Well, Hello there again.
This time we have the sixth chapter of the story.
Nothing more to say let's dive right in.
Disclaimer: I don't own any character everything belongs to Kohei Horikoshi.
"Hello" – People Talking
"Cool" – People Thinking
"I am here" - All Might Speaking.
"He is the one" – All Might Thinking.
Chapter 6:
Trigger Assault arc Part 1
Calling for the mission.
Another year has passed and now we are at night and a woman was coming out from work, she was leaving late thanks to some extra work she had to do. She had a fox quirk that gives her a fox appearance. She was calmly walking on the streets but suddenly a pair of hands grab her and pulled her inside an alley.
The girl was grabbed against a wall, she saw at her aggressors and saw three thugs, one was in front of her and the other two were at first one's back.
- "Okay girl. As you can see you don't have other options but to do anything we say. Now give us everything you have."-
- "Wait boss. Look at her. Her face might be weird but look at that body. What about we have some fun with her before taking her stuff."-
- "Yeah. You're right, let's have some fun first."-
The thugs were about to do something to the girl but before that a voice was heard.
- "It's not very nice to treat a lady like that". -
- "What? Where are you? Show yourself you cow…ARGH!"-
In less than a second one of the thugs disappeared in the shadows.
- "What's going on? Argh!"- Another one disappeared.
And in a blink of an eye the third one disappeared as well. The girl was alone in the alley for a few seconds until a figure appeared from the shadows.
- "Who are you?" –
- "I'm Headhunter and don't worry you're. You can leave."-
- "Thank you."- After this the girl leave to her home.
Watching the girl leave Yamikumo was proud of what he did.
- "Good. I managed to improve this ability." –
Truth to be told Yamikumo learned how to hide his presence from the enemy. The thing is that it wasn't perfect. He only can do it fi there's shadows or any kind of darkness in the surroundings and if he is wearing dark clothes. He still remembers the time when he learned to do this and who he met because of that.
Flashback
Three months ago.
Yamikumo was patrolling the streets in the night when he heard a scream in a nearby alley. He quickly went to check. By the time he arrived the only thing he saw was a blonde girl kneeling before two dead bodies.
- "Hey. Are you okay? What happened here?"-
- "They were trying to do bad things to me, so I killed them" – Said the girl in a casual tone. She proceeds to stand up and turn at Yamikumo. Her face was covered in blood, and she had a sadistic grin on her face. - "Oh, I love your scars, but you'll look even better with more." With that said she disappeared in seconds and quickly appeared behind Yamikumo with a knife on his neck.
- "Shit. How did you…?"-
- "Do you like it. I can hide my presence from my prays and kill them without them even realize it. What about this? I can show you how to do it or at least the basics of this and you will shut up about today."-
- "I guess I don't have any other choice then. Very well you win this time."-
- "Good. I was worried you'll do something, so I had to kill you. It would been a shame to kill someone as handsome as you with those sexy scars. I'm Himiko Toga by the way."-
- "Yamikumo and that's all you will know about me."
- "Nice. Let's begin."-
After some hours Yamikumo learned the basics on how to hide his presence. After the lesson Toga left without leaving any track.
Flashback end.
Yamikumo got chills after remembering that.
- "Well. At least I got a good thing after all."-
Yamikumo head towards home to rest. He had a training session with Kinoko tomorrow morning and he needed to be at his best or at least be well rested.
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The next day.
We are now at the training gym of the Combat Zone where Yamikumo was training Kinoko, of course he didn't train her as hard as Stendhal trained him, but he still helped her improving some of her skills. Kinoko has good combat abilities, he helped her and now she has good close combat skills. He also helped her a little bit with her quirk she developed some interesting techniques but aside of that he couldn't do anything else. Right now, they were having a friendly spar or better said Kinoko trying to land a hit on Yamikumo, a few minutes passed and Kinoko fell into her knees.
- "You know what? I give up. It's impossible to hit you."-
- "Hey, don't say that. You are clearly getting better every day."-
- "Then why I can't hit you"-
- "You landed some hits on me. You just don't realize it. And even if you didn't, I have three years of experience thanks to my Vigilante work it's obvious that you will have it hard to hit me."-
- "I guess you're right. I won't give up then. By the way, how is your work going?"-
- "It's fine, I guess. Lately there's less crimes so I don't do much."
- "And your Vigilante friends?" -
- "I don't know. I haven't listened from them for a while now."-
- "Do you think they are okay?" –
- "They are tough people. I'm sure they are okay. But enough talking, let's continue your training"-
- "Yes sir. I'm glad your guardians let us use the gym from the Combat Zone. It's the best place for training. At least until I get into UA."-
- "In that we agree."-
After a few more hours of training both teenagers decided to spend the day together doing normal stuff. By the afternoon Yamikumo walked Kinoko to her house and after some teasing from Kinoko's mother he went back to his home, he decided not to patrol tonight, but before he could reach his home, he received a message.
Hello. It's been a while since last talk.
I can't say much. Not in here but we need your help.
Meet us tonight at the same place we met for the first time.
There will be more people in there.
Please be there.
P.S.
- "P.S? Pop Step? I better get ready it will get dark soon."-
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The night has arrived, the city was calm and silent and Yamikumo was heading to the meeting point with a lot of questions in his head.
- "It's been a year since last time I heard about them. The last time they were investigating something. Does this have to do with that? Either way I'm eager to see them again."-
By the time he arrived he could se them, Pop Step and The Crawler, he smiles because of that, he then realized there were three more persons in there. He quickly joined them.
