Horns and Halos (TodoDeku)

Chapter 18

Izuku's POV~

We just walked around the mall, trying to feel out the rogues. It wasn't an easy task. Shoto kind of cornered a pretty twisted human, thinking it was a Demon Halve, and um, well we kind of had to knock him out. I was just praying that he'd forget about it or think it was a weird acid trip or something.

"This is impossible Sho." I wined as we made yet another loop around the whole mall. We had been there all day, and still had nothing.

"Wait, look over there. Even if it isn't a Halve, that still looks like someone who doesn't want to be followed." Sho said, pointing to someone in a black hoodie. They had the hood up, hands shoved in the pockets, and were constantly looking over their shoulder as they walked.

"Yeah, you're right. Should we check it out?" I asked him, not taking my eyes off of the sketchy looking person.

"Yup, let's go." He said, leading the way through the crowd.

The person we were trailing, went down a deserted looking hallway on a run down part of the mall. There weren't any stores around, so I assumed they were probably doing renovations there. We followed after, be sure to stay far enough back to it looked like we just happened to walk the same direction. They disappeared through a door at the back of the hall. Sho and I waited a few moments before following after.

This time, we weren't lead to a basement, but rather a run down looking store. It was empty, like all of the others in the area, but it seemed particularly beat up. We scanned it, but found it to be empty of people as well.

"Where did-" Sho shushed me quickly, pointing to a back room, that was probably used for storage when this place was actually in use.

I nodded and we both to quiet steps toward it. Sho tried to silently open the door, but it was old and creaked softly as it moved. I cringed, hoping that no one on the other side heard it.

We entered the smaller store room, finding the person in the hoodie, and someone else, who seemed to be made of smoke. Had to have been his quirk, which meant that we had found the rogues, or at least one of them.

"Took you long enough. Did they send the most incompetent Halves after us?" The person, from the voice I figured out it was a male, said, not turning around.

"Excuse me?" I spoke up. They were expecting us? They think we're incompetent?

"Calm your little halo, you're children, I shouldn't have expected so much from you." He said with a shrug, finally turning to face us and pull his hood down.

The man had light blue hair, chapped lips, and dry and cracked skin on his neck. He was startling to look at in a dark room.

"What'd you want from us? You obviously tried to lure us here, so what's your objective?" Sho asked, impatiently. To anyone else, he probably just sounded annoyed, but I knew what his annoyed sounded like, and that wasn't it. He sounded cornered.

"Easy, we wanted you. You're apparently UA's best and brightest Halves. We want you to join us. We're going to over throw God." He said, dead serious.

I just couldn't hold it together.

I doubled over in laughter, earning glares from the hoodie guy and the mist man. Sho just looked like he had expected my reaction. "Y-you- you want to o-over throw God?!" I exclaimed in between laughter.

"The hell is his problem?" Hoodie asked Sho.

"Just give him a minute." Sho said, crossing his arms and waiting for me to finish.

I let out a breath of air as I caught my breath and wiped the nonexistent tears from my eyes. "You guys are dumber than I thought." I said, chuckle a little still.

"Excuse me?!" Hoodie asked, obviously offended by my words. Yeah, doesn't feel great when someone questions your intelligence, does it?

"He's God dumbasses! You can't just waltz on into Heaven and say, 'you know we have some complaints, so we're gonna have to ask you to step aside', that's not how this works. It's not a democracy, it's a dictatorship." I said, humor still leaking into my voice.

"Obviously, but even dictators can be over thrown, or have you not gotten to that section in history class?" He asked me in a mocking tone. Was he trying to make fun of me for being a child? Because I was and I knew I was. I didn't really know where he was going with this.

"But he's God, not Fidel Castro! You can't just shoot up his house and be done with the problem. You would need another God to even do any damage, and of course because all the fun religions don't actually exist, there's isn't another one!" I said, starting to get pretty pissed off.

I didn't like God. I thought he was an asshole and didn't deserve his title or power, but there was nothing I could do about it. I didn't go around pouting and planning things that'll just end in a fate worse than death. I gritted my teeth and play the hand I got dealt.

"So I take it you're refusing to help us then?" The mist man spoke up for the first time, in an incredibly calm voice.

"It's a no from me." I said sarcastically.

"I'm gonna have to side with him on this one." Sho said, pointing at me.

"We figured you say that." Hoodie said. He snapped his fingers and suddenly the floor beneath my feet was gone. I was falling, but only for a few seconds, before I was dropped on hard concrete.

I looked up and took in my new surroundings. I was in some sort of cage or jail cell. Sho was in one right next to me. "Sho!" I exclaimed, running over to the side he was on.

"Don't worry about me, I'm fine. Did you get hurt at all." He asked me, both of us grabbing the bars that separated us. He was looking over me, trying to spot anything that might be causing me pain.

"No, I'm fine. What happened?" I asked him, looking back over our surroundings, just as a purple mist appeared outside of our cells. It looked like the mist man, so I assumed it had to do with his quirk. Seconds later, hoodie walked through the cloud, and then it turned back into mist man. Quirk, got it.

Hoodie looked over me and Sho, like he was trying to decide something. "Who do we think will crack first?" He said over his shoulder to the mist man.

"Oh that'd definitely be Shoto." A familiar voice said, walking into the area that our cells were in.

Toya walked into our vision, making Shoto tense up. I grabbed his hand, sending him a concerned look. "You underestimate how much Shoto hates rogues." I spoke up. I had every bit of faith that Shoto wouldn't crack, no matter what.

"Oh no, I don't underestimate his hatred for us. I just have faith in his love for you."