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trigger warnings will be put in the top notes for parts when needed.

the couples will act like couples, but they won't be the focus of the story. there will be scattered moments for each couple, but it does not contribute to the plot at all. the main focus of the story, aside from the killing game, tends to lean towards the psychology of characters more often than not.

the prologue sets things up; the killing game begins at chapter 1. a death occurs in the prologue, though, so i wouldn't recommend skipping it.

each "chapter" has several "parts"

The villains have won.

Izuku Midoriya didn't know how it had happened.

How All For One had defeated All Might.

After everything that had happened, how could the heroes just... lose?

Life tried to go on, despite the death of the Number One Hero and the rise of the villains. All was in vain, however, as from the shadows came all of the evil the world could possibly harbor. The League of Villains was growing.

U.A. tried to continue on teaching their heroes-to-be. The dorms were built in a valiant effort to keep the students together and protect them, as well as to find the traitor that set this sequence of disasters into motion.

The Provisional License test came and went, with everybody passing this time around. In times like this, petty rivalries and grudges against certain heroes were set aside, with the threat of villains overtaking hero society growing greater with every passing day.

The previously planned Internships were to go on, despite the debate and controversy with the police and authorities. The rescue of Eri from the Eight Bullets went as planned, with the girl being successfully taken from Chisaki and quickly forming a bond with Izuku, Mirio, and Aizawa.

But now, with the Cultural Festival cancelled due to the heightened villain activity as of late, the students had nothing to do but continue with classes and worry about an attack.

Said impending attack came one late winter evening.

Class 1-A had been visited in their dorm building by Mei, who had been recommending new costume features for the class. Mirio, Nejire, and Tamaki came by as well to accompany Eri and discuss the suspended internships.

The delicate winter peace of that fateful evening was interrupted by a sneak attack on the dorms by the League.

The grudgingly created alliance between a weakened Chisaki -weakened, as in, he now had prosthetic arms- and the growing League allowed for an extraordinary attack of massive scale. Their entrance had been blasting right through a wall, showering everyone with debris. Izuku's first response had been to get Eri and those crushed by the rubble to a safer place- basically anywhere other than the battlefield.

"Come on, Kouji, Hitoshi!" Izuku cried desperately over his shoulder to his two classmates trailing behind him. Kouji was limping heavily, dragging along his bloodied right leg, his eyes unfocused and his gait unsteady. Hitoshi had his arms wrapped around his chest and his posture was slumped, due to his broken ribs and possibly a strained shoulder. Aside from the delayed shock, they'd both have to get first-aid soon, lest the wounds cause internal bleeding, organ damage, gain infection, or otherwise.

Okay, maybe Izuku shouldn't have reeled off that list of possible negatives in his head. That only made this situation worse.

He himself had his arms occupied. He was carrying an unconscious Mei -who'd been hit on the head by a flying rock- on his back and hugging a wide-eyed Eri tightly to his chest. A wave of relief washed over him as Mirio ran over to help the injured pair.

Izuku had just made it to the back door when from one of the bushes a certain blondie leaped out.

"Izukuuuuu! I've been looking everywhere! Come on, let's dance!" Toga whipped out a pair of knives and leaped at him. Her eyes were alight with manic excitement, and Izuku was sure he did not want to know whatever this girl's rendition of a foxtrot was. For a split second, he considered jumping up to deliver her a kick as his Full Cowling sparked to life around him in the form of jade electricity. Then he remembered Mei would probably be thrown right off his back and into the wall, which was quite far from ideal.

He ducked and darted to the side instead, Toga hot on his tail as he began to run down the back path towards the other side of the dorm building. As he did, he spotted the flash of a fiery laser beam from the entryway.

"Yuga! Help!" Izuku yelped as he just barely avoided Toga's blade. He ducked to the side as Yuga fired his laser beam, striking the girl's shoulder and collarbone.

"Ooh, that hurts!" Toga giggled, jumping back. The patch of her clothes in the strike zone had been seared off, revealing a bubbling, bright red burn on her skin. Her eyes flashed with laughter, betraying no pain. "I guess I'll have to get a taste of you to- mmph!"

She was cut off by a strip of thick silver ribbon wrapping around her face, snaking around her body as she hacked at it determinedly with her knives. Izuku whipped around to see Aizawa behind them, restraining Toga with his capture weapon, his crimson eyes blazing behind dull yellow goggles.

