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Play Pretend

Chapter 10: another one without morality

Notes:

short chapter

(See the end of the chapter for more notes.)

Chapter Text

"Did you miss me?"

- Jim Moriarty, Sherlock

Izuku hummed as he honed the blade of his knives. So far, the three people in the Vanguard Action Squad are Dabi, Toga, and Twice. He could also be included, but he'd rather not be an official member.

Toga fiddles with her mask and needles. "Izukkun, I don't like this. Can't I just have my knife?"

"The needles are more helpful."

"Serious?" Toga groaned walking over to Twice, who was crouched down. "Do I look bad?"

"Bad? That outfit is horrible. But you look cute!" Twice says all that in the span of three seconds.

Izuku looks over to Twice as he sheaths the blades on his thighs. "You've got all our measurements?"

Twice nodded in confirmation.

Izuku placed his mask over his mouth, covering his thin smile.

"Let's go then."

Dabi stomped his foot on the metal grating next to him. It clatters on the linoleum tiles beneath, drawing shouts from the guards centered in that area. Toga jumps through headfirst, grabbing a guard by the neck and sticking the needle into his throat. 

Izuku jumps after her, index and middle finger drawing one of his throwing knives and with a flick of his wrist, the blade embedded itself on the other guard, who was drawing a gun and holding the walkie-talkie to his mouth. Twice and Dabi follows through, landing in a crouch.

"You know the plan," Izuku says, running through the white halls with Dabi; Toga and Twice went the other way.

As Izuku ran, he yanked the knife out of the guard's windpipe, wiping it on his leather bracer before sheathing it in a smooth motion. Any other guard they encountered was immediately slashed by Izuku or burned by Dabi's blue flames with a temperature that even Izuku could feel.

So warm.

 "Himiko!" Twice shouted a warning, but before said villain turns around, a burst of blue flames burned the guard, their pained cries fading away as ash fell to the ground.

"Wooh! Dabi-kun's brother is fast!" Twice said, jumping around.

"Ne, ne, Jin," Toga said, voice hysterical in her usual tone. "Can you make Izukkun? I wanna see him."

"Are you sure?" Twice replied. "I don't think he can fight other than throwing knives."

"That's plenty useful!"

Twice sighed, Izuku appearing next to them.

The green-haired double hummed. "I though I told you not to make me unless its an emergency?"

Toga giggled while Twice rubbed the back of his head.

"Fine," Izuku sighed. He to a wall; roughly in the direction of the two's target. "Since this is a double, I can go all out. Toga?"

"Yes, Izukkun?" She rasped.

"Kill me once I make a way for you. My quirk's drawbacks are... troubling, to say the least."

"Huh?"

The wall ripped open, the tiles shaping itself like liquid to the side neatly. It opened into a room with a villain with bright red hair. He looked on in fear before scrambling out of the way as the wall behind him tore open into a hallway. And the next wall opened into a room, and the next into a hallway, and the next into a room.

Toga and Twice gaped at the continuing holes until it stopped.

"Himiko, stab him!"

Toga turned towards the fake Izuku, knife poised at the ready—only to be thrown back violently by an invisible force.

Izuku looked at Toga, eyes twisted into a crazy expression. He smiled and walked over.

"Aren't you a beautiful thing?" He laughed. Toga grinned uneasily. She always wanted to make Izuku laugh more—but not like this.

"You know," he continued, a finger trailing Toga's jaw. "I've always wanted to hurt something that was truly beautiful, and your voice..." He paused. "Speak for me, Himiko."

Delight filled the girl as Izuku spoke her name. He said her first name!

"Anything for you, Izukkun〜" Toga grinned, her face flushed red with love.

A thump came from behind Izuku and he melted right before her.

"Izuku, baby!" she cried out, trying to grab onto his remains. What appeared behind the evaporating form was Twice, holding a pipe he wrenched from inside the walls.

"I want to see that again," he managed to say. "But we must keep to the mission!"

Toga whined, pushing herself onto her feet.

 Leaving a trail of ash and dead bodies behind, Dabi and Izuku ran past criminals and crazy villains crying for the two to help them out. They finally reached their destination, a room with one-sided glass. Despite that, the inhabitant of the room darted their sharp brown eyes to the two villains outside. Izuku's grin widened as he recognised that white hair and almost red eyes.

Izuku didn't even try to pick the lock to the room, instead tearing a whole in the wall where the glass was with his quirk, causing the lookout Dabi to wince and look on in understanding at why he was so feared. He walked over to where the villain was on a table, black straps and chains over his straitjacket.

"Miyano Hikaru," Izuku breathed. "You don't know how long I've waited to come get you."

The villain's eyes narrowed.

Izuku held up a voice recorder, tapping the replay button. What came out was Sensei's voice, speaking three words in arabic. Miyano's eyes widened.

"Master," he said, addressing Izuku and schooling his features.

Izuku took off his mask, his malicious smile under it.

"My first order," he said. "Is for you to break out."

Miyano closed his eyes. "Yes, master."

Blades protruded out of the straitjacket, tearing it. Some tore the straps while some broke the chains. When all binding him to the table was released, he sat up, rubbing his wrist. Katanas and swords clattered to the floor, staying there as evidence. The villain stood up, he ran a hand down the bare skin of his arms, wrapping around his wrist and pulling out an AK-12. A smile stretched across his lips mirroring Izuku's in a fashion that made Dabi feel unsettled.

"Let's get out of here, shall we?" Izuku said, stepping over the line where the wall use to be into the dim hallway.

"Miyano Hikaru, Sensei?"

"That's him."

"I saw him once. Fighting All Might years ago."

"He never stood a chance did he?"

"..."

"He's a criminal who used to be in the military and would follow his superior officer's order to the very end, no exceptions. It was quite unsettling, actually."

"How did you get him to serve you?"

"With a bit of money, his general made him follow me."

"And he agreed?"

"He... had no morals. Nor any beliefs of his own. He was like an empty shell—a doll."

"Wow..."

"So I made him follow our beliefs. The loyalty he has to us is unwavering. His general won't even be able to bring him back."

"... And I can have him."

"Yes. Yes, you can."

"Thank you, Sensei."

Notes:

DEATH NOTE OST IS EPIC