Mirror´s Edge
There was once a theory that many worlds existed beside our own. Parallel universes, alternate timelines, other dimensions and similar theories.
Both science and fantasy had played often with this ideas.
But it never came beyond the stage of wild theories and science fiction.
And then with the emerging of the Quirks and the resulting world-wide chaos, any serious scientific work in this areas came to an halt.
Until today...
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Midoriya Izuku – the Hero in training called Deku - and the rest of Class 1A – now 2A – of the Hero Course were now in their second year in Yuuei Academy (or short UA).
It was now over a year ago since the fall of All for One... and the resulting retirement of Allmight.
In fact the first year anniversary of the metaphorically world-shaking battle between the now former Number 1 Hero and the former shadow-ruler of Japan and founder of the League of Villains, was last week.
Related to that, there had also an official Memorial Ceremony for Allmight been taken place in front of the Japanise government building.
For that not only Allmight himself had been present, but also the new Number 1 Hero Endeavor, the rest of the top ten and several other pros, the Prime Minister and several other representant of the government and Ua´s headmaster Nezu.
Most of Yuuei´s student body, Izuku included and the remaining teachers had been following the ceremony per life-TV.
xxx
In their first year, they all had gone through many terrible threats and challenges. Far more than any students would and should have ever faced.
That included villain attacks on them and their school, battles of life and deaths – the League, Stain the Hero Killer, the Yakuza leader Overhaul, a few of them were even present at the fight with All for One.
In opposite to that, the first half of their second year had actually played out very quiet.
The League of Villains was still active and just as dangerous as it had been before. But, with the exception of Kurogiri´s mysterious breakout from a prison transport, they had kept a relatively low profile for the last months.
That however was not necessarely a good thing.
Many believed that this only meant that the League´s leader Shigaraki Tomura – who seems to become more shrewd and dangerous with every month since his Master had been taken into custody - was either using the chance to gather more followers and recourses or was preparing for a big coup.
The only time Izuku and his class had actually technically encountered them, was that incident four weeks ago, when he and his friends Iida Tenya, Uraraka Ochako and Asui Tsuju had been together in a shopping mall.
As it turned out however, Toga Himiko seemed to have been shadowing them – or rather him – for a while and now decided to make a move on him (in every sense of the word).
Toga had just taken the shape of some random girl with long brown hair, wearing a red t-shirt and short pants... and as they passed her, she practically jumped at him with open arms.
"Izuku-kun!" she called out happily as she threw her hands around him, while tackling him to the ground.
He was just lying there and his three friend just standing with open mouths, to surprised to activate their Quirks or even react to the situation for a moment.
"W-what-... what are you...?" Izuku could only cry out in confusion.
Ochako however suddenly felt a wave of anger and jealousy rising up in her.
"Hey – what do you think you...? she started.
It was only as the `unknown´ girl sitting o top of their friend, who was just busy embracing and straddling him, suddenly pulled out a knife from her pocket and stabbed him in the shoulder, that they all realized how serious the situation was.
It took them only a split-second to figure out who they were dealing with. Especially when the girl pressed her mouth on the wound and started drinking his blood.
"Toga!" Ochako and Tsuju called out nearly at the same time.
Like to answer them, she started to turn back into her real form in front of them. Much to Izuku´s luck, she had obviously taken the clothes of the girl she had copied this time, instead of copying them with her Quirk.
So this time at least she didn´t turned out naked.
Still, Izuku could only stare at her silently.
Tsuyu however finally reacted and wrapped her long tongue around Toga to pull her off Izuku.
This however didn´t work out, since Toga now pointed the knife she still held in her hand upwards to stab Tsuyu into the tongue. The frog-quirked girl painfully remembered how the villain had slashed her tongue the last time.
So she quickly pulled it back.
"Not this time - ribbit," Tsuyu said.
"Oh – Ochako, Tsu-chan..." Toga greeted them, "and Glasses Guy." She looked at Iida. "Its so nice to see you again too,"
"My name is Iida," Tenya responded.
"Yeah – whatever," Toga commented non-caring.
The three young heroes wanted to move again and grab her, but now they saw that she was holding the kife at Izuku´s throat.
They all froze.
"Now – now, we all like Deku-kun, right? So we don´t want something to happen to him. So you better stand back."
Iida growled slightly. Even with his Quirk there was no guaranty that he could disarm her without Midoria getting hurt in the process. And at this close distance he could not use his full speed anyway.
