Before the black out happened, the larger group with Hawks had noticed it was missing two people-- other than Bakugo and Todoroki.

Spinner and Kayla had both been separated from them... at least they hoped that was all and not captured.

Kayla had actually separated on purpose. She had donned her old ninja gear and was slipping around the base, undetected for the time being, looking for something.

Spinner had lost them entirely by accident. Some clones of him had gotten in his way, and the group had moved on, not realizing the real one was left behind until it was too late.

Left alone, Spinner followed Twice's clones of him around, hoping to blend in...

It worked for a while, but then they started going rogue as they got farther from Twice and his control weakened, and then they began attacking at random, and Spinner ran the other way.

Somehow or other, he ended up in the part of the base where people were brought in and processed.

It was a part no one else would have bothered going to, as they didn't expect to need it, and it was shaped more like a DMV or doctor's office than anything else...if those had armed guards and high level security.

Spinner was obviously someone with a quirk...but not that recognizable still to the average person.

"You," one of the Originals, who seemed to just be a low level worker called to him, "you're in the wrong area. De-quirking cases are in that room."

She pointed.

Spinner froze... What should he do?

Play along, maybe? Yeah, if he played along, they wouldn't attack him. No way he could beat these guys, right?

"Uh...I was just looking for the bathroom..." he lied.

"There's one in the office," the ninja said, "You can't go around right now. There're hostiles roaming the main base... I doubt they'll come in here though."

Spinner wondered how stupid she could be...

"I'm kind of surprised you didn't assume I was one," he said.

"I would have, but you were carrying blades like us, so I took it you didn't have much of a strong quirk, and we all know they woudln't risk invading without those." The lady rolled her eyes. "But you aren't allowed weapons in there, by the way. Anyway, I can see why you want that quirk removed. It's gruesome, no?"

Spinner frowned. "Yeah..." he said sullenly, "I got picked on a lot."

Not even a lie.

"I'm sure." The woman waved. "You know you're lucky. A few years ago, we couldn't do full body quirks, but just recently I heard we started doing that, and if you're deemed useful enough, they'll put you on the list... You can fight?"

Spinner nodded.

"I'd say you have good shot." The woman wrote something down on a clipboard. "But get back in the room. Don't make me call an escort... If you're getting cold feet now, I'll assure you, it's really painless."

"Oh...great..." Spinner muttered.

He went to the room she pointed him to.

How was he going to get out of this now?

Maybe he could slip out again...

The waiting room wasn't much like what he thought. He expected a quirk line of people all waiting to fill out forms for quirk removal...like some sick, twisted version of quirk registration.

But it wasn't that calm.

Some people were doing just that, sitting in corners. They looked resigned.

But there were reasons for the guards.

A side door let out into some kind of loading dock that was underground and probably had a tunnel going right from the elevator going to it, from the looks of it.

And armed ninja were dragging in people from that. People who didn't seem like they wanted to be there.

Spinner was shoved into a line by a different guard who told him not to wander off anymore.

Some of the other people in line cast him confused looks, like they wondered how he got out at all.

A lot of animal quirks, visible quirks, people with weird body parts...

Some of the guards were whispering and laughing at them.

"Mostly recluses..." one said, "but a few criminals too. I'm sure they want to make examples out of them."

"Look at that one full body lizard. It's like some old horror movie," said the other.

Spinner felt himself getting red. Jerks... Was it his fault if he was a lizard?

"How any of them can even consider themselves human...?"

"Well, genetically, they are mostly human. Funny how little it takes to change it, huh?" The other guard said.

"Any heroes?" The first asked.

"Oh...not in this line, but I think...oh yeah, look." The second pointed.

Some more ninja with more painful looking weapons were dragging in the last of the prisoners.

Two of them weren't putting up any fight, but one, who seemed to have a fox quirk from the look of her, was struggling walking, and trying to bite them.

"Not a hero, exactly, a sidekick to some mid level pro though." The guard continued their conversations. "Small fry, but quite a catch for us. Caught us taking the others, we just brought her along. I doubt she'll even make the news, though. Bigger problems then a sidekick out there."

"And with a quirk that weak, she'd not make an elite either. I'm guessing they'll just reprogram her." Said the first.

Spinner watched this with some nervousness...the sidekick was making a real scene.

"Get! Off! Me!" She yelled at them. "I'll scratch your eyes out, you hear me?"

"You're just making it worse for yourself, freak." Said the people holding her. "Hey you want to give us a hand, this little rodent is stronger than she looks."

