[Death Wish]
Alternate Universe - MHA/GTA5 Crossover | Midoriya Izuku has a Quirk, but he never became a Pro Hero (He's basically Cole MacGrath) | Manami and Izuku swear a lot | Midoriya Izuku/Aiba Manami | Midoriya Izuku, Todoroki Touya and Takami Keigo replace Franklin Clinton, Trevor Philips, and Michael De Santa | Spider-OC replaces Lamar Davis | Aiba Manami replaces Lester Crest | Aiba Manami isn't short like she is in canon (basically, she reaches up to Izuku's eyes) | Todoroki Touya changed his name | HPSC President sends hordes of Heroes after Izuku, Touya and Keigo (They get folded easily) | MHA Hero Society is hella corrupt | Post-Paranormal Liberation War | Crackfic with a bit of serious shit on the side | Classes 1A & 1B are a bunch of bitches in this | OC loves breaking the 4th Wall | Eraserhead is secretly proud of his former students | Shinso bashing
"What's the panic, Icchan?" Manami called to her green-haired lover, who angrily slammed the door to their apartment as he entered. "What the hell do you think!?" Izuku snapped, making Manami frown. "Hey," she said as she walked out of their office. "What's up?" She continued.
"You wanna know what's up? Imagine the one scenario that can make you have a double-take." He replied. She rolled her eyes, putting her hands on her hips as she retorted, "Oh, yeah, my mind is racing. Like our house is about to be raided. Or someone was able to scam you, despite how outlandish that sounds. Or maybe I'm pregnant because you filled my pussy to the brim instead of pulling out and cumming all over my face and tits four days ago... Actually, I hope that's the case." Izuku blushed at that despite his annoyance, before Manami continued, "You know what? Just fucking tell me, so I could see if I can help you out a bit!"
At that, Izuku started relaying what happened in the past hour. "Some bastards want me to kill Keigo. Other bastards want me to kill Haruto. With everything I've been through with them, I don't think I could do it! Goddammit, I'm fucked!" He replied, putting his head on his hands as he sat on the couch. Manami hummed before she replied, "I can see that. Who are the bastards?"
"Uh, there's Enji Todoroki and Kenji Nobunaga, the guys who're trying to cover up their filthy origins. Then there's Hari Kurono, the guy leading what remained of the Shie Hassaikai. Then there's Masaki Tatsuhiro, who barred me from becoming a Pro Hero--" Izuku replied, before he was cut off by Manami, who clicked her tongue in annoyance at the second name he mentioned.
"Oh, the white-haired blockhead who used to be Sayaka Grant's assistant. Got himself exposed three days ago for having the HPSC President's successor assassinated, didn't he?" she asked Izuku, who only hummed in response.
"Alright," Manami started, making Izuku lean forward for her advice. And her advice wasn't one he expected. "I say: kill Keigo, then Haruto," she said, making his jaw drop in disbelief as she started walking back to her office.
"Baby, are you for real?" Izuku asked in disbelief, as she raised her hands to the air like she gave up.
"I don't know. W-We're fucked!" She replied, making her lover palm his forehead as he retorted, "You know everything, 'Nami!"
"I know, okay? But... I-I'm sorry; I guess this is it!" She ran a hand through her hair as she continued, "I'm trying my best..."
Izuku raised his hands up as he and Manami walked into the office. "I know..." He trailed off as he leaned against the wall.
"Shit... We're screwed! Every single one of us is screwed!" Manami said, leaning against the wall as well. Suddenly she perked up, as an idea sprouted in her head.
"Unless.." She trailed as Izuku watched her walking to her computer and typing away at the keyboard. "Okay, Kenji Nobunaga is under a lot of fire, along with all the other 'Pro Heroes' from the press and social media because of the massive screw-up during the 'Paranormal Liberation War'. And Masaki Tatsuhiro is known to be A: a major asshole, and B: very friendly with Katsuki Bakugo, who now runs a private security firm separate from his Hero Agency," Manami said, making Izuku bristle in anger at the mention of his former friend.
Manami continued, "I think Tatsuhiro actually owns a piece of Dynamight Security And Protection..." She trailed off, typing on the keyboard as Izuku chuckled mirthlessly at the name of the private security firm. "Right, 12%. Pretty good for a 'upstanding citizen' owning a private army." - Izuku nodded as she continued - "So, they would love to be involved in retrieving a treasure trove of evidence we just uncovered two days ago. If I tell them both that you guys were at an abandoned warehouse at the Musutafu Industrial Docks, unveiling it all to the Internet, then maybe these idiots would pay you a visit and then, BAM! We turn it into a bust!"
Izuku only chuckled at that. He may be a strategist, but only Manami can concoct wild plans with that much enthusiasm. "Yeah, let's do this."
"Alright," Manami said as she took out her phone, "I'll get in touch with Takami and Akiyama. You get to the warehouse; get everything set up."
"Okay," Izuku said, turning to leave, before stopping at the doorway. Suddenly he turned back around, walked back to Manami, and turned her around before kissing her deeply.
"Mmm!?" Manami was surprised, but she reciprocated the kiss wholeheartedly by wrapping her arms around his neck. "Mmmmmhhhh..."
Suddenly, he unlatched his lips from hers, making Manami retract her arms as he ran off. "Don't wait up on me!" He called to her as he slammed the door shut. Manami smiled to herself, her face turning red before she went back to the game project she'd been working on earlier.
As he ran to the rooftop of their apartment building, he quickly shed his casual outfit for his vigilante outfit, shoving his casual clothes into his backpack and tossing it inside a hollow wall. His vigilante attire consisted of a dark-gray full-bodysuit with yellow highlights that had the gloves and shoes connected to it, under a jacket with a black-and-yellow color scheme. On his face he wore a grayish-green nanotech helmet with glowing lenses that looked like arcs of lightning. He also had two chains wrapped around both arms from the wrists reaching up to the elbows. His outfit was made with very strong insulation (courtesy of Mei Hatsume and Melissa Shield) so that it could withstand his lightning, which was stronger than Chargebolt and Amplivolt's Quirks combined.
{an: "Amplivolt" is basically the guy from the Paranormal Liberation Front who had an attack called "Supreme Discharge: Thundernet". When I looked him up, I saw that he doesn't have a name, so I decided to call him "Amplivolt".}
Spotting a utility pole, he jumped off the roof, activating his Static Thrusters to grind on the utility pole's power lines. WIth a free hand he brought a free hand to his ear, calling one of his vigilante allies.
