'So that's the guy that killed Iroh huh?'

'It's who some of the others saw take him and now we haven't seen the big man since.'

'If Geus is with him then I have no doubt they killed him. Keep an eye out for the little scamp. I'm not ready to make my first move yet.'

'The whole squad's ready to move out and take him. Now's the best chance.'

'Nah, not yet. I want to see why he finally surfaced after so many weeks.'

Geus and Chisaki faced the building again, this time Chisaki had a death grip around Eri's arm. He was on edge and ready for whatever Geus had planned. Even though on Geus's side, he had no other plan. Midoriya never saw him with his ginger hair and new mask.

Now all that there was left was Maria. The woman who pretended to be on his side this entire time. Then waited for that trust to be as high as possible before her betrayal of him. She stood one story and one street away from him.

He had no intentions of her death. As much as she deserved to die for what she did, he couldn' do it. Though a few broken bones and a scarred face wasn't entirely out of the question. It just depended on how fast he could do it. Or if they could reach her from here.

"How do you suppose we get in there?" Geus asked.

"I'm not going in there. My face is too recognizable to these people. She needs to be taken care of." Chisaki's eyes drifted to Geus's side. He looked forward at the building, determined and scared eyes pointed at the second level. "You got to go there yourself and handle it. See this as the final operation I have for you and it's your choice what you do after it."

"What if I fail?"

"Your cousin dies and so do you."

"And if I succeed?"

"You leave unharmed."

"And Keena?"

Chisaki pulled on Eri's arm and dragged her with him down the street. "Just get it done."

Geus closed his eyes and took a deep inhale as he removed his mask. 'I could just run. Go back to Midoriya and tell him everything that happened. But that'd get Keena killed. And I'd of failed Eri.'.

His eyes raised open. For Geus, it was now or never and he went for it. He quickly ran across the street and entered the open shop. It was a small convenience shop with coolers on the back wall, food in the middle, and cheap consumer products. And to his left was an old woman behind the counter with what looked to be her husband watching the news on a tiny desk tv.

For an old couple's minor shop it was surprisingly clean to regular standards. The white tile floors were clear of stains and streaks and glossed strong enough to see his reflection. The items were fully stocked and faced in a neat and orderly fashion. Not even professional shops had this level of crystal clearness.

Geus turned to the counter and walked to the woman. Her eyes squinted more than the average Japanese 60-year-old and probably produced a massive amount of wrinkles on her face. Though she produced a loving smile as she leaned on the counter. Her hair was bundled up inside a spider web style bun and under a clear rain hat. It was hard to see on the other side but the sundress she wore was slightly off on dimensions.

"Clean shop." Geus smiled at the older woman and bowed. "You a new shop here?"

"Oh no, no, we've been here since I was a young lady." Her voice was shaped from obvious years of heavy smoking of American cigarettes. And the lack of them imported ones was another sign she used them herself. Plus the stench he smelt wasn't one he knew of. "Nowadays we can only maintain to keep it open on the weekends when the younglings run around." She leaned forward from the counter and inspected Geus. "I never saw you before either. Did you just move into the block?"

Geus chuckled and itched the back of his head. "No, ma'am. I have an aunt that lives here and I decided to stop here before reaching her house."

"Oh, you should buy her something nice." Her wrinkly, boney finger pointed by the open entrance. A basket of small flower arrangements sat on both sides of the entrance. "Everyone loves fresh flowers, I get them from the young lady from down the street. 1650 yen for a bundle. Great deal."

"Great deal." The husband muttered right after his wife. "We buy for cheap, you buy for cheap."

"I would love to but I forgot my wallet and was really just hoping if you guys have a water fountain in here?"

"No water fountain." The husband shouted. "Causes spills, customers get hurt, lawsuits, no water fountains." Every time he spoke he never once drifted his eyes from the news. No matter how angry he appeared with each word or how much he spat on the screen.

"Thank you for your time."

Geus bowed one more time before he left and stood out on the sidewalk. 'There's no entrance or door on the inside of the building. Chisaki's right. The people inside are just agents.'. Geus walked around the block. 'No going back.'

He squatted down till his fingers touched the sidewalk and opened his mouth. The gas reached his fingers and began to swell up. In seconds, the orbs around his hands and feet exploded and propelled him into the air.

