"Who's that?" Eri asked. She poked the small screen in Geus's hand to only pull it right back into her lap.

Geus itched at the side of his head. "It's the boy I'm trying to save. Just like you."

"But you can't save me. I'm stuck here."

The quiet and scared comment burned at Geus's soul. As much as he hated the hero role, the big picture would always remain. If it wasn't for them then he would've given up by now. What's the point of fighting for something when there was nothing to fight for. That was Geus's process of thought at this point.

At first the journey here was just about pitiful revenge against his family. To prove them wrong when he really didn't have to. Now he realized it was all for them, he had to prove to them to continue the fight. Keena, and now Eri, they've given up the fight and saw no outcome. If he gave up, they'd have nothing left.

He learned why the Expendables were so close to Chisaki. Why they were able to fight to an inch of their lives and even die for him. He gave them the same promise Geus made. All he had to do was stand and lead for them to follow. And Geus had to learn to do the same for her.

It's been one hell of a week for Geus. It wasn't any longer a waiting game for the heroes to arrive. Or to become strong enough to escape with Eri. He had to play along and convince the others of his allegiance. He could get out one day with Eri, but that would mean losing Keena forever.

Toga, and who Geus learned Twice's name was Jin, knowingly or unknowingly helped him in his goal. He wasn't about to risk it and asked them right out. Keena's clones and the feed was what he needed to get by. It continued on his hope and the sanity of his mind.

The relationship was entirely one side just as he thought. He did everything they asked of him while he got nothing in return. Any extra information about the League of Villains or Chisaki remained secret. He was under their control without any of the benefits.

"Listen, I'm going to get you out of here. I'm not saying today or tomorrow, but one day I will." Geus looked at the door. He could hear the footsteps from outside Eri's room get louder. And as he predicted the door opened up with Chisaki on the other. 'He's just in my way.'

"You have an answer for your philosophy?" Chisaki asked as soon as the door opened.

"If I refuse to do what you say what happens? Do you kill me? Hurt me? Let me go? Then that's it. If I betray the heroes then my entire life inside and out is over. My career gone, my friends gone, the public eye decides to turn on me. The difference is my pain here is temperary, up there it's forever."

"For a person that still rushes into fights you sure speak logically."

Geus smirked. "I'm an archer that loves his sword." It's not like he knew his combat style was ineffective compared to his secondary. Supportive range was his specialty but chose to fight lead close combat.

Chisaki lifted up his arm and tossed over a new mask at Geus. It was almost exactly like the old one except this one's beak was sealed shut. Geus looked at the mask and hesitated. Chisaki didn't need to say anything to make him realize what this meant.

"I can't kill her." Geus finally said. "Down here all I got is my word against you guys. I was told not to kill even the worse of villains... Just to hurt them really bad."

"I've lost count on how many times you said that you'd kill me."

"Just like Bakugo." Geus mumbled.

"It doesn't matter what you said. Protective services finally brought her into town and placed her in her own home. We only have today until she goes out to see the best detective here."

"We're bringing Eri." Geus demanded as he placed on the mask. "I want to show her violence and killing isn't the world."

"Don't think you can easily escape with her. We still have watch over Keena." Chisaki answered like he was prepared for Geus's counter. "This is your one chance to prove your loyalty to us."

Geus grabbed Eri and lifted her on his shoulder. "I wouldn't think about jeopardizing their lives." He walked face to face with Chisaki. His pulsing eyes met with the calm and dead of the other. Geus couldn't say anything, his voice kept silent as he bit his lip.

He walked past Chisaki only to be immediately grabbed. Toga lept into Geus's body, her voice shrieked and her legs danced in the air. "You can't leave, I need more of your blood right in my mouth." Her pouted face looked up into Geus's eyes. Wide open and tongue itched at her k9s. "Aaaaah."

"Remember what happened last time you drank my blood?" Geus started up his walk while he carried Toga around his body. "You nearly melted out your tongue."

"How can we ever work if I can't stab you and become you? We can become one."

"We'll never become one." Geus grumbled. "I don't even know why you even keep up this persona. It's getting you nowhere." Geus stopped by the door that led to the ground level. It was intimated to him, never once has he been this close to the exit. "You already have my undying support. You control Keena you control me." Geus's hand snapped into Toga's throat. He gripped hard and pulled her off his body. "Until I get that boy, you walk free." He pulled her slowly into his face, their noses touching and breath's heat in each other's faces. "I know my place. Now learn yours."

Geus released Toga's throat. She gasped and coughed for the air she desperately needed. Even with Geus's assault, she didn't show ill will to him. She simply became bored at his mannerisms. She pulled a knife out from her sock and grabbed Geus's hand from the other.

"You dare stab me and I swear I will knock you out."

She moved her grip to his finger and tugged on the inside joint. Geus curled in every other finger, leaving that ring finger to him. She pointed the knife down to the fingerprints and pricked the skin. A very little amount of blood pooled from the open dot. She opened her mouth wide and wrapped it around the nub.

