Hello everyone, back with a new chapter. This chapter may be subject to change, so keep in mind.
Also on another note, I know some of you guys would like an additional Hachiman to be added into the story. But sorry I'm going to have to decline. I'm not familiar with the other Hachimans like in the MHA/Oregairu fic. But the reason is that it would make things more convoluted than it already is.
Focusing on the characters in Canon, the Splendid Spider-Man and TDKC will help keep the path straight.
Please enjoy, and review.
Chapter 2: Loner, Spider, Hunter
Spider-Man and Huntsman kept their eyes on Hikigaya Hachiman. Miura Yumiko and Tobe Kakeru too were keeping their gazes on him. And Ishhiki Iroha was hiding behind him.
"What the hell…" Spider-Man gawked.
"What is this?" Huntsman snarled.
Yumiko took a step towards Huntsman and whispered to him, "It's...him. You know what I mean? He's legit. Look at this." She passed him Hachiman's and Iroha's ID cards.
Meanwhile, Spider-Man was wrapping his head around this situation as well.
"Spidey, it's no Chameleon. He's really…well you know. He sounds like him, he talks like him. You know I'm talking about right? It's him." Kakeru explained.
"How…" Spider-Man scratched his head.
"You think it's something to do with what happened before we got here? Are we like you know in some alternate Earth or a parallel universe thing?" Kakeru asked.
Spider-Man could only mutter. "Maybe…"
"And the other guy? Miura said he's the Huntsman."
"She's with him?"
"Yeah. I don't think she's uh you know, she's not our Miura."
All the while Iroha and Hachiman were frozen, afraid of making any sudden moves. "Senpai." Iroha squeaked to Hachiman. "What's going on?"
"I don't know. I-I think we just wait for them?" Hachiman got Iroha off him said feeling immensely intimidated by the presence of the person in the red and blue bodysuit, and the hooded and cloaked demon.
Inspecting the cards for a moment, Huntsman turned his attention back to the girl hiding behind Hachiman and he clenched his fist.
"I…I don't think she's…who we thought she was." Yumiko whispered to him. "Look at her, she's scared out of her skin. You know who won't be like that at all."
"You expect me to just buy that?" Huntsman asked her.
"It's not her. You see her with him, that's Hikio right there. That means something's not right here." Yumiko whispered to him.
"Uh…" Hachiman went to the middle and he tried to get their attention. "Can we uh have our ID cards back?"
Huntsman stared at Hachiman, giving Yumiko a glance before he readied the cards in his fingers. "Catch." He threw the cards straight for him. Hachiman had no chance to react and they bounced off his chest.
As he slowly picked up the ID cards on the floor, Spider-Man took a high leap landing in front of Hachiman. "You're Hikigaya Hachiman?"
Hachiman stepped back in surprise by that. He had never seen someone able to jump that high and far.
"Y-Yes I'm Hikigaya Hachiman." He said. "Who are you?"
"Y-You don't know me? I'm Spider-Man."
"You know who I am?"
"Um…kind of?" Spider-Man said. "Can you uh prove that you are really Hikigaya Hachiman?"
"Uh how?" Hachiman asked. "I-I proved it with my ID card already didn't I?"
Spider-Man was stumped at that, how was he supposed to prove things? He asked, "You are in Soubu High right? Ok, the school uniform answered for itself. Uh how to do this?"
Huntsman at the distance with Yumiko, had made his deductions already. A Hachiman and an Iroha that is not the one that he knew, potentially from another world. And Kakeru with the Spider-Man, the fact that Kakeru was siding with Spider-Man potentially meant that it was not the Kakeru that he knew, same with Iroha.
Three groups, and two of them had a common factor, Hachiman. Which meant the third group must have the same factor. Thus, the Huntsman has identified Spider-Man.
And he had an idea, though a long shot it may be.
"Hikigaya Hachiman," Hachiman heard the Huntsman's unsettling voice call for him. Just how he looked like gave a very threatening aura. "If you are who you say you are, then tell me something only Hikigaya Hachiman would say. Something that no one else would."
Hachiman stood frozen, and the Huntsman was in front of him. "Your essay to Hiratsuka Shizuka."
"H-How did you-"
"Tell me."
Hachiman turned mute for a moment, looking at everyone in the room. Hachiman sighed and cleared his throat. He had to tell them what only Hikigaya Hachiman would say, showing them what he is, a rotten person.
"Youth is a lie, it is nothing but evil." Hachiman said it.
Huntsman's face was stoic as usual, but Spider-Man's jaw lowered through the mask.
