Masaru Bakugou was still getting used to the fact their family had another person in it suddenly in the form of a daughter of his wife that her Yakuza sister had with Mitsuki's egg that had been stolen from his wife during the time she had her appendix out so many years ago. But just because Eri had been a surprise didn't mean that he and Mitsuki weren't fully embracing being parents again. They had gone out this morning with Eri to get her furniture, clothing, and pretty much everything she would need to live with them now. They hadn't done this before because they'd had to wait for her to be cleared by doctors to come home because of how Overhaul had used his quirk on her and the doctor's running every test they could to make sure, well basically that she had been put back together correctly.
It was only after all the tests came back showing nothing wrong and she was in perfect health besides being slightly underweight for a child her age that she was allowed to come home with them, though with a quirk suppressing cuff on her wrist because she couldn't control her quirk yet at her age.
So Masaru and Mitsuki were walking with their daughter hanging on to their hands as they walked through a store picking out bedding she might want, unicorns to match her horn or kitties because they were cute. Eri just shrugged her shoulders, still not used to having a choice about things, causing Mitsuki to cuss about Overhaul and him being an asshole.
This in turn caused the six young people behind them to laugh because Eri then scolded her new mother about using naughty language. Nejire knelt down beside the girl to support her in her admonishments as her boyfriend Tenko laughed with his best friend Touya at the look on the mother's face. Mirio and Tamaki chuckled at the whole group while keeping an eye out for any problems while Keigo, Touya's boyfriend, trailed behind eating dino nuggets.
From the outside they looked like a family with a young daughter and older brother with his friends out shopping. In reality they were a family with a young daughter being protected by UA's Big Four - Mirio Togata, Tamaki Amajuki, Nejire Hado and Touya Himura; UA's top third year support student Tenko Shimura and the new hero Hawks, Keigo Takami. Technically Keigo was the only one on protection duty, assigned by the QRA since he was so new that criminals wouldn't recognize him as a hero. Touya came because the Bakugous were family friends and he got to hang out with his boyfriend. Mirio and Tamaki came to support their fellow members of the Big Four and because they could count it as experience for their internships. Nejire originally just tagged along as an excuse to socialize her introverted boyfriend Tenko but instantly fell in love with Eri, stating that if anything happened to the girl that she would kill everyone around her and then herself, making the parents and Tenko laugh as they got the joke.
After the brief moment of laughter they were all back to trying to help Eri decide on decorations for her room. They were looking at bedroom sets when a large person came through the skylight of the store, hitting the ground near the group. As the man sat up Eri froze, causing the rest of them to go on an even higher alert than just a person crashing through skylight warranted.
A large muscled man climbed to his feet as he shook his head to clear it before he looked over to the group. Looking down and spotting Eri, he waved as he spoke, "Oh, Hello Ericorn. Hope you're doing ok. I'm sorry I didn't know what Kai was doing to you. Makes me wish I had tried harder to kick his ass. Oh I probably shouldn't say stuff like that in front of you. Fuck. Shit , sorry! Ah, I'm just going to go. You all should get out of here, my girlfriend is fighting a villain outside." He then ran back the direction he had come from.
"Who the hell was that?" yelled Mitsuki as she picked up Eri, moving to go the opposite direction the man ran off to. Everyone else crowded around the family as they started to move.
In a quiet voice Eri spoke up, "That was Mr Rappa. He tried to beat up Kai all the time. He was nice to me when he would watch me."
"If he was in the Shie Hassaikai, why the hell is he walking around free so to speak?" asked Touya as they rushed towards the exit of the store. Just before they could shove the doors open to escape, one of the doors was wrapped in what looked like a tendril of water and ripped out of the frame towards the outside. Without the door in the way they could hear the sound of battle, which seemed to have moved the direction Rappa had moved towards. Keigo quickly moved everyone to the side to shelter away from the battle. Mirio activated his quirk and pushed his upper body through the wall to scout out the fight and see if they would be able to get the Bakugous out of the area to safety. What he saw made him pale and pull back quickly.
