Kaiju Slayers in Love (Izuku x Miruko)

Chapter 9: Rules of Engagement

Leaping over a half-destroyed wall, Izuku spotted containment squad Golf behind an improvised barricade of wood pallets.

Or what was left of them.

The squad leader was missing a leg and bleeding out quickly, and he was the one in best shape out of all of them. Two of the other members were passed out due to blood loss from gaping wounds, and the rest were either dead or dying.

"Fuck." Izuku spat as he ran over to the squad leader while quickly putting on some sterile medical gloves.

"H-h-help the others." The brawny man said deliriously. "Im f-f-fine. Just a bad scratch."

"I will, but I need you to keep talking to give them orders." Izuku said calmly as he cinched a tourniquet shut around the man's stump. The man was clearly in shock, and trying to get him to snap out of it was only going to waste time. Better to have him stay awake than freak out once he realized how fucked up he was.

"I cleared the kaiju out, but I need you to stay awake." Izuku said tersely as he moved over to one of the unconscious soldiers, a tall man with a patchy goatee. "Tell me what happened."

"We...we um...w-w-we were posted up in the street a-a-as usual." The squad leader stammered. "We only h-h-have shitty quirks, s-s-so we stay out of...out of...who a-a-are you?"

Quickly spraying some medical sealant into the soldier's ragged gut wound, Izuku clapped his hands together loudly. "Golf leader! Focus! Tell me what you were doing outside." Izuku said loudly as he moved to the other unconscious soldier.

"R-r-right..um...w-w-we...were in the street...keeping watch..." The squad leader continued as he clutched his rifle. "Command s-s-said only a few of the..the fuckin lizards were gonna...be heading towards us..."

Izuku growled in frustration as he kneeled over the other unconscious soldier. She was a bit on the younger side, with black hair peeking out from under her combat helmet. She had a single large puncture wound in her sternum that went straight through her armor. Blood was slowly leaking out of it, and Izuku's medic intuition was screaming at him that the damage was worse than it appeared. Muttering an apology, Izuku used a pair of large cloth scissors to quickly cut through her chest armor and the clothes underneath. There was no time for modesty, not when it was a matter of life and death. Confirming his suspicions, Izuku cursed even more as he saw the extent of the damage. The woman's armor had been soaking up the blood, making the bleeding not seem as bad as it actually was. His hands quickly becoming coated in blood, Izuku slapped a hasty dressing over the woman's puncture wound after spraying some clotting formula inside. It wasn't a permanent solution, but it was enough for now.

"A-a-are they okay?" The squad leader mumbled as his face grew paler from shock.

Izuku glanced over at the rest of the unmoving soldiers. By the time Izuku had tended to the two soldiers, one other soldier had bled out, and the rest were already dead.

Gritting his teeth against the wave of anger and bitterness, Izuku forced himself to speak in a neutral tone. "They will be when I get you all out of here."

Activating his commlink, Izuku glanced upwards. "Thunder, I need you to point me to the nearest medics or support squad. I got multiple wounded and KIA."

"I got a rescue squad five blocks west of you." Captain Yeager said quickly.

Looking around frantically, Izuku spotted a slightly damaged but seemingly functional moving truck through a massive hole in a nearby wall. "Tell them I am inbound with wounded."

"Better hustle Sergeant." Captain Yeager said seriously. "I got a group of twenty kaiju closing in on your position. Estimated time of contact is three mikes."