Thank you everyone for reading "New History", and thank you to those who favorite it and followed. I enjoyed this idea, and have re-edited what's already written.
On a train heading away from the U.A. High School, Bakugou and Daiki were sitting next to each other. In between them was a black case with a cam recorder. Daiki was on his phone checking out the maps. "Our stop is a long while away. So i hope you can get comfortable Bakugou. … Bakugou?" He looked to his left and see the explosion quirk user glaring at a few people staring at him and whispering to one another. But there whispers could have been easily heard, at least every other word. " … that's him … Villain Among Heroes …"
"YOU GOT SOMETHING TO SAY!?" Bakugou shouted out, he put an arm on his chair to push himself up, the teen group flinch. In mid stance, Daiki slam swung his arm so it bumped Bakugou's chest. "WHAT ARE YOU DOING!? YOU WANT SOME TOO CURLS?"
"I want to help you. Look!" Daiki pointed at the end of the train where a guy was recording them on his phone. "You gotta be careful Bakugou, everything nowadays is being recorded. It's important to keep your image together." The blond looked around in slight rage, not only was there a man recording but on the end of the train was a camera. He sat down, grinding his teeth. Daiki noticed, so he tried re-directing his attention, "Have you practice the apology I re-edited?"
"YEAH! YEAH! YEAH! I know what to say when I see the guy! How did you know where he lived anyway?" At the very moment, the duo were on a train to the large man's apartment. A weak prior, Daiki explained that in order to stop the petition, they needed to target the core. If Bakugou and the man demonstrated they are on good terms, then the MQD and the petition would lose their base.
"His name is Kikita Tatara, and it wasn't that hard to find. I found out where he worked from his social media, then I contacted the moving company he worked at and they gave me his number. All I had to do was persuade him to accept the apology and record it." The way Midoriya phrased it, he wasn't being overconfident but calmed.
Bakugou looked at Daiki as if he was some type of freak. "You did all of that in a week?"
"Well, it took you a week to write that apology." The quirkless teen gave off a faint smile.
"YOU KEPT ON REJECTING MY APOLOGIES!" There small discussion went back and forth for a while. Bakugou was limiting himself to what he said, and Daiki was taking full advantage.
Almost half an hour train ride later, they walked to a series of apartment complexes. "What's wrong with these building?" All of the apartments around the teens varied in different ways. Some of the complexes were large, others appeared to be a leading into the ground with ventilations shacks.
"Isn't it amazing, these buildings were specially made for people with unique quirks." Daiki walked to the large building a large set of stairs. "He told me he lived on the third floor."
Bakugou followed suite, there was no smaller stairs or any elevator. "Too bad he didn't get a the first floor." Daiki rolled his eyes to his partner's response.
"Well, he can't be picky." Daiki responded beneath his breath.
"What does that mean?" The explosion quirk user asked, still in his intimidating fashion.
"Well Bakugou. You may not see it, but there are some people struggling with there own quirks." Daiki return to a sad expression. "People with transformation and emitter quirks can sometimes live 'normally.'" He raised his fingers to make air quotes. "Some people born with mutations have to find certain amenities to live happy, and there are limited places. It's next to the trouble they get from being bullied in primary school."
The blonde teen was thinking back to his past, he always targeted an assortment of people, giving offensive nicknames for them no matter there quirk. 'Deku.' There was only one person he remembered who he truly bullied, to the point that he disappeared one day in middle school.
Before long, Daiki pounded on the front door with a lot of force, he was assuming it was thick for its size. After a few knocks, the door opened to review the large man that Bakugou sent flying through a convenience store. Bakugou and Tatara locked eyes, neither of them flinch. Tatara had a plain expression while Bakugou gave off his 'no shit given expression.'
"Come on in." The group followed the man into the apartment. The ceilings were lifted and the doorways inside were large. It was a large apartment for the teen's size, while in actuality, it was a small 1-Bed Apartment. The man sat on a large chair while the boys placed themselves onto the couch that was two size too big. Daiki placed the recorder bag onto the coffee table.
"Good morning Mr. Tatara. Thank you very much for taking your time for us." Daiki strategically positioned himself between the man and his client. "I hope your injuries are getting better."
"They are." The man scratch at his chest. "I was surprised when I heard B.E.K. wanted to apologies."
"He insisted on it. Why not we get this started and we'll be on our way." The purple headed boy stood up, and went for his bag. However, upon touching it, the man raised his hands.
