Small potatoes, big potatoes.

After finishing up Gigantomachia, I buried him, or the blood jelly soup that was left of him, in a nearby hill before walking back home.

Preparations were in order now.

Deku was already hard at work, making explosive batarangs and grappling guns, while I had a different job altogether - securing a precious asset.

I pulled out my phone, calling the second hand electronics store.

"Hello?" The shopkeep answered.

"Hey! It's Haru."

"Uh huh? What'd ya want brat? I don't s'pose ya called to catch up on small talk?" He asked irritated, instinctively reverting to his Osaka accent.

"Had a bad day, huh?"

"Ya don't say! Fucking yakuza jobbing on my turf, police hecklers and even three dumbasses tryin'a fence stolen merchandise off on me in broad daylight."

"Heh, amateurs."

"As I said, ya don't say! So what's up with you and Deku-chan?"

"What? No chan for me? Its always Haru-kun but Deku-chan. I'm almost hurt!" I bantered.

"See that's why. You're not cute in the least, ya cunning little shit!"

"Hehehe. Anyways, I called to ask if you had any good apartments on cheap? It's for a friend?"

"For a friend eh? I'll see. Call you later about it?" He asked.

"Sure. See ya." I said, putting down the call.

That's one problem solved.

I pulled out my journal, written completely in part sanskrit and part tamil, just to be extra sure that no one could read it easily.

Let's see.

Get an apartment for Himiko. Check.

Test out Fine control. Check.

I flipped a page. Then another. There.

Deal with Gigantomachia. Check.

As I was turning the page back, a line caught my eye.

Consider Toru Hagakure.

Interesting. I wrote this list out when I ran Laplace Junior in overdrive for 4 hours straight that one time 8 years ago, putting me in the hospital due to quirk overuse. It was the first ability I had created and I didn't bother to check for the drawbacks before using it. I couldn't even use healing rise back then. The hubris of youth. I used to think myself invincible. Not that I wouldn't soon be. But back then, not so much.

I looked at the point again.

Perhaps it was time to pay Hagakure a visit.

Next saturday, I headed back to Tokyo with Deku, now prepared for what may come.

Why saturday? Because if the villains wanted to harm the most amount of people, they would attack on a weekend when most people were out and about. And also because Laplace Junior spat out that day as the day an attack would happen. But that's small potatoes.

Big potatoes however was the gear Deku had put together. Inspired by the batman novellas I had published, he made a bat helmet with radio transmitters connected to his phone, essentially making speed dial bat ears! One for him, one for me.

Another new invention was the explody batarangs.

Small flechettes with a trigger tip, filled with nitroglycerin-based explosives.

And last but not the least, he somehow managed to fabricate, partially with help from a support company, a pair of vaulting boots.

With these he could jump as high as 3 meters from a running start.

He demonstrated these effects to me as we patrolled the streets of Naruhata, with Koichi.

As we came upon the main street, lined with television screen, running news 24/7, a concerning piece caught Deku's eye.

Scrolling below the news anchors, was a recap of the previous segment.

"Arrest warrant issued for the local vigilante, by the name of Crawler."

Oh boy. Shit just went from bad to worse.

"What did you do Koichi?" Deku asked, pointing at the screen.

"What....oh no." He said, as he saw the news.

"We need to get out of here." I said, noting the gazes of the people turning towards us.

Koichi stood there, dazed and unmoving.

"Run!" I said, shaking Koichi out of his stupor.

"Going somewhere?" Asked a man behind us.

We jumped away almost on instinct, to see a man in a black and white rorschach mask and trenchcoat staring us down.

"Not so fast." He said, pressing a button on a switch in his hand. Instantly, lights began shutting down across the city.

"And so it begins!" He laughed maniacally, before he began to swell up.

Oh no.

"Everyone! Get away. He's going to explode!" I screamed.

Then the world went boom.

I staggered, ears ringing. I had covered for Deku and Koichi, taking the blast head on, only my rise and telekinesis keeping me from becoming mincemeat.

Fuck! If that's how you want to play it, so be it.

It was time to deal with a certain pretender. And he would rue the day he targeted me.

"Haru-chan!" Deku shouted.

"You okay?" Koichi asked.

"Yeah. Just a bit shook. First things first though, we need to get out of here before any more of them arrive, or worse, the heroes catch up to you."

Koichi nodded and sped out of the plaza, me and Deku close behind.

Almost as if it were prophecy, Eraserhead and Ingenium dashed out of the opposing street.

"Crawler! Stop right there!"

There goes all my planning.

Or not.

I activated my Immobilization Eye, stopping the both of them as Deku and Koichi escaped.

Eraserhead countered with his quirk, Erasure, trying to erase my bindings.

Unfortunately for him, my quirk was unerasable.

I laughed out loud in his face.

"Having performance issues buddy?" I mocked.

"You won't get away with this, you know that right, kid?" He threatened.

"We'll see about that." I said, projecting an eye behind them, before running after Koichi.

As I caught up to them, Koichi asked.

"You lose them?"

I nodded.

"Alright. Meet me at the shelter. And don't get caught." He said.

He slid up a nearby building, zooming away from us.

I looked at Deku. He grinned.

"We're not going to the shelter are we?"

"No." I replied with a similar grin.

We rushed to the nearest rooftop, as I called Soga.

"Hey! Look I'm kinda busy right now.."

"Yeah no shit sherlock! The city's on lockdown. Where are you?" I asked.

"You won't listen to me if I tell you to go back home will you?" He said.

"You know the answer to that!" Deku interjected.

"Fine. I'll text you the address." He sighed in defeat.

A ding rang out as a message appeared.

"Let's go."