In Solwezi
In an underground fighting arena Gaza was currently fighting against an opponent who had the quirk to bend every part of his body anywhere and was losing badly. Of course, an opponent like that was bound to be tricky to face but Gaza was very different from when he fought Joseph a year ago. His movements were really sluggish, slow and predictable. Then there was his appearance.
First, he was a little skinner, his hair was messier, and his eyes were incredibly red and he was shaking heavily. Even before the match started Gaza looked like he was going to fall over any minute.
Gaza threw a punch at his opponents but he easily bent backwards and then bent his leg forward delivering a hard kick to the chin sending Gaza flying and fell hard to the ground. He coughed up blood and a tooth was loose till it came off.
"WE HAVE A WINNER!!" The announcer said and the crowd went crazy at the one-sided massacre.
Joseph looked down to Gaza and wondered if he didn't use the drug to boast himself or he did but the side effects just greatly benefit.
A little while later
In the locker room
Gaza was desperately using the inhaler to try to get some remnants of the quirk boasting drug but nothing was coming out. He gritted his teeth and threw the inhaler to the floor. He was bandaged and given pain killers after his fight.
"DAMMIT!!" He cursed out and he began coughing violently and he got on his knees gripping his chest in pain. Some blood even began to drip out of his mouth. He weakly got up and changed into his regular clothes.
When he got out of the underground building some people who saw his match laughed at him and started whispering berating words mocking his performance. This made him grit his teeth and clench his fist in anger,
'This cannot end like this!' He thought. He needed more of the drug to boost himself up again. Without it there was now reason he was going to win any of his matches but he couldn't do that while in this town as he needed to go someplace else and get a new supplier. His phone then began to ring and when he checked the caller ID he began to shake and so he ignored the call.
As he walked through the streets, he saw a figure of a person which made his skin crawl. In his paranoia he began to walk a little faster but when he saw the figure again, he began frantically looking around. He then took out his phone and contacts and clicked on the name Joseph but as the phone began to dial. The reason why Gaza had his number in the first place was because after they fought one year ago Joseph had asked about his dealer for the drug but Gaza refused to tell him anything about it. Joseph did press him for answers but Gaza still refused to tell him anything.
Joseph recognized the fear in eyes when he still refused to speak of his dealers so he backed off but he gave Gaza his number on his undercover phone and an Itel given to him by Takhar. He did to at least keep tabs on him and told him if he was facing any trouble he should call that number.
He looked around as Joseph was yet to pick up the phone. When Joseph didn't pick up the phone, he tried again he noticed the man again and, in his panic, and thinking Joseph wasn't going to pick up he put his phone in his pocket and tried to run but he didn't get far as he was tripped falling to the ground.
"Oh, I'm sorry, let me help you up." A man wearing a brown jacket, a red shirt, black pants and black shoes. He roughly grabbed Gaza and put his arm around the fighters back neck like they were old buddies. Gaza felt something sharp around the back neck.
"Let's go and do even try to scream little n*gga there are no heroes or police so don't try any stupid shit." He told Gaza while opening a tad bit enough for Gaza only to see a bit of his gun and so Gaza got the message and the two then went to a red Benzin which had two other men inside the car and they drove off.
"B-Boss man p-please I…" Gaza was shut up by a the hit
"Shut up we gave you multiple chances and warned us to pay us our money Gaza but all the money from some of those matches you won were spent flexing on your social media." The thug cut off Gaza's plea and took out his phone showing off Gaza's posts on social media and than gave him a hard hit using his gun to the cheek bones ripping out some tissue.
Gaza felt so weak right now so much so he knew he couldn't fight his way out of this. Even went he wanted to use his quirk his shoulder muscules felt that they will tear if he did.
"W-Wait I'll get you your money I swear I-I have a plan!"
"Oh, really from where you get the money. You're failing fighting career or nonexistent social media career." The thug laughed at him and so did the others. His arm then got bigger till it ripped his sleeve revealing an orange arm which had small holes in it. Then suddenly four spikes scratched Gaza's back, hard drawing blood making him scream in pain. "Shut up, the big man wants a few words with you."
