Chapter 5

3rd P.o.v

Hotaru marvelled at the dome-shaped building as the class exited the bus. They were greeted by Space Hero, Thirteen. Hotaru's eyes sparkled as Thirteen spoke. The pro specialized in rescue operations. From the sound of it, the other students loved Thirteen, too. As they were led inside, Thirteen explained the various disasters simulated inside; natural and man-made.

"It's called the Unforeseen Simulation Joint, or USJ for short!" Thirteen said before whispering something into Aizawa's ear. Hotaru could have listened to what it was but she didn't care and wanted to respect their privacy.

"Shall we begin?" Aizawa asked. Thirteen nodded.

"Everyone, I'm sure you are aware of my quirk, Black Hole. I can suck up anything and turn it into dust. It has helped me save many lives but it's also a power that can easily kill just as easily. Some of you have quirks like that, right?" they faced the class. Hotaru looked to the ground, a hint of sadness in her eyes.

"In a superhuman society, personal quirks have been certified and stringently regulated, so it doesn't seem to be a problem at first glance. However, please don't forget that there are many quirks that can kill with one wrong step," the warning from the pro hero hit the girl hard.

'Kill...' Hotaru absentmindedly repeated to herself in her head as she looked down at her hands.

'Chin up. You are good and anyone who can't see that is a fool,' Kiyo attempted to cheer up her host.

"With Aizawa's physical fitness test, you found out the possibility of your own hidden powers, and with All Might's person-to-person combat training, I think you experienced the dangers of using your quirks against others. This class is a fresh start," Thirteen said. Hotaru felt a bit relieved when she heard this. A fresh start was all she ever wanted.

"You shall learn how to use your quirks to save people's lives. You do not have powers so you can harm others. I hope you leave here with the understanding that you have powers in order to help others. That is all. Thank you," Thirteen bowed and the students cheered. Hotaru couldn't help but smile.

"This is exactly what I need..." she mumbled before sighing and closing her eyes. She scrunched up her face in pain as her headache suddenly peaked. It was so much worse than before. She went to massage her temples but realized that the pain wasn't coming from an internal source...it was the seal.

The seal that held Kiyo inside Hotaru, or rather, the lock to her prison cell. Located in Hotaru's eye, the seal takes the form of a triquetra. These three interlaced loops were a mystery to Hotaru and Kiyo refused to talk about it unless her host planned on breaking it. Hotaru was afraid to do so, not knowing what the consequences would be. She simply left it to the unknown and rarely brought it up.

"Alright, first-" the teacher stopped when the lights suddenly went out. They flickered a few times then turned back on. Once everyone could see again, their eyes were drawn to the purple, smoke-like, figure that had appeared. Aizawa's eyes widened as he watched villains pour out of the portal. In the centre was a man with light blue hair and...hands...covering his face. He was most likely the leader.

"Kiyo...What's happening?" Hotaru mumbled as she clenched her head in pain. Kiyo was silent for a moment.

'I don't know...'

"Gather together and don't move. Thirteen, protect the students!" Aizawa ordered. His sense of urgency had everyone on edge. Midoriya attempted to take a step forward.

"Don't move!" Aizawa shouted, causing Hotaru to flinch. Everyone froze when they realized that the situation was very much real.

"Those are villains..." multiple gasps were heard, all coming from Class 1-A. Hotaru widened her eyes as she used her heightened senses to hear the leader speak.

"Thirteen and Eraser Head, huh? The teacher's schedule we received the other day said All Might was supposed to be here..." the man muttered as more villains walked out of the smoke.

"They want All Might," Hotaru was somehow able to focus on Aizawa. She was scared out of her mind and her head was pounding but she did her best to put on a calm face. This wasn't the time for her to pity herself by thinking she was being weak. She had to stay composed. Aizawa nodded, taking in the information.

"Teacher, what about the trespasser sensors?" Yaoyorozu approached Thirteen.

"We have them, of course, but..." the hero's voice trailed off.

"They have someone with a quirk that can keep the sensors from responding. An isolated area separated from the main campus during the time when a class is supposed to be here...They might be fools but they're not dumb," said a boy whose name Hotaru had learned was Todoroki.

'They wanted to draw out All Might...by attacking his students...' the purple-haired girl thought.

"Thirteen, start the evacuation. Try calling the school. If these villains had something to counteract the sensors, it's possible someone with radio-wave-type powers is interfering. Kaminari, try contacting the school with your quirk, too," Aizawa ordered. Kaminari was slightly surprised he was called out to act but he swallowed the lump in his throat and nodded.

"Yessir."

"What about you?" Midoriya asked, very clearly worried.

"Will you fight by yourself? With that many, even if you can erase their quirks...Eraser Head's fighting style is capturing after erasing the enemy's quirk! A frontal battle is..." he felt that he had no need to finish his sentence.

"You can't be a hero with just one trick," was what Aizawa muttered before jumping into battle. Hotaru stared at her teacher. She was in awe of his skills and had never actually seen a hero work up close. She was snapped out her trance when the other students started running for the exit.

