Thirteen called out. "Bakugo, get back!"
Tenya watched as Kurogiri laughed, the villain's misty body swelling in size.
"Begone, hero brats."
The purple mist engulfed the students, blinding them. Tenya made his decision, looking to his side, seeing where Midoriya stood.
Class Representative, the class needs you.
Lurching forwards, Tenya activated his engines, slamming into Midoriya and Sato and sending them flying, clear of the villain's mist.
"Writhe in torment, until you breathe your last."
Tenya was falling.
Flaming buildings surrounded him, the oppressive heat making him sweat.
Igniting his engines, Iida bent his legs and boosted into one of the buildings, sliding down it to land on the ruined street below.
"The Conflagration Zone, that villain must have warped us all to different parts of the USJ to make us easier to defeat."
"Seems that way." Ojiro landed on a lamppost, his tail cushioning him.
"Ojiro, I am glad to see you safe." Tenya nodded to his classmate.
"What about me?"
Hatsume skidded to a halt on the road, the large case still on her back, wearing chest armor with two grapples and carrying a very pale Aoyama in her arms, bridal style.
Aoyama dropped out of Hatsume's arms onto all fours, his breathing shallow.
"I thought I was going to die." Aoyama looked up at Tenya, his eyes wide and haunted.
Hatsume laughed. "Oh calm down, Frenchie, it was only a few backflips."
"Sixteen." Aoyama weakly pushed himself to his feet. "It was sixteen backflips."
Ojiro jumped down from the lamppost. "We have company."
The four teens looked around themselves, six villains were approaching from one side, seven from the other.
"Ojiro, you take that direction." Tenya pointed to the six villains on one side. "I will take the other. Aoyama, protect Hatsume."
Ojiro nodded in agreement, using his tail to launch himself at the nearest villain, a blue-haired woman with fists covered in needles.
Hatsume laughed, dropping her case to the ground, a gauntlet similar to Mikumo's on each arm.
"There's no chance I'm sitting on the sidelines when I can use this as an opportunity to test my babies."
Firing off her grapples, Hatsume shot into the air, flipping as she did, before pulling on the side of a building, punching a fifteen foot tall villain in his face.
Tenya processed the change of situation, before looking at Aoyama. "The plan has changed, help Ojiro instead."
"O-Oui ." Aoyama struck a shaky pose.
Charging up his engines, Tenya burst into motion, heading for the same gigantic villain as Hatsume, before delivering a kick to the inside of the villain's knee, shattering it.
With an almighty crash the villain slammed down on the ground, on top of two other villains, holding his knee as he screamed in pain. Another villain, an older man with green skin, came for Tenya, flicking his arm and releasing a stream of green acid at the hero-in-training.
Raising his arm to intercept the acid, Tenya jumped into the air and fired his left engine. Tenya span, allowing him to deliver an engine-powered kick to the green acid villain across the temple, dropping him immediately.
Tenya landed, unclipping his acid-covered gauntlet and letting it fall to the ground, slowly melting. He readied himself to engage the next villain, a woman with hair of fire, when Hatsume suddenly grabbed one of his arms.
"Your quirk is super interesting, I wonder, maybe arm booster to increase maneuverability?" Hatsume examined Tenya's arm.
Tenya pulled it free in a single chopping motion. "Hatsume, I do believe this is not the time for such a conversation."
A villain sprinted at Hatsume's back, Tenya ignited his engines in response, ready to defend her.
Before Tenya could act, Hatsume raised her right arm, the cuff of the gauntlet rotating to reveal a blue-tipped nozzle on the top of the wrist.
Hatsume smiled. "Do you mind testing this out for me?"
Blue liquid shot out of the nozzle, splashing onto the ground.
"I call it Anti-Friction Fluid, AFF for short, enjoy!"
The villain's eyes widened comically as he completely lost traction with the ground, sliding off and smashing into the lamppost.
Hatsume fired one of her grapples, hitting her case and pulling it, sliding across the tarmac and coming to a halt at her feet. Kicking it open, Hatsume retrieved a single metal glove, the same silver colour as the rest of the SHTR gear.
"Here, try this out. This is the SHTR Liquid Arm, Model Alpha-I." Hatsume pushed Tenya's left arm, bare from the acid villain's attack, into the glove.
The glove lit up, unfolding and armouring almost up to his elbow.
