Midoriya was alone. Physically, he was alone, and he felt as if he didn't have any support as well.
His mother, well, she was still missing in action. How long had it been? About four or five hours? It was approaching midnight, that much he knew, since he saw the police officers begin to change shifts once more. Occasionally he'd over hear them asking about his case, about what he did, then end it off with a shake of their head saying "what a waste."
Midoriya buried his face within his hands.
He was a waste.
One of the police officers seemed to have taken a special interest in him. She was a tall, blonde woman with long flowing hair and an hourglass figure. She looked too pretty to be a cop, but alas, she was one.
Whenever she would pass by his holding cell she would stare daggers at him. Her icy glare would make his skin crawl each and every time. Then, finally, when she was sure that no one was looking, she approached the cell once more and smiled devilishly at the boy.
"Hey there," She cooed to him.
Midioriya looked up at her and responded nervously.
"H-Hi," He said. His voice was low and absent of energy.
"You hungry?" She asked him as she began to unbutton her uniform.
Midoriya's cheeks became filled with red as the female officer unbuttoned just short of her cleavage and reached into her bra to pull out a premade sandwich wrapped in plastic. She then reached her arm through the gap of the bars and tossed it to him.
The boy gulped as he picked up the sandwich. It felt warm to the touch.
Th-This was in her br-bra!
The officer buttoned her uniform back up and motioned for him to take a bite. For a moment Midoriya wondered what the other officers were preoccupied with that distracted them for so long. But then he quickly realized that this was, in fact, the skeleton crew. So they were probably relaxing in the office, or even possibly asleep.
After the quirkless boy took the plastic wrapper off of the sandwich he took a bite out of it and when he did, he heard the female officer giggle uncontrollably.
"How does it taste?" She asked him with a devilish grin. Midoriya shrank underneath her sharp, piercing gaze.
"I-It tastes good," He said to her with a shaky voice. It was an egg sandwich, which wasn't his favorite but he was so hungry that almost anything would do. After he finished his sandwich he saw the officer's grin grow even wider. She reached onto her belt and pulled out a key and placed it in the hold cell's keyhole. When she opened the cell door Midoriya instinctively scooted further back against the wall until he couldn't do so anymore.
"Don't worry," The female officer began to say as she closed the cell door behind herself and strutted towards him.
"I won't hurt you, bad boy."
Midoriya's eyes grew wide when she squatted down eye level to him.
Only one other person called him that.
"T-T-Toga?!" He exclaimed.
Her hand caressed his cheek gently as she gave him a wide, toothy grin, exposing her unusually sharp canine teeth.
"It's me Izuku, in the flesh," Her body began to practically melt as her true form revealed itself to him. It always amazed him how downright convincing her disguises were. Everything from her height, to her shape, and even down to her voice inflexion was all so remarkably different that it was virtually impossible to ever suspect her. This however, couldn't be done without extensive research of whom she was disguising herself as.
"Wh-What are you doing here?!" He sputtered. This was bad. What if they were caught?
"I came here for you silly," She said as she straddled his lap. Suddenly, Midoriya heard the blood curdling cry of a male officer.
"Wh-What was that?!" Midoriya sputtered, but Toga placed both of her hands on his face and stared directly into his eyes.
"It's a beautiful sound, right?" Midoriya heard another blood curdling cry. He wish that he could see what was going on, but Toga forced his gaze to stay fixated onto her.
"Right?!" She leaned in closer to him. He could feel her warm breath tickle his nose. Her breathing began to escalate as she rubbed her thumb against the quirkless boy's lower lip, sending shivers down his spine.
His face was a twisted blend of astonishment at Toga's touch and horror at the continued dying cries of the men and women of the boys in blue.
From the other room he could hear his former mentor, Detective Tsukauchi, attempt to radio for back-up.
"This is Detective Tsukauchi! Requesting immediate-"
Midoriya's eyes turned wide with shock.
No.
He didn't want him to die. He didn't want any of them to die. Why was this happening? Why did this have to happen?
