Chapter 11
-Red Lotus Casino-
-00:40-
Yìshí walked out of the elevator followed by Seigyo, as they enter the casino's first floor. "Better have this delt with." He thought as he walked past the many gambling tables. He spared a few glances at the people gambling, especially at one with a large crowd around it and shook his head. "Pathetic," he sneered, as he reached the front desk seeing the detective and hero waiting for him.
"Good evening gentlemen," Yìshí greeted walking up to the two and extended his hand to shake theirs. "I'm the owner of this establishment." He said shaking Naomasa and then Nighteye's hand.
"Evening Mister Kòngzhì, I'm detective Naomasa. I wanted to ask you a few questions about a truck that belongs to you, that got in an accident," Naomasa said making Yìshí nod.
"I see, well if you may we could go to my office to start with the questions," he offered.
"That won't be necessary, the questions will be brief since, we probably interrupted you on a busy night." Nighteye said getting Yìshí's attention.
"Yes, a pretty busy night actually," he said. "If we may, could we start then?" he asked as Naomasa took out a small notebook and pen.
"Were you aware that your truck was stolen or had an idea they were being targeted?" Naomasa asked.
"I wasn't aware of it being stolen, but since my purchases are expensive. There's always a level of paranoia and security I take." He explained.
Naomasa noted it down. "Any idea who might've stolen it?"
Yìshí took a few seconds gathering his thoughts. "Nothing comes to mind at the moment, my apologizes."
"No need," he said turning the page. "When the truck was found, it was empty could I request a list of the items in it?" Naomasa asked.
"I'll send a list later on, as the person responsible with transport isn't here at the moment." He replied as Naomasa pocketed the notebook and pen. "Will that be all?" he asked.
"Yes, that will be it." Naomasa said. "Thank you for your time, Mister Kòngzhì."
"Likewise, Detective. I hope you find whoever did this." Yìshí said getting a nod from Naomasa as he and Nighteye start walking off. "They probably know something." he thought watching the two men leave the lobby. "But how much and about what," he thought.
Yìshí tapped his earpiece. "Keep an eye on them, they are suspicious."
{Will do,} Bijan said as he typed in the computer making some of the cameras focus on the two men walking out of the casino. {Do you think they know about the merchandise?}
"If they did, they would be in cuffs by now." Yìshí said looking at the men through the glass doors. "Just keep an eye on them." he turned around and started walking with Seigyo back to the casino.
Naomasa and Nighteye got in the car. "That was easier than I expected." Naomasa commented.
"He might be too confident or he was expecting this," Nighteye commented looking down as his eyes changed from yellow to purple. "I'm seeing him walking down a hallway."
Nighteye was in a third person view, as he followed Yìshí walking down a hallway heading to a room, and went straight to a chair facing the auction. Soon after someone walked in the room making Nighteye to widen his eyes.
"…Naomasa, we have a problem," Nighteye said getting the officer's attention. "I can't see who entered Yìshí's room." He said getting a confused look from Naomasa.
"What you mean, you can't see?"
"I mean, I can't see whoever Yìshí's talking to." Nighteye repeated himself as the figure was clad in darkish fog making it impossible to even make a rough outline. Nighteye focused on the figure getting closer to Yìshí.
Nighteye watched the figure quickly dispatch Seigyo, and head straight to Yìshí. As soon he approached Yìshí, it went all white making the man silent. "Omuni, will kill Yìshí as soon they meet." Nighteye said looking at Naomasa. "We have about 40 minutes before that happens."
Naomasa grabbed his com. "We got in contact with our target, Yìshí will be killed in 40 when he gets in contact with Omuni."
{We act as soon, we find the entrance to where they are having the auction.} Tsuragamae's voice came out of the com.
"Understood," Naomasa replied as he turned on the engine and started driving away from the casino while Nighteye went back to analyze his prediction.
-Meanwhile inside of the casino-
-With Ben-
"This is getting too easy," Ben laughed as he once again won another around, this time against four other people who threw their cards on the table while Ben looked at his screen.
He was now pretty far ahead compared to when he started, he had half a billion already. "This will go straight to my projects," he thought as his phone vibrated.
"Sorry, but I have to find somewhere else to drain this casino." He said getting up and walked away, as he took his phone seeing a text from Yusei. "We are in, and the police and heroes are already here. Nighteye and Naomasa."
