Chapter thirteen - The fickle finger of Fate.
(At the Police Station)
"So um...do I start talking now or..?" asked the thug.
"Yes, please, begin your account on what happened at the scene some hours ago." replied Detective Naomasa.
The thug fidgeted in fear of what would happen afterwards but decided to speak anyway.
"S-So, yeah, I was walking down an alleyway with three of my friends and two of them were pretty drunk but I wasn't. We were walking down a bit more until we saw this small person walking in the opposite direction. One of my friends were drunk as hell and tried to make a move on the smaller person because he thought he was a girl b-but.." the thug paused.
"But?" asked Naomasa.
"But the small person kicked my friend in the head!" shouted the thug. "The person kicked so hard that it killed my friend but right after he did it, he acting so casual and was all, 'maybe I kicked a little hard'! I'm just there staring at what happened. But then my second and third friend decided to avenge my first friend by charging at the smaller person but the smaller person was so fucking quick on his feet and slashed one of my friends veins and cut off one of the arms and fists.. The guy had blood splattered across his clothes and mask and the guy had a damn sword! He walked up to me but I didn't provoke him so maybe that's why I was spared. After that I don't remember much..I had alcohol but I wasn't drunk.."
Detective Naomasa was in complete shock at what he had just heard.
"This is crazy and way beyond the lines of self-defense!" he thought.
"Can you please give me a description and name of the villain?" asked Naomasa.
"I don't know if he was a known villain but he was kinda short and had long, black, straight hair. Even I thought it was a girl for a minute. He wore a yukata, tabi, geta and had a samurai sword sheathed on his hips. I couldn't see his face 'cause he wore a white mask with no facial features on it." explained the thug.
Naomasa scrunched up his face in frustration.
"That's gonna make things a bit harder...maybe this new guy is with the league.." he thought.
"And his name?"
"Huh? Oh, he called himself 'Faceless'. I'm guessing it's an alias, though." said the thug.
"Hm, okay. Thank you for your time. You can go now as you haven't committed any crimes and didn't attack Faceless." said Naomasa. The thug got up and left the station, leaving Naomasa in a confused and intrigued state.
"A new villain, huh. And to appear at a time like this when a teenage boy went missing." murmured Naomasa to himself. "It's a coincidence. That case was dropped long ago and was forgotten when the kid was disclosed as quirkless, that was pretty sad." Naomasa pondered over the thought of the quirkless boy but got up to leave when he was called by another detective for a different case. The thought lingered in his mind and he would remember to tell different heroes about it.
Izuku arrived at the league hideout covered in scattered blood from head to toe. When he walked in, Tezobi and Tomura took up a fighting stance, as they didn't recognise the person was Izuku until he took off his mask. They sat back down but Tezobi got up again to get a good look at Izuku. She was shocked.
"Woah, hey, brat, what the fuck is going on? Why do you have blood on you?" Tezobi asked with her arms crossed.
"He better not have done what I think he did.." she thought. She did somewhat care and like Izuku in an older sister kind of fashion but she did not show it and still went hard on him during fights and kicked his ass.
"Isn't obvious, Tezobi? He killed someone. Tch." answered Tomura, scratching his neck and rolling his eyes.
"He better not get cocky or else I'll have to remind him of his place here." he thought.
"Incorrect." replied Izuku unfazed. "I killed three people and spared one." Izuku walked over to the counter and ordered a soda from Kurogiri. Tomura got up from his seat and slowly walked towards Izuku in disbelief while Tezobi just gazed at him in confusion, curiosity and concern. She didn't like that Izuku had already killed at the tender age of 15. She kept that to herself, however.
"You.." growled Tomura. "Why? Do you think you're cool or something?"
"Midoriya, you came back a bit late, please give me the paperwork to send to Sensei." Kurogiri commanded. Izuku complied and gave the papers away to him. Izuku sat down and drank his drink. Tomura wasn't having it.
"Hey! Listen to me, damnit! I'll kill you.." screeched Tomura. "Tell me why you have blood all over you! I'm the boss here, I should know you, fucking shit."
