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Chapter 15

Dabi grabbed a hold of Mustard's wrist and used the momentum behind his punch to throw him out of bounds and the competition. Looking up towards the catwalk where the losers and spectators were gathered her eyes met Shigaraki's red ones from behind the hand flipping him off for good measure before turning her attention back towards the fight.

Of the original nine participants aiming to become the leader of the newly named Vanguard Action Squad, only four were left.

Kurogiri had warped them all to a large abandoned warehouse and explained the test to see who would be a two-part one. The first part was rather simple, all the villains would engage in a no holds bar fight without the use their quirks until Kurogiri gave them the signal. After that, those remaining were free to fight using their quirks as much as they wanted until a winner emerged.

Seeing something glimmer from the corner of her eye Dabi barely dodged Toga's knife grabbing the front of her uniform and roughly slamming her to the ground.

"Ouchie," the blonde whined. "That hurt Dabi."

Dabi said nothing just looked over to where Muscular and Magne were trading blows before turning her attention back to school girl. "Team up?"

Himiko looked shocked for a moment before she started giggling. "Why Miss Dabi I never. Asking a girl, you barely know to team up with you, how foreword."

"Whatever," Dabi said helping the other to her feet. "Magne might win if she could use her quirk but without it, Muscular has the advantage and I personally would rather die then follow that guy. Plus, Kurogiri is gonna call out anytime now and I've seen what his quirk can do."

Dabi didn't mention the other reason behind this team-up. She wasn't lying when she said he didn't want to follow the brawler's orders and fighting him alone with her flames would be a pain in more ways than one. But the real reason was that she didn't trust him, Muscular had been giving her and Toga hungry looks since he showed up, looks that made Dabi want to pull out his other eye and set his dick on fire.

Dabi might not want to be the leader of this little group but there was no way she would let someone like Muscular lead it either.

"So, then what's the plan Boss Lady," Toga giggled saluting the cremation user.

Dabi smirked. "You ever play Marco Polo?"

Toga looked confused for a moment before a wide smile came across her face and she nodded before a large thud caught their attention. Turning back towards the fight that had been going on they saw Magne getting sucked into one of Kurogiri's warp gates to be deposited with the other losers on the catwalk.

"Well well," Muscular smirked cracking his knuckles as he made his way towards the pair. "Look at what we have here, a pair of little girls who think they can fight with the big boys."

"Oh please," Dabi spoke gesturing Toga to move away. "The only thing big about you is that scar those heroes gave you."

Muscular growled eyes flashing with anger. "You bitch! I'm going to kill you."

"I'd like to see you try," Dabi sneered arming herself large pipe from the closet pile of junk.

"Ten minutes until you can use your quirks." Kurogiri's called.

Muscular laughed and punched his open palm. "Hear that, ten minutes before I can give you the beating you deserve."

"Bigger men then you have tried," Dabi said remembering Endeavor beating her on numerous occasions. The number two hero never could handle when someone stood up to him, let alone when that someone was his weakling failure of a daughter.

Muscular gave a deadly grin with speed Dabi hadn't known he possessed ran towards the two women's hands reaching out not for the cremation user but the blonde standing near her. Instead of pushing Toga away Dabi used the pipe and brought one end down on the man's outstretched hand before using the other to trip him.

Jumping away from each other Dabi pointed at Toga and then to Muscular's back hoping she would understand. With a grin, the blonde nodded and closed her knife hiding it back inside her outfit grabbing of a long thin pipe.

"You bitches!" Muscular roared getting up and turning around to look at the pair. "When I'm done with you you'll be -"

"The new leaders of this group," Dabi interrupted smirking jabbing the pipe to keep some amount of distance between her and augmentation user. "Hope you like being the bottom Muscular."

"I'll show you, you scarred whore." Muscular growled grabbing the pipe and giving it a hard pull.

Despite her attempts not to get to close Dabi was jerked forward just enough that Muscular to grab her by the throat and yank her towards him. It only took a second before blondes' other hand to join the first and start squeezing.

Dabi dropped her weapon and tried to pry the hands off her well her legs tried to land one good blow on Muscular, but her boots only grazed him. The man chuckled and squeezed a little harder causing Dabi to gasp and go limp before he pulled her in closer so that their faces were only a few inches apart.

"I hear your big into Stain," Muscular grinned looking Dabi's body up and down lustfully. "Once I'm the leader I'll show you and blondie what a real mans like, instead of that noseless freak."

Dabi looked up at the man strangling her and glared at him.

Behind her, the cremation user heard Toga yell something getting Muscular's attention thankfully giving Dabi the small window she needed to reach behind and grab an item she had tucked away under her jacket.

