Villain Deku got his birthday wish: Kacchan whom he had been insanely, eternally and hopelessly obsessed with; Kacchan whom he wastes no time transforming; Kacchan who becomes enamoured with destruction that everyone now trembles at the mere thought of him. Kacchan whom, like Izuku Midoriya, no longer remembers what it's like to be someone's hero. - Also updated in AO3.

It's a new Ba Sing Se after the war, but a dark shadow still looms over the city. From those shadows rise two unlikely heroes! He's the former renegade leader of the Freedom Fighters. He's an undercover Fire Lord - and together, they fight crime!