Chapter 3: Saddle Up!
4 years ago
Feeling ready to leave it all behind, Ryu places wooden furniture all over the house. He was feeling resentment as he did, feeling as if everyone in the world saw him as dirt. He took out all money that he had to survive with for as long as he can and rushed out to the front door. Once he did, he let out his white flames and aimed for the wooden furniture placed all over the house to make the burning go faster.
'Sorry, Sokudo. You shouldn't have left me.' He thought to himself as he walked away from the fire. Sometime later, he found himself in an empty alley, with only his jacket and shorts to call clothes. He was now homeless. He had no one to care for and no one to care for him. He was all alone. He passed by people that were looking at him as if he was a villain. He was feeling their stares and went along faster.
The days turned into years for him. Ryu felt the heat on him now. His clothes weren't even clothes. It looked like he made a shirt out of potato sacks. Some of the holes were sown in. His money wasn't looking good. Going to a nearby hotdog stand, he bought a cheap hotdog on a stick for 20 yen. As he was receiving his order, he was getting whispers and sharp eyes on him. He was dropping a cold sweat when he heard their whispers from miles away.
"Who's that? He looks ugly." "Is he a villain? Could someone get this creep out of the streets?" When he did, the vendor also heard their cold judgments upon Ryu. He looks around and the crowd goes back to passing by. His eyes go back to Ryu and he looks back at the vendor. "Don't mind them, laddie. They're ghosts compared to people like us." The vendor says and Ryu gapes at him as he gives Ryu his hotdog. He nods at the vendor and heads off to his alley.
He ate a chunk of the hotdog as he went in deeper into the alley. Behind a dumpster was a hole in the wall that he had covered with the dumpster, leading into an abandoned basement of an abandoned hotel. There weren't any other windows except for a broken window showing people walking by the streets. There was a couch with a hole on the other side and its cushions flat. Some of the springs were not even holding him up so he'd rather sit and eat his hotdog on the floor.
He realized that he didn't have any light in his abode so he went outside to find cans to make candles out of them. He dragged the dumpster out of the way and went out for a stroll in the alleyways of Kamino. He collected cans at the deepest part of the alley and later, he hears laughter. Being the curious lizard, he goes toward it. Once he was there, he hid behind a dumpster and peeps to the side as he scopes out the scene.
"HAhaha! It's hopeless woman! Just give us the bag!" "No! Help!" He hesitated and hid behind the dumpster, fearing for his life. He was feeling all sorts of things, including guilt. As he heard the woman squeal and scream, the gang took everything, and he felt like he could not stop them. But he had to. 'You weak piece of shit! How many more have to die because of you! You could not save your mother. Your father. Your uncle/stepfather! Help her!' With these thoughts in his head, his mind went blank.
He then heard a gunshot. He hears out the gangsters' footsteps and they were leaving. He went out of the dumpster and walked down the alley to see who had been shot. It was the woman. Her eyes looked like they were pleading for mercy. He was tearing out from his eyes, knowing that he did nothing to help. The guilt destroyed him. He could not take it, and it was all the gangsters' fault. His niceness disappeared now that he realized that the gangsters' would do this for fun. He turned into a dark entity and went into darkness.
He goes to the dumpster, picks up his cans and walks away. He then hears whimpers coming from behind him. "H-help… Me." He stops in his tracks and looks behind him. "Help.." It was the woman. She was still alive. But she is dying. There was no time to waste. He treds back to the woman and helps her up. Her arms go around his neck and his right arm goes around her back to support her. He looks around the alley to see which way had the nearest exit. To his right was the street going toward a hospital. They went toward the exit and was on the street. He headed to his right and the woman limped as she was bleeding out. Ryu saw this as a sign to go faster.
Both of them went through the sliding doors, and the nurses rushed toward them to help the woman. The woman was on a stroller, unconscious and barely living. Ryu knew that she was in good hands. He walked away with his cans, feeling a little bit better that he helped the woman.
As the nurses helped her out, one of them turns back to thank Ryu, only to find that he had gone back to his hole in the alley, and they go back to giving aide to the bleeding woman. Ryu drags out the dumpster out of the way and went in his hole. But not without covering it again with the dumpster. 'This is what my life is now.'