"Well, they are worker faster than usual," he smirked a bit. "This will be way more fun, than I first imagine," he thought looking up and noticed Yìshí and Seigyo walking towards the elevator.
"His to far to hit, and this place has to many people," he thought noting the slight increase of security on looking at his phone again. "Yusei, did you find where the auction is happening,"
He sent the text and quickly got a reply. 'It's happening underground, I already put your name on their list. Head to the elevator.'
Ben read the message as he walked towards the elevator and pressed one of the buttons. "I wonder, who they brough to stop me…" He thought as he waited for the elevator. "If Naomasa and Nighteye are here, no surprise if Allmight is here too." he thought as the elevator door opened and closed when he walked in.
The doors closed and it started moving down. "This will possibly be our hardest mission yet if Allmight is here," Ben leaned against the wall.
{That's an understatement.}
"Thanks for the reassuring," Ben said dryly with a sigh. "If I were to fight, it won't end well for me." He said looking at his hand clenching a few times.
{Well good news, there's a get away tunnel under the auction that you can use to escape.} Ben heard his friend.
"Where it leads?"
{A long distance away from the casino, just a few miles away from Titan Enterprises.}
"Good, then if I get beaten half to death, you can take me directly to Byoki," he joked getting a loud sigh from the other side.
{I honestly want to ask you, to not do that. But you'll probably ignore me.} Yusei said as the doors opened.
"Not ignore, just take it in consideration," Ben walked out of the elevator to a concrete room with someone standing behind a stand and behind that person was a single door. "Lilith for sure, will be yelling at me by the end of this." He thought as he walked towards the stand.
-Outside of police barraged-
-With Yusei-
-00:20-
Yusei finished typing as he looked at another screen. "Ben, why are you so hell bent in fighting Allmight," he wondered as he once again looked at the Casino's blueprint and then at the underground area. He sighed opening the cameras in the area looking at the screen, he noticed they were way more cameras compared to the outside of the casino.
He looked at the lobby, the setup to it looked similar to a ball or a beauty contest. The entire setting and how it looked, it was well organised with even skyboxes away from the lobby and a stage in the middle of the room. It would be impressive if not for the disgusting fact, that people would be sold in that stage.
He changed the camera to the backstage causing his blood to boil, as he saw the women and girls were either chained to the wall or in cages being set up for the auction.
He activated the sound all he heard was the sound of whimpering, chains and cages being moved, the men who were doing the job were silent mostly considering this to be just another day of work.
Turning off the feed, he changed cameras to one at the security room looking at Bijan who was watching the screen normally. "This their best?" Yusei thought. "Expected him to at least notice the 3 minutes loop on some of the cameras," he thought shrinking that screen and expanded one somewhere near the Red Lotus's outer gates.
He looked at his watch. "15 from now," he muttered to himself. {Amber and Lilith, how is your part of the mission going?}
{We finished almost all of our objectives, just missing finding Kizaru,} Lilith replied. {And on your side and Ben's?}
{Well thanks to you two, I'm already in their system and Ben just arrived at the auction's lobby,} Yusei replied as he started typing once again, opening a window with all of the cameras inside of the casino.
He scanned for a few seconds until, he found one where showed Kizaru being dragged into a room with a red door. "Probably their interrogation room," Yusei thought changing the screen into a 3d building model. {He's one floor under you, in a room with a red door. I'd advice getting there quick and after meet at the extraction point. Me and Ben will take care of the rest.}
{On our way,} She replied as Yusei leaned against the chair looking outside of the van.
…
-Interrogation room-
-With Kizaru-
Grunting as Kizaru was once again send to the ground breathing shallowly coughing slightly, his vision was blurred having a hard time to focus on the two guards 'interrogating' him. "Yeah, just getting off beating my face in," he thought coughing once again as one of the guards grabbed him by the collar of his shirt.
"Are you going to talk?" he asked making Kizaru groan slightly but he stayed silent making the guard sigh. "You really want this to end badly?" he asked getting a chuckle from Kizaru.
"Trust me," he started taking a breath. "Who's after me, is way worse than Yìshí." He said getting punched once again making him even dizzier. "Why's taking so long? Don't tell me he left me for dead," he thought as his vision started fainting as the memories of what happened a few hours ago.
Flashback
-Abandoned building-
"No! Please! No!" Kizaru begged as Ben daggled him by the hole on the wall. "Nonononono" he thought as tears started leaking as his entire life flashed through his eyes and when he felt the hand letting go of his leg.
