Chapter 10: Picking up movement

Alright. Another one, and it's Christmas! (12/25/18) Leave a review to this to let me know, and thanks for sticking around this far. Enjoy.

-=-=4:18 AM in Japan, Hosu District Police Station=-=-

Grunts and groans can be heard at the end of the prison hallway. Guards hold their batons at the ready for attack, while Detective Tsukauchi beats up Stele strapped in a chair, venting his anger and frustration at the psychopath. Tsukauchi kneads his way into his belly and Stele grunts at his punches. Tsukauchi stops to rest his bloodied knuckles while Stele coughs out blood at the side.

Tsukuachi pants as he wipes his hands with a damp towel and throws it on the table behind him. Stele laughs mockingly at the detective and spits blood at him. Tsukuachi's anger grows and storms at him as he grips on his neck and throws him out of the chair and onto the floor. Stele laughs hysterically at the floor as his hands are restrained. He grinds up to lean on the wall, like a hyena.

Tsukuachiwalks up to grab him, but a hand places itself on his shoulder. He looks at it to see that Sansa Tamakawa looks at him with his eyes to stop. Tsukuachi looks back at Stele, standing back up with his back against the wall. He pants from the effort it's taken him to stand.

"You*pant* will not*pant*be getting anything from me." Stele promises smiling at him, and laughing at his face. Tsukuachi fumes at him, arms crossed. Sansa taps his shoulder, Tsukuachi rolls his eyes at him, and Sansa points at the door, motioning him to get outside.

Tsukuachi looks back at Stele, grinning to himself. "Now you, stay here. Do not get naughty. I'll be back for our talk." Tsukuachi orders Stele, who just raspberries him on his way out. The door slams, making Stele's eardrums shot. Tsukuachi and Sansa have a big discussion about all the things that have been happening, and they start to regret about their job, and what it's caused.

"We are in some deep muddy water right now! Do you know what this has caused for our department?" Sansa expresses angrily at Tsukuachi.

"Okay! Okay… I'll think of something!..." Tsukuachi says reassuringly. Sansa scoffs at his shrug and he walks up to him to grip on the detective's collar. He jumps at the suddenness of his actions. His feline eyes look at the detective's brown eyes in surprise.

"Get a grip, sir! You're not focused on the bigger picture!" Sansa pans out, and Tsukauchi grunts weakly at his honesty.

"You need to focus on this!" He shouts showing the file of the League of Villains, Shigaraki's posse. Sansa lets go and Tsukauchi quickly steps back and rubs his neck. He takes the file and opens it up, seeing the same faces. He scoffs at Shigaraki's tricks over the past and closes it to keep it in his coat.

"I will, Sansa."

"I don't feel like you are." Sansa snaps at his colleague and he whips his head at him in return.

"You're focused on little things, like this!" Sansa bellows at Tsukauchi, showing Peter's picture, along with his team's pictures.

"Tamakawa, I promise you, this is not a little thing."

"American tabloids wanted by the CIA and FBI. For loitering and grand theft. That's your priority tight now?" Sansa states between pauses and asks snapping. Tsukuachi fumes at his inability to imagine about this.

"Why do you think they are here?"

"Does it matter?" Sansa quips at Tsukuachi, making him speechless. Sansa asks again, "Does. It. Matter?" repeating Tsukuachi's look on his face. The lead detective stammers before he is interrupted by a storming blonde with her nephew stepping behind her.

"Uhh, auntie… Wait up." Connor says, worried for the abductee's life. Alice Smith stomps toward the door, and Tsukauchi puts a hand in front of her.

"Whoa whoa whoa! You're not going in there." Tsukauchi advises, earning daggers from her. Tsukauchi grunts and cranes his head back in shock.

"Don't stop me!" Alice bellows at Tsukauchi, making him shrink in his place. He steps back slowly with Connor looking at the two police trembling, not daring to stop the tornado from going in the door.

Stele's head shoots up to look at the fuming blonde. He opens his mouth grinning but that grin is later punched off by her fist. Tsukauchi, Sansa and Connor watch from behind the glass. Sansa's cat head lets out a sweat, feeling lucky he wasn't the one being interrogated by her.