"Shut up, my gosh. You sound like a whiny kid. I'll talk when Kurogiri gets back." replied Izuku in an irritated tone. Tezobi was taken aback by his attitude but said nothing. Within a few minutes, Kurogiri returned.
"Everyone, our big event will start in an hour so use the time wisely. Tomura will be explaining what it is soon, but Midoriya looks like he has something to say." said Kurogiri, behind the bar. He was very observant.
"Yeah, brat. Spill." said Tezobi, crossing her legs. Tomura just growled.
"Sure, whatever." answered Izuku. And within 10 minutes, Izuku explained what happened in a brief but detailed description of what he did and what happened. Tezobi stepped on Izuku's foot at a fast pace so that he couldn't dodge.
"What the fuck is wrong with you? Why the hell would you pull a flashy stunt like that?" asked Tezobi, who was clearly annoyed.
"I was provoked, almost groped and was nearly killed. What should I have done? Let them kill me and grope me? I do not regret my decision, Tezobi." declared Izuku. Tezobi had never heard Izuku call her by her name so she was a little shocked.
"Whatever, brat." she drank her soda and leaned on the sofa. Tomura just clicked his tongue.
"I kept my identity a secret and told the one I spared I was Faceless." said Izuku. Nobody present had a problem with that. Kurogiri didn't have a problem with Izuku and kind of liked him. Though, he did get a bit concerned for the child.
"His soul has been this badly tainted? He is losing his chance of redemption in the long run but youth does have its privileges so all he can do is hope that he doesn't go to jail later on." thought Kurogiri as he shook his head. He then remembered the big job they had to do today.
"Tomura." said Kurogiri.
"Yeah, yeah. I know!" said Tomura as he was exposing a sadistic grin.
"We are going to U.A to kill All Might today." said Tomura in an excited tone. Tezobi burst out laughing and clutched her stomach. Izuku scoffed and gave a short smile.
"Congratulations, Tomura. You almost made me laugh there." said Izuku wryly.
"Shut it, you samurai fuck. You too, Tezobi! I'm using the notes you wrote about the rest of the heroes that will be there to help us kill him, samurai boy."
"I mean, sure, my notes will help kill the other heroes, but All Might? My notes can only do so much." said Izuku sipping the last droplets of his drink. He had no desire or pleasure killing anybody, even people like Bakugou or Heroes or people. Though he didn't care when he killed.
"That is why we have 'them' to help us." cut in Kurogiri. "The Nomu."
Tezobi's eyes widened.
"So that's what Tomura has been obsessing over this whole damn time." she said. Izuku looked confused.
"Let me enlighten you, Midoriya." said Sensei, form the monitor. Izuku had gotten used to Sensei's talks without warnings. Izuku got up and bowed at the monitor before sitting again. "The Nomu are artificial creatures I created that possess multiple quirks, a bit like myself but I'm stronger."
Izuku was intrigued. He knew about All Might's quirk and All for One's quirk and the both of their quirk's origin. Izuku was furious when he found out that All MIght was once quirkless but still got to talk down on him when he wa sin the same position. He knew about it because Sensei used one of his quirks 'Data Shift', which allows him to transfer information that Sensei already knows to someone's mind, to tell Izuku about his quirks. Sensei did this after Izuku was told he had a quirk. Though Izuku is the only one who knows about Sensei's quirk history, everyone else knew about Sensei's quirk.
"Do they have free will and their own intelligence?" asked Izuku.
"They do not. However, they act upon Tomura's orders so they will not harm my allies." explained Sensei.
"I see. Thank you, Sensei." said Izuku.
"My pleasure. Kurogiri, please continue with the plan."
"Of course." said Kurogiri, and with that the red flashing light switched off. "Tomura and Tezobi have a brief understanding of all the teacher's quirks if they decide to resist, so we can fight. We have gathering up around 75 low-rank villains to fight with us and you are coming along with us, Midoriya. I assume you're fine with that."
