Chapter 6: The Round Table & A New Companion

Izuku walked out of the police station with Yana Yaoyorozu who brought him his spare weaponry. He always had a set of backups at the house just in case one broke down or was damaged. However if the backups that he has now fail, he is kind of out of luck until he could get replacements. Luckily for him, it shouldn't be too hard for him to get Replacements when the time comes. He also got the phone number of the girl he saved which he plans on hiring to be his driver. The girl's skills that she showed were too good not to pass up. Although she was going to have to be trained which he offered her to do. She accepted especially after she saw how much the job was going to pay her. But that said Izuku had no intention of bringing her into combat, if anything she was there to get them to locations, and out of situations if needed, and that was it. The walk to the limo was quiet between the two, but the second they got into the limo though, Yana Yaoyorozu spoke up.

"Izuku, The round table has decided that while you're in Japan a trusted hero Will be assigned to you as a bodyguard, As sort of a legal safety net." Yana Yaoyorozu said seriously.

ah yes, the Round Table. A secret organization that has been around since the dawn of quirks. This organization supports vigilantes and heroes who truly have earned the title of hero. Yana Yaoyorozu is part of the hierarchy of the Round Table and has one of the 28 seats at the table. Each member at the table is bound by a code of ethics and if broken would result in devastating consequences. Each member was dedicated to maintaining that code of ethics no matter what the cost even if it meant the destruction of the Round Table organization itself.

For saving her daughter Yana Yaoyorozu sponsored Izuku and got him a membership within the organization. The organization had no problem having Izuku in it. Especially since they had a eye on him for quite some time and Had debated on multiple occasions on inviting Izuku into the organization. Now as a member of said organization, he was subject to their rules which Izuku had no problem doing since most of the rules Could be summed up by 'being a good person' And 'following the orders of the Round Table.'

So the fact that they had assigned him a bodyguard, meant that he had no choice but to accept them. Especially since he requested the Round Table assistance in freeing his mentor Kaina Tsutsum also known as the ex-pro hero Lady Nagant. The Round Table had agreed especially since Kaina was already going to be offered a place in the organization when she was going to retire from the HPSC. When she was freed they did not doubt in their minds that she would gladly become a round table agent. The only problem was they had very limited influence in Japan. In fact, the only influence they had was the Yaoyorozu family And their connections As well as a handful of Heroes. This was mostly because of the HPSC and their Stranglehold over Japan.

"So who's the hero, And have they been informed of my mission." Izuku said With a resigned sigh.

He hated this, there were very few people who he allowed to stay by his side, And there were even fewer people who willingly stayed by his side. It's not like he didn't want somebody by his side, it was mostly the fact that people did not last the first day by his side. They either quit or died, with most of them quitting since Izuku took Extra Care in making sure they didn't die. Yana seeing this grabbed his hand and gave him a comforting smile before pulling out a vanilla folder and handing it to him. As he grabbed and opened it, Yana spoke up.

"She is aware of your mission and as you see she definitely has the skills to keep up with you. She also thrives in situations where you find yourself on a daily. So I think she'll be a perfect fit for you. She is also a long-time agent starting off as a vigilante before we got her into heroism. She might be a bit of a battle Junkie but she's quickly willing and capable of putting that aside if it meant saving lives. My mother was actually the one who sponsored her as such I know her quite well. Well enough in fact that I know she's single and that you're definitely her type." Yana said seriously before smirking at the end.

Izuku's face heats up at her last comment. Of course, she would try to hook him up with his bodyguard. Then again a person like this would probably be the only one who would consider dating him. Attempting to shake his head from those thoughts he failed miserably as his eyes landed on the picture of the pro-heroin Miruko, in that second only one word came to his mind.

'Hot.'

Several Hours Earlier

When Rumi had gotten a message on her old vigilante phone she could not help but to be a little giddy. The Round Table always had a habit of sending her on really fun missions where she truly could cut loose. It was why she eagerly accepted the mission even though it was a mission to give Backup to another operative. Her excitement only grew as she saw the crashed and ruined vehicles of the Russian mob all along the streets in their territory. The mounted turrets on the back of pickup trucks bent and twisted along with their gunners. Rumi could not help but whistle at the site of the Carnage. It wasn't the first time that she had seen such Carnage, in her vigilante years she had delivered such Carnage herself. Hell, she still delivers the same level of carnage occasionally.

Hearing The Echoes of gunfire she sped up leaving Deep indentations in the concrete of the road. Then after a couple of minutes of following the bloody and twisted remains of the Russian mob vehicles. She eventually ended up at a large Warehouse, where the sounds of gunfire were emanating from. Jumping onto the roof she caved it in with a single kick and landed right in the middle of the warehouse. The click of a rifle being pointed at her pulled her attention toward a green-haired teenager wearing a black and green suit that was tattered and caked in blood. At the site of her, he lowered his weapon with an audible sigh of relief.

