Chapter 7 - Water Hose v Muscular

While living at his aunt's house, Michael slept in a guest room by himself, his parents were out with his aunt and her husband, he was babysitting Kota, while their parents were out, he spent a lot of time talking about his training and future plans to be a hero, which earned him the awe of Kota, who was a huge fan of heroes like his parents and wanted to be one in the future.

"Do you think I can really be a great hero, like my parents?"

"I have no doubt in my mind you would make a great hero Kota, as long as you persevere and keep the personality of a hero, even if you were quirkless, id still believe in you. But you probably wont have to worry about that, your parents both have amazing water based quirks, you'll hopefully be able to inherit a stronger version of their water quirks, which would go a long way towards helping you. Your parents would also be able to help you train."

"Wow, I really do want a water quirk, but your quirks amazing too, its kind of like All-Might, but with a few more powers, you even glow gold!"

"Thanks Kota, but All-Might's way stronger than I am right now, but who knows, I might get stronger than he is in the future."

"When you mentioned becoming a hero without a quirk, did you really believe that?"

"Yep, most quirks don't help too much in most fights, as long as you have enough skill and persevere, you can make it as a quirkless hero, it would just be more dangerous. I even know someone quirkless, who wants to become a hero despite it, he's my best friend Izuku Midoriya, If he keeps training like he is now, I don't doubt he would make it as a hero."

"He sounds amazing, but I don't think he can beat you!"

"Thanks Kota."

When Michael's parents returned, his aunt and her husband surprised him by taking him with them on "patrol", they were visiting a nearby village to check up on the inhabitants and make sure nothings wrong while his parents babysat Kota. It would be helpful to experience the life of a hero firsthand and Michael accepted their offer, but something was bugging him, he could almost remember something important, but not quite.

While visiting the village, Michael noticed that the gazes the villagers gave the hero duo were filled with awe, they seemed almost filled with worship. Except for one tall, blonde man, who seemed filled with hate and anger, but he didn't seem to be doing anything wrong, so he couldn't really say anything other than notify the Water Hose duo. Who noticed him once he told them, when they did their eyes widened. Yet Michael couldn't tell why. Then they told him to run as fast he could.

Suddenly the blonde man grew muscle fiber all over his arms and body, before rushing towards the water hose duo, Michael recognized him at this moment, he had completely forgotten about this part of the story, it was a minor part of the story that completely slipped his mind after 12 years, where he couldn't re watch the series or write down any of the series, with the amount of quirks in this world, there was bound to be one who would find the paper, he also didn't know any code or language to write it down, other than English and Japanese, which most people, including his parents would recognize.

Sora created an enormous amount of Water, which Akane controlled and directed as a stream toward muscular, he created an even larger amount of muscle fiber and charged directly into the water stream, he was slowly being pushed back, but Sora was quickly reaching his limit creating this much water, but it was enough for Akane as she reused the water, creating a cycle that kept constantly damaging Muscular, who now realized they weren't running out water.

Muscular used his quirk to gain more strength to push through the water stream, ignoring defense and rushing through, he pushes through, but not before receiving minor injuries, he then punches the water hose duo, who attempt to use surfing on the water to dodge his attack but are unable to dodge quick enough, being launched back and receiving many injuries. Sora and Akane realized they didn't have much of a chance of surviving this encounter, so they started getting setup to use a move that would most likely injure muscular, at the cost of risking their lives, yet as Muscular approached, slowly, playing with his prey. Michael got in his way.

"Well what do we have here, a kid? Probably their son, arent you? Can't choose whether to kill you in front of your parents first, or kill your parents in front of you. Which do you think would cause you three more despair?"

The water hose used the move they've been setting up, thanks to Michael who bought them some time, they didn't have to risk their lives taking the time to setup this move, they had created incredibly dense water, shaped like a dragon, and shot it towards Muscular who used his quirk to block it with muscle fibers, but it broke through and hit him directly in the face, specifically on his left eye, which was now seriously injured.

"What the ****! I'm going to kill you all brutally for this"

"Sorry, you wont have the chance to, now FREEZE"

Michael blows a gust of freezing cold wind with his super breath, with the water soaking Muscular, he was frozen, almost like an ice cube, completely covered in a cocoon of Muscle fibers, due to his quirk. He didn't seem to be moving, Michael managed to save the Water hose duo, who had fainted from their injuries and exertion, his family, from death. Kota would have a good childhood, he wouldn't hate heroes, he would be one himself without being inspired by Izuku! He was ecstatic, he had helped defeat a villain, one as strong as Muscular no less.

Yet fate is not kind, Muscular broke out of the ice, laughing.

"Nice try kid, but you aren't strong enough to hold me, Muscular back, oh i'm going to have so much fun torturing you and whoever these heroes are to you. I can tell you care about them, i'm going to make sure I rip them to shreds, piece by piece, all with you watching, with every bone in your body broken, battered. You're going to die a miserable death."