Izuku the Stolen Ant Chapter 20

Chapter 20: Torture

“What happened?” Was the first thing that Izuku asked, when he met up with Hanah and Sarah.

“Kenta was kidnapped by that evil Wolverine chick,” said Sarah.

“We had left the car for just a moment-” Began Hanah.

“Stop,” said Izuku immediately, “Are you two okay.” the two nodded yes, “Good, one moment then.” Izuku went right to the comms, “Benta please tell me you have something?”

“Somewhat,” said Benta over the earpiece, “I was able to track the van a little bit but I think the Wolverines are on the trail better than I am.”

“The Wolverines?”

“Yeah they ran after the van the moment they took Kenta,” said Hanah.

“Keep track of them and we can use the ants to track them and hopefully…..Kenta.” Izuku went silent.

“Izuku?” asked Sarah with a worried voice.

“Wolverines…they all have good noses…..Timebomb is after me….he used the evil Wolverine girl to track me from when we fought, track me to the same car that Kenta picked me up in….they grabbed Kenta because of me.” Realized Izuku.

“Izuku now is not the time to panic like this.” said Hanah as she grabbed Izuku’s hand, “I’ve been there when Sarah was taken, we can’t sit and do nothing, we have to find Kenta.”

Izuku nodded, “Right.” Izuku summoned some flying ants, “Come on, let’s fly back to the Ant Hill, I’ll grab a lot of Ants and spread them out around the city.”

“They couldn’t have gone far,” said Sarah, “No way they are leaving the pit, we can narrow it down.”

“Good, let’s go.” said Izuku as they shrunk down and began to search for Kenta.

~o~

Kenta slowly began to stir, “oh what the….fucking….what hit me-” Kent then tried to move his hands but felt they were tied behind his back to the chair he was sitting in, “HUH!” Kenta tried to pull but stopped for a second as he noticed he was in a room with several other people, all of them looking at him. “Oh….I am fucked!”

“You have no idea,” said Timebomb as he stepped forward holding Kenta’s wallet in his hand, “Kenta.”

“Uh no, that’s wrong,” said Kenta quickly, “That’s a fake ID. My name’s Luis.”

Timebomb just stared at him with disbelief, “....Luis….That’s the best you can come up with.”

“Hey man, I get it, it sounds crazy, a Japanese guy named Luis, sounds nuts, but my mom was a huge fan of plays and dramas, sooner or later she found Telenovelas. Next thing you know she gives birth to a boy named Luis with a sister named Maria.”

The room went silent as they all just stared at Kenta. “You like talking don’t you.”

“I like juggling, but since my hands are kind of tied right-” Kenta was cut off by a knife flying a little too close to his head. “OH SHIT!”

“Hurry this up,” said Kazuri. “Both Wolverines have our scents and it’s only a matter of time before they track us down.”

“Then it’s a good thing we’re here.” said Overhaul as he stepped forward with Shin Nemoto, “My associate here will get him to talk.”

“Oh damn,” said Kenta as he saw the two approaching, “Those are some sick plague doctor masks.”

“Thank you,” said Shin honestly, “Now I beg your pardon. What is your name again?”

“Kenta.” Kenta blinked as he realized he blurted his name out, “Shit…I wanted to say something fancier.”

“Fancier?” 

“Dude, man there are like a million Kentas right now. Everytime I try to talk to a girl and I tell them my name is Kenta, they say they have a relative named Kenta or they’ve dated a Kenta before, it is ridiculous.” said Kenta but after he ranted he realized something, ‘He’s forcing me to talk. If I don’t do something quick, I’ll spill my guts.’ Kenta then did something he always knew he was going to need to do someday.

“Let’s move on to what we came here for.” said Overhaul.

“Yes sir,” Shin then looked at Kenta, “Tell us who is Ant-Man?” 

Kenta’s face turned red before he opened his mouth, spitting out a lot of blood. “What the hell!” yelled Overhaul as he watched blood flood from Kenta’s mouth, he then noticed something in the blood. “He bit his tongue off.”

“Oh my.” said Shin, slightly shocked by the scene.

“Figured as much,” said Timebomb. “Rather bite his tongue off than talk.”

“This doesn’t surprise you at all.” stated Overhaul.

“He’s native of the Trash Pit.” said Rad Volts, “They are another breed altogether, before Ant-Man speaking about the Trash Pit was strictly forbidden, punishable by death.”

