We all pretend to be the heroes on the good side

Izuku lives another day

"Ooo~ this is so fun! It's like undercover police officers searching the streets looking for criminals, right Eiji?" Mina nudged Kirishima with her elbow. She had a giddy smile on her face while she recorded everything on her phone.

"I don't think we should be out here, Mina. Even if this is for a grade but you know Phantom patrols sketchy parts of the town!" Kirishima eyed every dark alleyway they passed just in case somebody jumped out he could protect Mina.

Mina and Kirishima had been paired up together to do research on any hero, vigilante or villain of their choosing for a final. Kirishima had been hearing news of this 'Phantom' vigilante so he suggested the idea to Mina, thinking they were only going to look them up. Except Mina had taken it to the next level since Phantom was a vigilante, it'll be hard to get actual information by looking them up. Which is why they are currently in the poor- er not so well off part of Musufatsu at 11:30pm since all the forums say they usually patrol in this area between 10pm and 4am.

"Yeah! But it'll be totes cool to see a vigilante in action! Like boom! Bam, pow!" Mina said enthusiastically, boxing the air. She giggled at Kirishima's exasperated face and slapped his shoulder. "It's fine, nothing bad will-"

A cat jumped right out of the dark alleyway the duo had just walked by and scared the ever living shit out of them. The cat looked at them weirdly, one eye green and the other one eye red with sleek black fur. The cat tilted its head to the side, licked its paw for a second before scampering down the street.

"I thought I was going to have a heart attack. My Kami, if we don't find Phantom in 30 minutes, we are going back home." Kirishima said, putting his foot down. He knows what happened when Mina gets a little ahead of herself with her crazy ideas. And he's not going to die in some dark alleyway just to find a vigilante, he still has to make it to UA first!

"Yeah, Yeah... I guess you're right. Sorry for making you come out here, Shima." Mina apologized. Mina was going to say something else when a tall, dark figure loomed over them. According to all the forums online, Phantom isn't that tall so whoever this is, it not the famed vigilante.

"What are two young kids like you doing out here?" The voice behind sounded slurred. Definitely a drunk person.

Mina and Kirishima made eye contact with each other. 'Play it cool. Run when we get the chance.'

"Uh- nothing, sir! We were just heading home, aren't we Kirishima!" Mina nervously laughed.

"Yeah, it's not manly to make our parents worry for us." Said the person who snuck out and made a fake him out of some pillows on his bed.

"Anyway, we'll be going now!" Mina grabbed Kirishima's wrist and walked away, but the man clamped his sweaty hands on their shoulders.

God, the smell wafting off this man was terrible. He smelled like everything rotten. Rotten eggs, rotten milk, cheese, apples, about everything you can think of with the smell of alcohol on top. The man's hands were meaty and sweaty, he looked like he just got done rolling around in dirt.

"Duck!"

Mina didn't really think about what she was doing when she immediately dropped to the ground, yanking Kirishima along with him. The man, who was grabbing onto Mina's and Kirishima's shoulder, stumbled when he lost his stability and stumbled right into a swinging kick.

Mina watched as somebody sent a flying kick towards the man's face. The drunken man was sent flying to the floor, barely having anytime to reorient himself before the cloaked person grabbed him by the hair and slammed his head against the ground a few times till the man stopped moving.