"Thank you, Hatsume." Tenya nodded. "Is this safe?"
Hatsume shrugged. "Probably, watch this."
Grabbing the cuff, Hatsume rotated it, revealing a nozzle similar to her own gauntlet, this one with a red tip.
"Make a fist and aim at a villain, press the button on the outside of the middle finger with your thumb to fire."
Tenya paused, before slowly nodding and raising his fist at the fire hair villain, firing the gauntlet. Extinguisher foam fired from the nozzle, covering the flame hair villain and killing the fire.
"Rotate the cuff clockwise, two notches." Hatsume fired off a grapple and disconnected it, wrapping up a villain, securing him tightly.
"I will, Hatsume!"
Tenya followed the pink-haired girl's instruction, the extinguisher nozzle retracting, replaced by one with a white tip.
"Fire!"
White foam shot from the nozzle, covering the flame villain up to her neck, before it expanded and hardened, encasing her entirely.
"That's the immobilisation foam, useful for capturing villains and rescuing civilians!" Hatsume dodged a villain's energy-covered fist by firing one of her grapples, pulling herself away.
Landing, Hatsume turned as the villain fired black energy from his bare feet, blasting him towards the pink-haired girl.
"Hatsume, watch out!"
Tenya wasn't fast enough, there was no way he could reach her in time.
Hatsume raised her left arm, the panels retracting to allow a large, diamond shaped shield, in the same metal as the gauntlet, to unfold. The villain's fist hit the shield, reflecting his own energy back on himself.
Dropping the shield, Hatsume switched to the immobilisation foam on her right arm and fired it at the energy villain, point blank range.
His body was covered in rapidly hardening foam, the villain gave a muffled yell before pitching backwards, unable to stop himself as he slowly rolled away.
Taking care to make sure each of the seven villains were defeated, Tenya turned to aid Ojiro, finding the boy fighting three villains at once in hand-to-hand combat, Aoyama nowhere to be found.
Before Tenya could move to help Ojiro, the ground shook.
And then it shook again.
"The Nomu! L-Let's get outta here!" One of the villains fighting Ojiro pointed behind the teens, before all three bolted in the opposite direction, each dragging a comrade.
Tenya turned.
The white monster with claws lumbered towards them, the ground shaking with every step, its eyes wild, like an animal.
"Ojiro, the villains!" Tenya leapt into act, firing his engines, scooping up the energy and flame villain, one on each shoulder.
"On it!"
Ojiro sprang forward with a flick of his tail, quickly collecting the bound and acid villains, leaving only the fifteen foot villain and the two trapped under him.
Dropping the energy and flame villains at Hatsume's feet, Tenya fired his engines to launch himself back into the fray.
The Clawed Nomu stopped as it reached the massive villain, grabbing him by the neck and lifting him up.
The two villains who had been squashed under the massive villain desperately filled their lungs before scrambling to their feet and running down the street as fast as they could.
Bringing his clawed hand back, light glinting off the metal, before plunging them into the massive villain's stomach. With a bored grunt, the Clawed Nomu dropped the injured villain, who shrank down to a normal size as he fell.
Tenya caught the villain before he could hit the ground, firing his engines and returning to his classmates.
"Lay him down." Hatsume said, her tone suddenly authoritative.
Tenya did as he was told, watching as the Clawed Nomu slowly lumbered towards them.
Hatsume rotated her cuff, switching to a green-tipped nozzle, spraying a viscous liquid on the villain's wound.
"This will stabilise him, but he'll need serious medical treatment and fast."
Aoyama came running out of one of the buildings. "Run for your lives!"
Ojiro grabbed Aoyama's cape, holding him back. "Aoyama, look after Hatsume. Iida, let's go."
Tenya nodded, standing. "We have to stop this monster here, if we let it go it could kill our fellow students, as well as the villains."
"Right." Ojiro joined Tenya.
Hatsume and Aoyama took shelter in a building, the former dragging the injured with her.
"You have a plan, Vice Rep?"
Tenya clenched a fist.
What would Tensei do?
"Ojiro, use the lamppost, attack its head as a distraction."
Ojiro nodded, using his tail to fly into the air and spring off the side of the lamppost, spinning in the air.
Charging up his engine, Tenya pushed them past anything he'd ever dared to try before.
"Engine Boost!"
