《Demons and Candy》chapter twelve
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3rd POV
Bakugo, Aizawa, and Todorokie had finally made it into the city. Aizawa parked in front of a building, looking back at the two in the backseat. “You know this hero, he’s currently the number two hero since All Might retired.”
Shoto nods, “hawks right?” He asks as Bakugo nods.
Aizawa nods, “yea, he’s gonna help us get Candy and Noya back.”
Shoto nods, stepping out of the car, “let’s go.” He says, shutting the car door behind them. Aizawa and Bakugo both got out of the car, heading towards the building. Aizawa was in front of the two kids, looking for Hawks, as they entered the building. Not even four steps in, a feather floats over to Aizawa. “Isn’t that his feather?” Shoto asks, pointing to it.
“He’s probably trying to sense who’s out here,” Aizawa mutters, sighing. “Hawks it’s us!” He calls out.
The feather gave a shake of acknowledgment, before flying down the hallway, and stopping. “I guess we’re following,” Shoto mutters, following the feather. Aizawa nods, also following the feather, and you could hear Bakugo tch as he follows behind Aizawa. The feather led them to an elevator, landing on the up button, telling them to press it. Shoto pressed the button, humming as they waited for the elevator to open. It opens and they all walk inside, letting the doors close. The feather floated on the button that read twenty, and Shoto pushed it.
“This is stupid…” Bakugo mutters as the elevator goes up floors.
Shoto scoffs, “this is our only lead.”
“We don’t need help,” Bakugo grumbles.
“Shut up, this will help us find Candy and Noya,” Aizawa says, rolling his eyes. Shoto sighs, grumbling under his breath, not able to retort to what Bakugo had said. Aizawa sighs, “we can’t fight them if we want to save them.” He reminds the two.
Shoto nods, sighing nonetheless, sucking up his pride, just for the sake of finding Noya and his cousin. Not even two minutes had passed by before the elevator doors dinged open, revealing the number two hero standing in front of us. “Yo, Eraserhead!”
Shoto nodded a hello towards Hawks, and Aizawa sighs, looking at him. “Hawks.”
Hawks crosses his arms, “you aren’t over here for tea are you?” He concludes, sensing the tense air around the three.
“No, we need your help. The League of Villains has kidnapped two of our students.” Aizawa explains.
“You better fucking help us!” Bakugo growls out, pissed off because in his mind, they were wasting time.
Hawks nods, reattaching his feather, “don’t worry I’ll help you guys, I’ve been keeping tabs on the League of Villains actually, come on, let’s go to my office for more privacy.” He said, turning on his heels, and walking towards the door at the end of the hallway.
“You better be polite.” Aizawa glares at Bakugo, then turns to Hawks, “thank you.”
Shoto snorts, “don’t worry sensei, if it’s for Candy, he’ll be good.” He said, following Aizawa and Hawks out, not sparing Bakugo a glance.
“Shut up icyhot!” Bakugo hisses.
Hawks nodded, opening his office door, “please find a place to sit then we’ll start discussing.” Aizawa nodded and sat down, Bakugo sitting down beside him, and Shoto sitting behind them. Hawks walked in, looking out the door before locking it for better measure, he walked to his desk, sitting down, his crimson wings spreading out behind him“fill me in?”
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“Two of my students Noya and Candy are being held captive by the League of Villains. They are torturing candy.....” Aizawa looks down “really bad, they sent us a video from an anonymous number, they are making Noya watch, but I dont think they’ve hurt her.”
Hawks nodded, “can I see the video?”
Aizawa sighs, “yes, but it involves rape…” He says, handing the phone to him.
Hawk’s eyes widen, “what?” He asks, and takes notice of how Shoto tensed up.
Aizawa nods, “Dabi raped Candy.”
A feather flew out, stabbing the wall behind them, he took a deep breath in, calling in the feather once more before looking down at the phone, pressing play. Bakugo closed his eyes, not wanting to think about the video. Hawks watched the video, a look of utter rage in his eyes, he peeled his eyes away from the tear drenched face of Candy, looking around he spotted something, looking up. “You want me to track the phone.” Aizawa nodded a yes.
