Chapter 2
Jaden P.O.V
The next day, I was in control, I got this shit in the bag.
So when I walked out, instantly, I was sucked into a black and purple swirl that seemingly wrapped me into a room with Skylah and the other new people. Already there was the fog guy and some older-looking dude.
"That was weird" Dabi commented
"I thought he was going to kill us!" Toga exclaimed a bit too excited.
I scoffed. "I'd like to see him try. I doubt his quirk could phase me"
"I bet I could use mine on him! Right Oni-chan?!" Skylah cheered.
Everyone started talking about the boss, which I didn't care to hear about. Yadda yadda, I didn't ask for a lore dump, I asked for action.
"What?! Are you insane?! That could be important!"
I couldn't give two fucks, or even one fuck if I'm being honest.
Suddenly the door behind us slammed. Here was the blue-haired, wrinkly-skinned mother fucker we call boss.
He just yelled shut up at us several times.
Before he exited, I felt my body tense and I instantly poured some of my power into my palms as Skylah started to take off her glasses to "clean them".
He lunged with both hands, Toga pulled a knife from somewhere and tried to stab him, Dabi flicked out his hand, both of my hands had balled up and got ready to rock his shit, and lastly, Skylahs eyes flickered to a bight yellow as she tried to stare into his eyes.
All of our attempts were blocked by a bit of fog.
Toga's knife ended up embedded in the floor, several hands were in the air, and Skylah had a large blotch in front of her.
I heard a crunch as I looked around and noticed that it sounded like at the very least my fingers had broken. Shame.
"We will refrain from roughhousing with each other for the time being," Kurogiri said sternly. "We can't lose any more members before we strike"
I scoffed as I pulled my hands back. "What even are we doing?"
"We shall be traveling over to where UA class 1 and B will be training, and then we are going to be taking the winner of the sports festival. Katsuki Bakugo." Kurogiri explained.
"That brat? Why him?" Skylah asked
"Because the boss feels like he could be easily swayed to our side, and he exhibits a lot of power for a boy his age. If that fails, however," He trailed off looking at his boss.
"We can kill him to wound UA's pride a little or use him to draw in the heroes whenever we want," Shigaraki said with a nasty-looking smirk crossing his face.
"Fuck that kid, you got us." I scoffed, ignoring the yelling coming from inside the confines of my mind. "We probably a hell of a lot stronger than him"
Shigaraki set his unnerving red eyes onto me. "Yes but he exhibits that raw power that we need. His power is a lot more physical than you two"
"All of us can easily kill a normal person, and I'm willing to bet a pro hero," I said, getting more and more bored with this conversation. "Physical power is less useful because that's what most people can prepare for."
"Shut up. Go get ready" He snarled at me.
"Fine, I wanna ditch this stupid black hair before we go and get my face done up a little as a disguise," I said as I looked over to the fog man. "Do you mind helping me?"
Wait! You're going to dye our hair! Are you stupid? This isn't some kinda anime where we could have some unnatural hair color! Black suits us because its all we have known!
"Of course not, be ready in about thirty minutes the portal will be waiting for you there." He said with a nod.
I walked through the black portal and found myself outside of a salon. Dabi walked out after and so did Skylah.
We entered the store and I ignored the basic greeting that was thrown my way.
I glanced at the prices, better to just buy the dye and do it myself.
All three of us quickly made our way to the hair dye and picked some colors. Dabi picked out black(I guess he was already dying his hair), Skylah picked a dark purple, and I went for a dark red.
That just sends flairs that we are bad news! Are you stupid?!
Scoffing, I quickly paid for the hair dye and headed over to a contact of mine. Some random wannabe gangster. He was the one that pointed off in this direction towards the League.
"Yo, do you got anyone that can give me some badass scar made outta makeup or something?" I asked through the phone I had 'borrowed'.
"I know a shop that sells pretty realist stickers, it's made from quirk so it should last." He told me. "I'll send the location"
A few seconds later two messages came through. "Noted"
I threw the phone back to its owner. "Your mom is making Katsudon for dinner...not like you're going to make it but I'd hate to be rude"
I laughed loudly as I heard the sound of the phone thumping against the body. Oh well.
You didn't even keep the fucking phone you maniac! So you kill the guy and then return the phone?! What in the actual hell is wrong with you?!
