My Number One Hero-(All Might/ Toshinori Yagi) Book 3

5

Stars winked like sequins on a dark velvet gown. Torches waved their yellow flames in the gloom. The light of the lantern shuddered in the darkness.
The silvery sheet of the lake's surface darkened and lightened with every passing of a cloud. The night sky was here and today was another eventful day of training. Serah was able to defend herself much better than the previous days and was ordered by Aizawa to rest up for their next training session.

"Lovely to see that you are all by yourself here," someone said.

Serah opened her eyes and turned her head towards the person in her room. A fairly tall and slim young man with black, spiky hair and turquoise eyes holding a stoic, aloof gaze.

"Taking you would be a bonus," he replied with a grin as he reached out to grab her until she rolled out of the bed and used the sheet to distract his vision. This caused him to become angry and shoot his quirk towards the sheet, incinerating it.

But time was on Serah's side as she jumped out of the window and extended her wings out and flew upwards out of Dabi's range.

"Where is Aizawa..." Serah asked looking around to see if anyone was near only to see a small blade thrown her way. With swiftness, she dodges the blade only getting a slice on the cheek.

"You're quick and strong and cute," a relatively petite girl and fair skin stated as she pulled her blade out of where it implanted itself and licked the drop of blood that had gotten on it. Something that didn't sit right with Serah.

"But not quick enough!" as another villain stated while using his quirk to "compress" Serah into a small marble without actually damaging her.

"All this power and I still can't protect myself from them...why me?" Serah thought before the vision was obscured by darkness, only able to lastly see Aizawa running towards her.

"Serah!" Aizawa yelled.

Toshinori POV

"The irony is shameful," Principal Nezu began, "That training camp was meant to prepare students and train them. We knew that the league would resurface but we lack the fundamental idea of their plans. They aim to destroy hero society and they have already started their war."

"Even if we had understood," Midnight began, "Could we really have avoided this attack? They are moving pieces that we didn't even know that they possessed. Besides, All Might and Beloved put an end to most organized crime. We are all rusty."

"We definitely have gotten complacent during peaceful times without realizing it," Present Mic started, "I guess deep down that all of us thought we would be riding the sweet life for good."

"Meanwhile...I was taking a relaxing soak in the bath after visiting Hana in the hospital..." Toshinori thought, "I will never forgive myself for my cowardly ignorance. While the students were desperately fighting for their lives,..."

"We shouldn't have had the sports festival," said Snipe, "Right after the USJ attack. We wanted to show that we were still strong and to have a student kidnap is our greatest fear. This has shown that this is our failures as teachers, they have taken societies faith in heroes, and Bakugo."

"I agree," Principal Nezu, "Every news outlet is currently condemning UA high. If Bakugo was one of the main targets, it would be because the villans noticed one of his violent tendencies during the sports festival. If he ends up joining the league of villains, that would be the end of UA as a school."

"Since we are on the topic of trust," Present Mic began, "There is something that needs to be voiced now, at this point we can't deny it anymore, can we? There is a traitor at this school?"

"Only the teacher and the pussycats knew were the training camp would be," Present Mic continued, "Don't you think that was a bit suspicious, I guess a kid could have used a phone to contact the villains."

"Stop this Present Mic!" Midnight yelled.

"It's true though!" he defended.

"How do you know that it isn't you?" Snipe interjected, "If we start fighting among ourselves then we will be fighting from the inside, giving the villains what they want."

"What we should be doing as a school," Principal Nezu started, "Is concentrating on the safety of our students and protecting them. This is a good time to implement something I want to put in place for a while."

"A phone call is here! A phone call is here! A phone ca-" the ringtone being interrupted by Toshinori as he rose from his seat and began to walk out.

"Excuse me, everyone," Toshinori said, "I have to take this."

"We are in a meeting," Present Mic started, "At least shut it to vibrate."

"He's his own ringtone," Midnight questioned.

"How did Hana put up with that ringtone..." Present Mic mumbled.

Toshinori closed the door as he clenched his fist tightly in his arms and soon pressed the call button to accept the call.

"Sorry, what is the Tsukauchi?" Toshinori asked.

"We finally finished taking comprehensive statements from Aizawa and Vlad King and I have good news and bad news for you."

"What is the good news?" Toshinori asked.

"It is possible we have an idea of where the league of villains is hiding," Tsukauchi said.

"What?" Toshinori asked out of shock, "Really are you serious?"

"Yup," Tsukauchi said. "About two weeks ago, I asked Sansa to go around and gather information. A bystander stated that he has seen a patchwork man enter a building that was supposed to be vacant. That man seemed to be in his twenties but we didn't find any plausible matches when we went to go and check it out in the criminal database."

"Hm," Toshinori said.

"We spoke with the owner of the building and found out that there is a hidden bar there," Tsukauchi continued, "Sansa thought it was unrelated to our kidnapping case and didn't investigate it further. But the description from the villains in the attack...he had a patchwork face and given the profile of this crime, we will move as soon as we are given the green light."

"Okay...what is the bad news?" Toshinori asked.

"Serah was one of the people captured alongside Bakugo," Tsukauchi said.

"WHAT!" Toshinori yelled.

"Serah was under the tutelage of Aizawa to continue training her under Hana's request in order to have Serah be able to protect herself against situations against these but the villains were able to sneak into the facility and lure Serah outside."

"Serah was kidnapped...." Toshinori muttered.

"I understand that this is a lot given that Hana is in a coma and Serah is in the hands of the villains, but this information I am sharing with you is top secret and cannot be leaked. Nor, can you act on your own accord and rush in to try to save your daughter and Bakugo alone."

"But Tsukauchi!" Toshinori tried to interject.

"We plan on asking many pro-heroes for help during this rescue clean-up mission. All Might, we need your power..." Tsukauchi asked.

Everything that he told Toshinori was so much that it was beyond words.

"All-Might?" Tsukauchi asked, "Are you still there?"

"Tsukauchi you are a wonderful friend," Toshinori started, steam rising from his body as his hero form began to take shape, "And I know just what I'll say when I find them, 'I am here to make you pay for what you done!'"