"He-He saved him!"

"What are you talking about! He's a hostage!" Another hero chastised seeing Aiden in Stain's arms.

"Dammit! Get into battle formation!"

While the heroes were busy talking among themselves, Aiden turned to look at Stain.

"Why did you save me?" He asked in a voice only loud enough for Stain to hear.

Lowering his head, the bloodied Stain looked at the masked boy with appreciation. "I can tell... we're the same. Like me you have seen the results of this unjust society with your own eyes, experienced the lies of these phony heroes. And like me, you wish to rectify this world and bring true heroes to the forefront."

Aiden stood in silence and thought over his words. While it is true that he and Stain shared many similarities, it was also true that they differentiated by quite a bit. "We're not the same." He shook his head. "No matter what my goal is or what I have to do to achieve it, I would never work with villains."

As if expecting him to say that, Stain nodded his head. "And that's why you cannot afford to die... What's your name kid?"

"Aiden... Aiden Cross."

"Its a good name." He smiled and looked back at the heroes.

"You still have time to escape." Aiden spoke up.

He shook his head. "With my injuries I wouldn't make it far."

Being the one who put those wounds on his body, Aiden knew what kind of state he was in.

"*Sigh* So what are you gonna do now?"

Looking at the heroes in the distance, Stain bloodied mouth formed into a smile. "Remove the phonies while I can still stand... Are you going to stop me?"

"I'm not a hero... Saving people is not what I do."

"Ha! We really are alike." He chuckled.

While the hero killer and ex hero hunter were talking to each other, Endeavor appeared out of another alley-way and came running out onto the streets.

"What's going on?! Why are you all just standing around?!" He yelled seeing the heroes staring at Aiden and Stain. "Is that..."

"ENDEAVOR!!" The moment he appeared, Stain seemed to flip the fuċk out.

Charging up his flames, Endeavor rushed towards the pair and prepared to deal with the HeroKiller.

"Wait Todoroki!!" Gran Torino yelled.

"Another PHONY!!" The atmosphere around Stain suddenly changed as a bloodthirsty aura burst out from his body and washed over the heroes like a tsunami.

"T-This pressure..."

Feeling suffocated by his aura, Deku and the rest were rooted to the ground as Stain's figure approached them. Even Endeavor was forced to halt his advance when faced with such a malevolent aura.

Standing behind him, Aiden watched the spectacle with slight interest. Due to his previous capture, no one expected him to be able to stop the herokiller and thought he was also frozen by Stain's blood thirst.

'His blood thirst is pretty strong...'

"The fake must be rectified..." He said walking towards them unsteadily. "Someone must stain themselves in his blood...! The word hero must be restored!"

By this point everyone was already sweating bullets as he was slowly drawing closer and closer.

"COME AT ME YOU FAKE!!" His aura grew more and more domineering. "THE ONLY ONE ALLOWED TO KILL ME IS ALL MIGHT!!"

Just as he was about to reach them, the feared herokiller abruptly stopped in his tracks.

"He... fell unconscious..." Endeavor mutter seeing Stain's blank eyes.

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-The next morning-

"WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU!!" Rumi screamed at the bed ridden Aiden. Since his limbs were still in a somewhat numb state, he had to take it easy for the rest of the day.

After Stain was apprehended yesterday, he and his classmates were all taken in for questioning while the police figured out what to do next. By the end of the whole ordeal, they decided that it wouldn't look good on them or the heroes if word got out that the herokiller was not only taken down by a first year student, but also a foreigner. They therefore gave the credit to Endeavor.

Since Aiden didn't really care about the credit he kept quiet about the whole thing and shrugged it off. He knew the Japanese's attitude towards foreigners so he wasn't surprised by their decision. In fact, during the interview he put his brain on auto pilot and thought back to his fight against Stain.

Now that he had time to think things through properly, he focused on his use of the Marionette ability. Although this was the first time he used it in actual combat, he had to say he was pretty impressed. Minus the numb limbs he would give the ability a pretty good rating. It also got him thinking that if he could used this ability to temporarily keep his muscles tightened for a longer duration, then his speed and physical capabilities would become more prevalent during battles.

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Once he was free from his interrogation he had to explain everything to Rumi. While she wasn't particularly happy that his achievements had been shafted and given to Endeavor, her anger over him ignoring her orders and fighting the herokiller won over her annoyance with the police.

"You could have been killed for fuċks sake! Do you know what that would do to me! Did it even cross your mind on how that would make me feel!!"

Listening to her scold him at his bedside, Aiden knew just how much he meant to her... but he really couldn't be bother to listen to her at the moment so he put his brain on auto pilot again.

[A/n: I honestly think this his best skill.]

After a couple more hours had passed, the feeling in his limbs started to return to normal and he was active once again. Getting out of bed, he performed a couple of stretches to loosen himself up and went to check on Rumi.

As he was leaving his room, he heard Rumi's voice.

"What do you mean he broke the rules! He saved a pro hero and caught the fuċkɨnġ HeroKiller! I don't care give a shit about the rules!! He deserves to be recognized!"

Standing in the doorway, Aiden couldn't help but smile as Rumi defended his honor.

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