R For Revolution

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Chapter 8: Shooting a Flare

Some time had passed since the meeting between the League of Villains and the infamous assassin-child known as Izuku Midoriya. The villains were obviously impressed by the fact that one person was capable of doing so much damage in so little time, but Izuku couldn't help himself from thinking that these people were currently a bit misguided.

Not everyone was in the organization, obviously, but the vast majority of people that had joined didn't even know why they were there. Some wanted money, others wanted to wreak havoc, some even thought that they were capable of killing All Might. The funny thing was that they could have probably done so without his help, but at the cost of pretty much every person that they had. For that reason he needed to bring in someone who had the skills and drive to do what was needed.

He'd been looking carefully, combing through every newspaper that he could find, reading every blog post that brought him up, but he couldn't pinpoint where his old friend was at the moment. It had been a while since Chizome Akaguro had been active in any one section in Japan since right now he was in between cities. This happened every so often and Izuku was pretty sure that he would show up eventually, but he needed him now. His constant movements, didn't have a particular pattern to them which made it pretty difficult to predict where he would go next. He didn't stay to one particular region for long, but he never went back to a city that he'd visited previously at least that made his search easier

Obviously Stain wasn't going to show up for a while as he traveled, so Izuku had to find ways to fill his time till he could figure out where this so called "Hero Killer" was. It was funny, this was the one person that Izuku had always heard of not wanting to fight if it was avoidable, he'd been taught otherwise. Stain believed that there was no need for useless bloodshed, and Izuku agreed with that, for the most part. However, any useless opportunity could be turned into a useful one if the perspective was just right.

It would also be good to have a sparring match with someone like old Stain. The man might be "old", but that didn't make him any less skilled, in fact, his old master used to praise Stain's use of the blade as well as his resolve. It was one of the few times that the old man ever praised anyone, he didn't even have the balls to praise Izuku after he came back from his missions. It was always about criticism, never even showed the slightest bit of interest in the little boy when he needed it the most.

He was the best of the best, the wisest of the wise, the fastest of the fast, and he was a complete and total asshole. He had the power to make life better, but he made it worse. Beat me till he felt like I'd learned by lesson, killed the little parts of me that I actually liked. He made me into what I am and then he went ahead and got himself a brand new one to see if he could mold him into an even better version of me.

Realizing that his hand was clenched in a fist, Izuku decided that he needed to let this steam get blown out. The best way for this was to go for a run, and a run meant a full on run with no breaks, no holding back. He strapped a knife to his arm, one to his leg, and one in his other arm before he went through his front door and made sure that that he memorized the entire layout of everything in the house before he ran out.

His stamina was something that had been pretty low as a child, but training made it into something that people were awed by. He was once a child, a child who couldn't run a mile without vomiting from the strain, but he improved, he was forced to improve. He became something that could chase down any target no matter how much they ran and put an end to them if the contract called for it.

Now, he just ran in order to maintain a condition that many thought was thanks to a quirk or something like that. Every single person was surprised when he told them that he was Quirkless and this was just due to hard work and commitment to keeping himself healthy, or something along those lines. No one ever thought that maybe it had been the years of training to kill people that had made him this way. Everyone in this society expected the best out of people as a general rule of thumb, all the normal people.

He continued his "jog" until he came upon a park with something very interesting on the other end. From the looks of it, UA's term had finally started and a certain girl with a frog-form quirk was coming home from school. By the looks of a small, barely noticeable, smile of her face, she had experienced a good day in the best school of Heroics in the country equipped with the best facilities and teachers, though it could be noted that Present Mic was still comatose thanks to him. It must've been nice to live normally without having to keep an act the entire time, it must've been relaxing.

She probably had already spotted him in his green hoodie, so it was a good idea to go over there and start a conversation. He'd already to explained to her once when he was returning their cookie plate that he didn't plan on continuing his education in high school since he already had the equivalent of that in "foreign" education, that certainly wasn't a lie. This left him quite open to do what he wanted with his day and sometimes left him just a little bored.

"Hello Asui, I see that you're surviving at UA….so tell me, how is it? Do you really have All Might as your teacher? I read about the attack that happened there, are they alright now?" He had to play the part of a regular person with stupid questions that any person would be able to come up with.

