Part 159: Cece interrogates villains

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Ren and Intelli were still arguing about the trap trap thing when suddenly, out of the trees, someone with some kind of wildcat quirk pounced on them.

"Ah!" Intelli cried as the wildcat villain jumped on Ren, trying to claw at his throat.

Ren's taser shot out again.

From above in the trees, someone shot an arrow-like projectile out and pinned his arm down.

"We've been had!" Intelli tried to back up.

Wally suddenly dashed out of the trees and knocked the wildcat off of Ren. More things fired at him, but he dodged.

Mirko appeared a second too late.

"Did I miss it?" She looked around.

Arrows flew at her. She jumped out of the way, then kicked the tree. The trees fell over, and a guy fell out of it with a yelp.

Mirko jumped on him and slammed him, knocking his arms aside. He was actually shooting...spines? Like a porcupine.

"Ouch, man," Wally said.

Ren had a few in his arm.

"Yeah, that hurt," he said, "Gotta give him props, though. Didn't even think of the trees. I hate nature."

"Neet," Mirko said.

"Jock," Ren retorted, "but thanks for the save, Sis. That took me way back. Remember that time the basket ball team challenged us?"

"Wait, like in Space Jam?" Wally said.

"Space what?" Ren said.

"You know...with Michael Jordan," Wally said.

"With who?" Ren said.

"Yo, can we focus?" Intelli said. "Think there's more of them?"

"I doubt they had a squad bigger than three for a couple of regular dudes like you," Wally said, "but let's get out of here...and we're taking all of them hostage, right?"

"Yeah, we are," Mirko said. She grabbed the porcupine guy before he could try to get up. He shot more quills at her. Which just pissed her off.

Ren tasered him.

"Hey...uh, Ren, right?" Wally said, "What's your quirk?"

Ren's taser retracted. "I can manipulate technology."

"Whoa, really?" Wally was amazed, "That's crazy. How are you not a pro hero?"

"I didn't really want to be," Ren said, "and it's weak. I can only manipulate one thing at a time and nothing too big." He shrugged. "But with the right design, most stuff can be downsized, so I went into invention. Makes sense, right? But being a hero would be so boring. I'd have to use all my stuff just for fighting crime."

Wally didn't get it. "I guess..."

The rest of the group joined them.

"D--- it, we missed all the action," Bakugo said.

"Did you...taser them?" Jiro asked Ren.

He nodded. "You d--- right, muchacha."

"Ah, man, I wish I could do that," Kaminari said.

"Now we have hostages," Compress said, "We've never really done the whole hostage thing. Are we going to torture them?"

"No," Shigaraki said.

"Yeah, torture is gross," Shine said, "I had a better idea, but I'd have to see if she agrees to it."

"Wait, why don't you do your mind reading thing?" Spinner asked.

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