suit.' All the brawler sees as he finally puts in another clip is the guy disappearing underneath my wings. He unloads his firearm as bullets ricochet off them, followed by screams and the sound of meat being broken. I rise up retracting my wing suit again turning on the voice modulator and letting out a shout breaking what little morale he had left. I then look him directly in the eyes, like a maniac he rushes me and I parry his haymaker followed up with unloading both levels into the side of his body. Ribs break as he falls passing out from pain and the wind exiting his body. By the time Miruko gets to me I have them cuffed and by the trunk of the car they came in.
"Not bad Flyboy but a bit too theatrical for my tastes though." 'Cheezus kid, they're gonna be in therapy for a while.' She then slugs my shoulder, "So did you learn anything?"
"Information is power and assistance divine, wouldn't you agree?"
"So poetic." She says sarcastically, "Come on, dinner's on me."
"Oh so we really are dating." She laughs at this then gives me a kiss on the cheek and entangles her arm in mine. I blush.
I reported to Fat Gum about the warehouse, "Where are you?"
"On a date with Bunny Girl Senpai." I hear him slam his head on a trunk, "Careful cops don't like that."
"Well the officer in charge has given me both of your statements."
"Akuma, the devil with the wings!" I hear one of the bad guys repeating over and over. I put my mobile on speaker and Miruko busts out laughing.
"Damn Spectre you fuck'd him up good."
"ROBLES!" I was brought back to reality, "care to explain?"
"Dammit now Bunny Girl Senpai knows my name." I look at her and she gives me a mischievous smile.
"Focus." Fat Gum was on the verge of getting a brain aneurysm with me.
"Okay, okay, you know my visor is holographic right?" Fat Gum grunts, "Well I did a little tinkering and changed it up to project an oni mask." I hear an aspirated sigh, "Well, when the bad guys are terrified they make mistakes, their mistakes equals precious time to gain the tactical advantage." He breathes in.
"Huh, makes sense, good job Spectre." He then hangs up and I look up at Miruko who suddenly stopped eating. "What?"
"I think I love you."
"Nani?" I raise an eyebrow, and she comes closer to me, "Stop." She snaps out of it.
"Humm, yeah that just happened." She blushes, "Seriously though that was brilliant." She leans back and I sigh in relief. "That was a hologram?"
"Yeah, my suit was made by my bestie, Mei Hatsume." She crosses her arms, "In fact the pellets and re-breather I gave you were from her as well. No she's not my girlfriend." I then tell her about the rest of my friends showing her pictures from my mobile. Picture after picture she sees me surround by nothing but girls.
"What the hell Robles its like you have…"
"I know, I know I live the life of a harem protagonist, here there she is." I show her a picture of Tsu and I at a formal. I swear I see her eyes sparkle, "That's the love of my life, Tsuya Asui." I look at the time, 20:00, the check was already paid, "So now that you know enough to effectively stalk me for the rest of my life, how about a name?" She reaches out her hand and I take it.
"Usagiyama." she starts, I blush, why am I blushing so much? I repeat her name in my head.
"Huh bunny mountain." I muse to which she chuckles.
"Rumi." She finishes but still holding my hand.
"Aww cute, Bunny Mountain Rumi." She giggles as we shake hands, "I'm Roberto Rodrigo Robles, but you can call me."
"Mine." I stop mid-sentence, "Just kidding." She knocks her head and sticks out her tongue. I shake my head as we release each other hands.
"Roberto or Bob whatever is easier." I really enjoyed observing her take out the goons outside the warehouse.
"Rumi then." She smiles at me as I bid her good bye and take off, "Spectre… I hope to see you again."
I enter my dorm through the window, with a triple tap of my chest my hero uniform retracts and spits out my school uniform on the bed folded in a neat square. The diamond falls off into my hand and I put it in my nightstand drawer. I smell myself, eh I could shower. I open my closet and take a towel, by this time it was almost midnight. "No one will be in there, good." Despite my deviancy and notoriety, I very much enjoyed showering in private. Before I can open the door I'm jumped, "What the?" Before I attack I smell her on my back, "Peppermint, hey beautiful." She swings around into my arms, "I missed you."
"You better have," Tsu kisses me, "Going on a date with Miruko."
"She offered and…" She kisses me again, "I won't turn down a free meal."
