Chapter 6: The Past will be Important
Howdy. I DO NOT OWN ANYTHING. SORRY IT'S TAKEN ME THIS LONG T0 KNOW THAT. By the way, this was a nightmare to write! I think I'll be taking a break from this. Give me maybe 3 months and maybe you can hope to see Chapter 7 come out on a late-night Friday. If you can still read, enjoy reading.
"What are we gonna do with this thief?! If he is going to be a threat-" "We will be ready for him." Tamaki and Takegi argue about the mysterious disappearance of Sokudo's titanium gloves.
"So we're just gonna wait for this guy?! Who left a note saying "This is mine"?!" "It might be him!" "Or he might be saying that it is his now by stealing it!" They were glaring at each other from thier seats, practically ready to kill.
And Tsukauchi storms in with info about the robbers some days ago. "Okay. I've got their files..." He clears his throat before stating what they know about Peter and his gang.
He hands them Peter's file first. "... This is Peter. His real name is unknown. A 30 year old Caucasian blonde male. He has 37 confirmed kills on Interpol and 25 confirmed kills from FBI. He came from Texas' Death Row and is wanted on most of America, along with Takumi..." He says before placing Takumi's on the table.
They two heroes read it and read all the people he's killed. "Jesus…"
"Yeah, and they are all known to be convicts and military that have exploited loopholes that put people in danger." Tamaki's eyes shoot out to Tsukauchi and he realizes that he was a good man once. Once.
"So where are they now?"
"We can find out. I've sent people to scope out the path of the car that they've used to sneak the serum out…" He says recalling their steal of the serum from Drake Industries. "… There were train tracks leading to the eastern part of the city." He says showing a map and their most likely location to be a warehouse in the abandoned city of Makro.
Along with the location, he shows little activity that has been going in and out of the warehouse and the apartment complex that has thugs known as the Axes. "They may have been hiding here, and making their next plan here, with the Axes Clan. We need to get over there and see what thay have been doing with the serum. And we'll be needing back-up…" He says gesturing to Fat-gum as he went in the room.
Tamaki goes surprised that his mentor had come. "Fat-gum! What are you doing here?" "I was scoping out the warehouse that the robbers were in. And they have some sort of pact going, especially Kabe…" He says sliding a file onto the table. Takegi peers through the file and sees some familiarity with his master.
"Seems like you'll have to do it yourselves, kids." Takegi says before taking a call from his wife. He rummages his pocket for his phone and he takes the call. "Hello?... I'm sorry…" As he was talking to his wife, the other three were looking at him quizzically, and Tsukauchi already knew their conversation.
"…Yeah I'll be coming home later… And bringing home dinner. Ok… See you later…" He says goodbye to his wife and ending the call, putting his cell in his pocket. "Seems like you guys are gonna have to be on your own." Ken Takegi says bringing down their expectations.
Fat gum sighs with a nod to him. "Well, guess you'll be leaving then, eh family man?" He slightly teases and Ken shrugs it off and smiles at his understanding. "Guess so…" He waves off as he left the room and the station.
"…Take care, fellas. Detective." He says before leaving the room. The three in the room start to get worried that this case might take a turn for the worse. Detective Tsukuachi wears his overcoat from his chair and takes his leave.
"I'll be making calls then to get a squad over there. You want to come with them? On the field?" He asks the two heroes and they nod yes. "Of course we'll take it. They might need help." Tamaki bravely suggested and Tsukauchi only said yes.
And so, they were on a mission to capture the robbers that stole the serum. And then Tamaki remembers his mission with Kirishima to find Ryusake Taheshi. "Heyy, Toyomitsu?" "Yeah?"
"What about finding our new recruit?" He recalls their mission and, "Yeah, but that seems irrelevant now, don't you think?" Tamaki gives up, due to his personality. "Yeah, guess you're right. But we might encounter him in the Bord District, since police found his remains there."
Toyomitsu starts turning and puts his fingers on his chin. "Yeah. Let's just hope the kid has an understanding with heroes." Toyomitsu hopes and Tamaki follows him out of the room and back to their office building to prepare.
"And Toyomitsu? Will Kirishima come with us?"
"No. He has to spend time on other things. We'll need to find the guys that stole the serum. Who lnows what they could be doing with it." He says about the possibilities and Tamaki only imagines as they left the station and into the car.
