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Chapter 6 Hero's Welcome
A woman raced through the alley trying to escape from her chasers, she made a wrong turn down the wrong way running into a dead end. "Nowhere to run now, girl." Said the leader of three men. "Now you're going to come back like a good girl, maybe spread your legs a litt-" he did finish as he was suddenly uppercutted.
The woman felt a wave of relief. "ANT-MAN!"
"Oh shit, it's the ant," Yelled the one in the back. "He's real."
"He's dead," said the second one before turning his hands into metal claws. He tried to swipe at Ant-man who shrunk down, jumped, regrew, kicking the man in the face.
Izuku turned to see the third one trying to run away. "Oh no you don't." He then used his new wrist mounted disk launchers, shooting a disk past the running man, enlarging one of his ants.
"AAAAAHHHHH," screamed the criminal. "No, no, don't eat me!."
Izuku quickly cuffed the three men, tying them up. "That should do it, are you alright, miss?"
"Yes thank you, thank you so much." she said as she bowed.
"Hey it's all good."
"No," she said, getting close. "I was heading home after seeing my friend that you saved last week, she was staying at one of the safe motels Ghost set up. You two are like the only heroes this town has ever had."
Izuku smiled under his helmet. 'They're actually both me.' He thought before shrinking his Ant down. "Thanks, I mean it. Got to go. Take care." As he shrunk down and flew away on an ant.
~o~
Izuku returned to his room at his apartment, taking his gear off. 'It's still early, I should go over to the ramen shop and get something to eat.' As he began to head over to Mr. Ramens. 'I can't believe it's only been a week since I stopped those traffickers. Now several heroes from out of town are coming in and the whole district is being turned upside down. There have been more busts in the past few days, than some cities have had for over a year. The old police station has been shut down as it was clear that it was corrupted to its core and almost every hero agency in the area has been closed, with a lot of those so-called heroes either in jail or on the run.' Thought Izuku, feeling prideful that he was actually making a genuine difference.
Izuku entered the ramen shop and was shocked at what he saw. "Whoa this place is packed."
It was true the whole shop was packed with customers taking every table. "Oh hey, Izuku." He turned to see Hanah wearing work clothes and an apron.
"Hey Hanah," Izuku returned the greeting. After everything that happened a week ago, Izuku helped Hanah and Sarah find a job with his mom at the Ramen shop. "It's packed tonight."
"Yeah even Mr Ramen is surprised with the amount of people, him and your mom are in the back cooking."
"Izuku," he turned to Sarah, holding a tray full of dirty dishes. "The wombats are in the corner, you want your usual right?"
"Yes, please." as he let the girls get back to the grind as he walked over to his friends. As he got closer, he saw that the three looked exhausted. "Hey you guys alright?"
They all turned to him. "Dude, do you have any idea how crazy it's been around here?" said Genta with a slight tone.
"Yeah," repsoned Izuku, sitting down. "I've kind of been out dealing with all of it, what in the world have you guys been doing?"
"Doing what you asked us to do."
Izuku raised an eyebrow. "All I asked was that you guys use the blackmail I had to let the girls I freed stay at the motels for free for a few nights. Did something else happen?"
Benta and Genta gave each other a look. "Then why do we have to help clean and maintain the motels?"
"What?" Izuku was confused before slowly turning to Kenta who had been eating quietly. "Kenta. Did you offer to get the guys to work at the motels so you can hit on the girls."
Kenta looked at his friends, "No," he said unconvincingly. "I wouldn't hit on a bunch of girls that just got freed from slavery." They were all still looking at him. "The cute receptionist on the other hand…." Genta and Benta glared at Kenta. "I'll make you guys waffles."
"I think you're also getting us dessert," said Benta.
"That's fair."
"And you're letting me borrow your ride for my date." said Genta
"Just a night."
"A week."
"Three days."
"Deal." as they shook.
Izuku couldn't help but laugh at his friend's antics. "So that aside, any problems at all with the motel managers?"
