Time Skip (6 months)
Another 6 months have passed and no further movement has been seen from my kidnappers. The watches are also working fine. I've got a few hits, most of them are when the Pussycats are doing their hero work, and luckily no 'special exercises' have been observed yet. Though there were some regular exercises reported, Takao works hard on the grind.
I've also kept track of Aiko's dad's movements. He's a part of the Soga clan. Although not often, he has visited their base a bit and I have snooped. They have no affiliation with Chisaki's group, so I can't find Eri yet. I'm also planning on doing something about this gang. I've worked on my vigilante outfit. It's basically a black and grey jumpsuit with a mask, gloves, and boots. Not too bad, matter manipulation and density manipulation is of great help in making outfits. I've made it light, but sturdy. I've made a kevlar type material that should stop me from getting stabbed and shot. I tested it with a knife and small rock sent with velocity at 400m/s and it survived.
I've also incorporated some excess cloth around my shoulders and head trying to make myself look a few inches taller. I also have some boots that raise me up a few inches, so no one should be able to identify me. I've got it strapped with a few knives and have my gloves equipped with essentially brass knuckles. The voice is equipped with a changer and the goggles have a camera on them so I can record the encounter.
Pretty good fit. The operation will be done at night, so I'll have to sneak out of the house. I've mapped my teleportation route so as to not be seen by cameras on my way and I've also visited the hideout to get a general lay of it. I've got a pretty good map laid out right now with a general Idea of the guards and cameras. I look over the map a few more times before continuing to lay down and get some rest. It's 8pm, earlier than when I usually sleep, but my parents still wish me a good night. I set an alarm for 11:45 and go to bed.
Time passes and I wake up to my alarm. 'Well shit, guess I'm doing this.' I begin to put on my suit. 'Jesus, the adrenaline is kicking in. I'm about to illegally raid a gang hideout, probably filled with people. Is this right?' I feel goosebumps, but I continue to take off my clothes and put on my vigilante suit. I pull up the onesie, put on my gloves and boots, and finally put on the mask. I walk over to the mirror and I look at myself. 'Haaaa. The goosebumps are settling a bit. Having a suit that can stop most weapons feels comforting.' I smile a bit, but you can't see it through the mask.
I take a knife from my belt and hold it in front of me. I then let it slip down into my palm making the point face the ground. I look back up at the mirror and talk, "You're fucking crazy man." I then bring my hands down aiming to stab myself in the gut. It looks like I'm committing seppuku and I force myself not to use velocity to stop the blade in any way. It hits and hurts and I quickly pull the knife back away and examine my stomach. "HAha, good. No cut. And bullets?" I look at a small bb on my workspace and hold my hand out to it.
I pull my hand back quickly and use velocity to speed the small ball up to 400m/s aiming for the shoulder. It hits and I feel the impact, stumbling back a bit, but it doesn't go through. 'Fuck, that hurt. But with the tests complete, I think I'm ready.' I take another deep breath and exhale, focusing on the first alley of my route to the hideout, I teleport.
It takes me less than 3 minutes to get there. I take 30 second breaks each jump as to not make my powers go stupid like they did when dodging the sniper last time. 'Good, 4 jumps and I'm on the roof of the place with only a quarter of my energy depleted.' I made sure to teleport in the blind spot of the camera on the roof. I then sit down and meditate, focusing on my breathing to regain some of the energy I lost.
It feels like years, but 15 minutes pass and I'm back up to 80%. 'Alright, step 1: disable the camera.' I did some research on this camera specifically and found that it's motion censored. I place my hand on top of the camera and send my senses inside. 'I've been practicing this technique to hopefully look inside my body later and manipulate my muscles' density, but this works great too.' I manipulate the matter inside the camera to disable the motion sensor in front.
'Alright, moment of truth.' I hop down in front of the camera and look for the blinking light showing it's active. But it doesn't come on, not even after waving at it. 'Good, step 2: surve and batman.' I go cross legged and expand my senses. After a year of training, I can now look up to 37 and a half feet. This allows me to spot my first victim, a guy chilling eating a donut with no cameras in sight. 'First surve, next,' I teleport in behind the man. "I'm batman," I said in a whispered modified voice as I hit the guy under the chin, knocking him out. "You're coming with me," I whisper and teleport back on the roof, manipulating rock around his hands, feet, and mouth.