Detective Tsukauchi stands, closing the door to his car and he sees Sansa Tamakawa join him into the front to tell other officers to join the cause. He revs the car and goes toward the Bord District's police station.
"Oh I almost forgot to mention." Sansa says.
"What" Tsukauchi asks.
"That a hero from America is here to see you." The car skids in front of the red light. Tsukauchi looks blankly at the road as to why an American hero was here. In Japan.
"Think she's here to help? With our case?" Sansa takes out his bread for snacks and takes a chunk out of it. "Well… We should … Find out…" He says as he snacks on his bread. Tsukauchi sees the green light and drives on to the left.
"Want me to call her?" Tsukauchi looks at the road and at the choices he needs to make to find the League of Villains. And he can't do that until he finds Sokudo. Maybe she can help, since Sokudo was an American hero too.
"Yeah. Call her down to the Hosu police station. We'll have a long chat." Tsukauchi orders and Sansa says "Sure thing." With that, Tsukuachi drives to the Hosu Police Station and through the highway.
Meanwhile, at the deepest part of the alleys of Bord, the sun had reached midday and Ikari's face starts to wince, waking up from her 17-hour like nap. Twas' a long one. She moans from drowsiness and rubs her eyes.
She stretches her arms out and is held down by a seatbelt. She groggily yanks the belt off but can't She looks around for Ryusake but he was asleep in the back, with a pungent smell of steak. The steak's sauce was spread all over on the floor beside him. And the sauce rested on his face and claws. All that remained was the bones.
She shrugs the smell off and opens a window to get the smell out of the van. She turns back to look at Ryu as he squirms and he growled in his sleep.
She squirms out of the seat and to the back of the van. She looms over him and surveys his scratched-up body. She pulls her bangs back and tries to wake him up.
"Hey… Hey!" Ikari exclaims and Ryu's face winces and his hand motions, swatting a fly. Ikari huffs and slaps his face. This got Ryu to wake up and his eyelids shot up. He veers sitting up, getting Ikari to jump back. He looks at Ikari with surprise and she glowers at him.
"Morning, Sakii." She greets and orders and Ryusake ignores her, and growls after a night of settling random thugs and yakuza on the streets. He stands up and gets out of the van. He slides the doors out of the way and Ikari follows.
When he walks two paces away from the van's doors, he breathes in the air before stretching his body and his back. Ikari looks at his form and imitates him. "Where to now, Sakii?" Ikari asks while she stretches.
'We're going to a diner to eat breakfast.' Ikari hears and walks ahead of him and toward the street. "Well let's go! I'm hungry!" She exclaims and Ryusake's scowl returns and deepens. And so, the two nomads walk their way through the streets of Bord District.
"Ahhhh feels so good to have heard from him!" Alice says while she and Connor eat eggs and pancakes for breakfast. Connor finishes the pancakes and sips to his orange juice and looks at the scene of people doing everyday things outside.
Alice finishes hers and looks at the time. "aaahhhh We gotta go!" She says while she gets her things out of the seat and Connor does too and stands from his seat, drinking the rest of his orange juice as they hurry themselves through the doors.
Alice went out first, wearing her jacket as she does, coming along with a grey-scaled boy and a white-haired girl with sharp nails coming in the diner. She gets a glance at his yellow ring as Ryusake went in. Connor noticed the girl from before as the two duos pass each other by and one left, one enters.
Alice walks still and shrugging off that that ring seemed familiar. Connor is only dumbfounded that the girl he walked by was Ikari but he did not see her face to remember.
"Heyy Connor! We have to go! We're gonna be late!" Alice says as she walks up the street and toward Hosu police station. She recalls back that she did give something like that to someone, but she shrugs it off to focus on the task at hand.
"Ahhh that's nice." Ikari says as she slumps onto the nearest seat and Ryusake sitting across from her. A girl with bat ears in an apron comes, smiling at them.
"Morning. Can I get your order?" Nanami asks and Ryusake crosses his arms and looks away and Ikari chimes in. "Yeah ummm can we get pancakes and orange juice?" She says to Nanami and she writes it down on a notepad.
Nanami glances at Ryu and he squints at her, breaking her down to a nervous sweat. "O-Okay. The food will be here shortly." She stammers, rushing off to the back of the diner. Ikari sweatdrops and looks at Ryu, who ignored Nanami.
