Chapter 9: The First Sifting

Hello again. Before we get to the story, I want to make sure you are all reminded of this story

Sokudo Satoshi, Ryusake Tahashi's stepfather, is the Speedster Hero who has journeyed around the world, teaching everyone all that he knows about being a good hero. After 12 years of teaching, he goes missing, leading his stepson to resent him and leave his life behind, which is where our story first takes place.

Ryusake Tahashi, a serious teenager with obligations to his morality, wears a cold heart to face the evils of the streets. Over the past four years, he's been harrumphing about in the streets with his scowl aimed at every despising face. However, his anonymity has disappeared leading to the events that befall upon him. Giran has noticed his movements and has sent forth Peter and his gang of misfits to fetch him.

Along the way, he has picked up a stray. Ikari, an uneducated girl born into poverty. She's proven loyal to him, and he has become her friend in dark times. They tread along and about and meet many different people, and some familiar faces. But there is more.

Peter, Takumi and Stele have been sent by the League of Villains to create bio-weapons out of other people's Quirks. Their purpose is unknown Peter, the greediest of the three, takes on other jobs that will give him money from Giran. So, led him to Ryusake Tahashi and Ikari. He has failed to deliver Ryu to Giran so he assigns Kabe, his loyal disciple, to make sure that they do their jobs.

However, Kabe hears the League's secret plan for the bio-weapons and join in on the plan. Sorry If my story seems disorderly.

But they are not the only ones who know of this plan. Ryusake's missing stepfather has returned to the scene, and he is catching up with the world, and with Peter and his lackeys.

Him and Ryusake meet up and make up, but Ryusake considered him to be lacking but sufficient. He did want to hear him out, but he still doesn't forgive him for what happened. Still, evil never rests. Kabe along with Peter and his gang trudge their way, taking on their new job: The Serum. Reason, unknown. [can't have all the info about this let out, right?]

Police Detective Tsukauchi and pro heroes Tamaki Amajiki and Taishiro Toyomitsu try to find the culprits for the stolen Serum from the Steam Industries [I've finally given them a name. Sorry if I made a mistake.]

They use the Serum to suck out their potential Quirks for their own heinous reasons, and for the League of Villains' reasons. Now, Ryusake and Akihiro Tachibana sneak their way to rescue Alice and Connor Smith, Tamaki and Toyomitsu, and the hostages used for their villainous deeds.

Now, onto the story. I hope your eyes aren't crammed and I am always writing up my stories every day. So long and Enjoy.

In the dead of night, a pick-up truck quietly wheels in the streets in the dead district of Makro. In the truck are 13 blind hostages. There were yakuza inside, to make sure none escape the truck. One wrinkly man can see where they are going through the blindfold and watches the yakuza as they stand in the container.

The Axe Clan hold batons and swords, with bandanas to cover their faces. The hostages bring about quiet and weak whimpers and sobs, making one of the clan members very irate.

"Shut up! Or I'll fill you up with lead!" He threatens with a baton up in one of their necks. He twists the collar before throwing him down to the floor. The old man sees this and sneaks to the hostage's side to comfort him. The seeing man pats his shoulder, making his head shoot up.

"Don't worry. We will come out of this alive." He comforts him through whispers.

"I SAID SHUT UP!" He threatens again, making the entire truck quiet again. The irate yakuza bashes behind him with growls in his voice. "Are we there yet, dummy?!"

Instantaneously, the truck comes to a sudden halt, making the hostages fall to their sides and the yakuza bump on the wall, making the yakuza even more irritated. The doors bolt open and the hostages are greeted by Stele and his devilish grin. He chuckles as the whitecoats come in with strapping beds for the hostages.

On the outside of the warehouse, The Axe Clan secure a perimeter around its walls and three boxes lay about beside trucks. Kabe comes outside holding a box waiting and a car comes around in front of him. The driver was one of the subordinates from Giran's ivory tower. He opens the door for Kabe to get in through.

"I shall see that your team is paid, doubled for this joint venture of ours." Kabe lays his gratitude to Stele and his team.

Stele sees him off, with a smile. Kabe sees him and returns it with an understanding nod. Stele chuckles before crossing his arms together and watch as the car goes off into the night and through the gateway.

'Hmm. Hope we see each other again.' Stele thought and he flaunts his claws around. Then, he sees a scar. He stops to peer at it. His little scar spread across his wrist didn't hurt. But the woman who did it always hurt him. His insanity clouded his judgement. His hunger for seeing despair led him to disparity. And he savors it. If only he could see his child again and carve a fake smile.

He grins as he imagined what that would be like. The satisfaction of carving a fake smile into that fake child. Oh, how it aroused him so very much. Then, a pat on his shoulders dragged him back to the present. He shoots his grinning face to the subordinate, making him jump.

"Th-The hostages are ready to be dealt upon." The subordinate stammers as he hands a list to him, along with the names and their Quirks beside each.

He reads the words in the spreadsheet, but doesn't actually understand what they mean. He shoves the list back to the subordinate, making him jump again. He looks at Stele as he walks back to the warehouse, leaving behind a subordinate to shuffle himself after him.

