NeonHorizon: I've got like...three or four other villain stories out at the moment.

Kugutsu passed out shortly after Spinner arrived. The pain from her injuries was just too much to handle. Not to mention the panic that came with the thought of never seeing Shigaraki again.

Slowly waking up, she opened her eyes and found herself staring up at a dark night sky with no stars. Someone was cradling Kugutsu like an otaku with their favorite idol figure. She tasted blood and when she licked her lips, she winced.

"Yami! Good, you're awake." Spinner's face came into view as he leaned forward. "Try not to move. I tried calling for help, but the reception in these alleys sucks. I don't know what to do! What happened to you?!"

She took a shaky breath and winced again as pain exploded in her chest. Kugutsu's ears flattened and she gritted her teeth. I've got to be stronger than this! I have to see Shigaraki again! My last words to him can't be so damn lame!

"Yami? Hey! You've gotta stay calm or your wounds will start bleeding again!"

"Those heroes-!" Kugutsu wheezed and coughed, fresh blood wetting her lips. She shook her head and looked down at her injured leg and arm. Her left knee was still swollen and bruised. Her left ankle was, like her right wrist, definitely broken.

"What'd they do to you?!"

"No!" She bared bloody teeth and shook her head again. "Stupid…most of this shit…I jumped…second floor…landed wrong…like a dumbass!" Tears ran down her face, mixing with the blood.

Spinner stared down at her, confused and looking almost panicky since he had no idea what to say now. The idea of her doing something that incredibly lame was just too much for him to process. "I'm gonna try to call again. I'll try…uh…I'll try Kurogiri again!"

Right as he dug his phone out, it started ringing with an embarrassingly familiar game's theme song. He grimaced and tried to answer the call before he could make himself look any less cool in front of her. "Where are you?!"

Kugutsu tried to push herself up, getting increasingly annoyed that she was basically sitting in his lap. She put weight on her right wrist and had to bite her lip to stop herself from screaming in pain. To piss her off even more, Spinner held onto her tighter and hissed for her to not move.

"Don't fucking…tell me what to do!" she snarled. Kugutstu managed to sit upright, but he refused to let her move away from him. Instead, she stayed in his lap and grumpily glared at the opposite wall of the alley they were in.

Apparently Spinner's idea of "somewhere safe" was this weird pile of boxes in an alley. It almost looked like he had tried to make a fort out of them, like a kid making a blanket fort. There was an opening between the boxes in front of them that was just big enough for her to look out. Since the entire top of the "fort" was open, it was far from secure. One good kick from an elementary school kid could make the whole thing come tumbling down.

Closing her eyes again, she listened to him talk to whoever had finally called him back. Kugutsu wondered if Shigaraki made it to safety. She wondered if Kurogiri would get him new games. She wondered if he was comfortable. Finally, she wondered if she would actually survive this.

Every time she breathed, it was like there was a knife stabbing into her chest while it was being crushed at the same time. The taste and smell of blood was really strong. She was struggling to stay awake and she was afraid that if she fell asleep again, she might never wake up.

"Yeah, we're behind this bar. Hurry up! I need to get Yami to someplace safer!" Spinner shoved his phone back into his pocket and looked down at her. "Stay awake, okay? Look at me, Yami!"

Her cat-yellow eyes opened and she stared up at the tear-blurred image of her reptilian friend. "If I don't make it…I want you to do something…"

"What? What are you saying?"

"…kick Dabi…in the crotch…and find a psychic so you can tell me what kind of squeaky bitch noises he makes…" Kugutsu smirked when he gaped at her words and she licked blood from her lips.

"Yami, now's not the time for jokes! You might be dying!"

"I know. That's why I said it." She looked down at her right wrist and saw a little bit of bone sticking through her skin. At this point, her body was gradually turning numb. She knew this should probably hurt a lot, but she was just staring at the sharp bone and wondering if she could stab someone with it.

Spinner grimaced and glanced out into the alley for a second. "Someone's coming. He's pretty close so it shouldn't take long." His frown deepened and he pulled her closer. "You're getting cold. How do you feel?"

She lifted her left hand and ruffled at her dark hair, a growl forming at the back of her throat. "I'm pissed off," she mumbled. "Look at what happened! I was supposed to grab his stuff and get back to him and I ended up like this!" She fell into a coughing fit and red speckled the leg of his pants when she turned her head.

"I think you've got internal bleeding or something. You're not giving off any body heat." He muttered this, as if he could somehow hide his panic from the girl lying across his lap.

They both fell silent as they sank into their own thoughts. Spinner was wondering how he could get her some medical help because he was terrified that she might have punctured a lung. Kugutsu was wondering if Kurogiri had gotten dinner for Shigaraki and what kind of food he had.

A hand reached into the opening and dragged the box at the front forward, making a bunch of other boxes topple down. Spinner moved to shield Kugutsu and glared at the intruder when he came into view. "You could've-!"

"Yeah, yeah. I could've finished her off." Dabi smirked down at the two other villains, focusing on how Kugutsu was spread across Spinner's lap and being cradled like a treasured body pillow. "Gross. She already looks pretty dead. You're sure she's still alive? You know corpses twitch sometimes when they're fresh."

Shift P.O.V

He lost so many important things in just a matter of hours. He lost the new member of the League, he lost his master, he lost his hideout, he lost his girl, and he lost all of his new games along with his handheld console. A normal guy would have shattered by now, but not Shigaraki.

Instead of being broken and giving up, he sat in the corner of the room and scratched at his neck until it bled. He was alone and that was exactly what he wanted. Kurogiri was getting supplies and had left him in this abandoned building by himself, secluded away from any entrances or windows so no one would find him.

