I'm standing next to Tomura with my arms crossed.
Kurogiri is standing on the other side with the Nomu by his side. The thing creeps me out, but Tomura said it was necessary to bring it along.
To quote him, 'only the Nomu will be able to defeat All Might'.
I huffed when he said that. I'm sure that if I got the opportunity I would be able to defeat him by myself.
Tomura, apparently able to read my mind, told me to stay put and let the disposables handle the fighting.
In front of me are dozens of low rated villains, gathered here today with the promise that they'll help to kill All Might.
The plan is the same for everyone: follow Tomura and me through Kurogiri's warp gate, spread out and cause as much chaos as you can.
Most of these villain's quirks are so useless that the only thing they are good at is intimidation.
I guess it works against a class of 15-year-olds.
They will all be split up by Shigaraki, the same goes for the kids. That way they can handle the untrained ones while the stronger ones focus on the teachers, who will cause the most trouble for us.
In the end all Tomura and I care for is All Might. That's my sole target for today. If all else goes wrong, I'm allowed to have my hand at it. It's psyching me to think about being able to fight someone as strong as him.
'If everybody agrees to the plan, we'll move out at 10am sharp,' Tomura calls out.
I take my phone out of my pocket to check the time. It's already 9:56. It won't be long until I'm finally able to feel the thrill of actually being a villain again.
The villains are murmuring to each other, talking the plans over, stealing glances our way. My way. I understand why. In an operation of such importance as this one, it'd seem weird to bring a small, frail, 15-year-old along, yet I'm possibly the strongest one in this entire group.
I smirk. I'd love to show them my power. I glance over at Tomura and he's looking intently at me.
I quickly look away again. I hate it how he's able to read me. I look at my phone again. It's 9:59.
'Kurogiri,' Tomura says. Kurogiri nods and activates his Quirk, a warp gate that can transfer people to wherever he's thinking of at that moment.
At 10am sharp Tomura turns around and disappears into the black mist of Kurogiri's warp gate with me right on his trail.
Now things will start to become more interesting.
I can already hear the faint voices of the students panicking as I emerge from Kurogiri's warp gate.
I settle myself next to Tomura, arms crossed, face expressionless, as the other villains pass both of us.
I look over at the USJ entrance where a group of twenty students are gathered. They're all my age, but much less experienced than I am.
'Hey, Tomura.' He looks over at me. I point at the entrance where everyone is gathered.
'All Might isn't there.'
'Our intel says he should be here,' Tomura answers.
I shrug. I'm just about to say something when Tomura speaks up.
'He'll show up,' he reassures me, 'but in the meantime, let's follow the plan.'
As the last villain passes us Kurogiri continues doing his job dividing the villains between the different training facilities available in USJ.
He then moves forward towards the class that seem a lot less panicky than I'd expected. Kurogiri barely avoids someone crashing down on him.
My head snaps towards the centre of the facility where a man with long black hair, completely covered in black clothes and with weird cloths around his neck, is fighting a group of villains that were making their way towards the students.
I grind my teeth as he swings around another one of our pawns. He seems a pretty capable hero.
'Hey, Tomura, who's that?' I ask, slightly annoyed.
Tomura shrugs.
I start making my way forward as he puts a hand on my shoulder to stop me.
I hiss while looking over my shoulder.
'They'll handle it, Yuna.'
'I want to make myself useful!' I snap back.
'Your time will come.' I huff in annoyance, take a step back and crash down onto the floor with my arms crossed, looking around the facility as chaos is breaking out.
I'm watching the group of students closely when they make a surprise movement, nearly taking down Kurogiri.
I'm about to jump to my feet when Kurogiri quickly makes a recovery, splitting up all the students.
I just hope not all of the villains we recruited are quick-witted airheads with a short temper. We chose them specifically to be able to follow orders, to be strong and to not underestimate them. We don't know any of their Quirks yet and underestimating them will be the death of us.
I get to my feet again and start slowly walking around the facility, trying to catch a glimpse of the fight I wish I was having.
'Tomura,' I start whining as I hear things crashing down and exploding in the different facilities.
'Not yet,' he answers.
I sigh. I just want to get moving. All this time spending secretive inside that crappy old bar has gotten to me. Tomura would barely let me go outside for fear that some heroes would capture me and take me away. At least, that's what he said.
The remaining students up at the far end of the stairs near the entrance are causing a ruckus as Kurogiri takes down the hero with the name of Thirteen. Kurogiri's warp gate can be useful in all sort of situations, whether it's escape or battle where his opponents can easily get turned against themselves.
