"Where is he...?" Tomura muttered as he dragged the nail of his index finger down his neck. "All Might was supposed to be here!"

Their introduction had gone so well too! Kurogiri had expanded himself in just the way he envisioned it, allowing them to appear in the middle of the USJ for those idiots and the brats to see. They saw just how screwed they were.

An army of Villains was ready and willing to kill at his command. And they didn't mind killing children so long as they were paid enough.

Considering all the wealth Sensei had accrued over the years, their demands were well met.

The only things he could've done without were the weapons that bastard provided and the stupid brats he was chaperoning.

"I had this all planned out, and he didn't even have the decency to show up...!?" The itch was returning and he couldn't scratch it. Doing it now would be a sign of weakness, and he would not allow himself to do that. Not at the beginning of his grand entrance. Not in front of that little shot who was just staring at his neck and panting while smiling underneath that stupid kangaroo mask!

"It seems that there has been a change in the schedule," Kurogiri said in his booming, echoing voice that carried even when he spoke softly. The Heroes were probably listening in too, trying to get a read on the situation. "Eraserhead and Thirteen are here as we expected, but All Might is gone and Midnight is with them. If I had to guess, All Might has taken time off to deal with the loss."

"Huh? Why's that?" Kangaroo turned to her brother. "Do you know, Onii-chan?"

"Sir Nighteye was All Might's sidekick, remember?" Frog-Man sighed. "Sometimes, when people die their family and friends take it very hard."

"But why?" Kangaroo giggled as balanced herself on her heels. "I mean, the way that guy died was totally cool! I mean, Mysterio-sama just fried him and he probably smelled like tokoyaki! Then he went off the roof..." Suddenly, she raised her right leg until her knee was practically by her ear. "...and fell..." In a blur of motion, the leg came down and crashed against the ground, creating a small crater beneath her foot. "...and then went splat! Splat! It was such a good video, even if there wasn't much gore when Nighteye landed on the car. Seriously why did Mysterio-sama have to make that scene so short!?"

Frog-Man shifted uncomfortably. "I mean, imagine if that were me and you'll get wh-."

"Don't say that!" Kangaroo's gleeful mood turned to fear and anger. She got in front of her brother and jabbed her finger into Frog-Man's chest. "Don't ever make me think that! You're not a toy, Onii-chan. Not like them! If it were you, I would kill the bastards who did it until they were smashed-up Swedish Fish underneath my feet! Do you hear me!? I would... would..." Sniffles came from underneath the mask, disgusting Tomura. He could already imagine the snot coming out of her nose.

"Calm down, just calm down, Ichigo." He pulled her into a hug with his free right hand. "I'm not going anywhere, okay? Look, we can go and have some fun after this job, alright? Please, stop crying. After you have your... your fun we can...!"

"Both of you shut up!" Tomura hissed and he ignored the feeling that Frog-Man was glaring at him. The little snot wouldn't kill him, he didn't have the guts for it unless his sister wanted it done. He was already getting a headache on top of the itching, and while killing both of them would make it clear to the Heroes that he wasn't screwing around, Kurogiri would tell Sensei. "Damn..."

"We wouldn't be in such a situation if you used Mysterio's tool to give us regular updates." Kurogiri pointed out, his voice filled with disapproval. "Considering that it was in the system it would..."

"We don't need it!" Tomura shouted as he looked from the already advancing pawns to the brats. "That bastard only gave us the switch to rub it in my face. I can do with without some stupid AI. After all..." he looked towards Nomu, the hulking beast standing still as its dull eyes looked at nothing. "I have you."

Nomu was his real trump card. If he had to put things into video game logic, Nomu was his buffed-up NPC party member that Sensei poured all the experience points into. One just as strong if not stronger than the actual bosses, especially with all the little cheat codes used to buff him up.

Who needed the "Living Brain" when Nomu was more than enough for All Might?

A plan began to blossom in his mind. A beautifully simple plan that would calm his nerves and achieve his goal in one-fell swoop.

"So, All Might isn't here because he's weeping over his nobody of a sidekick? That's fine." Tomura pointed to the Heroes and the brats. "We'll just kill all of them. Then we'll stroll up to the school. Let's see how many bodies it'll take before the boss actually shows up."

He could see the narrowed eyes of Eraserhead, Midnight, and Thirteen. He could feel the fear emanating from the brats.

Maybe Mysterio had gotten the jump on him, but these idiots weren't fearing Mysterio right now.

They feared him, Tomura Shigaraki!

"And once I kill their precious Symbol of Peace... nobody will remember your name."


"No way... Villains?" Kirishima's face broke into a forced grin as he glanced at Aizawa. "This is a joke, right? Those have to be actors or something! Come on Aizawa-sensei, you've gotta be pullin' our le-!"

"This is no joke, Kirishima." Midnight said firmly, all traces of her usual seductive tone were gone. "This is real. Thirteen! See if you can reach the school to alert them about this!"

"It's no good. I'm not getting a signal here." Thirteen walked in front of her students but behind her two fellow teachers. "If I had to guess, then they must be doing something to stop us from contacting anyone."

"This is for real..." Izuku was seeing it, but it was still hard to believe. "Villains made it into U.A! B-But how!? The security system should've been able to detect them and...!"

It hit him in an instant, the memories of yesterday and the swarm of reporters flooding through the gates.

"They must've snuck in while the teachers were distracted! Then they just had to sit here for a night when the system rebooted so they couldn't get caught! The system won't say there's an intruder if the Villains were already inside!"

"You feeling okay, dude?" Jirou asked as Aoyama helped him back up.

"Y-Yeah..." He massaged his forehead, feeling the beads of sweat breaking out from his skin before being absorbed in his mask's material. "I don't think my Spider-Sense is going to go off like that again. The danger's already here..."

"Wish we could've gotten it five minutes ago." Sero grumbled as his eyes narrowed in the distance. "We would've just steered clear from this place."

Izuku tried hard not to wince at that. "Seriously wish this power was more consistent."

"Thirteen! What do we do!?" Uraraka asked, her eyes wide and frightened.

"Not that I can blame her. We're all scared." Some were better at it than others. Like Todoroki, whose expression was as stony as But his body was tense and hands curled into fists. Mineta was the worst of them all, tears running down his cheeks and body shaking in fright.

Kacchan was the only one who didn't seem scared. He instead sported a grin that went from ear to ear. But Izuku knew that a part of him wasn't thrilled by this development. No sane person would be completely calm and composed at a time like this.

An air of unease wound its way through his classmates, fear-tinged glances were being thrown from one to another in anticipation for their teachers' next move.

"Kaminari." Aizawa began to bring down his goggles. "Try contacting anyone outside using your Quirk."

"R-Right..." Kaminari placed his hand over his earpiece and after a few seconds he shook his head. "No good. All I'm getting is static."

"Okay." Midnight tossed something to Aizawa, who caught it with barely a glance before touching the bottom of his nose. If Izuku had to guess they were nose filters. "Thirteen, bring the students outside and get them as far away as possible. Once you're able to call for backup, do it and keep heading towards the school."

"But, Sensei!" Yaoyorozu was going to say more but Midnight raised her hand.

"Class representative! It's your duty to lead your classmates to safety!" She motioned to the two of them. "It's ours to fight the Villains. Assist Thirteen and get out of here while we hold them off."

"They're ready to do this." Izuku could not help but marvel at the two teachers as they began walking towards the stairway where a horde of bloodthirsty Villains waited at the bottom. "They're willing take on an army of Villains to save us, even if it means dying for it."

This was it. This was what it meant to be a Hero.

He was seeing in action what All Might and hundreds of other Heroes went through every day.

"I'll draw their attention." Aizawa brought up his scarf to cover his mouth. "Follow my lead."

Midnight smirked. "Whatever happened to 'ladies first', Eraserhead?"

"Chivalry's a dead concept."

With that, Aizawa leapt into the fray. Izuku watched as his teacher barreled toward the advancing Villains.

"Hah! What a dumbass!" One Villain grinned as he pointed his gunbarrel-like fingers at Aizawa. Several others gathered around him, including one wearing Stilt-Man armor. "Shooting Squad, this is our opportunity! Take aim..."

Aizawa didn't give him the opportunity to finish. His scarf unfurled and he thrust his right hand forward. The capture cloth shot out and wrapped around the Villain who was looking at his misfiring hands in confusion. The teacher grabbed his scarf with both hands and pulled himself forward. His right foot planted itself in the Villain's face while his scarf uncurled. A female Villain shouted as her two silver pigtails began to twirl at the end, only for them to stop.

He responded with a roundhouse kick to the side of her head, bringing her down in an instant.