As the bashing goes on, Sansa asks, "U-Um… Shouldn't we intervene, sir?"

"No, it's f-fine. *punch* We shouldn't interfere with a woman with a temper. It'll be bad luck for you…"

Another punch happens to Stele, and he coughs out blood at the floor and bursts out laughing. Alice pants from the clocking and whips her hand around.

"You're so fun!" Stele compliments her torturing method and she sits down on the chair behind the table. She smacks her hand flat on the table, making Stele jump with his ghost of a grin back on his face.

"What were you doing there? Why?!" She demands leaning on the table, scowling at the guy.

Stele shrugs before saying, "Don't know, don't care." Alice scoffs at his disgusting loyalty, looking all bloody. She rummages through her knapsack and takes out his last photo of Sokudo. The photo had them both with their arms placed on each other's shoulders, with smiles on their faces and the heads of Mount Rushmore behind them.

She shows it to his face and Stele peers at it. "Oh! That's you! And… some other guy that I don't know." He pans out his immediate thoughts. She groans at his honesty and tells him anyway.

"This is Sokudo Satoshi! A man who's gone missing! Do you know where he is?"

Stele ponders upon the man in the photo and tries to deduce everything that's happened.

"Mmmm sorry. Don't know. Wouldn't tell you anyway if I did." Stele resists then snickers off in his chair, and earns himself a bashing at the table. Alice throws him down to the table and leaves the room with Stele still battered up, leaning down on the table. The door closes and he looks up to see Alice talking with Tsukauchi and Sansa Tamakawa.

He squints at the three, trying to read their lips to see what they're saying.

"Mm Tom Cruise is a smooth. criminal?"

"We can't go after the criminals now! We've got a lot on our plate as it is." Sansa answers Alice's request, making her even more impatient with her nerves pulsing.

"You should! They're plotting in the shadows right now! We need to stop whatever they're planning with those Quirks!" Alice orders them for the right thing. Sansa scoffs from her perkiness and opens up the files of Shigaraki and his goons. He shows their pictures to her, making her peer at it.

"Do you know where this guy is? *switches pictures* Or this woman?" Sansa whips, showing Shigaraki and Toga to her. She shrugs the pictures off and shows her missing persons case.

"Do you know where this man is?" She bellows while showing their fun time at Mount Rushmore. Tsukauchi notices it to be Sokudo, and Sansa looks at it with more detail. He shakes his head in response. Alice scowls at the feline officer, making his fur spike up even more. She lets the tension cease with a sigh.

"Look. I'd like to extend my hand into this." She states, crossing her arms with her chest up. Connor spectates this battle between the adults in the corridor.

'Dang. If I was him, I would've backed down.' Connor comments in thought.

Sansa looks at Tsukauchi and they both roll their eyes back at her. Tsukauchi ponders on his schedule. 'Let's see… I've got the case on All for One… The numerous vigilante cases… and Sokudo Satoshi missing case… Oh boy I do need to finish something.'

"Sir?" Sansa objects his train of thought, making his head whip back at him. Then his head cranes to Alice, as she looks at him back.

"No. I will not help you." He replies firmly, making Alice sigh in defeat. "Not me anyway… This woman will help you." Tsukauchi says to save time. 'Yes. Why do it myself when I have people who are willing to do it for me?' Tsukauchi praises himself in his head while showing the pictures of who will help her, along with their contact numbers.

Tsukauchi adjusts his coat to continue Stele's interrogation. More like a beating lesson. He sighs after seeing the state that the detainee is in. He calls in other officers to drag out the trash to the Tartarus.

"I trust that you know what you're doing, Americans." Tsukauchi takes that to mind, following Stele's escorts, along with Sansa Tamakawa shuffling behind him. Connor and Alice peer at them both, and walk to each other to discuss plans.

"Auntie, what now?" Connor asks, gaining a glance from her. Alice starts pondering, and she looks at the picture of the heroine again.

'She looks… cool.' She comments on what she is doing in the picture. The heroine kneels down, making a twister from her hands.