"Ochako, Tsu - do you want to join in too? I am sure Izuku-kun could have so much fun with us three." Toga turned to them suggestively and gave them a smile, showing her sharp canines.
Both girls and Izuku turned instantly deep red in the face. Despit him still having a knife at his throat.
"T-Toga – what are you doing here?" Izuku asked her nervously.
"What do you think? I just wanted to see you silly. We have not been together for so long my love."
"Stop this!" Uraraka yelled. "Get off of Deku right now you lunatic."
"Why? Ah, can it be that you want him for yourself?" she asked. "Maybe I should get jealous now. But - since we are such good friends... I might be willing to share... if you ask nicely." She chuckled.
"What?" Ochako called out. "N..."
Then Toga did something that truly none of them had expected. She pulled Izuku´s face forward and pressed a deep kiss on his lips.
"Do you really think I would have killed you darling? Never, what would I be without you?"
They realized that she had removed the blade from his throat. But they were still frozen in complete surprise.
Then she jumped off him, did a backflip with her typical acrobatics... and run away. Right through the crowd of people that had formed around them.
A few of them actually had their handies out to record the entire bizarre event.
"Hey!" Tsuyu called out. "After her – ribbit."
"We could have captured her right now," Iida said angrily. "But we let her distract us. Damn it."
They were now all running after Toga, who was fleeing through the mall.
For a few moments they lost sight of her, because of the many bystanders in the way. For the same reason Iida was not able to use his super-speed and catch her right away.
But then Izuku saw her, running into one of the corridors at the side of the hall.
"There," he called out. "She is running over there."
"Very good," Iida said. "this corridor is going nowhere. She has finally made a mistake."
A few moments later they had finally cornered Toga as she had reached the dead end.
"Surrender," Izuku said to her.
"You have finally got me Deku-kun, aren´t you happy?" she said sweetly.
Ochako moved and kicked the knife out of her hand, while Tsuyu wrapped her tongue around her once again.
"We have really captured her," Izuku said. "Tenya – call the police. Tell them we have captured a member of the League of Villains."
But they all were disappointed one moment later...
As `Toga´s body suddenly dissolved into nothing but purple goo before them.
"No," Tenya shouted.
"That – that was one of twice clones," Izuku said. "He must have been somewhere here to help her. They must have switched places at one point – or maybe this Toga had been a clone from the beginning."
"They have tricked us," Iida said. "They made us look like fools."
xxx
In some distance away, Toga – now in yet another different form – and Twice without his mask were walking together at the sidewalk.
"Thanks again for heping me with this Twice," she said.
"I am always glad to help you since you´r a friend," he answered. "I am jealous that Deku has a cute girl like you going after him and I have not," he said then.
"Do you think Shigaraki will be angry at us for doing this?" Toga said a moment later.
"No – I don´t think he will care much, we have nothing else to do and we emberaced the heroes after all," he told her... "He will probably be furious. He is talking the entire time about this great plan after all," he said then, contradicting himself.
"Well, we will see."
The kiss - Toga thought. Of course it was not really her thing. Her main reason for kissing him, she admitted was simply to catch Deku-kun and his friends off guard.
She preferred drinking someone´s blood. At best after getting close to someone and slashing him. Now that was romantic. She only wished Izuku-kun would see it the same way. But that didn´t matter. Some day she would convince him.
But this simply pressing your mouths together and even drinking each others saliva? It always seemed strange to her. Not that it had felt bad. It had actually been quite pleasant, she thought back - at least when it had been with Deku-kun. She would not mind doing it again if it was with him.
What made it even better however were Ochako´s and Tsu-chan´s reactions, she had to suppress a giggle. Alone seeing the look on their faces made it worth it.
Toga took out her cell-phone and a few seconds later Shikaraki´s voice was to hear.
"Where the hell have you been? I have not seen you the entire day," he asked them.
"I am sorry Shigaraki-kun. But there was something I really – really needed to do," Toga said sweetly.
"Let me guess, it had something to do with Midoria." He sighed.
"Well – whatever, I have just spoken with our new friend. Our plan will start soon. Come back. I will fill you in into the rest of the details.
Remember, if this works out, then the League of Villains will soon have the greates military force in Japan."
"Yes – you have said it often enough Shigaraki-kun. We will come right back."
xxx
Izuku had really hoped no one would remind him of that incident anymore.
