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"How many days has it been since she was here?" Lee's pro who he was supposedly shadowing asked from the kitchen as Lee waited in the living room.
"About a week," Lee said. "Since the Festival."
"That's not good," she said.
"Why?" Lee asked.
"Because I can sense a presence up to two months after they're gone," she said, walking into the living room. "But I can't sense Amy. Someone's erased her presence."
The hero had a Clairvoyance Quirk. She could sense peoples' presence, and she could see a sort of trail of light, according to her own description that would lead to the person. At least, until that person's presence either faded, or was erased. While using her Quirk, her normally teal eyes would glow pink, and her blonde hair would float around her head a bit. She wasn't a popular pro hero, since her power wasn't flashy, she didn't fight villains, and she didn't make the news a lot, but she was good at search and rescue jobs. There just wasn't many of them when more popular heroes saved everyone during the accident. She had a small frame and chose not to wear a hero costume, instead wearing a light grey sweatshirt and a pair of yoga pants.
"Which way's her bedroom?" she asked.
"This way," Lee said, pushing off the wall and walking up to the bedroom, opening the door and stepping out of the way.
The hero walked in and hummed thoughtfully. "Tatsumi's been in here."
"Well yeah," Lee said. "He generates the metal for my exoskeleton, and Amy's workbench is right there." He pointed off to the side. "Seriously Mae, are you sure you know what you're doing? You may be our cousin, but you're not too sharp."
Mae gave him an annoyed look. "I know what I'm doing, and I didn't mean Tatsumi was in here to work on your exoskeleton. He was sleeping with Amy."
Lee narrowed his eyes, then turned and walked over to the workbench. "Probably, yeah. Does it matter right now? They're both eighteen and you haven't wanted anything to do with our family since your dad and my mom got drunk together and made a big scene blaming me for my mom losing her legs like I did it on purpose. Is it really any of your business who my sister is sleeping with?"
"Is it really any of yours?" Mae asked.
"No," Lee said. "But you brought it up. does it matter toward finding my sister?"
"Yes," Mae said. "I'm not sensing Amy's presence from this room, only Tatsumi. But if they were seeing each other, I might be able to sense her at his house instead.
Lee nodded, picking up a small, wrapped package with his name on it and a note.
"Congratulations on coming in-" blank spot, "-in the Sports Festival! I'm so proud of you! I know this isn't a nanotech suit like you wanted, but it'll probably look better than your normal exoskeleton. Tatsumi and I worked hard on it, so I hope you like it. It can handle more of an impact than your exoskeleton too, so it shouldn't break any time soon, as long as you don't fight Endeavor or All Might. Anyway, I've included the atomic data and the specifications for maintenance and such for your sexy emitter friend. Enjoy."
He swallowed hard. She had probably meant to give him it at the celebration. He tore it open and lifted it. It was a complete suit made of flexible softarmor strips, giving the appearance of muscle fibres. It wasn't metal this time, or at least, not like his current one. The suit was made to go on the front, with magnets to attach to his metal spine which, according to the specs, were strong enough to hold up thirty semi trucks. The specs also said that the soft armor was made out of a microfibers of the same metal as his current exoskeleton woven together into flexible armor that could withstand even more of an impact than his current exoskeleton, and which would allow complete flexibility and mobility. The elbows had larger pieces of the soft armor that had been painted to look silver, rather than black like the rest of the suit, but which were just as flexible as the rest. The suit's legs ended at the ankle, but the specs said it would fit in his boots, and the suit's knees had a sort of depression that his boots' kneepads would fit into. There was even a half mask on the work bench that was apparently the same material as the suit, but that was designed like his current costume's mask. It was thicker, though. Where as his had a thin strap around his head then sloped upward over his nose, this one stretched from the base of his neck, either under or over the suit at his discretion, to just under his ears, low enough to not rub them, then sloped only slightly to cover his nose to the bridge. he liked the suit, and it would go with his newly redesigned costume perfectly. He folded the suit back up and put it in his costume's case, then turned to Mae.
"Let's head to Tatsumi's," Lee said.
Mae nodded and they left the house, taking her car to Tatsumi's house. After a few minutes, Lee walked up to the door and knocked, Tatsumi opening it a moment later. He looked like shit. His brown eyes were bloodshot, there were dark circles under them, his light brown hair was thinner than normal and messy, and he was trembling slightly, seeming to have shrunk from six foot of muscle to about four eleven and frail. Tatsumi's brow furrowed in confusion until he saw Mae. His eyes narrowed, knowing full well who Mae was and wat her relationship to Lee and Amy was.
"We really are that desperate, aren't we?" Tatsumi asked, letting Mae into the house.
"Yeah," Lee sighed as Tatsumi walked out of the room, not bothering to try to defend herself.
"I'm not going to insult your intelligence by asking if you already checked your home," Tatsumi said. "Did you find the exosuit?"
"Yeah," Lee said, tapping his costume case. "It looks great. Where'd she get the idea?"
"Well, I was playing an old video game a while back and she saw something she could work with," Tatsumi said. "Besides, you mentioned making a nanotech suit, and that was the closest she could get without first inventing nanobots. She finished it the night before the Sports Festival. She sounded so excited. She said she'd leave it in your room after the Festival. She said she just had to finish the card."
