"Well, Endeavor, Sir, unless you want me to blast your family history on Twitter, including the abuse and the reason why your wife is in the hospital, I recommend you fork over the information now!" I completely decide to ignore the squad's reactions.
"..."
"It's not like you're giving it to a legitimate villain, dumbass. You already know I threw a lot of my happiness away to help others. People are just being bitches. I just need you to spill the tea."
Endeavor sighs over the phone, "Humarise has multiple bases in different nations. The WHC (World Hero Commission) requested aid from heroes all over the world to attack at the same time to finish them in one go." You know, I didn't think it was going to be that easy. However, I'll take it!
"The cult must be bigger than I thought. Where are you headed?"
"Otheon. Don't get arrested. I don't need you ruining my reputation more." Endeavor doesn't even offer me anymore because he hangs up on me!
I sigh, glaring at the phone. The sea shit must be affecting me because I really should have thought of hacking the WHC rather than just Japan. That's a failure on my part. However, I atleast know where I need to look now.
Otheon is a European country that's slightly bigger than Ireland. I already hate this place because I am having to go to yet ANOTHER island, but at least it isn't small or technologically based. I'm taking the small victories. Outside of that, I don't know much about the place. I have no clue as to why Humarise has a base there. More specifically, a base significant enough to send Endeavor to.
With that in mind, I think it's safe to assume that's the main base where the leader is. That's great to know and all except I have no idea where said base is.
"Nemuri, go insert the location," Hizashi tells Nemuri, interrupting my thought-process.
Nemuri pouts, "Why do I have to?"
"Because Shouta and I have already done stuff for the boat and you haven't? And you're the only one up? Also, while you're going about, you should get that medicine for Izuku." Nemuri huffs.
"Fine fine. You better inform me of the the plan when I get back." With that, Nemuri struts off.
I sigh, curling up more. Just because I am good at acting like I feel like shit doesn't mean I don't feel like shit. I'm happy that was a short call with enough information to figure it out.
"Take your arm off, Izuku," Shouta instructs me. If I didn't feel like shit, I would ask which one. However, I don't. I don't even bother to argue with him. I need T-Rex off first.
I stand up, mumbling for T-Rex to get off. That only takes a moment, and the robot is left standing beside the chair as I sit back down. I shift my shirt enough be able to remove the prosthetic. I set it on the table beside me before going back into my depression ball.
Hizashi sighs, getting up and coming beside me, sitting on the arm of the chair.
Hizashi rubs my back slowly, and I let him for now, "You want to hold off on planning until we get there or would it distract you from... this?"
"Can Nem knock me out?"
"Only for a little bit, Izu."
"Damn. Fuck God. I didn't need another weakness."
Hizashi chuckles as he moves his hand through my hair, "Apparently you did."
I huff, "Bitch, and hand off." Hizashi withdraws.
"So you rather be drugged than put to sleep naturally?"
"Past alcoholic, remember? Besides, life is a drug."
Hizashi retreats after that statement as he fucking should.
I kind of go into my own little world from there. I know I got drugs at one point, and I just returned to my armadillo form after that.
Why the fuck do I get fucking sea sickness of all things? I should have just bullied Endeavor for more information. It at least kept my head busy.
Sure, I could bully my friends, but Endeavor deserves it.
At one point, I poke my head up to find Nemuri and Hizashi gone. Shouta, however, remained on the couch. He must have heard me because he opens his eyes. We have a staring contest, one that I lose since I got dizzy spell.
While sitting. How pathetic am I? Either way, I pinched my eyes shut for that moment.
I can feel Shouta watching me, so once I gather my bearings, I open my eyes again to look at Shouta. He rolls his eyes at me before shifting over and opening his arms.
Realistically, I stayed in my spot...
- - -
I wake up to someone shaking me, and I am about to slap a bitch because I'm comfy here. Let me live in peace! Instead, I snuggle closer to the warm thing.
The warm thing huffs against me, "Kid, we're almost there. I know you feel like shit, but we need you get into costume to hide your identity."
Okay, so maybe I didn't stay in my spot. However, that is none of your business.
"Kill me," I mumble.
"Didn't you want to take down Humarise?" I'm supposed to do that, huh? But I feel like shit.
"...yeah..."
"Then come on. You have to switch to your underground costume."
"I need to gather my lack of self-confidence first. Give me a moment."
Shouta does the opposite. Instead, he grabs hold of me and stands up with me.
