It's clear for Izumi to know how quiet everything is.

Ever since yesterday both she and her mother stay silent in the living room. Fully aware of what happened, Izumi would apologize for making Inko cry over terrible memories but she soon learns that it won't do anything.

It won't help that her mother is looking down, her eyes darkened.

Izumi wants to say something but she doesn't know what to say.

She can't just say: 'It's pretty cool that my grandma was a pro hero like you!' and expect that her mom would be ok considering what happened to her in the past.

Thankfully, Inko decided to go first.

"I'm sorry for what happened yesterday… I didn't want you to know about her…" She spoke out, her tone nearly breaking Izumi's heart on how empty it sounds.

"I- Don't worry about that…" Izumi responds

"I kinda want to know why you don't want me to know about Shimura…" The young girl said carefully, not wanting to set her mother off with sadness.

"...I don't want you to hate your grandma…" Those words made Izumi's eyes widened with shock and disbelief.

"You don't hate her..?" She said, surprised that Inko doesn't hate Nana despite what happened in the past.

"I want to, I want to hate her for giving me and Kotaro away. But… I can't do it. I just can't. She loves me and my brother so much, and she gives us to foster care for our protection. I can't imagine her wanting me to live horribly with my foster parents…" Inko lamented, tears slowly streaming from her eyes.

Izumi telekinetically moved a tissue box and gave it to her mother.

"Thank you…" The mother said as she grabbed the box before grabbing a tissue.

"Do you hate her? I won't blame you, but... you have better things to do than hate a dead woman." Inko said quietly, her fear slowly growing within.

"No."

Y̴e̷s̴

"I won't lie, I'm not happy that she gives you and your brother away. But she did it to protect you… I will never agree with her choice. But I understand why she did it." Izumi explains to Inko who went silent.

"Oh Izumi, you are too pure for this world…" The mother smiled softly.

The young girl blushed from Inko's words.

"I tried my best to support you, I was making sure that you will have a good childhood to remember. Well… That was my plan until your quirk emerges…" Inko sigh in exhaustion while rubbing her forehead.

Izumi looks down in slight shame, knowing the amount of stress she caused.

"I'm such a terrible mother, I never notice you leaving our apartment. You probably have seen horrible things while you're stealing quirks." Inko said as she carefully looked at her daughter.

"You did a good job of keeping your quirk a secret even if your last school knows about it."

"What do you mean?" The green-haired girl asked in confusion.

"You're scared of your quirk…" Inko said as her words stunned Izumi.

"Aizawa told me about you replicating quirks from pro heroes, he doesn't know but I do. You want to disguise your quirk." She continued.

"I don't want people to be scared of me…" Izumi silently explained, her face darkened for a bit.

"People won't judge you for your quirk."

"But what if they do..? What if everyone hates me? Even as a pro hero? I want to make people feel safe when I save the day… Not scared of me." The quirk thief said as she can't help but be scared of the possibility.

Inko starts to think of a way to convince Izumi to accept her quirk.

"I won't force you to change your mind, but please reconsider. You can't hold back, you have to use everything you have if you want to save people. Someone can die if you hold back." Inko informed her daughter of the consequence.

"...I'll think about it…" The mother sighs as she rubs her forehead.

"I hope you do. How about some udon?" Inko decided to change the topic, wanting to start cooking simple food.

"I would like that…" Izumi said as she started to think about her mother's words.

Inko nodded as she went searching for the ingredients only to find that she was missing the raw noodles.

"I forgot to get groceries yesterday…" She grumbled, the mother went back to her room to get some clothes to go outside.

"Izumi, I'm going out to buy more raw noodles!" Inko informed her daughter.

"Okay," Izumi muttered out, deep in her thoughts.

As she hears the front door open and closed. The young girl stood up and went to her room to search for a certain hero.

Izumi went to her computer and type Nana Shimura and was surprised by the results.

Nana Shimura or known as Windstrike was a very respected hero in the community, a lot of retired pro heroes spoke of her like a legend.

What surprised Izumi the most is that her idol, All Might was personally trained by her.

"Why did I learn this now?! This is the type of stuff I should know!" She complains to herself with this new knowledge.

A̴r̴e̸ ̸y̵o̸u̵ ̴r̷e̷a̶l̷l̷y̶ ̸c̶o̶n̴c̵e̸r̴n̸e̵d̵ ̶a̸b̴o̸u̸t̵ ̴t̴h̸i̸s̴?̸

She continued to search for more and learned some interesting things.

Shimura has a float quirk that evolved before going to the hero school that soon became UA. This is interesting for Izumi since it was rather convenient for that quirk to evolve and she can see how her mother's quirk came from Float.

Apparently, Shimura's death was a complete mystery to the hero community since her body was never found. The only reason she was declared dead was that a pro hero named Gran Torino confirmed that she died fighting against an unknown villain that presumably died as well.

H̵e̸ ̸w̴a̴s̸ ̴q̶u̵i̵t̵e̴ ̷b̵u̵s̷y̸.̸.̷.̵

Izumi felt a twitch, she can't describe it but the young girl feels like she already knows this somehow.

"A mysterious villain kills a well-known pro hero… And no one knows who that villain is?" She questioned the weirdness of the situation regarding Nana Shimura's death.

Further search reveals that Windstrikes was part of a big controversy regarding children of pro heroes. It was depressing for Izumi to know that many pro heroes in the past have given their children to foster.

It was so common for pro heroes to give their children away from that a system was created.

The Hero Children Safety was a system that was created to ensure that the children from pro heroes are to be treated carefully.

It was after some villains began to target foster families to kidnap children of pro heroes for various reasons. The system was created so that it would take safety measures to ensure that children would not be targeted.

Name changing, altered appearance, being far away from their birth parents, and separation from siblings. It was an unfortunate necessity to combat the cruelty from the worst of villains.

