A man was found burnt to ash in a filthy alleyway, and there were two probable suspects. The evidence was all there along with a crystal clear motive. The sons of Endeavor were under the magnifying glass of injustice for nothing more than a quick moment by a pesky, rookie detective. Then suddenly the case was dropped a few days later. For some reason it was decided that the man known as Sake Koshin, the towns loud-mouthed drunk, died due to being exposed to a flammable substance, more than likely fresh gasoline on the cement, and was burned to a crisp after dropping a lit cigarette on the ground. With the amount of alcohol in his system, stated by the bartenders who were serving him that night, there was no way he would have been stable enough on his feet to run out of harms way. He was on the edge of blacking out when he was escorted from the bar.
This was the story that was fed to the public. All the stuff about Touya and Shouto, Endeavor's assistance in a murder/cover up crime went unspoken. When you have as much pull as the #1 hero, it can be fairly easy to make things go away. Paying off witnesses and threatening those involved in the case with forgotten accusations that were never brought to the light or saying you'll expose dark secrets of affairs and foul play will definitely cause the guilty to keep quiet.
Endeavor wasn't one for blackmail, but to protect his sons, nothing was off limits. Lies, truths, murder; it didn't matter an ounce. Sometimes, there's exceptions for injustice if it means protecting the real victims in the end. Right?
Endeavor sighed as he splashed cool water on his face in order to wake himself up. The bluish bags under his eyes were becoming more visible as the restless nights continued. Between fighting crime, managing his agency, and trying to fix his broken family, there was hardly any time for sleep. So much needed to be done. It was too much for one man to take on alone.
"Hey." Endeavor jerked around in a fright, due to being caught by surprise in his vulnerable, tired state. "Relax." Dabi put his hands up, "It's just me." He leaned against the doorframe and pointed behind him with his thumb, "Your security system sucks. But I guess living in a gated house, it would be hard for intruders to sneak in, so no need to lock your doors."
The tired hero groaned, "I forgot to lock them again."
"No shit. When was the last time you slept, old man?"
"I've been busy." He simply answered, while tying his blue robe with flames along the trim around his waist. "What are you doing back? You know it's dangerous. We can't risk someone seeing you here again."
"I heard that the safety commission is gonna do a live conference at UA tomorrow." The highly anticipated event was going to cover the topics of 'UA's conflicted students and staff', and the trust of the mighty heroes who were on the receiving end of societies judgment. "Think Shouto and his allies will crash it?"
"If they were smart, they'd think twice about that. The top heroes are going to be there in case anything gets out of hand."
Dabi crossed his arms and nodded, "Don't worry, you won't be seeing any villain attacks from us."
"That so? Your League of Villains comrades are still interested in breaking the trust between heroes and society, are they not?" Endeavor rhetorically asked. "I'm sure you still have that goal in sight too."
"We're laying low for now. With the boss out of the picture for his own reasons, we've decided to take the backseat and let things fall into place. Why get our hands dirty when the pros and police are making all the wrong plays? I mean, wrong for you guys. Right for us."
"Right." Endeavor repeated, "I'm sorry. After everything, and all these infringements and lies I partook in, I realize now what you're fighting against. I don't agree with the way you all have handled things, but I can admit that we as a society have to change with the times." Endeavor felt his sons eyes on him and looked up, netting his stare. He cleared his throat and shook his head as he began to stray away from the main subject. "Quirks aren't as simple as we've been told that they were and there's still so much research that has to be done with the biology and how it impacts the individual. How the mixing of quirks can affect the thought process and the actions of people. I feel so stupid for not recognizing it before."
Dabi was somewhat stunned to be hearing that his father was seeing things his way. After doing the dirty deeds himself, and how easy it was to sweep something as bad as murder under the rug, it showed how many crooked people were apart of the so called "trustworthy elites". The system is supposed to serve and protect the people, not cover up the crimes of the ones who are working for it.
Before Dabi could respond, his phone began to ring in his pocket. "Yeah?" He answered. "Shit..."
"What is it?"
"We have a problem."
-Earlier-
"Tsuka Yasei." A student pushed Dire's daughter into the lockers, "You're quirkless. Your father is a Yakuza thug, and yet you think you have the right to speak out against the heroes!"
