The Rebirth Of A Buried Hero
"Has no one ever told you?" The hero killer said with his deeply idealistic, murderous voice, as he positioned his katana.
Hikoori got hit by The Hero Killer and shed blood until she became unconscious.
Midoriya was screaming at the villain to stop, paralyzed on the ground.
Iida was staring horrified at the hero killer, desperately trying to move to save his friend. He also was paralyzed, so much like the pro hero Native who watched with eyes wide in horror and denial.
The Hero Killer, taking a low dive, swang his blade at Todoroki's left arm to cut it.
The time all around the unconscious girl was slowly losing its speed.
This is when something cold and black passed beside us all and onto The Hero Killer.
How did it escalate to this though, I wonder...
Third day of internship, on the train to Hosu, night time:
I looked outside the train window, thinking back about what happened this morning.
Sensei have told Shinsou and me that he won't be able to take us to Hosu today because he has a very important secret mission, one he cannot refuse.
'The look on his face and his body language all pointed to The League Of Villains.'
I sighed, looking at my smartphone for the third time during this trip. Jirou and Momo were chatting and checking on each other, Mina have sent me a few teasing messages about Bakugou and his gift, while Iida...
'He hasn't answered me yet...'
I sighed again, wondering if answering my father's request of joining him during his mission today was really a good idea...
'I am not on very good terms with him lately... I'm afraid of making things even worse...'
Why did he want me to join nii-san anyways? I mean, I am just a spare in his eyes, why would he care to train me?!
I just could not find a clear answer for this question.
Suddenly, my heart started beating loudly and fast and my head ached. Rushing pictures of the train exploding, someone wrapped in green aura, blue haired boy, fire, a face covered in bandages, a katana, and too much blood.
And as suddenly as it came, it was gone immediately, making me regain my steady breath again.
'Not again... this vision keeps popping up ...
I know it's a warning about Iida getting involved with The Hero Killer, but no matter how much I try to reach out to him he shuts me out...
The good thing is that I am in Hosu, which makes finding him easier especially that father is already working on The Hero Killer case himself...
Nonetheless, I wish with all my heart that at least this one time, my vision's prediction would be wrong...'
I looked outside the window again, drifting away and delving into my mind, and before I knew it, the many lit buildings of the now appearing Hosu rushed on it, resurfacing my nervousness again.
"five minutes and we reach our stop in Hosu." The driver of the train informed us through his radio.
'Great, we're almost there. One of father's sidekicks, Kido-san, is going to pick me up from the station, since father is so busy solving the case of The Hero Killer...'
I sighed as I watched the city approaching little by little...
'Wait a second... what is this...?!
There's smoke in-!
Oh no Iida!!'
And suddenly, I hit my head face first on the seat in front of me.
"Please hold onto your seats passengers, we are undergoing an emergency stop..." We were told by the driver.
And then even more suddenly, someone burst inside the train through one of its walls, breaking it in the process. People screamed, then yelled "it's a hero" in shock as they recognised the crashing person as a hero. The man was pretty beaten up, and looked grudgingly at something coming through the open spot that his crash created in the trour train. Whwn the "villain" in question stepped into the light, I felt like if my heart stopped for a moment.
'Oh no... why...?!
Why here of all places?!'
It was one of them... those brain exposed monstrous creatures called "Nomu".
I wanted to react, but the shock slowed me down, and another hero got the monster out of the train in one move. He was small and so fast- jumping all around like a bouncing ball. Good for me that he got that thing first, since me being license-less and doing hero work is a big nah-ah.
Then, a moment later, I saw a very familiar figure filled from top to toe (except from shoes) in green run to the entrance of the new "train cave". He called out: "Gran Torino!!" so worriedely to the man that just bounced out of the train to God knows where.
'This is... Midoriya-kun...!'
His expression was sick worried, and it got even worse when he noticed the smoke.
'It seems that that man was his internship teacher since he called him out when he got out of the train.
That monster... that monster that entered the train was too similar to the nomu to for my liking. The wierd deformed look and the exposed brain... I wonder why their colours are different though...