"Those goggles... they're hiding his eyes. None of them can tell who he's looking at!" It was an effective method to spread fear amongst the ranks. Any one of their Quirks could fail at a critical moment and it was in that moment of confusion Aizawa would strike. "But he can't keep it up with that many Villains, and not when they have that gear and Mutation-type Quirks!"

The other Villains began to recover, attempting to circle around the Erasure Hero. But their teacher wasn't letting them have it. He kept breaking their formation, hitting and jumping back. A knee to the side here and a punch to the face there.

"Enough of this!" The Stilt-Man legs stretched to fifteen feet in a second while aiming his gauntlets at Aizawa. "Sure, you can screw with our Quirks but you've got nothing on this! I'm going to blast you to kingdom come, and when I'm done with y-!"

Aizawa moved while Stilt-Man shot at the ground he was formerly standing in. Before Izuku could blink, Aizawa slid between the man's legs and turned around. He wrapped his scarf around the man's midsection and tugged it down. The man's arms wheeled as he began to fall back, his extended right leg raising and kicking back another Villain. Aizawa released the scarf and ran out of the path of the falling Villain as he came crashing to the ground.

"You're up, Midnight!"

Izuku looked back towards the bottom of the stairs to see the woman pinching the fabric covering her shoulders to the hoots and hollers of the Villains noticing her.

"Hey, it's the S&M Hero!" One leered with a grin. "What are you going to do? Put on a show before we kill ya?"

"Something like that." With that, Midnight tore the fabric and purple smoke began to rise from her skin.

"You idiot!" One Villain with black rock covering his head and the tops of her four arms. "Her Quirk knocks people out the more skin she shows! We need to take her out while we still can!"

He raised his right fist, winding back for a haymaker. Midnight smirked as she reached towards her waist.

She threw her crop into his eye, blinding him as he swung at empty air. As she crouched, Midnight tore off the fabric from her right thigh and caught her falling crop. The screaming hulk began to sway from side to side before falling down as the purplish smoke spread.

"Hey, Midoriya!"

Izuku felt someone shake him by the shoulder and turned to see Ashido. She thumbed him over to the rest of the class who was following Thirteen back to the entrance.

"Come on, man! We've gotta get out of here while there's still time!" Ashido glanced at their teachers. "They'll be fine, don't worry! They're Pros, after all!"

"Y-Yeah..." Izuku knew how weak that sounded. Once upon a time, he would've been confident in his teacher's victory; or at least their ability to hold out until backup arrived.

But the memory of Sir Nighteye and the other Heroes were still fresh in his mind. The Pros weren't invincible. They could be defeated by the Villains.

"N-No! Stop thinking like that! I need to have faith!"

Izuku nodded and followed Ashido to catch up with their classmates, but his hands were tightening into fists.

"But still... I wish I could do more."


"Yes, yes! Give it to 'em!" Kangaroo cheered as she punched the air, looking at Eraserhead's fight with glee as the Hero rammed his elbow into a lackey's mouth. "Break 'em and make 'em bleed! Oh man, this is so cool! The only thing that would make it cooler is if I could break him apart!"

"Then go out there already! This crap is what you want, isn't it!?" Tomura hissed to the girl who shook her head.

"No way! Then I'd have to share the fun with those nobodies!" She giggled and grabbed her brother's arm, hugging it tightly. "I don't let anyone play with my toys besides Onii-chan!"

"What good is having you two if you won't get down there and kill those two nobodies?" Tomura raked his index finger down his neck to alleviate some of the itchiness. "Damn... I can't believe Eraserhead and Midnight are this good. It's seriously annoying when the Pros are able to live up to their name."

He expected that the teachers would put up a fight, but he thought they would only take down ten or twenty before being overwhelmed. It was the entire reason why he brought the full force of the League of Villains with him and spread them out. The main muscle was here to handle the teachers while the rest were waiting around for Kurogiri to drop the brats.

But everything was going wrong. The two were taking down more Villains than expected and didn't seem to be slowing down. The fact that they would be overwhelmed was inevitable, but if just two teachers took out this many of Sensei's men, then the bastard would use it as some example of how inept he was.

"Sure, I can tell him how his flunkies just did nothing, but then he'll just come up with some stupid excuse to make this all my fault!"

"Midnight's Quirk is effective. She has already subdued the Villains that were circling her." At Kurogiri's remark, Tomura looked to see that the various thugs that had circled her were now on the floor. The fabric of her arms were completely torn as was strips of the cloth that once covered her thighs. The smoke was getting thicker, obscuring the Hero as she took a whip off from her hip. "We are lucky that we're in open air, but if this continues..."

"Get that Scorcher chick over here and have her deal with the glorified stripper." Tomura looked towards the two brats. "Now, why don't you two do something useful and go get the brats!?"

"Hey!" Frog-Man moved in front of his sister, who was now standing still and staring at something in the distance. "Look, we were hired to help you but we're supposed to do it our way! And if Kangaroo doesn't want to act yet then she won't!"

"You're supposed to be helping us slaughter the Heroes and brats." Tomura thought about how easy it would be to grab the boy by his stupid mask and let his Quirk do the talking. "I don't see you doing that. So either you go out there and start shooting while your sister's having a psychotic moment or I'm going to make you realize who you're talking to."

"If she's not going then I won't either!"

"Some gold-star member you are. I bet that bastard dumped you on me because he thought it was funny!"

"Oh hey, Spider-Man's up there."

Kangaroo's bland statement silenced their argument. "What?" Tomura asked the girl who was now pointing up. He followed the path and noticed she was pointing at one of the brats who was watching the fight with wide eyes.

Tomura narrowed his eyes before they widened in realization.

"No... it's not that old geezer that Mysterio keeps ranting about. It's just one of the students... a kid copying Spider-Man?"

Part of him wanted to berate Kangaroo for pointing out something utterly useless... but another part was actually kind of excited.

"If the bastard found out about this, then he would want to track the kid down himself. Take some private joy in killing the brat because he can't beat a fat old man who has beaten him for years." But he was here, he was seeing the kid and had the boy trapped in the USJ.

This little spider was caught in a web of Tomura's design..

"This... this needs to be special." He needed to kill the brat and use his death as something to hang over Mysterio's head. "I'll have Nomu bring him to me. Have him break a couple of limbs so the kid doesn't try anything funny, and then...!"

"I've got it!" Kangaroo began to crouch and stretch her legs. "Mysterio-sama put a huge target on Spider-Man! If we get him and bring his corpse, we'll get a ton of points."

What? "No! You're not going to do it!" Tomura began walking towards Kangaroo who seemed to be ignoring him. "That brat is mine! Kill the others if you want but leave him to me!"

"Get away from her!" Frog-Man was now raising his gun, pointing it towards him.

"Good, I needed an excuse to kill them."

"Onii-chan! I've chosen my playmate!" She was now like a cat ready to pounce, the tips of her fingers touching the ground while her thigh muscles and machinery began to bulge and whirl. "Make sure nobody spoils my fun! I wanna take my time with him!"

After that, Kangaroo leapt. A crater marked her jumping-off point as she sped towards the retreating students.

"Nomu." At his command, the giant was behind Frog-Man and hand its massive hand over the brat's head. Despite that, Frog-Man began to slowly pull back the trigger.

"Shigaraki. Don't do anything rash," Kurogiri said firmly.

"Can't have traitors in the League, Kurogiri. Especially not insubordinate little brats like these two."

"Regardless, these two are meant to be in our care and our leader would disapprove of you executing the men Mysterio lent us." Kurogiri's eyes honed in on Frog-Man. "Go and retrieve your sister. We will have words with Mysterio about your behavior."

Tomura growled. He wanted to scream at Kurogiri and tell Nomu to just end the little snot and go get the brat. But it would be like pissing in the wind. "Let him go, Nomu." The League of Villain's living weapon released Frog-Man's head and the boy slowly loosened his hold on the trigger. "If you don't bring your sister here in the next five minutes, I'll kill you both. That's not a threat." He leaned down until he was face to face with the young Villain. "It's a promise."

"Not if we kill you first." Before Tomura could get the final word, Frog-Man was leaping after Kangaroo. He glanced up at Kurogiri. "Make sure you drop the brats all over this place, but bring that Spider-Man kid and those two to the center. It's time they pulled their weight."

"Very well." In a swirl of blackish-purple, Kurogiri was gone. He would be able to handle Thirteen and some kids.

After a couple of seconds to be sure that Kurogiri was out of earshot, he turned to Nomu. "As soon as those three arrive... kill the Heroes, Kangaroo, and Frog-Man. Bring the Spider-Brat to me, but break his legs." A chuckle escaped his lips. "Can't have him running out on us."

Nomu growled, confirming his command.

