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Naomasa sat at his desk and looked at the grainy security camera footage that was sent to his laptop. It was of a recent villain attack this morning. Nothing really interesting happened, the usual stuff that’s to be expected. Except for what happened at the very end, while the villain was being arrested. The villain was temporally knocked out and restrained. Soon after he woke up and tried to use his quirk only to find it wasn’t working. He was a bit hysterical, (especially since there is no means to supress quirks unless you have someone like Eraserhead on the scene, which he is not by the way) but it was swiftly dealt with.
Similar incidents like this have happening for quite some time now, with villains losing their quirk for a few days or weeks, to some never getting their quirk back. What makes it all the more frustrating is that it’s only in the past 1 or 2 years that police have actually caught onto this, for the simple fact that these incidents have been happening more frequently the last few years. If every case that was reported to have villains losing their quirks just before or after capture, only to get them back in most cases, then it goes back almost 5 years. Which leads to the question, is someone taking their quirks? If so then that leads two possibilities: the first being a vigilante of sorts, the second and more dangerous option is that the man Toshinori told me about is taking them. But that then leads to the question why give the quirk back? Hell, why even take it in the first place, if it’s going to come back anyway? That rules him out then, which is great cause he’s meant to be dead anyways…I hope.
So that leaves us with the first possibility of vigilantism. Based on the previous cases that have been documented, villains seem to only lose their quirks when heroes are around already fighting them. Second there is always a crowd no matter how big or small. Third, there have been no reported cases were a villain loses their quirk before the heroes arrive. And finally, all cases happen during daylight and all cases happen within Musutafu. So whoever is doing this isn’t actively seeking villains out, but is definitely seeking out fights between heroes and villains. And given how much coverage the fights get, it’s not very hard for them to find them.
As he thinks this, something catches his eye. Naomasa looks at the crowd of people watching the fight in the corner of the screen and rewinds and plays the footage. There, just barely in the line of sight of the camera, an arm shoots out slowly towards the direction of the villain as he started to wake again the heroes aren’t paying the villain any attention as they still thought he was knocked out at that moment. The hand out stretches and makes a grabbing motion and pulls away, all in a very quick and deliberate motion. The arm then disappears back into the crowd. Just before the arm could completely disappear however, a mop of green hair wearing a black uniform and yellow backpack can be seen for just a moment attached to said arm.
“It looks like we might finally have a lead.”
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I just made it. Izuku thinks to himself, as he quickly steps into the classroom, just before the bell rang signifying the start of the school day. Quickly he sits down, no one pays him any attention. While waiting for their teacher to arrive he looks at his closed hand. In his hand he can feel a light weight sitting there, although there isn’t anything actually there. I really cut it close coming in late with taking that villains quirk. But it looked like he was going to break out of those restraints so it was definitely a good idea. I’ll give it back in a few days.
Izuku slowly brings his fist to his chest, making sure no one is watching. He focuses on the weight in his hand and shifts it into his chest, where he can feel other similar weights there. There’s something comforting about having the weights inside him.
The homeroom teacher some comes in and begins to take roll call. While he does this, Izuku takes out his hero notebook and starts filling it out about the new heroes Kamui Woods and Mt. Lady. He doesn’t notice when the teacher starts talking about high school applications and everyone starts using their quirks.
“You’re also going for U.A., aren’t you Midoriya?” The teacher says, with a thin strained smile.
That catches his attention, and silences everyone else simultaneously. As he slowly looks up everyone looks to him. No one says anything for amount. Not sure what to say. Some smile, but its strained.
“W-wow Midoriya…” someone says, unsure what else to say. Others making similar remarks, trying not to make eye contact.
“So you and Bakugou will be going to U.A. together then.”
Bakugou makes a tsk noise and doesn’t turn around.
The awkward atmosphere quickly disperses when the teacher starts the morning classes.
