IZUKU SKIRT A WILD WIND
CHAPTER 32
PATRON LIST
$10 TIER: MehReal
$7 TIER: Joseph Morrison, Ziraxus, Meh123
AN: I HOPE THERE ARE FANS OF THE TROPE IN ANIME, MANGA, AND LIGHT NOVELS WHERE AN OVERPOWERED OLD MAN CHARACTER DEFEATS AN OPPONENT MULTIPLE YOUNG PEOPLE COULD NOT. CAUSE IF SO ENJOY MHA FAVOURATE ELDERLY HERO TAKING THE SPOTLIGHT FOR A GOOD BIT.
STREETS OF HOSU
NIGHTTIME
(WITH GRAND TORINO)
THIRD PERSON POV
Originally keeping on the trail of his great grandson by discreetly jumping quickly from behind fire escapes to trash cans he kept his distance. Though one would normally think his yellow costume would stand out in the night making it hard to discreetly tail anyone. His years of training to deal with All For One past operations and his now small size allowed him to go unidentified to someone like Stain. Even if the hero killer was skilled in his own right, compared to All For One he was easy to hide from and avoid compared to that devil as far as the old hero was concerned. The patrol was going well at first when suddenly there was an explosion and an ear piercing cry that made the hairs on the back of the old man hair stand.
"I know that cry…" Grand Torino said to himself in a mutter as memories of his fight against All For One years ago. Among his sickening creations was a so called 'prototype' of a multi-quirked soldier that was brain dead and only able to take simple commands such as attack or don't attack. However, it would attack anyone who was not All For One, which meant his other men were killed when he unleased it. The villain back then had deemed it a failure and a waste of good quirks, but after what they told him of the Nomu he knew the madman had finally succeeded. Going to Ingenium who was behind him as his armor was more noticeable and needed to be kept at a longer distance for good measure, he warned them.
"You three need to catch up to Izuku, I know you run a high risk of getting spotted if you get any closer. But with All Might defending UA I am the only one here who knows how to fight multi-quirked opponents." Grand Torino said to the futuristic looking knight and the two students with him.
"All right, I won't ask right now how you can tell there is a Nomu in the area but I will trust that your right and take over your role as the immediate interceptor." Ingenium said, nodding to him as he flew off towards the explosion. Originally, they planned for Grand Torino to hold off Stain for the moment or two Ingenium needed to get close to them due to his necessary distance. But if there was one thing the old hero had learned, it was that the first plan almost never survived the first encounter with the enemy. Sadly, the enemy in this instance was able to spread themselves out easily due to Kurogiri teleporting quirk.
Travelling through the air towards the intensifying heat and rising smoke that the screaming people were running from. Within the flames of a burning building surrounded by heroes he saw a silhouette, it was of a tall slender man with considerable musculature. The heroes who surrounded the building trembled as the figure began pulling broken bits of wood and plaster off themselves with ease despite the fire.
"WHAT ARE ALL YOU ZYGOTES WAITING FOR!" Grand Torino shouted as he landed in front of them within their circle. Immediately he was confronted by the young group of pro heroes who had been fighting the monster telling him to get out of there. Not liking that these cocky brats had the nerve to talk to a senior in their field, a field where people have a high rate of dying young at that. He decided to let them try their luck with it at first to see what passed for a pro hero these days. As he had expected when the monster with the exposed brain came out of the building it overwhelmed them immediately adding more to the badly wounded heroes numbers that needed to be taken to a hospital later. "This is how you are supposed to fight multi-quirked enemies you fools." He said to the few remaining ones still standing and fighting as he leapt forward towards his opponent.
It had black skin and what appeared to be a large gut that seemed out of place with it large muscular arms that were covered in scars. Going around the Nomu as All For One was now calling them, he then zigzagged in a path directly towards them as they turned around. Taking a sharp jump up to avoid a strike from his right side, he spun around in a cartwheel before delivering an axe kick from above. Not enough to take them out but enough to stun them for the moment he needed to place his feet against their chest to send them flying back into the burning building with a powerful blast of air. With them now trapped under the burning beams and collapsed walls he approached a hero he recognized as one of the more respectful ones around here.
"Manual, Ingenium younger brother, I need you two to go back to the alleys where I came from and back up Ingenium and Uwabami. Three of your classmates are with them battling Stain so hurry up." Grand Torino told them pointing to the area where he hoped they all are still there.
"YOU HAVE STUDENTS FIGHTING STAIN!" Manual exclaimed shocking those around him who were still there to hear him.