"Heh. The perfect crime." There wasn't anything he could do if Nomu unfortunately killed the two in the midst of all this chaos. It would be sad that he wasn't able to call off Nomu as he ripped Mysterio's pets apart while trying to get at the Heroes. "Such a tragedy... and there's nothing Mysterio can do about it."

Maybe Sensei would figure it out, but he would probably congratulate Tomura on his ploy.

With a wide grin, Tomura Shigaraki looked towards the descending Kangaroo and Frog-Man.

He was waiting for the best five minutes of his life.


Izuku felt his Spider-Sense tingle and knew what to do.

"DUCK!" He grabbed Ashido and leapt to the right just as something flew past his back in a gust of wind.

"Kyahaha!" An unfamiliar laugh echoed out while Izuku turned something zipped past his classmates. It was the Villain with the Kangaroo mask, her right foot skidding on the ground while her left leg was raised behind her like some cartoon character. "Oops! Overshot it a bit!"

"W-Was she aiming at me!?" No, he was probably just the closest student she could get to!

"DIE!" Not wasting any time, Kacchan jumped over their confused friends and raised his right hand that crackled with explosions.

The Villain giggled as she planted her foot down and jumped back. Bakugou's explosion passed underneath her as she sailed over the crowd again.

And although those reflective eyes gave no clues towards what she was staring at, Izuku couldn't help but feel like she was gazing directly at him.

"Crap! A Villain got here already!?" Jirou cried out while crouching down, her jack plugging into her speaker.

"Get back, everyone!" Thirteen lifted her hand and pointed her index finger at the Villain. "I'll…"

"Don't bother." Todoroki raised his right hand. "I'll handle this."

"Todoroki! Don't…!"

A pillar of ice rose from the ground at the girl, aiming to either hit her or be used to freeze her over. But with a twist of her body, the Villain swung her right leg to snap the top of the structure off and lob it back at Todoroki.

"Damn!" He raised an ice shield as the block crashed into it, raining ice shards down on everyone.

Izuku clenched his teeth as he and Ashido got back up. "T-That kick! There's no way a normal person would be able to break a block of ice that thick! Does she have some kind of strength-enhancing Qui-?!"

"Lame! L-A-M-E!" The Villain whined as she reared back her arms. Izuku could notice that the sleeves of her U.A Jacket were bulging like if she were flexing her muscles. "I hope you can make snow, because once I get my points I'm coming back to have even more fun!"

"Get ready!" Izuku fired two web lines at the Villain, who leaned her body back to avoid them while thrusting her arms out.

Her hands were normal, but what came out of the sleeves were like springs if they were made of flesh. Each loop was tan and he could see the tell-tale signs of skin pores and hair that glinted slightly in the light. The rings were stretching with each passing moment as they went past Izuku and Ashido's sides.

"Spring-like limbs!?" He turned around and saw that the hands were now gripping the edges of the stairway. "And they're straining…"

He understood what was happening before his Spider-Sense blared a warning.

He began to lean back but glanced at Ashido, who was lifting her arms, dripping with acid, to defend herself. "If I dodge this, she'll become a target instead!" The springs of the arms would still clothesline her, but that would be nothing if she got hit by a kick from those legs!

"Sorry!" he shouted as stuck a web line to Ashido's back.

"Hey, wha-!?" She didn't have time to answer as he pulled, throwing his classmate on her rear and out of harm's way.

"Here it comes!"

"Nice to meet ya, Spider-Man!" Even though his mind was screaming about how idiotic it was, he crossed his arms over his chest as the Villain dived towards him, the soles of feet racing toward him like the end of a blunted missile. "I'm the awesome Kangaroo-chan, and you're gonna be my playmate!"

Her feet collided with his arms and it took all of Izuku's strength not to scream as he was launched back. "My bones…!" His arms were numb from pain and it still felt like someone took a sledgehammer to his chest. The worst part was that Kangaroo was still on him, laughing as she pressed down harder on him.

His back hit against the ground and he was now skidding on the tiled blocks that cracked and broke as her powerful legs continued to press down on him. "I need to get out of here!" With a cry, he pushed up with his arms to shove her up. He slammed his hands and feet into the ground, willing his setules to stop his slide as the Villain passed over him.

"Hey, nice!" Kangaroo released her hold, the arms quickly compressing and returning to their regular form. "Usually toys just break apart and spill blood while screaming!" She began turning around, bringing her knees up as her thigh muscles expanded. "You're strong! So strong! I can't wait to se-!"

Izuku heard the sound of Jirou's speakers as the air distorted above him while explosions popped off overhead.

"Outta of my way, Headphones! That bitch is mine!" Kacchan shouted as he stood beside Jirou with his left gauntlet raised. They were the first in front of Todoroki's ice wall while the rest of their classmates were circling around.

Kangaroo let out a shrill scream of annoyance as she was flung further away from the force of the blasts. "Cheaters! Dirty rotten cheaters!"

"Hey, Deku! If you're not dead then hurry up and get off your ass!"

"R-Right!" Izuku scrambled to his feet, thanking the Support Department for the umpteenth time for the lack of road rash. "Damn it! Why am I freezing up!?"

He knew why. It was because real Villains were here and the memory of Sir Nighteye and the other Heroes' deaths were still fresh in his mind. The safety he once felt while walking through U.A's halls had vanished and he was still reeling from it.

"I'm waiting for Thirteen to tell me what to do instead of doing it!" His hands tightened into fists as he heard the sound of Jirou and Kacchan's continued barrage.

"Midoriya! Get out of there!" Jirou looked desperately at him. "We can't stick around and wait for-!"

Izuku heard a crash and turned around to see the cause. A new Villain wearing a frog mask had caught the girl with his left arm, gripping her tightly to stop her flight.

"Onii-chan! You came!"

"Of course I did! But we're going to get in trouble if we don't wrap this up and get back!" The frog Villain aimed his gun at Jirou and Kacchan. "So let's finish this!"

"What!? No! I've finally met someone just as strong as me! I wanna stay! I wanna…!"

Something fast and shining bright went over Izuku's head and nailed the frog Villain square in the head. He gasped as his head snapped back and his grip on his sister was released.

"What the…!?" Izuku saw that Aoyama had his hands on the back of his head and the device he wore on his midsection was glowing.

"You both talk far too much." Aoyama stated while calmly flipping his hair. "It is unbecoming of…!"

"YOU BASTARD!" Kangaroo's chipper and exuberant voice suddenly became shrill. She threw her arms back, her right curling around her brother while her left aimed towards Aoyama. "You're dead, you twinkly shit!" Like lightning, the spring-like limb extended towards the teen whose eyes were rapidly widening.

"No he isn't!" Izuku jumped up and snatched it out of the air. Izuku spun and yanked the limb down and the bodies of Kangaroo and her brother with it. They crashed into the ground, buckling from the force while her arms snapped back into place. "Good, now Aoyama is…"

"HELP!"

"Me and my big fat mouth."

Izuku leapt back, turning to catch the hapless blond, only to find himself staring at empty air. One moment Aoyama was hurtling past Ashido towards him with Asui's tongue and Sero's tape missing him by a hair's breadth, the next he wasn't.

Izuku stumbled while landing. "Wha-?"

"Worry not, Midoriya-kun!" Izuku looked to the left and saw Iida gently setting down Aoyama who was shaking and sweating. "I've got Aoyama-kun, and he's uninjured! The Villain only managed to grab him by the collar!"

"M-Merci…" Aoyama muttered aloud.

He let out a breath of relief. "Thanks, Iida-kun!"

"Save your breath, loser!" With the sound of lit firecrackers, Kacchan shoved past Izuku. "Don't go pattin' yourselves on the back until those Villains are down for the count!"

"Wait, Kacchan we can't…!"

"I agree." Todoroki rode on an ice slide towards them, reaching Izuku's right in a matter of seconds while raising his right hand. It turned pale and was coated in frost as he aimed it at Kangaroo and her brother. "We don't have time to waste."

"Todoroki! Bakugou! All of you need to fall back and get back here!" Thirteen sounded desperate as she regained her position of being in front of the other students. "That's an order!"

"This is insane…" Izuku couldn't believe how quickly the situation was spiraling out of control. Thirteen was barely keeping his classmates calm and Kacchan and Todoroki were blatantly disobeying her orders. "But if we can beat these guys… wouldn't we be securing our own escape? Or would we just be wasting time?"

"Bakugou-kun! Todoroki-kun! That's enough! We need to return and…"

"I'm afraid that's not an option anymore."

As the deep, echoing voice cut Iida's orders off. the area behind Kangaroo and the Frog Villain exploded in black.

A face formed at the top, a plume of purplish-black smoke with glowing yellow eyes. "That's the Villain that transported the rest into the courtyard!" Izuku gasped while taking a step back. "H-He really does have a teleporting Quirk! And at this range…"

"What the hell are you doing here!?" Kangaroo spat out while her brother groaned and shook his head. "I'm not done, Kurogiri!"

