Wings of Fire in MHA

A/N Had my first experience with a warden in minecraft and I did not have fun

POV: Cathleen Bate

Despite the immense power Cathleen wielded as the strongest hero of the United States, there were always villains that thought that they were the next big bad and they always tried to take her down or use someone close to her as leverage, this never worked however as her family had been victims of a villain attack a long time ago and she had been with the military ever since keeping the peace in all 50 states. Today was a bit different however, usually the villains she dealt with were loud and arrogant ready to declare to the world that they had the confidence to take down Star and Stripe the strongest hero, but usually they crumbled the second she made it to them punching holes through metal, concrete and any other weapon of contraption they thought would keep them safe and then they were promptly thrown in prison, but that was on a normal day and today was anything but.

"Star, you need to hurry they've killed another two." Said a voice in her head, one of her teammates that was in a control center keeping her updated as she had been dealing with a hostage situation in the state of Idaho and now had to deal with a terrorist attack in California, in Los Angeles to be specific. "New Order: I can move freely through the atmosphere." she said as she leaped forward shooting through the air before turning midair and punching the air blasting her forwards even faster, as she turned back around and recalled a map of the U.S she pressed the earpiece she had for an update "I'm a few miles north of Vegas, what's going on?" she asked in her deep Texas accent as she saw the skyline of Las Vegas creep closer at a steady pace. "We got 50 armed members of unknown origin, about half are using various quirks ranging from transformations to different emitter quirks, we've also got several snipers taking shots at us but local law enforcement is teaming up with a pair of heros to deal with them."

This was what made things 'not normal' normally when large fights required her to intervene they consisted of quirk fanatics1 or gang wars that consisted of a few dozen to even a hundred individuals at its worse, but 50 was relatively small so why was this group so difficult to deal with she wondered. "Any motive so far?" she asked as she noticed a fighter jet take off from Nellis AFB outside of Vegas "No not yet, things were fine then they started attacking people and taking hostages plus there are another two smaller groups that keep harassing them as well, as of right now they are holed up in a 15 story building and we think they are stalling for something." the man said as Star grabbed on to the fighter jet that had intercepted her "Where to ma'am?" the pilot asked "Los Angeles." she said as she braced herself while the pilot nodded and speed up breaking the sound barrier.

"You said hostages, do they have any demands? What about the other two groups what do they want?" She said into her earpiece shielding it against the winds that flew by. "They only want a few million and for the safety of their leader, as for the other two groups they are known traffickers and smugglers so it seems that they had something stolen from them, heros on the scene have been dwindling their numbers, the only worrying part is the first group since for every five minutes they get attacked they kill two adults." he finished grimly, puzzled Star asked "Why only adults and whats the name of this group?" normally groups like this would kill regardless of age and gender since they new it would get them a fight with Star and a 'delusional' shot at killing her and getting fame. "When we were negotiating we managed to add a few million for the lives of the children but they said that they wouldn't hand them over until their leader was gone, as for the name they haven't given one, wait hold on they're talking again." he said as he suddenly went quiet.

After a few minutes Star announced "I'm right outside of L.A I see the building I'm coming in hot." she said as the fighter below her started to decelerate so that she could jump down into the fray below "Ok we see you, their leader is away with the money but they still won't back down so you'll have to go in their and take them out yourself." he said as Star saluted the pilot and jumped down several stories and landed with a BOOM on the room of the building and wasting no time she swiftly knocked out the pair of snipers that were on the roof that got thrown around by her landing.

Swiftly Star blitzed through the top three floors of the building securing hostages and taking down villains before sending the rescued civilians up onto the roof, as she entered the 9th floor she came face to face with an empty office space that had been cleared and was filled with a dozen villains all looking at her menacingly, as they ran towards her or activated their quirks throw various elements and effects at her Star decided to use a super move, when they were only a dozen feet from her she pulled back her fist had yelled "TEXAS SMASH!" she roared as she slammed her fist forwards hitting the closest villain while the resulting shockwave blew through the others, throwing bodies all over the place as the air pressure tossed them about like small toys. After restraining them and piling them all into a corner Star continued her way down but once she made it to the 3rd floor she paused surprised, "Control come in." she called out "What happened Star?" "I found the children and the rest of the villains, bring some body bags." she said as she stepped into what looked like the set of a horror film. 