"You can tell me all about your day with Bunny Girl Senpai." I remember my last text to her said I would be late ending with:
'I worked with a hero today, now she offered to buy me dinner. So I'm off with Bunny Girl Senpai'
I carry her to the showers in a princess carry, no way in hell I was gonna turn this away. She giggled quietly, but I hear a 'woot woot' from Mineta's room, follow by cheers. "Come to the showers or peek I will end you all." I here a lispy scoff, "Especially you little guy." Aizawa usually was dorm monitor but was called away to his hometown on business. It was the weekend, so no teacher really wanted to watch our dorm, Midnight was the female dorm monitor and well- she's Midnight enough said.
28
My mobile woke me up the next day, "Moshi moshi?" I looked beside me and smiled, I caressed the top of her head causing her to stir. Phone to my ear and still groggy, I hear my boss' voice.
"Robles, that warehouse you helped Miruko take down." He began but, I stopped him.
"I didn't do jack squat." I was not into taking credit where I did nothing other than take out some bad guys that were just backup.
"Semantics, whatever, we have enough intel and evidence. The Nighteye Agency-"His voice kinda trails off when I hear pounding at my door.
"On the phone, come in." I catch my words before they come out and…
"Robless…..oh Mother Mary." It was Deku, I sigh and give him a really look, "I'm sorry…" I cover up Tsu and apologize to Fat Gum for the interruption.
"Robert is that Midoriya?" He could recognize his voice when he visited UA a couple of days back.
"Yeah." I look at Deku who is already muttering, "Can he brief me?"
"Yeah and fill in any additions, why is he muttering?" I really didn't know Deku was doing that so loudly.
"Dunno problems with visual intimacy, autism, shock of seeing me…" Fat Gum then interrupts me.
"I'm gonna stop you right there." I shrug with a sigh, 'Why does everyone think talking about intimacy is so taboo?' "Get to the Nighteye Agency ASAP." Fat Gum clicks off and I walk to Deku, who is still muttering and slap him.
"Ow, rnn." I roll my eyes, "You're lucky Aizawa isn't here." I shrug and get dressed in my civies then pull out my hero uniform from my nightstand and place it on my chest, with a twist it seals in place. I tap twice and the diamond is now underneath my clothes. "Your uniform is so efficient." I give him a drowsy smile.
"Breakfast first then brief me." I bend down and kiss Tsu, "Expect a call from your agency soon my love."
"See you Ribbit, bye Deku." She waves us off lazily, wrapping herself in my covers.
" ." he looks at me and I wrap my arm around him, "You guys really don't care do ya?" I smile and we walk outside my dorm, we separate at the bathroom. After I wash up I meet Deku, Lemillion, Suneater, Hado, Red Riot, and Real Steel in the communal kitchen. I stretch and my bones pop causing me to wince. Hado catches it and smiles evilly. I just shake my head ignoring her smugness. 'Wait why are the big three here and Tetsu?' "Hungry?" I pop my neck.
"We need to get to Nighteye agency." Hado huffs and I continue to ignore her.
"Eli, Deku, Mirio?" All but Mirio smile, 'They could have just met me there, I can understand my classmates waiting for me, hell I can even understand Tetsu coming over to do the same. But why them?' "Not really Hado, we are all here and no doubt have the same info with a new piece to add." 'Maybe for Deku, no that only explains Mirio, sure Hado is his girlfriend, but she does not seem to be the clingy type.' I then look at Red Riot, "Eli remember how to make the tortillas I taught you?"
Deku, Eli, and Tetsu all light up, Eli nods and gathers the ingredients. I've cooked for them and all of the dorm before, needless to say toot toot. I was still trying to wrap my head around why they, the Big Three, were here. Suneater was defacto second-in-command of Fat Gum due to him being a third year. It made no sense as to why he wouldn't have just been at Nighteye's agency already.
Hado snaps me back to reality, "Our orders." I snap my fingers and my gauntlet shoots out of my chest and onto my arm. A holo-emmiter fires out of the grapnel, and hovers in the center of the living room. Hado is at a loss for words as Suneater shakes his head and sits down. 'Huh he wasn't surprised.' A 3-D map projects downward to the middle of the living room of the city. Deku hits a button on the counter and the windows are sealed by blast shields and red lights come on then return to regular lighting.
