"Geus I was so worried!" Beka ran up the first steps and wrapped him up as tight as she could. Even with the massive hump on his back, she was able to wrap her arms to each other. He also felt her heartbeat pound against his chest and the shivers in her body. "I said everything I could to make sure you didn't get in too much trouble."
That's when it hit him, with what Bailey said. It didn't matter how bad things got with him. As long as others saw someone to look up to him, he'd get away with it. In a way, it angered him, no matter how great somebody is a crime is still a crime.
His hands crawled through the space between their bodies and broke away her hold. "You're the one that did this!" Geus shouted.
"Geus." She whispered back, her voice too afraid to raise any higher. Her arms folded into each other as the rest of her body coward with it. "You're so stupid."
"I'm what!"
Beka's face squinted up, tears rolled down the rolls she created, and her feeling went loose. Her head dropped to the ground and she stomped forward to Geus. She followed him the bottom and proceeded to shove him after the bus. One fist after the other pounded against his chest. Slowly his body made it to the buses and crashed against the metal.
She realized this too and stopped with her small hits. Her red and tear covered face snapped up to him with enough velocity to splash the liquids on his face. Her right arm grabbed his and forced it to his face. The mask became unlocked from its position and dropped to the ground. In the same instant, her other hand came across the bareness of his face.
"You are bipolar Geus." He still didn't say anything back or react in any way. His dead eyes kept on the struggles of her face. She collapsed in his chest with her hands pressed between them. "To attract less attention we had a pro-hero take time out of his days and follow you. It's not just your quirk you don't have full control over." Her right arm became free and slid inside her purse that he just became aware of. He could see a small orange bottle tucked inside her grip. This really isn't a big deal. It's just like football, just because one player breaks another player's leg doesn't mean he's going to jail. It's all part of the risk of the job."
"I wasn't pulled." Geus's quiet voice came out. He cleared his throat. "I was taken out because of my emotions, not because of what I did. That's why I was given another shot."
Beka battled through the tears. "We only want you to get better. Become the hero you're supposed to be."
"Why now? Why wait till now?"
"It was either your quirk or your mind that affected you like this. If it's your body composition it can be fixed. We can't fix your quirk."
Geus reached for the pills inside her hand and took them from her. Upon further reading of the label, they indeed were made to balance out the workings of his body. His face squinched down at the small print of the bottle. "So um, you do know I can't digest anything orally right?"
Beka released Geus from her hug and looked up at his confused face. Her smile brightened up her face and acted like she was finally on top. "I know, it's going to be mixed inside your daily injection to make sure you can never skip out on them."
"You know, when I was first told about you as a therapist I never thought this would be our relationship. I always expected sit in a chair and talk about my feelings thing."
Beka chuckled. "Has there ever been a point where you 'talked your feelings' to me?" She patted his cheek and grabbed hold of his hand. "You up for watching the rest of your friends compete?"
"I'm going to head back early. Tell Aizawa sensei that I went back to the dorm. Maria is her way over here, she'll most likely be okay with taking me back."
Beka released his hands and skipped back to the stairs. "Well I want to see how your maybe girlfriend does and I'll tell you all about it."
"Talk to Todoroki, I have a question for him!" Geus shouted. "And Kage, if anything I'll need him."
"Who's Kage?" Beka asked right before she hit the stairs.
"Fumikage."
"You got it!"
Geus watched twirl up the rest of the stairs and rush into the building. It always amazed him how much of a child she acted in public. And at the same time he had to see her as a moral compass. 'Irosh, the girl to wear a pink skirt at a dance party and teach you about your frontal cortex.'. Geus reached into the bus's luggage spot and reached in for his briefcase.
"Hi'ya!" A man's face came through Geus's case. The solid eyes and huge smile added onto the shock factor. Geus's body instinctively jumped back from the bus and trip to the ground. Geus was in pure shock, his body was frozen and refused to move.
"Wha-wha-what? That's fucked up even for you!" Geus shouted at the dislodged face stuck on his case. The way the face move out from it and created a full head continued to gross him out more. "I'll seriously report you this time!"
"I'm not Iroh but you'll certainly see more of me!" The head shouted out.
Geus's arms began to stutter and made it difficult to push himself back up. "I never said Iroh."
"I know you Geus. When I was told to see you in case if anything happened I was very confused. I thought, why not bring Tamaki he's more of your type! Or Hado? You two like to talk a lot!"
