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Aya had expected a response like that, but she still hoped that maybe East would appreciate her concern at some point. With a soft sigh she turned back around and walked over to the bar, taking a seat next to Skyfall. She felt he was a little nervous and wanted to help him out.

"Hey, you feeling alright. Weren't you the tough guy meant to protect me?"

She chuckled lightly, getting a glass of water from the bartender. She'd follow Skyfall's gaze, noticing him looking at Midnight. She pat him lightly on the arm with the back of her hand to get his attention.

"Don't worry about him. I sure inside all that stern plasma, he's a big softie, though don't quote me on the by the way."

Aya would then receive her water and give the bartender a nod. She wasn't worried about the bank heist, she new that her quirk didn't make much noise, and that in the heat of the moment people would be far more focused on the people tossing cars. She also remembered to ready herself for the mental pressure of Karuma's quirk.

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In the corner of this place he listened. Shade walker was experienced, Captain East was the same, and so too was himself. Older than the others and carrying far more understanding of the world, in some cases all 3 aspects of it. To know the life and expectations of a prospering hero, to understand the weight of being a killer and criminal, and to see everything as a bystander looking in at the mosaic of those two conflicting titles and not knowing the outcome.
What, then, made them who they defined as today? The answer was simply. They were..



His voice was deep and foreboding, echoing in an unnatural cacophony drowning out the other sounds of the bar under its weight. From the booth he rose, his exoskeleton gave the illusion of a solid form underneath his clothes. The mask of his costume contained the shimmering veil of stars shining across his body, his volatile energy danced like flames across every exposed inch of the costume as he approached as non threateningly as possible to where the others were slowly gathering.
When he spoke again, it was far duller as he spoke to Skyfall directly. @Renny

"Villains cannot afford to be impatient, young friend. Villains do not make a name for themselves by focusing on the when, for action. You are eager to begin your rise but I say this as advice from one associate to another; Dangerous is an old person in a job where youths quickly die."

To punctuate his meaning, he motioned to where Captain East and the chain wielding killer were sitting.

"Villains that strive for something bigger than themselves must focus on where to be, far more than when."

In his own experience, being where you needed to be sometimes meant going against the plan. A passing Hero that recognizes you can interpret the scene with uncanny ease, unraveling your meticulous plans by virtue of mere presence. Where you are, mentally and physically in a sudden situation, was far better to understand for the good of your team than waiting for when the bell rang.

As a ring tone sounded in the room Shade Walker picked up his phone, and looked at it. He sighed, and grumbled. "Word from the distraction Team. They got the bank secured. Three heroes, and a few cops. Hostages as well. Everything went mostly according to plan. But there was some issues. You're in East." commented Shade Walker as he put his phone back down, and then looked over to Kazuma who pulled out a small picture from his pocket. "Alright time to earn my pay." grumbled Kazuma ignoring everyone else as he waltzed over to the more spacious part of the room. He apparently had just finished his job before hand. He pocketed the picture and breathed out calmly, and slowly. He then shoved his hands forward as if to grab onto something he gripped at what appeared to be nothing in the air. He then grunted and ripped open a glowing luminescent portal that sprung up out of nowhere. It shimmered, and formed as if it were magic. A gust of wind came through the shimmering portal there was a back alley. "Go to the right Cap." called Kazuma as East stood up and straightened out his uniform before walking through the portal. Kazuma shut the thing just as he got through with a wave of his hand. "Alright that's one down..." grumbled Kazuma. "Is everyone ready? If not get ready there's equipment downstairs if you need it in the armory." Shade Walker said aloud as he looked at his phone once again. He also grabbed the table preemptively as not too long later a large shake was felt through the building. It shook the glass, and the whole building. It was if a earthquake had went through but Shade Walker knew better than that as it stopped quicker than it had appeared. "I told him not to break the entire police force...I hope there was a reason for that show of force..." growled Shade Walker more than likely referring to East who was a likely cause of the earthquake like shake.