"Wait, I would like to hear BECK's apologies first, before we start recording." Daiki raised his hand away from the case, Bakugou's eyebrow tensed up. "I would like to personally hear him say it, for me."
Daiki tilted his head and place his hand over his mouth. "That sounds reasonable." He predicted that Bakugou would shout something unreasonable, so he looked behind have him a look and a nod. Bakugou stood up and took a deep breath. 'Good call.'
At first he he bowed and speaked normally. "Mr. Tatara … I'm sorry." Bakugou paused himself. "I'm sorry that I mistaken you for a villain and attacked you. I wasn't thinking rationally at the moment, and I wasn't a true hero. You never deserved to be attacked. Can you please forgive me?" The original apologies sounded as if he was blaming the victim, and of course contain several words that shouldn't be said on television.
Bakugou stared at the man who was oldly silent, Daiki on the other hand was looking around his surroundings. "I don't accept your apology." The teen remained quit, feeling the fumes begin to raise up.
"What!?"
"I know your apologising so you can become a hero again. I can tell that you didn't even put any effort into that apology."
"I spent all week on that apology." Bakugou stated in frustration. The man stood up, looking down at Bakugou to intimidate him.
"I will never forgive you. You're a punk ass kid that needs to be taken down."
"PUNK ASS!" Small amount of sparks were forming from his hand.
Daiki took a step between the two of them. "Don't act so pure yourself Mr. Tatara." He raised a brow. "I thought you wanted closure, but I noticed the increased in social media. You like the attention don't you."
The purple haired teen looked to his right, making Bakugou face the thing Daiki was facing. It was a computer that had a webcam connected to it. The red light was on, blinking. "YOU … YOU … wanted to cause another scene." It took Bakugou ever ounce of willpower to not say what was on his mind, but it wasn't enough. "YOU MASOCHIST MOTHER FUCKER! WHAT'S WRONG WITH YOU!?"
"B.E.K. is ticking time bomb, and needs to get off the streets." The grown man said it with a smile on his face.
Daiki looked at the man. "You're the worst kind of person out there. Your ruining his dream and a chance to have a great hero on the streets. Not to mention your taking advantage of the MQD."
"I don't care about that dumbass or those freaks."
"FREAKS!" Bakugou's rage was showing externally. "THOSE PEOPLE SUPPORTED, THEY HEALED YOU!" PA week prior, Bakugou familiarize himself with the MQD. Majority of the members had quirks that some would say disfigured there outer form. They were the group that supported Tatara when he was in the hospital. They even used there connections to bring Recovery Girl to him. 'THIS SELFISH BASTARD!' All Bakugou wanted to do was slam the man into another wall.
"Yeah. I was one of the lucky few who had a quirk that didn't make me into a monster." The man pushed on, causing the blonde to become trigger.
'THAT'S IT!' Bakugou took a stance, sparks were forming form his hand. This time, he was going to put in all of his force.
*BASH* Weirdly, it was Daiki that rushed the man and punched him in the face. Tatara fell back into his chair, causing it to fall backwards too. The man raised himself up, covering his nose that's bleeding.
"Get out! GET OUT! Tatara pointed to the door, yelling aggressive. Daiki gave him a death stare as he grabbed his bag and left the apartment with Bakugou.
When the door behind him was closed, Bakugou looked at Daiki to see that he was smiling. He grabbed Daiki by the collar of his clothing and pressed him against the railing, three stories up. "YOU FUCKER! WHY ARE YOU SMILING? YOU RUINED MY APOLOGY, MY HERO CAREER IS RUINED! HE HAS US ON VIDEO!"
Anyone in this situation would be scared, but Daiki was calmed. "I just saved your ass! I knew you would have punch him if I haven't." Then he got into his thinking state. "Knowing the way he talked and the equipment, he's wasn't recording audio. He's most likely gonna edit the video." Bakugou's aggression was at his peaked, he gave his partner a right hook across the face sending him sliding across the floor. Daiki stood up, using the bar near the stairs for support, checking his jaw and feeling for any broken teeth. "I might have deserve that, so I'll give you that one."
"I'LL GIVE YOU THAT ONE! PREPARE YOURSELF CURLS FOR AN ASSBEATING!" He started taking steps towards Daiki, who stood up and took a stance.
"Come at me, but just so you know, I already prepared for this."
"WHAT?" His aggression shifted, he knew the kid was acting too calm. "THE PLAN WAS TO GET THE APOLOGY! WHAT HAVEN'T YOU TOLD ME!?"
