AN/; So, in this chap, you'll see a different Deku, feel free to tell if it not great or it's good.
The dawn was chilly beautiful and refreshing, unless you are sleep lover but can't sleep at all.
Shouta Aizawa, also known as the Underground hero Eraserhead, was one of those who forced to stay awake and had to depend on coffee all the time and sleep once in a week. The lack of interest in public interaction and media, Aizawa prefers night over day for his hero work. But in the night, somehow criminals are cunning, and sloppy, hard to trap or capture unless a stupid convenience store robber decides to be a little show off-fy.
"Coffee." Aizawa grumbles hiding on top of a building out of sight of any villainy. And so far he already sent three drug addicts to police within past eight hours. And he knew his run will cut short in an hour or so. Until then, no coffee. Well at least an hour, glad he didn't sleep already. His energy drinks already ran out thank to the parkour he did on the way. He suggested himself Yamada' cooking, mainly coffee when all the hell break loose once the terror known as slumber at times away patrolling. And lack of catch working up his mind, almost turning his thoughts that's of a psychopath but simple mug of coffee never cease to do it's job which is to keep him eyes cracked all the night. 'I should keep in mind to carry an extra energy drink or a jar of coffee.' He nodded at his own thought leaning forward to have a look at the narrow alleyways down below.
Nothing. No robbers running around, serial killers or whatever negativity of society.
Not even cats around the dumpsters except some Flies here and there.
Man he wish to adopt another cat after last one really messed up the house, ran away beforehand Aizawa got back in one fateful day.
His weakness and like was cats. Nothing else comes close.
However there was a thought was disturbing his duty all night. The explosion, which caused all of that havoc died down within few minutes. He was curious but his expression was the stoic one like always. Sure an inevitable meeting will be conducted and he was already prepared. The media wasn't allowed to enter the area where, according to Tskauchi, the 'mysterious phenomenon' happened, yesterday. And Aizawa was always welcome at the area as well as the media since police knew what media can do if provoked or get in their way.
They conversed yesterday about it and many of the investigators reported of witnessing strange things and Aizawa wanted to go but circumstances prevented him, which was his students. One in particular. Izumi Midoriya.
His class are full of Problem children. In short amount of a day, Aizawa was sure this batch is both gonna be pain in the ass as well as a hero materials unlike the previous batch who were neutral. They were hopeless and having the unusual batch this year, somehow made him unsure of what to do with them...not in a bad way.
As millions of questions was keeping him awake and hurting his dry eyes, Aizawa heard rusty door to the rooftop open slowly. Out of instinct, his guards was up, ready to pounce if there' any threat looming.
He at least expected a villain to burst out and hide or attack, he wasn't ready to see something he never saw before.
A skeletal figure with messy blonde hair and baggy track suit, was non other than All Might himself indicating he was jogging. All Might however was in trance, he wasn't paying attention to anything but his thoughts and Aizawa stood up hoping that would work on having the Number 1 hero' attention but was in vain.
Aizawa was literally ten feet away from the blonde and Aizawa can only imagine different circumstances, like what if All might was in his buff form and Aizawa was a villain. It's like having your ass handed to the enemy.
"As a number one, I was expecting little more awareness of what' happening around you." Aizawa groggily said startling the skeletal man.
"Oh, it's you eraser." All Might sighed.
"Was you planning the same if a villain was in my place and you are in your buff form? The streets aren't this kind like me." Aizawa said bluntly not taking any greeting shit.
"Hehe...that wouldn't have been great." All Might AKA Toshinori Yagi said leaning on the railing of the roof. "I was just lost in thought."
"Isn't that obvious? I got the familiarities." Aizawa responded.
"Nothing escapes your trained eyes, huh?"
"You should consider it for yourself. I heard these part of the city are unforgiving." Aizawa said crossing his arms and Yagi nodded in understanding.
"So, were you here all the time or.."
"Since last night. I've already captured few thugs." Aizawa said. "um..by the way isn't this place little odd for a nice walk? I'd prefer city or something." Aizawa said.
