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Kiyomizu Shizumeru always liked the rain. It was… calming, natural. Though it was cold as the droplets landed on the exposed skin not contained within her silver sleeveless wetsuit and black open leather jacket, she relished the sensation as the raindrops landed on her skin, pouring down and off her.
-Patta pitta patta pitta pitta pitta patta pitta-
The rain was free, it could go where it pleased, find its way into wherever it wished to go, and make its way through all but the most well sealed areas to eventually find its way to everything.
Kiyomizu pulled her head down from where she stood upon the rooftops of the market district of Hosu City, her soaked short straight light blue hair falling into her vision, only to be brushed away so she could keep her eyes upon a store window down below.
"'Water Work Jewellers'? Well that's a little on the nose."
Kiyomizu went wide eyed and turned quickly on her heels, getting into a defensive position as she came face to face with a brown haired man with gleaming eyes that set the girl on edge. He wore a long black trench coat that covered everything but the calves of his white skin tight pants from view as he kept his hands in his pockets and faced in the exact opposite direction from where Kiyomizu had been staring before.
"Who are you?" She asked with a cold calmness, trying her best to assess whether she should stay or run. He chuckled slightly and turned to her.
"Someone with… a mutual acquaintance." He said cryptically, as he walked towards her slowly, the water beneath his feet splashing around. His grin twisted to somehow become even more unnerving as he stopped just a few inches in front of her. "All that matters is, I'm on your side. Will you join mine?"
"Join your what?" She asked, narrowing his eyes and giving him a once over as she hesitantly dropped her defensive position, turning back to the target she had been watching before.
A jeweller that specialized in working with more commonly available yet still highly valued gems and rings, that were popular enough to generate a high revenue demand but in supply enough they weren't hard to find.
Kiyomizu wore one such ring on her index finger, a souvenir from a similar job she had pulled to the one she was going to pull now.
"Well my side obviously." The trench coat wearing stranger said, as if that explained everything, before chuckling to himself. "Or I suppose, I should say the League of Villain's side."
"The who?" Kiyomizu raised a brow, holding back a snort and resisting the urge to roll her eyes. "What, was 'Super Squad of Evil' taken?"
"I didn't pick the name." The man grunted, shrugging his shoulders. "You can take it up with the brat who did when you meet him later if you come. There's a bar in Kamino Ward, Yokohama City, we'll be waiting. We're collecting up a lot of the thugs from around that area for a mission."
"Oh yeah? And what kind of mission needs you to come out this far to find me? Somehow I doubt this is a coincidence." Kiyomizu asked, narrowing her eyes. The man smirked as he looked back at her.
"A break-in. To U.A. High. One day of planning, in and out, max time frame of, I'm guessing, an hour before we have to leave." He smirked. "Surely that must be enticing to a thief like yourself?"
…..
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"You're kidding me." Kiyomuzi said softly, shaking her head and hitting her ear to make sure the water hadn't gotten too deep in it while she had been enjoying its calming effects on her. "U.A. High? The best guarded school in Japan, with actual pro heroes on staff. That U.A. High? What, next you're gonna tell me you want to fight the Prototype."
"Heh, if I didn't know better, I'd have asked if your quirk was being psychic." The man chuckled, turning to her and it was clear based on his grin he was relishing the shock that must have been obvious on her features. "But that's a whole other story, and much more personal. No, I came to you because I know you have done things few others can do, even myself. For someone with such a… basic quirk, you hold a certain impressive talent. A talent I may personally need when this plan goes down."
"And what's that?" The blue haired thief asked cautiously, still half convinced her ears had deceived her. The man just laughed.
"I'm sure you'll be smart enough to work it out when the time is right." He grinned and turned to her, his trench coat falling open and making Kiyomizu gasp at the white bastardization of the Prototype uniform. "I can't stay for much longer. I need to be back in my cell at Tartarus soon, before they realize it is a hologram in my place. I can only remain out of my cell for so long before they'll realize something is amiss."
'Tartarus...? Who the hell is this guy?!'
"Just think about it." He said as he jumped up onto a water tower, a lightning crash briefly illuminating his sinister form against the backdrop of bright neon lights and dark building silhouettes in the dark, dreary night. "You can stay out and keep knocking over small scale jewellers anyone can plan for, or you can use this chance to break into one of the most secure places in Japan. If U.A. doesn't have something valuable for you to take, then I don't know if you'll ever get a big score you'll appreciate in your life. Yokohama, Kamino. Just ask around for Kurogiri."