The Present: 2:34 AM
Kabe and Peter walk down a hallway in Giran's skyscraper, preparing to begin the search for Ryu. They walk toward the meeting room to discuss plans. "Your teammates, are you sure that they are reliable?" Kabe asks as he readies up gloves. Peter just takes on armor that Is dyed as white. His torso armor looks like a SWAT's but white. "Yes, they'll fit the boot. Besides, You are here to make sure that there aren't any mess-us, right suitcase?" Peter assures and teases and Kabe just shrugs it off. His outfit was onlt a grey suit, but nothing ordinary. His suit is fitted with armor inside the thread, so he has an almost bulletproof suit. He has white gloves on his hands and he shoves them in his pockets. "I'm only to supervise. If there is trouble, I'll step in." Kabe explains and Peter readies his gun then puts it into his holster. He grabs the doorknob and smirks at Kabe. "Well, welcome to the team." He says and opens the door to let Kabe through.
3:45 AM in Japan/ 4:45 PM in America
The streets of Chicago seemed safe. People passing by, cars as well. Smiles along the street and the hotdog vendors having fun with their customers. She thought that there would be criminals that would hit the Central Park today. She was just glancing at the ordinary good times now that there wasn't anything going on in her city.
When she hears sirens, Her diamonds float in the air, and usually someone would be hurt. She didn't like that, so she would put a stop to it. Gangs, corrupt police, even entire organizations, she brought down to ruin. She had grown tired of it. So she aimed to let the trouble look for her.
In the cold breezy night, she sits in a bench, looking at the night sky, the lamps that pattern the park she was in, and the . She breathes in the cold air and exhales out. She feels vibration from her pocket , and it seemed that her favorite nephew was calling her cellphone. She takes it and places it beside her ear. "Hi, Connor. What's up?" "Aunt Alice, there's a letter here for you."
"Alright. I'll be there in a few." She says and she stands up from her bench and heads to her diamond cycle. She gets on and revs the cycle and speeds off toward her house. The lights look like she is speeding around the city like her partner does. Every time she gets on her cycle, she would remember the crimes she stopped with her partner, Sokudo, and how he always got her back in those situations. She remembers how he would save her and how she would save him. How he had filled the hole in her life, and how he excited her. When he left for Japan to nurse Ryu, that hole had returned. She didn't feel motivated everytime she would take down criminals. It felt too easy for her now that Sokudo was gone.
She furrowed her brows and keeps on speeding to her house. She arrives in the suburbs, away from the city, and stops in front of her house. She walked up to the porch and to the door and knocks. Her nephew lets down his phone at the table with the info that his aunt needed to see and opens the door. "Hi Connor. What is it?" Connor goes back to give her the info that she needed to see, about Sokudo. She glances at it and sees his name on the front. She grabs it and reads the web page.
'The Speedster Hero has gone missing! He went to the police and tells them to wait. He speeds in and the police hear nothing. Until an explosion develops. Police go in and see only hostages. The hero and the criminals are nowhere to be seen. ' The webpage said. Alice can only gape and know. 'No way. Am I dead? He… lost? To a mere group of villains?' She thinks to herself. "Aunt Alice? Are you OK?" Her nephew starts worrying and she looks at him with tears. She sniffs and continues reading. Out loud. "This was all because of his personality, some would say. Documented by Tsukuachi."
She gapes at it some more and starts thinking. She gets an idea and she walks toward the computer to schedule flights going to Japan. "Aunt Alice? What's going on?" Connor starts to worry again. He could not stand her crying. Alice looks at her nephew's eyes but with glad tidings. Connor Smith-Sanders was taken aback by this and Alice grabs Connor's shoulders. "How would you like to go on a trip?" Connor just smiles crooked one, confused. His eyes widen at this request then she remembers something. "Uhhmmm is it fine with my parents?" Alice just motions her hand and says "Pfft they're off on a mission anyway. They'll be fine. Now, we must pack." Alice storms up to her room to prepare.
Connor is just dumbfounded by the attitude that his aunt showed to him just now. He just goes to her room to prepare too. Alice packs in everything from her closet. She scopes out her clothes and stops on her costume. The memories about her crime-fighting days rushed into her head. Her mind goes blank and focuses on that one memory, where someone died because of her. Her lateness.
It was midday, and some people without powers, or Quirkless people were ransacking the burning city of Arizona. Two teenagers had been taken hostage and the taker was a man with white armor. He had guns pointed at them to ensure his escape. The children were tied up at the back of the van, and Sokudo was taking care of the fire in Arizona. She was onto them on her cycle as she sped off to catch the hostages.
The van was growing near to the airport, and she had to catch the hitman. She continued to speed up and she veers from vehicles in her way. They eventually made it to a freeway with little traffic. The hitman sees the chaser and speed up too. "Hey Oshido! Where are you? This biker chick's hot, and I mean hot!" He tells to the sniper on the phone. The sniper was on a rooftop of a building in the airport, 25 miles from the freeway. His green scope eyes zoom in on Alice, and he's got her on his sights. He takes the shot and the bullet rockets toward Alice's helmet, and it just misses by mere millimeters. Alice notices and looks to her eleven o'clock. She floated on of her diamonds to her front and expands it to a size of a shield. She speeds up to hurry the pace.