Eventually, his call got answered, "What's up, man?"
"Lucas, things are getting bad right now!" Izuku replied, as he jumped from one power line to another.
"A'ight! Who better to have in a screwed-up situation than a screwed-up fool like me!?"
"Yeah, that's what I wanted to hear! Hey, I'm coming over to get your ass!" Izuku said.
"I'm over at the very top of the Musutafu Central Bank near Musutafu Bugle! Meet me there!" At that, the call ended.
Moments later, Izuku heard a jovial voice from above him as he got near. "There he is!" He smiled as he maneuvered his way to the top of an office building's rooftop, looking up to see a masked man swinging from a line of webbing towards him. Getting closer to the rooftop, the man unlatched the web-line from another building, positioning his body to be ready to touch solid ground. The man wore a dark-red full-body unitard that a large red spider on the back and red sleeves on the arms, and a dark-red mask that had red lenses. Over the unitard, he wore a faded-red capelet with a spider-web motif, navy-blue army pants and cobalt-blue freerunning shoes that had technologically-modified soles.
Standing up, he asked Izuku, "Where're we going?"
"We're heading to the Musutafu Docks," Izuku replied, as he looked far off to the distance. He grit his teeth, seeing some of his former classmates moving towards him and Lucas.
And none of them looked pleased to see him either.
Lucas frowned, already sensing who's gunning for them. "C'mon; let's bounce," he said, jumping off the building to swing away. Izuku followed suit, activating his Static Thrusters once more as he leapt off the edge. Gliding towards a utility pole, he deactivated his Quirk and dropped down to one of the power lines, grinding on the power line with his Static Thrusters.
"Hey, Redback!" Using their codenames, Izuku called out to Lucas, who swung near him. "If it's too heavy for you, you can back out of this, no drama needed!"
"Hit me with it, Raiden!" replied Lucas.
"We got a problem!" Izuku said, pausing to avoid Grape Juice's Grape-chain and retaliating with a blast of lightning, incapacitating the small pervert.
(Hold up; it's ya boi Lucas, though you can call me Redback. Sorry about the obligatory wall-break, but I have to ask you, dear Author: HOW IN THE NINE LAYERS OF HELL DID THIS MAGGOT GET A LICENSE BUT NOT OUR MAIN MAN IZUKU!?)
(Well, this world's superhuman society is a lot more corrupt than in canon. To the point where society would rather have a fucking degenerate with so many criminal charges to their name as a Hero than a guy who actually wants to protect and serve the people.)
(... Well, that checks out. Anyway...)
Izuku gained a satisfied grin hearing a small thud and sounds of metal being crushed under something behind him, indicating Mineta's rough landing on a garbage truck, before continuing, "Falcon and Torch... Well, we're trying to save 'em!"
Lucas laughed at that. "Well, I'd be surprised if you didn't!" Izuku deadpanned at the spider-themed vigilante who suddenly stopped laughing as he turned around to evade a strand of tape from Cellophane, who tried to capture him. Once he evaded the tape, Lucas shot a moderate amount of web-balls consecutively, trapping the Tape Hero in mid-air between buildings. He barked out a laugh as Cellophane started raging behind him.
Izuku jumped to another power line, avoiding a grappling hook from an angry-looking Uravity and countering it by blasting a surge of lightning towards the tether connected to the gravity-defying Heroine's gauntlets, electrocuting her and forcing Froppy to catch her as they fall behind.
While Izuku dashed away, Lucas caught up and didn't bother to hide his surprise as he asked, "Fucking hell. Who wanted to clap your homies so bad they sent these worthless bitches after you!?"
"Considering our line of work, who doesn't!?" Izuku replied. He continued, "A bunch of Shie Hasssaikai cunts, two washed-up Pro Heroes with dirty pasts, the guy who framed us to keep us from ever becoming Pro Heroes..."
"Tatsuhiro! That punk bitch!? Why didn't you say we're creepin' on him!?!" Lucas cut in, sounding very excited at the prospect as he turned to throw a punch towards Red Riot, who was thrown at him by Froppy. The punch wasn't as strong as anyone might expect, but it was still enough to disorient Red Riot.
"No, we're not creeping on him!" Izuku retorted, before continuing, "He's too pussy to be there himself!" He then jumped, twisting his body to avoid Ingenium's high-powered kick and countering it by lashing the armored Hero's abdomen with his electrified chains, incapacitating the Hero immediately.
(Unbeknownst to the two vigilantes, the current HPSC President in the Control Room heard what was said right before Izuku fried the Hero's comms. On this day, rumors started spreading around HQ about Masaki Tatsuhiro starting a metal band. And honestly? No one could really blame them, 'cause GODDAMN HE'S GOT LUNGS!)
After unknowingly frying Ingenium's comms, Izuku got back on the power line as he continued the conversation, "We need to take all the heat he'll throw at us before worrying about paying the bastard back!" He then cut himself off to focus on FlashFreeze, who was quickly gaining on him and Lucas. Jumping off the power line while charging up the energy in his body, he turned as he raised his fists in the air, forcing FlashFreeze to erect an ice wall in a panic.
'Thunder Drop!' Izuku thought as he slammed his fists onto the ground HARD. The impact destroyed the ice wall completely, which left the dazed Icy-Hot Hero wide open for a Swing Kick from Redback that rendered FlashFreeze unconscious.
Then Izuku got snagged by Eraserhead's capture-scarf. "Surrender!" The middle-aged Pro Hero called out from his perchpoint on the lamppost. The lightning vigilante jumped high, spinning his body so fast that Eraserhead got pulled from his perchpoint, and kicked the Pro Hero away, the capture scarf coming undone around his body.
After making sure that Eraserhead was subdued, Izuku jumped on a car, and used his lightning to launch himself off the roof of the car and onto a power line.
"Alright! Now that we're done playing them, let's head to our real destination," Izuku said as he started grinding on the power line ahead of Redback. Unbeknownst to him and Redback, Eraserhead hid a smile as he lay against the wall he crashed onto.
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As the duo got nearer, Raiden saw a dark-blue hatchback in a dark alley, indicating that Torch is already there. He smiled as he landed, turning to Redback who landed on the warehouse's wall.
"Okay, Falcon and Torch should be inside. Can you stay out here, so you could let us know when the horde is coming?" Raiden asked his comrade.
Redback replied, "A'ight, man; I'll holler at you." Then he shot out a line of webbing and swung away to the roof.
