Izuku POV:

That Sandman guy was tough. Never seen a quirk like that. I've certainly seen quirks that morphed people into different forms and sand like abilities, like Snatch. But even he can't transform his whole body. I'll have to be careful next time I run into him. But first, I need to make sure my face is okay, because my eye feels like it's throbbing. I also need to check my photos to see what I can give to Jameson.

I change out of my costume in an alley way and take a train back home. I sneak into my window quietly without my mom hearing me, hopefully. I take the sd card out of my camera and put it into my computer. Now I have to wait for it to download.

I sneak into the bathroom and I look at my reflection. Yup. Black eye and some scrapes. I'll have to find a good excuse for this one. Uh, a scuffle at school. No, she won't buy that one again. Some thugs? No, she'll probably go to the cops. I'll just say I hit a door on the way home.

I put some cotton swabs with alcohol on them on my eye. And I put some medicine on it to help with the swelling. And I put some bandages on the scrapes. The scrapes and swelling should be better by tomorrow. Though I'll still have the outline of the black eye. For now, I need to figure out what to do about that sand guy. Hitting him straight on isn't enough. So I'll have to wear him down. Water should do it. I'll get to work on making water capsules as soon as I can.

The next day:

"Izuku. Wake up. I made breakfast." I hear my mom calling me. I wake up and see the download on my computer is finished. Alright! Time to see what photos I was able to get. I look and see the photos are.....unusable. They're either blurry or make me look bad. Definitely not pleasing to look at. I delete these pictures and go to eat breakfast.

"Hey, mom." I greet my mother. "Hello Izu-what happened to your eye?!" She says noticing my face. "I wasn't paying attention to where I was going and I got smacked in the face by a door." I say scratching the back of my head. She let's out a breath of air. "Well be more careful next time. Grab your bowl and eat." She goes back to cooking. "I will." I get my breakfast and sat down.

After breakfast, I get dressed and start going my way to school. I go to Ochako's apartment and see her exiting out. "Hey, Ochako." I run up, greeting her. "Hey, Izuku." She quickly walks down the steps of her apartment. "Iida and Harry said they would meet us at the train station." Ochako said. "Really? I expected Harry would take his limo." I respond. "I know right. I wouldn't mind riding in a limo again." She says thinking about the ride to Harry's house a few weeks ago.

We make our way down to the train station and see them there. "Hello, Midoriya. Uraraka." Iida greeted us. "Hey, Iida. Harry." Ochako greets back.  We get on the train and await the arrival to UA. "Hey. Did you guys here about the attack last night? With the truck crash?" Harry starts off a conversation. "Yeah. Izuku went to take pictures of it. Isn't that right?" Ochako asks."Yeah. But the pictures were really blurry and I couldn't get a good angle. And the pictures I managed to get of Spider-Man weren't that great." I say, mostly telling the truth.

"I did hear that the driver and others around the crash were unharmed. But reports say that someone saved them before Spider-Man appeared." Iida says, holding his chin. He's right. When I went to save them, they were already saved. The sand guy saved them. He may not be as bad as he seemed. He also said he had no choice. He's probably just after me. And was only trying to get my attention. Next time we meet, I'll just have to talk to him.

"Midoriya? Midoriya!" Harry nudged my shoulder making me snap out of my trance. "Oh sorry. I was just thinking about the incident and who could've saved those people before Spider-Man got there." We left the conversation alone soon after that.

We finally arrived at UA and get on with our day. Then it was time for All Might's hero class. "I AM HERE! TO GIVE YOU EDUCATION!" He enters through the door. "Today we will be talking about strategies to outsmart an enemy." Some groaned because they wanted something more exciting. "This is important, so listen well. Often times when fighting a villain, your quirk alone will not be enough. Sure you can throw anything in your surroundings at your enemy, but there must be a strategy beyond just hitting a lot. Such as if young Bakugou's explosions weren't enough, he could use his surroundings to gain the upper hand. Such as using rubble to blind his opponent to get in a sneak attack." Kacchan growled hearing someone try to improve the way he fights in battle.

Maybe I could use that strategy for the sand guy. Just in case talking doesn't work.

Third Person POV:

In a warehouse district

Alastair is on his way to the meeting place he and Flint first meetup. "Why didn't you kill Spider-Man, Flint. You had him right there and yet you let him go. Explain yourself." He says as he pulled out the device that changed his shape before. Flint shows himself, scared of what he could do with the device. "I'm sorry. I didn't want to kill him while there were cops around. I didn't want to get them involved."