"What are you saying?" Geus carefully stepped forward to the head. 'He says he's not Iroh but this is an Iroh thing.'. Geus reached into the bus and grabbed hold of his case.
"I'm here to remind you to not give up! I've seen how dangerous your quirk is and how much you have to hold back its power. You are still a student of U.A.! Release your power and show everyone what you can do!"
"This is all an illusion. That's exactly what Iroh would say so I would hurt my friends. I can't just go and kill anyone I feel like. I have the power, not the will." Geus's head lowered and his eyes drifted to the side. "Unlike Midoriya and All Might, Kage and Hawk, I got nobody to teach me."
"Um, Geus?" Maria's voice caused Geus to jump again. This time his feet kicked his other foot and collapsed him into the pavement.
"Gah, you scared me." Geus rubbed off his jacket and got up to his feet. His shocked eyes looked back into the hole inside the bus. All the cases of the students are there except for that head.
"Everything okay in there? There a person in there?" Maria poked her head around the bus and looked inside the luggage carrier. She looked back with a confused but supported smile. "Just talking to yourself?"
"Yeah." Geus stuck his head inside the hole and grabbed hold of his case.
"So how'd it go? Did you get your hero license?"
"Provisional hero license." Geus tugged the case out fully. He swung the case over his shoulder and nodded toward Maria. "But I failed it."
"Well, let's go get you a treat." She looked up to the building and peered her eyes closer to the windows. "Will your teacher be angry if I took you?"
"I made him aware. I'll change inside the dorm." Geus took the lead to her car. It wasn't much of a lead as she only parked on the opposite side of the bus. He still saw it as more and entered the passenger side of the SUV.
Maria quickly got to the other side of the car and started it back up. "You do get another chance right? It isn't a one chance thing right? We'll look at the music shop for a new bass guitar or something for you."
"Just take me to the dorm, I'm sweaty, in pain, and tired. And my bass is just fine. I don't need new things all the time."
Geus crossed his arms and snugged himself inside the soft leather seat. If Geus opened his eyes and saw how Maria watched him. Her face was soft and worried, her mind focused on him and only him. She couldn't drive forward, all her bodily functions froze.
A small thud came from the back seat but it didn't affect Geus. Maria's arms squeezed in her side and swung herself forward. A weak and sly laugh erupted from her. "Guess that means I should get a move on." The car started up and a second long screech of the tires moved it forward.
With Geus asleep in the seat, there was no talking. Not even a minute of arguing or loud shouts of each other's feelings. It was a good different pace for the both of them. Neither of them thought the whole family dynamic thing would settle. Geus never said it but she knew all he saw her as was a signature. The okay the school needed for both parties.
"Geus," Maria pushed against his arm. His eyes barely opened up but he still glared at them through the crease. It was lucky for her that her sunglasses kept her eyes hidden. He would see the fear inside them. "Do you love me?"
His eyes squinted down and his body suddenly became tense. He didn't need to see her to understand her. His vision came clear through at the sight of another. His quirk activated and rushed down to his chest. In an instant, his entire upper body was covered in the gas. The gas covered hand snatched the one that came straight for him.
The other arm shoved against the door and ate away at the plastic. Screams came from the back side of the car and another hand came through and slapped his hand. Geus pulled in the arm and pulled the culprit with him. Geus's eyes stared down the crow's mask.
The mask didn't hold back or muffle any of his noises. Geus's hand dissolved the brown leather coat and melted down his skin and flesh. His other hand broke through the metal door and flung it wide open. The entire time Maria didn't stop driving. The entire time her speed only increased down the freeway. She had no intention of getting involved in this.
His hand clenched clean through the masked man's wrist. "Stop the damn car!" Geus shouted at Maria.
"I'm sorry!" Maria shouted back through her tears. "I can't!"
Geus looked out the open cavity of the car. A large moving van held the same speed that Maria produced. Two men dressed the same as this attacker drove in the front seat. Another man hung from the side of the van. He recognized him to be Dabi.
He turned back inside the truck and lunged for the attacker. With his hands still covered in the gas he clenched at the mask. It required all his muscle to pry him out from the seat and into his lap. Geus tied his entire body around his body and scooted his self out. The body Geus used for impact splashed against the concrete and crushed to half its size. Other than the body, his armor kept most of the injuries away.
Cars swerved around his tumbling body and ended up crashing into others. In a matter of minutes a pileup around them blocked all ends and means of escaping. A circle of car wrecks entrapped him inside a ring of chaos.