"She left the spot for what place I cam in blank," Lee said, his small smile at the thought of his sister excited about her new invention fading. "I guess she didn't get to see the end of the Festival."
Tatsumi's smile fell as well.
"Were you two together?" Lee asked, finally.
"Yeah," Tatsumi said after a moment of hesitation. "We have been for a while, but she didn't want to tell you until the time was right. She was terrified you wouldn't approve."
"She's my sister," Lee frowned. "Not my ex girlfriend or my crush. Why would she need my approval?"
"She's always needed your approval, man," Tatsumi said. "Her whole life, you've been the most important thing in her life. Even more important than me. Why do you think she spent so many days straight not sleeping to make you that suit in time to give it to you as a gift after the Sports Festival?"
Lee glanced at the suit.
"She agreed to tell you about us after the Festival, when she wouldn't be distracting you from anything pressing," Tatsumi said.
Lee nodded, smiling. "I'm glad it was you. You'll be good to her, once I bring her back to you."
Tatsumi smiled. "Thanks. Sorry for not telling you sooner, or under better circumstances."
"It's alright," Lee said, just as Mae walked back into the room, nodding.
"I've got her," Mae said. "She was here the day of the festival."
Lee frowned, looking back to Tatsumi.
"Uh, yeah, remember when I said I hadn't heard from her all day?" Tatsumi asked. "Well...that was technically not true. She came to...wish me a good day before I went to work."
"So she came to fuck you one more time before work," Lee translated.
"Yeah," Tatsumi said uncomfortably.
"I can understand why you didn't say anything, then," Lee said. "Don't worry. I'll bring her home to you."
Tatsumi nodded, then caught Lee by the shoulder. "Regardless of how early you threw the competition, you did great."
"You noticed that, huh?" Lee asked, rubbing the back of his head.
Tatsumi chuckled. "Of course I did. I know you better than that. I assume you had your reasons for giving it to Midoriya."
"He needed it more," Lee said. "And so did his next opponent, in the end."
Tatsumi nodded. "Good luck."
"Don't worry," Lee said. "I'll find her."
Tatsumi nodded and Lee and Mae left, Mae taking the lead. As they walked, the silence quickly grew tense, though not from anger.
"I'm sorry," Mae said.
"You don't get to apologize," Lee said coldly but evenly. "Not to me. After our father's death, you were the only person that could have legally taken us in, especially since your own father had dipped out by then. You were the only relative we had who was old enough to legally take care of us. But instead, you decided to tell us you didn't want us. You told us to fend for ourselves. A seven-year-old and a ten-year-old. You abandoned us. My sister tested out of schooling just so she could take care of me and our mother. She had to give up the chance to have friends, because of you!"
"I couldn't take care of you," Mae said. "Being a hero-"
"You're not even a hero!" Lee snapped. "You are literally the bottom-ranked pro hero! You don't fight villains! You don't help out during natural disasters! you wait until after the disaster, then if any of the real heroes missed anyone, you go in and find them! You're not a pro hero! You're barely more than a civilian rescue worker!"
Mae stared at the grounding silence, eyes closed in what Lee was certain was an attempt to hide her tears. However, after a couple seconds, a tear fell anyway. She wiped it away and took a shaky breath.
"I'm sorry," Mae said. "I failed you both, and it cost you both dearly. I'm so sorry. but I'm going to make up for it. I'm going to find her for you. Even if it kills me."
"What do you mean?" Lee frowned.
"Nothing," Mae said. "Come on. We should keep moving."
Lee nodded, following her through the city. After hours of walking, she stopped, her hair falling and her eyes returning to their natural color.
"What?" Lee asked.
"We're here," Mae said, staring at the building in front of them.
It was a warehouse in an abandoned industrial area. The area was a favorite of a handful of villains, so all the companies that used to use it abandoned it. Once those villains were cleaned up, it mostly became a hangout for high schoolers, and a popular college party location. Lee walked forward instantly, only for Mae to catch his shoulder.
"She's not alone," Mae said. "There's another presence here. A powerful one. We need to be careful."
"No," Lee said, deploying his exoskeleton's arms and clipping his costume case to his back. "We need to be fast."
Mae let him go and pulled her sweatshirt over her head, dropping it off to the side and revealing an armored top that went from her yoga pants up to cover her breasts before stopping. Once her sweatshirt was off, her hair began to float again, and this time, pink-tinted energy began to shimmer from her body, her eyes once again turning pink but shining this time.
"I think it's time I show you what I can really do," she said. "Let's go."
She walked ahead of Lee as they headed into the warehouse. It wasn't empty, as Lee had expected. It metal poles sticking out of the ground every few feet, and each and every one of the hundred or so poles had an Amy chained to it. Lee's eyes widened in shock. Every single Amy looked the same. She was beaten, bloody, bruises pockmarked her pale skin, her bright red hair was a rat's nest of tangles, she was barely conscious, nude, and had obviously been raped.
"Lee!" all of the Amys gasped. "No! You can't be here! It's a trap!"
