Chapter 17: Blood Meets Lightning

A/N:
Twice in one week? Crazy, and I was just talking about consistency, but then again, I have been itching to write this part of the story. I have a great idea and I hope it translates well!
Enjoy!

"So, the fake I'm hunting it also someone you are looking to take out?" Stain asks keeping his distance from Shigaraki, studying him so to speak. "Yes, that brat, has gotten in the way of our plans to many times!"

Shigaraki eyes stain for himself, "So you are the infamous hero killer hmm? Truthfully, I was expecting someone bigger." "I do not need much to take out these fakes" Stain glares daggers at Shigaraki.

"So, what exactly is your goal?" This is the big question for Stain the make or break. "What my goal is, to watch this world burn. This entire system is just washed, I want to tear it all down." Shigaraki sounds hell bent on doing all this and Stain is liking everything he is hearing until...

"First things first, killing the symbol of peace, then all the other heroes!" Stain looks down on Shigaraki then continues on. "Everyone thinks heroes are cool, heroes are great, but the truth of the matter is the world is just shitty."

"You're just a child throwing a tantrum" Stain spits at Shigaraki. "At first you were making good points, then you just started to babble on about things you hated." Stain walks closer to Shigaraki.

"You don't want to fix this system, you want to burn the whole thing down, not to get rid of the fakes! But to satisfy your own lust for destruction!" Stain says drawing his sword and swings it down on Shigaraki as Shigaraki catches it turning it to dust.

"Aww and here I thought we were going to become friends." Shigaraki says with an angry tone, but quickly sees he is playing with fire as a throwing knife comes flying by, and hits him directly in his hand pinning it to the wall.

"I won't let you kill the only real her-" Stain can never finish that sentence as he is thrown through a portal back to Hosu city. "Shigaraki! Are you okay?" Kurogiri is already coming to Shigaraki's aid with the first aid kit handy.

"I'm fine Kurogiri... I just have another person to add to my kill list, and hes made his way straight to the top!" Shigaraki says seething with anger "He is going to pay for this!". As back with me, I am currently making sure all my gear is ready for another day of patrolling.

I am checking the protective nature of my gear against knifes and such, knowing the hero killer is hunting me, makes it easy to check for this stuff. "Hmm, why me is still the question, I am barely known here."

The more I talk to myself the less I realize how little time I have left before needing to go. "Ah fuck" I say checking my watch as its nearly noon, I really slept my day away. I quickly put on my gear and head out onto patrol and to keep eyes on Iida. Heading out and getting the work day started.

-Hours Later-

The day has gone and went with little to no action, Iida was either doing patrols with Manuel, or in the agency learning some sort of hero law and order type of thing. I perch myself on a roof, the cold shivers seem to be gone for the moment as I yawn.

"Seems today gets to pass without incident" I say and start making my way to get some food or even just rest. I have been up and down this entire city, watching over it and Iida as I send out a text.

"Hey guys, sorry about not responding yesterday" I type out into our group chat. "Been real busy keeping an eye on the city I'm in." as soon I get a few replies. "It's okay, been pretty busy myself" Uraraka types.

"Same here, my face honestly hurts... Faceplanting into a wall is not very fun." Izuku says as Uraraka and Momo both send worried looking emojis as Izuku then goes on to explain his progress with his quirk.

He tells us how he is keeping everything on throughout his body at almost all times for his body to acclimate to the feeling. Then how is trying to really adjust his movements during jumping to try and jump from wall to wall.

"So, yea, my face is all red from messing up the timing, thankfully my nose has been spared and has not been broken... yet..." He says with a soft laugh to himself as Jirou chimes in. "Glad to hear your cinnamon roll face is doing okay" She send a picture of Izukus face poorly photoshopped onto a cinnamon roll.

"Really? I am not a cinnamon roll!" Izuku tries to fight it but all he gets is. "Yea you are" "Bro you're joking right it looks just like you!" "Hmm all I see here is the same picture" Izuku basically has lost this battle.

"Iida are you around?" I send the text hoping he responds, as for a little while he doesn't even respond but after a few minutes and another just mindless conversation about everyone's internships, he responds, "Yes I am here, I do apologize about my delayed responses."

"I have been kept quite busy, Manuel has been the best teacher I could have hoped for" Iida says as Jirou and Uraraka both type out their best wishes as I chuckle. "So, everything has been going well? Hosu is pretty dead?"