"Nah, they all caved pretty quickly," said Genta, "After what Ant-man did, they kept their mouths shut. Not to mention this is good PR for them."
"Speaking of Ant-man," said Kenta, getting Izuku's attention. "Any word about my favor?"
Izuku gave him a confused look for a moment. "Oh right, you want to be shrunk down so you can turn your TV into a big screen."
"Yes please."
Genta gave a look of disbelief. "That's what you want to do. Turn your tv into a big screen by shrinking."
"Yeah what would you do?"
"Hotwheels." said Genta receiving looks of disbelief from the others. "I want to set up one of my old hot wheels sets and actually try driving in one. Do you have any idea how awesome it would be to go through those loop de loops." All the others thought about it for a moment and agreed it would be awesome. "How about you, Benta?"
Benta looked at the others for a moment. "I just want to shrink down, so I can give my hamster a hug."
The others were silent for a moment as they imagined hugging a giant fluffy hamster, Genta then coughed. "Benta wins."
Kenta whipped some tears from his eyes. "That's a beautiful man, can I give him a hug as well?"
"Of course. Does this make the list Izuku?" Asked Benta.
Izuku was already writing it down. "Oh yeah, that one is definitely going to the top of the list."
"What in the world are you guys talking about?" All of them turned to see Sarah holding a bowl. "You all look like you were just crying." As she placed the bowl in front of Izuku, who thanked her.
"Benta came up with a great idea, he wants to shri-" Kenta didn't finish as three legs kicked him. "AH hey! What was that for?"
Genta gave Kenta a look. "Boy, don't you know anything about keeping things quiet?"
"But she knows." as he pointed at Sarah.
Hanah then came up to the table. "Yeah we know but you talk loud."
Kenta looked around the restaurant for a moment, before whispering. "Sorry."
"But what are you guys talking about?"
"Ideas for Izuku's new project," said Benta.
"Oooh, I got one," as Hanah came close. "Sarah, remember that old toy set we had as kids, the one with the water slides?"
"The miniature water park set, with functioning water slides." It was one of the few expensive toys they ever had. "But wasn't that for those water proof dolls?"
"I'm sure we can work out the kinks," she said before turning back to the group. "Can you imagine a whole water park in your own apartment?"
Izuku put down his chopsticks for a moment. "You know I've thought about that, but with all the equipment in my room, it's making things a little tight. I need to find a place with more room."
Kenta then began shaking like a child about to go to the toy store," Izuku, Izuku, I think I have an idea."
"Okay, what do you ha-"
"Girls," Hanah and Sarah went stiff for a moment. "You're both still on the clock," said Inko. "And there are still tables that need service."
"Yes Ma'am." they both said simultaneously before getting back to work.
Inko then smiled seeing the girls working hard. "You're done with your bowl, Izuku?"
"Yes mom," as he handed the bowl over. "Thank you for the food." As he was about to open his wallet.
"Don't worry about it," as Inko gestures for him to put his wallet away. "Mr. Ramen said this one is free. He says thanks for finding him more help, especially now that things are getting busy around town."
"Sweet," said Izuku, but stopped as he realized something when he spoke, the rest of the restaurant went quiet. "Huh?"
Everyone in the shop was looking at the door, where three people in costumes were standing. Izuku recognized them, they were heroes from the better parts of the city. Kamui Woods, Death Arms, and Mt Lady. "Uh Hi, citizens," said Kamui Woods, he was clearly off put by the silence of the people in the restaurant. "We're just here looking for a late dinner." The stares just made it worse for him. "Uh maybe we should find another place."
"Oh relax," As Mt Lady struck a pose and winked, "I'm sure these people are just blown away having heroes around."
Everyone was still silent. Genta then whispered. "That broad is hot, but stupid." receiving nods from those nearby.
Inko handed the bowl over to Hanah before walking up to the heroes giving them a neutral look and tone. "What can I get for you?"
"...uh food." Mt Lady as she looked around and saw the menu above the counter. "I'll take the 1,200 yen noodles, uh is that amount before or after the hero discount?"
"Before."
"How much is it with the discount?"