Alastair clicked his tongue. "Well that wasn't the deal. I didn't say kill Spider-Man and don't kill police. I said  to kill Spider-Man. No matter what. If you can't kill him, I'll have to use drastic measures." He pulls flaunts the device at him. "Please! Don't! I'll kill him! I swear!....And even those that show up..." He days defeated. Alastair smiles puts the device away. "Now that's what I like to hear." Alastair walks away, and Flint falls to his knees. Hating what he's going to be doing.

Timeskip Izuki POV:

The day was over and I had to look for the sand guy. "Hey, Izuku. Wanna hang out today? I need help with some homework." She asks. Dammit. "Sorry, Ochako. I promised Mr. Jameson that I would try finding that sand guy. I'm so sorry. Maybe tomorrow?" She sighs and puts on a face of disappointment. "It's fine. You have a job and won't be able to always hang out."

"I can help you out, Uraraka. My dad won't mind if I tutor you." Harry offers to be her tutor. "Thanks, Harry." They both go off to the train station. A twinge of something stirs in my stomache. A feeling I can't quite explain. I go into an alleyway near the school grounds. I change into my costume and webbed my backpack to the wall. I swing away and begin my search for the sandman.

Third person POV:

A man saw Spider-Man swinging out of the alleyway. Previously seeing Izuku enter. "Interesting."

Izuku POV:

I seing around the city looking for anything about to tell me where he is. But it's all come up dry. I didn't see any moving sand. Everything I managed to do was more smaller things like saving a cat from a tree or some robberies. I'm just lounging around on a building waiting for something. Maybe he fled town or something. I don't even know how to get his attention. I was about to give up until I saw something strange. I saw sand moving on the ledge I was sitting on.

It's him.

I follow the sand across town until we reached a warehouse district. I go into the warehouse the sand slid under. I enter inside, keeping my guard up. "I know you're here. But I don't want to fight. I just want to talk." There was no response as a horde of sand fists come from the ground. I jump out of the way and cling onto the wall. "I know you saved those people at the truck. Why did you save them?" I ask him. "They weren't the ones I were after, so they didn't need to die." I sense an attack coming from behind me, so I jump off the wall and sand spikes popped out. I go back to the ground, hoping to appeal to him one more time. "Please. Listen. You don't seem like a bad guy. We can talk. I can help you." I offer again.

"You can't help me. The only way I can be helped is if I kill you." He says. "But do you want to?"

"...." He says nothing in response. "Please. Just hear me out." I offer once more. I see sand coming down and making out the shape of a person. He finally forms out into a human. "How can you help me? You don't even know what I'm going through." He says. "I know that you don't want to hurt innocent people. And I know that there are people making you do this. Just tell me who and I'll help you." I offer him.

He walked up to me. "Okay. I'm being forced by-" He stops talking as he grabs his head and twitches. He then begins screaming as if he were in pain. "Are you okay? What's wrong?" I go up to him to see if he's okay. He knocks me away. Something is definitely up. Possibly the one that's making him do this. He then starts turning into a giant and destroys the roof if the warehouse. I web outside and land on a lamppost.

"While I'm here I should get a picture." I web my camera to the lamppost and go to fight Sandman. "Please! Calm down!" I yell at him. He just roars and punches me. I land into a container and I start thinking of strategies to use against him.

'Come on, come on, think. I can't fight him with brute force. There's gotta be some other way to win.' Then I remembered All Might's lesson. Use my surroundings. Let's see. Water. Containers. Boxes. I give it a few more seconds before I think of something. First I need to raise a container. And to distract him.

I get out of my container hole and get on top where he can see me. "Hey, Sandman. It'll take more than that to kill me!" I yell out at him. He rushes at me again and I web up his face. I also web his arms to his chest and web his legs together. That took all the webbing in my current cartridges. I only have 2 left. I have to make them count.

I go up to crane control unit and position it to knock him into the water. "I'm sorry. But I have to do this." I swing the crane around and knock him into the water. I need to make sure he doesn't get killed because of this. He manages to bring himself back onto dry land, but he's knocked out. Someone caused him to go berserk. He didn't seem like he was doing this of his free will. By the time the police arrive and a hero shows up, I had already left with my camera. Now I just need to make sure I don't have too many bruises this time.

Third person POV:

Alaistar is sitting in a car, having witnessed what happened. And throws the control device for Flint onto the ground. "Drive me home." He orders his driver. On his way home he gets a call. "Hello, sir....No, Marco was a failure....Yes...Of course....Russia?....I may have someone else that could work. I just need the SC-05 suit....Thank you, sir." He hangs up his phone. "Soon Spider-Man will be on my lab table." He says smiling a sinister smile.

End of chapter. FUCK it's been so LONG since I updated ANYTHING. I am so sorry I didn't update anything. I had a huge thing of writer's block. But I did it. I managed to update a chapter at long last! I can't promise to update regularly. But I can try to get out a chapter as frequently as I can.

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