“So they would rather bite their own tongue off than talk,” said Overhaul.

“This one is going to be a tough one to crack.” said Timebomb, “You should probably repair him before he dies of blood loss.”

Overhaul groaned as he picked up the piece of tongue and put it back in Kenta’s mouth. “Don’t try that shit again or I’ll fuse your tongue to your jaw.”

“Oh fuck that’s weird,” said Kenta as he took deep breaths. “That felt really weird.” Kenta then felt around his mouth with his tongue, “Did you fix up my teeth?”

“They were crooked.”

“Oh shit dude, why the hell are you a criminal, you could make a hell of a killing as a dentist or a doc, we definitely need those here in the pit.” said Kenta in a rather relaxed tone.

Overhaul raised an eyebrow and gave Kenta a confused look, “You sure are relaxed for a man about to be tortured to death.”

Kenta looked at Overhaul and then passed him to Timebomb. “This guy is serious,” He then turned to Overhaul, “You're serious. Buddy, I am a native born of the Trash Pit, born and raised, man. The shit stain of Japan. I knew the moment my mommy shat me out in that tub that I was close to death, so this is just a family friend coming by with a whistle saying that this might be it.”

“Interesting metaphor,” said Shin. “But don’t you want to talk and give us information in exchange for your life.”

“Nope,” said Kenta quickly before bursting out laughing, “Of all the ways I can go out, this ain't too bad. Going out in a blaze of glory to protect the only real hero I’ve ever known.”

Rad Volts then stepped forward and grabbed Kenta by the head and shot a massive voltage of lightning through Kenta’s bodies. Kenta screamed for several moments before Rad Volts let go, leaving the young man breathing hard. “Now I want you to think carefully if the pain you are going to be going through is worth protecting your hero.”

Kenta didn’t respond as he kept breathing heavily, “That must have hurt, doesn’t it?” asked Shin.

“It did, it really did,” said Kenta between breaths, “That must have made some bald spots on my head.”

“My radiation will do that very quickly.” said Rad Volts, “Right before it begins to melt your skin.”

Kenta couldn’t hide the fear in his eyes as his imagination went wild, “Shit.”

“This will get messy real quick, unless you talk.” said Timebomb from the back of the room, “Ant-man can’t be worth that much to you?”

Kenta smirked, “You’re wrong. I ain’t worth much to him.”

Kenta was squirming in the police cell, ‘Crap, crap, crap, what do I do, what do I do. This was supposed to be a simple job, take the case from point A in the pit to point B in the city. If I squeal to the police then those who run the pit will kill me. Well looks like this is it for Kenta, a wannabe criminal who just wanted to survive in hell.’

“Kenta!”

Kenta looked up at the cell door and saw a young boy with green hair. ‘Who’s this kid?’

“This is him, officer,” said the kid, “This is the guy who was supposed to pick me up.”

A police officer behind the kid looked at Kenta, “You’re supposed to be the one responsible for this kid?”

Kenta looked at the kid and then back at the officer. “Yes…yes I am.”

“Wait, is that why you were skulking around that school after hours?”

Kenta then remembered that the drop point was right near the school he was caught at, “Yes officer, that was our meeting point. I just didn’t know how to properly explain the situation without it sounding weird.” Kenta said, ‘Oh god, please kid, work with me here.’

“Yeah, I was coming from a friend's house,” said the kid, “My mom asked him to come pick me up and so the school was an easy place that we both knew. You can check his license, it should be in the same building where I live.”

Kenta blinked as he recognized the kid, ‘This kid is from the pit like me! His name is Izu, something right?’ Kenta tried to remember the kids name but couldn’t, ‘Dammit the most I can remember about the kid is that he has a hot mom.’

“Yep, it checks out,” said another officer, the same officer that arrested Kenta, he was currently holding Kenta’s wallet. “Alright let them out.”

Both Kenta and Izuku smiled, but the other officer that took Izuku frowned, “Seriously, but shouldn’t we follow protocol.”

“And stay here all night with the paperwork and worse and angry mother because we didn’t let her toddler get home on time.” Izuku got angry at the toddler's comment but chilled out from Kenta’s hand signals.

The other officer scratched his head, “Yeah I don’t want to deal with another angry mom. Okay, sorry about detaining you two.” said the officer as he opened Kenta’s cell. “Next time be clearer and don’t be afraid of cops.”

