Back In the present
Izuku cut down another Nomu, stepping over it as he pulled up the women it had been attacking, he recognized her as the old woman who had given her the Nezu charm still hanging off his neck.
"Are you alright?"
She stood up in grace "don't worry about me boy, This isn't my first time." She kicked the nomu for good measure "damn thing, they just finished rebuilding my shop"
He looked over to see a destroyed store front.
A sign labeled 'Rosie's mementos' hangs limply off the doorway, swinging back and forth.
She went to walk back in, but Izuku stopped her "we got to get you to the shelter" . They had been building emergency shelters all throughout Hosu after the last Nomu attack. They weren't all done, but he knew of one close by.
She turned to him "Absolutely not, they don't have enough space for everyone, the space would be better filled by someone with more to live for."
He hated that she was right, they had only barely begun making the shelters, only enough for about 30% of people.
Izuku protested "you can't just give up! Think of all the people you could help, like you helped me"
She sighed, "We all have to deal with loss, kid, sure I try to make it easier on some folk, but I'm tired of seeing it everywhere."
Izuku shook his head "who else would be there to remember those you lost, to live on I'm their memory?"
"I lost everyone I had left In the last attack, those I knew who hadn't already croaked it at my age anyhow."
She stared at him, her eyes full of sadness, of loss. "If I die, there won't be anybody left to grief me, I couldn't possibly take the spot of someone that'd be missed."
She made a brave face, puffing out her chest "I survived the last one with no shelter, these nomu won't know what hit them"
But he wouldn't relent he put on his best puppy eyes
"At Least come with us until we find a group you can hide with. It's safer in groups"
She frowned, scratching her chin. "Allright, I can't say no to that face."
He quietly celebrated as they began to move, Him in the lead, The lady and Shinsou in the center, Shinsou had apparently taken up a staff as his weapon since they had last met, whilst Hatsume had about 40 different gadgets, the biggest one being a double set of pistols, a digital display showing ‘Capture’ on the top.
Izuku scanned the buildings, making sure to periodically check the skies. Those flying nomu could prove deadly if they caught you off guard. His shoulders ached as the memory flashed back into his mind.
They eventually found a group hiding out in a school, saying their goodbyes to the lady as they continued their march. They took down several Nomu on their way, searching for anyone in need of help. So when They heard a little girl scream they rushed forward. Rounding the corner into an alley, a hulking mass stood facing Dabi, who quickly eyed them in surprise, before throwing a flame at the monster as Izuku threw a Knife at the creatures smaller head, he watched as the creature jumped up, the blade flying past Dabi landing on the floor, it landed on the roof, turning to face them.
“It can’t be” Izuku blurted out in disbelief
No
No
No
No
“Ah it seems more have arrived, and I was just starting to have fun too, oh well, Till next time then.”
It bounded away as Izuku fell to his knees in shock. Shinsou got to him first, patting his shoulder.
“He- he’s..” Izuku cried out, tears streaming down his face.
Shinsou pulled the boy up, who hugged him, tears soaking into his sweater as Izuku let out all of his grief, Shinsou awkwardly patted his head, not a word spoken between them. Hatsume rubbing the boys back,
Eri walked up, hugging the sad boy from behind, as Izuku cried out for the entire world to hear.
Shinsou eyed up Dabi, who seemed shocked at the sudden display of emotion. “So, You’re friend of Lurundi?”
Shinsou nodded “You?”
The older man for his part shrugged, “surprised the kid had actual friends his own age.”
The boy in question had enough wit to flip the man off, as he wiped the tears out of his eyes.
“Come on guys, there’s people who need our help” he stared down at the child before him, she stared at him, her expression full of worry.
Izuku put on a brave smile “Do not worry, because I am here!” He raised his fist, doing his best All Might impression.
The kid giggled a bit, and Izuku grinned for real, before quickly slipping back into a serious face. “But we have to get moving ok? There’s no knowing just how smart these things are, and I’d rather they not know where we are.
She nodded, and they moved out.