'Dammit!' Oshido sneers and moves to get a better angle. "Pete! I couldn't hit her. She's coming your way." Pete looks at the side mirrors and sees her catching up. "So hot." He jeers right to get her to back off. She does and goes to the right to confront the hitman. Pete looks to the right to see her turn up on the window. One of her diamonds float down to her hand and expands into a blade.
The walkie talkie started to go out of range, and Pete smirks at Alice before he poofs out of the van. Alice grunts and tries to stop the van. She floats four diamonds from her battle crown and plants them into the front wheels. The van skids drastically, and crashed into a divider of the freeway. Alice slows down at the back of the van and uses one of her diamonds. She waves it toward the entrance to open it. The pins/locks fall down and she calls back the five diamonds back to her head. Her battle crown floats back down into her golden hair. She opened the doors, only to see the teenagers chests shot, and bleeding. She falls to the ground and screams out her pain.
She didn't like that memory. Not one bit. Her hand hovers over her costume before closing the closet door, leaving her costume. She placed the tickets on the plane leaving Chicago on the next day. She went over to her nephew's room to see how he was doing. She knocks on his door and she waits on his doorstep.
"Connor… hon… I just wanted to let you know that we're leaving tomorrow at 3 am in the morning. Try to get some sleep ok?" She waits for her nephew's reply but gets nothing. She decided she had enough silence and takes a peek inside to see how he was doing.. She only sees him on his bed, snoring and at the foot of his bed, was his luggage all packed up. His room was a mess with some of his clothes on the floor, but he did prepare for tomorrow. Alice smiles at his nephew's form and closes the door to let him sleep.
5 AM in Japan
Ryu walks in the dark sewer, finding his way back to the Tatooin Station, to snuff out any gang that hides in the alleys, in the small pockets of the underworld. He smells out smoke coming from the train near the manhole he came in from. Water drips down onto the river beside the pathway. He did not dare to swim in it. He motions around to feel the ladder. His left bumps into one of the bars of the ladder. He grabs hold of the ladder and sets his foot on the bar to climb.
He sniffs out the alley if there are any scents that seem familiar. He finds none. 'Good so far.' He stops in his tracks and feels around his shirt. Going past his necklace with the yellow diamond ring, his shirt had holes around the back, and his hood tore from the shirt a bit. The shirt was getting into a crispy feel to his fingers, or claws. He really had to get a job.
Going up with maximum effort, he climbs up ready to become the vigilante he had seen himself as. He carefully takes off the lid, making sure that no one around the alley would hear. He climbs up the ladder and pops his head out and into the alley. He looks at his front and back to see if anyone was in the alley. There was no one there, nothing from smell and sight. He climbs onto the pavement and closes the lid on the manhole. He scratched a portion of the wall to know that he made it to his escape from the city.
By the time he emerges from the sewers, He covers the lid and heads toward the street to make his daily patrol. Just about he was about to step on the street, he realized that he needed to cover his face. He backed up to search for something to conceal his face.
After what had seemed to be hours of searching, he found some punks cornering some family. He leans left to get a better look at the situation, and the clothes that the punk was wearing. A father, mother and a son. The punk had a black leather jacket and shorts that looked like they had been used up, but was deemed sufficient. He comes closer to intrude on the punk. The punk had been waving around an assault rifle at them.
"Give me your wallets! Come on! I ain't got all day!" The punk shouted with the family cornered. The mother was holding her son's head and the father was shuddering in fear, ready to give up his wallet and was already racking his pocket for his wallet. Ryu taps his fingers on his shoulders and the punk looked at his eyes before getting clocked in the face and knocked out cold. The family gapes at this and Ryu just says one word. "Go." The family runs off toward the street.
Ryu looks at them as they run to the street and looks back to the punk's clothing to take them off of him. He starts with the jacket, then his shirt, and at last the black shorts. He was wearing black all over, and he liked it. And then the actual thing he had been looking for. He wraps it on his face and adjusts his jacket and shorts. He growls and grumbles as he zipped it on. 'Nice. Very nice.' Ryu thought as he felt around the jacket to get comfortable. He especially liked his new face with a black hector tic face mask strapped around his face. "Nice."He grumbles as he steps out of the alley and into the streets to scour the Kamino branch for punks and food.