"Well, the school itself is competitive with people who are trying to be great heroes. The teachers expect us to go beyond our limits like any hero would and I think that the school is recovering from the attack a few weeks ago. They still haven't found who did it, but the teachers assured us that they would be there to protect us should anything like that occur again." She gave her answers evenly to him as if she was giving a book report, this certainly helped in getting all the facts.

"So which one did you get for your homeroom teacher Asui, Eraserhead or Vlad King? I heard that last year Eraserhead expelled his entire class on the first day, so does that mean that you got Vlad King instead?" These stupid questions were really starting to annoy even him so this would probably be the last one he was willing to ask. It truly was all needed for him to keep up appearances, especially when he went public, that's when he needed someone who knew him before the rest of the world knew him.

"No, though your thought process was sound, I have Eraserhead as my homeroom teacher, he's….peculiar but his job is to train future heroes." She put her pointer finger to her face and looked at Izuku carefully. "Izuku, please call me Tsuyu, all my friends do, and I consider you a friend."

Well that certainly a step in the right direction, and it only took a few stupid questions to get to this place happening over the course of a few conversations. I just hope that I can get something valid from this friendship such as more information from UA, as of now they should have changed pretty much everything that they have scheduled.

"Why thank you Tsuyu, I'm glad to call myself your friend, so do you need help in any form with taking care of your siblings? I know that it can be difficult to do that and maintain studies so if you need help just let me know." He offered his help without really thinking, playing into the part, but doing so wasn't always a good idea.

"Thank you for the offer Izuku, but today my parents are back from work early. They wanted to ask me about how school had been since they haven't been around to ask. Though in the future I would appreciate that help." She gave him a small smile and then proceeded to say goodbye for the evening. "My family is expecting me, thank you for the conversation Izuku, it's nice to have someone to talk to."

"No problem, I have a lot of free time since I'm not going to school so I offer my help in order to make the lives of others much easier. Anyway, have a nice evening Tsuyu." From here the girl continued walking to her home while Izuku watched for a while and then decided to pull out his "work" phone to make a call.

"Hey meet me at my place in three hours, I need a ride somewhere. Bring the little arsonist." He then hung up and then continued his run. It was silly to think that Stain would come out all on his own to meet Izuku, he needed a flare so that he knew where he could meet him, he just needed a ride there.

Hosu City:

Standing above it all at night was something else else in this city that didn't quite seem to sleep. It was something that Izuku had missed slightly of the cities, so much activity, nothing slowing down, it was just like him. Except, he did need to slow down in order to find a hero that would get him the attention that he wanted, not a big one just big enough.

Izuku placed his hand inside his cloak and pulled out a throwing knife and made sure that everything he had packed was in its rightful place before turning to his companions. The two that he had chosen for this trip from the League were Kurogiri and Dabi. Kurogiri was obvious, he needed a ride that would be able to get him to a different city within a second. Dabi, well he needed an experienced pyromaniac who knew what he was doing when it came to these fires. He hadn't told them why they were here, just that he needed them. His plans were his own, that meant that they were on a need to know basis..

"Alright, Kurogiri I want you take this little emo and take him to these different cities all across Japan where he is to set only one building on fire per city." Izuku pulled a paper from his clothes and handed it to the mist butler. "This way there will be no suspicion on this city as to why there was chaos and maybe the death of a hero. The fires will be our distraction in this little event, so I want you both to stick to the plan and come here as the third city. Only five cities are to be hit, so I want you to come back here once you've hit all the cities, don't do anything else. Now go."

Izuku watched as they disappeared and then smiled a few minutes later once his fire started. It was small at first, so he pulled out his untraceable work phone once again. It was always a good idea to call the authorities in order to let them know of these things, it would get them to send over help, and Izuku needed all the help he could get.

"Hello, there's a fire starting downtown and I don't like how big it's getting. I think that you should send a hero over before the fire burns down the building...help." He hung up and continued watching the flames as several heroes came upon the area they looked like they were a team of sorts, but Izuku couldn't be positive in this case. He only wanted one, at least he thought that he had wanted one, but sometimes he needed more. Before it had been for the money, now it was to keep the other Izuku quiet, and boy did that require lots of effort.

Without a second thought, he jumped off the building he stood atop and glided down using the cloak. He had once watched an old film where an electrical current was run through the fabric in order to make it a glider and that wasn't just a film trick. It worked like a charm and was great allowing him to move over large distances, it also was just plain cool to fly.