Shigaraki looked up, seeing the towering figure that was Kurogiri. He stood up “Kurogiri, what is happening?”
Kurogiri looked at him, his misty form contorting. Shigaraki took another step forward. “Kurogiri?” The man in question raised one arm, almost robotically. “K-ill”
He felt himself be wrapped in a strange fabric, pulled away from the man, to the top of the Hospital. Right above where he had been, a portal had opened, Nomu pouring out of it.
Kurogiri wouldn’t have
He remembered the words the man had written, when he had left him.
‘Plans I couldn't stop, nor can I say. Live a life you’d be proud of, a life all your own.
Your former caretaker Kurogiri. ‘
He wouldn’t..
Looking up he saw the glaring face of Eraserhead, who seemed revolted at whom he had just saved. His hair is standing up. His eyes shining a bright red.
“So.. cool”
Shigaraki did something he hadn’t done in a long time, he cried.
Eraserhead took it in stride, keeping the boy tied in his scarf, he began to move away. “Now listen to me well Shigaraki, I want to know what the fuck is going on. Especially with my lost teammates. He carried the boy away, too shocked to even try and resist, although the man in question had tied his pinkies in such a way he wouldn’t have been able to touch the scarf with all 5 fingers, not that it mattered.
Eraserhead hoped that Mic’s plan would work, As soon as they had heard about the boy being held in the hospital, they had crafted a plan to capture the boy. But of course it could never be that easy. And now he was running from a teleporter, with a hostage in tow.
Although something had been bothering him, how come the other villain had been trying to kill Shigaraki, from everything he could find, the boy should’ve been the leader of the LOV, and he had assumed that this whole thing was a distraction to rescue the boy, not kill him. Things weren’t adding up.
He dodged out of the way of a Portal, Jumping to the next rooftop, he scanned his surroundings, finding the offending man, Deactivating his quirk before jumping down. Entering the sewers, running towards their agreed meeting spot. He raised his hand to his earpiece “I’ve caught the target, On the way.”
He heard Mic on the other side “Right on, I’ve finished things over here.”
He smiled at the reply
At least short range radio signals work.
He didn’t know what he’d do without Mic still by his side, the man seemed to be the only positivity left in his life. The man’s hyper activity usually being something he’d groan about, but lately it’s been one of the few things keeping him going.
Things for the former UA staff had gone from bad to worse since they had gone into hiding. Snipe was MIA, assumed dead.
Hound dog had gone MIA
Vlad King was still around, but he seemed mostly out of it.
Recovery girl's health was waning by the day.
And overall morale was low, to say the least, especially after Hound Dog disappeared.
Lunch rush and Power Loader had gone their separate ways. Without Nezu to lead everyone, things had been rough, to say the least. Aizawa had kinda been thrusted into a leadership role at the behest of Mic and Midnight. Although he knew he couldn’t hold a candle to the rat.
He shook off his thoughts, making it to the meetup spot. Vlad king, Mic, Ectoplasm and thirteen were all there. Vlad king was sitting against the wall, while Mic was trying to cheer the man up. Thirteen was pacing back and forth whilst Ectoplasm stood in the middle of the room. Staring at Eraserhead.
“So, How’d it go?" asked Ectoplasm, seemingly distracted.
“There are Nomu all throughout the city, although they seem just as interested in killing him as anyone else”
This made Vlad laugh dryly “Kid couldn’t even keep control of his own monsters.”
Eraserhead continued “that included his former ally, Kurogiri”
Thirteen stepped up “Shigaraki, why are you doing this, how do we stop it?”
Shigaraki for his part looked confused. “Do what? “
“We can’t contact anyone outside of the city, and Nomu seem to be swarming every bit of it, hunting down Civilians and heroes alike.”
Shigaraki paled “You can’t contact anyone?”
Vlad King rose in anger “Yes Villain! No one.”
He’s dead, how could he..
He remembered master’s words to him in the cafe.
“He, he wants to end everything.”
Eraserhead raised his voice, his tone dark. “You mean All For One?”
Shigaraki stared down “yes, my former master.”