Tsuka tried her best not to get angry. She continued to take the quirk suppression pills, but it wasn't wise to let these emotions get the better of her. "It was a group discussion, Kagura. Everyone was voicing their opinions."
"You know my father was killed during the raid of the Shie Hassaikai Compound a few months ago. My mom would have been crushed by that monster of a villain too, but a hero saved her life. So excuse me for being offended by how you were speaking out against them!"
"Nobody is saying that heroes are bad, Kagura. We're saying that things need to change and we have to stop looking up to them like they're gods. People have become weak by putting their faith in them, when most of them only do all this hero work for a damn pay check." Tsuka tried walking passed her classmate who stepped in her way once more. "Get out of my way." She warned when Kagura pushed her again. "Knock it off." Her teeth gritted against each other as her path was blocked once more.
"Or what?" Kagura transformed her hands into sharp serpent claws. "You gonna hit me? Go ahead and try. Oh wait, you can't cuz you're a defenseless, quirkless loser who has nothing to offer in this world."
"See it's things like that! People like you are the reason why things need to change. You aren't better than me just because you have a quirk and I don't."
"I have a better chance at succeeding than you, so yeah I'd say I am better."
"Sure, and here you are proving my point once again." Tsuka shook her head at the girls ignorance, "I've dealt with enough of your stupidity. Get out of my way." She bumped passed her but then felt a sharp pain in her shoulder. Kagura had stuck a claw in her shoulder and flung her into the wall. Students scattered to the scene and circled around the girls chanting for a fight. Tsuka looked up through her blonde hair as she felt blood dripping down her arm. She wasn't angry anymore, but she was afraid of everyone's safety rather than her own.
"Get up!" Kagura snarled, spreading her claws. "We're not finished.
"I'm not gonna fight you!"
"She's scared!"
"Pathetic."
"What do you expect out of someone without a quirk?"
"What would happen if she took this?" Someone pulled out a syringe out of their bag. Before Tsuka could react, the boy stuck the needle in her arm and pushed the cloudy grey fluid into her bloodstream.
"You idiot!" Tsuka screamed, making the building quake. "Trigger..." her voice shook as she realized it was the quirk enhancement drug she had been dosed with. "Leave!" She warned loudly as she held her sides, "Get out before I kill all of you!"
"Was that a threat?" Kagura went for a slap but was caught mid swing. "What the?!"
Tsuka's normally blue eyes darkened to black orbs and her hand gripped tighter around the girls wrist, "Let's see here." Her now ghostly voice echoed through the halls, "Would you be considered quirkless without your hands?" She squeezed more until Kagura's wrist began to crack. She screamed and used her other claw to scratch her way out of Tsuka's grasp but it was like scratching stone. With a quick snap, Kagura's severed hand fell to the floor and twitched before life left it all together, much like the blood pouring from her arm as she fainted. Tsuka turned to the frightened crowd, licking the blood from her face, "Who's next?"
-LoV Hideout-
"6 blue." Okada called out as a yawn left his lips. "Your turn Girl Scout."
"Draw 4 I change the color to red."
Compress drew 4 uno cards and piled them in his deck. "Ah ha ha! You think you have me there, but not quite!" He put down 3 reverse cards which neither person could go, sending it back to himself then two more skip a turn cards, leaving him only with one card. "Uno." He smiled from behind his mask.
Okada and Toga both looked down at the green skip a turn card and realized that they didn't have any greens in their deck so they had to draw more cards until they found one. For some reason they got all the way down to the bottom of the deck where the last two green cards were. "Finally!" They both shouted, slamming their cards on the table.
Compress chuckled as he threw down his wild card, "I win."
"There's no way!" Toga threw her cards landing in the scattered pile they had created.
"Don't be a sore loser, Toga." Okada leaned in and raised his thin, red eyebrow. "But what I want to know is, how did you cheat?"
Compress gasped dramatically, "What!? I would never!" He rapidly shook his head, causing green uno cards to fall out of his hat. A nervous laugh slipped out much like the stolen cards, "Ta-da!"
"I should stab you for that!"
"Me!? You were the one stabbing your cards under the table!" Compress outed her.
