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Finding Skeptic was a much easier task then finding the Doctor had been. Then again if the string bean wasn't busy kissing Re-Destro's ass he was hiding away in his room full of computers as he spied on pretty much everyone within the compound. Hmm maybe her and Dabi should see how many of his cameras they could find and put on a porno for him? That would be entertaining since she was pretty sure her and Dabi's room may have been one of the few rooms that had cameras all around them but none inside of the room. She was surprised that he has not complained about the sex in the kitchen, or anywhere Dabi gets the feeling to fuck her.
Of course he was not happy to see them when Dabi slammed his fist into the door that they were standing in front of. That mop of greasy hair greeted them with a scowl and growl as he swung his door open and barked a what at them. Dabi looked ready to murder the man, she couldn't blame him she felt much the same way.
"Figured you would like to be informed that your knowledge is correct. We were able to find Tomie Takami, and she did indeed inform us that her son is the current number two hero. I also have a question: you have a twenty four hour surveillance on Hawks right?" Rin got straight to the point. No use trying to make small talk or they may quickly try to kill one another, or more so Dabi would set everything on fire.
That had one eyeball turn to look at her threw his overly too long, greasy bangs. Had he left this room other than the other day to tell them about what he learned about Hawks? Probably not, and hadn't seen a shower since then either it seemed. She really hoped he wasn't the type who pissed in bottles so he didn't have to enter a bathroom.
"Also I have another question for you. You can hijack pretty much every camera in a city right? Does not have to be all at once, but I'd like to be able to watch some footage if we were to turn a Nomu loose within a set area," She asked, assuming the string bean could do such a task. She watched him give her the side eye.
"I can," he said simply. As expected for a man who had hid away from battle. She knew he had to have used some sort of surveillance of some sort so he could stay with Re-Destro during the battle at Deika city. She could feel her lips curl up at that.
"Perfect," she nearly purred, "we are setting up a little event for a particular number two hero. How soon can you have eyes on the streets of Kyushu?"
"I could do it within an hour if I had to," Skeptic answered, sounding a little proud of himself.
"Good though we don't need it that fast. But start preparing. We will aim for one week from today, I'll need you to set something up so the Doc can watch as well, recording it would not hurt either. That will give us all time to be ready. I'll explain more if you need," she said after a moment of thought. A week would be more than enough time to get the Nomu and have everything in order.
"Don't bother," Skeptic snapped, "I don't care what you're planning."
Well that made it nice and easy, as long as he did as he was told it's not like Rin cared. He just had to do his part. With that she turned and started walking away. Dabi quickly on her heel as he followed after her.
"You really got the whole thing planned out don't ya?" He asked as he wrapped a warm arm around her shoulder and pulled her in close to him.
"I think so. It's best to keep things simple. You will inform Hawks that there is a special mission for him, tell him we wish to test out a new Nomu, he will be curious I am sure and will want to also prove he's on our side. If he asks about the Nomu, don't tell him anything about it. We don't want him to know too much. Tell him to bring someone strong for us to test the subject on. You will tell him a place and time within Kyushu, and we will pick some wearhouse district to use as a dummy location. Draw him into a false sense that he will know when and where the Nomu attack will be. But really we will release the Nomu before that time. Releasing the Nomu right in the middle of the busy city will cause chaos and among it the bird should become easy pickings for the creature," she explained in slightly better detail the entire plan that she had come up with so far.
"And what if it fails?" Dabi asked with the arch of one brow as he looked down at her. She shrugged her shoulders the best she could under his arm.
"Then it fails. Still Hawks will not escape unfazed, he will struggle against a close combat heavy hitter like Nomu. It will more so depend on who he takes with him. A well know hero from the charts would be best. Then we could kill two birds with one stone," she said before she snickered to herself at the stupid pun and how fitting it was since she called Hawks a pigeon. It even earned her a slight snicker from Dabi.
"Still I find it hard to believe that the plan will fail. Hawks would have to involve a pretty strong hero. And there are few stronger than himself, he would need to have someone like Mirko, Fat Gum, Gunhead, Endevour or the likes of them to have any chance of not getting killed," she said simply. And she did not miss the way the arm wrapped around her shoulders tensed up at the name of the last hero she had just named off. Funny how he was unbothered by all the other hero's she listed, but the new number one hero was apparently a sore spot to Dabi. She wanted to question him for it. But she knew better than to do that. If it was a sore spot and she poked it she was likely to end up with her ass on fire, literally and figuratively. No if he wanted to talk about it he would. So she bit her tongue.
"True there are few hero's with enough strength to take on even a Nomu," Dabi hummed from beside her. Which just had her nod her head.
"Yep, so I feel like my idea should be good. You just need to find bird brains now and tell him he has another special mission in order to prove his loyalty," she said, feeling the corner of her lips pull up.
Was she really planning the murder of the number two hero? Yes. Should she feel as excited and pleased with herself as she did? She knew she shouldn't but she refused to think about that. This plan would make Dabi happy, and that was all that mattered now.
