"What the hell is he doing?"
Panic wrapped around Kyouka's throat as she watched Izuku leap down the steps and run into the fray of villains.
"Being stupid," Katsuki answered as he grabbed Kyouka by the waste and blasted them done the stairs.
They landed just in time to watch Izuku produce two flaming chainsaw swords and scream, "I'm gonna cut your throat out!" as he charged a villain.
Of all the emotions that Izuku rarely displayed—doubt, fear, sorrow—anger was definitely the most frightening. Her stupid and lovable goober of a boyfriend was genuinely trying to kill this villain, and for what?
Katsuki was also frozen in place, a look of fear and abject confusion on his face. "What the fuck?" he whispered.
"What? What's the problem?" Kyouka yelled.
Katsuki's silence only served to scare her more.
Something behind her screeched and both of them whirled around to stare in fear and awe at some kind of horrifying creature. Its skin was black and was broken by several lacerations that criss-crossed its body. Its eyes were dead and vacant. Its tongue hung out of its beak, and its exposed brain pulsated grotesquely.
The thing raised its arms to attack, but Izuku quickly threw one of his chainsaw swords back and the weapon ripped through its brain, turning it to mush.
Out of the corner of her eye, Kyouka watched the same black mist that had brought all the villains swirl around just one of them and disappear.
"Just you and me now," Izuku growled.
The villain pulled a katana of his own from his back and lit it ablaze with a jet of flames from his mouth. Izuku screamed as he ran at the villain and clashed swords with him, burning blade versus burning blade.
To her left and to her right, a pair of villains tried to rush her, but Kyouka simply plugged her jacks into her face mask and channeled her heartbeat through the speakers, blowing both of them backwards.
Kyouka turned to Katsuki and pulled the taller boy down to her level. "Who the fuck is he fighting?"
"His dad."
Kyouka's eyes widened in shock as she watched Fang sink his teeth into the villain's left arm. As the villain tried to pry the dog off his arm, Izuku swung his blade down and, in one clean swipe, removed his father's other arm.
Izuku's father fell to the ground and breathed out a spew of flames over his arm, cauterizing his wound. His son's sword swung down just a few inches from his neck and he was forced to stare in abject horror as its rotating blades were basically scraping his neck.
"Why, god dammit, why?! She loved you; I LOVED YOU!" Izuku roared.
His father stayed silent, which only seemed to irritate Izuku more.
"Not gonna talk? Fine. Then I hope you're content with those being your last words," Izuku said as he raised his sword.
"IZUKU NO!" Kyouka screamed, running forward and grabbing Izuku by the wrist
His eyes softened for a few seconds as he saw her terrified expression, but then she saw his father fall through a black and purple portal. Izuku turned and saw the absence of his body and his bottom jaw rattled in rage.
Izuku let out a primal scream as he slammed his chainsaw sword into the ground.
Izuku slammed his door shut and Kyouka soon flung it open again. The USJ incident was long over; after the mist guy fled everybody else gave up easily.
"Izuku, please stop running from me!" she pleaded.
"You don't understand, you don't know what he's done to me! For years, I've tortured myself over what happened to mom. But to think that it was his fault the whole time. And the worst part is that he's still breathing!" Izuku kicked a leg out of his bed in anger.
Not wanting him to break anything else in his room, Kyouka quickly grabbed his wrists and forced him to stay in place.
"Kyouka, please, just leave!" Izuku seethed, weakly trying to get out of her grip.
"No! Look, I hate him too, but what is destroying everything here gonna do about it? If you kill your father, then you really would become the monster that he made you think you are," Kyouka said softly.
Izuku's rage dimmed slightly. "I just—He can't—"
Kyouka wrapped her arms around him to stop the sputtering. She was exhausted and dirty, but none of that mattered right now. All that did was making sure Izuku was okay.
"Is Midoriya gonna be ok?" Mina asked Katsuki as she settled into bed between him and Eijirou.
"I don't know; I've seen him frustrated before, but never angry like he was today. He's changed a lot between then and now," Katsuki sighed.
"And what about his dad?" Eijirou asked.
"He probably cauterized his wound. He'll be fine." Katsuki's right palm sparked. "For now."
Hisashi grunted as he swung his legs off the medical table. His right 'arm' ached from the surgery; his bastard son was gonna pay for this.
"Thanks doc," he sarcastically grumbled.
The doctor rolled his eyes and waved him off before nodding to a seemingly random dark corner of the room.
Footsteps fell against the dirty medical floor, footsteps that weren't his own.
"Hello, All for One," Hisashi said.
"Greetings, Hisashi." All for One smiled.
All for One wore a tuxedo without a tie, the top two buttons unbuttoned, and from his eyes up his head was covered in mangled flesh.
"So I imagine there was a reason you didn't leave me for dead?" the fire breather asked.
"Indeed. Your son has quite the interesting quirk. To kill my high-end Nomu with one attack…" All for One trailed off.
"Yeah, and it's gotten a lot stronger since the last time I saw him."
"I'd like to give you something." All for One touched his index finger to the middle of Hisashi's forehead. He felt a short burst of intense pain all through his body before his skin ignited in flames. Hisashi stared down at his hands. The fire wasn't burning him; in fact, it felt rather invigorating.
"In exchange for the Flame Body quirk, I want you to bring me your son—" AFO held out his right hand. "—and once I take his quirk, you're free to kill him."
Hisashi grinned at the proposition, eagerly seizing AFO's flesh hand with his red colored metal one.
This chapter definitely should've been incorporated into the last one, but that was during the time that I was posting a new chapter every week, this seems kinda awkward and short and that's my fault, sorry. Discord links:
Epsi's Hoard: https/discord.gg/enz3cHPFJ8
LoM: https/discord.gg/R9BU25t
That's it for now, Peace.