This time I will protect them I won't be a coward

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The cab drops Denki outside the gates of the trauma centre.

Denki walks inside the building ground after scanning his Id card on the monitor screen and takes quick steps towards the radiology department building while shivering.

The night's air was too cold. Denki regrets not having a scarf with him cause he was shivering badly.

Denki spots a silhouette standing outside the glass doors of the radiology department.

As Denki approached the mysterious figure. He lets out a sigh of relief.

It was just the head of the trauma department nurse Saitama who stood there with his crossed arms and had an oddly calm face.

"Finally I have been waiting for you. You don't have much work to do here. Just write the names of the patients who went in and out through the department and their conditions and oh did you get the alert message?" asks a calm nurse Saitama.

Denki stares at nurse Saitama with furrowed brows and says, "Ok.. I need to write down only? Thats all?. Yes, I did get an alert message in the morning during class" says Denki softly.

"Yes, I have asked the sub head Dora Umbridge to reduce your schedule after two hours you get a 20 minute break after that  one hour duty at the trauma centre. Where you will make rounds with me checking up on the patient's vitals and after that I need you to get back to your dormitory before 2:00am sharp no buts no excuses, you won't be staying here until 4:00am" says a stern Saitama.

Denki stares in surprise at his head nurse and says rather too softly, "Ok sir".

Nurse Saitama gives a small smile and says, "Good..now hurry up and get to work".

Denki enters the quiet radiology department after tapping his Id card on the digital lock sensor for the doors to unlock and turns on all the lights and grabs the patient's files from the corner of the room and turns on the main computer to log in and sets  a timer of two hours.

There was so much to enter into the main computer. Denki fingers ached from typing and his eyes burned from the bright screen of the computer.

Somehow he managed to enter everything and his timer went off at the same time.

Denki gets up stretches himself and turns off the main computer and as well as the radiology department lights as he was going to lock the door of the department he catches a bizarre shadow peeking around the corner of the hallway where the main x-ray machine was located.

Denki gulps.

Was there someone with him this whole time while he was here?.

Denki goes with small precise steps and  towards the corner with his quirk activated in his one hand and peeks to see what was behind the wall. It was a dead end and the main lab was already locked.

'Maybe his eyes were playing a trick on him?' thinks Denki and laughs it off.

Denki hurriedly locks the radiology department and runs towards the trauma centre.

Upon immediately stepping into the trauma building. Denki heads straight to the food station and grabs a mac and cheese instant cup and tears of the plastic lid and pours water into the cup according to the instructions and places it in the microwave with a lid to be heated.

While his mac and cheese was getting ready. Denki turns on the nespresso machine and inserts the strongest coffee pod into the machine and places a mug underneath the nozzle.

The machine starts whirring as he turns on the start button and the microwave beeps at the same time indicating his mac and cheese was ready.

Denki carefully grabs the cup and sits down on a plastic chair and starts eating his hot piping mac and cheese.

Denki grimaces at the taste as it tasted like cardboard to his taste buds but he did not mind it as he was too hungry to care.

After he was done with his mac and cheese. He grabbed the coffee mug and practically inhaled the strong aroma of the bitter black coffee and slowly started sipping.

He needed the energy to survive tonight.

He hears a chuckle sound from behind him. Denki whips his head around only to smile as it was only nurse Saitama.

"Oops I did not mean to scare you" says nurse Saitama.

"Oh no you did not scare me" says Denki as he quickly swallows the last remnants of the coffee down his throat and places the mug in the sink to be washed later.

"If you're done let's do our routine walk checking up on patients and taking their vitals. Shall we?" says nurse Saitama in a monotone voice.

"Yes" says Denki.

As soon as he started his one hour shift at the trauma department it ended quickly maybe it was because he was doing it with Nurse Saitama that made time fly by quickly.

As soon as nurse Saitama saw the time that Denki's internship time was over. His face turned stern and he said while looking at Denki, "Now I want you to head back straight to your school okay".

Denki nods his head and then he remembers the alert message. He was too curious about it and he was dying to know about the meaning behind the cryptic message.

"Saitama-san, what was the alert message actually about?" asks Denki curiously.

Saitama looks seriously at Denki and sighs and says in a tired voice, "For the  last three days, blonde haired nurses and doctors have been disappearing. That's why I want you to hurry and go ba-".

Nurse Saitama's phone starts ringing. He looks apologetically at Denki and says, "Sorry, that I can't accompany you to the main gate. I need to take this call it's urgent. Will you be ok on your own?"

"No I will be fine. Thank you for the hard work" says Denki bowing slightly at the nurse.

'Blonde haired  nurses and doctors disappearing? that's so strange and creepy at the same time' were Denki's thoughts.

Denki exits the hospital from the back gate. Now his biggest challenge was to walk around the hospital to reach the main gate from there he will get a taxi.

Denki walks by a three-storey abandoned building and a grimy alley passage. He hears a movement coming from inside the alley but  avoids looking there and increases his footsteps only to feel someone's presence behind him.

Denki's pulse quickens and he starts running and does not dare to  look back but he could hear the other person running just behind him and closing up the gap between him.

Ahh! How is this person so fast does he have Iida Tenya's quirk? cries Denki in his head.

He could not use his quirk as the surrounding area had metal wiring and fences and lot of metal junk, spare parts and  broken machinery belonging to the hospital building which was in the dire need for recycling and his quirk could go haywire in this situation if he dares to use it and could probably kill him and the unknown person.

Denki bites his lips in frustration the only option left for him was to run towards the main street and there he can use his quirk properly.

While thinking Denki did not know he had slowed down and a metal bat hit him from behind on his head.

As soon the metal bat makes contact with Denki's head. Denki's head bursts with a series of pain.

Denki feels the sticky warm blood trickling down from the side of his face.

His mind goes slow.
His breath becomes erratic and dark spots start appearing in front of his vision.

Denki inhales sharply as he hears the stranger start cackling and grabbing a fistful of Denki's hair with force making  his head yank back exposing his neck's light pink Lichtenberg scars to the night cold air and spindly fingers trailing his lichtenberg scars and saying in a lustful tone, "Ohhh how fun I will have by making a doll out of you".

Denki face wrinkles at the acrid scent of  alcohol lingering on the man/woman's clothes and he starts feeling nauseated.

The creepy stranger starts dragging Denki by his jumper into the shadowed alley.

Denki's last thoughts were, 'Someone save me'.