Not having any of his pointless arguing Grand Torino yelled back in frustration at the time he is wasting. "SHUT THE HELL UP AND GO HELP THEM ALREADY! I will defeat the villain you couldn't despite having over a ten to one advantage." He said with a huff of annoyance as he jumped back into the fight since the Nomu was getting back up for round two with him. Using his quirk he took advantage of the burning building surrounding them to launch flames at the Nomu head to damage it before an axe kick to their exposed brain. Then after it recovered from being stunned swung their arms around at him, which he deftly dodged before repeating the process of his attack again. Determining that it had very basic quirks like high-speed regeneration and physical strength augmentation he knew it was very basic and just a wall of brute force. If he kept this up he would kill it in no time and be able to get back to Izuku and the others so long as he did not encounter anymore along the way.
STREETS OF HOSU
NIGHTTIME
(BEFORE THE FIGHT WITH STAIN)
KENDO POV
Sprinting from rooftop to rooftop I could not help but think there was no one dumb enough to try to attack Stain by themselves considering all the previous heroes he left in his wake. As if picking up on my thoughts he held his arm out to his side indicating for me to stop, so I did sliding into place just behind him. "Keep your guard up, and keep in mind that you must never underestimate or overestimate the enemy. The foolishness people are capable will catch you off guard otherwise." He told me making me now consider if we even would get attacked by only one person. Nodding back to him to let him know I understood what he told me we got back to out trek through the city of Hosu.
As we kept going we came across the hero Native who rather than patrolling was accosting a women in her mid twenties. Who based on her appearance I would guess is a… 'nighttime companion' as the other word people usually use would seem too much in this situation. Before learning from Stain I would normally not help for two reasons. The first would be out of fear of the trouble I would get in and the second thinking they were getting what they deserved for such shameful work based my father own views I was mostly abiding by till now. But since training with Stain I have learned that in life you do not always get to choose where your life leads you, case and point my current circumstances was an example of that to a degree. That is in fact why most people who work in such an industry do so in the first place, as they tend to have little to no other option.
"It looks like he is chasing her away and telling her to go home. There wasn't a curfew was there?" I asked him wondering if I had missed something that was announced due to my focus on training only.
"There was no curfew announced, the fool either thinks I will attack random people or thoughtlessly hates people working that kind of job without considering why they are doing such work." Stain said with disgust clear in his voice as he oversaw this scene from the edge while I stayed to his side but a bit behind him. Unable to stop myself from feeling bad as I was once one such close minded person I almost apologised before he spoke up again. "Do not worry yourself, you have learned since we first met that the world is for more grey, not the black and white you were raised to believe by this rotten mockery of a hero society." He told me as if reading my mind.
Before I could question if I spoke out loud or if he read it from my face a commotion began down below. "STAIN! SURRENDER NOW OR I WILL NOT HOLD BACK." Native called out to us, or rather to Stain making me realize he has not seen me yet. It seemed that he thought we were here to hunt him, which was likely not wrong given the glare he was giving before to Native. Instead however Stain raised his scarf for a brief moment to cover his mouth before speaking again.
"He has not seen you yet, so stay here and watch my back in case it looks like I am in trouble." He told me before leaping down from the roof down to Native.
"Okay sensei, I will not interfere." I whispered unsure if he heard me or not. The fight was rather swift as he managed to instantly stab native through his chest in an instant before they could react. Based on the location of the would and the subtle chipping/crunching I barely heard I knew that the sword had likely gone through the spine of the hero. For a moment I almost gagged but other than that I was shockingly calm for watching him killing someone. Was it because I knew he was a killer from the beginning and expected to see a murder or two tonight? Or maybe I was just numb or a monster myself like him for not caring?
No. neither of those are the right answers. I knew it was wrong and did feel a twinge of guilt at basically assisting in the murder. But I just did not care as the man had proven on multiple occasions from my point of view even before I met Stain that he was a glory chaser of a hero. It did not mean he was not willing to risk his life to save people, but he always overlooked questions about the victims so he could brag about how strong his quirk made him. I have chosen this path of training under Stain and knew what it would possibly, so I would just have to live with my choices. It was during all of this self interrogation and rationalization that Izuku and Uwabami showed driving Stain away from Native. I was determined to stand aside and not interfere as I knew he had no intention of hurting Midoriya.
When Ingenium showed up with Tetsutetsu and his knock off from class 1-A I began to worry as I did not want to fight a classmate. However, it was clear I could not take Ingenium on so when they began to attack Stain from behind I leapt in to help him by driving them back. 'Well looks like I have to join in the fight after all since they clearly did not underestimate him.' I thought as I descended from the rooftop to the ground with a strong leap over the edge.