Nodding his head, Raiden walked into the warehouse, expecting to see Falcon and Torch setting up. What he didn't expect to find was them arguing on an elevated platform.
Torch's voice rang out, "We're about to have a life/death showdown with the Commission's private army, and you're still wielding feather swords!?" Touya Todoroki, now Haruto Akiyama, didn't look as gnarly as he did before ditching the Front thanks to his wife, who possessed a very strong Healing Quirk. Unfortunately, he still had scars littered around his body.
"Hell, yeah, I'm using swords! Sure, they're old-school, but they still get the job done!" This time it was Falcon raising his voice. Aside from the black shirt with a gold pattern and the tan aviator pants, the fur-collared jacket and yellow-tinted glasses were the only things Keigo Takami left behind from his days as a Pro Hero, replacing the glasses with old-school aviator goggles modified by an underground inventor calling himself "Melvin".
"Really?" Torch cut in, a suspicious tone in his voice. "With how we're the only ones here right now, I'm starting to think this is a fucking setup--"
"Hey!" Raiden called out to them, making them turn to him. "I'm risking my ass to save you both! Why're you both trying to kill each other!?"
"Save us both!? More like, you're saving HIM!" Falcon retorted. Torch cut in angrily, "Nah, you're saving THIS feathered fuck!"
"Alright, you got a minute to keep your heads right and end this right now, or else I'll kill you both myself!" Raiden said, making them both shut up and look at him. Undeterred, he took their shared silence as a cue for him to talk to Redback. "Are they here yet?" He asked the spider-vigilante. "I know 'em when I see 'em, bro," Redback replied, hiding as he spotted a horde of Pro Heroes from 500 yards away. "Good," he replied before he dropped the call. He turned his attention to his allies, who watched the call earlier. "If we're doing this, it's now or never."
The silence was tense, with neither Falcon nor Torch letting up as Raiden raised both of his hands to keep them apart should things go sideways.
"FUCK IT!" Suddenly, Torch screamed, making Raiden and Falcon tense up as he started dispelling blue flames from his hands. "NGRAAAAAAHHH!"
Torch turned away as he took a few seconds to calm down, before turning back to his allies. "... Where do you want me?"
Satisfied with the progress, Raiden gestured to the side of the platform they were currently on. "Alright. You stay here."
This time, Falcon stepped forward. "Well, where do you want me?" Raiden pointed above. "You go over there." Falcon nodded, flying up to hide on one of the rafters. Once Falcon and Torch got to their spots, Raiden went to the other side of the platform.
Suddenly, they hear voices.
"Secure the building!" Endeavor.
"Check your surroundings, everyone!" Creati.
"Can't wait to finally put Deku in his place!" Dynamight.
At Dynamight's declaration, Torch looked at a fuming Raiden, prompting the lightning vigilante to start a conversation through their comms.
Torch went first, 'Izuku, I know I'm passing up the chance to beat my progenitor's ass, but Torch and I'll take Bakugo.' Raiden's eyes widened, before Torch continued, 'You're more effective against my progenitor. It'll help make the fight a little quicker.'
'Alright,' Raiden responded before ending the conversation. Suddenly, he jumped from his hiding spot and lashed out his electrified whips, wrapping around Endeavor before the vigilante pulsed his energy through the chains, electrocuting the false Hero.
The fiery Pro Hero screamed and writhed in pain as the lightning reacted badly to his Hellflame. He tried deactivating his Quirk, which was useless as the heat was already spreading throughout his entire body. Endeavor's suffering prompted Creati to quickly make a fire extinguisher, and aimed it towards the writhing Pro Hero before putting out the flames.
Good news; she stopped the fire from spreading. Bad news; Endeavor was already dead anyway.
Seeing that her father-in-law had died, Creati turned sharply to Raiden in rage, who had already been charging up an attack, posing like Goku charging up a "Kamehameha".
As Raiden was about to attack her with a surge of lightning, he sensed an oncoming attacker, jumping away as Dynamight blasted himself towards the Lightning Vigilante, his right arm pulled back.
'Predictable,' thought Raiden as he unwrapped his chains and twisted his body to whip the bombastic Pro Hero, who narrowly avoided the chain. As Dynamight tried to regain his bearings, he was suddenly kicked away by Torch, who flew towards him using flame-like thrusters from his arms.
Putting all his focus on the fiery Villain-turned-Vigilante, Dynamight let out a big explosion towards Torch, forcing his enemy to dodge the explosion and move away from him.
"You're gonna pay for killing Endeavor, Deku!" Dynamight roared out as he crouched, stretching his arms behind him.
Raiden focused his attention back to an attacking Creati, ignoring Dynamight who charged forward with moderately large eplosive bursts.
"God damn it!" The Pro Hero yelled, "Don't fucking ignore me, Deku!" But as the Hero got close enough to attack the vigilante with his signature right hook...
*SHNK!*
"GRAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH!!!" Dynamight roared in pain, stopping himself to see his injury. He panicked as he saw a bloody stump where his right hand should've been.
*Thud*
Just then, he heard the sound of boots landing on the ground, making him look to his right. The last thing Dynamight saw was the eyes of Falcon, formerly the Winged Hero: Hawks, burning in rage as he sliced the bombastic Hero's head clean off his body.
Meanwhile, Raiden deftly avoided Creati's metal staff. As she swung the staff again, he blocked it with his left arm, using his right arm to grab her collar and pull her to him to headbutt her, knocking her out.
"Years later and she still hadn't learned from that?" Raiden muttered as he shook his head. Looking around, he saw the rest of the Heroes who came to apprehend them: Battle-Fist, Real Steel, Invisible Girl, Chargebolt, Suneater, Nejire-chan, Burnin', Midnight, and Sugarman.
"You're gonna pay for that, asshole!" Real Steel yelled, slamming his fists together with a loud *CLANG!*.
"Oh, please; even Frost-Flame would agree that the bastard had to go. I just sped up the process," the vigilante taunted the steely Hero.
"Even still, you should've let the justice system handle this," Midnight admonished the vigilante, expertly hiding her disdain for her former student.
"Ah, yes! Serve him up to the nonexistent 'justice system', and then act all surprised when the courts let him walk free without any sort of consequences," Raiden sneered, making Midnight look down in shame, remembering what happens in cases like Endeavor's. He continued, "Cope all you want; we both know the higher-ups don't give a shit about actual justice."
"Whatever," Chargebolt rolled his eyes. "You said your piece, and we said ours. Let's just get to beating you trash up."