"I'll tell you more … but only when we are away from 'here.'" Daiki patted the case he held on tightly. The two walked away from the complex and took the train back to the dorms, but they stopped at a cafe to meet Uraraka and Kirishima for a 'business meeting' of the sort.
"Tell us what happened." Uraraka ask in excitement; however, that excitement soon faded as they told them the events that transpired. She now had a gloomy expression looking down at table. "What are we going to do?"
"Won't you two get in trouble now?" Kirishima jumped in, concerning about his friends. "I mean, if he does post a video, you'll career in management would be in jeopardy or something?"
"It's not a matter of if, it's now a matter of when and what we do after he post the video?"Daiki spoke rather calmly. "Do you remember back in the room when I told you three the first step is to start with an apology?" Each one of them nodded.
"Then we post the video online and let it trend." Kirishima restated Daiki's plan from the week before.
"Well, I wasn't completely honest. The truth is, that would the safest scenario I foresaw." The other three blinked in response.
"Safest scenario?" Bakugou asked, while Daiki nodded his head. "How many scenarios did you think of?"
"That's not important." The purple headed teen took a sip of his frap. "Ideally, if we got the apology, we would have been fine. But right now we gotta play a dangerous game where there's high risk and even higher rewards. We're going all in."
(Later that Night)
Bakugou laid awake in his room. Most of the students in Class 2-A were in there rooms studying or prepping for bed. Something was on his mind and it was bothering him. He pulled out his phone and scrolled down his contact list. He decided to send a series of messages to a few of his class members, mainly the one with mutation quirks.
It was as Daiki had predicted, within two days of there confrontations Tatara released the video to the public and it immediately got head way. The audio for the video was replaced and dubbed over by Tatara explaining the events that happen in his own way. There were obvious slices in the visual recording, getting rid of time they looked directly into the camera.
Daiki's reputation took a hit as well, he became known as the sidekick to B.E.K., and his own social media became flooded with comments and sometimes threats. The video immediately caught the attention of the school, demanding Bakugou and Daiki to meet the principal. Daiki took the fall for the event since he was the one that punched the man. Prior to the meeting, he reassured Bakugou that he wouldn't take any of the fall. He was suspended for a couple of days.
A week after the video was posted, Bakugou was in the common room with some of his peers. The television was on when a preview appeared on the screen, the content was an interview with a man whose fame was increasing in levels, Tatara. He was going answer some questions about the video, advertising the petition. Everyone turned their attention to Bakugou, expecting him to yell and shout, but he remained silent.
(Day of the interview.)
Inside a studio, a stage was getting set up. A man was standing behind a pedestal with a large screen behind him. On either side of the man were almost circular table, cutting off. At the moment, the table to his left was occupied by two individual. The first being Tatara, a man that was larger than the average human, and the other was a woman with qualities that resemble a lizard. Green scales were covering her body, at least the portions that weren't cover from her pants suit. A man behind a camera started using his finger to countdown from five.
When it reached one, the lights in the studio lite up and and host started speaking. "Today on Live Until the Afternoon (I am referring to Chapter 34.5, where Midnight and Mt. Lady fought.) we'll be discussing the issue that is making headlines on the internet. The Villain Among Heroes."
The host swung his arm to the his right directing the cameras to the others on stage. "Our first guest is one of the heads to the MQD Organization, Ms. Gion Tsuru." Tsuru waved her hand at the camera and smiled. "The tall gentleman next to her is Kikita Tatara, the man who has been attacked by two U.A. students." The oversize man sat with great posture, enjoying every bit he was on camera. "Thank you for coming on the show."
"Thank you for having us." The woman nodded towards the man.
"The Explosion Hero: B.E.K. made his dayview months ago and has made another uproar just last week. Tatara, please tell us more about what happened in that video you recently posted."
"Gladly. A couple days ago, I got a phone called from a Daiki Minami. He told me that B.E.K. wanted to apologies to me in person and wishes to record it. I wanted closure from that experience so I said yes." He slowed down the way he spoke. "They actually threatened me the moment I invited them in. And when I refused to help them, well, you saw what happened."
The monitor on the screen turned on showing the video the man posted. It replied the scene when the purple haired teen with long curls punch the man in the face. It was zoomed in on Daiki's face, the pixels were rough, so his expression wasn't cleared but can easily be taken as anything. "Interesting. Both of these students are known to be at the top of there class in there respective field. Maybe there is a problem with U.A.?"
