The sound of a prison officer raking his baton along the bars of my cell woke me from the nightmare I was having, something I was thankful for.

"Rise and shine, looks like your times up kid, time to go home."

I looked up to see the B-blocks warden. A large man with a gut to match.

"I'm up, I'm up, and I haven't been a kid for a long time old man."

I mutter groggily to myself while rubbing the burn marks covering my right arm, which still hurt even now ten years later.

"Quit muttering to yourself, hurry up and get out we need this cell, the hero Deku just took down a big shot villain and we need this cell for that guy!"

I flinch at the mention of the name "Deku" and begin gathering my things.

I'm led out of B-block patted down in the security room and let out into the parking lot. The door slams behind me and I'm free, for the first time in 10 years I'm not restricted by walls. But I have no idea where to go from here, I guess I could go back to Hosu City.

I'll just live a quite life and keep my head down. I glance around and spot a bus stop nearby, looking at the timetable a bus to the city should stop here in a few minutes.

I feel around in the black jeans I was given from the prison's lost and found for the money that was confiscated from me when I was first incarcerated here. I don't have much but I should be able to afford the fare.

I sat at the bus stop for over 40 minutes without any bus in sight and was beginning to give up on the bus when someone sat next to me.

"I heard you were getting out today."

Surprised I turned to look at the person who had just spoken and jumped back off the bench after noticing the red and white hair.

"Been a long time hasn't it Axel, about ten years at my count." The man says casually.

"Yeah that sounds about right, long time no see Shoto." I respond cautiously keeping my distance getting ready to use my quirk if needed to defend myself.

He puts both of his arms up into the air and smiles. "I'm not here to fight and if this was ten years earlier I probably would of lost. But they had you filled up on quirk suppressing drugs for the last ten years and I've had a lot of practice."

I lower my hands to my side realizing he's right, my quirk would have made me a lot more difficult to stop if I decided to break out one day. So they gave me a choice take drugs to suppress my quirk or spend my ten year sentence in solitary confinement, the choice was easy. After my failed attempt at taking over U.A I had no drive or ambition left and served my time quietly, keeping to myself.

"Yeah you're right I don't think I can even really use it properly yet, might be a bit unstable at the moment." Hearing it out loud it's annoying but it is the truth, I'd have to actively train to get back to my old level.

"I just came here today to get an idea of what your intentions are now that you're free." Shoto asked in a plain almost uninterested way.

I shrugged, honestly I had no idea what I was gonna do my only options were going to a shelter for the homeless, I had nowhere to go. "I don't know honestly, I'll have to visit the memorial and pay my respects."

"What? You think you have any right to even approach the memorial, after all you did?" His outburst made me flinch in my state if he wanted he could easily freeze or even incinerate me, but even still I responded angrily.

"Do you really think you guys were the only ones who lost friends that day?! I lost everything Shoto, the only woman I ever cared about died that day during my fight with Deku!.." I stopped myself turning away from him catching myself before saying anymore.

"If you wanna stop me from visiting the memorial and the graves then you might as well kill me now." I say just loud enough for him to hear.

"Okay Axel I'm not here to fight, Ill be telling Katsuki, Izuku and Iida that you're out of prison, so be careful around Katsuki he's always been talking about getting back at you for what you did to his arm." After giving me that warning he turns and walks into the prison as the bus arrives.

As I walk up the steps of the bus I remember hearing that Shoto had a brother in Tartarus, he must have timed visiting his brother with me being released.

"Hey kid! You getting on or not?" The bus driver, a almost squid like being asks from the driver seat.

"Awh yeah sorry, how much is it to Hosu?" I ask reaching into my pocket for the money I had on me.

"It's free for ex-prisoners so just hop on so we can get moving." Surprised, I nod and head for one of the seats in the middle.

We cross the long bridge connecting Tartarus to the mainland and I decide to catch some sleep on the long drive so I close my eyes and nod off.

I open my eyes and I'm standing in the principles office of U.A the principle is lying in a puddle of blood with his back against the right wall and Aizawa is hanging out the window to the left, blood is splattered all over the wall next to him.

"Axel open the door we've beaten all your goons and we'll bust down this door in no time so just give up!" A familiar voice, Katsuki's voice, I want to move to the door and let them in and beg them to forgive me but I can't move.

The door explodes inwards scattering shrapnel around the room, a piece slices across my face under my left eye leaving a scar that's there to this day.

Katsuki and Todoroki enter the room spotting the principle and Aizawa on the floor, both of them raise their arms to use their quirks. I try to raise my hand to defend myself with my quirk, but when I do nothing happens and I'm consumed by flames and an explosion.

I jump up waking from my sleep to see the neon signs flash by through the windows.

"Last stop coming up gather your things and disembark." Came the gruff voice of the driver over the intercom.

I made my way to the front of the bus waiting to reach the stop when the driver spoke up. "If you're looking for work or somewhere to stay I suggest signing up for the Volunteers they don't pay you but they'll give you a place to stay and give you food."

"The Volunteers?" I ask, this is the first I've heard of them.

"Yeah that hero Deku set it up so people who couldn't make it into U.A could have a chance to use their quirks for the good of the community." He responded.

"Yeah that sounds like Izuku alright, I might just look into it so. Never thought I'd end up working for the guy who put me behind bars, but it does sound like a good deal." The driver seemed caught off guard by this.

"Well this is my stop, hey what direction is the U.A memorial field?" I ask the driver as I step off the final step.

"It's about a mile straight ahead." He responds.

