“This ends now, Felix.”

Felix glared at Izuku Midoriya, who was floating in the air. His lips creased resentfully. It was thanks to his power that unlocked the full power of One For All, and now Izuku was going to use it against him.

“Or what? Even if you take me in, you don’t have a place that can hold a monster like me.” Felix folded his arms arrogantly. “You have nothing to threaten me with, heroes. I am the one villain you can never defeat.”

Ochaco stepped forward.

“Remember when you saved me from the falling lorry?” she said. “Is that the behaviour of a villain?”

“You saved me from spiralling into darkness because of my father.” Todoroki stepped forward as well. “You did so even though you didn’t know me. That’s not what a monster would do.”

“It is thanks to you that my brother isn’t dead,” Tenya said. “Nobody was going to know about what you did, and yet you saved him anyway. Isn’t that what heroes do?”

Izuku’s feet touched the ground, and he approached his friend.

“Remember Eri?” he said. “The girl you saved at the Shie Hassakai hideout. She’s doing well now. Do you know what she called you? Her hero.”

Felix’s expression softened.

“Please, my friend. Come back to us.” Izuku’s eyes were brimming with tears now. “You’ll always be a part of Class 1A, no matter where you’re from. Cease this path of self destruction. Let us save you. Let us be your hero aca-”

“Never!” The villain backed away from his classmates as the sky began pouring. “A monster- I don’t want to come back. There is no way back! I’m already too deep in. Everyone around me gets hurt. Everyone but me…”

Power flared from his body.

“It doesn’t have to end this way.” Izuku stood his ground. “You have a choice to stop all of this. You’re hurting, and we can tell. So stop struggling and let us help you!”

Thunder cracked overhead.

“You can’t! Nobody can!” Felix released an anguished scream as psionic energy surged through the rain.

“Froppy, now!” Ochaco yelled out, before pressing her fingertips together. “Release!”

The psychic only had time to open his mouth as an entire building descended onto him, carried by ropes of white tape as well as an outstretched tongue.

“Ribbit, that was a little too easy…” Tsu said, landing beside the girl covering her mouth with a nauseated look on her face.

“Yeah, if you were trying to piss me off.”

The class collectively flinched as pink energy blasted the building into pieces. Felix burst through the falling rubble, heading straight for them.

“Heaven piercing ice wall!”

The psychic crashed head-first into the wall of ice reaching fifty metres into the air. He yelled in frustration as cracks began to spread rapidly around his trapped body.

“Quickly, guys!” Todoroki called out to his classmates. “It’s not going to hold much longer!”

“Damnit, I’m going to short-out!” Kaminari’s body hurtled towards the villain. “Indiscriminate shock: Two point six million volts!”

Felix screamed in pain as the blinding torrent of electricity surged through the entire wall. He squeezed his eyes shut, before releasing his psionic power.

“Get clear, idiot!” Bakugo’s recognisable voice yelled as the short-circuited Kaminari was pulled away with a binding tape. “Round two, psycho! Taste my AP shot!”

Clusters of small explosions rained down on Felix like machine gunfire. He raised a forcefield, struggling to see past the torrent of yellow piercing holes into the ground around him.

“Maximum power: Howitzer Impact!” the human grenade launcher roared, landing a final explosion on him. It was certainly many times more powerful than the one he used during the sports festival, but it barely made a difference to the immensely powerful esper.

“You never learn, do you?” Felix growled, reaching his hand through the smoke. He felt a hand tug at the back of his cape instead.

“Actually, I do.” Bakugo had somehow gotten behind him. “Deku, don’t screw this up! X-Catapult!”

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The world blurred around Felix as explosions propelled his body uncontrollably, before settling into an impossibly quick spinning motion. A final explosion roared in his ears, and he found himself soaring through the air.

“California smash!”

Pain shot through his head as a leg struck his face cleanly, sending him hurtling back to the ground. Felix crashed hard, but got up quickly. He smirked, wiping away blood from a small cut at the corner of his mouth.

“All that for a drop of blood-”

A flurry of motion assaulted him without warning.

What now?

Tenya was the only one who did not announce his move. He was probably moving too fast to speak anyway. Felix strengthened his aura’s durability; Tenya’s speed was almost on par with Gran Torino, but his attacks had more power despite their much lower accuracy.

“Stop it!” Felix seized an opening, catching Tenya’s leg mid-motion and tossed him away carelessly.

“Just as expected. I’m sorry, Pagonis.”

