Plenty of Bakugou here. I hope it makes up for his lack of presence in the previous chapters. And he mentions Hansa too, so I'll just explain what that is;
- The Commonwealth of the Stations of the Ring Line - AKA Hanseatic League or just Hansa, is a mercantile faction that encompasses the whole Koltsevaya ring line of the metro. As a result, everything goes through them, and they have become rich as a result. They have a sizable elite force and a lot of influence in the metro as well.
Alright that's it.
This guy is pointing a gun at me! How did he get in here?! What does he want?! He mentioned that what's mine is now his, so perhaps he's talking about the documents?! He must be one of those bandits, right?! Well, he can have the documents! They're not worth my life! I just hope he doesn't kill me! Or worse!
Midoriya whimpered just enough for the guy to hear. "P-please don't kill me! The documents in the bag are worth hundreds of b-bullets! Just take them, don't kill me please!" he covered his face with his hands, which was now streaming with tears of fear and sorrow.
The guy pressed his gun further into Midoriya's head. "Shut up! I'm gonna take those fucking documents then I'm gonna take you with me! Who the fuck's gonna read that, huh?!" Midoriya whimpered again and he felt choked.
He's gonna take me with him?! I'll die! They'll have me live off scraps and they'll just kill me when I'm done with the documents! They might even torture me for fun!
I-I never wanted this!
"H-how did you get in h-here?" Midoriya asked in fear, yet curious. The guy shook him in annoyance. "Buildings have vents, idiot! How else would I have gotten here without getting past your buddies?! Which reminds me.." he pushed Midoriya to the side of the door frame, and the curly haired boy heard metal being unsheathed.
N-no! He's going to kill them!
"Why don't you call one of your buddies here, huh? I can't use that tight-as-fuck vent again with you or these shitty documents with me, and I can't possibly get the fuck out of here with two shitty rangers on patrol, so now I gotta deal with them! Go on!" Midoriya felt another piece of cold metal on his ribs. "Or should I make you scream for that?" Midoriya shook his head rapidly, and gulped a lump on his throat before he spoke. "K-Kirishima? Can you come in here for a second?" he said weakly.
Heavy footsteps and gear signalled to Midoriya that Kirishima was on his way, or at worst, Kaminari, if Kirishima isn't in hearing range. "You okay, Midoriya? You sound shaken." that was Kirishima's voice, which more or less eased him.
At least with his quirk, he can stop this guy's attack.. I hope.
The vault door opened up with heavy creaking, and Kirishima went through it. "Midoriya, what's-" the ranger saw Midoriya squatting and crying on the floor, then the guy shoved the Brahmin to the side, making him hit a metal drawer on the floor, then he leaped at Kirishima with a knife in his right hand.
He is fast. Very fast, and the guy's knife connected with Kirishima's neck within a second. Fortunately for the ranger, he activated his quirk on the first sign of danger, so the knife broke in half without leaving a scratch on him. The guy retreated to the back of the room, and Kirishima immediately had his Kalashnikov's sights on him. "What the fuck?!" the guy yelled, sounding desperate.
Once Midoriya is done rubbing his hurt cheek with his hand, he caught a full glimpse of the offender; he has spiky ash-blonde hair, sharp facial features that are mostly covered by a black full-face gasmask, red eyes that seemed to glow, and he appeared to be wearing a black tank top that showed his strong and muscled arms along with metal plating on his shoulders and legs, and an olive green pair of worn cargo pants paired with black combat boots. A bunch of pipe bombs, dirty bullets, a pistol, and other gear swung from his belt
He actually looks quite.. handsome?
Izuku! He's a bandit! And bandits are bad guys that kill innocents for fun! Besides, thinking of another guy as handsome is risky, alright?
Strange, though.. he looks familiar.
"You do know that The Order has a 'If it's hostile, you kill it' doctrine? Well buddy, you're lucky you came up against me. I'll give you a chance to talk and explain yourself." Kirishima told the bandit, who continued sneering at him; he is also gripping at his pistol much more now. "Talk? Do I look like I wanna fucking talk, shitty-faced ranger? I have a quota to fulfill, and you're in the damn way!" a moment later, the bandit's hand started to spark, then the room was engulfed in a fiery light akin to a flashbang, blinding Midoriya and Kirishima.