Despite the safety measures, there were some problems.

34 percent of foster families that took care of the children were reported to be abusive and even cause deaths to the children.

"Oh no…" Izumi muttered in horror.

Despite the clear evidence that the Hero Children Safety system is having problems, no plans for overhauling the system exist.

Izumi shut her computer off, deep in thought.

But why? Everyone knows the problem, and yet they are not doing anything to that system, She thought to herself.

She felt frustrated for not being able to do anything to help, to know that her mother suffered because of that system made her feel…

A̶n̷g̸r̷y̴

H̴o̴w̵ ̶p̴a̶t̴h̴e̶t̸i̸c̴~̶ ̸E̶v̶e̵n̴ ̴w̴i̷t̵h̸ ̴e̷v̴e̸r̷y̸ ̷i̷m̶p̴r̶o̴v̴e̸m̶e̷n̵t̶,̶ ̸s̵o̵m̶e̴ ̴p̸r̵o̵b̸l̵e̶m̷s̵ ̷n̴e̴v̴e̷r̸ ̵s̴e̶e̷m̵ ̸t̶o̸ ̴g̷o̴ ̵a̸w̶a̵y̷.̸ ̸A̶n̴d̸ ̸y̸e̵t̵,̴ ̶Y̵o̸u̸ ̸s̵t̵i̶l̸l̵ ̸w̵a̵n̷t̵ ̶t̶o̸ ̴h̵e̵l̸p̸.̸ ̶

Her thoughts were interrupted by a loud glass break that can be heard throughout her apartment.

"What was that?!" Izumi whispered to herself, her body tense in fear, shock, and adrenaline.

She put on a white t-shirt and jeans almost lightning speed thanks to her dual usage of speed quirks.

Izumi carefully opens her door and looks around the dark hallway to see nothing. Quickly realizing that it's dark outside.

The young girl slowly walks to the living room to investigate the noise, her body slowly disappearing thanks to the two invisibility quirks she has.

As she walks, Izumi quickly notices a figure walking around the living room.

Before the quirk thief could do anything, she felt a presence behind her.

Her instinct roared as she ducks down to avoid two hands aimed at her neck.

Izumi's left hand shot up and let out a burst of air to the attacker.

The attacker was knocked back at the end of the hallway. Izumi turns back to only see a scaly man rushing towards.

She almost panicked but she was able to turn her body into titanium, the scaled man tries to slash her legs apart but fails.

The young girl punched the scaled man and sent him flying to the table, breaking it in the process.

I didn't mean for that to happen! Izumi mentally smacks herself for damaging furniture until a purple glow surrounds her.

"Got you!" Woman wearing a red hoodie yelled out in victory.

Izumi was able to look at the woman before she felt her body disappear and placed somewhere.

A̵ ̷q̵u̴i̶r̷k̵ ̴t̶h̴a̷t̵ ̴w̶a̵r̷p̴s̷?̵ ̸I̶ ̵w̸a̴n̷t̶ ̴t̶h̶a̷t̸.̷

"You have no idea how glad I am when I see standing with the girl, I could never live without Mark and Recall. That quirk saved our hides more than once!"

Izumi looks around to see an alarming amount of people all looking at her with malicious intent.

I got teleported?! She thought in horror at what happened.

She let her guard down, got caught in a quirk that warps people's location.

"Sorry for taking too long Gorotsuki, she fucks both Hachū and Ku up so I had to carry them here." The woman apologizes for taking too long.

"Eh, doesn't matter. You still got her." Izumi looks at the source of the voices and sees the same hooded woman and a man wearing an armored duster.

"W-Where am I?!" Izumi yelled out, her mind filled with plans on how she can get out of this situation.

I don't have any quirks that can teleport me. Speed-enhanced quirks can't help me since I don't see any exit. There are too many villains for me to get away from this place! Her thoughts screamed inside of her, a green-colored barrier formed around the young girl to prevent anyone from grabbing her.

"You're in a place where no one would find you, no hard feelings but you fetch a very good price." The armored man casually said,

"Of course It would be better if we restrained you," He grinned as every hired criminal and villain tried to break through Izumi's barrier.

Izumi almost screamed in terror but she regained her composure, both of her arms stretched in different directions and a massive wave of energy came forth. Destroying the barrier but pushed everyone back.

The young girl quickly jumped to her right to avoid a blast of white fire meant to strike her.

I need to run, I can only use two quirks right now. I can't beat them like this! A ball of light began to form in her left hand.

She released the ball to blind everyone and light the area around her to find a way out.

Izumi sees a hallway with board up windows but she decided to take a gamble and run towards the opening.

"Hebī! Pairo! Stop her from escaping!" Gorotsuki yelled out as two heavily armored men stood in Izumi's way.

She stopped at the sight of the two.

One of the men is immensely big, even bigger than All Might. He is covered head to toe in thick metallic armor, Izumi is not sure if the man is obese or not since the armor is in the way. It's pretty clear that he's Hebī.

The second is not as big as his partner, average size, and slender body. But he is still intimidating thanks to the armor. While not metallic like Hebī, it's rubber and has reinforced padding around it. It covered the entire body except for the head where a gas mask is in place. What made him terrifying is two flamethrowers on his forearms. Weirdly enough it got a name tag that says Pairo.

Izumi swallows her fears and uses a combination of two quirks to get past with the speed of a bullet.

That plan didn't work as Hebī stepped right in front of her.

Surprised by the reaction and speed of a massive man, Izumi redirects her momentum to the side only for a massive burst flame to get in her way.

Her eyes bulged at the sight of the flames that seemed comparable to Endeavor's flames, she quickly backed off to avoid getting burned.

She turned to look at Pairo and saw that his flamethrowers appeared to be bursting with flames.

Those weapons are more powerful than they look, maybe a quirk that amplifies flames? Izumi thought through the potential quirk but quickly activated a hardening quirk and used her right arm to block a punch from Hebī.

