Chapter 2: The Woods

Endo was lying, to his friends, to his teachers, to everyone. When he transformed it wasn't adrenaline surging through him that caused him to roar and be so aggressive. No it was simply the Kaiju that was aggressive. Endo and the Kaiju were two separate entities each residing within one another. For the most part it was like Tokoyami's quirk, Endo controlled the beast most of the time, but when Endo lost focus, the beast emerged. Whilst not in the form, he couldn't feel any urges from the Kaiju, but when he transformed it was a battle of the minds, to see who possessed the strongest will. So far Endo had won, but during the hero exercise with All Might, unbeknownst to everyone else, the Kaiju had almost taken over. It was when he struck the ground with his tail, in that brief moment the Kaiju personality pushed through and made the tail as close to hitting Tokoyami as possible. Endo had managed to restrain it just in time, this was why he had dedicated his life to becoming as able minded as possible, so that he could push back the alter ego. He wasn't going to let himself be a monster.

"Endo!" The familiar voice broke his train of thought and he turned around.

"Hey Momo, what's up?"

She stopped out of breath, "well I was just heading to the library and I saw you when I turned the corner so I thought I might say hi and see what you were up to."

Endo pondered the situation, something seemed off about Momo, she was excited almost as if she was opening a present on christmas day. "I'm just heading to the support room, Mr. Aizawa said I could go there for help with my clothes."

"Why did you need help with your costume?"

"No, not my costume, my clothes. See since we are leaving tomorrow for the camping trip I figured I'd try to get clothes that could do the same thing as my costume." Endo knocked on the support team door with Momo on his heels. "Uh hello is anyone-" The door burst open to reveal a yellow eyed, pink haired, crazed looking girl.

The girl opened her eyes wider, "yes? Are you here to receive some help from one of my babies?"

"Woah, wait, what? Babies?" The girl grabbed Endo's forearm dragging him inside the cluttered workshop. Endo noticed she was very well built, especially her arms. It was quite the chore for Endo to even pull his own arm away from her grip. "I just came here to see if you had any clothes that can do what my costume does. It folds up when I transform," he sighed, "ya know, Kaiju Kid."

"Oooo you would be Endo, I am Mei Hatsume, we have all heard a lot about your quirk, even the upperclassmen saw it. Either way I do have something that should work similar to your costume." She practically dove into a pile of machines, "this should do the trick it was originally designed to hold items for heroes." She was showing off a box with and opening on one side and a circle on the other. "I can recalibrate it to absorb your clothes when you transform and give them back when you stop using your quirk."

"Wow that's amazing, thanks!" Endo walked over to some of the other inventions while Mei tinkered with the box. He picked up an odd shaped sword and a dust cloud floated up to him and tickled his nose. He covered his mouth and sneezed, "sorry I've got bad allergies."

Momo laughed, "the guy who can turn into a kaiju, has allergies."

Endo laughed, "it does sound kinda silly, but yeah."

Mei seemed to finally notice that there was someone else there besides Endo, "did you need help from one of my babies."

Momo was once again surprised by Mei's use of the word, "you mean your inventions right?"

"But, of course!" Her eyes sparkled with excitement.

"Right, well no I just wanted to see what Endo thought of my new costume design." Momo turned towards him and activated her powers shedding her previous clothing and revealing her new hero outfit.

Now it was closer to a supportive sports bra, it still kept her lower costume portion. Her stomach, arms, legs, and back were still shown off, but now she was a bit more discreet.

Endo gave her a thumbs up, "much better!" His face scrunched up for a second while he thought, "wait I thought you said you were heading for the library."

"I was, but I just saw you and thought I would see what you thought."

Mei interjected, "wait, but the library is practically on the other side of school."

Endo didn't know this, he had yet to become completely acquainted with the school's layout.

Momo froze up, "well… I… uh… gotta go!" Her school clothes once again emerged and she burst through the door.

Endo was absolutely confounded, Momo was usually so calm and collected, but now she seemed like she was vying for his approval.

Mei rose up from her work table and showcased the new box to Endo, "all you have to do is attach it to your back and it will do the rest."

Endo walked away from the pile of dusty inventions and took the cube, "thanks so much I really appreciate it!" He ran off into the hallways, secretly hoping he would find Momo on his way out.

The next afternoon all the students boarded the bus with their belongings on their back and prepared for the long trip to the woods. Endo was one of the last to board and noticed that the seats next to Momo and Izuku were taken so he didn't really know where to sit until Kirishima waved him over.

The bus got moving and they were driving for about ten minutes before Kirishima finally got his mouth moving, "so just how big can you grow?"