He heard a scream, then he heard silence. Ironically, it was the silence that resonated the loudest.
His mentor, the person who had helped trained him for the past several months to enter the Police Academy…
Was dead.
And it was all his fault.
Midoriya's visage turned lifeless, and his eyes which once glistened with child-like jubilance and optimism shifted to a dark and listless undertone. His irises had darkened right before Toga's eyes.
Am I in hell?
He thought to himself.
"That's a nice expression," Toga cooed to him. She knew how much the detective meant to him, and to see the despair plastered all over his face after he heard his mentor's dying words - it was pure ecstasy!
She continued to hold his face towards hers as her breathing reached a fevered pitch. This was bad. There was so much that she wanted to do to him right him. She couldn't hold herself back any longer. Her face leaned in ever so slightly until her forehead rested against his. Midoriya at first didn't seem to regard her, but a slight upward tilt of his head proved that he had acknowledged her presence nonetheless.
Smoke began to fill the vicinity as a shadowy figure came into view. Blue flames flickered around him as he called out to both Midoriya and Toga. From his vantage point, it appeared that the two were lip locking, but he couldn't tell for sure.
"Are you two lovebirds finished?" He asked in a casual, deadpan tone of voice.
Toga turned to regard Dabi by puffing her cheeks out in a pout.
"Aww, we were just getting to the best part too," She whined as she stood up and reached her hand out to Midoriya.
"Come on bad boy, let's go," She said to him.
For a brief moment Midoriya didn't respond, nor move. However his empty gaze rested on Toga as he took her hand in his and stood up to his feet. His head however, was tilted downward and his expression was unreadable.
"What's the matter with him?" Dabi asked.
"Oh nothing, he's just been through a lot," She said as she turned to rub her finger up and down his cheek sensually. "Isn't that right?"
Midoriya did not respond.
From behind Dabi suddenly appeared Twice with his tape measure attached on his wrists.
"Please, step aside Toga!"
"Move outta the way!"
He made both statements almost simultaneously.
Toga did not protest as she stepped to the side, allowing for Twice to quickly gain all of Midoriya's body measurements. Afterwards he managed to generate a clone of Midoriya with his exact same appearance and dimensions.
Despite this, Midoriya still did not show a hint of astonishment, surprise, or emotion at all.
Dabi summoned a ball of torrential blue flame which enveloped the clone completely until there was nothing left but cinders and ash. With that done he turned to regard Twice, Toga, and Midoriya.
"I'll finish things up here before more cops arrive," He said.
Toga nodded and proceeded to lead Midoriya out of the cell and towards the exit with his hand in hers. Twice followed closely behind them both.
Their getaway car was a stolen police vehicle driven by Kuin, also known as Queen Bee. Once inside Kuin took note of Midoriya's blank expression.
"What's the matter with him?" She asked.
Toga wrapped her arms around Midoriya's arm and leaned her head against his shoulder.
"He's just had a long day, haven't you bad boy?" She said to him sweetly.
Kuin frowned. She had information that was going to make his day a hell of a lot worse.
"Hey, Izuku," Toga began to speak excitedly. "Do you want to know what our plan was to bust you out?"
Midoriya didn't respond, but his gaze shifted ever so slightly toward her direction.
"We waited until midnight for the graveyard shift to arrive. That's when they have the least amount of cops you know? Then I disguised myself as a police officer and got the key to the holding cell. Then Dabi showed up and turned all of the cops to ash! Even the head detective!"
Midoriya's right eye winced when she mentioned Detective Tsukauchi's death. This reaction caused her to smile.
"But do you want to know the best part? We used Twice to create a clone of you so that Dabi could burn it to ash. That way when he's done burning the whole place down, they'll think that you died in the fire as well! Isn't that great?!"
Midoriya didn't respond.
"I think he's brain dead!"
"Good riddance!"
Twice made both comments thanks to his split personality.
Kuin continued to drive back until she finally reached the League of Villain's dive bar headquarters. Toga walked Midoriya out and waved goodbye to Kuin as she drove away.