The stench of blood filled the air as the corpses of the villains were strewn about some missing limbs while most had long slash marks along their chest and other parts of their bodies with most looking like they had been attacked by a wild beast. Stepping further into the room she came face to face with the children who were all huddled frightened in the corner of the room, no blood was anywhere within a few feet of them and they appeared unharmed, except one. Looking down Star looked at the boy who couldn't be more than ten years old stare up at her defiantly as if daring her to try and get past him, he was covered it blood with most of it being on his forearms and what appeared to be claws on the ends of his fingers. Perhaps seeing that she was not there to fight the boy flexed his hands and the claws disappeared 'Retractable' Star noticed as she kneeled before the boy and the rest of the children who where now looking at her "It's going to be ok, I'm a hero and i'm here to take you out of here." she said as she told control "Bring a medic one of the kids is covered with blood, 3rd floor by the way." not waiting for a response Star turned her attention back to the children and the blood covered boy, "What's your name boy, and where are your parents?" she asked as the boy started to sway slightly "Did you get hurt?" she added moving towards him "They killed all the adults, I don't know if I got hurt I just wanted to protect the children, I think one of them had a gun . . ." the boy started to say but collapsed as Star caught his body and saw that he was bleeding from several gunshot wounds, right on time medics, heroes and other personnel burst into the room and paused seeing all the blood before Star rose with the boy in her arms, "I'm taking this one to the hospital he has several gunshot wounds and maybe more, he said they killed all of the adults." She said as she rushed towards the ground floor and flew at a slower pace to account for the boys injuries as she went to the nearest hospital.

"You can stop faking now." she said as the boy cracked open his eyes and stared at her, "How did you know?" he asked as if that strategy had worked before "I'm a soldier and a hero, I have to know when someone is faking it." she said as the boys eyelids started to droop and his eyes become glassy. "I'm not faking it this time." he said as she saw him start to drift into unconsciousness, "Don't die yet I still got some questions for you." she said sternly trying to hide the panic that he might die in her arms just as her sister had so long ago. "I won't die." he said as if almost proud of the fact before he asked with panic in his voice "Please don't leave, they will take me away and I won't ever be free." he said sounding desperate surprising Star as he sounded terrified by the prospect of being alone looking down at him as she landed outside of the hospital startling the staff inside "I won't leave you, don't worry." she said looking into his eyes as several nurses and doctors rushed over with a gurney, the boy finally passed out by managed a small "T-thank you . . ." as Star gently laid him on the gurney and turned to the doctors. "He has several gunshot wounds and has lost a lot of blood, I don't know if there is anything else wrong but he needs help quick, I'll be here to help fetch anything necessary."

The doctor nodded fiercely as he started to direct to nurses around to take the boy away into surgery and to get him cleaned, as Star followed behind them and helped when asked she thought about how the boy was terrified of being taken away 'NEW ORDER: I can sense life around me' she thought as she let out a pulse and filtered through all the life signatures she got back from doing so, sensing several malicious ones she decided that the boy was right and that it was up to her to keep him safe, "Control, I'm at XXX Hospital with one of the wounded children and he said something about being taken away, I did a sweep of the area and there are multiple hostiles, so if you could sent someone to help me keep an eye on him that would be great." "Copy that Star, we got two teams on the way." with that she was satisfied as she stopped outside of the operating room that the boy was in and turning to the nearby nurse she asked for a plate of food before she got ready for the long haul.

SOME TIME LATER

Over the course of the several hour surgery, Star had to deal with several attempts from various groups that she had fought before to entirely new things that she had never seen, from other countries special agent to heroes and villains that had not seen in years and a few that had even broken out of prison and beelined it straight to the boy, but after a while they stopped and sending out another pulse she was surprised to sense that there was no one near and that the hostile figures had left. The backup she requested had also arrived after 30 minutes and they had helped her fight off the most vicious of reporters that had swarmed the hospital once it had leaked that she was here and had brought someone, with several even using their quirks to try and break into the area she was in. After she had personally come out and threatened to have them all arrested however they had mostly cleared out and calmed down other than a few that decided to stick around and see if they could get anything.

"How is he doc?" she asked as she entered the room they had placed the boy in "Well it was nothing short of a miracle, he had several vital organs pierced by bullets and what appeared to be fire based quirks, the most worrying was a bullet that had gotten lodged in his brain but thankfully we were able to get them all out and he should be fine after a few days, a week tops." the doctor said while showing her several charts and scans of the boys brain and body where various wounds were apparent as she saw just how extensive the damage was. "So where is the miracle part, I've seen people walk off more serious stuff than this." she said as she handed the doctor back his things "Well as we operated his body was healing itself, it seems that he has a minor healing quirk maybe a major one as during the surgery the smaller wounds that we got out of the way would quickly scab over and not even leave a scar behind, plus once we started to work on his back a large pair of wings and even a tail popped out, one of the nurses screamed she was so startled." the doctor said with a small chuckle

'wings and a tail?' Star thought incredulously as she looked at the photo that the doctor handed her and there it was a large pair of wings that looks somewhat reptilian along with the tail, 'claws,wings and a tail, what kind of quirk is this?' she thought as she looked at the doctor while she crumpled the photo and shoving it in her pocket "Please try not to spread word about this, I wouldn't want people to come after the kid." she said as the doctor added something to the boys chart and nodded at her before leaving. Turning to the boy she saw that now instead of blood, he was covered almost from head to toe in bandages, from his head to his torso and arms and legs, she knew that even with his supposed healing factor it would take a while for him to recover, so she reached over and paged a nurse and asked for another tray of food and then sat in the chair beside him waiting for him to wake up, she didn't know why but perhaps he reminded her of her lost sister but she would never tell.