The phone rung again this time breaking Shade Walker's line of thought as he looked at his phone he ran his hands over the pictures. He grumbled when he noticed that the police had the place surrounded. He considered what to do next before going over to Kazuma, and showing him a picture. Kazuma nodded and whistled sharply to make sure everyone's attention was on Shade Walker. "Clean up Crew. Help out the robbers if you can avoid the fighting. You know your jobs. Once you arrive the attack team will need to distract the heroes, and make sure the cash is secured inside the building then leave. The get away car is down two blocks from the back door of the bank. There's a few SWAT Teams running around the upper floors. They locked the doors leading up there but that won't keep them there long. If you need help use your pagers to notify someone. If it gets too difficult for everyone I will step in personally. However my appearance will further destabilize the situation. East's appearance means they think our main goal is the other bank but we know that bank deals with other villains, and drug dealers. Also they mark their bills." Shade Walker called out to everyone as he ripped open a portal. On the other side was two men in paramilitary uniforms with a ballistics mask on it. They held no discernible marks and wielded black market automatic rifles. "Sorry for the wait sir. The hostages tried something stupid." commented one of them as he made way for the group to come through. Shade Walker acknowledged them with a calm comment saying that it was fine before giving them further orders. Then Kazuma ripped open a portal that led to a large parlor. Hostages were face down, and more goons were looking everywhere. "Combat team go through that one. Exit through the main door, or whatever and go clear out the police. According to what I got there's four heroes out there. Two of which are sidekicks. I have no doubts you'll take'em out but there will be more. Likely a bulk went to confront East." Shade Walker stated further as he turned away from the groups dismissively. "Well? What are you waiting for go!"

"YOU FUCKING IDIOT GET BACK IN HERE THEY'RE BARGAINING CHIPS NOT FUCKING SHIELDS!" growled one of the soldiers as he dragged the villain, and his hostage back inside just before a moment later a cloud of sakura blossom pedals scourged the ground in front of him. The way they were impaled into the ground made it quite clear that had the soldier not pulled Skyfall back into the building a moment later the blossoms may have injected themselves into Skyfall's body as they were not carved into the solid stone steps in front of the back. Another soldier fired his gun into the air outside. "Don't fuck with us boys! You won't get that chance again I promise!" growled the soldier as the one who saved Skyfall shoved him back with the but of his gun. "I thought the boss's boys were fucking pro's? What the fuck was that!? There's a high talent hero out there. Its the god damn number seven hero in Japan, Sutōkingusakura. You think there's a reason we're not already caught? Because we got these people. Shit's fucking hot down here! The point of you comin' here was so that you could fight the big guys, and we back you up! Rushing out there with our ace in the hole isn't a great idea. Wait until we're situated here and then do what you wanna do. Unless you fellas have a better idea..." growled the soldier as one that appeared to be an lieutenant shot his gun into the ceiling. "Remember your friends, loved ones, family, and children. They will miss you if you die today. They will mourn you. They will cry, and be saddened. Even those without loved ones will become burdens upon society as scapegoats. You want to live? You stay still like we say, and keep your heads on the floor now." growled the lieutenant as he ordered one of his men to stand guard on the other side of the now broken door.

"You know what FUCK it kid you wanna die fine. I'm not going to go explaining basic logic to you no further." the soldier said in disgust as the lieutenant made sure to keep the rest of the hostages in place. "Winds of Change." came a voice from the air as suddenly a gale flailed around Skyfall, and a fierce pain stabbed at the back of Skyfall's legs the pedals stabbed into the ground had been pulled from their place by the wind, and found themselves plunged into the back of Skyfall's legs. The hostage yanked from his grip was sent soaring into the air when a girl in samurai armor, carried up by the wind, snatched her from midair. "Don't you worry Madam! The number one sidekick in town is here to save the day!" she said as she pushed backwards the hovering Sutōkingusakura held up his hand. "Now fall with the graceful breeze you worthless piece of space." He waved his hand back down and the sakura pedal storm that surged around the hero sent a storm of pedals in the shape of a spear hurling itself directly at Skyfall's chest. This time the guards booked it away from the doorway, and even before hand made absolutely no move to assist Skyfall who in his current state without support would likely be grievously wounded by the sakura pedal spear due to his calves being stabbed by miniature steel like pedal blades.

Aya sighed as she walked through the portal, the scene she walked into was chaotic to say the least, seeing Skyfall try and run off with a hostage only to be halted by one of the mercenaries. He needed to be taught his place, and it looked like Aya was going to be the one to do it. But she needed to look after the wounded first, that was always her primary job.

She was about to ask the lieutenant if he had any wounded when she saw the spear heading towards Skyfall. She'd sigh and leave him, she was sure he'd be able to take the hit, and it'd teach him not to go running off thinking he's the king of the world. She hissed an locked eye with the Lieutenant.

Have you got any wounded I could patch up, I know my team was called in to fight off the heroes, but as the situation stands my quirk would be useless out there."

