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Two heroes watched as the two story building crumbled in on itself. One, Cellophane, was dressed in a skin-tight black bodysuit with white on the sides of his torso and the middle of the front and black of his torso. The black on the upper and lower parts of the torso ended in two sets of three triangular points that faced towards the center of his abdomen. He wore shoulder guards designed to look like simple handheld packing tape dispensers, with the sleeves of his bodysuit being short and showing his muscled arms that matched the rest of his lean and athletic physique. He wore white boots with black soles and yellow on the top rim, his face disguised by the strange helmet he wore. It was shaped like an ordinary tape dispenser that you would use at an office or classroom, with the part that would fit around and extend out from his lower jaw being thin and flattening out for where the teeth of the dispenser-shaped helmet were, and it was the same yellow as the sides of the helmet, white indented circles over each ear and white panes on either side of the translucent, black-tinted visor that made up most of the front of the helmet and hid his face. Short, choppy black hair stuck out of a gap in the lower back of the mask, but the weirdest thing about him was his elbows. They were larger than normal and round, almost circular, and made his arms slightly disproportionately long. They also stuck out to the sides, and were similar in shape to tape rolls, slit-like structures located on the outside of them allowed for the release of the large, paper-thin adhesive structures that he used to move in closer to the wreckage and gave his power, his quirk, its name.

The Taping Hero: Cellophane
Rank: No. 18 Pro Hero
Quirk: Tape
His quirk causes him to have those weird-looking elbows, which allow him to produce huge amounts of tape-like material he can use to trap opponents and swing from place to place! It's also perfect for hanging stuff up!

Cellophane glanced over the wreckage. "I take left, you take right?" He asked the hero standing next to him, Ingenium.

Cellophane's ally was dressed in lightweight armor that was almost completely white and covered his arms, torso, and his shins/calves, alongside armored boots and knee guards. Pipe-like structures wrapped around the middle of his torso, and yellow structures with short tubes were located on the sides of his shin/calf guards. His arm bracers came off into a point at his elbow, with every piece of the armor being smooth and aerodynamic in every way. Gaps in the armor around his thighs, shoulders, and elbows showed a dark blue-black fabric underneath to protect the hero's skin from friction against the metal. His face, too, was completely hidden underneath an angular helmet with a dome-like top similar to a biker's helmet and a porous mouthguard, block-like sections over his ears with rectangular slots in the front, and horn-like/wing-like structures coming off of the sides of the helmet. A third horn-like, spike-like structure came off of the middle of the helmet right where it started to curve down from the back. His shin/calf guards had holes in the back over his calf that a set of three pipes came from either side of his calves, six on each calf and twelve pipes in total. They looked like the kind you'd see on engines.

The Turbo Hero: Ingenium
Rank: No. 12 Pro Hero
Quirk: Engine
His quirk gives him engine-like structures in his legs, specifically the calf area, which he can use to run super fast! A fun fact is that instead of normal engine fuel, his run off of fruit juice! His hero outfit has a built-in cooling system to help keep his engines from overheating.

The armored hero nodded before walking into the wreckage, carefully pushing aside debris to look for any signs of life. Ingenium spotted a large chunk of concrete shift.

"Cellophane, I think I found someone!" He shouted to the other hero on the other side of the ruins. Cellophane nimbly made his way over, occasionally using his tape to clear larger chunks. While this had happened the concrete had shifted to the point where it was obvious there was someone - or something - under it. Ingenium and Cellophane both worked to lift the concrete chunk.

When it was lifted and moved safely, it revealed a small, wide-eyed child. Her hair was messed up, her bangs falling into her face, and she had numerous scrapes on her, some bruises already forming. Ingenium held out his hand to help the child out of the rubble, only to be hit with a rough punch to his jaw.

The child scampered away from the heroes, picking up a fallen lead pipe. The heroes seemed shocked at the fact that a child as young as the one they were facing knew how to fight; she looked maybe eight, no older than nine!

"Iida-kun, distract her, I'll tie her up" Cellophane said, momentarily forgetting they were on a mission and calling his ally by his actual name. Ingenium nodded, darting in to try to get her to attack him as she swung her blunt weapon at the heroes. It worked, and he was awarded a punch that dented his armor.

The child's hand was bent in a way where it had to be broken, but she kept charging Ingenium, hit after hit. She lashed out with flailing fists and swung the pipe like a club, and the armor-clad hero made no moves to strike back at the child. However, these were not the actions of a simply distraught child.

Somehow she realized that Cellophane had snuck up behind her, and she turned and kicked him in the side, but he blocked it with his arm. There was a semi-noticeable cracking sound. Cellophane's arm hung uselessly by his side as the lean pro let out a pained cry.

"Man, this kid can pack a punch! How is she this strong?!" He groaned, clutching at his throbbing, limp arm. The kid came at Cellophane again, and with only one good arm he was defenseless! Ingenium fired off a quick, short blast from his engines and dashed towards them. He intercepted the kid mid-charge, wrapping one arm around her torso and another around her legs, pinning both of them.

The young girl struggled violently, squirming and fiercely attempting to escape as she dropped her weapon. Her wrist still laid limp, but the girl seemed oblivious to the pain. Cellophane groaned, walking towards Ingenium after it was obvious he had a firm hold on the kid.

"Why'd she attack us? Who even is she?" he said, still clutching his arm.

"I don't know." Ingenium said, looking down at the child he was restraining. "But we can find out once we get her to rehab."

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