"You were what!?" Okada looked under the table and saw cards stabbed to the bottom of it. "Do you people have to be bad all the time, jeez!"
"Could you all keep it down over there?" Dire rubbed his temples, "I expect all the racket from those two children, but you press?"
"My apologies." The magician bowed his head and walked over to put on the tv. "Any requests?"
"No cartoons, no comedy, nothing with killing off animals, no Japan's got talent, and most definitely no reality shows."
Compress frowned, "Fine. The news it is."
We're reporting a lockdown at Saigai High School. There is a rogue student, holding her peers as well as staff captive.
Dire sat up quickly, "That's Tsuka's school." He snatched the remote from Compress and turned up the volume. Toga and Okada joined them on the couch to see what was going on.
There are still no heroes on the scene but police are trying to break their way into the building via doors and windows.
The cameras panned over to groups of officers with riot gear attempting to barge in. Above the school was an almost black swirl cloud with lighting flashing out of it and striking the ground below making on lookers scatter to safety.
"What the hell kind of quirk does that?" Okada asked, leaning in to listen in more closely to the reporter.
"It's Tsuka..." Dire stood up in a panic, "We need to go help her!"
"Dire, heroes are on their way. She's a teen girl, they'll find a way to-"
"No!" He screamed, making the trio flinch away. "Tsuka... she's..." the father shook nervously, "I don't know how this happened but the girl is dangerous. When her quirk becomes too much for her to control she becomes a walking calamity. They'll see her as nothing more than that and they'll kill her!"
"Alright alright!" Toga stood up and began to dial her phone, "I'll call Spinner and have him bring the quickest car he boosted so that we can make it to the school."
"No no no." He shook his head, "The streets are probably blocked off or there's traffic."
"If you haven't noticed, we're villains. Driving laws don't apply to us so we'll run over anybody and anything to get you to your daughter." Okada assured with confidence.
Dire took his words under consideration and sprinted to the room where Brute was sleeping, "My body falls lifeless when I Warg an animal or a person. So I need you to take my body with you all and bring it to the school. Brute runs fast, so I'll be there to talk Tsuka down. But what I need is for you to retrieve the quirk erasing bullet."
Toga and Compress side eyed each other. "Those are with the doctor and Handy Man. But they're up in the mountains. We can't risk anybody following us up there either." Toga informed, tapping her lip to think of a full proof plan.
"Twice! He has one bullet because he's been trying to replicate it with his quirk!" Compress remembered, "We'll get it from him and meet up with you. Now go save your daughter."
Dire nodded to his comrades and then took over Brute's mind and body. The wolf sped out the warehouse and headed towards the school.
"We should tell the others." Toga announced, sending them a message. "I'll call Dabi too."
-U.A. Dorms-
Todoroki and Sam were watching everything going down on the news and couldn't believe what they were seeing. Police everywhere and several D list heroes on the scene who had no idea what to do since nobody knew what kind of quirk they were dealing with. "What the hell are they gonna do when they find the student?"
"Depends." Todoroki answered, "If they cooperate calmly they'll probably arrest them. If not then-"
"Shouto, who the hell can cooperate calmly with guns pointed at them? Nobody knows what's going on in that school. How do we know the person causing all this isn't in some sort of trouble?" Shouto listened to his friend and understood where he was coming from. The lines between good and bad have been blurred so much but he still tried his best not to overlook every villain with a sob story. But this event had Sam looking in deeper. He had an older brother named Dean who had a poison quirk. When Dean was 8, he got incredibly sick due to not releasing the poisonous fumes that became more toxic within him. He was forbid to use his "dangerous" quirk in the house or outside due to Sam being only 3 at the time and they didn't want to risk the little boy being exposed to such harmful chemicals. So, Dean snuck away and tried to slowly release his poison that caused people who inhaled it to cough up blood and make their eyes bleed. Unfortunately they lived in the city, so no matter where he went there were crowds of people. Dean couldn't hold it in anymore due to his body bleeding from its pores and released every ounce of poison, accidentally killing those around him in the process. He was arrested on counts of manslaughter but with support from the community after learning about his situation, he had to serve only a few months in a juvenile facility. After getting out he felt so ashamed about the lives he took and let his quirk eat him up alive and he died a slow, painful, bloody death. He had just turned 9. "Sometimes when people hold in their quirks for too long, they could just explode and it takes over. Look at this!" He pointed to tv screen, "That quirk, whatever it is, that student is probably as scared of it as everyone else is."
