Puppet Master

End Of Internships

"Where are my students!" Shouta stormed into the hospital in his hero gear at two in the morning. He had left Ultraviolet with a note to tell Hitoshi and Izuku that he was out on an emergency when they woke.

A short old man in a yellow mask and cape, Pro Hero Manual, and detective Tsukauchi all ran up to him.

"Eraserhead," the old man bowed, "I am Gran Torino, the hero in charge of Kirishima Eijiro for his internships-"

"That's great," Shouta cut him off. "Where are my freaking students?" he hissed. Tsukauchi swallowed and put a hand on his shoulder. "Let's sit down-"

"I'm not sitting down until I know that they are okay," Shouta growled. Tsukauchi nodded. "I understand but this is a hospital, Shouta, and the emergency ward at that. Unless you want to get thrown out, you need to calm down." Shouta narrowed his eyes. He took a deep breath, carding a hand through his own hair and sighed. "Sorry... you're right." He allowed himself to be guided to the waiting room's uncomfortable chairs and to sit, everyone sitting as well. "It's fine," Tsukauchi said. "It is a stressful situation." Shouta turned to his detective friend. "Tsukauchi, what happened?" Tsukauchi gestured to the two heroes to his left. "I think you should hear their side of the story." Shouta nodded and turned to them.

Manual cleared his throat. He bowed deeply in his seat. "I want to apologize," he started solemnly. "Even after the warning you had sent to me regarding Iida's possible intention to go after the Hero Killer Stain, I lost sight of him during the attack on Hosu city attack. I should have kept a better watch over him. I never thought that he would use the situation to find Stain."

Shouta narrowed his eyes. "What do you mean?"

Manual sat up straight. "Hosu city was attacked by who we currently suspect are the League of Villains as there were a multitude of what are called 'Nomu.'" Shouta's eye twitched. "All available heroes, including me, were called to report and help. Along the way to the attack site, Iida disappeared at some point. Pro Hero Native had called in at some point during the attack asking for an emergency back up to a strange location and that they needed medical attention asap. I did not think much of it at the moment as I was fighting the Nomu. About half an hour later, the battle had ended. I was looking for Iida as I was helping with the relief efforts when I received a call saying that Iida was in the emergency ward unit in critical condition."

Shouta nodded and turned to Gran Torino. "And you?"

"I am Gran Torino," the older man restated. "I had been taking Kirishima down to Hosu to get some experience against lowly thugs when a hero smashed into the side of our train along with a Nomu. I told the kid to stay behind and pushed the Nomu back out and into the city. He did not obey and followed after me so I sent him to help the civilians evacuate. I, too, received the call from Native to the scene. As I was close by, I was able to make it over where I found Native, Kirishima, Iida, and Stain in the alley, Native the only one conscious. Stain was not very wounded. Iida and Kirishima... they are a different story."

Shouta nodded slowly, trying to keep his cool. "Alright, what did Native have to do with any of this?"

Tsukauchi stepped in. "During the attack, Pro Hero Native had run into Stain. He is currently in this hospital for treatment as well but awake as his injuries weren't nearly as threatening. We have Stain in the interrogation room back at the nearest station with quirk suppressants. We have been able to get a quirk specialist over to assess the man's quirk. It is a paralytic quirk that paralyzed the body of a person if Stain ingests their blood. It lasts in different periods of time based on the type of blood person may have. Stain had Native pinned against the wall when Iida ran up. He said that the boy was yelling about his brother and revenge a lot before getting taken down by Stain. The Kirishima came in looking for people to evacuate and he fought Stain, holding his own for quite a while before he, too, was overwhelmed."