My Shinobi Academia: Naruto x ATLA x HxH x MHA

Chapter 24 - The Dead Speak

"Alright Endeavor. Let's do your thing," Tatsuo muttered as he walked towards the door, Lee ahead of him and Sadam #2 behind Endeavor, urging the pro-hero to follow. Endeavor had heard rumors about both Noya and Tatsuo, their villainous quirks and their shifty behaviors. He was beginning to understand more and more why the HPSC distanced itself from the PSIA, and why even the Ministry of Defense saw it fit to hide them in an obscure building in Musutafu.

They walked out of the door, Tatsuo's cane reaching out in front of Enji to stop him from going further. "All we need is here," the Doctor said, turning his back to the door and placing his hand on it.

Enji said nothing. Until he was completely sure what their quirks were, he would only speak when necessary. And his reflexes were very sure to reward any unsolicited contact with a nasty burn.

"Space-Time manipulation quirks are really rare to come by," the Doctor told him, keeping the terrorist boy on his right side, away from Enji. "This one is based on some petty thief who tried to break into bank vaults with his ability. It's a shame he couldn't carry much out." Enji ignored him as they stood in momentary silence. "Ah, we're here!" The Doctor said as the door opened to reveal the morgue.

It was a dimly lit and bleak place with three dissection tables and a large multi-compartment body fridge to their right. "Sit over there Lee," the Doctor said, pointing the terrorist boy to a chair in the corner. He walked to the nearest dissection table, Enji following him closely. He grabbed a clipboard next to it and handed it over to Endeavor. "So, who do you want to do first?"

Enji glanced from the clipboard to the Doctor who was facing him expectantly, though Enji couldn't see past his dark shades.

"I'm assuming you don't want to spend the entire day going through bodies as you have to be elsewhere. You said it yourself. You are a very busy man," the Doctor pointed out.

"Three pro-heroes were killed. We can start from there," Enji stated.

The Doctor snapped his fingers and Sadam #2 walked to the fridge, readying the bodies of the three dead pros for the autopsy.

A beaming Haruki Noya arrived at her office with a file in hand, Keiichi following her into the room.

"I'm assuming that your meeting with Tatsuo went very well," Keiichi noted, mirroring her smile.

"That geek is annoying at the best of times, but he sure knows how to deliver," Noya chuckled. "He's as coy as you and I," she said, opening the file whose first page read 'Analysis of the Villains Who Attacked the Shopping District'. "He could have fooled me."

Noya sat behind her desk as Keiichi sat on the corner of the table. "Spill it? What did you learn?" He asked.

She shook her head. "Nice try Keiichi, but you'll have to wait to hear about it like everyone else. But let's just say... Rock Lee of the Hidden Leaf Village truly is as dumb as a rock."

Back at the morgue, the pro-hero that was placed in front of Enji and the Doctor was a middle-aged brunette woman with porcelain skin. Her body had been punctured at several places as though she had been caught in a hail of bullet fire.

"Sadam #2, be a dear and take notes," the Doctor instructed Sadam #2, who retrieved writing supplies from the table with the clipboard. "

"This is Glacier, a pro-hero whose quirk allowed her to freeze anything she touched," the Doctor pointed out. "If you look closely, you can see two types of puncture wounds." He noted the ones towards the extremities and the ones in her chest area. "The ones around her arms and legs are more jagged and rough. Whatever did this was haphazardly made and very imprecise. Compare those to her chest wounds," he said focusing his hand around the puncture wounds in her torso. "These came from much smoother weapons, like a spear."

"You're sure these are not bullets?"

"At that size? A single one would have sent her flying. Even if she was being restrained, bullets would have caused more tearing than this." He stuck his finger in the wound, feeling around the edges and then tasting the white residue inside. He pondered for a while. "Definitely full of osteoblasts. Your villain's quirk is probably bone related. Maybe of the enhancement or emission sort?"

Enji raised a brow but didn't say anything. He felt a sudden pain in his shin, causing him to take a step back. The Doctor had hit him.

"You need to use your words, Enji," he scolded.

"Yes right. An enhancement or emission sort?"

"Given the gravity of the wounds, they had to have come at her in rapid succession. Think multiple stabs, whether from rapid contractions and expansions — an enhancement type, or several attacks from a single weapon, created from emission. As the latter would require immense physical skill, my money is on the former."

Enji examined the body. "Couldn't they have hit her simultaneously?"

"No... notice that some of the wounds are slightly angled. It means she stepped back or tried to avoid subsequent strikes."

The Doctor was right. The wounds towards the right side of her chest did appear more angled, as though she turned away from her attacker.

"If you compare them to the wounds on her extremities, you can see that those wounds are more precise and controlled. The first two to her hands were probably meant to pin her to something. My guess a wall or a door. The wounds along her arms are too precisely placed for her to be moving during the time."

"They wanted her to suffer..." Enji noted and the Doctor nodded.

"Each wound to her torso was shallow yet fatal. Despite that, it would have taking her a few minutes to bleed out."

But Enji felt like something was wrong. "I have a question for you, Doctor?" The Doctor tilted his head towards Endeavor. "Are you really blind?"