Izuku falls out of the sludge now that it's not actively keeping him hostage and lands on his hands and knees. He coughs up so much of that disgusting slime. Briefly, he registers that he was crying.
The sludge tasted rotten and rancid smelt like decayed flesh and Izuku wanted it to just go away but he can't just send the villain on his merry way. With the heart still inside the sludge villain, Izuku would be connected to the damn thing until he took it out.
Izuku sobs silently and sits against the wall of the alleyway. His hands were shaking badly. He reaches up to cover his right eye with his left hand.
His bright green right eye that everyone thought was beautiful, even though it had an ugly raged pale white line running through it that went from his eyebrow down to his cheekbone.
Izuku's shoulder shuddered into another sob. His eye was okay. It wasn't bleeding. He wasn't seeing red. His lungs hurt but not his face it wasn't bleeding why is my face bleeding mommy please wake up it hurts and I'm scared mommy, please-
Izuku slams his head against the concrete wall to jerk himself out of his thoughts. He wasn't there. Not anymore. His mother was gone and so was his eyesight but he had Kachan and Kachan was his brother Kachan would always protect him from people like-
Like the sludge villain. Who was still standing- uh flowing?- in the middle of the alleyway with blank eyes. Izuku shudders again.
It takes a few minutes but Izuku manages to get a hold of himself and lets himself fall into his normal blank face. Izuku stands up and brushes off the pieces of slime that managed to stick to his middle school uniform. He walks over to his bag and checks everything.
The jar of hearts had a small crack on the side. Majesty didn't even have so much of a scratch and her- his?- no her- heart was concealed perfectly away in its container.
Izuku bites his lip in contemplation before sighing and opening the container. Grabbing Majesty he flips her upside down and opens the hatch he made for her heart.
Delicately he reaches inside the container and lifts out the heart. Izuku holds it for a second, just contemplating the thump of the beating heart against his palm. Izuku stops staring and deposits the heart inside Majesty's "chest" and closes the hatch and watches as it mends itself together.
Pressing the small button on the bottom of her foot, Izuku watches as royal blue highlights gold and Majesty comes to life.
He puts her back on her feet when he hears the soft whirring sound indicating that her AI is assessing the situation and where she was before she looks to Izuku. She immediately recognized her creator and chirped happily. Izuku rubs his hand over his eyes to get rid of the stinging sensation of tears and smiles slightly at his dragon.
She chirps again before flapping her wings to get up on his shoulder. Izuku grunts slightly under the unexpected weight but Majesty balances herself out pretty quickly. She feels warm from where she's pressed against his shoulder and where she wrapped her tail around Izuku's neck.
Her talons have pricked his school uniform but he'll need a new one anyway. From all the sludge damage.
Speaking of sludge-
Izuku looks over to the slime villain.
What the heck am I supposed to do with you. He thinks, watching the sludge uncomfortably. Izuku takes a deep breath, sets his expression, and starts walking towards the nearest police station.
Follow
Izuku hears the soft sloshing sound that signals the sludge villain is following him.
After a few minutes and lots of unwanted staring, Izuku opens the door to the Musutafu Police Department. The receptionist looks up and gapes at him, clearly not having expected a kid with a dragon on his shoulder and a villain behind him. It was at moments like this Izuku wished he still had the strength to speak.
Izuku picks up his phone and opens up a voice app he programmed into his phone that spoke whatever he typed into it.
His movement seems to snap the lady out of her stupor and she frantically runs around the desk and at him. She reaches out, most likely to grab his face to make sure he is okay. He flinches away and Majesty hisses at the women and he can feel her talons start to prick his skin under the shirt.
The woman backs up.
"Kid- what-?"
"I was attacked on my way home from school." he showed the lady the screen with the explanation on it even as the robotic voice from his phone speaks it. She gives Izuku's phone a suspicious look but slowly responds to him.
"Yeah no shit kid, you look like you've been hit by a truck!" Izuku levels her with a blank look. Majesty chirps curiously from his shoulder. The woman sighs and walks back behind her desk.
"Hey um- can you get me Tsukauchi? There's um- a kid."
"A kid?" a voice responds, probably through an intercom of some kind.
"Yeah and, um- a dragon-"
"A Dragon! What the hell Yui-Kun!"
"And a villain- um, the one All Might came here looking for."
Izuku's eyes widened a fraction. He didn't know All Might was looking for this guy.
