4 Ch. 5 - Hostages

As he goes down the stairs, the only thing he can hear is his footsteps and the beating of his heart. Every step he takes, his heart is beating faster.

Nonetheless, the fifteen-year-old boy continues to move forward.

After a few minutes of walking down, he finally saw a light that comes from under the remaining space of the door.

With the distance is getting thinner and thinner, he slowly tip-toed towards it, thinking ahead about the outcome when he's going to open the door. He caught four guys guarding each entrance.

He had an idea as he weakly knocks the door twice and waited for someone to open it. For a few seconds, he can see the shadow moving below the door since inside the room is filled with light.

His suspicion is correct, people are guarding the room inside. He got terrified at first, knowing that the odds are against him, but shrugged it off and will defeat them, no matter what.

As the door closed, he lunged himself to a man, armed with firearms, and fell backward. He scans the room quickly and saw that the man who lunged at is the only one.

Seeing the chance, the man shoves Izuku out of him and grab the gun from his holster, but thanks to Izuku's quirk of Spider-Sense, the vigilante boy quickly kick his hand then did a roundhouse kick to his head, making the man unconscious.

Seeing the situation, Izuku grabs and drags the unconscious man to a nearby wall post that is somehow suspicious and big enough to hide the man, but it's better than let the man lying on the entrance since there are doors.

Once he 'hide' the man, he looks back at the room he's in with three doors. One from left and right and the other is right in front of him.

He first tried to open the door on the left side but failed, because of its lock. No longer doubting, he bashes through the door with all his strength. Before him is... a couple of young people, especially girls, who are the same age as him.

What caught his eyes is the girl whom he saw when she was kidnapped awhile ago.

All of them are chained, dirty appearance, and most of all they're showing an expression that they're so scared of what's going to happen to them.

"Don't worry. I'm here to rescue you. The cops are on the way." Without a smile on his face, Izuku reassured that everything's going to be fine, but not

He slowly grabs hold of the chains and rips it apart, which is a success. He didn't expect this to be the outcome. He just wanted to test to see how strong the chains are if they're easy to cut or not.

"(I guess I need to get used to this.)" He thought as he just easily rip the next metal chains. After that, he proceeds to rip the other metal chains. And when he is done with the rest, he said, "Please, wait here. Do not worry, I'll be back. If two people are coming in, don't be afraid but to punch them or use your Quirks until they're knocked out. It's self-defense after all."

After saying that, it didn't change the mood of the kidnapped. Sensing their unchanged expressions, he closed his eyes and said something. "You all want to become heroes, right? Or do you want heroes to save you, especially All Might?"

When he said that, he slowly opened his eyes and saw their shocked expression.

Slowly opened his eyes, a smile grew from his face because those are the only questions that drives people to become what they want and live another day.

"Remember this, guys. All Might can't save everyone at the same time. He's not a god that you put your trust on. Believe me, because I learned the harshest way to survive. The only way you guys can be saved is yourselves. Use your minds and Quirks to think on how to knock out those guys. Look at all of you. You all have powerful quirks, I tell you that. No Quirk is weaker than the others. They're strong in different ways."

He said with a smile under his handkerchief with a tone that makes a group of people gets convinced or persuaded, but he's not done yet.

"Ten young people with strong quirks against two or four men with only guns. Look, this is a life-and-death situation, but I'll try my best to protect you and return you to your families. Stay here, pretend to still be in chains, and beat them until they're knocked out. Expect them to have quirks or not, but I know that you all will counter attack them. I know this is unfitting for me to say, but fight like tonight's the night where the world is at the end. Please. I cannot fight alone, I need you all to cooperate with me." He said in a begging tone, hoping they will follow his instruction.

They all look at each other for a few seconds, until they all look at him and nodded.

"Thank you." That was all he said. Before he went to see the other doors, one of them asked him.

"Excuse me, but can you at least tell us your name?" The one who asked that question is a boy. That causes him to stop his tracks. Hesitant at first until he turns around and looked at them, "Shadow's the name." Those are the only words he said as he walks out of the room and sees the next door.

In the door in front of him, it was opened and not unlocked. He was about to open it but heard some noises inside as he almost closed the door quickly with fear, but thanks to his instinct of what's going to happen next, he remains his composure and silently sneaks in.

He heard four people laughing and talking, but somehow their voices are unusual. The lights where Izuku is in are out. He saw a light in the room where the noises are coming from.

He was about to go there eventually, but he stopped sneaking as he somehow look around. Something's not right. He saw something blinking in the distance. A small red light.

"(No doubt about it, that's a CCTV Camera.)" He thought as he goes another way around to see if he can tape the lens of the CCTV camera.

After taping it, he now goes to the source of the light and noise. Once he's there, Izuku takes a peek with his one eye and saw four men, drinking, laughing, and talking to each other.

"Looks like they're drunk." He said in a whisper, avoiding a loud sound that can compromise his mission. Not really compromise, but if he did it, his mission might get harder, and well a bigger chance of them killing the hostages or even him.

He saw one of them fall from his chair, but all of them continued to laugh and talk, until he heard a conversation that made him tick.

"Looks like we got some fine whores we can fuck with, huh?"

"Oho yeah. We'll do it until our desires ran out! We're just gonna do it all night long."

"Oh yeah, especially the one that we caught awhile ago. Her boobies are so soft I can squeeze them all day, all night." Those words made Izuku really, really mad. Raping young girls to do as they please is right out of the line. Very, VERY, out of the line. Because of anger, he ran towards the drunk men as he punt kick the man who's still on the ground with everything he got, hearing a crack from the man's head as he

The remaining three lunged themselves towards Izuku, but because of their drunk state, it gives Izuku a huge advantage and easily dodges them. Avoiding insult to injury with furniture, bare hands are the only weapons to really put them out to sleep.

After kicking, punching, and dodging, the men are absolutely knocked out, because of Izuku's punches and kicks, with the addition of them in a drunk state. After looking at what's remain in the room, he duct tape their hands, feet, and mouths, as a sign of someone is going to kick their asses tonight.

Then, he left the room with all lights out. He turns around to see the last room that is left unchecked. He walks towards it, but there's another feeling that makes him cautious. It's like one step ahead, then it's all over for his first mission to stealthily infiltrate the gang's base.

He looks at the walls, but there's nothing attached to it.

"(The traps are camouflaged from the walls.)" The voice came again with a tone that makes Izuku get more cautious and attentive to surroundings as ever.

"(I don't know who you are, but I shall listen to your warnings for this time.)" He replied to the voice as he looked left and right and somehow saw small red tiny light. This narrowed his vision as he closes his eyes and tried to feel the surroundings in front of him.

While closing his eyes, he saw six red lines. Those are trap alarms. All he had to do now is to dodge those traps. He ducks down, bend right, whatever he can to avoid the alarm getting tick off when even the slightest thing from him touches it.

He successfully dodges all the traps and slowly turns the doorknob to open the last remaining room.