Chapter4- 1st and 5th jobs
The two newest members of the Topologics stand in front of the door of a one bedroom apartment, both teens wearing latex gloves and face masks, and each holding a bag with sponges and various cleaning supplies.
Mineta knocks on the door, and there's no answer. He knocks again and waits a while, but once more there's no answer.
"Maybe they forgot about the request?" Midoriya suggests. Just as he walks closer to grab the door handle, the door flies open, smacking Midoriya clean in the forehead. He holds his head, but once again it's only out of instinct.
"HA" Mineta laughs at the sudden assault of his partner, much to Midoriya's dismay.
"Oh, sorry kid" comes the voice of a woman, Mineta's entire demeanor changes as he sees the woman whose picture was on the app. She looked exactly like her picture, exactly, down to the dirty shirt and pants. Which is odd since the request was made 2 days ago.
"Huh? What do you kids want?" She asks while wiping the sleep out of her eyes.
"Midoriya quickly gets up and explains "were with Topologics ma'am, you put in a request to clean your house. you're ms. Takeyama, correct?".
The woman rubs her eyes then squints at the boys, seemingly not fully waking up yet. "Oh yeah, I did put that request in" she runs her hands through her blond hair, scratching the back of her head. "I forgot I put that in".
"O-Oh…would you like to cancel the-" Midoriya is cut off when Takeyama holds a hand up to his face.
"No no, come in, this place is a mess."
…
"i can't believe it"
"Mineta no"
"I mean, she lives alone. How could it get this bad?"
"Let's just finish this off"
Mineta and Midoriya are 2 hours in on the cleaning job, and it was draining on both of them.
The bedroom and dining room/kitchen were the worst. Every time they thought they were done, there was another discarded bit of clothing, another bit of mold, another dirty q-tip in a place it shouldn't be. Mineta dealt with fine at first, him being able to touch a woman's used clothes was heaven for the little perv, but soon the effect wore off, and the frustration set in.
It reaches a head when they enter the bathroom.
"HOLY-" Mineta's scream is cut off by Midoriya's hand, but it's too late, their customer heard them.
"Alright, after this you two should be done". Ms Takeyama says cheerfully, not caring about the boy's shock from seeing the bathroom.
After another hour and a half, the two finally finish cleaning and go to Takeyama for payment.
"We should charge extra," Mineta mumbles under his breath.
"That'll be 150 ma'am" Midoriya explains, ignoring Mineta. He holds out his phone, typing a 150.00 on the screen next to a confirm button. Before he can click it though, Takeyama leans forward, pulling her shirt down a bit to show her cleavage.
"How about a peek for a discount" she says while winking.
Both Mineta and Midoriya blush like crazy, all the frustration of the job leaving the former's mind. The small man almost accepted the offer, his hand moving to hit the discount button, but Midoriya stops him.
"Not again!" He shouts while holding the phone up, clicking the confirm button as he does. A notification appears on the client's phone, alerting her of the prince she must pay.
She huffs, "fine, give me a minute"
As she walks to her phone, Mineta speaks up. "Thanks for that, I moved on instinct again"
"I feel like we should get that checked out" Midoriya states as he gets an alert saying the money came in.
"Alright, out you two, I'm very busy" she says while pushing the two out.
The two move along and she slams the door behind them. A vein popping on Mineta's forehead, "I didn't like that at all".
"You'll be fine" Midoriya laughs, and the two head home.
…
After an hour, Ms.Takeyama sits on her couch with a man in a business suit. A stack of papers on the table, the man seems quite pleased.
"Well, I'm quite surprised, your quality of life seems to have vastly improved since last month." he says, causing Takeyama to beam
"Yes, well, after our talk I knew I had to make a change. So I really tried to clean the place up". She lied through her teeth
"I can see that, honestly I wasn't sure we should sponsor you and make a hero costume, Given your record of uncleanliness. The nature of quirk requires a very expensive material, and we didn't want it to be wasted."
