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It didn't take long for the second personality to show its' face.

Inko and Izuku were in the back of the store looking at some cheap mirrors.

"Mommy?" Inko looked at Izuku. "Why are we here looking at some mirrors?"

Inko thought before answering. "I need something to put in your room for the time being before I can figure out how else I would cover those scorch marks"

Izuku pulled at the bottom of his shirt. "I know why you really need them and I'm sorry Mommy. Greed confessed to doing it. Sloth also confessed to sending you those horrible dreams" Tears started to cascade down his cheeks like a river. "I'm so sorry Mommy- if I would've known I would've-"

Inko got on her knees and hugged Izuku with all her might while he sobbed into her shoulder. "I'm sorry Izuku for not helping you more. Now, smile Izuku. I would go through those nightmares for the rest of my life in I knew I could keep waking up to your smile"

Izuku got off of her shoulder and smiled through his tears while Inko wiped them away with her thumb. When Izuku finally collected himself, Inko stood up and smiled once more. "Now, let's pick out some mirrors, shall we?" Inko grinned and went back to looking at the mirrors.

Their happiness didn't last long.

Inko overheard some commotion going on from the front of the store and tried to hide Izuku but it was too late. A person with a black ski mask and an automatic assault rifle stalked towards them in long strides.

"Get to the fucking front of the store!" He yelled while yanking Inko by her shoulder. He put the barrel of the gun behind her back and nudged her forward. Inko tried to keep a steady pace as she held Izuku close to her chest. When Inko got to the front, she saw that there was a clerk lying, face down, over the desk with crimson running down their limp body. She silently whimpered before being pushed towards the hostages. There was seven of them- an elderly couple, two ladies, and three guys that each had a face that held shame in them. Inko sat down in the aisle that they were held in and held Izuku close.

"We don't have many demands" one robber said. He looked at his allies (there was three of them altogether) and he continued. "We just need money and we'd be out of your hair"

"But!" the robber that had talked to Inko said, "this clerk had to alert the cops, so we are just going to hide here until our demands are met"

"What are your demands?" one of the ladies asked.

"The usual: money and freedom" the robbers smirked at each other.

"And we will get these demands," the robber with a knife rushed towards Inko and snatched Izuku away from her. He held Izuku in a choke hold and smirked at Inko's terror filled face.

"Because we have a child!" Izuku struggled for air and kicked the robber's legs. The robber grunted and hit Izuku with the back of a gun he got from his back pocket. Izuku stiffened and then slumped and a couple of ruby dots fell to the floor.

Before Inko could call out his name, the robber, with the assault rifle slung over his shoulder, slammed her head into the ground and held her there. "I've heard that mothers get a little crazy seeing their kids hurt. We can't have that can we?"

The robber got up and joined his cronies just as red and blue lights flashed outside.

"Come out with your hands above your head before we send in a pro-hero!"

The robbers looked at the glass doors and saw the golden arches of the number one hero. They all flushed before the small moans of a child disrupted their panic. Smiles erupted from their faces and they all faced the doors as the final plead of surrender fell upon deaf ears.

All Might took one step before pausing.

One robber held a bloody Izuku above his head.

"Take one more step and this kid takes his last breath"

Inko started to sob loudly but couldn't pick her head up because darkness was starting to dance across her vision. So, she laid down on the floor and tried to keep her eyes open and ignore the immense pounding against her skull.

And she's glad she did- because one of Izuku's personalities surfaced.

Izuku slowly put his trembling hands to his face and the sudden movement shocked the robbers. The robber cursed his sudden movement and reached for Izuku. As his hands, fingers, got close to him-

Izuku bent one of his fingers backwards.

The robber dropped Izuku, but he landed gracefully on his feet. While the robber was fawning over his pointer finger pointing oddly back at him, Izuku managed to take the knife from him and stabbed the leg of the robber who had hurt his mom.

With two robbers down the last robber pointed his gun at Izuku and fired.

Inko sucked in a breath as Izuku's head tilted back like he was shot in between the eyes.

Audible gasps was heard from the hostages and Inko's vocal chords was snatched away from her before she could call his name.

But there was no blood to be seen.

Izuku's head lifted up slowly to show the robber that he caught the bullet in his teeth.

Before the robber could pull the trigger again, Izuku spit the bullet and it hit the robber right in between the eyes with intense speed.

He fell to the ground like Goliath, while Izuku picked up the assault rifle and began to inspect it.

"What are you going to do with that? You're gonna shoot us like you do him?" the robber with the knife in his leg tried to stop the bleeding but the crimson left a stain on his fingers that he could never wash out.

Izuku looked at him and took out the bullets of the gun. He threw them at the glass door and it shattered into a million pieces like a broken heart.  Izuku tossed aside the now useless gun and stalked over to the two robbers- who, both, tried but failed to get away- and stood over them menacingly.

All Might ran in through the broken door and tried to call out to the boy. "Stop!" The police regained life and began to chant the same word but Izuku paid them no mind.

"My boy! Please stop!" All Might pleaded.

Izuku smirked at All Might's cries but didn't back down. Instead, he pointed at Inko and All Might's eyes followed his finger.

Izuku took a step towards the robber with the knife and swiftly took the knife out. The robber shrieked like a banshee but was soon silenced by the knife splitting his head wide open. Inko gasped and All Might's eyes widened at the sudden movement of this child.

Izuku took the knife out of the still body and stared inching towards the robber that was moving towards the elderly couple.

"You better stop or they'll die!" he yelled. He pulled a gun out and raised it towards the elderly couple. They started to silently pray as the barrel of the gun was aimed at the husband's forehead.

But Izuku didn't stop. He raised the knife above his head and held it by the handle.

"Stop or I will detain you!" All Might yelled at Izuku.

Izuku slowly turned his head towards All Might. A cheshire smile sprung across his face.

"Make me" he said as he thrusted the knife in the direction of the robber- hitting him in the chest. The robber dropped the gun and he hit the floor as his rubies poured out of his body; making a cascading pattern on the dirty tiles.

With his last breaths, he asked "Who are you?"

Izuku smiled and replied, "I'm Pride"