Not only had Toga escaped them, Iida had been right. In the moment she had removed the knife from him, they could have easily captured her. But they had all been so shocked from the fact that she had actually – actually kissed him.
They had looked like complete beginners.
To that came that he actually had his first kiss with a villain.
At the same time he remembered the feeling of her lips on his... and her body pressed against him and...
If he was honest, he just didn´t know what to think.
Right now he just wanted to forget that the entire thing ever happened.
But sadly his wish should not be fulfilled.
As it turned out, some of the bystanders had actually made fotos and videos of the event. And exactly this videos started to show up on the net the next day.
Of course the press had caught up to it very quickly and had a field day with it.
Izuku for his part just wanted to dig himself into a hole as he saw the headlines of some of the articles and newscasts...
"Forbidden love? Is there a hidden romance between young-hero Deku and the villain Himiko Toga?" That article came with a perfect picture of the kiss between him and Toga.
"Known villain uses sex-appeal to `overpower´ group of aspiring heroes."
"Seduced by the enemy? Young-hero falling for charm of villain-girl?"
… and that were only a few of them.
He explained the situation to Sensei Aizawa and to both Allmight and the headmaster as they asked him about it. But he felt even more emberassed than before, talking with them about this.
… and finally his mother. They all believed his version of the event of course. Especially with the others confirming everything.
But that didn´t kept the rumors from going on for an entire while.
Nobody in his class said anything, after Iida, Tsuyu and Ochako had explained the situation.
Only Bakugo – Kachan - commented sarcastically that he should not `make out with his "villain-girlfriend" in public again´.
Well, it was Kachan, so what did he expect? But then he too kept quiet about it.
After a few weeks and an declaration in an official interview from both Allmight and headmaster Nezu, that there was absolutely no chance that he would turn to villainy, that he was in no relationship with Toga
… and that he was one of the most devoted students in UA... the entire ruckus about the event finally ebbed down and the entire thing was nearly forgotten.
It was nearly as if the people had just wanted something to talk about.
In the end it actually looked as if Deku had become even more famous because of the incident. But certainly not in the way he would have wanted.
xxxxxxx
The Quirks – Quirk, a nearly hilariously simply term for the sudden evolvement of superpowers all over the planet.
It all started with the birth of a single, bright glowing, baby. A child that was born with special powers in a town in China.
Powers that, as it grew up, would made the child, in a sense, superhuman. Or at least it gave it abilities that the normal population didn´t have.
As it turned out, it was only the first of many. More and more of these `super babies´ were born. and slowly they grew up to be people with superhuman powers - also called Quirks or Individuality.
Nobody actually knew why. The cause of this sudden radical change in humanity had long been looked for by scientists all over the planet. But never truly discovered.
Only theories had been made. In the end they agreed that it was probably a spontaneous sudden jump in the evolution.
xxx
And these new people started to use their powers. Each by their own ideas and purposes.
The result for society was obvious... chaos, unrest, social uprising.
The normal people were afraid with the one with powers and begann to single them out and drive them at the edge of society. But very soon the births of these mutated - or evolved (depending on how you saw it) - children surpassed the numbers of the normal ones.
On the other side however, some – if not many - of the `powered´ people used their gifts to commit crimes, cause random destruction and even founded criminal organizations based around their Quirks.
So in some cases maybe the fear of the normal people was justified.
Wars, social uprisings, terror - that were the consequences of this sudden change. Gangs and crime syndicates were running entire regions. Police forces were helpless.
Laws, social rules and even governments became meaningless.
Quite ironically, it was a figure that so far mostly came out of comics and TV, that finally brought the chaos under control – super heroes.
Just like some - who were soon generally known as villains - used their powers to run amok, other quirked individuals got active to stop them. After only a short time, they were officially recognized by the government... and the occupation `hero´ became an actual job.
But that was already a long time ago.
Now - after several generations, over 80% of the world-wide population possessed Quirks.
Heroes were by now part of the daily life. They were the most prominent and famous profession on the planet. In many ways they were just as much superstars as enforcers of law and order.
The entire human race – and even what it even meant to be human in the first place - had been completely turned upside down.
Was it simply a sudden jump in evolution? The progress to the next level of the human race?
Sometimes of course however some people ask themselves how the history of the world had turned out if the phenomenon of the Quirk had not appeared. What would have been? What if...?
One thing however was taken as fact by practically all scientists and historians.
