Chapter 11: The Dealings of Demons

After the near noon escapade, Izuku decided to take a long nap. He only woke up when his body told him he hadn't eaten anything today, making him make a quick frozen dinner from the fridge. His mom was home by then, which she then showed him that he was on the news.

And as he ate, they both watched an interview on the television, the reporters talking to kids at the park playground he had saved. They were all saying how amazing he was, saying how Spider-Man stopped the runaway van. And as Izuku stared at the screen, Inko could only chuckle as she saw her son tear up at the words he was hearing.

She had had her doubts over the whole 'vigilante first, hero later' thing, but seeing this made her realize this truly was what Izuku wanted. She knew she couldn't fully support it, but she would do enough. His mother gave him a soft hug at this, saying she was proud of him as Izuku hugged back.

"Thanks mom." was all he said before finishing his meal.

An hour later, he checked his online class, refilled the web shooters and put his costume back on. Inko asked him if he could just hunt the tracker tomorrow, but he told her he thought it could be discovered by then. As such, he turned invisible, crawled out of his window and swung into the city.

Now, the tracker had a limited range, meaning he would have to swing through the city till he got a signal. As such, he zipped around the place for over an hour, the teen starting to think his new invention must have been found and destroyed, or it just didn't work.

But as it hit the two hour mark, his tracker let out a beep. Glancing down at it, he began to follow it, taking a few turns before turning the volume down on the tracker. And as he continued to swing, he found he was going to a nearby port, where a bunch of warehouses were at.

'Classic bad guy hiding spot.' he thought to himself as he landed on one of the warehouses before looking at the tracker again, 'Hmm...looks like its close.'

He ran on top a few of the warehouses, leaping over one after another before coming to a stop inbetween two of them. The tracker now no longer moving, he glanced down and saw the black van from before sitting there...along with three more black vans and a black colored semi truck.

'Seriously?! How many cars do these guys have?!' he thought before seeing there were also a bunch of motorcycles to the side, along with a few semis that were colored brown. 'Those aren't theirs...I think. Is this place someone else's?'

He fired a web line over to the warehouse, zipping to its roof and crawling down its side to a nearby window. And when he glanced inside, he went wide-eyed. It was the masked thugs from before, some with katanas, others with guns as they were having a staredown with a bunch of other thugs. These were dressed like bikers, though most have mutant heads, like tigers and sharks. Behind those thugs were piles of boxes and a few motorcycles, along with desks with a bunch of different equipment.

"Tombstone's gang..." he whispered before pressing his hand to the glass. He gave it a silent push, slowly opening it up to hear the conversation.

"Listen here!" one of the masked men yelled, Izuku surprised he could understand him. "We are claiming Musutafu as ours." He pointed his gun at one of Tombstone's men, "Tell Tombstone you will all leave town now, or we kill you all."

The gang members all just stared at the masked man, only to start laughing. It was an uproar of laughter, certain animal noises coming out as well as a tiger man pointed at the masked man, "Are you serious? Do you not know who our boss is?! He kills idiots like you for breakfast." He then pointed at himself, "And we'll do the same to you."

Izuku's eyes went back and forth at this, now seeing multiple masked men charge the familiar black and white energy in their hands as Tombstone's thugs pulled out syringes. 'No way...am I about to see a gang war happen here?!' That thought made his eyes shrink, 'Oh no...what do I do?! If they start fighting, they'll kill each other! But...is that good? I mean, they're all criminals and villains...'

He bit his lip at this, seeing both sides stand off as he felt time slow for himself, 'Shoot...what do I do here?! I was hoping to get here and maybe stealthily take them out, but...'

He took a deep breath at this and fully opened the window, ready to go inside before he stopped himself, 'Wait...am I just being stupid here? Maybe I should just call the heroes.' He blinked for a second, only to hear one of the thugs cock his gun, 'Then again, the closest hero is quite a ways away, and if they start fighting now, it'll be too late. Got no choice...but I shouldn't be dumb here.'

He then glanced around at the ceiling, only to see the dangling spotlights above the group. A bulb instantly appeared over his brain, the teen quickly ducking out of the warehouse. "There's an idea..." he whispered to himself as he hopped off the building. He slowly walked down the side of the warehouse, soon finding what he was looking for: A breaker panel.

"This should help." As he walked up to it, now seeing a big lock on it. He yanked it off, glad his super strength made it easy. He then opened the door and grinned at the sight. Nothing but wires and switches, the hero quickly flicking a few off.

