Moonfish

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(2 years later)

"Flesh! FLeSh! FLESH!"

"Argh, Fuck!" Akira cursed as another sharp blade ripped through his outfit and into his skin, causing a line of blood to show.

How on earth did it come to this?

The day started as it usually did, Akira woke up at 6 o'clock sharp, starting his day with some stretches and a quick workout.

After that, he spent the rest of his morning practising his quirk out in a large area of secluded woods he luckily managed to find. In this space, he was free to do whatever he wished with his quirk and try out many different things.

He returned back to his room as usual, and after a quick nap he followed it up with even more exercise and a run.

He spent the rest of the day doing what he wanted. Watching videos on HeroTube, playing games and reading novels were some of the things he liked to do, as it helped him relax and was a nice change of life compared to the rest of the day.

At 7 o'clock, he went back to sleep for a 5 hour nap so he would be well rested and energised for his work as a Vigilante which needed the extra energy.

He left the room from his window dressed in all black as he usually had, and the night had been going just fine aside from a few dealings with the police, which was becoming common lately. A day like this was routine for Akira, all the way up until he ran into a crazed flesh eating villain.

Akira swerved past another blade that narrowly missed his attire. Despite his <Orders> which increased both his reaction time and speed, Akira was unable to dodge the onslaught of steel teeth that were shot at him.

He would be a fool not to recognise the man in front of him whose body was supported by their large steel teeth, screaming incomprehensible noises of flesh and blood. It was Moonfish, a well known villain and a minor antagonist in the training camp arc.

He was certainly living up to his infamy.

With another cut to the side of Akira's cheek, he decided it was enough of playing passive. He cancelled one of his <Orders>, feeling his body slow back to its normal speed and added another on.

"⭐I can make things rust!⭐"

A blade shot through the air, moving towards his body, but with a single swipe of his hand, Akira reduced the steel blade into nothing but a harmless brown blade.

This only seemed to make his opponent angrier.

"FLESSHHHH!!!" Moonfish's rage propelled him further into the air as more blades protruded out of his mouth, creating a maze of sharp silver that Akira struggled to look through.

He pushed his small body to whatever limits they could find, half dodging and half rusting the attacks sent his way.

He soon settled into a rhythm, advancing further and further into the maze as his body moved almost instinctively past the steel. He felt his mind grow clearer and clearer, grow free from all distractions and only focused on the task at hand. He barely managed to snap out of his trance once he saw the body of Moonfish perched in the air, balancing himself on blades of steel.

He cleared a final desperate wave of steel, finally obtaining an opening as he cancelled both of his tactical orders, deciding he wanted to try a more blunt approach.

"⭐I have super speed!⭐"

As the words left his mouth, he leaped up into a dash, his enhanced body shooting him up further into the air towards where Moonfish was.

"⭐I have super strength!⭐"

He clenched his fist, feeling the energy warp and wrap around his body, strengthening it even more as his nails dug into the skin of his fist.

*BOOM*

His fist tore through the air with a resounding explosion, slicing through all opposition as his enhanced fist crashed into Moonfish's face, shattering his jaw completely and by extension the teeth that gave him so much trouble previously.

With no room support, gravity did its job as Moonfish slammed onto the floor, Akira following shortly, managing to slow down his momentum with a gust of wind.

"Phew…" Akira took a deep resounding breath of pure relief as his two feet set foot on the floor again. He felt the adrenaline coursing through his body, reducing the pain of the many cuts that Moonfish had given him.

The psycho had managed to get the jump on him, and it took 5 seconds for Akira to mutter the appropriate <Orders> and escape the ambush.

Taking his mind away from the past, he looked back towards the unconscious Moonfish with a slight look of rage. Another horrible man who would most likely go to Tartarus for the rest of his life, but he didn't deserve to live a life in solitude, he deserved the worst.

"This is for all the victims you killed." He said coldly, repeatedly ramming his foot into Moonfishs skull, all the way until his bones were crushed into powder and Akira was sure he was dead.

He looked at the product of his own creation, barely managing to restrain a gag. Only with the worst of the worst did Akira go as far as to kill these people. He still wasn't used to such a sight, but he wasn't foreign to it, over the past 2 years he has had to kill some awful people, and he doesn't regret it.

That was his resolve and way of doing things. Sometimes the law wasn't enough.

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"Tsukauchi! Another report from Invincible!" Sansa rushed into the room, frantically holding a piece of paper which flailed in the wind.

"Another?" Tsukauchi sighed. There had recently been a quiet period of reports, and Tsukauchi guessed, or should he say hoped that the Vigilante Invisible had stopped his work and saved him of all future stress.

His prayers sadly were not answered.