Meanwhile, outside of the warehouse, Ryusake sneaks up behind a yakuza guard. He jumps and seizes his neck, and breaks it. He lets the body drop to the ground, making a thud to the ground. Ryu walks behind one of the crates, with Akihiro behind him.

"Little much, don't you think?" Akihiro points out, getting a glance from him. Akihiro shuffles behind Ryu as he scopes out the warehouse. Behind them both, in the alley they came out of, was Ikari snooping behind them. Ryu uses his sense of smell to see if any guns were in the air. Then, he smells that familiar bit of fragrance that is familiar to him.

He glares behind him to the dumpster and Akihiro follows his line of sight. And then he sees Ikari, coming out of the dumpster nervously laughing and scratches her head. "I uhh… I locked the house at least. Hehehehe."

"What are you doing here?! You shouldn't have come!" Akihiro loudly whispers at her, and Ryu growls at her. "Hehehehe." She giggles nervously with a drop of sweat rolling down beside her face.

'Whatever! We stick to the plan! Ikari!' Ryu grinds his mind and stomps his foot, grabbing both of their attention. He then points at Ikari, making her go squeak. 'Go inside and save the hostages, if any.' Ryu sends his loud thought to Ikari, and Akihiro stares at them both, dumbfounded by their conversing.

"Sure thing." She gulps with a nervous grin and that sends Ikari running towards the warehouse to look for hostages. Akihiro can't help but be stupid and be dumbfounded again by her behavior.

Ryu places an arm on Akihiro's shoulder, pointing his sight to the roof. Akihiro nods, understanding Ryu's orders to see into the warehouse from the roof. Akihiro boosts up with his snakes latched onto the top of the wall and jumps over. Ryusake watched that and growls as he muzzles his face into his facemask and trudges to take care of the yakuza outside.

He slashes the wandering yakuza's backs and spines, disabling their movement, earning muffled screams and groans from them. A yakuza yawns outside of the warehouse. He flaunts his hatchet around in boredom. Unsuspecting of the claws behind him, he falls of a bleeding neck. Ryu lets the body drop down, bleeding. He whips the blood off of his glove. He scurries off to the next yakuza.

At the rooftop, Akihiro scopes and gasps at the scene. He sees people strapped down to beds, and he assumes that there is an experimentation happening. Then his eyes roll to the posts, with people tied to them. He sees two pro heroes, and a boy, and then Alice.

'Whoa! What's she doing here! …If she is here, then she might've been too close ad got captured looking for him.' Akihiro peers at the situation more and chooses upon his options. He then hears screaming inside, making him jumpy. The lights flash into his eyes, making Akihiro confused and curious.

The hostages strapped-in-bed struggle to be loose, but couldn't find the strength. Wires into their skulls are slowly sucking out their blood, but it is a special blood. The Quirk. The man from earlier sees this with his Crystal-eyes to be true and just gasps at his realization of the future. Akihiro peers into the glass and could not believe what he is seeing. A step scares him from behind. It was Ryu's scowling face.

"*sigh* Don't scare me like that!" Akihiro whines as Ryu scopes out the scene beside him. He is unfazed by the scene, but he needs to stop this heinous deed. Ryu sees the overseer at the middle, with a wide grin as he watches. He growls at his amusement.

Then they both see Ikari peeping from behind tall crates. She looks at the blinding lights and her eyes roll to Alice and then Connor tied around the poles.

'Whoa! That's the nice guy from earlier… I should save them.' She ponders about the choice and she crouches down to sneak around.

Akihiro see the screaming hostages and Ryu follows his line of sight. "They're doing something to them, man," Akihiro states and impatiently clenches to let them out. ", I think they're going to kill them. We need to do something!" Akihiro advises and Ryu sees this to be true.

Then Ryu jumps at seeing Ikari roaming the sides with her eyes set to the people bound to the poles. Ryu huffs up, standing beside the glass and raring to jump down.

He prepares to jump down from the glass. Akihiro sees this and seizes him with the arm. "Don't! We need to take care of this with discretion!" Akihiro insists, and Ryu whips his arm away and continues anyway, making Akihiro frustrated.

The old man with Crystal Eyes sees the events pan out, flashing to his eyes and he looks up to see the one he's been dreaming about.

The glass above broke to pieces, making Stele's eyes shoot up. He sees Ryu falling onto the platform. Once landed, he shoots a glare at Stele, making him grin even more. A yakuza grunts from behind, with a hatchet swing aimed for his shoulder.

Ryu veers out of the way, and pierces the yakuza back. Then, a yakuza shoots out spikes at him from his hand. Ryu dodges but one grazes his face, making it bleed a drop. He jumps down to the floor, dodging a spike or two. The spike-thrower grins and sprints around to get a good shot.

"Oh! Lo and behold! It's our target! Great!" Stele shings his claws before sprinting towards him, then a snake shoots from above, and Stele takes a hit to the head, knocking him to the ground. A yakuza watches his flailing body drop and he looks up to see Akihiro swooping down to Ryu's side.

"Whoa! It's that slick kid!" A yakuza exclaims at the sight of Akihiro, a glance before his face is shot with a silhouette of a snake, and he falls to the ground. Stele regains consciousness and unsheathes his claws to swipe them at Akihiro. Akihiro prances in place and unsheathes his night stick.