Why...'
I marched to Midoriya' s side, making him jump.
"T-T-Todoroki-san!! Why are you here?! And why isn't sensei with you?" He asked surprised.
"Father told me to come over since Sensei had a mission. How about you?" I asked, my senses still alarmed to detect any kind of upcoming attacks.
"I was heading to Shibuya with Gran Torino but... he's gone fighting that thing that looks almost identical to Nomu..." He explained.
'I see, so he was just passing Hosu...'
The police officer that was on the train rushed to the hero behind us to take care of him, while ordering everyone to sit still, stay calm and wait for the heroes.
' What if Gran Torino was not on the train? What would have happened to the passengers?! Would waiting for the heroes be wise then...?'
"Well, I have to go after him now. If this is a Nomu we're talking about, it's not going to be ok..." Midoriya said wide eyed in worry.
"I understand. Go after Gran Torino and send me your location when you arrive right away. I will meet up with Kido-san, my father's sidekick, and bring you support as fast as possible." I explained calmly.
Midoriya nodded in acknowledgement and said with a small, nervous smile: "Understood. Thank you... please be careful."
I smiled back, jumping out of the train: "Your welcome; you too."
The police officer yelled at us to come back, but both of us apologized while running in the direction we chose.
Soon I met up with a clearly worried and concerned Kido that was running to my direction.
"Kido-san!!" I called out.
Kido-san, slightly relieved, stopped in front of me, panting slightly: "What happened?! Smoke suddenly came from your direction so I figured something was up!" He said.
"It was a monster; I am not totally sure... but it looks too similar to a very dangerous monster with super strength and multiple quirks... nonetheless the train is safe for the time being, no more monsters detected, and the officer has already called for heroes. There was a hero called Gran Torino that could take it away from the train for a safer fight, and he was followed by his intern. They headed in that direction; however I was afraid they won't be enough, so I asked the intern who is my classmate to send their location so we can track them and help them out." I explained the situation, concerned.
"I see... well let's inform Endeavour first, so we can synchronise our work together. He will surely grant the needed support." Kido said, activating the comms in his left ear.
"Boss I got Todoroki-san and she is safe. However she filled me with information about a dangerous monster roaming nearby-
oh I see. Roger that." And that was it. He closed the comms.
"Follow me Todoroki-san we are heading to the smoky site. Endeavour already took care of that monster you mentioned and helped the hero fighting it." He explained.
I nodded running beside him.
'We would get there faster with ice though...'
"Kido-san can I make an ice shortcut for us? We will get faster to the scene this way." I suggested.
Kido agreed, giving me the green light. I created a road of ice cutting through the many meters that separated us from our mission; and as we were running (Kido was struggling but I got his back), I melted with the warmth of my right side the parts of the passage that we already passed.
"As expected of Endeavour's daughter, you have a great control over your unique quirk!" He exclaimed as we closed on to our destination.
'It's nothing really, just an icy road... not anything special or flashy...'
"Thanks." I responded gratefully.
'We got close to the location'
I descended the bridge until it touched the ground. We got down and I evaporated it.
"The meeting site is just behind this building, follow me." Kido said waving his hand toward himself as he ran. I followed close behind him. Soon we were met with a crowd running crazily away of the scene, and after that, what appeared in front of us was...
Two other Nomus that were attacking everything in sight.
'Oh no... the big one... it's... It's just like...'
It was like the U.S.J Nomu. Too much like it actually.
Suddenly, I saw Midoriya, sneaking away from the crowd of heroes quietly.
That's when my head spinned and throbbing like hell. Random voices echoed from all directions:
"Hero Killer!!"
"Ingenium! ...Brother!"
"I will Save you!"
"I will protect you two"
Then the same images of a dead Iida, Midoriya and nii-san flashed in a torturing repetitive cycle.
And as fast it came, it was gone, leaving me in cold sweat. No one notice since everyone was so caught up in their fight against the Nomus.
'Hosu... Tensei... Tenya... Hero Killer...
And Nomu...
Oh no...
Midoriya...!