"10,000 yen."
"WHAT!," yelled Mt Lady as Kamui's eye popped out of his helmet. "That's not a discount. What type of business are you trying to run here? Is this anyway to treat a hero?"
"Well it's clear you guys aren't from around here?" as Izuku got up and walked towards the heroes. 'I have to stop these morons before they make it worse,' he thought. "I hate to tell you this but this is the treatment you're going to find around here, a lot of heroes around here, try to get 100 percent off, but not here at Mr. Ramens. He hasn't bowed to a single hero ever and I doubt he will now."
"Bow?"
Death Arms, looked around. 'No one is fazed by this, it makes sense with all the shit I've seen around here.' he thought before he grabbed the back of Kamui's and Mt. Lady's heads and forced them down in a bow. "I apologize for the commotion, we will pay for three meals of that price and if you could be so kind we will take it to go."
"Alright three noodle bowls coming up, Hanah ring them up for 30,000 yen." said Inko as she went back to give the order to Mr. Ramen.
~o~
"Just stop will yeah," as Death Arms ate his meal in the front seat of his car.
"No I won't," Yelled Mt Lady as she too was eating. "We paid way too much for this, why the hell did you accept such a crappy deal?" After the long ass day we had to deal with this is the last thing I wanted and to top it off we couldn't even eat inside, we have to eat in a parking lot."
Kamui Woods sat back inside the car, "We had to."
"What do you mean we had to?"
"Have seen how people look at us. I may not have been a hero for a long time but I have never seen regular people look at me with fear and disgust before." said Kamui Woods. "It isn't right."
"No it isn't," Gruffed Death Arms. "This entire area has had nothing but fake heroes, heroes that were really criminals in disguise. This is your guys first day here but the other day when I first came by and stopped a small gang, a little boy was watching us. The kid looked at me as if I was a damn alien. I went over to make sure he was okay, and he asked me if I was going to rent his mom for the night."
The other two were silent for a moment, "You're kidding?"
"This place is broken and I just hope we're not too late to fix it." said Death Arms. "So until we make some headway, we all should do our best to keep things civil between us and the citizens here."
The three agreed before Kamui's phone went off. "It seems all of the heroes called to help out around the district are gathering together at the temporary police station."
Death Arms started the car. "Let's go, we got a lot of work to do."
~o~
"Oh right before I leave," Izuku turned to Kenta. "So what was that thing you were going to say before the heroes showed up?"
Kenta looked up. "Oh yeah, I kno-"
RUMBLEEEEEE!
Izuku looked out the window and saw smoke in the distance. "Uh hold that thought, one more time." As Izuku ran out of the ramen shop.
Kenta watched Izuku run out before turning to Benta and Genta. "We seriously just going to sit here?"
Genta stood up. "Hell no." As they ran out.
"Wait for me." Yelled Benta as he shoved the last of his dessert into his mouth before running out after them.
"Hey wait," yelled Hanah holding up the receipt. "You haven't paid for the dessert yet."
Sarah looked out to see they were already gone. "So do we run after them or…."
"Oh don't worry about them," As Inko took the plates from an empty table. "We'll just put it on their tabs."
Sarah raised an eyebrow. "The wombats have tabs?"
"They are regulars and so far they haven't missed a payment yet. Anyway it's closing time, I can handle the dishes if you two can clean the front."
"Okay." they both said simultaneously as they started to clean up the store. For a while they both cleaned in silence, before Hanah broke the silence. "So, you've stopped gambling huh?"
"Yep," replied Sarah as she started whipping down a table. "No more gambling, I'm sticking to the money plan Izuku came up with."
"I still can't believe he was able to fix our debts on top of everything else that's been happening around here."
"He truly is a man of miracles."
"I wouldn't say miracles," as Hanah started swiping the floor. "We've all known for years he was going places. He's still planning on going to college here shortly, skipping all of highschool. Do you think he can do it?"
"Of course, he can. He's done the impossible, he made a plan and he's following through with it, so going through college shouldn't be much of an issue for him."