At this the rest of the class turned back to him, it was like a pack of hungry wolves who were hungry for answers. The oddest of all was probably Izuku who had pulled out a notebook and pencil faster than the eye could follow. "I'm really not sure, the biggest I got was during the Entrance Exam and that was about two hundred feet. I'm sure I could get bigger since I felt no strain at the time, well you know, except for a giant robot trying to kill me."

"Is that your only Kaiju form or can you do others?"

"What, you mean like making it look different? I'm pretty sure I could do that. See I inherited two quirks from my great-grandparents which merged into the Kaiju quirk, shapeshifting and giantification." Little did the class know he had mutated another part of the power, an alter ego straining for control. "I bet I could focus a bit more on the quirk and become a more armored Kaiju or a more agile one, perhaps I could even sprout wings, I just haven't had enough practice to do so. At one point I may even be able to maintain human size, but gain the thickly armored skin and strength." Endo shrugged, he had only used his quirk thrice in his life and each time he had become the same default Kaiju. His powers could end up being extremely diverse in its applications if he could just learn how to control it and the other mind inside it.

Endo looked back at Midoriya, "so how much info do you have on each of us? I noticed that anytime someone mentions their quirk or something about themselves, you've got that thing out in less than a second."

Midoriya's face turned red and eyes widened at something behind Endo, "ARE YOU KIDDING DEKU! YOU KEPT THAT PIECE OF JUNK! AND NOW YOU'RE SPYING ON US AND KEEPING IT IN YOUR JOURNAL, I'LL KILL YOU!" Of course it was Bakugo to make another scene.

Endo sighed, "if you're going to make a threat Bakugo at least make one that you would be able to follow through on. I mean we all know you want to be a hero and if you kill someone, well that doesn't look too good. So just take a breath and sit your ass down."

Everyone was speechless, both Endo and Kirishima had been pretty neutral when it came to Bakugo's tyranny and neither had spoken back to him before, in fact no one ever had except maybe Aizawa.

Bakugo was speechless for a second, a brief peaceful second, but all good things must come to an end. "THEN I'LL KILL YOU TOO!"

Endo smiled, "yep, that's what I thought."

The urban road finally began to change to trees and then to a full blown forest. The sun began to shrink behind the trees by the time the bus pulled over, "gather your things and wait by the side of the road." Aizawa stayed behind on the bus while the class followed his orders. Eventually Aizawa exited the bus, which drove away. "We will remain here for three days as planned and the bus will pick us up at the end of the third day. If anything goes wrong the bus will come early. Similarly if there is any misbehavior you will be sent home. Now let's go, we need to set base and gather firewood before it gets too dark."

After walking through the thick forest for a while they came upon a nice clearing encircled by more trees. As the group had traveled Endo had slowly become more and more uneasy, there were no birds, no animals, not even squirrels. It was way too quiet, he turned to the only person quieter than the forest, "hey Koda is this your doing? Did you tell all the animals to leave or something, because there is no sign of anything living besides trees."

His rocky looking head vigorously shook back and forth denying it.

Their teacher tried to reassure them, "it's probably just that we are still relatively close to the road and civilization. Now get to work with that firewood."

Endo wasn't so sure though and just because it made him feel safer he pulled the box that stored his costume out of his backpack and stuck it on his back, just in case he needed to transform.

By the time the sun had set a huge bonfire lay before them, which was lit by a spark from Shoto's fire power. Despite providing heat and light to the class it only made Endo more uneasy as the light danced unnaturally across his friend's faces. While, Endo was preoccupied with his thoughts, the rest of the class bantered and had a great time messing around.

Eventually Aizawa stood, "ok time for some sleep, we will begin survival training tomorrow morning. Put out the fire and make your preparations for bed."

Endo changed into his pajamas and briefly thought about taking his costume off, but no it was still too quiet. It was like when your childhood closet is open, you know there aren't any monsters in it, but you have your parents check anyways. He just couldn't shake the feeling.

Aizawa felt the same as Endo, but he didn't want to cause a panic, and he was sure it was just his imagination. Just to be safe however, the hero was determined to remain on watch throughout the night.

After much fitful tossing and turning in the pitch black abyss of the forest, Endo finally managed to close his eyes and fall asleep.

Endo awoke to a mechanical sound as his helmet formed over him, he sat up confused. He looked around and noticed a fog had descended, he was about to retract his mask, but then he heard the sounds of coughing and gasping for breath. He tore out of his sleeping bag and stood up putting on his full costume with a thought. His helmet was designed to react to any toxic gases in the air and filter them automatically, this is what saved Endo from passing into unconscious as his classmates now had, it also had a night vision function which was now switched on.

