Mystery from Another World--MHA

Part 108: Hawks and the chase

Hawks appeared in a flurry of feathers--and was at once shocked to see a villain just casually sulking on the same roof top as a top pro and two--well he wasn't sure what they were.

That it was Shigaraki was further shocking...and made him nervous. Dabi could, he thought, keep his mouth shut, but Shigaraki seemed unstable, what if he just blurted something out?

Rumi was no help, she didn't even look happy to see him.

"Hey..." Hawks said, trying not to sound nervous--and failing. "So...uh...should I ask why the head of the LOV is here...unrestrained?...In the open...and you two..." he glanced at Shine and Wally.

Actually, he didn't even recognize Wally, he'd never seen him before.

Shine waved halfheartedly. "It's a long story, Hawks. Oh, Hawks meet Wally West, my partner. Wally, Hawks."

"Tower guy, yeah I know," Wally frowned at Hawks. "You know, he's not that scary in person."

"Am I scary?" Hawks said oddly.

"Maybe to someone with acrophobia," Wally only knew that word because Shine had used it repeatedly around him.

Hawks winced. "Oh...uh sorry about that, Miss Likstar...but it's all good now, right?"

"Sure, I'm over it," Shine nodded.

"What are you on about?" Rumi asked.

"Oh...just this one time we had a conversation on a roof...well, tower top, and she didn't care for it," Hawks said.

"What? You mean it wasn't just me?" Rumi was floored.

"I've also done that," Shigaraki said, because they weren't special.

"Whoa..." Wally gave Shine a look. "That's so trippy."

"I want to get my card stamped so I get a free sundae next time," Shine said. " Or is it the third time...I want one."

"I'll get you one," Wally promised. "Only I think they should pay for it."

Hawks chuckled nervously. "Well...uh...so what's the problem? Sounded urgent."

"All I said was I need to talk to you, meet me at XXXXX." Rumi raised an eyebrow.

"Yeah, for you that's urgent. I thought a bomb was going to blow up the whole city or something," Hawks said.

"Oof, been there," Wally said. "But I ran it out of the city before it went off...even Supes was impressed."

They looked at him blankly.

"Are you a Pro?" Hawks asked.

"Not here..." Wally said.

"They're American," Rumi said.

"Oh," Hawks said.

"Enough of this crap, get on with it," Shigaraki snapped.

Shine rolled her eyes at him. "Hawks, let's get something clear first of all...I think you should tell Rumi here the truth. This situation is very complicated...and we must talk openly about it if we're going to know if you can help or not--but we need all the help we can get. So, I think it'd be best to lay all our cards on the table."

"Ah, is this where you tell me how you know the League?" Hawks thought that would end the conversation.

But Shine just eyed Wally, then shrugged. "I know the league because they attacked me, I became curious, I started to meet up with Dabi to learn about them, began to feel kind of like they had a point, but steadfastly stuck to my own principles, and we've become sort of vaguely defined friends. I knew about you because it was easy to figure out, but we did not swap info at any point about pros or students. Does that answer your question?"