Tenya stared in shock and horror, as Hibiki panted, trembling and tearful in front of him and the other hero, a battered trash can cover in one hand and one of Stain's knives in the other, pointed shakily towards t's owner.
" I don't want to hurt anyone." Hibiki's voice was raspy and cracking, strangled with tears. " But Stain," Tenya watched as she grit her teeth and steadied herself, " I'll die before I let anyone get hurt, on my watch!"
No. no, no, no. He nearly lost her once, he can't loose her now, not today, not to Stain, not again. Tenya's mouth turned dry, his mind went blank with the thought, "Hibiki! What are you thinking!" It took him a moment to realised that he'd been the one who yelled. " Hibiki! Go! RUN AWAY!"
But as he gazed at his longtime friend's silhouette, trembling yet determined, he knew she wouldn't listen.
" Good..." It was Stain. His eyes snapped back towards the murderer, that criminal, " even though you can't fight, huh? That just proves you are worth to keep alive more..." He readied his blade and grinned, " don't fault me for completing my duties."
Then the villain charged.
Hibiki watched as the villain lunged. She can't think as quickly as Midori, nor is she as agile as Akemi or as fast as Tenya. And if there is one thing in the world she knows, it'll be how to take a beating.
Hibiki's pain tolerance isn't something to be joked about, she might act pretty dramatic most of the time, but she can stay quiet. Through the years she'd learned how to dissociate from pain.
It took her a quick moment, but not long to locate it, but cockroaches and rats are all over the place in alleys. And in crisises like these, she knows what to do.
Hibiki is no fighter, but she has quick reflexes, and is light on her feet. She never tested it out, and she hates (and failed) gym, but it'll have to work.
The blade slashed towards her, and Hibiki squawked, dodging to the side while angling her make-shift shield so the blade'd slide off instead of hit it directly. It slid to the side and Hibiki breathed a sigh of relief.
It didn't last long, however. She soon found herself dodging and smacking her trash-can cover around, trying desperately to land a hit. She had no idea how to fight, and knows nothing about what to do with that knife in her hand. The only types of blade she ever held was either scissors, or a scalpel, and at most, a fruit knife but she can't really cook.
She was sloppy, and the man had already landed a few hits on her, but she sent them all to that rat in the corner- poor thing- Hibiki yelped as the sword narrowly missed her and instinctively, she lashed out with a kick aimed dead at his wrist.
It missed and Hibiki slipped, falling onto her back with a grunt. She feels so tired right now that she could barely stand up. Choking back a sob she strained to her feet and raised the knife to defend herself.
" Hibiki-san! Your right!"
Midori's voice startled her, and a sword that came speeding at her hit, splitting open her right arm painfully. It was instantly transferred to the mice in the corner, but the damage was done.
There was blood on the blade. Hibiki's eyes widened. Just as Stain's tounge moved to lick it, her hand lashed out and she did another stupid thing.
She grabbed it.
It was slick and tacky and Hibiki made a face, but it surprised him. So once she got a good grip on it, she yanked down.
He made a strangled noise, and the hero in the corner made a sound almost like he was stifling a laugh. Midori squawked and Tenya yelped. Hibiki, however, quickly grabbed onto the handle of the sword with her blood, and yanked it out and away from his loosened grip, before she tossed it as far as she can, landing the blade somewhere among the pipes above them.
Hibiki turned around, raising her dagger again to defend herself, but she is tired. She is not a trained individual, and Hibiki knew she only got so far because Stain had been going easy on her, he'd been toying with her. And yelping as the flat of a sword smacked her and sent her flying into a wall.
" You're good." She looked back up shakily towards her attacker, nolonger have the strength to stand up, " for someone who had no training at all, of course... Pretty creative." He turned, and began to make his way towards Tenya, and Hibiki is having none of that.
