Arc 4: 3...2...1... Draw (Nemo Rulz final part)

I was thrown to a different street. Before I could stand up on two feet, a kick hit me in the face, followed by a punch slamming my head to the ground. I tried to focus and turn my body into a harder material. Diamond was too difficult with me exhausted, so I tried rock instead. As soon as I did, a small explosion of his heated lasers hit me, followed by two air blasts at my chest as I felt something break. Draw was holding back, but at the same time, he wasn't pulling his punches; he was using the perfect amount of power to break through my defense and hurt me but not outright knock me out or kill me even.

I tried standing up, but he hit my ribs in that precise instant again with his knee, almost dropping me to the ground. I wasn't able to focus; it had been so long since I got into a fight—an actual fight with people like him—I was losing my focus. Perhaps I needed to do something more drastic, but—

"WAKE UP, JACK!" He punched me right on the chin, bringing me down. "I know you can do more than this, so please stand up and fight more." It was weird being hyped up by the person beating the shit out of you.

"Yeah—I just need a moment."

"Man, when did things go so bad?"

"For me? A year ago, for all of us, three years ago... But for the class in general, two years, I guess."

"Don't blame it on him—I feel that—" I saw a large amount of acid shoot at Draw from behind, and seemingly for his face. He noticed too; he quickly blasted it away with a large airblast that flew everything away before it touched him. Tsuyu took the chance to flank him from the right and hit him with a kick. That made me extremely worried, as he did not only block but also grabbed her. A point-blank shot from him could bring her down, I was sure, but instead of shooting at her, he threw her away. "Woah, timeout!"

"I thought there weren't any time-outs!" I tried taking the chance to use my quirk, but he did shoot at me, instead sending me flying away at the end of the street as both Mina and Tsuyu kept attacking him, making him dodge and avoid all attacks. He wasn't fighting them; he was actively trying to escape from them for some reason. Wait. I know why, but wouldn't that mean…?

Draw pushed himself away closer to where I was as I raised my hand to stop both Tsuyu and Mina. "W-WAIT! Wait... Draw? Are you not going to fight them?"

"Fight them? Why would a man stronger than another woman hit them?" I went quiet as I was unsure if this was actual misogyny or just him being a 'gentleman.' "I refuse to hit a woman, maybe if they were villains, like, really bad ones, but I am not going to use my quirk and take advantage of my strength."

"Huh?! So you think you can act all cool after attacking us?" Mina freaked out at that.

"Hey, I am here to fight that kid Bakugo or Shoto, but it was refreshing seeing Jack fighting. Sadly, none of the two came here."

"Well, you still have to go to prison, Kero. So we will still fight you, I guess?" Tsuyu had a more serious face as she said that.

"Fine, take me away." He put his wrists together and kneeled; he was actually giving up just to not fight the girls.

"Draw? Are you a villain?"

"HUUUUUH?! You would have to hypnotize me tenfold to turn me into a villain! Who do you think I am, Jack?! I am rank 2 of the academy; why would I throw away my life like that..."

"... What are you doing here?"

"I won't answer that, Jack."

"... If I defeat you, would you answer me?" I tried gambling this time.

"Would you?" He looked back at me with a grin.

"I am able to; trust me on this one."

"Jack—" Tsuyu tried to intervene as I raised my hand with a smile.

"It's okay. He is not here to hurt us or hurt me in an actual manner; he is here to do a job. I just need to figure out the job... Right, Draw?"

He stood up again. "If you defeat me, that is."

"... Mina Tsuyu, please go help my master and the others against Mia." I meant Sky Witch, but I was a bit too distracted to care about code/hero names. "I will be fine; I need to talk with him. I promise that by the end of the day all three of them will be arrested, so please go."

Mina and Tsuyu looked at each other with some worry. "We will stick around, Jack."

"That's fine; just don't get involved in this."

"So let's see if I am clear: you defeat me, then I answer your questions? You have trouble standing up. How are you going to defeat me?"

"I have a special move, so let's do this: your special move versus my special move. The strongest wins, simple as that."

"One flambé coming up." Draw aimed at me

"No, no, not that one, the stronger one" I replied as I cleaned myself and stretched.

"An obliteration? Would rather not; the buildings around and- "

"No, no, the stronger one."

"... Disintegration?"

"You have silly names for your attacks, you know, silly ones. But I mean the one, that attack, the attack!."

"Oh, that one."

"Yeah, that one..." The air around started to shift, focusing on his finger for a moment.

"Only two people could take this attack head-on, Jack: Dragon and Trivia once more. You ain't them."