Shouto noticed the tears in his friends eyes, and gave the situation a second thought. "Lets say you're right. What should we do about it?"
"I- I want to help if they're in danger. And if it is someone who is being evil just for the sake of it then I'll leave it to the pros."
"Alright then. Take Tokoyami with you. He's been training with Hawks and told me that he learned to use Dark Shadow to help him fly. Take your mobile equipment and find a way to hack the schools cameras. Avoid going inside before knowing any details. The electric boxes are usually outside in the back of schools. I would look there first."
"Can I take Hagakure too? I'll need her help to sneak on campus."
"Of course."
"Thank you, Todoroki. There's a reason why we all look up to you." Sam grabbed his laptop and went to find his friends to help him in this mission.
Shouto looked over at himself in the mirror. The scar on his face from the acid reminded him everyday why he started this movement. It was to help those who were seen as evil by default. It was to fight for the ones who were called useless for not having a quirk. It was to crush the mold of what a hero is and to rebuild it into what a hero should be. One who saves people regardless of their quirk not being fit for the occasion, and one who tries to understand what caused the downfall of someone who turned to villainy and try to change how things are to save someone else who could be on the same path. The world is in for major change and it doesn't matter if society is ready for it or not. "Because it's coming." Shouto touched his scar as a smirk grew sinisterly across his face.
-Saigai High School-
Tsuka's quirk allowed her to control the movements of the school. Due to her command, every door from the front half of the school was clamped shut. Her quirk was slowly possessing the rest of the building, not allowing police and heroes to enter.
"Hagakure, have you connected the cables?" Sam asked through his ear piece. He didn't want to risk using his phone for the cell towers to pick up their location.
"I got it." She answered, "Can you see anything?"
Sam typed quickly on his laptop and saw through every camera on campus. "I'm in! Now hurry back before someone sees you."
"You do realize she's invisible." Tokoyami reminded. "Can you find the girl?"
Sam flipped through each screen and what he saw horrified him and Tokoyami. A trail of dead students with their bodies dismembered. It looked like something out of a slasher film. Both boys gulped as their stomachs began to churn at the sheer horror that was going on in that school. "Do you still think it's a scared student?" Tokoyami asked with a tremble in his voice.
"I don't know..." Sam felt his palms begin to sweat, "maybe this was a mistake..." The teen started to doubt his gut feeling but in his head all he could see was his brothers lifeless body in the middle of their room. Something told him to follow his instincts and proceed with the plan. "I'm going in."
"What?!"
"Maybe I can't stop her. With a quirk like mine I can't become a hero like the rest of you. But... That doesn't mean I can't try to save people!"
"Sam, she could kill you."
"What's going on?" Hagakure made it back, "What do we do now?"
"Sam wants to go in there." Tokoyami filled her in, "It's too dangerous."
"Listen to me, just being near that school gave me such an uneasy feeling. It was something so evil." Hagakure explained, trying to talk her friend out of entering the school.
"Evil..." he huffed, "That words thrown around so loosely nowadays." Same grabbed his laptop case and slung it around his shoulder. "I'm going. And don't try to stop me."
"Sam!" They both called out but were ignored watching him sneak into the school.
Dire weaved through the busy streets and leaped over cars and people using Brute's body. He was only a block away from his step daughters school but he could already feel her power radiating from it. "Tsuka... Hang in there..."
His paws scraped against the cement as he came to a halt. The school was surrounded by police, heroes, and news reporters. "Dammit." He cursed to himself. "How the hell am I supposed to make it in there without being noticed..."
"Look! Up there!" A woman screamed in horror. Dire looked up to where the woman pointed. It was five students standing on the edge of the school. They all had a grim expression and moved like robots.
"You all look down on me and see someone useless" the first student spoke. Their ghostly voice sounded as if they were possessed, being forced to speak by their master.
The second student held their arms open but it was anything but inviting. "Now you look up to me and see a fearsome god."
A boy was next to speak against his will. "But I am no god. I'm a normal person who had to hide in fear my whole life worrying how I can be accepted."