The first hero that he saw was one with some weird fin accessory to his helmet which Izuku didn't really mind, it was just the awful gloves that got to him. The color was bad and clashed horribly with the rest of the suit which made Izuku pissed, so he thought he needed to make his anger known by throwing the first knife at the hero's leg which produced a loud scream and received the attention of the rest of the heroes there.

"Good evening ladies and gentlemen, I would like to inform you that today will be the last day that any of you will wear your costumes. I'm looking for my friend so I think that I should make this quick to save everyone's time. There are five of you which is enough for each letter, so let's begin." The heroes had already begun their assault on The Shade, but there was nothing that they could do against so much raw talent and countless hours of practice. They had lost before they even began to attack.

Manual tried to use his quirk in order to suppress him with water, but little did he know that his teammates where in range. He drenched two of them completely as Izuku dodged and used his strength in order to plunge a blade into the heroes shoulder. While in mid jump he continued using his momentum and pulled out the blade before throwing it and the heroes ankle. This wouldn't take him out of the fight, but it sure would allow for Izuku to play with him later on.

In front of him were two more female heroes who Izuku dubbed Fire and Ice by the look of their outfits. One of them looked to be controlling the flames around her and slowly pulling them to herself while the other used the moisture of the air to produce water from her palms which froze and hit the fire. It wasn't a bad strategy, but they had to worry about the black-clothed figure in front of them. He wanted to give them a chance, so he picked up Manuel and threw him at them after doing a half turn and building up a little bit of momentum.

Instantly, they were hit with the bloody figure of Manuel and they looked around the chaos in order to see where he'd come from. Izuku merely waved as he took note of the other two members who were getting into position to try to take him down. One of them had some sort of telekinesis as objects began to fly his way while the other was electricity judging from the design of his costume. It would've been the perfect team, but Izuku had other plans.

Since sparky and telekinetic-person were already drenched, why not just scare sparky into doing something that would result in his own demise. Maybe making him angry would work as well. For this Izuku pulled out the sword after throwing the knife back into Manual and ran for Sparky. The knife went into the other shoulder of the hero and produced an even louder yell. He'd wanted a challenge, this was more of a game, just going through the motions not really having to push his mind so far beyond its limits.

Sparky saw him coming, but knew he had to hold the attack since his teammate was in range, so Izuku wasn't planning on holding his punches. If he could get Sparky to hurt his teammate then he could certainly make it so that this team broke itself apart. That would be the perfect plan if the other person would simply stop trying to hit him with some sort of projectiles.

The objects that were thrown at him were metallic balls and pointed sticks both of them being very small, almost child's play. He deflected them without a thought, almost as if he was playing baseball. From here he threw an object at their faces which he hoped they would catch or at least stop. Predictably, the one with the telekinetic quirk did exactly this and was surprised by the flash that followed.

A flashbang grenade, got to love having some of those in my arsenal. I do think that they could've been a bit smarter about it though, haven't they seen what my knives look like. It's almost like they were asking for me to deal with them in such a way.

With the temporary disorientation of the two, Izuku slipped behind them and hit the telekinetic hero in the back with a punch from his metallic coated knuckles and and then proceeded to pull both their arms from their sockets. Izuku heard a feminine scream which indicated that this person was most likely out of the fight for good, but he knew that she wouldn't be one to fight with her hands. With this reasoning he placed a nice and cold piece of metal on her spinal cord, the tech immediately imbedded itself into the skin. His methods had been a bit brutal but Izuku needed to do whatever he could in order to gain an advantage in these cases.

"This'll detect you brain activity, too much and it goes boom. Consider it a warning."He was a man of few words and of bold actions, he didn't have time for niceties.

I don't have a quirk, I don't have some god given gift that'll help me in case life gets too hard. What I have is my two bare hands and my brains. If I can't succeed with those things then I will never be able to reform society. The Octopus was a trial run, UA was me testing the waters, this….this is me making a statement. They think that they can beat me by being heroes and taking me in alive, well they have another thing coming. The title of hero will mean nothing unless those true heroes rise up and take it.

He kicked the fallen hero into the water and proceeded to turn his attention to Sparky who was looking worried for his teammate. What was the relationship between these two? Friends? Lovers? Siblings? It didn't matter to Izuku, he just had a mission, and nothing got in the way of his mission.