"Mr. Criminal, you're going down! Along with your science experiment!" Akihiro thunders at Stele, which made him only chuckle. He grunts and charges at Akihiro, and Akihiro dodges his claws as they shing past him.

Akihiro bashes his night stick up and down his neck, and Stele staggers from the strikes. Stele grunts the sharp pains away and slashes the night stick into pieces and his nails slash his shoulder. Akihiro feels the sting on his shoulder and shoots out his snakes at Stele, sending him flying back against the wall. Yakuza start flooding through the entrance and Ryusake roars at the flooding yakuza, slicing them as they pass by and elbows them down.

Meanwhile, behind the battle, Alice spectates over the battle unfolding in front of her. Stele jumps back up on the platform and swings his claws at Akihiro, grazing his face. She shings out her crystal shard from her pocket and starts to cut. Until "Psst. Hey. I'm here to get you out." Ikari peeps in to her right. Alice looks at her with a raised brow and Connor strikes her with familiarity.

Ikari starts slicing Alice's ropes. Connor's mind starts gearing around his familiarity around the girl unbonding Alice. Then it hits him. She was the girl he saved from falling to the pavement, and oh so smoothly.

"Hey. I. Know you. Don't I?" Connor weakly acquires at Ikari as she finishes up cutting her bonds. Ikari cranes her head to Connor, with an innocent smile. Connor looks down and then to Toyomitsu and Tamaki, getting determined faces.

'I will take you to justice!' Tamaki engraves that into his skull. Ikari slices Connor's bonds, then the next. Alice looks at her yellow diamond shard and sees if her Powers can be used now. Diamond plates start to form around her skin and her golden tiara floats up from her hair.

"Finally!" She triumphs and she goes around the battle to free the other lab rats tied down to the experimenting tables.

Connor observes the entire battle pan out and into complete chaos, then he feels a tap to his shoulder and sees a wide crystal-eyed man looking at him. "I think you should help your fellow heroes with this." He suggests to Connor Smith-Sanders, making him look back at the battle and turn into a bipedal furry wolf. He snarls before rushing off into the rushing yakuza.

Akihiro shoots out his snakes from his left arm and Stele jumps out of the way, giving way for Alice to bash him with a diamond bat. Stele grunts as he is knocked to the wall, making a dent in it and falls down to the floor. Akihiro looks back to see Alice step up to the platform with him. He looks glad to see a pro hero, who points at the strapped hostages.

"We'll take care of the hostages and that guy. You three take care of them." Alice declares, making Akihiro look at Ryusake surrounded by the flooding yakuza who are coming at them head-on. Ikari cuts off the last ropes and frees Toyomitsu. They both look at Ryu, wanting to help him. Ikari huffs up before running to his aide, through the flooding yakuza.

Akihiro bashes at one of them as they pass by and shoots out his snakes with his free arm, granting grunts of pain. A goon breathes in to upchuck at Akihiro, and he prepares to shoot out his snakes, but the goon was interrupted by Ikari's piercing claws into his skin. Akihiro is surprised that she can fight. Ikari stands and looks at Akihiro. "Sakii needs our help! Come on!"

Ryusake punches the goon near him and into the ground. He continuously punches and slashes at the yakuza and kicks one down, sending the yakuza behind him down on their rears. Ryusake earns a punch to his chest, making him growl and his facemask flood with white fire. The grunt earns an upper slash, making him fly backwards into the yakuza. Akihiro joins in, bashing them down with his nightstick.

Akihiro and Ryusake are back-to-back now as they face the surrounding yakuza. Ikari slashes and slashes to get to them. Akihiro kicks one down and Ryu dodges a spike before stepping back in his fighting stance.

"This is really dangerous," Akihiro pans out before sending one back with his snakes. ", we need to get rid of all this yakuza! Somehow!" Akihiro advises as Ryusake clobbers a grunt, but the grunt succeeds in melting his metal facemask. The yakuza run at them at all sides and Ryu sees no other option to take. He grabs and throws Akihiro to the side, landing on the platform where Tamaki and the others are.

He regrettably releases white fire from his mouth, and down to the floor, where the yakuza will melt in.

The fire spreads around and through like napalm, bringing no pain nor sting to his feet. The yakuza land into the fire, and their stomachs begin to churn and their bodies melt into the fire, turning into nothing but ashen wax. The yakuza stand back and away from the white fire.

His panting growls turn into triumphant roars as he rips off his tattered black shirt. His golden eyes shine as the fire dances around him. They scoff before a goon with a Water Gun Quirk begins to aim it at the fire. Akihiro shoots out snakes to make sure that doesn't happen, crushing him against the floor.

Ikari slashes a goon or two's back, and they fall to the ground. Grunts come from Akihiro's punch and kick to their back as he triumphs across to get near Ryu. Ryusake breathes fire at the floor beneath the yakuza's feet, melting their feet and making them scream from the pain.

The wave comes to a halt, looking at the flames like it was mystical Ryusake's shirt is in tatters and he rips it off, revealing the freckles on his scaly wounded chest. He growls tauntingly at the yakuza as he pounds his chest, intimidating the yakuza before him.