Shigaraki explained his whole story from after the USJ to now, deciding to leave out his feeling about killing the #1. He wasn’t looking for sympathy.
"He wants to destroy hero society as a whole. And it's not gonna stop with Hosu, nor with Japan. Once they collect enough Nomu, they'll try to head to Asia, and then spread out from there."
After he finished, he looked at the crowd of heroes. Most have a mix of horror or pity.
But one looked downright pissed, Vlad marched forward getting into his face.
“THAT'S IT! You all seriously can't believe this shit? Why would the man who killed All Might, the Symbol Of Peace. He couldn't possibly be telling the truth. He's a VILLAIN! This is all some kind of trap, a lie to obfuscate his true intentions."
Murmurs erupted throughout the heroes. Shigaraki prepared for the worse. The world would be better without him anyway.
Eraserhead spoke up "It'd be illogical to discredit his story, especially after everything I've seen today. Too much of the boy's story lines up, I say we trust his word." As if to prove a point Eraserhead let his fingers go, shoving a piece of cloth into the boy's hand, wrapping every finger around it. The group watched with bated breath, until his hand was let go, the cloth falling to the floor, undamaged.
Vlad looked around at the group "so maybe part of his story is true, but how do we know this isn't also just a way to trick us."
Eraserhead glared at the man, eyes flaring up "Your paranoia is getting the best of you Vlad, why would he leave himself without his quirk, clearly the boy doesn't know how to fight without it."
“How do we not know he can’t just deactivate his quirk, or was given another one!”
The heroes began arguing at louder volumes, the words losing meaning to Shigaraki, who was currently zoned out, reliving the last 2 days in his head, replaying them. He thought back to Hayate, still out there. The voices of the heroes slowly drowning out his own thoughts.
He cleared his throat, when no one noticed he did it louder.
Still no response.
“Can you all Shut the Fuck Up!” they all looked at him, he sighed “Look, If you’re gonna kill me, get it over with, But please go do your damn jobs after you're done, people out there need your help. And yet you're sitting here arguing about what to do with me.”
Most of the heroes had the sense to look guilty.
Eraserhead took the opportunity “As much as I hate to admit it, he’s right, we will put this on hold for now, Everyone separate into teams of two, we will spread out through the town helping who we can, whilst someone stays behind to watch him.”
Vlad raised his hand “I’ll watch after him”
Everyone gave an uneasy affirmation.
Shigaraki sighed, this was gonna be a long day.
Shoto was not having a good day.
He had been training all day, he had pushed Snipe away, again. He had been on the way back to his room, when an explosion rocked the building, right where Snipe had been heading. He rushed back, running around the corner to see snipe lying on the ground, the one hero was currently getting up, the other guard looking around, spotting him. "Go to your room kid, this place is officially on lockdown. Shoto ignored him, staring down the corridor where the explosion came from, the walls were crumbling, and part of the ceiling had collapsed. He noticed a hulking figure. Blue flames burst down the hallway, Shoto brought a ice wall up, it only holding back the flames long enough for him to send the other two back with blocks of ice. The one guys gun landed behind him
"SHOTO!"
Out of the fires stepped forth a hulking man, whose skin was patchworked, their face and limbs disfigured, whose neck was seemingly attached by a series of strings and stitches, being angled a little bit wrong. They barely looked human, with their purple skin, and their sunken eyes. And yet there stood the walking corpse of the former #1 hero Endeavor.
"SHOTO!" The being yelled out again, seemingly waiting a second, before smiling
"There you are." It shot a burst of flame at Shoto, who responded with another ice barrier, using twice as much ice as previously, the barrier barely holding. He took the time to make an ice path, sliding Snipe down towards the two guards.
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But when he turned around, he found them both already gone. Not bothering to check if they were there, his eyes locked onto the thing in front of him. He barely noticed his chest tightening, his breath quickening. As everything else seemed to fade, his eyes and mind were only able to focus on it. Soaking in every detail.