"Quirkless or not I was doomed." Tears began to fall from the next young girls face. "I would be hated for my lack of powers or I would be feared due to my overwhelming strength."
A bystander yelled at the heroes and police who stood motionless, "Hurry up and capture that villain before those children get killed!"
The last student, who was the youngest out of the bunch being only a first year, looked up with a frightening smirk. "Villain?" She growled, "I am no villain. I'm a scared girl who was forced into this position. I was backed into a corner, forced to use my power, but none of that matters to you. Nobody sees me as someone worth saving... I know how my story ends. I'll be viewed as nothing more than some cold blooded devil." She shrugged uncaringly, "May as well go out with a bang."
Each student stepped off the building one right after the other. Heroes and police snapped themselves out of their trance and ran towards the plummeting children only able to save two. "How heroic." One of the survivors spoke as they were being cradled in the heroes arms, "You saved her." The child's eyes turned black, "But she's not the one who needs it the most."
The second child stood up and walked over to the hero and girl, "You saved him too, but look at them. Look at them real closely. Even the dead ones." The possessed children turned their backs on the heroes and police. What everyone saw made them almost faint. Giant holes had been bludgeoned into their skulls.
"They were already dead..."
"Yes..." the boy softly spoke. "They were. Now how will you stop anyone else from dying?" He asked but by the shocked expressions on everyone's faces, they didn't have an answer, "Just remember-"
The girl turned her head all the way around until her neck broke. "You've saved no one!" both she and the boy fell lifeless as their possessed bodies became nothing more than a grey corpse.
The doors to the school flung open and Dire took that as an opportunity to run in while everybody was distracted by the children's mangled bodies that were displayed at the front of the school.
"Tsuka!" He screamed, "Tsuka it's me! Where are you!" Dire sniffed the halls for his daughters scent but all he could track was more blood and bodies.
"Is that a wolf?" Sam exclaimed as he searched threw the cameras on his laptop. "Whatever, I need to find this girl." He flipped through more cameras and accidentally lost his footing, tripping over something laying in the middle of the hallway. He rubbed his head and looked down at his feet. A shocked yell echoed down the empty halls that looked untouched. Right in front of him was a dead boys body. His insides were hanging out of his body and the jaw had been ripped from his skull. "Oh god..." Sam gasped, holding his hand over his mouth in hopes to subdue the pressure of vomit making its way up his throat.
"Who are you?" Sam looked up at the girl who seemed to appear out of nowhere. She had messy, bloody blonde hair and large, beautiful blue eyes. She looked like the war angels in the fantasy books he loved to read. He couldn't help but to stare at her in awe. "Perhaps I should repeat myself?" Tsuka grabbed the boy by his throat and raised his body off the floor, "Who are you?"
He gripped her wrists, trying to escape her python like hold. "My names Sam Winchester." He choked out, "I'm a student from U.A. I'm here to help..." his eyes began to roll in the back of his head until Tsuka let him go and fall back to the floor.
"Help?" She circled around him, her bloody footsteps leaving a trail around the boy. "What makes you think that's possible? What gives you the idea that I'm in need of saving now when I can protect myself?"
"I can tell." Sam answered as he stood up to the girl in front of him, only being about an inch or two taller than her with his 6ft frame. "My quirk is called read. I can pretty much hold my hand over a book and read it in a second or understand any language." Tsuka tilted her head in confusion, "It also allows me to read and understand someone's body language and know how they're feeling." He reached down for the girls trembling, blood stained hands and took them in his. "Tsuka..." the name showed up in his brain like words written on a chalk board. "You're afraid. You want to be saved..." he closed his eyes trying to read further, "You just want to be home with your father and the rest of your family."
Tsuka backed away slowly with tears running down her cheeks, "Help me." She cried, "I don't want this. I'm so sorry. I couldn't stop it." The building began to rumble as soon as Tsuka started to break down, "Trigger... I couldn't control it! I can't control it!" With the more her emotions grew the more erratic her quirk became.
"Tsuka, it's not your fault!" Sam assured, "Please look at me. This isn't on you. People failed you. Now let us make it right."
"Finally we're here!" Toga loaded the gun with the quirk erasing bullet they got from Twice.