Geus's armor continued to chip away with every smash with the pavement until his back crashed into one of the cars.
He could hear people struggle to get out of their cars and scream as they ran away. His closed eyes drowned his ears with all the different pitches of sounds. It wasn't his fault and he knew it, but he still placed these people in harm's way.
The few moments of rest gave him the chance to rebuild his energy and armor. He watched that van swerve around from the end of the highway and gun it towards him. Both of his gas covered hands reached behind him and inched his body off the ground. With each moment he could feel his leg bone crunch and twist inside his muscle.
All his weight leaned on the side of the dented car he connected with. The van with the joint forces of the League of Villains and whoever this was broke through the barrier and swerved around to the back to Geus. Dabi jumped off the side of the van and walked forward. Geus tried to move off the car and attack before he could. Yet his leg and ribs pinned him to the metal.
Dabi held his arm across his chest and whipped it forward with a large blue flame surrounding them all. Geus was in no condition to take him on. If he tried to slash at him now with the same motion, a rib would eject out of his chest. And all Dabi needed to do was another one of those to completely burn him. This and the forest had nothing in common.
"You going to lean on that burning car or come with me?" Dabi asked while he scratched at the charred eye socket.
"I am constantly running at several hundred degrees. A little fire doesn't concern me."
"I can guarantee you that my fire burns a lot hotter than your gas. And by the look of gas, it's already dying out by my fire."
Geus looked down at his chest, most of the armor he had made was gone. But he could feel the gas's weight and movement on his chest. 'What they don't see won't kill them, you just got to punch them with it!' The girl's voice played in his head. Geus closed his eyes and looked down at the ground. "Where the hell is Iroh?"
"That guy? He's nowhere near the League of Villains. He already betrayed us once. We won't fall for him again. So come on, get off that car."
Geus eyed down his arm, slowly but surely he hurried the gas down his arm. Dabi took notice and sighed. He grabbed the bottom of his back and pushed in as he leaned back. He walked forward right after with a slouch in his manner. It shocked and drove fear into's Geus's breathing.
His demeanor sent shivers down Geus's spine. He had no fear of what Geus could do right now. It wasn't like the training camp or the abduction. It didn't faze Dabi one bit with what he had planned. It was all over.
Geus held out his arm and exhaled his entire tank. The gas stored in his hump rushed out all at once and everything in his lungs. It was like a tornado exploded from his arm, a small vortex enlarged to Dabi's size. The gas launched far behind him and struck the van. With such heat and acidic prowess it melted the back end in an instant.
It was less than five seconds of the attack, but to Geus, it felt like minutes. His right arm seized in short bursts. He lifted his boot and smacked it against the other. Just as he feared, the ac system in his suit couldn't take the heat. The spasms moved over to his neck and couldn't keep his head stable.
The gas disappeared into the air to reveal a blue wall of fire in its place. As Dabi walked forward, his walk was bored with a slouch and muscle relaxed movement. He purposely shoved the ends of his coat behind his arms and stuck his fingers inside his pockets. He was heavily uninterested in Geus and saw nothing inside him.
By this time Geus was out of the fight even if he wanted to follow up with another attack. His legs crumbled underneath him, smacked against the car, and hit the ground. Now he had no control of his body; his body couldn't stop shaking, and his quirk was at a zero. Dabi had no worries when it came to him.
Dabi, with his hands still in his pockets, squatted down to Geus. "That's a good villain ending move." Half his mouth grinned up. "Except you forget that my flames burn hotter than your gas."
Geus got to a point in his strength that his mind and senses stayed alive. All he hoped for was for his spirts of gas to hit him accidentally. Nothing would happen from it but it gave him a little spark of happiness. Though his dream never did come true.
"That guy will never tell us why he wants you." Dabi angrily sighed and grabbed the collar of Geus's suit. With the added strength of his legs, he thrust up and held Geus with him. "But your family better be worth it."
Geus's head jolted with pain. His mind triggered with it and numbed his head. His vision blurred out of focus along with everything else. He thought back fo his old revived memories, that boy his grandfather mentioned. At least now there was a chance to explain one of his questions. If this turned out right, then maybe these people could answer the rest.
The last things he saw was the back of the van opens up to more of those hooded crow people. The first two reached out to him, grabbed him, and tossed him inside the van. Then each of his senses went blank.
