The door to the LoV's bar slams open as Skyfall rushes in, out of breath. She leans over with her hands on her knees, gasping for air. Of all the days for Kurogiri to decide to take a personal day…
Her entrance does not go unnoticed, though she'd rather it wasn't this person noticing her. A tall man in an overcoat and a low-pulled fedora towers over her, the only signs of life on his completely black face the whites of his teeth as he gives her a wide smile. "Hello, dear~. This is not the-"
Not interested in hearing whatever the clearly sleazy man has to say, Skyfall does a backflip, shooting her foot up into his stomach before catching herself on her hands. From most people, the recipient might stumble back from that sort of impact, maybe groan and clutch their stomach in pain. But from Skyfall? The man is launched upwards into the ceiling, his head going through the wood with a loud crack. He hangs there, swaying limply, while Skyfall gets herself right-side up and goes looking for the other members of the LoV.
"Seriously, how'd the prick even get in here," she mutters to herself as she climbs the stairs. "Bar's supposed ta be closed, fricken lazy ass security system. Shitty fuckin squatter."
Failing to find either One or Shigaraki outside of their rooms - which she has been strictly forbidden from entering - she sighs and reluctantly goes to Toga's room. Well, hers and Midosagi's, but since he's off playing student at UA it's just hers for now. Eri has her own room instead of theirs despite really wanting to sleep in her 'parent's' arms since she's scared of her quirk activating in her sleep and apparentlyrewinding them out of existence!
How the hell did Midosagi figure out her quirk after only seeing it once and then also slip them a note explaining everything while in front of a whole class of hero students!? Not to mention that he somehow had enough time to make another note that he used to threaten that he'd torture them to death if they informed All For One without him here to do 'damage control'! She doesn't even know who that is, or why he would need to do damage control! It's times like that she understands why One is so scared of him.
Though when she knocks and pushes open the door to Toga's room, she reaffirms her belief in the blonde being much, much scarier.
Said scary blonde is sitting on her bed happily humming to herself while doing… something, to the chest of a red version of Midosagi's jacket. Which isn't in itself really something to be scared of. No, what makes the scene scary is when she reaches over to the tied up woman with a rabbit mutation, takes her heavily bleeding arm, and uses it to dye a patch of green red! Is she seriously dying one of Midosagi's rabbit jackets red with the blood of a literal rabbit woman!?
She has to hold herself back from being sick at the sight of so much blood. "What the fuck!?"
Apparently having said those words out loud, Toga looks up, and Skyfall has to suppress a shudder that crawls up her spine. Her instincts honed from her time living on the streets screaming at her to run the fuck away from the manic gleam in the girl's eyes. Before she can listen to them in a futile effort to get away from the maniac (she's tried, it doesn't work, just makes her more excited) she blinks and the gleam vanishes. She tilts her head at her fellow LoV member.
"Oh, Sky? Why're you here? I thought you were going to meet up with one of your old bum buddies in Hosu?" It would take either a colossal amount of patience (Kurogiri), a distinct lack of fucks to give (Shigaraki), or immense density (Midosagi) to miss the clear innuendo she uses to describe one of the people Skyfall used to associate with. But she has something way more important to deal with than trying to use her quirk to kick her through a wall! (Not to mention that, from what she heard, her associate got arrested by a hero after using his quirk to try and rob a convenience store.)
"Midosagi is in Hosu!"
Toga falls unnaturally still at her words, her eyes narrowing into slits as she focuses on the smaller girl. She doesn't move for a moment, content with pinning Skyfall in place with her intense focus alone. When she does speak, her voice is disturbingly even, unsettling to hear when it comes from someone who's usually bursting with excitement in every action, every word.
"Are you sure? Remember, if we mess this up then there are good odds on him being restricted from leaving UA. Even more than he already is."
Skyfall knows; the meeting they had made it clear that they couldn't just drop her from orbit on the school then grab Midosagi's remains and call it a day. Even if she doesn't understand why they can't 'break the game' as Shigaraki put it, she can appreciate the fact that grabbing him from out of the hero's noses will screw with their image worse than if they just killed everyone in their way. Not that she personally wants to kill people, blood makes her uncomfortable.
But, well, as long as she doesn't literally get her hands dirty, she's fine with it? Not opposed, at least. Society never gave a fuck about her, why should she give a fuck about it?
In answer to Toga's question though… "I'm sure, fucker even waved at me." Seriously, does he not know what Toga gets like when he's gone for more than a day!? Exhibit A: The rabbit girl bleeding to death on their bed! Aren't they in a relationship with Mirko? She would think that they would leave rabbit quirked people alone out of, like, some kind of solidarity or something!?
After another moment of staring, said psycho starts giggling. And giggling. And giggling. She's literally rolling on the blood-soaked bed giggling. If she was full on laughing, at least it would sound evil or some shit. But giggling? She sounds just like the go-lucky schoolgirl she likes to dress as. It'sfucking creepy.
Eventually though she does get control of herself, abruptly sitting up and turning to the tied up woman, whose eyes are unfocused. Probably on the verge of passing out from blood loss. "Thanks for all the help, Lin-chan! I finished just in time!" Tears dot her eyes as she holds the (still bloody, urgh) hands of the woman up to her chest. "I'll never forget you!" And then she lunges forward and buries her teeth in the woman's neck, blood flooding out to soak her face and shirt.
"...What the fuck!?" Skyfall says for the second time, her stomach finally unable to take what's happening in the room, she turns around and stumbles out, forcibly swallowing to keep her lunch down. As much as she liked that sandwich, she does not want to taste it a second time!