Endo did however notice something that gave him hope, Aizawa was not in his sleeping bag. Perhaps he had escaped and was fighting off the attackers. Endo wanted to transform, but if he did that he would be exposing himself to the gas, so instead he began grabbing his friends and dragging them to an area where the gas was thinner. He was almost done when he saw three human shapes in the gas. By the shape of their faces he knew they were wearing gas masks, which gave him a unique opportunity, it is unlikely they would expect him to be immune to the gas, all he had to do was tear off their masks and the gas would do the rest. The spikes emerged from his gauntlet and he was about to run at them to try and take them by surprise, but before he could there was a scream that came from behind them. It was almost certainly Aizawa who had yelled in pain, this stalled both the approaching enemies and Endo for a couple of seconds.

Endo began to think in a panic, "damnit, if they took down Aizawa how am I going to save everyone if can't transform without breathing this stuff in?"

Without wanting to waste anymore time he ran forwards and slashed at the nearest enemy's mask. It was a good strike and the man or woman immediately collapsed clutching at their throat. Moving on to the next person Endo retracted his claws and shoved an armored fist into the goons throat and tore off the mask, this had the same reaction as the first.

At this point the third attacker had realized what was happening, "we've got a live one!"

Endo knew that unless he could access his quirk they would overwhelm him. He made a split second decision and ran as fast as he could, he needed to escape the gas. To do so he would have to leave everyone behind, once out of the gas Endo would transform and fan the toxic stuff away as fast as possible so he could help his friends.

The gas became thinner and thinner until Endo emerged from the forest at a lake that was almost way too still, this whole forest was just off. "Focus! You need to save everyone." His armored peeled away from his body and his eyes began to glow red. His skin became mottled and black and he grew to a hundred and fifty feet. He turned back towards his camp site and swiped his tail dispersing the gas enough to walk towards the fight. His eyes were well equipped to deal with the dark and he immediately spotted his teacher, held by his throat he was bloodied and beaten. He looked at Endo, "RUN!" This was all he could get out before he was once again assaulted by the person holding him.

Of course at the worst time, his other consciousness emerged, "NO! KILL THEM ALL!"

Endo resisted, he was planning on grabbing his classmates and Aizawa and just booking it. Before he could implement his plan however, enormous ropes shot out of the ground grabbing his ankles and wrists. For whatever reason Endo couldn't break them, or even resist them, they were incredibly strong, even growing another hundred feet they still held fast and pulled him to the ground. Endo roared and shrunk down to human evading the huge ropes

"It's over kid we've got you." The person holding Aizawa laughed maniacally, he was clearly deranged.

Endo decided to make the logical choice and run. Not the most noble thing, but he had to let someone know what happened. He then realized the villain was correct, with his night vision back on, Endo saw the shear amount of people surrounding him. He decided to at least go down fighting and extended his claws. But before he could even take a step forwards something burst out of the ground next to him and struck him in the head knocking him unconscious.

Some hours later Endo began to stir. "I'm becoming rather bored, when will this one wake up." The voice was almost certainly female.

"Well, the machine shows his breathing and heartbeat is increasing so it should be soon and to be fair Titan had to hit him hard enough to break that helmet so I'm not surprised it's taking so long."

Sure enough Endo soon opened his eyes. He was wearing only the non functional parts of his costume to cover his body. His ankles and wrists were tied to a metal bed with what Endo assumed was the rope that got him as the Kaiju, only smaller now.

The woman noticed him awake, "ah, finally."

Endo tried to clear his head, it was throbbing with pain. "Wh-Who are you?"

The woman laughed, Endo could now see she was dressed in a long leather cloak that concealed many weapons beneath it. Her face was covered by a mask that depicted a wolf snarling. "We are the hunters!" She exclaimed spreading her arms dramatically. As she did this Endo took notice of the rest of the room. It was a pristine, white room, with what seemed to be only one exit. He also saw the other person who spoke, definitely male, who was wearing the same outfit as the woman, only with a gorilla on the mask instead.

"It's great to know your team name and all, but I was more referring to what you are doing."

The woman's fists clenched, "how very rude of you." The so called Hunter was actually acting and was hoping it would come up, oh how she loved explaining everything to her victims. "We, as our name implies, hunt down anyone with extremely powerful quirks and brainwash them to do the task that the highest bidder demands."

Endo was afraid to ask, but he figured he'd get as much info as he could while he was trapped by the indestructible rope quirk that someone in the building obviously had. "What do you mean by tasks?"

