Ultra Blue Violence (Dabi)

Chapter Sixty-Two: Debris Disk

(November)

"... Sorry if I threw you through a loop, man." Hawks nervously added, the front of his cream-coloured jacket was balled in Endeavour's massive fists. The Flame hero's fire was burning bright with rage after they finally left the stage after Hawks's stunt out there.

"What the hell were you thinking, boy?" Endeavour growled, with a gruff voice. His icy blue eyes were glaring straight through Hawks's laid-back smirk.

"Sorry, everyone was just starting the same normal boring stuff, ya know? Felt like somebody needed to make an impact."

Endeavour stared at the Winged Hero in his clutches. He couldn't understand how he was so calm about all this, or why he had such a laid-back attitude towards everything. (Is he mocking me?)

"You were trying to test me." said Endeavour.

"Of course not," Hawks chuckled. "If anything it turned out well for you."

Endeavour's flame died down and he released the red-winged hero.

Hawks stepped back straightening out his jacket again. "Look, I'm not an All Might super-fan or anything, I never wanted to become like him, but still I was completely shocked by his retirement." Hawks dropped the yellow visor from his eyes to sit in his gloved hand. "I'm not suggesting we need another shiny icon like him, but it goes without saying we could definitely use a new leader right about now. And I thought you nailed it, you sounded cool out there!"

"And you don't want to be this new leader yourself?" questioned Endeavour.

"Hah, are you kidding me? Do I really come off as a leader? I'd have more freedom down in the lower ranks, somewhere in the twenties."

"People who think this is a game infuriate me. We're done. You owe the others an apology." Endeavour turned on his flaming red hot shoes and began to walk the other way.

"Hold up, I got one more thing for ya'."

"I said we're done!"

"I wanna team up with you. One case that's all. There's been some troubling eye-witness accounts in my hometown. Do you remember those Nomu things, right?"

A man with shaggy blond hair carrying three traveling suitcases, wearing an old black and yellow costume approached. "I do apologise for stepping in like this." he said with a low growl in his voice.

"Hey-o, Kota." Hawks greeted. "I was starting to wonder when you'd show up. How has it been, its been a while since we last saw each other."

Kota looked from the Flame Hero to Hawks. His eyebrows were bushed together in permanent grief. He had deep worry lines across his forehead and a snarl on his lip. "This is not a joke, Hawks. You know perfectly well why I am here. Take this more seriously."

"Believe me." Hawks smiled. "I've never taken something more seriously in my life than this."

"Kinetic." Endeavour folded his massive muscular arms, towering over the retired Hero. "I thought you were retired, why are you in costume? And here of all places?"

"It seems I've been called out of retirement." Kota placed down his bags. "I'm here to team up with Hawks to investigate the Nomu sightings in Kyushu. I'm also here for my daughter."

"Your daughter, Kota, is a Villain." snarled Endeavour. "There is no such thing as saving her, so get it out of your head. I'm sorry to say, but she's beyond saving."

Kota turned dark and tired eyes up to Endeavour. "I'm aware of that." he snarled, like he didn't already know the fact of the matter, and having someone like him rub it in was worse. "I might have been retired, but I am still a Hero at core. My wife likes to believe otherwise, and if thats what keeps her contempt then I'm willing to let her believe that Miya is worth saving."