The thing extended its arm, preparing another attack, Shoto prepared to attack, a spear of ice forming as he lifted his hand, to find it shaking. And he missed the attack as flames surrounded him. Now whilst his body could resist heat pretty well, his father’s attacks always hurt, he could feel his skin tingle as the flames surrounded him, but he couldn’t make himself lift a finger. The flames died down, the creature staring at him. It’s garbled speech filling his ears as if they were the entire world “Weak.”
He felt weak, his body failing to respond as he shrank to the size of a child, a child who didn’t want to train anymore, but his father just readied more flames. ”Father please, I’m tired” “Tired? You think villains will have mercy, let you rest up before continuing the fight?” When the boy began to cry, the man scoffed “Dodge, because I’m not gonna hold back”
But unlike in the past, Shoto didn’t have to take the hit, even if his legs felt tired
Shoto panicked, unleashing more ice than he had ever before, his body seemed stiff, and his eyes heavy. Forcing his eyes open, the room was covered in a light blue tint. The.. thing stuffed in ice, He stood up. His arms and legs moving with the grace of a drunk sailor. He turned looking back to see Snipe alone, in a coughing fit, good that means he’s starting to come to. Shoto walked towards the older man, his body fighting him for every step, he looked down, seeing frost covering his limbs. He could feel the fire inside him begging to be used, but he held strong, refusing to give in.
Crack
He turned, seeing the ice begin to crack, the figure that used to be his father glowing a bright blue.
Raising his arm he went to reinforce the ice. But it refused to come out, the most he could get was a cold breeze coming from his hand. He had overdone it, and now he was barely able to move, with a half conscious man behind him.
A creeping though entered his mind ‘You can’t win without my fire boy’
Then suddenly the ice shattered like shrapnel “SHOTO!” Shoto raised his arms to guard his face, getting cut up in the process.
He could feel the room heat up, as his arms slowly defrosted. But that wouldn’t happen fast enough, he saw its eyes boring into him.
BANG
A loud bang erupted from behind him, the thing toppling over. A bullet hole through its skull.
He turned to see snipe beginning to get up, a rifle in his arms.
He turned to look at Shoto “Move, I don’t know if that’ll keep it down.” Shoto looked back at the fallen form of his father’s corpse, and began to move after Snipe, who was already heading down the hallway. He turned around to see Shoto following, and he could swear he heard the teacher sigh in relief.
“Whatever is happening, we can’t stay in this building, I know a place that should be safe.”
Shoto for his part stayed silent, the previous encounter still playing out in his head.
If Snipe hadn’t woken up when he did, he would’ve gotten them both killed.
He felt the traitorous warmth of the fire beckon for him to warm himself up, he obliged, clearing the frost off of his arms and legs. Why, why did it have to be father.
He saw his father’s neck and chest pierced by his own hands. His body slumped on the ice.
What kind of hero kills their own father
It wasn’t .. I wanted to protect..
He could’ve restrained him, or gotten Izuku out of the way.
I Didn't mean to..
Right, and hating the man definitely didn't help you ‘Accidentally’ kill him.
He slammed hard into the man in front of him, shaken out of his daze in an instant.
The man had a gun aimed directly ahead, Shoto looked ahead to see a Nomu standing over a pile of corpses, a hulking mass of a Nomu. Looking similar to the one from the USJ, albeit with less muscle mass, and with a woodpecker face. He hoped it wasn’t as strong as the one All Might..
…
‘Do not fear, for I am here’
‘Anyone can be a hero, as long as they got the spirit’
He could still see the skeletal form of his hero. Lying in a pool of his own blood.
As he came back to, he noticed he wasn’t looking at the beast anymore. Snipe had pulled him behind the wall.
“Kid, I need your head in the game, Do you think you could freeze this one in place?’
Shoto felt his still defrosting arms, tingling with every movement
“Yes”
Snipe for his part looked worried, although the man couldn’t talk, a large bump forming on his head, alongside the several cuts that Shoto could see, neither of them should be fighting.
“”Just leave it’s brain open, Once it’s in one place It’ll be a turkey shoot.
