Facing Our Fears

Flashback

" You're cursed. That's what they told me. I don't blame them. Look at me. An empty void of energy. Am I even human?" said Abyss who was sitting in an alley.

" Ironic since that's my quirk. Always telling people what they should do. Heroes… are a disease that must be cured. A quirkless world is what I wish for. Sadly that will never happen," said Nightmare sitting next to him.

" Anyways what do you want? Just talking to a random stranger trying to make conversation. I ain't got money.

" I wanted to give you an opportunity after hearing your story. We're almost the same," said Nightmare revealing his ghostly form under his jack o' lantern head.

Present

" These past two years have led to this moment. I've found my purpose. Nothing as gone to waste. You showed me that..." said Abyss looking at Nightmare's Hellish form absorbing energy around the city.

" I don't think you villains have information on me," said Edgeshot who flattened himself and escaped from Abyss' body.

" It's over don't you see? Your students are captured. Nightmare has unlimited power right now. There's no stopping him. And I'll make sure it stays that way!"

Abyss bandages started to fall apart and his pitch-black body and energy were released revealing his true form. He stood tall with a muscular look and his misty body with only red eyes appearing on his head.

" Have you heard of quirk enhancement drugs! They're huge on the black market these days! This hero society will crumble down before you know it!" shouted Abyss attacking Edgeshot with his huge fist.

' Get to where there is sunlight. That's what she told me inside that guy's body. But there's just this red and black atmosphere. This is bad,' thought Edgeshot dodging Abyss' attacks.

Void

' This place again. Where's everyone else at?' thought RJ looking around in the void.

RJ was looking around and jumped when someone touched his shoulder from behind.

" Woah! Calm down! It's me Tokoyami!" shouted Tokoyami with Dark Shadow holding back RJ's shuriken.

" Oh! My bad. Just on my guard. The League of Villains appeared here last time," said RJ still on his guard.

" Speaking of them…"

The League of Villains were looking at them from afar in the void while running towards them with Shigaraki leading the pack.

" What do we do!" asked Tokoyami with Dark Shadow ready to fight.

" These aren't the real versions of them. They shouldn't be as powerful as the original. But just to be safe. You're going to have to release Dark Shadow at his maximum. I heard what happened at the training camp," said RJ.

" If that gets us out of here. I'll make that sacrifice… DARK SHADOW! RAMPAGE!" shouted Tokoyami releasing Dark Shadow to his peak power.

" I'M READY TO GO ALL OUT!" shouted Dark Shadow in an intimidating voice.

Dark Shadow swept through the League of Villains knocking most of them away. All For One and Shigaraki dodged and headed towards RJ. All For One sent a giant blast of energy at RJ who quickly dodged and prepared an attack.

" Detroit Smash!" shouted RJ punching All For One in the face; destroying his mask and kicking Shigaraki in his ribs. " Something tells me these illusions weren't made for fighting. That was too easy. Wait… He said something about a power source. Fear… It's fear!"

" Fear!? Are you sure!?" groaned Tokoyami who had some control of Dark Shadowin his Rampage form after training.

" It's a guess. Defeat all the villains first and we'll see!

Dark Shadow continued to wipe out all the League of Villain clones alongside RJ. The atmosphere of the void started to crumble and both Tokoyami and RJ were released from the void. Dark Shadow started to calm down a little after going on his rampage.

" You have better control over Dark Shadow. Nice work," said RJ giving a thumbs up.

" Thanks but what about the others," said Tokoyami looking at the ball of mist trapping the girls.

" When were the voids split?"

All of a sudden Nightmare, who was absorbing energy, began to shrink a bit after RJ and Tokoyami escaped the void. His power was declining.

" What the… What's going on!?" shouted Nightmare in his Hellish form and seeing Tokoyami and RJ. " How did you escape your fears!? JJ, Rem take care of them!"

RJ and Tokoyami turned around and saw JJ and Rem with bags of money stolen from the bank looking at them.

" Looks like the show continues," said JJ throwing his diseased rabbit on the floor growling.