After dedicating much of his time to helping All Might and trying to locate AFO and destroy his underworld empire, he decided he needed a break. AFO was dead, and the world was better for it, surely he deserved one?

Tsukauchi had to admit, he was a workaholic, so his idea of a break was much different than everyone else's. So when he heard about this mysterious Vigilante they had gone to calling Invincible, Tsukauchi signed himself up straight away.

It would be a fun and intriguing case and a perfect way to wind down from all the stress while staying in work. That was what he initially thought.

When the reports first came in about his target, he was eager, almost excited to slowly corner and capture him. But after over a year of trying, he found himself holding onto that dream by a mere thread.

He swiped the report from Sansa's hand with a tired but thankful nod, turning the paper over and reading over the paper. As his eyes scanned through the report, he found them slowly widening in shock the further he delved into the words.

"He…he…beat Moonfish?" He asked in shock, unable to hide his complete and utter surprise.

Sansa nodded, a conflicted emotion plastered on his face, "He did, multiple eyewitnesses spotted a slightly injured Invincible leaving the scene which caused a ruckus. When the police arrived, Moonfish was there, his body already cold. There was blood on the scene, but Invisible must have done something, as the lab results come up with nothing, like it isn't even blood at all."

Tsukauchi didn't know how to feel about this. Over the past year he had grown to know Invincible, and from what he gathered he was a righteous man who cared for the innocent, and although he could be very violent from time to time, he never knew he had it in him to kill someone. Tsukauchi looked at him in a new light.

Although, based on the type of man Moonfish was, he wasn't entirely too surprised. Moonfish was a B rank villain, which in itself was an achievement, but compared to other B rankers Moonfish was on the edge of ranking up, and had racked up a reputation as twice as fierce as some of his other colleagues.

Whereas other notorious villains who had made their ranks with their strong quirk, keen minds or a mixture of the two, the thing that set them and moonfish apart was unpredictability.

Heroes and police had tried to capture moonfish for years, but this unpredictability had made it impossible to do so. It was truly a dangerous concept, dangerous enough that trained professionals and quirks couldn't find any pattern to his actions.

He would appear in random places, slaughtering innocent people and escaping, only to appear somewhere else and repeat the process. Any hero that had the pleasure of encountering him during these nights would also be added to his list of victims.

It was because of all these reasons that Moonfish had managed to kill over 200 people, making him one of Japan's most wanted villains.

Tsukauchi saw the man as a complete monster, and believed anyone outside the top 10 would stand no chance against him.

So upon hearing the news that Invincible had killed this man, he couldn't believe it. Even less when from the information they already had on Invincible pictured him as a 10 year old kid with seemingly multiple quirks.

If Invincible had multiple quirks, which was very likely, then it only pointed to one thing. AFO.

So if Invincible was possibly related to AFO or an experiment of his, then why was he fighting villains instead of being one and working under AFO? Maybe he managed to escape and go rogue, dedicating his life towards destroying the very things that raised him? It would certainly explain his ease to kill someone, as it was most likely drilled into him by AFO. He shivered at the thought of being involved in any experiments the villain had.

"Let's add rust manipulation to the list of powers he has." Tsukauchi said, cutting the silence that permeated through the air.

"Huh?"

"Rust manipulation. Multiple traces of rusted blades were found at the crime scene, it was obviously Invincible with whatever powers he had."

"Oh, yeah." Sansa said, sheepishly rubbing his head.

"Show me his current file." He asked in an authoritative voice, trying to balance his tone between friend and superior.

Sansa nodded, handing him the file which he grabbed with his pale shrunken hands.

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File : Invincible

Information: Around 4'10 in height, squeaky voice, suspected to be around 8-12 years old. He is very talkative when he wants to, and sometimes even makes quips during fights…

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Quirk: ???

Multiple reports of Floating Ability(case #09139583, case #04857693…)

Multiple reports of Enhanced Hearing(case #5140259, case #38291840…)

Multiple reports of Earth Manipulation(case #5949301, case #9502592…)

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Note: Some witnesses have reported a star like shape when he uses his quirk

Possible Suspects: None

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He inspected the file, adding Rust Manipulation to the long plethora of powers this Invincible seemed to have. His list of powers seemed endless, and Tsukauchi knew it was impossible to have this many powers without multiple quirks. The entire time Tsukauchi had known Invincible, he was certain he had some connection with AFO.

He stared at his phone, the contact list highlighted on a single name, Toshinori. His finger inched closer towards the dial number button, but he managed to restrain himself. He knew he shouldn't bother him with something like this, especially now that his time as All Might was limited and he was as busy as can be.

He would solve this case himself.

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