Spacetime Anomaly: MHA Fanfic

Chapter 5.1: Round 2

"Damn it! We gotta save that kid," a brutish hero by the name of Death Arms, shouted as he kept the civilians behind him from approaching the volatile villain. He shook his head saying, "He's too slippery for me handle."

Far away, a titanic female pro hero who had earlier made her debut today as Mt. Lady helpless said, "The fight's in a single lane street. I can't reach it." She couldn't squeeze into the scene in her transformed state.

Another new pro by the name of Kamui Woods loudly cursed, "Damn, explosive fires are one of my weaknesses. Someone else's got to take this one… Backdraft! We could really use your pressurized water to take care of this sludge villain." Instead of going against someone who would naturally suppress his Quirk, Kamui Woods took to rescuing some of the civilians that were getting too close to the villain.

The pro hero called Backdraft couldn't even afford to spare Kamui Woods a glance as he had his hands full by putting off the raging fires that were all around the site of the incident. As water launched from the spigots where a normal human's hands should have been on his body, Backdraft said, "I'd love to give you guys a hand, but these fires are getting out of control even with my Sidekick helping! Where are the firefighters?!"

In the middle of all this chaos, a dissatisfied voice suddenly overpowered all the surrounding cacophony, "You've made me cancel my appointment..." The struggling villain and its hostage suddenly froze as Izuku's form slowly appeared; the warped space around him returning to normal. He looked like he had just stepped out of the void, materialized from nothing at all.

With a more aggressive exertion of Gravitational Manipulation, all the goop that covered the sludge villain's would-be hostage floated and compressed in midair. Izuku guessed it would be fine considering the sludge villain's body had already been compressed to fit into two two-liter bottles. But this time, to make sure the villain wouldn't be able to exploit another accident, Izuku's eyes flashed with a dangerous golden light as he let spatial power smother over all of the nodes and vertices on the compressed villain's body.

Chain-like phenomenon blossomed as rays from the villain's body as it was successfully locked in space. Amidst the pervasive silence, the villain's locked body fell over as Izuku withheld from manipulating its gravity. With the intensity Izuku exerted on the captured villain's body, it's sludge-based body would stay compressed for minutes before the effect naturally faded.

As per usual, with the situation handled and there being no use in staying any longer, Izuku began to walk away as if he weren't at all involved; perhaps his perception of responsibility had been warped by the way he grew up mostly isolated…

Eventually, the stunned audience reached all at once. The civilians cheered while those most suited to clear out the leftover fires continued their work. But three heroes in Mt. Lady, who had already shrunk back down out of her titanic form, Death Arms, and Kamui Woods all approached Izuku.

They seemed put off by the way Izuku didn't even put them in his eyes. He seemed arrogant, coming and going like this was an everyday occurrence, despite him being a civilian and technically interrupting their hero work. But even the typically impatient Death Arms couldn't find it in himself to reprimand the boy. After all, he resolved the most pressing issue with minimal effort and zero collateral damage.

"Thanks for the assist, kid," Kamui said, testing the waters.

Izuku stopped, he faintly smiled and said, "It looked like things were getting out of hand. Sorry for intruding on your work as a civilian." He stopped to look at the ground and soberly asked, "Am I in trouble?"

"HAHAHA, nonsense, kid! You were a real hero today," Death Arms boisterously shouted. He liked Izuku's humble attitude, so he playfully added, "I mean, as long as we all look the other way, there's no reason for you to get in trouble. Right, guys?" The other pros all shrugged their shoulders or looked away as if they didn't even know what he was talking about.

Izuku smiled brightened before he said, "Alright then, I'll get out of your way now. Your jobs are already so demanding, I wouldn't want to waste your time needlessly."

This… Mt. Lady couldn't help but take a step back as she cringed internally. 'He's so timid in his speech… This kid has the makings of a future pro hero, but this… this could be a problem...' Most of the other pros gave way for Izuku to leave, thinking along the same lines as Mt. Lady. None of them could understand how such a powerful and competent teen could present himself so skittishly. Alas, even if he explained it to them, they would never understand what he's experienced; sympathize: perhaps; empathize: no…

Walking through the path of civilians that opened before him, Izuku passed by a certain skeletal looking man and a look of pity crossed his eyes as the two made eye contact. Izuku didn't know it, but the man was unbelievably shocked as this moment more than confirmed his earlier suspicion that the boy knew his secret! His secret was one that if exposed could cause society to crumble, if not at the very least take a heavy blow. Thus, he shamelessly followed Izuku to understand how this apparent stranger figured his secret out.