Izuku gave off a sadistic smile and his green eyes shined as he remembered that Bakugou would be at U.A.
"That will be fun." Izuku said and chuckled. It sent chills down everyone's spine when he did that. "Kurogiri, I want to wash my costume. It has dried blood on it and it is very precious to me."
"Of course, please change into something else and it'll be ready in ten minutes." replied Kurogiri. Izuku quickly removed his clothing in front of Tezobi and Tomura with no shame as they had all seen each other's body before. Izuku dashed to his room and wore sweatpants and a white t-shirt.
"We have thirty minutes until we leave so prepare yourselves." All three of them gave off callous smiles before preparing for the raid to U.A.
(In U.A)
"Okay, class, that's the end of that. Now, put on your costumes so we can go to the U.S.J for training." said Aizawa lazily before waiting outside to go on the coach. Within minutes, everyone had changed. And was in the coach ready to go the U.S.J
"This is going to be so fun!" said Uraraka and she punched the air.
"You seem very excited, Ochaco-chan." said Tsuyu.
"I'm pumped too!" shouted Mina with a huge grin.
"I heard the place is really big and there are a ton of replica disasters!" said Kaminari.
"Yeah, man, I can't wait. What about you, Bakubro?" said Kirishima as he glanced at Bakugou.
"I don't give a shit. All I know is that I'm going to beat everyone of you." replied Bakguou while stubbornly looking out the window.
"Ah, of course you are." said Kirishima while smiling and shaking his head. The class chatted for a while more until they reached the U.S.J.
"Take your seatbelts off and get off the coach," ordered Aizawa. The class did as they were told. When they got down everyone gasped in awe of the U.S.J. They whispered incoherent praises to the building and smiles were shot across the class. Then, a hero in an astronaut's outfit came towards the class with a friendly wave.
"Hey, 1-A. My name is '13' and I will be teaching you about real life disasters and how to rescue. There are different biomes and environments you will be saving people in such as fires, landslides and flooding…" said 13, but it was as he was explaining, that a black portal opened up near them. Out of the portal stepped out a mass of low-rated villains that were ready to attack the students and teachers. Then there was a motionless Nomu next to Tomura and three other villains.
Aizawa saw this and shouted, "13! Take the students somewhere safe or back to the coach! NOW!"
13 nodded and ran to the students to guide them to the coach.
"Is this part of the U.S.J?" asked Kirishima.
"NO, they are villains!" at the mere sound of 'villain' everyone was terrified but wouldn't hesitate to defend themselves. "Everyone, defend yourselves if necessary!" 13 used his quirk to suck in the villains and turn them to dust while Aizawa easily defeated some of the weak villains quickly.
"Kurogiri! Make a portal appear behind 13 to turn himself into dust." said Izuku calmly, analysing the situation. 13 gasped.
"Students...that..is the type of villain you should be..w-wary of.." 13 said weakly, pointing to Izuku before going unconscious. Aizawa was fuming and turned his anger into power to beat the villains.
The other 1-A students were defending themselves from the villains and nobody was seriously injured.
"These villains aren't as daft as they seem, they chose a place where there were no teachers and it was away from the school. That was quite clever."
"Hey..oi..Kurogiri, I thought you said All Might would be here!" said Tomura, who was getting annoyed. He scratched his neck and it started to bleed.
"He should be."
"Maybe breaking a few students should do the trick." suggested Tezobi.
"Maybe. Well, pardon me, 1-A students. We apologise for coming here on short notice but we have business here to destroy your futures!" declared Kurogiri dramatically. He then transported the students to different areas. Izuku eyed the students. Then found a boy with blonde, spiky hair he grinned to himself.
"Bingo." he thought.
"Kurogiri, send me to the boy with spiky, blonde hair. I need to say hello and get revenge." Izuku said to Kurogiri in an aggressive manner.
"If you wish." Izuku was then transported to where Bakugou.
"Man, fate does work in mysterious ways." thought Izuku. Bakugou and Izuku were now on flatland and wave of fury came over Izuku at the sight of Bakugou.