“Yes track his fucking phone!” Bakugo shouts, getting annoyed at how long this is taking. Hawks shot Bakugo a look, hoping the message gets through the thick headed problem child. “Tch.” Bakugo replies, as he rolls his eyes.
Hawks looks back at Aizawa, “Give me twelve hours, I’ll get back to you when I have news.”
“We don’t have fucking twelve hours!” Bakugo growls.
He then looks at the two students, then back at Aizawa, “these two part of the mission?”
Aizawa nods, “yes, they are strong enough to handle it as well.”
Hawks nods, “do they have their hero license?”
Shoto nods, “I got mine last year.”
Bakugo nods as well, “same goes for me.”
Hawks hums, “I’ll keep in touch, thank you for trusting this with me. Do you mind if I recruit some people from U.A.?” He asks Aizawa, as he hands the phone back to him.
Aizawa nods, “sure that’s fine.”
Hawks snaps his fingers, “do you think you could get a hold of U.A.’s big three?”
Aizawa looks at Bakugo and Todorokie, “go track them down.”
Todorokie nods, pulling out his phone, searching for Mirio’s number. Bakugo didn’t really do anything since Hawks still had his phone.
‘Can you help us?’ Todorokie texts Mirio.
Mirio types back, ‘with what?’ As he was texting Mirio, Hawks slid Bakugo’s phone back to him.
Todorokie responds to Mirio, ‘Two of our classmates were kidnapped by the LOV last night. Will talk about more details once you gather the other two, can you do that please?’
Mirio types back, ‘yea.’ Todorokie then looks up, “I got a hold of Mirio-san, he’s gonna tell Nejire-san as well.” As Todorokie talked, Bakugo was texting Tamaki.
‘Hey extra, we need your help, you better fucking respond.’ Bakugo types out, hitting the send button.
Tamaki replies, ‘Bakugo?? What’s wrong???’
‘I’ll explain when you get here, but long story short, two of my classmates were kidnapped by the fucking LOV’ He texts out.
Tamaki replies, “Yeah, Mirio just messaged me, I’ll be there in a few, Fat Gums coming too, said he wants to help, is that ok?’
Bakugo replies, ‘yeah, that’s fine.” He then looks up, “Tamakis gonna help us.”
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Hawks nodded at the good news, grinning, he leaned back in his seat, “tea?” He asks, his feathers carrying a kettle of hot tea. Bakugo just sighs, turning off his phone, worried about Candy. He looks at Bakugo, “is fatgum coming?” He just nods, and Hawks hums, pouring three hot cups of tea, and Aizawa picks up a mug, thanking Hawks with a smile and a nod. Todorokie froze a bit seeing a floating kettle, but calmed down when a hot cup of tea was placed in front of him, he nodded a thanks to Hawks.
TIMESKIP
Mirio, Hado, Tamaki, and Fat Gum have finally arrived at Hawk's agency. Hawks stood up, noticing everyone was here, he cleared his throat, “I’m sure some of y’all are wondering why I’ve specifically called you.” Tamaki and Fat Gum nodded, leaning against the wall. Hado nodded as well, Mirio just crossed, listening. “The league has once again kidnapped students from U.A. Class 2-A, victims Candy Wing and Noya Yuu, transfer students, just arrived three days ago.” Hawks clenched his fists, steeling himself, “we have recently found out that Dabi, a member of the league, has been found out to have raped Candy Wong.”
Bakugo clenches his fits, growling, Mirio gasps, and Tamaki’s eyes widen. Shoto glared at the ground, not wanting to think of the scene again, but Hawks continued, “we have also found out that Noya Yuu is being forced to watch all of this unfold right before her eyes through a one-way glass.” Mirio gasps again, and so does Hado, as she also covers her mouth, tears gathering in her eyes. Aizawa’s fists clenched together as he stares at the ground. “We know for a fact that the league has left Noya unscratched, but we do not know how severe Candy’s wounds are. We’re not even sure if he was only raped once. Bakugo growls, small explosions hitting the ground.
