[Arsenal]

''So this is the place, huh?'' Arsenal was sat on a rooftop enjoying the view of the ocean near Tokyo Bay, taking in nature's beauty before she was about to end another life with her own hands. Granted, the dude she was contracted to kill was rotten to the core. The type of guy who somehow kept a clean public image but did a lot of sketchy stuff behind the scenes. She didn't know the exact details since she was just a grunt, but this was the type of guy who didn't have any reservations about hurting civilians, or even holding kids hostage if it meant he got his way. Real scum that couldn't be allowed to waste more oxygen for the rest of humanity.

The worst part was that this guy was careful too, never really going out unless it was in broad daylight, because what assassin would be foolish enough to attack him when there would be hundreds of witnesses?

This one.

''Better make this quick, I've got to pick Maisie up in an hour.'' Arsenal dusted herself off and transformed into a foam sword as she let herself fall right into the middle of a dense crowd. Once she hit the ground, she transformed into her human self, but with a defunct chainsaw head to hide her identity. Her left arm she transformed into a shotgun while she loaded it with shells with her free hand. Then, upon seeing her target she took aim and fired, bloody splatter hitting the pavement as he fell moments later... No, his body vanished before it hit the ground.

Materializing out of thin air, several copies of her target appeared as the crowd dispersed. Wait, was this his quirk? Making after image clones or something?

''I knew someone had been tailing me for a while.'' The clones all spoke in unison. ''But I didn't think I would be targeted by such a green assassin.''

''Wh-Who are you callin' green?! I've been doing this for longer than you've been swindling people!'' She pointed her gun arm at his clone and then the next, making it look like she was just waving her shotgun around rather than trying to challenge him. ''Besides, that was just my first shot. You think I'll mess it up a second time?''

She wouldn't. Not unless some hero type showed up right about now, but how inconvenient would that be? ''Green isn't even my color.'' She transformed her shotgun arm into a fire axe as she prepared to charge at the nearest clone.

michi machida

[michi machida]

Hands in his pockets, Michirou walked along the bay enjoying the view and the weather. Summer was always miserable but it had finally started to cool down again with fall approaching. And that meant he could be outside without feeling like he was melting! Or inside without feeling like he was in a sauna. Actually, an actual sauna would be more comfortable. The only plus side to summer was that he got to justify ice cream as a snack whenever he felt like it. Which was, of course, always.

A loud bang made him flinch, twisting around to look. Gun wasn't actually the first thought on his mind, expecting instead that some kind of machinery or something had fallen over or maybe some kind of... pressurized can or something, had exploded. Or maybe it was just someone with fireworks, or some kind of Quirk?

Breaking out into a light jog in the direction the noise had come from, more curious than anything, Michirou did not expect to round a corner and find someone with a chainsaw for a head brandishing a fire axe. "Ah..." Michirou murmured to himself, arms crossing over his chest and head tilting to one side in thought. Could he just turn around and mind his own business? He certainly didn't want to get caught up in whatever was going on, not when it'd been such a nice day out to start... but what if this was actual serious danger and not just some kind of robbery or whatever?

Crouching down to pick up a stray pebble and giving it a light underhand toss towards the chainsaw-head, Michirou brought one hand up near his mouth and called out. "Quick question: are you like a loanshark just scarring this guy or an actual maim-and-murder type?"

Arsenal,

[Arsenal]

Lifting her axe arm, Arsenal was ready to take out the nearest clone, since she wasn't able to discern the real one from the clones anyway. However, before she could really bring her arm down with all her might, a small pebble plinked off her metal head and made her flinch a bit. ''Ow.'' She said ow even though it didn't really hurt her. What it did do, however, was take her attention away from her target as she looked in the direction of where the pebble had come from. ''Huh?'' She finally noticed the little shit who interrupted her fight and was asking questions to boot.

