Strings (BNHA x OC) [Rewrite]

54 || Friendly Fire

"Leave," Puppet snarled as she heard footsteps pause in the doorway of her room.

"Gee, what a warm welcome," Dabi remarked, taking a step into the room.

She turned towards the burnt man and scowled. "I said, leave."

He dodged her order, sliding his hands into his pockets. "The boss doesn't like what you're doing."

"I didn't expect him too," she shot back. "Now why are you here? Just to bug me?"

He shrugged. "Nah, just to tell you to give it up."

"Make me."

Dabi's raised a hand, flames igniting his palm. "Ya'know, that was the plan."

——

Not even two minutes had passed before Dabi came tumbling backwards down the stairs and into the common area. When he landed on his back with a hard thud, he groaned in annoyance and pain.

At the top of the stairs stood Puppet, her expression twisted in anger and her fiery eyes fixed on the flame villain.

None of the other villains in the room moved to help the patchwork villain; they didn't even flinch. All the reaction that was given was a disappointed sigh from Mr. Compress.

Dabi had gotten himself into this mess, and now he was going to pay for it.

Toga hopped up from her place on the couch and skipped over to the table where Twice and Mr. Compress sat.

She swung her arms around Twice's neck in a friendly embrace. "Who do you think's gonna win?"

"Well it's hard to say, Puppet's in a hard position here," Mr. Compress replied.

"She is?" Toga tilted her head. "Why?"

"Dabi has no problem hurting Puppet to get her to listen. Puppet on the other hand can't hurt Dabi too badly, otherwise she looses a powerful ally."

"You know, I don't really think she cares." Twice gestured back to the fight.

Puppet had kicked Dabi into the back wall and swiftly drew her dagger from her boot. She shoved her arm across his chest to hold him in place. She wound back her hand holding her dagger—

"Alright, that's enough." Kurogiri's voice rang out over the room. "Puppet, you've proven your point."

—and thrust it forward, stabbing it into the wall beside Dabi's head. "Fine," she snarled, moving away from the other villain and leaving her blade in the wall.

Dabi pushed himself off the wall, dusting himself off and straitening his clothes.

"Ugh... did you have to shove me so hard against the wall? My back hurts now..." he grumbled.

Puppet turned immediately. "Your back hurts?! Yours?! Try getting blasted through a concrete wall!! That shit hurts!"

"It couldn't have been that bad, you're still throwing punches. Just suck it up."

That made her snap.

Strings shot from Puppet's fingers right at Dabi. They caught him tight around his neck. He went to grab at them but both of his arms were caught by more strings, restricting his movement. Puppet went to pull back hard on the strings, but she didn't get the chance.

Seeing Puppet's sudden outburst, Toga, Twice and Mr. Compress leaped into action. Toga threw a knife and cut through the strings that were around Dabi's neck before jumping up and using another to cut the rest of the strings. Twice went and physically placed himself in between Dabi and Puppet, so that if either of them thought of trying to go at each other, he would be there to intervene.