Shinsou yawned, and trudged to the common room. With Yamada's permission, the class had asked Nezu about those articles and forum posts circulating around Midoriya, and he was really bothered by what Nezu had said.

Midoriya had, in fact, lost his parents in a fire while he was seven, before being sent to the foster system. He did fall off the roof of his elementary school, but that has been largely deemed an accident, and even Nezu himself wasn't too sure about the true nature of that incident.

Nezu did seem pissed when he realised that private information, like hospital reports and x-rays, had been posted on the internet, and seemed to be trying to do his best to remove such information from the websites. He was grumbling about people being insensitive as he sent the students back to their homeroom lesson, where they found Yamada seething under his breath as he scrolled through the site that Ashido had shown him.

Iida didn't even stop Yamada as he cursed in English under his breath.

They eventually decided that instead of thinking about it, they should just do something to take their minds off it, and Shinsou wanted to finish his homework first, and maybe, consider asking Kamihara about internships.

He grabbed his bag, and was about to fish out his homework when he noticed that the television was on, and that Kaminari, Sero, and Ashido were intently staring at the screen.

"What's going on?" Shinsou asked, walking closer to take a closer look, before noticing that there was a giant hole in the ground, with smoke coming out of it.

"We saw Uraraka, Tsu and that... uh... her name was Nejire, right?" Kaminari asked, "And a dragon. They all fell into the hole."

"Wait... so that's what they're doing for work studies?!" Shinsou yelped, as he sat down on the couch to take a closer look.

"Hitoshi, I thought we were going to do homework..." Iida walked down the stairs, before noticing the commotion, "What's going on?"

"Uraraka and Tsu's work study." Ashido replied, still staring intently at the screen, "I think this is a news helicopter."

"It seems like they tackled one of the villains into the ground... and is that an underground cavern? Right beneath the streets? Get in for a closer look!"

"But where's Midoriya and Kirishima?" Yaoyorozu asked, worried, as Bakugou walked out of the kitchen, "Who cares!? Maybe those two fuckers aren't even there! Pinky, Pikachu, it's your fucking shift for cleaning up!"

"Okay, okay." Kaminari and Ashido reluctantly got up from his seat to clean up the kitchen, as Todoroki and Koda sat down, their eyes glued on the screen.

"I hope they'll be okay..." Yaoyorozu muttered, "They're with pros... right? They'll be fine..."


"This should at least stop the bleeding... It's frustrating, but he'll need to rest for a while." Toyomitsu mused, laying Kirishima gently on the bed. Tengai had been tied up and was sitting in a corner, but Toyomitsu chose to let Rappa be since he wasn't being bery hostile at the moment. He had just finished wrapping the redhead's injuries, and Rappa eagerly asked, "Is he better? Can I kill him?"

"How can he be better already?!" Toyomitsu countered, "Let him live!"

The pro hero turned around to face Rappa, and scratched his head, "Since we're kind of talking frankly with each other now, this might be weird for a hero to ask, but why are you stuck in a small time gang like this?"

"That's because Overjerk was the only person I ever lost to." Rappa admitted, and Toyomitsu gawked, "You lost...?"

Rappa continued, "He told me to join, coming out of nowhere, picking a fight. Of course, I left it up to who won. And then... I died, but just when I thought that, I was back to normal. Even after I joined, I challenged him five times, but I lost every time. I stayed in order to beat that man."

He lost every time? Wait... that means that Chisaki can handle Rappa's power and speed? Since Rappa was being pretty cooperative, Toyomitsu asked, "Even though Chisaki's so strong, he's still left his underlings to fight us. Why won't he come out? He's not here, right? He either ran away, or is in hiding. What does Chisaki want to do?"

"Don't get ahead of yourself." Tengai snorted, "Who'd tell an enemy?"

"Trying to rehabilitate Yakuza?" Rappa asked, almost mockingly.

"Rappa!" Tengai shouted, but Rappa just ignored the other yakuza, "I don't know the details, but I overheard them talking. They said they'd distribute large numbers of something or something. And they needed money for that. As long as they clear that, then the day will soon come to implement their plan."

"Stop! Rappa!" Tengai yelled, but Rappa just kicked Tengai, shutting him up.

Plan? What kind of plan? Toyomitsu thought, as he glanced at Kirishima's unconscious form.


"Suspect restrained."

"His bark turned out to be much worse than his bite, kero." Asui muttered, watching as the police cuffed Katsukame. Uraraka turned to her, "No kidding."

"Katsukame Rikiya." Tatsuma spoke up, "He inhales the life force of those he touches and uses it to enhance his size. Isolate him before he regains consciousness."

"Yes, ma'am!"

