Jinxes Defender

Chapter 6: Helping Powder

/|\POV Izuku
/|\AGE 14

After a few days it was shocking powder even stuck to what I was doing even to the best of her own ability which didn't exactly build up considerable muscle since it's only been a few days but there were changes

Me: alright onto Burpees

Like for one her stamina was built up being able to preform more and quicker, and she was a bit stronger, being able of better feats like leaping further

Seeing lunch be brought in by Vander wasn't too weird but this is also usually the time Powders leaves for the rest of the day probably planning to spend her time with Vi or what I've learned there's a kid they call Little Man probably around my age since Mylos the youngest out of Vi, Claggor and him which is only him being 17 then Claggor a few months ahead and Vi being the oldest just a month or two away from everyone else

Vander: how are you kids doing?

I shrugged in some nonchalant way trying to decide what to say.. because I was fine but.. I also know that I am absolutely not fine in whatever way I say I am

Me: I believe we are alright

Halting any and all workout while Vander is here as did Powder kind of out of breath so this gives the perfect excuse to get a breather..

Powder: I'm.. doing.. well!

It was somehow still there a sort of lingering energy and determination to do what I can or at least to her own style

Vander: just.. remember to go easy on your selves.. I don't want to have to pick you guys off the floor... again

Soon we finished our training/workout session together and Powder left me to go rest or something since she was or at least seemed to be tired beyond the extreme..

Me: ...the Little Man..huh?...

I've been told I'll get to meet the Little Man, AKA Ekko someone of mine and Powders age who mainly handles repairs and selling of whatever junk there is but he also handles intel most times thanks to his rather sneaky personality..

At least that's what Mylo told me when he was last here.. from what I've gathered he and Powder seem to dislike to hate each other depending on the mood during the hour..

Me: Noroc..

He's taken to calling me Noroc which I wasn't very familiar with my Latin but I knew to some degree he was calling me "Lucky".. I just wouldn't call myself that.. because if I really am lucky why didn't the Enforcers take some other family or some other lives even.. hell why did the enforcers even have to be there..

???: Izuku you in here?

A familiar yet somehow unfamiliar voice called from behind the door.. must be.. clag.. something or other.. uhh shit- I'll it when he comes in

Me: come on in?!

Shouting from my position wasn't too bad since it was just a small rest I was taking on the floor next to my bed

???: I.. uh just wanted to check in on you?

He opened the door slowly before it opened completely.. I hated it.. reminds me of.. someone else who does- did that..

???: What are you up to Izu!

They opened the door rather slowly seemingly trying to trap me in some loop of suspense before the door opens

???: I got you-

Shaking those memories from my head and getting back to the present and back to- CLAGGOR! That was it!

Me: Claggor? What for? We got a job to do tomorrow or something..

He seemed to tense up at that before I kind of realised he probably thought I meant with Violet though a job is a job no matter how dangerous

Me: I mean with Vander? He need us to drop something off or is it solely to see how I'm doing?

He shrugged a tiny bit before he took a seat on the bed before he began speaking an entire word to me

Claggor: I mean yes tomorrow we see Little Man, Ekko our little tinkerer but I did want to know how you are holding up

I suppose that's not to much of a shock I mean I came in pretty much randomly into their lives and didn't interact much outside of the job, taking the blame and foods

Claggor: and.. I-if.. I mean.. you don't have to tell me.. but- no never mind forget I even asked. Just how are you holding up?

I think I know what he's referring to.. it's kind of hard not to no one else has brought it up.. and he seems more compassionate than the others

Me: I'm fine.. I guess.. you were going to ask about why I joined the job and how I could convince Vander that I planned everything? Weren't you?

He sighed shaking his head slightly disappointed or maybe sad or something akin to it.. I don't know maybe it was kindness.. not much of that going round the undercity

Claggor: ah.. Um yea.. I was just curious.. but you don't have to.. if you don't want to

I suppose telling him wouldn't be too bad.. I mean I've bottled everything so far maybe I should unscrew the lid a bit

Me: Uh sure why not it's just thanks to Enforcers.. and Pilties I lost everything that I did own.. nothing was spared

Clenching my hand was becoming an issue since I had started to bleed under the still somehow endless repressing anger I somehow keep

I just laid there feeling like.. I had just been shot and laid there expecting.. to be finished as Enforcers ran all over the place.. seeing the pile of dead bodies.. must've confirmed things enough that they all left

I felt my eyes tear up as I'm covered in blood.. blood of everyone I ever cared about.. everyone I know enough.. to.. to.. to..

I pushed Iida and Shoto off of me and pulled my self up the walls to stand upright.. I wandered down the alley.. crying silently to myself..

Claggor: oh.. well you know everyone here has lost something.. Powder and Vi lost their family in the Enforcer raids, Mylo had been abandoned to feed less mouths apparently and I.. well was sold off into slavery..

Oh.. so Vanders a sort of collector of broken people those who have lost something or have been torn from that thing.. who are just hurt overall with no one else to help them

Me: I'm.. sorry.. it couldn't have been easy..

At the end of the day he had lost all rights as a person until Vander came along not to mention his family probably sold him into it.. which came with its own special set of issues

Claggor: it's okay.. Vander got me before I had even been processed as a slave so I technically wasn't even in slavery just sold off for nothing..

Fuck sake.. Vander... why did you even save me? I could've died by now.. but now? I have some anchors Powder for one wouldn't let me no matter what form she would come in