Chapter 69 - The Chain of Fate

*Gray POV*

A group of four people slide along the floor, a block of moving concrete transporting them through the forest and towards the city, 'They seem hellbent on getting out of here. Good, good.'

I continue monitoring them, leaping through the tall trees, and staying out of eyesight, 'I'll need to figure out how to approach them. Probably need to work up some business deal that mutually benefits both parties. We'll definitely need his quirk canceling drug.'

The group enters the city and Overhaul deactivates his quirk, and they start walking, 'That should be enough,' and I turn around, heading back towards the warehouse.

When I return, I call out, "I'm back."

Unlike, Twices return, no one welcomed me back from my reconnaissance mission.

Compress, however, did seem interested, "Where did you go?"

I throw my black overcoat onto a stack of boxes and lean back against another, "Just made sure they didn't get any funny ideas. Trailed them for a bit before I came back."

I look over at Magne's legs, her blood still splattered all over the area, 'Even though I warned everyone. Fool.'

Toga glares at me, "Oy, Bastard. I have a question for you…"

I pop a freshly created ice cube into my mouth, "Shoot."

She scowls, "Back when the birdman was going to kill their subordinate, you stopped him, in less than a second."

I crunch down on the ice cube, seeing where this is going, "And?"

Her glare intensifies, "If you could do that in an instant… You said some bullshit about abandoning your friends. Why didn't you save her?! Why didn't you save big sis Magne!"

Lazily I look up at her, "You want to know why? Why I let her die? Why I said that those who abandon their friends are worse than scum? I'll tell you why. Despite my warning, despite me explaining the opponent's quirk, despite Shigaraki highlighting that he was someone to be wary of. She charged in stupidly, and died a fool's death," I say, adding a venomous tone at the end.

"My master told me that those who break the rules are scum, but those who abandon their friends are worse than scum. We worked in the underground, so the rules were a bit different but he kept to his ideals. But I disagree, what happens when your "friends" put you or themselves in a dangerous situation because of their stupidity? The underworld is a cruel place, where the slightest mistake results in death. So, those that were not smart, died."

My words settle upon everyone's ears but Toga still can't accept it, "B-but, but she… she-"

My tone takes a sharp turn, "She, she, she what?! She bravely sacrificed her life for her comrades? Did she die in a brave and courageous fight? She did neither! She was slaughtered! One-touch, and she was dead! Don't fool yourself, thinking that she was in the wrong, she brought it upon herself."

Toga glares at me before hopping off her crate and exits the building.

Twice nods his head, "Hmm, hmm, good job Gray! Telling her off like that, no point brooding over the death of a fool," then his attitude takes a 180 and tears almost start flowing from his eyes, "You! How can you be so cold-hearted!? She... we just lost a close comrade!"

Twice stands up to go join Toga, but I throw a knife at his feet, stopping him, "Don't bother, she might kill you."

Twice shrugs, "She would never, I'm her best friend after all."

He does a quick double-take of his head in Toga directions, before creating a clone of himself, "Being cautious is being smart, right?"

The clone goes out after toga, and we quickly hear a scream, then a splatter, and Twice winces slightly, "Oh… best we leave her alone…"

I let out a sigh, and I can feel everyone's gaze on me, "You guys wanna know why I let that guy live when I could've slaughtered one man already, right?"

Dabi shrugs, "I will admit I am interested."

"It was a test of sorts. I figured that the grunt they were gonna kill, was, well, a grunt. They killed what would be an upper-echelon member, so of course, we needed equal compensation. So, I needed to figure out, after Overhaul, who was someone that ranked high in their organization. The white-cloaked man immediately took the role of leader when Overhaul was out of action, and the small and big guy both turned to him for instructions. Now their chain of command will be broken."

Twice claps his hands loudly, "Wow! Impressive! As expected of you, Gray," then his tone changed, "Shitty bastard! You could've said something earlier!"

I ignore him and my attention switches to the cloaked, headless body of Chronostasis, "Someone call Kurogiri. Tell him we have a good base for the Doctor."

