Hello again, I have yet another chapter for all of you and hope you like it. Also, I want to let you all know that keeperofmagick has challenged me to write a story and we have discussed the parameters that I needed to know to write it. So, look forward to it as I will be working on getting the first chapter out soon, and it will be another MHA themed Fanfiction.
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Chapter 6
Izuku found himself in a state of disbelief as he stared at his mother, a woman that was supposed to be dead. Yet even knowing this, even knowing that he had held her dead body in his arms, the young teen couldn't stop himself from hoping as his body shook with tears and mucus leaking from their perspective areas of his face.
"Izuku, if you're watching this, then I am no longer in this world." Began Izuku's mother.
However, if the ever so slight mechanical tone to her voice, or the static-like flicker the raced over her body, hadn't broken Izuku's hope, then was his "mother," said most certainly had. Yet even with his hope shattered, Izuku wasn't given a reprieve as his mother's voice continued on. Forcing Izuku, to push through his anguish and pay attention to his mother's final message.
"So, even though I have done all I could to shield you from the history of our ancestors, I must ask that you understand. I only did so to protect you Izuku, as should you've become a Hero with our families ancient power, there would have been NO going back. You would have been faced with one hardship after another due to our ancestors having made a very legendary name for themselves. Many loved them for the name they had made but, even more, feared them for that same name. As they were warriors that the Heros of today, even that of All Might himself, couldn't even hope to compare to. In fact, their name was so legendary and feared, that even with their legend having been removed from the awareness of this world, countless other world and races pass it on with reverence. Waring each of the future generations of what you would now be capable of. Which, was why our family went into hiding when our legend had painted too much of a target on this planet, and only recently began to practice the use for KI once more. However, if I have died, I know it will be because something has forced me to use the power of our ancestors. Knowing this, I made preparations to ensure you would be able to learn to harness the power of our ancestors even if I was no longer here, this room is one of them. Yet before you do, please think it over, as should you use all that I have put in place for you, you will become not only a Hero that All Might could only dream of being, but Earth's only safeguard to the other races in the universe that use KI to force their will onto others, killing all that stand in there way." Izuku's "mother," said before her projection vanished and was left with a projection of a yes and no button.
Taking a moment to take in all that his mother had said to him, Izuku's mind quickly came to the decision that he KNEW that he had to make.
"I'm sorry, mom, but the decisions already been made for me," Izuku said with tears streaming down his face.
Izuku could now finally seeing just WHY his mother had been so upset when she saw his tail had appeared. He knew his mother wanted him safe, to not have a life of nothing but fighting and preparing for the next fight. Yet, he could already feel what his new instincts screaming for him to choose, and to make matters worse, he could feel those same instincts quickly gaining ground as it was aided by his deep seeded wish to be a Hero.
Time Skip
Night had come to the land of Japan, and standing, on top of the antenna on the top of the tallest skyscraper in the immediate area, a figure looked down upon the city sprawling out before them.