'Good, next victim.' I go cross legged again and find another person on their own. I teleport in from behind and hit the guy upside the head, knocking him out, and bring him up with the other guy. This continues on for a few more dudes until I meet one that doesn't go down in one. "Ah, bitch. You little shit!" He aims to grab me but I easily dodge while spinning around his arm using my momentum to back hand him in the side of the head. He staggers, but pulls out a knife also giving me time to observe the strike on his head.
It looks like the place hit is bleeding, but not as bad as it should be. 'An invulnerability type quirk? Or maybe a shock absorption. Doesn't matter, he's slow,'. The man turns around with the knife aiming to stab me in the side. I duck under the stab while getting closer to the guy's body. I do something similar to what Toga did on me and flip the guy over me and onto his back. I make sure to break the fall slightly so as to not make too much noise, then just start harmering the guys face. He eventually passes out and I teleport him and me away.
I check his condition and keep his airways open so he doesn't choke on his tongue. After he stabilizes a bit, I set him up in a nice concrete blanket and sit back down to focus. 'Shit, it seems the comotion has 2 guys with guns over to investigate, and there's blood on the floor.' I take a second to find an opportune time to jump in.
I see my moment as they turn the corner on guard of what's in front of them, but not behind. I take 2 rocks found on the roof with me and hit both of them in the back of the head with them. While doing this, I also manipulate the matter to cover their mouth. One staggers, but the other quickly turns and aims to fire. "None of that," I whisper, using a spatial cut to dismantle his weapon. The gun falls in his hand and his fire doesn't go off. I take the shock to do a solid hit to the jaw and the man folds.
I quickly velocity his body, but I'm forced to focus on the other guy as he has his weapon pulled. 'Shit, I can't let him fire.' I quickly switch targets to the gun as I grab the barrel and manipulate its matter, clogging the barrel and disabling the trigger. The guy, less surprised, takes the butt of the gun and aims it at my forehead. I grab the gun however, and push it back at him with velocity, hearing the bone crack as it hits him square in the nose.
This guy falls and I hear movement back through the hall the two men came from. I send my senses and find a guy aiming for his radio. 'NOPE!' I take a knife from my side and throw it down the hall. I use velocity and senses to make the knife turn in air down the hall stabbing the radio in the guy's hand. I see as he quickly drops the radio and pulls his gun aiming down the hallway.
My voice comes from behind him, "Wrong way," I say as I grab the gun from behind him and manipulate the matter to cover the guy's hand. He swings a kick behind him with more skill than anticipated and I lose balance slightly. The guy turns with his kick and faces me as he puts his arms behind my 'head' and twists his arms and body behind him. This is very much unnatural, as his arms are twisted behind his back and aim to flip me over him. 'A quirk like Tiger's '
I follow with the flip and land on my feet. I send a kick behind me, uncaring of his choking out my 'fake head,' in a sense. The guy quickly retracts his head back but his grip around me limits the distance. The kick would have missed however, but I manipulated the bottom of my shoe, extending it slightly to reach his jaw. I carry the kick with extra velocity and the guy's head fumbles backwards like a bobble head and it comes back forward with his body falling with it.
I quickly take the guys with me and teleport to the roof. While getting back, I find 1 guy missing. I quickly expand my awareness and find the guy under me running towards a sort of comms room. I quickly teleport In front of him and he gets a bit startled. I aim a kick to the head, but the earth below us moves as he stamps his foot and I find my extended leg locked in a rock pedestal. "Nice quirk," I say, jumping off my back foot and spinning around.
I use velocity and matter manipulation to break my leg from the rock and spin my rock leg onto his head. He grabs my leg and the rock, making it turn into an iron maiden of a sort. Spikes come out from the rock and it tries to pierce my suit, but does not. I quickly manipulate the spikes out of the rock and try again to spin around, still in his hand, and kick his head.
He's forced to let go of my leg and back off. He slams his hands into the ground and the floor crumbles under me. 'Shit, guess stealth mode is off.' The earth begins to crumble and I fall slightly. As I fall, the floor around the hole shootout in big columns aiming to crush me between all of them. 'Alright, enough of this. This isn't training, get serious. You're at 39%.' I velocity myself up moving just enough to dodge them, as to conserve energy. I then land on the new supports and create 3 space bullets.
I send them to the guy and he creates a rock wall in front of himself. I've worked on my aim however, and have the spheres move around the rock and make them hit the guy 3 times in the back. He then passes out from the attack. Roping him up quickly and sticking him to the ceiling, I then expand my senses and run throughout the facility.