"Only two? I feel insulted; there are three people as far as I know. Want to know what the best part of facing me is, Draw?! That leaving aside Dragon and Trivia, I am the only one back home that you can hit, like this." I spread my arms and legs open. "I will make it easier for you." A pillar of dirt lifting me up and aiming to the sky. "This way you won't hit any building, just the sky."

"F-fuck, dude, what the fuck?!" The air around everyone started to change more violently, like a hurricane, as his index finger was beaming an extremely bright light. Mina and Tsuyu stared even more worried at that.

"JACK STOP!" Tsuyu interrupted, but as she said that, Draw lifted his hand at both of them and blew his most powerful airblast of the day so they wouldn't interrupt.

"EYES ON ME DRAW! THEY WON'T INTERRUPT, COME ON MAN! "He went back at me, charging his attack. I know it might take a while, but even the whole aura around him was shining bright; a shot from that could kill me.

"Why are you going this far, Jack? You got nothing to lose, but this is too much."

"I got everything I have made here to lose... I think I can make things better again; I just needed one more chance again."

"Man, this is getting too tense for me..."

"Must be the sunglasses; you don't look cool wearing them."

"Says the guy with the dumb hero mask."

"Yeah..." I took off the mask. "Also not dumb; she made it with a lot of love and care."

"Yeah yeah..." He took off his glasses as well; his hand was so extremely bright right now that it was producing a dim light around him, the dirt underneath him shaking slightly.

"This—are you sure you can do this?"

"100% sure, there are three people, I tell you."

"You are making me nervous here, Jack."

"That's good; that means you don't want to hurt me, right? Which makes me know that you are not a villain." I opened wide my eyes, not wanting to blink for a moment. "Come on, let me count down for you, ready?"

"..."

"3..." Draw took a deep breath, exhaled slowly, unclenched his other hand, and relaxed as he aimed at me.

"2..." I positioned my feet better; I couldn't blink. I blink, and I am dead.

"Jack—"

"1..." His hand started to violently shake, then the ground, the buildings, and the small earthquake. The Sky Witch felt a disturbance as she moved away and screamed at everyone to get down.

"DRAW"

Time stopped for a moment, Draw had a smile on his face, our hearts stopped beating, and we only saw each other, for a moment at least. But as he was sure he had hit a shot like this at me, something else went unseen with him.

The beam went up to the skies, clearing the clouds, making everything around it orange for a second. It was a devastating blast that made one of his arms unable to be used for a whole 10 minutes. Draw's quirk energy allows him to draw and charge for different attacks; his most powerful attack is Oblivion. The beam went up not because he failed to shoot me, but because I made him fail.

Draw hit himself with his own quirk; as he had burnt his clothes and upper body to a crisp, he had a natural, almost-semi-immunity to his own quirk as well, but that didn't mean that a blast like that wouldn't hurt him. He was confused for a slight moment and then looked down to his hand. He noticed his index finger, twisted, aiming upwards, like it had been broken.

He realized what happened, but before he could say any words, I moved first, punching him in the face, hoping to knock him down as my arms turned to stone. My right eye, however, turned into glass. I had completely lost sight in that eye thanks to my quirk, at least for now...

"JACK ANDERSON MATSUMOTO!" His energy went back to his body as he hit me with his free hand, shooting me with a much weaker blast away, sending me flying away towards the sky. "YOU CAN USE YOUR QUIRK WITHOUT TOUCHING THINGS, CAN'T YOU?" He shot himself upwards at me. I was too tired; I tried my best.

He lifted his leg up in the air; his boots exploded as he did, like before, using his powerful blasts to make his strike thrice as hard, shooting me down onto a building, making it collapse with me between the rubble. Just as I thought it was over, a large explosion hit me as well.

He went down to the rubble, grabbing a pillar and tearing it into pieces with his quirk as I lay there between the mess. "NOT BAD! What's next?!"

"..." I lied there completely tired, out of it. I looked at him with a serious expression, and without hesitation I just said. "This is it—I can't move if I am honest; everything hurts."

"Wait! Wait! C-can't give up yet! Come on, I feel something else is coming to me, some inspiration. Jack, please... I feel I am improving right now"

"It's okay, it doesn't matter... I win regardless." I made a peace sign, more like a victory sign, but one of my fingers was missing as I looked at it. "Oh—oh, this fucking sucks."

"Wait, actual timeout, you are down on the ground trying to not die. What do you mean this is you winning?"

"Well—your job is to not destroy buildings when you shoot me in the air, and down you went. You broke the building, so you lost. Now you have to answer my questions, right?"