Without the quirks and the resulting social and political chaos, humanity would already have reached a much higher technological level.
Some believed without the, humans would have already reached the stars.
So the question could be asked, were the quirks ultimately a blessing or a curse.
xxx
The present - in the area of Kyoto - Japan
Right now Izuku and the rest of his class, including their teacher Aizawa Shota – a.k.a the underground hero Eraserhead - were standing assembled in front of a large building in the outer areas of the town.
They were however not the only ones. Also present were the second clase of the Hero Course – class B and their teacher Vlad King, the support class with their teacher Powerloader... and also the business and general education classes.
So the entire Second Year of Yuuei. All in all well over a hundred students.
The third year had actually already made the same visit the week before... and now it was their turn.
They were all here as a very special assigment that their school had been invited to a few weeks ago.
The building they were standing in front of was the headquarter of the japanise branch of the multinational super-company H.C.P (Hero and Citizen Products). It was internationally one of the greatest producers of computer, transport and hero-support technology.
The man who had invited them all here was nobody else than the boss and owner of the entire company.
They were here for a visit and an tour thought the building a demonstration of the company´s entire working processes.
But there were not only students present.
There was also a group of actual pro heroes standing in close distance to them, that consisted of Endeavor, Gang Orca, Edgeshot, Death Arms, Kamui Woods and Mount Lady and also the former top three students of Yuuei, who had graduated last year and were not pros themselves.
They and the Class A students, in first line Izuku, Ochako and Tsuyu had already exchanged a heartfelt greeting as they saw each other.
"It is really nice to see you here Midoria," Mirio Togata, one of the big three, greeted him.
"Thanks, I am glad to see you too Mirio," Izuku said.
Before they could say anything else however, they were being interrupted by the people who were just coming out of the building.
In the center of the group was an about 30 year old man wearing a suit. Beside him was a woman in a business dress and around them two lines of armed guards, a few of them having obvious mutant Quirks.
"Welcome," the man said to them, "it is a great pleasure for me to greet you all here – both the present and the future of the Hero World," he announced.
xxxxxxx
Current hideout of the League of villains
Most of the current members of the League, under them the recently returned Kurogiri, Dabi, Toga and Twice, Mister Compress, Spinner and several other.
Most of the last ones new members or simply hired help.
"We are all ready," Kurogiri informed Shigaraki.
The leader of the League was standing in front of the crowd. In his typical villain outfit with multiple hands attached to different parts of his body. The most important one covering his face.
"Good, you all know the plan," Shigaraki Tomura said. "Our ally has given us the exact details of the company building and also the entrance codes.
Toga, do you have taken the blood?" he asked her.
"Of course," she replied.
"Good. The plan can not go wrong," Shigaraki declared.
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H.C.P building
"I am Bob Jones - CEO and owner of H.C.P International," he introduced himself. "As some of you might know, our company is not as prominent in japan as it is for example in the USA or Europe. But believe me, we for sure plan to change that in the close future," he said with a winning smile.
This comment caused a few chuckles under some of the students.
"Students of Yuuei, you all have been invited here for a tour through the local part of our company. But that is not everything.
As your headmaster and the teaching body have already been informed, there is a special project that we want to demonstrate to you all. A project that will change the course of this world."
"And what exactly is that?" Endeavor asked.
"I hope I am not wasting my time here and this guy truly has something interesting to show," Bakugo said quietly to Kirishima standing next to him.
"I guess we will see bro," he replied.
"While the majority of our company deals mostly vehicles, machines and parts for hero support items for the daily use,
… we are also investing heavily in the development of new technologies and resources... and that is exactly what this new project is about."
"Maybe you should finally tell up what is so great about it. We have waited long enough," Bakugo announced.
The company owners eyes turned to him at the interruption. For a moment he had a stern expression, but them he was smiling again.
"Bakugo Katsuki, right? I have heard about you." Then he looked to the other Class A students. "And Midoriya Izuku, about you too of course."
"W-well, you see, that is not like you think..." Izuku stammered nervously. "I mean I had no idea that she would suddenly kiss me, really."
It this, Jones just looked at him confused for a moment... before he broke out into a chuckle.
"That was not what I was talking about Midoriya," he said, while still holding back his own laughs.
Most of the other students and even some of the pro heroes had now joined in on the laughter.
"I meant the fact that you have defeated that villain Overhaul and all your other heroic acts." Jones said now seriously. "And to be honest, I really dislike it how the press had treated you over this incident."