"Okay, one: You never said anything, Chargedolt," Raiden retorted, chuckling as Chargebolt bristled at the nickname his ex-girlfriend used to call him. "And two: You say that like you're gonna win."
At that, Raiden suddenly shot his arms forward and let out a massive surge of lightning, forcing the Heroes to leap out of his attack.
Most of them got away unscathed, with Falcon and Torch moving in to fight them together. However, someone was apparently dumb enough to stay...
"Did you forget!?" Chargebolt yelled, grinning as he held up his right arm, which was absorbing the lightning. "I can absorb electricity like nobody's business!"
Raiden only grinned back, making the Stun-Gun Hero nervous. "Yeah, you can absorb electricity, not lightning," the vigilante clarified, making Chargebolt click his tongue. Suddenly, he started feeling pain growing from his arm, and this time he started panicking. He turned off his Quirk, only to find that he's still absorbing lightning.
"AAAAHHHHHH!!!!" Chargebolt screamed, writhing as the lightning started spreading out all over himself, overloading his Quirk.
"No!" Real Steel moved between Raiden and his comrade, effectively stopping the vigilante from killing him. The lightning stung, but he was still fine.
*Thud*
Real Steel turned, and he was shocked to see Chargebolt fall to the floor. He ran to his fallen comrade, checking if he was still alive. Real Steel was relieved to see that Chargebolt is still breathing, though he was perplexed to see that the Stun-Gun Hero's eyes look... vacant. He's already stopped the vigilante from killing him, so why does he have a bad feeling about this...?
"Good news: I didn't kill him, if that's what you're worried about. Bad news: I made him brain-dead. Permanently."
Oh, that's why.
Wait...
WHAT!?
Real Steel gently laid Chargebolt to the ground, then turned to charge Raiden, screaming in rage as he pulled back his right arm. He shot his arm forward in a jab, which Raijin deftly avoided. Real Steel growled as he kept his punches and kicks, all of which the vigilante kept avoiding.
Soon enough, Raiden grew bored of the other half of "The Manliest Duo in Hero Society". The vigilante retaliated with only one attack...
... which is an electrified uppercut.
"Shin... SHORYUKEEEEEN!!!" Raiden yelled out, as he sent Real Steel through one of the dirty skylights and outside of the warehouse, where Redback is fighting the rest of the Pro Heroes.
Sensing something as he evaded Gevaudan's mighty hook, Redback looked up to see one of his old classmates falling from the sky, with smoke trailing from his body. "Shit!" he yelled out, swinging over to the mast of a nearby crane. The Beastly Hero turned to jump over to the web-slinging vigilante, only to get hit over the head by the unconscious body of Real Steel, knocking Gevaudan out instantly.
"Shishida! Tetsutetsu!" Their compatriots screamed as they ran over to the KO'd heroes. Phantom Thief turned sharply to Redback. "You'll pay for that, Vidal!" He screamed, jumping high as he shot out a blast of energy (copied from Nejire-chan's Quirk) towards the web-slinging vigilante who shot two weblines upward to slingshot himself away.
"Diputa!" Redback cursed in his native language as he parried the swipes of Jack-Mantis' armblades and kicking the battle-hungry Pro Hero away from him. "Raiden!" He yelled to his comms, evading Mount Lady's attempts to catch him and Lady Vine's, well, vines as he went. "Your little stunt pissed these bitches off even more than they already are! I need help!"
Landing on the ground, Redback slid under Mount Lady's left hand, then jumped over to a nearby wall. Covering his hands with webbing and turning them into claws, he yelled as he faced his enemies, "ALRIGHT! NO MORE FUCKING AROUND!"
Inside the warehouse, Raiden growled as he teleported behind Invisible Girl and handchopped her neck to knock her out. "We got this!" He turned to Falcon, who was busy fighting Sugarman, Midnight and Burnin'. "Go help Redback!" Torch yelled, evading Battle-Fist's giant punches while attacking Suneater and Nejire-chan with his flames, which have gotten stronger since leaving the Front.
Grunting, Raiden jumped, using his Static Thrusters to fly out of the broken skylight that Real Steel flew out of earlier. And he saw states of some of the Pro Heroes Redback fought.
Gevaudan? Knocked out.
Real Steel? Knocked out.
Mount Lady? Knocked out and laying on a destroyed warehouse and debris.
Phantom Thief? Beaten up and then castrated, as evident by the sight of a bruised Neito Monoma crying as he clutched his profusely-bleeding crotch.
Jack Mantis? Knocked out and missing the blades from his bleeding jaw.
Lady Vine? Cocooned in her own vines, praying to God with tears rolling down her cheeks.
Redback? Swinging away from Mindjacker, who is fidgeting with his voice-changer while also swinging like the vigilante. Except he uses Eraserhead-style capture-bandages wrapped around his arms like sleeves.
After Mindjacker was done tuning his voice-changer so that he could sound like the recently-departed Felicia Belladonna, AKA the Pantheress, his grin widened. "Lucas! Quit fucking around and come get some of this ass!" The Eraserhead-copycat grappled himself over to a nearby tower crane as he called out to the vigilante, who landed on the wall of a different warehouse.
"Oh, shit..." Raiden muttered, worriedly looking at the web-slinging vigilante. A roundhouse kick from Miruko to his abdomen brought him back to focus on his fight with the rabbit Heroine, Ryukyu and Vlad King.
Phantom Thief stopped whining and moaning, as he craned his head to look at Redback with growing fear. No one ever made fun of Redback's loved ones and got away with it.
Mindjacker dropped his grin. 'Why do I hear boss music?'
Redback turned slowly, growling as he did so.
Mindjacker only had one thought as Redback tensed up, ready to attack his enemy.
'Oh. That's why.'
"... Walang hiya kang hayop ka!!!" Redback screamed in rage as he jumped off, leaving a large spiderweb of cracks on the roof. His upper body is covered by a red symbiote as he pulled his right arm back, snarling and turning his right hand into claws.
"Damn!" Mindjacker cursed as he jumped away, right before Redback slashed the crane with a wide-arced swing. The web-slinging vigilante growled as he turned his Symbiotic Claws into a bludgeon. Perching on what remained of the crane tower's mast, he thrust his left hand forward, shooting out thin tendrils to catch the currently panicking-Mindjacker.
The Pro Hero's legs got snagged by the tendrils. As the tendrils wrapped around his legs completely, Mindjacker thought, '... Shit.'
