A/N: Hello! I know it has been so long! I am so sorry. Life... there was so much with buying a house, moving, job, and so much more! Ahhh! Being an adult is hard! I am working on the next and final chapter. It will include an epilogue. What I did do while I was away was write my own original novel. It's called Blue. I'm posting it on Wattpad if you would like to support me there.
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Anyway I'm back to fan fiction. I think Life has finally calmed down. My goal is to finish Ashes before the New Year! Please enjoy and let me know what you think! Thank you all for your patience.
Chapter 30
It was hard for Hawks to focus on the officer taking down the report of the fight. The hero had not realized that he had used eighty percent of his feathers. A nurse was wrapping up his side. At some point he had been grazed by Moonfish on his cheek. The stitches stung, but he never moved his head as he signed the papers.
"How is Tsukoyami?" The winged hero asked his assistant.
"The hospital is taking care of him, sir," the assistant said.
Hawks frowned. That wasn't a response. "Is he in surgery still?
"I believe he is out, sir."
"You believe, or you know?" Hawks tone was dark as he scribbled on the papers.
The assistant gulped. "I'll go ask." As he turned, the door slid open. A plump nurse entered, with Shoji entered.
"Here you are deary," the nurse said to Shoji. "You'll find Hawks in here."
"Thank you." Shoji bowed as the nurse turned away.
Hawks turned around. "Shoji? How's Fumikage?"
"He's awake," Shoji said, "and he wants to see you."
Hawks was to the door before his pen and paper hit the floor. This was the news he wanted to hear. The number two hero glanced back to see Shoji racing to keep up, but Hawks had greater speed, even with a significant amount of his plumage fallen.
"Fumikage!"
Hawks pushed open the heavy door. Fumikage's head turned towards the hero. "Hawks?"
The winged hero was speechless. His pupil was wrapped like he was a damached doll. There was an I.V. bag half emptied into his right arm. Fumikage was so strong to have made it through this fight. Hawks slowly walked over to young hero and wrapped his arms behind his head, pressing into the hospital bed.
"I thought I had lost you," Hawks whispered.
""Hawks…" Fumikage was speechless.
Dark Shadow emerged from Fumikage's chest. It wrapped itself around Hawks and it's master. "I told you I could keep him safe."
Hawks nodded and released the boy, allowing him to lay back down in his bed. He stepped back and for a moment, both were simply happy to be with the other.
Frantic footsteps came racing down the hall. Fumikage and Hawks turned to see a frantic Fuyumi in the door way. She Ran to Hawks, school bag in hand and swung it at him.
Hawks stepped aside. "Fuyumi! What the hell?"
"Where was our first date?" She said, swinging the bag and hitting the hero on his injured side.
Hawks howled with pain. "Fuyumi! Stop!"
Tears filled Fuyumi's eyes. She gripped her bag with both hands and swung harder. "Tell me where our first date was!"
"Ow! Okay! The school roof. School roof! It was a Tuesday evening picnic!"
Fuyumi dropped to her knees, clinging to the winged hero. "I'm so sorry! I'm so sorry, Hawks!"
Hawks dropped to a knee, attempting to pull Fuyumi's face towards his. "What's wrong? I don't understand."
"He looked just like you! He just walked in and I swore it was you!' Fuyumi Cung to Hawks as she wept "now who ever they are has Sora."
"Sora!" Fumikage sat up only to immediately regret that choice. His body pailed and he stiffened with pain. He groaned in pain, sending Shoji, who had been respectfully waiting outside the room, running in.
Dark Shadow pushed Fumikage down on the bed. "You are too hurt to do that."
"What's going on? Why did Fumikage sit up?" Shoji asked.
Hawks grabbed Fuyumi by the shoulders. "Who has Sora?"
"I thought it was you! He looked a spoke just like you. Sora went with him. He said you two had a fight." Fuyumi was hyperventilating. She managed to choak out the words as she spoke. "Then Bakugou came to get her, but she was with you. And Bakugou said you were in a fight! His GPS went off!".
It was then that Bakugou appeared in the doorway. "You have some nerve crying to them about losing Pipsqueak."