" I'll kill that one over there. But I won't kill you, my cute bird boy! Maybe..." said Rem forming swords on both her hands.

" I'll find an opening to get into that void," whispered RJ.

" Agreed. I'll hold them back," said Tokoyami covering himself with Dark Shadow.

RJ threw a small water shuriken at JJ who quickly dodged it looking back and laughing.

" Haha! That was too obvious boy," laughed JJ.

" That wasn't the plan," said RJ before disappearing.

RJ used his water teleportation and reformed near the void the girls were trapped in and jumped in.

" Another fan of tricks I see. So I guess it's two on one now bird boy," said JJ shuffling his cards.

" I think it's pretty even. Do you think so Dark Shadow?" asked Tokoyami.

" I guess it's time for another trick. Chomps!"

The diseased rabbit that looked like it was having a seizure on the floor starting to grow bigger and its fur started falling off revealing its rotten flesh. As Tokoyami looked in awe at the giant-sized rabbit, Rem got in close and attacked him with a sword; slicing him. Is cloak was cut and a slice appeared on his arm.

" Sorry about that Tok!" said Dark Shadow reforming around Tokoyami.

" Let's keep our distance," said Tokoyami.

Void

" Jiro! Yaoyorozu! Pony! Uraraka!" shouted RJ looking around in the void.

" Burn into a crisp!" shouted Dabi who blasted blue flames at RJ from behind who blocked it with his water shuriken.

" Dabi. Well the fake one," said RJ patting out some flame son his costume.

" Do you remember what happened back at the training camp. You were defeated. Hopeless. Captured. And caused All Might to retire because you were weak. You're here to face us again?"

" I'll face the real League of Villains anytime. Nightmare's quirk becomes stronger based on someone's fears. Their past experiences. If I never face my fears... how can I be called a hero!"

Water started to form all around RJ, covering his whole body and dashed towards Dabi. Dabi sent another fire attack at RJ who still pushed through flames protecting himself and jumped above him.

" California Smash!" shouted RJ drop kicking Dabi into the ground making him disappearing into smoke.

The void started to shake a bit at the defeated of Dabi and the girls appeared out of thin air fighting the other League of Villains members.

" What the? RJ!? Where did you come from!?" asked Jiro who was dodging Spinner's sword.

" I jumped in the help you guys out! Defeating them will destroy this place!" shouted RJ joining in the fight.

" A single blow…" said Yaoyorozu creating a giant stereo for Jiro.

" Uraraka, grab on!"

" Right!" said Uraraka hopping on RJ's back

RJ quickly dashed towards all the villains while Uraraka touched each villain making them float in the air.

" We made it easier for you Pony!" shouted RJ still carrying Uraraka on his back.

" On it!" shouted Pony jumping into the air. " Thunder Horn!"

Pony sent a barrage of horns at the villains; pinning them to the ground. The big stereo that Yaoyorozu created was floating, thanks to Uraraka, behind Pony and Jiro was on top of it.

" Move out of the way Pony! Face the Music!" shouted Jiro inserting her ear jacks into the giant stereo and blasting sound waves at the villains who were pinned to the ground.

The sound waves hit the villains and they disappeared into smoke. All of a sudden the void disappeared and Nightmare starting to shrink to his original size.

" What the hell! You kids are supposed to be in there begging for your life! Do you fear death!?" said Nightmare whose body was spazzing out of control.

" We face our fears head-on! Nightmares won't stop us!" shouted Jiro.

" Grrr… Ahhhhh! Embers!

Embers started to appear around the city and rushed towards the students while they held them back. Tokoyami was still fighting with JJ's giant rabbit and Rem with Dark Shadow slowly getting weaker.

" Hmm. He's not breaking. Let's make this interesting," said JJ.

JJ threw down six cards and doppelgangers of RJ, Jiro, Tokoyami, Yaoyorozu, Pony, and Uraraka appeared. Doppelganger of RJ threw water shurikens, Yaoyorozu created a cannon and shot cannonballs, Pony sent horn attacks, Uraraka sent floating boulders of rock, Jiro sent sound waves through the ground, and Tokoyami attacked with Dark Shadow all towards Tokoyami who was being protected by Dark Shadow tanking all of the attacks. As the students were fighting the Embers, they saw Tokoyami on his last legs.