Izuku tries to think nothing of strained looks on his classmates and awkward silences. He used to it. Ever since his quirk manifested, people have had trouble trying to talk to him. Hell, even being in the same room as him, makes people kind of jumpy. Their all somewhat anxious around him because their afraid of setting him off or annoying him. No one will out right say it, but in the whispers they think he can’t hear or when he just enters or leaves a room, he hears them. Their scared of his…villainous quirk. Not that he can really blame them.
You see Izuku’s quirk is called Take All. When he makes physical contact with someone he can forcibly take away some ones quirk, and store it within himself. However he cannot use the quirk he has taken for himself. He can if he so chooses give the quirk back when he touches that person again. Thankfully, none of his classmates know that he actually doesn’t need touch to take the quirk away, so long as they aren’t too far away from him he can take it. It just takes longer for him to do it that way, whereas touching someone will allow him to take it instantaneously.
He’s quirk is believed to be a mutated version of his mother’s very strong telekinetic quirk. Although on the quirk registry it says it a weak version that can only pull thing towards her, she can actually move any size object in any direction she wants. She just never bothered to update it.
Izuku didn’t bother either with updating his either. Believing that when he became a hero if a villain ever got their hands on his quirk registry he could still have the upper hand in some way.
At the end of the day, while Izuku was putting away his books, Bakugou approached him. He didn’t say anything until everyone else left the room.
“So, you’re planning on going to U.A., huh Deku.” Bakugou’s says, more like a statement rather than a question. There’s no real bite to the childish nickname either. Before Izuku can say anything he continues.
“Well even if you do get in, it doesn’t matter, I’m still going to be the next number one hero.” he lets of a few sparks from his hands and storms out the door.
For all the years that Izuku has known Bakugou, he still finds it hard to figure him out at times. Over the years, they grew more distant from each other, but they still referred to each other with their childhood nicknames. Bakugou thankfully doesn’t treat him like he’s carrying some dangerous virus either but more so like a rival. Which is fine, it’s nice to have someone outside his family treat him as normal.
Just as he leaves the school grounds, Izuku’s phone vibrates. It’s a text from his dad, asking if he can get some stuff from the local grocery store, before he came home. Easy enough, he was going to go visit his mom anyway and the store is in the same direction. So he heads to store and gets what he needs. As he heads in the direction of his mom, he walks under the street bridge. Thinking about the fight from earlier he doesn’t hear the sounds coming from underneath the sewer manhole. With a bang the lead shoots up and hits the tunnel ceiling. Suddenly being brought of his thoughts, Izuku stumbles as he turns around to see green sludge appear with two large eyes looking at him and an even larger mouth of teeth.
“A medium-size body to hide in” the sludge gargles. Caught off guard, Izuku tries to get away, but isn’t fast enough. The sludge sweeps him of the ground and raps around him.
“Relax kid, I’m only hijacking your body.” He cackles. “After 45 seconds it won’t hurt anymore.”
In a moment of panic Izuku let’s slip the quirks inside his chest. Panicking he flails trying to get the sludge out of mouth and nose. I don’t want to die, I don’t to die… he repeats over and over in his head. Before he can even think it though, Izuku shoots his hand upwards where he can feel the villain’s quirk and grabs it and immediately pulls his hand away. The sludge villain screeches as his quirk was forcibly taken from him. The sludge turns back into a man. Because of the sudden forced transformation back into his human form, the villain passes out from the pain it caused, releasing Izuku from he’s grip. Thankfully the villain had pants on him…somehow…
Izuku fell forward onto his knees and started coughing out his lungs, keeping his fist closed so as to not loss the quirk. When he managed to keep his lungs inside his body, Izuku looked over to the villain’s unconscious body and say that he was handcuffed.
When did he- Izuku cut himself off when he saw a man in a tan long coat and matching hat standing over the villain. He also had a rather plain looking face, with matching brown hair and eyes.
“What did you do exactly kid?” Said the man.