The sun had been about to reach midday, and Ryu was just walking around under the sun in the alleys of Kamino took off his facemask and placed it in his pocket. As he went deeper into the alley and nearer to the Kamino Branch Center, he walked along the sidewalk towards the center. As he was, he heard loud speakers saying something of a charity line. 'Charity? Strange for people to be helping homeless.' He thought to himself. Emerging from the alleys and into town square, he shoves his hands into his shredded pockets and gets to the crowd watching the do-gooder hand out goods.
"Take one basket and pass it on! We've got plenty of food and supplies here! If you wish, you can eat here at our round tables behind the stage and into the mall!" The girl onstage boomed her voice into her microphone leading to the speakers behind her on each side of the stage. Baskets with greens and meats on the tables beside the stage with water bottles at the far end. The girl on stage had long blonde hair that she had tied into a ponytail at the back of her head. She wore a white sweater and a skirt
"Again, these baskets of supplies and food are for everyone in Kamino, and are free. This giveaway event is for the homeless people of Kamino, so if you know any who are disadvantaged, give these to them. It really helps. If you aim to eat here, we have the Cooking Hero inside the mall, ready to provide for you."
As the speaker went on and rambled about the event for the good of the community, Ryu had set his eyes on food. His spit was practically dropping down to the floor. He maintains his scowl as he went to the baskets to see if it had anything he liked. It did.
The speaker was done talking and she went down the stairs and saw Ryu. He saw her too and exchanged looks as Ryu went off the premises and headed back to the alley to eat all of his loot. As he was just about to get past the barriers, he feels a tap on his shoulder. He turns around and looks at the speaker's eyes.
They gape at each other and she squints to familiarize with him. He sways his head to the side, showing only a side view to her and is feeling weirded out by her. "You look like someone I know. Did you come to one of these events?" She said and Ryu looks around holding the baskets on his left. He shakes his head and she takes out her cellphone and takes a selfie with him. Ryu looks into the camera and tries to smile. With his bare teeth for a mouth, he faces to the camera. Once the pictures were taken, she shoves it back in her pocket and offers her hand.
"Thanks for the picture, man." She says and smiles at Ryu gapes at her with a pinkish feeling. He looks down at her hand and shakes it. She can feel his rough scales on his hand and the sharp tips of his claws. Her eyes then turn behind her and to the mall. Ryu takes that as a chance to leave. The girl looks back to look at Ryu but is nowhere to be seen. She goes inside the mall to see preparations for the food.
'That was nice of her to give this food for free.' Ryu thought about that and he tredges along to the alley with his food. Meanwhile in the Kamino district, in the suburbs near the ends of the city, Ken Takagi along with Ejiro Kirishima and Tamaki are in a car towards the burnt house of Satoshi Sokudo. The car speed up and jumps from hitting a little speedbump, and the three heroes jump with it and land hard on their butts and grunt. "Gaahh" Kirishima rubs his butt and the other two shrug it off. Kirishima goes back to looking at the scenery.
The three see the abandoned residence up the road, and their faces just gain worry, and their brows raise up. Ken slows the car down in front of the house and in front of the burnt hedge. They step out of the car and gape at the remains of the house. The columns were gone, the roof was partly gone with its rear tilted downwards to the floor, the rear part of the house still standing, all windows broken, and a small tree with vines growing around supporting the roof, or what's left of it.
Lock Rock sighs out with frustration. Kirishima looks around the house and climbs up a rickety staircase leading to a bedroom. He feels the floor creaking. Kirishima stumbles a bit, feeling as if the 2nd floor will fall. Kirishima takes his footsteps lightly as he goes to the bedroom. Tamaki walks up the staircase, slow and steady-like. "Whoever burned the house must have done it years ago. And it feels a little unstable. Be careful, Kirishima." Tamaki warns and he just puts out a thumbs-up as he sneaks into the master bedroom.
Kirishima reaches the door and Tamaki follows suit. They look at each other before Kirishima knocks down the door with his fist. Kirishima enters first and then Tamaki. They look around the room and surprising enough, there had been a hole in the wall, overlooking the living room, or what used to be the living room, and the tree supporting the house from falling to pieces. Tamaki backs up from the height and bumps into the burnt bed. 'Even the bed had been burnt.'
Kirishima opens up the bedside table's drawers and sees only clothing, but it had not been washed for years. He scrunches up his nose before putting it back in. Ken Takagi walks around the bottom floor, and into the kitchen. He sees that not even the kitchen was saved from the fire. The sink had plates that were broken and burnt. The table was turned to the side and the chairs had been burned. Ken walked to the sink to reach the broken cupboard above it. He only saw china that had some of its pieces chipped off. Ken ponders about the house. Itself. 'Hmmm why do I get the feeling that this wasn't by accident.'