"uhh We're going back to the hotel. I'm not done treating your injury." She declares referring to Connor's back situation being unfinished. Alice walks toward the door, leaving Connor to catch up.

'I hope that the lady's going to help us.' He keeps his hope up as he jogs ahead with Alice.

-=-=-In Sokudo Satoshi's warehouse=-=-

Ikari sits on a chair beside Ryusake Tadashi and Akihiro leans on the wall, exhausted after a night of unrest after the fight. Her thoughts wander off to what happened last night as she looks down to her bloodied hands.

-=-=Flashback=-=-

Powerful grunts emanate from Ryusake as he is being worked upon by Sokudo with handle s to stop the bleeding. He pulls out the last spike from his shoulder. He screams out, gripping on the bed tightly. Sokudo panics as he is working on his stepson. Ikari holds his chest down, and Akihiro helps.

"Put penicillin in him!" Sokudo orders as he speeds around, gathering the medicine to stop the bleeding. Ikair trembles as she watches her friend in pain, and Akihiro injects it. Sokudo runs back beside Ryusakescreams out, with his fire stopping in his mouth.

Ikari jumps back abut presses more on his chest. 'Damn, he's hard!'

Sokudo combines ingredients together that he's collected from his travels in Africa. 'Damn, I hope this works!' He then transmutes the ingredients into a juice for him to drink or get. He turns to see white fire streaming upward and to the ceiling, melting a hole through it.

"A little help over here!" Akihiro calls out, making him speed to close his mouth. Sokudo grunts as he pushes Ryu's mouth up and the fire slowly stops.

Blood spurts out from his open wounds, and Ikari wipes it off, earning blood on her palms. She looks down at it, about to barf from the sight. Sokudo places the juice into his mouth and makes him drink it. Ryusake gulps it down and his eyes close, and passes out from shock.

Akihiro pants as he back away. "I'ma get the patches." He remarks as he points upward as a suggestion. He trudges off to the restroom to get those patches. Sokudo pants from exhaustion and running around. His eyes turn to Ikari, gaping still at Ryusake.

Ikari remembers her mom like that. Cuts and wounds, and bloody all over. But now that she sees the sight again, like this…

-=-=End of Flashback=-=-

It made her want to die. She can feel herself trembling again. She holds her face in her palms and begins to have a breakdown. Akihiro rushes over to give her a pat on the back.

"Hey, you okay?" Akihiro asks in worry for her and her 's head shoots up to look at him, and one of Akihiro's snakes slithers down his leg and starts to rise up to her face. She looks down at it and it hisses at her. Ikari looks back up at Akihiro to see his face of concern.

She looks back at Ryusake, peacefully breathing in bed. "He… He's the first friend that I've had… I don't want to lose anyone…" She mutters, sobbing at Ryusake's state. Akihiro's snake slithers up onto Ryusake's chest and looks down from it.

It turns to Akihiro. Then it rises up and down, meaning Ryusake's breathing now. Akihiro gives out a massive sigh of relief, getting her attention. "He's breathing now!" Akihiro says, poking at Ikari's shoulders. Her head whips up to look at the snake slowly going up and down.

She stops her sobbing and turns it into gasps of relief and shock. "Th-Then why isn't he waking up?"

"I asked you! Why isn't he waking up?!" Ikari shrieks at Akihiro, feeling very concerned for her friend's life. Akihiro trembles in surprise and holds his hands up in defense.

"Whoa whoa! Calm down! He's alive, and sleeping it off! He'll be fine! Look!" Akihiro asuures her, and she looks back at Ryu's slow breathing, indicated by his snake going up and down. Ikari lets out a sigh and slumps back at the chair she's sitting in.

The snake drops down the bed and returns within Akihiro. "You've done well, snake." Akihiro thanks and the snake nods down before getting inside Akihiro's body. Ikari grunts and scowls at Akihiro, gripping onto the collars of his shirt.

"That's good! I thought I'd lose my first friend." She says in relief. Akihiro notices their closeness as friends. He grows curious as he peers and ponders at them both.

"Where did you two come from?" Akihiro inquires and she opens her eyelids at him. She lets her legs open up, releasing the tension from them.