"What are you planning on doing?" asked Hanah. Sarah didn't respond but stopped cleaning the tables. "After everything that's happened it's made me think about the future a lot, it's made me wonder what are you going to do and what I should do."
"I don't want to be weak." Hanah stopped swiping and looked at her sister. "When I was tagged I imagined what my life would be like, and then when I saw all the other girls who had been there for years, I saw myself in their shoes, I saw myself being raped daily, being forced to do acts against my will, powerless to do anything. Then Izuku saved me. I don't want to be powerless like that again, I want to be strong enough so I can stand up for myself, so I can stand beside him, but I don't know if I can." Sarah then felt her sister's arms around her. "Hanah?"
"Don't worry, I don't want to be powerless either. I hated having to wait to see if you were coming back, I want to be strong enough so I can save you myself. I too want to stand by him as well."
Sarah hugged her sister back. "We'll get so strong Izuku will have a bitch of a time getting rid of us."
"As if he would get rid of girls as hot as us." Hanah laughed before getting a bit serious. "We have a goal, now we need a plan."
"I think we should first finish our work so we don't get fired."
"Right." as they went back to cleaning.
~o~
Izuku was on top of a building looking down at the scene in his Ant-man suit. "Holy shit the street is on fire." The street below him was on fire and a few cars that were nearby were destroyed. "What the hell happened here?" Soon a large man with an elephant head walked out of a nearby building holding several bags. "Oh this piece of shit, Flame Elephant."
The commotion attracted several onlookers, "Ah great it's now a show." including several police cars. "Those cars are too clean, they're definitely from out of town."
The police stepped out of their vehicles with one officer stepping forward. "Flame Elephant, your hero license has been revoked and you have a warrant out for your arrest please come quietly."
"Oh wow, a real police officer actually trying to arrest someone like normal." said Izuku genuinely surprised. "I haven't seen that around here before."
Flame Elephant held up one bag. "This is the money made from the gang of drug dealers, I'll give you half, if you walk away."
"Bribing an officer is against the law, drop the bags and surrender now. If you don't we have been authorized to use lethal force." said the officer.
"Either he's by the book or a dumbass." said Izuku as he shrunk down. "Time to go to work."
Flame Elephant was turning pure red from anger, he dropped the bags before shooting a torrent of flame from his trunk. "You pigs will buuuuuurrrrrrn!" The officers all ran for cover. "You all will pay for your treachery." he said before picking up a car and tossing it at the group of officers.
One of the officers froze as he saw it coming, at the last moment he ducked in fear. Missing the part when it shrunk to the size of a pebble landing in front of him. "Uh you okay buddy?"
The officer opened his eyes, "You're that vigilante."
"Yeah I'm-"
"ANT-MAAAAAAAAAN!" Roared Flame Elephant, "YOU! It's because of you I'm having to run away like a damn coward. I lived like a king before you showed up. I had fame, fortune, and everything."
"Uhh, you're an asshole, con-man, murderer, and so much other evil shit. I could go on forever but you get the picture."
"I'm going to kill you and rip you limb from limb." Flame Elephant then roared before charging at Izuku.
Izuku pushed the officer out of the way before shrinking. The mad elephant ran right past them crashing into a building. In the crowd Kenta and the others arrived. "Holly shit! Is Ant-man okay?"
"I'm doing just fine, Kenta."
Kenta jumped slightly before he followed the voice to his shoulder, "Dude please don't do that."
"Sorry," said Izuku from Kenta's shoulder. A crash got both of their attention as Flame Elephant smashed something inside the building. "Hey, would you guys mind getting the civilians out of here, while I take care of dumbo."
"You got it bro," as Kenta gave Izuku. "Hey everyone get back. Ant-man's got work to do."
Genta ran towards the building. "Hey, you bitches, get you dumbasses out of there before you all get crushed to death."
"Dude," said Benta, giving him a 'Really' look.
"What else should I say to get them the fuck out?"
Benta walked forward and cleared his throat. "Please give the hero some room to do his work." As he tried a nicer approach.