Vaguely Dabi heard a metallic sound behind her before she saw a blur pass overhead landing on Muscular's back forcing him to let her go as he tried to grab it. Taking a much-needed breath Dabi looked up just in time to see Toga sink her fangs into the augmentation users' shoulder.

"Let go of me, you crazy bitch!" Muscular screamed hands reaching and failing to grab the smaller blonde who pulled back and quickly made her way to the other shoulder repeating the attack.

Hand still on the canister Dabi felt a plan forming. "Marco."

Toga loosened her teeth from flesh and grinned letting knife she had previously hidden in her uniform spring to life. However instead of going for his throat and killing Muscular the knife aimed for his false eye wedging the blade behind and freeing it with a wet 'pop'.

"Polo," Himiko sang jumping off narrowly avoiding the arm that swung out after her calling out. "Marco."

Rushing forward Dabi now climbed onto Muscular's back now pulling out the military-grade pepper spray Giran had given her and flipping the top part open and spraying the augmentation quirk user straight in the face.

"Polo."

Muscular screamed out in pain as the spray hit him burning into his remaining eye as well as the open area where Toga had popped out his prosthetic. Dabi ducked her head down cringing at the smell of blood and sweat that wafted up from the tank top as she tried to avoid being blinded by her own attack.

As soon as she felt he had enough Dabi jumped off the larger blondes back and staggered backwards eyes watching the blind man very closely as he staggered around cursing the pair until he finally wandered into one of the warp gates and disappeared.

"Quirks are now allowed." Kurogiri's voice came.

Dabi turned and looked at Toga getting into a fighting stance prepared to fend off the girl with her flames. However, instead of attacking the school girl looked thoughtful for a moment before she raised her hands up.

"I surrender."

From above Dabi could hear those who were awake gasp in shock, and in Twice's case some cheers as well.

"You do realize Miss Himiko that by surrendering you give up on leading the Vanguard," Kurogiri spoke one yellow eye raised slightly higher than the other reminiscent of a raised eyebrow.

"Yup," Toga giggled running over and grabbing onto Dabi's arm. "Besides being a leader sounds hard and I just wanna have fun and make new friends."

Dabi could see Shigaraki's hands grip the railing tightly pinkies dangerously close to joining the other four. "I don't like this, Kurogiri make them fight."

"Unfortunately, Tomura Shigaraki I cannot," The warp gate user spoke apologetically. "Miss Himiko has surrendered, by the rules of the match Dabi is now the leader of the Vanguard."

Dabi frowned and pulled her arm free of Toga's stranglehold on it. "You wanna see a fight Creep, why don't you come down here."

Shigaraki looked straight at Dabi, red eyes meeting blue in a clear fight for dominance.

"Kurogiri," the decay user spoke eyes never once breaking contact. "Switch players."

Kurogiri sighed and opened up a warp gate beside both Toga and Shigaraki each walking through it to make the switch. However, instead of the decay user stepping out of the black portal a flaming one did, Dabi watched in horror as Endeavor walked out looking just like she remembered him.

Furious and looking for a target to take it out on.

"Tasuto," he growled flames wiping around him furiously.

Looking towards to catwalk Dabi saw no one there, in fact, she wasn't even in the warehouse any more she was at the one place in the world she feared more the world,

The Dojo

"You worthless whore!" Endeavour shouted flames shooting out from his hands at Dabi who narrowly avoided them.

"How dare you disgrace me like this," Endeavor yelled again throwing another fireball at Dabi who dodged again. "I'll burn that bastard out of you just like I did the first one."

Dabi looked confused for a second before a small kick alerted her to her suddenly inflated stomach and the horrible realization that Endeavor wasn't aiming for her. Moving backwards Dabi felt for the door handle and quickly turned it just as another flame attack was sent towards her.

Shutting the door quickly Dabi started to run.

"You can't run from me Tasuto," Endeavor's voice yelled after her. "I'll find you and finish the job properly this time."

Dabi quickly navigated her childhood home knowing that if she could make it out through the kitchen, she could use the tree in the backyard to make her escape only to find her mother blocking her path.

"Tasuto," Rei spoke purposely avoiding eye contact with her eldest.

"Mom … I …" Dabi began only to be interrupted by the heavy sounds of Endeavor's footsteps as he made his way closer. Grabbing Rei's hand Dabi pulled her towards the open door outside. "Quick we have to get out of here."

Rei recoiled and looked at Dabi with a terrified expression. "It's not us your father is after."

"Mom?"