"Well damn." Hado was impressed, UA provided a lockdown protocol in case of emergencies, Mei taught us all how to override this but kept the privacy features. I yawn as I open the fridge, pull out a small orange juice, down it and start cooking breakfast for everyone, with Deku acting as my sous chef.
"Mirio please be a dear and use that panel over there to start a conference call with all our agencies." I gesture to a control panel that flipped out from a behind a picture frame. "Anybody vegetarian? No good." Mirio and Hado stare at me blankly, Suneater just rests his head on the counter. I kinda feel for him so I pull out another small orange juice and slide it to him. He catches it and gives me a thumbs up. I then motion to Mirio again as he moves without thinking towards the panel. Hado just takes a seat as I cook chorizo with eggs. Eli was already using the tortilla press I bought online and handing the raw product to Deku who was cooking them.
"Moshi moshi, Mirio?" Nighteye appeared on a holo-screen over a blast shield.
"Elijiro, Tetsu,-" This was Fat Gum who I noticed was already at Sir Nighteye's Agency along with several others.
"Hado, where's Asui and Uraraka? " This was Tatsuma Ryūko, my Tsu and Uraraka work studied under her agency.
"Hey they're eating breakfast!" A dark skinned hero with dreads that I have never seen before appeared on the screen. Mirio notices the same thing I do as he looks at Sir Nighteye's screen, the owner nods and he cuts the other lines, apparently call forwarding was still a thing.
I handed over cooking duties to Deku, washed my hands and addressed the somewhat unamused pro heroes in Nighteye's office."Ah yes hello respective leaders of this joint meeting." I look towards the others behind me, Deku was already serving them as they took the remaining seats at the long counter. 'Huh I guess I've been chosen to be proxy.' I nod towards them, Mirio looks at me and crosses his arms in amusement. 'Is he testing me?' I see Suneater raise his glass, 'Et tu Tamaki?' I give no outward sign of fear, truth be told I was scared out of my mind, 'They just threw me to the wolves!' I take a deep breath and see Fat Gum appear on screen.
"Robles." Fat Gum looks at me along with the room through the monitor and sees what seems like a fortress, "What in the world is this?" I hear Sir Nighteye give a slight snort, that's one I've impressed. The same hero with dreads comes back on screen.
"Damn son, I'm impressed. What did you do override your dorm's…" He closes his eyes, "Fat Gum this one yours? Cause damn bro I could use several of him." Fat Gum just shakes his head, "Names Takagi Ken."
"Roberto Rodrigo Robles, thank you for the compliment I'll make sure to bring you some breakfast after this briefing."
"Damn Fat Gum, he's smart and can cook?" He pauses a moment, "Robles, you the quirkless wonder that took down Nighteye's poster boy."
"I'm right here." Mirio says under his breath bowing his head cringing at the notion.
"Damn, I saw that video, bet my man." Deku and Eli continue to serve everyone much to the dismay of all save Takagi, who just looked hungry.
Nighteye took over the briefing again, "Okay, Robles, man that actually looks very tasty." I smile as do the others behind me, apparently the big three loved the food as well.
"If you like spicy, then." I saw his eyes light up, "I got you sir." I hear a yawn behind me and I see Tsu come out in uniform. She looks around not noticing the common area's changes and sees me without reading the room, she then gets tunnel vision. Walking over to me and kisses me in front everyone, I break the kiss and she sees my eyes wide then hears the sounds of gasps. She then notices everything and what is happening turning deep red in embarrassment.
"Well so this is him, color me surprise Asui." She hears her boss behind her and croaks.
"Ma'am, oh dear god." Her eyes almost seem to roll back from the horror. Ryūko just stares at her coldly, Takagi pushes her aside finding the whole thing amusing.
"Fat Gum come get your boy, ha ha!" Fat Gum just wants to disappear, "Lighten up man, I'm a family man myself good on you Robles, Ms. Asui." With that I won Takagi over. Nighteye lowers his head and adjusts his glasses, no doubt he found the whole scene quite entertaining.
"As I was saying, Lemillion and Deku found a way to get to The Shie Hassaikai Leader, Chisaki Kai. A little girl named Eri, she's allegedly is his daughter and possible captive." I look to Deku and Lemillion, they stopped eating and their whole demeanor changed. "We'll get her out of there guys, I swear to you, letting her go was not in vain."