"Me? I don't know. Him, I found him in some warehouse near a school." Ikari replies with the story of their first meeting and goes in depth.

"We got off on the wrong foot, and I've sorta… been following him around for days. When he found me out… we became friends and walked around the streets ever since. Then, we're here."

Akihiro listens to her plain story and Akihiro smiles at their meeting. "Sounds like you two are best friends now." Akihiro laughs, making her contemplate about the things he's doing now. If he were to throw his life away, it would break her.

Akihiro breaks her silence with, "If he were here now, then what would he say?" Akihiro inquires, breaking her out of her thoughts.

"I don't know, but it would be something harsh." Ikari pans out, sort of ending their little chat. Akihiro's phone buzzes in his pocket. He reaches for it and looks at the message, and earns a shocked face.

"I'M LATE FOR WORK!" Akihiro rushes to his room to get his street clothes on. He wears a white shirt and his ragged croptop on top. He hoists up his shorts on his way to the trips and falls on the way and his head bumps to the floor.

Ikari hears the bump from the other room and she shrugs it off. 'Must have been my imagination.' She continues to gaze at Ryusake's peaceful position.

Akihiro stands back up to pull up his zipper and he opens up the door and leaves it. He bursts the door openin the room where Ikari's in, and she jumps on her chair from the loud bang.

"I have to go! If you need anything, call this! Food on fridge, okay byee!" Akihiro babbles fast like a rapper would, and throws a note to the floor and speeds off to the door to his day job.

Ikari holds her hand out to have him repeat that, but he runs off before that. She sweatdrops at his impunctuality. 'He's so happy-go-lucky.' She spins that thought around her head, with a pinch of red forming in her cheeks.

She suddenly hears groaning behind her. She whips her head around to see Ryu getting up. She stands up to push him back down, which she does. Ryu's eyes flutter at her and she starts to stammer.

"Y-You shouldn't. You should rest first. Y-you got worked up last night." She advises and Ryu does not bother to fight her so she puts her back down on the bed.

Ikari sits down beside him and looks down at the floor, about to tell him her thoughts. She inhales to speak, but Ryu interrupts her.

'What happened?' Ryu sends beaming at her. Ikari exclaims in surprise.

"Oh. Uuuuhhh. You… kind of… passed out. And we. Took care of you." Ikari says as she scratches behind his head while settling towards him and his golden eyes. They stare into each other and her hand brushes against his. Her face gets warm as she creeps her hand to touch his.

Ryu pays no mind to it and continues to look at her… He only now notices their separate color. Her left had been dark blue and her right was violet. His eyes widen at their color, making her stagger a bit. "What's…wrong?" She asks feeling concerned.

Ryu shrugs off his astonishment and starts collecting his thoughts. 'I sense that you feel the need to tell me something.' Ryu acknowledges her behavior, making her jump in her sitting. She twiddles her fingers together in indecisiveness.

Ryu peers at her behavior and adjusts his body on the bed. 'Well? What is it?' Ryu inquires impatiently, wanting to get up and off the bed.

"S-Sakii… you need to stop getting yourself into stuff like those." She stammers with her voice thinning out, forming sadness in her. Ryu immediately gets up from the bed. He hisses from the body pains of his injuries, attracting her attention.

She quickly grabs his wrist, making him spike up. Her breathing hastens and their beating pumps up. She can feel herself warmer, and warmer.

'I have to do those. It's what I do.' Ryu justifies his crime-fighting and she scoffs at it.

She shakes her head before saying, "I don't want you to."

'What do you care?' Ryusake quips with his scowl forming, and Ikari turns her head toward his, showing the tears in her eyes. Ryu slowly backs up to the wall, feeling confused.

"You're… You are the first friend I've made since my mom died." She confesses, sobbing. Ryusake's scowl disappears, turning back to his resting face. "I don't want to lose anyone…" She bawls and sobs, with a tear dropping down her face.

Ryusake Tahashi, the teenager who turned cold, is actually feeling for this girl. Maybe because of a certain heroine he met when he was in the streets. She's probably a pro hero by now.

Ikari's lip quivers as she sniffles and Ryu is brought back to reality. He exhales downward, frustrated and dizzy. He reaches for her shoulder, making her spike up from the touch but eventually lets his hand touch her smooth shoulders.