Despite using one of the strongest hardening quirks in her disposal, Titanium Body. She felt her arm nearly breaking from the impact.

She was launched into a wall with a cry of pain, Izumi fell down but was able to fall on her feet. The young girl hissed in pain as her bone repaired itself thanks to a quirk that heals bones quicker.

That was too much! What type of quirk does he have?! She thought to herself in shock, the amount of strength Hebī possesses is horrifying to her.

Izumi felt the ground shake causing her to jump out of the way of another punch from Hebī, knowing that defense is hopeless against that behemoth.

I have to take his quirk! Her body launches itself towards the big man intending to take his quirk.

Redirecting her momentum again to get behind him, she grabs Hebī's right leg and takes his quirk.

And she felt nothing.

O̵h̷,̸ ̵t̶h̴i̵s̷ ̶i̶s̸ ̶i̶n̶t̵e̴r̸e̵s̷t̴i̶n̴g̷!̷

Shocked that she can't take his quirk, Izumi nearly got hit again but was able to dodge it in time by launching herself to her back.

"Nice try! But I took precautions against you!" Gorotsuki taunted the young girl who tried to think of a reason why she couldn't take the armored man's quirk.

Why didn't I take his quirk!? Do they- It's the armor! Izumi quickly realized the intention of their armor.

If I could use more than two quirks then I might be able to beat one of them individually, but I can't do it with this collar on! She thought about removing it but she discarded in fear of what would happen if her collar gets removed.

N̴o̸o̸o̶o̵.̴.̵.̷ ̷Y̴o̵u̶ ̷c̷a̷n̷'̴t̸ ̵b̷e̷a̴t̷ ̷t̶h̴e̵m̸.̷.̴.̸ ̸T̶h̷e̸r̵e̶ ̸a̷r̷e̴ ̸t̷o̴o̸ ̵m̴a̸n̴y̶ ̴f̸o̵r̷ ̴y̴o̸u̸ ̷t̷o̶ ̶h̷a̸n̷d̶l̵e̵.̶.̴.̶

The young girl decided to stay far away from those two armored villains and tries to find another way to get out of this place.

As she continued to run, a green-skinned woman grabbed Izumi from behind.

Izumi noticed how close one of the woman's hands was to her face, her teeth grew sharp while her skin quickly turned light blue.

She quickly bit into the hand, eliciting a scream from the green woman. The young girl let go of the hand and kicked the woman off her, grimacing with the taste of blood.

Ten people surrounded Izumi and tried to dogpile the quirk thief but her hair suddenly grew and grabbed all of the criminals.

"Shit this girl got everything!" One of the criminals says until they were all thrown by Izumi towards another group of villains, knocking them over.

Without hesitation, she took all of their quirks to see if any quirks could help her get out of here.

W̵e̷ ̵c̵o̸u̸l̵d̶ ̷e̵a̵s̴i̸l̸y̶ ̵d̶e̶f̷e̴a̸t̴ ̶a̶l̵l̴ ̶o̷f̷ ̷t̴h̷e̷m̸ ̴i̷f̵ ̴y̴o̸u̴ ̶s̴t̴o̷p̵ ̴b̸e̵i̴n̴g̷ ̶s̷o̶ ̷w̷e̷a̵k̷!̸

She tried to search for the woman who teleported her to this place but was distracted by sickly green vines restricting her body.

Izumi opened her mouth to let out a stream of fire to burn off the vines as she turned around to see a man with trees growing on his back.

With a stomp with her left leg, a large jab of stone hit the tree man in the stomach. He quickly fell unconscious from the pain.

Her surroundings quickly heated up as a massive fireball came towards Izumi who created a barrier to block the attack.

The barrier failed to keep the fireball at bay but Izumi's body is suddenly covered in ice as the fireball blows upon her.

Thankfully, the ice armor protected her from the heat even if she was dazed by the impact of the fireball. Flames surround her from all sides.

Pairo suddenly emerges from the flames, his fist aiming for Izumi's head.

She ducks down and uppercutting the pyromaniac while her strength is being enhanced by a simple strength quirk. The uppercut caused Pairo to wobble, allowing Izumi to paralyze him.

Her opportunity was interrupted by Hebī who threw a haymaker at Izumi.

Panicking at the sight, Izumi dash to her left to avoid the strike but was promptly kicked by Pairo who recovered quickly.

The hulking villain tried to grab her with his right hand but the young girl flew up to avoid the grab.

Izumi breathed heavily, her options are limited right now. Either she tries to run with no success or fight against two powerful opponents that have found a way to protect themselves from Archetype.

One can make flames stronger while the other is quick and very strong. She thought before realizing how well they can work with each other. Pairo limits her movement with his amplified flames while Hebī can fight up close with his absurd strength and speed.

I need to break that strategy, I have quirks that make me resistant to heat. I can barely take a blow from that behemoth, but if I can just pierce through their armor and paralyzed them then I can take their quirk and leave them incapable of doing anything against me. A plan is slowly forming in her mind as the young girl steady herself for combat.

In a burst of wind, Izumi rushed towards the flamethrower wielder who used the aforementioned weapons to unleash a massive stream of fire at her who dodge to her left. Without warning she plunged her left arm into the fire, surprising everyone who witnessed such an odd move.

As the fire dissipated. Izumi pulled her arm up revealing it to be glowing brightly with red and yellow, it suddenly turned into a massive drill where she jumped very high into the air before flying towards Hebī.

She made a risky gamble and used three quirks at once, it was a terrible idea but Izumi can't do anything with two quirks.

"Fire Arm, Heat Trap, Drill Arm..!" She yelled out as her transformed arm made contact with the behemoth's right arm, the superheated drill tear through the armor. Metal and chunks of cauterized flesh fly out of the villain's arm.