"Sora's lost." Shoji's eyes grew wide. "Do we have any idea where she could be?"
Bakugou held up his phone. "I went to Aizawa as soon as I saw her for moving. He's tracking her location." He turned towards Fumikage. "I only came here to let you know I'm going with the team Aizawa calls. I will show that shape shifting bastard who they messed with." He punched his hand into his other fist.
Hawks stood up. "I'm coming too."
"Pft. Have you looked at yourself? You're in no shape."
Hawks ground his teeth. Listen her you little-"
"Bakugou is right." Aizawa walked in from around the corner. "You can't fight with one hundred percent. Plus you were just in a fight with Moonfish, a battle designed to keep you and Fumikage out of the picture."
"I can't just leave Red," Hawks argued.
"You know that time is the most important element when it comes to kidnappings. We need to leave as soon as possible." Aizawa's firm tone stopped the winged hero from moving forward. Hawks hung his head. Aizawa sighed. "Your going to have to trust us. Besides, Fumikage will need you here as well. He wants to go save Sora as much as you." Everyone turned and looked at Fumikage, trying to fight against his own quirk to stand up.
Seeing the desperation in his boyfriends eyes, Shoji turned to Aizawa. "I'm coming, then. Sora needs as many people that care about her as possible."
Aizawa smiled. "We could use the help. I've sent out the need to go as soon as possible. We don't want the villains to catch on to that Sora has a signal to us."
"Right." Shoji turned back to Fumikage."We will get her back."
Fumikage opened his mouth the speak, but stopped when he saw Sparks from Bakugou's hands. "Stop waisting time! We need to go."
With a nodd, Shoji, Aizawa, and Bakugou left
"The bratt's not crying," Dabi muttered. "Someone needs to do something about that." His eyes shifted to Toga.
Toga rolled her head back and groaned. "I'm not a babysitter! I'm tired of watching this kid."
"She's clearly more fearful of you," Mr. Compress commented.
"I didn't want the kid. Oooh! I'm tired of doing all the work for Shigaraki when he doesn't tell us what he wants us to do."
"He and Giran are working to build our league."
Sora remained huddled in the cage. Her head hurt from crying so much. The villains had been watching her for hours. All she did was cry. She was hungry, tired, and wanted to go home. Surely the seven bottles of tears would be enough. For the last half hour, Sora sat and listened to the villains bicker back and forth. Her mind wandered in and out of the conversation. Her head flinch when she heard Dabi speak.
"I don't know. Just take away her bag or something."
The lizard man stood up and grumbled some sort of reply. Sora wasn't listening. Instead she scrunched herself to the farthest end of her cage. Her backpack was hugged tightly against her chest. She couldn't let them have her backpack. What if they found the tracker Fumi gave her? What would they do?
Splinter bent down and stuck his head in the front of the cage. "Hand over the bag."
Sora shook her head and turned her body.
Splinter hissed and raised a blade to the cage. "Did I stutter?"
Tears welled up in her swollen eyes. The lizard man opened the cage and reached towards Sora. She closed her eyes and cried. The tears stung and spilled onto her cheeks. She didn't care. She didn't want to see what happened next.
Instead of a hand, Sora felt a glass jar press up against her face. She peaked out of one to see the lizard man slithering out.
"Fill the jars," he demanded.
Sora whimpered but continued to cry. She had to trust that the device Bakugou gave her would work. Surely Fumi, Bakugou, or Hawks would come for her. She just had to wait. She needed to be good and just do what the Villain's wanted. It was getting hard though. This was scary, and Sora was losing any strength she could hold to.
Sora looked up and saw each of the villains holding a glass of brown liquid. Sora gulped. They were all drinking. Her knees wobbled and body felt warm. She felt her mind wander. Though it felt like a second, she was shocked when the man dressed in all black was in front of her.
"Yoohoo, child. Wake up! Get back to crying you little brat!"
Twice shook the cage and Sora jumped.
Kurogiri entered in the room/ "Twice! What are you doing?"
"She stopped crying. So I'm going to make her cry." Twice looked at the cage again and Sora squeaked.
Kurogiri looked at the cage. Suddenly a black mass swallowed up the jars in the cage and placed them on the counter. "She is useless if she is dehydrated. Has anyone given her water?"
