"So, how was it?" Izumi asked with a glint in her eyes.
"How was what?" Kirishima looked confused.
"You're date, duh!" She said.
"Not so loud!" Kirishima covered her mouth. "And it wasn't a date. It was an apology."
"Sure." She muttered through the hand before it was removed. "But you're still gonna give me the details."
"Or what?"
"I could tell the whole class."
"Fine! We didn't do a whole lot. We went to a new café that had opened up recently had a nice lunch went to the park and just talked."
"And what did you talk about? You did tell him about the,"
"NO! Of course not! I don't want Mr. Stark to erase my brain." He said. "We talked about our future plans that kind of stuff."
"Yeah, this is sounding like a first date to me." Izumi stated as Kirishima groaned hiding his face in his hands. "Come on, it's clear you like him more than him as your Senpia."
"W—Well is it that obvious?"
"To girls? Yes." Izumi giggled. "And if you do want to be in a relationship with him, I'd let him make the first move."
"Given his anxiety that be a good idea." Kirishima. "Can't believe I'm going through this again."
"Again?" Izumi asked. "Past relationship gone south?"
"More like I was too afraid to say anything and missed my chance."
/
Izumi and Mirio arrived at Might Tower to continue their work study. Izumi still hadn't figured out what Infinity was trying to tell her but the sensation she felt from Infinity grew as she stood listening to her biological uncle explain today's plans. Her and Mirio where going on patrol while Nighteye and his comrade Bubble Girl went on patrol in a different section of the city.
"So, did your internship teach you any of the basics?" Mirio asked as the walked down the street.
"They didn't have time due to the Nomu rampage." She answered. "That and I was looking for my classmate who went after the Hero Killer."
"So that's why you fought him?"
"Yeah. You see my classmate's brother had barely survived against the Hero Killer and he wanted get vengeance for his brother."
"He's lucky you went after him when you did." Mirio said.
"Yeah I knew something was wrong with him and when I heard disappeared, I went looking for him instantly." She explained. "Isn't that right Goose?"
"Meow!" Goose walked beside her
"Does he always follow you around?" Mirio asked. Every time he had seen her since their first teaming, he had always seen Goose with her.
"Yep. My Aunt Carol gave him to me sometime after I was adopted." She said.
"He's adorable. I wish I had a furry companion like that." Mirio said. Goose jumped up onto Mirio's shoulder and rubbed his head into the side of the boy's head. "He likes me!" Mirio beamed touched and nuzzled Goose back. Izumi giggled at the two as they passed and alleyway. Izumi stopped hearing the patter of bare feet along the cement. A girl about seven years old with white hair and a horn on the left side of her head came running out of the alley. She looked scared. Seeing the girl trip on her own footing Izumi rushed over and knelt down helping the girl sit up.
"Are you okay?" Izumi asked her voice clam and soothing. The girl looked at her with frightened eyes and delved into Izumi's arms. "Shh…you're okay." Izumi held the girl remembering how Natasha would hold her when she was younger and upset. "I've got you." Slowly Izumi gathered the girl into her arms and stood up. Mirio looked shocked hearing Izumi sing what sounded like … Russian!? Mirio couldn't believe his hears as Izumi slowly rocked the young girl while singing in another language. He found it weird how jealous he was getting seeing Izumi sing to the little girl. He wanted to get serenaded with a Russian lullaby too. Izumi hearing footsteps and feeling the little girl latch onto her as if her life depended on it summoned her wings and wrapped them around herself and the girl. Goose jumped from Mirio's shoulder getting in front of Izumi and the girl hissing at the well-dressed man with a strange bird mask on his face.
/
Mirio wasn't one to feel guilty or regret because he was never the type to commit an action that would make someone feel that way afterwards. But now he did. And it made him sick. The girl from earlier that came running from the alley the had been passing, what Mirio ended up doing was what made him feel this way. The man with the strange bird mask was the target that Sir Nighteye had been investigating recently. He didn't want to accidently tip off the villain, so he managed to convince Izumi to let the girl go back to them before trouble started. Which had been already been starting as Mirio noticed the villain getting ready to pull off his gloves. The guilt and the regret were born from that face Izumi aid when they reunited with Sir Nighteye and Bubble Girl after the patrol. As much as Mirio didn't want to start an argument with the girl that could easily overpower him even if One for All, he needed to explain himself to her. Maybe she'd understand.
"Izumi, you gotta listen to me!" Mirio began as they walked out of Might Tower. "If I didn't pull you away everyone would have gotten hurt. I know you saw him about to remove his glove. If we had gotten into a fight with them a lot of damage would have been done!" He grabbed onto her shoulder trying to get her to look at him. He looked to Goose asking for help by the look on his face. Goose simply stared back with eyes that read, "Don't look at me you're the one that fucked up".