Akihiro and Ikari stand agape before his flames, swirling around Ryu. Akihiro ponders on his experience, and thinks that he has done this before. And he has.

The yakuza show their palms to shoot their water streams at the fire, putting it out. Ryusake sprints at one of them and grabs their shirt. The grunt squeals as he is thrown through the air and crashing down onto a crate. Akihiro and Ikari snap out of it and help Ryu with the rest of the yakuza. Akihiro continues to swing at them and Ikari gets to scratching.

Flashes of life start to come back to Stele, crammed into the wall. He groans before opening his eyes. He opens his eyes wide to bide with the loud ringing sound in his ears. His sight returns to him in blurry colors of gray and bright white. Then an illuminated yellow. Becoming bigger and bigger. Toyomitsu bellows and `bashes Stele deeper into and through the wall, making a giant hole.

The yakuza try to scurry around and away from the gray-scaled man, but were interrupted by Alice and her bashing of her longsword onto their skulls. Connor runs on his four feet and slashes at a group of yakuza headed their way, with Ryu smack-dab in the front, stopping most of the yakuza with his Dragonbreath.

Tamaki frees the last of the hostages and earns their thanks, making him feel achievement inside. Toyomitsu steps out of the warehouse and sees to it that there aren't any yakuza outside. "We're getting out of here! Tamaki!" Fat-Gum urges them to leave and they start to rush out through the hole.

Stele starts to wake up, bleeding and all. He grunts a war cry and slashes at Fat-gum's belly, only to find his hand inside it. "Whoa." He blurts out as Fat-gum grins at him and grows a bit in size. Stele is then devoured into Fat-gum's belly, trapped in it. Fat-gum deals with Stele's continuous scratches from inside him.

Ryu continues to breath fire down below him, and the fire radius grows in size, melting all crates, wires, and stings the yakuza's feet as it does. They shoot water at the fire, and Ryusake bellows hotter fire, and the water evaporates off into water vapor as it gets close.

Connor, in his bipedal wolf form, lunges to a group and slashes them. A thug grunts at Alice, and she quickly blocks it, and knocking him off. Alice looks at Connor then to the bright fire, seeing the boy she saw familiar. Fighting as the white flames engulf him.

'Jeez. This is him? What power…' She thinks to herself as she stares at Ryusake breathing fire at the running yakuza. Their screams bellow shortly before melting to the ground. Alice hoists up the longsword and continues to fend off the rushing Yakuza beside Connor, and he growls at the incoming wave.

Tamaki kicks down a thug with his chicken legs and bashes another with his clam hands. He looks up to see the three-youth fighting off the yakuza. "Tamaki! Come on! We're leaving with the hostages." Toyomitsu calls for him before he beams to long on those three. Tamaki looks out to Toyomitsu, motioning him to leave to protect the hostages. He takes one last look at the trio before shuffling on outside.

Ryu looks back to the entrance and aims his breath at the roof and attempts to break it upon their heads. His flames reach the entrance and it crumbles down and onto the yakuza, breaking off the entrance. The yakuza yell before the crumbles fall upon their heads. Alice finish off the rest and turns her longsword into a bat and she swings it around and bashes it into yakuza, and Connor slashes their faces beside her.

Ryu and Ikari slash off the remaining yakuza inside in front of them and Akihiro punches a yakuza back and shoots the rest with his snakes. Outside, Tamaki makes sure that they can get through the fences. He pushes and destroys the wall in front of him, and lets the hostages go first.

The remaining yakuza pursue them with Quirks. Stardust projectiles hit three hostages, knocking them out cold. Tamaki deflects the rest with his clam-hands. Alice follows the hostages to defend and Connor too. Ryusake, Ikari and Akihiro follow too to help out. Ryusake flashes his head to see the pros protecting hostages.

Toyomitsu comes between the yakuza and the hostages and throws out Stele from his body. He shouts before landing on the yakuza. Ryusake comes out of the alley and looks at the yakuza pinning down the hostages' escape. He sprints toward them with growls from his mouth.

"Get them all-GAH!" Ryusake interrupts the gangster's words and slashes them as he passes. He makes a diving roll, dodging a saucer-like weapon. Akihiro shoots out his snakes behind him and bashes them into the wall behind them with it. The yakuza get startled from Ryusake and make a run for it. Stele stands up and regains his right thinking before grinning chillingly. He follows the yakuza in escape but Akihiro shoots out his snakes and aims to wrap them around his legs.

Stele trips, unable to get up. He grunts and drops a sweat, afraid that he is beaten. 'Shit!' He rummages his pocket quickly and presses on the button to send a signal to Peter. In the same time that button was pressed, Alice shoots her diamond shards at Stele's hand, hitting it and through the device. He screams at the pain and drops the broken signaling device on the floor, embedded with his blood. Tamaki grabs him with his tentacles and drags him up to carry Stele in front of him.

Toyomitsu and Tamaki both send glares down upon the psychotic scum, arms crossed on their chests, and Stele looks up at them, eyes-widened. He chuckles nervously before raising his hands up in defeat. Tamaki scoffs before cuffing him. And thus, the battle was won. The moon comes out of the clouds and shines bright above them as they bask in short term glory.