The League screamed when Dire's body jerked back to life, "Do you have it?" He asked in a panic, then swiped it from Toga's hands. "Thank you." He said about to hop out of the van.
"Wait!" Compress pulled him back, "There's no way you're going to be able to get into that school with a loaded gun. You're not a police officer."
"My daughter is in danger! I need to help her!"
"You won't be much help with a bullet in your head." Spinner reminded. "We need a distraction."
"Don't worry. I got this." Okada stepped out of the van and cracked his knuckles, "It's been a while. Old Man, I suggest you start holding your breath." The league covered their mouths. Okada focused his energy and released a red fume from his body as he walked into the crowd of people, Dire walking a few feet behind him.
"What is that fog?" The people coughed.
Okada smirked, "And 3...2...1." The people began to twitch and move as if they were malfunctioning. Foam started to gather in their mouths as they began to attack each other. Okada stopped the fumes as his body began to fall limp, "Alright Old Man," he wobbled, "My quirk may be strong but I never had the opportunity to train it to its fullest. With how thin I had to spread my quirk, this'll only last about 5 minutes. So be quick."
"I owe you one."
Okada nodded before falling down to his knees and looking on at the mosh pit of chaos he created. "Ha, they don't call me Mayhem for nothing."
"Nobody calls you that." Toga held a pink handkerchief up to her nose and mouth, "It's so lame." She insulted as she tried helping the boy back to the van.
Dire remembered the halls he searched when he warged Brute. All that was left was the south wing. When he got close he felt a rumbling under his feet. "Hold on Tsuka!" He called out hoping his voice would help his daughter calm down.
"I killed so many people, Sam. So many and I can't bring them back!" Tsuka cried uncontrollably, "How could I do such a thing? I'm evil!"
"Don't say that! You were drugged and your quirk went heywire. I know you didn't want to hurt any of those kids."
"Either way I let my power consume me. I gave up and didn't try to fight against it." Tsuka looked down at all the blood that was covering her body, "I just want it to stop now."
Sam knew there was little time left before the school would eventually be raided. The buzzing in his ear was Tokoyami and Hagakure calling him from his ear piece, more than likely worried for his safety. But his safety didn't matter. What mattered was this scared girl in front of him who needed to be rescued. "I'm going to get you out of here. There was nobody guarding the building from where I came in. We can escape through-" Sam screamed when he felt teeth sink into his arm.
"Brute no!" Tsuka screamed at her fathers wolf. "He's trying to help me!" The beast healed and obeyed her orders.
"Tsuka!" Dire called out running towards his daughter, checking her for any wounds. "Are you alright? We need to get you out of here right now."
"I'm fine, dad. I'm so sorry. I didn't mean to." She sobbed in her fathers arms. The girl pulled away and felt her stomach twist in knots when she saw a significant amount of blood rub off on her fathers white button up shirt. "Oh no... what did I do?"
"No... this isn't you. Look," Dire showed her the special gun with the quirk erasing bullet that they've both been wanting to get their hands on for so long.
Sam pulled Tsuka away and tucked her behind him, "What's that for?" He asked worried about the girls safety.
"A quirk erasing bullet." Dire answered, "That way Tsuka's power will be gone forever and she could live normally."
"That's not your choice to make!" Sam protested.
"Sam, it's okay. This is what I want."
-Meanwhile-
"This is taking too long." Compress began to notice the heroes and police slowly begin to calm down. "Okada's quirk is starting to ware off."
"Can't you do it again?" Toga asked, shaking her tired comrade.
"Can't. I need time to recharge. By the time I do, it'll be too late." He sighed, "I'm sorry."
"Look!" Spinner pointed, "They're all starting to enter the school!"
"This is bad." Toga shook her head as she watched the raid on the school. "And we can't go in there."
Okada tried keeping his heavy lids from drooping down, "We have to try. He's our friend. We have to save him."
"Saving is a heroes job, Okada. We're just villains." Spinner looked down and started up the van to leave the scene.
"Sometimes... villains need saving too."
"This isn't good, Tokoyami. The police are already going in. We have to get Sam out of there."
"I know, but- what if he's... I knew this was a bad idea, Toru."
"Doesn't matter. I'm going in there if you follow me or not."