Her tongue wandered around the flesh as she sucked everything else. She pulled back on the finger till a small pop disconnected the two. Her appearance changed, her head bobbed back and her cheeks turned pink. Geus the entire time was slightly pulled back.

He wasn't used to any sexual or near sexual acts that weren't meant to scare him. All he mustered to do was squishing up his face and closed his eyes. They only managed to peer open once he didn't feel Toga's mouth around the digit. He saw the compassion in her face, the look a loved one gives to another. But he didn't return the favor.

"I want what I can't have." Her face pulled into his ear and bit down against the top ridge. "If I cant inject your blood and become you. I want you."

Geus squeezed down on her cheeks and popped her off of him. "You don't want me."

"We don't have time for this." Chisaki stepped through them and pushed open the door. "Our window closes while you squabble."

Geus silently agreed and followed close behind. The interior from Geus noticed was nearly identical to the basement. The walls are barren but perfectly shaped. Geus felt up the walls of stone and found no source of weakness. Escape out of this place cranked up a few levels of difficulty. If he managed to get here, there was no way to get into another direction.

They reached up to the outside of the building. The first seconds of sunlight caused Geus to close his eyes and cover them with his arm. Freedom literally blinded him. It was the first time on weeks he felt the presence and the heat of the sun. It was a new refreshment he almost forgot about, all he wanted to do at that moment was to rip off these athletic clothes.

"Hold on." Chisaki stopped.

The bliss crashed after that. His eyes adjusted to the sun and the heat became a regular feeling against the sweatshirt. His own enhanced body heat easily overflowed what the sun gave off. Now it was like any other day in the basement.

Chisaki grabbed the mask from Eri's hands and tossed it back into the manor's walls. "What the hell?" Geus snapped. He was slightly distracted at Eri's sudden fall. She grabbed around Geus's head and climbed behind him. She wrapped and slid her feet into his sweatshirt pockets and wrangled the hood. "What was that?" Geus asked as this happened.

"Your mask wi bring any unwanted attention if anybody recognizes it." Chisaki answered back as he moved forward.

"Recognize it?" Geus jumped into a jog and caught up to Chisaki's side. "I think they'd recognize me at a single glance. Not a stupid mask."

"Your hair is orange, almost red in parts. Your eyes green from the contacts and the mask covers your mouth. The sweatshirt covers your arms and the rest of your upper body. And those sweats bag thick enough for nobody to get a chance to remember your leg size. Nobody will think you exist after today."

Geus tilted his head all around the streets of the city. Full of heroes patrolling the streets and the civilians crowded the rest. Shops jingled their tunes of music or shouted out for others to come by. It was true to the largest decimal, they were invisible.

"You're a wanted man, how the hell does nobody recognize that beak of yours?"

"Miria has actually never seen me before. Only knows of me and what my informants tell her. The Yakuza taught me to hide in plain sight. And in a world filled with disgusting creatures, we're just like everyone else."

Geus looked behind at Eri, her face brought a small tickle in his heart. It was a new outlook he hasn't seen before. While he was quirkless he was watched as the loser, when he gained his quirk he was the killer, then the redemption. Now, he was nobody, just another dot. 'This is how Eri must feel, alone and forgotten. She could die and nobody would remember her.' Geus tightened his hold around her legs.

"Let's get this over with." Geus demanded.

Geus couldn't muster up another word after that. Just inches away from a murderer and connected to an abused child, and nobody batted another glance at them. It disgusted Geus to his core. And made him realize how selfish he's acted this entire time. He only thought about himself with every battle and about others after his actions.

How everyone walked and acted like everything was ordinary caused him to rethink. Eri and Keena, two people that had nothing and gave up on the hero society. Just like how did. It was clear that it wasn't supposed to be about him or his singular desires. It was really about everyone else. His goals and dreams were meant to come second to them.

It was the sacrifice he and others dedicated their lives to. Each of them was scared and dreaded the future they may have to leave. What he did wasn't pretty or innocent, but what he did protected them. The reason why they were able to live their lives, watch him, judge him, walk by him, what Chisaki saw as a need for a change. Was in reality how the world managed to continue on.

"You're going to see it Eri." Geus whispered as quietly as he could. "I can't give up. I'm just starting."

Chisaki waved his hand into Geus's chest. Geus cleared out of his mind and wandered his eyes. They stopped at the edge of a street and faced an old brick duplex. "She's in there, top level."

Geus looked at the main floor, it was a regular storefront with an old lady behind the shop counter. Another person was there with her and laughed with her. "If that's true then those people there aren't really customers aren't they?"

"It's a real shop. The customers inside could be real or agents. Just keep an eye out."

Geus remained still. 'Can't be.' A person just about his height rolled around his right side and opposite of Chisaki. Green and black hair, a green jumpsuit. Geus turned around and made a small twirl. He came right back to where he was and looked down at the store.

"Push me and run down the alleyway," Geus whispered. "Trust me." Geus gulped down the access amount of gas in his mouth. His heart raced, it was a long shot and could prove fatal to her or him. But if his instincts were right then nothing would happen.