"EXCUSE ME, LET ME GO!" I snap as I struggle against him. The bastard decides to drop me on the floor like a doll, "THAT'S JUST RUDE!"
Shouta huffs a laugh. WHY IS HE AMUSED NOW OF ALL TIMES?! I AM SICK AND I WANT TO CONTROL ALT DELETE MYSELF, AND HE HAS THE NERVE TO BULLY ME?!
"That is for all the times you were a brat," Shouta muses as he offers his hand to help me stand up. Obviously, I slap it away and get up stumbling. In the background, I can hear laughter. Fucking traitors.
"You signed up for that, homie! I didn't sign up for this!"
Shouta rolls his eyes as he puts a hand on my shoulder, "Calm down. It's not like I threw you in the ocean." He starts guiding me somewhere, having to put another hand on me when I nearly land on my face, "Careful. We already have it in the bathroom. Just change. That's all we ask."
"Why are you so pushy? We don't even know where the base is, so there is no use rushing."
"Nezu found it, and we assume that you want to be there before the other heroes get there." I look back at him with shock. They found the base already? I'm not shocked that Nezu hacked in and found out, which I appreciate, by the way. But the World HC finding the base so quickly? That's a different story. They also already have heroes heading there like Endeavor. I get they are the World HC but considering they cancelled me to the entire world, I assumed that they were too stupid to figure that out.
"Wait, really?"
"Yeah. We're short on time, so we have to leave as soon as we get there. We're heading to the shore nearest to it."
"Okay, okay. Give me a moment," I mumble as we come up to the bathroom. I head inside and close the door to find a relatively nice bathroom. However, I could care less about it. All I care about is the shiny case on the counter.
I open it up to find an exact replica of my underground costume. I haven't worn that bitch in so long because I am always needed above, so it tugs on my heartstrings to see it again. After putting my robo arm back on, I quickly change, relying heavily on the counter to make sure I don't fall. The only thing I don't put on is the helmet. It would be sus to walk around with it on, so I will just carry it for now. I put my aboveground costume in the case, close it, and go to head out.
Just outside, Shouta is leaning against the wall beside the door. I guess I should have suspected it in case I did fall and crack my skull. Once he sees that I am out, he looks over to make sure I didn't mess up putting it on somehow. Once he confirms, he grabs my shoulder and leads me away.
"We're about to land in a minute or two so let's go to the deck," Shouta informs me as we walk.
"What kind of base are we talking?" I decide to ask. Anything to keep me distracted.
"Large church."
"How ironic- oh shit, I hate it out here," As soon as I stepped out and saw that waves, I about went overboard. Shouta immediately grabs me, spins me around, and brings me into a hug to keep me from watching it. Thankfully, in that short show, I saw land.
LAND!
I hear Nemuri cackling, but I decide not to correct her yet. I can do that once I feel more at land.
I guess they decide it's not worth telling a seasick kid anything because I stand there for a bit before I am told to close my eyes. I am guided off the boat, and I already feel more comfortable with land underneath my feet. However, they keep guiding me.
Surprisingly, it's only a few minutes before I go back to normal. I open my eyes to find that they aren't going swish swish anymore!
"I'm good now," I tell Shouta, and he lets go.
I take a look around to find that we are not in society yet. We just landed on a random beach, hopped off, and decided to walk from there apparently. I won't complain though. I'm wanted anyway, so it's probably better that way.
We have to walk up this hill, which is probably covering our boat. That takes a few minutes, but once we are up there, I see our destination.
You know, when Shouta said a large church, I thought a large church like something church people can afford. Well, besides the rich ones (God is really making that dough when he can't even use it), but we're going to ignore that fact and focus on the fact that most churches are small. A large church, in my mind, is like an auditorium that they rent out.
This is a literal HUGE church! Scratch that, it's a fucking palace! If you had told me this was a base, I would have thought twice because it's so beyond the sight! It even has a sunset behind it to make it more beautiful!
"They've been singing hallelujah here," Is the first thing to spill out of my mouth. I hear some giggles beside me, and I face Nemuri and Hizashi only to notice that they are dressed a little differently.
Yeah, took me that long to notice. I'm disappointing myself more be the second.
Nemuri is in her costume, but she also has a trench coat on to cover it. That's understandable considering I believe many people would know about a hero who wears a dom outfit. From porn. Not that she wants to be on there, mind you, but everyone should know how horny other people are. It shouldn't be a surprise that people probably made 3d models of her to go bang bang.