Is that his quirk?!
The bandit dashed through his cover, and grabbed the backpack then Midoriya by his shirt collar. He tried knocking over Kirishima to get to the door, but with the ranger's quirk active, he didn't budge, and the bandit knocked himself and Midoriya down instead. Once Kirishima deactivated his quirk, he aimed his Kalashnikov at the bandit. "So much for talking. Sorry, but it's the end of the line for you." the words seemed to have scared him a little.
Then Kirishima pulled the trigger, but he was knocked off balance by the door suddenly closing behind him, making his rifle spray bullets in front of him, putting holes on the drawers, and he himself was sent to the ground afterwards.
A loud growl made it's presence known accompanied by loud banging on the door; a Librarian. "You alerted it, you damn idiot!" Kirishima scolded the bandit while the creature tried opening the door it closed. The bandit, on the other hand, grabbed Kirishima's Kalashnikov amidst the confusion, and was now aiming it at him; Kirishima didn't look fazed by it. "You'll be wasting bullets on me, y'know? I'm practically bulletproof." he stated to the bandit matter-of-factly while the creature continued banging on the door.
The bandit snickered. "Yeah, keep talking like that you fucking cocky Polis shit." he kicked Midoriya, who was trying to stand up, sending him back down to the ground. "This nerd, though. I don't think he is. One Polis asshole is as good as another." he charged the bolt, and aimed at Midoriya, who curled into a ball while clutching at his head.
No no no no NO! Not like this!
With his friend in imminent danger, Kirishima growled at the bandit in anger before he charged at him head-on, punching the bandit straight on his stomach two times, which sent him flying a few feet to the drawers. The ranger then grabbed the bandit by his shirt while he coughed up plenty of blood. "Do you live on killing innocent people, you sick fuck?! That's really damn pathetic and unmanly! No wonder we're supposed to shoot you assholes on sight!" Kirishima yelled angrily and while seething, which was a very foreign and scary expression that didn't suit his whole bright personality. Afterwards, he brought out a .44 revolver, and aimed it at the bandit's forehead.
Midoriya didn't want to see any more blood, and so he looked away from the two, and focused his sights on the door in case the still angry creature is able to break through after all of it's pounding. After a few seconds have passed, Kirishima hasn't pulled the trigger yet, however, as if something, or someone, was stopping him. Midoriya glanced at them.
The two were still in the same position they were in seconds ago, but the bandit looked contemplative now, and he looked incapable of fighting due to his injuries.
Kirishima really packs a punch with his quirk.
The bandit growled. "W-what? You suddenly can't shoot now? Too high and f-fucking mighty for those below you?" the bandit blurted out before coughing up more blood on his shirt. Kirishima looked sympathetically at the bandit. "Lost your fighting spirit, r-ranger? Nosalis got your tongue?" the ranger continued looking at him sympathetically with a hint of anger. "You can't be bothered to talk with inferior shits like me now, right? Of fucking course.. you Polis and Hansa fucks are all the same." the bandit stated venomously before coughing again; conveniently, the pounding also stopped a moment later, after one huge growl, that is.
Kirishima spoke lowly. "I view every person the same; as a person. Why do you think I gave you a chance to talk, hm? I'm not high and mighty, buddy. You're the one that threatened to shoot an innocent, who's also my friend." the bandit grumbled something inaudible due to his state. "You bandits are the ones who kill and steal from innocents, and you're wondering why we look down on you? Really now?" the ranger stated mockingly.
The bandit regained some strength to speak. "I do what I have to do to fucking survive. It's kill or be killed, dipshit. Besides, I have my reasons, and the people I kill, I steal from? I make sure it's from those that fucking deserve it anyway, like you Polis and Hansa fuckers! It's your fault why I'm like this!" Kirishima's interest peaked up at the bandit's words, and a moment later he withdrew his revolver from the bandit's head, making said bandit look at him judgementally. "Well, do you wanna talk now? I'm giving you one last chance." Kirishima asked with a friendly look in his eyes.