His body acted as a baseball and flew through the air towards the fake convenience store. His gas reformed around his arms for him to use as bracers. He clenched down and tense up for the impact. Only he thudded against the glass and froze in the frame.

"Reinforced glass." He groaned. He moved his hands on the glass and revved up the heat to them. Within seconds his acid gas melted down his obstacle for him to easily pass through.

He couldn't see anything. The walls were blacked out and the glass windows were just fake details to a fake room. Designs painted behind a layer of gas and in front of metal plated wood walls. There was no sound up here except for the radio with another news station played.

"I knew he couldn't kill you." Maria's voice came from the shadows. "Or he just didn't want to kill you."

"Was everything Chisaki said correct? Did you betray me? Play me and tossed me to him when you were ready?"

"Yes. You're not a killer, you're just a monster like every other hero."

The lights flicked on for the entire room. Wooden floors, black painted walls with no imperfections. A single open light bulb led to the light switch on the wall with a steel locked door. And Maria stood there with her finger still on the switch.

"Seeing your fake looks still doesn't hide the animal you are underneath. And I never once stopped that view."

"How'd you know it was me? Little too dark to see purple smoke beforehand. Could've just been one of Chisaki's men."

"You can dye your hair whatever color you want and wear colored contacts. But that smell never leaves your mouth after you use that."

"Smell?"

"Every time you use your quirk, your breath smells like you've never brushed them. It's the devil hiding in your mouth."

"Gotta apologize to my friends then." Geus pulled down his jaw and surrounded his arms in the gas. "Never did they once complain about my bad breath."

"Are you going to do what I couldn't? Kill your family?"

"No, I just want to scar your face really, really bad." Just darted at Maria, his hand grasped around her throat and pinned her in up against the wall. He pulled back his gas in time for his grasp. It was more satisfying for him to watch her eyes watch the gas slowly reach her.

"Your father isn't your father." She gasped for breath, her fings clawing down at Geus's hand.

"I could care less who is my family. After today I got none."

Both Geus and Miria flew back from the immense power of the swinging door. Miria tumbled and crawled into the corner of the room, the entire time she coughed up her lungs. Geus slammed against the back wall and out the window.

He quickly recovered and summoned back out his quirk around his hands. His body twirled around and latched onto the next building's window. The gas around his fingers instantly melted through the glass and ended his fall. Geus looked back up to the second story window he just fell out of.

Mirio's eyes locked onto his, as worried as he looked it made Geus smile more. Geus hopped off the window and strolled down the street as nothing happened. His hands in his front pockets and his head raised high.

Hours went by after the incident. Luckily for him, he was able to escape before any reinforcements showed up to the second level. Squad cars and helicopters arrived by the time he got across the next street. The job wasn't done because of this. She still lived whether he wanted it or not.

Geus watched the scene from the same alleyway. He reached in his eyes and pulled the contacts from them. Brown, a solid and deep color that was the opposite of his silver eyes. His arm surrounded with his hardened gas and chopped his hair. Orange, nobody thought twice of a bald kid with black hair parents to produce ginger.

Geus curled his hand and ran his sharpened hand down the length of his head. Then change his palm to gas and rubbed the top of his head. Once he was done he pulled the gas back and felt his work personally.

"I'm Geus Sansei. Not your fucking puppet."

The sound of a gun cocking interrupted his moments of proudness. The small shakiness of the metal gave back his high standings. "Pull the trigger, she ain't dead anyway." Geus scuffed.

"Overhaul knew you couldn't do it, knowing you weren't truly one of us," Nemoto spoke through his mask, barely covering up his irregular voice. "Come on."

"Come on what?" Geus turned around to Nemoto. "You want me to follow you? Get on my knees so you can shoot me?" Geus stepped forward till the gun pressed firmly into his chest. "Everything I do is for them, anything extra is if I want to do it. And I'm not going to kill my aunt."

"Overhaul still wants to see you."

"See?" Geus grinned. "That's all you have to say."

"What was your plan here?" Chisaki shouted. For the first time she showed another emotion at Geus that wasn't fake. His eyes beat red and popped the veins out from them.