The man with crystal-eyes looks at the entire scene exactly as he envisioned it before smiling to himself that this has happened, for he knows that everything will be alright. "Hey! Come on, man we gotta go." A bystander insists him to leave. He walks through the destroyed part of the wall and texts an anonymous friend.

Ryusake looks at the entire scene, with his wounds left to be bare. He motions for Akihiro to make themselves scarce before they are noticed by the pros. Akihiro race walks to the wall and lets his snakes slither around his forearm and they hiss around Akihiro's touch. Ikari gazes on the snakes with sparkles. "Look Sakii! Ropes on Akki's arm." Ikari shines at the snakes and the snakes feel offended and raise their hisses louder at her. Ryusake glances at her and growls as he jumps on the wall and scales over it.

He sticks the landing and Akihiro follows. He sends his snakes out to grapple on the top and lends Ikari an arm for her to get up on. Ikari looks on his arm with surprise.

"Come on up." Akihiro offers and Ikari looks at it one more time and grabs it. Akihiro hoists her up and she grabs on the ledge and climbs over it. Akihiro follows and lands on his legs, with Ryu and Ikari waiting. "Let's go." Akihiro says as he walks past the two delinquents and rolls on his skateboard.

Tamaki makes sure that he is cuffed tight. Stele grunts at the tightness before glancing at his broken device, knowing that Peter won't be coming to save him. Stele can't comprehend that he, a lowly servant of the League, a murdering bounty hunter, an infamous Japanese Villain, is arrested by law-lovers. He scoffs before taking out his beanie hat out of his pocket. Once he gets it on, his frown returns.

Alice powers down their Powers and start to follow wherever Ryusake went. Until an arm seizes her shoulder. She jumps at the touch. "Thanks for helping us. You two were really great! Where were the three who released us?" Slim-gum expresses his gratitude and asks, looking around the back of the warehouse.

"We were only passing by. And I'm trying to find one of them." Alice humbly shrugs off his praise. She looks at Connor and calls to him. 'Dang. He's pretty.' She thinks to herself, earning a tint of red on her cheeks. She shakes it off as she calls to her nephew to look for the three earlier.

"Nephew," She calls and Connor turns his wolf gaze at her. ", Be a dear and find that small Dragon, will you?" Alice orders and Connor gives a nod and scurries off and over the wall, in lock with their scent. Toyomitsu stands agape at that wolf who is named Connor.

"H-He's your nephew?" Toyomitsu hesitantly asks, afraid of offending Alice. But he sees that he has with that question, judging from her scowl to him.

"Yes, he is. Problem?" Alice tenses and stands up for Connor, making Toyomitsu stammer in his boots.

"No. None at all! I just…" Toyomitsu stammers in front of Alice and Tamaki steps, restraining Stele with his tentacles. "Wow kid. You have no idea what you are in for." Stele states for what's to come.

"Shut up, scum! Toyomitsu. We must make our leave of this place. The Axe Clan may return with more reinforcements." Tamaki advises Toyomitsu and he affirms.

"Yes. I agree. You should come with us, miss." Toyomitsu advises Alice, earning an answer.

"I'm sorry but I have business to finish. I'll be taking care of my nephew now." Alice rejects, finishing their conversation and bows down to express gratitude. She straightens up and marches off to Connor. She jumps up and on the wall. Toyomitsu is still agape with what just came and gone. He shrugs all that aside and focuses on the safety of the hostages.

Ryusake, Akihiro and Ikari run into alley after alley, out and away from the Makro District. They keep running up and over dumpsters and Akihiro rolls on his skateboard behind them. Ryu and Ikari pant and heave on their legs, giving no quarter. Akihiro rolls beside them and taps on his cell. Behind and above them, Connor follows on the rooftops and keeps an eye on the trio. 'Where will you three go, I wonder?'

Ryusake glances above and he can sense that someone is following them. He slows down his pace and Ikari halts to a stop and Akihiro grinds his board in front of them. Connor stops and perches above them.

"What is it, Sakii?" She says panting, and looking at Ryu looking behind for someone coming. His head raises up to the roofs. Connor sees him looking up and decides to show his face. He jumps down and lands on his four legs. His wolf face made Ikari squeak. Connor and Ryusake are stuck in a faceoff, with Ryu scowling and his fists clenched. Connor returns it with narrowed eyes and furrowed brows.

'Damn. I can't provoke them like this. I need to settle this peacefully.' Connor thinks to himself and Ikari catches that. Connor breathes out as he powers down and his wolf image dissipates. His black hair returns along with his sturdy complexion and skin.

Ikari gazes upon his face, and she goes back to the time he saved her from falling to the floor. Her face takes on a pint of pink at the cheeks and she looks away to hide it. Akihiro sees this and walks up beside her.

Connor looks at the faces of the trio with a greeting smile. "Hi. Can I ask some questions?" Connor asks them with a wave off and Ryusake softens his scowl and backs up, growling and sending his thoughts to Ikari.

"A-About what, Mister?" Ikari peeps in and Alice strolls by the alley and glances at the group, seeing Connor and Ryusake among them. She walks up beside Connor and handles the interview herself. "You." Alice calls out to Ryusake, making his head turn slightly. He growls to Ikari to speak his words.