"Oh you'll never have worry about that"
Internally, the soon to debut mt.lady was screaming over the bullet she dodged. She completely forgot the representative was coming over.
"Thank you Topologics," she mutters while signing the contract.
…
A month later
The two are on their 5th job, a request that came from a man complaining about the wailing of a strange animal in the abandoned house across from his. No cops or animal control would come to the area, so he called the Topologics.
"Alright, we can handle a dog or a raccoon. If it's anything bigger we run and call the doc. Agreed?" Mineta suggests as Midoriya puts his hand on the doorknob.
Both teens hold animal catcher poles, hands shaky as this request might be dangerous, but the doc assured them. "Even if an animal scratched or bit you Midoriya, their fangs and claws would break." He then turned to Mineta. "Not you tho, the gumblar system only replaced your eyes, spine, rib cage and organs. You're still fleshy everywhere else, so be careful."
Remembering the docs words, Mineta has Midoriya stand him front. Having him slowly open the door in case an animal jumps out at him.
He opens the door…And there's nothing
Inside they see a hallway with no light, Midoriya slowly walks in first, Mineta following after him.
Inside, the first thing both boys notice is that all the doors to the bedrooms are closed off, covered by planks of wood that have been nailed down.
The second thing they notice is the smell that comes when they get closer to the kitchen, it smells like rotting meat.
They move towards the kitchen, and the smell gets worse. Mineta is first to notice a door leading to a basement.
"Weird, I didn't think there were houses in musutafu with basements" Midoriya brings up.
"Yeah, it's really weird…wanna bail out?" Mineta asks with a worried look.
Midoriya pauses for a bit, truly suggesting what the imp is suggesting.
"Whatever's down there has probably been living there for a while. The smell is either feces, or it's dead body…we should complete the request."
Midoriya opens the door, and the stench floods their noses. It's foul, but their eyes don't water, curtose of their cyber eyes.
They push down, the steps turning from brown to black as they go down.
Mineta can barely see what is in front of him, since he's tails directly behind Midoriya. When he tries to take the next step, he bumps straight into Midoriya's legs.
Mineta moves his head past the boys legs to see what happened "what the big-"
What the two see makes them freeze up.
There's blood everywhere, on the walls, on the floor, on the ceiling, on the various tools in the basement. And most terrifying, on the bottom of the robes of the hooded figures holding the bloody tools.
Handcuffed to the wall is a man who looks very frog-like. Bits of flesh missing, it looks as though the hooded figures have been torturing him.
"Midoriya! We need to go!" Mineta screams as he turns to run up the stairs, Midoriya runs too, but in the opposite direction.
"What!?" Mineta yells
Midoriya runs to the chained man without thinking, one of the hooded figures hits him in the side of the head with a set of pliers, but Midoriya doesn't feel it.
He tries to pull chains away, but can't, the other hooded figures hit him in every spot they can, but Midoriya doesn't feel it. That is until one of the figures hit the boy in the groin, the one spot that was left unmodified by the firewall system.
Midoriya did feel that.
He coils over in pain, and the hooded figures finally speak.
"How did he get here?"
"Who left the door unlocked?"
"Go grab the other one!"
Mineta looks at his fallen coworker and freezes up, not sure what to do. When one of the hooded figures comes after him he runs back up the stairs, leaving Midoriya behind.
Tears welled up in Midoriya's eyes as the other figures stomped on him, they hit him with pliers, hammers, tools of all shapes and sizes, But none of them hurt him.
"This isn't working", one of the men gasps out, clearly exhausted.
"Hit him in the dick again, he felt that"
"He's covering it with his hands"
"Then pick him up, he's not strong at all"
Izuku panics, not wanting to feel that pain again. Finally letting the shock of the situation die down, he quickly grabs the first dial on his neck and twists it free.
THUNK
he feels lighter, once more he runs to the chained man. The hooded figures try to stop him, but when one grabs him, he smacks their hand away with enough force to send them flying into the wall.
He pulls the chains off with ease and tries to run up the stairs, but is stopped dead in his tracks, he can't move a muscle.