The boy widened his eyes in shock as Momo stepped in front of Tenya. A multitude of firearms were sticking out from her body, as though some crazy scientist had decided to attach every gun in existence onto her. She fired.

Felix raised a hand.

“He’s pinned down!” Momo called out as bullets pelted against the force field. “Iida, we need the Bifrost now! I’m… running out of ammunition…”

“Bifrost? What bifrost?” Izuku asked in genuine surprise.

“No time to explain, Midoriya,” Tenya said, searching his costume frantically. “It’s missing! I swear I had it on me when we were preparing for this!”

“What?” Momo exclaimed. “Who took it- Oh no…”

The rifles clicked a few times before dropping out of her body one by one. She kneeled over, overcome with exhaustion. Her classmates rushed to her aid.

“Is that all you got?” Felix said languidly as he began floating into the air. “All show and no go. This is what true power looks like. My turn.”

He threw his hands forward as a blinding light followed.

And he swung his hand vindictively.

A wave of earth tore from the ground, ripped out by the immense telekinetic force. Class 1A scattered themselves as the rippling ground crashed into them like a tsunami wave. Yells filled the air. Trees uprooted themselves. Buildings around them sank into the ground.

The destruction wrought was nothing shy of an earthquake.

Felix closed his eyes, looking away from the unconscious bodies peppered between chunks of rocks. He did not want to do this. He never did. But it was these people who refused to give him a choice. It was them who made him hurt his own friends.

“Felix, I’m… still standing.”

He turned his attention to the boy staggering to his feet, before pursing his lips. Izuku was never the type to back down, but he should at least know his limits.

Black tendrils hooked onto his body without warning. Izuku disappeared in a flash, as though something had pulled him in its direction. A yelp burst from his mouth as he felt the shadowy ropes drag him along as well.

“What the hell are you doing?” Felix roared, flinging the boy into a nearby building.

Izuku burst back out almost immediately, using the tendrils to manoeuvre around the falling debris. Felix focused his mind, continuing to simply throw more rubble at him. That boy may be his enemy now, but he was still his friend.

Still, Izuku’s willpower was annoyingly strong, and it seemed that nothing short of incapacitation would stop him.

A steel soled boot met Felix’s force field, and he took the chance to blast him away. Izuku’s body flailed like a ragdoll in the wind, before crashing through multiple concrete pillars.

The villain landed in front of his friend, who was still struggling to push his battered body up.

“Stay. Down.” Felix gritted his teeth as a powerful gust of wind began blowing against his foe. “Last chance, Izuku. Don’t make me kill you too.”

“N-no… I won’t give up… on you…”

“What are you trying to prove?!” Felix yelled, intensifying the winds significantly. “You cannot win this. Just give up already!”

“Over my dead body- Argh!” The hero yelped as his body gave in to the howling hurricane, tumbling backwards.

Black tendrils hooked onto the ground, and he regained his footing again. He continued trudging forward, as though trying to climb up an almost completely vertical cliff.

“Stubborn fool,” Felix snarled, his eyes glowing fiercer than ever. “You’d die just to save them?”

“Not them… To save you.”

The memories that flooded him was more than enough to make him release his power. The argument with Jin, the times he spent with his class, the talk with his teacher… All of them had shown him care and concern all along, but he had been too stubborn to see it.

The wind died down as Felix faltered. He fell to his knees, overcome by exhaustion. His head wasn’t spinning, but his limbs felt several times heavier. It was almost as though they no longer wanted to raise themselves at Izuku.

Pink faded from the villain’s eyes while the hero shambled towards him, reaching a hand out. Felix’s hand trembled as it began to reach for the outstretched fingers-

He gasped in shock, feeling something small hit his back.

“What-”

A pained scream burst from his mouth as Felix felt an all too familiar sensation hit him again. The world warped as darkness rushed in, blotting out the sound of Izuku calling out to him. His vision blurred as he stretched out a hand to the hero, but it was no use. Felix closed his eyes, accepting his fate.

The warp gate closed, leaving nothing but a single teardrop splattering onto the ground.

“Felix? Felix!” Izuku yelled, rushing over to where his friend was standing. “What happened? What’s going on?”

“Stand down, kid.” Sir Nighteye’s recognisable dry voice announced his presence. Izuku looked on in confusion as the heavily wounded hero put a finger to his earpiece.

“Nighteye to all heroes, Felix Pagonis has been successfully banished back to his own world. The Paranormal Liberation Front has fallen.”