There was something about this bandit that Kirishima sensed that he quite can't figure out, like how he behaves differently from all of the bandits he has faced, who brag about all of the people they've killed and plundered from, innocent or not; there was just something different about this guy's words.
The bandit scoffed at Kirishima's offer and looked away from the ranger. "No, I don't wanna fucking talk, shitty ranger. I'd rather die and rot here than get helped by you or get.. shot for being so weak, so stupid." Kirishima chuckled at that. "I'll take that as a yes." the bandit grunted at that.
The door started to creak and open, drawing everyone's attention to it. Startled, Midoriya scrambled to get beside Kirishima, who had this Kalash pointed to the door already. After a few seconds of tense silence once the door was opened, Kaminari poked his head in shortly afterwards. "Has anyone tasted Librarian? I have one here, extra crispy!" the blonde stated lightheartedly with a chuckle.
Kirishima groaned at the blonde's joke, and Midoriya himself plopped down on the floor to lean beside some drawers. "Kami, now's not the time for jokes but thanks anyway." Kirishima chided the blonde not-very-seriously, who laughed in response. Midoriya peeked through the door, and found the hulking mutant face down on the floor and partially charred by Kaminari's quirk-gun; he let out a little "oh" at that.
The blonde ranger noticed some red stains on the redheaded ranger's gasmask. "Hey uh, something happened? There's blood on your gasmask." he pointed out to the redheaded ranger, looking a bit worried. Kirishima looked at the small stains on the bottom of his mask, and laughed it off. "Oh uh, long story bro, hehe." Kirishima then told his comrade the debacle earlier. After that, the two rangers started plotting their escape route, knowing that their previous route will most likely be congregating with Librarians by now due to their scent, and that they're bringing a bloodied bandit with them.
Midoriya, on the other hand, observed the blonde bandit from a safe distance, taking in his features which looked so familiar to him, especially those blood red orbs that were looking at him now. "Fuck off, shitty nerd." the curly haired boy flinched at the bandit's words, but didn't retreat from him. There was something about this blonde that drew Midoriya to him.
I swear I've seen his face before, but where? And when?
Midoriya cautiously approached the bandit, who directed a glare at him to scare him off. Determined, he continued approaching the bandit until they were at arm's length of each other. "You're hurt." the curly haired boy stated. The bandit growled. "Isn't it obvious, fuckface? Now fuck off!" the bandit tried to lunge at him to scare him off, but his bleeding stomach made him incapable of doing so since it hurt a lot; Midoriya backed off a little, but approached him again anyway, like a moth to a flame. He brought out his little medkit case and opened it to get a syringe, which he showed to the bandit. "T-this can help with the pain." he tried to reach for the bandit's arm, but was shook off.
"I didn't ask for your fucking help, rat-face! Why don't you go back to your ranger buddies, huh?!" the bandit growled at Midoriya, but the curly haired boy showed no signs of backing off with his syringe. "Just let me help you, please!" he grabbed the bandit's arm quickly he wouldn't have a chance of retracting his arm from the curly haired boy.
The bandit glared holes into Midoriya's eyes. "What do you think you're doing?!" the bandit's voice was getting weaker, implying that he's getting weaker from the blood loss. He is still defiant though, trying to yank his arm away from Midoriya, who already positioned the syringe over the bandit's wrist. "Please?" he pleaded with those wide, doe-like eyes of his.
The bandit attempted to fight back Midoriya's pleading gaze with glares of his own, but the other boy showed no signs of backing off either way, and was already injecting the syringe into his arm already. The bandit grunted and looked away from the curly haired boy once he was done, eyeing the bag of documents beside him instead. "Do you feel better now?" Midoriya asked him, who grunted in response.
He'd also found out that he was holding the bandit's arm far longer than needed, so he pulled his hand away immediately.
Midoriya then paid attention to the bandit's hand clutching at his bloodied stomach, and was about to take a look until the bandit swatted his hand away. "You persistent little fucker. Do I have to put a gun on your head again to shoo you away?" the bandit snarled, but Midoriya being the "persistent little fucker" he is, he grabbed the bandit's hand and tried yanking it away from him. "You're bleeding there. I have to bandage you." Midoriya looked at him with his eyes again while his hand started to unconciously knead the other's knuckles.