She would unzip her bag and ready herself for possible patients. She wasn't sure how this whole thing was going to go down, but hopefully they would be able to find a way to ground the flyers, then Aya might stand a chance of getting her hands on one of them, but for now she would worry about the wounded. It was all she could do.

"Shit stain over the got one of my boys in the knee, we clubbed him over the head may have a concussion or maybe he's dead." commented the Lieutenant making sure he was out of range of the attack just in case. He pointed down towards the man in the far corner of the room pressed up against a security office. In the corner of the room sat a man with a knife lodged deeply into his knee. "We're not dumb enough to take it out. We were just going to carry him out if you're a medic either way we could use some help while the rest of your buddies hurry their asses up." grumbled the Lieutenant as he looked upstairs after hearing the sound of gunfire. "Hope the captain is holdin' off the swat good up there...he went up by himself." The lieutenant told her as he kept his eyes sealed on the door hoping that the pedals that would inevitably get inside due to that would not be an issue.

Akane squealed, not much of what she said registered, but he heard the word Big Sis. Ane-chan. It was probably in that instant he moved quickly to closer to Kyo-chi.

"Nay nay Ane-san!" he sounded like a desperate puppy, "Can I carry money? Maybe I can drive? What do you want me to do Ane-san?"

"Woah! Slow down, Frisky," Kyouran said, her pleasure evident in her eyes. But then she rubbed the back of her head with her hand in uncertainty, "But if it's orders you want, then you'd probably be better off asking Shadewalker or Flatline, I don't brain too good. Otherwise, I won't mind if you just want to stick close."

A bit of conversation between Aya and SkyFall, followed by a somewhat inspirational aside by Artorius, and it was go time. Kazuma ripped a hole in the fabric of space for Captain East to step through. Then he opened another and Yoichi stepped through. Planting her broken beer bottle down on the bar, Dieselpunk stood up, stretched, and said, "Alright, Frisky, let's go!" Dieselpunk sidled over to Kazuma and asked, "Hey, you got one of these portals to the street outside the bank? I'm told there's some heavy machinery waiting for me of the stinky variety." Her plan was simple. Grab a garbage truck, maybe some swat cars to boot, and turn into a giant robot. Besides, she knew the typical formation police took when dealing with a bank robbery; they're not equipped to deal with threats from behind, and with what sounded like SkyFall making a scene, they'll never know what hit them.

"Can't do that need a picture, or some sort of idea of what it looks like. News cameras would put you too high in the air. I'm not a fuckin' genie. Just use a ATM machine, or a desk, and go QUICK. The idea is to not give out our hideaway!" grumbled Kazuma as he waited for the people to get going. "If you want to get out without going through the front door then go through the other portal, jump out the window if you can survive a third floor drop, and then get them from their flanks." grumbled Shade Walker as he impatiently waited for them to get a move on. "I'm closin' this fucking portal if anything gets risky get me!? Move!" Kazuma growled as he impatiently tapped his foot.

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Aya nodded to the lieutenant and headed over to the man who'd gotten the knife stuck in his leg, she crouched down next to them and looked over the wound, should be an easy fix, just gotta watch how she removes the knife. She pulled a set of plastic gloves out and slid them on, she'd have to remove the knife, then quickly seal the wound, she didn't have a long lasting sealant on her but it'd only need to last a few hours so what she had in mind would do. She would tap a nearby mercenary on the leg and beacon him to kneel down with her.

"I'm going to need a hand with this if that's alright, I need you to hold his leg still while I work. Can't have him moving while I work."

She'd nod in thanks as the merc held the leg up slightly, being guided by Aya on how to position it. With the leg now being held in place, she gave the wound another quick look over before pulling off her left glove and touching the patients leg, making sure to get some skin contact. She would then ease his leg muscles, making the limb limp, then she would every so carefully remove the knife, the calmed muscle offering little to no resistance as she gently removed the blade. Once it was out she'd quickly discard it and let go of the mans leg, giving him control of his limb back.

"Alright, we're looking good so far, despite the hole in your knee, but I manipulate muscle, I don't magically heal wounds like recovery girl. But this next part is simple, but I warn you, it'll sting a bit."

She said in a fairly motherly tone, making sure the merc holding the leg up continued to do so, she removed the one remaining glove and ruffled through her bag of tricks. the first thing she pulled out was a can of anti bacterial spray, she shook the can a little then held it close to the stab wound. After a brief pause she sprayed the wound, coating it in a light layer of this white foamy substance, after coating the wound she got some cotton and swabbed up any excess anti bac spray then went back into her bag. after a brief moment of searching, she produced both a roll of bandage and some adhesive strips.