"Y-Yes?" "Not you. Him." Alice whips at Ikari, making her sweat a drop and Connor becomes shocked that she is dominating control over this. Ryu faces Alice, with his golden-eyes at her golden hair. He stands his ground and crosses his arms.

"Yes?" He growls at Alice, eyeing at her ring on his neck. "That ring. Where did you get it?" Alice asks inquires and Ryu looks down upon it. He barks one word. "Given." With that, Alice affirms all that she's been thinking and asks him directly.

"Do you know Sokudo Satoshi?" Ryu opens his mouth to speak but Akihiro covers his mouth and laughs loudly. Ryu growls at Akihiro and Akihiro feels very awkward now. "We'll be right back." Akihiro says, dragging Ryu off to discuss with him. Ikari follows but not without a shared glance with Connor. She walks up to them both and squeezes into the conversation.

"If she sees him now, then his plan might go down and not in a good way. We have to lead her off the trail. His success must be in of paramount importance." Akihiro explains quietly and Ryu understands, while Ikari has no idea what this would mean. If this was some scheme to seek him out, then his identity will come in the spotlight for all the world to see. Including the League of Villains.

Alice peers at the huddled group and places suspicion upon them, and so does Connor. They look at each other, knowing that something's up. Alice ponders upon their behavior and grinds the gears in her brain. 'Okay. I know that something's up with those three. They know something. I will need to exert pressure on them.' Alice thinks to herself and she coughs loudly, grabbing their attention

Ryu and Ikari nod at Akihiro and they come back to give their answer. Alice and Connor look at each other and wait to see what that answer is. Ryu looks down and growls on to send thoughts to Ikari. Alice and Connor questions this but shrugs questions for later.

Ryu looks down and his hands trail to remove his necklace off his neck. He holds it out to show Alice and Connor. The two foreigners stand shocked to see the same ring, and Alice trembles for the worst.

"We… Can't say." Ikari pans out monotonously as she read in Ryusake's mind. Alice gets their tone but shrugs the warning off, snapping at the three. Connor ponders upon that answer and why they'd say that.

'Hmm. Can't say. If they can't something is going on in the hero industry of Japan.' Connor Smith-Sanders ponders on their hesitant answer.

"Well…Where's he?" She inquires impatiently with her voice stuck and Connor has shock in his face. Ryu and Akihiro spike up at the question, feeling like they made a mistake while Ikari blinks dumbfounded by their spiking up.

"Don't know. Don't. Care." Ryu grumbles as he brushes past Ikari and Akihiro, making them both spike up from his leave. Akihiro feels Alice's and Connor's daggering stares at him, while Ikari is still dumbfounded by their glaring. Akihiro hesitantly walks up to Alice, giving her a piece of folded-up paper

"Umm.. Just find this address and… Please keep this to yourselves." Akihiro whispers at them both as he gives Alice a piece of paper. With an address. Alice peers at it and it says [Suburban Block 7b, Kamino District]. She looks up to see them gone and disappeared from their spots. Connor runs ahead to look at both sides, but doesn't see anyone.

Alice squints her eyes to comprehend what happened. She shakes it off and comes out of the alley to get out of the abandoned district. "Come on! I'm sleepy!" Alice whines after checking the time on her wristwatch. Connor looks around one last time before coming up to catch up with her.

With our trio, Ryusake peeps out to see them leaving their sights. Akihiro sighs out in relief and Ikari smiles on the encounter. "She seems nice." She chimes at Ryu and he rumbles off with Akihiro walking ahead.

-=-=-Some time earlier-=-=-

Ichida Ipperi was a child with some problem biting his back every part of the day. His childhood was only a fluke, no problems and no worries. But then, came puberty. His problems started with misfortune and bad luck to his social life. He did not bear a grudge. Then, it became worse. His parents treated him with cold decisions. Then came their deaths.

He felt wrong to just laugh it off like he always wanted. But that would be wrong. Not right. So, he took on this hardness to the heart to feel some sort of stability. Then came Nanami into his life. Her brightness made him okay. Then comes this blonde bastard.

In the night, he scoffs off his problems in disgust as he looks out for Sokudo Satoshi in Kamino, especially in the warehouses. He walks past signs and stoplights that haven't been used for years. He warms up with his breath and holds it in his hands. He can hear his teeth clattering from the cold air.

'Better pay me up for this. I'm supposed to be having dinner tonight with Nanami.' Ichida complains to himself in thought as he trudges along in the night, with his GPS in hand. He runs ahead to the crossroads ahead of him and he sees the warehouse district ahead. He gains a determined face and walks ahead, passing by strangers with weary smiles as they head home.

"I can't believe you'd take on a job without me! I could've helped at least." Harumi Sakatoshi whines at Fukuda Watari, and he shrugs it off as he recalls one of his wooden puppets back to his place. He sighs out, making his breath visible for a second. Harumi pouts off at Fukuda as she pokes his cheek lightly.

"Alright. I'm sorry that I didn't tell you. But I needed to do it-"

"I know. It's for the money, yeah yeah." Harumi interrupts him before he rants on about their hometown in Hokkaido to the north. Fukuda retracts his voice and focuses on his puppets' safe return. Harumi's purple eyes roll back to Fukuda, drifting off to the edge of the sidewalk.