"It's him, it's Hikigaya Hachiman." Huntsman declared, he then turned to Spider-Man, "It's what Hikigaya Hachiman would say."
Hachiman's eyes started to squint in suspicion, "How do you know so much-"
"You're smart, you'll figure it out," Huntsman said to him, and then he turned to Spider-Man. "The mask cannot hide you now."
A dreaded feeling rose up in Hachiman and Spider-Man. Hachiman was starting to piece things, the only way this Spider-Man and this Huntsman could possibly know about what youth was to him, was that they are him.
"Y-You're…me?" Hachiman stammered, his heart hammering in his chest. "You are Hachiman?"
Spider-Man was struck silent, but he had a hand at his head slowly pulling the mask off.
"Spidey?!" Kakeru rushed in. "What are you doing?!"
"Just trust me." Spider-Man said. "It's going to clear the air." His mask came off, and his face came into view.
Gasps came out from Iroha and Yumiko. Hachiman in the red and blue outfit shrugged his shoulders, he said, "I guess we need to start from the top. But first…"
Everyone's attention turned to the remaining one in the mask, Huntsman.
"Are you…?" Hachiman gawked. "Are you-" Huntsman gave him the meanest glare to shut him up. He stood there, with arms crossed.
"Fine, don't take it off." Spider-Man put back his mask and crossed his arms as well, "But you're not fooling anyone anymore. At least not me."
"You took your own mask off on your accord, I am not you." Huntsman said.
The three stared at each other. The first one was in a Soubu High uniform, with a Canon camera slung around him. The second was in a red and blue outfit, had a red mask with white wide eyes, and a spider emblem on his chest. It spoke vigor and positivity in how the outfit portrayed. The last one had an unsettling aura just by mere sight, a black mask with sinister red eyes, clad in black and crimson armor with a cape black with red streaks.
Hikigaya Hachiman, the Spider-Man, and the Huntsman.
The loner, the Spider, and the Hunter.
Hachiman could just feel the massive different auras in both of them. Spider-Man had a presence of confidence and strength, that he was in control and he knew it.
The Huntsman's aura just exudes focus, his posture and scowl spoke a hidden rage in him, absolute rage.
Iroha stood frozen, with eyes wide open and jaws dropped. She inched closer to Hachiman, the only person she could feel safe with. "S-Senpai?"
Huntsman glared at Iroha, it sent chills up her spine. Spider-Man knew what was going on and confronted Huntsman.
"You're going to tell us why you attacked Isshiki?" He asked, in a tone trying to demand an answer.
Huntsman was not intimidated by it at all. But he did give his explanation though brief. "Mistaken identity." He then turned to Isshiki, "Apologies."
The apology however, was lacking any sincerity with his stone cold face.
"How are there three of us?" Hachiman asked, his heart still hammering by this insane situation he was in.
"Hach, it's got to be parallel Earths." Kakeru answered.
"You mean what, we're in another Earth, like an alternate reality?" Yumiko joined in the conversation.
"Yeah, I'm sure because of…um…well…uh…" Kakeru got his tongue tied, thinking he may have said too much.
"You know something that would have a hand in this situation." Huntsman deduced his slip up.
Spider-Man stepped in, "Ok, Hachiman." He nodded at him, "Maybe you should start with what your story is. Maybe start from the top or something."
Hachiman looked back at Iroha for a second, but she did not have any answers for him. He turned and sighed.
"Ok, um my name is Hikigaya Hachiman. I'm a student in Soubu High for about almost two and half years now. I got put into the Service Club by Hiratsuka-sensei in my second year, in the club, there are Yukinoshita Yukino, Yuigahama Yui and me. We'd helped out students with their requests. Isshiki Iroha became student council president, and she got me helping in her student council events." He paused, "She got me to help her in a school paper, needed to take pictures of the facilities. It was after lesson time and we were at the tennis court. But then this weird thing, strangest I've ever seen. It's like electricity was sparking out of nowhere from our feet, it hit us and the next second we're here."
The group took a moment to process his story. Spider-Man broke the silence. "Wow, you're not far off from my tale."
He shrugged, "Alright people, let's do this one more time. My name is Hikigaya Hachiman. I've been in Soubu High for almost two and a half years. I've been bitten by a radioactive spider and for some months, I've been the one and only Spider-Man. I fought villains, I saved the city, again and again. I'm a superhero, a real-life superhero. You know surprisingly, a lot of the same things happened in school too. I'm in the Service Club with Yukinoshita and Yuigahama, Isshiki's the student council president too. But then uh…well Tobe and I got ambushed. We thought it was an alleyway robbery, and Tobe wanted to get a picture of me saving the day. It was one guy in a hood windbreaker was robbing a girl, I couldn't tell who they were from afar. But it was a trap. And next thing before we know it, we're here."