Tamaki and Kirishima searched the entire bedroom and found nothing. Straight from the bedroom was only a dark room with cleaning supplies, clothing detergent and some rags for cleaning the house. They get out of the room with their hands in their packets and Kirishima groans feeling disappointed that they found nothing but a box of two carbon base black gloves covered with dust along with diamond tipped retractable claws with their mouth's lips dipped with silver. Kirishima carried the box as they went out of the room.
"Gahhh! We didn't find anything in Sokudo's room! What are we gonna do now?" He complained as he carried the box. "Don't worry. We got those gloves. I'd count those as evidence." Tamaki explained as they went down the staircase. Kirishima sees that his decision was the right choice. He just nods to that and goes down the staircase. Then suddenly, there was the sound of wood planks breaking and snapping. They gasp and rush down the stairs to see what had happened. They saw Ken Takagi holding onto dear life. He tries to grasp and hold on the wooden floor, but the wood was too weak and charred, and his fingers were starting to slip. Tamaki rushes to help Ken up. He grabs his back and takes his arm around him.
"You alright, Ken?" "I just slipped into the hole." After reassurance, the three heroes look down into the hole. It had a steel ladder going down. Kirishima takes a plastic cup out of the cupboard and drops it into the hole. They wait for the sound of the cup hitting the ground. It came after 3 seconds. "Well… who's going first?"
12 PM in Japan
In a subway, Peter and his second, Takumi Oshido along with Kabe tread out of their hidey-hole and onto the train tracks. The sounds of their footsteps was like they were stepping on gravel as they made their way to their single locomotive, with one of their guys assigned to meet them there. Peter was only chewing gum in his mouth, with a sword sheathed on his belt-side and wearing his signature white armor underneath a thin coal trench coat to conceal his armor. Kabe has a light grey suit on with a red tie, fitted with Kevlar underneath the threading. He adjusts his glasses as he stared off at the distance for the locomotive. Oshido sat down and started to load and cock his sniper rifle. He was wearing white armor too, configured to be lightweight.
"Peter, how long until your men are here with our locomotive?" Kabe pries and Peter takes out a cracker to eat on it. He looks at Kabe with carefree eyes and Kabe scowls at Peter and Oshido sees the tension and ties his sniper rifle around his back with a makeshift rope. "Relax, suitcase. They can get the locomotive here." Peter assures and Kabe grunts angrily. Takumi stands and walks ahead to see if the locomotive is coming close. His Quirk is 'Scope', he can adjust his sights to far distances. He sees the locomotive come up and he whistles for Peter's attention. Peter looks behind Kabe and smiles when he sees Takumi walking back and the locomotive coming. "Well, we don't disappoint." Peter says and the locomotive stops in front of them.
Suddenly, bangs can be heard on the other side of an unused door behind the mercs' locomotive. It was Tamaki, Ken and Kirishima. "It's just a-." "Shhh! Take a look, up ahead." Ken shushes Kirishima and they see Peter and Kabe getting in the locomotive. The driver turns his seat toward them and he adjusts his bean hat. "The police station's too busy finding the rat. They'll know within a month, but they won't know it was us." Stele says and Peter takes another cracker and eats one more. Takumi gets on last and closes the doors of the locomotive. "They look like they're going somewhere." Kirishima points out and Ken readies up to grab on the locomotive. "Don't Ken. We've got to notify Detective Tsukuachi about our location." "We're underground, Tamaki. These tunnels go underground in the entire city of Musutafu. It'll be useless to get our exact location." Ken advises and Tamaki goes with his plan to get on the locomotive.
"Stele, how long until they suspect this car's missing?" Peter asks and Stele ponders to estimate his question's answer. "Mmmm maybe about a week?" Stele says and Peter smiles with that. "We'll be out of this city by then." Takumi points out and Peter rejoices. "Now, let's go!" Peter orders and Stele pushes the lever to get the locomotive going.
The three heroes behind the locomotive start to see it moving. They start to step out of the wall and chase after the locomotive. The locomotive's speed was building up, and they had little endurance left in them. Kirishima stumbles and falls and picks himself up to catch up with them. The three heroes were catching up with the locomotive. The locomotive was coming out of the tunnel and deeper into the subway. Ken sprints toward the locomotive, then trips and falls. Tamaki slows down to aide him. Ken lifts himself up on his knees and stands up.
"You alright, Ken?" "Yeah… I'm fine." They conversed as they watched the locomotive leave their sights. Kirishima skidded on the tracks as he ran past the two heroes. He tried to see if he could catch up to the car, but deemed it improbable. He looks back to the two. "What now?" Tamaki and Ken look down to the tracks and started to turn back. Kirishima rushed back to them and went to Tamaki's side. "Tamaki… What now?" "We'll contact the police station at Kush to help us out." Tamaki said as they walked in a rush back to the hallway under Sokudo's house.
