Chapter 7: CHAPTER 006(A Miracle)
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"DAD!" Law screams, suddenly appearing in the operating room of their clinic.
Kiku struggles to breathe as he holds her in his arms, rushing to place her on the operating table. Leaving his mask on, Hawks's blood drying and sticking the cotton to his face, ignored, he flicks his wrist and a scalpel appears in his hand.
Tearing off her top he sees dozens of stab wounds, tunnels made by feathers flying straight through her and exiting her back.
"Fuck!" he gets to work immediately.
A minute later Corazon barges into the room, the clinic thankfully already closed for the day allowing them to have privacy.
The man freezes at what he sees, his wife on the operating table, an oxygen mask on her face, struggling to keep her eyes open. Thankfully Law's quirk allows him to perform painless operations.
He sees Law with a blood-stained mask, carefully but quickly operating on his mother, both hands in her chest cavity.
"Crap," Corazon rushes to put on some gloves and join his son at the table, the slow and steady beeping of her heart monitor feels like sirens in his ears. "What hap---"
His question halts as they both freeze, Law carefully removes one of Hawks's feathers and lifts it up, it still subtly shakes as he holds it between them.
They both share a knowing look before his father speaks, "you need to get out of here, I'll keep her stable."
"NO!" Law argues, tossing the feather aside and delving back into the surgery. "If I leave she'll die, he destroyed her organs."
"L---" Corazon stops himself, knowing Hawks's could likely hear them with that feather, "son, you need to go."
"No, just focus on saving her!"
"G-go," Kiku forces herself to speak, her eyes meeting Law's for a moment before she begins to pass out, her heart rate quickly plummeting.
"Fuck!" Law makes a fist with each hand, leaving his thumbs sticking out, and placed them atop her chest, "Counter Shock."
His hands spark.
"Ah!" she jolts back awake, heart rate returning as he generated a current with his hands to act as a defibrillator.
"Booster Shot!" he gives her another dose of blue healing energy before he continues operating, paying his dad no mind.
Looking between his son and wife Corazon flattens his lips, knowing exactly how stubborn the boy would be.
"Fine," the man grits out. "You focus on her, I'm making sure you can at least get out of this clean," he rushes out of the room, pulling the Antibacterial Curtains shut behind him and following their plan.
All he had to do was make sure they couldn't track Law, because they all knew that the heroes can't actually hold him in custody.
Eyes flickering back to his mother as she passes out, heart rate erratic, Law keeps muttering to himself.
"I'll fix this, I'll fix this, I'll fix this..." Over and over for nearly an hour, before the sirens start approaching.
Law feels his mind becoming more and more exhausted by the second, he doesn't react when someone busts open the front door, turning the wood into splinters.
The feather at the side of the room rushes through the curtains, but he continues operating on his mother.
He hears his father yelling, three gunshots, then a body hitting the floor.
His quirk allowed him to know what was going on, his father was fine, but none of his shots had hit, not surprising for a non-combatant.
When the curtains are ripped open he sees Hawks staring at him with hate-filled eyes. His entire chest is bloodied, one arm across his chest while the other holds a feather sword. His red feather wings kept him off the ground to ease the pressure on his chest.
"Surrender, now!" Hawks demands.
Law's eyes focus on Hawks for a moment, seeing the sweat on the hero's face and the way he was careful with his injury, the venom in his glare, and most importantly, all the feathers already surrounding him and his mother.
Law returns his focus to his mother, and continues operating, "if I stop she dies," was all he said.
"She's already dead," Hawks insisted, "I put her damn organs in a blender, it'd take a miracle to save her, and you killed my friend! So get on the ground, now!"
"I can heal her, I am a miracle, just need time," Law says flatly.
Hawks takes a more aggressive stance, feathers angling themselves to cut Law into pieces.
Law ignores him, unwilling to ever leave his mother to die, so he continues operating.
"Fine," Hawks mutters, telepathically instructing his feathers to attack.
Two feathers tear into Law's legs, trying to make him kneel.
"Mmm!" he groans, but his arms and hands stay steady, his legs through sheer will remain standing, refusing to stop working on his mother.
"Fine, " Hawks says, "but you asked for this."
One long feather rockets directly to Law's neck, nearly piercing the skin before it stops, and through it all, he continues operating.
"WHAT?!" Hawks screams, holding his earpiece, he obeyed the order to stop his attack but couldn't understand why. "What the hell could you ever need him for?" he growls out.
Law listens in on the conversation, at least on Hawks's side, but doesn't stop operating, doesn't even bother to move the feather from his neck.
Hawks grits his teeth and is seething at the sight of Law, "this monster killed Chrome and you want me to wait?!"
"---"
"Who's to say he won't just warp away, we won't get this chance again!" Hawks argues.
"---"
"You can't be serious? You expect him to honor that?"
"---"
"Fine! But if he gets away this is on your head Nezu, this entire trap was yours anyway," Hawks grumbles.