"Ah – of well, thank you sir," Izuku answered emberassed.
"Okay – your classmate Bakugo had made a suggestion however. So I guess we should follow his advice and show you our special-project first.
It is also this project that my company wants you to protect." He turned to the pro-heroes.
"And for that we have offered each of you a gratification of 700.000 US Dollar in addition to your regular payment from the government.
Or in endeavors case 1,2 million," he added.
"What?" Izuku asked in surprise with a look at his teacher.
What in the world did they want to protect what they gave pro-heroes, who were already paid by the government, millions of extra payment for?
What was going on here?
xxx
Their expectations were not being disappointed,
"What – what is that?" Ochako asked in awe as she saw the bizarre machinery before them.
"What you see before you is our secret project," Bob Jones announced.
"We also call it the gateway. It will not only allow access to unlimited sources of energy, it will also give the world completely new possibilities regarding transport, travel and trade. What we are doing here, is nothing else than opening the gate to another dimension."
Even Bakugo was speechless at this announcement.
"We have been able to access the space between the dimensions – we also call it Hyperspace – and after our first experiments we believe we able to use to to directly draw energy from other dimensions. An infinite source.
And if our other theories will turn out correct, we will be able to move men and objects through space without any loss of time – to other countries... or even other planets – without the need of a teleportation-quirk... and with greater range and able to move more people than any quirk-user could ever hope."
They all had just listened to Mister Jones more than a bit fantastic explanation.
"Well - fuck it," Bakugo finally said.
"Excuse me," Aizawa spoke up. "I have one question."
"Of course," Jones replied.
"I understand that you want to protect this project. But – you are paying millions to pro-heroes, who hav the duty to protect you anyway? Do you have specific reason to fear a villain attack?"
Jones sighed barely visibly at the question. Only for a moment. Then he seemed to have caught himself again.
"Very well, I wanted to show you anyway. You are right. I will show you now the reason I have hired you." He was looking around.
"Maybe your two hero-classes should watch it as well, since they are already here. There is always a chance that something could happen while they are still here after all."
Aizawa sighed.
"I guess it is not a bad idea. A hero must be aware of the situation he is in after all," he said
xxxxxxx
A few minutes later they all were sitting together inside a large conference room.
There was a large TV set standing in the center of the room, with two lines of table positioned around it.
The actual Pro-heroes with endeavor in the center were sitting in the first line, closes to the screen.
Izuku and the other students were in the second. With Ochako, Bakugo and Kirishima were sitting to his right and Tsuyu, Iida – who was also president of Class A - and Endeavor´s son Shoto left from him.
With Kendo Itzuka – the president of Class B – close by.
Sitting beside her was her classmate Monoma, a boy Class A knew mostly through his constant taunts and provocations and doing everything to heat up the rivalry between their classes.
Today however he had said nothing so far.
Possibly mostly because Itzuka and the rest of his class threatened him with what would happen if he caused a scene while they were guests here.
"What you all should know, is that I and my colleagues here are not the original inventors of the Portal.
It was my father. The founder of this company. He had invented the original prototype over six years ago. But then..."
The man looked visibly distraught for a moment.
"This is what happened. What you see now was recorded at the first attempted test-run of the original Portal at our headquarter in San francisco six years ago.
I hate showing this recordings. But you need to know."
He nodded and his assistant activated the TV.
xxx
It showed a room and inside a portal-device nearly identical to the one they had just seen.
Standing before it, they saw a man around his forties... and in front of him a group of four beings who clearly didn´t belong here - intruders.
They all were wearing strange looking outfits and body armor. Nearly like Heroes or Villains.
Around them on the ground were lying of a half dozen unmoving guards.
"They are all still alive Darien," one of the strangers called out.
"Good," the obvious leader of the group said.
He was a young man, looking in his twenties, with shoulder long brown hair and wearing a futuristic looking kind of armor.
"Destroy everything here. Our agents are already wiping out all other traces of this... project."
"You think this will stop me?" the man who was obviously Jones father called out. "I will start all over again if I have to. My project will change this world, no matter what I have to do."
"Richard Jones – your `project´ is a threat to this world and it´s people," the leader of the intruders replied.
"No – it will make it better. I already evolved and I will share this gift with the world."
"You are insane," the stranger said. "And I see you leave us no choice."
He materialized a sword in his hand, seemingly out of nowhere.