"Well, my first day here, there was a robbery down the road, but a hero did take care of that before me and Manuel can arrive." Iida types out as I chuckle softly. "I heard about that, glad to hear it was taken cared of"

I type out and thankfully everyone catches on, that for whatever reason I don't want Iida to know it was me. "Yes well, I need to get off to bed another full day, study law in the day and patrol at night! Very exciting" We can all just imagine Iida karate chopping the air.

With a small laugh from us all we wish him a good night before he signs off. "Alrighty guys, I'm going to be going to bed here as well, had a long day and have a report to send off to Nezu and Aizawa."

After everyone wishes me a good night, I take a breath. "2 days down, seems like maybe I can make it through this week" I smile before going to bed, not knowing I may have just cursed myself to a hells worth of existence.

-The Next Day-

I am currently not patrolling, and just eating some dinner, the cold chill I felt from Stains gaze was felt earlier in the day, but I escaped it once more while dealing with some fight from a local shop.

'Guess he really does only stick to the alleys and shadows" I say as I have tread some dangerous grounds by being in less populated locations but always out in the open, and Stain has never taken his chance.

I just hope Iida and Manuel are doing okay, they should be starting their patrol here soon. I check my watch, its nearly sunset at this point. "Thanks again for the food!" I call out to the shop's owner, as he calls back.

"No thank you for dealing with those disorderly customers! Feel free to come back!" The shop owner yells out happily as I take my leave heading for the roof tops. "That hero really likes to be up high huh?"

"Yea, probably has to do with his quirk" two kids talk back and forth as I wave and turn into my lightning form and head to central Hosu. "He can turn into living lightning cool!", one of the kids says excitedly. To get back to watching over Iida since it is getting closer to them heading on patrol.

By the time I get too Central Hosu, the sun has finally set, the night is in full swing, and surprisingly, Hosu seems completely quiet minus the minor night life. 'Hmm, seems like a slow night.' Thoughtlessly said by my mind, not knowing what I have just done.

I begin to check my HUD for any new news regarding Stain, or anything happening anywhere else, as right when Iida and Manuel walk out of their agency, all hell breaks loose. 3 separate explosions go off all around the city, as my HUD goes crazy with news.

"3 Nomu like creatures are all around the city!" I yell at myself and check back with Iida and Manuel, thankfully they are still together. "Iida come with me! We need to evacuate any people in the area!"

"R-right" Iida hesitates when saying that, and that tells me I need to watch him closely, however I don't really get the chance. "Help!" I hear a women yell out near the explosion site, and with a flash of yellow I am there. "My daughter is trapped!" The women yells as she was running out of a smoking building.

"What floor?" "The 4th! Please save her..." I don't recognize the women right away but it is the women I saved during the robbery. "Yes, ma'am don't worry, I'll be back in a zap" I say making a bad joke to hopefully make her feel a bit at ease as I go into my lighting form and enter the building.

"People are rushing out, yelling, screaming making it next to impossible to get any sort of bearings, however, I am thankfully within the sockets of the building. Able to avoid all the chaos even while still feeling the heat of the flames.

While flowing through all the wiring until I hit the 4th floor. "Mom! Mom! I'm scared!" I hear a little girl crying out, and make way straight there. The flames from the building slowly heating up, causing me to start to sweat even within my lightning form.

The girl is trapped in her room, coughing and crying, as I come out of her socket, "hey kiddo, don't worry let's get you out of here" I call out to her, staying low to avoid the smoke as the apartment building is getting weaker by the second.

"You... Youre the hero that saved my mom a few days ago!" She says looking at me trying to catch her breath, a little less scared. "Well, it is good to see you again kiddo, however let's catch up out of this building? What do you say?" I say extending my hand out to her.

She is tense at first, but the groaning of the building and the flames licking at her heels, as well as the calm smile on my face, spur her to run into my arms. "I gotcha I gotcha" I say trying to soothe her and we stay close to the ground as I try her door, and its stuck shut.

"Ouch!" I tried to grab the door knob and my hand burned, as I slowly start to cough with the smoke and heat as does the little girl. "Alright, heres the plan, put this on" I say taking off my jacket and putting it around her, to protect her from the heat and debree, as well to help keep her calm.