A male voice began to cackle over a PA System. "Welcome! I've been expecting you, Lee! It's not every day I get to bring my master a power as amazing as yours, but I believe he will be quite pleased!"
Lee ignored the man, walking over to one of the Amys, reaching out to see if she was real."
"No, stop!" the rest all shouted. "Don't touch her! She's a fake! If you touch her, she'll explode!"
Lee stopped, pulling his hand back and looking around. That complicated things, a lot.
"Mae?" Lee asked.
"Sorry," Mae said, looking around. "I can't sense the real one from the rest. The other presence is too strong. Also, now that I'm inside, there's more than one other presence. The stronger one isn't the one that made the copies."
"Understood," Lee nodded, beginning to walk through the room quickly. "Amy, what were we about to do before you were taken?"
"Celebrate you competing in the Sports Festival!" all of the Amys responded.
"How did we find you?" Lee asked.
"If Mae's here, she used her Quirk to sense my presence and followed it here," the Amys all said. "But since they'd have erased my presence at home, you probably had to start at Tatsumi's. I'm sorry I never told you about us."
"That's alright," Lee said, smiling. "I'm happy for you two. And I'm going to get you back to him."
"Thank you!" all of the Amys said, voices trembling and eyes watering.
Lee narrowed his eyes. He was pretty sure the copies weren't just doing whatever the real Amy did.
"Square root of nine hundred twelve point oh four," Lee said.
"Thirty point two," the Amys said.
Lee grinned. "Square root of one thousand eleven point oh one."
His eyes began to glow as he listened, many, many different numbers echoing through the air.
"Thirty one point seven-nine-six-three-eight-three-four-four-two-one!" a single voice shouted correctly, Lee instantly blasting over to that Amy and smiling.
"Hey there Sis," Lee smiled. "Hell of a day we're having, isn't it?"
"Oh, I thought this was just another Tuesday," Amy smiled, tears rolling down her cheeks.
He smiled, arm flashing up and smashing her shackles before he caught her when she collapsed. Instantly, he heard a hundred other sets of shackles click open and scooped her up into his arms before taking off, grabbing Mae on the way by and getting outside just before the other Amys all dogpiled where he'd been and exploded, obliterating the warehouse. Lee set both down gently, opening his costume case and giving Amy a spare blanket he kept in it to cover herself.
"You can't fight them," Amy said, catching his arm. "They're too strong!"
"I'll be alright," Lee said. "Don't worry. I promised to get you home to Tatsumi, and I will. But I also promised to make anyone who hurt you pay. And I'm going to do that too."
He turned, pulling his hand away as three villains stepped into view around them. One was a boy with messy silver hair, stitches over his exposed upper body, both in designs and to seal wounds with sealed cuts and scars up and down both arms and over his torso, but stitches forming railroad tracks, diamonds, and a dozen other designs, including eyes on his palms. The scars included a pair of scars in his cheeks giving him a Glasgow smile. He wore black combat boots and tight black pants with white-toothed-grin designs covering it, all of them matching the psychotic smile he wore on his face. His sky blue eyes were wide and shone with a wicked glee. The next villain was a woman with tattoos of all shapes, sizes, and colors covering her body with glare that could scare All Might directed at Lee. She had black hair on the right side and top of her head with the left side shaved and tattooed, violet eyes, and wore a pair of daisy duke shorts, a black bikini top, and a pair of black combat boots. Among her tattoos, Lee could pick out one of Amy, dozens of weapons, and several of other people, but there was also ice, fire, lightning, stones, animals. You name it, she had it. Even the face of that old comic book villain Joker. The last villain was another male who had messy black hair brushed loosely backward out of his eyes, a medium build, and a calm, calculated confidence shining from his shining red eyes. This one wore a mask almost identical to the one Amy had made Lee, a sleeveless black shirt, black and grey camo cargo pants, black cargo boos, and fingerless black gloves.
Lee swallowed hard, staring at that one, who was staring right back, and clipped his costume case to his exoskeleton again. He crouched, readying himself as the one with stitches cackled, using the same voice as the PA system, though sounding much, much more dangerous this time, his tone lower and thick with excitement.
"Oh yes, the boss is going to be very pleased with your Quirk, speedster," the villain grinned, stitches growing from his palms and forearms, waving around like tentacles. "This is going to be so fun! Can I have the chick? You know how I like my feisty chicks."
"Do it," the calm male said. "But Stitch, don't underestimate her. We only have four hundred seconds before the heroes arrive, starting...now."
Stitch cackled and shoved his arms forward, his cords streaking out and exploding into the ground where Mae had been, only for Mae to have leapt out of the way. Lee wanted to watch the fight, already realizing she was better than he thought, which really wasn't saying much, but he heard something whistling through the air and spun, using the metal on the back of his right hand to deflect a throwing knife, only for it to begin to glow. He spun, grabbing Amy and blurring out of the way of the explosion before skidding to a stop and setting her down, watching the female with the tattoos as she swiped a hand down each arm, her hands coming away with a half dozen knives each. Lee swallowed hard. He was solidly not ready for this.
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