"There's a lot of commotion inside! We'd better hurry!" Hado pointed at the compound, and Tatsuma nodded, "We're off to a late start, but let's head after Nighteye."

"Okay!" Uraraka and Asui nodded, turning towards the building, before they suddenly collapsed and fell to the ground, their energy drained.

Tatsuma turned around, worried, before noticing that he was absorbing the vitality of all the nearby people just by inhalation.

He's inhaling their life force? How? He's not even touching them! Tatsuma didn't have too much time to wonder what was going on as Katsukame woke up and snapped his restraints off, "The boosting drug I got from Irinaka finally kicked in... I feel full of energy!"

"Oh no!" Tatsuma swiftly changed into her dragon form to block a punch aimed at Uraraka and Asui. Katsukame kept up the attack, as Tatsuma fended him off.

They've been robbed of their vitality and can't even stand up... Tatsuma placed herself between the two first years and the yakuza, before yelling, "Nejire Chan!"

"Full charge!" Hado charged up a yellow bean in her hands, shooting it at Katsukame, though it didn't seem to affect him too much.

"The drug wore off." Katsukame complained, trying to steal Hado's vitality from a distance, "Let me feel you up, cutie pie!"

Hado just frowned at the perverted comment, before firing more blasts at Katsukame, "Ew! No!"

"Ryukyu!"

Asui and Uraraka turned to the side, before noticing Midoriya standing on the street, "I'm calling for backup! The objective is directly beneath that intersection. The others are pinned and need reinforcements!"

They did find it odd that Midoriya, of all people, was actually calling for help, but they weren't in the right mind to linger on it for too long.

"Everyone!" Tatsuma stretched out her wings and collided into Katsukame, sinking her fangs into his arm. Uraraka immediately activated her quirk on Katsukame and Tatsuma, making them float, as Asui used her tongue to drag them over to the intersection.

"Nejire Chan! Hit us with everything you've got!" Tatsuma yelled, as Katsukame growled, "How come these broads can still move!?"

"Because every day, we were told to go beyond! Plus Ultra!"

Hado fired off a powerful blast at Tatsuma and Katsukame, as Toga's disguise peeled off.

Toga snickered, "Go entropy! Plus Chaos! Am I right?"

"Where did you even get his blood?" Bubaigawara asked, as Toga laughed, "When we kidnapped him! Izu-kun's blood is tasty!"


Midoriya carefully snuck over to Togata and Eri, as Togata determined the best route to escape without being seen by Chisaki.

"Senpai..." Midoriya spoke up, "Get Eri out of here. I'll stay and help Sir."

"I can't leave you here to fight that monster, Midoriya." Togata tried to argue, but Midoriya just growled, "We can't leave Eri within range of Chisaki. You need to put some distance between him and her. Your quirk is best suited to protect her. Just go, I'll be fine."

"That's... enough..." Eri stammered, eyeing the blood that was dripping out of Midoriya's arm, "I'm sorry..."

"It's alright." Midoriya gently patted Eri's head, before suddenly tensing up, and without even waiting for a response, he ran back to the fight.

"Wait!" Togata called out, but Midoriya was already gone. The blonde turned to Eri, "Come on... let's go."

Midoriya ran towards Sasaki, a feeling of dread pooling in his stomach as he watched Sasaki avoid Chisaki's attacks.

And suddenly, he paused, frozen, almost like he had seen something that he shouldn't. Midoriya shot forward, pushing Sasaki to the side as Chisaki assaulted them with spikes. Midoriya felt a spike pierce through his side, and hissed in pain. It took Midoriya several hits with his knife to break the stone spike, but he finally broke it, and pushed himself off the remains of the spike.

He pressed his hand against the injury, and turned his head to check on Sasaki, who was lying on the ground, stunned, with a relatively large spike pierced through his arm, though otherwise, relatively unharmed. He stared into space, almost like he was in shock, and Midoriya did wonder what had happened for Sasaki to just freeze up like that, but now, he needed to defend Sasaki long enough for the pro to regain his bearings and get rid of the spike.

"The future..." Sasaki muttered, and Midoriya immediately understood what had happened; Sasaki had seen a terrible future, and was under the assumption that it couldn't be changed.

Who cared about stuff like that? It was useless to just wallow and not take action.

Midoriya lunged, and Chisaki growled, eyeing the green haired boy, trying to stop him with a combination of walls and spikes. Midoriya just shot out a blade from his bracer, lodging it into the concrete wall, and jumped, using it as leverage to flip over the wall, expertly twisting past the emerging spikes.

"Give it up. It'll end up like I said; you'll all die! Especially you!" Chisaki growled, but Midoriya didn't even seem bothered as he lunged at Chisaki again, "Who cares?"