"But you are." Something in the black mass rippled as Kurogiri spoke. "The League cannot afford to have insubordinate members like you two… just like we cannot have the Heroes know about our presence on the school grounds just yet."

Tendrils erupted from the mass, advancing towards the two Villains. Izuku's Spider-Sense exploded in his head as a third came out, snaking towards…

"It's heading right for me!" He didn't waste any time and backflipped up and over it. "I'm safe for now. But if I'm up here then it might hit the others!"

Twisting himself, Izuku launched three webs in rapid succession, hitting Aoyama and Iida's chest armor while the last one stuck to Ashido's midsection. Before any of them could protest, he pulled them up with him into the air. They narrowly avoided Kurogiri's tentacle as it swept the ground, realizing that it had missed its prey.

"Oh, come on!" Ashido cried out in annoyance. "Give me a warning next time, Midoriya!"

"Sorry!"

"I see you're rather quick, young man." Kurogiri hummed to himself as the two other limbs neared their targets. The darkness expanded outwards like one of Thirteen's black holes. "But it won't save…"

"Hey, loser!" The sound of explosions and the light of fire and ice cut through the blackness as Kacchan and Todoroki came at Kurogiri's head from the sides, the explosive teen's grin widening more as he honed in on his target. "Instead of flapping your gums, you should pay more attention to your surroundings!"

"You…!"

"STAY OUT OF THIS!" Kangaroo screamed as she shot her left fist at the Villain. But instead of aiming for the head, the girl aimed lower and Izuku heard it hit something solid. "YOU DON'T GET TO DECIDE WHO I KILL, YOU STUPID TOY!"

"DIE!" At the same time, Kacchan and Todoroki unleashed their attacks onto the Villain's head.

Kurogiri cried out as his limbs shot up and flailed, more tendrils shooting out of his body as the ones intended for Izuku and the Villain siblings changed course. Instead, they wrapped around Iida, Todoroki, and Kacchan!

"NO!" Izuku cried as he launched another three webs at his classmates, but felt something encircle his head and midsection. Something was pulling him in! "Grab on! Don't let go!" He pulled and pulled, trying to reel his classmates back in, but he too was lifted off his feet before he could anchor himself to the floor. Iida grabbed onto the web and tried to reach for anyone he could, to no avail. The tendrils continued to wrap around Izuku's head, obscuring his vision while the screams of his classmates and Kacchan's curses rang in his ears. "Don't let…!"

Everything went black as he was flung into the abyss.


Tomura's heart leapt when he saw Kurogiri's portal open above the courtyard between the area the two Heroes were fighting in. "Get ready." He commanded Nomu, The creature was silent, his muscles barely twitching in response or anticipation. But he knew the hulking being had understood and would obey.

It would rush out and arrive to meet the brats before either of the two Heroes could blink, crushing them into red paste in a brutal show of his strength. "Maybe he'll punch Kangaroo and she'll explode!" He giggled at this image and sorely wished that the mask would slip so he could see her shock and betrayal. Her bother would barely be able to utter a word before he shared her fate, a footnote in this grand showing of the League.

Nomu was something made specifically to match All Might, the Quirks grafted into his DNA designed to let him match the bastard blow for blow. Sure, Eraserhead could turn off one of those Quirks, but not all of them. And while Tomura could guess that Midnight could knock Nomu out if given enough time, his speed would turn her into a bloody smear before that became a problem.

"And then that'll just leave the Spider-Brat."

He had been ruminating over what he would do. Killing him was going to be the end goal, no doubt. But he had been having trouble figuring out how to go about it. Should it just be quick? Was a speech in order, even if nobody besides the two of them and maybe Nomu hearing it?

"I would take a video of it… but Nomu would just break my phone and Kurogiri's gonna be pissed." Tomura tapped his chin in thought. "Nah, no need for that. The bastard did his thing on video. I'll just make it quick and let him know it's his fault for wearing that stupid costume."

Fear and confusion, those would be the two emotions swirling in his eyes before Tomura put his hand on the kid's face. Then it'll be a short few seconds, long enough for the brat to realize what was going on before he bit the dust.

"And I'll take off that mask as proof. Yeah, just so I can throw it on a table when I get back and Mysterio asks what it was like to destroy…"

Three figures came out of Kurogiri's portal, none of them recognizable. A spiky-haired blond kid, a red and white-haired brat with a scar, and someone dressed up in full-body armor with engines on their legs. "What the hell!?" He began scratching his neck with both hands. "Where are they!? What the hell did you do, Kurogiri!?"

Kurogiri wouldn't go against his orders like this! Even if he knew Tomura's plans for the two siblings, he wouldn've at least dropped the U.A student dressed up as Spider-Man!

There was only one explanation for it.

"Kurogiri screwed up! One of those brats hit his weak point and threw off his aim!"

He was pissed. Kurogiri got outmaneuvered by some snot-nosed punks and Nomu wasn't even moving! He was told to just go after Kangaroo, Frog-Man, and Spider-Man but since they weren't where they were supposed to be he was standing still like a broken toy!

"This… pisses… me… off!"

And if the brats weren't here… then where the hell did Kurogiri drop them off!?


Izuku's reacquaintance with the ground wasn't a welcome one.

"Ow…" He groaned while slowly getting onto his knees. His mind was racing, trying to piece together just what the hell had happened to him. "That Villain… Kurogiri… he did something to me…"

It felt so strange. It was like he was being dipped into quicksand, the darkness smothering him. and sucking the air from his lungs. Closing his eyes had made it better, but a feeling of vertigo not unlike his phasing passed through him with each passing second.

"He teleported me somewhere." He opened his eyes, brown dirt, some boulders, and bits of red clay greeting his vision. "It's sloping upwards… am I on a mountain or something?"

Izuku thought about the various areas of the USJ he saw from the edge of the stairway and shouted, "I'm in the mountai-!?"

"SHH!" A hand quickly covered his mouth, his hands snapped up on reflex to judo throw this person before he noticed the pigmentation.

Looking towards his right he saw Ashido, her curly pink hair dirty and disheveled. Worry was written all over her face and her left index finger was over her lips.

"Are we that close to the Villains!? The Villains are in this area too!?" It made sense. This was likely set up in advance to split them all up and drop them off in different locations to be ambushed.

He nodded to show he understood, making her drop her hands. "Are they really close?" Izuku whispered anxiously.

"They're a bit further down, but I don't wanna take any chances if one of them has a Quirk like Jirou-chan's." Ashido moved her head to the right and began to crawl on the ground. Izuku followed her a bit before he caught sight of Aoyama. He was by the ledge but further back which prevented him from seeing anything.

"Considering his costume, it's probably to stop anyone from seeing him." The armor and cape glittered in the light, making him sparkle more. In this kind of situation, Aoyama's greatest strength was now their biggest liability. "Are we the only ones here?"

She nodded gloomily. "If anyone else is, they're also hiding." She turned to Aoyama. "How are you holding up?"

"Bien. So far my tummy isn't acting up." He motioned to the edge. "They're arguing down there."

Izuku and Ashido exchanged a look. Neither of them were looking forward to risking discovery, but as long as they were here they should gather some information before deciding what to do next.

Slowly, they crawled and peeked over the edge. They weren't that far up. If Izuku had to compare it to anything their ledge was about the height of a second story building. Below, a group of Villains were arguing with Kangaroo who was standing in front of her now upright brother.

"Who the hell are you to tell us to get lost!?" One wearing a domino mask and spiky hair leaned down to match Kangaroo at eye-level. "Shigaraki made it clear that this is our turf! Go back to the courtyard and stick to your own! No way you're cuttin' in on our paycheck!"

"I don't care what Handy told you!" Kangaroo poked the man in the forehead, elicitating a growl from him. "Mysterio-sama told me I could have as much fun as I wanted when I got here, and my playmates are somewhere around here! I've made a playdate with Spider-Man, I've got a bone to pick with that sparkling shit, and my sugar high is gone!" She stamped her feet on the ground while waving her hands. "So do what I say or I'll cheer myself up with you!"

"The Villains are fighting with each other?" Maybe the League wasn't as unified as Mysterio made it out to be.

The man momentarily blinked before throwing back his head and laughing. "Ha! As if, shrimp! What the hell can a little brat like you d-!?"

He was cut off with a blur of motion. Kangaroo had hopped and roundhouse kicked the Villain's head off. Several of the Villains gasped while Ashido let out a small scream before covering her mouth, her black eyes widening in horror as the arms of the now dead Villain hung limply to its sides.

Izuku could only stare, mouth agape as Kangaroo returned to the ground with a sweep of her leg and the Villain's head hitting the ground with a thud.

