Paladin

Let Me Ask Dad First

Let Me Ask Dad First

Internships are hard. Sometimes there's villains and in a spur of the moment action while he was caught between hostages and a villain, Sero made a risky gamble.

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If the Villain wanted him to do something, he had to check with one of his dads first!

— Sero Hanta was normally pretty level headed. His best friend, Kaminari, was a bit of a spaz, and he could tell that Edgeshot and Kamui Woods were both baffled at the sudden jump in energy that was Mt. Lady and Bennosuke ("Just call me Musashi, no one will believe that I'm the actual historical figure!") combined with Kaminari.

And technically Mineta.

Between those three (four? He was pretty sure Mineta was terrified of Musashi after she threatened to cut his dick off if he made any inappropriate actions towards her) of them, Sero wondered how anything would get done while the three class 1-A students and Ibara worked with the Lurkers.

But like usual, Class 1-A luck followed them wherever they went.

So of course, he had gotten involved in a violent hostage situation while on patrol. Mt. Lady and Kamui Woods were preoccupied with villains on one end of the city, and Mineta, Kaminari, and Ibara were with them. That left him, Musashi, and Edgeshot to deal with this one.

Sero gulped as he stood in front of the hostages. There wasn't a way to get out of the building with all of them safely and Edgeshot was busy taking care of a large, rhino-looking man by the front doors. The clang of metal-on-metal above signaled that Musashi was still in the middle of her fight.

And of course a third villain had appeared out of no where, holding a knife and grabbing onto one of the hostages that was too far away for Sero to do anything for. The black-haired boy moved to fire off a strand of tape only to stop as the villain pressed his knife to the throat of the terrified woman.

"Move and I'll slit her throat!" he snarled and Sero groaned internally. Musashi should be about done above him but it was a matter of getting back down with minimal damage to the building. Edgeshot was done, but the villain was wildly looking between Sero and him.

What to do...

He needed to save that hostage, defeat the villain, and make sure she was alright, but if he moved to defeat the villain, she'd get injured.

What would Aizawa-sensei do?

Hell, what would any of his classmates do?

Bakugou would just yell "DIE!" and blast him anyways, probably. Midoriya was much faster than him, so he could take care of the villain no problem...

Astolfo would probably just use his lance and paralyze the guy, and Gray would use Add somehow.

Wait—

That's it! Add!

What the hell would that snark-cube do!?

"Uh, just one sec, buddy," Sero found himself saying, holding his hand up in the universal sign for wait. "Gotta ask my dad if it's allowed or not."

Both the Villain and the Hostage stared at him. Edgeshot turned and stared as well before realizing his chance, folding out of sight and hopefully moving closer to the villain.

Sero pulled his cellphone out, dialing Chiron's number before putting it on speaker. He had stolen it from Astolfo and man was he glad he did.

It rang twice before it was answered by the centaur.

"Yes?"

"Hey, Archer! It's me! Cellophane!"

"Ah! Hello, Cellophane, how can I help you? I'll have to keep it brief, Gran Torino and I are in the middle of something— don't break his spine!"

Shuffling and muffled yelling from the other end only made the villain more confused as Sero's grin widened. "Yeah, yeah, I just need to know something, Archer," he said casually. "See, I'm here with Edgeshot and Bennosuke and this Villain, real big guy, has a knife and everything, oh yeah!" he continued, ignoring the cry of "What!?" from the man on the other end of the line.

"Anyways! Does he have permission to kill his hostages?"

There were a few beats of silence before Chiron responded.

"Cellophane, if this is a prank, you're grounded. But to answer your question, no. The villain does not— where are you?"

"No? Alright! Thanks dad!" he cackled before he hung up, ignoring the centaur's question before he put his phone away.

The knife villain was still gaping, though his grip on the hostage had loosened. "Y-You can't— you can't do that! That's not how it works!" he insisted and Sero just shrugged.

He gave the villain a look of mock sympathy as he did, shaking his head. "Sorry, man, Archer said no."

In a flash of red, blue, and pink, Edgeshot and Musashi slammed into the villain. Edgeshot striking from behind and below while Musashi swung herself off of the balcony above, planting her foot in his face. The unbalanced villain went down with a thud behind Edgeshot, Musashi's foot still planted in his face.

Both the Ninja Hero and the Flower of Tengen turned to him, Musashi grinning. Edgeshot sighed.

"Please tell me you and Archer's relationship isn't that way," he said and Sero only laughed.

"No, no, he and Aizawa-sensei are like, class dads. He takes care of us and all that," he said and the ninja nodded.

"Noted."

Sero would later be the reason why over half of Class 1-A started calling Chiron 'dad' after the Hero Workshops.

Apparently a similar thing happened to Astolfo while he and Best Jeanist (Tsunagu, since he was off duty, Astolfo said) were looking at fabrics.

Astolfo's first response to being told "give me all your money or you'll die" was to finger gun the villain and say, "Bold to assume I want to live!"

Tsunagu had called Chiron asking if Astolfo was alright after that.

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Bennosuke and the Flower of Tengen were two of Musashi's nicknames.

If it wasn't obvious, Musashi is hanging out with Edgeshot

This is the meme chapter. I even finished it at 4:20