Hebī screamed in agony, as he was able to get his arm out of the drill's way but Izumi suddenly changed her arm back as steam started to come off in response with Hyper-Cold Body which lowered her body's temperature so much that ice started to form around her body.

She was able to touch the wound that she made and took the quirk for herself, the behemoth fell unconscious as the combination of his body paralyzed with the sudden disappearance of his quirk forcing his body to stop to adapt the changes and the immense pain the villain feels from the heat drill.

Izumi shakingly stood up, her body shivering from the intense cold. Despite how effective her attack is, she wasn't safe from the downsides from the quirks.

Her left arm is cramping up from pushing Drill Arm to its limit, Heat Trap and Fire Arm made the pain even worse since she can still feel the burning sensation. It doesn't help that Hyper-Cold Body almost turned her body into a human popsicle.

The young girl quickly activated a quirk that allows her to sense her surroundings, she can't afford to use a regenerate quirk as she's waste a lot of energy from using too many quirks. Izumi then turns on a quirk called Cold Absorption to at least regain some energy while she is still cold.

So cold! I need to stop using quirks that would tire me out quickly. Izumi thought to herself as she stayed alert, feeling her tired body slowly revitalized even if it wasn't much.

She senses an incoming swipe coming to her head, the young girl ducks down to dodge the attack before kicking the attacker in the left leg.

Pairo grunted in pain as his leg nearly broke from the enhanced kick, he regained his footing before his flamethrowers lit up and a two-stream of fire came forward albeit not very powerful surprisingly.

Slightly surprised by the non-powered fires, Izumi dodges the stream but her right leg wasn't fast enough and was grazed by the fire.

She yelled out in pain, nearly falling to the floor but was able to continue standing up. Unfortunately, Pairo noticed the burn wound and began to capitalize it by throwing two punches at the young girl who dodged the first punch only to get hit by the second.

The impact of the punch made her fall down which prompted the villain to wail down on her, fully intending to knock her unconscious.

Izumi panicked as two giant scaly arms emerged from her body, tearing the back of her t-shirt in the process. Both arms grabbed Pairo and slammed him down hard, he raises his arms to burn the giant arms but the young girl decided to have her extra arms to punch him in the face.

With the villain being rendered unconscious, Izumi's right arm turns into metal claws to make a big cut to the rubber outfit while noting how thick the layers of rubber are. She crushed the flamethrowers while taking his quirk to neutralize the pyromaniac.

"You are quite a golden egg." She looks up to see Gorotsuki who smiles at her reaction.

"Most pro heroes would have been overwhelmed but not you, you probably have like a hundred quirks." He said as Izumi looked at him with anticipation for the worse.

The mercenary quickly took a step back as the quirk thief stood up.

"I am not an idiot, I get destroyed if I try to attack you without a plan," Gorotsuki admitted but it's clear that he has a plan against Izumi.

"Why..?" She silently said.

"Huh?" Those words made Gorotsuki confused for a bit.

"Why do you bring me here? What could you possibly want from me?" Izumi kinda feels stupid for some reason but she wants to buy her some time to think.

"You are pretty naive for a girl that can take quirks from anyone, taking people's quirk is a golden opportunity for any organization to have. A way to disable an annoying pro hero? Take their quirk. Want to give someone a boost in prowess for a heist? Give them a quirk. You're a smart girl, you figure out the more useful features of your quirk that an organization could use." Gorotsuki explained, looking rather bored with his words.

"But enough of that, I'm going to give you a choice. Either surrender yourself and avoid the pain you may experience, or resist and I will make it very painful for you." He said, smiling at the young girl who had a defiant expression on her face.

"But I'm guessing that you already picked the latter." Gorotsuki suddenly holds a gun and starts shooting at Izumi who creates a barrier to block all of the bullets.

The barrier held up until a wire appeared and broke it, surprising Izumi by its sudden appearance.

She backs away to try to analyze the quirk Gorotsuki possesses.

Is it teleportation? A gun and a wire appear so I assume that he can teleport inanimate objects since he could have just teleported any villain nearby. Izumi thought about the limits of Gorotsuki's quirk.

A ball of fire formed in her right arm and proceeded to throw it at the mercenary who smirks as a round metal shield appears in his left arm to block the incoming fire.

Small pillars of stone emerge from the floor below Gorotsuki who is slightly surprised by the sudden attack.

Izumi thought she got him until the villain suddenly disappeared, shocked by this ability she couldn't dodge a kick in the stomach.

The impact almost made her stop breathing but she recovered and blocked another from the same woman that dragged her into this place.

Quickly realizing that this woman could have the quirk that can get Izumi out of here, she lunged towards to take the very needed quirk.

Before the young girl could even make contact with the villainess, red chains appeared and wrapped around her right arm. Surprised by the sudden appearance of this chain, Izumi tried to move only to get her legs wrapped by the same red chain individually.

"Thank you for distracting her!" Gorotsuki then wrapped Izumi's left arm before she could even react.

"What are you-" Those words were cut as Izumi felt the worst pain she could ever feel in her life.

Letting out a hoarse scream of agony, the quirk thief fell to the floor as a bright-red electricity course around her body.

She tried to use a quirk that can break this chain but she can feel her quirks shutting down forcefully.

O̷h̵?̴ ̴T̴h̴e̸s̵e̴ ̴c̶h̸a̶i̸n̴s̷ ̵a̸r̷e̵ ̷m̴a̴n̷i̶p̶u̵l̸a̷t̵i̷n̴g̷ ̴o̶u̶r̷ ̸q̸u̴i̵r̵k̵s̵.̵ ̵V̴e̵r̷y̶ ̷i̷n̵t̵e̷r̴e̶s̸t̴i̷n̵g̵.̸.̸.̴

"STOP!"

"Fuck no! We worked our ass off for this!" The red-hooded woman exclaimed as she stood before the tortured girl.