Unknown to the thugs and Gaza Joseph did answer the second attempted phone call and had just listened in to every thing which was happening.
Outside of town
The car got outside the urban area and was in the woods.
"Get out." The thug in the back seat took out his gun fully and pointed it at Gaza. The other two had also gotten out already to stop him from running. Gaza got out and they all walked to a relatively medium sized mud house.
Once they got inside it was surprisingly bigger and inside than it looked on the outside. There Gaza saw a large hulking man with a man wearing an open black jacket showing off his abs and tattoos, black pants and a mask covering his mouth with tusks designed on it.
"We brought him to the boss." The thug roughly pushed Gaza further inside and the man stood up and walked over to him. His larger frame cast a shadow over Gaza making gulp nervously but then he was hit with a strong punch to the stomach causing him to be sent in the air but was quickly grabbed and slammed down hard to the floor causing dent in it.
Gaza's phone fell out of his pocket but the man stepped on it, breaking it.
"Youngster, you think this is a game?" He angrily asked Gaza. "Instead of paying us our money from the matches you won thanks to our product, you're busy parading around buying fancy clothes, going to big restaurants and flexing around social media hm influencer boy." He grabbed Gaza by the collar and lifted up with one hand.
Gaza tried to say something but with a mixture of fear and the hard slam to the floor he couldn't get any words out of his mouth.
"Do you know who you're playing with. Do you know who you're playing with youngster!" He punched Gaza's already busted nose making him bleed bad from it. "Our business has the biggest names in the country wanting more of it and you think that some no nobody like you can fuck around with us!?" The man then threw Gaza to the ground. "Show him what happens when people don't pay the Wild Drift." He told his goons who smirked and began stomping on him hard.
Before they could do further damage a brown yellow blur speed into the room causing a lot of dust to spread across the room making the man cough violently.
"COUGH! COUGH! What's going arck!!" One of the thugs screamed but was then hit by a strong force to the stomach.
"What th-OFF!!" The other thug was given a strong hit to the head, sending him crashing into the ground face first causing a dent in the ground.
The last goon took out his gun but before he could start shooting he got a strong hit to the face breaking his nose giving him a bad bloody nose. The hulking man was then hit to the gut by a strong pressure of wind knocking him back the wall making him crash through it.
When the dust settled Gaza's body was no longer in the mud house as it seemed to have vanished with the wind.
"What in the world was that! Was it a hero!?" The hulking thug came into the house from the hole he made holding his abdomen in pain. "FUCK NO!" He decided not to take any risks and to take out an inhaler but then some burst from the straw roof and before the thug could take in the drug the intruder crushed into him with his knees digging into the thug's chest.
"Dammit." The thug muttered as he felt the bones in his chest area were badly bruised or cracked. Then out of nowhere the intruder put his hand on the thug's face in an iron grip then the muscular man felt his body get electrocuted badly till he passed out.
The intruder was wearing a long-sleeved black shirt, brown pants, white runner shoes, a hoodie and a grey mask covering his mouth. The intruder then walked over to the goons and did the same electrocuting process to them till they were knocked out.
He removed his face mask and hoodie revealing Joseph.
Earlier
'Tsk. Dammit,' Joseph cursed as he was calling Patrick to inform him on the situation but then he heard Gaza scream in pain. .
"Joseph." Patrick answered.
"Patrick, look I have a lead on the dug but I need you to use your boys to track a number on the call with me on that other phone you gave me the undercover one the itel." Joseph informed him he had also muted the itel.
"Alright, just keep it on the line." Patrick quickly agreed and so Joseph waited a little bit till he got the location. "Our technicians will send you the location on your actual phone just as long as the line is on the itel then just follow the moving target but they are in Solwezi right now. We don't have men stationed there and transportation will take time."