The place went dark instantly, yells and screams now happening inside the warehouse. "That should stop their party for a bit." He then fired a web line and yanked himself back up to the roof. The teen opened a new window, now seeing Tombstone's gang turn on some lamps they had around while yelling at the masked thugs as they continued to summon that black and white energy, bare lights now beginning to light up the place. Seeing this, Izuku crawled up to the ceiling and landed on a small rafter. Pointing his wrists at the thugs, he knew what he had to go for first.

Thwip!

Webbing shot down and grabbed the thugs' guns, Izuku quickly yanking them away. The masked men began to yell at this, only for webbing to shoot down and grab their swords next. Seeing this, everyone looked up, now seeing a pitch-black ceiling, just barely able to see a dark green figure.

"Hi fellas! Mind if I join the party?!" Izuku exclaimed before electricity began to surge around his fist. 'Now, let's try my very first super move.' He leapt off the rafter, aiming himself right in the middle of Tombstone's gang and slammed his fist into the floor, "Venom Smash!"

BOOM!

Electricity blasted out of him, zapping over half of Tombstone's gang. The thugs were flung all over the place, crashing into piles of boxes. Izuku then looked up to see the masked men charging at him, Izuku's spider sense blaring at him, telling him that someone was charging at him from behind. He then leaped at the first masked thug that was about to reach him, only to grab the thug's shoulders and flipped over him. A shark man then collided with the masked man, Izuku charging another Venom attack as he landed and punched the next thug about to attack him. The thug flew across the place, colliding with two masked men.

And as he this happened, a bulky masked thug ran up to him, Izuku sighing at the sight. "I knew it. You're quadruplets." The thug then swung a fist at the vigilante, Izuku ducking as energy poured out of the thug's fist...which shot out and hit another Tombstone thug.

"Kill the spider! Kill him!" yelled another thug as two leapt at Izuku, only for the teen to slide under the bulky thug's legs. He then spun around, charging his right fist.

"Venom Punch!" He yelled as he slammed the bio-electric fist into the bulky thug's back, knocking him into the two thugs from before. As he did this, a tiger man leapt at him next, Izuku firing a blast of webs at his face, covering his eyes.

"Augh!" the tiger man yelped as he crashed next, Izuku then firing two web lines at the ceiling, yanking himself back up to the rafters.

"He's up there!" barked one of the masked men, only for a shot of webbing to hit his foot, Izuku yanking it. "Whoa!"

Webbing covered the thug next, tying him to the floor. Seeing this, one of the masked men yelled, "Flee! The Spider is taking all of us out! We must inform the master that this has failed!"

Izuku let out a gasp, "Whoa...did I just do all that? That was...awesome." He then looked back down at the warehouse, now seeing the masked thugs quickly race out of the building. He was about to give chase, only to spot one of the Tombstone's thugs grabbing a gun. He fired a web at this, yanking it out of his hand. "Hey! No killing on my watch!" Izuku then leapt down, now finding himself facing ten Tombstone thugs.

"You think you can take us?!" one of the gang members growled as they pulled out a syringe.

"Er...maybe? I mean, I've made most of this up to this point. Like, I just did the most awesome stuff I've ever done as Spider-Man right now and I have no idea how I did it. Heck, I still can't believe this is going so-"

Danger!

Izuku went wide-eyed at his spider sense yelling at him, making him stop his muttering storm and fire web lines up at the ceiling. But as he tried to yank himself upward, a masked thug leapt at him with a katana, swinging it as an energy wave shot out of it. "Yaugh!" Izuku screamed as the wave hit him, an explosion coming next, the blow making the teen go flying over the Tombstone thugs, throwing him across the warehouse before crashing into a pile of boxes.

"Whoa..." one of thugs commented as they watched this happen before turning back to see five remaining masked men. "Get them!"

The rest of Tombstone's gang charged at the masked men, a mighty clash soon happening as Izuku pulled his head out of the boxes. Rubbing his back next, he slowly got up with a groan, "Ouch...that stung." He glanced back up and saw the Tombstone gang pushed the masked men back, blinking at the sight before cricking his back for a second. "Okay...didn't exactly go as planned. Though to be fair, I think I did really well there..."

Izuku could feel the adrenaline leaving him as he flexed his back, pain still surging through him before firing a web line up to the rafters. Zipping himself up there, he looked back down and saw the Tombstone gang take out the last masked man, only for a gorilla man to stab himself with a thing of Trigger, letting out a roar. He then leapt up at him, Izuku going wide-eyed at this as the beast landed on the rafter and swung a punch at him. The teen backpedaled, dodging the first jab before a second fist slammed into the teen's stomach.