"Probably on those steroids," sneered the two guards who'd been talking about it. 

They came up. "Maybe she needs to be declawed..."

The Fox girl spat at them.

"Or maybe she needs to be stuffed." Muttered the first one. "What a pest...They really are just rabid as animals, aren't they."

"What the he-- is this freak show?" The fox asked, glancing around. "Are you human trafficking these people?"

"You'll find out all about what we're doing shortly." The guard said. "But first I think we should tranquilize her."

The fox stopped struggling suddenly. "No...don't do that." She put her ears down and her head lowered. "I'll cooperate..."

The guards glanced at each other.

"Pathetic." Said one.

A different one smirked, then slammed her in the stomach, making her gasp and almost throw up.

The guard laughed the way bullies always do: cruelly.

Spinner scowled. This was bringing back too many memories...

Why did they think they were so tough? They had the sidekick outnumbered and they had weapons and she didn't. What did it prove to beat her up?

A few of the other people in the facility seemed to have the same thought.

"Hey, don't maim the prisoners to much," one of the women at the desk said. "We need them to be in good condition for the process. It's harder otherwise..."

"It won't matter with her if she's a little beat up. No surgery's gonna fix this." Said one guard nasitly. "Might as well make an example of what happens when you get out of line."

The fox girl suddenly put her foot forward a little and moved so that she threw the two holding her arms over her head, to their surprise.

Then she nimbly ran over their backs and jumped over the heads of the other ninja, kicking them together.

She used her cuffed hands to smack aside another guard that tried to come at her with a knife.

Spinner had to grin. That was pretty cool...

And this also could be the opening he needed!

Suddenly a different guard pull a taser out of their belt and shot it out, catching the fox by her ankle.

She yelped as the shock waves went through her, then fell on her face.

The guards laughed at that too. 

Then they started coming up and kicking her.

The other "patients" in the line cringed away.

Spinner's sword had been confiscated by a guard at the door...but they were just holding it, since there was no where to put it. He could use this distraction, right?

"Hey, you want to get fresh? Get up." One of the guards yanked the fox up, though she was not really moving yet, but she sort of stood. The guard slapped her so that she stumbled forward, another one smacked her.

They'd fromed a circle now, and were just shoving her back and forth like a human hot potato. And jeering.

"Dirty demon animal!"

"We'll teach you to bare your teeth at us!"

"So your quirk is so wonderful now is it? You're so much tougher than us now!"

Spinner was up against the wall...he put his hand to it, attaching.

The fox was kicked to the floor, but somehow she managed to stick out her cuffs and hook them around the foot of one guard, yanking him over.

Some of the prisoners who were not happy to be here couldn't resist cheering at that, by the guard shot them murderous looks.

"All right enough," the desk clerk woman called, two more of them were hiding behind the desk instead, afarid to piss the guards off.

"You stay out of it, b---" one of the guards snapped. "This is our domain. And she needs to be taught a lesson. All of you mark what happens if you try to cross us, now that you're here, we own you."

He stomped on the fox, who coughed.

Every eye was on this now, Spinner started inching up the wall and no one was even looking though his green scales certainly made him stand out.

He saw the desk clerk's eye go towards him.

But she buttoned her lip and said nothing.

Spinner realized she was hoping he was going to interfere here...

"Go on, show her who's boss!" The guards who weren't participating were still jeering and egging the others on. "These devils really don't know when to quit. It's the fire of the evil in their DNA."

Who really bought this crap? Even Spinner, the simp, had to wonder at their stupidity.

But he was able to skitter across the ceiling pretty fast, some of them finally did see him.

"Hey you! Get down! What do you think you're doing"

Spinner snatched his sword out of the grasp of the unprepared guard who had it and kicked him into the wall.

Some of the other guards turned.

Spinner was out of their immediate reach though. The tasers would be his biggest problem...or knives.

He skittered towards the door.

A few knives came flying at him, but they missed. One grazed him, but didn't pierce his scales. 

He could be hurt by blades, but it was a bit harder than ordinary people...never thought much about that being an advantage, but against people who used blades more than guns or quirks, he supposed it was.

Spinner realized suddenly that, if none of them had quirks...did that make him the most powerful then?

The fox girl looked up and seeing someone else actually trying to escape she kind of grinned, before she was kicked over the floor again.

Spinner suddenly stopped...he saw he had a decision to make.

This was ludicrous, he hadn't a prayer of getting out of here anyway, let alone...