Law notices the feathers returning to Hawks's wings, the steady beep of Kiku's heart monitor is the only sound in the room for almost a minute.
"She's your mom?" Hawks asks.
"Yes," Law answers surprisingly quickly.
Hawks sighs, "can't believe I'm saying this, you can finish working on her if you agree to come with me afterward, and we'll keep you up to date on her status, we just want to ask you a few questions."
"Deal," Law doesn't even hesitate, not with how much is at stake.
---Task Force Control Unit...
Within a nearby apartment, Nezu -A 90cm or 3ft tall white bear mouse with a scar across his right eye, wearing a pristine three-piece suit- sits at a computer desk. Through Hawks's body camera he's been seeing and hearing everything since the beginning of this operation.
He's now more thankful than ever that aside from the security posted outside only three pros knew about this operation, keeping it as insulated as possible was the key to catching Arsenal.
Looking at the three computer screens in front of him he sees Law still steadily working on saving Arsenal, and on a separate camera, he sees The Heart Thief -Corazon- being loaded into an armored truck outside.
Picking up his phone from the desk he looks at the time, nearly nine pm, yet he doesn't even hesitate to make the call.
It only rings once before a pleasant voice answers him, "Nezu? What's going on, I'm about to make a big drug bust."
"This is more important than that Naomasa, " Nezu says. "I'm sending you an audio recording, use your Lie Detector Quirk, if it's legit then get over here immediately to cover for me, I'll need to go see President Pantu..."
"Huh? What's this about?" Naomasa Tsukauchi asks, now much more concerned, especially if Nezu would have to go see Pantu, the president of the Hero Public Safety Commission.
"I think I found our friend a doctor," Nezu hears Naomasa choke at the other end of the call.
"Send the recording," Naomasa immediately demands.
"Already sent..."
Nezu leans back in his chair, paw pads nervously tapping the desk. Even with his Quirk -High Spec- giving him, a simple bear-mouse, intelligence beyond human comprehension, capable of outpacing the most advanced supercomputers, he never expected to stumble upon such a miracle, assuming this was real.
But all the evidence points to it being real.
The constant beeping of Arsenal's heart monitor was evidence that this was a real miracle, something they'd been searching the past four years for.
'Hawks definitely shredded all her internal organs, if he can save her...maybe he can even heal All Might...' the bear-mouse dared to hope.
Feeling his phone vibrate Nezu answers before it can even start ringing, "Naomasa?"
"It's real!" Naomasa's winded voice answers back. "I'm running to my car now, send me your location then go talk to Pantu!"
"Alright," Nezu hops down from the chair and begins walking to the exit, "when you get here make sure to keep his mask on, we need all the leverage we can get..."
The current date is April 5th, 2114, 1 Year until Deku's first day at UA, and 2 months until he meets All Might.
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Chapter 8: CHAPTER 007(Negotiations Pt.1)
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"Nearly 10 PM and you've got me here still, this had better be good Nezu..." Pantu says sharply, narrowing her eyes at the bear-mouse seating across from her desk.
In the sleek minimalist office of the Hero Public Safety Commission president, she leans back into her chair. Her short ash blonde hair slicked back neatly, pearls around her neck. Black dress and suit jacket combination neat as ever. Slight wrinkles on her face showed her age but she still held a vibrant sort of vigor in her turquoise eyes.
"I'll make this quick so you can get to the airport," Nezu says. "I need full negotiating power on the Arsenal case."
"Denied. Get out."
"I can't do that," Nezu says. "Something happened and now the situation has changed."
Pantu raises a brow at him, understanding that he wouldn't ask for such a thing without a very good and well-thought-out reason, "what on earth could make you want to potentially give that monster a pardon? She's killed thousands of people, and dozens of heroes, she should be in the ground already, that's why I gave you Hawks and Chrome, they're not opposed to more...definitive, measures."
"It's not for her," Nezu says.
Pantu leans back into her chair and raises a hand to her chin, "I'll delay my jet, start from the top."
Nezu looks around the office for a moment before clearing his throat.
This made Pantu even more interested, she sits up and taps a button below her desk, shutting off all the recording devices in the room. "Alright, off the record, now from the top."
"The plan worked perfectly," Nezu says. "Any of the jobs she took for the next few months would have set off our trap, but we encountered an unexpected complication."
"How unexpected?"
"Apparently The Heart Thief and Arsenal had a baby," Nezu sighs.
This gets Pantu leaning forward, "wait, did he?" Nezu nods. "For her?" He nods again. "My god, to think those two monsters were connected all along."
"Like I said, most unexpected."
She gestures for him to continue and relaxes back into her chair.
"We lost Shifter," Nezu says.
"How? His skin is supposed to be as hard as tungsten when he transforms."
"True," Nezu says. "We chose him and Chrome for that express purpose, they can block anything Arsenal's quirk has while Hawks is fast enough to subdue her, but we didn't prepare for her son. He did...something, to Shifter, same as Chrome. It's as if a bullet tore through them, didn't even touch the skin, only internal components."
