Rise of the Phoenix

~ C h a p t e r 24 ~

Hey guys. This chapter is longer than what has been published today, but it wasn't finished and I wanted to get something out. I think Shinji must have fallen asleep before we could write so just wanted to get this out. I found a place with a natural ish break. The next chapter we publish will be much longer! So sorry guys. We have exams this week so it has been interesting lol.  

     Now that Izuku was away from the gang, he finally had time to process what had just happened to him.

He decided to start at the beginning of the whole nightmare, hoping that this way it would make everything easier to connect.

The man that Izuku caught trying to steal, 'Lil' Papa' his brain supplied him, wanted money for drugs according to Big Mama. They must have followed Lil' Papa or found out their location judging from the concern that Big Mama showed over the drug addiction.

That explains what the gang was doing there and Izuku's own presence accounts for the pro.

The pro was wearing dark clothing that was almost baggy, yet not too much as to get in the way. Throughout the entire encounter the pro was crouched in a position it would be easy to defend from any attack. The pro also had a large, heavy looking bandage thing around their neck.

Izuku frowned, this could be bad. He had known that his stalker was most likely an underground hero, but this hero could pose a lot of problems for him.

From what he had observed, even though he didn't see the hero's quirk in action, this pro was the hero Eraserhead.

After Izuku's first incident with crime, he started to get re-obsessed with analyzing any hero that he could and underground heroes proved a challenge for him he couldn't back away from.

Eraserhead was the only underground hero that he was able to find a clip that showed the hero fighting. For the rest of the heroes he was just left with vague descriptions. He quickly grew obsessed with the pro, intrigued by his almost quirkless fighting style.

Knowing that Eraserhead was after him terrified him. The pro had a very good chance at taking Izuku in.

In that case, Izuku thought, maybe it was a good thing that Big Mama grabbed him.

He would have to start looking into the pro extensively, more than what was available on the internet. He could not get caught again.

However, that brought him back to the reason he was not currently in the pro's custody.

Big Mama.

Why had the gang leader given the order to take him? He had claimed it was because the pro had captured him, perhaps Big Mama had thought that because a pro had an interest in Izuku, he was valuable.

Big Mama must have learned that he wasn't, seeing as he was free at the moment, but why not just kill him? Izuku was immensely grateful that he had not died in front of the gang. He didn't want to know what they would do if they knew his quirk.

That also begs the question why give him food before he left? Was the food drugged? What were they going to do with him? Why did Big Mama lie and tell him about his life? Was Big Mama trying to gain Izuku's trust so he would drop his guard?

Izuku's head hurt from all of the possibilities.

He decided it didn't matter the reasons, he would just have to be more careful from now on. He should also do research on the gang itself, as well.

Izuku also came to the conclusion that he should study current society more than he was currently. Most of his studies in civilization had to do with pre-quirk society and the history of the quirked society, not much on anything not quirk related.