"You think you can insult her memory, you damn cunt!?" Redback yelled in his distorted voice, jumping off the crane tower's mast and raising his budgeon-arm as he pulled Mindjacker back to him. As Mindjacker got closer and closer, Redback unwrapped his tendrils from the Pro Hero's legs. Once Mindjacker was directly in front of Redback, the web-slinging vigilante brought down his Symbiotic Bludgeon hard to strike the Pro Hero to the ground below.
Mindjacker let out a pained yell as his body impacted the concrete, making a giant crater the size of Mount Lady's ass-cheek.
But Redback wasn't done with the Pro Hero. Not after Mindjacker mocked Felicia's memory.
Mindjacker's arms and legs were suddenly covered by red webbing, prompting him to look up. Redback dove down, his right fist pulled back as he screamed.
The Pro Hero panicked as he struggled to free himself from the webs to no avail.
"NOOOOOO!!!"
*POW!*
Redback's fist hit Mindjacker's abdomen hard, resulting in the Pro Hero cutting off his screams and coughing up a fountain of blood, falling unconscious afterward.
Raiden turned to the sound, as did Miruko, Ryukyu and Vlad King. The lightning vigilante clicked his tongue as he turned back to his enemies.
"Alright! Time to end this!" At that, the Pros turned to see Raiden raising his arms and summoning lightning from the now-darkening sky. "IONIC STORM!" The vigilante yelled, and as he brought his arms down, so did the lightning. The Dragoon Hero quickly spread her wings and shielded her comrades.
"Take cover!" Ryukyu ordered Miruko and Vlad King, who fled under her to avoid the lightning. "AAAARRGGHH!!!" Ryukyu screamed in pain, as one of the lightning bolts struck her body.
It didn't take long for a few arcs of lightning emanating around Ryukyu's body to affect Miruko and Vlad King due to the metal on their costumes. They yelled in pain as the arcs streamed from her steel-toed boots and his arm gauntlets and electrocuted them.
A few seconds later, the lightning disappeared, and the three Pro Heroes fell to the ground unconscious.
"Raiden!" Falcon's voice crackled through Izuku's comms. "Torch and I are done with the Pros inside. Don't worry; Bitchugo and Endeawhore are the only casualties here. Unless we count Chargebolt, 'cause of brain death."
"Copy," Izuku replied, as he went around restraining the unconscious Pro Heroes (and a fucked-up Phantom Thief) with Arc Restraints around their bodies.
"Let's restrain the bastards and bitches first before regrouping," Redback said gruffly, as he cocooned Mindjacker with webbing from his collar to his legs. After restraining the mind-jacking Pro Hero, the vigilante carried him as he climbed up the mast of another crane tower.
*Thwip!* Once he got close to the operator cabin, Redback shot a thin line of webbing to the counterweights and stuck the free end on Mindjacker's left foot. After making sure that Mindjacker is secured, he let go of the Pro Hero.
"And done," Redback muttered as he jumped off and swung back to the others, leaving Mindjacker to hang upside-down from the counterweights.
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Back in the apartment, Manami was working on the last touches of her game when her phone suddenly rang, making her jolt. On the screen was a notification, indicating a call from Izuku. At first she lit up and hurriedly took her phone off the desk, but then worry filled her heart. What if the Pros defeated her lover and his friends? What if they found out about her being the brains behind the operation?
Steeling her nerves, she tapped 'Call' on the screen and brought the phone to her ear. "Who is this? S-Stop calling this number--!"
"It's just me, 'Nami; calm down!" Izuku's voice rang out from the phone, making her sigh in relief. "Oh, thank goodness you're alive! I thought someone found your phone," She replied, wiping away the tears that threatened to fall from her eyes. "Baby, what do you take me for?" Izuku asked her, as Manami laughed at Torch groaning in the background because of Izuku calling her "Baby". Her lover continued, "Look, I got you on Speaker mode."
"Did Keigo make it?" She asked.
"Yeah, I'm here." Falcon spoke up.
"And the other one- I mean, Haruto?" She asked with a small amount of sarcasm.
There was a short growl before Torch finally spoke, "I'll see you PUT IN THE GROUND, NERD!"
Manami let out a laugh as she heard the sound of a hand crashing on top of someone's head. "So," she spoke, gaining the vigilantes' collective attention as she continued, "is this just some sort of social call?"
"No," Keigo replied, "We got some work to do. Mind getting us some whereabouts?"
At that, Manami slid her chair over to a different computer setup, which has five monitors, with the giant monitor being flanked by the other moniters on either side. "I'll do my best. Who?" She asked.
"To start? Hari Kurono." Keigo answered.
"And Masaki Tatsuhiro." Izuku chimed in.
"And Kenji Nobunaga, or as Japan knows him, the Equipped Hero: Yoroi Musha. Don't worry about Endeavor; we already took care of the coward." Haruto growled out before he continued, "And also, one of Redback's ex-associates."
"Huh... Name?" Manami asked.
This time Lucas spoke up. "His real name's Terrence Yashida; calls himself 'Marksman."
Manami typed the names in and, after only a few seconds, found the specific locations for each target.
"Okay. Well, I can tell you that Kenji Nobunaga, the esteemed Yoroi Musha, is taping a scene for his new documentary over at the pier on Takoba Beach; shooting permit came up immediately--" Manami said before she was interrupted.
"SHOTGUN! Whoo! I wanted to ICE THAT FUCKER since meeting him!" Torch yelled out as she heard him walking away.
"Alright, alright... Ah! I got a signal from Mr. Yashida's phone. Apparently he's with his new gang on an apartment building rooftop next to the All Might Quirk Gym and Recreational Center." Manami continued, as if she wasn't just interrupted by Torch seconds ago.
"No, I got him," Keigo said, presumably talking to Lucas. "Let's keep him clear of any known associates."
"Alright, thanks," Lucas replied, as Keigo nodded before flying off to the other side of Musutafu, where Redback's turncoat was located.
"Who do you have for us, 'Nami?" Izuku asked. "Well, Hari Kurono's credit card just bought a magnum at the Beach Club on the other side of Takoba," Manami replied.
Lucas chimed in. "Alright, I'mma go ask his lackeys about the dick-rider!" At that, he left, swinging away.
"And as for Mr, Tatsuhiro," Manami said, typing away at the keyboard as she tracked down the current HPSC President. Then she smiled deviously, as she continued, "a security team from Dynamight was dispatched to protect the bastard in his mansion at the Musutafu Hills. Probably expected the Heroes to fail in reclaiming the evidence we uncovered."