"No!" She screeched, lunging out with all the strength and grabbing onto the man's ankle, dragging him back with all her strength. " I won't let you kill him. I won't let you or anyone hurt anyone else!" The knife is still in her hand, she felt an urge to stab the thing right through his ankle but she couldn't do it. She can't. She can't hurt anyone, not even him. He is still a person and no one deserves to bleed. Not even villains, not even Stain.
"Get off me, girl." His voice send shivers down her spine, " I said, get off!"
Hibiki squeezed her eyes close, sure that she is going to die. But then a jet of heat and light shot out and she recoiled, as the Hero Killer leapt away from her, Tenya, and the other hero.
" Seriously... If I knew about the situation I would've dragged Akemi with me."
Hibiki's head snapped upwards, barely able to believe her own tearful eyes.
"You're here--"
" To-Todoroki-kun, you too?"
The unmistakable figure of Todoroki Shouto stood at the mouth of the alley, his left side alight with fire as he glared at the Hero Killer unwaveringly, to their rescue.
"You nearly made me late."
"To-Todo?!" At the rather unexpected female voice Shouto glanced to the side, where against the wall, next to a pile of garbage, sat Ueno, slumped and tired, with one of Stain's blades and a trash can lid in her hands, almost like a shield.
" Ueno?" He blinked, but shook his head and focused on the task on hand. He have to get the injured away from the villain. Freezing the ground and carefully raising them up with ice, he shot out a jet of flames to drive Stain back, in the same time, melted the ice near the top and crafted it into a slide, letting those four to slide safely away from the villain.
The pro, Midoriya and Iida seems to be paralyzed, and Ueno look about as tired as having ran a matheron, but despite that, she stood up and backed away, with the knife ready in her hand.
" Don't let him cut you, Todo," he turned slightly as Ueno spoke, a little strained, " he need to ingest your blood to paralyze you. If you do get cut I'll ensure that you don't spill any blood but—"
Before she could finish the sentence, a dagger whitzed past and slashed his cheek, and Shouto cursed. In a flash, the villain was across the distance and had his tounge flicked out to catch the blood on his cheek.
But before he could light himself on fire or Stain can catch the blood, Ueno pulled an Akemi and slammed the trash can lid dead in the villain's face, sending him stumbling backwards.
" I can't really fight." Ueno growled, for the first time he's ever heard her, she sounded genuinely furious, " but I can pull a pretty hard bitch-slap when the time calls it."
Stain shook it off, and was back in action quickly, Shouto raised a pillar of ice, blocking his blade and he felt a tingling. Ueno had backed away and had her knife tucked away in the jacket tied at her hip, the trash can lid now slipped up her forearm leaving both her hands free. He raised another glacier of ice, forcing Stain back with a jet of flames, keeping his distance.
"Stop it..." He faintly registered Iida's voice from behind him, " why are you here... Stop this! He hurted my brother... He nearly killed him and Hibiki..." Ueno seemed to have gasped at this point, but he wasn't sure, " this guy is mine...!"
"Shut up, Tenya!" Ueno's voice came yelling, screeching at the top of her lunges. " I healed your brother because I wanted to, and nothing else! Even if it is this person's fault, what right does it give you to kill him?!"
It's weird, that almost sounded like something he wanted to say, or Akemi would say. And Shouto found himself adding in his own part.
"I won't claim to know you better than anyone else here." He spoke, as he slammed a hand onto the ground, using his ice to build multiple walls, blocking the Hero Killer's vision. " But suppressing your feelings inside and being blinded by them is dangerous, and that I know better than anyone else, so stop having that look on your face!"
In a flurry of cuts, the villain had forced his way through all the ice, and had leapt up to gain higher ground. " Blocking the vision of someone faster than you, huh?" Shouto readied himself against any surprise attacks, only to grunt in pain and surprise as a pair of flying knives dug into his forearm, sinking quite deep. " As expected from a Todoroki!"
Shouto backed away, only to link in surprise as the knives in his forearm seem to have ejected itself and the wound was gone in an instant. Behind him, Ueno let out a grunt of pain. And the day Akemi rushed out of the classroom with Iida in tow came back to mind, and so did Ueno's quirk.