Meanwhile, Ryu was walking on the streets and in the crowds near the Tatooin Station to haul his basket back to his trench. Suddenly, he bumps into a girl with white hair. Ryu looks at the girl and just dusts off his jacket. His basket fell on the ground. The girl fell on her rear and she hisses at the slight pain she has. Ryu naturally helps her up on her feet.
He shows his hand in front of her, and she naturally takes it. Then Ryu smells a familiar smell around the girl. Like the girl that she met in the warehouse… the girl he saved. His eyes widen at her familiar smell and their eyes meet. Her plain blue eyes with his shiny yellow irises. Their hands still holding onto each other's. "You!" Ikari exclaimed and they swipe their hands off in unison. The red on her face quickly diminished once she recognized his face. Ryu turns around to pick his basket back up and walks to the alley.
"Wait!" Ikari exclaims and nabs on Ryu's sleeves. Ryu looks at her to see her panting in her worn out clothing. 'Spit it out so I can leave.' He thinks to himself and Ikari's eyes shoot up to look at his. Ryu's scowl deepens and Ikari's stutter starts to kick in. "T-Thanks for the help back then… When you saved me from that guy…" Ikari thanks him and Ryu just nods at her and Ikari is relieved that he isn't angry at him, but he is becoming annoyed and she senses it in his mind.
Ryu swishes his arm away from her grasp and walks away with his basket. 'That was awkward.' He thinks to himself. Ikari pats her hands on her laps and starts to follow Ryu. Little context about her. She's homeless too, but worse. She was born into poverty, and no education except on how to talk. Other than that, she's stupid. Moving on. She starts to sneak behind him. Ryu sniffs her scent out, but doesn't look or notice out of annoyance and just growls out the anger as he walks through the alleys to his hidey-hole. Ikari scurries behind a dumpster to listen to his thoughts.
'She's only looking for attention. Do not look.' Ikari steps out of the dumpster and glares at him. "That's offensive." Ryu stops in his tracks and realizes her Quirk. His eyes are wide and his head turns slightly to hear her out. She could see that he became interested with her Quirk. 'You could hear my thoughts?' Ikari crosses her arms and smirks to show off. "My Quirk. I'm guessing yours is Dragonbreath?" 'Somewhere along those lines.' He says, or thinks in his thoughts, as he turned around to his side to show his right. He looks at her again and scowls. He points at her and she tilts her head slightly.
'You will be my voice. You will follow where I go. And I won't wait for you.' He sends her and her brows furrow and her eyes lose their spark. "And what do I get in return?" 'Food for saturation.' "Deal." Ikari says quickly, taking his offer. Suddenly, Ryu gently grabbed her arm and started to drag her through the alleyway and ahead. Ryu stops at the edge of the alley, and he looks to his left and right befor going into the crowd. Ikari squirms out of his grasp and Ryu continues to walk toward the alley of interest. Ikari rushes to his side with people looking at them.
Ikari gains stage fright and lets out a squeak. She grabs Ryu's wrist out of fear and nervousness. Ryu only glances to his left and growls at the tough crowd, making them to mind their own business. Ikari sighs out in relief. She had a sweat drop coming down her brow. Ryu senses this and sends her thoughts. 'Do not mind them. They are ghosts on the streets.' Ikari hears this and looks at Ryu with surprise and sparkles. She grew curious about how he had lived all this time. The stoplight had grown red and they walk to the other side.
Ikari is still holding onto his wrist and stuck on his shoulder, looking all around. Ryu just kept his eyes ahead and tried to block out his thoughts so she wouldn't know what he was thinking. Though he was thinking that he should leave her, she could be beneficial to him, in terms of talking.
They enter the alley beside the station in Tattoin and walk through it. Ikari went on and let go of his wrist as they passed two trash cans. "Where to now?" Ikari stands there and Ryu reaches down for the lid and drags it out of the way. Ryu looks at Ikari and she furrows her brows and motions her hands to say no. "Ohhh nonono. I'd like to stay to stay up here, thanks." Ikari backs up slowly and Ryu looks at her, with basket in hand and raises it up.
She sees it and she lifts her arms at its direction and her mouth draws open. Ryu chuckles and throws the basket down the hole. Her face went blank. Her mouth still open. Ryu jumps in and Ikari stands there frozen. "*sigh* Come on Ikari. You're stinky anyways." She grabs the lid and drags it toward the hole and as she goes in, she slides the lid to close on the hole and she starts heading down the ladder. Back at the Kamino Center Mall, I am calling it a center mall now. The blond girl is stockpiling on goods in the mall and she rallies three truck to get to the mall in Hosu and have the food sorted out there.