"Yeah, Tsukauchi informed me of yesterday. I was at his office few hours ago." All Might explained and looked away. The cheerfulness of his faltered, but Aizawa did noticed it even if it's hard to read All might' face.
"The explosion?" Aizawa knew the answer but asked anyways.
"Yes. Pretty much out worldly. No evidence of origin of it, just happened that's all. Even the higher-ups give up contemplating what was that explosion." All Might' words could be only make more mysterious than it already is.
"If I wonder a bomb can do It?" Aizawa asked.
"You should see the sight. No bomb in my knowledge can do something like this. It's almost unsolvable except for for the few." All Might said, voice and expression changed to horror and disgust making Aizawa a bit worried. After all that blast or whatever that was, he's the one of the many experience of the aftermath.
"That look of yours. Is there more to it than I was told?" Aizawa asked and All Might turned to look at him.
"Yes. Traumatizing ones." All Might answered making Aizawa more eager to know everything and see it with his own eyes.
"So, that's what up with yours moodiness?" Aizawa wondered remembering All Might was deep in thought. Not that he cared anyway.
All Might stared at Aizawa and sighed deeply. "You know my work never bothered me as much something personal incident and there is one of those I regret happening. I mean my decision I made in that incident." All Might said. "There was this kid I met on this same roof one day." All Might started but Aizawa saw his sunken eyes squinting while looking at something on the alleyway and his eyes widened and Aizawa looked just in time to see at the darkest part of the alleyway, a beat up child stumbling and falling and keep trying to move forward but Aizawa and All Might could sense the boy is not looking healthy at all. The boy was so small and Aizawa finally let his face show concern as the boy fell and it looked painful.
"Crap." They both grunted and All Might turned into his buff form and took off with holding Aizawa' hand.
When they landed near the boy, the child flinched visibly before his teary eyes looked at the two men and tried to crawl away, afraid of the newcomers.
Aizawa noticed this, knowing the boy is panicking he mouthed All Might to revert back to his skinny form. Having a giant ass man towering over building isn't a pleasant sight for a kid like this one. "Pl..aese.,let me go." The boy whimpered, huffing and puffing rapidly and he was shaking like a leaf in the storm. And he had a leather collar on his neck.
Leather collar? The one that use to tame dogs. Aizawa' heart ached at the sight. Never seen something heartbreaking like this except for the 'childhood loss'. He do miss someone that was a 'Loud Cloud'.
Aizawa was cautious, keeping mind of both the kid' comfort and his unknown quirk. Can't risk triggering the poor child to unintentionally cause damage either of the party. And Aizawa knew that, so he crouched down the level of boy calmly while holding both his arms out so the boy can see it and don't mistook it for a threat.
"Hey, kid. It's okay. We're here to help. You'll be alright." Aizawa cooed holding out his hands like a welcoming manner but it took few more attempts to finally gain the child's attention who was around 5 or 6 years old and both adults felt anger and pity as they saw how damaged his body is. And was clear someone' abusing this innocent child.
"Will..y..you..hurt, me?" The boy stuttered and he was so afraid but a less when he realized they are heroes.
Meanwhile, All Might was calling Nezu to ready Recovery Girl since they both live in the school compound.
"No, you're safe now." Aizawa said reassuringly and picked up the little child and was surprised. The boy barely even weigh much and Aizawa had a clear image on how many levels of cruelty this boy gone through. "Don't worry. You'll be alright now." Aizawa comforted and the boy trusted him and passed out.
"Eraser, I called a cab. Recovery Girl is already on her way to U.A." All might informed much to Aizawa' satisfaction.
At least the number one hero is not for show. He do understand how to deal with stuff pretty well.
The sky was orange and meanwhile the trouble was present somewhere else too.
A woman in her late forties was running through the narrow pathway of the garbage piled streets. She has blonde brown short hair and teary blue eyes and wore a red office related outfit on her short figure as she ran. She was sweating, bleeding on her shoulders and she keep her quirk 'small wind' so she could hold back a psychotic duo of a man and woman wearing all punk outfit. They were chasing after her with a baseball bat on the man' hand and a dagger on the female'.
"Love, she's getting away." The pink haired girl shouted at the black haired man.