He chewed at his lower lip until it felt shredded and reached up to pull the hood of his sweatshirt forward. Rummaging in his pocket, he pulled out "Father" first and secured it over his face. Next, he got his phone out and stared at the bright screen. The only light source in this otherwise dark room.

At least his master was in prison; he was still alive. Shigaraki glared at his phone screen as he pulled up Kugutsu's location. Still at the hideout. Still not moving. He knew her well enough. Kugutsu was so unconditionally devoted to him that she would never let herself be taken alive. She was dead.

I need to get her corpse, he decided as he chewed even harder at his lip. She can still be loyal to me as a Nomu. We just have to be quick. Kurogiri can pick up her corpse before any of those heroes can move her. His grip tightened on his phone, but he still only held it with four fingers. Those heroes…touching my girl. I don't even want to think about what they'd do with her corpse.

Shigaraki leaned back a little, still half-curled into a ball as he remembered their last moments together. If he had known he would never see her again, he would have asked for more. He would have taken a last confidence boost from his girl before she died. Though the more logical thing to redo probably would have been to just not send her on that stupid errand that got her killed.

He looked toward the dark doorway across the room and imagined his fan girl coming through the door with a bag of food. Trying her best to hold a serious expression, her black hair messy and tangled from ruffling it, her ears folded back when she got embarrassed about staring at him in that creepy and longing way that she did. He started to wonder what she would look like as a Nomu. Imagining a big, black cat Nomu and deciding that he really liked that idea.

"I contacted the other members of the League to warn them that the hideout was raided. So far, everyone seems to have gone into hiding," Kurogiri informed him when he returned. "Spinner has attempted to contact me, but-"

"Her stupid little fan boy. What's he going to say when he knows she died? She didn't even care about having a fan."

Kurogiri seemed not at all surprised by this interruption, but continued as he set down a bag of supplies. "His cellphone reception was poor so I was unable to discern what he needed."

"You should tell him to go get her body. He's not a big loss. He can at least bring her corpse to me." The creepiest thing he possibly could have said while sitting in a dark corner, but he said it with absolutely no self-awareness. "I want him to bring her to me. I want her. Tell him to bring her or he's on his own."

The dark, misty villain simply stared at him for a moment. "His cellphone reception is poor so even when I have attempted to call him, the calls do not go through."

"So keep trying."

"Shigaraki Tomura, what are your intentions for Kugutsu Kurayami's corpse?" Kurogiri asked, as if he was imagining something unspeakable and was genuinely unnerved by the possibility.

If she's dead, we can still use her. She always wanted to make me happy. She'd do whatever I wanted, no matter what it was. Even if it hurt her. She'll still do it, even if she's a Nomu. I can still keep her.

Across the room, it was pretty clear that Kurogiri could see that Shigaraki was not handling the loss well. That he was starting to sink into delirium. Even if they did recover Kugutsu's body, Kurogiri knew that Shigaraki would not be getting his fan girl back.

Shift P.O.V

Kugutsu had faded in and out of consciousness for a while when Spinner followed Dabi, still carrying her and not loosening his hold in the slightest. It was for the best; her maniacal fan girl heart would have made her try to run to get back to the object of her desire. When she blacked out, she dreamed of her last moments with Shigaraki and she had started to feel hopeful until she opened her eyes and realized what was happening.

There was an insanely warm back pressed against her chest. Kugutsu's arms were limply hanging forward over his shoulders, her legs wrapped around his waist from behind, her cheek pressed against the back of his shoulder. A low growl started at the back of her throat and her ears went back. "Burnable trash."

"Yami, he's keeping you warm. You were starting to get ice cold and I don't have enough body heat. His quirk-" Spinner went silent when she glared at him and continued walking beside Dabi, but silently now.

"You know, it's…pretty gross. Like carrying roadkill. You seriously felt like a corpse," Dabi taunted. "You think the leader's still gonna pet you when you're dead? Maybe he'll stuff you and-"

"I will fucking kill you if you keep talking." Kugutsu's left hand lifted, grabbing his throat from behind as she pressed her knees into his sides. It made her swollen left knee throb, but she had to make a point or she was sure he would take advantage of how weak she was and kill her.

"Don't push yourself! You've got at least two broken bones!" Spinner tried to reason with her, but he could tell from the feral look in her eyes that she was less than thrilled to be on Dabi's back. An unwanted piggy-back ride from a charred ragdoll that she had, at some point, deemed her mortal enemy.

"Just remembering my dying wish," she growled, releasing Dabi's neck. Not that her grip had actually hurt him in any way. If anything, he seemed amused. "So…what're we doing?" She coughed onto the back of his coat, wetting the fabric with her blood. "Ugh."

"Did you just puke on me?"

"She coughed up blood," the reptilian villain explained. "She keeps coughing up blood. I think she might've punctured a lung."

Dabi's smirk could be felt through his voice when he spoke again. "Just like Stain, right? You've really got a thing for that type, huh, lizard?"

"Just help me help her! She might be bleeding to death!"

"I am…bleeding to death," Kugutsu corrected him. Falling limp against Dabi's back, she was disgusted by how nice his intense body heat felt against her cold skin. "Something's broken. It hurts when I breathe and…I keep hacking up blood. I'm going to bleed to death at this rate. So just remember my dying wish, okay?"

"I'm not doing that! What's your blood type? I'll donate my blood-!"

"Don't know it. I've never…been this fucked up before," she rasped.

"So we need Twice. He made a double of you before. Hey, lizard. Call Twice and tell him to meet us," Dabi spoke, irritatingly taking control of the situation.