He felt his stomach sink. But instead of falling to the ground he was thrown inside but still screamed landing on the floor near the hole.
He stopped screaming when he realised, he wasn't falling. "Wha-what?" he asked confused looking back at Ben who sounded far too insane for Kizaru's liking.
"Try to catch me if you fucking can!" Ben yelled as he soon went silent and then chuckled. "Ah, hope they fall for the act. I've been working for it for weeks now," he said glancing back at Kizaru who looked to be frozen in fear. "So, what do you think? Too over the top?"
Kizaru stared back at Ben, gone was the insanity and now he sounded normal even more than before their fight. "What the hell is wrong with you!?"
Ben chuckled slightly. "A lot actually, but I'm not here to talk about my issues." He started walking towards him. "Instead, we should talk about what you are going to do to avoid me ruining your life. Kizaru Hinda."
Kizaru widen his eyes looking at Ben. "Ho…"
"It's not that hard, especially when you have a lot of contacts," Ben explained stopping and looking down at him. "But I'll be short, either you do what I want or I'll make sure your little business with Yìshí gets exposed." Ben sounded a bit too cheery saying that. "Just imagine what will happen to your little sister and grandma?" he asked making Kizaru's stomach to sink.
"Don't you…" he started but Ben cut him off by stomping on Kizaru's leg making him yell in pain.
"Don't I dare? If you didn't notice, I'm the one with all the cars," Ben said crouching while Kizaru tried to get his leg free. "And honestly, I'm getting bored at being merciful," he said slowly applying more and more pressure. "So, are you going to hear my offer or do I have to use less savory method?"
Kizaru grit his teeth his eyes darted everywhere in the room desperate for anything to help, him escape. "I guess I have-" Ben stopped as he tilted his head to side, avoiding a bullet
"Wait a second," he took his foot off Kizaru and looked at the source to see that one of the masked men was the shooter.
He tried to fire again but Ben was faster kicking the gun out of the man's hand. "Wai.." he didn't get to finish as Ben stomped him on the man's face crushing his skull into mush.
Kizaru physically recoiled at the disgusting sound of his colleague's skull being crushed into paste. "Sorry, I don't like interruptions," he said dragging his foot on the floor to clean off the blood and brains on his boot. "Actually, where were we? Oh right you were about to say yes to my offer, right?"
Kizaru nodded rapidly. "Good, if you do your part. I'll make sure you make to sunrise, got it?" he asked making Kizaru nod quickly.
Ben crouched grabbing the man's leg making Kizaru stiffen as Ben's hand glow a slight green healing some of Kizaru's wounds, and after a bit he let go. "You're good enough to get to the Red Lotus," he said getting up and aiming his wrist on the man's leg. "By the way, don't try running away, I know where you will be," he said yawning slightly. "Now go on and do your part."
Kizaru quickly got up adrenaline pumping into his body making him run out of the room while he could hear Ben chuckling in the office.
-End of Flashback-
"Honestly, I prefer dying here than imagine what he's going to do," he thought as he slipped to unconscious, the guard let him go and stood up.
"Call a…" he didn't get to finish as volts wreck through his body making him yell in pain shortly and fall to the ground unconscious. Before the other could do anything the same happened to him falling on top of the other.
{Just hold on bit longer Amber,} Lilith told the woman on her back as they walked in, the room and quickly went to Kizaru's side.
{We got him,} Lilith said lifting Kizaru by his side. {We are on our way to the extraction point,} she added as Kizaru started to disappear turning completely invisible like the two.
{Alright, Yuga's already at the point. The area is clear.} Yusei replied as Lilith carried now two people towards the elevator.
{Lilith can you a bit quicker, I'm starting losing my grip} Amber said as they were slowly turning visible as she was getting overloaded by her quirk.
-Parking lot-
-With Yuga-
Yuga appeared on the parking lot stubbing slightly almost falling to his knee. "I hate using it this far," he thought as he walked straight to Ben's car. Crouching as he placed two phones under the car and turn them on.
He walked away from the car as he noticed Lilith with a limp Amber on her back and Kizaru on her side. "She's pretty tired." Lilith said as Yuga looked at the unconscious Kizaru. "Found him like that." She explained getting a nod from Yuga as he walked over to them.
Yuga as he placed his hand on Lilith and on Kizaru. He took a breath and all four of them disappeared.