The boy hit the hero once, twice, three times. It was never with the sharp side of his blade, he didn't want this to be over just yet. With each hit he humiliated the adult hero more and more. Every slap on the wrist was that of a teacher slapping a child with a ruler, teaching them a lesson. The lesson that Izuku taught was that of not getting involved with someone above your level. He would have continued further, until he saw Fire begin to use her communicator, shit, he had been enjoying himself a little too much and now he needed to hurry up and finish. Before turning his attention back to Sparky he threw a knife at Fire's ear and hoped for the best as taunting of the electricity themed hero began.

"So that team member of yours, pretty hot wouldn't you say, I mean definitely a 8, maybe a 9 if she gets her arms fixed. You wouldn't mind telling me her name though, as my wingman?" Izuku continued speaking as slapped the hero each time with another question. "Do you know if she has a boyfriend? What is she like when she isn't at work? Also how old is she, I do not want to be getting involved in anything illegal, you know what I mean?"

After the assault, the humiliation, and the constant mockery by Izuku, he finally broke and released a surge of electricity that drew upon the surrounding area. The charge could be seen in his fists, cracking with the energy. Sparky threw a wide punch at Izuku, knowing that this one would be the one to put an end to the villain that had made the hero community suffer….

….except, you never throw a wide punch at a trained assassin. Izuku grabbed hold of the hero's hand and tossed him into the large puddle of water where his teammate was lying, probably crying from the pain. Though Izuku was holding a little too close to his opponents hand receiving good amount of electrical energy discharged upon his person, it was nothing compared to the amount that his teammate would get from being in the puddle of water.

He heard a scream and then he finally used his blade on Sparky, slashing an S across his back. He also couldn't just leave a hero that would recover and come after him, so he plunged his sword behind his knees and and twisted his hand to either side. This guy would never walk again, that was guaranteed by Doctor Izuku Midoriya who was certified in this matter. It wasn't the first time that the kid had to do something like this.

Then he turned to the women and saw her just twitching in the puddle, probably short circuited the machine he put on her, it was just meant to attach itself to skin. There was a small part of Izuku that was telling him to stop it all, but that part was quiet and had been quiet for so long, today it was a little louder for some reason. He just slashed a small H under her eye, a reminder forever of the loss to him, that is if she made it. He didn't need to do anything else, her body was in ruins, and the mental damage would be steep as well.

With two heroes completely incapacitated, Izuku went forth and took a look at the last three. Fire was holding her ear as blood came out, but she seemed to have taken care of the fire, finally putting it out. In the distance he could hear as sirens approached, but they would be too late. He wasn't planning on letting every person here live, so of course there would be one lucky one that carried the message home.

Looking at Ice he knew that she probably could protect her teammates/friends in this situation so he threw a knife straight into her stomach, not even giving her a chance to react. It's not that he didn't want to make this personal, he did, it was just that he'd already made Sparky personal and that was already enough for him. He didn't need to make this any more difficult, he just needed to take out the one that would be of most use to her team.

That is pretty much everyone, just fire now. One more and then I can go home and take a bath before writing up a report and explaining what happened to my people. They'll be happy to know that five heroes are going to be out of their chosen career for good thanks to me, and Kurogiri for his ride. I think that this was a nice change of pace, not slow, not anymore. Things have changed quite a bit, and they'll keep changing.

Seeing that the Ice girl was lying on the floor, pulling out his weapon, and using her quirk on herself, he saw no further reason as to why he should bother playing with her. She had just watched her teammates be beaten to a bloody mess. No one saw that and came out the same way, not even Izuku.

Shoving those thoughts, from his head he saw that this Ice chick still wasn't sleeping. As a solution he threw another explosive at her only for her to stop it with her ice quirk, well not the force that pushed her against the ground and rendered her unconscious. It was almost too easy, now he just needed one more and maybe he'd get to play with Manual a bit more...

The hero Fire had lit up and now he understood how her quirk worked, she had just ruined his fun. She was a fire specialized hero since she could absorb the flames and then use the fire that she obtained for herself. Since it was only for fire so she was only useful in this type of situations which made her extremely dangerous at the moment.

Although this woman was very pretty, Izuku didn't need a hero this dangerous out there, she needed to be taken out for good. It was like having another Endeavour out there and he didn't need that. He saw that Manual was barely conscious, trying to help Ice stay alive, so he charged at him, or it looked that way to Fire.