Tenya's armored leg slammed into the Clawed Nomu's gut.
His attack was turned back against him, sending him flying away, Ojiro alongside him, both of them crashing into the ground.
Ojiro grunted. "It must have some kind of impact reflection quirk, the claws must just be graphed on to its hands, not its quirk."
The navy-haired teen looked up, watching the injuries to the Nomu's gut and cheek healed at a rapid pace.
"It's healing, it has two quirks, at least."
Tenya started to push himself back up when a massive hand grabbed him around the waist and lifted.
"Iida!" Ojiro forced himself to his feet, slamming his tail into the ground, shooting him towards the Nomu with a kick.
The Clawed Nomu lashed out, grabbing Ojiro's leg and tightening its grip.
Ojiro's leg snapped, the blond teen crying out in pain as the Nomu continued to squeeze harder.
Grabbing blindly at the cuff of his SHTR gauntlet, Tenya rotated it, looking for the immobilisation foam.
Ojiro's screams amplified.
Tenya threw caution to the wind, raising his gauntlet and firing.
A stream of water shot from the ice-blue nozzle, suddenly freezing and impaling the Nomu in its exposed brain.
Roaring in pain, the Nomu dropped both Tenya and Ojiro, scrabbling to pull the ice spike from its brain.
Tenya fired his engines, kicking off the Nomu's chest, catching Ojiro and landing on the road.
"Hatsume!"
The pink-haired girl took Ojiro into her own arms, surprising Tenya with her strength and the ease she carried the blond boy.
"I-Iida, we need to run." Ojiro grunted as Hatsume set him down.
Tenya shook his head. "No, we have to stop it, others will die if we don't."
What would Midoriya do? What would Tensei do?
"I know what to do." Tenya's glasses glinted under the harsh light and flames. "Hatsume, do you have any more gauntlets?"
Hatsume nodded. "Just one, the match to the Shield Arm I have."
Tenya moved over to Hatsume's equipment case, opening it, taking the last Shield Arm. Unclipping his right arm guard, Tenya replaced it with the Shield gauntlet, undeployed.
"I hope you have a plan." Hatsume commented.
Tenya pushed his glasses up his nose. "I do. Follow my instructions please."
Hatsume examined Tenya for a few seconds, before nodding in agreement.
"Aoyama." Tenya looked at the shaking teen. "I need your help. You want to be a hero, don't you?"
Something inside Aoyama hardened.
"I'll help you, mon amie."
"Good." Tenya watched as the Clawed Nomu pulled the ice spike from its brain with a roar, regaining its agency, its exposed brain matter quickly healing. "Hatsume, stand next to the lamppost, get ready to launch me with your shield, Aoyama, you go further back, get ready to fire."
Tenya charged up his engines, his exhaust ports flickering blue inside the orange flames.
"Maximum Turbo Boost!"
Racing towards Hatsume, Tenya watched as she lowered her shield, allowing him to plant a boot on it, the pink-haired girl launching him into the air. Igniting his engines, Tenya shot out of the way of the Clawed Nomu's fist.
Deploying the shield in his arm, Tenya angled it towards Aoyama.
"Aoyama, fire your laser at me!"
"Oui!"
The sparkly blue laser hit Tenya's shield, reflecting and hitting the Nomu in the face, stunning it.
Firing his engines, Tenya clenched his left fist and slammed it into the Nomu's exposed brain, his arm sinking almost up to his elbow.
Pressing his thumb to the fire button, Tenya discharged immobilisation foam directly into the Nomu's brain, encasing the Nomu's head, sealing the gauntlet in place.
"Monster, this is your finish line."
Tenya released his arm from the gauntlet, planting his feet on the Nomu's chest and kicking away.
Landing on the ground, Tenya looked up, watching as the Nomu fell backwards, hitting the road with a massive crash, cracking the tarmac.
"Nice work, Iida!" Hatsume approached Tenya, giving him a thumbs up. "You'll make a great hero."
"T-Thank you, Hatsume."
Aoyama stepped forwards. "Is it dead?"
"No." Hatsume said. "That monster can heal itself, at an accelerated rate, Iida sealed the gauntlet into its brain so it cannot heal itself."
