Pokémon Trainer Hero
Chapter 66: Fated Meeting
Bakugou trudged down the street in an angry and frustrated fit! Hands deep in his pockets, back hunched over, teeth ground, lower jaw out, and general expression unpleasant as he kicked random things down the street! He muttered incoherently to himself about Izuku and everything he said to him with sprinklings of Gar in it, knowing he was particularly responsible in some way. He walked under a bridge as the evening sun began to set and this time muttered a bit louder and more coherent.
"Stupid fucking Deku! Who does he think he is?! Telling me what's what, that's my job to tell him that! I'll make him and that Purple Fucker pay for-.", He began to say to himself until a voice cut him off.
"My my, you sure got quite a mouth on you, now don't you.", called out a mysterious voice.
Bakugou almost jumped out of his skin from the shock and whirled around while demanding, "Who said that!?", when no reply came, the hairs on his neck stood up and he yelled, "Who the fuck said that!? Show yourself, coward!"
The voice chuckled and corrected him, "A coward is one who hides, and I'm in plain sight. You're just not looking."
Bakugou took the voice's advice and looked around the empty tunnel and finally had his eyes fall upon a pair of glowing eyes that looked like they were stitched on buttons and a mouth made from a zipper!
He jumped back at the sight and cursed, "What the fuck!"
The mouth smiled wider at his comment and replied, "Still with that sharp mouth? How unfitting for a-.", before the face could finish, Bakugou rocketed towards it and blasted the wall without hesitation! He breathed heavily from the adrenaline and fear in his body and pulled his hand away, only to see a destroyed part of the bridge. Bakugou clicked his tongue as the voice came from a different part of the bridge and exclaimed, "Hoh! Didn't even let me finish my monolog? Straight to the point I see, I like that!"
Bakugou whiled around getting into an aggressive stance and demanding, "Who or what the fuck are you!?"
The face stopped smiling for a moment, actually looking hurt by the comment, and saying back, "You don't know? Oh, come now. Surely you must? I was all over the news not long ago. Has Gio gone and stolen that away from me? I'm personally embarrassed."
As the face looked away in shame, Bakugou quickly went through his mind and tried to remember this thing. He almost lost any thought since he didn't know if it was just a face with nobody at all. Then his mind clicked back to a certain memory and recognized him from an internet article he read not too long ago!
He grits his teeth and pointed a convincing finger while yelling, "Your that freak guy from Purple Fucker's world!"
The face looked back at him, this time with a confused expression, and asked back, "Purple what? Oh! You mean Gar-Gar, right? Fu Fu Fu Fu. Not a very inventive nickname."
After vexing the now irritated Bakugou, the wall looked like it was starting to bleed! A black icky tar-like substance began to pool out and onto the floor. The face filled into the pool and began to rise into a human form. First an arm, then another one, then both used to pull the rest of the body up from the forming muck! Bakugou was disgusted and horrified by this site but didn't let it show, even if it was like watching the cutscene for a Silent Hill boss!
As the muck form, the face affixed into a permanent smile and flamboyantly announced, "And Yes! You are right! For it is I, Bayo, Leader of the illustrious Team Fre-!", yet again before he could finish, Bakugou raced towards him and blasted him with all his might! When the dust cleared he wasn't there anymore. Not even a speck of that black tar goop. Bakugou sensed a pattern and turned around just in time to see Bayo reform, this time much quicker, only a few feet from him. Vexingly saying to him, "Again without letting me finish my monolog? No theatrical, no prisoners, no mercy, no chit chat, just blowing up my face? I like that.", Bakugou could almost feels the greasy smile under that creep mask of his, and felt a chill run up his spine.
"Shut your slimy face hole, Freak! You're just the ticket I needed.", he proclaimed boldly while walking towards him, making sure to hide the fear he was feeling.
"Ticket?", Bayo repeated the keyword back.
Bakugou put on a vicious smile while still approaching and explained, "Once I take you down and drag you to the heroes, everyone will see I'm the greatest without fail! I'll show up Deku at who looks down on who, and I'll be able to one-up that Purple Fucker for once and rub it into his smug face!"
"Show you're the greatest? Look down on? One up? Well well, those aren't very heroic ideals.", he demoralized the teen while looking ashamed at him.
Bakugou growled at his response and yelled back while charging, "Like you know shit about heroes! Now hold still so I can blast you to bits!"
Bakugou was on Bayo in seconds and blasted the extra spot where he stood! But like the other times, Bayo dodged easily. His body looked like it was something crossed between rubber and liquid as he used the energy from the blast to simply bend and twist within it to escape unscathed! He re-formed right back and stared down Bakugou with his unchanging mask, making another disgusted chill run up him!
Bayo chuckled at him and stated, "If you ask me that sounds pretty selfish. You wanna take me down for bragging rights and brownie points? I don't know if you want to be a hero, I think you chose the wrong career."
Bakugou wanted to vomit at the sing-song tone at his last sentence, but swallowed his stomach down and rushed him again while yelling, "I said shut it! Now stop squirming! I'm taking you down!"
Bakugou charged him again and released a series of rapid-fire explosions in Bayo's direction! Each one was spread out in different directions so when Bayo tried to do that body bend trick he'd eventually get sucked into them! Unfortunately, Bayo adapted to this as well and used the explosion to simply push him back! The takeaway was getting wrecked by the heat produced, but he still got away without taking damage! Bakugou changed tactics and used his explosions to move around him and release explosions from random sides! Bakugou was sure that he had him this time, but Bayo surprised him again by pulling another fast one!