''Do I look like a shark?'' She turned her arm back to normal so she could point a thumb at her chest. ''I'm Chain Brain, cuz I've got chains for brains!'' She exclaimed like it was some kind of badass catchphrase, which it was. One she had thought of herself. ''And what's with that language, maim-and-murder type?'' She balled her hand into a fist so she could shake it at Michi. ''You're making me sound way worse than I am! I'm an assassin! You would know that if you had ever been to school!''

The clones that had their fists raised all slowly lowered them and looked at Arsenal and Michi, waiting for whatever response this mysterious stranger was going to give their would-be killer.

michi machida

[michi machida]

Michirou tipped his head to one side and squinted as he tried to compare the chainsaw-head to the general look of a shark before starting to reply: "Yeah, kind o-" before they continued on with introduction. Chain Brain and chains for brains... He wasn't sure if that was great or the silliest thing he'd ever heard someone say in person. Maybe both? But more importantly, an assassin? So definitely a bad guy doing bad stuff, if apparently not some kind of brutal serial killer that maimed people? The jab at the end though prompted Michirou's brow to furrow and nose to scrunch and he let out a huff.


"We didn't have any classes on anyone named Brain Chain, you know? What does an assassin even look like, anyways?" He pointed out, intentionally getting the name wrong and not paying much attention to the would be victim in the whole situation. Michirou hadn't even noticed that the people around were all clones of the same guy, keeping his attention locked on Chain Brain and the axe they were holding. No wait, they weren't actually holding the axe, it was just sort of extending out of their arm... Either that was a mutation or a transformation, or maybe even some kind of prosthetic? Most importantly though it did confirm it wasn't a shake down and someone's life was actually on the line, so it wasn't like he could in good conscious just leave the target to their fate. So he uncrossed his arms and started to pull out his phone. "If you're planning on killing someone though I'm calling the cops."

As he did he shifted his feet a bit, ready to move if he ended up under attack himself - or if Chain Brain tried to lunge at whichever person was their target so he could try to intervene.

Arsenal,

[Arsenal]

''CHAIN brain! And an assassin looks like me, obviously!'' This person definitely wasn't a hero, or they would have just intervened rather than call her out like this. Not to mention they were way too young to be a pro, probably about her own age if she had to guess. What was their deal anyway, interrupting an assassination, did they have a death wish? ''Wait!'' She put her hands up, waving them in protest. ''You can't do that, don't call the cops! Or-... Or I'll have to kill you!'' It was a bold lie since she didn't just kill random people and something was telling her this guy wasn't a scumbag like her target was. ''If you call the cops my boss will get real mad at me, and senpai will too!''

Speaking of, in the middle of Michi and Arsenal's bickering, her target had snuck away, his clones disappearing as he slipped away into Tokyo proper. She still hadn't seen this though, and instead transformed both of her arms into katanas and charged at Michi, hoping to scare him out of calling the police. ''You wanna play hero? Then die!'' She tried to cut Michi, but deliberately made sure she would miss. On top of that, the katanas she transformed her arms into weren't real swords at all, but toy replicas. It would still hurt to get hit by them, but they weren't exactly lethal in their own right.

michi machida

[michi machida]

One corner of Michirou's lips twitched into a hint of a smirk at Chain Brain's reaction. They were the kind of person that was easy to rile up, huh? Then the panicked rambling as he moved to call the police on his phone, Michirou pausing at the mention of a senpai. From the outside it probably looked like he was second-thinking it from the threats, but he was actually just thinking about the idea of an assassin-villain having a senpai. It was something he'd never considered before, always taken for granted in manga and stuff, but if fighters and heroes-in-training like him had senpais... then it was only obvious bad people could have them too, wasn't it?

Blinking as Chain Brain charged him and he snapped back to focusing on the present, Michirou's eyes went wide at the sword-arms and quickly hopped backward to get some distance. Brow furrowing in focus he was going to keep trying to dodge if they kept attacking. They were fast, and that attack didn't feel like it'd been serious and he wasn't sure if it was from underestimating him or from not really wanting to attack a civilian. Which one it was mattered a lot and he'd have to figure it out if he didn't want to get himself killed here... So he finished pulling his phone out if something didn't interrupt him, moving in a deliberately exaggerated way to tap his index finger on '1' as the first number for calling the cops. "I guess I just thought an assassin would look cooler, and act cooler. Maybe you should call your senpai so they can show you how to assassin properly?"