"I don't believe that's the case." The scaly woman jumped in. "U.A. is a great school that manage to produce great heroes in training like Uravity and Froppy. Not the mention great heros upon graduation, like All Might and The Big 3. B.E.K. is just one of the few corrupted apples that manage to slip through. The MQD try our best to encourage people to be proud of the quirks they are born with … and B.E.K. just misjudge people attack first. We don't think he's hero material."
"Thus the reason why you started the the petition." The host took advantage of the what he said. "So far, you have gathered a lot of people behind you."
"And we are close to our goal. Hopefully, if enough people recognize B.E.K. as the person he is, then they could stop him from becoming a hero, and this world will be a safer place."
The man tapped his fore fingers together, analyzing the situation. "That's one heck of a statement, considering that you never seen B.E.K in person Ms. Tsuru."
"I believe actions speak louder than words."
"We'll then, why don't you meet them. I would like to invite my other two guest onto the stage." He moved his hand to the left revealing two more people from the shadows. They were none other than the teens from the video. Bakugou walked on stage wearing his hero custom attire while Daiki walked on stage wearing a full purple suit, matching the dark colors in his hair and eyes. "We have the hero B.E.K. himself and Daiki Minami here to give us their perspective."
Two took a stance behind the empty table, and they are given looks from the other two guest. Upon entering on the stage, the two of them were given dark looks from almost everyone in the room. "So please share to us what really happened."
During that time, Bakugou and Daiki revealed what really happened. Daiki did his best to limit his talking, letting Bakugou speak, expressing what really happened on that day and why Daiki punch him. "Then I received suspension form the school. This man is obsessed with his ego, that's why he intimidated Bakugou and record us."
"That's not the reason." Tatara couldn't keep himself quiet, anymore. "I was being precautious. I wanted to make sure if anything happened, then I can be able to back it up. And I was right. You deserved to be suspended those days of schools."
"I'm not denying my suspension for punching you. Matter of fact, I do not regret punching you that day." The host saw the expression on Tatara, he was glad that he agreed to do this. He knew it was time to reveal the thing he has been holding back.
"Before we go any further, Minami had something he wanted to share." The T.V. monitor behind the host turned on, revealing a video similar to Tatara that was in higher quality. Unlike the video that was uploaded from Tatara, this one had audio. Everyone heard and saw what really happened in that room: Bakugou apologising, Tatara's insults, and the smack Daiki landed.
Tatara looked frustrated towards the curly hair teen. "How the hell did you record that? You didn't take out a camera."
"Ha." Daiki laughed, he stood up and walked passed the counter taking the center of the stage. He held up the same camera bag he was carrying the day of the apology. "This was my camera. It's a support item I borrowed from Mei Hatsume. She's a prodigy inventor in U.A. Support Department." He actually held up the bag as if he was modeling the product in front of the camera. "From touching this simple button, this bag can record 360 degrees without any loss in video capture quality." He was rotating the bag to show off. "I didn't want a simple phone camera to record our apology, rather something in higher quality."
Tatara was panicking and it was showing. He was looking around trying to figure anything to say. Tsuru, on the other hand, felt disgusted by the man next to her. She too, would have punched Tatara if she was in the room. Tatara couldn't take it anymore and he ran away from the stage and probably the studio.
Tsuru was aware of what's going to happen to the MQD. Tatara became a new face for the group, being the face for Bakugou petition. But now, they have to drop everything with Tatara to make their organization redeemable. She knew where to start, she had to apologize to the teen they were going after.
The woman took advantage of being on camera and approached Bakugou who was sitting down grinning over his victory. "B.E.K." Bakugou looked up. "On behalf of the MQD Organization, I would like to apologize for misjudging you. And I promise, we will never try something like this."
Bakugou aggressively stood up. "What?" The woman looked jumped back in confusion, Bakugou prepared himself. "I respected what you were doing! You were acting in a way that was trying to benefit the community. It's that man that should be F… apologising! … And me."
"I hope you are getting this, cause I am only going to say this once!" The blond force himself to take a breath, he was about to start cursing, but stop last minute. His expression change of one of empathy. "I'm sorry. … I sorry to you Ms. Tsuru, and I am sorry to everyone. I did acted in the heat of the moment and attack Tatara because he did look like a bad guy. I failed to act as a hero. Instead of making you all feel safe …" Bakugou looked down and gripped his hand tight. "... I made you all feel fear. I was like a … villain." He looked back at the camera once more with a determining look. "I promise from this moment on, I will never judge a person from their appearance and/or quirk and encourage them. I will never make YOU feel scared again.