Right, just freeze it into place/
He readies the ice, going well past when his hands and arms go numb, he wasn’t going to fail again. He pushed it more, as he felt his body shake.
He couldn’t.
Turning around the corner a glacier of ice surrounds the creature, layer after layer surrounding the hulking mass, who shrieked in surprise, Shoto fell, his limbs nearly frozen over, the weight of the ice overpowering his tired form. Snipe rounded the corner, Firing into the thing’s skull until it wasn’t making any noise, he then rushed to the kid. Wrapping his coat around him “Look kid, I need to ask one more favor.”
Todoroki nodded, shivering
“Use your fire, just this once.”
Todoroki wanted to protest, but before he could form the sentence, the world went dark.
Mighty High
Bakugou was getting tired of fighting these things. They had been getting people to the on site bunker, but the building was swarming with the damn things. His wrists were protesting every explosion, his shoulder blades sharp pains seeming to finally match their name. They had just got frog face and the emo to the bunker.
A teacher looked around “that makes 20”
That was less than half, with 16 staff and 35 students this was far from everyone.
But one of the 4 teachers present spoke up straightening themselves. “We should call it here, I doubt anyone else survived this long with those things around.” they spoke dismissively
But Bakugou wasn’t having it “YOU WANT TO ABANDON THEM< FUCKING COWARD< YOU”RE NOT EVEN RISKING YOURSELF AT ALL,AND YOU CALL YOURSELF A HERO TEACHER. “
The man sighed ‘My quirk isn’t useful for combat, I’d just slow any rescue efforts down. Same goes for most of the staff, whom I fear have already perished.”
Bakugou grabbed the man’s collar “JUST CAUSE YOUR QUIRK DOESN’T MATCH UP, YOU’RE GONNA LET YOUR STUDENTS DIE, SOME FUCKIN TEACHER YOU ARE”
The man scoffed, “Those without suitable quirks are a liability, best to wait for those more capable, then to make things worse.”
He thought back to the quirkless boy who had saved him when the heroes had given up, to the same boy that had bruised his ego when he lost on stage to the boy, the same boy who’s evaded the HPSC for months.
He thought back to a homeless homeroom teacher, running himself into the ground in a fight his quirk wasn’t suited for, using every ounce of his strength to protect his students.
He scoffed, “Some hero teacher you are.” with that he stormed off saying “ANYONE WHO WANTS TO HELP, COME WITH ME. THE REST OF YOU, STAY WITH THIS FUCKIN COWARD FOR ALL I CARE."
Emo bird walked silently after him and Kirishima, who for his part had looked apologetically at them as he left.
Bakugou looked back, noticing the bird man walking with them, his shadow watching their back, the man in question gave him a curious look, Bakugou scoffed, looking back towards the front.
“We still haven’t checked the gym, someone might be held up there.”
With that they began moving, making sure to watch every corner. They heard a loud bang come from the cafeteria, they picked up their pace, rushing into the cafeteria to find the place looking like a war zone, several Nomu littered the ground, several seemingly cut in two, or crushed under pillars. There were a few Nomu left. One of them , a nomu with a snake-like tail, and the head of a tiger, the beast jumped towards them, only to be sent flying as a table slammed into it, sending the thing out of a broken window. Bakugou looked over to where it came from. Gravity girl was Standing on top of the counter, blood dripping from her mouth. “Watch out!” she croaked, Bakugou took her word as gospel, shooting a blast to the other direction, facing a hulking mass of a Nomu. its dark yellow skin and lobster-like face nearly blotting out the sun from the window, its brain visible. It took the hit sliding about an inch on the ground, destroying the tile under it as the thing barely moved. It went to punch Bakugou, The shadow bird blocking the hit, barely stopping the punch as Kirishima launched a punch into the things head.
It didn’t even budge.
Bakugou jumped into action, blasting Kirishima out of the way of a return punch from the creature. A table crashed into the beast, who absorbed the hit, splitting the table in half.
Bakugou growled
The thing takes hits like the Nomu from the USJ. But it’s much slower, we might be able to use that to our advantage.