"Oh easy for you since you're invisible!" Tokoyami argued, "What if I get caught!? Or killed!?"
"You're talking like the heroes that we're fighting against. What, you're going to leave someone in danger because you don't have the "right quirk" to save them?" She scoffed, "Make sure you fully stand with a movement before you start walking with them, Tokoyami."
"You're going to shoot your daughter! There must be some other way."
"This IS the only way! I want her to live freely and not have to worry about popping pills everyday to keep her quirk under control." Dire exclaimed loudly at this random boy in his way.
"The world is changing, sir. We can get her the help she needs."
Dire looked down at the loaded gun, "No." he quietly responded, "We can't wait that long." He pointed the barrel at Tsuka who accepted what was coming. The bullet left the gun and Sam squeezed his eyes shut when he heard the bang. Then another one made his eyes jolt open.
"Stop right there!" A hero held out their hand focusing their quirk on the bullet.
"Daddy!" Tsuka screamed, watching her fathers body fall to the floor as a second bullet met right with his spine.
The time hero, Halt. He can pause any moving person or object, making it come to an abrupt stop. Although, his quirk can only work on one object at a time.
"Officers, arrest her!" He ordered the group of police that made their way down the hall. "Be careful, she's dangerous."
Brute lunged in front of Tsuka, acting as her shield, barking at the officers. He foamed from the mouth and flashed his long teeth, causing some of the officers to stop.
Sam felt a tugging on his shirt that began to drag him away, "We have to go now." Hagakure whispered. She was completely invisible which made Sam come to the realization that she was naked.
"No, we can't leave her!"
"I will kill you all!" Tsuka screamed, using her mind to turn the bullet around and fire it at the hero. "You're all just corpses in my way!" What the girl didn't know was that trigger was wearing off and she was only a fraction as powerful as she was before. She could still use some telekinetic force depending on the weight and size of the object, but as for taking damage, she might as well be shielding herself with a pillow.
The hero went down, holding his arm in pain. "Shoot to kill!" The police commanded.
Brute charged at the shooting officers, while bullets impaled him as well. His masters last request was to protect Tsuka, and that's what he was going to do or die trying. The wolf was losing blood quickly and more police got past him. His body slowed down and fell limp. He looked forward at his lifeless master and took one more last breath before passing away, gazing at the sight of these men trying to kill Tsuka.
Endeavor and a disguised Dabi made it to the school and saw how there were hardly any more people in the area. "We're too late."
"The others should be here." Dabi looked around. "There!" He pointed to the LOV get away van. "You gotta get in there and put an end to whatever the hells going on."
"Get the League out of here before any more innocent people get killed!"
"I can't be seen with you! Who knows what those crazy bastards will do if they found out I was associating myself with my Old Man."
Endeavor looked back at the building, "Then leave. Get to safety before you're seen. More of the League could be around and we just don't know it." The number 1 went into the building and was taken aback by the gruesome scene. In all of his years of taking down villains and seeing the most horrific of scenes, this was by far the worst. "A child did this?"
Suddenly gun shots caught his attention and he ran towards the popping sounds.
"Compress! Get the girl!" Toga shouted as she was holding off the police officers.
Sam held Tsuka by the hand and tried pulling her away, "We gotta go now!"
"She's coming with us." Compress threw his marbles but they were slapped back towards him by a dark figure. "The child from the camp." He was referring to Tokoyami who he had tried to capture along with Bakugou.
"I'm not leaving! They will pay for what they did to my father!" Tsuka shot her hands out, aiming to shoot a wave of energy towards the heroes and police force who were after her, but nothing happened. "My quirk... it's-"
"Shoot her now!" Toga turned to find where the voice was coming from and it was a half dead hero on the ground.
The magician saw out of the corner of his eye, an officer on the ground with his hand on the trigger. "Toga!" They both flung a knife and a marble to stab or capture them before firing their shot.
Tokoyami tried to shield Tsuka with dark shadow but suddenly his body went into shock by a paralysis quirk by a hero who was still trying her best to fight back.
"Don't shoot!" Endeavor screamed as the bullet left the barrel and met dead center in the girls chest, causing her to fall backwards in what seemed to be in slow motion into the boys arms who was so desperately trying to drag her to safety. "No..."