Once Toga entered the hideout along with Midoriya and Twice in tow, she was surprised to find that Dabi had beaten them back to the base.
"Took you long enough," He said.
Toga smiled from ear to ear. "We took the scenic route."
Tomura sat at the bar and narrowed his eyes at Midoriya, who again, remained unresponsive.
"The boss wants to speak to him in private," Tomura said. "But it seems like it will be a one-sided conversation."
Kurogiri snapped his fingers and generated a dark portal that sucked Midoriya in the void. The quirkless boy suddenly reappeared in a pitch black room with minimal lighting, saved for a single ceiling light which illuminated All For One's frame as he sat in a chair. His face was covered in his mask, but his body appeared to have been hooked up to several medical devices.
Midoriya stood with an apathetic expression, though a hint of curiosity was present.
"Ah, I see that my team managed to free you," All For One began to say.
Midoriya didn't respond.
"I am saddened to hear that you lost a mentor of yours during the escape. That is most unfortunate. Please believe me when I say that it was not my intention for him to perish,"
Suddenly, realization hit the boy.
"How did you know that he was my mentor?"
"There is nothing about you that I do not know, Izuku Midoriya," All For One responded.
Midoriya thought that was impossible, but he remembered that his name was in his Hero Analysis notebook. A man with All For One's connections could easily learn as much as he wanted about him since he knew his full name.
And since he also knew about the issues that he had at home-
Speaking of which….
"Uhm," Midoriya looked down and twiddled his thumbs.
"Is my mom okay?" He asked him. "Did she receive the money?"
There was a brief pause, but it was long enough to make Midoriya feel uncomfortable.
"I regret to inform you that I have some disturbing news," All For One began to say. Midoriya's eyes grew wide as he attempted to brace himself.
"When my associate, Kuin, who you know as Queen Bee, attempted to deliver the briefcase of money to your mother's doorstep, she found the door unlocked and your mother unconscious on the ground, unresponsive."
Midoriya's eyes grew even wider.
"Wh-What…?"
"There was a note on the kitchen counter, detailing how she lost the only two people in the world who mattered to her the most, and that she didn't want to continue living."
Midoriya dropped to his knees.
No.
"Your mother attempted to take her own life by overdosing on medication. She is currently hospitalized and receiving treatment in the psychiatric ward."
No.
This can't be happening.
"I'm in hell, aren't I?" Midoriya asked rhetorically.
All For One did not say anything.
Midoriya just wanted to do the right thing.
That was all.
His dad stopped responding to his mother's calls and texts, he stopped sending her money, and because of that one of his mother's checks bounced. So Midoriya had barely any time to come up with enough money to cover the mortgage his dad was able to get ahold of him and his mom again. He had no choice, he had to get All For One's help.
He then gets caught up in a shootout and decides to put his mother's wellbeing above his own. He'll face time in jail and prison to ensure that she never had to go another day worrying about money. But then he gets sprang out of his holding cell thanks to All For One, but his mentor gets burned to ash in the process.
And to top it all off, his actions contributed to driving his mother to attempt suicide.
"I'm dreaming," Midoriya's expression was blank. Everything was so...surreal. Nothing felt real. The world as it was seemed…unfamiliar.
Why do good things happen to bad people?
Why was life such a sick joke?
Yes, a joke.
A smile crept on his visage ever so slightly.
"This is a joke right?" Midoriya looked up at All For One.
Again, All For One did not say anything.
Life, is a joke right?
And being quirkless was the biggest punchline of all.
Midoriya stood up and regained his bearings. What's done is done right? At least he didn't have to worry about his mom being evicted. She would receive the best care in the world at the hospital, as well as three meals a day and a bed to sleep in.
So, maybe everything worked out after all?
It was funny in an ironic sense.
So funny in fact, that the thought began to make Midoriya snicker.
And then that snicker turned into a chuckle.
And then that chuckle turned into a laugh.
A full blown howl of laughter.