It takes a few minutes, but she manages to fight back her nausea by the time Toga leaves the room. Well, Toga with the appearance of 'Lin-chan' wearing the blood-dyed rabbit jacket. Because why the fuck not.
Toga excitedly hops down the hall towards Shigaraki's 'I don't care if we're getting raided by heroes, don't bother me' room, while Skyfall reluctantly follows, wondering if she made a mistake telling the LoV about Midosagi's location.
Oh well, what's the worst that can happen?
`~`
I let out a long, low whistle at the sight of Endeavor's flames driving back a flying nomu with what looks like a gas mask grafted onto its face while Shoko uses her right side to create an arch of ice that protects a group of civilians from the debris blown out of the top corner of a building. "That's impressive, I thought that it would be another few months until any more of those would be combat ready. Guess the doc went plus ultra on production!"
Endeavor turns his scowl aimed at the retreating nomu towards me instead, accompanied by a threatening step that causes Shoko's eyes to narrow, which the man fails to notice through his anger. "Did you know of this?" He gestures to the destruction that's been dealt to the city around us in the few short minutes since the flying nomu showed up. Not that I think that's the only one, considering that it was flying and there's plenty of destruction on the ground. So at least one more.
The hero takes another step towards me, and I see Shoko's hand lifting slightly, a frosty air wafting off of it, but nothing else. "Tell me what you know of this attack!"
I shrug off the man's shout easily. "Nothing. Haven't been in contact with the LoV since I got tossed into UA." I tap my chin while looking at the winged nomu crash into a distant building, though I have no idea if that was intentional or not. Given a severe lack of heroes around it, I would say it was but I couldn't say what it was thinking. If nomu are said to think at all. "As far as I'm aware, there weren't any plans to launch any indiscriminate attacks, or an attack on Hosu specifically. So either this is them attempting to rescue me, or…" I pause dramatically before leveling a slightly mocking look at Japan's eternal number two. "They're here for Stain."
He looks taken aback by that, blinking in shock before his brows furrow and his scowl returns. "So the Hero Killer is a part of the League of Villains…" No idea how he came to that conclusion, but I have no reason to correct him. Might be better for people to assume that instead of the reality of most of us not liking him. Himiko is an exception, but mainly because she thinks it would be cute to have his bloodied head mounted on our bedroom wall. Which I'm not really opposed to, but it might give Eri nightmares so I need to veto it. Maybe in the sex dungeon? I'll think about it.
After shaking himself back into the present, Endeavor glares at me, an appraising gleam in his eyes. "Can you lead us to the Hero Killer?"
I snort and latch my hands behind my head while crossing my ankles. "Now, why would I go and do a thing like that?" I drawl lazily, completely ignoring the question of whether or not I actually can. Technically I don't have to help any of the heroes, even if I am interning with them. Though, beating Stain to a pulp/killing him would be a nice stress reliever, maybe even more than helping Mirko collect 'samples'. Plural because a lot of them ended up in places that they couldn't be gotten out of easily, or without 'contamination'.
Endeavor opens his mouth, probably to threaten/demand I tell him what I know, but before he can the hero Manual runs up to us with panic clear on his face. "Endeavor! These monsters are healing any injuries that are dealt to them! We need your firepower to put them down!" The fire hero hesitates a moment, a moment during which the water hero shakes his head and mutters to himself, likely not aware that he's not quiet. "Of all the times for Iida to run off…"
I can't help but snort, which draws their attention. "Well, duh. The best time to be a murderous vigilante is in the middle of chaos like this." At Manual's dumbfounded look I obviously have no choice but to roll my eyes. "He's the brother of Ingenium, he could have gotten an internship with much more impressive heroes than you; mild offense intended. The only reason he would have to choose you is because you're based in Hosu, which is where Stain currently is."
While his expression shifts from offended (good) and horrified realization, Endeavor growls before whirling on Shoko, causing me to tense and glare. "Frozen Torch! You are hereby given permission to utilize your quirk as you see fit to defend whoever you find in danger. Whoever you find," he barks out, really enunciating 'whoever'. "Now go!" He points off into the distance, I'm not sure what he's intending with- "Find your classmate and stop him from getting himself killed!"
She hesitates a moment and glances at me, but given I'm too shocked by the… absolute idiocy her father's just displayed, she doesn't get a reaction. Which she seems to take as permission to leave, given she runs off into an alley, the hem of her dress swishing dramatically. I stare after her for a moment before glaring at the number two and drawing my teeth back in a snarl, intense enough that he takes a step back, without breaking eye contact, but still. He just stares back with a sort of smug expectancy.
"You absolute fucking bastard," I ground out through gritted teeth fully understanding what he's expecting to happen. And it pisses me off that I have to give him what he wants since I have no intention of letting Shoko get herself killed. I have no doubt that she can at least hold Stain off, maybe even beat him. But that's a tentative maybe, and if she doesn't…
I turn on my heel and chase after her, silently cursing myself for freezing at the man's damnable disregard for her safety.
Hopefully she doesn't manage to find Stain before I catch up. Or even at all, that would be best.
`~`
Himiko Toga crouches on the edge of the rooftop, looking down at her lover chasing after another woman through the fire-lit alleyways. She doesn't move for a moment, then nods to herself and gets up to follow them. "I figured as much." She giggles as she hops onto the next rooftop.
"He's always so dense in these situations~."