STREETS OF HOSU
NIGHTTIME
(FIGHTING STAIN)
THIRD PERSON POV
Learning from his previous attack Tetsutetsu and Kirishima decided to attack with consecutive strikes despite the narrow alleyway. Thinking she would either be forced to do one of three things, first is to back away, second is to duck forward under the first attack, third is to block Tetsutetsu attack trapping her in place. However, to their surprise she did none of them as she charged forward making it look like she was going for another horizontal slash. But instead, she held out her sword flat side forward with one hand pressed her side of the sword as she ducked down into a sliding motion. This resulted in her striking Tetsutetsu in the stomach while tripping him at the same time causing him to fall forward face first. Shocking Kirishima and causing him to trip up she transitioned from her slide and into a jump onto his chest. Though this did end up helping Kirishima to keep himself standing in the end he was unable to catch her. Taking advantage of this moment she summersaulted behind him slashing his back from the bottom to the top causing him to fall onto Tetsutetsu and her to land crouched behind them.
Dashing forward Kendo was going to thrust her sword into Ingenium from behind through his stomach while he was locking arms with Stain. Unable to dodge this as they would be instantly cut down by Stain if he let go Ingenium thought he was going to die. This was when suddenly to his shock his little brother Tenya Ida accelerated into the pathway of the blade. It stabbed through his forearm, then in an instant using his momentum and weight advantage he planted one foot on the ground turning left a full one hundred and eighty degrees. Delivering a powerful right hook Kendo was sent flying over Stain and his brother pulling her sword out with herself. Before the elder Ida brother could panic at the sight of his little brother bleeding arm they were clutching Stain was slammed back into the wall by a surge of water.
"WHAT ARE YOU TWO DOING HERE!" Ingenium exclaimed, checking his brother's arm.
"An old man in a yellow cape sent us here to help you all saying you were doing something crazy like fighting Stain." Manual said as Stain got up.
Ingenium quickly recognized that the younger fighter of this deadly duo now had no one between them and the two who were only meant to act as bait originally, had ushered his brother to Izuku to get healed as he held Stain back again. Though Izuku was able to close up the wound instantly before his classmate could bleed much more, his quirk could not replenish the blood they lost. This resulted in a slightly dizzy Tenya Ida who now had to fight against Kendo who has just recently been trained by Stain.
The battle was not going well for Ida as he was forced to not fight to his full strength against this opponent as they had proven already how nimble they are. If he was to use his quirk to try and hit her with a boosted kick he knew they would use that opening to slip past him. This meant he had no choice but to fight using his fists, something he knew essentially nothing about except how to throw a proper punch. Fortunately for him his thick armor had been protecting him from Kendo sword that unlike the other two is holding back much less now than when the fight started. This, however, meant that she was beginning to cut through his armor that was now breaking apart into little pieces here and there. "WHY ARE YOU TRYING TO KILL INNOCENT PEOPLE!" Ida exclaimed annoyed how they were not responding to his questions.
Izuku despite wanting to back him up with blasts of air from flicking his fingers could not do so as he would run the risk of hitting the others fighting Stain. 'Why am I still helpless? I am supposed to take over for All Might as the next Symbol Of Peace one day.' He thought bitterly as all he could do was watch Ida struggle to block or parry sword strikes. Unfortunately for the two boys and Uwabami, well as far as they knew anyways, the young swordswomen would kill if they did not receive help. The issue here was that Ingenium and Manual were still struggling against Stain even with the help of Kirishima as well as Tetsutetsu they were still barely holding Stain back.
"AHHH!" Kirishima cried out as he felt the muscles in his body seize up as Stain licked some of his blood off of their blade. Tetsutetsu quirk meanwhile managed to hold up a bit better as his skin was covered by a layer of metal rather than simply hardening it. With one less shield to keep him busy Ingenium had no choice but to change his position to cover Manual leaving a new gap.
Recognizing this as an opportunity to move in and take Tetsutetsu out of the fight before her new teacher had to injury him badly, Kendo rushed forward. Catching the part just above where her hands was on hilt just under his armpit, her horizontal slash turned into her slamming the flat of her blade under the back of Ida shoulders. This sent the heavily armored speedster crashing forward as she jumped past him. Tetsutetsu braced himself for the next sword strike to come when suddenly he heard… popping? Then as if cutting through the darkness of the terrifying night they were experiencing. Practically riding a fireball, Bakugo came flying in with his explosions lit brightly behind him. "I AM GOING TO KICK YOUR ASS YOU DAMNED EXTRA!" He screamed as he tackled Kendo at his full speed sending both tumbling down with him land above her, pinning her down.