"You're doing great, now I'm just going to apply an adhesive strip to the wound, it'll keep you together for now. Just think of it as a super fancy band-aid."

She said with a lighter tone, obviously trying to be slightly reassuring and lighthearted as she worked. She'd apply the strip directly over the wound then bandage around it, just to be doubly sure everything stayed in the place it needed to be, as well as apply a light amount of pressure to the leg. She then packed up her things and looked behind her, Skyfall was walking over perfect. with a masked smile she nodded to the patient, giving his calf a gently tap.

"Ok that should be you good to go, just avoid walking on that leg for a while, or bending it too much, you want those bandages to hold up until you can get that stitched up. This was just a quick fix."

With that out of the way, she stood up and looked at Skyfall. He seemed to have regained his competence, for now at least, he also apologized for straying from her and said he'd follow the plan. Well they didn't have much of a plan besides 'beat heroes, get out' so that statement wasn't really faith inspiring. Aya took a brief moment to asses the situation, they couldn't go out the front without being torn to shreds, and they were being pressed by swat from upstairs. Aya snapped her fingers as an idea graced her mind.

"Alright Skyfall, here's what I've come up with. As it stands now, we cannot leave the front door without risking serious injury or capture, both of which would be problem. And the main issue is that wind controlling hero, who I'm going to assume is probably floating about in the air like a pretentious asshole. But what I think we should head upstairs, clear some the swat out, then use the elevated position to launch some kind of attack on the floating prick. You could possibly launch yourself from the second floor and tackle the bastard out of the sky. It's all I've got at the moment, only thing that would make our life easier is if Dieselpunk could distract them for a moment. But for now, we just need to clear out that second floor, we can't risk them getting the drop on us in any case."

@vancexentan@Renny

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Midnights quirk dulled as he entered the portal shortly after the others, forcibly suppressing the often violently glowing effects that danced across his skin that gave his quirk the name 'power cosmic'. Rather than the cosmos swirling across his form it was a mute black all around, devoid of any color or features at all so only his mask held any semblance of appearance. His costume was fairly bland, unadorned with the flashy stylings of other heroes and villains which he hoped would not give away his identity right away.
As part of the decoy crew, it wouldn't do well to draw attention to himself quite yet.

Not bothering to speak, Midnight separated himself from the other teleporting villains and chose to wait out the moment. Skyfall was a loose cannon, a fool, and impatient. Grabbing a hostage and boldly striding out into the streets, displaying a spectacular lack of self preservation. Perhaps someone like Shade Walker, with his Quirk to slide through solid objects, could take a fight like that and walk away but Skyfall as he was stood no chance of such an audacious display of overwhelming might.
Situation unfolding, Skies head finally cleared and the plan was underway. Problem now was powerful heroes and not so powerful allies. Like Aya said, they needed a distraction.

"I will provide your distraction. If they desire to deal with you all at range then all the better." Physical attacks were not terribly effective against him, depending on where they hit. From the looks of it the attacks were rose petals, thin but sharp. Likely hard enough to cut through most objects, but that held little concern. While his 'body' could be damaged and shrink they would still need to actually hit it.
A feat easier said than done.

Under his long jacket were small glass containers. They were hard to break but once they did the shards were razor sharp and numerous, inside of each container was a black tar like substance. only enough to fill each container by just over a quarter but that was more than enough. 5 in total they contained his concentrated energy and was far more volatile than his regular attacks.

"Do as you must but be quick about it. If they try for the door I'll deal with them." Taking up a position by said doorway, arms crossed and unconcerned, Midnight waited for any sign of trouble and was ready to repel an assault with his own excessive force.

"Idle threats from a man with too much brawn. Can you even reach me? All the same talk is wasted it suits neither of us." grumbled the white cloaked Sutōkingusakura. He was wearing a white turban like hat over his head with a long white cloak fluttering in the breeze around him. His clothes underneath that cloak were black with a white belt. His shoes simple sandles. His brown hair came out in strands from his turban as he raised his hand once more. "Twin Blade. Don't engage defend the area with the cops." commented Sutōkingusakura to his apprentice who nodded the young girl in samurai armor had jumped backwards towards the cops, and given the civilian away. He made no move to attack Skyfall from behind however focusing more on making sure he didn't hurt any more civilians it would seem. "Villains this is Deputy Shiro Amasaka! We have this place surrounded! We're willing to negotiate terms of surrender! Or at the very least we're willing to negotiate the return of the hostages. We do not want any unnecessary casualties. We hope that no one here needs to walk away without their life, or their limbs. With that being said we are willing to wait you out if need be. Don't do something we'll all regret." one of the officers said over a loud speaker.