Ikari sighs at Ryu, who was rarely nice to anyone he meets. She looks at the people passing by as the sun moves to midday and as she waits for their food. Ryusake gloms onto the table with his arms under his head.
'What's with that smile on your face?' Ryu sends and Ikari, "Eh?"
'You're always smiling. It's an eyesore.' Ryu snaps at her, after seeing every friend in his life leave him at some point.
"Nothing. Just feel like it." Ikari chimes and Ryu straightens up with his arms across his chest. His glare softens to a look of judgement.
'Because I'm feeding you?' Ryusake probes and Ikari shakes her head with a smile.
"Because I finally have someone to talk to…" Ikari slumps on the table with her arms under. Ryusake hides his surprised face by deepening his glare. He did not expect that coming, to sympathize with a cat that he met only days ago.
She twiddles her finger at the table and looking down at it.
The storm was getting worse by the minute and the city of Ichigo was covered in the hurricane. A mother with her child in her arms was running from yakuza. "Check over there!"
A thug held a flashlight and searched in an abandoned apartment. He hears shuffling in the basement, behind the broken-ass car. He suspects that they are behind there. He sneaks toward it with a light step. The light comes closer and closer to the right side, and the thug can see more of it.
He veers the light to it, and sees a baby wrapped in a thick towel. The thug tilts his head at the baby and walks to it. But before he could, a woman jumps on his back and slits his throat. The flashlight falls and the baby makes sounds.
Inari, the mother, rushes to her baby, Ikari. She shushes and wraps her face in the cloth.
"I was only six months old when my mom was taking care of me. We were living like cats off the street." Ikari starts a story and Ryusake only gapes at her while she finishes her plate. Ryusake's arms were getting embalmed in his hand's sweat.
"She was killing and stealing for me. 2 years later, me and her met a guy off of the woods and we lived with him ever since.…" Ryusake's hardened glare continues and Nanami from earlier eavesdrops on her story as she serves other customers in the diner.
Inari woke up from her slumber with her four-year old child beside her. She groggily wakes up from her slumber. She sits up and rubs her eyes to see Kenta chopping wood logs with his axe from the door.
Not long after, she hears Ikari ruffling in the blanket. She steps out of the blanket, sneaking up to her mother. 'Here she comes.' She thought to herself.
Ikari yawns as she gloms onto Inari's back and speaks at her ear.
"Morning, Mommy!" She says yanking her ear and backing up to make a spell for the day. Inari smiles at her daughter's cuteness. Her daughter falls to her back on the makeshift futons made by Kenta. She stands up and walks to the door in her sack clothes.
Ikari looks down at the door and shuffles to follow Inari out the door. The log breaks into twine and falls into their respective piles. Kenta wipes the sweat from his brow and notices Inari coming up to him. He waves and smiles at her and her child coming up.
"Morning, Inari." Kenta says and Inari crosses her arms as Ikari passes her to stand in front of Kenta. He looks down at her and her eyes sparkle as she looks at the amazing stranger she knew. "Strong man!" Inari giggles at her and Kenta follows with chuckling.
"Kenta was like the dad that I wished I had…" Ikari continues her story and retains her ghost of a smile.
'I suspect that the good times did not last long.' Ryusake broke the lightness and Ikari sighs and continues to the part. Where her mother dies.
It was dark and raining. Ikari dragged her bleeding mother to a forest from all the way from the civilization. She stops in her tracks and yanks Ikari. The four-year old turned to Inari, pointing to a tree to sit down.
They walk to the trunk and Inari slumps down. "W-What should I do, mom?" Inari looks down to the wound on her abdomen, then wearily looks at her daughter. She reaches down t her pocket and gives out a necklace. The very same that Kenta gave to her.
She gives it to Ikari and places it in her hand. Ikari's teary-eyed self looks at her mother's eyes one last time, only seeing tears in her eyes too.
"r..Remember… I'll always be wit you…" Inari said with her dying breath. She only left a necklace to her only daughter. She sobs on her peaceful body.
'Dangit….' She cursed herself in her head, knowing that she did nothing.
"Little lady?! Where you at? I only want to take you in…" A man shouts at the forest, trying to find the mother and her daughter in the woods. Ikari hears the bad man who pierced her mother, killing her. She shuffles herself to leave, leaving her mother on the tree.
She sees the flashlight going away and she continues to run off into the forest and into the night. By the time the mercenary father had found the mother on the tree, bled out, he smears a face of worry for his lost child.