With an unusually somber look on his face Mirio reported what he saw. "It's bad. The Carnal Murderer, Muscular is out here destroying everything along with Moonfish the Cannibal. We need to get them out of here right now."
Tenko immediately pulled out his phone and hit the speed dial. "Kurogiri, we need an evac now. We are pinned down in a store downtown with Muscular and Moonfish going apeshit outside. Ok I got it." He hung up before he pulled up the map app on his phone. "Ok, we need to get two blocks south where Kurogiri will open a portal in ten minutes. The QRA has him transporting in heros for the fight and he is making quick exception to get us out of here."
Suddenly Tamaki grew tentacles on his hands, grabbing up the Bakugous while his legs formed into chicken legs. "Then let's hurry to get them out of here. Hawks, we can get them out of here. People out there probably could use some help out there and you are fast enough to be that help. I can see it is tearing you apart to not be out there saving them. We will get them to safety and check in with our mentors. Mirio and Nejire could join you if they want. I plan on going in as straight of line as possible if Tenko would be willing to remove obstacles for us with his quirk. Touya can run rear guard while we haul ass." The sudden assertiveness from the shy boy catching everyone off guard and making them listen. Seeing it as the best plan for the moment they all nodded their agreement and moved to follow the plan, Keigo shooting up and through another skylight as Nejire followed him while Mirio simply jumped through the wall towards the fight.
Tenko jerked off his artist gloves and took off running south with his hands outstretched, rapidly dusting walls and debris as he created the quickest path he could as Tamaki followed close behind with the Bakugous carried close behind him in his tentacles while Touya guarded their backs while keeping his head on a swivel. Very quickly they arrived at the coordinates given by Kurogiri, waiting at most thirty seconds before a portal opened in front of them, Tenko waving them all through before it closed behind them. They found themselves arriving to the side of a busy room filled with people shouting orders and rapidly opening and closing portals.
Tamaki retracted his tentacles after setting the Bakugous down, his hands reshaping back to normal, now that they were out of danger. They stood for several minutes not wanting to get in the way until their group was noticed by a passing worker. "What are you doing here? Rescued civilians should have been sent to the triage area. Let's ge- '' the worker being interrupted by another portal opening and Rei Himura steps out.
"There you all are! Mr Kurogiri said he had grabbed you but he hadn't said where he had dropped you off at. Oh, thank you for checking on them, but I will take care them from here." Rei said to them before noticing the worker and shooing them to continue with what they had been doing.
"Hi Mom. So can you tell us what is happening? Only thing we know is Muscular and Moonfish are going nuts in the middle of the shopping district. I thought those two were under sedation and in Tartarus." Touya inquired as he hugged his mother.
"They were being transported to court under guard and in restraints, including suppressors for their quirks. At first we just got reports that they somehow broke free and now are rampaging. There were other inmates on the bus but we don't know the extent of their involvement in the situation right now." answered Rei as she led the group out of the room and to room away from the ongoing operation. "We're hoping to get it under control soon and figure out how this all happened."
MEANWHILE BACK AT THE SHOPPING DISTRICT
Mirko sprung back from the powerful punch that Muscular threw in her direction as it smashed the sidewalk she had been standing on. She panted as she eyed the raging monster in front of her even as she grinned in excitement. She and Rappa had been on a date when the alert of a Villain attack had blasted out of her phone from the Hero Network app. The two of them had barely taken a few steps before there was a roar of rage that preceded the arrival of Muscular landing in front of them. Both her and Rappa had jumped at the rapidly growing man as he layered on muscle fiber to rampage and destroy any and everything in his path, be it living or nonliving. It had been a running fight ever since.