Fire used every bit of the flame that she held in her to throw at the one who had decimated them. She poured every emotion that she was feeling, every string of pain, sadness for her friends, anger at this being who acted so cruelly, fear for what would happen if she stopped with the flame. She saw that her leader, Manual was unconscious now from the blood loss, his injuries had been among the worst among all them as he had been the first one to encounter the "Villain". Finally her flames did stop and her hands steamed from the heat that had just been released.

For a second she thought that it was all over, with her teammates beaten bloody, some never to make a full recovery. Elecstrike was getting ready to propose to her friend, they were going to be so happy together. Now they were both in shambles, but at least the villain was-

Shluk! She felt it and heard the noise as she looked down at her chest, it was a sword, the villain's sword. She tried breathing, but found it increasingly difficult to do so, her heart was starting to speed up, filling her lungs up with blood, the substance that was made to keep her alive, was going to kill her. The sword came out and she turned to look at….a boy? He wore the black robes in one hand he held the bloodied sword, in the other it was his mask, but his face was definitely that of a boy. They had been defeated by a child, she needed to warn everyone….she put her hand to her ear, but her ear was gone.

"Y-y-you-" She couldn't talk and she fell to the ground, but was caught by the boy who just looked at her and nodded, holding her softly and sitting next to her, it wasn't what she would've expected. She'd thought it would be someone much older, someone with more experience in life who had gone though more. Then again this boy had gone through enough to make him commit these actions.

"Shh, it's almost over, you can rest now. You tried to fight and you would've won….you caught me off guard with that large blast. Not even I would've been able to dodge that without a little help from allies." He was whispering now, and stroking her hair gently. He used a bit of her blood to draw A on her forehead. "It was that damn Kurogiri, he made it so that I went through his warp gate, I got careless, I let myself enjoy too much, I let Izuku Midoriya speak too loudly. Then you let out that blast and I thought for a second that it was over."

Izuku looked at the other two fallen heroes who were both knocked unconscious, he used their blood and also drew letters on their foreheads as well, D and E. He smiled at this and looked back at the woman in front of him.

"Izuku Midoriya was the little boy who I had to protect, they were going to kill him if I didn't come out. I was born to help him, but then life got too dangerous for me to go back. I stayed to protect him, it's the only way that he was able to live. I am the Shade not Izuku. I am doing this for him, I hope you understand. " At this point she was dead, so Izuku closed her eyes and started to collect his weapons from the bodies and the floor.

"You did well against five of them on your own, it is far better than I would've expected, I thought that UA was your peak performance." Kurogiri appeared next to him with the rest of his scattered weapons. "I apologize for interfering, but you have yet to tell us your quirk so I didn't know if you could deal with the blast on your own."

The Shade merely put his mask back on and took back every weapon that he had brought with him. It had been a good activity to keep Izuku down in the depths of his mind, but the cops should've been here a while ago, what had happened?

"Hey boss, the fire may have spread to other civilian buildings, so the cops shouldn't bother us. You can thank me later." Dabi appeared around the corner and whistled at the sight in front of him. "Damn, this is something else, I didn't know you could even do something like this. I thought you were just a kid who put heroes in a comatose state in order to make himself feel better for losing mo-"

The fire user didn't know what happened next as his arm was broken in three places and Kurogiri was stopped from helping with a blade to his throat. The pain was extreme and he actually laughed a little because of it. This kid had a serious pair on him and he was glad that he was able to see it in person.

"The broken arm is for not following my directions, I told you only one fire set per city, you disobeyed now you get to suffer the consequences of your actions. If I was your parent you would be better disciplined than this, but I suppose your father has more important things to do that paying attention to you. Kurogiri, home would be nice right about now, after dropping of Dabi at headquarters." And so the scene was left to be found by the ambulances only minutes later, but by then the villains were long gone.

The mission was a success, Izuku's chosen target saw the message the very next day on a television in a shop. It was time to head to Hosu City to greet an old friend...

AN: Well, that happened. I thought that since I had something to write about in the back of my mind that I should write it down while I still had that idea. This is what happens when Izuku gets carried away and there will certainly be more of this in future chapters. As for Izuku himself, he's in there somewhere, he just needs to speak louder.

Thanks for the support for the story and I will finally be updating Born To Run really soon, I promise. Thanks everyone for reading and reviewing, see you next time. Toodles.