Follow Midoriya now...!'
I ran. I ran as fast as I can.
'They will die...
The Hero Killer will get them...!
Faster! Faster Hikoori!!'
I ran between every alleyway that was close to Normal Hero agency, the place of Iida's internship.
'Where are they... fu* are they!!! If they fight The Hero Killer alone...!! No! Focus on searching now!!!'
The image of my friends dead was glued into my mind so hard that I could not shake it off even for a moment. I knew that if I do not arrive on the right time... they won't be there anymore...
I took a deep breath, closing my eyes.
'Enter the physical state, unite with your senses; enter the state your father trained you to attain...! Close your mimd or else you will fall prey to these visions...!'
Suddenly, my mind quieted down, and my body's noises stopped ringing in my ears. I exhaled the breath slowly, reopening my eyes.
Everything became clearer: the shadows and lights, the noises and silence... it was all in my senses' range now. My mind focused and one goal: finding Midoriya.
And luckily my phone finally dinged showing a text message from Midoriya: his location.
I swooped from corner to corner, sliding on ice as fast as I could, until I saw...
A bloodied Iida laying on the ground, and not so far was another hero, Midoriya and... The Hero Killer, with a blade pointed at Midoriya face.
"You deserve to stay. As for these two... not so much..." He said, directing the katana's sharp tip toward Iida and another pro hero in native American suit, murderous intent leaking through his mouth like rivers. He then turned away from Midoriya, walking to Iida.
'Oh no you won't!'
My body, moving before I had time to think, launched ice from my left side to the direction of The Hero Killer. The latter dodged on time, leaving Iida and the pro hero for the time being. I stopped the ice to avoid hitting My blue haired friend.
"Kids keel popping up today." He complained rolling his eyes then said : "Well then."
He then charged at me, throwing two knives.
"Todoroki-san do not let him touch your blood or you won't be able to move!!" Midoriya screamed, as I froze my arm to avoid being hit.
"Understood." I said indifferent, launching fire from my right side in an attempt to widen my range with the " man full of blades's " moves. Nonetheless, he kept closing up to me in swift moves on a continuous basis, and I was not able to hold him far off myself.
'He's very fast, I can barely keep up my attacks with him...!!
Soon, I will get hit too, and God knows what will happeb if he paralyzes me...!' I thought as I attempted to corner him in a closed ice area.
'If I can imprison him, we can have sometime to call someone for help...
Man I had to tell Kido instead of acting solo on my intuition.'
But I couldn't. My attempt was torn to shreds with Stain's fast chopping movements. The villain charged at me, throwing four knives, approaching me in an unmatched speed. I created a shield of ice on my arms that I used to protect my rib from the katana's wrath; however...
'There was another sword in his hand...! Where is it?!'
I looked at my side and saw the sharp tool redirecting its course after hitting a metallic bar.
'Shit I won't be able to avoid it!!'
I shielded myself with my arms, creating a thin layer of ice.
'I don't have time to strengthen the armour or parry the attack!! And hiding my range of sight with an ice wall is even more dangerous!'
I got ready for the hit, and waited, and waited, and waited...
But the hit never came, but instead a mixture of fire and ice that flew past me and onto my attacker that avoided them with ease.
'Nii-san...!'
"You touch my imoto and I will break your neck." nii-san threatened The Hero Killer darkly, then addressed Midoriya saying: "Midoriya, text me more details for things like these. Now I'm late."
'Oh no... the parts of my vision... they are all connecting together...!
This is not good...!'
"Nii-san why are you here?!" I asked, worry converting into a lashing reaction; Midoriya asked the same question at the same time too.
" "Why?" That's my line." He commented bluntly, his eyes fixated on his opponent to watch any sudden moves, flames still emerging from his left side.
"Todoroki! That's... that's your left side!!" Midoriya kinda yelled from his "laying on earth" position, still paralysed.
'He's using his fire...!
So he finally decided...'
"It took me a few seconds to understand what your message meant since all you did was send your location pin to all your contacts." He explained, bending his body forward and tending his right arm and foot to launch ice.