"That hard choice led Me and Nighteye to a man that gave us the layout and location of The Shie Hassaikai compound." That was Takagi who added on to Nighteye's words. Fat Gum then took over the screen.
"Robles, you did great work, because of you we got a sample of the 'quirk steroid' so far we found out it was made from human blood." Fat Gum said proudly, "This joint op coming up with the local police and our agencies will lead to the end of this yakuza family." He then handed it over to Tatsuma Ryūko at that moment I realized they were talking to me like I was really in charge of my fellow classmates, like I was their chosen leader.
"Ryūko Agency will be in charge of the third team making sure no one escapes when the attack begins." This Tatsuma Ryūko was an interesting person, her quirk was called Dragon, no explanation needed on that. She looks at Tsu who was still beside me, I take her hand and squeeze bringing her back to reality. Ryūko notices and her features soften a bit then gives Tsu further instructions. She then turns it back over to Fat Gum.
"Spectre, you will act as Suneater's number two, Red Riot you're with me , Real Steel back them up." Suneater looks at me and I give him a nod. "I was pleased and shocked when your guardian told me you beat all my scores at the academy, too bad it wasn't official." I smile proudly, "She will be with Nighteye's team, I have no doubt she'll be safe."
"Nor I." I then look at Nighteye who simply adjusts his glasses again. Nighteye finishes the brief by telling us further details then ends the briefing. Deku hits the button on the counter again deactivating lockdown. I gather up some of the breakfast I made for everyone, put it in a container then start to head out.
"You're a real piece of work Rob." Suneater says as I just smile, "Don't let us down man." He offers his fist to which I bump. "We got this."
It didn't take me long to reach Sir Nighteye's Agency, I land in front of the entrance and take a breath. I see Bubble Girl and place the food atop her desk. "Hey Spectre, they'll be with you in a moment." She smiles at me, "Tea? Its peppermint." I smile, nod and take a bamboo like tea tumbler from her. "Just between us Rob, they were pissed at first with your brazen act." I nearly do a spit take, "Were." she then winks at me. A light goes off, "Go on in Spectre, I'll take care of this."
"I hope I brought enough for everyone Ms. Bubble Girl." She takes away the food I brought and I head on in. The first to greet me is Takagi, he shakes my hand rather than bow in greeting. It turns out he was born in Japan but grew up in California in a city called Compton.
"Ballsy move there Spectre, but damn if they weren't impressed how you handled yourself." I thank him for his insight, "Now I gotta try those tacos you made." I see Bubble Girl set them up on a back table.
"Looks like you won't have to wait much longer-?" I wanted to call him by his hero name, fortunately for me he caught on to this.
"My hero name is Rock Lock." I nod and direct him to Bubble Girl's display, we shake hands and I turn to meet Ryūko.
"Spectre, impressive turn of events, you were bold, but what made you think you could just conference call us like that?" I was about to give her my answer, "On second thought I might not like the answer." I cough a little confirming her conclusion. "Thought so, never the less it was very bold and brazen of you to do so, however I'm more impressed by your respectfulness, you handled yourself like a natural born leader." In honestly I was shitting a brick and did not really talk so much as carefully listen to their words. The hell if I was going to tell her that, so I took her compliment gracefully. "Next time Spectre stop your significant other from more moments like the one earlier. Poor thing was mortified." She laughed after her last sentence. "Apparently chivalry is not dead." With that she politely excused herself and joined Takagi. The conference room was no different than the one at Fat Gum Agency save being a bit larger square ft wise table included. It had a large bay window that looked out into the cityscape and was connected directly to Sir Nighteye's office.
I entered Nighteye's office, it hadn't changed much, still an All Might otaku's wet dream. I saw my boss standing and him sitting behind the desk. I also noticed that the dart I gave him was now on a little display stand next to his name. "Spectre please have a seat." I curtly nodded in acknowledgement taking a breath and sat down. "First and foremost why did you pull something like this?" Fat Gum said nothing just stared at me. "Please tell me your logic."
"Efficiency." I stated flatly.
"Nani?" was my boss' response so I continued, I had their attention.