Izuku flew inside of the building to see Flame Elephant lashing out wildly, "Come out you shitting coward and fight me like a real man."
"Hey asshole, Right here." As Izuku turned big right in front of him, he then jumped up trying to crush Izuku, who shrunk down and dodge the slam. "You miss." The elephant trunk then swung trying to hit him. "Miss again." another swat from his trunk. "Man are you even trying?" He then tried a fireball. "You really suck at this, here let me make it easy for you."
Izuku then jumped and landed right in between Flame Elephant's eyes. "DIE BUG!" As he tried to punch the tiny Ant-man, who at the last moment dodged, causing the elephant man to punch himself in the face.
The man had to backpedal a bit before falling on his ass, causing Izuku to laugh hysterically. "Holy shit, I can't believe that actually worked."
Flame Elephant stood up. "Are you making fun of me?"
Izuku gasped. "Oh my god, he figured it out, he really can think, it's a miracle."
"I'LL KILL YOU!" as he charged at Izuku once more, missing again before crashing outside where they first started. The flame villain looked around. "Where'd you go?" he waited for a response before feeling a massive pain from inside his ear. "Ahhh, what is this?"
"You know what is a big issue with having such huge ears?"
"What? Where are you?"
"I'm in your ear, genius," explained the shrunken Ant-man. "Now back to my question,"
"Get out of my ear!" as he tried to hit his ear to get Izuku out.
"Why when it gives me a huge opening to beat you."
"I'll just burn you out." as he began to raise his temperature.
"Oh wow, that is the best move you could make at this moment." admitted Izuku. "It would definitely work on me, but it won't do anything to my fire ants."
"Fire ants?" The man's eyes widened as he felt several ants start crawling into his ear. "AAAAAHHHHHHH-blegh" The elephant man then threw up over and over again before his vision became fuzzy and ground rapidly began to close in. "...ants" was the last thing the Elephant said for the rest of the night.
Izuku regrew to full size, "Looks like this ant beat the elephant."
"Whoa, that was awesome," said Kenta, amazed. "How'd you do that?"
"I just ordered my ants to attack the inner ear," he explained. "It caused him to lose his equilibrium and when it became too much it forced his body to shut down."
"WOOHOO," yelled Benta while clapping. "Let's hear it for Ant-man."
Genta began cheering as well. "Yeah, the real hero of the trash pit."
It didn't take long for the crowd of onlookers to start cheering as well. Izuku couldn't help but feel happy, if they could see behind his helmet, they would see the tears in his eyes. "Thank you sonny," Izuku turned to see a very old man with a cane behind him. "It's good to finally see a real hero around these parts." The man then turned to the unconscious villain and began to whack him with his cane. "Unlike you, you are a waste of space, this is for my car you asshole." the old man stopped after he spit on the elephant.
"HOLD IT," everyone went silent as they turned to the group of police officers. "We have to take Flame Elephant in." as several officers went to secure Flame Elephant with specialized cuffs. "Ant-Man, we also have to place you under arrest, for vigilantism."
The old man with the cane walked in front of the officer. "Young man, I suggest you take that pathetic pile of garbage and go. If you want Ant-man, you're going to need to go through all of us." The officer looked around and noticed that everyone was giving him a stink eye and some looked ready for a fight. "We have suffered too long under heroes like this one, we are not going to let you take the one that finally gave a shit about us."
The officer looked around nervously, not sure what to do. "Just let him go."
Everyone looked up to see someone descending from the sky. "Hawks!"
"Sup, tic tac." as the winged hero landed. "Let him go, officers, I'll take the heat for it."
"Are you sure?"
"Yeah, he'll pay me back somehow, won't cha tic tac?"
Izuku eyed Hawks from behind his helmet. "Yeah, sure," he said, a bit skeptical. "Thanks."
Hawks smiled back, "Don't worry about it. You'll pay me back later."
'There it is, he wants something.' thought Izuku. "Thanks and thank you everyone, I'll see you around," as Izuku shrunk down and used an ant to fly away. 'I should probably keep an eye on him.'