She remembered making an off-handed comment about "being late to the party" but the boy didn't seem to hear her, as he went in the back and retrieved a girl who seemed to have a head injury. The green-haired man (because Now she refuses to call him a boy for the sole fact that he just took on the whole Russian mob by himself and won) Started to take care of the girl's wound on her head. The green-haired man was silent and only when they were out of the warehouse that was now surrounded by police (because of course, it was) did he speak for the first time.

"I can't get a break can I?" the green-haired man muttered to himself so softly that only Rumi could pick it up.

The second that the officers had seen him they had put cuffs on him and dragged him into a Police car before she could even react, not that she could do anything anyway. But she did definitely give Yana Yaoyorozu a heads-up on the situation. The woman was not surprised in the slightest about him being arrested or even concerned which was weird. But she really didn't care she did her part even though she ended up doing pretty much nothing. Oh well, that was on her for not moving faster.

An hour later she got a call from the Round Table with a new batch of orders. To say that she was surprised that she was going to be teaming up with the legendary Baba Yaga was an understatement. Excitement blossomed as the man on the other side of the call explained what she would be doing. Apparently, Baba Yaga had a plan to get Kaina Tsutsum the x-pro Lady Nagant out of jail. Not a lot of people knew this but Kaina was a good friend of hers, which was why when she went missing she started investigating. It took her two Bloody Fucking years to find out that she was arrested.

HPSC Had kept the whole arrests and trials all secret, which made the whole case super suspicious Especially when she got a hold of the case File. The whole thing smelled of conspiracies and lies that it was practically laughable. The two Heroes that were supposedly killed by her were killed at close range with her quirk. Which was an immediate red flag. Kaina was a sniper and even though she could use her quirk at close range she usually preferred her sidearm for it. Because she could only fire one shot from her rifle quirk before she needed to reload.

The second red flag was the fact that the heroes who were killed had obviously died right after another, meaning that the person had fired two shots extremely quickly. That suggested an automatic gun or two shooters. Again not possible with her quirk. It was obviously somebody had used 2 of her hair bullets to kill these Heroes and pin them on her. And what was strange was that the heroes that were killed were people who had just gotten their licenses that same day. Obviously, she found that suspicious so she looked into the people's past and the two people who were killed had their past completely Sealed. That was enough for her to realize that the HPSC had framed her for some reason. Now she was going on a mission with the legendary Baba Yaga to rescue her friend and she was all for it. Although that begs the question why is Baba Yaga on this mission in the first place?

"Your secondary purpose is to act as a legal safety net by staying by his side at all times. Baba Yaga has a strange ability to attract trouble to him, like a moth to a flame." The man said causing Rumi to be confused.

"What, are you telling me Baba Yaga has a quirk that attracts trouble or something?" Rumi asked confused. She did not mind if that was the case in fact she was secretly hoping for it. It meant that she never had to go looking for a fight as long as she stayed around him.

"Although we know for a fact that Baba Yaga is 100% quirkless we cannot ignore the fact that somehow he has the capability of trouble finding him. The man cannot walk down a single Street without stumbling upon some type of trouble. During the first week of him becoming an agent, he has been involved with 342 separate incidents and 'ALL' accidental. All these incidents ranged from kidnapping attempts, murder, and muggings, you name it he somehow stumbled upon it. He even somehow ended up stopping a WOMD from going off, And that was only in the first week. God, We had to create our own database just to keep track of every incident he was a part of. Our current theory is that somebody hit him with an extremely unlucky Quirk or something when he was a child, Because that's the only theory that makes sense. Then again there's no such quirk in the database, so either it was not registered or it didn't exist. I swear Everybody on the round table hopes to God that The Quirk doesn't exist because having 2 Baba Yaga's running around would be a nightmare to keep track of." The man on the other side of the phone said with a voice that suggested that he had no more fucks to give.

Rumi's mind was blown, Baba Yaga is quirkless. The most feared and badass vigilante in the world has been kicking ass and taking names all without a quirk. It was fucking settled she was going to get to know this bad ass mother fucker. Who knows she might even date him.

"Send me his location I'll meet up with him immediately." Rumi said excitedly but she could feel the man roll his eyes at her antics.

"You'll be going to be meeting him tomorrow at the Yaoyorozu estate. He is doing something today and having a hero with him will make things more complicated." The man said with a tone that suggested that he was Most likely going to dig himself a ditch and die in it immediately after this call. But that only left one question in Rumi's mind.

'what the fuck is he doing that I can't be a part of it?'