"JUST SHUT UP!" Izumi snapped. Mirio recoiled seeing her quirk activating along side her rage. "You don't understand Mirio! We could have defiantly taken him on and won. We are both probably the strongest in all of UA and could have taken him down easily if we had worked together! But instead you walked away!? I thought you were a hero not a coward." She snapped her rage flying free at this point as purple markings began covering her body. "What happened to saving million people!? Wasn't that girl was going to be first out of the million you plan on saving!"
"Izumi, please clam down." Mirio asked. "We need to be patient. We don't know anything about his quirk or what could have happened, okay? We'll get him next time. But for now, we have to wa—," Mirio was cut off by a smack to the face. That rageful look on Izumi's face as enough to kill just about anyone.
"She isn't safe with him! We can't wait for the perfect moment to strike while he's building up his strength and doing whatever the hell it is, he's doing to that poor girl. Come Goose." Izumi said patting the pin on her shirt a few times as her hero custom appeared. "We have a villain to stop." Izumi opened a portal and Goose followed her leaving Mirio there stunned and rubbing his cheek. He needed to get Nighteye and All Might! If Izumi was really planning on going after that villain to save the girl, then he needed to tell them.
/
She made a quick stop at the SHIELD facility getting commlinks. She had even got her hands on a special collar that Tony had been designing for Goose since he could get into just about anywhere due to his domesticated cat appearance. It was equipped with a tracker and commlink. Which is why Goose was now off somewhere in the city looking for the villain's base after she had dropped him off in the alley where they first met the girl and the villain.
"Kirishima I need your help." Izumi said over the phone as she stood on top a billboard that gave her a good view over the city.
"Sure, what's up?"
"It's an Avengers' mission."
"Aren't we technically on one right now?"
"Technically yeah, and you're still in the advanced course since you can only see them on the weekends. But regardless we'll consider this the first mission as the leaders of the new generation of Avengers, understood?"
"Understood. Were do you want to meet up."
"I'm sending the coordinates to your phone now. Don't be late." She said.
"Right! See you there Izu." Kirishima said as they hung up.
Don't you worry little girl, I'm coming. Maybe I should give Groot a call…No, it will just have to be me, Kirishima, and Goose.
/
News reached Mirio that not long after Izumi had run off, Kirishima disappeared not long after. Class 1-A explained that the two were best of friends and spent a lot of time together. It made Mirio and Amajiki jealous but the jealous was getting put on hold when All Might started putting together a small team of pro heroes; plus Mirio, Amajiki, and Nejire to find Izumi and Kirishima before they went toe to toe with Overhaul and his clan.
"You two okay?" Nejire asked.
"No not really Hado." Mirio answered. "She was right I am a coward."
"You are not!" Nejire said. "Who said that?"
"Izumi…it was after we got back to Might Tower. I tried to explain my I pulled her away from the target, but she didn't listen and told me that I was coward. And she was right. The two of us could have easily taken him on and won, but I deiced not to do anything."
Togata and Rodgers aren't even dating, and they've already broken up.
"Mirio, you were playing it safe. You didn't know much about the target and it would have been to risky." Amajiki comforted.
"Yea, maybe but still…" He rubbed his still slightly injured cheek as he remembered the girl that Izumi was heading to save. "That girl, Eri, we should have done something."
"Well now that Rodgers has run off to go save her, maybe you can make it up to her by helping." Said Nejire.
"I hope so."
/
Izumi, Goose and Kirishima stood across the street in an alleyway across the street from where Overhaul had taken Eri.
"So, she's in there?" Izumi asked Goose.
"Meow."
"What did you see?"
"Meow."
"What did he say?" Kirishima asked.
"He that Overhaul is using Eri's quirk to get rid of quirks. Apparently, her quirk can reserve time. He's been taking her blood and placing it inside of darts like the ones that you defended Amajiki from the other night."
"Whoa a time quirk! I know that you got one from the time stone, but still that's a really rare quirk to have." Kirishima said. "So, what's the plan?"
"I'm going to use my telepathy to find the girl. Then I'm going to use my time powers to allow use to slip into the ground's unseen. Once I find her, I'll need you and Goose to make distraction so I can get her out of there. Then we beat the shit out of Overhaul."
"Sounds like a plan." Kirishima said. Activating her telepathy Izumi began searching through the house before them. She searched and searched but wasn't finding the girl. She seemed to be deeper within. A few seconds later she heard a voice.
Please someone help me…
"I found her."
"Where?"
"About 5 meters underground in the lab. Don't worry I know the way."
"Then let's get moving." Izumi took a deep breath as she held onto Kirishima and Goose. The gem on her forehead glowed green and a green comic waves where emitted from the gem freezing everything around them.
"Let's move I can't keep this up for long." She said. The three darted across the street and jumped over the fence of Hassaikai house. Izumi resumed time taking a short moment to brush off the effects.
"Ready to make some noise Goose?" Kirishima asked.
"Meow!" Goose stood beside him.
"On you're mark, get set…GO!"