"Not for long with, the duo of darling's are elegantly better than that trash." The man replied in an English accent.
They were not even acts with their gear, when the girl' totally imitating some kind of fairy while the man impersonating a British noble instead of acting rampage and curse. Well, psycho' comes with different types. Maybe mischaracterized duo possibly included in the unexplainable category.
The woman was sure her legs won't keep her going anymore and tripped on some disgusting slimy rotten waste. She shut her eyes tight preparing for the pain, aside from her already punctured shoulder. The baseball bat gladly missed her head the minute they crossed paths and she in her age ran a mile but now it's end of the road. She thought. But fate wasn't a dick no more.
The pain never comes, instead she felt something strong and rough thing catching her before she impale herself to the pavement. Whatever was holding her was warm yet comforting and she felt the figure straighten her to stand up.
"You ok, miss?" A calming and strong voice asked causing her to open her eyes to see a hooded figure looking at her. He was taller compared to to her short form and and she could only see two green glowing eyes in his hood. The man was covered by all leather outfit and green metal spikes.
"Yes, thank you." She genuinely was thankful and the figure nodded letting her go and looked at the duo standing there.
"Hey, no fun. Give her back." The pinkette pouted making the man gasp dramatically.
"I swear, my love. You're enjoyment is my priority and I will bring back your plaything." The man said hugging his darling who smiled at that.
"You.." The man pointed his finger at Izuku who tilted his head slightly, really amused by all this shit. Being the Rider really made him think differently. No fear on the world as everything else are just joke to him. But when a blood of an innocent falls, Izuku will make sure they suffered the same pain their victims felt. "..Don't you heard malady. Hand over that thing, or I'll take violence as an approach." The man threatened with a smoldering stance, which was stupidly hilarious.
Izuku chuckled darkly sending shivers down everyone's back, including the woman he saved. "Why don't you try?" Izuku said summoning the green hellflame chains out of his hands. He doesn't need his rider form to summon his weapons.
They flinched when the chains were summoned. Nobody was expecting to see this kind of 'Quirk'.
"My curiosity, mister. What quirk is that." The man asked fearfully yet keeping his royal attitude and Izuku could see the fear on their eyes and wondered if what happens when he turn into the rider.
Izuku laughed amused. "Quirk, huh? That's not a term I would have choose." He chirped, confusing others. Then he turned to look at the woman who was still bleeding. "Oh, miss, the main road is to the left. I'm sure you'll see police officers patrolling. The sight here is gonna get messy." Izuku Instructed and the woman nod her head the running away saying a final thank you.
"Oops..she's gone. What you gonna do now?" Izuku mocked and removed his hood revealing his cold expression and white fluffy hair and green glowing eyes. The appearance of his was enough to make them more scared as he walked closer retracting his chains. He doesn't need them to deal with these clowns.
Because...
...their sins was enough to power him up.
The duo sighed a bit when Izuku retracted his weapon, but safety comes first as the man stood before his darling in protective manner. More like a human shield. "LOVEEEE." The woman screeched annoyingly and Izuku was sure his eardrums gonna explode at any moment. The sound was high and piercing as if it were a weapon itself.
Her quirk.
Izuku wasn't slightly affected due to how useless her power compared to the strength of a whole hell or sun. Her quirk is a dust while the spirit of vengeance is a universe.
The voice was enough to annoy him and nothing more.
The man wasn't as effected due to he' wearing a barely noticeable earpiece that prevents any high pitch sound to be less loud.
Eventually, the drawback came and she felt her throat aching and stopped her scream only to see Izuku standing shaking his head to stop the ringing on his ears.
"Stay back, darling. I got this." The man proudly stated as if he won a war or something and ran at Izuku, swinging the baseball bat rapidly.
Izuku' enhanced sense let him know and he saw the bat coming and was about to connect with his head and he ducked and punched the dude's gut. Izuku punched again on his gut making him throw up and fall to his knees.
"Lo..VE." The girl tried to activate her quirk but couldn't due to how sore it was.