"Go!" One of the the people in line yelled before they got smacked by a different ninja.

Spinner made up his mind.

He ran back over the ceiling just out of their reach, and they went for their staffs. Not too may of them had them though.

Spinner used one hand to stick to the roof with, and with the other he swung his sword with and kicked some of their weapons aside.

He actually managed to dodge the tasers, running around with the League had made him much faster than he used to be, and Compress was way sneakier than these guys anyway.

He jumped to the floor then and ducked, then slammed a bunch more with his sword.

He was stronger than them too...a lot stronger...

He was...actually kind of winning this fight...

And now the guards were backing up, assessing him, taking him more seriously.

"Wait a minute," one who must have actually checked his app said. "I think that's one of the hostiles, he's not a patient-- yet! That's...Spinner."

"Spinner...from the LOV?" One squeaked.

"The band of killers?" Said the other.

"Oh frick, oh frick, oh frick!" said a third.

"Oh come on, he's the weakest member." Said definitely one of the meanest of them. He scoffed. "Look at him, his whole quirk is just being a lizard. He's pathetic. It's nothing for us. Stop backing off like pansies, and get in there."

Spinner suddenly remembered that Ren had given them all devices, especially the ones weak in combat...he had an idea.

He jumped back onto the ceiling and then he pulled out a smoke bomb...which looked like a regular bomb.

The guard backed off again.

"Yeah, that's right, if you come closer, I'll blow this place up and take all of you with me!" Spinner figured he could sell this, with his unashamed love for Stain, a terrorist--at least in the eyes of regular people.

It was working too.

They backed off.

The other prisoners began whining and crying too.

The desk clerk glanced up at Spinner again. "Please don't blow us up!" She called. "Just tell us what you want."

"Uh...all of you back off." Spinner wasn't great at this but he tried to think what Shigaraki or Compress would do...or even Shine, she always got people to do what she wanted...

Or Mirko--she would...she would talk smack.

"I'll blast all of you to h--- if you don't drop your weapons." He said.

The guards exchanged looks.

"Is it worth dying for?" One hissed.

"He could be bluffing."

"I don't think he is. Cold blooded reptile. "

They sullenly dropped their weapons. Probably not all of them, but Spinner couldn't actually check for that.

"Now back up to the desk." Spinner said.

They did.

The prisoners did too, minus the fox girl, who didn't seem able to get up at all.

"All of you in line, you can just go." Spinner said. "I don't care about you. You can just run for it, whatever."

The people looked at each other.

Then at least half of them banked for the door. Some stepping on the fox in the process.

Those that remained looked nervous.

"Some of them were here by choice." The desk clerk lady said calmly. "Do you want them to go too?"

Spinner wasn't really one to judge...

Time to just make his exit.

"Well, it won't matter." he said, pulling the pin out of the smoke bomb and tossing it at them all.

Smoke shot out of it that they clearly thought was either a prelude to an explosion, or noxious gas, because they started panicking and running as it filled the room.

Spinner crawled over the ceiling.

A lot of the remaining patients fled the room also.

Spinner had a clear exit...

He heard coughing and gasping...the fox girl was getting trampled by them all.

Let it go, Spinner told himself. You can't afford to slow down...

He paused though...this sort of seemed...kind of unfair...

He cursed himself and dropped down from the ceiling to where she'd been, he couldn't see much in here, but then he tripped on her himself.

"Ow..." she muttered, barely consciously.

Spinner got up and picked her up, she was only about 5 feet 0, and couldn't have been more than 100 lbs, so it wasn't that hard.

He dashed out of the room and up the ceiling, with her in tow.

He made it down several hallways before he even heard any sign of the ninja.

But they'd alert people, no doubt. Why couldn't he have been a chameleon instead of a gecko?

"Hey!" Someone called.

He looked down.

It was the desk clerk nurse, she was waving at him.

"Hey," she said.

Spinner slowed.

"I know you're a quirked freak and I technically shouldn't be rooting for you," the nurse said in low voice. "But I hate bullies...those clods are nothing but powerhigh juvenile delinquents in ninja garb, so I owe you one for breaking that up...you want to find the rest of your group?"

Spinner wasn't sure whether to say yes or not.

She didn't wait for it.

"Here." She tossed him a phone. "I snatched this from one of those losers. The app has updated messages about where your group is in the base. It's not perfect, but it might help. I'm not saying you'll get out alive, but it's a shame to die alone, don't you think? I call us even now. You want to get out of this section, go straight ahead then make a right and then left. First corner you see, it'll take you to the main base. You're on you own then. I have to go clean up your mess." She winked. "But that was awesome, for once. So thanks, Spinner." She ran back the other way, coughing on smoke.