He sank into the floor within a split second and disappeared without a trace! Bakugou looked around but then heard the same strange and stomach-churning sound that Bayo made when he reformed his liquid body. He turned around again but said nothing, then his mind raced quickly and his senses told him to look up. He did and was shocked to see Bayo just casually standing on the roof of the bridge, like a bat!
Bayo laughed hysterically at him and once he got his laughter out he exclaimed in amusement, "You take me down?! That's hilarious! Do you think you have a chance of taking me on? I haven't even begun to fight and you're already on the ropes."
Bayo vexingly pointed to Bakugou who was as he said. His body was hunched over, his skin soaked with sweat, and his breathing heavy and ragged. Bakugou really did look ready to tap out, but his stubbornness kept him going, and still had plenty of fight left in him!
His hands sparked a bit and he shouted while using his explosion to blast up towards him, "I told you to cramp that shitty smile up your ass, and fight me!"
"As you wish.", Bayo replied with a smile under his mask.
Before Bakugou could blink, a single tendril made of darkness sprang from Bayo's feet and moved so quickly that it not only caught the teen off guard but also knocked him clean in the gut! Bakugou was stuck back by the opposing force so hard that he puked up whatever was in his stomach! The tendril then pushed him back into the ground before wrapping around his body and slamming him against the sides of the bridge before finally throwing him to the ground! Bakugou gasped for air, though it was in vain as several more tendrils emerged from Bayo's feet and began to pummel Bakugou in his stomach and chest!
The beating was quick and painfully sharp as Bakugou fought for the right to breath or even think long enough! Though the pummeling was over as quickly as it started, Bakugou was left on the ground trying to gulp down the air! Bakugou opened his eyes to glare at Bayo, but his vision hadn't even locked onto him before he felt one of the tendrils manifest under his head, grab it, lift it, and slam it against the hard concert!
Bakugou blacked out after that…at least for a minute. His world was a mix of red and white when his eyes did open back up. He couldn't hear anything apart from the ringing in his ears, his heartbeat, and what sounded like him forcefully breathing. His body is numb and weak and refused to respond when he tried to move it. The only part of him that could was his eyelids and neck, which he used to try and blink away the red and mindlessly view his surroundings. He then saw a dark figure approach him and bridely wondered who it was. His mind and senses slowly started to come back as the ringing in his ear died down, and he remembered his fight with the person standing over him with that horrible smiling mask. Bayo!
When the ringing stopped altogether, he could hear that annoying voice of his laughing at him as he lay on the ground like a dying fish. After another minute, Bayo spoke up and said to him vexingly, "Was that it? Where's all that big talk I heard before? Weren't you gonna 'take me down' and 'drag me into custody' so you could 'show up everyone who has said otherwise'? Where's all that before? I was genuinely interested, and now I'm disappointed to not see it."
Bakugou could feel the shit-eating grin and half-lidded eyes under that damn mask of his. So with everything he could muster, Bakugou opened his mouth and spat out in pain, "Fuck….you!"
Bayo shook his head dismissively and said in a shameful tone, "You need to learn some manners. Even after I crippled an entire region and accidentally killed Gar-Gar's friends in the wake of friendly fire, he never once used such dirty language. You should take a leaf from his book."
Bakugou hated how he was being talked to by a guy who was the same age as him. Speaking like a parent trying to compare his bad decisions to the better siblings. It was like listening to his mom compare him to Deku, and he hated it! He wanted to scream at him but only had enough to muster out a question.
"What….do you…even….want?", he spat out as drool came off his lips in his painful attempt to speak.
Bayo looked at him incredulously and replied, "What do I want? Well, that's simple. I simply wanted to gauge you!"
Bakugou looked at him confused and asked back, "...Me?"
Bayo rapidly nodded his head and answered, "Yes, you. I wanted to see what made you tick, how your mind works, your ambitions, and so on. And you know what I found? Go on, guess!", he asked while shaking his hands like an excited kid.
"What?!", Bakugou snapped at him, unamused by his antics.
"That you and I are more alike than even I expected!", Bayo vaguely and ominously explained.
"What!", Bakugou finally managed to yell out at his normal volume.
"I know, shocking, right? I never thought that you would sing to the plucking of my strings so attuned. That's why I like you.", he told Bakugou, as he could feel the creepy smile formed under his mask.
Bakugou could finally feel his senses and voice flood back and he shouted at him with a slight stammer, "Fuck…you! I'm-I'm nothing like you!"
Even after getting yelled at several times and being insulted enough to warrant any amount of irritation from him, Bayo remained perfectly calm and calm. He shook his head disapprovingly at him and replied, "Oh Katsuki, if only you knew the real me. Then you'd change your opinion so fast.", Bakugou felt a cold chill run up his shaking spine again, and knew he wasn't just trying to jostle him, but was serious! He felt his tongue grow heavy after that and said nothing in reply as Bayo continued. "But don't worry, I have no ill will to place on you. I just wanted to see what you were about, and I have. We'll be in touch, in the near future. You can count on that.", he told Bakugou while leaning down and bopping the tip of his nose. Bayo stood up and turned around to leave as Bakugou tried to lift his head to follow him. But he stopped midway of walking into the sinking ground, turned his head, and told him, "Oh! And I know I don't have to say it to you since your pride wouldn't allow it, but don't tell anyone about this little meeting of ours. It'll be our dirty little secret.", he said with another sinister smile under his mask as his body disappeared within the ground.
Leaving Bakugou to lie on the ground breathing lightly with a bruised and battered body and his mind racing with several thoughts and feelings. Two of the most prominent are fear and uncertainty! He couldn't tell anyone about this! Not one soul!