Bushie

Wednesday, 11:40 AM

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11:43 AM • SMS • Read

Me:

midoriya? what's going on?

midoriya? izuku?

midoriya??

i'm on my way

11:45 AM • SMS • Unread

1 Hour Earlier
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"Get your costume ready," Yue said, "You've been cooped up here for too long."

Shouto looked up from his phone, "Huh? We're leaving? Are we patrolling?"

Yue nodded, "Yup, hurry up. Your break is over."

Shouto went to put his costume on.

Yue sighed as he glanced out the window, "I have an awful feeling about today."

"You're not the only one," Kero peeked out, "Today — something's going to happen."

Yue looked where Shouto was sitting earlier as he sipped his tea, "You feel it too?"

Kero nodded, "There's a strange disturbance."

Yue's lips thinned into a line, "Regardless, whatever is going to happen today, we should pray that Shouto's not in the line of fire."

Kero shook his head as he smiled slightly, "One of his classmates is a trouble magnet. The bush. He's going to be caught in the line of fire regardless. There's nothing we can do-"

"Between Cardcaptors and their friends?" A nostalgic smile was on Yue's face, "Don't worry, I know. We can hope that he comes out somewhat okay though."

"That we can do."

"Okay, I'm ready," Shouto said as he stepped out in his costume. "What were you guys talking about?"

"There's a magical disturbance," Yue replied, "We have to be careful today."

"A magical disturbance? Does that have to do with the Hero Killer?"

"The Hero Killer?" Kero asked, "I don't think so. It's not a quirk thing, but a card thing."

Shouto frowned, "What's going to happen?"

"We don't know, kid," Kero gestured to the box of cards on the table, "I'd suggest to take them for a run today."

Shouto nodded, "It's not like I ever leave without them." He put the cards in the card holder that he had installed onto his hero costume.

"We all ready?" Yue asked, putting his tea cup away in the sink, "We should leave now."

Shouto nodded, "Let's go."

~~~

It was a rather quiet night. Yue had set some ground rules, and Shouto didn't mind that much. There was barely anything to do. Shouto was also on strict orders to not use his quirk, and by extent, the cards. Again, he didn't mind much. However, he was a bit paranoid today.

He had a sinking feeling that something was going to happen. And the last time he had this feeling, USJ happened. Thus, it made sense for Shouto to be a bit paranoid today. Especially when Yue made a comment that made this situation all the more suspcious.

"Today's unusually quiet," Yue said.

The tense silence that followed after implied that all three knew something was up.

"This is bad," Kero said for lack of a better word, "Last time this happened was..."

The statement was left unfinished, but both of them caught the gist of what Kero was saying, and quite frankly, Kero was right. The last time this happened, if it weren't for Heal, there might've been fatal wounds and casualities. Shouto sighed, "What do you suggest we do?"

"We continue," Yue said, "Hopefully, it's not that bad and we can stop it."

"Hopefully..."

~~~

Yue frowned, "Nothing is happening tonight."

Those were the famous last words before it all went to hell. Nomus were suddenly released, fires burned, bombs went off. Shouto stood paralyzed as everything seemingly got progressively worse.

"Kid!" Kero exclaimed, snapping Shouto out of his daze, "Your phone is vibrating."

"Huh?" He didn't know why that was important right now.

Yue cursed, "Shouto, go to my apartment, stay away from all of this."

Shouto, being him, immediately protested, "Yue, I can help!"

"You're not a hero yet, Shouto," Yue reminded him, "And if you want to be one, I reccomend abiding by the laws."

"Yue-!"

While this was happening, Kero had taken the phone out of Shouto's pocket and read the message. "Yue, Kid, now's not the time for this!"

"What?"

"Kid, Bush is in trouble!" Kero shoved the phone into Shouto's face.

Bushie

Wednesday, 11:40 AM

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Shouto rapidly paled, "Yue, I have-"

"To go?" Yue cut him off. He sighed, "Just this once. If anyone asks, you have permission to use your quirk from me, okay?"

"Thank you," He breathed a sigh of relief, "I'll be back soon."

"Stay safe, Shouto," Yue said, "And remember, if the situation gets really tough, use the cards. I'll cover and vouch for you."

Shouto nodded, "Thank you, Y-"

"Kid, now!"

