Chapter 12 – The Hunt (final part)

Raiko's POV

3 Months Later

During those last three months, AnArchy hadn't made any moves, as they wanted to rebuild and gather more members to try and fight me. Unfortunately, I knew that very well, so I had been destroying a few of their small bases to keep them in check. But what really did it for them was that their reputation was now completely destroyed, after all, I focused more on the new members during my raids, so that no one would want to join them. It was working very well, as AnArchY was now on the brink of death.

Today was the day I was going to end them, as I had only been waiting for two things before finishing them off: their reduced numbers and a new quirk I had bought and sufficiently practised. It was:

Kamikaze Cells (889): Allows user to transform their cells into pure energy and make them explode.

I had bought it a few weeks ago, and I learned that the amount of energy inside a single finger is no joke, it could blow up a small house.

Now, I could explode my fingers, and trust me, if one finger could explode a small house, when I exploded more then one finger at the same time, they made explosions that would make Megumin and Deidara proud. I now fully understood them, because it was pretty addictive to blow things up.

And, like All Might, my punches could now (kinda) change the weather. I mean, if you consider explosion as weather.

The only downside of this quirk was that I couldn't control (yet) my explosions very well. And it could cause a casualty or two during this raid. I would try not to kill anyone, but accidents happened.

Right now, I was waiting till midnight to start my plan to end AnArchY. It was a simple plan, really. It went like this: I had already put fingers ready to explode in all of their five remaining bases, so I would explode all the fingers in a base, go to it, collect the villains, take a picture of me with them, drop them to a police station, repeat. Though for the "final" base, the one with the big boss inside, I had something else planned.

I checked on my watch, it was midnight, time to get started. I opened a warp gate leading toward the first base, a giant warehouse, and did as I planned.

There was a small moment of silence as I blew up every finger I had inside the base and then a deafening explosion annihilated the warehouse. It had been razed to the ground, you could see the unconscious (I hope) members on the ground.

I think I underestimated myself a little bit, I mean, maybe twenty fingers, per base, was a bit too much? Nah, it was fine. Sure, maybe a woke up the whole neighbourhood, but it was for their good, I was helping them. I was cleaning trash off the streets.

I quickly checked on all of them and fortunately, they were all alive. Alive being the keyword here, as most of them would suffer permanent injuries and maybe brain damage, but they all deserved it, even the newer members. One of the rituals a member must do before entering AnArchY was to kill a child in front of their mother's eye. It was to ensure that they were no spies from the police or other villain groups and to prove the "loyalty" of the members.

After I took a picture of them as a warning for other villains, I tied them all up and brought them to a police station.

I was doing quick work, as it didn't even take me two minutes to do all of that.

One hundred and twenty villains and three other bases later, I was in front of the final base, AnArchY's headquarters. At this point, I was certain that MechAnicAl knew that I was coming, but it didn't matter, AnArchY wouldn't exist anymore in a couple of hours.

The headquarters were a six stories building in Kyoto's ghetto. It was easily recognizable because it was the only building in a good state in the vicinity. Right now, though, all lights inside the building were closed and you could feel the gloomy ambiance. It was suffocating.

You might think: "Why didn't the heroes already destroy AnArchY if they were that easy to locate". Well, that's because even if society has heroes and All Might, it isn't perfect. There are still extremely poor people, thus ghettos and discrimination and the heroes simply ignored those areas. Everyone acted as if the poor and desolate didn't exist, with very few heroes and police officers patrolling. It was the perfect place for crime to flourish and it's exactly what happened. It was because of this that organizations like AnArchY could exist, and have several thousand members.

Now, it was time to finally dispose of those scums.

Thanks to the "eyes" that I had everywhere inside the building, I knew where every last member of AnArchY was, except maybe one or two lucky ones.

Rather than my usual method of operation this time, I directly opened the doors and went inside the building, I wanted to defeat MechAnicAL myself. Why? Because it had been a long time since I had a good fight and I wanted to test my skills. And even if it turned badly, which I ensured would not happen, I had several emergency plans.

The doors obviously creaked as I opened them, what did I expect? It was a cliché, of course, they were going to creak, I was inside a villain's base.

I already knew that the building was empty, all the villains were in the basement with MechAnicAl, waiting for me.

The hall I stepped in was dark, clean and strangely empty, but it was perfect for what I had in mind. I was going to slowly take away each and every villains waiting for me in the basement.

I started to open warp gate and pull villains out them. I only did it to play on MechAnicAl's nerves.

I started slowly, one villain disappearing every minute or so, and then I started accelerating…

MechAnicAl's POV

He had done it. The little f*cker had finally done it. After clearing all of my bases in a matter of minutes, he was coming from me. Well, be it. Even if it was the last thing me and the rest or my gang did, we were going to kill him.

I was waiting for him, inside the reinforced basement with all of the remaining members of AnArchY. We were fifty-three, excluding me. We were waiting. He wouldn't be able to explode us like the other bases, the basement was reinforced. He would need something the strength of an All Might punch to break through.

I quickly started counting everyone in the room to verify that we weren't missing any members, even though I had done it multiple times already.

1, 2, 3, 15, 30, 48, 49…49! Had four people just disappeared? My nerves were playing with me, the stress must've gotten me…

I counted again, but this time, I stopped at 47. Where were the six that had just disappeared, they couldn't have left, I was standing literally in front of the door.

"EVERYONE STOP TALKING. VERIFY IF EVERYONE IS HERE."

Immediate silence. Then shortly after some murmurs were heard.

"Wait, Jax isn't here."

"Where is Clay? I'm sure he was here a couple of minutes ago."

"Gemma? Where could she be, I was talking to her literally two minutes ago…"

"WAIT! Tig just disappeared, he was here thirty or so seconds ago…"

Then, it hit me, the f*cker must be using his warp quirk to take my members away from me… But how? He didn't have a visual. Maybe his quirk affected the people rather than a place. That must be it. But I can't do anything to prevent him from taking everyone away from me.

Too bad, I'll just have to kill him myself, if his quirk is only that, I'll crush him easily, I don't need anyone else. My quirk will easily destroy him.

And so, my people continued to disappear, one by one, faster and faster…

When I was all alone, I heard someone walk down the stairs, getting closer and closer, and I saw him, opening the door…