As of now, they're sneaking themselves into a small corner; the behind of the tracked base. It was getting tighter; but not suffocating. Five kids dressed as propertied adults — Izuku Midoriya, Shouto Todoroki, Tenya Iida, Eijirou Kirishima and Yaoyorozu Momo. "There's a window up there!" Midoriya exclaimed, but it was a whisper. Todoroki looked up to open his mouth, "Me and Iida would carry you."
"I-I can make a night-vision scope—" Yaoyorozu suggested, but Kirishima stopped her from saying anything else. "I actually... bought my own."
Midoriya gulped at his explanation, "Isn't that super expensive? I've looked it up before when I was looking for materials for my hero costume. It's about 50 thousand yen."
*50,000 Y = About 500 D
"It doesn't matter, just carry us already." Kirishima rushed. Climbing up to Iida's shoulders, he held out his material close to his eyes. He searched the are for about three seconds, and when he saw something at the left, he shivered so hard he almost fell down. "C-Careful!" Iida notes on a scolding, whispering tone.
"M-Midoriya," he called out. "Midoriya, look, to the left!" he says, his body turning cold upon the discovery they've made. He handed the telescope to the green-haired boy, and when he searched for it, he had the same reaction. "All of those... a-are they all — N-Nomu?!" he gasped.
Upon hearing the creature's identified name, Todoroki, Iida and Yaoyorozu stiffened. "Bakugou may or may not be here. They have multiple bases, this is the only area where the tracker reached."
A FEW MINUTES LATER
The five-member group noticed that the place had gotten crowded. Fear took over them for a while, but they realized it was the police unit. Not just the huge number of the police, but Mt. Lady and the other heroes too. There was a large crash, splitting the building open.
"What the hell was that?" Kirishima frowned while Midoriya grunted. "Mt. Lady's here... Gang Orca and the Best Jeanist too!"
"I could see Tiger as well."
They could hear Mt. Lady's voice echoing, "Ew! Are these things really alive?!" she lets out a groan, she was pertaining to the Nomus she restrained using her hands. "I think our job's too easy, Jeanist! Should've we gone with All Might after all?" she questioned the Fiber Master.
"Let's not conflate the degree of what we do to the difficulty, rookie." he muttered, while giving orders to the police members who had infiltrated inside the building.
"Ragdoll, say something!" Yaoyorozu could hear Tiger's voice just a wall away; there was fear in his voice. Gang Orca confirmed that she was breathing, but she wasn't reacting to anything at all.
"Let's go, we didn't have to do this, after all." Iida gave the group a smile. "I guess we over-calculated things, huh."
Midoriya payed attention to Mt. Lady's statement; "Gone with All Might? Then Kacchan's there too...?"
Yaoyorozu held his wrist, trying to get him to leave when he's so dazed thinking about All Might and Bakugou, "It's fine, since All Might's here. There should be nothing to worry about!" Yaoyorozu comforted him, she tried, at least.
"Yaoyorozu-san, you're shaking." he pointed out. Her hands were also cold, and sweat dropped slowly from her forehead to her neck. Was she nervous?
"I-It's nothing, It's just—"
Before she could excuse herself further, they all heard footsteps coming from the back side; "Sorry, Tiger. She always had a good quirk." it was a voice none of them recognized.
"Stop right there, don't move!" she could hear Gang Orca exclaiming. "Another member of the league...?"
Tiger opened his mouth to give an order while still carrying Ragdoll, who doesn't seem to respond to whatever he said. "Someone shine some light!" yet, the footsteps continued.
"Ever since that incident, I lost all the quirks I managed to store," he started. The students felt a cold chill lingering; hoping it's not a strong villain. One footstep later, they could hear threads being forcefully secured — most likely Jeanist's doing.
"Guh,"
"Jeanist, what if it's a normal civilian?!" Mt. Lady screamed with worry on her face. Jeanist payed no glance at her, but he replied; "Think of the situation. Why would a civilian be here in the first place?"
Then, there was a large explosion. That same explosion made the students tremble. They were scared, couldn't move, and felt like they were running out of breath. They knew they needed to run — "But I can't... I can't move my body!" Yaoyorozu thought, desperately trying to lift a single finger, when she can't.
"Just when Tomura finally started thinking for himself, and lead others—" he paused, "—if possible, I'd like you all to stop interfering." he ordered.
Midoriya's thoughts were clouded with fear. "How's this even possible?! I can't even move a muscle! it was just a single second, this man's aura...! He mentioned Tomu- no, he's the man All Might was talking about?!" he felt like he couldn't breathe. "It's All For One!"
They felt his power once more; but no one was hurt by it this time. "As expected of the number four hero, Best Jeanist!" he started clapping, which made Yaoyorozu scared. Midoriya could feel her hand on his wrist — ice cold. "I was trying to blast everyone away, but your judgement and thinking is fast enough to pull the fibers of their clothing - you have the nerves of steel!" he commended the hero, clapping until he was only a few distances away from him.
"This guy's..." Todoroki heard him murmur. He doesn't know what his state is right now; but for sure, he's injured.