Rappa's first launched out from his arm and landed square into Geus's unprepared chest. His body caved in while his arms and legs held forward. Geus bashed into the room closest to him and felt a world of pain as he laid on the barren floor.

Geus laughed psychotically as his clenched in his body. The laugh was more involuntary than what he wanted. None of Rappa's other punches ever felt like this, even without the armor of his quirk. Geus could swear that his chest snapped in two and the internal bleeding ran up his mouth.

Drips of blood came out of his mouth and seeped through openings of the mask. Geus grabbed the mask and tore it off of its magnetic connection. "I'm surprised it took you this long to ask me. Eri must've told you nothing." His laughter turned louder. "What a good girl."

Nemoto entered the room and knelt down to Geus's limp body. His mask covered his face and hid away any signs of his mental state. But Geus saw right past the facade he had in place. His body needed not to shake nor bulge to show the fear inside him.

"You told me you would never lie because you saw no point of it. Prove to me that statement."

The speed Geus's gas manifested around his arm was faster than Nemoto could react. Geus snatched at the mask and melted away the beak before he could drag his body away. Only his mouth showed underneath the black leather. The way it was gaped open and heaved for air confirmed Geus's theory.

"Eri knew nothing. I gave her the nudge and used the trust she had in me."

"You do realize how much pain I sent into Eri because of your misdoing right? Your promise as a hero to protect her at all cost failed that day." Chisaki played at Geus's old emotions. It was one of the few ways he held any power of Geus that didn't mean killing him outright.

Geus wiped his lip and flicked the blood to the ground. "She's a tough girl. I believe in her." Geus's smirk added onto the freakish look his lazy eyes gave off. Only three of them were in the same room as him. Really only two of them since one was terrified of him.

"The plan!" Nemoto blurted out, his body crab-walking back to Chisaki. "What was your plan?"

"The boy you saw, that was one of my classmates at U.A. The 'plan' as you say was for him to recognize me. Tsk. Didn't work."

Rappa grabbed Geus by the nape of his neck and hung him in the air. "You really risked the lives of you, Eri, and Keena? All for a classmate to recognize nothing?"

"No."

"Overhaul!" One of Chisaki's lackeys rushed into the room. "Heroes are at the doors! Lots of them."

Chisaki swung his head back at Geus who smiled larger than he has ever done before. The laughing started back up again, even with Rappa's furies of punches it didn't stop. Geus coughed up another splat of blood and went again.

Toga twirled around the man in the yellow uniform and plague mask and tiptoed to Chisaki's side. "He'll still fight for you. Defend you until the end."

"Rappa put him down," Chisaki ordered. "Get everyone into position. Get Eri and start moving." Chisaki slashed at the unknown soldier and split him half.

Rappa smashed Geus into the ground and followed behind his leader. Only Geus and Toga was left behind in the room, and the bloody corpse of a nobody. Toga looked down at Geus's body with pitty. His arms struggled to joint up and pushed the rest of his body of the concrete.

His mouth didn't move, blood just dripped to the ground into the divot. His legs slowly moved up to his chest to where his upper body fell back and hit the wall. His shirt was split open where Rappa rapidly punched. A purely purple chest with blood droplets everywhere.

Geus looked up at Toga, for once his eyes didn't look into a psychopathic woman. She didn't look like she wanted to stab him or kiss him. She for once saw him as a person. A person to show her true underlining feelings.

Her arms locked behind her back and she skipped over to him. She dropped her body behind her knees and got down to his level. "Whatever happens here." Geus inhaled heavily through his nose. "Defend me, not him."

"I want to see Keena after all this."

"You're in no position to be making demands."

Geus popped open his jaw. Gas shot out before Toga had the chance to react. The hard-shelled quirk circled around his neck and lifted her in the air. Geus grabbed his bruised chest with one arm and used the other to push himself into the air. Geus released Toga and made his way to the door.

"Even in my weakest state, I can still kill you." Geus grabbed the doorknob and looked back at Toga. "Don't think you're more than just a middle man."

Geus slammed the door behind him and limped a few steps forward. His body refused to move more after that, only able to hold himself up and against the wall. All the pain rushed through at once, his quirk couldn't even leave his throat.

"This is for you Keena." He mumbled. "Just one more hour."