Spinner was shocked, but he followed her directions, and sure enough, he made it out.

A few of the other prisoners even followed him.

"Now what do we do?" They whined.

Spinner hadn't planned this far ahead.

"Uh...well you have to escape." He said.

"How?" They whined further.

"We were kidnapped, dude." Said one younger man.

"Yeah, you're the one who snuck in here on purpose." A woman a little older than that said.

Spinner was helpless. "Well, there's an elevator, but you'd have to find the entrance...and then it's upward... There were codes too, but I don't know them."

"That's not that helpful!" They said.

"I didn't plan to rescue you!" Spinner shot back, "I'm not a hero."

The fox girl raised her head slowly. "Any of you idiots have quirks that work down here?"

"Well...actually our quirks are all physical, so they kind of work even with most quirk blocking tech." Said one.

"Then man the heck up and band together and waste these jackanapes." The fox grumbled. "You're not sheep, are you? Use your head. Try to find the entrance like this guy said...ow..." she winced. "It hurts to lecture you..."

"I think she's right," said one of the brave ones who'd been rooting for Spinner and her earlier. "We have to just give it our best. Or they'll just retake us, and it won't be  with a fight. We can't wait for the police to show up or the heroes. We have to defend ourselves."

"But...we're weak." Said the others.

"But we're at least 20 of us, that's a lot," the brave one urged. "Come on, let's try. I don't want to die tonight...are you coming, Spinner?"

"No I have to find my league," Spinner said. "And...the others...it's complicated."

"Well, good luck with that, and thanks," the brave one waved. "I know you're a villain, but you're a hero to us, at least you did something, unlike the rest of us...so yeah, you're cool."

Some of the others echoed their thanks, then they all took off down the hallway.

The fox laughed lightly then groaned. "You can put me down now..."

Spinner put her down. "Are you gonna be able to follow them?"

The fox girl rubbed one of her many bruises. "Uh...I'm sure I'll catch my second wind..." she winced. "What a bunch of a---h----s...I don't normally root for the LOV, but I hope you crazy people waste their smug a---s."

"Why were you even where they could catch you?" Spinner thought Pros were supposed to be smarter than this.

The fox sighed. "If you must know, I'm a newb, I just graduated last year. We all have something to prove, right? I was thinking I could trail those kidnappers on my own and then call in my supervising Pro...pretty stupid, right? Well I got myself into this, I guess I'll get myself out..." she leaned on the wall. "Took a pretty good beating from them..."

"Yeah...uh, well it did give me an opening, so..." Spinner wasn't really good at this small talk thing.

"That was awesome not gonna lie," the fox said, "They thought you were crazy, did you see the look in their eyes?" She chuckled, then winced again, and wiped blood off her face. "That made it so worth it, even if in the end it's still too late...bunch of b----s, though..."

"Uh...you know, if you want to come with me, there's some Pros here who might be able to help you get out..." Spinner said.

"Pros? I thought you said the LOV." The fox said.

"Uh...well, it's kind of a joint effort...sort of." Spinner said.

"What?" The fox said.

Spinner probably shouldn't have said that.

"I mean, they showed up, we showed up, and we kind of have a common enemy so we're just calling a truce..." Spinner said.

"Uh...okay, weird." the fox said. "But yeah, that sounded good, great idea." She pushed herself up on the wall, then groaned. "Except I'm totally trashed...sorry...I appreciate the save, but it probably was a waste of your time, I can't help much."

"What is your quirk?" Spinner asked. 

"It's not much..." the fox warned. "It's called Trick...basically, I can make people a bit gullible if I get close enough to them. I don't think it's working though...luckily, I'm pretty good at fooling people anyway." She grinned toothily. "By the way, the name's Kitsune Gon, hero name Aesop."

[Kitsune means fox. Real, magical, or demonic, it doesn't matter. Gon just means "little fox." I am following the author's habit of naming people after their quirk.]

Spinner thought...she could be useful, he wasn't going to stand much of a chance alone.

He slid the ring Ren and Momo had made off his hand.

"This will let you use your quirk even in here." He said.

Kitsune looked at him oddly. "And why are you giving it to me?"

"I don't really need it, it was just a precaution," Spinner explained. "But I do need help...I, uh, don't think I can get to the rest of my team alone...so..."