"My darling..." The man started standing up with his bat, shakily. "For..you I'll capture the moon, If you wish." The man said and his bat soon splintered changing it's shape to a big spike. His quirk; 'Metal Sharp' Makes inanimate objects sharp upon physical contact.
However, Izuku chuckled. "How ironic."
"Insults are forgiven if directed at me. Not my darling." The man spat.
"How ironic, a nice quirk gone waste. You do not have potential to wield the power, seeing how much inexperienced you are. Your stance, defense or the position you're using, all are just lowered or open to your foes. I can literally see an opening if you ask me." Izuku pointed out and the man didn't have patience as he charged at him and Izuku dodged and got behind the man and touched his head.
Izuku used hellflame on his palm incinerating the body into ashes.
Izuku stood there watching the pile of Ashes and then he heard an high pitch scream of the woman who charged at Izuku, aimlessly throwing punches with knife still in hand.
She was trying to say something that was unclear with her quirk active and all. However her pathetic attempts are useless. Each punches of her aren't that accurate and effective. At some point, her knife flew away from her hands.
Izuku stood there taking her punches and her blows were weaker than he thought. He should at least feel pain and at this rate, one of many punches are doing anything. After all he's not invincible in his mortal form. Slightly stronger than an average person.
"What? Does it hurt watching loved ones die?" Izuku asks catching both her arms. She was sobbing and crying. "That's what those who you killed felt. The pain of losing love forever." He said harshly as her teary wide eyes looks at his green ones. "Now, feel their pain." He said in bit more heavy voice.
The woman suddenly froze on his grasp looking into his eyes and she saw...
...murder
...grief...suffering
many hidden emotions with one stand out the most.
...pain.
She watched all those who she killed and injured, tortured. She screamed the same way they did, cried, thrashed, begged and finally her soul burned away leaving her comatose shell of a body behind and her eyes are charred as he let go off her.
"STOP RIGHT THERE." A man' voice commands from a bit far behind him, cannot see Izuku' face.
Izuku sighed and knew her cries could draw attention and he pulled up his hoodie hiding his face and looked at the hero commanded that. He was local hero wearing all shark like outfit. Izuku doesn't recognize the man.
Then Izuku felt it..The sin committed by the man. He's one of those fake ones. However, unlike those who support big crimes, this one is not that of troublemaker. He only do cheap tricks, That's it.
The man was so self-confident that he has big grin on his face and not even calling for backup. That's what a true hero should do before run into action.
Izuku sighed and whistles. The man was confused at first but before he even know it, a black chopper like bike hit him on the back injuring and knocking him out.
The bike was full black and a bike lover will say, it looks like a chopper but it's from the hell. Nobody other than Izuku could own or ride it, because...it's alive.
Izuku straddles the bike and drove off. The engine sound was weird and loud.
All Might and Aizawa was in Nezu's office, discussing about the child on the infirmary with recovery girl aiding the poor kid while Tsukauchi on his way to U.A.
"I'm thankful, you two came across the child. I must say he may not have survived if not." Nezu said. He was mad. Police should be checking out the area and should have suspected any of what's happening to whatever crimes happening and child abuse is unacceptable and unforgivable act of cruelty. One should definitely get life sentences or hunged.
"That's what we were thinking too." All Might said sitting on a couch.
"He's right. That kid was barely even noticeable when we saw him, almost passed out and I came to a conclusion that the kid may have kidnapped." Aizawa said.
"How can you tell?" All Might asked.
"You didn't see that collar on his neck? Bruises? Either my theory matches the situation or it's domestic abuse." Aizawa said disgust evident on his face and the others shuddered and All Might hung his head in shame.
"As a no.1, this is so much for me to take. I should have been more cautious." He said.
"Do not blame yourself, All Might. You could do so much. Nobody knew." Nezu said warmly. "From now on, we should expand our patrolling limit around the city. There may be things happening as we speak."
The door opened and a tired Tsukauchi entered with bunch of files. "Sorry I'm late. Thing aren't in my favor recently." He said taking a seat and signed.
"No worries, we're having a conversation so didn't feel time passing by." Nezu chirped.
"Hey, what about the explosion yesterday? All Might was worried this morning and said of some unpleasant sight." Aizawa asked.