What kind of Quirk was this? Izuku asked himself as he saw this.
Then the man took one step forward and drove the sword right through Richard Jones chest.
xxx
In the present both the pro-heroes and the students were looking at the screen, where they had just seen a coldblooded murder.
They all could understand perfectly well that Jones hated showing them this video.
"This is what happened to my father. He tried to make this world a better place and was killed for it... by people who just fear any sort of change.
"So this is what happened to the founder of H.C.P?" Kamui woods stated. He had known that he had been murdered – news like this were hardly to miss – but not the circumstances.
"Have this villains ever been found or at least identified?" Mount Lady questioned.
"No -" Endeavor declared with a frown, his face still scarred from the injury against the Noumu several months ago.
"I had heard about it back then. The murder of Richard Jones is a completely mysterious case till this day. The villains seem to just have disappeared from the face of the world."
"Thank you Endeavor," Jones said.
"Why would this villains just disappear?" Iida spoke up. "I mean it just makes no sense. I mean they were able to find out about a secret project, managed to break in her without any heroes stopping them... and then they just stop?"
"That is what the police had been trying to find out for the last six years," Endeavor replied.
"Despite all this tragedy, there was at least enough of the work of my father left to start over again and rebuild his invention and complete his lifework in his place," Jones said.
"As you might know, my father was quirkless and I myself only have a weak Quirk. But this was his way to still change the world. And I want to finish it."
Quirkless – the thought went through Izuku´s mind. Like he used to be for most of his life. How often had he been told that he was worthless ad that he would never achieve anything?
"That is the reason I called you all here and offered you all a large extra fee. Now that I am about to finish the work of my father, I fear that these people, or others like them, will come back."
xxxxxxx
At the same time at the entrance, Toga – now in the shape of a security guard – had just entered the building.
She remembered what Shigaraki had told them all, their `new friend´ had given them all access codes to the facility and all information about this `secret project´ they were working on here.
All she had to do now was literally opening the doors and walk inside.
Meanwhile the others would set up the distraction for this peski heroes.
xxxxxxx
The conference room
"Sir! Endeavor-san!" an employee of H.C.P came running into the room. "It is just in the news. A fire has broken out in the city. Several buildings are on fire, just a few kilometers away."
The pro-heroes on the table all exchanged a look, the teachers included.
"It seems we are needed," Edgeshot said.
"This could just be a distraction to get to my company," Jones reminded them.
"Of course it could be," Endeavor replied, "but as heroes we have the duty to protect the people."
Some of the others in the room, in first line his son Shoto, knew how ironic this words were from him. For years he had only cared about being number 1 and had even used his own wife and children as tools for that end.
"But I think we are lucky. The students can help out here after all, right Eraserhead – Vlad King?" he turned to the two teachers.
"They can," Eraserhead – Aizawa – answered.
"Okay – you all will be assisting in the rescue operation," Vlad King announced.
"A few of the pro-heroes will go with them too. But most of us will stay here and guard this facility," Best Jeanist declared.
"I will guard the device itself," Endeavor said. "Don´t worry Mister Jones – we will make sure nothing happens to it."
"Damn it, I would have rather staid here," Bakugo hissed. "Rescue operations were never really my thing."
"Then stay," Endeavor said. "You are right, you are more useful here. If you allow it of course Eraser."
Aizawa just shrugged.
"He has a point Bakugo," he said. "You were always better in fighting than in recue. Okay, stay here. But don´t leave the sight of the pros.
Now to the rest of you – get moving. The others are already on their way."
He turned to Izuku, Ochako, Tsuyu, Momo Yaoyorozu and Nejire – one of the former Big Three students of UA... (and one sometimes a bit airheaded seeming girl) - who had been watching the exchange.
Iida with his speed, just like most of the others and all of Class B, had already left.
xxxxxxx
As Izuku and the others were running across the corridors a few minutes later, they were coming across a number of security guards.
As they run passed one of them however, he noticed that the guard was starring at him in what looked like... surprise?
Why would a guard be surprised about seeing a group of UA students? For sure they had been informed of their visit.
Suddenly a thought came to him.
"Aizawa-sensei – can you please wait a moment," he called out. "There is something."
"What is it Midoriya?" he asked. "We are in a hurry right now."
"I need you to use your power on this guard over there." He pointed at the man a few meters from them... who suddenly looked quite nervous.
"I have a suspicion."