~o~

Both Kenta and Izuku gave a sigh of relief as they left the small police station and were a reasonable distance away, “That was way too close for comfort.” said Izuku.

“Yeah, same here.” said Kenta before breathing calmly now, “I owe you one for the save.”

“Don’t mention it, my ass would have been fried too, if the cops kept questioning me.” said Izuku.

“So you were on a job as well.” said Kenta slightly surprised, “Damn, I thought gangs around the pit, tried not to put kids in the line of fire or else feel the wrath of the Church or that Turk guy.”

“Well it’s a little complicated,” Admitted Izuku. “I kind of need the money, I’m just happy I was able to finish the job.”

Kenta’s face fell, “Well good for you, I’m fucked.”

“Oh yeah, what was the job?”

“A simple delivery, but the cops were following me so I panicked and tossed the package over the fence of that school.”

“Can’t you go and get it back?”

“I had a deadline to deliver it by and that time has already passed,” said Kenta, “I’m screwed, the Violet Dragons are going to kill me. I am going to need to make a serious apology, maybe they will only kick my ass a little.”

“The Violet Dragons, you mean that small-time gang from the south side of the pit,” asked Izuku with confusion.

“Yeah, I need money and I saw that they needed some guys for a few jobs,” said Kenta, “I heard that they had connections with another gang in New York. I thought I could work up the ranks enough to head there, escape the pit.”

Izuku looked down at the ground, “Something me and mom learned real quick when we entered the pit, is that even if you leave the pit physically, you’ll never truly escape.” Suddenly Izuku’s phone went off, “Oh hey, yeah sorry I didn’t get back to you sooner but did you get the data….fantastic, so my job is complete…..good-” Izuku then turned to Kenta who was still sulking and thinking of ways to apologize, “Hey can you strike a deal with the Violet Dragons?”

“Huh!?” Kenta whipped his head to Izuku. “What are you?”

“Yeah, yeah I know it ain’t free….two more jobs….I could do that.” said Izuku before hanging up the phone, “Alright, I’ll take care of your dragon problem.”

Kenta just stared at Izuku with his jaw wide open, “....why?” was all Kenta could muster.

Izuku scratched the back of his head, “Well I could help and it looks like you needed it.”

In all of Kenta’s years living he had never met someone willing to stick their neck out for him like that. “Thanks, dude.”

“No problem,” said Izuku, “Now come on, let’s get back to the apartments before my mom starts freaking out.”

Kenta followed Izuku and Kenta was even more surprised when Izuku kept his word, he didn’t need to deal with the dragons at all again, Izuku even lined him up with safer gigs to get money with.

‘Through the years, I’ve watched Izuku, I’ve seen him pull more and more miracles for not just me and everyone else. It’s thanks to him I met Genta and Benta. I on the other hand haven’t done jack shit for him.’ Thought Kenta before glaring at Timebomb, “I’m not the guy in the chair, the guy that can pull him from the fire, but I’ll be damned if I tell you anything.”

Timebomb just glared at him without saying anything. Overhaul on the other hand reached down, “Wrong answer.” Kenta’s left leg then disappeared in a pool of blood.

“FUCK!” yelled Kentain extreme pain, before Overhaul closed the wound so he wouldn’t bleed out.

“Your dedication is admirable,” said Shin, getting slightly annoyed with Kenta dodging around his questions, “But shouldn’t you just tell us what we want to know?”

“Okay, okay,” said Kenta as he took a deep breath, “This feels fucking weird, I can and can’t feel my toes, is this ghost pain?” 

“Kenta, tell us the truth now,” said Shin, getting his attention. “Or things will get a lot worse.”

“I really like big titties,” blurted out Kenta, his words silencing the room. “I am tired of this sick polite gentlemen bullshit but I am a guy and I can admit I like big titties.”

“What does-”

“Because of all the hypocritical bullshit that comes out of every woman’s mouth.” yelled Kenta getting looks from Camo and her team from the fact, “Ah don’t give me that look you know it’s the goddamn truth.”

Julie raised an eyebrow and looked at the others, “What is he talking about?”

“Fuck if I know.” said Lilly.