"Alright. Thanks, babe," Izuku replied, making Manami blush. At that, her lover ended the call.
"Good luck, honey," Manami said to herself as she went back to the other setup and saved her project.
Redback - Target: Hari Kurono (Chrono)
As Redback swung from building to building, he felt his phone rumbling in one of his pockets. He raised an eyebrow as he took out his phone with his right hand while continuing to swing with his left. Seeing his new wife's name on the Caller ID, he smiled as he pressed [Call].
"Hey," he said to the phone, chuckling as he heard shuffling from the other end.
"Lucas! Are you okay!?" Komari Vidal asked her husband a worried tone in her voice. "None of those heroes got to you, did they!?"
"Love, it's alright. I thrashed them," replied the web-slinging vigilante, as he landed on the street and started jumping and vaulting over cars before launching himself to the air and swinging again.
"Oh, thank Kami!" Komari heaved a sigh of relief as she wiped away the tears in her eyes. Then her mind registered her husband's words, and hurriedly added, "N-N-Not that I uh-wanted you t-to beat them to an i-inch of their l-lives!" Redback only chuckled as he swung, already knowing that she was pouting in embarassment.
"Well, now that you and your friends already settled it," Komari started again, catching her husband's attention as she continued, "I take it this whole conspiracy's over?"
"Well, first of all, I wouldn't call it a conspiracy; more like a shared crusade." Redback replied defensively, which made Komari laugh before he continued, "And second of all, we're almost done; just a few loose ends to tie up."
"Oh," Komari blinked as she replied, before her face lit up in realization. "Oh, you and your friends are creeping on some people, aren't you?" She asked with a small grin.
"Yep," Redback answered, "and I'm in charge of taking care of the guy trying to resurrect a dead gang."
"Alright." Komari already knew her husband's capabilities, but she couldn't help herself. "I get that I worry too much, but please take care of yourself."
"You know I will," Redback replied, before he concluded the call. "See you later, Babe."
"Bye, honey," Komari bade her husband goodbye, before riling him up with one last statement. "By the way, make sure to keep your stamina up, 'cause when you get home you're going to breed me, and we're not stopping until we're 100% sure I'm pregnant."
She only got his silence before she laughed, already knowing he dropped his jaw before she pressed [End Call]. Lucas shook his head after a few moments of being shocked into silence. "Komari's gonna be the death of me..." He muttered to himself as he swung from lampposts, utility poles and overhead signs along the coastal road to the Takoba Beach Club. As he got closer, he spotted four black SUVs and a white sedan in the middle driving out the gates, making him grin. 'Jackpot.' Redback thought, as he perched on a utility post to notify his allies. "Just spotted Chisaki's former cocksleeve leaving the premises. I'm gonna take care of him now."
With that, Redback zipped over to the next utility post and launched himself off it. He landed on the sedan's trunk and slashed off half of the car's roof. Chrono turned around, flabbergasted by the sight of Redback waving at him before the vigilante covered his right arm with a Symbiote Blade and separated the Shie Hassaikai leader's head from his body. The SUVs and the sedan stopped, and the drivers and passengers all scrambled out as they took out their guns. "He killed the boss!" One of them yelled, before moving to shoot the one responsible for Chrono's death. "WASTE HIM!"
At that, the gangsters started shooting him and activating their Quirks, forcing Redback to jump from one spot to another to avoid the bullets and the attacks. Spotting the closest gangster, he launched himself to the air and shot a webline to the gangster. The poor sod panicked as Redback pulled himself to him and punched him to the SUV, knocking him out instantly. Sensing more bullets shot toward him, Redback took the gangster and used him as a human shield against the volley of bullets before jumping away to avoid energy blasts coming from the rest of the gangsters.
But then the vigilante saw the energy blasts. 'Thanks; you morons just gave me an idea.' Redback thought deviously, as he landed on the sedan.
"Looks like he wants to surrender, boys!" One of them taunted as he looked at the web-slinging vigilante, who looked like he was doing nothing. "Nah, he's not getting any second chances! Not after he killed the boss!" Another said, brandishing his rifle.
Unbeknownst to them, he had Explosive Spider-Bots crawling out of one of his back-pockets and behind his legs, being careful not to get spotted as they crawled to the underside of all five vehicles. Once the HUD integrated into his lenses notified him that the Spider-Bots were ready to go off, Redback smirked under his mask, shooting a ball of webbing to one of the gangsters in the face. The man angrilly pulled the webbing from his face with a yell, before he roared, "I'm gonna kill you, bitch!" The gangster thrust his arm forward, as a blast of condensed napalm shot out of his hands and towards the web-slinging vigilante.
"PSYCH!" Redback yelled as he jumped and swung away, leaving the goons panicking behind him before the napalm shot impacted the sedan which activated the first Spider-Bot, which resulted in all five vehicles exploding, killing most of them and leaving a few comatose and with 3rd-degree burns.
Falcon - Target: Terrence Yashida (Marksman)
"Okay, I'm here," Falcon notified his allies as he landed on an office building three blocks away from where Terrence Yashida, known throughout society's underworld as Marksman, is supposed to be. The HUD in his modified aviator goggles zoomed in to the man twirling his rifle and showing off to his gangmates.
Falcon sent out a small feather to the side of the ledge of the rooftop currently occupied by his target and his target's gangmates, letting him hear what Marksman is currently saying, "... Redback. Raiden. Disrespectful motherfuckers trying to break the order of things. Please, as if some bitches could ever..."
'Alright. I've had enough of you, turncoat,' Falcon thought, calling the feather back to him as he flew off to kill Marksman.
As the gang laughs at the words Marksman said about Raiden and Redback, one of them looked around and panicked as he saw Falcon coming from above, sharp feather raised high above his head as he swooped down.
"The fuck! Look out!"
Marksman turned around, raising his gun to shoot the attacker. He pulled the trigger thrice, only for Falcon to avoid each bullet gracefully and slashing the gun in half. Not letting any of them have a chance, Falcon moved quickly form one to another and took each goon out, slicing and dicing through each of them in the blink of an eye. Marksman stumbled back as he scrambled to fish out his other gun, but by then it was already too late. Falcon was already behind him and stabbed his feather blade through the turncoat's neck.
*SHNK!*
"Urrgh... Hhrggh..." Terrence Yashida gurgled out blood as he tried to remove the blade, desperately clinging to life before finally going limp.