"Impertinent!" Chisaki snapped, placing his hands on the ground, and creating four concrete tendrils that sped towards Midoriya. The green haired boy narrowly twisted past the first one, before jumping over another, using the subtle changes in the air around him to guess where the tendrils would be going. He managed to avoid them, and took a step closer to Chisaki, only for the yakuza to elevate the platform he was, and creating two more stone spikes. Midoriya swerved to the side, avoiding the first one, but the second went right through his shoulder.

Midoriya grit his teeth, and broke the spike with his bracer, before continuing after Chisaki. He knew that he couldn't beat Chisaki, and was just stalling for time; the man could literally repair himself if Midoriya did manage to injure him, and he had such a wide range of attack that it was only a matter of time until he skewered him.

The green haired boy threw himself at Chisaki, as the yakuza stretched out an arm to try and make contact, but Midoriya threw one of the knives he had stolen from Sakaki at him, lodging the blade in his arm. He used it as leverage to avoid getting hit by Chisaki directly, just barely managing to avoid Chisaki's hand. More spikes erupted out of the ground, and Midoriya got another spike impaled through his leg, but he just yanked it out and threw it away.

"Even if I can repair myself... It still hurts when I break apart..." Chisaki grumbled, dislodging the knife as he repaired his arm, "I'm done."

Midoriya growled, and tried to get in close, flipped through more stone spikes as Chisaki swiped at him with his hand. He slipped through the opening between the villain's arms, but his movements were limited as Chisaki's other set of hands came to grab him.

He didn't have a choice. Midoriya took a deep breath, and exhaled.

His mask lit up with red streaks, and the front opened up slightly, revealing a small opening as fire erupted out, right in Chisaki's face. Chisaki yelped in pain as the flames washed over him, giving Midoriya space to create some distance between the yakuza and himself, out of range of his grasp for instant destruction.

"Jeez, you kids are so persistent... I guess you can't look down on the hidden reserves of someone who won't give up." Chisaki growled, reforming his burnt face, before a mouth appeared on one of Chisaki's hands.

Midoriya looked at the mouth in confusion, and threw a knife at him, but Chisaki merely swatted the blade away and made more stone spikes. Midoriya managed to avoid most of them, before a stone tendril reached out from the ground, wrapping around his ankle, and another large stone spike erupted from the ground, right through Midoriya's gut.

The ground started trembling slightly, as Midoriya hissed, and broke the tendril with his foot, before trying to break the spike that had impaled him, as Chisaki looked up, "Huh... looks like he's back in action..."

Chisaki turned his hand towards the hole that Togata had escaped through.

"Someone is about to die because of you! Is that what you want?! Eri!"


Togata lifted Eri in his arms, as he started down the hallway. He noticed Sakaki still lying on the ground, knocked out, and he put Eri down for a minute, just to tie the unconscious drunk up to ensure that he wouldn't be an interference.

He continued trudging down the hallway with Eri, until he came across Mimic and Rock Lock, as well as several police officers. Mimic was tied up and leaning against a wall, thoroughly exhausted, as Rock Lock pressed a hand against his wound, before looking up at Togata.

"You came back? And this must be the girl..." Rock Lock muttered, observing the scared girl in Togata's grasp. Eri just clutched the pendant that Midoriya had left in her care, and tried to avoid looking at both Mimic and Rock Lock.

"I'm going to put you down for a quick second, alright?" Togata asked, placing Eri on the ground as he checked on Rock Lock. Eri spared a glance at Mimic fearfully, and the yakuza just snarled animalistically as he caught sight of the small girl. Eri flinched, and stumbled backwards, trying to get as far away from Mimic as possible.

Mimic just glared at Eri, anger burning within his eyes.

The heroes had somehow gotten the girl back, and he wasn't going to tolerate that. He knew that using Trigger on himself without resting properly between each dosage wasn't good for his body, but the heroes had already stolen the quirk-destroying bullets from Chisaki.

But as long as Chisaki had Eri, he could remake the bullets, and his plan could be put into motion. But he needed the girl, and even if it cost him his life, he would do anything for Chisaki.

He palmed the red vial in his hand, waiting for an opportunity where both Togata and Rock Lock were distracted; the police were all weak, and wouldn't be a problem. This particular vial of Trigger was weaker than the one he had just used, but it did give him a bigger energy boost, so he could control a smaller space for a longer amount of time. He watched as Eri backed into the wall, as Togata and Rock Lock turned away from him to check on the girl.

It didn't matter if he killed Eri in the process of getting rid of the heroes; Chisaki did it all the time, draining Eri of all her blood, before reassembling her back to life.