"Urk!" Izuku yelped as the blow knocked him off his feet, his body rocketing up before his back hit the ceiling. He felt the pain surge through his body before falling, his eyes closing for a second as his spider sense yelled at him, making him jerk his eyes back open. Izuku then stretched out his right arm, pulling it as he grabbed the rafter from before as he barely got a grip on the metal beam. He then glanced up to see the gorilla man running over to him, soon standing over the teen while pulling back a fist. And as the thug was about to hit him again, Izuku let go off the rafter, dodging the blow.

He fired a line of webbing next, yanking it as he swung himself over to another rafter. And as he landed on it, his spider sense rang out, glancing back to see the gorilla man leapt at him, only for Izuku to point his wrist at him and fired a blast of webbing. The webs hit the thug's eyes mid-jump, making him yelp as he then overshot over the rafter, hitting the warehouse's wall face first before falling and crashing into a pile of boxes. Izuku looked back at the thug as he slumped over, aiming his wrist at the pile before firing a giant net of webbing, covering the whole pile.

"Please don't get up." Izuku commented before looking back at the others in the room. He saw that there were only three members of the Tombstone gang still on their feet. Closing one of his eyes, he fired webbing at two, grabbing their feet and yanking them upward. They flipped over, heads hitting the floor before Izuku fired some more webbing, trapping them both to the ground.

Seeing this, the last thug gasped before glaring up at the rafters, "You won't surprise me Spider-Man! I'll kill you!" But as he yelled that, Izuku took a deep breath before turning invisible. He then swung across the warehouse before firing a web line upward, flipping over and silently letting himself down.

"You hear me?! You're dead! I'll-"

ZAP!

"Augh!" the thug yelped as Izuku tapped his shoulder, sending electricity through his system. He flopped over a second later before Izuku webbed him down to the floor.

Izuku then cricked his back, groaning in pain before pushing in his shoulder. Letting out a low moan, he let out a deep breath. "Urgh...that hurt." He then stared down at his hands, flexing them for a second. "It feels like I'm really getting the hang of this...but I still made a ton of mistakes. Guess that's part of being a worthless Deku." He looked back at the warehouse, now seeing the huge mess the fight had caused.

"I better call the police to clean this up." He pulled out his phone next, only to stop himself. "Wait...they could trace me." He glanced down at the thug he had just pinned to the floor and leaned down, grabbing his phone out of his pocket. "Here we go."

Tapping a few buttons, he put it to his ear as he spoke up, "Hello? I'd like to give an anonymous tip."

Izuku wasn't sure what time it was when he got home. All he knew was that he went into a situation that was way over his head, beat up more criminals than he could count and felt like he was about to die. And as he got home in the deep dark cloak of the night, quickly scurrying into bed, half his body still in costume, he let out a moan. "Guess I broke my promise to mom...I totally went too far today."

Sleep soon came after this, his eyes fully closed as he let out a long sigh.

Detective Tsukauchi Naomasa wanted to go home for the night. Again.

Letting out a long sigh, he drove out to the ports of the city, soon coming to a stop at a certain warehouse. About an hour ago, the police had gotten an anonymous tip. And by anonymous, it was totally a teenager trying to mask his voice, and Naomasa knew who it was. It was Spider-Man.

Knowing this meant it was probably a mess he was going to have to clean up, he asked for a full police van and some extra police cars, along with a pro hero, this time being Kamui Woods. The two soon arrived at the place, getting out of the vehicle and slowly walking into the warehouse.

Opening it up, they saw the power was still out and most of the thugs were still webbed to the floor or walls. Seeing this, he told one of the officers to go find the breaker as Kamui Woods used his quirk to gather up the criminals. And as the lights soon came on, Naomasa went wide-eyed along with several officers. Though some crates were destroyed, they knew what operation this was. It was full-on drug stash warehouse.

Loads of Trigger were in the boxes, the detective taking a deep breath at the sight before gesturing to one of the officers, "Call headquarters. We just got a lot of extra work to do here, and I want to keep as much as we can under wraps."

And as the officer nodded and ran back to the car, the detective shook his head, "Spider-Man...you're a real piece of work. If it got out a vigilante did all this, the commission would put a bounty on your head for sure."

Sighing again, he walked through the building and up to one of the desks, leaning over and finding a marked map of the city. "Tombstone, huh? Looks like he's doing drugs again, just like Fat Gum said." He glanced the paper over, "If the Inner Demons want this operation, it could lead to a full-on gang war."

The detective then grimaced at his next words, "And Spider-Man may have just forced it to happen sooner than either side expected."