"I had full intent to follow orders given by my superior." Fat Gum's eyes narrowed, "However if you recall sir." I looked at my boss at this point, "This morning when we spoke you said Midoryia could brief me." My boss crossed his arms recalling it. Nighteye leaned back at this point staying silent.
"I also said get to Nighteye's agency ASAP as well."
"Indeed you did sir." I wasn't looking to push but pressed on, "After I got ready and was about to head out I saw everyone that was going to the agency in my dormitory's common area." I still had my tea in my hand and took a sip, "I took a chance sir, the dormitory has the appropriate security measures in place for a secure video conference." Nighteye was getting it, Fat Gum needed further convincing, "Rather than arrive here and wait for the others to show." Fat Gum got it.
"You had the tools right there to begin immediately."
"I pride myself with information gathering, I like having all the pieces of the situation in my hand." Fat Gum stood silent, "Knowledge is power, we can all agree on that." They both nodded in agreement, "So I took the chance for the sake of efficiency." Nighteye clapped his hands, he accepted my answer then turned to Fat Gum.
"I have no further recompense with Spectre, and retract motion for recourse." Fat Gum breathed easier, "You have a fine work study Fat Gum, his actions were logical, his demeanor when my protegé gave him that test was outstanding."
"Sir." Nighteye turned to me, "What was the next point you wanted to talk about." He smiled as he looked at me.
"What did you bring us for breakfast?" I surpressed a chuckle and told him chorizo with eggs and from scratch tortillas. "Delightful." He looked at Fat Gum, rose from his seat offering it to him, then excused himself.
"You never cease to amaze me Spectre." I keep my composure unsure to where this was going. "When tested, known or unknown to you, you seem to always come out on top." Fat Gum leaned in, "After today, I was going to terminate your work study, but by the look on your face now, that was obvious." I set down my tea on the floor. "When did you know I wasn't?"
"Honestly I was still unsure till now sir." This through him off, "Saying I was going to be Suneater's number two seemed like a way to save face with your peers sir." My words struck him hard, "Sir, if I may. You are my superior, my boss, from my experience, I am just a number to you." He was about to cut me off but I continued, "A kid, with what others until recently believed, to have an impossible goal." Fat Gum crossed his arms, "I am use to the idea of having odds stacked against me, and you nor anyone will stop me, watching Miruko do it all by herself only served to galvanize my goal." Fat Gum suddenly understood everything, the reason why I acted the way I did and smiled.
"I'm proud of you Roberto." His words froze me mid thought, "My agency is better because of you." My mouth dropped, "You are not a number, I assure you son." I gather my composure, "You may be an arrogant smart ass, but you are bold, calculatingly clever, and adapt quickly to a given situation." He continued on, "And you proven yourself today to be a leader." I raised an eyebrow, "You controlled that room, a room filled with hormonal teens, a rival, a pissed off upperclassman, and two of the most hard headed passionate trainees I have ever encountered." Fat Gum came around the desk and continued. " All without saying much of anything. When you pulled that stunt, you stepped up and owned it." He then mused a bit, "Yeah I admit I was embarrassed by your actions, but I also noticed how the other pro heroes interacted with you. They saw the same thing I do now, but only they saw it first. I was just too caught up in myself to realize it, I apologize for that." He shook my hand and I accepted it, "You're going to do great things Roberto Rodrigo Robles."
29
For the rest of the month, my classmates, the ones with work studies, along with me, trained side by side with the police and our agencies. This was going to end Shie Hassaikai, so we ran drills in a mock up of the compound. However no amount of training would prepare me, much less all of us for what Chisaki Kai had in store for us.
Mei had made some minor adjustments to Spectre V4, she found a way to shorten the charge time of the aftershock ability. She liked the oni mask mod I did with my visor so she extended my selection of scary masks. "One more thing Robby." She pulled out the side of visor's casing and then installed thermal vision mode. Man I loved my little mad scientist, "Come back to me Robby." I snapped back and she had it in her hand. She looked at it as if it unmade her, "Your final solution, Ama-no-Habakiri" to call it one of her 'babies' would be an insult. The blade attached to my left gauntlet, if the criteria was met, meaning I was about to die, it would shoot out of my wrist so I could end my foe instantly. I attached it myself and after a few clicks and whirls it sealed in place then the blade vanished into my left forearm. I gave her a hug promising I would never ask her to manufacture another one. I could tell it meant a lot to her, for I could feel her tears on my shoulder.