Ryusake rubs his palms on her back, trying to comfort her. Ikari stops trembling from the rough touch, and her back sags at it.

'D-Don't worry. You're not going to lose anyone.' Ryusake reassures Ikari, making her stop trembling. Then, out of nowhere, Sokudo appears, leaning on the wall with his arms crossed. He chuckles at them, having a moment to themselves.

Ryu looks at his caretaker and quickly backs away from Ikari, making her dumbfounded by them both. The brunet drags his hair back and smiles upon them both. "How touching, Ryu. And I thought I was the sweet talker." Sokudo chimes at the sight.

Ryu growls at him, and he only smirks in return. Then, his frown returns, after remembering the things he's done to get off the grid. And now, he's lying in bed, beaten up. Ryusake raises his brow-muscle and looks at that frown.

"Kid, could you step out for a minute? Ryu and I have to talk for a minute." Sokudo requests to Ikari, making her look back at Ryu, and he looks back. She stands up, wiping away her tears as she steps out through the door.

Ryu watches as she does, then when she is out of the room, Ryu sits on the side of the bed, facing his 'scumbag of a father'. They stare at each other awkwardly, both trying to keep a straight face. Sokudo

"I'm really sorry. For what happened to you because of me… But I am disappointed still by what you've decided to do after that." Sokudo storms at Ryusake, making him growl. Sokudo reaches for his robe pocket, taking out a neckband. He throws it at Ryusake, and he catches it in his right.

Ryu looks down upon it and sees a part of it shining blue light. He looks up at his godfather. I'm sorry. I now know the difference between a godfather and a stepfather. I'm so so sorry. I hope there aren't any hard feelings, guys. Continue.

"Wear it." Sokudo replies, and Ryusake unclips it and wears it on his neck. The neck band creeps and whirs down his neck, where his vocal chords are, making him stagger then relax. He feels his neck widening, and he staggers at the experience.

"Try to talk."

Ryusake pauses before saying, "What should I say?" He staggers at his voice. How deep it is now. He was amazed how fast he got through puberty.

"I made that so you can talk to other people better. Thank Akihiro for your voice." Sokudo compliments and Ryu looks at him again. Sokudo takes out the letter he's been holding onto since his coming-to from the ice.

He smears his face and waves around the letter in the room. Ryu peers at it, and mostly on the letters of the logo. It spelled out U and A. It looked classy and superior. It also made him reform his scowl at him. Sokudo sighs exasperatingly and crosses his arms at him, keeping his words firm and to the point.

"But. I digress. I should've been a better godfather… But. You are going back to school."

Meanwhile, in the streets of Musutafu, normal-everydayness continues to happen, with all passersby minding their own business. Within the crowd, lie two people. You could call them heroes. A diamond-haired blonde and a confident brunet. The brunet drags his sleeves down to cover his spandex suit.

The crowd gossips about the two passing by them. "Oh my gosh! There are new heroes on the block!" "Who are they? Must be new." "It's the Diamond Hero from America!" "Oh? I thought they were transitional devices from an author." "They look so cool!" Connor chuckles at the compliment of them and runs up to catch up with Alice.

"Auntie. Where are the heroes assigned to us?" Connor inquires as he walks up to her aunt. She adjusts her coat and her body armor. She looks at her nephew and sees him in his pants and checkered collar shirt.

She takes out the note from Tsukauchi and points down the street. "They should be down at that streetooofff! Watch it!" Alice barks at the guy that bumped into her.

"Sorry, lady!" A young courier states back at her on his skateboard, carrying his messenger bag close. The rolling wheels roll out of sight and sound. Connor looks at his aunt to see how she is.

"Auntie, you ok?" Connor asks worriedly, and Alice sneers at the delinquent.

"Let's just go. I want to find him now." Alice folds up the note and tucks it into her pocket, and she feels the other note the kid from last night. She read that note and takes into mind the words, 'Kamino District, Suburban block.'