He barked out orders “Bird Boy, Play defense, Kirishima, Sharpen your skin to the best of your abilities. They got to it, the thing trying to circle around the Shadow. “ GRAVITY GIRL, YOU GOT ENOUGH IN YOU TO LAUNCH SOMEONE?”
He waited for a response whilst dodging the things attempts at a grab
“I.. Got one more in me”
He grinned, letting a little bit of a laugh escape. “Then I hope you’re ready to fly Kirishima.”
The boy in question Smiled his fingers looking like daggers “HELL YEA!”
Then go to gravity girl.”
The boy ran over, Bakugou launched himself up to the scaffolding above.
“Launch him now!, Aim for the brain, BIRDBOY RUN!”
Gravity girl exhaled, grabbing Kirishima, spinning the boy around twice before releasing him, sending him soaring at the Nomu, the shadowy bird phased out of the way as he struck true, piercing the glass dome, as he hung off it’s brain, jamming his foot into it’s eye. The thing Shrieking in pain, Bakugou jumped down on top of it, easily able to stand on the things shoulders
“BRACE FOR IMPACT!”
Bird boy ducked behind a table, Uraraka fell behind the counter, and Kirishima
That was the only warning he gave before launching a huge explosion into the opening Kirishima had made, blowing the things brain into pieces, and shattering the things dome, a Kirishima getting in front of Bakugou as glass and viscera shot out like shrapnel. The thing toppled over lifelessly, Bakugou kicked the thing, the things body not even budging. “It’s safe”
He finally took a real look at the room, noticing 12 nomu corpses, of several different sizes. He whistled out “Damn Gravity Girl, didn’t know you had it in you.” although he had to wonder why she made her stand here.
The girl in question didn’t answer, Bakugou rushed over to where he saw her hide, noticing her currently throwing up, doubled over. Kirishima walked past him, handing her a bottle of water and patting her on the back. She pointed at the kitchen. Bakugou obliged, heading in to find a bandaged up Creation girl, blood soaked bandages adorning her unconscious form. He checked her pulse, feeling a faint heartbeat. He picked her up, ignoring his arms cries of pain.
He turned to see that Uraraka had finished “Can you walk?” he asked. She looked at the girl currently in his arms, a look of worry written on her face, but she nodded.
He nodded back “Then let’s head back.”
Secured line ??? - UN Council
The UN had called for an emergency council, concerning the current situation in Japan, most member states had now shown themselves, heroes and leaders alike.
They turned to the screen that now showed a simple ‘on’.
“You all may be wondering why I had called for this meeting, why Japan has gone silent.”
Murmurs erupted throughout the council.
“I have been commanded to inform you all that Japan is now considered property of the League of Villains, and any and all attempts to trespass onto or over the former nation state will be met with immediate violence.”
One of the heroes yelled out in rage “You want us to believe Japan has fallen to villains that easily, you take us for fools?”
But the man on the other end simply continued “Now to show you all that these aren’t Idle threats, we will show you exactly how we managed this feat.
The screen showed video of Nomus' overrunning power plants, Hero agencies, Military Bases, and finally the Government building and the embassies around Tokyo. Scenes of carnage and terror, Nomu tearing through the area. Several people fainted at the sight of it all.
“My master wishes for the end of Japan and its people, any attempt to interfere will be met with swift retaliation, and your swift deaths. As if to prove a point, a portal opened, the man stepping through, mist covering his facial features. Every guard and hero immediately surrounded the man.
He bowed “As you can see, No where you go will be safe, please take my warning not as a threat, but a promise.”
A more trigger happy guard shot, a portal opening between the man and the guard, the guard falling to the ground, dead. With that, the man bowed again, before walking into a portal, leaving the room of world leaders and heroes stunned into silence.
One leader, the leader of the United States exclaimed “Alright then, with that let’s move onto a new discussion. I recommend a quarantine of Japan, at least until we know more about this League of Villains, and its army of.. Monsters, any objections?”
For once the council all agreed on something, and that was the destruction of this league of Villains.