The figure was had on a neoprene-like, long-sleeve shirt, that had a turtleneck reaching all the way up the figure's neck, and was black in color with a dark green line running along the sides of the turtleneck, over the top of his shoulders, and down the sleeves. This was followed by a shoulder pauldron, which could be found on both shoulders, that was formed around the figure's shoulders on all sides, looked to be made out of two pieces, attached directly to the sleeves, was white, with a green strip in the middle. Over the figure's hands, were a pair of fingerless gloves that ran over his long sleeve to the joint for his elbow. Attached to the fingerless gloves, was a set of forearm guards that were dark green, and had an additional plate that covered the entire back of his hand, excluding the figure's fingers. There was also a gap between the forearm guards and the plated armor for the figure's hand to enable movement of their hands at their wrist. The forearm guards were attached to the glove by an inch thick band that wrapped around the underside of the arm just before the joint for the elbow and the joint for the wrist. Over the figure's torso, there was body armor that hugged the figure's shoulders by two dark green straps that were an inch wide, half an inch thick, and looked like they were made from multiple rectangular pieces. The body armor itself had lines of white outlining the curve that went under the armpit, pectorals, abs, and thigh guards. For the most part, the body armor was dark blue with a slight shine to it that made it look black when the light wasn't hitting it right. However, both the area covering the figure's abdominal and the thigh guards, looked to consist of several dark green segments stacked on top of one another. Also, both the area of the body armor covering the figure's abdominal, and the two jetting thigh guards, were shaped to look like that of elongated ovals that had the curve of one end cut off. Over the figure's face was covered by a metal respirator that was diamond-shaped, has eight holes that were spaced over the four sides of the diamond, and had several rectangular pieces of metal leading up to what appeared to be over the ear headphones. Giving the figure the appearance of having a perpetual smile. The headphones were circular in appearance and had several buttons bordering what seemed to be a circular dial, with them being black with a green light running around the dial. From the headphones, extended red visors that covered both eyes of the figure and connected together over the figure's nose. Additionally, the visor screen looked to be fused into the top edge of the respirator. Wrapping around the base of the fingers head, and connecting the back side of the figure's headphones, was a green band that was outlined in white. Form top of that band, was a hood that pulled over the figure's head and attached to the top of the visor, hiding the figure's hair from view. Plus, the hood had large, rabbit-like ears standing from it, and had a bit of protective armor, as well as padding, on the underside to secretly help protect against head injury. For the lower extremities, the figure had on dark green, Gi pants that billowed out like pirate pants, held up by a black obi, and had black cloth wrapping over them around his ankles, just above his black and white martial arts shoes. Yet the thing that stood out most about the figure, was the… furry obi cord wrapped around his waist, if for no other reason then the color making to seem out of place.
However, the figure wasn't weaponless, as he had several visible weapons on his person. Starting with him having a red collapsible nightstick attached to the side of both his forearm guards. This was followed by him having two combat knives attached to each side of his abdomen. Then, he had two Katanas strapped to his back, with the sheaths mounted vertically on each of his shoulder-blades, making the handles parallel with his neck, and a quiver mounted between them. To finish off his offensive capabilities, the male figure had an additional quiver on his right thigh guard and a collapsible compact bow in a holster on his left thigh guard.
Raising a finger to one of the buttons on his headphone, the figure had a white targeting circle and several other hieroglyphic symbols light up on the red visor in the same instant that he pushed the button.
"What are we looking for?" asked a clearly feminine and child-like voice that had the faintest hint of a robotic tone to it.
"Anything out of place, specifically, those exhibiting elevated breathing, endorphins, or KI levels that are abnormal, regardless of a quirk or not." Came the order of a male voice that seemed to be around the age of one who had just entered their early adult years despite the figure's small stature.
Then, as if the figure had perfectly timed the end of their response, the targeting circle stopped moving as a high pitched with the headphones emitting a pitched beeping.
"What do we have?"
"Four signatures in a secluded alleyway, scans show them to be female, and the endorphin level of one indicates they're in distress."
"Quirks?"
"The KI flow readings suggest three are quirked while the one in distress is not."
Having heard all he needed to, the male figure moved into action. Leading the unknown male to leap from the antenna before quickly and quietly land on the roofs a good deal away. With him seemingly gliding through the air, almost as though he was simply defending in a pool of water. The Figure then leaped from the building, only for his previous actions repeating themselves after he had reached the peak of his jump. With this same sequence of events repeating themselves until he landed on top of the buildings that made up the alley. After which, the figure began to listen in on, as well as record, what was happening below his current position.
Every fiber of his being may have been screaming for him to immediately intervene, but he needed evidence to stop this from continuing any further.
With those in the alleyway
"Please, Saya, don't hurt me. I… I'll do better, I swear. Just please, stop hurting me." Stated the shaky voice of the quirkless girl, who was positioned to crab crawl away from the other three girls.
"Shut the hell up you little bitch, you could have avoided all of this. All you had to do was keep your freak trap shut, buy us lunch each day and act like a good little freak of nature by entertaining us. Instead, you ran and ratted on us to our parents, getting our allowances cut off for the month. So, you needed to cough up the cash, yet what did you do to the guy I so graciously arranged to fuck a quirkless freak like you so you could make OUR money. You kicked him in the balls when you should have simply let him have his way with you LIKE YOU WERE SUPPOSED TO DO YOU, DUMB BITCH!" The girl identified as Saya said as her two pigtails of her pink hair, that reached to her mid back, burst into flames.