Tenya nodded. "We should tend to Ojiro and the injured villain, then head towards the main entr-"
A blast of wind shot through the Conflagration Zone, extinguishing the fires, leaving behind a pile of villains, a mixture of those the teens had defeated and those that had run away from the Nomu.
Tenya turned to watch as the wind tore away from them.
"All Might, he's here."
Landslide Zone
Shoto stared at the eight villains, frozen in a circle around him, an apathetic look on his face.
"How pathetic." Shoto's tone was dull. "You all lost to a student in his first week in an instant."
None of the villains spoke, quietly shivering.
"So none of you are willing to talk?" Shoto stepped forward. "So the plan was divide and conquer?"
Still no response.
Shoto started walking down the landslide, through the middle of the frozen villains.
"I hate to say, but you guys are just a bunch of idiots with quirks they don't know how to use properly."
"T-This ki-kid, he f-froze us all im-mmediately, the second w-we warped here." A villain with grey skin spoke.
Finally, they're talking.
"Is he really just a kid?" A pink-skinned villain bemoaned, trying and failing to move. "He's like a Pro Hero already."
A beast-like villain moaned pitifully.
"At first I thought that pale man had gathered his elite to kill All Might." Shoto said. "But looking at you sorry lot makes it clear that's not the case."
Another villain charged out from behind a crop of ice-covered rocks, a green band of skin across the eyes the only unusual aspect to him, a large knife clutched in one hand.
"Hey, fuck you, kid!"
Shoto turned his head, before slamming his foot down and encasing the villain with a stripe of green across his eyes in ice.
Without looking away, Shoto dodged a metal staff thrust at his head from behind, grabbing it with his right hand, freezing both it and its wielder, a hawk-like man, solid.
Shoto sighed. "You're just a ragtag bunch of thugs."
Thickening the ice covering the hawk villain to protect him from shattering, Shoto pulled the staff free, letting the villain fall to the ground, rocking gently.
"From what I saw, there were only six or seven truly dangerous villains in that plaza."
Shoto looked up.
"Therefore, the next step I must take is simple…"
Turning back towards the green stripe villain, Shoto raised his right arm, his hand hovering over the villain's face.
"At this rate your cells will slowly wither and die." Shoto paused. "I want to be a Pro Hero, so I don't really want to do something so cruel, so tell me."
Icy air floated from Shoto's palm.
"On what basis do you think you can kill All Might?"
The green stripe villain shivered, from the ice or fear, Shoto didn't know.
He didn't particularly care either.
"I-It's a-a-a mo-monster-"
"Die, brat!"
Shoto turned his head, a blond-haired villain was charging at him, fist drawn back.
A villain that Shoto had already frozen.
Shoto stamped his right foot, creating an ice barrier between himself and the villain.
The villain smashed thought it with ease, but found only empty air.
"Where did he go?" The villain looked around himself, seeing no trace of Shoto.
"You have a strength-based quirk." A freezing hand suddenly touched the villain's back. "Don't worry, I can counter that."
Layer after layer of ice covered the villain, encasing him entirely in thick sheets of ice.
Shoto lowered his arm.
He could have sworn the amount of ice he'd used on the villain earlier had been enough to immobilise him.
And yet he had somehow broken free, allowing him to attack Shoto.
"Are you not going to use your fire, Sho-chan?"
Shoto stilled, the breath catching in his throat.
"Toya."
Turning, Shoto was face-to-face with a doppleganger of his brother, his hair white instead of its natural red.
His brother who had died eleven years ago.
Standing in front of him, whole and healthy, casually dressed in jeans and a white turtleneck.
"You can't be here." Shoto shook his head.
Toya had to be the result of some villain's quirk, he was unburned, still the same age he was when he died, eighteen, just months from graduating from U.A. High.
"You're not real, you're dead." Shoto paused, his voice had lost its usual dullness. "I saw you die."
Toya's eyes hardened. "You didn't see me die, you saw our father try and murder me."
"Murder you?"
Toya rolled up the sleeves of his turtleneck, revealing extensive burn scars. "The flames that burnt me weren't my own, they belonged to Endeavor."
Shoto shook his head. "I saw it, I saw it, the flames were blue, they were yours, I couldn't save you, my ice wasn't strong enough, my quirk had only just manifested."
Toya returned his sleeves to their normal position, and looked around at the frozen villains. "It certainly is now, last time I saw you all you could make were ice cubes."
"I'm sorry, I tried-."
