MHA/BNHA react to For The Want of A Nail by Clouds part 1

V:TGG 16 Investigation

Tsukauchi: If only...

Suddenly, a piercing alarm split the air, making all three of them flinch. Sansa came running into the room not a second later, fur on end as he yelled, "There's a villain attack right outside! We need all hands on deck!"

Bakugo: What kind of idiot starts a fight outside of a police station?!

Recovery Girl(realizing): It's a diversion.

Shouta swore and ran outside, hands already on his capture weapon. There was a small crowd outside and civilians were screaming as they ran away from the dozen or so minor villains that were attacking at random, like they were trying to do the greatest damage in the least amount of time. The media vultures were already starting to pull up and film, though they at least had the good sense to stay away from the main fight.

Aizawa: The only good thing about them.

The villains were more like thugs, but there were still enough of them to be dangerous if Shouta didn't take them down quickly. He activated his quirk and looked at the closest one, some guy will bullets shooting out of his fingers, then quickly wrapped him up and flung him toward the waiting police, then started in on the next one.

Rock Lock had turned up while Shouta had been fighting, so he managed to take one of the villains down by locking a rope in place around him. Between the two of them, it only took them another ten minutes to round up all the villains and get them into police custody. It wouldn't have taken so long if there weren't so many of them. Gangs hadn't been a problem since All Might beame number one, so how had so many thugs decided to attack the police station at the same time? They had to be pretty stupid to attack a place that they knew was filled with police. Even if they weren't scared of the cops, pro heroes were always in and out of the station, so why attack? It just didn't make sense.

Tamaki: Diversion...

Slowly, they managed to get all the villains off the street and into the holding cells inside the station. There was going to be so much paperwork! Thankfully most of it would be done by the police themselves, but still, Shouta wasn't looking forward to it. That could wait, however, until he and Tsukauchi finished interrogating Hamasaki.

Mei: ...I have a bad feeling about this.

The attack had terrible timing. They had just been starting to get useful information when they'd both had to leave to handle the attack, so hopefully they'd be able to just pick up where they left off, though Shouta wasn't getting his hopes up. It had been a miracle they'd been able to get as much as they had out of the guy, and the attack would probably have spooked him silent. It was annoying.

He tracked down Tsukauchi and together they made their way to the interrogation room. Shouta almost didn't bother looking through the window before entering, but when he did he had to do a double take. He looked to Tsukauchi to make sure he wasn't seeing things before they both swore and barged into the empty room.

Shigaraki: And he's gone.

Recovery Girl: Sometimes I hate being right.

"This is the same interrogation room, right?" He asked. "This is where we left him?"

"Yes." Tsukauchi looked pale. "He was still cuffed to the table when we left."

Shouta looked more closely at the room. The cuffs were gone as well, which wasn't normal for an escape. Most of the villains who tried would pick the cuffs, then leave them behind so they wouldn't be slowed down by the dead weight. If Shouta didn't know better, he'd almost say that Hamasaki had never been there at all.

Midnight: Just great.

Tsukauchi was already striding back out into the bullpen, "Sansa! What happened to the villain we had in interrogation room six?"

Shouta followed to see Sansa at the front desk looking through the log book, "It says here he was transferred, but that can't be right. The villains were blocking the front entrance, so I suppose they could have taken him out the back, but the attack was taking up almost all of our manpower. The person who transferred him also forgot to sign their name."

Kirishima: Yeah, forgot.

Shinso: Very convenient timing.

"Pull up the security feed." Shouta said. "The cameras must have caught them leaving."

Sansa grimaced, "One of the villains' attacks missed their target and hit the power box. We just barely got the lights back on five minutes ago, but the station was in a black out for most of the attack."

"So the cameras weren't recording." Tsukauchi clarified.

"No, sir."

Mirio: Ugh seriously?

All Might: It was all completely planned.

Shouta looked at Tsukauchi and could tell he was thinking the exact same thing. The attack wasn't random, neither was the power outage. The entire thing had been engineered by someone who didn't want Hamasaki to talk to them. Shouta had been wrong. Whoever was behind the trigger operation was more powerful than he'd thought possible.

And the only lead he had was the symbol of evil.

Hagakure: ...Well that was just a lot of nothing.

Mic: Well you can't expect results every time in hero work. There's always downs in life.

Jana: Anyhow next story.