Arsenal,

[Arsenal]

Just like she had hoped, the stranger dodged her toy sword attack, but she didn't know if she was happy with how effortlessly or fast they reacted. Were they actually kind of tough too? To top it off they didn't look scared at all! ...Was she really not intimidating? What did other villains have that she didn't? ''Wh-What's so funny?!'' She was getting more desperate now, taking a few more swings at him but because she wasn't seriously trying to hurt him she didn't stand a chance landing a single hit.

''No! Nuh uh!!'' She shook her head firmly. ''My senpai would kill you in seconds that won't do, you're not the target and you don't look evil!'' She realized she had said too much again and quickly added. ''But I can kill you in seconds too! Don't think you're so tough just because you're fast and amiable!'' She pointed the end of her toy sword at Michi.

''I'm serious, if you want to live you better put that phone away and get out of here. I'm seriously about to use my ultimate move, it's really scary, no one has ever seen it and lived to tell the tale.'' Because she didn't have one, but that was besides the point. She needed to regain her intimidation factor and scare this idiot away so she could continue pursuing her target... She looked around them and immediately dropped her guard. ''My target! Where did he go?!''

michi machida

[michi machida]

Michirou dodged away with little "Oop" sounds. He didn't know how seriously Chain Brain was trying to hit him or not still, but either being riled up had really messed up their coordination or they were really good at holding themselves back despite being riled up. The latter was actually a lot more concerning. Coming to another pause as Chain Brain pointed a sword at them, he poked his index finger into the '1' button a second time and tilted his head to the side. The senpai sounded really strong, and he didn't doubt there were people out there who could kill him that fast. Or maybe they just had a really lethal Quirk that was hard to deal with?

But the threat of an ultimate move pushed those thoughts aside, Michirou's stance shifting and his expression hardening as he focused on preparing himself... only to blink at the reveal that the victim had escaped, looking around the same way Chain Brain was. "Huh, when did he slip away?" Michirou crossed his arms and brought one hand up to cup his chin between his index finger and thumb as he tried to recall, still holding his phone in his other hand. "It's a good thing they got away, but I really should be more observant than that..." He murmured distractedly, before turning his attention back to Chain Brain. "I guess there's no reason to fight now, since I already won and all."

He gave Chain Brain a good natured smile, but his thumb was ready to dial '0' and finish calling the cops if nothing interrupted. If Chain Brain injured or killed him before they got here was the real concern now...

Arsenal,

[Arsenal]

''You didn't see him run away either?'' She sighed and started pacing small circles around herself in a panic. ''This is bad, this is not good!'' She transformed her arms back to normal at this point, not as concerned with scaring away Michirou anymore because it clearly didn't work.

That was, until she heard what he said next.

''Huh?!'' She turned to face him. Did he just declare himself the winner of a fight that hadn't even started? That was so underhanded! So mean! He hadn't even tried to kill her yet! How could he win a fight if all he did was dodge. ''You didn't win squat! If anything, I'm the winner because you were too scared to fight back.'' The smiles didn't help. This clearly wasn't an evil person!! How could she kill someone who hadn't done anything wrong?

''I didn't want to do this, but you've made me get serious. Here it is, my ultimate move!'' She shifted her stance, striking a dramatic henshin pose before transforming... Only to fall to the ground with a light clatter, having turned into a small one-handed dagger. ''...Damn it!'' She strained, splashing around like a helpless fish out of water. She had used too much quirk energy messing around and now she was paying the price. ''Don't look down on me! Get down here and fight me!''

Wait, that meant her transformation would be undone soon too! She couldn't afford to lose her civilian identity like this, she needed to find a way to get out of here.

michi machida

[michi machida]

Michirou's expression twitched at being called scared. Of course he was cautious, he didn't know how strong Chain Brain was or wasn't! And it wasn't like it was a sparring match, they were trying to kill someone until he'd interrupted. "Hey, hold on a secon-" He cut himself off with a wary hop backwards as Chain Brain announced their ultimate attack for real this time, hands coming up in front of him to get ready to try and block or deflect or do whatever else he might need to do... only for Chain Brain to turn into a small dagger on the ground.