'I see...
Then...'
I prepared my right hand to launch fire, backing up nii-san while he uses his ice to capture back Midoriya and the other pro hero.
"You're not the kind of person to something like that without a reason, so I figured..." He started, letting ice slip from his right foot forming a slippery icy road.
That was my sign to launch my fire at The Hero Killer who charged at nii-san in an attempt to neutralize his move.
'Like I would let you!'
In seconds, the icy road ascended into a mini ice berg, sliding Midoriya and the pro hero to nii-san's side, while I took my position in opposition to my twin, facing the serial killer that had his attention on me now that I distracted him with my flames.
"You meant: "I need backup, I am in a pinch!". Don't worry, in a minute or two even the pros will be on the scene." He reassured us, now launching his own fire on The Hero Killer, making him jump in the air avoiding his hit. I created a small ice tower that got me to his level, then fired my flames on him. In a fast move, he flipped his body while in mid-air to become horizontal, avoiding my fire by a millimetre.
"He fits the description all right." Shoto commented slightly sarcastically, when Midoriya and "Native" hit the ground with a soft thud, holding his flames in his left palm in a ready position.
I melted the ice tower now reaching the ground, as the villain we're facing now swiftly used his blade to adjust his position; meanwhile Midoriya explained his quirk'z work to nii-san.
"Don't give them time to recover! Speed is the key to capture a villain!!"
I remembered Aizawa sensei's advice, firing an ice attack with my left foot in order to pin the murderer to the ground. The latter was fast to jump though, escaping my frozen water's grasp. He then used it as booster to launch himself at my twin, all the while throwing a knife that grazed his left cheek, really close to his turquoise eye.
"Nii-san!!" I screamed while creating an ice wall separating Shoto from the killer. The guy quickly chopped the ice, held nii-san by the collar of his costume and yanking him closer, his tongue stretched to the outside in an attempt to lick his blood. Quick to react, nii-san called out his fire from his whole left side, forcing the guy to retreat.
"Shit, that was close." Nii-san cursed.
'His movements are too fast! He can keep up with our synchronised attacks well...!
What to do Hikoori! What to do...!'
Shoto tried to catch the villain with his own ice, but he jumped away fast, then chopped his ice.
"Why..." Iida said, frustrated and weak, as I too formed an ice attack to try and hold the villain back, with no use.
"Why... why you guys... please... stop..." He complained, his voice rising progressively, then he yelled: " I inherited my brother's name! I'm the one who has to do it!! I'm the one who..."
'Iida what are you talking about?! This is not you! You're being blinded by hatred! You're... You're acting like...'
But brother interrupted him saying "Inherited it? That's funny..."
He then created a giant wall of ice, and I created a great flame and aimed it right at The Hero Killer.
"The Ingenium I know never made a face like that. I know there may be all sorts of things going behind the scenes in your family life..."
However, instead of continuing his attack against nii-san, he avoided my fire and ran to my side. The ice now blocking nii-san's vision prevented him from seeing his enemy now shifting his focus, an insane smile plastered on his face, running towards me.
'It was a bait!'
"Nii-san careful he's- Argh!! " I wanted to tell him to melt his ice wall, warning him of the danger of blocking his own vision, but I got hit with knives on both legs, causing me to fall to the ground.
"Imoto!!" Shoto screamed, melting his own ice as fast as he can, but it's thickness was making the process slower.
Now, The Hero Killer was right beside me, ready to lick my blood. I tried to shoot some flames but he surprised me with another hit with his katana in my right arm, making my flames die as I groaned loudly from the pain.
"Imoto!!! Leave her you bastard!!!" Shoto yelled angrily, pain apparent in his voice.
The Hero Killer took out his blade, smirking slyly in victory and licked the blood off it, paralyzing my body.
"You too are fine..." The attacker muttered lowly.
"Todoroki!!!" I could hear Midoriya's helpless call from behind my brother, blocking the rest of "the man in crimson scarf's" speech.
"To block your vision from an enemy who's after than you is a grave mistake." He said, now using the ice debris to jump in the air fast in the direction of a now fuming with rage Shoto.