'It seems there's only 7 more people to deal with. 5 are grouped in a lounge and the last 2 are in a meeting room. I still have to collect all the info I can nab from this group. If not them, then maybe one of their contacts knows where Eri is. I also need to cleanse this place of Mr. Sakai's involvement. I don't want him going to jail and Aiko having to live with an absent father.'
I head towards the 2 on their own. Currently, all of them are converging on me. 'Maybe a trap?' I stop running and think of something. 'No, a pitfall wouldn't work.' I continue running towards the 2 and duck into a room beside and wait for them to pass. Once they pass, I sneak back outside and create 2 space bullets and send them towards the back of their heads.
Both hit and both go down. I quickly tie up these 2 and check my energy. '33%. I can maybe get a few more bullets out, then I've got to get as much info as I can and leave. That office the 2 came from looked the most spiffy, I should head there after. Also, the heroes should be on their way, so I must hurry.'
I run towards the five man group. It looks like all they got is guns and I can expect a bullhell, but that works. I've been wanting to try this new power out and this looks like a good test. I turn the corner to face the group. They spot me and all aim their guns. "Aye boys, ya got a present for me?" They all fire and I can watch at a slightly slower speed as all the bullets head towards me.
As they come closer, at a certain distance, all of them stop in mid air. The bullets keep flying for another 10 seconds before it stops. "My turn." I velocity 20 of the caught bullets back and aim for the legs. A lot hit, but none of them go all the way through. I threw them back at 150m/s so some pierced the skin, others didn't.
All of them fall however and I send out 5 space bullets aiming for the face. Most get knocked out from that, and the few that don't can't get up, so I walk over and hit them till they go unconscious. I check my energy after that. '19%. Not too bad.' I go over to the group and rope them up. '17%. This pocket storage is really handie.'
I then run around the facility looking at files and taking phones. After taking the main office's computer with me, I put it all in storage and teleport to the roof. '14%. I'll rest here for a bit and call the police from one of these guy's phones.' I take out a little food and munch, regaining some energy as I wait.
After a little bit of time passes, one of the guys that I have on the roof wakes up. He then tries to thrash around and yell, but can't. 'It might be interesting,' I think as I get up and walk over to the guy. I place my hand on the rock covering his mouth and let it come undone. He says, "Who the hell are you? A hero? You have no right to do this." I stay quiet and sit next to the guy just to let him talk.
He starts off cursing at me and making empty threats. Then he moves on to 'giving me a chance' to let him go and leave. Then he moves to bribery offering me the code to a safe in the building. 'Hmm, Is it bad if I take some of their money for myself? If I don't, it will just go to the government and probably have no real effect.' I get up and start walking away. As I do, the guy starts screaming and cursing, but realizing his predicament, he begs to be let free saying he has kids, but I ignore him.
After taking about a million yen from the safe, I head back to the roof and wait a little longer, also calling the police. I also redo the gag on the guy because he's a little too noisy. "Welp, guess I should head out." I get ready to leave when a voice comes from behind. "And where do you think you're going, criminal?" 'Wow. really? Of all people?' I turn around to face the man, "oh, hey All Might." I give him a very friendly greeting, like meeting a friend out in public.
"You know my name, but who are you supposed to be?" "Huh, good question. I haven't really thought of what my hero name should be." "A hero? If you plan to be a hero, then it's no good ruining your image in this way. Unlicensed hero work can get you upwards of 10 years in prison." "That's fine. Even if I go to prison, I can easily get out with my quirk." "And what quirk would that be?" "I can mess with your mind if you talk to me. I can make you forget you even talked to me or have you see things that weren't actually there. Even now, you're not even looking in my direction and only talking to an image of me." "Nice try, but I've heard it before, you're coming with me now."
I hold up my hands and he dashes towards me. "I'll see you soon, All Might." I then teleport miles away and sufficiently lose him. "Huahauwhahdhhahs." I then sort of shake around with the shivers "That was freaky and surreal. I just took out a whole Yakuza group and faced off with All Might." 'I gotta get home.' I rest and teleport back to my room, quickly taking off all my clothes and hide under the covers. 'If anyone asks, I was asleep all night. Nothing even happened tonight, I was dreaming of rainbows the whole time.' I comfort myself and go to sleep.