'He doesn't trust me at all,' Thought Hawks. 'Makes sense, especially if he grew up around here. This place doesn't seem like a good place to build trust or at least trust with outsiders.' As he saw the police load the criminal into a prison transport. "You guys got this, right? I kind of got a meeting to go to."
"Don't worry Hawks, this prison transport was designed with strength and fire in mind, he won't be getting out." explained the officer.
"Sweet, keep up the good work." as he flew off.
~o~
Mt Lady looked at the building in front of her. "Uh I thought you said this was the temporary police station."
"It is." said Death Arms as he walked up the steps.
"But this is a police station." Pointed out Mt Lady, as they walked to the door.
Kamui Woods examined the walls, "While this does say police station, it's riddled with bullet holes, was there a fight here?"
"Oh yeah," The three heroes turned around to see Hawks landing behind them. "A week ago, when the police came to question the station here about the videos and claims, the crooked cops opened fire on the good cops, turning it into a shoot out. Luckily All Might showed up and ended it before anyone died, but they put up quite the fight. I'm just surprised we're still using this place."
Death Arms opened the door for the others. "According to the chief, he wants to turn this back into a proper precinct."
The four heroes walked into the police station to see several police officers running around working on something or another. One officer while running around pointed them to a meeting room, as they walked through the halls they could clearly see that the building wasn't properly maintained and remnants of the former occupants could still be seen.
"Is that what I think it is?" asked Mt Lady as they walked past a room with several poles in the center and chairs around the room.
"Unfortunately it is," said a man approaching the heroes, "I'm detective Tsukauchi. Thank you all for coming, follow me." as they entered the meeting room. Inside were several heroes from all over the country and police officers including the chief of police himself. "This should be everyone sir."
Kenji Tsuragame, the chief of police, nodded. "Thank you, but let's skip the formalities. We've been in this area for a week and it's been a disaster. From what we've discovered and seen is that there hasn't been any form of law here in years, causing this to be the worst place in all of Japan. The police were all fake, sold out to every gang in this city, breaking as many laws as they did, the same goes for the heroes. They acted more like gangsters than anything else, until further notice all heroes that had agency in this area have had their hero licenses revoked and warrants out for their arrests."
The Shield Hero Crust raised his hand. "How many of these criminals are still at large?" Many heroes were not surprised by the question but by the pure rage that was evident in each word.
The chief pressed a button and the screen behind him changed to every hero that was stationed in the area. "Too many. While we were able to arrest the ones posing as police, we weren't fast enough to arrest them. Everyone you see here is still at large and still needs to be brought to justice."
The dragon hero Ryukyu raised her hand. "How in the world did it get this bad? How come none of us heard this until now? How were these people ever given a license?" It was clear Crust wasn't the only hero frustrated.
The chief sighed. "They had help. From what we've gathered from interrogating the ones we've captured, they had other officers in the neighboring districts covering for them. The heroes on the other hand, either turned bad on their own and then recruited more crooked heroes through their agencies or got licenses through forgers who did such a good job that when they went to go get their license renewed, it was pushed through, turning them from fakes to legit heroes in the computer system which was authorized by more crooked heroes and other. They all clearly had help from the criminal underworld, not only to help make sure no one knew about this but also gave them support. We've already confirmed that several criminal organizations operate out of this area, but we've had very little progress in that area."
"Why is that?" asked Best Jeanist. "With so many heroes here, shouldn't we have something on the ones responsible covering this up?"
"No ones talking," said Death Arms, getting everyone's attention. "The people around here don't trust heroes at all. The only interactions with heroes they've had are the ones that have been around here, so I doubt they will be forthcoming with information to us."
Edgeshot nodded. "He's right, I've never felt so many cold shoulders before in my entire career. They don't trust any of us."
"That's not entirely true." Said Hawks. "They do trust one hero...Ant-Man."
The room went silent, they all heard of the man, they all got a message from the guy. "You do realize Ant-Man is a vigilante, right?" pointed out Rock Lock. "He's no better than the other people on that list."