What soon followed Bakugou, was a long pause. His words lingered in the studio, cause he spoke honestly. It was until the host noticed a man behind the camera moving his arms rapidly that he said something. "And it looks like we are about to cut to commercial break. Please return to us where we will talk about the new trends this season."
"And we are in the clear!" The man with headphones shouted. "Get ready for the next set of guest."Everyone started to move around again. Daiki and Bakugou grouped up, and as they were going to say something to one another Tsuru walked up to them.
In one line, Bakugou was able to justified their action and redirect the negative attention to one man, despite them targeting Bakugou first. "Excuse me, if you two are free I would like to talk with you."
Bakugou looked back at the woman, he was wondering what she wanted. However, Daiki was anticipating this, he walked up to her with a hand reaching into his chest pocket. "I'm sorry Ms. Tsuru, but we have to get to back to school. We were only allowed to miss the morning classes." He pulled out a business card and handed it to her. "Please contact us anytime and we'll get together." Daiki gave off a smile and walked offset with Bakugou. She placed the card in a handbag for later use.
The two of them went back to a dressing room to get change into their uniform and head to school. Bakugou couldn't help but noticed Daiki was oddly stacked for someone in Management. "Hey Daiki! You didn't tell me the MDQ were going to have a representative!"
"I didn't know either." The purple headed teen just finished getting dressed. "I guessed they wanted it to be more of a surprised for both sides, but they got what they needed and more. And speaking about surprises, what was that Bakugou?"
"What was what!?" Bakugou was still putting on his pants, it took awhile for him to slip the hero gear off.
"That apology. That was different from anything I approved."
The explosion quirk user smiled, he managed to surprise the boy who expects everything. "I did my own research and just said what was on my fucking mind! What, you weren't expecting any of that?"
"I wasn't expecting anything that good from you."
Bakugou had to give it to curls, he was witted. "You Fucker!" He said it with a smile.
(Back at the Cafe with Bakugou, Daiki, Uraraka, and Kirishima.)
"When I was looking for Tatara's work, I noticed there was a correlation. There was an increased in the number of post he did and the number of people followed him. I figured he likes getting the attention, and if he could increase his popularity, he'll take it."
Daiki's thinking process startled the other. "Daiki, I like how you prepare for everything, but I don't think you should be thinking the worst of anyone. Especially as a media-whore."
The quirkless boy raised his hands in defense. "With all due respect Kirishima …" His gazed slightly shifted to Bakugou. "I like to think at the best and worst for everyone."
"WHY DID YOU LOOK AT ME!?"
At that time, Uraraka was checking out the case, she was rotating it around. "Daiki, this camera looks too expensive." She was lightly touching it, acting as if it was delicate and fragile "How much did you pay for this?"
Daiki smiled. "You don't have to be scared Ochaco. You can drop that thing from the 10th floor and it'll still be fine. Also, I got that for free." The zero gravity hero jumped a bit. "I'm borrowing it from a friend in the Support Department. You guys should know her, Mei Hatsume."
"How do you know about her?" Kirishima questioned Daiki. "I mean, why did you talk to her, since you're in management.
He lightly laughed. "Mei and I are on good terms with one another. In the Management Department. Connections are Everything." The way he phrased it sounded mischievous.
"Anyway, after he post the video, we can draw him onto T.V., and that's when we reveal his true nature."
"Let me guess." Uraraka spoke up. "Your going to use the connections you got from that internship you did with 'Until the Early Afternoon.'"
The teen tapped his noised letting everyone know she was dead on. "Yelp, I figured it might come in handy." Daiki raised his arms and position his hands to a box like a director, placing Bakugou in the center. "Then we can have Bakugou apologies and make people rethink about Bakugou."
"Will that even work?" Uraraka questioned Daiki's plan. "Why would they even interview that guy?"
"Because we are going to make a scene. If there was something to take from my time there, it's that they like making scenes and uproars. There are more thirsty for attention than Tatara is." He rotated his hands once more. "People view Bakugou as an inhuman being, that's why they can easily get behind the petition. The apology was to create doubt that can cause people to second think about their decision. If we do the risky plan, then we can get rid of the petition completely."
Bakugou gave off a smiling grin. "Then it's our win."
Thank you for making it this far, please leave your thoughts in the comment. MadSkullboy, I don't know how to incorporate that but now I am intrigued by the idea. Have a great day.