Right as they were getting close to the doors, everyone stopped. The black smoke-like figure that had brought the villains was now in front of them.

"Nice to meet you. We are the League of Villains. It may be presumptuous of us, but we have invited ourselves into the home of heroes, UA High School, in order to have All Might, the Symbol of Peace, take his last breath," the villain said. Hotaru's throat went dry as he spoke.

"I believe All Might should have been here. Has there been some kind of change?" the dark figure got no response.

"Well, that is neither here or there. This is the part I am to play..." he narrowed his yellow, glowing, eyes as Thirteen released the caps off their fingertips, ready to use their quirk. All of a sudden, Kirishima and Bakugou rushed forward.

"Idiots," Hotaru spat as she watched them attack. Due to the power of the combined powers, dust and smoke rose up around the students. Hotaru coughed before cursing under her breath.

"Crap..." she mumbled as she waited for it to settle.

Once visible, the villain spoke, "Oh, dear. That's dangerous." He had gone unharmed. Hotaru furrowed her eyebrows.

"That's right...Even if you are students, you are excellent golden eggs," she was unsure if the figure's words were meant to be a compliment or not.

"Get back, you two!" Thirteen shouted at Bakugou and Kirishima.

"My job is to scatter you all...and torture you to death!" the villain's smoke-like body surrounded the students.

"What the hell...?" was all Hotaru could quietly say before she felt the ground beneath her disappear. She realized what was happening and let out a groan as she held her pounding head.

'Warping,' Kiyo completed her thought.

Collapsed Zone...

Within a few seconds, Hotaru was slammed onto a hard surface. She grumbled some swears as the pain from her rough landing set in.

'Get up and get a bearing of your surroundings,' Kiyo ordered with a newfound sense of urgency.

"Okay, okay...Give me a second," Hotaru sighed as she sat up slowly, resting her back on a broken pillar next to her.

"It looks like...a collapsed building," she said, noticing piles of rubble, exposed support beams, and a few broken pillars. Shadows were cast upon one half of the room due to the light coming from the wall of glass on the other side of the room. Most of it was shattered but some pieces were still intact.

Hotaru noticed a warm liquid drip from her head. She put her fingers to her forehead. The impact of the fall had caused her to bleed. She sighed once again, but this time it was out of relief. The seal had stopped hurting! However, she had little time to figure out why it had even caused her pain in the first place. A large silhouette began walking towards her, slowly appearing from out of the shadows. Hotaru got up to her feet.

"What the..." she mumbled, noticing the gas that had begun to fill the room.

'Hold your breath!' Kiyo dmanded. Hotaru did as told. She used her narrowed eyes to make out as much of the figure as she could. It had something on it's back that was pouring out the gas that filled the room. Hotaru watched it grow closer then she realized...

'Shit!'

She was out of breath. She shut her eyes tight as she braced herself for spontaneous combustion or something along those lines. However, when she took a breath, nothing happened. She raised an eyebrow in confusion. The figure had come closer, looming a foot above Hotaru's four-foot-nine inch frame.

"You're not that intima-" Hotaru suddenly began to laugh uncontrollably.

'Hotaru?' Kiyo asked with a concerned yet confused tone.

"I-I'm sorry, Kiyo!" Hotaru spat through her laughing fit.

'Why are you laughing?' the spirit was now irritated.

"I don't know," Hotaru chortled as she simply watched the villain walk up to her. Her legs failed, folding underneath her. She fell to the floor, tearful eyes from all her laughing.

"Very powerful Nitrous Oxide," her opponent explained in a gravelly voice. Hotaru could now fully make out his features.

He was a tall, thin, man with dishevelled brown hair. He dawned a gas mask, a grey jumpsuit, and tanks coming out of his back which most likely held the gas that was being exerted into the room. Somehow, Hotaru found him funny. She had inhaled so much gas that everything was funny.

'Laughing gas...' Kiyo mumbled, remembering it as the drug they used the time Hotaru had her wisdom teeth removed. She remembered how much of a nightmare she was. Actually, it was the punishment that Satomi gave her afterwards that Kiyo remembered most...

"Oh, look! Tall Man's coming to get us! Run, Kiyo!" Hotaru said before exploding with laughter. She held her stomach as it began to cramp.

'I don't have a body, you idiot,' Kiyo sighed. The gas began to disappear, but the effects still lingered in Hotaru.

"Quit talking to yourself. Cooperate and this will go a lot smoother," the man said as he removed his gas mask. Hotaru could only laugh at his sadistic grin. He reached his hand out to grab her, but she rolled out from under him. She got to her feet and let out a short chuckle.

"Gotta be quicker than that!" she taunted.

"Even with the gas, you're still moving?" the man had been caught off guard. He inhaled deeply then composed himself and shrugged.

"It doesn't matter. The gas will make you tired soon enough," he approached Hotaru again. He went to grab her a second time, moving faster than before.