"Next close your eyes, and trust me, okay? It's going to get loud and windy fast" I say and secure her in my arms. "Youre gonna get us out of here?" She whimpers fear in her voice. "Of course, now hang on tight."

I tell her and as soon as I feel her grip on me tighten and her eyes shut, I supercharge my legs and arms and go for the window, kicking down the wall with my legs, and propelling myself out while readying my body for the landing. "Here we go!" I say signaling to the little one, that we are about to make our escape.

I jump out of the building, even if the 4th floor isn't too far up, it is still a sizeable drop, as while we are falling, I supercharge my mind just for a second, to process the situation just a bit faster, and use my free arm that isn't holding the girl, and form an electric whip to grab onto the fire escape and slow our descent.

I expend the charge in my arms and discharge it out of the bottom of my feet, to give me a bit of a cushion due to the force I discharge with. As I land on my feet, I make sure to roll keeping the little girl safe in my arms as I do so.

"Hinata!" the mother is fighting against fire fighters and police trying to get through to us as I rush the girl over to her mother and the medics. "How is she doing Impulse?" the EMT asks, as I get over to them.

"She is okay, has minor burns and some smoke inhalation but other than that, she is okay." as the little girl is getting checked out the mother runs up and hugs me. "Thank you... Thank you for saving my daughter."

"It's my pleasure, if I save the mom once, I can save the daughter too." I say as I walk over to the little girl. "You were super brave you know." I ruffle her hair as she begins to take off my jacket. "Here mister..." she says a bit dejected.

"You know what, does the jacket make you feel safe?" I ask her, as she nods. "Then keep it, my gift to you, just let me just get some stuff" I say and clear the jacket of any gear it may have and find ways to hold everything in my pockets, belt, and holsters. "Really?!" her eyes go huge.

"Of course, that jacket is super strong and keeps me safe, so it will keep you safe." I promise as I hear more fighting and explosions going on all around the city. "Gotta go! Stay strong kiddo!" I say before running off and taking to another roof top as the little girl cuddles into my jacket.

"Mommy, Impulse is cool" she says as when I get back to where Manuel and Iida were supposed to be all I hear is. "Iida! Iida! Where are you?!" Manuel has lost him. Instantly red flags go off in my mind. I start to search the nearby area, but with no luck can't find him.

'He is using this attack as a distraction to find Stain!' I yell at myself and quickly slam my hands onto an electrical wire from a telephone pole and send my lightning out to read everyone's current (electrical field) in a 4-mile radius, sensing all sorts of currents, but no one with Iida unique signature.

"Tch nothing" I say yelling at myself, 'How could I let my eyes..." I take a breath to calm and reorientate myself, "no don't think about that, you saved a life, time to save another!' I yell inside my mind. Quickly I analyze the situation, and knowing Stain he would avoid all the limelight, and...

'The empty district' I say to myself before heading to where there is no smoke, fire, or explosions. Once I get to the empty district, I quickly send out my current again to find anyone. As my current hits 3 people, bingo.

As fast as a lightning bolt I super charge my legs to near max and take of in that direction. "Tch, seems he has already infected the student body." I can hear as I get to the alley. "I don't care! You hurt my brother; I will be the one to end your reign of terror!"

"Really now 'hero', tell me what would a real hero do? Attack me with intent to kill? Or rather save this wannabe?" Stain says motioning to Native. "He wo-…" the words get trapped in Iida's throat, signaling he knows where he went wrong.

"Exactly, you are no hero, youre just another fake", He stands over Iida, looking down on him, "time to purge the unworthy." Stain says quickly bringing his sword down on Iida, Iida shutting his eyes waiting for the cold steel to hit.

"Don't think so!" I say rounding the corner, and extending my metal whip out and wrapping it around Stains arm, and super charge my arms to fling him back and slam him into a wall. Stain seemingly motionless for a moment, "Iida! Native?" I say rushing past Stain to check on them.

"Sen... What" Iida nearly bawling when he sees me, "Saving your ass Iida, youre an idiot I swear!" As I quickly gather up Native as well and lay him next to Iida. "Look out!" Native warns me as Stain drops from above and tries to slash down at me, as I swap to a lighting form and give him a nasty shock, then follow up with a solid round house.

"The fakes just keep lining up! Good thing too, you seemingly always kept your distance, but now I don't have to hunt you down!" Stain says almost manic like. "Fakes huh? So, you have been hunting me" I say stepping between Stain and the injured. 'Really wish I kept that jacket.'