"Okay, Kero!" Shouto ran off.

~~~

Shouto had never been so terrified in his life. As he walked into the alley, his eyes darted around, trying to comprehend the situation he was seeing. Iida was on the side, seemingly paralyzed by how he couldn't move a muscle, hero Manual seemed to be out cold in one corner, and Midoriya was fighting the hero killer.

"Shouto! Get it together!" Kero brought sense into him again, "You have to help."

He swallowed the ball of fear and stomped his leg quietly, a wall of ice rising up quickly. It seperated Midoriya from the Hero Killer, giving them just a little bit of time. "Midoriya!"

"Todoroki?" His friend was very confused by the looks of it.

"You sent me your location," Shouto informed him, "What's going on?"

"Who's this new kid?" Stain growled, "Step away from the battle kid. This is between me and Ingenium."

Shouto grit his teeth, "Not as long as we're here!"

"You're not getting to Iida!" Midoriya yelled, placing himself between Iida and Stain yet again.

Stain shattered the ice wall as if it was nothing. He took a threatening step towards Midoriya, "I have to purge this world of fake heroes."

Shouto wondered if this dude had some screws loose. He took a few steps towards Midoriya, knees bent and ready for action.

"What fake heroes?" Midoriya replied, "Does it really matter as long as they save people?"

The Hero Killer didn't even reply, he just attacked. Midoriya dodged sloppily. Shouto stayed behind, not knowing what to do.

"Kid, Manual needs medical attention!" Kero called his attention, "Bushie can hold him off, but Manual needs medical attention."

Shouto felt iffy about leaving the Hero Killer to Midoriya, but seeing there was nothing he could do, he focused his attention on Manual. "Kero, what do I need to do?"

"Cauterize the wound," Kero instructed, "Basically, you have to burn him kid."

"Burn him?" Shouto looked unsure and swallowed thickly, "Okay, how do I do this, Kero?" He held out his hand and watched as a fire flickered onto his palm, "Why can't I use Heal?"

"Do you know how to Heal this?"

"No..."

"There's your answer." Kero said, "Now there's no time to waste. Listen to me, okay, kid? Everything will turn out okay, there's nothing to worry about. You have to save Manual."

Shouto took a deep breathe, "Okay. I'm ready, how do I do this, Kero?"

~~~

Midoriya was loosing the battle, that's the first thing Shouto noticed. Another thing he noticed was that Iida's fingers were twitching.

And finally, Midoriya got cut by one of Stain's knives. As in slow motion, Shouto watched as Midoriya's face morphed into horrid realization and then Midoriya stopped moving.

Shouto drew a conclusion from that, Stain's quirk works with blood. Shouto placed himself in between Midoriya, Iida and Stain. An ice wall grew behind him, both in thickness and height.

Stain grinned, a maniac glint in his eyes that sent shivers down Shouto's spine, "You and me, eh, kid?"

Shouto stood his ground as he stared into Stain's eyes defiantly, "It seems like that."

The grin grew bigger, and so did the sinking feeling in Shouto's gut, "Well then, let's begin."

Shouto didn't expect how fast it happened. Stain lunged at him with an inhuman speed, a speed that he narrowly managed to dodge. The knives came quickly after as Shouto's panic increased. Shouto quickly realized that he couldn't stand against Stain, he was just that much better than Shouto.

You can do it, a voice of encouragement made itself known in Shouto's head, Protect your friends.

Shouto's resolve hardened. He will protect his friends, he'll give it his plus ultra. He won't let any of them get hurt.

It seemed that Stain realized this and didn't leave Shouto with a chance to retaliate his attack. Stain barely gave Shouto time to breathe in between his attacks,

But Shouto could see that he was tiring. Shouto was still good as new —few bruises, sure— but still as good as new. Midoriya had fought Stain and seemingly took most of his power. The Stain Shouto was left with was tired, yet still hellbent on his resolve.