Time seemed to have been standing still. Nobody knew what to do or how to react next. They were just... frozen.
"We couldn't do it..." Toga's voice shook. She watched the young girl bleed out as Sam cradled her, sobbing for her to hang in there. It didn't matter if Compress and herself were villains, they were trying to protect their friend and his daughter. That was their only mission. A wave of guilt washed over the both of them feeling as if their effort was all for nothing.
"I need another unit here at Saigai High School. We got over a dozen officers down and-" The cop was cut off by flames that disintegrated his body in a matter of seconds. And when his flesh became ash the flames continued. Everyone looked over at Endeavor who had his hand held up that began to smoke from the palm.
"Endeavor..." the Taser hero looked him up and down in disbelief. "You just killed an officer."
The number one turned, revealing his yellow eyes. "I'm not Endeavor. But I will finish the job and make sure the rest of you get what you deserve."
"Dire?" Compress whispered to himself, "He's still holding on."
"Now perish." Dire used the last bit of life he had to warg Endeavor's body and cremate any surviving witnesses who were fighting against him and his daughter. If he had to die trying to protect his child, then these "heroes" were going to die "in the name of justice".
"Daddy..." Tsuka weakly groaned and Sam held her head up in his hand to where she was in a sitting position, "Y-you're alive."
Dire kneeled down and wiped the tears from Tsuka's angelic face, "Just for now, little one." He looked back at his stone like body that was still laying on the floor. "When my body loses all life, my consciousness goes with it. Even if i warg someone." He looked down at her and saw how the blood from her chest continued to drip out. "I only have a few moments left."
"M..me too..."
"We can call for help or something right?" Hagakure cried, not wanting either of them to lose each other.
"The help is what killed us, child. People like us don't get saved. We get blamed, arrested, and killed." Dire walked over to Brutes body and picked him up using Endeavor's large arms and gently layed him down close to Tsuka. "You did good boy." Then he lifted his own body and sat it up next to hers so he'd be in the middle. "It's time."
"I'm scared..." her lip quivered.
"We'll be okay."
"I'm sorry, Tsuka." Sam tried to hold in his tears but couldn't. "I tried."
"We're sorry too." Toga sniffled, "We said we'd help you but-"
"It's okay. We made them pay. Now raise hell so our deaths won't be in vain." He closed his eyes and let his consciousness bounce back to his own body as Endeavor held his aching head not knowing what just happened. Dire slowly looked over at his daughter and held her hand. "I love you, Tsuka. My sweet angel."
"I l-love you... too-" The last words rolled off her tongue so quietly that only Dire and Sam could hear them. Both their bodies fell limp but they managed to still be holding onto each other.
Toga cried as Compress held her close, "We should go. C'mon." The two retreated quickly down the halls to escape in the awaiting van outside.
Tokoyami limped towards Sam. "We need to go too."
Sam wiped his tears with the back of his arm and slowly moved Tsuka off of his lap. "I'm sorry again." He apologized, wishing she could forgive his apology with her own words even though he could feel that she didn't hold any ill will against him. Tokoyami wrapped Sam and Hagakure with Dark Shadow and flew away from the crime scene before anyone else showed up.
Then there was Endeavor standing in the middle of all the chaos. Staring down at a father who died trying to protect his child. He didn't want to believe that the same fate would await him and his sons too. A conflicted boy and a hurting man with regrettable actions deserved to live long happy lives.
People are ready with their torches and pitch forks to crucify the "demons" of society without taking a moment to look in the mirror and realize that they might just be monsters too. Maybe a different kind of monster, but wicked nonetheless. Always quick to judge others and cast them out because they're not normal or live up to standards. The ones who are hard to understand are seen as threats rather than ones who need to be listened too.
A hero is supposed to see these things. A normal person is supposed to notice too. But they've all become blinded by hatred or fear to the unorthodox bunch and choose to deem them as dangerous regardless of no crimes being committed.
It was like a toxic poison that everyone was inhaling and after so long they were deceived into believing it was fresh air. Society was sick and in desperate need for a cure.
"What have we all become..."
A/N: I'm BAAAAAAAACK! Let me know what you thought of this chapter and what you think might happen next.