"That device should keep her down for us to deliver her to our clients," Gorotsuki informed his fellow mercenary who looked at Izumi with a sneer.

The young girl continued to scream, her nerves flaring up. Despite this, she tried to stand up even with the pain that plagued her body only for her to fall again.

"Really? You're trying standing up? You kids get even more insane these days. Yuganda keeps an eye on her, I'm going to call our clients to send a van to us." A very advanced radio appeared on his hands. Gorotsuki turns the device on to contact someone.

"I need to get out..!" Izumi yelled out in pain as she started to crawl away, the young girl didn't get far as a foot slammed down on her hands causing her to scream in sheer pain.

"Don't even try, you lose, and we win. It's as simple as that." The villainess stated in a sadistic glee at the torment she is causing.

Her fun was interrupted as a scream of rage can be heard.

"LEAVE MY DAUGHTER ALONE YOU PIECE OF SHIT!" Without warning, Yuganda was punched to the floor much to the shock of everyone who witnessed that moment.

"What the fuck?! What happened- You! How do you find us?!" Gorotsuki screamed in disbelief at the sight of the enraged Inko.

Despite the immense pain, Izumi is currently feeling, with gritted teeth to try to handle the pain she was able to look at her mother and notice something different about Inko's costume.

She remembered that the first costume has green armored plating around the arms, legs, and chest of Inko's body, green and black colored skin-tight suit, a cloak, and a knight-themed mask.

This costume is vastly different, dark-green plated armor that covers the motherly pro hero's body, black skin-tight suit to complement the color, a green-colored hood covering Inko's head and a mask that looks similar to the other albeit more armored and looks high-tech if the blue glows from the visor is of any indication.

Before anyone could react, Inko telekinetically grabbed Yuganda from the wall and punch her in the face again.

"Holy shit!" The villainess screamed in shock and disbelief as she was able to grab Izumi before teleporting next to Gorotsuki.

"Fuck me! That's the pro hero that nearly kicked your ass?!"

"Do I need to answer?! Everyone kill that bitch! Fuck the order!" With his permission, the remaining criminals and villains that weren't taken out by Izumi, rush towards Inko fully intending to kill her.

The mother took a deep breath and flew towards the group and began to mercilessly beat anyone who dared try to stand in her way of saving her daughter.

One tries to slice Inko's neck open with sharpened nails but fails horribly as the mother grabs the offending hands with her quirk and crushed the bone to dust.

Inko dodges a small fireball before using her quirk to control the trajectory to hit a shark woman's mouth who tried to bite her.

A man with four arms tried to grab Inko to crush her but she ducks down and hits the groin with her right elbow.

No matter how many there are, no matter how diverse their quirk. It was impossible to touch Inko who simply continues to brutally beat them to the ground as she makes her way to Gorotsuki and Yuganda.

"Let her go, NOW!" Inko screams in utter fury, both villains that stage the kidnapping flinched at the sight while Izumi couldn't help but watch in slight awe of how her mother was doing.

"Fucking bitch! Yuganda, get that damn tablet! We need to get it to put her down!" Gorotsuki orders his partner as he enters the battle against the mother.

A shotgun appeared in his hands as he started shooting at Inko who flew up to avoid the shot who instead hit an unfortunate criminal in the chest.

He continues to shoot at Inko who then flies at Gorotsuki with intent to knock him down.

That plan got derailed as two wires appeared and went straight to Inko who dodged them effortlessly.

This gave the mercenary enough to make a rifle to appear in his hands and start shooting with reckless abandon, uncaring that he had shot five of his subordinates down in his attempts to kill Inko who was able to dodge the bullets with no problem.

Knowing full well that something has to be about the rifle, Inko throws a knife at Gorotsuki who sharply moves to his right to dodge it, not aware that Inko was aiming for that.

With a simple hand waving gesture, the knife turns to the mercenary much to his shock.

"Fuck you!" He screamed as he used his rifle to block the knife which resulted in it being broken by the surprisingly strong knife.

Quickly discarding the broken weapon, he uses his quirk to teleport the knife that broke his weapon to his hand.

"Like to fight dirty? So be it!" Gorotsuki smiles sadistically as a tablet appears in his hands.

"That chain is very unique, it wasn't made to suppress a quirk like those standard quirks suppress cuffs, it was meant to take control of it from the inside out." The villain taps the screen causing the red chain to act up, making Izumi scream in pain.

"Izumi!" Inko yells in horror and anger as she tries to approach her daughter.

Ice, fire, electricity, air, and smoke start to emit from Izumi who struggles hopelessly in her restraints, screaming while doing it.

Without warning, two beams of light emerge from Izumi's eyes forcing Inko to duck down to avoid the lasers which instead hits an unsuspecting criminal behind her.

The criminal's head blows up in a gory mess, splattering Inko with blood and gray matter.

"What type of device is that?!" Inko questioned herself in shock with a clear display of how the red chain works.

"Like that? Don't worry, I'm just going to make this even better!" The mercenary laughed as Izumi's body moved like a puppet.

"Stop! Stop it please!" The young girl pleaded as the ground began to shake around Inko.

Sensing the incoming danger, Inko jumped to avoid three large spikes that emerged from the ground, it could have impaled her but she was smart to dodge.

"Let her go now!" Inko demanded as everyone could feel her rage.

"Nope!" Gorotsuki mocked the mother as he controlled Izumi to launch spikes of ice towards Inko who briefly floated and suddenly flew towards him with an unrestrained scream of anger.

With a flick of her fingers, the spike went out of their direction to ensure that she won't get hit. The enraged mother continued her path to Gorotsuki who scowled at how Inko is effortlessly nullifying all of their attacks.

"God fucking dammit! That brat was kicking our asses! How is it that I can't make her quirks do what I want them to do?!" He yelled in frustration, his partner decided to pick the tablet from his hands.