"Don't be." Toya interrupted. "Endeavor tried to kill me, but in the end he lit the path to my salvation."
"Salvation?"
"The paramedics that took me to the hospital." Toya lit blue flames in the palm of his hand. "I arrested on the way, declared dead on arrival, they couldn't save me."
Toya extinguished the flames.
"But he could."
"He?"
Toya nodded. "Mr. Tachibana, he used his power to bring me back, placed me in a stasis, it's taken all this time to heal my body."
"His power?" Shoto took a half-step towards his brother. "You mean his quirk?"
Toya rolled his blue eyes. "Power and quirk are not the same thing. Power can be so much more, it can be property, influence, authority."
The white-haired boy paused.
"Domination."
Shoto raised an eyebrow. "So this Tachibana is a villain."
Toya shrugged. "I guess that's one interpretation."
"What's the other interpretation?"
"Mr. Tachibana was my savior, he granted me new power." Toya looked his brother directly in the eyes. "The government says Endeavor is a hero, we both know that isn't true. How many more heroes are given a free pass to hurt their families just because of their jobs?"
Relighting the blue flames in his palm, Toya took a step back.
"I'll use Tachibana's power to burn this corrupt hero society down!"
Toya slammed the palm of flames down on the ground, an intense wave of heat washing over the area, melting all of Shoto's ice.
"Don't fight me, Shoto." Toya walked towards his younger brother. "These thugs won't hurt you, I'll make sure of that. You can join me, we'll stop Endeavor together."
The ten villains Shoto had frozen earlier were free, advancing towards the teen.
Shoto paused, his right hand slowly covering with ice. "How many innocent people will die? For revenge?"
"Don't you want revenge?" Toya looked angry now. "Revenge for what he's taken from you, what he's done to you. It doesn't take a genius to figure out where you got that burn from."
Shoto breathing quickened. "You don't know, do you?"
Toya stopped in his tracks. "Don't know what?"
Reaching up to touch the scar over his left eye, Shoto replied. "Endeavor didn't give me this scar, our mother did."
Toya's face flushed red. "Don't you dare lie about this! You're covering for that monster, he's made you say this."
"She used boiling water, from the kettle." Shoto paused. "She scalded that side of my face, because it looked like his face, Endeavor's. The only reason I didn't lose my sight in that eye is because the water had cooled slightly."
Toya didn't speak, he couldn't.
"She was arrested, she got ten years in a mental facility, I haven't seen her since then." Shoto stopped speaking, staring at Toya.
He was crying.
"You're not fake." Shoto realised. "This isn't just an illusion."
Toya didn't hear him.
"Oi, Juichigata!" A villain with a fish head poked Toya's shoulder. "You there, blue boy?"
"You're just trying to trick me." Toya said, his arm's lighting on fire, his clothes resisting the flames. "Endeavor gave you that scar, I know it, and he framed mom for it! I'll make you admit it!"
Igniting his palms in a similar manner to Bakugo, Toya blasted himself towards his brother, as the ten villains closed in on Shoto as well.
Before any of them could react, a blast of wind blew through the Landslide Zone, slamming into each of the villains, as well as Toya.
Shoto took a step back. "All Might, he's here."
"Fucking hell." One of the villains stumbled back to his feet, before looking around. "Heh heh, All Might must have though he'd knocked me out."
Reaching out to touch Toya, his skin glowing, waking the white-haired boy.
Shoto charged forwards, the villain was healing the others, undoing All Might's work.
A column of blue fire forced Shoto off target, he brought up an ice wall to protect himself from immolation.
Landing beyond the villains, Shoto turned to see the healing villain was restoring a fourth villain. Slamming his right foot down, Shoto sent a wave of ice at the healing villain.
Blue fire melted it before it could even get halfway.
"That won't work, Sho-chan." Toya's eyes flicked, his expression furious.
"That was just the distraction."
A block of ice sailed through the air, appearing from the steam cloud of the ice wall's destruction, hitting the healing villain in the forehead, knocking him out cold.
"Endeavor trained you well." Toya set his left arm ablaze. "But he trained me just as well, better even. I don't want to hurt you Sho-chan, but what I have to do is bigger than both you and me."
A wave of blue fire shot at Shoto, forcing him to dodge, creating an ice slide to skate around Toya, slamming his hand into the chest of the grey-skinned villain, refreezing him immediately.