However, I rather not think about it. Eitherway, people might recognize her outfit. That's all you need to know.
Hizashi, on the other hand, is something else entirely. When I first saw him in my truck, he was in his hero costume. Now? He actually got out of it. He's in his normal civilian clothes. His hair doesn't look like banana anymore even! He just has it tied back in a bun. The only thing that I don't recognize immediately is the speaker around his neck. His normal one his huge, while the one on there now looks more like a necklace. I expect it to perform just as well though. I don't think he will need it, but better safe than sorry.
I check Shouta real quick to make sure he hasn't changed anything, and he still looks like a garbage bag, so he's good.
"Do y'all have any plans or is that my job?" I decide to ask. I have no clue if they came up with something while I was dying on that boat. It's better to ask.
"Nope! It's all on you!" Hizashi informs me.
"Alright then. Okay. Okay okay okay. Do we have anything on the building itself, or we going in raw?"
Shouta looks at me unamused before rolling his eyes, "We have nothing."
"Okay, raw then."
"Your kinky side is starting to show, Izu," Nemuri teases.
"Ma'am, you're the only kinky one here at the moment. Please stop shoving innuendos into everything."
"You called it raw!"
"Because we are going based off fresh information! Therefore, raw!"
Shouta snaps, "They'll hear you two, settle down. Izuku, what's the plan?" I huff, glaring at Nemuri before turning my attention back to Shouta.
"I need to check out the outside of the building first. I wonder if there are any pictures of it online. I mean, it's bound to be a famous place with how large it is," I pull out my phone and do a Google search.
"Uh, wouldn't that defeat the point of the base?" Hizashi questions.
"To some extent. However, if you post a few reviews on Google maps about it having some rude tourist or whatever, it's bound to keep most people away. Speaking of, I found it, and it has some pictures of the inside! It may look different now, but it's not like to they can really reconstruct the entire inside. There's a big room, and it looks like there is some doors to some side rooms. However, if the villain is a villain, he's likely a dramatic bitch and is in the big room."
Shouta pinches the bridge of his nose, clearly unamused.
Nemuri huffs, "That's great and all, but what's the plan? You don't even know who you are going against."
"Oh, that's an easy solution! When did you last hear from Nezu?"
"...of fucking course. It's been a few hours, so he probably has this all figured out."
"Right? Now give me a minute," I pull out my phone and dial Nezu up.
The damn rat picks up on the first ring,
"Ah, Izuku! Glad to see that you are feeling better! I was growing concerned when you became rather ill."
"I rather you not be concerned about me because that's a concerning position to be in. Besides, that's not the reason why I called."
"I thought so. I found out plenty with some likely observations."
"Alright, cool. Let's start with the most significant: who is the leader?"
"His name is Flect Turn. I am a little surprised you do not know about him. He has quite a presence in the villain world for manipulating villains to join his cult. He has been wanted for a while."
"So we're dealing with a Jim Jones?" If you don't know who Jim Jones is, he's a cult leader as well. He started as a preacher and was able to grow quickly due to his amazing charisma. He got involved in plenty of sussy things to the point that he had to leave the country (US) with his cult and create a farm. However, the government was starting to figure Jones out since he took thousands of people with him, so he had everybody drink 'cool aid' and die. Oh, and he died too.
Basically, avoid cults is what I am saying.
"Now that you mention it, the two are similar. Before we go too off topic, Flect Turn's quirk is Reflect. It allows him to reflect attacks that hit him or store them for later."
"That sounds like an emitter quirk."
"It is, so there is nothing to worry about with the team you have. As long as Midnight and Present Mic are able to stop most of his followers, you and Aizawa will have a clear cut to him."
"That sounds too easy, so I will text you later where it fucked up." Because that is the fucking truth.
"No need to be so pessimistic, Izuku! However, I do have more information for you."
"Spill it."
"I decided to look into the first bomb that went off, and I found it rather odd that something so complex was made. For something like that to be made, it would require plenty of knowledge in multiple fields working together to create. I did some digging, and I found that there have been some disappearances of scientists. More specially, those that can create that kind of weapon. All of them went missing pretty close to one another." That may seem like a bit of a stretch, but there is such a thing as something that is too big to be a coincidence. This is one of those cases. This is especially true since Nezu, the intelligent rat, is telling me this. It's highly likely.