"What the fuck? Why do I have some girl standing in front of me- eh it doesn't matter as you're gonna be ended by me today. Fucking small fry." shouted Bakugou from across the land. Izuku didn't move a muscle but instead hummed to humour himself. Bakugou took offence to this.
"OI! FUCKING SMALL FRY DON'T UNDERESTIMATE ME!" snarled Bakugou as he blasted towards Izuku. Izuku simply moved his head to the side and grabbed Bakugou's arm and slammed him into the ground before throwing him on his bare back like a bag of trash.
"Get up." demanded Izuku as he looked down at Bakugou with a murderous aura around him.
"Don't fucking tell me what to do!" and with that Bakugou attempted to blast his gauntlets in Izuku face but Izuku knees Bakugou in the groin and kicks him in the face with his geta.
Bakugou was practically being thrown around like a ragdoll. All of Bakugou's attacks were useless. He didn't have the training that Izuku did, he just had brute strength and a quirk.
Izuku smiled to himself under the mask as him venting out his pure fury and rage onto his number one bully was quite unique feeling. He liked it. Bakugou had enough of being pushed around at jumped into the air.
"HOWITZER IMPACT" shouted Bakugou. Izuku was a bit wary of this explosion but knew he'd be okay.
"Of course he would do this." he whispered to himself. Izuku took the blast head-on as he would not be able to dodge it. The explosion was catastrophic. It teared down all the things around it and left some places on fire. Some of Izuku's bandages burned off. He got up and dusted himself off and did some simple stretches before glancing at an unconscious Bakugou again.
"That one hurt a bit, Kacchan." said Izuku. Suddenly, in his comms, he heard Kurogiri's voice.
"Come back immediately, we will leave soon."
"Roger." replied Izuku before running back to the main facility. Izuku arrived next to Tezobi who seemed tired and bored.
"When does this shitshow end…" she groaned and yawned casually in the chaos around her. Suddenly, a huge blast of debris and air came towards everyone as they saw a man in suit with blonde hair come into the U.S.J.
"All Might…" said Tomura in excitement. Izuku just stayed silent while another rush of anger came over him.
"All Might, destroyer of hopes and dreams. Welcome." thought Izuku. He would never forget the day that he lost his chance and determination to become a hero.
"You villains have succeeded in one thing..increasing my fury. My poor students had to fend for themselves while I was doing nothing. I am touched. Now, I must end this!"
"NOMU!" Tomura cried.
Suddenly, the Nomu and All Might exchanged 300 punches with each other and gave each other blasts. But, the Nomu was losing.
"Tomura won't be happy with this." mumbled Izuku.
All Might didn't notice that Izuku was right behind him when he punched the Nomu. All Might was extremely fast and Izuku dodged him by the skin of his teeth.
"That was close.." thought Izuku.
All Might noticed that Izuku dodged him.
"He can move at the same speed as me? How powerful is that villain? No- what could he do to my students if he could keep up with me.." thought All Might.
"My Nomu was beaten..impossible he was made to defeat All Might!" Tomura shouts hysterically.
"Made to defeat me? Then, let's go for round 2, shall we?" bluffed All Might. More heroes arrived.
"He's at his limit. As much as I hate him, this isn't for everyone to know." thought Izuku.
"Kurogiri, get the warp ready for escape. We are clearly outnumbered and must retreat." said Izuku.
"The fast one..he sounds no older than my students.." said All Might.
"How did he become a villain at such a young age?" asked Nezu
"How sad.." said Midnight.
"I suppose you're right. Tomura, we are leaving."
"NO NO NO! I'm not leaving! Nomu was supposed to win!"
"Tomura, we need to go or we will not survive this." suggested Kurogiri.
Tomura grunted. "Fine."
"Told ya'." said Izuku before slipping into the warp gate after Tezobi.
"Shut up, Faceless..!" shouted Tomura. And with that the warp gate had closed and the League of Villains had left.
"Faceless, huh. That's his name…" thought All Might. "Though his voice sounds fairly familiar…"