The bandit's glare seemed to slowly subside, and he looked away from him, huffing. Midoriya is now able to gently lift the bandit's hand to his side, then he fetched some bandages and a small bottle of military grade first-aid solution from Kirishima.
Midoriya often thinks at times that his true quirk is him being able to convince people with his looks alone.
"Why the fuck do you even want to help, huh? Either you're some goody-fucking-two-shoes that gets off on helping other fuckers, or you're just damn stupid. Maybe both." the bandit stated as he watched Midoriya coat a clean rag in the first-aid solution. "Kirishima saw something in you that made him rethink about shooting you. And honestly? I-I think I see it too.." then he lifted up the bandit's tank top, showing his bloodied yet still firm and attractive abs; the blood flowed through the dips of his abs, further outlining the muscles, to which Midoriya got rather distracted at.
Quit staring! You're supposed to help him, not ogle him!
..
Perhaps the radiation is messing with me.
Midoriya coughed and blinked his eyes, then he gently rubbed the rag with the solution on the bandit's stomach to clean the wounds from any most-likely infected blood. The curly haired boy could feel the blonde's gaze burning holes on his skull until he "felt" it disappear. On looking at the blonde's face, his eyes were closed and his brows weren't furrowed, making him appear very peaceful; Midoriya panicked for a second, thinking that he died, but then he saw the gentle rise and fall of the bandit's chest, which calmed him down.
Midoriya's watch beeped, which meant that he had to change filters already. Midoriya then unscrewed the filter on his mask and pocketed it for recycling, then he brought out a new one that he screwed in; as an afterthought, he swapped the bandit's filter with a new one also.
Back outside of the room, Kaminari worried for Midoriya. "You sure it's okay to leave Midoriya there with him? I mean, y'know.." Kirishima waved off his speculations. "He's not going anywhere with that punch I gave him, let alone hurt Midoriya. He came to get some medstuff from me actually, so he's actually helping him!" Kaminari sighed and looked towards the basement stairs, their exit.
"Your buddy's kindness could be his undoing someday, just saying. Which reminds me, you should check on them, I'll go up and scout ahead." the blonde told Kirishima as he took off for the stairs. Kirishima rolled his eyes at his blonde comrade's assumption, and went to take a peek inside room. From his angle, it looked like as if Midoriya was feeling up the unconscious bandit's stomach. "Hey uh, Midoriya? We're gonna get going soon so quit groping him, yeah? Hehe." the ranger joked.
Midoriya got startled by Kirishima's sudden presence, and more so by his rather inappropriate joke. "K-Kirishima! I'm not groping him! I'm c-cleaning his w-wounds! See?!" he shot back, showing the red rag and his redder face. The ranger laughed and went inside the room, crouching in front of the bandit. "I know, I was just kidding, haha! Now lemme wrap the bandages on him so we can get going already." the ranger grabbed the bandages, lightly doused them with the solution, and dressed them on the bandit as quickly as he could. Midoriya shooed himself outside with the bag of documents.
As Kirishima finished with the bandages, he lifted the bandit up and carried him piggyback, then he went out of the room where he found Midoriya, who was muttering to himself rather loudly about the bandit. "He looks so familiar but I quite cannot place how or where I met him perhaps he was part of the community before I dunno why does he hate Polis and Hansa so much and what does he mean by them being the cause for how he is now maybe they denied him something-"
The ranger patted Midoriya on his shoulder to snap him out. "I'd say Metro to Midoriya but that's getting repetitive, don't you think? Anyway, let's get going before the sun sets!" the curly haired boy got startled by the ranger's appearance, which made him trip on a book, landing on his backside with an "ow". The ranger helped him up, then they went up the stairs, finding Kaminari already outside along with the setting sun.
"Alright, Midoriya! Since I'm carrying our comrade over here, cover me with your Bastard, okay? It's a short walk back to Polis so let's get going before the sun sets!"
Thanks for reading as usual!