- "Hey. I received your message. It looked important. What's going on?"-
- "Headhunter! I'm glad you could make it."- Said Pop Step with a big smile on her face. – "Let me introduce you to everyone so we can begin. This big guy is Knuckleduster, he was our partner back there in Narahuta."-
The guy in question was a towering, heavily muscled man. He has short dark hair and visibly thick eyebrows and possesses heavy stubble and a prominent scar running diagonally down his left cheek.
His costume consists of a simple wrap-around black mask tied over the top of his head, a tight-fitting dark shirt, jeans, boots, and a long hunter green trench coat. On his hands, he wears a pair of dark gloves topped with a pair of brass knuckles, or knuckledusters, from which he derives his name.
- "So, he is the guy you been talking about? He looks a little young but I'm not complaining if you trust him, I'll trust him too. Nice to meet you Headhunter."
Knuckleduster proceeded to shake hands with Yamikumo.
- "Nice to meet you too sir. They talked about you a lot when we hanged out."-
- "Okay let's continue. Here, this guy in blue outfit is Sub-Zero, we met him and his friend when investigating, they are nice guys and really trustworthy."-
The guy was dressed in a familiar, blue-garbed ninja-like uniform which Yamikumo recognized.
- "Wait. Sub-Zero? Like the character in that old game? Mortal Kombat was it?"-
- "Ah, so you know the game. Yes, I inspired my costume and name on that character since my quirk is identical to his."-
- "Cool. Nice to meet you"-
They proceed to shake hands and Pop Step then introduced the last person.
- "This guy is Scorpion, he is Sub-Zero's partner in battle, they are both vigilantes"–
The guy wears a similar outfit as Sub-Zero the only difference is that his suit is more aggressive and is yellow colored.
- "Let me guess. Mortal Kombat and your quirk is identical to the Scorpion character of the games."
- "Yes."-
- "Nice to meet you then."
After the introductions were done The Crawler started speaking.
- "Now that everyone knows each other let's begin with why we brought you here. I don't know if you are familiarized with the Trigger drug. If you are not, let me explain. The Trigger is a type of drug that gives a boost to an individual's Quirk, simultaneously weakening their sense of reason. Originally, Trigger was created to massively enhance the power and potency of weak Quirks. However, it was soon used for criminal activities, so it was banned in many countries, including Japan. Of course, that didn't stop the criminals from putting their hands on that drug, at the beginning we thought it was some kind of illegal exportation but then we discovered that it was, in fact, being manufactured here in Japan" –
- "So, we are going to stop these criminals? That's why you need all of us?" – Asked Scorpion.
- "Our plan was that Pop Step; Knuckleduster and I were going to stop them but then we discovered who were the manufacturers… It was the QHC or Quirk Helping and Counseling." –
- "Wait. Aren't those the people who help other with their quirk problems?" – Asked Sub-Zero.
- "Yes. In the outside they pretend to be good people, but they use the money that the government gives to them to produce and illegally sell the Trigger. The last year Pop Step and I were investigating them, and we found all of this."-
- "Then why don't you send this to the government? They sure will do something about this." – Asked Sub-Zero.
- "Actually, we already did that. The proof was solid enough and they believed us. The problem is that they couldn't send a team of heroes to solve the case. You see, if the heroes fail the mission, it will create a social problem and a lot of noise, so they asked us to form a team and help them with that."-
- "Yeah sure. Let's help them with this and as a reward we all get arrested for Vigilantism." – Said Scorpion sarcastically.
- "Don't worry. In exchange of this favor, we will have permission to use our quirks to do this job and we won't be arrested." –
- "So, the Government doesn't want to get their hands dirty and make us do this for them. If we fail, they will just put all the blame on us and if we succeed, I'm a hundred percent sure they won't mention us and will say that some heroes did this so that way no one becomes a vigilante. Smart."- Said Yamikumo.
- "Yeah. I know that it doesn't sound nice, but this is our only chance to be heroes at least for one night. I know that Pop Step; Knuckleduster and I are in. The question is, are you in?"-
- "Yes. I'm in." – Answered Yamikumo.
- "Hell yeah! Let's do this." – Answered Scorpion.
- "So, what do we do first?" – Answered Sub-Zero.
- "Thank you but we are not ready just yet. We have a plan, but we need more people 12 in total, two of which we need specifical people, but don't worry Pop Step and I will recruit them, but we still need four more. I need you to recruit people, explain this to them and ask them for help." –
- "Scorpion and I can bring three people, they are some friends of us, you can trust them." Said Sub-Zero.
- "What about you Headhunter?"-
Yamikumo was quiet for a second but then he answered – "I know a guy, but the question is if he will help us. He isn't exactly a good guy anymore, but his ideals might be strong enough for him to help us."-
- "Make anything you can to recruit him, I will need the names of everyone you bring so that way the government knows who will help. I need them before a week passes. We have a week to prepare, we will reunite here to talk about the plan and start the Trigger Assault. Until then you are all dismissed. Good luck." –
With those final words everyone leaves and starts the preparations for this assault.
To be continued.
Author Notes:
So yeah. Here we are.
Finally I managed to finish this chapter. Sorry for the wait I had a rough week. A lot of university works. But enough of my private life.
I have some stuff to say.
- We start a new arc, the last original before we start with the Manga/Anime.
- Toga makes her official appearance. Sorry for the crappy introduction but I didn't know how and when to introduce her.
- I guess I don't need to say on who inspired the characters of Scorpion and Sub-Zero and yes, the other three that they mentioned will be also inspired in Mortal Kombat.
- Lastly, I probably won't be able to upload this week because of my school. But I will try.
Nothing more to say I hope you like it.
As always please leave any comment, review, suggestion, or question about the story, of course always with respect.
So yeah. That's all for now.
Bye Bye.