"Maybe you're doing it wrong! Let me use it, I have more practice with it than you anyway." Yuganda states as she began to tap her finger on the tablet.

Gorotsuki sighs before going serious as he prepares himself for combat against the retired pro heroine.

She tries to go over the mercenary to get to Izumi quickly but is intercepted by him despite her attempts.

Taking advantage of the caught-off guard Inko, Gorotsuki grabbed her left leg and slammed her to the ground hard.

Biting through the pain, Inko trips the mercenary over to gain the upper hand. Taking advantage of his predicament, Gorotsuki was able to position himself to fall over Inko while using his quirk to teleport a discarded knife unto his hands to stab her in the chest.

Inko glows green as she holds the villain in place to stop him from stabbing her before throwing him away to give the mother time to free Izumi from her chains.

Before she could even try to run to Izumi and beat the villainess into a bloody pulp, Inko went to the stone floor to avoid a green-colored beam of light.

"Wha-what...?" Inko hears a pained whimper behind her.

She turns around to see Gorotsuki stumbling to the floor, Inko then sees a large hole in his chest.

"Sorry Kent, but you are holding me back with that support you're giving to those meta-human assholes." Yuganda mocks her former partner.

"But we've been in this for three years Mattaku..! I trusted you..!" He said before continuing to puke his blood.

"Yeah, I thought we had something special! But then you met that Destro guy, honestly I should have never taken that job but you can't change the past." The villainess known as Mattaku said as she looked at Izumi.

"He told me that this collar has a lot of features like being a tracker so maybe I should have destroyed it when we took this brat so that you would track her down…" Her words made Inko's eyes widened in shock at the secret being spilled.

Only Inko and a few of her friends know that Izumi's collar has a tracker device that Nezu suggested it to be added just in case something happens to Izumi.

It's the only reason she was able to find her daughter in this abandoned factory.

"I just need to remove that collar, kill you and that bogeyman will give all the rewards I could think of." The villainess said to herself, before grabbing Izumi's collar.

"N-no! I don't know what would happen if my support item gets-" The quirk thief gets interrupted as the pain courses through her body as the collar was forcefully removed by Yuganda.

G̴o̷o̷d̷.̷.̸.̷

Her body began to move uncontrollably as Izumi experienced her almost forgotten the pain of hunger.

F̴i̸n̵a̷l̸l̸y̸.̷.̶.̷ ̸I̴ ̶c̶a̷n̸ ̷l̵e̴t̶ ̶l̸o̵o̶s̸e̷!̸

It was indescribable for the young girl, the pain is overwhelming. It was no surprise that she thought that she was going to die.

D̶o̷n̸'̴t̴ ̷w̴o̴r̷r̸y̶ ̴m̸y̸ ̶w̴e̴a̴k̸ ̷s̶e̴l̴f̶,̶ ̸I̸ ̶w̴i̶l̷l̶ ̶t̴a̸k̷e̵ ̷g̶o̴o̷d̵ ̷c̴a̵r̸e̸ ̶o̷f̵ ̸y̵o̶u̵ ̶a̶n̸d̵ ̶m̶o̵m̴.̴.̷.̵

"Izumi!" Inko screams in horror as she witnesses her daughter's body shaking uncontrollably.

The mother proceeded to sprint towards Yuganda and Izumi, full of determination to save her daughter from Him.

"Bad move-" Yuganda tried to say but was interrupted as a hand through her abdomen.

A sinister laugh can behind the villainess, the stunned Yuganda turned her head to see Izumi with a satisfied face.

"S̸o̴ ̴t̵h̶i̷s̶ ̴i̸s̴ how ̶i̵t̶ ̵f̷e̴e̸l̶s̴ ̵t̷o̶ ̶k̶i̷l̴l̷ ̴someone... Good…" She said as her hand removed itself from the torn abdomen, her eyes filled with madness.

"How..?" Yuganda couldn't help but say while looking at the chain who glowed very bright red, trying to restrain the mad girl.

"I am very amazed by these little chains, I can feel them trying to shut my quirks down. But I am much better compared to my other weaker self." 'Izumi' explained briefly before a green light emitted from her body causing the chain to suddenly break.

"And now, let me hear you scream~" She teased as her victim screamed with agony, noise can be heard within the body of Yuganda.

The villainess falls to the ground, her body turning gray as flesh starts to rot and blood pouring out.

"Izumi..?" Inko can't help but look with horror, the mad girl tilts her head while looking at her mom.

"Yes, mom?" 'Izumi' responded with a sweet voice, smiling at her mother.

The greens in her hair started to turn black, the fluffy long hair began to form jagged spikes.

"Who are you?" The mother said seriously. The moment Inko looks at 'Izumi' in her eyes, she immediately knows that this girl is not Izumi at all.

The eyes are filled with content and sadistic desires, not the optimistic ideals and desire to help everyone.

Just malice.

"Hah, I got careless. Oh well, it would be weird if I call myself Izumi considering that's the name of the weakling. Akatani? No. Mikumo? That sounds nice actually, call me Mikumo." The newly named girl casually said as she touched the corpse beneath her.

"What did you-" Inko tried to confront Mikumo until her body just stopped.

"Come on mom! Why do you care about Izumi more than me? I'm a part of her after all." Mikumo complained before she smiled with sadistic joy.

"Wh-what do you mean..?" Inko struggled to say anything with her body being paralyzed, the smile on Mikumo's face fell.

"I was a facet of her mind, I was born when she got Archetype. One could argue that I am the quirk, but I don't care at all about that. I thought I would have a blast with Izumi! Taking quirks, merging them, experimenting, and analyzing quirks! But noooo! She just has to try to reject our power! I have to force her to take quirks! Our hunger for quirks was something that didn't exist in our quirk but I was able to reactivate it!" She complained, her arms moving to ruffle her dark hair.