The start of July was cooler than normal, today was the day we all trained for. I rode with my mom for some reason this day. I could have reached Sir Nighteye's Agency on my own but this seemed right for whatever reason. "Robert you are about to go into what will very well turn into a war zone." We arrived at our destination, but she locked the car doors. "Trust your team, not because it will be dangerous, and trust me it will, but because that will be the key to any victory." She grabbed my hands, "I've never been more proud of you than right now."
"Mom."
"Listen, I love you more than anything in this world, keep that in here." she points at my chest, "Keep this clear." She then touched my temple, "Its your greatest weapon of all of your arsenal. Equipment fails but a sharp mind prevails."
"I will, we both will come back, again and again."
"I believe you, but please son, no matter what happens and if you have to make a choice, save the ones who cannot save themselves." I was about to say something, "Swear to me." I looked away, "Roberto, swear to me." I give in.
"I swear mother, I swear." with that I gave her a hug, "Now let's go kick some Yakuza ass."
My mother fully understood me, she trusted and supported me in all my choices. Most mothers want their child to take the safe route and live to a ripe old age with a family then leave peaceably. Mom wasn't completely like that or against it either, if that was my choice so be it. If not, cause I'm straight up loco wanting to be a quirkless hero, she expected the best from me. Never half ass things, dive in head first and make your goal a reality, if you choose later on in life you want a different path then commit to that with the same fervency. Don't drag your feet, decide and commit, you want to be a hero, do it with dedication, a normal guy with a normal job and family, be the best version of that, or she'll put you out of your misery.
Missions like these mom transformed, she was allowed to wear anything so long as she had her badge visible. One time she wore her magenta hair with bangs and a pony tail, like today. She had on combat boots, short jean shorts that were frayed, a tactical military belt, and a black tank top that expose her midriff with dual shoulder holsters. I remember seeing the picture she took with her former partner Rock, well at least she called him that. Needless to say I had all sorts of confusing feelings after stumbling upon it, but I had to admit she looked good in it and totally badass. Today she wore that same outfit save the shorts opting for cameo tactical pants with her badge at her hip.
Her police firearm now served as her backup piece on the opposite side of the badge. Her new primary weapons of choice were a pair of modified Beretta 92F's; which are made out of stainless steel and had their barrels extended from 4.9" to 5.9" each (the 5.9"being the combat MOD barrel) and are threaded to be able to accept muzzle breaks, suppressors, compensators, etc.. They are engraved with "9mm Sword Cutlass" on both sides, as well as the Jolly Roger of the infamous pirate Calico Jack (which is also inlaid into the ivory grips), and a manufacture inscription in Thai. Mom is ambidextrous with the marksmanship skills to prove it, thus giving her the nickname 'Two Hands'. In short, nobody fucks with mom.
When we entered the agency, all the heroes thought I brought in an extra hero help. I chuckled at their reactions when I told them, no it was just my mom. Red Riot, Real Steel, and Suneater just stared at her like some love struck fools. Mom only smirked, gone was the sweet, friendly officer that they met a month before. "Look alive morons, and pick your drooling jaws off the floors before I staple them to your upper lip."
"Ahhhh shit Sgt. Two Hands has checked in." This came from the officers in the conference room.
"Get your sorry piss poor excuse having asses out here, line up!" Before she could finish her berating they were scrambling to line up outside. Mom lead these officers, turns out her having a split personality made it great for assault missions such as these. I just shook my head and gathered Suneater and the rest to the conference room. "ROBLES!" I froze with a shiver going up my spine.
"Yes sir, Sargent" I did an about face and stood at attention. Mom took one look at me then at her men.
"Your sorry dumbasses could learn a thing or two from Robles here." Part of me kinda died inside when she called me by my last name. She then walked over to me and slugged me dead center of my chest activating my uniform. She'd knocked the wind out of me but I dared not show it. She was terrifying! "You were about to embarrass me, and this unit." Though in pain, mortified, I strangely found comfort in her words.
"Apologies Sargent, I'm an idiot." She then slapped me, the other officers said nothing.