Nothing you can fix-
I could hear loud thumping in my ears. My heartbeat...fuck. I haven't had a full 24 hours yet! This is some bullshi-
.
Oh, thank god. I patted myself down. Now that my sane side is back in control I can get the fuck out of here.
Sucks for you nerd, I have countermeasures in place!
What the-
"Oni-chan! What's taking so long?!"
...that's...not good.
My sister walked around into the ally that was now the grave to a random boy. "Honestly, are you trying to shock the dead body further?"
Quickly scrapping together my courage, I tried my best to imitate my less sane half. "Fuck no, just wanted to make sure that...that the guy wasn't twitching too much so I could have a nice seat"
I internally cringed at what I was saying.
Haha! Pussy! That doesn't sound a bit like me! You'd have to be retarded not to-
"Oh, Oni-chan! You know better than to waste time like that!" She chided me before walking out. "Come on, we gotta dye our hair so we need to hurry!"
I forgot that we are related to her and that she is 90% dumber than we always think
Yeah, you got that right.
I quickly followed her, vowing to try and get away from these insane people as quickly as I could.
Dabi stopped me, the older guy staring deep into my soul with those striking blue eyes. "Yo, you good? You're looking a bit off man"
"Hell yeah, in fact, I'm great! I'm excited to kick some of those brat's asses" I bluffed
"If you say so man, so are you done after getting that fake scar?"
"Yeah, it will look fucking epic"
BA-DUMP BA-DUMP
Haha nerd, looks like time really wants to fuck with us!
BA-DUMP
No! No, No!
BA-DUMP BA-DUMP BA-DUMP
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HAHA! Bitches guess whose home! Not your dad of course but hey, we all can't have a father figure around.
Hope you like your cereal with water though.
Why do you torment everyone?
"Woah, your entire vibe just changed, you sure you good?" Dadi asked
"Course blackie I feel fucking great now that there is one less pussy on the streets," I said with a twisted grin stretching on my face.
"What did you just call me?"
"Blackie, you know like a blacksmith, cuz you work with fire and-" I motioned to the general body front. "That"
"...don't call me that"
"Alright Burnt Chicken Nugget"
"Fuck you"
"Fuck you right back but no homo!"
Anyway, needless to say, I'm hella more awesome than that burnt fuck, so he didn't speak to me anymore. I quickly 'bought' the scars and threw a blanket over the body.
"Bro I think this was a family-owned business, I think you just killed someone's grandma" Dabi commented dryly.
"So? Her time was coming, shouldn't have treated me like I was going to steal them"
"You were"
"My point exactly, I hadn't done anything yet, so you can't do anything because I haven't tried or done anything" I reasoned. "So her price for judging me was death."
"Whatever man"
We quickly returned to the base and set in our disguises. Skylah curled her hair, while I split my hair down the middle, leaving the tips of my hair with less dye. So it started off a dark blood-ish red and slowly shifted into black. Nice. The scar over my eye looked just about healed besides a small part of it that still looked a little raw. All in all, I'd 'buy' from them again.
I gave myself a quick look in the mirror thinking about how badass I looked.
.
Sanity was mine! I wincec at how undeniably evil I looked.
You know, being a hero was never an option for you
I jerked back from the sink. "Shut up..."
Don't act like you don't remember, you know fully well why we don't deserve to be a hero.
"Until you fucking killed her!" I screamed as I slammed my hand into the sink, breaking it, and I stood still as the pipe blew water all over me.
I'm glad I killed that bitch, she made us weak
I grasped both sides of my skull to try and block out that damn voice and the voices of two children making vows. "Shut the fuck up!" I grabbed part of the broken sink off the floor and bashed my skull into it.
You know, I still don't feel pain just as you do.
I gave my head a violent shake as I hissed the words out."Shut the fuck up! They don't know me! They know you! They don't know what I am anymore!"
What is that exactly? I have a feeling I know plenty of what we should be because of what we can do, but they could never understand. They only understand what they fear.
Flashes of old memories filtered through my mind. Broken glass, screaming, "You monster stay away from my children!", crying, bodies hitting the floor, and lastly, "You are no brother of mine, go and die you little demon".
"SHUT UP!" I screamed.
Funny how you are stable one and you show none of that stability now.
"Shut your goddamned mouth"
Your violent reaction to this proves you have nothing without me, you wouldn't have the power you weild if it wasn't for me, you wouldn't have the respect you have if it wasn't for me, I made you something worth having around. Dont forget it.