This was followed by Saya's two lackeys activating their quirks, consisting of one having electricity wrapping around her hands to the point that they looked to have been made out of it. However, the other seemingly became a blur, yet the figure's keen eyes were able to make out the blur of movement being that of the girl hopping from one foot to the other.
Seeing as how the girls were about to make their move, the figure leaped into action, literally. With the figure sicking a superhero landing between the three, would be attackers. In turn, causing the ground to crater underneath him upon doing so.
"Big mistake," The figure said menacingly as he slowly raised from his crouched stance, with him quickly tapping a button on his headphones before turning the dial. Causing for all other noises to be drowned out of the figure as the music flowed into his ears. "for I! AM! HERE!"
(start Over and Under by Egypt Central)
No sooner had he stated those words than he had to suppress his urge to hurl, as he was keenly aware of just how "All Might-like" he sounded. Alas, he couldn't deny the comforting effect that, that grouping of words had, and he knew the girl behind him needed reassurance. So, the figure forced himself to not upchuck his dinner and focus on the matter at hand. After all, he had a job to do.
Which, proved to be rather prudent as no sooner had those words left his lips, then he was having to sidestep several fists, followed by breaking out his nightsticks to ram the butts of them into the palms of the second girl who had tried to charge him from behind. Effectively stopping the girls attack with the nightsticks sucking up her power. Resulting in her powering the special feature of the blunt weapons, causing them both to be wrapped in enough electricity that he was effectively holding two whips of lighting.
"Lights out, sparky," the figure said as he planted a boot into the girl's gut, making her spit out saliva before she flew back into the wall of the alleyway, where the back of her head slammed against the wall. In turn, nocking the girl unconscious.
The figure then instantly used the electric whips to catch the flaming pigtails, that struck at him like lunging snakes, by having one whip, per pigtail, spiral its way along the girl's hair until the ends touched her head. This caused the girls to scream as the electricity coursed through her mind until she passed out with her hair returning to normal. Yet just before the whips faded from existence, the figure used them to put the girl into the path of the only remaining girl, causing her to take the punch to the head, that had been aimed for the figure, for good measure.
"Looks like it's down to you and me, twinkle toes," the figure remarked, getting the already frustrated girl to snarl before she lunged.
As the girl lunged, she threw a sloppy right hook due to her fury and frustration. Which, when combined with his knowledge of the girl's fight style, that he learned when dodging her earlier punches, easily allowed for the figure to simply grab the girl's wrist with one hand, pull her past him and grab her by the back of her head, before he slammed her head first into the ground. Effortlessly sending her into the land of dreams.
(end song)
Once done, the figure turned to the victim.
"Your unhurt, correct Mis," the figure asked with concern clear in his voice.
"Yes, um, who… who are you," the girl asked as the figure turned and tied up the downed girls with capture tape that he pulled out from behind his obi. Followed by him then pulling out a flash drive and plugged it into his headset.
"I am The Quirkless Vigilante: Renegade," the now know Renegade stated before he unplugged the Flash drive and tossed it to the shocked girl and turned to leave, only to stop upon hearing the girl's desperate plea for him to wait.
"So, you mean you're like me?" The girl asked, with a twinge of regret to her voice.
"Why not ask what you really want to know," the figure said, with him turning to face the girl as he crossed his arms over her chest. Clearly waiting for the now wide-eyed girl to do as he had instructed.
"C… CAN I BE A HERO LIKE YOU," the girl exclaimed after a moment had passed for the reality to sink in, with her eyes crushed closed and her hands holding the edge of her skirt in tight fists. Making Renegade unable to help but recall his own memories of when he was in the very position as the girl before him.
