The Emperor's Dragon II

Catching Up

"So how do we find a Tartarus Guard?" Atsuhiro murmured to himself.

The answer was actually quite simple. They could simply go to the Tartarus Island and track the guards as they left their shift. The guards usually did a month on, two weeks off style shifts so that shift would be long but... those two weeks would be a good amount of time to collect information both about them, and potentially from them.

In theory that was easy. In practice it was quite difficult. A few minutes of research had informed them that the guards were not allowed to get drunk, and were monitored even when they were offsite. So if they got particularly stressed then... And without knowing how they were monitored, it was impossible to tell if they could circumvent the monitoring.

"Getting a guard is easy," Dabi echoed Atsuhiro's thoughts. "Getting them to talk is the trick."

"Bribery?" Twice suggested. The man was experimenting with his quirk and had left a copy with them to contribute to the discussion. Atsuhiro wasn't entirely sure what was going on with him but knew he'd come to some sort of conclusion during the battle with Dragon.

"That could take a while to find someone susceptible," Dabi observed before he huffed. "What are we doing going after Tartarus anyway?" he asked grumbling.

"Dragon wants his father out," Atushiro told him.

The way Dabi rolled his eyes was telling. So... he had daddy issues.

"The man would be helpful," he observed.

There wasn't much the fire villain could say to that. He hadn't really seen Dragon's father fighting, though he had seen the playbacks. Having someone who could throw All Might around would help. And the man obviously had a lot of experience and... If Dragon was happy obeying his father then that really didn't change the plan. It would probably enhance the plan actually.

"I wonder if Dragon has the right quirks to simply make one of them tell us?" Twice asked. He didn't appear to be listening to them.

"Yeah, he does. Yakuni said he had a copy of Confession," Dabi reminded the other man.

"That gets them to talk but doesn't stop them talking," Atsuhiro pointed out. "I think that might be our best chance," he said slowly. "Himiko could impersonate one of the guards, but I don't think she'd get through security, so that's out."

Dabi sat back, leaning back his chair as he put his feet on the table. "How much do we really have to know?" he asked, as if he'd just thought of something.

"What do you mean?" Atsuhiro asked though Twice was also interested.

"How much do we really have to know about Tartarus?" Dabi questioned again. "He's gonna use those monster Nomu and they aren't exactly subtle. So we aren't going for an infiltration here."

"Ah," Atsuhiro nodded his understanding. That was true. "There are a few things we must learn," he said as he considered the problem.

"Such as?" Dabi asked belligerently.

"What happens to the prisoners if there is an assault?" Atsuhiro replied. "For all we know, Tartarus has approval to execute all of them as soon as there is trouble," he pointed out. There was no need to say how that would be bad. He held up one hand. "I agree, we are likely to be using brute force to get through most of the defenses but if we can learn about those defenses, then it would be prudent to prepare for them."

"Then if we can't bribe one of the guards, we should interrogate one."

"What do heroes know of Tartarus?" Atsuhiro asked. He meant the question to be one for consideration.