"An indefensible attack?" Pantu asks.
"And he can warp, with undefined limitations."
Pantu groans, warping quirks were near impossible to deal with short of a shock implant, but getting approval for those were an entirely different humanitarian issue, yet it always seems like only villains ever get warping quirks, currently, no hero in the world has one, that's simply how rare they were. "What do you mean undefined limitation?"
"It's the first and only instant warping Quirk to my knowledge," Nezu says. "He can swap the place of objects or people at will or seemingly move freely without needing to swap with anything. We've seen conflicting evidence, there are clearly factors we aren't aware of."
"Alright, go on."
"He used this substitution-based warping to kill Mind-Bender by swapping him with Arsenal before swapping them back, he was able to resist the telepathic connection when Arsenal couldn't, and he somehow located Mind-Bender with no information."
"Three dead pros, all from the top twenty," Pantu frowns. "Is Hawks alright?"
"He barely survived their first encounter, after Hawks destroyed Arsenals organs her son almost cut him in half, but Hawks was fast enough to escape before bleeding out, he got stapled up before we made the arrest."
"Hawks, the number three pro-hero, had to run?"
"The boy is very well trained as you can imagine, certainly not the first time he's crossed swords with someone."
"How'd you arrest him if he can warp?" she asks.
"We tracked them with a feather Hawks left in Arsenal, he was performing surgery on his mom when we got there, if he left she would have died so I made him a deal, he can finish the operation if he surrenders quietly."
"She survived?" Pantu asked.
"Somehow," Nezu says. "His operating skills and healing ability are a miraculous combination, certainly his father's son."
Pantu raises a brow at this, "healing?"
Nezu nods, "another ability he has. Hawks confirmed the kind of damage she sustained, she should have been dead ten times over, but she's stable and in custody as we speak."
"And the boy?"
"I heard over the phone on the way here that he kept his word."
"And The Heart Thief?"
"He shot at Hawks but was easily subdued without hurting anyone, including himself, he did manage to destroy all their records before we got there sadly."
"Damn," Pantu rubs her face and sighs. "So two monsters made an even worse monster with however many abilities and some strange quirk, and you want what exactly?"
"I have someone I need him to heal, I already have his psychosis solved, I know how to handle him, and if I don't, it'll only take one conversation to figure him out."
Pantu shakes her head, "sorry Nezu but I'm not letting that hero-killing kid back into the public, starting thinking of a way to put cuffs on him that he can't warp out of."
"Pantu, it's in the best interest of Japan that he accepts this offer, and you're the person with the authority to grant it."
Pantu sighs, "who could be so important that you need this kid to heal, just have recovery girl do it."
"We tried," Nezu says. "We've been trying for years with some of the best healers around the world, everyone says it's impossible to even extend his time, Japan isn't ready to stand without its symbol Pantu."
Pantu nearly feels her heart stop at those words, "y-you can't mean?"
"Yes," Nezu nods solemnly, "this is our best hope, for All Might."
"Damn it," Pantu sighs. "You understand all the things those two monsters have done, right?"
Nezu nods.
"So you know how much international pressure will be on me to sentence them to execution in Tartarus?"
He nods again.
"Sigh, I'll agree with whatever deal you make so long as it doesn't mean they all walk, at least not immediately, when things are more quiet in a few years I can get them out. You can give the kid a full pardon if you really think he's worth the risk."
"It's hard to imagine a risk not worth taking for the potential to save All Might."
"Why'd you keep this information from me anyway?" Pantu asks. "Can you tell me any more?"
"I'm afraid not, I've already told you far more than I was ever allowed to, but I'm sure he'll understand."
"Mhm," Pantu nods. "Well, your connections are better than mine so if you couldn't find a solution I certainly couldn't have. What about the kid, what's your endgame with him, after he potentially fixes All Might?"
"All Might is already forty-eight years old, even if he was in perfect health, how much longer could we rely on him?"
Pantu scowls, "you know the constitution and international hero law states we can't give a license to anyone that doesn't complete a hero course," she reminds him.
"I'm well aware of that, and I'm also aware that every country breaks that regulation, just as you've done for Hawks and a few others."
"They were raised to protect Japan and her interests at all costs, I'm not giving your pet monster the same benefits as them."
"That would likely be for the best, he already has the skills to deal with most heroes and villains, but he lacks that heroic spirit, and I know the perfect place to instill that into him," Nezu smiles victoriously.
Pantu shakes her head, "you plan to put that thing in a classroom and tell it to play nice with the other children?"
"I plan to show him the virtuous and heroic path, and all the good he can do, but yes, placing him in a hero-centric environment for a few years is sure to help."
Pantu shakes her head, "just don't come crying to me when he puts a knife in your back, it's inevitable when someone is as hopeful as you are, which really doesn't make sense considering you're the smartest person on the planet by such a large margin."
Nezu can't help but laugh at that, "maybe the people arguing with the smartest creature to ever live are wrong, I find that much more likely, he'll be a great hero, you'll see..."
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