The stump of the Villain's neck squirted and gurgled blood before it realized it was dead, collapsing on its back and spreading a blackish red pool.

"Pfft…!" Kangaroo laughed and pointed at the body. "Hah! Look at that! It's still going! It's like the stupid thing is still trying to breath!" She raised her foot up into the air. "Bet if I press down on its belly, it'll shoot out like a water gun! SPLURT!"

"That… how could she!?" Izuku's hands clenched into fists. "This girl… she's crazy! She didn't need to kill him, and she's doing it for fun!?"

This... This was the evil that needed to be stopped by Heroes like him.

"You little…!" One Villain began running towards her, electricity racing along his fingers preparing for an attack.

A flash of blue interrupted his declaration, his head thrown back and his body tumbling to the ground. The Frog Villain's gun was raised, his aim steady and true.

"All of you, get lost. Unless you all want your brains blown out."

The gathered Villains looked at one another for a second before turning tail. One turned his head and shouted over his shoulder, "You shits! We'll tell Shigaraki about this! You hear that Frog-Man!? You and your sister are done!"

The jeers and threats of the fleeing Villains grew fainter with each passing second, leaving the two siblings alone. Kangaroo lowered her leg, but didn't bring it down on the decapitated Villain and instead walked to her brother.

"I'm sorry, Onii-chan." She said in a subdued voice. "I've gotten you in trouble again."

"No, you didn't!" He put away his gun and placed his hand on her shoulder. "I've told you before, didn't I? No matter what you decide to do, I'll always be by your side to protect you."

"But now we're going to have to fight all those nobodies. They'll tell Handy and Handy'll tell Mysterio-sama! They'll come for me and… and…!" She lifted her mask and Izuku was surprised to see a cute tanned face, unblemished by any scars or any signs of her madness. She wiped the tears from her eyes. "I'll kill them all, but you'll still get hurt! That twinkling guy hit you and I was so angry! Breaking that nobody cheered me up but now I've screwed everything up!"

"Doesn't matter. It changes nothing." Frog-Man reached into his pocket and took out a box. "We were on the run before, the whole world against us because of something that's not even your fault. We'll just do it again. We'll kill those Heroes like you wanted and get out of here. Not even Mysterio will find us if we take a boat or plane somewhere far away. Just the two of us on the road again…"

"Thin Mints?" She pulled her brother into a tight hug, "Thank you… Even though I cause you so much trouble…"

"I'm your older brother." Frog-Man rubbed her back. "I'm supposed to help you. It's in the job description."

"If he were a real big brother, he would've locked her up for her own good!" Ashido hissed out, her body trembling in rage and fear. "What the hell is wrong with them!?"

"I don't know." Izuku answered honestly. To be honest, he didn't even want to know. "We have to stop them."

"Quoi?" Aoyama asked from behind them. "Wouldn't it be better if we waited for our teachers?"

"Hate to admit it, but he's right." Ashido grimaced. "We're only students, Midoriya. If we go down there…"

"Right now, there's only two of them with one focused on getting me and Aoyama-kun." Izuku didn't like dragging his classmates into this. His plan was going to get all of them hurt in some way, but if they didn't do this, then those two would continue on with their bloodlust and insanity. "If we keep hiding, then they'll wander off and hurt the others. I… I can't let that happen. That's not what a Hero would do, so I won't. And I don't think you will either."

Ashido was silent for a second. Slowly, she let out a sigh of defeat. "Yeah… you got me there. This is going to suck, though."

"Yes, it would be unbecoming of a future Hero to leave Villains alone." Izuku turned to see Aoyama nodding. The blonde was trembling, his shaking and clattering armor was proof of that. But Izuku could see the determined gleam in the boy's eyes. "Very well. What's the plan?"

Izuku allowed a shaky smile to spread across his lips. "They're willing to risk their lives just to be Heroes…" He hadn't spoke to either of them regularly, something he was ashamed of. But now he knew they had more linking them together than just attending the same class.

Both of them had the inner strength to be Heroes when the time came.

"I know Ashido-san's Quirk is producing acid while your Quirk lets you shoot blasts from your navel, Aoyama-kun." He glanced at the two of them. "Any drawbacks?"

"If I use my Quirk too much, I get a tummy-ache." Aoyama looked to the side uncomfortably. "It depends on the length of time I maintain it or the amount of lasers I use."

"I've got pretty good control of my acid, but I've gotta keep focusing on the acidity." Ashido raised her hand as a clear liquid dripped from her fingers onto the ground. Izuku could hear sizzling and saw the wisps of smoke from the wet patches. "Otherwise things'll get pretty nasty."

"Okay…" Izuku rubbed his chin in thought. It all seemed pretty straightforward. "Both of them rely on their agility and jumping power for attacks, but Kangaroo's the most dangerous one. So Ashido-san and I will go down there. She'll act as ground support." He pointed at himself. "I can handle Kangaroo's strength and I'll take her out with my Venom Strike. Ashido-san, you'll use your acid on Frog-Man's legs to show off whatever technology he might be using to help himself out while Aoyama-kun will provide covering fire. I'll bring him down while he's distracted and restrain them both before we regroup with Aizawa-sensei and Midnight in the courtyard."

It was a reasonable plan, and the confident nods his classmates gave showed they thought so too. "But so much can go wrong! What if Kangaroo is too fast for me!? What if Ashido gets shot before Aoyama can provide her cover!? What if…?"

No. No time for that. He needed to take Peter's advice and use it. "We'll cross that bridge when we get there."

He and Ashido got onto their feet and he wrapped his right arm around her. "Now!" They shouted in unison while Aoyama scrambled for the edge. They leapt down, racing towards the Villains who were just noticing their presence

Time to be Heroes.

"Hey! It's Spide-!" Kangaroo's joyous tone shifted to confusion. "You brought those weaklings with you!?"

Izuku fired a web line at Kangaroo, but a quick leap back allowed her to avoid being caught in it. "Good." It wasn't his plan to catch her like that anyways.

Tugging at the web, he and Ashido accelerated to the ground. Once they were close enough, he released his grip on Ashido who spun herself to kick at Frog-Man. He leapt up, avoiding the blow entirely and aimed his rifle down.

"You're mine, Hero!" The rifle's exhaust ports began to glow blue for a second, humming and pulsing in preparation for a shot.

Only for a beam of sparkling energy to hit the barrel, knocking it off course and shooting uselessly in the distance.


"Thanks!" Mina Ashido shouted, throwing Aoyama a quick peace sign before running towards the rapidly descending Frog-Man. "Better speed things up!"

People thought she was stupid, and for the most part they were right. Mina never really had a knack for studying. Why waste time on something she didn't enjoy? It was part of the reason why she studied better when she was with a group of friends rather than doing it alone.

But it didn't mean she was an idiot.

An idiot wouldn't be able to handle a Quirk like hers.

Focusing solely on the bottoms of her feet, she secreted her acid and made the mental calculations to up the acidity enough to turn the rocky ground to mud. It worked like a charm, the custom-made plastic boots standing up to the acid flowing through its pores and onto the ground.

She grinned while skating forward as if she were on a pair of roller skates, gaining more speed that before and caught up to the Villain. Curling her right hand into a fist, she jumped up and caught the Villain's chin in a right hook.

The benefit of dealing with someone whose Quirk involves leaping over tall buildings in a single bound?

She heard a satisfying crack as his head was thrown back and he fell onto the ground.

"It's easy to predict the descent. Sucks for you, buddy." She didn't waste time and began to leg it towards a particularly tall boulder by the mountain. It wouldn't take long for the Villain to recover and Mina would rather not be reduced to swiss cheese by glowing bullets.

Mina hated how some people thought that she was air-headed. She knew her stuff, but most of her interest in academics revolved solely around her Quirk. She needed to constantly study different kinds of acid and their chemical makeup, practice almost every day mastering which limb she would secrete it from and for how long.

If she didn't, people would get hurt and possibly die.

If not from the acid itself, then the fumes.

"So why shouldn't I have a bit of fun? Besides…" She heard the sound of a hum behind her and felt the air shift behind her left heel. Jumping up, she twisted her body out of the way of another energy bullet. "...having a breakdancing hobby pays off!"

Ducking, twirling, and leaping she had made it behind the boulder. Puffs of smoke and blue light came from the edges as Frog-Man continued to fire.

"That's not going to help you!" he cried. "You're dead! You hear me!? I'm not like my sister! I don't play around with my targets!"

"Yeah, then why are you flappin' your gums!?" Ashido raised her hands and allowed acid to drip from her palms. "Instead of monologuing, come and get me already! I'm dying of boredom here!"