HPSC Headquarters

The Madam president of the HPSC was Furious. Baba Yaga had just taken out half the Russian mob in one single night. The same Russian mob that they hired to help Captain Celebrity to pressure a construction company to stop demolishing a building. The building was one of the body dumps that they used For Captain Celebrity's many victims. The man was a serial rapist and killer and if it wasn't for his powerful Quirk and his influence they would have torched him long ago. Now it seemed like they had no choice but the torch him now. She would need to figure out how to lessen the fallout as much as possible. As she entered her office and sat down at her computer a voice that she recognized all too well spoke up from the Shadows.

"Ah, Madam President I've been waiting," Izuku said as he stepped out from the Shadows revealing himself. Even Izuku had to admit seeing the Madam President pale in fear was quite a treat. Although he also had to admit that her quick recovery was impressive.

"How did you get into this building? But more importantly, how the fuck did you get into my office?" Madam President said in a mixture of shock, anger, and disbelief.

"Oh, that's simple. I walked in." Izuku said smiling but seeing the flabbergasted and stupefied look on Madam president's face he decided to elaborate.

"You can be surprised what a good suit and knowing how to walk can do when entering a building. It also doesn't help that your security system runs around Quirk detection. And since we both know I don't have a quirk none of that stuff went off. But enough of that, I'm here for a reason." Izuku said as he walked over to her desk and stairs straight into her eyes, Unsettling the woman.

"What... What do you want." The Madam President says a little intimidated by Izuku's analytical glare.

"I want you to release Kaina Tsutsum with a full pardon." Izuku said with such a cold tone it could freeze a river in the middle of summer. This seems to shock the woman and make her furious enough to grow a spine.

"There is no way in hell I am going to let that woman out. She killed two Heroes." Madam President said Furious at his demand. Izuku only chuckled at that proclamation and that very cold chuckle sent a shiver down her spine.

"We both know that isn't true. You see I had gotten hold of the original police report. And the worst lawyer in the world could easily poke holes in it. For one the heroes who died only had their license for one day and their history and past were completely sealed by the HPSC. Second Nobody that matched their description had gone to any license exams or hero schools. In fact I was able to find out the two people worked at a car dealership and had gone missing a day prior to the shooting. the families stated that the two had no interest in being Heroes in fact they hated the hero Society with a passion. And if that's not enough, the way they were killed Doesn't add up either. They were shot once and the blood spatter and how the position of the bodies were found clearly indicates that the shooter fired two shots right after one another. Lady Nagant is incapable of shooting two shots right after one another with her quirk, And she uses her sidearm when she has to shoot up close like that. There was also gunpowder residue on the bullets as well, suggesting they were fired from a weapon that uses gunpowder as a repellent. Lady Nagant's quirk uses air pressure to fire her projectiles Which means she did not fire those shots." Izuku said in that same cold and analytical tone.

"Then what's stopping you from going to the police and getting her out of Tartarus yourself? Why did you come to the HPSC headquarters and infiltrate my office? When you could get a nice lawyer and get her repealed." Madam president said a lot more calmer than before.

"Please, we both know even if I do go through all that, the HPSC has the right to deny any Release of Any resident of Tartarus. And we also both know I don't have enough dirt on you at the moment to force your hand to release her. so that's why I came here to ask you very nicely to release her with a full pardon." Izuku said causing the president to laugh before speaking up.

"You... Think asking me... Nicely is going to work. Please we're both not that stupid, so tell me what if I don't do as you asked what then?" Madam President said still chuckling in amusement.

"Simple I'll make Japan my permanent home, I'll take my strolls around all your black sites, HPSC fronts, and hero Agencies that are aligned to you. I admit, this will be the first time I'm weaponizing my unusual ability to attract trouble. But one way or another I'm going to tear down your organization Peace, by peace, Rip off the wool you carefully placed over the eyes of the public, and show Japan what fucking Baba Yaga can do. And we both know you cannot legally stop me." Izuku said with a vicious grin that made Madam President go wide eye. Getting a hold of herself she spoke up.

"And what's stopping me from killing you right here and now." Madam President says standing up with a revolver in hand and pointing it at Izuku. Izuku did not stop grinning though if anything his grin widened.

"The man behind you with a shotgun." Izuku says as a loud and 100% recognizable cock of a Pump action shotgun could be heard behind her along with a voice saying

"Got you bitch!"

Madam President had quickly spun around and was ready to pull the trigger at the assailant behind her. But she was surprised to see a tape recorder, that was taped to her wall with the words 'got you bitch' on it. It also didn't help that the words 'Got you bitch' Along with the pump shotgun sound was on repeat. Shocked she Turned around to find Izuku completely gone and the door to her balcony wide open. Running over she could see Izuku flying away with a parachute And a devilish grin on his face.

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