"The worst part, however, is that she wants to be a hero! No! That's pathetic! Sure, we can take a lot of quirks from villains. Hell, most of my favorite quirks are from villains! But then we wouldn't be able to take quirks from anyone! So many quirks would be outside of our reach!" Mikumo raged as her hands grabbed on to her head.

"Don't even get me started with her giving a quirk away! Ironworks was so powerful! But she gave it away to a girl that had no quirk! Do you have any idea how infuriating that is to me!?" Mikumo looks and screams at Inko with red eyes until she calms down.

"And so, I decided that it would be better for both of us if I'm in control." She finished ranting, her eyes stayed blood red.

Moaning can be heard behind Inko, the mad girl smiles before raising her hands.

"I need to blow some steam, how about I show you why I am so much better." Mikumo states before screaming can be heard.

All of a sudden, Inko's body moved against her will. She turned around to see all the remaining villains and criminals glowing green and floating.

"Six telekinetic quirks, quite spectacular. I prefer black and red but hopefully, I will figure out the sequence necessary to change the color." Without warning, arms and legs twist causing everyone to scream in agony.

"Now that's amazing! I'm surprised that none of them have quirks to bend their limbs," She mused as she continued to torture them.

Ń̷͉͔̿̌͛͠͠-̴͉͉̘̂̉͂n̷̡͎͛̚̕̕ǫ̸̹̘̺͐̂̀͑́͒̀͜͜.̵͔̘̐͜.̷̟̟̆̏̇̅̈͂̍̐͛̆.̷̨̫̹̝͙̠̤͕̱̏͝

"Oh god…" Inko uttered in horror, she can't do anything but watch how her 'daughter' just keeps torturing them.

"Why so horrified? They did try to kill you." Mikumo said with amusement.

"That doesn't mean that they should get tortured like this! You have to stop!" The mother pleaded for the horror to stop.

"Fiiiine! I'm done playing with them anyway." Green and black electricity emitted from her body, striking everyone and corpses with it.

"67 quirks in total! Quite a score!" Mikumo laughed in excitement before she suddenly breathed fire at the former quirk users.

N̵̼̊͊ŏ̷̪̘͂!̸̹̿̓

"W-why!?" Inko exclaimed, yelling out the best she could with her body being immobilized.

"Because it's fun!" She responded in glee while listening to the screams of the burning villains.

"If only I figure out that the damn collar was keeping from being in control sooner! I could have removed that shit back in the forest weeks ago!"

"Okay, time to go home!" Mikumo telekinetically held Inko and began to fly out of the abandoned building and into the night sky.

It was a surprise for Mikumo that their home is nearby.

"Hiding in plain sight, kinda smart if you ask me." The psychotic alter ego mused while looking out for any pro hero that could see them.

"So mom, did you bring anyone else with you? Because you're the only one that came to 'save' me." Mikumo asked Inko who grit her teeth in frustration.

"No…" Inko responded, smacking herself mentally. She was so focused on saving Izumi that she forgot to get back up, and she's paying the price for it.

"Don't worry mom, you probably thought you could handle my dead kidnappers by yourself." The alter ego said as she arrived at the apartment.

"What a mess they made, I could see your groceries on the floor. Hopefully, the insects didn't get to it first considering the front door is open." She states as she puts her mother down to the floor.

"Wait for me to clean all this up, I promise that you and I will have fun soon." Mikumo giggled as she closed the door to their apartment and began to clean everything up with telekinetics quirks.

"I need to… Get to the box…" Inko grunts as her body glow green and start to float towards her room.

She quickly stops while looking at Mikumo, the Izumi's alter ego is looking at the fallen groceries and picks it up to check to see if it's fine.

Inko carefully moved her body, making sure that she won't make a sound. Her body may be immobilized but she can still use her quirk to move it.

The mother slowly floats towards the hallway, her movements slow and precise to ensure that Mikumo wouldn't hear her.

Getting close to her room, Inko quickly moves in to get to her objective. She starts to get underneath her bed and grabs a box.

"What do you think you're doing mom~" Startled and shocked by the sudden voice, Inko turned around to see the monster before her.

"What's that you're holding?" Mikumo asked while looking at the box much to Inko's shock and horror for not being able to pay attention to it.

"My birthday present? Wow, mom! I can't believe that you were hiding this so close!" The box has words written on it that say 'Happy Birthday!'.

"Do you mind If I take a peek? I promise that I won't take it right away!" Mikumo said before opening the box.

The box reveals a collar that resembles the one that Mikumo destroys minutes ago, it has a tag that says 'Mark II'.

"Another collar?" Mikumo is confused at what she sees, only for Inko to grab the collar and try to put it on the mad girl.

"No..!" She screamed in rage before she kicked Inko in the stomach, throwing her to the wall.

"That was a good plan mom. I am however upset that you love Izumi over me, why is that?" Mikumo drops the collar as she approaches Inko who stays silent.

"Maybe I should love you my way then, Izumi's way of loving you won't work for me no matter what." She said before grabbing onto Inko's hands, taking her quirk in the progress.

Before Inko could even think what Mikumo is doing, she felt her entire body flare with pain.

She starts to scream in agony as her body spasm with pain, it felt like she was being submerged in acid.

N̷o̶!̵ ̷L̷e̴a̸v̸e̶ ̷h̴e̵r̵ ̵a̷l̴o̵n̵e̵,̶ ̴p̴l̶e̴a̴s̷e̴!̸

"Don't worry mom, you'll learn to love me soon. I just need to teach you how to do it." Mikumo proceeds to electrocute Inko with a strong electric quirk while making sure that she wouldn't die from it.

Inko screams even more as she tried to move away from her possessed daughter but fails as Mikumo hugged her, causing the pain to amplify tenfold.