"Of course they kidnapped people. So we have a possible hostage situation."
"Possibly, so you have to be careful."
"Does the WHC know?"
"Nope!"
"Not surprising. Goddamn it, the damn dumbasses. Alright, one more thing: what's the situation on me?"
"They have been increasing the bounty on your by the hour. They have also hired assassins to go after you."
"They are such bitches that they can't even get me themselves. Pussies. Alright, bye." Without waiting for a response, I hang up on Nezu and face my squad, "Well, now I know. Shouta, we can beat his ass in five seconds flat."
Shouta narrows his eyes at me, "That sounds too easy."
"You heard my half of the conversation. Actually, have y'all heard of Flect Turn?" Nemuri and Hizashi shake his head.
"I've heard the name a couple of times. I should not be surprised that we are going after him."
Hizashi frowns, "So we're going after a villain that Sho has heard of?"
I grin with a firm nod, "Yip yip! He just has to look at him and bam bam liquidy bam we beat his ass!"
"But what about his supporters?"
"Eh, the rest of the heroes can deal with them. They do that with the cops. I don't see why vigilantes can't do that with heroes."
"Yes, but we still have those bombs."
The grin wipes away, "Oh yeah, Nezu was telling me about that. He believes they kidnapped scientists for it, so that's not good for us. If I can find a way to connect to them, I can shut them off."
Nemuri huffs, "Can't you just do your magical hacking now?"
"Uh, no? Ma'am, I don't know what I am searching for. If I just randomly go for it, I might hack the government instead. Think of it like this: it's like searching for a rose in a field. You know what that looks like, so you can go through the field and find it. That's like me hacking the Japanese government. Now, let's say you need to search for a flower that you have no clue of what it looks like. You may end up picking the wrong things. That's the situation I am in now. That's what makes it harder to hack out of countries too since you have no idea what languages people use, especially unfamiliar countries. Hell, if I had CAT, CAT would struggle because it would have to narrow its options down to figure out what is most likely needed to be hacked. It's best if we are close to a unit, but we have no clue where those are, so we're stuck there."
"...I got none of that."
"Basically, I can't hack until I know what I am hacking," I say with a huff cause that all speech was for nothing, "However, that's future squad's problem. Current squad's problem is information gathering and maybe kicking ass."
Shouta clarifies, "So we're going just to collect information? We're not fighting Flect Turn yet?"
"We need to get the scientists out first if they are here," We're getting rather close to the building, so I stop and face them, "I recommend we split up into two teams and we take both sides. Don't use your quirks because I don't want y'all on the wanted list yet. Do y'all have any earbuds for communication? I only have one pair on me that connects to my helmet."
"Can you connect through my necklace?" Hizashi asks as he raises the mini directional speaker.
"Probably, yeah. You'll just have to be careful to turn it down when around people."
"That's no problem!" That's one less person to worry about. Nemuri and Shouta shake their heads.
Shouta nods his head towards Nemuri, "Give them to her. I plan on partnering with you anyway."
"That should work," I explain as I offer them to her. She takes them and puts them on, "I say we wait until it gets dark. I know we're on limited time, but we need that darkness to hide in the shadows better. I say we go in then, search for ten minutes, and then meet up outside again. If we can't do that, we meet up in the big room. It should be in the center of the church. Any questions?"
"Should we talk to anyone?" Nemuri questions.
"Unless you look like a cult member, no. They'll just attack you probs. Though, that shouldn't be a big deal since you don't have to worry about quirks as much. Still, don't do it. Don't get caught either. While we're at it, don't use your quirks. Y'all will get recognized by that. The only one who might get away with it is Nemuri, but I don't know the chances, so just don't." Nemuri nods.
Shouta sighs, "And if Flect Turn is here?"
"We'll examine the situation. However, I don't think we should try taking him out yet, especially since there seems to be a lot of people there. Just ignore him for now." As much as I hate to say that.
"Acceptable plan."
"Thank you! Now, we have a few minutes before it gets dark, so let me hack into Hizashi's necklace first."
I put on my helmet and get to work. That mumbling habit I had in the past is really useful here because it lets me hack by speaking what I need it to do. It takes a couple minutes, but after some testing, I get it working.
"Alright, without further ado, let's get to it! It should be dark by the time we get there!" I announce as I march forward. Hizashi and Nemuri follow behind me, but Shouta walks casually beside me.
Such a bore he is, am I right?