"Why me?" The man beside her complained like a child. She glared over at him lightly before she sighed.
"Alright. How about whoever runs into him first can tell him," which meant she would have to actively look for the annoying bird since she would be the only one to care about finding the idiot. Oh well, how hard could it be to find one annoying idiot?
Rin would come to learn that Hawks was often all over the damn place. He would stop in sporadically between his patrolls and hero work, which was not as often as she had originally assumed. Or he was avoiding her, she honestly was starting to think he was avoiding her. She even had taken to hanging out with Toga and Twice a lot again when she heard Twice hung out with Hawks a lot.
She had not realized how little time she had spent with the two after arriving at the Villa till she started to hang out with them again. Toga very much loved it. The girl was still a child, and it was clear the vast majority of people within the Villa were adults. And even though Rin herself was an adult she got along well with the girl. Rin had not noticed how much she had missed out on being a teen when she was one. She spent so much time studying and training.
So of course when Toga wanted to do teen things Rin never said no. They read makeup and fashion magazines. They compared who they thought were the hottest celebrities, never hero's though. If Toga wanted to paint Rin's nails, she let the blonde. When they had movie nights Twice often joined them.
When Rin finally ran into the bird for the first time she was walking through the hall of the Villa with Twice beside her rambling about something she was not paying enough attention to. But the man came to life when he spotted the blonde bird. Twice very much considered the young hero to be his friend. She could not bring herself to tell Twice the hero was using him, she should have and it would come to be a regret that she didn't.
Twice had paused mid sentence before he turned, a wide smile on his face and he was waving like an idiot at the talking pigeon. Hawks dashed a warm smile of his own, fished a hand out of his pants pocket and returned a lazy wave.
"Welcome back," Twice greeted and walked towards Hawks before he started chatting away. Rin followed slowly. She tried desperately to keep a bored look on her face as she stood beside Twice. She wanted to scowl at the hero, or just walk away. But she needed to kick her plan into motion now while she could.
"Oh hey Rin right?" Hawks greeted as he looked over at her flashing her what would have been a swoon worthy smile if she didn't hate the blonde.
"Yeah," she said, trying desperately not to scowl and tell him to not be so informal. He should use her last name, she was sure he knew it. The hero's may not have known her name back in Kamino but now she was sure Hawks was learning everyone's names and their connections to the army.
"She's Dabi's girlfriend so don't get any wise ideas," had it not been Hawks that Twice was warning she would have been thankful, and probably corrected that calling her Dabi's girlfriend probably was not the right name for her. More like his play thing, his belonging and she loved it. But she bit her tongue for now as she watched those golden eyes flash over to glance at her. He was calculating something in that little brain of his and she was sure of it.
"What brings you back to the Villa already?" Twice was far too happy to chat with the pigeon. And Rin was just as happy to block out the small talk that only annoyed her. But she needed to talk to Hawks. It was finally time to put her plan into action. It was simple, it would work. They would turn a high end Nomu loose against the pigeon and they would take out the number two hero. If they could plan things out well they may be able to take out most of the top heros. If the top ten hero list was being killed it would hurt morale with the civilians. It would raise morale with their own soldiers as well. Yes it would be perfect.
Who should they take out next? Dabi had said that to get into the Villa Hawks had killed the number three hero Best Jeanist. She had been doubtful but Dabi said he saw the body. She trusted that Dabi knew what a dead body would look like. So number three was gone, number two would be next. She would like to aim for number one. But it was too soon. Killing Endeavor would kick off the war and they needed time still. Shigaraki, after all, was still gone and needed more time.
Should they just go down from Hawks? If so then Edgeshot would be next. Hmm, that may be a good plan. He was starting to become an older hero. He had been popular when she was a kid and she could remember watching him become an up and popular chart climber while she was training. He also was not a power house. His quirk could be a pain to deal with, but it would be easy enough if they caught him off guard and alone.
Dabi's hot flames would roast the ninja alive. Folding his body up wouldn't stop it from burning still. Yes he would be easy enough to kill. Next would be the Rabbit hero. Now she could be more trouble for them. Mirko was a power type. If they were not careful she could take them out. Rin knew she herself would be useless against someone like that. Could Dabi still burn the rabbit up? Yes. But still it would be risky. There was a chance the rabbit would win. That was not a risk Rin would be willing to take.
Hmm some sort of trap like with Hawks would probably be best. But the same trick may not work twice. Especially if any video got out of Hawks fight and his death. Rin expected it whether the news caught it on their own camera or if Skeptic sent some specific clips to the news. Either way it didn't matter, the people would see it in the end. So it meant a new plan was needed in order to deal with the woman. A snare was needed to deal with the pesky rabbit.
"Rin?" The sound of her name being called out had her blinking green eyes before she was looking over at Twice who had clearly been the one that was calling her name.
"Huh? Sorry, I was thinking about something. What were you saying Twice?" She asked as she focused back on what the man beside her was saying.