Much like a Certain Cardcaptor Todoroki.

~~~

Now Shouto was tired. He can only hope that soon his friends will be free, but Shouto could not keep this up.

This is when Shouto decided that it was time to use his cards. He didn't want to make it obvious. He tried to be as low key as possible when he muttered, "Key that uses the power of the moon, release."

"Oh, what's this? A staff?" Stain laughed,  his laugh was chilling to the bone, cruel and cut, "What are you going to do with that, child?"

Shouto grit his teeth and muttered, "Make me faster, Dash."

"A quirk enhancer?" Stain looked interested.

A faint blue glow covered Shouto's feet, unbeknownst to Stain. Stain grinned widely, he was going to send another attack un-

"Leave him alone!" A voice exclaimed.

It brought instant relief to Shouto. It seems Iida's back in action. Shouto melted the ice wall behind him, revealing Iida.

Iida clenched his fists, "This is your battle with me, leave him out of it."

"You mean with all three of us?" Midoriya spoke up, "We're not leaving you alone, Iida."

"This isn't your fight!!"

"Too bad," Shouto said, "We're with you and that's final."

Iida seemingly lost his hold on his anger, "This isn't any of your business!"

"Meddling where you're not supposed to is the essence of a hero!" Midoriya snapped back, "We're helping you, like it or not."

Stain grinned, "Oh I like you three."

Shouto swallowed his fear as he stood with his friends. We can do this.

The fight resumed.

~~~

Shouto snapped his attention to the cut on his forearm, "Oh no— He—"

But to his surprise, Midoriya punched Stain in the face at that exact time, sending Stain plummeting into the wall. Midoriya quickly took the advantage of Stain out cold to confiscate his weapons. Midoriya sighed, leaning on the wall in exhaustion, "We did it. We did it."

It only registered what Midoriya was saying when Shouto took a good look at Stain, who was out cold. "We did. We really did, didn't we?" A smile grew on his face, "We did it."

Iida stayed unusually silent, it was obvious that he was fuming with anger. Midoriya looked to the opening of the alley, "We need to inform the heroes he's here."

"I'll go," Shouto suggested, "I'll tell them. Just, stay safe while I'm gone?"

"Easier said than done," Midoriya dryly replied. He then smiled, "I'm joking, don't worry, he's not waking up anytime soon."

Shouto felt all the tenseness bleed from his being, "Okay, it won't take that long."

Luckily, Dash was still active, so Shouto, quite literally, dashed out of the alley.  The nearest hero he saw was Endeavor.

"Kid," Kero's voice startled Shouto, "Tell him. He can burst later."

"Okay," Shouto went up to Endeavor, "Father, we found the Hero Killer." He wisely left out the part about fighting the Hero Killer, since that'd make Endeavor literally blow up.

Endeavor glared at Shouto, "Where? Lead me to him."

Shouto did as he was asked.

Endeavor called over some other sidekicks to transport the Hero Killer.

The trip sighed in relief. All of this was finally over.

Yue ran up to Shouto, and inspected him, "Shouto, are you okay?"

He nodded absentmindedly, "Just... Tired."

Flap, flap, flap.

"Huh?" Shouto looked behind him a second too late.

"Aah!" Midoriya yelled as he was taken by a Nomu.

"Midoriya!" Iida yelled.

Shouto immediately tried to wrack his brain for a way to get Midoriya down. From the corner of his eyes, he saw Endeavor charging up his flames. "Father stop, you'll kill Midoriya!"

Yue decided to take action. It was Spring, so vines quickly grew, trapping the escaping Nomu. "This won't last!"

The heroes on the scene went to work immediately, except, none of them had an ideal quirk for this.

It seems that they didn't have to.

The Nomu was shot down by a knife in the brain, and Shouto knew where that knife came from.

He looked back and sure as always, there was Stain. An oppressive aura suddenly blanketed the area, "The only person I'll let end me is All Might and Deku!"

Midoriya, what the hell did you get yourself into? Shouto was relieved that Midoriya was saved, but that relief was quickly squashed down by fear.

For what seemed like ages, no one moved a muscle.

The Hero Killer took a step forward...

And collapsed.

Everyone collectively let out a sigh of relief.

Shouto practically ran to Midoriya, "Are you okay?"

Midoriya was obviously shaken by the scene that just occured, "Y-yeah, just... Shocked."

"Sorry to interrupt, but we need your statement after you get checked out by the medics," A detective said.

We're screwed, aren't we?

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I'm so sorry this took so long!!! I had the chapter written, just immense difficulty posting it. My internet is really bad :").

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