55 Chapter 55 : Arrogance
Finding himself a few floors underground in Tartarus Midoriya sits patiently waiting for someone to "meet" him. Getting bored he decides to hack into the prison to see what he can change in the room. A screen appears in his vision showing his cell. He looked like he was staring into thin air with his hand slightly tensed on the armrest. Poking around with hacking he finds that he had complete control over the entire prison and its servers. Looking through the registry he finds many villains defeated in the past and surprisingly people he had taken quirks from like Overhaul.
After copying the data to UA Midoriya flicks through the cameras to see who will be meeting with him. He stopped on one camera showing someone he recognised. A woman with indigo hair with pink streaks in an orange prison jumpsuit lying on her bed awake and staring at the ceiling. The prisoner is Lady Nagant once a great hero until she was imprisoned for killing the previous president of the HPSC a while back. Looking through the servers they all attest that she had merely gone mad but knowing the HPSC that was definitely a fabrication.
A room next to his own opens letting someone in. That someone was Madam President. She walked to the wall in front of him and seemed to be looking straight at him. The wall drops away revealing her behind a glass wall alone with a headset microphone on her head.
"Invincible glad to have you back."
Fact
Midoriya answered with a smile.
"Glad to be back though the welcome has been a bit restrictive. Why the specialised transport room?"
"You have absorbed the ideo trigger from the bombs we were taking extra precautions for the safety of the public."
Fiction
"Oh how considerate but I've been here an hour and you have done nothing but cuff me to this chair. I do wonder what kind of data you got from the sensors in here."
Her face scrunched up slightly as she looked at Invincible who was unfazed by her presence. Pressing a button on the console in front of her four panels in the room opened to reveal guns sticking out of them. Getting a closer look the guns were loaded with red darts.
"Nice. I assume. Nighteye doesn't know of this."
Fact
"Of course he is aware. What hero would hide such a marvel from the world?"
Fiction
"Oh, how thoughtful of him but I think it's time you speak your mind. What do you desire from me?
"What the commission requires is that you be more open to our guidance."
"And if I do not appreciate such "guidance" what will you do to incentivize me."
A panel opens on the floor and from it, a screen is raised. It turned on to show Inko at home watching the news. The camera panned to the side where a barrel of a gun was shown. Midoriya's smile slowly faded. The camera then cuts to Miruko jumping through the city on her patrol the camera keeping her in frame. Midoriya looked away from the screen and straight at Madam President.
"Will you do as we ask?"
Midoriya continued to stare right into the eyes of Madam President making her slightly uncomfortable but she hid it well.
"No, I don't think I will."
Madam President pressed on her headset.
"Fi-"
But all she heard was a small grunt and the gun falling onto the ground. The screen to her side showing the assassins was pointed at the floor until it was picked up and shown a green construct of Midoriya with a smile on his face. Midoriya in the cell spoke.
"So Prez. Any more cards to play?"
Her eyes widen in realisation. Realisation that the quirk sensors in the room didn't work, she presses the button to fire the turrets in the room. The room is filled with flashes as the guns fire the darts and switch to live ammo. The firing continued for a few seconds until they ran out of ammunition with the sound of brass casings hitting the floor. Madam President stood apprehensively as the smoke in the room settled. A fearful voice came through her headset.
"M-madam President please look to the screen to your right."
Quickly looking over she sees a news station with the headline The Corruption of HPSC. The volume of the TV turned up.
"- was released by the principal of UA indicating that the HPSC has been using underhanded means to control the current status quo not limited to harassment, bribery, extortion, imprisonment, kidnapping, assassination, and murder. The documents leaked reveal that Hawks the current number 3 hero was bought by the commission after his father was arrested by Endeavor. There was also proof that the ex-hero Lady Nagant killed villains and uncooperative heroes on the orders of the commission. The people affected by the corruption are protesting in front of HPSC HQ demandi-"
"Did you really think that all of that would never be revealed?"
Madam President turned to look at Invincible. He was sitting with his legs crossed and his head resting on his fist. His chair was replaced by a metal throne made using the guns from the wall and the darts and bullets shot at him. He was looking at her with a face that said "Are you surprised?". She was shocked that he wasn't at least hurt. Shrew around the floor was pieces of the shattered darts and their contents.
"I'll take that as a yes. Your inflated sense of worth had blinded your empathy even if you spared Nagant the death penalty."
The news anchor grabbed her attention.
"-Just in, a recording of a captured Invincible underground in Tartarus has been brought to our attention. We have yet to review the footage so viewer discretion is advised."
The video showed Invincible's journey from being locked in the room and cuffed to the chair and ended with the camera cutting out when the turrets began firing. The screen changed to a live broadcast of the prison showing Invincible on his iron throne and Madam President angrily staring at him.
"Look alive Prez you're on TV."
She glanced at the screen showing herself as Invincible stood up made the throne disappear receding into the floor and walked toward her. She expected him to stop when he was close to the glass but he just kept walking as his body pushed through the glass and metal like it was tissue paper.
"H-how do you still have your quirk?!"
"Really... all your dirty laundry just got aired out and you're worried about me. I'm touched, honestly. Did you not notice the broken darts on the floor or were you too mesmerised by my presence? Even if they worked what did you think would happen even after I safely absorbed trigger?"
Madam President backed away trying to get away but the door was locked. She tried to use her lanyard around her neck but all she grasped was air. She felt a small breeze from the missing lanyard as she turned around.
"Is this what you were looking for?"
She looked at her lanyard hanging in Invincible's hand.
"Look, I apologise for our actions. We held no ill will to your family. Water under the bridge. We'll leave you and your family alone."
Fiction
"We? You're more delusional than I thought. You are no longer in charge if the public has anything to say about it. The power you hold is gone."
Metal flies from behind Invincible that wraps around the woman's hands tying them behind her back. Placing his hand on the scanner the door opens automatically.
"Let's have a little tour shall we."
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Next time
Chapter 56 : Presidential Pardon
