I don't write at the top anymore but something stuck out to me. The daily views on this story is highest when I update a chapter, which makes sense to me. But last last week, two days after I uploaded the previous chapter, I had the biggest spike in readers I've ever seen for this story. I didn't update then, so my only guess is that someone shared this story somewhere. Could be Reddit, Discord, some other blog/site/whatever, I don't know. Does anyone know anything about that?
Chapter 28
It was the night of their third day at the training camp. Class A and Class B were cooking dinner for themselves. They had done what most would consider intense Quirk training, but Gon did not mind anything so far. He recounted the past two days in his head. Yesterday morning, they had their capture the flag game which Class A won. Later in the evening, they started doing Quirk training which continued to what they did all day today.
Gon himself got to fight Tiger, one of the members of the Wild, Wild Pussycats. Tiger was training the students with strength Quirks, and he considered Gon to be a good fighter, and Gon thought Tiger was a good fighter too. They sparred twice, and the teen let the man win both times. Bakugo watched the second fight because he came near their area for something and smirked when he saw Gon lose for once. When the green haired boy looked over at Bakugo, the ash blond boy dropped his smirk and became irritated for getting noticed.
He met and talked to Kota for a bit. The five year-old child tried to punch him, but Gon easily blocked it in time and wondered why the boy was angered by even talking to Gon. He did not try much thereafter to have any conversations with Kota, but he noticed Midoriya did.
Gon was chopping tomatoes for a soup and someone else needed to chop onions. "Bakugo, wanna cut some onions?" Kirishima asked the ash blond teen.
"No, do it yourself," he replied as he lay down on the ground with his eyes closed.
"He's scared of cutting himself," Kaminari said smugly from next to Kirishima as he twirled a large chopping knife in his hand.
A vein popped in Bakugo's forehead. "What did you say?!" he roared and stood to his feet. "Give me that!" He snatched the knife out of Kaminari's hand and walked over to where the onions were and began cutting them at a rapid speed and with incredible precision.
"I didn't know Bakugo was so good at cutting onions," Ashido mused from Gon's left where she was chopping something else.
"What's there to be good at for this?!" the teen in questioned shouted out because he overheard her comment.
Midoriya overheard from behind her too, so he walked up to Ashido to answer. "It's a violent thing, using a knife," he muttered quietly, and Gon and Ashido both understood. Midoriya walked away to help with something else.
"You're good with cooking too," Ashido noticed as she watched Gon. "I saw it yesterday, and now again today."
"Yeah, I helped my Aunt Mito a lot with cooking as I got older," he replied proudly, though he felt a twinge of sadness at how worried she must be, having not seen Gon for…who knows how long? The last thing she knew of him was that he was going to see Killua and Alluka after quite some time, but he never came back. I'll be back soon, he promised, and he hoped.
"You know how to cook, huh?" Ashido said and looked at Gon while he looked back at her. "That's a great quality to have," she finished with a wink and a smile.
Gon smiled lightly. "I know, right?! I can make food for myself whenever I want!"
Ashido's smile faltered. That was not what she had going through her mind, but she shrugged it off. "That's convenient," she answered simply.
When it was time for dinner, Gon saw Bakugo sitting alone because Kirishima had not sat down yet to eat. He walked over with his meal and sat right in front of the ash blond teen.
"What are you doing here?" he grumbled, but he did not tell Gon to go away.
"Why are you always angry at me?" Gon asked seriously.
Bakugo paused his eating and narrowed his eyes. He whispered, "You're from another world too right, like that pale bastard you're friends with?"
Gon was taken aback, but he kept his serious demeanor. "No. Why would you think that?"
"There's no way you guys could be such close friends right from the start without having known each other before," Bakugo grumbled but not in an angry tone. This was a rare time where he was serious, and he was using more of his intelligence than he normally let show.
Gon continued holding up the act that he was from this world. He shrugged, "We became close friends quickly. We got along well."
The other boy completely ignored what he just said. "If you are from another world, and you're as strong as your friend, then that means I never had a shot at beating you from the start. You have way more power than what you showed at the Sports Festival, and no matter what I did, you'd always win."
"Well, if you were right, then yeah, maybe you would have always lost," Gon answered as he pretended to think on it himself.
Kirishima and Sero came over with their dinners at that point. Gon smiled at them and stood up. When they both gestured to say it was alright if he sat with them, Gon refused. "Don't worry, I just wanted to ask Bakugo something." He left and headed over to where Monoma and Tetsutetsu were sitting.
"Ah, yes Gon, join us," Monoma greeted and scooted over to let him sit. Tetsutetsu sat across from them.
Tetsutetsu looked incredibly tired from the day, but he still tried to keep a cheery attitude as he nearly finished his meal. "Training's been tough," he admitted since there was a silence. "I was forced to keep my Steel going as long as I could while fighting Kamakiri. Man, he's ruthless!"
Gon and Monoma both nodded along. "It's been hard, but rewarding!" the green haired teen said cheerily.
Killua and the Vanguard Action Squad, which was mostly filled by Stain's Followers besides the Chainsaw Nomu, were getting ready to make their appearance. "You need the location? I can ask Gon," Killua told Kurogiri and Shigaraki.
Shigaraki waved it aside. "We got the location from a different source. I trust them."
The silver haired teen's eyes widened. "Another source…? Who is that?"
"That's not important," Shigaraki replied and narrowed his eyes behind the hand that covered his face.
Killua stared at him seriously, and the two were making eye contact in what was almost a staring contest. Killua finally let up, though, and looked away at something else. "Fine. Let's get going."