"You kids, get to the main building, fast as you can! I've already ordered Toogata to take the injured there. The other teachers should be able to help. Get reinforcements if you can. Go!" He added quickly as Toga slashed through the band around her mouth. As soon as her mouth was free, she gleefully called, "Izuku, I'm coming!"

Izuku and Yuga -who was now carrying Mei much more securely in his arms- raced towards the main building, down a path surrounded by ruin. Casting a glance behind them, Izuku was graced by the terrible scene of fighting and destruction throughout the many dorm buildings that housed the population of the school.

Every building was surrounded by several flying Nomu, as well as clusters of villains baring fangs at the students, all of whom fought back with determined vigor. He suddenly spotted Denki rush out the front door of the 1-A dorm building, carrying an unconscious Kyouka. The Hearing Hero's ears were bloodied, having evidently been attacked by a villain bearing a sound-related Quirk. "Izuku, Yuga!" His golden eyes were wide with terror. "Look up, at the main building!"

Looking up towards the main school building, Izuku now saw, through hazy eyes, what Denki was referring to. At the top of the two tall pillars, there were massive, black portals that spewed out countless Nomu and other villains of all sorts.

"Kurogiri," Izuku murmured, noting the quirk. He saw the shadowy man himself moments later, standing upon the left tower. On the right tower was Shigaraki, with a Nomu crouching next to him like a guard dog. And on the platform in the middle, between the two towers...

"All for One."

The mastermind, the murderer, the leader of the League himself was watching over the destruction of the students. There were several figures around him, but Izuku couldn't bother to see who they were in the moment being. The presence of this man alone even made his Full Cowling fade out of distraction.

In their paralyzed state, the cluster of students didn't notice the shifting of the shadows behind them.

The next sequence of events was all a flash to Izuku.

A cry jolted him out of his stupor. He whirled around and his blood grew cold.

A band of Aizawa's capture weapon had lashed out and lassoed around Denki's neck, tightening and dragging him to the ground, next to Kyouka's crumpled form. He writhed, gasping for breath against its hold. His fingers pried uselessly at the weapon.

"Sensei?! Sensei, what are you doing?!" Izuku shrieked in horror, snapping around towards the origin point of the coil. He was met by Toga barreling into him, her deadly little hands wrapped around blood-splattered coils of the gray capture weapon. She had evidently tied one end of the ribbon into a sloppy lasso, with which she had snagged Denki.

"Toga!" Izuku yelped. He was on his back, the girl hovering above him. Eri tilted her head to gaze fearfully up at the insane blonde.

"Izuku! I'm so glad I found yooouuuuu!" Toga squealed in excitement. "I wanna see you all bloody and battered! I wanna see you bleed!" Her voice was dripping with arousal; her violence was only driven further by her lust, it seemed.

"Get away!" Izuku screamed and jumped up, Full Cowling activated. He held Eri tightly to his chest. "You won't hurt me. You won't hurt any of us!"

"Oh, Himiko Toga, what are we to ever do with you?" There was a thump and a grunt, and Izuku turned to see Yuga and Mei disappear in a flash of light. Denki and Kyouka's unconscious bodies followed to also vanish, leaving the loop of capture weapon lying loosely on the ground. When the initial glow dissipated, all that was left were mere blue beads.

Blue beads...

"Ooh, Compress! You came just in time! Watch me, watch me!" Toga giggled in excitement before surging towards Izuku again.

Izuku whirled around and began to bolt with Eri, charging past Mr. Compress, who was gathering his new beads and evidently ignoring Toga.

The masked magician leaped into the air and landed on top of Izuku, his real hand resting on Eri's trembling head for a split second and turning her into a little sky-blue marble before Izuku could react. He snatched it up just as quickly and bounded back.

"No!" Izuku whipped around, soaring after Mr. Compress. He kicked at the man's side, but the magician darted just an inch out of reach. He next reached for the pocket he'd seen him place the marbles in, but the man darted to the side, causing him to miss yet again. At the next grab, Compress grabbed his hand, compressing his own body into yet another tiny, teal orb.

The last thing Izuku could remember were the claws of despair, snatching him up to drag him into its blackened abyss, before it all went dark.