She walks down the path and beside Kamino Center Mall with Connor following suit. Then, a taller brunette and a classy girl with earbuds comealong. She wears a purple soft-scowling that showed her grin. She wore a white skirt with a purple weather coat, with its sleeves flowering on from the elbow.

Then the girl with earbuds was just listening to a fan-made music audio. It's called "Focus on Me" by OR3O_Th1NS. The actual song is a BATIM song by OR3O. She takes off the headphones to pause the song and hums her way with her instructor.

She wears what a magician's assistant would wear. A black suit jacket that trails down to her waistunder a light pink shirt, whitelong pants that reached down to her shins, flat shoes, and some bracers on her arms. She wears a black top hat and white gloves on her hands.

While they walk, the girl shows a crooked smile, embarrassed about what she is wearing, and walking around in it. In a big crowd of people. Then she hears gossips about how pretty she is.

She spikes up at the statements, making her spike up and becoming red. She shakes her head and catches up to her instructor.

"M-Ms. Harumi…" She calls out to her teaching hero, and Harumi Sakatoshi, a social worker turned local ex-hero recently, is now teaching her own niece. "Hmm? What is it?" She asks, shoving her hands into her weather coat costume.

"W-Well, what are we doing after this? The "random assignment" given to us by your old boss?"

"Oh, uhhh nothing else. We'll only accompany two foreigners on their investigation." Harumi pans out as she walks by passersby. "Come on, Kimiko. We're almost to where they, probably, are." Harumi commands her niece.

Kimiko Sakatoshi, a shy high-school girl, sighs exhaustingly, and jogs to keep up with her aunt.

Alice and Connor see them step into the squared street in the middle and Alice peers at the brunette, recognizing her from the photo. She tugs at Connor's shirt and they come up to them. Harumi sees them both walking towards them and she calls Kimiko to meet the foreigners.

Alice and Harumi both wave at each other. "Hi. You must be Harumi Sakatoshi." Alice chats at her as she hands out her hand for a handshake.

"Well you guessed correctly. And I presume you are Alice Smith?" Harumi puts her finger on her chin and they shake hands.

"You are correct. And this is my nephew. -pause- Connor." Alice

"Alright. And this here is Kimiko. My niece." Harumi introduces herself and Alice to Connor and Kimiko respectively. Connor lightly bows his head at Harumi, making her stagger.

"Pleasure to be shortly working with you, ma'am." Connor properly introduces herself to the both of them, making her feel honored and let out a quiet giggle.

"Pleasure's ours. I am Harumi Sakatoshi and this is my niece. Kimiko Sakatoshi." She says introducing her niece to the foreigners. She remains silent and scratches her elbow in nervousness before speaking up.

"H-Hii… Miss. I'm Kimiko." She stammers on her nickname, and Connor peers at her, getting curious as to why she is dressed like a hero from comic books. After her introduction, Alice takes out Akihiro's note from last night and drags Harumi off into their own conversing.

"Harumi, I need to talk to you if we are to go any further." Alice says to Harumi.

Whilst the grown-ups discuss, the two younger proteges awkwardly shuffle themselves towards each other for a little chat. Connor looks at her top hat and feels tempted to take it. Then his eyes roll down to her blossoming hair, then to her creamy complexion.

"I'm. Connor, by the way." Connor speaks first to her, and reaches out his hand for a handshake. It makes her stagger in shyly. She scratches her head and hesitantly grabs his hand with two hands.

"Oh. Uhh, ok… Nice outfit." Connor states, complimenting her get-up, making her earn red cheeks.

"Well, Ms. Alice, what are we gonna do now?" Harumi asks, and feeling like in a hurry to go back home.

Alice fumbles her thoughts about the unknown trio from last night. She looks an inch up her face and makes her face determined.

"Alright. We're going to Kamino branch, to see what I can do to find my friend!" Alice says with a determined look, and Harumi nods in agreeing tone.

And so,their search continues. Although their bodies are weak, they still strive to find what has been lost. And make a few friendships along the way. Forming a team of white knights in search of a mage.

And then, there are our three black knights. They have been in some dark holes. Some, deeper than the others. But in their spite, they serve for what is good in the world with every bit of honor that they can muster for the mage's cause.