"The guy that killed your mom was your dad?!" Nanami exclaims as she hands the bill over to Ryu and Ikari, which made them startled a bit.
"You were listening?" She questions and Nanami holds her hands up in defense.
"Sorry but I can't help listening to stories…" Nanami defends, making Ikari's ghost smile return. "…So what happened next?" Nanami asks and Ryu glances at them both before looking back at Ikari's blue hues and she continues.
"After that, I never saw that guy again. I went into the city and I wandered anywhere and everywhere. Finding anything I could eat. And then you." Ikari finishes and Ryu looks at his nails.
"Well don't worry miss. If something happens in these streets of Musutafu, people have your back." Nanami assures and Ikari shoots a questioning look at Nanami as she left the bill. Ryu took out some yen to fit the price. A thousand yen with change of thirty-six.
He makes a low growl at Ikari, signaling her. She looks at him and his claws tapping on the money. He places it in the disher and says,
'Tell her to keep the change.' In thought. He takes his jacket from the seat and leaves the diner.
'I'll wait for you outside.' He says as he opens the door and into the street to wait. As the sun went high, maybe nine'o'clock in the morning, he glances and earns glances from people as they pass by. Some of them wave hi to him, but is yanked away. Most of the crowd were whispering and gossiping. He could hear every single one.
"He's creepy." "Don't get involved with people like him." "I heard that vigilantes and psychos." He never likes those kinds of people. He silences them by growling low and the passersby looked away. He contemplates upon her words back at the diner. Whether it was true or not.
In his eyes, she bared all the signs leading to the truth. Her niceness was getting to him now. He scoffs off the sympathy and to the task at hand. Find yakuza groups that are disturbing the peace.
The diner door opens and Ikari steps out, feeling relieved to have something off her chest. She looks around to find Ryu leaning on the diner with his arms crossed.
"Shall we?" She asks as she pats his shoulders which made him move a bit. He walks over to the direction of the van and she follows. Ryu glances at her and he sees her being the giddy kitten she is. Her eyes caught him staring as they walk.
He looks off into the distance and shrugs it off. She smiles at his concern and she walks with him. "What shall we do today, Sakii?" Ikari starts chirping and he starts turning. 'We go back to the van and I go back to patrol.'
"Aww you're no fun. We should get more clothes!" Ikari titters and his throat grumbles at her.
'wait. We?' He questions and Ikari smiles at him, holding some money she swiped from him. "Might as well use as much of this as we can." She grins at him waving money in front of his face and into her pocket.
Ryu sighs as she can't be stopped and she was right, he did need more clothes. He grumbles as he steps to follow the kitten. His voice. 'Eyes on.'
"His house burnt down?!" Alice exclaims with Connor sitting beside her in front of Detective Tsukauchi and Sansa Tamakawa sitting by the door, reading magazines. "Yeah. The titanium gloves were stolen from the scene." Tsukauchi says which made Alice slump in her seat.
Connor was taking mental notes in his head, and later Alice asks a question.
"Who burnt it down?" Alice asks and Tsukauchi only shrugs his shoulders. Alice can only hope that he is in the warehouse that they'll raid tomorrow.
Connor places his fingers on his chin and starts to stroke his nonexistent beard. "We came here to find the Speedster. Can we go and have a talk with the people that found his house?" Tsukauchi takes out his cell and texts one of the heroes if they are available for a little interview.
While Tsukauchi messages Tamaki, Alice was fiddling her diamond shard in her hands and her fingers move to one of her missing rings. Then she remembered the day that she gave one of hers to Alan/Sokudo.
'Hmmm wonder where he went… and for his house to burn down…' Alice started thinking as to what happened to him. "Since when has he disappeared, detective?" She asks Tsukauchi and his eyes roll to hers and he takes out some files after texting to the heroes.
"Four years ago, *lands file on his desk* Sokudo met up with the squad that were detaining yakuza in a warehouse in Bord District. Several minutes later, the warehouse exploded." Upon hearing that, Alice was starting to be worried for her best friend.
Connor looks at his aunt beside him and sees a face of worry. 'What did he do?' Connor thought in his head.
".When the dust settled the crime rates have risen up, but was later taken on by All Might." Tsukauchi finishes and Alice starts feeling down, and she reattaches her diamond shard to her golden hair. She fiddles with her hands at hearing All Might's name.