"That you are not Robert." She slipped back into my mother for a moment, "DISMISSED!" Bye mom.
Our briefing didn't take long for everyone knew what role they had to play. It was now 0700 hrs as we took the hour long trek via various back roads to the compound. The fighting begins at 0830 hrs that day. Rikiya Katsukame, the leader of Kai's Eight Bullets Team, launches a preemptive strike against the heroes. Ryukyu's Squad takes him on while the others storm the base. Minor Yakuza thugs try to stop their entry but several other minor heroes, Nighteye loved being overly prepared, deal with them as the main heroes get inside the base.
Overhaul and Chronostasis, his second Bullet, take advantage of the ensuing chaos, take Eri and begin fleeing the base through the underground passageways. Kai always figured the Police would catch on, just not this quickly. He refuses to allow himself to be captured and releases the remaining Eight Bullets to buy him enough time to escape. Mimic, the fourth Bullet, enhances his quirk with the 'quirk steroid' drug and merges himself with the cavern walls of the underground labyrinth. He controls the area while Kai puts up fake walls, both to cover his escape.
Sir Nighteye leads the rest of the hero teams down into the underground labyrinth and are quickly met by Mimic's resistance. He stalls everyone except for Lemillion, who uses his Quirk to phase through the passageway. Mimic drops the Heroes into a room where we are separated. Suneater and I loose Real Steel in the separation, however we still had the others including Fatgum and Erasure Head, only to meet Setsuno, Hojo, and Tabe, the third, fifth and sixth Bullets, in an ambush . I look at the others, "We got this guys!" We take the triad on alone while the others escape.
"I'm hungry." Tabe Soramitsu, quirk: Food, his quirk allows his teeth to easily chew through and consume any solid substance, no matter how durable. His stomach is able to quickly digest whatever abnormal substances he has eaten with no trouble.
"For The Shie Hassaikai!" Hōjō Yū, quirk: Crystallize, granting him the ability to produce sharp, durable crystals from his skin. This is effective for both close-ranged offense and defense. He can also grow his crystals into the form a sword around his arm.
I had several darts ready, suddenly they disappeared from my hands, "These are mine now!" Setsuno Tōya, quirk: Larceny, this allows him to instantly relocate an object from someone else's possession to his own hands. However, he needs to be able to see his target and there is a limit to size of what he can steal. The chief had given us very detailed files on Overhaul's crew.
Suneater and I weigh our options, "We need to take out pacman over there." Tabe rushed us as Suneater manifests tentacles from a Blue-Ringed octopus. Flaying away Tabe is consuming them faster than he can sprout more. I tackle him away only to be struck by Hōjō. My shield absorbs the impact and I smash the ground below sending him back. I then rush him leap into the air into a drop kick, I activate the last level on impact. I miss his head but shatter the crystals on his arm.
Hōjō grunts taking the blow but tosses me aside like nothing. I see Tabe slowing down but not by much. I go for a dart but I am struck by a blade, Tōya. "Now, now there you forget about me?" The blade is sharp enough to cut my armor, but not long enough to pierce my vitals. "Well I guess I have to dig deeper." I pull out a yellow pellet and activate it, and as expected he takes the bait. "The hell is…" it explodes knocking him out cold.
"Idiot." I spit on him, then secure the suspect. I see Tabe and Hōjō double teaming Suneater. My shield recharges and I rush them, Tabe spots me and decides I'm easier prey. "That's right you fricking gremlin, I got something for you to chew on."
"Eat! Eat! Eat! Eat!" He screams sprinting at me at top speed. "Die! Eat! DIE!" He leaps and I slide under him. His mouth wide open I toss a flashbang in his mouth, it explodes breaking his jaw. He screams grasping his mouth which is now dangling unable to close.
"Your mine!" I spin up and charge slamming my fist in his broken jaw further shattering it and launching him into a wall. "Eat! Eat! Eat! Eat this motherfucker!" I then turn this bastard into my personal speed bag with blows to the upper and lower torso. Tabe is out and I secure him with grapnel wire from my belt shutting his jaw. The pain is enough to knock him unconscious, and I cuff him. I look up and I see Suneater give the finishing blow to Hōjō, using his own quirk against him. "Ok how are we gonna secure this douchebag?" Suneater returns to normal and I congratulate him with a fist bump.