"Respect? No, you said it yourself, they fear me...and I hate it" I murrmered to myself.
I shut off the water, and expecting to hear more BS from that fucker I 'share' a body with but heard nothing. I sat on the ground until my alter ego finally took control again.
"Alright, we need to speak about the- what happened here?" Kurogiri said as he walked in, stunned by the damage and my dripping form.
"I saw a bug, the fucker was hard to catch" I muttered. "You got anyone with a heat quirk?"
"Well, there is Dabi-"
I cut him off as I walked past him. "Thanks. Sorry about the damages, I had some shit on my mind"
If he had a face, he would have looked stunned, I could hear it in his voice. "Well, it's no problem."
I walked out, "I'd fix it but I don't know handy work."
I kicked my foot against the resident fire user's door. "Oi! Mind doing me a favor really quick?"
He yanked it open. "Depends, what is it?"
"Basically light me on fire until I'm dry"
"Wouldnt that hurt? I can't control the intensity of my flames and I'm pretty sure I'll get in trouble for killing you"
I gave him a stare. "I don't feel pain"
"I get that part, but how about being burned to shreds?"
"Just do it in a way you don't hit me with it directly"
Dabi conjured a small burst of blue fire and blasted it at me, but the fire narrowly dodged me and flew into a portal behind me, courtesy of Kurogiri.
I patted myself down, dry. "Thanks"
"Your arm is on fire" Dabi commented.
I glanced at both of them. "Huh? Strange feeling. I feel a litter warmer but that's it"
I patted out the small blue flames. Noted, fire also doesn't hurt, and it feels warm. Now the cold wont be as much of a bitch, lite myself on fire, put them out and give my sis a hug.
I walked out of the base saying I'll be back in a few and headed over to the nearest hospital.
"Young Dylan?" One of the people at the front desk asked me. "What a surprise, we have a few patients in need right now and have a few surgeries planned."
"I see the word is getting out about me," I said with an awkward chuckle. "Don't mind the getup, some friends and I have some plans that I should be getting to soon so I have to make this quick. You know how teenagers can be"
"Well we are in luck, your quirk is great for these kinds of things," The receptionist said before calling over a few doctors. "This is Dylan, his quick Pain Sponge allows him to help our patients a little and in exchange, we don't tell the quirk officials about his quirk usage"
"So the famous sponge himself shows his face at our humble hospital, Pleasure to meet you I'm Dr. Locker, I originally come from America but I came over to Japan to learn a bit more," One of the main doctors said as he held out his hand.
Ugh, do I have to shake this fuckers hand?
Be nice! It's practically free healing and we can't come here if they don't like us!
Fine. I reached out and shook the man's hand. "Pleasure to meet you Doctor"
"Firm grip, you seem like a fine young man"
Yeah, your mom said the same thing last night when she came over to my bed.
Pfft- don't bring back the whole 'Your mom' thing
"So I'm told" By your sister and daughter, not to mention your wife.
STOP IT! We are far from a 'fine young man'!
"Anyway follow us, that burn on your arm looks pretty nasty"
I was led out to some rooms and first was an elderly man. "This is John Doe"
John doe Deez Nutz!
...stop...that one didn't even make sense.
"He was found beaten and broken outside of the hospital after being mugged, he doesn't know who he is and suffered from some severe lung and joint pain"
"Damn. Sir let me see your hand" I said as I sat next to the guy. He weakly offered his hand.
"Are you here to wisk my soul away to the pits of hell?" He asked as I tried my best to ignore the weird feeling of such a large wrinkly hand in my own.
"Of course not sir, I'm here to relieve you of your pain, even if it is for a little bit."
I channeled my power, but instead of pushing something out, I reached inside of this man and pulled.
"O-oh my!" The man gasped
I felt something flow into my body and it started working in my fingers, which I guess were injured. I did hit them against the wall pretty hard when I tried to hurt my new boss.
"Oh my! I bet this is how I felt when I was 20 years younger!" The man exclaimed
There you have it folks, the second half of my quirk! Pain sponge lets its user take the pain away from others and lets the user heal themselves with the pain of others, and if I wanted I could even heal others at the cost of my body taking in whatever injury or what is causing them pain!
"No problem sir, I try to help," I said with a small bow. I got up."Who is next?"
