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Part 6 of if I make it through tonight, everybody's gonna hear me out!
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2021-04-22
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2021-06-29
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let me float your way- please don't ignore me

Summary:

If Shinsou Hitoshi had a nickel for every time he thought he was about to die and his only protector would be a kid shorter than him cosplaying Mothman, he’d have two nickels. Which isn’t a lot- but it’s weird that it happened twice, right?

This time, though, he was in an alley at around 11:28 at night, so at least it was a slightly more respectable time and place to get murdered.

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In which Shinsou Hitoshi befriends a cryptid, gets his favorite hero's autograph, reaches out, and shows off some PowerPoints he made.

Notes:

title is from lemon demon's soft fuzzy man

Chapter 1

Notes:

tw- implied/referenced child abuse

(See the end of the chapter for more notes.)

Chapter Text

[unknown]: hello

[toothless but he can say fuck]: who the fuck are you

[unkown]: you can call me echo

[count chocula knockoff]: uwu hewwo echwo! :3

[toothless but he can say fuck]: okay when you leave take the uwu bitch with you

[count chocula knockoff]: (sad emoji)

[echo]: ...did you just type out sad emoji???

[count chocula knockoff]:

[ghost-proof babeyy]: hello echo, can i ask how you got into this group chat?

[echo]:

[count chocula knockoff]:

[toothless but he can say fuck]: if you dumbasses have a whole ass conversation via memes with the jackass who HACKED INTO OUR “SECURE” CHAT i will literally kill everyone in here and then myself

[echo]:

[dirty computer stan]:

[count chocula knockoff]:

[toothless but he can say fuck]: MOTHER FUCKERS

[ghost-proof babeyy]: okay as team leader i am officially giving an order to stop with the memes
[ghost-proof babeyy]: ...for now

[toothless but he can say fuck]: you just love torturing me, don’t you

[ghost-proof babeyy]:

[echo]: lmao
[echo]: idk how “secure” this groupchat actually is, considering i was able to hack into it with minimal effort
[echo]: i’ve literally hacked into multiple discord servers before it wasn’t that hard
[echo]: like, i’m actually kind of worried about you guys now this chat really isn’t that “secure”

[ghost-proof babeyy]: in a world where you could potentially hack into any device using a quirk, that’s not that impressive
[ghost-proof babeyy]: also i resent how you guys keep putting secure in quotation marks

[toothless but he can say fuck]: “secure”

[count chocula knockoff]: “secure”

[dirty computer stan]: “secure”

[ghost-proof babeyy]: (softly, but with feeling) why

[echo]: then considering that i don’t have a quirk that allows me to do so, it is that impressive
[echo]: i’ve been meaning to contact you for a while now, yet found it difficult to find any way of contacting you that would have you take me seriously so i decided to just go directly to the source

[dirty computer stan]: oh that’s cool!
[dirty computer stan]: i saved them from a pyromaniac to get into contact

[toothless but he can say fuck]: wait, you ko’d a bitch!? i got knocked upside the head with a fucking stick!! and do a book report!!!

[count chocula knockoff]: i got attacked by pro heroes!

[echo]: what. the fuck.

[ghost-proof babeyy]: why were you so insistent on getting into contact with me, echo? i figure that if you went through all of this trouble, i might as well hear you out

[toothless but he can say fuck]: like THAT doesn’t sound super fucking ominous

[echo]: alright then, i’m going to be direct- i’ve been in this specific orphanage for the past six years or so, and have noticed that it is heavily biased towards kids with heroic/strong quirks. those types of kids are more likely to be placed in better foster homes/actually get adopted, while kids with villainous quirks- or, kids without quirks- are placed in worse/abusive foster homes if they even get fostered at all.
[echo]: there are also reports of the “undesirable” kids having gone missing- both official, and from friends of the missing kids
[echo]: considering your… resume (namely the aldera case), i think that you and your team are best fit for helping me figure out what’s going on and putting a stop to it
[echo]: also i want to join your team- from what i can tell, you definitely need a hacker

[toothless but he can say fuck]: holy shit

[count chocula knockoff]: choho if you say no i’m eating your kneecaps

[dirty computer stan]: ditto

[echo]: please don’t eat anyone’s kneecaps

[count chocula knockoff]: but they’re so crunchy!

[toothless but he can say fuck]: what the genuine FUCK does that mean

[ghost-proof babeyy]: echo, i am absolutely interested in taking this case- i would like more details however, so i will be contacting you in-person about this further in order to avoid more of a digital trail
[ghost-proof babeyy]: your wish to join the team however… well, both tatsu and neko had to prove themselves with their own cases before i let them join, so let’s just see how you do first

[echo]: trust me, you won’t be disappointed

[toothless but he can say fuck]: wait a fucking second- how did kitsune join??? bitch has no braincells!!

[dirty computer]: hey!! it’s not like you got any either!!!

[count chocula knockoff]: oh i just bullied choho into it lol

[toothless but he can say fuck]: THAT WAS AN OPTION
[toothless but he can say fuck]: DO YOU KNOW WHAT I FUCKIGN WENT THROUGH TO GET HERE

[dirty computer stan]: not anger management, that’s for sure

[ghost-proof babeyy]: tatsu, it wasn’t bullying, just more so… getting annoyed into it, i guess
[ghost-proof babeyy]: also bold of you to assume anyone here has braincells

[echo]: wow
[echo]: the level of professionalism here is… unmatched

[count chocula knockoff]:

[dirty computer stan]:

[echo]:

[ghost-proof babeyy]:

[toothless but he can say fuck]: i fucking hate all of you

Notes:

EDIT: who's who chat names:
[ghost-proof babeyy]: izuku/choho
[count chocula knockoff]: himiko/kitsune
[toothless but he can say fuck]: katsuki/tatsu
[dirty computer stan]: ochako/neko
[echo]: hitoshi

fun fact i forgot to mention after utilities and mortgage finished is that we are now 1/5 of the way through the series. yes i did plot 25 fics for this shit and yes i am a fucking masochist no this is not a cry for help

i know i broke format a bit here with the excerpt not being from the first chapter- it just feels more consistent to not use chat logs as previews unless i'm doing a fic where it's entirely chat-based/heavily utilizes chats.

also learning how to embed those images was literal HELL not only that i lost some italics but i'm too mcfucking tired to go back and fix them and holy shit i had a time and a half trying to find those fucking meme i am not accepting criticism on this one folks i'm tired!!

no but seriously tho- thank you so much for reading and your continued support, i'm really excited to be wrapping up team introductions and for this installment!!! next chapter should be up sometime next week!!!