"I said you have to be quicker!" Hotaru pouted. The man clicked his tongue.

"I'm not in the mood for games, girl," he spat as he reached out. He managed to grab ahold of Hotaru's hair. She yelped as he lifted her into the air, clawing at his hands and arms. He didn't let go.

"Right. Now, let's get down to business," he regained his sinister, toothy, grin and hurled Hotaru onto the floor with such force that she made a crater. He bent down, pulled her head up by her hair. She was now bleeding from a cut on her head and from her broken nose.

"Still want to laugh?" the man asked in his rough voice as Hotaru let out a small chuckle. He picked her up once again and threw her into the wall, making another indentation.

'Hotaru, snap out of it!' Kiyo shouted as Hotaru fell to the ground. She hated being useless. The shadow that was cast upon the back of the room hid Hotaru's body.

"Now, are you going to be a good little girl and come with me? If not I'll have to kill you," the man wnt up to her again.

As he reached for the girl, she instantaneously sprung to life. She jumped up, sinking her teeth into the man's forearm. He howled in pain. Blood seeped from his arm as he attempted to shake Hotaru off. She was persistent, however, and stayed latched on. She was drinking the man's sour blood. It wasn't that she wanted to but she needed ammunition.

"Crazy little shit!" the villain roared, grabbing her and pulling her off. The teen took a chunck of his arm with her. He howled in pain, veins, blood vessels, and a bit of bone exposed on his forearm.

"Radial artery, bitch!" Hotaru spat with a giggle. She was now the one who now had a sadistic grin on her face, which was caked with blood.

"How did the gas wear off so fast?!" the man shouted, wide eyes warily watching the girl. Hotaru chuckled.

"It hasn't," she said. She licked the blood off her lips then shook her head and made a bleh sound.

"Your blood is like eating a metal pipe! Jesus, man, eat less iron, please. That can't be healthy," she tried to rid herself the metallic taste in her mouth which usually wasn't prominent when she drank blood. Then again, she usually just used her own.

"Wh-What the hell are you?!" the man asked, clearly terrified. Hotaru cackled.

"In your words, I'm a 'little shit'," she looked up, blood-red eyes glowing, resembling Kiyo's. The tips of her tail and horns sparked before bursting to life. The blue flames were also more vibrant. She gave the man a creepily cheery smile.

"I'm just a student from UA," she giggled before letting her expression turn dark.

"And if you ever come after me or my classmates again, I'll bite off more than just your arm," she spat. She smirked then breathed out a large, blue-flamed, attack in the man's direction. He attempted to dodge but ended up getting his arm burned in the process. He screamed, his scorched arm completely blackened.

"I'm gonna kill you!" he roared as he rushed towards Hotaru. She went to dodge the attack but the man tricked her by pivoted on his foot and got a solid punch in on her gut. She spat out a little blood before flying into the wall. She began to laugh again.

"I don't think so," she giggled. She went to stand up but collapsed instead.

"Eh...? Why am I suddenly...so tired?" she yawned as she felt her eyelids grow heavy. The villain before her cackled.

"The gas has anaesthesic properties. I guess it's finally setting in," he said. Hotaru struggled to stand up. She couldn't move and felt like she was going to pass out. The dark-haired man walked over and leaned over her, using his hands to push her face into the floor.

"Who's laughing now?" he roughly whispered into her ear.

"Hands off, asshole!"

Boom!

Hotaru felt the weight of the man leave her body. She wearily opened one eye. Much to her surprise, Bakugou had appeared in the room. Hotaru had failed to notice the door behind him when she first entered. His explosion shot the villain into a wall, knocking him out.

"Blondie!" Hotaru called, still unable to move.

"Get up, Lizard Girl," Bakugou ordered. Hotaru gave him a smile.

"I can't," she said. Bakugou clicked his tongue.

"Fine," he spat. Hotaru raised an eyebrow as the blonde walked over to her and picked her up, throwing her body over his shoulder. She chuckled.

"What the hell is so funny?!" Bakugou furrowed his eyebrows. Hotaru closed her eyes.

"Nothing...Goodnight," she let her head fall and closed her eyes. Bakugou rolled his eyes.

"How the hell are you already asleep?" he asked but got no response. He sighed and continued his trek back to the lower level of the building where Kirishima was. The blonde had heard the screaming and offered to check it out. When he found Hotaru biting off part of a man's arm, he was taken back. He was going to interfere but was put into a trance by her rabid-like stage.

Now, he was walking down the stairs and couldn't help but look over his shoulder at the girl as she slept. He mentally cursed before setting her down then picking her back up, bridal style this time.

"Fuck..."

-.-

I really enjoyed writing this chapter! My first decent fight scene.

Special thanks to...

Penguin Thing

maddiejade

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JustUsingARandomName- I'm glad you like my story and thanks for the advice. I was worried about starting this story because I only had a few ideas at the start and once I started rewatching the show, I found myself wanting to change just about everything, so it was hard at first. Anyway, thanks for reviewing! :)