Beast In The Woods

Guest Lecturer

"Now, let's take a calming breath. No need to do anything rash." Gang Orca said the civilian who was transformed into a large Ogre-like being towering over everyone including the large hero before him.

This was Izuku's second patrol as Gang Orca's work-study student. The day before was calm with minor criminal activities. A small thief or brawl happened but no villainous activities. Today was a bit different, Gang Orca was called to a disturbance on the streets and the two ran over to see what was happening. As it turned out, the man-turned-ogre found his wife going against her vows and was with another man, his boss to be precise. A boss who was quirkist against the ogre man while he was at work as they learned from the shouting match between the three involved. Things got more heated as the boss insulted and then fired the cheated man, thus he transformed in a fit of rage.

Izuku was currently holding the boss away from the ogre from stomping on him or him from attacking the ogre. "She's better off with me!" He yelled with a sneer on his face and turned that sneer to Izuku when he saw the horns and wolf legs on him. The feral boy was very confused about why he was angry at him but did his job to prevent the altercation from turning from words to fists. "Don't touch me, mutant!"

"Please, we need to de-escalate this situation and avoid someone using their quirk to attack someone to someone just using it illegally." Gang Orca said to placate the ogre.

The twelve-foot-tall ogre looked at his former boss to the hero. Then he sighed and nodded. "I apologize." He began to shrink and inadvertently hit a side mirror of a car. A car belonging to the same man across from them.

"You inhuman oaf! You did that on purpose!" The boss reared his fist back and it glowed golden and punched forward toward the ogre.

Izuku stopped the fist from extending completely thinking it would halt the quirk but the quirk launched its ethereal fist and hit Izuku in the chest. He flew back, missing the ogre man by inches, the intended target. Instead, he hit a car with a dangling side mirror and crumpled the passenger side completely. The car rocked on its wheels and screeched from hitting it so hard. Izuku sucked in a breath of air that was knocked out of him and coughed as he leaned on the posh interior of the nice car.

"Hell, kid! You alright?" The man with an ogre mutation asked with worry. His hands hovered around Izuku, unsure how he could help.

"Hunter! Are you well?" Gang Orca asked kneeling on the man who hit his student. He didn't let his grip slip from the blubbering man about his precious car.

Hunter coughed one last time before answering. "M'kay." With the help of the ogre man, Izuku pulled himself out of the totaled car.

"Easy, kid." Ogre man said as he gently held Izuku steady.

He regained his feet and made sure all his important bits were fully functional. He mentally scanned his body from top to bottom. The only injuries he would have to deal with were cuts, bruises, and a slightly fractured sternum. He immediately got to work on melding the bones back together and then checked his external body parts. He nodded in satisfaction at seeing no other issues and smiled brilliantly.

"All good now!" He said stretching a bit.

Gang Orca, hearing his pup's nonchalant voice, let out a sigh of relief. "Good, I've already called for a police cruiser for him. Make sure civilians don't get too close, cordon off this section of sidewalk." He told Izuku as he stood the man up. He turned to the ogre man who was still hovering over Izuku. "As for you, I will have to have you written up for minor quirk use and disturbing the peace."

The large man grimaced but nodded in acceptance. "I understand, thank you." He bowed to Gang for not escalating his punishment for the whole thing and gave him the minimum of what he could. He turned to Izuku. "And thank you, Hunter. I would have fared much worse if that would have hit me." He bowed much deeper to the young man.