"There is a whole town out there that would disagree."
"I agree with Hawks." Everyone turned to see who spoke and for a moment they all needed a reminder they were still awake and this wasn't a dream. Night eye turned to the other heroes. "At this moment that man and to a lesser extent a man called Ghost are the only heroes those people think they have. The only ones they trust. Right now we should focus on stopping the criminals and winning the trust of the people, we can deal with any vigilantes later."
"He's right," said the Chief. "For right now, I want you all to leave the Ant-Man be, I'll pass word to the other officers as well. In the meantime we must take care of the garbage in this side of town and find out how they've managed to cover everything up for so long. We must capture this criminal at all costs."
~o~
Timebomb was frozen in fear as he watched his boss being lifted into the air by several tendrils made of red tags, wrapped around his throat. Timebomb followed the tendrils to the one controlling them, 'I always knew we were working with someone big, the red tags had to come from somewhere but I never thought it was the head of the biggest underworld supplier.' The woman in front of him was wearing a red business suit with a red pencil skirt and red heels. She looked like an everyday business woman, with the exception that her hair looked like it was made of several red tags that she was currently controlling to squeeze the life out of Shiriori.
"Ple..se...La….dy…..Aka," squeaked the man.
The woman spoke with an icy voice. "Why should I?" The woman sat down in her very expensive comfy chair and crossed her legs. "You've manage to fuck up so badly, the entire area is about to be turned over, the heroes are here now."
"Na….na...not," The woman used one of her tendrils to wrap around the man's chest before losing the ones around his neck. Shiriori took several breaths before collecting himself. "It wasn't my fault, Ant-Man was the one that brought the heroes here."
The woman's glare somehow got even colder. "I know that already, do you have a screw loose?"
The man made an audible gulp. "No Ma'am, I just…"
"Think I don't know the situation. I have made a living by trading what my clients need, this ranges from weapons to animals. I left you in charge of my cattle and you lost them. I gave you one week to get them back and you have nothing." The man opened his mouth to speak. "How do you plan on getting my cattle back now that heroes are running around our end of town."
Shiriori was panicking. "I...i…..uhh"
"That was your job, the one I gave you, the one you failed." as several tendrils began closing in on his head. "You must have a screw loose, here let me fix that." The tendrils wrapped around his head and twisted it a full 360 degrees. "Better?" Shiriori coughed up blood before getting dropped, dead before he hit the floor. "Now are you going to fail me?"
Timebomb knew she was talking to him. He quickly got down in a kneeling position. "No Lady Aka, I will not fail you. I will return you, your cattle."
Lady Aka smiled. "I like the enthusiasm, but I don't want you to return them, I'm leaving that to someone else." As she retracted her hair, turning it back into regular red hair.
'So that's why no one could find out where the tags came from, it really is just her hair. That's one hell of a terrifying quirk.' Thought Timebomb. "Then what are your orders for me?"
"Ant-Man of course," replied Lady Aka as she held up what appeared to be a large red scarf. "His quirk is fascinating. If he didn't ruin everything I would have asked you to bring him here alive." Even though Timebomb's face remained unchanged she could tell he was confused. "This is one of my tags, it was originally wrapped around one of the sluts. He grew them off. My tags should be impossible to remove and yet he did, and the way he did so turned my quirk off."
"Turned your quirk off?"
"Yes, I should be able to track any of my tags, no matter where they are in the world but I can't feel this one anymore, nor can I move it." A small part of her hair reverted back into a few tendrils of tags and grabbed the big one. "I can't even remerge it with the others. Part of me wishes to know exactly what that man did, so I can make sure it doesn't happen again, but he's too much of a problem, a problem I want you to take care of."
"You want me to kill him."
"Not by yourself." as she used her tendrils to pass over a tablet. "Every single organization that was working out of the trash pit wants a piece of him. They've all pinched in for a bounty and then some. I want you to use that some and hire some of those wannabe hero rejects to do some pest control."
"To kill Ant-Man."
"And anyone else that might get in the way."
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