Despite her boast, she was shaking. This was just like that time with the huge Villain confronting her friends back in middle school. She had put up a brave front, jumping between them without a second thought. Her voice, firm and strong as she stood in front of a guy who could probably squish her like a bug.

But she knew it had to be done. She couldn't show any weakness while danger stared at her in the face. It was only when it was gone and she was safe that she was allowed to cry.

"Which is nice, but how the heck am I supposed to get out of this one?"

Frog-Man was going to leap up and have a clear shot at her. That was inevitable. "So I've just gotta hope we can pull this off."

She cupped her right hand around her left thumb while her left hand's fingers curled around the right. She had thought over how to make her acid attack long-distance and more accurate than just flinging around her arms like a madwoman.

"Well, better late than never." She turned and placed her right foot on the boulder. Using her acid to create small footholds, she quickly scaled the boulder as if she were going up a short stairway before she reached the top as Frog-Man began leaping upwards. At the same time, she jumped while raising her clasped hands. Several of Aoyama's beams raced over her, throwing the Villain's aim be thrown off and preventing him from just shooting her dead. "Here goes nothin'!"

Squeezing her right hand and turning up her acid's pressure, a small but powerful stream went up and doused the muzzle of the gun. In a matter of seconds, it melted over, sparks flying out of the exhaust ports as its owner tried in vain to shake it off.

"Shit!" Frog-Man cried as he threw the gun away. It hissed for a second before exploding in a bright blast of blue flame and smoke.

"YES!" Mina landed on the ground and pumped her fist in the air. She did it! Now the two of them were on even ground!

She had been pretty freaked out when Midoriya proposed they take on the Villains. Her first encounter with one made her break down into a sobbing mess. She knew how to fight, sure, but practice didn't prepare you for facing a real murderer. Thoughts of how she wasn't ready and how the teachers should handle the situation rang through her head.

But Midoriya was right. She couldn't stomach the idea of letting these two psychos run around doing what they wanted.

She didn't enter this school just to chicken out the first moment when the going got tough!

She advanced on the descending Villain, her eyes narrowed in reaffirmed determination.

"Midoriya… Aoyama… let's win this thing!"


"Nice job, Aoyama-kun!" Izuku shouted as his hands hit the ground and vaulted at the descending Kangaroo, his hands outstretched and crackling with energy. "Now's my chance! While she's still trying to figure out what's going on…!"

"Hah! I get it! Ya wanna play tag now, right!?" Kangaroo threw her arms back and they returned to their spring form, her fists making contact with the ground first. She sprung off them, flying past him and grabbing him by the ankle on the way up. "Too bad, because that's my favorite!"

Her arm contracted and returned to normal, yanking him back up with her. "Not good! She's going to throw me down!" No, this was perfect! He would be able to use his position to land a blow on her! He relaxed and allowed Kangaroo to land on the ground before using his weight and their speed to fling him over her shoulder. The ground raced into view and Izuku saw his chance.

He shot his arms out, catching himself and pivoting like a top to throw the same kick he used to shake up Kacchan. He heard a gasp of pain as his heel slammed into her chest, flinging her back as he followed-through with the motion to land on his feet. He then turned to swipe at her with his right hand, unleashing the energy of the Venom Strike.

But all that he hit was empty air.

Kangaroo was farther away, clutching the center of her chest and shaking.

"Hehe…" She wheezed and coughed. "That blow… you were holding back, weren't you?" A giggle escaped from beneath her mask. "You're strong, aren't you? Strong like me… stronger than all the nobodies and toys…"

Leading with her right leg, the Villain jumped straight at him with her arms reeled back and her fists ready to strike.

"FINALLY! SOMEONE WHO'S STRONG ENOUGH TO UNDERSTAND THE GAME!"

"She's coming in too fast!" Bringing both his hands up, he let loose streams of webbing to pin her to the floor. But she bounced out of the way each and every time, vanishing from sight whenever it looked like she was about to get hit.

"More… I want more…! The pain is as sweet as candy! Share it with m-!"

Kangaroo was silenced when Aoyama's beam struck her right shoulder. She screamed as she rolled on the ground as his attack dissipated. "This is my chance!"

Angling his arms, Izuku used two webs to slingshot himself towards the still recovering Villain.

"Annoying…"

Kangaroo leapt up, sailing above Izuku.

"Damn!"

"You're annoying!" He turned his head and saw her arms extended, grasping Aoyama by the shoulders before she pulled them back.

"NO!" Aoyama let loose another laser, but it passed over the Villain's shoulder as she raced straight towards him. She raised both of her legs and brought them close to her chest, the thigh muscles and machinery pulsing and expanding with each passing millisecond.

Izuku's heart nearly stopped at the sight before him. "She was able to get at Aoyama that quickly!?" He cursed himself. Why hadn't he thought of a way to keep Aoyama safe? "He only has his beams! He's practically a sitting duck at close-range!"

"This is for what you did to my brother, you bastard!"

Izuku leapt between them without thinking and reached for Aoyama before she could strike. Kangaroo's feet dug into Izuku's back instead, his shoulder blades creaking as she pushed down more and more. "I can practically hear them grinding!" No time to dwell on that now. His arms wrapped around Aoyama as they flew back, Kangaroo using his body as a springboard to move ahead.

"Don't mess this up, Izuku! You've got this!" They somersaulted in the air for a brief second, Izuku's Spider-Sense flaring in a matter of seconds. He tucked in his chin and bent his arms, allowing himself to stumble with Aoyama before his back hit a wall.

"M-Merci…" The blond muttered. "Please tell me you can still stand?"

"Yeah…" Peter's lessons on falling safely saved him yet again.

"Hey, why are you protecting that weakling?" Izuku looked to Kangaroo, who was standing with her hands on her hips and her head cocked to the side like a confused puppy. "You're strong, not like him."

He stared incredulously at the Villain while helping Aoyama to his feet. "Is she for real?" He knew he wasn't supposed to banter with Villains, but the words left his throat before he could stop himself. "Because I'm going to be a Hero, that's why!"

"I don't get it." The mad glee from before had vanished. Now she sounded like a little girl asking her teacher why two plus two equals four. "You're strong. You're like me. You should be able to see the world for what it is."

"Come on, Izuku. Just shut up and rush her!" That's what every fibre of his being was telling him to do. Real Heroes didn't stop to banter when lives were on the line. Comics and manga only did it to increase tension or pad out the length of a story. A Hero needed to act, to save people as quickly as possible!

"But if I go at her, then she'll just leap away. She moves too fast for me, and she probably knows that I'm trying to grapple her for a reason." Kangaroo needed to be the one to make the first move. He would counter her instead of the other way around!

"You're right. I am strong." Izuku put his hand on his chest. "But it's because I'm strong that I have to help people who can't help themselves! To protect them from Villains like you!"

"People?" She pointed at Aoyama, who flinched at the act. "You mean the twinkling toy? He's not a person. He's a plaything."

"Stop spouting nonsense!"

"It's not nonsense." Kangaroo sighed as though she were about to explain a simple fact of life. "Even I got this when I was a little girl! I was strong! Insanely strong! Whenever I hit stuff, they stopped moving!" She reached up and flicked down her index finger. "Turned off, just like a light switch and sometimes squirted out blood! Like a toy that my mommy and daddy gave me! Then they had to get all mean and act like it's my fault for playing with my toys! Onii-chan was the only one who understood me…"

She jabbed a finger at him, accusing with a whiny voice that sounded desperate. "And you should too! You're stronger than all of them, aren't you!? You should see them as toys too! You shouldn't hold back because everyone else says it's wrong or whatever! They shouldn't be able to feed you pills and say that what makes you happy is something icky in your head! That's just how we're made. That's the way of the world works!"

"She honestly believes that." An emptiness filled his being, his stomach twisted with revulsion. "She thinks she can do whatever she wants just because she has power."

The girl was obviously psychotic, but that mindset… it was one that had shaped many Villains. The idea that they were unfairly put down by a world that owed them. That they should take what they want and damn everyone else as recompense.

Before Izuku could speak his mind, Aoyama stepped forward and coughed into his hand. "No, it isn't." Kangaroo stood silent as Aoyama smirked. "That kind of thinking… it's only for disgracieux people like you. So, to be perfectly frank…"

He flipped his hair.

"Your 'it's the world's fault' speech can va te faire foutre. Oh, and that means 'go to hell', Villain."

Izuku looked at his blond classmate, doing all he can to not let his jaw drop in amazement. "T-That was so cool, Aoyama-kun!" Aoyama had never been 'cool' by any stretch of the definition! He was always going on about how amazing he was or how shiny things were, but this was something completely new!

"I just thought that he was showing off with all those French words! How did he make them sound so freakin' cool!?"

"Good."

"You…" Kangaroo seethed, her arms shaking in rage.