With that, he took a running start and leapt away with force, quickly disappearing into the distance as Kiyomizu watched, slowly processing what she'd just been told. She looked down at her hand in thought.
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She looked up to see the rain was clearing before coming to a decision and closing her fist tight, before turning back to the store she had been facing before, turning to its roof.
There she could see the water had built up much deeper than the store had ever been designed for, overflowing onto a fan above the jewellers she had been watching and flooding down inside the shop itself.
With a deep breath and her mind made up, Kiyomizu backed up before running as fast as she could at the edge of the building she had been standing upon and throwing herself off of it, falling spread eagle towards a high speed impact.
Another moment later, and Kiyomizu disappeared from the view of everyone and everything completely.
Pitta Patta Pitta Patta Pitta.
'Srijan… what the fuck have you gotten me into?!' Kiyomizu screeched internally, as she watched in awe of the total clusterfuck the whole operation she'd come here for had turned into.
For one, not once since she'd got here had an actual situation presented itself where she could sneak off, abandon ship and take whatever valuables there might have been hidden on campus due to the insane resistance the students alone had been putting up. Begrudgingly, she was impressed.
She might have actually been taken down by that orange haired girl if she'd been aware of Kiyomizu's presence when she'd been attacking the thugs, yet fortunately in the water zone the thief had been dropped off in with many others had been an ideal place for her particular skills and she'd managed to evade to the mainland and hide.
She should of left then but no, massive what the fuck moment number two had to come up when that All Might killer thing (and god did the wetsuit clad thief not realize she had to sign up for that mess!) had actually been held back by some random green haired girl. A… very familiar green haired girl really, although she hadn't been quite able to place it.
Then All Might himself had shown up and suddenly it was literally only thanks to luck that she'd been able to use her quirk in time to hide before the onslaught had begun and thugs began to drop like flies. With her power, she'd leapt into the remains of the lake in the shipwreck area, her body melting in an instant into the water when she landed and becoming invisible to any who came her way.
But all of it paled to the highlight of the night. Srijan's obsession with the green haired kid once she showed up had been weird… weird enough that despite every part of her being screaming that now was the time to retreat, she found herself remaining instead on the spot she had chosen to conceal herself in, watching what was unfolding.
Something just told her to stay, even past her every instinct screaming she should leave. She watched, right through the orange haired student getting her arms crushed which left her wanting to throw up, to the green haired girl's seeming rage at the event…
Then she saw how she dispatched the All Might Killer and it finally clicked. The power behind her blows, the colour scheme, the tendrils.
It all clicked for where Kiyomizu recognized it all from, and that's when she went from panicking to panicking because SRIJAN WHAT THE FUCK?! THE PROTOTYPE, THE UNSTOPPABLE VIGILANTE, WAS A FIRST YEAR HIGH SCHOOLER?!
The lady thief liked to think she was good at staying composed usually, but that shock had been too much for her and the only thing that kept her from dropping her quirk at that moment was the fact that The Prototype was going off on Srijan and both were coming right towards her!
And then they were fighting inside her and getting blood inside her, gross!
Then finally, she watched as The Prototype pulled the stunt with the boat, that had caused the water Kiyomizu was submerged within to spray out in all directions, and eager to get away from the vigilante and the intense fight, the thief had allowed her conscience to move with the waves as they splashed down much closer to All Might and the two other insane masterminds behind this whole shitshow, all three watching with a mix of awe and disbelief at what was unfolding nearby, before All Might suddenly turned to the villains and began shouting something…
Unfortunately, all Kiyomizu could hear was the rushing of water. It was all she'd ever hear right now, still hidden in plain sight. It was a small relief, yet it was all she could feel as she took stock of her surroundings.
There was no way out on her own… and there was no way to get answers without Srijan if she did make it out of this…
As she ignored the arrival of more students, a raven haired girl running right to the orange haired girl's side and two boys causing more of a hindrance than a help to All Might as they tried to take fighting poses and distracted All Might from taking out the leaders during their grand speech due to needing to defend the influx of students, a plan came to mind.
She just hoped it would work.
"Final boss? Defeated. Secret final boss? Decimated." Izumi said, cracking her neck. "All their power? Mine now. It's over villains, we win."