"The strength that you possess is the result of hard training and practical experience... I don't need yours. Your quirk doesn't match to Tomura's liking."
"What is he... what happened?" Todoroki wanted to clench his fists, but even that, he couldn't do.
"Everything got wiped out!" Kirishima was the only one who wasn't holding his breath, but his skin felt ice-cold, just like Yaoyorozu's.
"We need to run, we have to run! But... I just can't move!" she could almost feel her legs giving in, but even with the fear, she couldn't fall down on her current state. She was just stunned right now.
"Paralyzed by fear," Iida glanced up to his other friends, "Our bodies—
—won't move at all."
Then, Midoriya and the others heard a splashing sound, like a fish hopping out of the water. "Ugh, it reeks!" they didn't care about it at first, but they heard his voice. He was coughing for a second, but then he opened up his mouth. "The hell is this, hah?!" he says while his body forcibly slouched from the warping.
"Kacchan!"
"I'm sorry, Bakugou." the enemy started. "The fuck you're talkin' about?!" and just like that, they heard multiple splashes, falling onto the ground.
All For One approached Tomura Shigaraki, who's' head is lowered. "You failed again, huh, Tomura? But don't be discouraged. You must try again. I brought your comrades back for you, this boy, too, because you judged him as an important piece." he paused, offering his hand to the blue-haired man. "Try as many times as you'd like. That's why I'm here. Everything is for your sake."
Midoriya seemed to muster the courage to take a step, but Iida's quick ability to read the situation was there, stopping him from taking a single step. Just raising his arms like that felt like he was cutting them off.
"Ah, you came after all." his voice echoed through the location, almost made Iida thinking that he found them, but no. It wasn't them, thank the gods.
It was none other than All Might himself. They could hear a thud, as if they exchanged fists, but it was All Might who did, and All For One held him out.
Long story short, they started clashing with each other and All Might was in an obvious disadvantage. He lost to about three clashes, and kept going for him anyways. Still, All For One was smart. With forcing Kurogiri's quirk, he orders the elite squad to get out of the area and take Bakugou with them.
But they knew he was a boy that's hard to talk to. They all launched at him — it was surprising he managed to avoid all of it, honestly. In the middle of that battle, Midoriya talks to himself — he was looking for an opening. There had to be one, where they could save Bakugou and not fight.
"No, not that one. Not that, too. No, no, not here — an opening!"
"Iida, everyone-"
"Don't even think about it—"
"There's a way!" he paused, a fire burning into his eyes, then began talking again. "A way that there's no need for us to fight, but still save Kacchan and get us out of here, too! Though it all comes down to Kacchan if he'll accept our help—"
Todoroki cut him off, "Tell us about it."
"It may be a gamble, but considering the risks... it's low." Iida replied his comment to the plan Midoriya thought off. "...Let's do it."
They started by propelling themselves forward using Midoriya's Full Cowling and Iida's Reciproburst. Both of them were holding Kirishima; so they used his hardening to break the wall before them. The second the wall crumbled to pieces — Todoroki released a huge ice wall to make a ramp, inclined plane. It went as high as Todoroki could go — and then they jumped out of it, as if they were flying.
"The villains still hadn't noticed our presence! Up until now, we were always the ones to react to their moves. Right now, we have the first move!" Midoriya confidently thought, tightly carrying Kirishima along with Iida. "At the height where they can't reach us, we'll cross through the battlefield!"
He knew that All Might was being restrained by All For One - and heroes along with the villains are two sides of the same coin, so it should do the exact same thing to the other side.
"And then... it's up to you, Kirishima-kun! It can't be me or Todoroki, or Iida, Yaoyorozu could've convinced him too, but breaking the wall at the right moment would take time. It has to be him that calls out to him."
And he did. As far as he could reach out, he stretched his arm, while his other clinged to Iida and his feet wrapped around Midoriya, "Come!"
Shigaraki rushed to his direction, but as fast his reaction time may be; Bakugou was a hard shell. Creating a large explosion from his palms, he sends himself out flying to their direction. "You idiots!" he says with a huge grin on his face as he accepts Kirishima's hand.
TODOROKI AND YAOYOROZU
"Todoroki-san, have they contacted you yet?" she asked worriedly, and sure enough, the boy shaked his head in response. She only nodded. She would never tell them she felt useless at the moment. Seriously! Everyone did something for the plan, but she was useless, completely. "I may have gotten that tracking device for them, but I didn't do anything else." she wanted to furrow both her brows.
She wanted to help. She wanted to help so bad because — why? Because they were friends, because Bakugou was important to her, because Bakugou's helped her countless times already.
She could only hope for the best, because she wasn't able to do anything.
NOTES:
[1] I re-read the manga to write this chapter so everything is pretty much canon, almost.
[2] I'm sorry for the short chapter, I really suck at writing battle scenes ;;-;;
[3] I was supposed to update twice today, like one for a special chapter because I didn't realize I got around 130 kudos on Ao3 already and 7K reads in both platforms, but I'm not sure if I should just update the next chapter already aAhAhHHHhK