She did. With Geus loosened grip, she wiggled her legs right out of his arms and kicked off of him. Geus overplayed the action, he tumbled forward and tripped into the street. He made sure to land on his shoulder and be able to roll back right up into the street. His arms flailed around and tripped back into the sidewalk. His arms grabbed hold of Chisaki's jacket and pulled him down with him.

"You want to die?" Chisaki tried to hold down his voice. He grabbed Geus's arms and yanked him off. Chisaki brushed off and dewrinkled his sleeve, acting like nothing was wrong. "Come on, better go get her." Chisaki paced himself calmly, acted like one of the crowd as he went down the same alleyway. "We'll punish her when we get home, partner."

"Shit." Geus tugged up his knees and boosted off the ground.

Both of them watched the injured, scared girl run with all her might. Pant after pant watched the white in the blackness create a small amount of distance between them. And if this didn't work, the punishment Chisaki would lay on her shattered Geus's soul.

Geus begged in his mind for that green jumpsuit to curve around the corner. To meet her perfectly at the other end, it all landed on that. The one chance for success.

Geus's eyes lit up at the start of that suit, those bright white gloves that rolled all the up the arm. 'Izuku.'

She crashed into the hero. Her tiny body bouncing off the thigh high combat boots and plopping to the ground. Midoriya stopped and faced the girl. It took to long though for Eri to reach her rescuer. Him and Chisaki were just a foot away from the sunlight.

"Come on, Eri." Chisaki called out. He entered the sunlight and the gazes of both Izuku and

"Mirio?" Geus questioned.

Geus became even more freaked out, barely able to hold his composure. Eri froze up as well, her voice came out broken and muttered.

"Are you alright? Can you get up?" Izuku freaked out in a different way, concerned entirely for the girl in case if he did something wrong.

"Look at what you done, causing a hero so much trouble." Chisaki continued. "Sorry about my daughter, hero." This was the first time Geus saw Chisaki act like a regular person. He was embarrassed and tried to simmer the situation. "She's been horsing around too much and getting scraped up. Worrying me sick."

'Come on Midoriya, look at me.'

Mirio came up behind Midoriya. He nonchalantly grabbed his bunny hood and pulled it up. "You sure you got the measurements right? Your hood and mask fell again." Mirio bowed down to Chisaki. "We should be saying we're sorry."

Eri turned back at Geus as if she begged for her life. She needed him right there and then. It's what she needed to see his loyalty, the truth in his words.

Geus pulled off his mask and smiled like he was about to apologize like no other. "I'm so sorry about that. This man picked me up when I got lost and now we're trying to find my home. I was holding his daughter at the time and tripped." Geus pulled up his mouth into a grin and opened up his eyes. 'Come on Midoriya look at me. Recognize me.'

"That's a kickass mask." Mirio admired at the two of them. His overly excited face was purely out of intrigue. "You must be part of the cleansers."

Chisaki poked at his mask. "Yeah, but don't worry about this old thing." Mirio nor Midoriya noticed Chisaki glare down Geus.

'Shit. He figured it out.' On the outside Geus remained calm. His eyes back at Chisaki and his face straight.

Chisaki turned back to the two. "I've never seen you before, you must be new pro heroes. You are quite young."

"Yes we are still new and we're very nervous." Mirio continued to try to handle the situation. Even though Midoriya was on edge the entire time and nearly broke after every second.

"It's alright." Chisaki held out his arm and wrapped it up and around Geus's shoulders. "My partner is quite similar to you guys. He's way too forward with how he speaks and acts."

"Sometimes to act differently against what I believe is wrong is what's needed." Geus had to do the same as Mirio and succeed better than Midoriya.

"See what I mean? I love the boy like my own but he does have a mouth on him." His fingers gripped down into Geus's shoulder. "Almost like he forgets his place."

"Um excuse me." Midoriya interjected. "Your daughter. She's seems scared."

"Yes. Because I just scolded her." Chisaki shrugged.

'Lay off Midoriya.' Geus started to sweat under his mask. How unkept his friend was and how he acted would never fool Chisaki. But the way Chisaki acted could fool Midoriya. At the very least, unconvinced him.

"But I can't say these are the kind of bandages you'd get for 'fooling around too much'.

"Listen kid." Geus grabbed the back of Eri's goan and pulled her from Midoriya. "When you got your quirk did you ever break an arm or two?"

Midoriya froze, unable to say anything as what Geus just said hit him directly. At this point Geus gave up on either of them recognizing him for him. A new tactic had to be done, one where Chisaki would have no clue about.

"You ever gone home to your mom worried sick that you keep hurting yourself? I know when mine activated I was sent to the hospital for a week. Burns so bad anybody would've thought my family did it to me if they saw me." He grabbed Midoriya's arm and pulled him up to his feet. Grabbing his hood and fixed it to be just right over his face. "Hell, some people thought I burned my parents."