CHAPTER 260(Gold Chain Gang Raid)

CHAPTER 260(Gold Chain Gang Raid)

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"You know you don't have to be so nervous," Lizardy -Setsuna Tokage- says.

She was in full Hero Costume in a police building waiting room, sitting around a desk opposite Rule -Yui Kodai-.

Rule's red and blue Hero Costume was now sporting some small extra satchels on her utility belt and arms, along with a matching mask.

"Mmm," Yui hums before taking another sip from her can of orange juice.

"Trust me it'll be fun," Lizardy says. "Your last work studies mentor was super lame...uh, no offense to Death Arms. Working with Majestic is way better, that's why I recommended you."

"Mmm, mm."

Lizardy sighs, "Yeah being part of a big joint operation in your first week does seem a bit stressful, but we're the long range team so our job is a lot easier to coordinate."Fịndd new updates at novelhall.com

"Is something wrong?" Creati -Momo Yaoyorozu- asks, wearing her new and improved Hero Costume with a few pouches on her utility belt.

She hands Lizardy a can of coffee before sitting beside her.

"Thanks," Lizardy opens her drink and nods to Rule, "she's nervous about her first big team up."

"Oh, that makes sense," Creati says. "On our first one with Majestic we honestly didn't do much, Pro Heroes usually don't want new and untested students directly confronting villains, which makes sense. But now Majestic trusts us more to handle ourselves so he's much more confident in us, and that includes you."

"And it helps that we're not exactly melee fighters," Lizardy says.

"Mmm?" Rule hums.

Creati looks at her, then at Lizardy for an explanation.

"I think she said she'll follow our lead, right?"

"Mhm," Rule nods.

The ladies talk amongst themselves for a few more minutes before their mentor, Majestic, joins them.

"Alright ladies I've got some good news and some bad news," he takes the seat beside Rule.

"How about the bad news first," Lizardy says.

"Right, well... Since we had to call this raid on super short notice and with limited intel before these guys move to a different city, again," he sighs. "Most of the local Pro Heroes were already committed or just didn't have the manpower to both patrol and help us out, so the team is gonna be very small, and that includes the police officers we'll have accompanying us."

"But this is a dangerous gang," Creati says. "Shouldn't stopping them be their top priority?"

"That's not really how it works all the time," Majestic says. "Because the Gold Chains gang hops from city to city so often, the local Pro Heroes don't really care since they aren't around long enough to raise the actual crime stats for an area. Plus the gang is pretty big, we're honestly lucky we were able to find out what area they'd be in and put together this many people."

"Especially since we only gave them 36 hours notice, if so much," Creati says. "But it still doesn't sit right with me how much of this statistics and politics nonsense affects some people's Pro Hero work."

"It's unavoidable," Majestic says. "With how the system is set up Pro Heroes have to compete with each other just as much as with villains, dropping down one spot in the popularity or other rankings could mean a big pay cut, and a lot of our families solely depend on our Hero Work to eat."

"Sadly I can see the logic in that," Lizardy says. "But with the horrific things this gang does, it's not very Heroic to not intervene."

"Agreed," Creati adds. "Is there any good news?"

"Well, we have a better idea of the area we need to search, the cops found some of the people we took pictures of last week and tailed them all to one district, we think it has to be where a big safehouse is."

"That saves us time, hopefully this time we can strike before they move again," Lizardy says. "What about other Pro Heroes, do we have any help? Because I don't feel confident with just the four of us and a squad of police taking on such a heinous gang."

Majestic chuckles, "well, lets just say we'll have more than enough firepower, but that's a surprise for you girls."

"Is it Wash?!" Lizardy asks.

"He said firepower and the first thing you thought was a washing machine?" Creati asks.

"Well, when you say it like that..." Lizardy frowns.

"Mmm," Rule nods a few times.

"Uhh, what does that mean?" Majestic asks Lizardy.

"She's just nervous about meeting more people."

"That's understandable, especially since you're representing me of all people, the magnificent and magical, Majestic," Majestic laughs softly, "but I wouldn't bring you here if I didn't think you could handle it."