"Eh?" Michirou glanced down and stared for a few moments before cautiously sliding one foot forward and inching closer. If Chain Brain didn't suddenly lunge at him or transform into something more threatening, he'd do it again until he was beside the flopping dagger, giving the transformed Chain Brain a little nudge with the tip of his shoe if he could. If he still didn't get attacked he was going to squat down with a half-wary, half-curious look on his face and his phone still in hand - the police station on the other end. "This isn't the ultimate move, is it?" He asked just to be certain, even though his skeptical tone made it pretty clear he didn't think it was any kind of ultimate move at all. "Well, anyways, the way I see it is if your goal was to kill that guy, and my goal was to stop you from killing that guy, and that guy isn't being killed for now, doesn't that mean I won? And... why would you want to kill that guy anyway?"

It made perfect sense if you asked him. Not all fights, or even most fights, were about who beat up who harder. It was all about what you were trying to accomplish! But if at any point Arsenal did attack him again he was going to do his best to scurry out of harms way once more.

Arsenal,

[Arsenal]

After a while Arsenal was panting, out of breath and eventually stopped flopping around entirely. The absolute shame and embarrassment that set in when he questioned if this really was her ultimate move was enough to make the dagger turn up slightly on its side, as if she was looking away from him. Thankfully it didn't show on the dagger, but her face was tomato red with embarrassment. If Bakuretsu, Yingshe or Mummy saw her like this she would surely lose all her credibility as a villain overnight!

Rather than answer Michirou's question she just remained silent. Maybe he would believe it if she just pretended like she had forgotten how to talk? Maybe he would lose interest and just leave her alone long enough for her to safely transform back into a human? The more he looked at her the more embarrassed and annoying she grew, so she finally said something when he went on about winning again. ''I'm not talking to you!'' She pouted, turning her nose up at the sky. ''And I can't tell you, that's all top secret stuff!'' She was starting to sweat as it was getting increasingly harder to keep it together and stay transformed. She needed to think of something. There was a nearby alleyway she could slip down, she just needed a distraction.

''Hey! Isn't that my target right behind you? He came back and he has a gun!'' She called out in a panic. Hoping that Michirou would look behind him. If he did, she quickly undid her transformation and started running. Hiding her face with her hand as she did.

michi machida

[michi machida]

For currently being a dagger, Chain Brain sure was expressive. The refusal to spill the beans though prompted Michirou to sigh, so much for trying to give the cops some info over his phone. The sudden warning made him tense up, turning his head warily even as he voiced some more skepticism: "Really, a gun here in Tokyo?"

He stared at the empty space behind him, no victim returned with a gun or anyone at all. No attempted sneak attack came either. Should he not have looked? No, that was just as dangerous as looking half the time. And if the victim really had come back with a gun, the weird reversal of trying to convince them not to shoot the would-be assassin would have been too risky even for him to feel comfortable. He wasn't bulletproof and guns could go off really easily if everything he'd seen in stories and shows was to believe. Not bothering to confirm that Chain Brain had made a hasty escape he brought his phone up to his ear and stood up to stretch his legs. "Uh huh. Yeah, they ran away. Whoever they wanted to kill got away too. Out by the bay, yeah. Called themself Chain Brain, couldn't see their face or anything. Machida Michirou. Yeah sure, I'll stick around."

Michirou had to file a report now, and even though nothing major had technically happened... it was still pretty serious and a drag on such a nice day. They had all the info he knew anyways, so maybe he could just slip away quietly and pretend something came up later. A quick intentional 'side-effecting' of their Quirk later, Michimi was strolling away from the bay and casually telling a passing officer that she hadn't in fact seen any boys named Michirou around.

Arsenal,

[Matsu]

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Silly Chain Brain assassinations Trix are for kids!

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