"If you have any information about his whereabouts, now would be the time to tell us." Tsukauchi inquires and Alice does not know anything.
"No. I haven't heard from him since four years ago. I know nothing." Alice says and Tsukauchi sighs out of weariness.
'I wish for no more working on late nights.' He says in thought. He smears off the weariness on his face. He skims on the file of Sokudo Satoshi and places it back in the drawer. "Well, Is there anything that you want to ask of me, Alice?" Tsukauchi asks before leaving the room for preparations for the raid tomorrow.
Alice and Connor tap on their chins, finding nothing to ask him. The detective nods before leaving the station with Sansa.
Alice and Connor have left the station, and they grinned at each other as they walk.
"Finally! We can find him now!" Connor fist pumps in celebration and Alice follows too. "Yeahh!" Alice exclaims on their way to the hotel. She grasps on the venue of Alan's house which was written on a piece of paper.
She repeats the venue in her mind. The venue was in Bord District, B6. Though they did not know where it is, Connor has GPS on his phone that they can use. The sun had reached midday and admires the soft heat the sun is shining upon them.
Then she remembers her ring that she gave, and that the grey-skinned guy had the same one, she swears it. She starts to turn gears and has an idea.
'Maybe if I can find that guy… I can find more on where Sokudo might be…' She thinks and she starts getting ideas. She glances at her nephew, without a care in the world. She stops herself from talking to her nephew about something.
Connor shoves his pocket back in his pocket and grins at his aunt as they walk. "Alright! Now we can eat some grub!" Connor says relieved that he can come with the professionals. Alice is becoming nervous as the time was nearing to the search, to his house.
The warehouse was going in and out with thugs moving the test subjects to Giran's tower along with the finished products.
Kabe and a doctor-more accurately a mad scientist- has his hand shoved into his lab coat with his grin showing under his brown bushy mustache. He reaches for his cigars and his lighter.
"Get the stuff over to his address and my boss should compensate you." Kabe says as he hands the address to Giran's.
He scoffs before smoking a cigarette and Kabe swats away the smoke. "Y'know, All for One could use your help right now. If he were here-"
"Nonsense. My priorities are to my master alone." Kabe snaps, rejecting his offer and the doctor breathes out the smoke. Kabe swats ut away with his hand.
"After *cough* this, you ought to get out of the city and away from the authorities as possible. I wouldn't want to distress my master." Kabe advises and the doctor responds by a simple nod.
"Don't shy away from this. You will have to involve yourself in bigger situations." "Thanks for the offer, but I don't aim to be a target." With that, the doctor left feeling disappointed.
Kabe glances at him before going in the warehouse to talk with Peter's group.
They were prepping their gear for capture. Stele sharpens his claws at a grindstone, Takumi shoots cans with his wrist-guns from a distance and Peter is sparring with Spinner/Ichigo in a circle of boxes.
"Come on, lizard-man. Bring in the pain!" Peter taunts and Spinner grunts as he jabs him on his chin but misses. Peter lands a punch downward to the floor, making Spinner land on his back and hard on the floor. Spinner spits out a drop of blood before coming back up. He circles around him before grunting again to punch his chest.
Peter's right arm blocks it but Spinner punches it away and lands a right hook on his face, throwing him to the bounds.
Peter crashes on a crate and breaks it. Peter chuckles trying to stand up. He does and he gaurds his chest and chin and walks to him. Spinner sends fast jabs and he dodges until the fourth time.
Spinner seizes the chance and lands an uppercut to end the match. Peter falls to the floor and Spinner wins the match. He was powerful, but not enough for a knockout.
Kabe rings the bell and Spinner looks at him to see him signaling to get out. "Alright Ichigo. You should head back to the building. Don't want anyone to find out you were here."
Spinner nods and hears Peter's chuckling. He grabs Peter's shirt and looks him in the eye.
"Next time you insult Stain, make sure I am not around to hear it..Bastard." Spinner threats and drops him back on the floor. He leaves the arena and the warehouse, and takes his shirt from atop a box.
Stele rolls his eyes to Spinner leaving and seeing Peter on the floor, struggling to get up.
Stele chuckles before finishing his claws, making sure they are super sharp. He walks his way to Kabe along with the other two mercenaries to listen to Kabe.
"Have you thought of a strategy to capture Sokudo yet?" Kabe inquires and Peter lays out the plan, readying himself.
"Alright.. We're gonna need some bait."
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