Part 86: Hero and villains parlay

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The LOV, such as they were, were in the same place-- only in the daytime, it was pretty much empty.

"You know, it smells better than the warehouse," Shine said.

"Compress sprayed freshener everywhere," Spinner said.

"Ah," Shine nodded.

"Uh..." Hawks blinked. "Why are we...? Uh...wow, so I'm finally meeting the whole family, Dabi?"

"What is that jackass doing here?" Dabi was mad.

"Keep your personal beef out of of this or don't use him as a carrier pigeon next time," Shine snapped.

"Hey, I thought it was an inspiration. Nobody would think of that!" Dabi was defensive.

"Exactly," Shine said, "So shut up."

"Rude," Dabi said.

"Are you done having...whatever this is?" Mirko nudged Shine impatiently.

"Hey, Rodger Rabbit, we're having a conversation," Dabi said.

"I'd be Jessica Rabbit," Mirko said.

"No, Rodger," Dabi said.

"This is the stupidest fight ever," Shoto spoke, annoyed, "Can we please just get the information and go?"

"What? Afraid your clean hero hands will soak up the stench of our villainy?" Dabi said.

"Something like that." Shoto narrowed his eyes.

The irony-- if he only knew, Shine thought.

"Not so fast." Shigaraki was in rather a snippy mood after all the inconvenience. "We weren't expecting Hawks. How do we know this is not a trick?"

"Oh, brother." Shine turned to Hawks. "Can you swear in or something? You won't turn them in as long as we're working with them on this case. What you do after is your business. We both know you won't turn them in anyway, yada yada."

"I...feel offended," Hawks said.

"Good," Spinner said, "I never liked you anyway."

"Have we met...?" Hawks said.

"No," Spinner said. 

[Not in this canon.]

"Just make up your mind," Mirko told Hawks.

"I'd still like to know how you're involved in all this," Hawks said, "and who's holding out on me."

"The answer to that, Hawks, would be everyone," Shine said dryly, "Do you agree or not?"

"Uh...fine, I guess... I'm still lost here," Hawks said.

"Good enough, Shigaraki?" Shine asked.

"No...but I guess it's as good as we'll get," Shigaraki said.

"Did you just...accept something as a compromise?" Shine was amazed.

"What? No... Anyway, whatever. You're not going to like what we found." Shigaraki nodded. Compress opened his hand, and a marble snapped into a file.

"Our new recruit is quite talented. They got the whole 411 on the place, and no one will be a whit the wiser."

"You really think whoever finked won't warn Overhaul with the right tip?" Aizawa said, annoyed, "They'll know we're coming."

"Actually, my friend ensured that's not going to happen," Compress said, "But enough of that. You're welcome by the way."

"Who did you kill?" Miss Joke was horrified.

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