"Don't worry I know someone who can get me there fast just send me the coordinates." Joseph requested and got the location thus ending the call with Patrick, then he dialled a number on his actual.
"Hello Joseph." A tired sounding Minerva answered her phone.
"Hey Minerva, how's my Savannah queen doing this evening ." He said in a smooth voice making the cheetah woman scoff.
"Skip the sweet talk and just tell me why you're calling me so late." She said a little grouchy at being woke up from her sleep.
"Right, I need to get to Solwezi fast." He requested and as if he could tell what was coming next, he spoke up fast. "Before you start growling and scolding me about waking you up just for a ride but it's for a good reason trust me."
"Joseph I can't just leave and leave my nephew home alone for the night just to give a free ride."
"Love please when someone's in danger and I will get there fast to save them." He asked again and heard a frustrated growl from her.
"Don't call me that and fine I'll be at your door soon but you'll get those Takhar friends to get the heroes or police out of my case if I get caught for unauthorised quirk usage and all the speeding I'm about to do for." She accepted as at the end she couldn't really deny him because when she asked for his help concerning Chimwemwe, he didn't hesitate to accept so this is the least she could do for him.
"Thanks, Minerva I knew I could count on you and don't worry. The last part you know quirk laws are weak here plus heroes barely patrol at night in this country and I don't think many of them could catch you." He chuckled, then cut the phone and quickly changed into better clothes.
He now wore a black long sleeved muscle shirt, brown pants, runner shows and finally a face mask. He then heard a knock on his front door so he went and opened the door revealing the cheetah woman. She was wearing a yellow shirt, grey pants and white running shoes.
"Glad you made it."
"Yeah, I would have been here faster but I had to put on some other clothes and say goodbye to Chimwemwe." She explained.
"It's fine." Joseph waved it off and handed Minerva his work phone containing the information. "The location of the moving Target to know where to go. How fast can you get us to it?"
"Well let's see when I usually have to watch my speed whenever I carry someone but since I'm carrying you, I don't have to worry that much so I can guess about a few minutes I think." She thought.
"That's good enough." Joseph nodded. "Listen when we get there, we're going to need to hit them hard and fast because they most likely have the quirk boosting drug so you rush in blitz them get the guy in danger out of there to the and I'll finish them off and keep an eye on them."
"Wait the quirk boasting drug. Is Kujitenge involved with this or is it a cartel?" She questioned.
"I don't know for now but come on we have to move before they kill him." He told her and Minerva decided to stop asking questions and the two walked out the apartment and Joseph locked his phone then went on her back. "Argh I forgot how embarrassing this was."
"Oh, hush you." Minerva playful jabbed and with a burst of speed she took off towards their destination.
"HOLY SHIT!" Joseph yelled as he almost lost his grip at the sudden burst in speed as he had forgotten how fast he was.
"Oh, stop screaming, you've been through this before~." She playfully told him as she briefly looked at the phone while running but she noticed that the signal disappeared and she used her cell phone to place a mark to the destination the target disappeared and continue on there.
As she sped across some areas she caught the attention of some police officers who were doing speed metre duty. They couldn't chase after them because they were far away before they could start their engines. Than the alarming eye of some of the rare heroes, how did night patrol.
About 7 minutes they reached Solwezi and got close enough to their target destination or at least close to it and once Minerva stopped Joseph got off her but he wobbled a bit causing the cheetah woman to shake her head with an amused smile on her face. She then turned to the mud house the phone indicated was her destination and looked around a little at the neighbourhood they were in.
She then turned towards Joseph, pointed at the house and he gave a thumbs up and she cracked her neck then rushed to it in a burst of wind.
Current time
"Wow that went better than I expected" Joseph thought about how easy it was but he also thought I was weird how few of them they were. He was not an expert of the drug game but from what he's seen in movies and stories he's heard, he was sure it would have been a bigger operation or these were just sellers and not the real producers of the whole thing.
He then took out his phone and began dialing with Patrick's number.