Hawks glanced at Bakugo for a split second, and Shoto the next befor4e looking back at the room. “We found this information as these three,” he says, gesturing to Aizawa, Shoto, and Bakugo, “have been anonymously sent a video containing the information we know.”
“Do we know where the base is?” Mirio asks.
Hado at this point was crying silently, not wanting to believe a junior in her school has been assaulted so badly. Hawks nods, “we found a glimpse of Candy’s phone under a pile of burnt clothes.” He looks at the room, “the phone is still intact.”
Hado’s eyes widen, she sprang up, “have you tracked it down?”
Hawks nodded, “I’ve narrowed it down to a few blocks.” He said, pointing to the outskirts of Miyagi.
Bakugo’s eyes widen, “what the fuck are we waiting for then? Let’s go!”
Hawks pins Bakugo down with a small feather, “we can’t just barge in there, we need a plan, and we’re not enough. We need the police force to come with us, and since this is the league we’re talking about,” he pauses, sighing, “we’re gonna need the number one hero as well.”
Bakugo growls, and Hawks retrieves his feather after he finishes explaining. Bakugo stands up grumbling, shooting Hawks a glare. Hawks pointed to the map with a red marker circled around a cave-like entrance, “from what I have found, I believe this is the entrance and exit to their base.”
Hado looks up, “that’s behind my family’s vacation house!” She exclaims, and Mirio nods.
Shoto looked at her, eyes wide, “how big is this cave entrance?”
Hado taps her chin, “about twelve feet tall and four feet wide,” she looks over at Hawks, “it’s very narrow, but not impossible to get into.”
“Will Fat Gum be able to get in?” Tamaki asks.
Hado shakes her head, “no unless we dig a bit, but it could alert them.”
Hawks nods, turning to Fat Gum, “you’re back up along with some of the other police force, is that ok?” He nods, and hawks brings out his phone, texting Endeavor. ‘We have a mission and it involves the league.’
Endeavor groans and types back, ‘do you really need me?’
‘Yes, two students in class 2-A were kidnapped at night during a camping trip.’ Hawks replies, disappointed that the number one hero was acting this way.
Endeavor texts back, ‘was it Shoto?’
‘No, but it was Candy Wong and Noya Yuu.’ Hawks responded.
Endeavor types back, ‘I don’t really care, but fine, I’m on my way.’
Shoto had started to pace as he saw hawks furrow his brow at the screen. Hawks responded with ‘roger’ to Endeavor the looks up. “Endeavor’s coming.”Shoto nods, steeling himself, preparing himself to ignore the man if needed.
“Tch, we don’t need his fucking help. We can do this without that piece of shit, half n half calls a father.” Bakugo grumbles.
Hawks sighs, pinching the bridge of his nose, “we never know. It’s better to have his firepower and his overall presence, it’ll hopefully put pressure on the league.” He explains, and Bakugo just rolls his eyes. Speak of the devil and he shall appear, right after Haws said that, Endeavor entered. Shoto grew cold, clenching his fist, staying quiet.
“Shoto,” Endeavor says. Shoto said nothing, only looking at him.
“I hope you remember who Candy Wong is,” Shoto growls out.
“No, I don’t,” Endeavor says.
“He’s my cousin, the one with the candy quirk! Although, I doubt that would jog your memory.”
“Oh, that weak piece of shit?”
“You’re here to help us, not to talk him down or any of of your shit. Nor are you here to relive any memories.” Shoto growls out, his fire flickering.
Endeavor growls, “you don’t talk to your father that way!.”
Shoto growls back, “you don’t talk about my cousin that way!”
“That’s enough!” Aizawa shouts, “we don’t have time for this.” Shoto growls, walking to Bakugo’s side. Bakugo looks at him and tch’s.
Hawks sighs, ‘this is the only problem huh?’ He thought, walking back to the drawing board, ‘I want chicken.’ He suddenly thinks, his stomach growling. Hawks then explain the plan once more and turns to the others, “any objections or questions?” He asks, leaning a bit against the table. No one says anything and that was that.
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