"So you're suggesting a team up?" Kitsune said. "Because you helped me, I help you, that sort of thing."

"It seems fair..." Spinner felt embarrassed.

"I guess it does," Kitsune admitted. She slipped the ring on and it shrank to fit her hand. "This is some impressive support tech. Who designed it?"

"Uh...I can't tell you that."

"Too bad." She smirked crookedly. "So, you'll be my legs, and I use my quirk to try to keep anyone from stopping us. Sound like a plan?"

"Yeah, that was basically my idea..." Spinner said.

"Okay, Spinner...you got a better name than that? Spinner is just...mutant ninja tortoise sounding."

"It's cool!" Spinner got defensive.

"All right, no need to blow your top, I was just asking." Kitsune held up her hands.

Spinner scooped her back up.

"Mind explaining what the heck the LOV is doing in this base of kidnappers? Not human trafficking, I take it." Kitsune asked after some pained groans at being moved like that.

"Uh...well...they took some friends of ours hostage...and we suspected they've brainwashed a different member..." Spinner wasn't sure if anwering was a good or bad idea, but if she thought they were working with the Originals, she wasn't going to cooperate.

"Oh that's heavy," Kitsune said. "So this is just their MO. Who are these freaks anyway?"

Spinner was moving already.

"Well, they want to eradicate quirks. All quirks."

"I've heard of groups like that, but this is a wholea-- base they have here?"

"They have a bunch. They want to destroy the LOV and make examples of us, we've been trying to beat them for months."

'The LOV hasn't been active in a long time...this is why?"

"Yeah..." Sullenly.

"I never thought I'd say this, but...I'm kind of sorry for you then," Kitsune said wryly. "These guys are real pieces of work, aren't they? Better prison than that."

"Are you mocking me?" Spinner asked.

"No...I thought I was being reasonable." Kitsune said. "Believe me, if I wanted to take you in, I could. Trick, remember?"

"So you make people gullible?"

"Eh, it's more like they'll believe whatever act I'm putting on...but only for 5 minutes...working on that. Then they'll start thinking again. Of course if they're naturally stupid it's way easier...It wasn't enough to cut it with the big Pro heroes but it's useful enough in plenty of situations...I might never graduate from sidekick to independent Pro though... I think I can live with that. But listen to me talk about myself, it doesn't matter. Sorry, I'm used to having to explain it to everyone on the job so much I just do it when I talk to someone about my quirk now."

"Uh...it's fine." Spinner really didn't know what else to talk about anyway. "So you can use it on how many people?"

"Up to three if they're close together. Only one otherwise. Usually that's all I need. But other people can snap them out of it if they try hard enough. Super limited."

"Sounds like a weaker form of brainwashing..." Spinner thought of Shinso.

"Kind of." Kitsune sounded a little put out. "So...what's your quirk? Lizard?"

Silence.

"It's...Gecko...it's not that impressive," Spinner mumbled. "I can stick to walls."

"Well, it was pretty impressive back there," Kitsune said. "I mean, they acted like a giant spider was in their bedroom..." she cackled before wincing again in pain. "Ouch...those man devils broke a rib, I'd swear to it..."

At that moment, the blackout happened.

"Ah, s---..." Kitsune summed it up.

"Now what?" Spinner was ready to panic.

"Relax. You still got that phone, right?"

"Yeah," Spinner said. 

"So turn on the flashlight. I'll hold it, you focus on not tripping, problem solved." Kitsune said.

Spinner handed her the phone and she did just that.

It worked surprisingly well.

"So how come your quirk isn't being...a fox?" Spinner said.

"How come your quirk isn't running on water?" Kitsune shot back. "I hate it when people ask that. Like, just because I look like fox, it's automatically my quirk. That's not how it works!"

[Before someone says it is, I present: Tokayami. Also Nezu...sort of...Apparently being an animal does not guarantee you get their abilities...for some reason...at least not all of them. Or would it mean you technically have two quirks? #Real questions.]

"But wasn't it creepy though how they were talking about quirks?" Kitsune changed the subject. She seemed easily distracted. "I've never heard anyone talk like that."

"I have." Spinner grumbled.

"It's freaky." Kitsune said.

"This whole place is full of people like that." Spinner said.

"Hmm..." Kitsune muttered uneasily.

[What do you all think of Kitsune? She's an OC, though there might be an equivalent of her in the show or manga somewhere, probably not with this quirk though. It just seemed like a good idea.

Also it was cool to see Spinner be boss as heck, wasn't it?]