'Tomura told me you'd be ready and now you're gonna make me wait?'

Dabi glances over at me. 'I never told Tomura anything like that.'

I huff. 'I have better things to do, you know.'

'Like what?' Toga chimes in, 'swooning over your favorite heroes?'

Heat rises to my cheeks. 'N-no!' I stammer.

She smirks at me. I turn around, no longer wanting to face them, trying to compose my expression and failing.

'Just hurry up! We have a tight schedule,' I snap at them. I look over my shoulder as I see Toga rummaging through the boxes that were sent here.

'This is for me?' she asks. I nod. She tries the neckbrace on which comes with a backpack and several tubes to accommodate her Quirk better. She tugs on the brace several times before pulling a sour face. 'I don't like it,' she says.

I shrug. 'Tough luck, I guess.'

She then turns to take it off.

'You must wear it or Tomura won't let you join,' I tell her.

She turns to me and pouts a little before grinning. 'Fine, but let me test it out first,' she says as she lunges forward.

In the moment of shock I don't have enough reaction time to jump aside and a sharp pain occurs on my left arm as one of the needles that's attached to the tubes is puncturing my arm.

'Hey!' I yell as I raise my hand to blast her away.

She jumps back as my blood gets sucked into her backpack to get stored away. Blood is seeping down my arm and dripping onto the floor as I clamp the wound tightly shut.

'Don't do that,' I growl.

She simply grins at me. The others are staring at me and I'm becoming even angrier.

First that idiot of a Tomura makes me do the dirty jobs, then they attack me out of nowhere and grin while doing it.

I cock my head to the side and start to grin as well. Time to show them who's the real boss in here.

I flash to the back of the room where Toga is standing and charge up one of my spheres to blast her right in the back of her head. She falls forward flat onto her face, unconscious from the blast of heat and the impact.

I then flash back to Dabi and sweep his legs out from under him resulting in him ending up on the floor. I aim my hand at his face, a glowing orb in the palm of my hand, ready to inflict the same result as to Toga.

I look up at the others who are gawking at me with fear and awe.

'Let me be clear to you,' I tell them in a stern, strong voice, radiating confidence all over.

'I am much, much stronger than any of you. Don't take me lightly.'

I look over at Dabi who's looking at me from the floor with an amused expression on his face.

'I am not just an innocent, frail child that hangs around for fun. I am here with a reason and a goal. Don't underestimate me, don't try to make a fool of me, because if you do that once more,' I say, glaring over at Toga who's still lying on the floor unconsciously, 'I'll make all of you pay.'

I make the sphere disappear and step away from Dabi who gets to his feet instantly, brushing off the dust from his pants. I take two steps forward until I'm right up in his face. He's older and taller than me, so playing the intimidation game is hard for me, yet I manage.

'Five minutes. Get your asses ready or suffer the consequences.' With that I turn around and storm away, back to the rendezvous Tomura set up, still steaming with anger. Nothing I said back there was a lie. Despite their intimidating auras, their eyes filled with craziness and their ambitions to destroy the world, I am still the strongest.

I have been undermined for the past three years, even by Tomura himself, and it's about time that stops.

With our next mission only minutes away, I have made it my own goal to prove to Tomura, to myself, and to everyone else that I am the strongest. The smartest. The best villain there has ever been, and that means that I'll complete the mission on my own, without any help. I'm not very happy to do it, knowing that my opponent is quite strong and violent as well, but it is something I have to do. Something I need to do to prove myself. So I tell myself that no one else, just me and only me, will kidnap Bakugou.

I'm gritting my teeth as Tomura is discussing the last parts of the plan with the villains. He barely paid any attention to me when I returned and even now he hasn't even glanced my way once. The anger inside me is building up more and more.

Three years. Three whole years he spent every day talking to me, planning with me, having a sick sense of fun with me. I felt like we were family. Just me, Tomura and Kurogiri, but lately he's been getting on my nerves more and more.

He's been ignoring me, not listening to me at all when I tried to give advice on the next plans. He's been distancing himself from me and I don't understand why.

We had such a close connection before… That's why it's even more important that I prove myself here.

I want to prove my strength and my loyalty in the hopes that he'll see me again. I know that we have to move forward as the League of Villains to reach our goal to defeat All Might and reshape the world but I just want our relationship to return to normal.

Maybe if I perform well here he'll put his focus back on me instead of all these low-level villains I'm surrounded by.

'It's time,' Tomura announces.

We move towards Kurogiri who is, as always, our gateway towards the place we're going to. The U.A. summer training camp.

I follow the others and enter the gateway last. We are transported to a part of the mountains looking over the training camp facilities.

The flickering of campfires is visible through the dense forest and from here I can hear the talking and laughter.

'We wait until the sun has completely set,' Dabi tells us. 'Then we'll strike.'

I grin. There will be no "we" in this situation. No, not this time. This time, it will only be...

Me.