The unknown hero in the centre of the facility is still going at it. Seems as if his Quirk is some nullifying Quirk as some of the villains are incapable of activating their Quirks with him around.
'Nomu,' Tomura suddenly says. The huge creature with its exposed brain responds and walks up to him.
'Take down that hero.'
The Nomu starts moving forward towards the centre of the facility. When he approaches all villains jump aside and make their way somewhere else.
I look over at the mountain area.
My eyes open wide in shock. The entire mountain is completely frozen over.
'Hey, Tomura,' I say, getting slightly anxious. To be able to freeze such a wide area, that must be one hell of a Quirk.
'Tomura,' I say, more intensely and point up at the mountain as I scramble to my feet.
'I think these students are way tougher than we thought.'
'They've only been at U.A. Academy for a couple of weeks. It'll be fine, Yuna, don't worry.' And yet, even though his words should reassure me, an eerie feeling is creeping up on me. Freezing Quirks can be used as immobilization Quirks. If there's one thing I hate, it's to get immobilized.
My muscles start to ache. If I can get my hands on whoever is doing that, I might be able to stop them in their tracks right now. If this keeps up, they'll make their way down here. And All Might is still nowhere to be found.
'What are we going to do now?' I ask.
'We'll wait for All Might to show up,' he simply answers.
'But..' I start.
He looks at me, staring through the hand covering his face. It sends chills down my spine and I shut up. After all, he's still older and more experienced than me. I just have to follow his instincts.
I look back to the centre of the facility where I see the black clad hero being beaten up by Nomu. His bones seem broken and his face is covered in blood. It's moments like these that I start doubting whether I'm on the right side or not.
Suddenly I hear an ear piercing sound coming from the shipwreck area and see the water splashing miles high.
I take a step back in surprise.
'Tomura, this is all not according to plan. I think we should try again later. All Might isn't even here!' I try to argue.
'He'll come. Especially now one of them has escaped.'
He points at the entrance where Kurogiri has retreated from. In an instant he shows up besides us, telling Tomura that one of the students has managed to escape and will call the other teachers.
'I guess we'll retreat for now, then,' Tomura says.
A bit of relief washes over me, but not a lot. After all, I still wasn't able to do anything and the anger of not being able to use my Quirk will just build up more the longer I'm simply sitting still.
I'm looking at Tomura to see what his next move will be, but he's looking at the waterfront. I follow his gaze and see three students at the edge of the water, staring intently at their, what I assume is their, teacher being beaten to near death by Nomu.
'Let's hurt All Might before we leave,' Tomura says and moves towards the students, their faces stricken with fear, unable to move.
Tomura extends his hands towards the girl in the middle. Her dark green hair glows in the water. The boy with the freckles and short green tousled hair is next to her, looking at her with pure angst in his eyes, unable to move. The other boy next to her, small with weird blobs for hair – I just assume it's part of his Quirk – doesn't make any attempts to save her either. Some heroes are so pathetic.
Tomura's fingers nearly touch her face when he starts to laugh.
'Even now you're still looking out for your students, aren't you?' he says, turning around, looking at the teacher whose face is still clad with blood. His gaze intently at Tomura, probably erasing his Quirk, with all the power he has left to protect the people he has to care for.
Tomura gets up as Nomu takes a stronger hold of his face and smashes it into the concrete.
'Let's go,' Tomura says.
Only now I feel the tension in my muscles releasing. This moment was too intense for me. I have never actually harmed someone for a reason such as his. To just hurt someone else, by hurting the people he's responsible for. It's kind of…. Low.
I shake my head to clear it of thoughts and decide to just go back to following Tomura's lead again.
I make an agitated noise as I stalk back to Tomura, showing him that I'm annoyed that I wasn't able to use my Quirk at all.
Right as I'm joining back up with the group again there's a loud cacophony coming from the entrance.
I look up and there he is. The man we came for. Huge muscles, upright blond hair, but no trace of a smile on his face. It's All Might.
He jumps up and lands right in front of us with such force the wind around us is nearly blowing us away. He exchanges some words with Tomura, but I'm not paying attention because from the corner of my eye I see the three students climb out of the water and head towards their teacher which Nomu has abandoned now to find his greater goal.
In that moment all I can think of is that they aren't going to be terrible heroes when they grow up.
They'll be amazing.
And I want to be like them.