Her name – Harumi Sakatoshi. She is a social worker that likes to help out the poor in cities. 'Just a regular do-gooder.' She thinks to herself. She never did want to see homeless people, so she's doing something about it.
Harumi grabs 3 baskets with food inside and gets it in her car. She takes her cellphone out and calls one of her contacts at Bord City, northwest of Kamino. She sits in the driver's seat at her cellphone is ringing. "Hey, is there any traffic up at the freeway? I don't want to be stuck in traffic with trucks full of food behind me." "Yeah, boss. No traffic up at the freeway." "Alright. See you there, Goda." She ends the call and backs up the driveway to head to the Bord Mall.
Meanwhile, a single locomotive was headed to an underground tunnel as it passes by the unsuspecting police men unnoticed. The driver, "Stele" was on his seat, chewing gum and driving the train underneath a building. Peter is playing some Angry Birds on his phone He hits the pig's tower with the white bird's egg bomb. He fists on his side in celebration. His smile widens to his sides and goes on with his game while waiting.
Takumi holds his rifle on his lap and he meditates on his seat as the train jumps. His breathing was all he could hear as he remembers everyone he's killed, including his family's killers. Their screams filled his head now, and he counters the screams with his breathing. His eyes closed as he was meditating.
Kabe was leaning on the wall as he talks with Giran for his orders. "Kabe, you there yet?" "We're getting close, sir. Where in the building is the serum?" "It's at their lab, which is on the 7th floor of the facility…" Kabe hmms out and Giran ponders about their mission. "You need any help?" "No no. We can do this. You focus on making Shigiraki the kingpin." Giran takes a smoke as he was watching the news about a gentle villain's videospopping up on the news. He smirks as he sees that the criminals are tumbling the heroes' control over Japan as he watches the international news.
"Alright. I'm counting on you, kid." Giran says as he plugs the phone back. He puts his fingers on his chin to ponder about his connections, and about the League of Villains. 'Should I get some of their agents? Or should I find them myself?' He thinks to himself as he ponders. Knowing that it would be best to have more agents on his side, he types in his comrade's contact number and calls them. "Hey Fukuda? It's me. I have an opportunity for you and your agency."
Meanwhile back with Kabe, they inserted themselves under their target building's basement, and Takumi opens his eyes and to stand up. He grabs hold of his rifle and straps it to his back. Peter opens the door and steps out. "Alright team! Let's get our serum and our money!" He smiles and keeps his hopes upbeat. Stele stands up from his seat and the other two go out of the locomotive to set explosions on the ceiling.
Stele and Peter go out of the locomotive and see the hole on the ceiling. Takumi aims a grapple gun into the hole and shoots. He hooks on and climbs up with rope. Peter smiles as he smacks his lips. "I'm kind of thirsty right now, Stele." He calls to Stele if he has any water and he looks at Peter with disapproval on his face. "Never mind." He gives up on his search for water.
"Kabe hoists himself up on the floor with Takumi behind him, scoping and aiming his scopeless sniper out the hallways going up. His sniper machine rifle has no scope by the way. "We should keep moving… The explosion might have been heard all throughout."Takumi says rushly while Stele and Peter hoist themselves up. Peter's eyes sparkle as he eyes the building floor.
It had a majorly grey color with white colors, with a hallway leading up –"No time to lollygag, Peter."Kabe says as he grabs the collars of his coat and drags him toward the staircase. Stele prepares his razor sharp nails and Takumi in front of him, armed to kill with his trusty gun. They climb the staircases until they reached the 7th floor.
Takumi opens the door and peeks out to see who's there. There were only two suits with batons at the ready. They are walking around the lab they were trying to get into. The guards were talking to each other and they laughed and told stories as they went around the halls.
Takumi's head went back into the staircase and started to load his silenced handgun. Kabe adjusted his suit and his hands and got hold of the door. "What are you doing? They'll hear you." Takumi spoke hushly and Kabe opens the door. The guards take one glance at Kabe before running at him with batons. Kabe motions his hands at them and he makes them stop in front of him. They tried to squirm but could not. Kabe adjusts his glasses and pushed the guards aside. Takumi is astonished by this display and kills the 4 guards in front of him.
Peter and Stele go through and sees the bodies that Takumi laid down. Stele just readies his hands for incisions. Peter moves on to the door. Takumi shoots one last person in midrun and puts the gun back to his holster. Stele finishes the last person that Takumi shot and carves a smile on his face. The others had a smiley face on their cheeks or forehead and the other had his name on it. Literally.
