"I'm curious, Midoriya. What was it like mating with another omega? I can't imagine it was in any way as satisfying as an alpha's cock. Not that you'd be able to compare, since you kicked me in the balls and took off before you could take mine," Todoroki said as he snatched Midoriya's arm back and pulled him off balance. Keeping his silence, Midoriya only regained his footing and continued walking. There wasn't much he wanted to say right now, and it felt like Todoroki was only looking to get a reaction from him with his words, so he decided not to give him what he wanted.

The trail curved into one of the pockets of trees, tucked away from the main fields with the trees providing shade from the sun that was directly overhead now. If he had been here for any other purpose, Midoriya would have enjoyed the slight breeze and a short rest under the shade. Todoroki yanked him to a stop beneath one of the trees.

"So you're going to ignore me, is that it? I asked you a question and demand an answer!" He took a swing at Midoriya with his right hand and connected with his left cheek, several gashes left behind by his exposed alpha claws. Midoriya pressed his hand against his face, the blood flowed slowly from his wounds. Tears soon joined the red liquid streaming down his face.

"There's nothing for me to say to that! I don't get to have a say in what is done to me anyway, right? You're going to claim me and breed me full of your pups so why should it matter to you? How I felt then or now has no value anymore so there's nothing for me to say."

Todoroki got into Midoriya's face, shoving him back weakly. "And how did you feel then? I want to know what made that piece of shit so much better than me to you!"

"I LOVE HIM! He didn't force himself on me, or completely strip me of everything I owned and held dear like you did! With him I was free, even when I was hiding away in his little apartment. Tomura…" Midoriya paused as he spoke his name, realizing that his feelings still lingered despite seeing him with another man. "He… He taught me what love should be, which makes the thought of spending the rest of my days with someone that will never live up to that a real nightmare."

Sinister laughter erupted from the alpha as he held his stomach and leaned back. "Love?! You love him? And you'd even go on to claim I'm inferior to him as well… Now that was the kind of laugh I needed." Todoroki wrapped his hand around Midoriya's throat and slammed him to the ground, head-first. His grip tightening around the omega's neck, Todoroki's teeth were bared in a frightening smile.

"I will not stand here and listen to you favor that whore of an omega and shame me again! You think you'll be miserable in my household as my mate? Good! I hope that every time I shove my cock up your ass you see that bastard's face!" With his free hand, Todoroki began to undo the belt of his pants.

"Whenever my knot is caught deep inside you, think of how that omega could barely penetrate you with his tiny prick! The first time your stomach is swollen with pups, remember how free you felt in his little shack." Still choking Midoriya, Todoroki snarled as he reached for the waistband of the omega's pants to pull them down as Midoriya struggled for air.

Midoriya's eyes blurred with tears as he felt Todoroki's hand invading his underwear once again. He wasn't even going to wait until they got back to his home to take his body. Even with what was currently happening, Midoriya felt strangely at ease. Finally getting his feelings off his chest and into words was a relief. He could resign himself to his new hell now after baring that part of his heart.

"Hey asshole!" yelled a voice from nearby. Before Todoroki could even turn his head to see who had spoken, a blur of black and light blue slammed into him and sent him rolling away from Midoriya. Blinking his eyes a few times to clear them, Midoriya saw Shigaraki crouching protectively over him. "Izuku is mine!"

Quickly standing up, Todoroki took a closer look at Shigaraki. He caught his scent just as Midoriya had, noticing it had thickened into something as savory as it had been sweet. "You… You studded yourself, didn't you? Did you really envy us alphas so much that you'd go through that just to become one of us? Or did you do it for poor, defenseless Izuku? Doesn't really matter, that omega belongs to me and I'll have no problem killing you in order to keep my property."

Midoriya noticed as close as Shigaraki was that his limbs had gotten more muscular while still slim and compact. Listening to what Todoroki said, if he really had gone through the studding process, that would explain his secrecy and absence over the last two weeks. Perhaps the alpha he had seen him with was involved in the process as well. A deep growl erupted from Shigaraki's throat as he bared his teeth, alpha fangs gleaming with saliva.

The two alphas collided with each other, clawed hands swiping through the air in wild attempts to connect with their opponent. Shigaraki hip-tossed Todoroki, who landed on his feet and backed away to regroup. "You think just because you're an alpha now that you can challenge me? I don't care what they say about hybrids being stronger, you're no match for a natural alpha!" Approaching again, the two traded kicks and punches, Todoroki managing to slash his claws deep across Shigaraki's left arm.

"Tomura!" yelled Midoriya as he watched Shigaraki shrink back, clutching his wounded arm. Circling around each other, both of them bloody, they attacked once again, wrestling each other to the ground this time, fighting to restrain the other. On his back, Todoroki looked up at Shigaraki, who had him pinned.

"Yield! Bare your neck!" shouted Shigaraki as he held down the alpha.

"Like hell I'll submit to a freak like you!" Todoroki found a smooth rock near one of his free hands and smashed it against the side of Shigaraki's head. Taking advantage of the opening, Todoroki raised the stone over his head and swung down to Shigaraki again. Midoriya darted between the two at the last moment to shield Shigaraki, Todoroki hitting the back of his head sharply as Midoriya collapsed into Shigaraki's lap.

"Izuku! No!" Shigaraki clutched the unconscious omega against his chest and quickly rose to his feet with him in his arms. His brow furrowed as his eyes glared crimson at Todoroki, who dropped the rock.