With that, Mimic took a switchblade out of his pants pocket, and ripped through the restraints; the police had checked his pockets and confiscated his weapons, but they didn't check for any hidden compartments on the inside of his clothes. He stabbed the red vial into his neck, injecting its contents into his bloodstream, as Rock Lock turned to the yakuza, noticing his weird movement.

"Lemillion! Get him!" Rock Lock yelled, as Togata turned around. The police tried to stop him, but they weren't fast enough, and Mimic immediately grabbed two of them and slammed them into the wall, knocking them out. He promptly assimilated into the wall, and the entire underground started shaking as the exit was blocked off. Concrete rushed down from the ceiling, but with One for All, Togata was easily able to break them apart, though it was getting harder to protect Eri, Rock Lock, and all the police officers while also fending off blocks of cement that were threatening to crush them.

"Not this bullshit again!" Rock Lock growled, looking upwards at all the shaking walls, placing his hand on the wall and locking the room in place with his quirk, "Lemillion, you need to find Irinaka before he brings the entire underground down on us! I've locked down a part of this chamber, but I don't know how long it will last."

"Got it! Take care of Eri!" Togata nodded, before smiling at Eri, "Stay with him, okay, Eri? Dozens of people are acting to save you. You'll be fine! I'll be back soon."

Togata phased into the wall, trying to find Mimic, as Rock Lock gently pulled Eri closer to him, using himself as a shield to prevent any rubble from falling onto her.

This was the girl that all the kids were risking their lives for, and he wasn't about to let their efforts be in vain. A particularly large block of cement fell from the ceiling, and Rock Lock pushed Eri out of the way, getting pinned down underneath the cement.

Eri tumbled to the ground, staring in shock at the pro hero who was pinned down under the rubble, when suddenly, a section of the wall peeled off, revealing a corridor, and a voice echoed out, "Someone is about to die because of you! Is that what you want?! Eri!"

Eri tensed up, and turned to the hole, "No... I don't..."

She started walking towards the hole, as Rock Lock reached out, "No! Eri, stay here!"

But his efforts were in vain; Eri had already disappeared down the newly opened corridor, running back to the man that made her life a living hell, with Mimic's powers shortening the corridor back to him.


Midoriya growled, breaking the stone spike with his blades, and charged at Chisaki, blood dripping out of his injuries. Chisaki swatted him away, as Sasaki pushed himself up and threw two more seals at Chisaki in an attempt to at least save Midoriya from the fate he had seen.

The future couldn't be changed. But maybe, if he tried hard enough, he could prevent one death. It wouldn't change the outcome by too much, but at least, he could try to save one of the children.

"I... don't... want that... Please... stop..." Eri stammered, walking back into the room, her entire body shaking, as Midoriya and Sasaki turned to her in shock.

"Eri! Stay with Lemillion!" Midoriya yelled, as Sasaki's head drooped; he had seen her coming back in his vision.

The mouth on Chisaki's hand asked, "Eri... do you really think that these guys can do anything in this situation by himself?"

"No... I don't..." Eri looked at the floor, trying to avoid looking at Midoriya's bloody body as the boy attempted to tackle Chisaki again.

"Then... what should you do...?" Chisaki asked, as Midoriya ducked down under his arms, stabbing the villain in the gut, but Chisaki created more stone spikes to chase Midoriya away, before healing his injury.

"Go back... In exchange... leave everyone else alone! Call Irinaka off! Please!" Eri begged, as Nemoto's Confession forced her to speak up.

"That's right! It's easier to be hurt yourself than to have others get hurt for you, huh?" Chisaki cackled, as a burning inferno blazed to life in Midoriya's gut as his anger boiled over, and he snarled, "Enough with the lies! Leave her alone! I hate people like you! Stop trying to guilt trip her!"

"Guilt trip?" Chisaki snorted, "Look at yourself. You don't have any extraordinary powers, and that pro hero you're with has already given up! You'll bleed to death before you can even save anyone!"

"I saw the future... you and I are killed... and Chisaki gets away with Eri..." Sasaki muttered, pushing Midoriya to the side as another stone spike erupted from the ground, impaling Sasaki in the side, and restricting his movements, "The future can't be changed... You can't save Eri... but I can still try to save you. Midoriya, get out of here... I'll try to buy you enough time to escape."

"There's no such thing as not being able to change a future that hasn't happened." Midoriya growled, before charging at Chisaki again, "Eri, stay back!"

"Have you realized that you're acting in the cruelest way possible to Eri? Your death would be much more painful to her than even her own death!" Chisaki cackled, using Nemoto's quirk once again.

"Then, I just won't die!" Midoriya snapped back, getting in close and kicking Chisaki in the head, "I'll refuse to die! I made a promise to get her out of here, and I'm going to keep it!"