I chuckle internally at myself as Stain walks forward, "Yes, ever since you came here Impulse" he says my name as if it were a sour taste in his mouth. "I know about you, fake from America under the ultimate fake of Iron Man. Once a fake always a fake!" He spits at me lowering his blade and his stance.

"You do not", I take a lower stance as well, "Insult my mentor." I say back as we charge each other, stain taking the higher ground than me, only due his size and slashes at me wildly, while I slide under his blade, he kicks his spiked boots at me. 'Tch he is quick on his feet' I tell myself.

To dodge I once again go into my lighting form and instead of just a shock, I discharge all the current in my body to cause an explosion, sending his body slamming into a wall again, but as quick as he was slammed there, he rushes me again tossing some throwing knives, one high one low, before disappearing into the shadows.

Not seeing where he went, I jump into the air to avoid both knives using my metal whip to snap the knives out of the air so they don't hit Iida or Native. "Youre good, for a fake that is!" Stain says jumping out of the shadows above me and slashes downward with his katana.

'Hes faster now?!' My mind races as I do not have time to go into lightning form and clap my hands together to catch his blade in my palms. "That was cl-" Stain drives a hidden blade into my back and slams me into the ground. Iida can hear the blade go through my top and my jumpsuit underneath and sink into my shoulder blade.

A sickening sound can be heard from the blade tearing into my flesh, "Fuck!" I yell out in pain before emitting a shockwave from my body that travels from Stains blade into his hand, causing him to lose his grip on the hilt and the resulting explosion sending him tumbling down the alley.

'My arm fuck, thankfully it wasn't a serrated blade, any deeper and he may have hit an artery' I think as I send a charge through the blade so I can use a lightning whip to drag the blade out of my shoulder and toss it. "You die here fake" Stain says with a wide smile as I see him, smoking and hair singed from all the shocks he has received from me.

He also has a few open cuts and swollen eye from my kicks and whip earlier, however he is also covered in my blood that splattered when he cut into me. "You made me work for this" he says with a smile before licking a drop of my blood on his hand, as right when he does that I drop again into the floor.

No feeling in my arms or legs, just numb in a way. No matter how many times I try and command them to move, nothing moves. "So, your quirk works off blood?!" I say, trying to get him to talk to buy some time, as Stain nods. "No harm in telling a dead man, yea, it is" he says as he walks over to us.

"I won't... let you!" I say focusing my mind and my lightning and creating multiple whips that come out of me and thrash around wilding in front of me and to the side of me to cover for Iida and Native sending Stain back again.

"Tch, should have guess that you could use your quirk without moving" he says but remembers that my lighting whips can only touch and hold onto object that have an electric current, so a flying Knife can't be stopped.

"Face death with some grace you fake, know that you all are going to a good cause, a better cause to reform all the fakes in this pitiful system." He says and throws three knifes to take out me, Iida, and Native. "No!" we all hear a yell, then a green blur grabs the knifes out of the air and then also sends stain crashing into a wall.

"Smash!" Izuku yells slamming his fist into Stains jaw following up with a 3% air blast from his finger. 'What is going on, the Hero killer? Sen, Iida!' Izuku is thinking a million things a minute, when my voice reaches out to him.

"His quirk, don't let him get any of your blood!" I say as I reel in my tendrils to keep them around me as I am trying to use my quirk to shock my muscles into moving, but at the moment it is a no go.

"Tch more and more trash just seems to line up, why won't you all just lay down and die already!" Stain says getting very angry, almost like a wild animal, at this point Izuku looks him in the eye and shudders from just the pure blood lust coming off of Stain.

"My friends are not trash! You won't be killing anyone tonight!" Izuku says yelling as his green sparks arc around his entire body. "I am trying to become a hero; how could I call myself that if I let you kill my friends behind me!"

This, this gets Stain excited, "Seems the fake hasn't had a chance to taint you yet! Good Good, maybe there is still hope for this worthless society!" Stain looks excited at Izuku with a wild smile. His blade reflecting off the night sky and moonlight showing Izuku his own eyes within that blade.

A/N:

Two Chapters in 3 days, and ending it on a cliff hanger basically!

All the writing just to set up, the 2nd half of the fight, and the afterwards of it all too!
I am honestly really happy with this chapter, but always room to grow! Let me know
Good day/Night to everyone!