They probably would have been able to contain Muscular and contain the damage to a certain area they fought in but the Carnal Murderer was soon joined by the Cannibal, Moonfish who looked like a freaky spider from a weird fetish dream. In that moment of distraction Rappa got launched into the air by Muscular, leaving her facing two monsters on her own. She was making peace with going down fighting when Moonfish's teeth got cut by a blade made of water, dropping the man on his face on the road, which caused him to moan in pleasure, giving Mirko the shivers while she launched herself at Muscular so hard she cracked the concrete under her feet. As she drove her feet into the side of Muscular's head hoping to break his neck to end this, she noticed something that made her blood run cold. Muscular had his mouth open as he screamed his rage and she saw that his tongue was black, meaning he was on Trigger and out of control.
Bouncing off Muscular's face and landing, she saw Rappa jumping through a window of a store as he arrived back from wherever Muscular had launched him. "Nice of you to rejoin me. We are pretty fucked right now. This motherfucker is on Trigger and won't stop until it wears off and he passes out." she said as Muscular layered more fibers on his body and screamed his outrage to the sky. As they tensed their muscles to be ready to dodge they witnessed Moonfish get swatted by a store door that seemed to be swung on a rope made of water. Glancing to her left she saw a couple taking cover behind a car with a boy, the woman pulling water from a cracked fire hydrant while the man seemed to shape it to hold the door and hit Moonfish. It took her a moment but then it clicked in her brain where she recognized the two of them. They were the Water Hoses, rescue heros who seemed to be caught up in this while having a family outing.
"Distract that asshole while I call in that this out of control asshole is on Trigger. As much as I love a fight, we can not beat a Triggered up Muscular and Moonfish. We need back up." Mirko growled out even as it burned her throat to say those words. As Rappa threw himself at Muscular, Mirko held the icon for the Hero Network app to make an All Call in the system. "Attention, this is Hero Mirko. Currently engaged with A-Rank Villains Muscular and Moonfish. Muscular shows signs of being on Trigger, black tongue confirmed. Requesting backup to my location. Reengaging to try to hold in place. Mirko out." she shouted into the phone before tossing it to the side so it didn't get destroyed in the fight and so they could lock on to her GPS to send back up.
Mirko and Rappa swarmed in to attack from different sides to split Muscular's attention as they rained down blows that would've killed normal people but the raging man just absorbed with his muscle fibers or just didn't feel due to the Trigger. As they did that the Water Hoses were doing everything they could to fend off Moonfish who upon discovering their young son behind them went into a frenzy chanting, "Young meat! Must eat!"
Moonfish must have been getting frustrated because he suddenly screamed and pushed his quirk as hard as he could, shooting all his teeth blades at the Water Hoses almost faster than the eye could see. The female part of the duo pulled as much water as she could in her panic, collapsing the street in places as her quirk ripped out pipes and sewer cover as the water in them rushed towards her. Her husband acting on instinct formed the water into a barrier to try to hold back the wall of sharp teeth coming for them. He held back the teeth fairly well, the problem being that the individual teeth acted like bullets hitting bullet resistant glass, meaning that after so many hits the barrier would be overwhelmed and some of the teeth got through, piercing him and his wife's bodies. As they fell they both saw that their son was uninjured.
Moonfish drew back his teeth and using them to walk towards the family as the boy called out for his parents, getting ready to skewer the young boy to taste his flesh, he felt his body freeze so that he couldn't move and his quirk wouldn't work, causing him to fall over as he was off balanced. His body crashed into the ground as he heard running feet and calls for EMTs.
Mirko almost sighed in relief when she saw Moonfish stopped before he started eating someone but had to dodge another wild swipe from Muscular that nearly had her crash into Rappa as he ducked the same swing. Hoping that the Trigger was about to run out of Muscular's system so he would pass out and they could take this fucker down, she almost didn't comprehend when Muscular's head exploded, coating Mirko and Rappa in blood and brains.