Dammit, Ueno, Akemi really isn't joking about you, is she?
" Perhaps killing you would knock some sense into your father!" His attention snapped back towards Stain, whose sword was raised high up in the air, aimed dead towards him, only for a blur of green to shoot out and grabbed the villain, and crackling with green lightning without any golden light, Midoriya dragged Stain along the wall of the alley, and away from them.
" Midori-"
"Midoriya?!"
"The paralysis wore off!" Came his reply, as he tossed the villain down the alley and Ito a pile of trash.
" A time limit?" He mused, frowning, but the hero behind him spoke up.
"No, he got me first and I still can't move." He grunted, " Hey, Kid! Get back!"
Shouto focus back onto Stain, and just as Midoriya got out of the way, he shot out a pillar of ice, forcing the villain away.
Behind him, Ueno stepped forwards and tapped Midoriya's shoulder, the glow in her hand doubling it's luminescence. " I never tried it with two person at once... But it should work." She mumbled, " I'll take care of all the injuries, okay?"
"Hibiki-san..."
" Ueno..." His eyes shot downwards towards her arm, her shoulder seems to be injured, and her forearm is still bleeding quite heavily despite it gradually stitching back together. But the speed seems to be slowing down with every second passed.
"I-I'll be fine." she forced out a grin, before turning serious. " As for his quirk, it most probably works on blood type, you two are O-types, and the effects wears off the quickest. As for B, AB, and A, I have no idea, but Tenya and the hero probably won't get free until a minute or two later."
Shouto nodded, " he is fast, and quite strong too... I wanted to get you all away from here as fast as possible and leave the rest to the pros, but..." He glanced towards Midoriya, and Ueno, who just adjusted the makeshift shield on her arm and gulped, still trembling. "I told Akemi and Endeavour about the message, so the pros would get here soon, and even if they don't, Akemi's quirk should be more than enough to deal with him. As for now, we should stall untill they get here."
Midoriya nodded in agreement, "Hibiki-san, I hate to ask you this but you'll have to keep our injuries in check." The girl seemed to start, but nodded otherwise. "Todoroki-kun, you can cover the long range attacts while I'll get in close. Hibiki-san, I know you cant fight but keep an eye out for us just in case, okay? We can do this."
The villain's expression turned sour at the mention of reinforcement, and readied his blade. To his side Midoriya lit up with the green lightning without the gold, and Ueno's entire hands lit up not blue, but white, standing shackily at his side.
It's up to them now.
Together, they can protect them.
Current Poll Results~ (from both the poll and the reviews)
Akemi's paring:
Todoroki Shouto: 12
Midoriya Izuku: 1
Iida Tenya: 2
Seiba Hiroi: 0
Ueno Hibiki: 3
Bakugou Katsuki: 3
Iida Tensei: 1
Others (Please state in review!)
Hibiki's pairing:
Todoroki Shouto: 0
Midoriya Izuku: 0
Iida Tenya: 4
Seiba Hiroi: 0
Kimura Akemi: 3
Shinsou Hitoshi: 5
Others (Please state in review!)
I'm horrible. I know.
I promise the next will be the last chapter of the fight, not the incident, the fight. Okay? I won't torture you all Ike this any longer. ( Note, like this. I love angst.)
And awww... While I'm writing this Chubby ( my cat) is sleeping on the chair next to mine... She looks like a fluffy bangle...
Well, lucky I check my Gmail, something is a little wrong with the app and guest reviews shows up on the app a lot later, I nearly missed it! And let's move onto the replies!
To you don't knowme: Yeah, I'm talking about the coronavirus. I know it's serious and people are dying back in the mainland, but where I live it's still not severe enough to freak out, which is what everyone in the city decided to do. I think I just saw someone carry home several dozen rolls of toilet paper claiming that they need to 'stock up'. What are they, idiots?
To darkpaladin89: I don't think Hibiki is insane, she's just self sacrificimg enough to give our resident Green bean a run for his money.
~Bubbles
