Izuku listened carefully to his lizard friend as he explained the basics of what was going on.
"Okay friend! I'm gonna go talk to my principal friend so we can go and save the tiny human."
"Please be careful. I don't want to lose any more friends to that man."
Izuku gave a friendly squeak in response and hung up.
He ran down the hall and across campus to Nezu's office with Yuwai and Inko following him since he told them it was important.
As he barrelled into the office Nezu looked up with his usual chipper smile.
Nezu was kind enough to speak to them in rabbit so that Inko and Yuwai were included, it was rude not to speak in someone's language when you were able to.
"Hello there my wonderful rabbit friends, what brings you to my office this afternoon?"
He got a handful of squeaks and honks in response from the two female rabbits.
"Ha! I suppose I am a funny looking rabbit. Now, Izuku, it seems that you have some concerns you wanted to bring to me?"
Izuku switched to speaking human since bunnies didn't have the best language for discussing the Yakuza.
"Yes! Our person-lizard friend called because he had important information he wants to trade for getting to not be a villain."
"Fantastic, I was wondering when we would hear from him. What did he have to say?"
"The Yakuza is being mean and bad."
"Hmm, yes, that seems like something that the Yakuza would do."
Izuku nodded. "They killed a nice lady named Magne and are hurting a tiny human kit. He says they are using her blood to make stuff to break quirks."
"Oh dear, that is quite bad. And our gecko friend has information on them?"
Izuku nodded even harder as the other two rabbits explored and sniffed Nezu's office since it was full of new smells to them.
"He said he knows about a bunch of their people, where they are and important stuff like that."
"That is quite important. I will talk to some friends in the police to make sure all charges can be dropped and that he is given the chance for citizenship like the two of us. It would be pointless to get him out of a bad situation without addressing the problems that got him there."
"Is that gonna be hard to do?"
"Well, when I was your age it would have been much more difficult, and it's definitely still tricky, but there are a few ways available to get an animal recognized as a citizen of Japan. You yourself became one by being enrolled in school. A path that I personally fought for, that if someone is smart enough to enroll in highschool then they are self aware enough to have rights."
"But Spinner is smart so why didn't he go to school?"
Nezu sighed "Unfortunately it can be quite difficult to access education. In all likelihood Spinner is illiterate without ever having someone to teach him, and that makes entering a high school like mine essentially impossible, and the principles of schools that are open to all would still have the right to deny him entrance since he is yet to become a citizen."
"So, he'd have to know how to read in order to learn how to read?"
"Essentially. But I'm working on something to help him out, and the threat of the Yakuza destroying quirks might finally be enough to force the government into action."
"If they don't let my friend get treated as a person I'll bite them."
"You'll bite the government? An interesting way to enact a revolution. Regardless, I'll contact the needed individuals to set up a task force to save this little girl and stop the Yakuza."
The next day Izuku hopped into the agency with his backpack filled with important papers from Nezu, his favorite rat-bear-dog friend.
He knocked on the door since they didn't have a better way yet and the pretty flower lady let him in.
"Hey there Izuku, you ready for the day?"
He bounced up onto her desk and laid down his backpack that was just big enough to hold the important folders.
"Yes! And I brought lots of things from my principal friend!"
"Oh?" She picked them up and started looking through the papers. "Damn, day one and you've already got a CI and a lead on a Yakuza kidnapping case, I can see why Mirko wanted you." She leaned around the corner and yelled down the hall, "Yo, Jectile! Get your scrawny ass down here, we need to set up a team to raid the Yakuza!"
"Oi! You don't have to shout, you overgrown flower bed!" The sidekick jogged down the hall and didn't seem angry at all. Izuku figured that they were like Kachan who yells at his friends even though he's not actually mad. "So what's this about the Yakuza?"
"Yep, our little newbie here got someone in the League of villains to switch sides and it looks like he's willing to trade information on the Yakuza in order to get his record clean. Seems the commish really shoved this through, since these guys are real nasty business and are close to finding a way to permanently destroy quirks."
Jectile was looking over her shoulder to read the paperwork they got permitting a raid against the Yakuza. "Still, overnight processing is unheard of. You must have friends in high places, little rabbit."
"Oh, I just talked to my friend Nezu and he said he would make it go fast since we didn't want them to hurt the tiny human anymore."
"Ha! Yeah, that's about as high up on the food chain as you can go without actually being in the commission."
Misake turned back to the sidekick, "Doesn't really matter how it got done, you just need to get a hold of Nighteye since he's been investigating these guys and they'd be a real asset. They say his intern Le Million is as strong as All Might in his prime, so we'll definitely want them helping."
"Damn, you're sure that's true? Wouldn't be the first time someone overexaggerated their interns."
"Yeah, Nighteye isn't really the bragging type and he worked with All Might, so it makes sense that he'd train the next one."
"Well, alrighty then, I'll head on over and hopefully it won't take us long to get ready and pull in a few more agencies to help out."
The pretty flower lady gently pat Izuku's head, "And you will be doing your first patrol with Mirko today while we do that paperwork stuff. So you can go down the hall to get in your hero outfit and get ready for that."
"Okie dokie flower friend!"
He made his way to the changing room and found the case with his spare costume he left there the day before. His mechanic friend Mei made his new costumes and they were way easier to get into than his first one.
Izuku bounced over to Mirko's office/gym, since she basically refused to do paperwork it made sense to combine the two rooms.
She looked over at him as he entered the room, "Good timing, I would about to start bothering Misake about where you were. No time to waste! Let's get out there and go find some villains to kick!"