I thank him and begin heading in that direction when multiple explosions start happening in this direction followed by a black shape running through the debris and smoke, I recognize the black shape as a renegade Nomu.

I run back to the bus door to warn the driver. "Hey a Nomu is heading thi..." I stop half way through after realizing one of the explosions must have launched a stop sign through the air, as one was currently jammed through the front window and pierced through his chest.

I turn away to see the Nomu had now almost reached the bus. I look around expecting a hero to pop out at any moment, but the closer the Nomu gets the less likely that seems to occur.

I raise my hand and try to activate my quirk but it doesn't, I can't activate it, I needed time to practice, this is too soon I can't us it yet.

The Nomu spots me and begins running towards me.

It seems to be a gorilla type one with a large exposed spine going down it's back.

It's run has at this point turned into a sprint.

Panic begins to set in when a scream erupts from across the street. The Nomu stops almost immediately and locks on to where the scream came from.

I round the front of the bus to see a little girl next to a unconscious woman. I sprint over and manage to get in between the Nomu and girl. I raise my hand again, I have to use my quirk now I can't afford to be this weak any longer.

The girl begins quietly crying as I stand there, she keeps mumbling through her crying that her mom is dead and its her fault and her mum would be fine if she didn't need to be shielded.

I turn just as the Nomu lunges. I turn grab the girl, wrap my arm around the woman's waist and push off the ground with all my strength.

I just manage to barely avoid the attack but the force from the impact hit me while mid air knocking the two out of my arms sending us another meter or two.

I raise my arm once more, now I was beginning to get angry.

I can feel the anger build and notice my arm turning a shade of red. That's the first sign of my power activating something that requires immense concentration and my arm to be pointed at my enemy so it has a direction.

I can feel my muscles begin to twist and stretch under my skin as my quirk begins to manifest if only a weaker version of it.

I can hear my bones snap and shatter as my body begins to give way under the pressure of using my quirk, I need to find something to use as a weapon before my quirk tears my body apart.

"Mister whats wrong with you?" The little girl asks confused as my body jerks and spasms. I just shakily grin reach out and grab onto a streetlight.

My grip tightens and I manage to tear a shard out of it. The vision in my left eye turns red as a blood vessel pops in my eye.

I stood up as straight as possible, immense pain raging throughout my entire body. I had now gained about two feet towering above the crouched Nomu, the red pigment had now spread over the surface of my skin and my normally silver long hair had turned a deep orange, my nails had grown to an inch long on both hands, my vision was fading quickly, my muscles bulged and flexed under my skin, my bones had shattered and reformed adding several inches and my teeth were now replaced with long fangs.

The quirk which I hated so much had now activated, my quirk Warp Spasm was your generic strength booster which completely altered my physical form and gave me an insatiable lust for battle, at this point I could only use it for another few seconds before losing consciousness and risking going into a unconscious berserk rage, so I had to act fast.

Gripping the shard of steel I darted towards the gorilla Nomu, cracking the floor with every step. The Nomu beat its chest and leaped through the air towards me, I was out of practice but was confident I could beat the beast.

The beast collided with me and tried to grapple me but I managed to avoid a solid grip, grabbing it's wrist with my free hand spinning it in half a circle, letting go so that it flew through the air colliding with the passenger section of the prison bus.

The Nomu pulls itself out of the bus and sprints at me now wielding its own shard of metal, in a move of rare tactics seen in Nomu it launches the shard through the air managing to slice through my upper arm leaving a deep gash.

My blood sprays out of the wound momentarily before slowing to a trickle, my unreliable healing factor kicking in. The blood lands on a bench next to me melting through it almost instantly reminding me of how unnatural my quirk is compared to even the most unnatural quirks.

A fist collides with my stomach knocking the wind out of me in my moment of distraction, the pain being converted into blood lust even though I know that blow would still hurt later as the pain was only numbed and converted.

I thrust forward with my outstretched palm, my nails acting like small spears, I strike true piercing the chest and ribs a hairs length from the heart.

The beast grabs the wrist of the arm I stabbed him with an proceeds to crush my forearm, blood spurting out onto the creatures hand from where my bone pierced up through the skin.

My blood immediately begins dissolving the flesh of the Nomu's hand, it screams in anguish as its flesh melts from its muscle and its muscle in turn melt from its bone.

This sight spurs my blood lust on as I drive the shard deep into the neck of the Nomu causing it to pierce through to the other side. Unable to contain the insanity quickly consuming me I burst out manically laughing, next thing I know I'm standing above the corpse of the heavily mutilated Nomu.

A large pool of blood surrounds it and someone is slowly approaching me with an arm outstretched. They keep repeating something but I cant hear them. My eyes widen as I realise I must have lost control as I was now back to my normal form.

I turn back to where the little girl was, she is on the ground a few feet away sitting up looking at me with what can only be a look of pure horror. I reach out to her and she recoils a scream louder and more shrill than when she saw the Nomu and when she thought her own mother was dead escapes her lips.

"I tried! I tried being good, I tried helping them and I saved them!" I scream to the heavens hoping that somewhere she'll hear and answer me, that she'll give me a sign.

I let my hand fall back to my side as I suddenly feel light-headed. "I will always be the villain I guess."

"Axel? Axel is that you?" A voice that was muffled until now calls out from behind me. I turn to see a person dressed like a humanoid green rabbit and he finally comes into view.

"Deku?" I say as I keel over onto my hands and knees while puking up an unhealthy amount of blood before blacking out.