"It was his fault for getting between two alphas, he should have known better." The approach of another alpha hybrid brought a growl out of Todoroki. "Oh, you brought help? How typical of you hybrid scum."

Kurogiri slowly approached Shigaraki, his scent muted for the time being. "What do you want to do here, Shigaraki?"

"Take him, make sure he's okay," Shigaraki said as he carefully placed Midoriya into Kurogiri's arms. Once they were clear, Shigaraki stepped forward again. "That was a dirty play for someone that likes to keep such a clean image," he said as he wiped away the blood that had run down over his right eye from the gash left by the rock.

"When you're up against filth, you're bound to get your hands dirty." Todoroki lunged for Shigaraki again, slamming into his chest to knock him off his feet again. Using his own momentum against him, Shigaraki knocked him off of his feet and shoved him face-down into the dirt and sat on his back, his legs straddling either side of his body.

"I won't ask a third time, yield!"

Todoroki struggled to get out from under the hybrid alpha, but couldn't manage to evade him. "No! I won't submit to someone so far beneath me! I know who you are, and what you've done to change yourself is illegal. I could easily have you both arrested and taken away to omega relief houses. I doubt they'd care if you're presenting as alpha, we all know you were born a lowly omega."

"Then call for the law, you slimy bastard. I want to see what they say when they see-"

Todoroki once again took advantage of Shigaraki's momentary distraction and pushed him away so he could get to his feet once more. Moving quickly, he caught Shigaraki's neck around his arm, choking him as he jerked his arm back and forth to slow the flow of air to his lungs. Suddenly lacking oxygen, Shigaraki's fatigue caught up with him. The stress his body had been under during the studding in addition to the brutal alpha fight was wearing him down.

Shigaraki's legs lost their strength and he fell to his knees as Todoroki wrung his arm around his neck tighter. "That's right, no matter what you do to change yourselves, you omegas will never rise above your given station. Serving and honoring your alphas will be the only way you will be of any value in this world!" Taking Shigaraki's neck in both hands now that he'd been weakened, Todoroki whispered into his ear, "And even as my breed mare, Midoriya will amount to nothing, his only purpose will be to keep my cock wet and warm. I'm sure he'll think of you when he's fucking me after you're gone, fake alpha."

Todoroki jerked forward, his hands dropped from where they had held Shigaraki's neck, ready to snap it in an instant. Shock appeared on the alpha's face as he fell to the ground in a heap. Midoriya stood behind him, his chest rapidly searching for air as he held out a bloodied hand. An ornately carved pink knife handle rested in the small of Todoroki's back, the blade shoved deep inside.

"You would d-dare to attack your alpha?" Todoroki mumbled as he tried to get back up, but found that his lower body no longer responded to him. "My back, I can't feel my legs! You little shit, I can't move because of you, Midoriya!" He lunged for Midoriya, who avoided him easily as he returned to Shigaraki's side, gently easing him awake once he wiped Todoroki's blood off of his hand as best he could.

Kurogiri had tried to hold Midoriya back, but even as an alpha he was no match for an omega that was set on protecting his alpha. Though his grip loosened significantly once he had heard his name spoken by the vicious alpha in front of them.

"You scheming little omega, I'll make sure to let the CCSG and the police know that you've abandoned your duties as an omega and did this to me! You'll both be taken in and used for the empty holes you've amounted to!"

Midoriya approached the wounded and lame Todoroki, comforted by the fact that he wasn't able to get up, "Go ahead and report us, it's possible they could have done something to us before you challenged him to fight. If you had won it would have played out the way you said. No one cares about the plight of omegas when they're beaten and kept in their place. But do you know what our government shows even less concern for? Weak alphas that can't maintain the order that they've tried so hard to keep in place."

"Wh-What are you even talking about?" Todoroki said, finding his body much harder to move once he had to drag his lower half along the ground like an anchor upon dry land.

"What he's saying is that even though the government cares little for the omegas that are suffering under their rules and mandatory mating program, they care even less for weak alphas that are unable to fulfill the roles that they need for those programs." Kurogiri felt his own ego inflate as he finished giving this alpha an all too needed lesson on how their world currently worked.

"To put it bluntly, without your dick, you're the one that is worthless to those who are currently in power. With your current wounds and paralysis making your dick useless, they'll see you as nothing more than an embarrassment, a weakness that needs to be purged before it becomes too much of a burden for them." Kurogiri had never felt more valid as he had in that moment, facing down one of the same superior alphas that had deemed him lower than dirt before discarding him with no regard or acknowledgement to his previous position as head overseer to the Bakugou family.

"And what do you intend to do with me if I'm such a useless creature now?" Todoroki asked, though after a lifetime of brutal lessons and punishment on his expected duties as an alpha taught to him by his father, he seemed unsure of himself and his future.

"Todoroki, if you had treated me with respect from the start, it wouldn't have even had to go this far. You were the one that set this tone with your violence, now you have to be the one to endure its results." Officers and EMTs that responded to the numerous calls of an attack in the park had no problem restraining Todoroki, carefully shifting him onto a transport backboard and strapping him down to avoid any additional injuries while they prepared him to be moved to the hospital.

A quiet laugh erupted from Todoroki, "You think you've gotten the better of me, don't you Midoriya? I'm lying here wounded and you feel like you've won. Don't think so highly of yourself or your freak alpha, trash is still trash no matter the circumstance."

Kurogiri's attention had previously been directed elsewhere to give Shigaraki and his mate some degree of privacy, but once he heard Todoroki speak Midoriya's name, he was all ears. "Wait, did he call you Midoriya?"