"Vill- All Might- oh my god Yui-Kun. Yeah okay- uh sending All Might and the detective your way, I guess."
"Thanks." The woman- Yui-Kun- Izuku briefly registers- responded before the intercom shut off. She gestures towards one of the white plastic chairs that lined a wall.
Izuku sat down.
"Um- All Might and a detective will be down soon kid." Izuku nods at her. And waits.
And waits.
And waits a little more than an hour for All Might and the detective.
Majesty chirps. Yui-Kun's eyes snap up from whatever she was working on and she focuses on Majesty.
"So, what's with the-" the Yui-Kun starts but is interrupted by the door swinging open. 2 people walked into the room, 1 of whom he recognized, and one of which he assumed was the detective. Izuku was proven correct a moment later when the unknown man holds out his hand and says,
"Hello, I'm detective Tsukauchi and this All Might, as you can probably tell." the detective glanced uncertainly at Izuku's blind eye and was making a point to ignore the dragon. Izuku eyes the detective's hand with apprehension but slowly shakes it, before snatching his hand like it had been burnt.
"So we have some questions for you…?" the unspoken question of Izukus name hung unanswered in the air. Izuku takes out his voice app and types in his name.
"Are you mute?" Tsukauchi questioned, a curious lilt to his voice. Izuku nods.
"Do you have somewhere I can put the villain? The longer I have him under my control the closer I get to a migraine." Izuku typed into the voice app.
"Oh right! We have a cell for him back here… assuming you have some way to get him there?" Izuku nods in agreement.
Izuku follows Tsukauchi down a hallway and into a room with 4 cells lining the wall. They all looked like they were made for people with quirks that would let them slip through bars.
"You can put him in here and he won't be able to get out. The door will close automatically once he's inside and it won't open again until I or All Might here use our handprint to open it." And there lies the problem. Izuku frowns.
How am I supposed to get the heart out of this guy and make him go into the cell? I can't keep the heart in him, that'll just do unnecessary damage to my mental state, having to split my brain cells in between two different beings. I've only ever used my quirk on an actual living being twice before this, and both proved bad for my health when I used it too long.
Izuku gestured for Tsukauchi to open the cell door, and Izuku considered his options before taking a deep breath and shoving a hand into the sludge- cold and rotten and invading his lungs and Izuku can't breath- and at the same time commands the sludge to-
SOLIDIFY
At the last possible moment before the sludge turns into a person, Izuku grabs the heart and yanks, and at the same time gives a hard kick into the persons- a ragged and naked middle-aged man- side, no doubt leaving a nasty bruise and leaving him inside the jail cell.
Izuku hears All Might squawk in surprise.
Izuku hides a smirk by biting his lip.
The man blinks, badly cut, and dirty blonde hair falling in his eyes before he starts screeching out curses at Izuku, who just stares blankly back at him.
Majesty had gotten jostled from Izuku's shoulder when he had leaned back to kick the man and was trilling at him from her spot in the air, sounding concerned.
Well, as concerned as a mechanic bird-dragon can be.
"Did you just rip out that man's heart?!" All Might yells, his booming voice cutting through Izuku's head like a knife. Instead of outwardly showing his pain, Izuku blinks slowly at the number one hero.
Izuku holds the heart out next to him like he was handing it to someone next to him and Majesty swoops down and grabs it in her front claws before settling down on his shoulder again, relying on her tail wrapped around his neck to keep her balanced without the use of one of her legs.
All Might squeak again. Izuku gives a lazy smirk at him before turning to the detective and raising an eyebrow at him.
The detective was just watching with wide eyes at the interaction and only snapped out of it when Izuku turned to him.
"Right um- interrogation rooms are back here." Izuku spends the next 45 minutes or so answering the detective and All Mights questions before he remembers the heart Majesty had in her clutches, and he reached into his backpack to get the jar with all the other hearts in it.
Apparently, a jar of literal beating heart was the last requirement to giving All Might a heart attack, because as soon as the number one hero caught sight of it, he coughed out blood and deflated-
Wait what the hell!?! Izuku's eyes widened in disbelief as All Might deflates in a puff of smoke- mist??- and bends over coughing and looking like a freaking skeleton what the hell.
Izuku hasn't used his vocal cords in 4 years but he's about 2 seconds away from screaming.
… So yeah he's got that going for him.