Falcon stood there for a moment, looking down on his blood-stained clothes. Suddenly, he heard police sirens coming from four blocks away, and heaved a sigh before flying off.
As he flew to the skies, he called his associates through his comms. "I'm clear. Your pal, Marksman? He's not your problem anymore."
Redback only scoffed at that, while Raiden replied, "He was never our 'pal'. He was a bastard who screwed us over time and time again. Thanks."
Torch - Target: Kenji Nobunaga (Yoroi Musha)
Torch drove down to the recently-built Takoba Beach Pier in his dark-blue hatchback as he banged his head to Post-Quirk-Era Metal.
"I'm moving in on the damn fake. Aiba, see if you could patch me in to his radio mic. I want a last reminder of the annoying dickhead that he is," Torch said as he got out of his car, holding a rifle made specifically for him by a guy named Melvin, Falcon's underground support guy.
He scowled as he listened in to Yoroi Musha talking, "Musutafu. A city of saints. A city of sinners. And nothing in between but the Heroes and the Hero Public Safety Commission." Suddenly, he snorted as he heard the old and decrepit Hero cursing, as if he cringed after what he said, "CUT! Gah, this is CRAP! Who writes all this anyway?"
'Alright, time to get this over with,' Torch thought as he took cover beside his car, bringing his rifle up so he can scope out his target. Once he managed to get a clear vision of Yoroi Musha, he smirked, pulling the trigger.
*BANG!*
Sadly for Kenji Nobunaga, he would never be able to get through the first day of taping the first scene of his new documentary, as an enflamed bullet sped through the air and went right through the right side of the old and decrepit Hero's head, killing him instantly.
With that, Torch quickly got back in his car and sped away while horrified screams filled the pier. As he did, he contacted his allies. "Hey, I dealt with Nobunaga. Did Raiden already get to Tatsuhiro yet?"
Redback replied, "Oh, he's gettin' to him, alright. Just wait. He'll let us know where to go once he's done."
This time Raiden chimed in, "I'm picking Tatsuhiro so we could have a bit of 'fun' with him. Don't worry, I won't start until we're all together; not 'properly' at least." His tone turned serious at the last part.
Torch grinned as he replied, "Ah, crap; you're makin' it sound personal."
"I mean," Falcon started, "Tatsuhiro did ruin his and Redback's lives. It's only natural for him to want to get back at the bastard."
Raiden - Target: Masaki Tatsuhiro (HPSC President)
"Unless you have news of the Heroes taking out Midoriya and Mercer, I do not want to be disturbed," a silver-haired man said to a guard, who only nodded as he walked away, leaving the man to relax by his pool.
Unbeknownst to him, however, this would be the last time he would ever experience any kind of luxury.
At the front of the mansion, seven guards roamed around, looking for any trespassers when they heard the crackle of lightning coming from the gates. Their eyes widened, seeing Raiden charging up as he walked, his otherwise attractive face scrunched up in rage underneath the helmet.
"TATSUHIRO!" He yelled as he forced the gates open.
"IT'S RAIDEN!" "ALERT THE OTHERS; PROTECT THE PRESIDENT!" Three of the guards yelled out orders while the other four followed, running to the back to protect their client.
Raiden stopped by the gates, charging up his lightning and blasting the gates away and sending them crashing into the guards and knocking them unconscious. "YOU CAN'T HIDE, TATSUHIRO!" He roared angrily, just as thirteen more guards appeared, pointing their rifles at him. "Open fire!" The guard in front yelled, as the others pulled the trigger. Raiden barely flinched even as the bullets hit him square in the torso, letting them all waste their bullets.
Suddenly, they stopped shooting Raiden when they noticed the sky going dark, followed by the thunder and lightning. "... My turn," the vigilante growled out, as he raised his arms to the sky.
'Ionic Storm!' Raiden screamed internally, bringing down the lightning and striking all the guards, leaving them unconscious instantly. He huffed as the lightning ceased and the sky brightened once more. Moving to the back of the mansion, he unwrapped his chains as the three remaining guards moved in to attack him.
One of them opened his mouth and spat fireballs towards Raiden, who split the projectile in half with his chains. The vigilante ran up to him and whipped him across the chest and face with his chains, before knocking him out by kicking his head to the wall hard.
Another guard raised his prosthetic arm-cannons and shot adhesives towards the vigilante, prompting him to jump to the side. Raiden fired back with a Lightning Shot, electrocuting him into unconsciousness.
Raiden watched as the last guard activated his Quirk, growling as he turned himself into a raptor. The raptor looked menacingly at the vigilante, who tensed up in its gaze. Then it charged towards him, who barely jumped away from the raptor's open maw. Raiden looked up and fell backward, as he raised his arms to stop the raptor from taking a bite off him. He bit back his pained grunts as the raptor kept clawing him, trying to make him surrender. With a scream, the vigilante mustered all his strength and threw the raptor off him. But Raiden didn't stop, moving to take out the raptor before it could get its bearings back. Using up whatever remained of his lightning reserves, he let it pulse through both his chains, straightening them and wielding them like swords, and stabbed the raptor with them. It roared and screamed in pain, writhing to get Raiden off him and the chains out of its body.
Eventually, the raptor stopped moving, transforming back into the guard it was before, his eyes lifeless.
Raiden took a few breaths as he walked away from the corpse and towards one of the generators lying around. Laying both of his hands on it, he started siphoning the energy from it, quickly regenerating his reserves and healing himself as well. Looking around, he never saw anyone besides the security team dispatched from Dynamight.
'Tatsuhiro's not here; he must've escaped already,' Raiden frowned as he thought. The man really was nowhere to be seen. But just to be absolutely sure, Raiden activated his Radar Pulse...
"What do you mean, 'All the operatives are DEAD'!?"
Ah, there he is.
Walking to the only toolshed in the area, he ripped the door open, grinning vindictively as he looked at a half-naked Masaki Tatsuhiro staring back at him with wide, terrified eyes.
Raiden threw Tatsuhiro out of the shed, with the man falling on his face. As he scrambled to get up, he started begging, "Wait, wait! Hear me out--!"
"Shut the fuck up," Raiden cut him off as he reared back his fist.
*KaPOW!*
"Guh!" Tatsuhiro grunted as thie vigilante punched him hard in the face, falling unconscious.
Bringing a finger to his comms, Raiden contacted the others. "I got Mr. President here; let's take him out of the city and make him disappear. Meet me at the cliffs overlooking the Musutafu Coastal Road," He didn't bother waiting for them to reply as he carried the soon-to-be-dead President to chrome-black car, and stuffed him in the trunk before getting in and driving off to the location he gave them.