"... You kidding? You want to win with a technicality?"

"Let's be honest, we both know I can't take you, so yes, this is the way I will win... Is it working?"

Draw stared at me and sighed; he looked disappointed. "Yeah, whatever, let's wait for your friends to come here and arrest me. But I won't answer everything; I will give you three questions."

"I can do that, first one. What's going on with you? I have never seen you this way before. What's this fight crazy talk?"

"... I will be honest, Jack. As the rank 2 of Nemo, I always thought I and Trivia would always be battling each other for rank number one, but the more I train and the more I think I grow, the more he gets stronger. I cannot face him properly; I am not on his level anymore. The peak is lonely, but I wanted to be the lonely man there, not the one everyone would still be able to see and say, 'He is not the strongest anymore.'"

"... I think you are pretty strong, if it's worth something."

"But not stronger than him. I thought we would be rivals forever; now he is just leaving me behind. The last spar we had, he stopped midway and said, 'I have stuff to do, so let's call it here. Keep it up; you are doing well.' It felt so humiliating. I wasn't winning, but—IT FILLED ME WITH SUCH SADNESS. He was never like this, but now that he is, it's just like I cannot even stand next to him; he is shining too bright for me."

"Alright... Second, my dad, you are working with him."

"Yes, I will leave it as that."

"Fuck, that's not fair."

"Cry about it, I cannot tell you;it. you know how this deal goes. I won't be in jail for too long either; my name will be cleared."

"I don't doubt it; it reminds me of that time in Guatemala."

"OH YEAH! You were there with me and Hudson! That was a great mission."

"We are still banned from their main city, you know."

"Yeah..."

"Last question then: why the construction zone?" Drew pulled out a cigarette to smoke.

"... Oof, that's a bit related to the previous one, but okay, it will come out shortly, I am sure, but the construction zone of this city has been on your dad's sight; he wants to build a—" "

"A hero agency?"

"Y-yeah... An international one, but he doesn't want to buy the locations around, so he invested a lot in stocks in the competition, another building business different from the one handling this city. Once this city is a mess thanks to the heroes, the heroes' reputation gets stained, this construction business's stocks plummet, his stocks rise, he buys this terrain cheaper, builds cheaper, and gets richer with the other stocks as well... Of course we won't let that happen..."

"I see... You have done more to stop my dad than I have."

"We all have our own battles," I heard, and then someone shouted my name worriedly.

"Jack!" Tsuyu entered as she saw me lying on rubble and Draw sitting there.

"It's fine, I am going to jail. Jack defeated me or something like it, frog missy. Besides, I won't hurt a girl, so take me to jail." He again put his wrists together and stared at Tsuyu, but she ignored him as she came to check on me; even with the dust and rubble around, she looked like an angel.

"Hey Tsu Tsu, everything hurts; can you carry me like a baby?"

"Oh, is that your girlfriend?"

"You told your secrets to villains too? Kero."

"He is a classmate... Draw, please. Next time let me know about this; what my dad does should be something I deal with."

"That's out of my power. Trivia is mad at you, Jack, really mad..."

"He always is; he still blames me for that, you know."

"A lot of people do."

"Do you blame me?"

"... No, I am not petty; I honestly think if you had gone there, you would've died."

"... Thanks, sorry for being vague, Tsuyu. After this I want to talk with all of you if that's okay."

Mina came in as well and interrupted, "Your friend was defeated; the others got her."

"It was to assume it's time to go to jail, right?" He stood up as Mina grabbed him by the arm.

"You won't fight back?"

"Nope, our job here is done. Sorry for the trouble you guys are about to face, by the way." Draw replied as Mina pulled out some manacles and put them around his wrists. "Oof, heavy... See you around, Jack. I must say, you have a nice look on your face; you look happier."

"I am happier."

"Good... Keep it up. I will vouch for you with Trivia."

"Thanks!... I have a lot of things to tell you, Tsuyu... But first, could you bring me a stretcher?"

"Why?"

"Oh, I am, like, trying to reorganize every single one of my organs inside me right now; those hits really messed me the hell up." She picked me up and carried me as I was bleeding from the hit. -OUCH"

"Sorry."

"It's okay... Everything will be okay now." I felt like something was lifted off my shoulders. "Could you do me a favor?"

"Okay?"

"Take care of me wearing a nurse outfit; that would be haaaaaaawt." I grinned as I bled out of my mouth a little.

She exhaled, at least happy that I was fine... sort of fine. "I will just rest my eye a little and focus on my body; I hope you don't mind." I had a lot to explain tomorrow.

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