"Remarkable! I thought the rumors were exaggerated but you are really 100% real!" Dr. Locker said.
"He should be fine for the next couple of hours," I said nonchalantly.
"My boy, have you ever considered joining the medical field?"
"Nah, I would mess that up, the best I can do is offer my quirk to you guys when I'm nearby"
"I see, I bet you want to be a hero!"
I let my eyes darken a bit. "No, not anymore since the accident. When my quirk awakened, it wasn't...pleasant"
"Oh I see, sorry for that, we have a cancer patient next and the Chemo is causing the poor boy some pain." Dr. Locker said looking a bit startled.
The boy was around 8 and had a bald head and several tubes attached to him.
It took a bit of coaxing for him to give me his hand(I shoulda snapped the fuckers hand when he finally passed it over) and I quickly took the pain away from the poor boy. My hands finished healing and it quickly shot over to my skull, also not too unexpected after how violently 'I' smashed it against things. The boy must have been in a lot of pain because the healing actually finished and fixed my skull and skin.
"T-thank you, mister," The boy said with his eyes sparkling, and then he passed out, likely able to sleep peacefully for a change.
"The boy was in a lot of pain so I made sure to dull his pain sensors enough so he shouldn't feel anything for a solid week at least," I said slowly.
I knew you had a heart!
"Thanks to you, he has a chance to survive this week for that treatment," Dr. Locker said with a smile crossing his face. "I'm this boy's doctor and his condition wasn't getting any better, if the Chemo hurt him we couldn't try any surgeries because that would only hurt more. Thank you once again"
"Nice to know, I kinda am still busy so do you mind if we pick up the pace a little? I think I should be able to do about 4 more before I'm pushing my time limit"
"Of course, we have 2 more people with planned surgeries, another cancer patient dealing with some discomfort and one patient that had gotten into a car accident." Dr. Locker said before hurrying me over to several other patients that were annoying as fuck, but as long as I get healed I'm fine.
"You know, I have a daughter around your age-" Dr. Locker started but I cut him off.
"Please sir, I'd like to refaine from taking the pain away from...a woman's cycle" I phased it as the straight laced nerd would.
Hey! I resent that.
"Oh none of the sort, you see she doesn't have many friends since coming from America and I was wondering if you would be nice enough...to show her around a little" he offered, clearly looking a bit uncomfortable.
He is asking some dude to hang with his daughter because she is lonely, of course he cant be professional with this because not only is it weird, its basicly telling you to have free reign with her, he has no idea what kinda guy you are
I chuckled, god I hate that chuckle, "I'll think about it. Maybe I'll show my face around here from time to time to get to know you a little better"
"Oh, of course" THe man said singing with realif, likely happy to find a guy that wouldn't hurt his daughter.
Well, I'd make it hurt like hell, but she might be interesting enough to keep around
You are hopeless, I need to find a way to snatch the body back before we hang out with her.
Hanging? That sounds perfect, let her feel the pain of a rope around her neck before she losses her air supply
I am going to personally throw us off a cliff the second I get the chance.
I gave the man one last wave before heading off, a scowl growing on my face. "I hate people"
So we can agree on one thing.
I growled and glanced at someone that just so happened to walk down the same street as me as I put a nice smile on my face.
"Hello, could I borrow your phone? My friends accidentally gave me the wrong locations for the dress up party and my phone is dead" I said as I scratched my head the steriotypical way people do when they are embarrassed.
"Oh sure man" He said handing me his phone. I dialed the number and called my workplace.
"Hey guys, sorry about calling you from this random number-" I said staying in character before glancing at the guy that gave me the phone. "Do mind stepping away for a moment, something has come up and I don't want anyone extra to overhear."
He nodded and turned around but before he could walk a little further away, I grabbed onto him and activated my quirk far to quickly for his body to process the pain. "Thanks again for your scarfice, shame but I cant have somebody random with the leagues number on his phone"
The body dropped to the ground, mouth foaming.
I dropped my nice guy act. "I walked 5 blocks from the hospital but would prefer it if you just transported me"
"Of course, we are getting ready to leave now, remember our objective, take the boy alive and anyone that gets in your way, you are free to kill" Kurogiri said into the phone
"Of course" I replied as the portal opened in front of me, I glanced at the now darkening sky. "I wouldn't have it any other way"