Aizawa and the others knew instantly what he meant. Like is name suggested, Eraserhead was able to suppress the quirks of other, by looking at them.
The guard changed back into her true form.
"Toga," Momo said.
A moment later they had the villain surrounded and the other guards had pointed their guns at her.
"Very good instincts Midoria," Aizawa commented.
"This time you can not escape," Ochako said to her.
"Hey Ochako, Tsu, Izuku-kun – have you seen the news about us?" she asked awkwardly. "It is great, isn´t it?"
Izuku said nothing.
"How did you get in here?" Aizawa asked Toga. "Even if you have copied a guard, there are several security measures."
"Now, why would I tell you that?" Toga asked him with a wide smile.
"See it like that," Tsuyu said, "the more we have to deal with, the greater is the chance that we might get distracted and you can escape again."
"What - ribbit?" the frog-girl asked as she saw other heroes starring at her.
"Okay – okay, I will tell you," Toga said. "We have a man on the inside of course. Our `new friend´, as Shigaraki-kun calls him. He has given us all the access codes and also the entire layout of this place."
"What?" nearly all of them called out.
Even the usually stoic Eraserhead looked unsettled.
"Check the security system," he said to the guards.
"Oh – you don´t need to worry. I have already deactivated it a few minutes ago," Toga stated. "And I have cut a few cables, so don´t think about just shutting it on again."
"Damn it," Aizawa hissed. "If the security is down and if they truly know the entire complex, then..."
"Then nothing keeps Kurogiri from just teleporting them in," Ochako said, ending his thoughts.
"And Endeavor – he, he is alone in the machine room," Izuku reminded them. "He will be killed. We need to help him."
"Something is blocking the communications," one of the guards said. "We can not warn the rest of the building."
"I will go and tell the other heroes," Nejire told them. "You can go and help Endeavor," she said to Eraserhead and the others."
"Okay," he answered. "You guards warn your colleagues and every hero you see. Villains have invaded the building."
xxx
"Deku what is going on – why the fuck are you coming back?" Bakugo, who was standing next to Edgeshot asked as he saw them a minute later.
Then his eyes fell on the now secured Toga.
"The League of Villains is here," Aizawa told them. "Someone on the inside had sold out there so called Secret Project and gave them free access to the building... And Endeavor is alone."
A moment later they heard the sounds of fighting breaking out all around them.
Suddenly the wall beside them cracked and was broken down by a large Noumu, who was charging at them... until a barrage of explosions from Bakugo stopped it.
Noumu – engineered beings with multiple quirks, created from humans – the work of All for One.
Behind it they saw the villains Mister Compress, Twice or one of his clones and a few others they didn´t recognize fighting with a number of other heroes.
"Go – help Endeavor," Edgeshot said. "I will take care of this thing."
xxx
As they arrived in the room of the Portal, the scene greeting them didn´t surprise them.
They saw Endeavor in a fight with two more Noumu and the League member Dabi.
They instantly moved in. Bakugo being the first, literally throughing himself at the Noumu with blazing hands.
Quickly followed by Izuku and the rest.
They had to bring the now shackled Toga with them, since all other they met had been busy fighting and they had not time to lock her up somewhere. So Ochako was standing back and keeping an eye on her.
Aizawa used his Quirk to erase the powers of one of the Noumu, that made it easier for the other students to take it down.
Izuku landed a punch, cracking several rips of the monster and the Bakugo blew it´s head off.
While heroes did everything to avoid killing people, this creatures had no longer any humanity left in them. And many even considered taking them out of their misery a mercy.
xxxxxxx
Meanwile the fire and the villain attack in Kyoto were now on the news back at UA Academy.
Toshinori Yagi – alias Allmight – was one of the teachers watching them. Even after a full year, it was still frustrating to him that he was now helpless and could do nothing.
I hope you and the others are okay Young Midoriya, he thought.
xxxxxxx
The fight was going well for them.
Eraserhead and the students had by now managed to cause heavy damage to the second Noumu. With Izuku and Bakugo attacking it directly and Tsuyu and Momo acting as a distraction.
Izuku just landed a hard kick that send it down.
"Hmm – not bad Deku," Bakugo acknowledged.
But then something happened.
They could not even really say for sure what had caused it. Probably the last attack the Noumu send out and that Bakugo had dodged. As it had turned out the creature also possessed a electrical Quirk that it had not used so far. A bit like their classmate Deki.