*Overhaul POV*

A lanky man with acid green hair steps up and gives us a loopy grin, "Well, well, well, looks like Halloween came early boys! Look at these bird fellas!"

The group laughs at us, and I glare at the man in the front, "If you would mind moving, I'm rather annoyed today."

The leader looks back at his men, "Aww, did you hear that? Someone's having a bad day! Did you forget to take your nap today?"

He pats me on my head, and leers at me, "Don't be telling us what to do, prick!"

I close my eyes, and mumble something under my breath, "Filthy animals."

Grabbing his arm, I disassembled his entire body, showering the area with blood. The attempted robbers look at me stunned and one takes a step back, before breaking out into a sprint.

"Nah, fuċk this shit!"

Dropping to my hands, I create a wall blocking off the alleyway on both ends. In one swift movement, spikes appear out of the walls, impaling all of them several times over.

Their bodies go limp and I grit my teeth, before letting out a wild yell, "FUCK!!!!"

*One Week later*

"So, about the work studies that are like a more serious version of the internships, where you go to where the pro heroes work and help them… We talked about it at our faculty meeting yesterday, and almost all the teachers, including the principal, thought you shouldn't do it."

There is a moment of silence before the majority of the class yells out in shock, "WHAT!!!!"

I wince slightly before popping in my earbuds as the class begins to complain about it while thinking about my own internships, 'If I want to get into Nighteye's agency, I'll need someone to introduce me, I could either go to All Might or Mirio… All Might might turn me down, but I don't think I am friendly enough with Mirio for him to recommend me…'

But then I frowned slightly, 'Mirio took a liking to Izuku and ended up recommending him… maybe he could do the same for me?'

In the end, I just shrug, 'Fuck it, I'll just ask All Might then see what happens from there.'

Suddenly, I hear something whizzing my way, and I move my head back as a stick of chalk goes flying past my head, "Oy, Pyromaniac! Just cuz you are top of the class doesn't mean you don't need to pay attention!" Aizawa yells out in annoyance.

I give him a lazy smile, "Don't worry about it, I'm very serious about this, you know."

He shakes his head, "Anyways, don't let this chance go to waste."

"Yes, sir!"

Momo turns to me, "So? Are you going to be with Hawks again?"

Shaking my head, I reply, "Nah, Hawks was a good introduction, but I want to broaden my experience."

She looks at me confusedly, "Soo… Endeavor?"

Again, I shake my head, "Nope. One of the few heroes who have worked along with All Might as his sidekick, Sir Nighteye."

*Ten Minutes later*

"Hmmm… Sorry, but I refuse."

My eyes widen in fake shock, "You refuse? Why?"

"There are three reasons," and All Might puts up one finger, "One, in the meeting yesterday, I was opposed to the work studies. I believe that the first years do not necessarily need to start now, you included. Two, no matter where you go, trouble is always happening and the last thing the school needs right now is trouble. Lastly, Sir Nighteye. There are several personal reasons that make it hard to talk to him for now."

He looks up at me with a slight frown, "Anyways, what brought up Nighteye? You aren't gonna do your work studies with Hawks, like your internship?"

I shake my head, "Nope. Hawks was fine, but I want to expand my knowledge. What better way to do it than work under the former sidekick of the number one hero? As for how I found out about him, I was just looking on the web and I ran across some old articles about you, and Sir Nighteye was mentioned."

He stares at me silently, "I get the feeling that there is more to this, and I am intrigued. However! I still cannot introduce you to him…"

I let out a sigh, 'Well, this runs along with my predictions. Guess we are going to plan B.'

"But," my skinny teacher says, "I do know someone who can. Come with me."

As we exit the room, we come across Izuku, who looks slightly surprised to see us together, "Uhmm, All Might, are you busy?"

All Might scratches the side of his face, "Uhm, a little, but what do you need?"

Izuku takes a deep breath in, "Could you introduce me to Sir Nighteye for the work-study?!"

My teacher gives him a suspicious glare, before turning to me, "Did you two…?"