“I am not a CREEP!” yelled Kenta, “You girls are the CREEPS, literally I compliment a girl's hair, trying to be nice and friendly but no I am a creep, but if a girl does it nothing happens. Girls can be gossiping talking about a guys hair, his beard, his abs and no one bats a fucking eye even if they are talking about it in public. If a group of guys talk about a girls hair or outfit in public we get side eyed glares or called creeps, like what the fuck, they can drool all they want over a guy but if we do it we’re automatically on a watch list. Don’t lie it’s the goddamn truth, I’ve been to boy band concerts, I’ve seen the girls there, they talking like they are fucking stalkers, listing off they’re favorite foods what they are looking for in a girl. The fuck. You all know if a guy was like that with any girl they would have the cops on his ass in a goddamn second. ALSO WOULD IT KILL YOU TO PICK UP THE BILL FOR ONCE!”

The room was silent after Kenta’s rant, everyone had various confused looks on their faces as they processed what Kenta had just got done yelling about. Timebomb on the other hand was getting extremely annoyed, “What the hell, I thought you could get him to talk?”

“I did.” Began Shin.

“He did,” said Kenta speaking up for Shin, “I spoke up for the truth and if I’m going to die here I am going to own it. Titties for life.”

“He does have a point though,” said Flame Elephant, getting everyone's attention. “What, I've been there before, told a girl once her hair was nice and her face kind of cringed up.”

Rad Volts pressed a hand on one of his pecs, “You know that is true, if I complimented those girls like how they said my pecs were awesome to them, they would think I am a giant pervert.”

Camo was now pissed, “Are you fucking serious right now?”

“Yeah!” spoke up Julie, “It’s a huge difference between a guys chest and girls chest.”

“They aren’t wrong though,” admitted Lilly, “The way we women talk about men’s bodies would be considered negatively if men said those things about women.”

“That’s not what I meant at all,” said Camo in a serious voice, “We are running out of time here. We have no idea how much time we have left until-”

“KAAAAAZZUUUUUURRRRRIIIIIIIII!!!!!!!!” A loud roar came from outside.

Kazuri sighed, “Mom's here.”

“Then kill her.” ordered Timebomb. “That goes for the rest of you. Overhaul, Shin, you two make this fucker sing like a fat lady.”

“I’ll give you guys a hand,” said Rad Volt before shooting a massive bolt of lightning at Kenta, frying his right arm and knocking him to the floor.. “That should give you guys something.”

Soon all of the villains with the exception of Timebomb, Overhaul and Shin left. Overhaul walked over to Kenta. Looming over Kenta, seeing the fear in his eyes. “Well it seems that the time to be playing nice is over.” Overhaul reached down and touched Kenta’s arm causing it to pop before reassembling it with his bone on the outside and the nervous system on the outside of arm, causing Kenta to scream in unimaginable pain. “Time to play my way.”

Kenta was shaking but throughout the pain smirked, “I’m…..curious….”

“About?”

“My…quirk….” Kenta then activated his quirk, Blowtorch fingers with his deformed arm, normally the flame from his fingers would be small but focused on his fingers, now with his arm inside out the quirk showed a quick, large but light flame right at Overhaul’s face. Kenta laughed as Overhaul became frazzled.

“Overhaul!” Yelled Shin.

Overhaul quickly collected himself but he was nowhere near calm as he felt his singed hair. “YOU LITTLE BASTARD!” he yelled as he kicked Kenta in the ribs.

“Ballsy move kid.” said Timebomb before stepping on Kenta’s deformed arm, “But that isn’t going to improve your situation.”

Kenta squealed slightly from the pain, he could feel his vision going dark., “Yeah….but….at least…I had….one….cool…mo…ment….before…I…go…”

“Oh we are far from done here,” as Overhaul reached down and perfectly repaired Kenta before kicking him in the face. “You don’t die until I say so.”

“Fuck,” said Kenta as he realized his death was going to be slow.

“I admit,” said Overhaul as he cleaned his hand, “I can’t remember the last time someone pulled a trick like that one on me, hell I’m sure a trick like that would have earned a lot of respect from some people I know, right Shin.”

“Oh yes,” confirmed Shin, “I’m sure Rappa would have said something crass, like he had gigantic size balls, despite not being a fighter.”

“Hercalian.” imputed Timebomb.

“Goliath-” Started Kenta before Overhaul removed half of his arm again.

“Point is, not a lot of people face death like you, especially against me,” said Overhaul. “So have some pride when we send you off to the next world, but before that you are going to tell us who is Ant-Man?”

Kenta did his best to force a smile, “Bring…. it on.”