"Careful- ugh- he's above!!!" I screamed in pain, warning my friends and sibling.
'Wait... where is Midoriya?! Wasn't he paralysed too?!'
I thought to myself, as the villain descended to Native, the pro, to kill him. But I got quickly answered by his form enveloped in green thunder like energy jumping around like Bakugou. The sight of this send chills down my spine, and an unclear vision of him screaming with rage, enveloped in the same energy, covered in blood, passed through my eyes. Then as suddenly as this came, it disappeared, now replaced by him getting smacked on the back by the killer, and falling to the ground. The apartment beside us had markings of someone being dragged on it with great force.
'Was that... Midoriya's doing...?! And he did not break his arm!!
Wait how can he even move?!
Is it that The Hero Killer's quirk wore down on him?
But why was he first? It seemed like he was just paralysed when I arrived, which means he was the last one affected by it.
So... is it the quantity of blood? Or the type...?'
"Fall back Midoriya!!" Nii-san ordered the green head and directly launched an ice attack at The Hero Killer.
I felt sudden pain in my heart, and it was not mine.
'So nii-san got hit...
The only left solution is to drag things until the pros arrive...'
The more time passed, the more I lost blood. Soon, everything started blurring and fading away, until I barely recognised nii-san's and Midoriya's forms fighting The Hero Killer.
The world was becoming colder, and slowly I lost feeling in my body parts. Then, darkness swallowed all.
Todoroki's P.O.V:
'Shit! Imoyo lost consciousness!
Fu*! She has lost too much blood!! Of she stays like that for too long, then...
No! She won't!! She can never...!!
She cannot in all means due before saving our mother as we promised!!'
I glanced at Iida, while firing flames again. His face was drowning in denial. He was so absorbed by the idea of revenge, so consumed by hatred that he could not see anything.
'Since the day his big brother retired due to his injuries, I grew concerned for Iida...
I know very well how someone looks like when hatred is their fuel. And I understood that people with these faces have narrow visions...'
I strengthened my flames, my gaze meeting imoto's unconscious body. I grit my teeth, as the thoughts continued to roll in my mind.
'Mom apologised, tears in her eyes... she smiled so easily, and forgave us twins so fast...
She said she'd be saved if we followed the path we chose without anything holding us back... and we promised each other we would...
If I was now still like I was before, I would have never even considered choosing to intern in father's agency. Not that I have forgiven him for what he did to Hikoori, mother and everyone. I'm not even planning to...'
I made an ice attack to prevent The Killer from hitting Midoriya.
'He's undeniably scum, but he's still the number two hero. I can't help but acknowledge his strength and insight as the number two hero.
It was that simple, and for all these years, imoyo was trying to convey that to me; but I failed to see it. I had blocked my very being from accepting the truth...'
I thought as I freed the flames from my left side with their heat again at the villain.
' It was all so simple, and ywt I was blind to it!!
"It's your power!"
That one sentence changed everything... it was all it took!!!'
"Please... stop... I... I won't..." Iida pleaded helplessly, his body heavy, tears in his eyes.
Rage engulfed me.
Everything hit me at once. My past: my twin's burn scar, the intense training, confusion, loneliness, hatred...
An my present: worry, fear of loss, anger, will to fight, saving, unconscious into, injured Midoriya, helpless Iida...
The Hero Killer hovered above me and Iida, and he was totally consumed by his goal. He was blind, and could only see Iida dead.
He slashed my arm in lightning speed, and got me paralysed. Now Iida was left alone with the maniac.
I screamed at my friend. I screamed as high as I could, with all the inner power I had: "If you want us to stop then stand up!! Set your eyes on the man you want to be!!!"
The man descended onto the ground, his blade pointed at us...
Hikoori P.O.V:
I opened my eyes, and found myself in a familiar void.
I was floating around in nothingness, not feeling anything with my five senses.
'This place... I feel like I have been here before...'
I tried to activate the fire to inspect the place, but the moment I did, gravity came back and I fell to the ground on my back.