She sees a car approaching fast, about to hit Fukuda. She rushes to seize him by the arm to save him. The car swooshes by and Fukuda comes to his senses as its light flashed in his eyes. He looks around and then to Harumi, with her hands gripping onto his with a face of worry.

"Sorry. I'm getting sleepy." Fukuda weakly apologizes while Harumi's hand trembles. He shakes her to grab her attention. Her head flashes up to look up at him. She looks at his face, gazing at his brown eyes and he gazes back at hers.

Harumi looks back down to her hands and quickly lets go of him. She recovers with having a face of pride. "Whatever! You owe me now," She says as she points an index finger to him, expressing to cover up the blush on her face. "come on! I want to have dinner now!" She chippers ahead of Fukuda, dumbfounded by her bright light. He smiles as he walks on to follow her to his condo.

Meanwhile, with Ichida, he runs like a foot soldier on a mission. He grunts as he makes his legs take the pain, faster and faster to the warehouse district of Kamino. He stops at a crossing near the districts and sees three figures coming up from the alleys. He runs to the wall to hide himself. The figures start to slow down when they notice one lagging behind and Akihiro shifts back into the wall as best he can.

He hears panting from one of the figures. "How... Much longer. Till we get there?" Ikari asks between pants, and she hears wheels slowing down behind her. She looks to see Akihiro getting off his board to walk the rest of the way.

"Not much longer, friend." He replies as he kicks up his board and carries it. Ryu slows down and sits on the street to catch his breath. His hand hovers over his left abdomen and hisses from his touch. Ikari spots his hissing and runs to his side.

"Sakii! You're hurt!" She quakes at the sight of Ryu panting and bleeding bits. Ryu's eyes grow delirious to the pain, making Ikari worrisome. Akihiro runs to him, seeing that Ryu needs medical attention, and quickly.

"Alright pal. Give me your arm." Akihiro says as he hoists him up and onto his shoulders. Ryu groans as Akihiro carries him through the night. Ikari starts to expect the worst for her new friend. She's seen bad times happen, and is not keen on seeing them happen again. She then hears a slip behind her and her head flashes to the wall behind her.

She furrows her brows at the wall and starts inching closer and closer. "Ikari!" Her head flashes back to Akihiro and to his call. "I could use some help carrying this." He asks for help with Ryu. Ikari takes one last look at the wall before catching up with Akihiro to help him.

Ichida takes a small peek from the wall and sees the trio limping their way to the warehouse. He gives out a sigh of relief from the close call earlier. He straightens up and breathes up to creep around and out of their sight in the alleys.

Meanwhile, Sokudo, with crow's nests under his eyes, calls on his cellphone for a certain man with experience of overseeing events and has advised heroes with future events, but only snippets of it. He cannot risk someone, good or bad, to know about what is to happen next.

The phone rings on and on and Sokudo waits as he shoves his other hand into his robe pocket. The man on the other line answers and his head whips up to ask him if it happened.

"Did it, "/Yes, it did. / The old man with Crystal Eyes interrupts Sokudo before he finishes his sentence. Sokudo sweat drops on his interrupting and he clears his throat before he is interrupted again as he was about to speak. /What are you gonna do next, kid?/

Sokudo ponders about his options for the near future. With what happened, things are bound to come alive, and then there is the bounty hunters coming for him and his Speed. He taps his foot over and over quicker than a rabbit in thought. 'If those guys will come, then the peace I have sought for will be ruined!... However…' His foot stops flat on the floor and then thinks about another one of his accomplices in Europe.

/Well? What are you gonna do next, ?/ He impatiently asks, making Sokudo jump at his change of tone.

"Hmmmm… I'll find other allies. More friends around my circle of trust." The Crystal-Eyes man chuckles at his carefree attitude and looks at his wedding ring.

/Okay, son. But leave me out of it. I fear that if I stay, then Japan will fall./ "Okay Okay. I'll let you be. But we'll still be friends, right?" Sokudo asks childishly before he is cut off, listening to the continuous ringing. "Hello?"

Sokudo always didn't like his fast talks, and he chuckles softly at the irony. He places his phone in his pocket and walks his way back to his room. Then, he remembers Alice as his fingers trail down to his memento to remember her by.

It was a retractable bracelet with yellow diamond beads that trailed around the string holding them together. On one and between two of those diamonds was a bead that held a tag that said – Shine bright! She gave it to him because she saw Sokudo's frown too many times, and thought that it would cheer him up.

He chuckles softly again and finishes that phrase that always caught her attention. "Like… a diamond." He mumbles to himself quietly as he looks at the bracelet. Then, he notices his body growing weaker as his hands start to tremble, making him feel knives piercing all over his body.

He hastily puts the bracelet back in his pocket and he uses the last of his power to speed back to his room, but his leg falls asleep and he grunts from the way down to the floor. He groans standing back up and limps back to his room for his special medication.

'Damn this! I've resulted to turn to this drug!' He curses in his mind as he trudges his way back to his room. Though he wouldn't call it a room. He'd call it a makeshift box.

As he limps his way back to his bed, he thinks of all the horrible people that a certain businessman's perverted. He has ruined their lives! Who, at one time, he saw them as friends. Now, as enemies. He grunts as he hits the doorway into the room.