Blinking rapidly she slowly turned her head to a nearby roof to see a woman with a rifle sticking out of her right elbow, who as she watched pulled the rifle back into her body and then waved to her. Feeling suddenly tired as her adrenaline drained out of her, Mirko fell back on her ass and flopped on her back. She felt Rappa do the same beside her. "I think I have some broken ribs from that asshole. But you know how to show a guy a good time rabbit girl. Be hard to top this date."
She elbowed him in the side, making him groan in pain.
Chizome watched as EMTs rushed the Water Hoses and their son through a portal courtesy of Kurogiri, looking down at the man in the gimp suit on the ground at his feet. He was musing on whether he would have cared if he got I trouble for stabbing this monster if the fucker hadn't had a Dead or Alive order on him if he ever escaped again. Not his fault the stupid son of a bitch tried to attack the EMTs once Chizome's quirk wore off and received a sword through the top of his skull for his effort. At least there was one less child killer in this world.
He looked up as Kaina walked towards him as she checked in on other heros' efforts to find the other escaped convicts, all who seemed to be hopped up on Trigger. The only plus to the whole situation was the other convicts were not lasting as long as Muscular and Moonfish did on the Trigger. Hell most of the other fugitives were mostly low level criminals and had been mostly ones caught by police officers for the most part. Most of the effort in this whole operation had been evacuating civilians out of the path of Muscular, Moonfish and the other Triggered inmates while searching for where this all started, meaning finding where they had broken out of the transport and gotten a hold of Trigger.
"Hey Boss, I just got word, they caught the last fugitive from the transport. Just like most of the others he just fell down, passed out when the Trigger ran out. All surviving inmates are being transported as quickly as possible to the medical wing of Tartarus to look them over before they wake up and we question them." Looking down she glanced at the sword her boss and partner was leaning on that was stuck through the top of the head of an A-Ranked villain.
Chizome flicked his eyes at her before speaking, "He tried to attack the EMTs while they stabilized the Water Hoses for transport. I did what I had to." He then yanked the sword out and wiped it off before replacing the sword on his back.
"No judgment from me. I just blew the head off a rampaging monster, I don't really have any room to talk. I was just thinking good riddance. I know that I shouldn't think that way but that fucker ate people. He should have been put down years ago."
Chizome hummed in agreement, half listening to Kaina as he imagined what kind of carnage would have happened if Mirko had been here to engage Muscular. Kaina quieted down as Chizome slowly looked around trying to imagine how Muscular had arrived here, the area being so far away from the route of the prison transport. "How did Muscular and Moonfish end up here? Even with the amount of time they could have had after escaping and dosing themselves with Trigger, how did they get clear across town from where they would have been driving the transport from the courthouse?"
Trying to process the thought going through his head, Chizome was interrupted from his thoughts as his phone rang in his pocket. Pulling it out he saw it was Detective Tsukauchi. He quickly answered the call, "Tsukauchi, any news on locating the transport? We need to figure out how this happened so we can prevent it from happening again."
"Chizome, we found the transport. But I'm not sure how to describe what I'm seeing here. The scene is weird. You need to see it for yourself. We're cordoning it off until you get here so no one messes anything up. We are about three blocks east of the courthouse. You see all the lights and cars when you get near. See you when you get here." said Tsukauchi in response to Chizome.
After hanging up, getting the bodies processed and getting the area cleared, Chizome and Kaina were picked up by a SUV from the QRA to be driven to the scene of the transport breakout. Once they arrived they met up with Tsukauchi to be led to the site since by that time they had set up a giant tent to block picture taking and to make sure the scene wasn't disturbed by a change in the weather depending on how long the investigation took.
The three of them made their way into the tent to look at the transport. The first thing that could be seen was the fact the vehicle was buried into the street like it fit there, almost like a puzzle piece in a space made just in the right shape. After walking around to stare at how the transport was embedded in the road they then approached the hole in the side of the vehicle. Looking at it Kaina kept tilting her head back and forth like she was trying to find the right way to look at the hole.