They repapered next to the van, and Yuga almost fell forward if It wasn't for Lilith. She slowly lowered him to the ground. "You're alright?" she asked getting a weak thumb up from the man. "Good," she said as she lowered Amber next to him.
"Hope you aren't too tired Yuga, I'm going to need you in case Ben needs a quick get away." Yusei said making Lilith stand straight.
"Don't tell me it's the worse case scenario?" she asked as her helmet dissolved.
Yusei stayed silent for a bit. "I'm not 100% sure, but Nighteye and Naomasa were seen in the casino," he said pressing on a window showing a bird eyes view of the police barricade and the four police vans driving towards the Red Lotus's gate. "Allmight could be one of the heroes there…"
"We better hope not, if it is Allmight we have to abort the mission." She said making Yusei sigh. "You at least agree with me on this don't you?" she asked looking at the silver head who kept his eyes on the screen. "Yusei?" She called with an edge on her voice.
"I know…The problem is that Ben won't likely leave without at least throwing a few punches," he said making the woman tighten her grip on the edge of the van, mostly because she knew that Ben would do it, but wishful thinking was fighting against that idea.
"Ben knows, he can't beat Allmight. He isn't that dumb." She said making Yusei nod in agreement.
"Let's just hope his battle thirst won't get the better of him," Yusei muttered as he took out his phone. "It's time," he said as white and blue cubes came out from his phone to form a black heavily armored car.
Yusei looked back the screens and changed them now having a first person view from inside of the car.
The car starting driving out of the warehouse to the streets and the screen changed to bird eye view aimed at the car. "Racing games don't fail me now," he thought as the car engine roared and speed off towards the police barricade.
Eyes focused on the road, Yusei drove the car at max speed mostly likely alerting the police, of him approaching. "Oh well," he thought as from that moment, their strategy changed.
The car roared as it approached the police barricade, some tried to stop him signaling him to stop, but it was for not as Yusei rammed through the barricade. "10 damage out of 100," he muttered.
He was approaching the police vans with the heroes. "They better follow the bait," he thought as up ahead on the left side of the road, the ground lowered showing an underground passage.
-With Allmight-
The number one hero who was in his skinny form, was at the moment sat on of the metallic bench of the van, as it drove towards the Red Lotus gate. The hero was in deep thought mainly thinking on his supposed target being the villain, his friend spent a good part of two years investigating to barely finding anything and now. They were possibly going into a trap made by the villain. "What could he be planning."
He was pulled out his thought when his earpiece came to life. {Someone just breached the barricade, it's coming your way.} came the voice of Gran Torino. Allmight stood up and pressed on his com.
"I'll take care of it," he said turning into his buff form and about to jump out of the van, but Gran Torino stopped him.
{Wait, he isn't going after you, he took a turn... The underground passage} Gran Torino said. {Change direction Best Jeanist. follow him.} Gran Torino said as two of the vans followed orders and followed the armored car.
{Nighteye, lead the way for Allmight.} Gran Torino told the hero who nodded and pressed his own earpiece.
{Allmight, go straight to the main gate and run towards the Casino and head to the elevator.} Nighteye instructed as Allmight jumped out of the van.
"I'll end this tonight," he thought dashing causing a strong gust of wind behind him as he dashed towards the casino.
-In the underground auction-
-With Ben-
He was sitting at one of the many tables around the auction room, his attire was slightly different with now wearing a featureless mask, and he wasn't the only one as the entire room was filled with people well dressed and using the same kind of mask.
"So many people here, and so many that don't deserve to live too," he thought darkly as the auction begun, making him tightening his knuckles more and more almost reached a cracking point when the women were on stage.
"As you can see, the women here are of the best quality and for those who prefer the younger ones, are in for a treat tonight," the auctioneer said gesturing to the women who were made to stand in line looking at the crowd, some with begging eyes other with broken and dead eyes. "Now we can start the betting with 20 million."
Ben's finger twitch as he saw people betting on the women, he took a deep breath. "Don't kill the distractions," he told himself as he looked at the auctioneer, a man well dressed in a suit with the same mask as everyone.
"After Yìshí, this guy is next." Ben thought getting up and looking at the higher-level boxes, his target was sat watching like it was a play. Ben had to take few more deep breaths as he started walking out of the lobby to the entrance as the door closed and locked behind him, making sure no one would leave too early.