Silence answered the gasly man's question. He sighed and portaled a glass of water to the girl. "It is late. Let her rest. She has made enough bottles for today." He portaled the viles out of her cage.
"You can think of more ways to make her cry tomorrow," Toga cooed.
Sora sniffled. Her eyes hurt. She didn't want to cry any more. She wanted to sleep. She slowly drank the water given to her.
"Awe! She's so cute! She got lucky!" Twice said staring at the child.
"Who would have thought it would be this much work to get a kid to cry," commented Splinter.
"You all act so childlike, I would have thought this would have been easy for you all," Mr. compress said with a smug look.
This set off many fellow league members. The room erupted with shouts and screams. Every member in the room began shouting at each other, emphasizing the others' weaknesses and failures. Sora couldn't stand the shouting. It was all so much.
"If you want me to cry, you don't have to be mean. We can just watch season twenty three of Quirks of Our Lives." Soar almost dropped the cup in her hands. She could not believe she had spoken. This could not be good.
All the villain's stared at the small child. Sora scooted as far away from them as she could, back pressed against the bars in her cage. Twice tapped his chin.
"That's the season where Jem dies. That bastard deserved itI"
"Yeah," Sora sighed. "He really shouldn't have killed that family in season twenty two."
"You can't be serious," Mr. Compress said. "I will not stay here while Twice entertains this small child. I'm leaving for bed."
"You're just going to leave us to deal with this brat?" Splinter yelled as Mr. Compress walked to the door.
"You're all very capable without me," the magician sarcastically muttered before leaving.
Kurogiri hummed to himself. "I think I shall leave you three hear to watch the girl. I need to go to Shigaraki."
"What! Why do we have to watch her?" Toga yelled.
"Because someone must." Before either of the three could argue, Kurogiri opened a black portal and walked through it.
Toga stopped her foot. "No fair! We never get to do anything fun."
"Maybe that is because your type of fun involves killing the thing that keeps us fed," Splinter mutterred.
Dabi groaned. "I just want to go to sleep." He slouched in one of the large coushie booths. "Dibs on this one."
"Awe! I wanted that one,"Toga whined.
"You can sleep with me. We can share our own Booth," Twice said
The villains gathered around the few booths, fighting and arguing over who would sleep where. Sora sighed and wrapped her arms around her backpack. "Please come soon, Fumi," She thought.
A block away from the villains hide out, Aizawa, Shoji, Bakugou, Gang orca and his sidekicks, and a squad from the police organized I am alley way. Aizawa showed the group the GPS signal. "A block away from us is the possible location of the seven year old girl. We don't know who is in their, but we need to be on guard. Best Jeanist is on standby if we need more support."
Gang Orca turned to Bakugou and Shoji. "Remember rookies, you two have one task; get the girl out of there. Don't worry about us pros. You two need to get her to a safe place."
"Right," Shoji said.
Bakugou scoffed but nodded in agreement."Are we going or not?"
Gang Orac placed a hand on Bakugou's shoulder. "Don't let your personal connection allow you to get over zealous. I know this girl is important to you, but if you act to radically, she could get hurt."
"Does everyone know where they are entering from?" Aizawa cut the conversation short. Everyone nodded.
The Police moved out the south end of the alley. Gang Orca signaled different sections of his large pod to several advantage points. Bakugou and Shoji followed Aizawa up to the side of the building and watched as Gang Orca and two pod members broke the glass and dove into the building!
There was a smoke granade. Yells and screams followed and then the high pitched shriek of Gang Orcas main attack. Aizawa turned to his two students. "Let's go!"
Sora hadn't slept at all. While the room was dark, she still couldn't settle knowing look these villains were sleeping around her. She was upset. She hadn't been fighting back like Bakugou said. She was just scared. She hugged her knees and leaned her back against her cage. Maybe Fumi would get her in the morning.
The sound of broken glass made Sora and the Villains Yelp. Dabi ignited his arms with flames causing enough light to see the smoke bombs begin to fill the room.
"It's an ambush!" Splinter yelled
"Twice!" Dabi called to.