Another ice slide, Shoto came to a halt a short distance away. Before he fully negated his velocity, Shoto watched as Toya melted the grey-skinned villain free.
Shoto sighed. "This is going to be a problem."
He would need to alter his fighting style, he needed to get close to Toya and knock him out physically, otherwise he'd just keep freeing the other villains.
Using an ice column, Shoto launched himself at his brother faster than the white-haired teen could react, driving a fist into his gut.
Toya sighed, grabbing Shoto's wrist as he straightened up, before slamming his palm into his brother's chest.
Shoto was flung back, hitting the ground and rolling, slamming his hand down to create an ice slide to carry himself away.
"Not bad, you'll make a powerful hero." Toya sighed. "Once I've torn this corrupt system down it'll be up to you rebuild it, better than before."
Shoto didn't reply.
"But there is something in the way." Toya paused. "You need to use all of your quirk, not just your ice."
"I'll never use his fire." Shoto encased his right arm in ice, dropping into a fighting stance.
"It's your power, Shoto. Use it."
"That fire will never be my power, all I see is him every time I use it."
Toya sighed again. "If you want to be a great hero you can't just handicap yourself. Slyce, show him the errors of his argument."
One of the villains nodded, holding his hands together and pulling them apart, forming a blade of condensed air.
Slyce burst into motion, moving at unnatural speed towards Shoto.
Slamming his right foot down on the ground, Shoto created a wall of ice in between, using his right hand to form a blade of ice, readying himself to fight Slyce.
The air blade cut through the ice wall like a hot knife through butter, the top half sliding away to reveal empty space. Hearing a noise behind him, Shoto twisted around, bringing his ice blade up to block Slyce's.
Slyce smiled. "That won't work on me."
The air blade cut through the ice without resistance, carrying on and slicing through Shoto's arm.
He felt no pain.
Shoto blinked, staring down at the stump where his left arm had been, just below the elbow, the end was covered in smooth and clear skin, not a drop of blood to be seen.
"My arm?"
His arm was on the ground, yet he could still feel it, even the sensation of his palm touching the ground.
Shoto commanded his left hand to form a fist.
The arm on the ground clenched its hand into a fist.
Slyce shrugged, a smug look on his face. "My quirk, it allows me to cut things with a blade I form myself, without harming them. Don't worry, your arm will be back to normal in an hour or so."
"You won't always be able to use your ice, Shoto." Toya nodded to Slyce, the villain walking back towards his ally. "Consider this a lesson. You three, attack him."
The three remaining villains charged into action, racing at Shoto.
Shoto stared down at his detached arm, a plan forming in his mind.
"Forcing me to fight with just fire." Shoto picked up his detached arm with his other arm. "You really have turned into our father."
Toya physically recoiled. Shoto had his opening.
Throwing his detached arm down on the ground, Shoto activated his quirk, ice forming from where his palm made contact, engulfing the three villains entirely.
Using an ice column under his right foot, Shoto launched himself at Slyce and Toya. Landing, more ice bloomed from under his foot, encasing both of the villains. Shoto slammed his elbow into his brother's temple with his momentum, before Toya could melt the ice.
"You brat!" Slyce formed an air blade in one hand, breaking it through the ice as he did.
Before he could free himself, Shoto lashed out with a back fist, sending Slyce to join Toya in unconsciousness.
Shuddering, Shoto looked down to see his right arm had returned to its normal position, even the sleeve of his costume was repaired and whole.
Taking stock of the situation, Shoto made sure each of the villains, including his brother, were restrained or unconscious. With one last look at his brother, Shoto turned and set off for the main plaza, the last place he had seen those three monsters.
Reaching the edge of the Landslide Zone, Shoto turned, running towards the main plaza.
A sudden blast of air shot up from the center of the USJ, smashing a massive hole in the roof and blowing Shoto clean off his feet. Using another ice slide to negate his momentum, Shoto glided to a halt, staring up at the sky though USJ's newest skylight.
"What was that?" Shoto wondered.
One of the monsters from before slammed down not far from Shoto, out cold, the bark covering its body broken and shattered, revealing the pale skin below.
A booming voice echoed through the USJ, rattling the remaining glass in the facility.
"IT'S FINE NOW! BECAUSE I AM HERE!"