'I'll be coming for you, Giran!'

"What is the meaning of this, Kabe?! I asked for Sokudo Satoshi and all you give me are. Drugs!" Giran barks complaining at Kabe, whipping at the box of Quirks from his table. At just before the box hits the ground, Kabe stops it from hitting the floor, and the Quirks jerk inside their bottles. Giran scoffs at his timing, crashing down to his chair.

Kabe walks to pick up the box and place it on the coffee table behind him. "Sir, be optimistic at least. I believe that this will be your new road to ruling the world." Kabe proposes, catching Giran's attention. He pauses to breath in the smoke and lets it out from his lungs.

Kabe holds his breath, and coughs the incoming smoke from his lungs. "What are you talking about, Kabe?" Giran inquires holding his cigar between his fingers. His grin starts to form but does not grow.

Kabe walks back to face his master with a blank face. "The League has asked Peter and his group to steal the Taking Serum from Steam Industries. This serum can make a Quirk susceptible enough for one to take it. I propose that we use this to make our own Nomus," Kabe states willfully, with Kabe taken aback with this request.

The room is filled with silence as they stare into each other's eyes. Giran's grinning face is plastered onto his face once again. Kabe's shoulder's sag as he reaches for his pocket to get a sample of the Taking Serum from his pocket and gives it to Giran. He peers at it as he raises it in the light. It shone a pitch black at his eyes and he throws it back to him. He catches it and looks at it then to Giran with surprise.

"That is a job only for All for One to fulfill. Not by mere disciples such as us." Giran quips at him, rejecting Kabe's proposal. Kabe mock-glares at Giran, which he glares back at. They stare each other down, neither of them wanting to back down.

The tension in the room rises, making the scene seem awkward or scary. Giran breaks their death stare by pinching the bridge of his nose. "Look, kid… I don't want to fight with you. You're like another son to me." Giran pans out straight-up,

Kabe lets his shoulders sag once more and Giran takes another smoke, blowing out another at Kabe. He coughs out the smoke and swats it away. The con man chuckles at Kabe's allergy to smoke.

"Fine. I'll offer this idea to Shigaraki. He'll like this." Giran snickers as he types Shimura Tenko's new phone number. Until Kabe's hand trails down onto his, stopping him from hitting more digits. Giran looks up, questioning his look.

"Sir… I wouldn't recommend that for your economic conquest,"Kabe instructs with a cool face. Giran raises an eyebrow at him, and Kabe adjusts his glasses so he can see better. ", I propose that we send those Quirks to the League, via Peter and his group. If they make the weapons they seek into a reality, then our aide will surely be rewarded, and you will have a rightful place in their order. The order of kings!" Kabe offers, stating the future for their enterprise and referring to the box he brought in earlier.

Giran looks at his disciple, rambling about his personal mission. He already has though, and he can't leave his corporation behind. But there is a possibility that he can profit off this. More influence around the world meant that he'll get more capital, ergo more money. Then he realizes that he's brushed something else.

"What weapons?" Giran asks slowly, with eyes of surprise. Kabe looks at Giran, repeatedly tapping his forefinger, and his grin twitches as his brows furrow.

"These Quirks' purpose is to be fused with a certain item. With All for One's methods, it will turn the subjects into mindless beasts…" Kabe explains with a clear voice, making Giran realize that with this…

"The Nomus will become irrelevant. And we will grant the League with Quirks that they can use for themselves! And you will be granted a seat higher than All for One himself!" Kabe storms and explains in vocal power, making Giran's grin start to form.

"Sir…" Kabe states before turning his calm face into an insane grin. He walks up to his table with both hands clenched down to its surface. "… We can become gods." Kabe bellows clearly, and Giran sees the future his loyal disciple is boasting.

Giran places the phone back in its slot, and stammers at his change of character. The entire room goes silent and Kabe can hear the ringing in his ears. His face turns back to a frown and he takes off his glasses to wipe dust off the lenses.

Giran stands up to walk around the table, and face-to-face with Kabe. He sees the determination in his black eyes and Giran smirks at him, seeing the future he is trying to come to life. If they do give this to the League, then they will be a force to be reckoned with. Maybe even the African Vanguard will tremble in their gigantic walls, keeping out any intruders that come to hurt Africa.

"Very well. We shall start manufacturing this serum and I shall send them to deliver this box of Quirks over to Europe." Giran avows, and Kabe has successfully convinced his master to commence his secret operation. To see what would happen if one man were to chase this dream. For order. For control. For one mind, one soul, one voice.

Kabe smiles at the achievement he's done and Kabe sits back down on his chair. He picks up the phone again and starts punching one of his comrades' cell. "You tell Peter the big news: that he and his team are going back to Europe. I have no use for them anymore." Giran insists, and Kabe nods before picking up the box and goes inside the elevator with it.

The doors slide in and the elevator makes its way down, leaving Giran to ponder on what he should do next. The phone rings and rings and his comrade answers.

/Giran?... It's been too long… darling! / She chimes at her neighbor, and Giran huffs out more smoke and his smirk widens at the thought of them working together. He chuckles at her reaction and answers back, "Yes. Yes, it has"

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