~o~

“IZUKU!,” yelled Benta over the comms, “I’ve found him, South East side of the Pit, the old abandoned hideout of the Red Ogre gang.”

“On my way,” shouted Izuku as he used his ants to quickly fly towards the buildings. He was also lucky that he was already searching a nearby area. It did take him long for him to arrive at the sight, “Holy shit!” 

Down below Izuku saw as Wolverine was fighting her daughter along with Camo and her squad, while the Daken was single handedly fighting everyone else. Daken dodged all of Rad Volt's attacks before getting in close and slashed him before quickly backflipping over a torrent of Fire from Flame Elephant. Daken landed in front of the large villain and quickly slashed his trunk. “Come now boys, you guys can put up a better fight than this.” said Daken before quickly darting to the right and slammed his claw into the wall, “Or you can at least sneak around better.”

“Shit!” slipped from Walking Shadow as he began to shake under the eyes of Daken, ‘Goddammit, these guys are pros, all of us together were able to take on Ant-Man but these two legends are a whole different beast all together.”

“You stupid child,” yelled Wolverine as she dodged fire from Lilly and a firework blast from Julie, “After everything that has happened why in that silly stupid head of yours did you think this was a good idea.” Camo then came up from behind and stabbed Wolverine in the back with a large knife. “Excuse me,” Wolverine then turned her head around to face Camo, “I’m about to kick my daughter’s ass, do you mind?”

“I do,” said Camo, keeping calm, “Kazuri is one of my girls and if you mess with her then you mess with me.”

Wolverine glared at her, “Fine, then you can share in her ass beating, I’m done playing with you kids.” She then spun around incredibly fast, grabbing Camo’s arm and swinging her into Lilly before removing the knife from her back and throwing it into Julie’s leg. She then raised her arm to intercept her daughter’s claw, “Kazuri, you should know those steel claws aren’t going to work on me,” Wolverine twisted her arm, breaking the claw from the inside with her metal bone. “My entire skeleton is made of far stronger metal.”

Kazuri quickly dropped her broken claws and quickly replaced it with a new set, “Rule number 11 always have spares.”

Laura rolled her eyes, “Goddammit Scott.”

Part of Izuku wanted to watch the rest of the fight but finding Kenta came first, “Have any of the camera ants found anything yet?”

“Yeah, I’m getting the first bit of the feed now-” Benta went silent.

“Benta…Benta, what’s going on in there?” asked Izuku, fearing the worst.

“You need to get in there now, Kenta is down, he’s in the back room on the lower floor, hurry!” 

Izuku immediately dived in.

~o~

Izuku quickly entered the building, still shrunk down and riding a flying ant. ‘Come on Kenta, where are you?’ Wondered Izuku before he found the room, “KENTA!” yelled Izuku as he saw his friend on the ground in the middle of the room, injured and covered in his own blood, clearly a trap but Izuku didn’t care. He landed next to Kenta and returned to full size, “Kenta, buddy, talk to me?”

Kenta opened his eyes, “Ant….trap…”

“Yeah I figured,” said Izuku as he heard footsteps from behind him. “I kick their asses.”

“Before that, what is your name?” asked Shin.

Ant-Man turned to Shin, “My name? Why the fuck do you think for a goddamn mother fucking second I would tell you?”

Shin flinched, not only at Ant-Man’s rage but also by the fact that his quirk wasn’t working, “Oh Shit, plan B!”

Overhaul stepped forward, “Goodby-!” Overhaul’s eyes went wide.

Izuku then suddenly felt something shove him aside, “Kenta?”

Summoning every single ounce of strength he had, Kenta got to his feet and pushed Izuku aside as he rushed at Overhaul. “...together….” he reached out towards Overhaul, with his blow torch fingers activated.

“Stay away!” Overhaul quickly reached for the ground, creating a pillar of rock at Kenta shoving him back, pinning him between the created pillar of rock and the wall. Kenta screamed not only from the pain but also from his quirk burning his chest as his hand was pinned against him. “Suicidal bastard!”

‘Suicidal?’ Wondered Izuku as he turned towards Kenta and saw through his torn bloody shirt was a number on his chest that was counting down, “Kenta.” he said under his breath.

Kenta smiled at Izuku, “Sorry, I couldn’t help more.” he spoke before the timer on his chest hit zero, activating the timebomb on his chest causing it to explode.