Kabe examines the door to the lab and it looked to him that it was locked with a code. The door was reinforced steel, so they couldn't blow it up if they wanted. Stele coughs behind him and raises his claws to slash the door open. Kabe raises his brow and Peter drags him out of the way. Stele slashes his claws and cuts deep through the door but not enough to make a hole or to see through. Stele readies to slash multiple times with both of his claws and does. He slashes and slashes until the door fell to pieces.
Stele puts his hands on his knees and breathes out tiredly. Peter walks up to him and grabs him by the arms and sits him down by the door. "We're gonna let you rest now, alright bro?" Peter asks and Stele just pants and made a thumbs-up. "Alright boys. Let's get our money now." Peter motivates to push on and Takumi and Kabe nod, going in the lab for the serum they came for.
Peter readies his special gauntlets that sort of rusted especially at the knuckles of it from big punches. His gauntlets were black and scratches were forming around the knuckles. He used those mostly when he felt like it, especially when a pro hero was around.
Kabe unbuttons his suit to let out the heat coming from his pores. They continue pushing on and get in a glass room with a metal safe inside. The door was locked too with a code. "Ooh I call dibs!" Takumi and Kabe get out of the way and Peter punches the door with his gauntlets and the doors flies off and down to the floor. The scientist working on some experiment stood up and backed up on the table and tries to stay away. Peter enters along with Kabe, and Takumi points his silenced gun at the scientist and shoots him. The scientist fell on the floor with blood slowly flowing down from his chest.
"Carve him up for me!" Stele shouts out to Takumi as he heard the gunshot. Takumi takes out his knife and carves a sentence on it. He unbuttons the scientist's shirt and readies the knife for carving. Peter takes out a piece of paper with a code and inputs it on the safe. The safe beeps and it opens. Peter widens it and Kabe looks at the serum.
It was multiple vials of black liquid with gray extracts of it from top to bottom. "Pack it up." "Whatever you say." Kabe orders and Peter takes the vials out and puts them in a case. Peter uses his comms to call someone on the outside. "Hey Ichida, can you see me?" He calls out to his guy on the outside, who is listening to his tunes with his cellphone.
"Ichida… Ichida!" "Yes I can see you. Taking it to me now." Ichida takes off his earbuds and uses his Quirk to teleport the case to him. The case starts to have rays of light going around it. Imagine Star Trek's way of beaming people down to and out of planets. Peter smiles and Kabe is just astonished by the mercenaries' competencies as a group, and Peter's leadership. He just smiles at them and Peter notices this and Kabe follows out the door behind Peter. Peter glances back to see Takumi fiddling with the scientist's body. "Hey, Takumi. Come on, man. We're leaving." Ordered Peter as he stands Stele up on his feet and Takumi rushes out, flipping his pocket knife back into his pocket.
He carved his chest a middle finger in the middle, leaving his shirt torn and his blood flowing out to the floor. Stele regains his composure and twists his shoulders around, with Peter patting him in the back. "We should go back to the train now. Wouldn't want to get caught." "Don't worry. The alarms here won't be set off until we are gone. There aren't any cameras here anyway, since it is on the northwest side of Musutafu." Peter assures and Kabe nods as they went down the stairs.
They rushed back inside the locomotive and Stele started it, heading through the Kamino District to drop Kabe to Giran's tower and to their secret hideout in the forest outside of Kamino. In Giran's Tower, the lights swirling around the case started to disappear and Ichida gets back to his music. Giran smirks as the case appeared and his side of the world is part of the League of Villains because of the serum. Giran calls Peter to congratulate him and Ichida shrugs this off as he closed his eyes to listen to his music.
"Peter? Thanks for getting me the serum. You'll get your money in a day or so." "Sounds good, as long as we're getting payed." Giran bids him off and plugs the phone back on the landline. He ponders more about the League's situation. 'With the South American branch losing its grasp on it, America included, it'll be even harder to move around now.' Giran starts to smoke out his lungs and Ichida coughs out the smoke from his system.
"Oh I forgot you were here. I suspect you'll be wanting your money now?" "Ehhh sure. After this, I want to be left alone, and my roommate will be left alone as well." Ichida stands up and Giran throws 10000 yen on the coffee table in front of him. Ichida grabs it and places it in his bag. "Pleasure doing business with you, Young Ipperi." Giran says goodbye to the young villain and he takes his leave of the manipulator. Ichida goes in the elevator and down to the ground floor. Giran's smirk grew wider as his imagination went wild. "let the games begin."
Whoo done with this one. Sorry I took so long. I had midterms exams these past days. Still trying to rest my brain. Did you guys like this long one? I'll come back with the next probably next month, or when I feel like it. Keep reading . Thanks for doing so.