He looked at his watch. "2 minutes have passed," he thought entering a hallway that was filled with guards who were armored, he tapped twice causing the guards to perk up and press their earpiece.
"We are on our way," all of them said, as they ran a different direction leaving Ben alone in the hallway
He started walking once again as his costume was again covered his body. "Well good that, I don't have to waste my time with them," he thought heading straight to Yìshí's box. {Yusei report?} Ben asked as he got closer.
{The heroes are after the van, I'm heading straight to the backstage for them to save the women and also called all of them to give you some time upstairs.}
"Good, I'm heading to Yìshí." He said opening the door to see Yìshí was watching the auction with a wine glass in his hand, while Seigyo stood besides him. Seigyo aimed is eyes at Ben taking out a pistol aiming at him meanwhile Yìshí looked little disturbed.
He glanced back at Ben and snorted looking back at the auction. "I guess you are whoever attacked my shipment? Did it feel good saving them?" he asked taking a swig of his wine. "You just ruined two months of hard work," he added as Seigyo fired at Ben who dodged it.
"Seigyo would you kindly take care of that disturbance." He stood placing the cup on the table in front of him. "I need to attend more important matters," he said dismissively at Ben.
Seigyo looked at Ben, as his knuckles started getting cover in shards of bone forming 9 inches long bone claws on each knuckle.
"Really, a discount wolverine," Ben thought as Seigyo dashed at him swinging his claws in attempt to injure him, but Ben dodged and choke slammed Seigyo into the wall causing cracks on the wall.
Ben followed up with punching Seigyo on the stomach knocking the wind out of him and digging him deeper in the wall and ended with a stick bomb trapping him in place.
Seigyo tried to struggled but to no avel, Ben looked back at the man who for his credit still remind calmed. "I expected better from you, Seigyo." He said as Ben approached him. "I guess you want to talk about something," he said looking straight at Ben.
Before Ben could reply his com came to life. {Ben grab Yìshí, and leave now. Allmight just ran in the casino. You have to leave now!} Yusei yelled from the other side making Ben consider for a bit.
"Allmight is on his way," he thought quickly grabbing the man's shoulder and shocked him unconscious, but before he could carry the man. Ben's senses went haywire screaming at him to leave as he could feel the heavy stomps getting closer in an increased pace and only after a second the front wall broke sending dust and debride at Ben.
He didn't need his visor to see through the dust, the glowing blue eyes of the giant figure that could send shivers to any villain, him included. "Omuni," Allmight said his voice as deep as Ben remembered as the dust cleared to show the hero.
Ben dropped Yìshí and looked up at the hero. "Honestly forgot what being short is like," he thought looking up at the towering man. "Allmight…it's quite a surprise to see you drop by." Ben said in a distorted voice
{Ben leave now, you can't win this fight!} Lilith screamed through the com, but Ben shook it off.
{I know, but it's going to be hard escaping now.} he said. {Internal cooling at max} he gave the command as his suit started to cool down by a lot. "To be honest, I've always dreamed fighting you one on one. I know that I'm gonna lose but who said I shouldn't try at least?" He asked as Ben's body started to heat up and his eyes glowed a dark purple.
Listening to the villain, Allmight was forming his own theory on Omuni's motivation. "You went through all of this to get my attention?"
"Yes, and no." Ben replied. "But I won't spoil it," he said with a smile under the mask. "You are just part of a bigger plan," Ben disappeared and reappeared in the air with his fist back ready to punch the hero only for Allmight to counter with his own punch.
As their fist collided, Ben could feel his arm cracking against Allmight's fist., applying more pressure as anti-quirk was spreading into the hero.
Allmight felt odd as he could feel the shift of strength as Ben was gaining an advantage, but before Allmight could attack again, Ben used his chest as a board to make a distance between them.
"Well, it worked as I expected," Ben thought as the hero seemed to be analyzing Ben.
"He knows full well, he can't beat me but still wants to try," he narrowed his eyes. "And he was able to match my normal punches," he thought now taking the villain more serious than before.
"I don't know what your goal or plan is, but if there's something certain. You won't be leaving here a free man." Allmight said making Ben chuckle and then laugh as he went into a fighting stance.
"Oh, that's what I've been waiting for, a good fight between us." Ben said clenching his fist even though, they were shaking slightly. "Like I said, I would fight you one day," he thought back to one of his childhood memories and dashed once again as Ki started to cover Ben's body. "Show me your best number one Hero!"