"Dunno, good job on the others by the way." He wipes the sweat from his brow.
"No problem, Tabe scared the crap outta me though." I shutter.
"Broke his jaw huh, good call, brutal, but good." He looks at my belt, "Got anything to wrap him up in that belt of yours?"
"Nothing strong enough."
"I think I have an idea." Suneater chomps down on another crystal, then grabs Hōjō and seals him in his own crystals. I was impressed. Suspects secure we advance towards the others.
30
We push upwards towards the surface till we see a fork, Tamaki hears scream, it sounds like the boss. "Robles take that one, I'll go help the boss." I nod and fist bump him wishing him luck and venture on. Suddenly the tunnels seem to come alive.
This was Mimic pushing himself against the heroes, forcing his quirk to its limit with attempts to crush them as they traverse through the labyrinth. Eventually, he receives reinforcements and separates the heroes once again. I progress further and spot Himiko, from the League of Villains, quirk: Transform.
This quirk grants her the ability to transform into a physical facsimile of another individual, as well as copy their voice. She can only transform into people whose blood she has ingested. The more blood she drinks, the longer she has access to that person's form. She can switch between the appearances of multiple people if she drinks the blood of more than one person. Even can even duplicate a person's clothing, though, her own clothes would overlap the transformation, requiring her to get naked beforehand. Upon deactivating her Quirk or switching to another disguise, Himiko's disguise melts into a gray viscous liquid.
She ambushes Rock Lock and incapacitates him, then impersonates him . Before I can get to her Deku does. I call out to him but the Rock Lock impostor attacks nearly injuring Deku before Eraser Head stops her. She stabs him as well before retreating. I catch up to them, then tend to Rock Lock's injuries, "Deku clear a path to the surface and get him to a medic fast." He says nothing grabbing the fallen hero and smashing his way to the surface. "Shall we sensei?" He nods wrapping his scarf tightly over his wound. The ceiling above us starts to shake.
"That's our cue." Aizawa grunts and we continue on, Mimic's quirk seems to be going into overdrive. "I just need to find that bastard." Another rumble followed by a boom. Another boom and Mimic cries out in pain. "THERE YOU ARE YOU SON OF BITCH!" He spots him activating his quirk, Mimic seems to fall out of the wall as the League of Villains, Himiko and Twice peak out of tunnel then escape to the surface.
At the same time I see Nighteye and the police led by my mom enter the the hallway. "Thank you Eraser Head, thought we were done for." Mimic tries to run but Nighteye nails him with a seal knocking him out.
"I got him." Just then a wall explodes, my mom dodges in time as we all see Overhaul and Lemillion engaged in combat. "SHIT!"
"He's got the kid!" was all everyone hears as Overhaul makes his way to the surface, Lemillion chasing after him with us running in his wake.
We see the light of the surface, Lemillion joined by Deku are now going blow for blow with Overhaul! The compound has been turned into a war zone arena, Overhaul is manipulating the floor shooting stone spikes from every which way. Most of the yakuza soldiers are being taken care of by Ryūko's team. From what I can see they captured The Eight Bullet's Leader, Katsukame Rikiya, 'Good job guys.' I see my mom exit the tunnel first and regroup with her men, one seems to have lost an eye, the others are no worse for ware. Nighteye was next with Mimic over his shoulders in a fireman carry, followed by Aizawa and me. As we reach the surface Katsukame Rikiya shatters his chains. He took the steroid, shit!
Back with Lemillion and Deku I see Overhaul shatter a column that the little girl Eri was on, I call out to them and see Lemillion warp up to catch her. Before I have time to celebrate I see a dark figure come from the rubble firearm in hand. My mom spots it too and pulls out her pistols and fires. It too late the figure has already taken his shot, the bullet hits Lemillion as hits the ground saving Eri. Mom's shots rain true and terminates the eighth Bullet, Nemoto Shin, quirk, unimportant now. Overhaul spots this and rushes my mom. My eyes widen as I race towards her, "MOM!"
I'm too late.
It happens in a blink of an eye.
My world shatters in an instant.
I hear the splatter of crimson and viscera.
Nothing's left.
No clothes.
No body.
Not even her badge.
Mom.
Is.
Gone.
I am Devastated.
End Part 5