The electric charge it send out barely missed Bakugo, but hit the computer controlling the gateway instead... and the machine came to life.
In the center of the metal-construction a light blue shimmering globe of energy was forming, a hole in space... and started to suck the air out of the room.
Endeavor, Eraserhead and Dabi were the closest and instantly sucked were gone before they even realized what was happening.
Followed by Tsu, Momo and Bakugo.
"What the fu..." he shouted as he was blown into the wormhole.
Toga, who could not hold herself anywhere was next.
"No - that..." she called out. But she had no chance.
Only Ochako managed to hold, by grabbing something at the wall and reducing her own weight to zero.
"Deku - try to take my hand," she shouted.
But it was too late. In opposite to her, Izuku didn´t manage to get a hold anywhere. He tried to use his powers to cause air-pressure like he had done before, to get away from the gate. But the pull was just too strong.
"Ochako," he called out, as he was sucked through the gateway.
Then it was over. The machine shut down again and the wormhole collapsed.
"No," Ochako said horrified as she saw what happened.
They were all gone.
xxxxxxx
As they back to their senses a short time later, they looked around to find out where they were.
What Izuku saw shocked him completely. This here was clearly the same town district. He could make out the same streets and even some of the same buildings he had seen as they came here.
But at the same time it was different. The entire district looked somehow changed from what they remembered, more run down - older. Some of the buildings he remembered were not longer there and replaced by others.
The greatest difference however was, the entire H.C.P facility was not longer there.
"Where are we?" Tsuyu asked.
They had all come back to their feet now. Including the two villains under them.
"You are under arrest Dabi," Endeavor said to him. "Don´t try to flee."
"You are actually serious, aren´t you... Endeavor?" he asked. "Have you taken a look around here? Do you remember what this `gateway´ is? There is to telling where we have landed and we have no way back."
Endeavor grimaced.
"That might be. But we are still heroes and until we know otherwise, it is our duty to stop you," Eraserhead stated.
"So give up leatherface. You have no chance." Bakugo grinned.
"I guess that leave me no choice," Dabi said.
He moved his arms forwards, in a gesture as if he wanted to surrender. But then he moved his hand to raise a wall of fire between them instead.
"Run," he yelled to Toga, who only gave a short nod and followed him.
"After them," Endeavor called out.
They were following the two fleeing villains... but only for a short time. As soon as they had crossed the second street corner, they found both of them standing still and starring with open mouths at something before them.
"So much-..." they heard Toga whisper in awe. "... so much blood." But even her usual bloodlust seemed to be mixed with shock.
As they followed their gaze, they froze as well.
Hanging from both sides of the street were the dead bodies of dozens of people. Some had been impaled on long wooden pikes. Others were nailed on makeshift crosses and their bodies cut open.
And blood was flowing everywhere down unto the street.
"W-who - who would do something like that?" Izuku stammered.
"I - I don´t know," Tsuyu whispered. "I - I think I am getting sick."
Even Bakugo, Aizawa and Endeavor were white like sheets.
"What kind of sick bastards have done this?" Bakugo whispered.
In some distance they noticed one of these large screens that were mounted at the side of buildings and normally showed hero-advertising or something like that.
But this showed right now something completely different. Next to the face of a young female newscaster, where glympses of a battlefield.
In the center of the scene was a dark figure in some kind of black robe, who was fighting with... something - a bizarre thing... a monster. It was a abomination like out of their worst nightmares.
All they could make out were long grey tentacles and a monstrous wide maw with long pointed teeth raging out of it and a pair of deep yellow eyes... in a grotesques large and thick body with deathly grey skin and carried by giant crude legs.
In the backgroud they could make out the leveled and burned out remains of a city. They realized with some horror that is was Paris, as they saw the crushed remains of the Eifeltower.
"Do you still want to arrest us fa... Endeavor?" Dabi asked.
"It is now nine years since the first invasion of the Nameless Ones," they heard the news announcer saying.
Just where had they landed? they all asked themselves.
This is my first story written for "My Hero Academy". Right to it don´t belong to me etc.
The main pairing for this story (if there will be a clear one) is so far undecided. I am deciding between Midoria X Toga, Tsuyu or Ochako... or a bit of all of them.
It is very subtle so far, but this story is part of the same multiverse that I have created in my Highschool DxD stories. That doesn´t mean that there will be any crossover with that stories. But the same concepts and maybe some OCs will appear. Also appearing could versions of some Marvel or DC characters.