"Uh yeah…maybe whoever ambushed us has something to do with this?" Kakeru pointed out.
"It's the only thing we got." Spider-Man said, "But where are we supposed to start?"
Hachman the asked. "Wait, what about his explanation?" He turned and pointed at the Huntsman. Only, that there was no Huntsman at where he pointed, nor was there a Miura Yumiko. Just empty space.
"Eh? Ehhh?!" Iroha squeaked out, "Where they go?!"
Outside the warehouse, Yumiko and the Huntsman were surveying Chiba around them. The thick red clouds were soon going to give the rain.
Huntsman took gazing at one particular direction of the city. He noted on one particular building lacking in his line of sight.
"You see what's missing?" Huntsman asked Yumiko.
She caught on, "Yeah. Yeah I do, oh God."
"Hey! Huntsman!" Spider-Man called out for him, swinging out of the warehouse through the broken window and he landed with them. "Don't just bail on us. We need to figure this out together."
Huntsman did not answer to that, still gazing out in the city.
"Ok, I know we had a little fight earlier…ok not a little fight a big ass fight. But we're past that, aren't we? We got to help each other out right?" Spider-Man said, and again still no response.
"Hey you listening?" Spider-Man grabbed his shoulder.
"Take your hand off me." The Huntsman ordered him. Spider-Man gave a disappointed sigh removing his hand off his shoulder.
Huntsman turned around and said to him, "Whoever did this is no common criminal. Someone was prepared for this crisis. You were led into a trap that pulled all of us together. Whoever's responsible, should know how to unmake this."
"Ok…" Spider-Man played the detective with him, "Maybe we should go back to the alleyway. Maybe the perp is still there."
While he hid it from everyone, the Huntsman had a sinking dreading feeling. He might know where this alleyway was.
"You don't stick around to let your enemy catch up to you. We need to get our bearings first. Figure out whose world we're in first." Huntsman said. "I know this isn't my Earth."
"How'd you know?"
Yumiko answered at where she was gazing before, "Wayne Tower should over there, big tall tower with a blue 'W' sign on the side."
"Wayne Tower?" Spider-Man shrugged, "Doesn't ring a bell."
Huntsman then said, "This could be your world or Hachiman's back inside. Or we could be in another place none of us belong in."
The warehouse's door opened and out came Hachiman, Iroha and Kakeru.
"Spidey?" Kakeru waved at his ally. "This is where you were."
"Hey guys. Over here." Spider-Man gestured them over.
"Miura take Tobe, and find a place to hunker down and keep in contact." Huntsman instructed her.
"Hah?" Yumiko raised an eyebrow, "And where am I supposed to go?"
"Try a hotel. Just make sure you're in contact."
"And Isshiki?" Yumiko said softly only for Huntsman to hear. He and Yumiko gave a stare at Iroha, and Iroha quickly cowered behind Hachiman, holding his sleeve.
"Take her with you." Huntsman concluded. "If she starts trouble…"
"Yeah I know what to do." Yumiko nodded.
"Spider-Man." Kakeru asked the Webhead, "What are we going to do first?"
"The three of us." Huntsman said, implying to himself, Spider-Man and Hachiman. "We're going to Hachiman's home. We might be able to get some answers and whose world we're in."
"Uhuh, right uh who made you commander again?" Kakeru had his hands on his hips, sassing at the Dark Knight.
"If you have another suggestion, you have the floor." Huntsman glared at him.
Another roar of thunder in the sky and the clouds released the rain in the city.
"Guys, we should move now." Spider-Man said before turning to Hachiman, "Don't scream, I got you covered." He jumped up high shooting a web line he began swinging.
"What did he mean by scre-" Hachiman did not see it coming when another web line attached to his back, hoisting him up into the air.
Huntsman stayed behind for a moment, taking his attention on the Soubu High students, "Wait for us to gather intel, we'll contact each other to regroup soon enough."
"Ok." Yumiko nodded.
The Crimson Shadow then started stalking towards Iroha with a scowl. "If I find out that you pose a threat to them, I will. Hunt. You. Down."
She froze with trembling eyes, she could not even make a nod. The Huntsman did not care for that, bringing out his gadget he fired a grapnel cable bringing up to a building's rooftop next to the warehouse.
The Loner, the Spider, and the Hunter were going home.