And just like that, Aoyama turned on his heel and ran back behind cover. "I'll leave the next move to you, Midoriya-kun!"

"BAAASTARD!" She jumped forward with her right foot twisting her body as she flew towards them with her left leg drawn back and ready to kick.

"This is it! She's too angry to think clearly and she doesn't have any options to change course!" But he needed to time this just right or else she'll figure out something's wrong! "She just needs to get closer…"

She was ten meters away and Izuku's enhanced eyesight could practically see the grooves of her shoes.

"Closer…"

Five meters now with the dried blood and dirt clinging to her legs.

"Closer…!"

One meter…

Pain shot through his head, his Spider-Sense finally activating. "Now!"

With his right hand, he webbed Kangaroo's mask, blinding her. Her leg shot out, flailing wildly in the air as he stepped to the side. Not wasting a second he shot another web into her left shoe and pulled, turning her body mid-air towards him. "Aoyama-kun!"

"NAVEL LASER!" Aoyama used his Quirk to nail Kangaroo between her shoulder-blades which Izuku couldn't help but feel a slight twinge of satisfaction for. She flew at him, still flailing and disoriented from their teamwork.

"This fight…" He reached deep inside, bringing out the anger he felt at this Villain. For all the people she had killed, for the pain she enjoyed inflicting and her sense of entitlement… he had enough of it.

The Venom Strike danced along his arms with the air crackling in the energy.

"IS OVER!" He thrust his arms out, hitting Kangaroo in the abdomen. She let out a small scream as her nervous system was overloaded from the energy, every muscle twitching in agony before falling back onto the ground, limp and still.

"My first Villain… I defeated my first Villain!"


Katsuro Ito, known by his fellow Villains as Frog-Man, watched as his sister fell to the ground. The sister who's life he vowed to protect wasn't moving, just laying there as the Heroes advanced towards her. "ICHIGO!"

He needed to get to her, to save her before they caught her and locked her up!

The pink-skinned girl advanced towards him, and Katsuro couldn't help but grimace as he pulled on his neck muscles. He felt his tongue begin to build up in his mouth to the point that his cheeks bulged.

Then, he opened his mouth.

His Quirk Silver Tongue, which could extend almost ten meters, shot out from the opening of his mask towards the student. Unlike most tongues, it had a silver ribbed exoskeleton that glistened from his saliva and the sunlight. As it was exposed to the air the tip turned into a silver point with sharp edges.

He had tested it out once on a lead pipe, and the blade was so sharp that it sliced clean through it.

"Crap!" The girl stopped sliding towards him and cartwheeled to the right to avoid being stabbed through the twist, moving his tongue to the right, the tip changed course and sliced deeply along the girl's arm. She hissed in pain and clutched the bleeding limb.

Katsuro could've killed her right then and there, but rescuing his sister took top priority.

Leaping past the girl with his tongue trailing behind him, Katsuro whipped his head so that the tip of his tongue would hit the two boys approaching his sister. It would've decapitated both, eliminating the students' long-range fighter and the powerhouse that could actually stand on even ground with Ichigo. But Spider-Man was too fast, grabbing the blonde and leaping out of the way while firing a web at Ichigo. It hit the middle of his elongated tongue, but a quick flip allowed for Katsuro to cut the line.

"We need to get out of here, now!" Landing, he scooped up Ichigo and began hopping towards the lake area. "The boat… if I can reach it we can hide out in one of the rooms. The Villains there are probably regrouping in the courtyard after killing the students anyways."

She felt so limp in his arms, not moving as the wind passed over their bodies.

Ichigo Ito wasn't like other girls.

When she was born she never smiled. She never played with the toys that were given to her. She would pick them up and study them before throwing them away, uninterested in their supposed purpose of entertaining her.

She only laughed whenever he was there to play with her. She would become enthusiastic about their activities, becoming lively whenever he would show her a new game. The only thing she got true enjoyment out of without his involvement was candy.

Her first word was not "Mom" or "Dad", but "Katsu".

Their parents would often joke that he was his sister's keeper.

Katsuro had taken the words of his father to heart. That it was the elder sibling's duty to take care of the younger no matter what. That they relied on the elder sibling to protect them and to show them the way. He liked those lessons because it made him feel like his sister's Hero.

Ichigo didn't have any friends and would spend most of her time exploring the woods with him or playing around with her Quirk, Rubber Hose. But, sometimes, she would go off on her own and get in trouble whenever she returned with scrapes and bruises.

One day, she brought something back.

"Onii-chan… I was having fun with it but now it's broken! Please fix it!"

It was a cat, its limbs broken and skin cut. An interrogation by their parents revealed that Ichigo had been torturing the thing for days and couldn't comprehend why that was wrong. It had disturbed him and led to their parents arguing for days before bringing her to a doctor. He prescribed her medicine that was supposed to make her better.

But all that did was leave her… lifeless. She didn't laugh whenever he tried to show her something new, television no longer interested her, and she needed to be helped by either him or their parents to be motivated to eat.

He hated every moment of it.

"Please, Ichigo… just talk to me. This… this isn't like you!"

"I-I… I feel so empty, Onii-chan. I can't feel anything. Everything's numb and… and… I don't like this. I feel like I'm a prisoner in my own body…"

He had argued with his parents about the medicine. They insisted that it was for the best, that Ichigo was sick and needed all the help she could get, and that the side-effects would fade over time. He screamed and cried, but eventually they gave in.

On Ichigo's thirteenth birthday, they stopped giving her the medicine and she slowly got better. She began to laugh more, to show life again and even became chipper in school. She joined the karate club and their parents thought that it might help to instill some restraint on her problems.

But it didn't take long for her to be kicked out. She hit harder than needed, injured her fellow club members and kicked them while they were down laughing all the while.

Katsuro overheard his parents' whispered conversation that night. How they called Ichigo a demon and how it would be best to just stick her in a mental institution and throw away the key. That she was a Villain in the making and it would be a disgrace if they just ignored all the signs.

Yes… Katsuro knew that his sister wasn't sane. But it wasn't her fault! Why did she have to be punished just because something was wrong with her brain!? He couldn't sit by and ignore the fact that his sister was going to be imprisoned, forced to waste away and never able to smile again!

It would betray his duty as her older brother.

So that night, he and Ichigo ran away from home. They stuck to the shadows and used up what little money they had saved. They only got more when Ichigo killed a man trying to mug them.

And it was at that moment Katsuro decided that if his sister was a demon… then he would gladly go to Hell with her.

They built up a reputation of being demon siblings, killing and stealing without a care in the world. He reined in Ichigo before she could be really set off, and for the most part they lived comfortably before Mysterio approached them and offered steady employment. He operated on Ichigo with the Kangaroo gear, an operation she gladly took because of him.

"If this can make me stronger… then that means I'll be able to protect you better, Onii-chan!"

As he landed close to the trees of the artificial forest, he took off Ichigo's mask to reveal her sweaty tanned face, short but spiky brown hair, and the little lock that stood up near the middle of her forehead.

"I'm sorry." Katsuro muttered, tears coming out of his eyes and rolling down his cheeks beneath the mask. "I'm such a failure of an older brother. I should've… I should've refused!"

If he did, then she wouldn't have been hurt.

Katsuro heard movement behind him and turned. His tongue shot towards Spider-Man. The boy deftly sidestepped the tip and grabbed the unsharpened body of the tongue in attempt to yank him off balance.

"No! I won't let you!" Using his Quirk, he wrested his tongue from his grip and began to bend and twist it in all directions. Loops to trap him, swipes at different angles, and jabbing motions from behind to get at the boy.

Spider-Man was both agile and nimble, however. He would grab the top of a loop to swing while bringing his left leg up to avoid a jab from the tip of Katsuro's tongue. No matter what he did, the Hero would always flip, dive, or roll out of the way. A frog's tongue could accelerate at nearly a third of the speed of sound, but Spider-Man always seemed to know exactly where Katsuro was aiming. "How? How is he doing this?!"

When Spider-Man was ten feet away, he raised his right hand and something came out. Before Katsuro knew it, something grey was blocking his mask's eyes. "No! I can't see!"

He heard the boy scream and felt his knuckles crash into the right side of his face. Katsuro's eyes bulged from the force of the blow. Stars filled his vision filling his vision. His body felt heavy and he could only let out a wet gurgle that took forever to leave his lips.

He was going down for the count.

When he hit the ground, everything seemed to be coming from the end of a tunnel… including his sister's scream.

"Ichigo… I'm sorry your big brother is so useless…"


"Damn it… why the heck do they gotta be so fast?" Ashido muttered, her eyes squinting at Midoriya's retreating form. "This is so unfair."

"Perhaps." Yuga shrugged as he sat on the ground. "What I'm worried about is Midoriya-kun being caught off guard with us being all the way back here."