" Tokoyami!" shouted RJ trying to get closer to Tokoyami with Embers constantly attacking from all angles.

Uraraka looking around her in fear put her hands on the ground and the ground started shaking. All of a sudden the Embers and doppelgangers all around started to float in the air while struggling with the students being unable to move as if a magnet was pulling them from below.

" Gravity Overload!" shouted Uraraka planting her hands on the ground and slamming all the Embers into the ground; destroying them. The red and black atmosphere started to clear up with the sun shining in the middle of the day.

" Woah! A new move?" asked Pony looking around.

" I can now manipulate gravity of anyone or thing around me without touching them by focusing all my energy into the ground but it's a… one time use," said Uraraka passing out on the ground.

" Perfect. Dark Shadow!" shouted Tokoyami looking at the doppelgangers suspended in the air.

" On it!" shouted Dark Shadow sending his claws forwards.

Dark Shadow punctured through all the doppelgangers in one attack; making the collapse into crystals. Chompers hopped towards Tokoyami who quickly dodged its attack and used his and Dark Shadow's last amount of power in them. Dark Shadow went inside of Tokoyami and he turned into a pitch-black color with red eyes glowing.

" Midnight Plague!"

Tokoyami sent a blast of dark energy at Chompers and blasted him back and crashing into a nearby building. Tokoyami, with no energy left, collapsed to his knees returning to his original form. Rem came in close to attack a weakened Tokoyami using a Chainsaw but was knocked back by a charge attack from Pony with Yaoyorozu backing her up with Jiro holding an unconscious Uraraka in her arms.

" This is bad! More clones!" said JJ throwing more cards on the ground. RJ quickly got in close to JJ and sliced his deck into pieces using his water kunai knives and knocked him back. The doppelgangers disappeared and JJ and Rem were backed into a corner.

" I guess my show comes to an end. It was a good run," said JJ clapping his hands smiling.

" The heroes always win in the end…" murmured Rem.

Flashback

" And don't come near us again you freak!" said a young girl kicking Rem in the face.

" I just wanted to be your friends…" said Rem picking herself up.

" Like we'll ever be friends with a future villain like yourself!"

" I'm not a villain. I can be a hero with my quirk…"

" Keep dreaming that villain! Haha!"

Rem started to form weapons all around her from her head to her toes with weapons and tools covering her whole body.

" I'm tired of being told what I am. So I guess I'll just be one! A villain! Ahhhh!" screamed Rem in a deep voice and charging at the kids.

Present

" The hero society failed me and others with discriminating our quirks. Labeling hero quirks and villain quirks. We're all the same at the end of the day!" shouted Rem forming weapons all over her body and charging at the students. ' And I really wanted to be a hero…'

Nearby, Edgeshot was still fighting with Abyss dodging all his attacks by flattening his body.

" The sunlight is out. Looks like your boss over there is losing power!" said Edgeshot dodging Abyss' attacks.

" Nightmare?! Impossible," said Abyss looking at his leader spazzing out of control; hovering in the air.

" Plus I think you forgot about the other hero inside of you"

" Blessing Light!" shouted Solar Synthesis blasting energy of light inside of Abyss, destroying him from the inside.

" They were right always right about me…" said Abyss before disappearing into thin air.

" The students!" shouted Solar Synthesis blasting herself towards the students.

" I'll kill you all just like everyone else in my life!" shouted Rem rampaging around; throwing herself at the students. The students were getting cut by the blades and tools all over her body that Yaoyorozu couldn't fully block using her shield. Edgeshot quickly flattened his body and pierced through Rem knocking her unconscious.

" You guys okay?" asked Edgeshot who cut a bit while puncturing through Rem.

" Just cuts but that leaves one more," said RJ looking at Nightmare who somehow had an unconscious Uraraka grabbed by her hair.