"On it! Let's show these fools what we can do!" Twice sat up and tapped Toga. A second blonde formed. Twice hopped up and tapped both Dabi and Splinter. With their forces doubled, the group split. A third Dabi appeared. Two more Splinters formed and stood in front of Sora's cage.
At that moment, Gang Orca emerged through the smoke. He opened his mouth at one of the he Dabi clones. The clone froze in place as one of the sidekicks punched him in the head. The clone melted.
"Get the girl!" Gang Orca commanded his gang.
Flames came from every direction. Members of the pod were burned. Sharp blades from one Splinter came slashing through the crowd.
Sora began to shake. There was so much blood and violence. She peered through her fingers at the fight. All she could do was watch. Then, Gang Orca began charging in her direction. His head darting in direction. His vision blurred from smoke and flames. Sora realized this was her time to be brave.
"Gang Orca!" Sora screamed.
The whale hero turned directly towards the sound and charged. The two guarding Splinters unleashed their swords, ready to strike. A Dabi hopped in front of the and ignited. The hot flames pushed the hero back, drying him out.
Gang Orca hualted. Sora was in direct fire. If he used his Sonic wave, she would surely get by. He needed to think. A second Dabi came up behind him. Gang Orca needed back up.
An explosion came from outside. Aizawa, Bakugou and Shoji stood in the hole. Sora kept up in her cage. "Bakugou!"
A second explosion came from the South side. Several well armored members of the police force came from the other side.
Aizawa hollared at the police. "Be on your guard! These are no ordinary kidnappers. This is the League. Request back up!" He tossed his ninja stars at a flaming Dabi clone. Twice stood by and touched Toga, sending the new clone at Aizawa.
The original Dabi turned to face the lizard villains. "We're out of options. Use the kid."
The splinters pulled out the girl and held her close, while the other sharpened his blades. "Don't move! Or We start slicing the girl."
"No fair! How come he gets to stab her?" Toga yelled, while throwing one of the orca pod out the explosion hole.
"You won't hurt her," Gang Orca challenged.
"Ow!" Sora cried.
The Splinter with his blades grazed Sora on the at, causing a deep cut. "Think again," Splinter said.
All the heroes recoiled. They couldn't risk who they were saving. It was clear Splinter menat business.
Bakugou's eyes darted around the room. He gritted his teeth. If he could just get closer to Sora. And then he saw it. A small opening to the side. He elbowed Shoji who looked up. He watched Bakugou's eyes lead to the spot by her cage. It took less than a moment for Shoji to realize what Bakugou was thinking. Shoji nodded and began to move away. The two had a plan.
Bakugou stepped forward, Sparks glowing in his hand. "Drop the kid or I'll blow you freaks up."
"That's rich," Dabi said.
"Bakugou! Think about the mission," Gang Orca called.
"I know what I have to do. And I'm not giving a shot about anyone else except Sora." Bakugou's eyes darted to the side and he growled. He took a step forward.
"Don't get cocky!" Splinter said as he pressed the knife against Sora.
"Owy!" The small bird cried.
"Alright you bastard! That's it!" Bakugou set his left gauntlet towards the Splinter clones and Sora. He steadied his arm and shot.
Aizawa tried to yell at Bakugou to stop, but the words fell on deaf ears. The explosion hit directly. Sora immediately turned to ash as the two clones melted to sludge. Everyone around was stunned.
"We should have pushed harder. That was so villainous!" Twice yelled, tugging at his mask.
Gang Orca's mouth dropped. "Bakugou…"
Suddenly, a tentacle mouth formed by the ash. "Sora! Grab on!" The mouth turned to a hand the pile of ash glowed. Sora popped back to normal and reached for Shoji's hand. Shoji grabbed her, placed her on his back, and encased her in his arms.
Bakugou placed another explosion into the stunned group of villains. "Let's go, Octopus!"
Aizawa smirked. "I should have guessed."
Gang Orca was stunned. "I underestimated you, Bakugou. Orca gang! Provide an exit!"
The gang members swarmed around the villains. Bakugou blasted a third hole in the building. He and Shoji jumped down to the street and ran. Neither looked back as the proheros took on the rest of the villainous team.