As for our psychotic hermit, along with other vandals, are serving time in a van, headed to the underworld, Tartarus.

Or did he?

-=-=2 Hours earlier=-=-

The day was coming to a sunset, and the van is being loaded up with criminals caught in the streets. Headed for Tartarus.

"Alright, b*tches. Time to be on your best behavior, cuz you've got no chance of leaving the Tartarus." An officer teases with a hard grip on Takie's shirt.

"Fine, retard. Once I see your mom, that is." Takie smirks to tease back at him. The officer sneers at his insult, and the van doors are open for him to be thrown into. Takie exclaims as he flipped on his backside to the floor of the back.

The officer scoffs at the pain with a chuckle. "Wise-ass." He sneers at him as he slams the door at his becomes annoyed at his quality treatment. And the two thugs behind him send an icy glare at his way.

Takie stands up to see them both again. Kasai and Nasai, the criminal duo in Musutafu. "Heyy!" Takie exclaims, happy to see them both. They keep their glares fixed at him, making his shoulders tense.

"What about our money, damn Rat?!" They shout in unison, pissed off that Takie didn't keep his deal to them.

He shows his hands to them in defense. "Okay, boys…. I can explain."

Then, in the front of the back, a chuckle. Takie looks at the guy, and notices Stele in a chair, restrained to it with chains on his ankles. He smiles at Takie intently, with a devilish grin. "Oy! It's you!" Takie recognizes him to be one of Peter's croneys.

"You are soooo deep." Stele chuckles some more, teasing at Takie. His anger pulsates to his head.

"Oy! What'd you say?! I'ma kill you!" Takie threatens the guy, making him widen the grin on his face, and he starts trembling from excitement.

"Can you really fight me? Can you, kid?" Stele taunts, making Takie, Kasai and Nasai frightened. Takie scoffs before going to take a seat.

The driver in the van starts the engine and joins up with other police cars, guarding it from the front and the back. Detective Tsukauchi gets worried, not being with the convoy to see that the prisoners get in Tartarus.

Sansa Tamakawa peers at his partner with concern. "Don't be worried 'bout a thing. They'll make it." Sansa assures, making Tsukauchi flash his head to him. Then he glances back to the exit they came out of before picking up a call from an unknown caller.

He picks it up hesitantly and sticks it to his ear. "Yes?"

/Hey./

The voice makes him spike up, finding it very familiar. He stumbles backward from shock and catches himself on his back feet. The man from the other end gave a small chuckle to Detective Tsukauchi.

/I have a plan here. You interested?/

Giran's tall tower seemed to be teeming with thugs, emptying the place of Giran's possessions with Kabe overseeing the move.

"Alright, lackeys. All of this claim and possessions have to be ready by tonight. Mr. Giran's plane leaves this month." Kabe orders the thugs with haste, and they blurt with a "Yes, sir."

Kabe looks at his watch to see the date on it. He ponders on the schedule a bit more. 'If this is done today, then the plane will be leaving with the Quirks and the Quirk Items within a week. *glance at watch* and we can get to Russia with much more time before his meeting.' With his thoughts processed, he smiles to himself and looks at the room.

"Sir, we're good to go." A lackey informs Kabe, carrying a box of office supplies to the elevator. Kabe walks over to Giran's desk and pulls out the lower drawer. He pushes a button that opens a door to the wall. Kabe looks at the Dragon-Scaled Armor displayed in the secret room.

Kabe grabs it and scurries off to the elevator with the other thugs holding boxes inside. The doors slide to close and the elevator goes down to the ground floor. Kabe glances at the thugs behind him. The tower has now been emptied, left with every floor barren.

Kabe steps into their van outside and closes the door. The car goes on to ride in broad daylight. Kabe pulls out a detonator and presses the button. Then, Giran's office goes up in smoke and blows up. The ivory tower trembles, with the crowd shaking at screaming in terror from falling debris.

The thugs continue to drive away from the tower in calm states and the police drive past them, and Kabe pays no mind to the police.

"Ignore them. Go to the hotel." Kabe orders, gesturing his fingers to continue their course. 'This is going to be a big change. Especially for Shigaraki.'