Unchained

Chapter 39 - Apprentice

Jinni sat on the League's couch, thinking for a bit about what to do next. Jinni got up out of her chair and left her room. "Hey Dabi, is that note Kuro left still on the bar counter?"

Her phone all of a sudden catching up with messages went off in her pocket. Looking at it she saw Dabi's name in the notifications. "Wha...How?!"

Jinni yelled out. "DABI I NEED TO SEE YOUR PHONE!"

"Huuh?" Dabi, who had just woken up, groaned.

Jinni speaking as slowly as possible. "Let me...see...your phone."

"Fucking why??" Dabi grumbled, stuffing his hands in his pockets.

"I am in the same group chat as you now! I went to U.A. remember?! Now let me get you out of the chat!"

"I tried that, one of those little dicks keeps adding me back."

"Simple fix. Now hand it to me." She held her hand out to him.

"... Nah its fun bullying those shits, plus, I have my location set to the US of A so they can't locate me." Dabi held his phone out of Jinni's reach.

"...Just don't say anything related to members in the League, you just revealed to Alice we know about her."

"Nahhhh it's fine, no one recognizes that shit till it's too late anyways."

Jinni sighed. "Anyways...I came out of my room to see Kuro's note again. Is it where he left it still?"

"There was a note??"

"....Do you ever listen to what others tell you?"

"Huuh?"

Anyways, said note was still placed on the table, upside down now and revealing the other instructions to the two members left at base.

Jinni nodded her head and added the video to her files. She then turned her attention to the bar and saw the note. She saw the note on the back, explaining that they can go to Kuro... wherever he is. "Kurogiri said to text him if you want to go wherever he is. Think we should go? Meet the boss?"

"I know you haven't been here for long, but the boss is scary as shit." Dabi mentioned warily.

"Scary as in movie villain scary or horror film movie scary?"

"Both. The guys face is more fucked up than mine, and he has this.. aura to him..."

Jinni shivered, feeling a weird sense of deja vu washing over her. Feeling vulnerable, she defensively activated her quirk to get over it. "I-Interesting...Well...I'm gonna meet him one way or another. Might as well choose when."

Jinni reluctantly took out her phone and sent Kurogiri a text...

After a minute, a portal opened in the middle of the bar leading to the nomu lab, slower than one of Kurogiri's portals would usually take to open...

Jinni gave Dabi one last look. "W-Wish me luck." She then went through the portal.

After Dabi watched the portal close, he responded, "Good luck, kid... you'll need it."

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As Jinni stepped through the portal, the mist revealed the same setup as earlier. However the spilled liquid and broken glass was cleaned up, and Kurogiri wasn't... present.

Dr.Garaki was on a dim laptop, tending to some matters of calibration for All For One's helmet at the moment. A few misclicks here and there left All For One with some scares, in which he cursed quietly at the helmet.

Jinni looked around the room in curiosity. Watching the portal close but not seeing Kurogiri anywhere, she figured it was a different portal quirk. Seeing the two men she spoke, though nervously. "Uhh...H-Hello...I'm J-Jinni Katima."