ONE DAY LATER

Cathleen had just stepped back into the room after talking on the phone with her superior before noticing that the boy was sitting straight up in his bed and he was looking right at her. "You're finally awake." she said as she walked back over to her chair and sat down in it while the boys eyes tracked her the entire time, "Where am I?" he asked while looking around "Your in XXX hospital, the doc said that it was a miracle you survived, said something about a healing factor, plus something about wings and a tail." that caught the boys attention. "So I've got some questions for you, first what's your name and where are your parents, second murder is a crime here in the U.S and I walked in on you with lots of evidence quite literally red handed, so I want to know why you killed them all, then we'll go from there." she said and watched him as he collected his thought. After a minute or so he turned to her "I don't know my name, or my parents the first thing I remember is waking up with all those children and those men surrounding us, I figured out real quick that they were up to no good as they started to take the adults with us out and shoot them, but I didn't do anything because I was still confused but right before you showed up, one of the men got a really nasty smile on his face and grabbed the girl next to me saying the he would have 'fun' and then before I knew it, I ripped his head off."

It sure was a lot to take in but it made sense "So you wake up with amnesia and in a hostage situation and when one of the children with you is about to be assaulted you kill the offender, after which I'm sure you lashed out once the other men started to attack you." she said as the boy nodded "Yes that seems about right." he said as he tried to get up off the bed when he found he couldn't move his legs "I wouldn't try that, you got some pretty deep lacerations on your legs, doc said other than your head that would take the longest to recover." she warned the boy and he lay back on the bed and just stared at the ceiling.

"So now what?" he asked still looking at the ceiling, "Now I report to my commander that you're not dead and we get you into foster care or the military schools to keeps whoever is trying to take you off your back." she said as the boy turned to her with wide eyes "You actually stayed?" he asked as if surprised "Well yeah, when a hero makes a promise they carry it out no matter what." she said while flashing him a large smile reminiscent of the one her hero All-Might gave her when he rescued her and several hundred other that day. The boy grimaced at the smile but still bowed his head "Thank you." he said "You don't have to thank me, I did what any hero should do." she said while inwardly pleased as not many in this country actually thanked her, most just complained that they weren't saved sooner.

"What's a hero?" the boy asked surprising her then she remembered his apparent amnesia and so she explained and patiently answered all his questions about heroics and even how other countries viewed them and how it had shaped history, "So what's your hero name?" he asked finally "My hero name is Star and Stripe, my costume looks like a giant American flag, I'm the strongest hero in this country." she said with pride as the boys eyes widened. Remembering another piece of info the boy might not have she asked him "What's your quirk?" and from the blank stare and sheepish smile she got in return she knew that he had no clue what she was talking about, and so went another hour long discussion about quirks and just like the first time he had plenty of questions that showed just how developed his brain was, the only difference this time was the fact that they had ordered lots of food, and Cathleen watched with pleasant surprise as the boy not even half her size matched her bite for bite and even tried to take some of her food.

By then it was about 5:00 pm as the boy had woken up around 11 and so she got up to go take a shower and head to her apartment that command had arranged seeing that she would be staying a bit longer in L.A as she got up to leave the boy asked a surprising question "If its not too much to ask, could you train me?" she turned and faced him and he looked down as if expecting to get yelled at "I don't mind but I'll have to get permission from a guardian, but since you don't have one I'll talk to the commander later and see what he says." she said as she flashed him another smile and he gave a small smile back before she turned and walked out and headed to bed.

LATER THAT NIGHT

Commander Knight was tired, after the huge shootout in L.A recently the military had been busy trying to figure out why such people were able to get heavy arms into the country, and Knight had been given the simple yet exhausting task of keeping track of Star and Stripe who had been with one of the victims for almost three days now, seeing that she had to fend off attackers who targeted the boy command allowed her to stay and keep watch over the boy as he recovered, and Knight noticed that when she gave reports of his waking up today she sounded quite happy compared to the past few years actually now that he thought about it over a coffee at his desk, mulling over this he picked up the phone and was pleasantly surprised to see that Star had called and was asking what to do as the boy wanted training from her specifically but he had no parents or any guardian at all and so she wanted help as she usually never dealt with things such as this. Thinking of something he put Star on hold and called one of his superiors and pitched his idea "You know what Knight, it just might work, green light go ahead but remember if this falls flat its on you." his superior warned as he hung up and he opened the line to Star again "Command says that you're going to adopt the boy and give him a name, that should give you time to train him between missions." he told her "Plus think of this as a vacation, you're always running all over the place, maybe with another body waiting at home you'll slow down and let other pick up the slack, lord knows they need to get used to it." he joked as he and Star sorted out the details and he went and poured himself another cut of coffee and started on the paper work that had magically piled up on his desk.

A/N Hey this was chapter two hoped you like it, I got a name lined up for our boy but give me any suggestions I might see a better one, also I've been thinking of adding some SCP stuff later down the line cuz . . . ya know Scarlet King and all but for know its just gonna be WOF stuff, next chapter will introduce the system and a few other things.