I give him an "I don't know what the hell just happened" look and shake my head slightly, "How would I know?"

He continues to stare at me but ultimately sighs, "Ok, I'll hear you out, Midoriya. Follow me."

We enter an empty office, where All Might takes a seat on a chair while I and Midoriya share a couch, and the latter explains his reasoning. All Might appears to be against it, much more than he was against me, but ultimately concedes after hearing his determination, telling him the same thing he told me.

"I do know someone who can," he says, with a sigh, and at that moment, the door opens, and Mirio Togata comes in.

"You… are… here," He shouts out a wide grin on his face.

I smirk and wave at our upperclassman, "Yo!"

His eyes widen as he sees that both Midoriya and I are here, and grins even more, "Ohh! You two!"

Midoriya greets Mirio and then Mirio greets All Might, "I heard that you needed me, All Might!"

All Might nod his head and gestures to an empty chair, when Izuku asks, "Uhm, I don't really understand what's going on…"

Mirio gives him a thumbs up, "What a coincidence, me neither!"

The three of us look towards All Might and he begins to explain, "Young Togata is currently doing his work-study under Sir Night eye."

I nod my head pretending to be impressed and Izuku's eyes widen, "Is that true, Togata!?"

Mirio nods, "Yup! I've been with him for about a year now."

Midoriya has an excited look on his face, "Then when you graduate, you're basically set on becoming a sidekick!"

Mirio smirks, "As long as Sir doesn't change his mind."

All Might has a serious expression, "Getting straight to the point, do you think that these two can work under Nighteye, Mirio?"

Our upperclassman nods his head thoughtfully, "Ah, so that's what you called me here for…"

He grins and sinks into the ground, his clothing falling away as well, as he appears behind us, wrapping both his arms around our shoulders, "You want me to introduce them to Sir, right!?"

All Might nods in confirmation, and Mirio frowns, "But why use me as a middle man? Sir would be really happy if you talked to him directly. He's always watching videos of you when he has time, you know."

I cringe inwardly, 'Damn, that's honestly kinda creepy…'

All Might sighs, "Honestly, I can't really face him right now, because, in the end, I ended up exactly as he warned."

Izuku looks at him questioningly, and All Might changes the topic, "So? What do you think of them?"

Mirio takes his arms off of our shoulders and stares at us for a bit before talking, "What kind of hero do you wanna be?"

I answer immediately, "A hero that has fun. Life needs excitement in it, and being a hero is pretty entertaining."

Mirio's eyes glitter, and clenches his fists, "So cool!"

'Ah, looks like he thinks I mean doing hero things is fun… Well beating the shit out of people is a hero thing… right?'

Midoriya and All Might both let out a sigh as they completely understood the point I made.

Then Mirio turns to Izuku, "What about you?"

Izuku opens his mouth, "I want to save everyone with a smile no-"

But then he pauses and looks down at the floor, "I want to be strong enough that no one will worry about me. To always win… to always save everyone… I want to be the greatest hero."

I chuckle, "You have a lot of balls, saying that in front of the former No.1, the strongest third year, and the strongest student."

His face glows red, and he starts waving his hands frantically, "Ah, wait, a-emm, w-well…"

I start laughing, "Ahahaha! Well, whatever. You can take the title of greatest, I kinda have doubts that I fit that bill."

All Might silently nod, then looks at Mirio, "Do you have an answer?"

Mirio, who was still nȧkėd, looked at us seriously, "Natsu, Izuku, both of you guys have different ideas."

His serious expression changes, showing a smile and giving us a thumbs up, "I'll help you guys follow those ideals! I'll do it!"

I grin and bow my head, "Thanks a lot!"

Midoriya, is a bit more frantic, "R-really! Thank you so much!"

Mirio waves us off, "Don't worry about it! I had a feeling that Sir might have been interested in you two if he met you."

Izuku's eyes widened, "Really!"

Mirio scratches the back of his head, "Well, I don't know if he'll say yes, but I can try to convince him."

I grin excitedly, 'This is gonna be fun…'

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