"S-stop!" The pro hero pleaded as she lost control of her body.

"Why would I stop? You must know that I love you~" Mikumo smiles sadistically as she stops torturing Inko giving her respite only for memories to flash before her eyes.

'I'm so sorry my little sunflower…'

'Get over here you brat!'

'I can't allow you to help us Inko!'

'You are the best slut I could ever find~'

"NO! Please stop it! I don't want to remember!" Inko begs and cries as she struggles with the horrid memories of her past.

"Don't forget that I love you~ Just let me check your memories to see what's bothering you-" Mikumo stops mid-sentence, her hands letting go of Inko's head.

I̷ ̴w̷o̷n̷'̶t̶ ̵l̷e̴t̷ ̵y̶o̸u̵!̴

"How can you do this?! I couldn't even- No No NO! You can't ruin this Izumi! I need you and you need me!" She roars in defiance while clutching her head in pain.

"Don't you dare- Mom! Run! Just run! I can't hold her off for too long!" Hearing her daughter's voice snaps Inko out of her memories, realizing that this is the only opportunity to save Izumi. Inko quickly picks the collar and places it around Izumi/Mikumo's neck.

Mikumo realized the terrible error of not destroying the only thing that could stop, tried to use lightning quirk in a desperate attempt to destroy but was interrupted by Izumi who shut all of their stockpiled quirks down.

"NO-" She screamed as she felt the collar closing around her neck, her entire body stopping for a moment until Izumi came back in control.

Izumi looks at herself in horror and disgust, her legs wobbling until she falls to the floor in tears.

She felt disgusting, how could someone torture their mother? Izumi curled herself to a ball and began to cry.

"Izumi-"

"Don't touch me!" Izumi screamed as she moved away from Inko.

"I can't be with you! I just can't! I'm just going to hurt you again!" She sobbed as she tried to crawl away until her mother hugged her.

"No! No! No! Why are you doing this?! Why can't you just leave me!?" Izumi struggles, she wants to stay away from her mother. But she doesn't want to hurt Inko.

"Please stop! It wasn't your fault! It was never your fault! You didn't know!" Inko hugged tightly to Izumi who was sobbing with guilt.

Y̷o̸u̵'̶r̵e̷ ̴m̷a̵k̶i̴n̴g̷ ̴a̴ ̵b̶i̷g̸ ̴m̵i̶s̷t̵a̶k̵e̵.̵.̷.̷

"NO! I won't let you take control of me again! I will not become you!" Izumi screams to herself as she struggles mentally.

Y̶O̴U̶ ̸A̸R̵E̴ ̸M̶E̵!̷

"STOP!" She begged as her mind is being assaulted by Mikumo's anger.

Y̸O̵U̴ ̵N̴E̸E̷D̴ ̸M̷E̷ ̷I̴Z̵U̷M̶I̷!̶ ̸I̷'̷m̸ ̴t̴h̵e̸ ̴o̸n̴l̸y̵ ̶o̶n̸e̴ ̸t̵h̴a̵t̵ ̴k̷e̸e̵p̶s̶ ̸y̷o̸u̵ ̵s̸a̸n̷e̸!̶ ̷W̷a̴n̴t̷ ̷p̷r̷o̵o̶f̸?̸ ̵I̸'̶l̷l̶ ̴s̵h̷o̴w̵ ̶y̶o̷u̸!̵

Without warning, Izumi vomits to the floor as she is assaulted by memories of her time being a quirk stealer for her hunger. All the time she steals their quirk and seeing all the horrible things her victims have done hit her mercilessly

I̵'̴m̴ ̶t̸h̴e̶ ̶r̶e̵a̴s̷o̷n̵ ̸w̵e̵ ̵g̸o̴t̸ ̵s̶o̴ ̵m̸a̴n̷y̷ ̵q̷u̴i̷r̴k̸s̸!̶ ̴I̴'̸m̷ ̷t̴h̸e̸ ̸r̷e̸a̸s̵o̷n̶ ̶t̸h̵a̷t̸ ̸y̴o̸u̶'̵r̸e̴ ̸m̴a̴t̸u̴r̵e̴!̶ ̶I̷'̷m̸ ̸t̵h̷e̴ ̷r̸e̴a̸s̴o̶n̷ ̴t̵h̵a̸t̵ ̸y̷o̶u̶ ̸g̶e̶t̶ ̸t̷o̴ ̵b̷e̶a̶t̸ ̴K̸a̷c̵c̴h̵a̶n̷!̷ ̸I̵ ̸m̶a̶d̴e̴ ̴e̵v̵e̷r̶y̸t̵h̴i̵n̵g̴ ̸p̷o̶s̶s̷i̸b̴l̷e̴!̷ ̷A̸n̸d̷ ̵y̸o̵u̸ ̶w̵a̷n̸t̶ ̶t̴o̸ ̶r̴e̸j̷e̵c̸t̴ ̶m̸e̴!̶?̴

"LEAVE ME ALONE!" Izumi screams as she clutches her head in pain. Desperately trying to get all these images out of her head bit failing miserably.

A̸d̵m̴i̴t̸ ̶i̴t̶ ̶I̴z̶u̷m̸i̸!̴ ̸Y̵o̶u̵ ̶n̷e̷e̵d̵ ̸m̴e̶!̸ ̸

"NO!" She continued to scream until her voice gave out, Izumi could only whimper in defeat as she sobs heavily. Refusing to accept that she needs her alter ego to become this strong.

"Izumi, we can handle her together…" Inko said softly as Izumi's body goes limp. The mother comforts her crying daughter who gave up on moving away from her.

"I'm so sorry..." The young girl whispers.

Author's Note: I finally complete this chapter after months of writing and rewriting, it doesn't help that I got hooked on playing Warframe again after a full year of not playing. Either way, I hope you guys enjoy this chapter and the next chapter will start to follow canon. Any