"You… You brat… How?!" The hand-covered villain shrieked in disbelief as the other students and ALl Might went wide eyed as they saw what was in Izumi's hand as she flipped to the ground and began walking with purpose, holding up the head of Srijan who let out an enraged snarl as she stopped, her foot landing in a puddle.
"Because of the same reason we'll beat you, hands." The vigilante said with conviction, no smile on her face, only a glare that spoke volumes to how she would treat any form of resistance from the two villains. "You and him, you fight for grudges. We're fighting for people's lives. You never stood a chance."
"Uh, Midoriya… is that…" Momo began uneasily, and Izumi spared just a second to smile more comfortingly at the raven haired girl.
"Don't worry, he's alive. He's like me, so I had to isolate him to a single limb and immolate the cells lest he just keep coming back. Trust me, this isn't as bad as it might seem." She did her best to assure, before turning back to the villains. "Now, All Might, what are you waiting for?"
"Right! Now that I know no villains can sneak up on my students, I believe it is time to end this villains!" All Might declared triumphantly as he pulled his foot back. At the same moment, something in the hand covered villain seemed to snap and he suddenly sprinted forward, as the misty villain let out a worried shout.
"No! NO! YOU WERE SUPPOSED TO DIE, ALL MIGHT! NOT CHEAT IN MINI BOSSES! YOU WILL DIE! ALL MIGHT! DIE!"
"TOMURA NO!"
"BRING IT ON, VILLAIN!"
Izumi watched, her free hand turning for her palm to face Shigiraki, ready to bind him to make things just a little easier… and that's when it happened, the world flashed blue as their was a sudden sound of water splashing and she tried to turn, only to find herself only making it halfway before freezing in shock, water splashing over her.
She froze, because another familiar face from her past was inches from her face, making her eyes go wide, scanning every inch of the new arrival to make sure she wasn't seeing things.
"Water Witch?!"
"Midoriya, watch out!" Kirishima yelled worriedly as the surprise villainess grabbed at Izumi's face. Izumi yelped and dodged to the side, before going wide eyed as the hand stopped and the other rapidly shot out, grabbing for Srijan's head and managing to land her hands on .
"No!" She shouted as she quickly tried to throw a punch but inches before it connected, the villainess seemed to melt in an instant before her eyes. Izumi knew better however. 'NO NO NO! WHY NOW OF ALL TIMES?!'
She turned at the last second and quickly scanned the air, noticing several water droplets flying off of her with her enhanced vision, making her snarl and quickly throw a punch as out of one of the droplets came the body of the 'Water Witch', but inches from her blow landed she disappeared again, Srijan's head going with her.
"I'll contain her." A bored voice spoke and Izumi turned quickly to see Todoroki stamping his right foot down.
"NO DON'T!"
But it was too late, the ice was already coming forward and Izumi had no choice but to jump out the way just as Water Witch reformed again, being hit with the ice, it reaching up her body.
Then she grinned and disappeared once more as the ice reached the point where it would have encased her, while the attack curved and tried to encase the purple mist villain, Kurogiri, next, only to miss when he disappeared into a portal in the ground beneath him, another opening up behind Shigaraki.
Kurogiri reached out and grabbed him by his collar, yanking the white haired villain back into the portal as, at the same moment, All Might tried to throw a punch. Water Witch and Srijan took form again within the portal, apparently from where it was covered in ice, landing atop the two other villains.
This unexpected string of events meant that instead of landing his intended blow, all four villains crashed to the ground as All Might destroyed the ice barrier with his punch, allowing Kurogiri to actively make distance between all four by sinking into the portal when the pro's fist retreated.
"I believe we have done enough here." The portal villain coughed, as the mist they were in began to close around them. "Before we must rely on another miracle."
"Thanks for the ice kid!" Water Witch called out at a wide eyed and frozen Todoroki as All Might yelled out in anger, stepping forward only for Izumi to notice smoke beginning to form on his body very slowly. Water Witch took stock of no such thing though as she turned and met Izumi's eye, and Izumi felt her own body freeze at what she saw in the water villainesses eyes.
Recognition.
"On reflection, if you can't even take out a high schooler Srijan, we don't stand a chance against the Prototype." Was the last thing any of them heard, aside from the angry ranting and screaming of Shigiraki, before the portal closed and all went quiet.
The villains were gone for good. It was finally, truly over.