"There is something off about this hole. It's like the metal was peeled back not burst open like you would think happened as Muscular escaped. It looks almost right if someone didn't know any better. But I know how metal deforms from the training given to me by the HPSC to make sure I could shoot targets no matter what, no matter what material they were behind." Kaina said softly, mostly to herself as she tried to figure out what she was seeing, in the process making Tsukauchi's eyes widen at her casually talking about being trained to shoot people.
Once it was pointed out to him Chizome saw what she was talking about. "The edges are too smooth, almost like they were sculpted to look that way. If Muscular battered his way out of there, the edges would look more jagged, maybe have blood on them from him breaking muscle fibers against it. Has anyone been inside? Have they seen how all the inmates got out since the doors were blocked because the vehicle is mostly buried in the street. Let's get the techs in here and have them start looking over everything. I want this site gone over with a fine toothed comb."
Tsukauchi turned to yell for the crime scene techs to start their work, turning back to shake Chizome's hand and let him know he would get the report to him as soon as possible. Chizome thanked him, as did Kaina before they headed back to the SUV to take them back to the QRA.
Eri wandered down the hall outside the room her family was waiting in, needing to use the restroom. Once she found it she did her business and washed her hands after climbing up on the sink. Hearing sudden yelling and calls for her, she had a flashback of being back in the Shie Hassaikai hideout and wedged herself under the sink to hide. Once the voices died down she quickly ran and tried to find another place to hide away from the yelling. She darted out of the hallway and across another hallway into some doors that had a red plus on them. In there the smell of blood hit her nose and she started to hyperventilate as more memories crashed into her. She ran into one of the closest rooms and slammed the door closed, her horn starting to blink with light as her quirk tried to bypass her quirk suppressor on her wrist. Spinning to look for a place to hide, she was surprised to see a black haired boy sitting in a chair between two beds. They stared at each other for a few moments as Eri's heart thudded in her chest from fright.
Suddenly a female voice came from above her head, "Ar-cough-Are you OK? You seem frightened. No one is going to hurt you here. Is there someone we can call for you?" asked a bandaged dark haired woman as she struggled to sit up on the bed she was laying on. The woman made it to an upright position to look down at Eri. The little girl had started to calm down when there was a flushing sound and the door to the bathroom opened, a man on a crutch making his way out into the room. He stopped abruptly when he saw the little girl in the middle of the floor.
"Oh, what's going on here?" the man asked, snapping Eri out of her shock and making her dive under the woman's bed to hide.
"Oh dear, I think we frightened her. She must be someone that got caught up in the attack from earlier. Kota, could you run and see if you find someone to help us? Mommy and Daddy aren't exactly moving around very well. One of the problems of being Heros, sometimes we get hurt." the woman said while carefully sliding off the bed to look under the bed, the boy nodding and running out of the room.
"You are Heros? You don't work for Kai and want to hurt me?" Eri's breathy voice asked from under the bed.
"Yes we are Heros and I don't know who Kai is, let alone want to hurt you. Do you think you can come out from under there and we will help you find your parents or family?" the woman asked as she painfully bent over to look under the bed. The panic attack Eri had been having started to recede as she thought about her new mom and dad, along with her Boom boy brother, causing her to relax and move from under the bed. The woman took her hands to help her out from under the bed and give her a hug to comfort her, her husband having made his way to her side so he could put his leg against her back to give her support to lean on since she was currently going against doctor's orders by moving around and probably aggravating her wounds. As she held the little girl, the built up energy Eri's quirk made leaked out past her cuff, surrounding the couple for a few moments before disappearing.
Suddenly they heard the door close against the frame, startling the couple and making them jump. Strangely they didn't feel any pain from their wounds they got from fighting Moonfish. Looking towards the door they saw Recovery Girl standing there with Kota peeking out from behind her.
"Amazing. Truly amazing. I think I might have just found my own personal student. That was truly the most powerful healing quirk I have ever seen."