"Like fuck we're negotiating but them ore time they waste talking nonsense the more that swat team upstairs has to take out the boss. Where the fuck is the money team? They need to secure the money, and prepare to move out soon." commented the lieutenant as he looked around and did a damage report. After the rest of the team had come through Kazuma had shut down the portal. "We need to find out who they're hiding out there. Second floor scouts tell me that there's at least three heroes out there that's what he heard from police chatter." the lieutenant commented as he strolled around he then turned to Aya, "Oh...and yeah thanks for helping Number 5." commented the lieutenant awkwardly.

"I'm closin' this fucking portal if anything gets risky get me!? Move!" Kazuma growled as he impatiently tapped his foot.

@AngelofOctober

"Oh, shit. Well fuck. Alright Karma, let's go!" Dieselpunk cracked her knuckles and headed through the other portal, leading to the safecrackers. "Alright Karma, looks like everyone's waitin' on the money." Dieselpunk said as she let the team of robbers lead her and karma over to the vault, finding the door open and the drillers putting away their equipment. "I'm gonna need this," Dieselpunk said as she grabbed the vault door and began fusing with it. The metal rippled as it warped off the hinges. As it traveled towards Dieselpunk, it displaced her body, causing her clothes to tear off, but before anything naughty could be seen, the large, round, metallic object had already replaced her entire torso and waist, making her look like a large, grotesque, stainless steel turtle with tiny human limbs sticking out. Dieselpunk waddled around heavily; the vault door didn't have enough moving parts for her to incorporate into her muscles and joints, which meant that her limbs were still unprotected and it would be slow going until she got some actual machinery in her. Still, her 15 minute timer had started, and she needed to be quick about it. Wandering around, she absorbed a few safes as well, giving her exposed head and limbs some coverage.

Dieselpunk jokingly asked Karma, "How do I look? This should protect me long enough until I can grab some more cars and trucks. You and the robbers, get the money, and get in the car. I'll be your shield and get in the way of anyone who tries to stop you." Diesel punk pounded a steel plated hand against her vault door-chest, causing a resounding metallic clang. "Once you guys are safely away, I'll see if the front door might need some help, but for now, they're going to have to hold the line."

"Well we need to get going move!" After absorbing the half burnt out vault door the crew in the upper floors rushed off quickly into the vault to crack open the wall safes, and the others putting handfuls of wads into bags. As Disel asked how she looked the soldiers stifled a cackle. Meanwhile at the vault the thermite drills was finally finishing its job at tearing its way through the hard metal only to have a door in its way. The disgruntled soldiers roared in anger as one of them considered just blowing the door open. "You look like a million dollars." grumbled the soldier in command. He turned on his radio, and asked the second team how they were doing. "We're doing ok down here still need to burst open the door." the soldier on the other line grumbled as he prepared to talk to his fellow soldiers each them arguing if it was worth using the drill, or they should just blow it up.

"Not sure if the metal worker here will be able to get down to that floor with the way they are now." said the soldier on their end.

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The lieutenant turned around and asked for a roll call. Everyone seemed fine. "The boss has supplied us fragmentation grenades. It was a failsafe in case things got back. We have no incendiary grenades but if you throw a car, or something at him, and he doesn't slam you back with it we should be able to blow it up in his face, or at least destroy his pedals." commented the lieutenant as he offered his suggestion. "Failing that he's still human we got guns. The big problem is there's more than one hero here. That means we don't got an easy shot either way."

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Aya nodded to the lieutenant appreciating the gratitude. She took in what Skyfall and the lieutenant put forward about the situation, they were going to need Skyfall to throw a car for that plan to work but before they could do that, they should probably help the captain. Then she watched as Skyfall headed off to go help the captain, she didn't know how much help she would be given her ineptitude with firearms, but the captain would need them.

"Lieutenant, I'll be of little use down here when dealing with the heroes, but I may be more useful if I assist Skyfall and the captain with clearing out the swat. Having that pressure off out backs would be helpful. But if you have more wounded, even civilians, then I'll stay here and get to work. We don't want any deaths."

Aya would wait for the Lieutenant's response, she did feel slightly useless at the moment, but that was because she was a medic that needed to be able to fight. Which put her in a bad spot given the range of her quirk, when put up against number 7's wind powers.