"Yeah one second I'm just connecting to the projector," Horizon says, confusing everyone.

A few seconds later a simple map appears on the screen.

"This is a map of the hideout, at least from what I can tell, they've got 37 people in there including Gold Chain himself. The building has a basement that looks like they dug it out using Quirks since it's not reinforced in the same way as the rest of the building."

"How did you get this, and where is this?" Majestic asks.

"Oh, when we got here I looked at the slides and started looking around for Gold Chain, that stupid jewelry in his mouth made it super easy to find him, then I just mapped out the building and made a sketch on my phone."

"You can do that? From here?" One of the officers asks.

"Oh yeah, it's only like 13km away. They don't seem to have any hostages in there, just their own members, so we can stick to the original plan."

"Wait," One of the officers got up. "Can't you just warp them into cells from here?"

"I could, but I don't want people, especially my team, being entirely dependent on me. I especially want my team to get tested against Power Types if that gang has any, obviously I won't let anyone die or get seriously hurt, but for this I'll just be acting as over watch in the control van.

Oh, but you don't have to send any police officers inside, just form a perimeter in case things go badly. That might actually also be why we didn't get much assistance from other Pro Heroes on this, whenever I join a team up like this on the Hero Network is doesnt' let it show up as much.

Something about everyone flooding the system to team up with me and it ripping manpower away from other places that need it, and simply because it's overkill to add a dozen more Pro Heroes when I'm here. At Least that's how she explained it."

"She?" Creati asks.

"Our boss."

"Thank you," One of the officers said. "My men will be happy to hear that they don't have to get involved in the action much"

Majestic was entirely blown away, "huh, and here I almost thought you were just being a cocky, disrespectful kid."

"Only to the villains," Horizon jokes.

"Right, well I guess that leaves the planning to do," Majestic says. "Normally I'd want to send as much firepower as possible in there, especially since my students will be involved, but you're sure you'll be able to warp anyone out before they get seriously hurt."

"I promise you, if anyone is about to get hurt I'll either warp them out, or join the fight myself."

"Well, I guess since I'll be going in too it should be fine, now we just need to plan our attack," Majestic sits to take a look at the map.

"Mudman?" Horizon asks.

"Right, guess I'm up," Mudman gets out of his seat and walks closer to the screen, getting a better look at the map. "Well, this building is huge, and has multiple floors. That looks like an armory in the basement levels, right?"

"Yeah," Horizon says.

"And a vault lower down, and these tunnels...that means either the building above ground or wherever these tunnels lead to are the entrances. Two pronged attack, our team rushes from the front through the doors, drawing as much attention and making as much noise as possible.

Team Majestic uses the tunnels to get behind them, meeting us at the vault where they should have their strongest forces, and likely Gold Chain himself."

"Best possible route?" Simon asks, speaking for the first time since the meeting began, and everyone else just sat back and listened to the two students.

"I think we enter on the roof and go down from there, force them to fight in the building if they want to get to us rather than taking the fight to the streets where innocent people or public property can get damaged."

"37 people, that's a lot for a cramped space, want to just pour some wet cement on a group of them to start it off?" Cellophane asks.

"That's risky without knowing their Quirks first."

"I can deal with the stupid ones while Cellophane tries to bait out their Quirks," Simon says. "And you stay a floor above and get your Quirk ready."

"Think bigger," Horizon chimes in, silencing his team as they try to figure out what he saw that they didn't. "You've got new assets at your disposal, use them," he gestures to the girls and Majestic.

"Hmm, is there anything on the upper floors we need?" Mudman asks Horizon.

"It's mostly empty space aside from some furniture, everything is underground in the massive vault."

"What does the armory have?"

"Some small arms, but each of these guys only has a Tanto, it's weird," Horizon says.

"It's their signature, they chop up their victims," Majestic adds.

"Well the guns are mostly in the armory, above ground there isn't anything useful."

"I see," Mudman ponders this for a moment, then looks over at Creati, "how many thin steel sheets can you make, like floodgates?"

Creati tilts her head slightly, "how many square meters do you need?"

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