"I will not lie to you, you who knows the burden of being quirkless as I do. However, you may not like my answer. As such, I can only advise you to take matters into your own hands to MAKE the answer you want. In this world, as it stands now, neither of us could ever be a Hero. As those in control of this, Hero driven world would never allow it. However, if you're serious about helping those in need," the vigilante stated before he threw a card that embedded into the ground before the girl. "Take those Nightsticks to the location on the card, there, you will find one who can instruct you in how to use them. As you have only seen a portion of how they can be used, and when you have mastered them, consider them yours. A helping hand on your path to being a vigilante, until the quirked Heroes have no choice but to acknowledge us as one of them."
As the girl saw Renegade hold out his fist as he finished speaking, she could have sworn that she could see his smile behind his mask.
"I will," the girl said as she closed her eyes once more with tears of joy streaming down her face and the nightsticks held to her chest.
Yet when the girl opened her eyes once more, Renegade was gone. Leaving the girl to collapse the nightsticks and hide them in her pockets before calling the police.
The next morning
Izuku was once again seen among the trash heaps that littered Dagobah Municipal Beach Park. Currently, if one were to be watching him, the would see the young man hurling large pieces of trash into the air, as they were sent flying into the ever-increasing pile of trash that was set to be hauled away.
Normally, the young teen would be carrying the objects over to the pile, however, buy hurling them from the beach to the haul-away-point, Izuku could work on his stamina endurance. Something that he had become keenly aware of after the events of last night.
'Shit, I really should have listened to Fuyunobara and rested today. But I need to get stronger as well as increase my stamina. Otherwise, I'll be no better than I was last night and have to stop after only stopping two crimes, least I want to have the shit beaten out of me on the third.' Izuku thought as he caught his breath and rubbed some of the sore areas of his body, which were thanks to the beating he had gotten at the end of his vigilante patrol the night before. With him having been barely able to stop the last crime without dying due to him running low on steam after stopping two prior crimes.
"YES! SUCH A PASSIONATE WORKOUT, PLEASE, LET ME JOIN YOU!" A voice boomed as a whirlwind of sand plowed towards him, stopping just before it reached him with a massive blast of wind preventing him from being engulfed in an abnormal sandstorm.
Additionally, the sudden wellspring of wind also revealed that it had been a rather tall teen that had approached him. Taking in the teen's appearance, Izuku noted how the teen was not only tall but was a well built young man with buzzed, dark brown hair and black eyes. He was also wearing Jeans, a short sleeve shirt with the image of a hurricane on the front, white Tabi, and traditional Japanese wooden sandals.
"It's a public beach, do what you want," Izuku said in a dismissive tone and went back to doing his workout.
For the brown haired teen, an enraged expression almost distorted his happy expression with images of supposed hero Endeavor running through his mind. Yet before such an occurrence could happen, the young man saw the look in Izuku's eyes. As Izuku's eyes weren't the eyes of a dismissive or condescending person, instead, they were the eyes of a distrusting, and most importantly, pained person. Making it clear that Izuku had only dismissed him from the fear of being hurt.
"THANK YOU VERY MUCH, MY NAME IS INASA YOARASHI," the now identified Inasa bellowed, secretly making it his new mission to help the boy before him restore their ability to have faith in others.
"Izuku Midoriya," Izuku replied simply.
"Oh, have you heard about the new vigilante, Renegade," Inasa asked in a lower volume but retained his highly excited tone, as he pulled out his phone and pulled up a news channel before showing the video to Izuku.
News
"We start today's broadcast with a highly controversial story. Last night, a new Vigilante, going by the name of Renegade: The Quirkless Vigilante, made their debut with the arrest of 16 felons. Additionally, it is believed that Renegade then sent videos of his three deads, that lead to the 16 arrests, to local news stations. We warn you now, some viewers may find the following videos to be upsetting." The news anchor said before they played the video of him saving the Quirkless girl, followed by a video of him stopping a purse snatcher, and finished with a video that had clearly come from a surveillance system.
As the first two videos played, Izuku couldn't help but get a slight smirk. Yet when the video shifted to a bank, Izuku's smirk vanished as his mind began to race on why they had the video and thought he sent it in.
(start got your six by five finger death punch)
The video opened with Renegade standing in the center of a bank with the hostages laying on the ground around him as the robbers surrounded him with guns trained on him. With only two not having guns and looking more like they were ready for an all-out brawl.