"I have to protect them, you understand don't you Tasuto," Rei implored looking out the window. Dabi followed her gaze and saw Fuyumi, Natsuo and Shouto laughing together in the garden oblivious to what was happening inside. "You're just too much like your father, there's too much of his poison in you."

Taking a deep breath Rei stepped back and yelled. "SHE'S IN HERE!"

Dabi barely bat an eyelash at her mother's betrayal before she was running out of the kitchen as fast as she could only to see Endeavor turn the corner and sneer at her cutting off her current escape route. Now the only way out of the house was through the front door so Dabi changed course and ran in the opposite direction as fast as she could one hand pressing against her abdomen as she did.

Luckily it seems that even pregnant Dabi was faster than her father and she threw the door open only to be met with a pair of gold eyes.

"Hawks?" Dabi whispered in surprise before she felt a sharp piercing sensation.

Looking down Dabi saw Hawks feather blade sword had penetrated the area she had just been swearing to protect. Shocked Dabi coughed feeling blood come out of her mouth as Hawks pulled his sword from her the two reds mixing together as the feathers fell on the ground between them.

Dabi felt the warm blood slip between her fingers as she stared at her former lover.

"Why?"

Hawks smiled at Dabi; the same one he gave when he was posing with fans. "I can't have a villain like you ruining my reputation, I am a hero after all."

Feeling her legs cave under her Dabi fell towards the ground looking at all the blood pooling beneath her and knowing deep in her heart that it was too late. Two fingers made their way under her chin lifting her face so that Dabi was looking at Hawks again as he leaned in and brushed their lips together gently.

"Thanks for everything Dabi, I'll make sure the League is taken care of," the winged hero said looking at her and standing up, bright smile stained with Dabi's blood on his lips. "She's all yours Endeavor."

The last thing Dabi saw before she was pulled back into the house was Hawks taking off into the sky as a voice whispered in her ear.

"Welcome home Tatsuo."

Hari awoke as soon as his alarm rang out altering him to a problem in Dabi's 'room'. With no noise, the yakuza slipped out of bed and made his way to the villain's cell only stopping his trek to grab something off the chair he had placed outside the door before opening it.

Once inside he found Dabi sitting up her hands covering her mouth as though she was trying to stop herself from screaming from whatever nightmare she had. Walking slowly towards the woman Hari gently placed the blanket he was carrying around her shoulders, taking great care not to touch her noticing that Dabi's eyes were unclear meaning she still wasn't fully awake.

Not a good sign, Hari thought recalling the last time this happened Dabi had punched him when he accidentally grazed her shoulder well putting the blanket on. Reaching over to the small table he had given her for her good behaviour during the doctors visit Hari grabbed the photo and handed it to her.

It might have taken a bit of persuading and a lot of threats but finally one of the underground doctors he knew caved and came to give Dabi a once over even bringing a portable ultrasound machine with him. The photo provided by that machine was well worth the effort since it went a long way in calming Dabi down.

Hari felt it certainly made the mess he had to clean up after killing the doctor worth it.

"He's still alive," Dabi whispered looking at the picture slightly clearer eyes as she ran her fingers over the baby's outline. "Please tell me …"

"He's alive," Hari said emotionlessly holding one hand out to Dabi who immediately took it standing up. "Now let's get you cleaned up."

Dabi nodded and immediately latched onto the back of the yakuza's coat much to his dismay. The first time the cremation user had done this Hari had nearly stabbed her thinking it was an attack. Instead after each night terror, Dabi would become increasingly emotional and unstable reaching out and grabbing onto him no matter how much he tried to prevent her.

Frankly, it was starting to become a real annoyance. Dabi was Kai's enemy, Hari's enemy and one that he planned on taking his time killing as soon as possible. Not to mention that the yakuza wasn't an emotional person to begin, which is why Kai enjoyed working with him so much.

However, Dabi's worsening mental state was making him start to think that it would be best to retrieve Eri as soon possible rather than waiting until Shigaraki's child was born.

Opening the door to the small bathroom Hari pulled out his phone and started looking over some of his surveillance pictures of Eri as he tried to come up with a plan completely missing the way Dabi's eyes suddenly sharpened and focused on him as the door closed.

~*~Notes~*~

No idea how Dabi became the leader of the Vanguard but a battle royale amongst the original members seems the most likely, especially without quirks.

Let me know what you thought of the fight though I don't have to much experience writing fight scenes and would appreciate feedback on it.

Things are going to heat up in the next coming chapters so I hope you look foreword to them, here's a hint to one thing that defiantly gonna happen. Hawks is gonna get a visitor from a League member, who is up for debate though.