Groaning in pain and annoy, I got up on my feet. I looked around, and what I saw made me freeze.
It was the same brunette, weak girl I saw before, held in black icy chains.
"You... L...eave... bef...ore... he fin...ds... ou...t" She said weakly, trembling like a dead leave bein played with by the autumn wind.
I knew who she meant. It was the demon...
"I want to save you! Please let me!!" I said lowly, nevertheless passionately.
"You... for...got... hel...p... frien...d..." She said, her eyes shining in a faint yellow light.
Suddenly, I saw myself in her place, yet my body was in front of me. My supposing-ly heterochromia eyes were shining in the same yellow light I saw in the brunette's eyes.
"He's not here yet. I will take control to save you, or else you will die. You stay here." The brunette explained to me through myself, while I was watching through her. I wanted to ask, but I was not able to use my throat.
"No time for questions. Now sleep." She said, and my vision blackened. I could see anything, nor could I call her back or ask for any explanation.
'What on earth is going on?!'
3rd P.O.V:
The Hero Killer was an inch away from cutting away Todoroki's arm. Iida has finally awakened to a truth he has forgotten for quiet some time, but he was still paralysed. Everyone was unable to move.
"You focus too much on your quirk, your behavior becomes crude." Everything they did so far, all their efforts to survive, we going to be wasted.
Not until, suddenly, and at the last moment, The Killer was stopped by something cold and black that covered almost all his body except the head. Todoroki jumped back directly. Everyone, shocked, looked at the source.
"Hikoori!!!" Her friends yelled, relieved, while Todoroki held his pained heart in worry.
"Oh thank God!!" Midoriya cried relieved.
However, Todoroki knew his sister was not okay... he knew she was in danger, especially with that black ice.
But the layer she created was too thin, as if she was just getting first used to her ice. The Hero Killer broke the cold thing with ease, then attacked again. No one but Iida noticed his murderous intent embodied in his large katana that was directed at his female friend.
He got up, turned on his engines on full speed, ran up to the criminal, kicked his blade and broke it.
"Iida!!!" Midoriya called out happily.
"So this bastard's quirk turned out to not being that big of a deal after all." Todoroki Shoto said with a relieved, grateful smile. "Thanks Iida."
"Midoriya, Todoroki-san, Todoroki-kun... I am sorry for wrapping you in something you have nothing to do with..." Iida said, his head down in guilt, eyes mirroring with tears. "That's why I won't you let spill any more blood." He lifted his Head, drowning at The Hero Killer through his tears.
The idealistic murderer bragged about the inability of a sudden change of the hearts of men, to which Iida agreed.
Nonetheless, he decided to keep on fighting, to let Ingenium stay alive.
The mood of the villain changed, his eyes now infuriated with pure will to kill. An insane lust of blood took over him. Hikoori, sensing the danger, attacked again, so did her twin. However, the "Hero Purifier" as he likes to see himself, was still faster. The girl grit her teeth, pressing more onto the weak body she's controlling, her eyes glimmering in a weird unusual light. She pressed on fighting, as did her twin and her friend with his ability to move, and to see the truth, back to him, while the green head remained in his paralysed state.
The pro hero urged the Todoroki's and Midoriya to leave, to which they refused obviously. A heart of a hero never leaves those in need, no matter the struggle, and they know this. They feel it in every fiver of their being.
Then, Iida asked his friend Todoroki to cool his engines so he may use his special move: "Recipro Burst" again, much to villains dislike. He tried to shoot Todoroki a knife to stop him, which enraged his twin. She fired a strong wave of black ice stalactites attacks that continuously hit their target, again and again, injuring him continuously. She kept cutting and bruising him, until he felt the need to escape to keep his feet life, before he would die under the intensity of her rage.
This gave time for her two friends, Midoriya and Iida, to use their special moves, and knock out The Hero Killer for good.
And at last, the killer in crimson scarf, fell to the ground, unconscious.
That's when Hikoori lost her power up, and her legs gave up on her, making her meet the coldness of the hidden alleyway of Hosu, and blackout.
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