A sultry chuckle came from the short blonde who had been watching as Twice waved a hand in front of Rin's face while she spoke. Which earned his hand a swat from the red headed woman. She quickly turned to glare at the pigeon who was chuckling at her. And had it been from anyone else it would have sounded sexy. But from him it made her want to hurl.
"What's so funny?" She asked, unable to hide the ire in her voice.
"Nothing, you just must have been thinking about something pretty hard there," the bird flashed her a charming smile and had even raised his hands in a placating motion. As if he was not the most dangerous one out of the three of them.
"I wouldn't say I was thinking hard about it. Was just thinking that I recalled Dabi saying he had a mission for you," she tried to sound more relaxed and less disgusted with the hero standing before her.
"Oh he does? Do you remember what it was about?" Of course he seemed curious. Why wouldn't he, it may be something he will want to tell the commission or other hero's about.
"All I know is that the Doc had a new toy he wanted to try and you would make for good help with that as well as with Dabi," she said, making sure to keep things vague. She could play the part of the stupid girlfriend, make herself seem innocent and not at all as a threat. Sure compared to both men she was clearly the weakest, both with her quirk and her physical strength. But she could be smart, and she would use her brains to keep herself safe.
"Oh? Okay then I'll be sure to go find Dabi," the pigeon said before flashing her yet another smile, "thanks for letting me know."
She simply gave him a nod before turning her attention back to Twice, as she continued to scold her friend for waving his hand in her face when she had clearly zoned back into the world around her.
"Actually, why don't you take me to Dabi?" Hawks asked, causing her to turn her irritation away from Twice and towards the short blonde.
She had to bite her tongue hard as she resisted the urge to ask him why the fuck should she take him to Dabi. But she knew better to say something snarky back. As much as she wanted to think he was a stupid idiot, she knew he wasn't. He acted like a blonde idiot man slut. But she knew it was all an act. It was easy to be underestimated if people thought you were stupid. After all, she deployed the same tactic at times.
The hard part was trying to figure out what he was thinking? What was it he was trying to learn? Why was it that he bothered to talk to her at all? Was it to get to Dabi? Was it because she was one of Shigaraki's original League members? So many questions and no answers. It just meant she needed to be all the more careful around the hero.
It was almost funny; the thought that the hero was dangerous. To normal people he was their salvation, their hero. To her, he was the enemy, the bad guy trying to stop her from enjoying her happy life. He would take it all away from her in the blink of an eye. And that thought made her blood boil. She wanted to get away from him. But she couldn't, the plan still needed to be put into motion.
"Whatever. He's probably in our room. Come on," she grumbled as she turned away from both men and just started walking away while Twice had been mid sentence that Rin had not noticed.
Hawks bid Twice a quick farewell before he was trotting after her. His steps fell into line with hers as she led the way through the halls. At first the walk was silent, but she could feel those golden eyes baring into her while she refused to look at him. Dabi was right, they should have killed his mother.
"You don't seem to like me very much. What did I do to piss you off?" The blonde asked his tone, sounding more like someone trying to make amends. She didn't believe the innocent tone for a second. He was digging for information, stuff he could run back with. Still, what could she say to that? There was no use in trying to lie and say no. She really was not hiding her hatred of him well. What could she say would be believable?
"Sorry. I don't mean to be so rude. I'm just jealous. We debuted only a few months apart. Yet look at you. A hero on the top charts, running your own agency. And I'm a sidekick drop out," she said after she had let out a very heavy sigh. It wasn't a complete lie. Hawks had debuted roughly six months before she graduated. He was also the second best hero in all of Japan. And she was a nobody. She had hated it back when she was a sidekick.
"You were a hero?" He sounded genuinely surprised. Then again he needed to be able to fake that ability if he was ever going to service being undercover.
"Sidekick," she corrects as she knows that they are both aware a sidekick is not the same as a full blown hero. Yet he still just looked at her weird for correcting him. Ah yes the commissions dog, he probably never had to work as a sidekick only as a hero and did not know the vast difference between the two positions inside an agency.
"Why did you quit?" Of course he is full of questions. What was the answer not in her file? She was sure the file had to contain the incident. If Shiggy had been able to learn about it then Hawks could too.
"I wasn't cut out for it," she said with a shrug of her shoulders. And at the time it had been true. She was not okay with the death of her mentor. Funny how death was so hard for her back then, and now she was planning the murder of the man asking her about it.
Clearly he was thinking the same thing as he gave her a rather skeptic look. She went from a scared little girl who struggled with death. She couldn't stay mentally stable enough to keep her hero license. She willingly left the agency and instead tried to go into the hospital after doing some nursing courses. And yet she never felt so strong and confident as she did now. Walking these halls among villains and she felt at home. This was where she belonged, surrounded by more death than ever before. Maybe she finally snapped.
A silence fell over them, and she welcomed it as she led the way to the bedroom she and Dabi called home in this place.