Izuku binkied in excitement and followed her out the door.
"Alrighty Newbie, I expect you to keep pace with me or I'm leaving you behind. But if you can keep up with me then you can handle just about anyone."
Izuku wondered what she meant by that, but then she leapt up onto a building and started running from one roof to the next, staying up high to keep an eye on her city.
Izuku followed up to the roof, even if he just barely made the jump and chased after her.
It was hard since he couldn't jump as far as her, but he was faster at the running parts, so he didn't fall behind too much.
They came to a stop on the roof of a five story building in the middle of the city.
"Alright kid, now we sit here and listen for trouble while you get some energy back."
He definitely liked that plan, he was a bit tired from chasing after her. She was a really good jumper!
Both of them sat on the edge of the building with their ears fully up and twitching back and forth to hear as much as possible.
After a few minutes of listening really hard both of them suddenly swiveled to the left at the sound of glass breaking and lots of shouting. She nodded down at him and crouched down.
That meant it was jumping time!
They took off into the air toward the sound and as they got closer they could see it was a couple of people trying to rob a store. One of them had very long arms and the other had big curvy horns.
"Alright kid, I'm leaving this to you. Prove to me that it wasn't a mistake to take you on."
He thought that was kinda rude but it made sense so he nodded and sprinted at the criminals, weaving between the legs of fleeing civilians.
The villain with the horns was holding a citizen at knifepoint and looking at Mirko, who was leaning up against a lamppost, looking very relaxed.
"Stay back or the lady gets it!"
Her response almost sounded bored. "Alright, wasn't going to be moving from here anyways."
Izuku was super quiet and ran through the crowd so he was behind the bad man with the knife without being seen.
He crouched low for a second and waited a few seconds until bad guy number 2, who was carrying the money they stole, looked in the other direction so neither would see him move. Then he shot forward like a bullet and kicked the horn villain in the back of the head, knocking him out instantly. And by pushing off of the falling bad guy and towards the other bad guy, their heads slammed together, but Izuku's bones were much denser and tougher than normal bones, so the long arms man fell down too and fell asleep.
He couldn't remember the fancy term for when you hit someone so hard they take a nap. Maybe they should be called 'battle naps', because they are like naps, except they are from fighting.
He hopped over to the nice lady who had been almost stabbed.
"Hello, my name is Izuku. Are you ok nice lady?"
She nodded a little with tears in her eyes. "I am now. Thank you so much, I was so scared. I thought I was going to die."
"It's ok now. He can't hurt you anymore, he's taking a battle nap since I bonked him on the head."
Mirko walked over, "Ha! I think those are called concussions, or as I like to call it, knocking someone the fuck out. Good work kit. Let's go talk to the cops and get these punks out of here."
He huffed in mock anger, "I'm not a kit!" He did not notice that he'd slipped back into rabbit-speak.
She responded in kind. "I don't know, you still look tiny to me. A tiny little kit."
He playfully thumped in response as she carried the criminals to the police cars waiting for them. "Does that make you an old lady rabbit?"
She thumped her foot back at him, "Oi! Watch it, you snarky kit."
As she handed over the criminals Izuku got a message on his fancy hero communicator watch thing that everyone had so they could have fast access to information while in the field.
They were going to have a meeting tomorrow with everyone who would be in the raid on the Yakuza so they could make a plan.
When she walked back over he looked up at her, "Did you get the message about the meeting tomorrow?"
She shook her head and scoffed, "Nah, I leave all the collaboration stuff to Jectile. He's capable and will handle the raid."
"Wait, you're not joining the raid?"
"Nope, teamwork is not really my jam."
"Didn't the flower friend tell you about the mission to stop the Yakuza and save the girl?"
"Nope, because she knows I only really do raids if it's just me. It won't make a difference if I'm there or not, there are plenty of heroes out there more than willing to take my place so I don't really get involved and leave it all to Jectile."
They had moved away from the crowd, but were definitely still the focus of people's attention whether they knew it or not.
Izuku was mad enough that the next time he thumped his foot in anger it cracked the sidewalk.
"No! That is wrong and stupid!"
"Ha?! You're going to tell me how to be a hero?"
"Yes! If someone is in trouble you help them, even if someone else could do it for you, because if everyone said that then no one would get help. And if you're the kind of person who wouldn't do anything to help a kit in danger then you are a bad bunny!"
She gasped in shock that her intern would dare say such a thing to her.
He kept going, growling and squeaking at her. "There is a little girl being tortured everyday, and if you aren't there tomorrow to help me save her then I'll just find a new hero who will!"
At this he stormed off back to the agency.
Within the hour the video had gone viral, especially since both Izuku and Mirko were already celebrities in their own rights.
It started with someone recording a hostage situation with a horned man holding a girl at knife point and shouting at Mirko who seemed disinterested and relaxed.
Then, in a blur of green fur, the well known rabbit flew through the air from behind the villains and quickly took them both out. It seemed like that would be the end of the video with the new intern having beaten the bad guys and helped to calm down the victim.
At this point the video revealed why it had become so much more popular than any other video of a debuting intern. While Mirko and Izuku had both been speaking perfectly clear Japanese to the police and civilians, as soon as they spoke to each other after the fight they only spoke in squeaks and grunts that was clearly some sort of rabbit language.
This went on for over ten minutes and seemed to capture an argument of some sort that was hard for others to take seriously since it was entirely spoken in high pitched honks and objectively adorable body language such as angrily thumping their feet at each other. But it was resolved with Mirko gasping in an offended way and Izuku stomping off, only making people speculate even further as to what they were arguing about.