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Musutafu.
If you ignore all the crime and corruption happening in it, one would think of it as merely a beautiful city with equally stunning views. And in one of these 'stunning views', Izuku Midoriya tapped his foot on the trunk as he sat on the roof of the car, watching the sun set on the horizon as he waited for his allies.
Suddenly he heard the flapping of wings and looked up, watching as Keigo Takami descended and landed on the ground.
"Hey," Keigo spoke up, wincing as he saw some blood staining Izuku's jacket and bodysuit before he asked, "You alright, Raiden?"
"Never been better," Izuku replied. At that moment, Keigo perked up at the sound of a car engine, causing him to smirk at the sight of Haruto driving his hatchback to a spot near Tatsuhiro's car. Haruto got out of the car, taking out a pack of cigarettes as he walked to them. "Hey," he greeted them, to which they responded with curt nods.
"Redback?" He asked them.
"Eh, he'll be here," Izuku responded with a shrug as Haruto Akiyama, formerly Touya Todoroki, put a cigarette between his lips and snapped his fingers to light it up. He inhaled on it before he started coughing, prompting Keigo to laugh as Torch threw it and the cigarette pack away with a disgusted expression.
*Thwip!* At the sound of a web being shot, Izuku and the others looked behind them. He grinned as he saw Lucas Mercer swinging from the trees before dropping to the ground, sliding to a stop in front of them.
"Redback."
"Yo."
Haruto turned to Izuku after Lucas greeted them. "I assume you got him?" He asked.
"Yep," Izuku responded, walking to the trunk and opening it. Inside was taped-up Tatsuhiro with wounds and bruises all over his body.
Izuku did say he wouldn't start properly.
"Here he is!" Izuku exclaimed. "Safe and sound!" He continued, ignoring the man's muffled grunts.
"Woah!" Keigo recoiled, wincing. Haruto did the same, giving him the stinkeye.
"Susmaryosep!" Lucas exclaimed, disgusted.
As everyone else reacted, Izuku crouched in front of him. "I'm sorry, Tatsuhiro. We picked C. Ain't that a bitch."
Tatsuhiro kept making muffled grunts, even as Izuku started to speak. "You know, Masaki? The way I see it, and hey; I'm no intelligent corporate demon like you..." - The gagged man looked at the vigilante sharply, flabbergasted that this insignificant ruffian dared to refer to him as such - "... But the way I see it, there's two great evils that bedevil the type of bullshit you practice."
The man kept trying to free himself as Izuku continued speaking, "Number 1 is OUTSOURCING; you paid an organization like Dynamight Security And Protection to do your dirty work for you..." - At that, Tatsuhiro dropped his head trying very hard to ignore the disgrace sprouting in his heart - "... and then you underpaid that organization, because you deluded yourself into believing that you didn't have to play by the rules."
"Oh! Number 2." Izuku pointed two fingers upwards before continuing, "OFF-SHORING THE COMMISSION'S PROFITS." At that, Tatsuhiro widened his eyes, as he tried to free himself again.
"Off-shoring?" Lucas asked. Izuku let out a mocking gasp as he clarified, "Oh, it's horrible. You don't wanna be sent to some other country because this jackass wanted to use YOU as a way to save money, do you?"
At that, the others made mocking remarks.
"Oh, I wouldn't," Haruto said, shaking his head at the trembling man in the trunk.
"Nope," Keigo remarked, staring at the man sharply.
"Hell no; I ain't going nowhere, bitch," Lucas stated bluntly, shaking his head as well.
"Mhmm. But you see, we know YOUR opinions on the matter, Masaki. KEEP YOUR PROBLEMS AWAY FROM PRYING EYES, HUH!?" Izuku yelled in Tatsuhiro's face. As he pulled back, Haruto chimed in. "In this instance, when he puts it like THAT, it makes sense!"
"Of course it does," Izuku says as he puts his hand on the trunk lid, making Tatsuhiro widen his eyes in fear.
"Masaki? Goodbye, my dear friend. Thanks for barring me from becoming a Pro Hero!" Izuku mockingly bade the man goodbye, watching him panic and struggle as he finally closed the trunk. He turned to Lucas before asking, "Wanna do the honors?"
Lucas stared at the car before grinning savagely, and responded, "Hell yeah!" The others took steps back as he raised his arms, aiming it towards the car and wrapping it with the Symbiotic Tendrils shooting from his arms. He started spinning and spinning, until...
"GRRRRAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH!!!" With a mighty roar, Lucas threw the car high into the air and away from the cliff, before turning to Izuku. "You're up!" He said.
Izuku nodded, charging up as he ran towards the edge, and launched himself off the edge. "Lightning Bolt!" He yelled, shooting a surge of lightning towards the car and electrocuting the only occupant in the car. "Torch!" He called out to Haruto, who immediately ran to the edge.
As Izuku used his Static Thrusters to glide himself back to the cliff, Haruto let out a condensed beam of fire towards the car, blowing it up immediately and finally killing Masaki Tatsuhiro for good.
The four vigilantes stared at the burning debris that fell on the middle of the road. After a few moments Keigo finally asked, "Now what?"
Izuku replied, "Now? We get out of here, keep a low profile and get on with our lives."
"As friends?" Haruto asked with mirth in his eyes. Lucas only snorted at that.
"I mean, do we have a choice?" Keigo asked with a deadpanned expression, to which Haruto responded with a shrug.
"As flawed, awful and poorly matched friends," Lucas declared, making the others laugh.
"Well, gotta go," Lucas said, walking away as he continued without looking back at them, "my wife's waiting for me, and I gotta get my stamina back up before I die."
"Why?" Haruto asked. Turning back, Lucas said, "I'll answer that by saying this: Please pray for my pelvis." With that, he swung away, leaving behind a mentally exhausted Haruto palming his forehead and Keigo laughing his ass off.
"Yeah, I gotta go too; Manami's probably worried sick by now," Izuku said, launching off the ground and grinding on a power line home.
"So," Haruto turned to face Keigo, who looked back at him. "See ya around?"
"Fine, whatever. My kid already likes you enough to be her uncle anyway," Haruto responded blandly, making Keigo chuckle before walking off and flying away.
He grinned as he looked at Keigo flying away, before walking to his car. Starting up the vehicle, he looked at the horizon one last time before driving home, finally feeling peace after a very long time.