"Fuckin heteromorphs I tell you, they just keep popping up" walking down the stairs is a new figure I'm a hood more decorated than the others. The one who chased after Mineta is behind him, with a struggling imp floating in mid air.
The new figure grabs Izuku's face, "well, at least you look slightly human" he scoffs
"Can't move, it's a quirk, how does it work?" Questions fill the boy's mind as he tries to move, but to no avail.
"Chain that one back to the all back to the wall, im taking these two in for questioning"
It took a bit longer than Midoriya, but Mineta's shock wore off. Focusing a bit, causing the gumblar system to bring out a tendril from his back. The needle slowly rises to his head and sucks out the paralyzing agent from one of his balls.
Once it's full, the tendril lashes out at full speed and tries to stab the one holding them in the back of his neck.
But it is stopped just before it can.
It was out of reflex, but the man's quirk stopped the tendril. However when he did this, the hold on Mineta faded. The boy falls, hanging by the tendril frozen in kid air.
Mineta acts fast, pulling a explosive ball off his head and making another tendril pop it. It explodes In a violent manner, knocking everyone back, and freeing the two cyborgs from the quirks grip.
Izuku gets up before anyone else, grabbing Mineta and the man he rescued and running up the stairs, and out the front door of the house.
He makes about a foot down the block before he's stopped again by the hooded man's quirk. The hooded leader is limping towards the three, a hacksaw in hand.
"CAN'T MOVE! MINETA!"
"I'm frozen too," Mineta winces. "The gumblar pack still moves though"
"I think his limit is two things at a time, and for whatever reason, you and the gumblar pack count as two separate things."
"I could try blowing a ball up at close range again, we could take it," Mineta suggests.
"But this guy can't," Midoriya says, implying to the unconscious man.
As the hacksaw wielding man gets closer, Midoriya makes a snap decision.
"Listen, try to stick him with that tendril full of paralysis again. If he stops it, one of us will be free. If it's me I'll unlock the other three restraints and hope for the best, if it's you, you do the same."
Mineta is about to bring up how crazy that plan is, but he stops when he hears something.
"Oh, good news Midoriya, we're safe" the imp exhales in releaf.
"What do you mean, he coming this way"
"naw I called for help when I ran up stairs"
The noise gets louder, it's like a gust of wind getting closer to them.
Just as the leader gets to the two boys and raises his saw, a glowing green wheel hits him square in the face.
He goes flying back, teeth, blood and spit flying from his mouth. Standing in front of the three are the twins, hair a mass and very upset. When they stop moving the wheels begin to lose their green glow.
The right head turns to the two teens and asks "is that weird heteromorph hating cult, I kinda recognize the robes."
Both Mineta and Midoriya shrug their shoulders, free from the man's quirk and not knowing the answer to that question.
"No matter" yawns the left head, "we'll finish this in a minute."
As the other hooded cultists finally recover and help their leader up, they all see the twins…
And gag
"What the fuck is that!?"
"Disgusting!"
"You can't even call it human"
The leader spits out blood and curses "I have had enough of freaks today" he groans through missing teeth as he pulls out a syringe with a strange liquid inside.
"Oh shit" the left head speaks out, and once again the wheels glow green.
Before anyone can blink, the twins are In front of the leader and kicks him to the ground, the syringe out of his hands and breaks on the floor.
"NO! you monster! Do you have any idea how much trigger costs!?" the man shouts in despair.
"Trust us, we know" the right head grimaces, then the left head speaks up "and before you call anyone monsters". The twins raise their right mechanical leg all the way up, the green glow that was on their wheels now travels up their entire body, creating an aura around them.
All at once, the aura goes into the right leg, morphing into a green, spectral hammer.
They bring the hammer down, and the impact shakes the entire street. They crush all five cultists in one giant attack.
"Look in the mirror you bums" both heads speak at once.
The twins turn to the kids and the unconscious man, looking at Midoriya specifically.
"Don't tell your mom about this"