Tsukauchi nodded. "Unpleasant and unexplainable." He corrected and continued. "The researchers at the sight first concluded or almost thought it was an underground volcano eruption but that theory scrapped when there was no core or the hole visible. The debris were mostly melted like wax and nobody knows what caused it but there's more to it than we thought." Tsukauchi said and Aizawa nodded.
"Well, in my knowledge volcanic eruption don't reach up the sky and the fire is green." Aizawa said startling Tsukauchi,
"What do you mean green fire or reaching sky?" He questioned puzzled.
Aizawa had his jaw dropped. "Well that's what happened. The fire pillar was reaching at a weird form of dark clouds and was green lighting around it." Aizawa said and Tsukauchi recorded that report.
"Thanks for the info. And do you know anything else?" Aizawa shook his head a no.
"Now, say what else you found?" Nezu asked and Tsukauchi handed them few photos out his flie and the three men gathered around Nezu to observe the photos.
First one showed was of footprints that melted into the pavements and the second one was of a black ash and the third was a man in suits laying on the floor looking dead and all and the fourth was the most disturbing.
Something that looks like fleshy melting pile.
Nezu, All might and Aizawa was confused as to why they are seeing these pictures. Wasn't it about the explosion? Are they missing something more than they thought?
"What's all this?" Aizawa groaned thinking the man got the wrong file.
"Aren't the explosion we were talking about?" Nezu questioned yet deeply analyzing the photos.
"See? I told you there's more to it." Tsukauchi said having the other men's attention and continued. "This incident is related to the explosion, because of the looks of it, both incidents happened within few minute gap, means it's related." Tsukauchi said and the others looked at the photos again.
"Like what are we even looking at?" Aizawa asked holding up two photos of the black ashes and the footprints.
Tsukauchi sighed looking disturbed and worried. "That footprints.." He started and the others looked at it again."...with some research we concluded it came out of the explosion." He added and the others were surprised to hear that.
"Ummm...By the looks of this photos and your claim...Tsukauchi, are you saying someone or something triggered it all?" Nezu almost 99% confirmed the answer but needed the remaining 1% of confirmation as well.
"Aside from that, we could no guess any other possibilities. We thought the same way like you did Nezu." Tsukauchi said but his face was grim again. "But the disturbing part is the rest of the pictures. All three horrendous and bizzare on their own way." Tsukauchi said.
"What?" All Might asked feeling uneasy seeing his friend look grim.
"That man on the picture..is alive. Eyes charred and in comatose stage. As well, about that pile of flesh there. His body melted like a wax." He added almost throwing up even thinking of it.
The three who heard this new information froze in shock and disgust. Upon closer look they could see some fingers and some other recognizable limbs that barely is there on the melt body.
"Slow painful death? My...I should have been more active." All Might blamed himself again and others looked at the man.
And Tsukauchi sighed again. "Look All Might. Even you could not save them. You can't let yourself help villains, right?"
That was the hundredth time they were shocked.
"Drug dealers or those who sell dead bodies on black market for unknown reasons, and that man in the suit are the leader, Yui Hasu, a former military sergeant, suspended because of drug abuse. And due to his relationship with some big lawyers, he's proven innocent and the evidences and witnesses are mysteriously vanished. And now he's 'living dead'. Almost everyone in his group dead and that black crumbles are ashes. Burnt corpse." Tsukauchi explains all at once to end the conversation but sadly it didn't.
"You said 'almost' everyone, right? What that suppose to mean?" Aizawa asked curiously but kept his emotions to himself.
"Yes, we saw a pair of small footprints of a barefooted child and the child must have fled the scene. No report on a dead child found."
And realization hit Aizawa and All Might. Beat up child, injuries, collar, nervousness, exhaustion and footprints of a barefooted child and the child they found clearly fit the description.
"I think we found the kid." Both Aizawa and All Might said in unison.
AN/; So? That's the fourth chap. This shows characteristics of Deku and I hope you guy like it. Thanks for the support. When I first started to upload this story, I didn't think you all will like it, But you all prove me wrong. I'll be uploading soon.