"Oh, anything and everything, turned into villains, killers, if you have a powerful quirk, or just helpers for someone, and if the girls are pretty enough well…" She trailed off and laughed at the enraged expression on Endo's face. "Aww, do you care for your classmates, or is it because one of them is something more." She laughed maniacally again, "young love is so blind and oh so stupid." She pulled up a holo image of all his girl classmates similarly strapped to beds and one by one showed them getting hit with electricity prods as torture. When it flipped to Momo the woman noticed his eyes open slightly wider than for the others. "Ah that one will do." The other Hunter in the room left to fetch Momo.

Endo cursed himself, he had just screwed both of them. The woman would assume they were in love, or dating, or something, and torture them both. He had just minutes at best to figure out a way to escape, at this point he couldn't worry about the woman getting mad he just had to try to escape. Endo tried to transform to the kaiju, but as his body grew the ropes remained unbreakable and started to seriously injure the points where they were tied to. In the moment of him trying this however, the alter ego once again came to the forefront of his mind.

"I can get us out, just give me control, GIVE IT TO ME OR WE WILL DIE!"

Endo wasn't willing to do it just yet, he wouldn't let himself become a monster again.

Instead of reacting with fear the woman seemed interested in his struggle, "do you know why I chose you as the person to focus on? It's because you remained upright when others couldn't, not only that, I saw you were going to run. It was smart and I respect logical decisions so I wanted to see you deal with a situation that was a bit more emotional."

As she finished her sentence, the male Hunter entered the room with Momo in front of him, her hands tied behind her back. Endo noticed a cut on the Hunter's cloak.

"I see there was some trouble." Said the lady Hunter inspecting the man's cloak.

"She tried to form a knife to break her bonds and it got me instead."

"Haha, silly girl, these bonds were made by a Hunter whose quirk is to make anything he touches practically unbreakable."

Momo's eyes met Endo's, they were filled with fear and tears. She was secured to the wall to the right of Endo. The woman grabbed what seemed like a cattle prod, "Hmm, who should I start with." She walked towards Endo who met her gaze with steely determination. She saw this and turned around and shoved the electric baton into Momo's stomach who screamed in pure anguish.

Endo no longer hesitated and began to transform, "you have control, just don't hurt my friends."

Instead of growing this time, Endo only shapeshifted into the Kaiju, except it wasn't Endo this time, the Kaiju was the one driving. The black Kaiju's trident tail emerged from underneath him and with a strength Endo didn't know he had the Kaiju tore off the ropes with next to no resistance.

He leapt off the bed and to the horror of Endo, who was now nothing more than a spectator, slashed his talons through the lady's arm holding the baton, slicing it completely off. He then buried his tail inside the other Hunter's abdomen, dropping the man to the floor with blood leaking from underneath him. The woman passed out from pain and blood loss. That's when the Kaiju turned its attention to Momo. He stretched his claws forwards going for her chest.

"NO, don't do this she's our friend!"

But the Kaiju was not sympathetic, "she's just another kill."

Momo was crying tears racing down her face, "Endo please! You're not a monster, you are what you choose to be!" She didn't know there was a mental battle going on in his mind, but she hoped that quoting him would be enough to calm him.

The claws stopped just inches from her and they struck the space where her bindings were, breaking them. He then collapsed to the ground turning back to human, breathing heavily and crying, "I'm sorry."

She was about to say something, but just then they heard footsteps outside the door. Endo raised his head, "get under the table and stay there until I say so." He stood on shaky legs and tried to focus on the feeling he felt when in his human sized Kaiju form and with that all of the power of a Kaiju was give to him in a human sized body. It was like trying to hold back the power of the river with your arms, the sensation was so intense. Endo was intoxicated with just how much power he now had.

Momo heeded Endo's advice and dove under the table. She heard the door creak open and Endo leaped out into the fray. All she could hear was gunshots, screaming, and roaring. It lasted for just sixty seconds, but it felt like hours. Momo had become emotionally and physically spent and this was just the straw that broke the camel's back. With one final roar in the background she passed into unconsciousness.

Outside the building police arrived after getting a report of gunshots, it looked to be nothing more than a rusty warehouse, but unbeknownst to them it housed an army of the so called Hunters.

One officer strode forwards, "POLICE, IS ANYONE INSIDE?"

A figure appears in the doorway and then twenty more can be seen behind the figure. The police shone a light at it, it was just Endo carrying Momo away from the building and the other class 1-A students behind him carrying Aizawa.

"She needs medical..." Endo managed to get that one sentence out before setting Momo down on the pavement. He fell onto his knees and his vision faded to black.

I realize that this story got really dark really fast, but I hope that despite my amateur writing there was still some enjoyment to be had. Once again constructive criticism is greatly appreciated. (Please remember it's just a fan story no need to get rude if you disliked it, just tell me what you didn't like in a calm and adult way.) The next chapter may take awhile longer duie to school and work just to let you know. Thank you for reading!