"Yeah, that would suck."

Yuga had been expecting many things from his first few days in U.A. Showing his classmates his dazzling new costume, mastering his Quirk, and perhaps starting a few friendships.

This… had not been on the agenda.

"How's your stomach treating you?" Ashido asked. As if on cue, Yuga's stomach decided to gurgle a bit.

It was mild discomfort. Nowhere near the pain and bowel-clenching that he usually got from overuse. "Thank God for small favors." He didn't want to soil his costume on top of being caught in the middle of a Villain attack.

"Just wish that my costume had a compartment for Perrier. Your cut?"

Ashido patted her now bandaged arm. "Bleeding stopped but it still kinda stings. I guess that tongue-thing's why the guy got the Frog-Man costume… though I think Tsuyu-chan's gonna want to sue."

Yuga chuckled uneasily before looking to the ground. "I feel so sans espoir. We're sitting here while Midoriya-kun's over there engaging the Villains."

It was true that he was scared. Terrified more like it. When that Kangaroo Villain had put her hands on him, he thought that it was over. That he was going to die without leaving a single mark on this world. All his effort to get into U.A would've been for naught.

But… Midoriya saved him. The boy who he had once looked down on for his unoriginal costume had saved him!

And now… all he was doing was sitting on the sidelines.

"Yeah, but what can we do? You can't fire at that distance unless you wanna completely miss them and I'm not a long-range fighter like you."

Yuga nodded while sighing. It was true… and with the two Villain's tendency to jump, he wouldn't likely be able to hit him now the initial shock of their attack had worn off.

"Wait… if distance is the problem…"

His stomach gurgled and twisted at the idea, but he ignored it. What he had in mind was scary and risky. "But if I can make it work…"

"Ashido-san." He got on his knees and laid down on the ground. His regulator belt, armor, and nose made their acquaintance with the rust-colored dirt. "If things go wrong for Midoriya-kun… get his attention, have him bring one of them over us."

"Wha… what the heck are you even planning? What kinda plan has you face-first in the dirt?"

He glanced at her and grinned, already imaging sparkles appearing around his form.

"Why, to give a dazzling finish to this sordid battle, of course!"

He just hoped that Midoriya would be willing to help him land the hit.

Otherwise this would be a pretty stupid way to die.


Izuku didn't waste any time and used his webbing to restrain Frog-Man. He covered the young Villain's entire body in the stuff up to the neck, sticking him onto the ground. "Damn it! I should've been quicker!"

Everything had happened so fast. He had been basking in the bliss of his first real victory with Aoyama while he was moving to web up Kangaroo before her brother had gotten past Ashido and collected her.

"And who knows how much time before she recovers! Peter and Kacchan came to in a couple of minutes and…"

He heard a howl filled with sorrow and anger.

"KATSURO!" Izuku turned, raising his hands to fire his webbing only to receive a savage punch to the gut that knocked the wind out of his sails. "HOW DARE YOU!? HOW DARE YOU HURT MY BROTHER YOU BASTARD!?"

Kangaroo's left hand grabbed his neck as the Villain leapt towards him. Her unmasked face contorted with hellish fury that swept away her insane childlike innocence. Murder was in her eyes and spittle coming out of her mouth.

"I'll kill you! I'll fucking kill you! Playtime's over!" Kangaroo kneed him in the gut without letting go of his neck. Setting down her left foot, she used her right leg to kick him in the side while releasing him. He flew through the air around twenty feet before tumbling dangerously close to a ravine. "I'm going to tear you apart limb from fucking limb and crush your head with your own legs!"

"She means it!" He got to his feet just in time for another punch to nail him squarely between the eyes. He blinked away the stars in his vision before leaned back to avoid a savage dropkick that would have knocked him off the mountain. "Before, she was taking her time with me! She's not going to let me think myself out of it this time!"

His Spider-Sense throbbed, warning him of the danger headed towards his head. Raising his arms, Izuku caught Kangaroo's right before the left hit him in the limbs. Once again, we was sent sprawling while the Villain landed on her feet.

"She would've crushed my ribcage if I didn't have these powers!"

He fired his webs at her feet, sticking them to the rocky ground. This proved futile after Kangaroo screamed and tugged up her legs. She seemed to ignore her socks and shoes tearing apart while bits of her flesh were torn.

"Damn it!" Izuku jumped up and shot more webs at Kangaroo, who weaved all around the battlefield in rapid speed. He didn't have many options! She wouldn't stay still long enough for him to get a good hit in and he couldn't use his Venom Strike anymore! "I blew my trump card too early! And now, because of me, Ashido's hurt and Kangaroo is not going to stop!"

Thinking back to his classmates, he turned his attention back to where he left them by the mountain area. He could see Ashido, her pink skin and Aoyama's sparkling armor stood out against the rock and… "What are they doing?" Ashido was waving at him, and Izuku narrowed his eyes. "Is Aoyama… lying on the ground?"

Did they have a plan?

Part of him wanted to keep handling things on his own to keep them safe if the plan went south. But memories of his team-up with Jirou entered his head. Together, they had managed to defeat Kacchan!

By working together… Heroes could beat impossible odds!

Izuku fired another web line at the mountain and when it hit home, he pulled himself towards his classmates.

"Oh no you don't!" Kangaroo screamed as she leapt up behind him. "You're not getting out of this! I'm going to strip off your skin and use it as fucking fertilizer for the plants!"

He ignored her and kept using his webs to zipline towards the two. If he could just get overhead…

He felt his Spider-Sense and knew what to do.

"She'll grab me on the shoulder…"

Kangaroo's right hand grasped his left shoulder, but before it could get a good grip, he grasped the spring-like wrist with both hands.

"But this time…"

Using his full strength, he raised the limb over his head and threw it down in front of him.

"I'll use your Quirk against you!"

Kangaroo's body sailed above him, the girl diving head-first in the same direction of his classmates.

"NOW!"

"Go get her, Aoyama!" Ashido screamed. At the same time, Aoyama rose up from the ground in a sparkling pillar. He rose up to Izuku's level before he could even blink before cutting off his beam.

But not before Aoyama grabbed Kangaroo from behind in a full nelson.

"YOU!" Kangaroo screamed in anger and surprise.

"Moi." Aoyama replied simply. "Enjoy my sparkling laser!"

Aoyama's waist glowed and the beam hit Kangaroo directly in the spine. She screamed as him let go, the beam driving him back while Kangaroo spun in the air towards Izuku.

He used a web to grab Aoyama and bring him back with a tug, while at the same time making him advance towards Kangaroo with his fist drawn back. "I've had enough of you!"

With that, Izuku threw his punch.

A part of him wished he didn't hold back.

He hit Kangaroo in the cheek, knocking her head back before raising his right leg and nailing her midsection with an axe kick. As he caught Aoyama and slung him over his shoulder, Izuku fired web after web as Kangaroo sailed down. With each passing second she was enveloped in a cocoon of webbing. Before she hit the ground, he tugged his web back and caught the now-enveloped Villain with his left hand before bringing it up and landing.

Her head was free, but all that came out of her mouth and dazed eyes was a groan.

"It's over…" Izuku muttered as he shakily put Aoyama and the Villain down. His classmate stumbled a couple of steps back, turned, and rushed behind a rock while clutching his stomach. Izuku was about to ask if he was alright, but Aoyama gave a quivery thumbs up back from around the corner.

"We… We…" Ashido broke out in a grin and thrust her fist into the air. "WE DID IT!"

"Yeah… thank you both." Izuku let out a few chuckled, the joy of being alive filling him and melding with Ashido's laughter while Aoyama continued to be sick.

It had been a long and hard battle, but they managed to snatch victory in spite of impossible odds.

Just like real Heroes.

Despite his joy, his eye wandered towards the courtyard.

"But… we're not done yet."

His hands clenched into fists.

"Hang in there, Sensei… guys… we're coming!"


To Be Continued….


Note: Man, what a crazy time for me to give you all this chapter freshly betaed by reppuzan?

Hope all of you are staying healthy and following the advice of medical experts during this coronavirus pandemic. Wash your hands for twenty seconds, sneeze/cough in your elbow, avoid large crowds, etc. We're all affected by this and the more we follow the experts' advice the sooner this'll all come to an end.

In the meantime, it's up to us to provide you guys with free entertainment!

Making this fight was pretty fun, and I enjoyed writing Kangaroo even if she was a bit annoying since I wanted to include a Kangaroo character thanks to the Spider-Man manga. He had the same reasoning for being a villain, that he was strong and the world rejected him for it, so I decide to take that, add the crazy of Hazel & Cha-Cha from the Umbrella Academy, and voila!

Plus I got to do some cool moments with Ashido and Aoyama so that was neat!

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