" When did he…!" said Jiro who was holding Uraraka.

" You killed Abyss. I think we should make it even," said Nightmare putting his claws at Uraraka's neck.

" Let her go!" shouted RJ dashing towards Nightmare.

" Perfect…"

Nightmare threw Uraraka to the ground and grabbed RJ on his face before he could punch him. A void then formed around them.

" You heroes are a plague to society! You're no different from us villains. You only get praise for doing the minimal and killing people while we're shunned. We're two sides of the same coin!" shouted Nightmare who slashed RJ in the chest.

RJ struggled to get up as he was in extreme pain from Nightmare's claws cutting deep through his skin.

" Now stay there as my power source!" shouted Nightmare teleporting out of the void. " Now where were we?"

Nightmare turned back into his giant Hellish form and attacked the students and pro heroes. The students and pro heroes sent attacks at Nightmare but it had no effect on him as he kept growing in power.

' Not like this. I won't go down like this…' thought RJ trying to crawl out of the void.

All of a sudden he saw flashing lights of color appear before him with the previous holders of One For All standing before him. They released unknown energy into RJ as he slowly got back on his feet as he was feeling more powerful than before. Energy dispersed from RJ and destroyed the void releasing him. Nightmare took notice of this and sent a giant blast of hellish fire at RJ who covered in water all around him blocking the attacks. A panther's growl could be heard from RJ has the water and energy was spazzing out of control around him.

" PANTHER STYLE!" shouted RJ with a puma made of water forming around him and jumping towards Nightmare.

RJ rammed his new Puma Style attack into Nightmare making him stumble back and crashing into a building. The puma growled again with RJ in the center submerged in the water of Puma with his eyes glowing blue.

" You kids should be cowering in fear! Submit to me!" shouted Nightmare sending multiple beams of hellish fire around him.

" It's just like Tokoyami said!" said RJ looking at Tokoyami on the ground passed out.

" Fear!" shouted Edgeshot puncturing inside of Nightmare multiple times.

" Is!" shouted Solar Synthesis sending a huge blast of energy at Nightmare.

" What!" shouted Yaoyorozu sending cannonballs with two cannons.

" Makes a!" shouted Pony sending a barrage of horns.

" Hero!" shouted Jiro blasting giant sound waves from Yayorozu's stereos.

" Stronger!" shouted RJ leaping forward in his Puma Style. " Ahhhh!"

RJ sent a strong blast of water at Nightmare from the water Puma's mouth and Nightmare reverted to his original state in the air. RJ dispersed his water Puma and dove towards Nightmare at high speeds.

" I won't let you!" shouted Nightmare trapping RJ in the void again.

Energy and water was pouring out of the void and it quickly dispersed with RJ coming from above dropping a kick attack on Nightmare.

" CALIFORNIA… SMASH!" shouted RJ dropping a kick on Nightmare's head and sending him to the ground violently.

RJ landed back to the ground to regroup with the others who were looking at Nightmare submerged into the ground unconscious.

" … You're not the only one who grows stronger from fear…" said RJ panting.

Hey guys thanks for reading this chapter. This concludes the Abroad arc and excited how it came out for an original piece. It would've been longer but I have exciting news to share we guys below. The next chapter will be a glimpse of how the Abroad went for the other students and how Todoroki is doing with his provisional makeup. After that, we'll go through a probable Lemon Chapter and then the Overhaul Arc for the last arc of this story and then more lemon just for fun. Now for the exciting news…. I will be making a completely new story with RJ still being the main character. This will be a completely new story so think of it as an AU to this story. Learning from my mistakes from this story, this story will be completely original with a new class. The characters that will be in this class will be RJ and Bakugo, who are on good terms in this story, Todoroki, Inasa, Hado, Yui, Pony, Kendo, Awata, Yaoyorozu, Tokoyami, and Sirius! Mirko will also be their teacher so this could be interesting. Still debating if I want to do lemons in this story also since it will be toned down. I'll probably post chapter one of that story in a few weeks and then continue with this story. I hope you guys look forward to it and see you guys next time!