"How the hell did this guy even know what the hell was happening, we forced the first employee to arrive to let us in and then jumped all the other employees as they got here." One robber yelled in a panic, due to them knowing that the silent alarm hadn't been tripped, as the gun in their hands shook.
Yet, the robbers were sent into a state of surprise when the man before them raised his hands in surrender. However, before the robbers even knew what was happening, ten small balls of light appeared at the tips of the Renegade's fingers and as soon as they appeared the shot away from him to pierce right through the writs of the robbers with guns. Dropping them to the ground as pain flooded their bodies and kept them from using their hands.
This, in turn, left Renegade to deal with two villains, one had their finger turn into blades and the other's hands turned into massive blocks of cement.
"Damit, this job was supposed to get us the money we needed to start our own crew once we off the dead weight," stated the villain with their hands transformed into cement clubs.
"Shut the fuck up focus, we need to shred this guy an get the hell out of here." The other villain stated as he charged forward with his partner following close behind.
Quickly drawing his swords, Renegade blocked the incoming strikes of the villain attempting to make him into a three-dimensional puzzle by cutting through the sides of the vigilante's body with both hands as he tried to cross his arms.
With the blades blocked, Renegade slammed his boot into the villain's chest, sending her flying back. Yet no sooner was the blade-wielding villain sent flying away from him, then Renegade was having to cross his arms above his head to block the incoming blow of a block of concrete that was equal to that of a boulder that had the circumference of ten feet.
Realizing that simply blocking the strike would result in him still taking massive damage, from the impact alone, Renegade sent a KI burst out through his feet. Thus, allowing for the ground underneath him to shatter and absorb most of the impact of the blow thanks to Renegade timing the burst just right.
Sadly, this left Renegade open for the blow of the villain's other concrete covered fist that was sent crashing into Renegade's exposed front. Sending the vigilante flying back toward the hostages.
Attempting to get up, Renegade tried to push himself off the ground only to collapse back down to the ground as pain from his numerous broken bones caused pain to course through his body.
Seeing this, a young child ran forward and touched Renegade's back, only to be yanked back by their mother. Yet the deed had been done and the child's quirk had already been implemented, causing a Green aura to envelop Renegade. Upon the fading of the green aura, Renegade was up and charging toward the larger of the two villains. However, as he did this, he failed to see the villain's partner sneaking up from behind on him and swinging her sword finger. Causing Renegade to release a pained scream as his furry obi cord was cut off. Revealing to actually be a monkey tail.
Not one to be kept down by a little pain, Renegade allowed for his pain to fuel the near instantaneous forming of a cantaloupe-sized KI blast in each of his hands. Which, he then shot a the concrete-wielding villain's chest, sending him blasting out of the bank, and the other at the face of the blade-wielding villain from point blank rage. In turn, causing the woman's fingers to revert back to normal as she was painfully sent into unconsciousness.
(end song)
"Any of you have a flame, or preferably, an electricity Quirk?" Renegade questioned, with a small girl and her father coming up to him as the girl made a finger seemingly turn into a finger-shaped light bulb as electricity could be seen to be randomly encircling her appendage. With each strand of electricity that encircled her finger sprouting out of it and disappearing into it as the connected end of the strand of electricity changed.
"What do you need her to do." the father asked with concern clear in his tone.
"I need you to guide her in cauterizing my wound. A flame quirk or even a lighter would work, however, both would leave me with a higher chance of infection. Though this needs to be done quickly, the blast that I hit the other villain with won't keep him down for long." Renegade stated, with the father nodding and crouching down to guide his daughter as the vigilante turned around.
No sooner was the deed done, then Renegade had the father and daughter backup as he vaporized his tail, as well as the bit of his blood that had dripped, with a KI blast.
"You all should stay in here, it will be safer for you until I finish dealing with him," Renegade said just before he blasted out of the building.
No sooner had Renegade left, then the former hostages surrounded the downed female villain and restrained her as well as the other villains that had already been taken care of by Renegade.
That's it for this time, I know, I know, I cut the fight before it was finished. Sorry about that, however, I am sure that you all will like why I did so when you read the next chapter. Anyway, please remember to leave a review.