Kurogiri opened a portal for the 11 of them to enter. On the other side, they came into a forest area at night which was far from where the main camp lay. The group split into the teams they were told to go in. Killua went with a Dabi clone that Twice created, and the two headed towards the main building where they expected to find some teachers and maybe students.
The real Dabi began burning a part of the forest with his blue fire behind where everyone exited Kurogiri's warp. That was the signal to begin their attack.
Killua and the Dabi clone made their way to the building where Aizawa had just come outside, ready to fight. His eyes widened when he saw a man with a very scarred face aiming blue fire at him, and he was even more surprised by the appearance of Killua.
Aizawa managed to dodge the fire from Dabi's clone. He was preoccupied by capturing who he thought was the real villain and did not go after Killua who waltzed into the building. Inside, he saw Vlad King, Kirishima, Kaminari, Ashido, Sero, Sato, and Monoma.
Kirishima shot to his feet while Vlad King narrowed his eyes and got ready in a fighting stance. "Relax, I'm not here to attack anyone," the silver haired teen said with his hands up. "I literally have no part in this."
"'No part in this?'" Kirishima snarled and mocked angrily. "Then why are you here with your buddies?"
Killua stared at him and shifted his eyes down to the floor. "I wanted to talk to you guys."
"How'd you know we were here?" Vlad King questioned in a serious tone.
"Was it Gon?" Ashido asked in addition.
Killua shook his head at both of them. "I was told they got this location from some other source, but I don't know who it was. It wasn't Gon, though."
Vlad King was stunned, and his realization did not hit the students as hard as it did to him. "If that's true, then we have a traitor…"
The other students' eyes widened in shock now that the teacher said it out loud like that. They did not linger on it for long though because Monoma spoke up.
"Is Gon from your world too?" he asked quietly. Everybody stared intensely at Killua, but then Aizawa burst back in, ready to attack Killua if necessary. The teacher half expected the scene in front of him though as his former (current?) student was standing still in front of the other seven but looking back at Aizawa's entrance. He figured Killua would not attack.
Aizawa let his attacking stance go and exhaled deeply. "Vlad King, watch over the students. I need to find out what's going on, and what the villains' objective is." He shot a glare at Killua. "You know, don't you?"
Killua nodded, and he raised his hands up as if he was surrendering to something. "Sorry, but I'm not really a part of this. I promised I wouldn't do anything to help or hurt either side."
Class A's homeroom teacher ground his teeth in frustration but accepted the answer nonetheless. He ran back out in search of the other heroes or students.
The silver haired teen turned back to his former classmates, and Kirishima was grinding his teeth while staring towards him. He wanted so badly to take out some of his frustration by fighting, but he had seen how powerful Killua was. It was possible that what he showed against All Might was not even his full strength.
"You're really from another world?" Sato asked as if he still did not believe it. Killua merely nodded.
Kirishima slammed his fist to the table without activating his Quirk. "Man, how could you not tell anyone?! Did anyone know?"
"Nezu knew, almost from the beginning," Killua replied slowly. "And a few other people," he added as an afterthought. "But no students knew."
"You didn't answer Monoma," Vlad King interrupted between Killua and Kirishima, not understanding what the redhead was feeling and the history they had, even though they had not known each other too long. "Is Gon from your world too?" Killua shook his head but said nothing.
"I still don't believe that," Monoma muttered under his breath. "I asked Gon about it, and he denied it. I'm still not buying it, but whatever."
"Why wouldn't you tell any of us?" Kaminari asked, getting back to what they found as the biggest issue. Kirishima nodded and drilled his eyes like he was staring into Killua.
"Why? I didn't want things to become such a mess," Killua answered easily. "If too many people knew, it could cause problems. Rumours. Weird looks. Staying as normal as I could, compared to you guys, which meant limiting how much power I showed, was a part of that. I didn't want people to become suspicious and ask question I didn't want to answer."
"I wouldn't have told anyone if you didn't want me to!" Kirishima shot back. "We could've helped…maybe…but you don't know that! You don't know who we know. We know more about our world than you do."
Killua nodded as that was a very valid response. "You're right, you do. And you could've known something that could help, but the chances were slim."
"You wouldn't know that unless you tried," Vlad King interrupted again. He had no idea why he was even entering this conversation. He knew very little about the interdimensional traveller standing in front of him. Killua was not even his student. "By not telling anyone, you removed any possibility of getting help."
"I told Nezu, but he couldn't help, even with all of U.A.'s resources and the heroes' resources," Killua answered right back in a strong tone. He narrowed his eyes and added, "He looked for a Quirk that could help. Nothing came up."
"And you thought turning to villains were the right way to go." Sero said it more as a statement because he knew it was correct, but he wanted to see what Killua's reaction would be.
Killua turned to the black haired boy. "Yes!" he nearly shouted with his arms raised up exasperatedly. "I know it's illegal here, but I found someone who can help."
"Is it that smoky portal guy who attacked our rescue training?" Kaminari asked.
"I'm not going to say, but I really did find a villain who can help. Whether or not they will help, though, remains to be seen," Killua answered vaguely.
It dawned on almost everyone at the same time. Ashido was a bit slower, and Kaminari did not understand at all. He whipped his head around everyone in the room and wondering what they all understood from that.
"That villain is using you," Vlad King spoke up finally, having deduced it immediately. "Making you do things for them? Like this attack?" Kaminari made a silent 'Oh' with his mouth once it was spelled out for him.
"Yeah, but that's why I revealed my real self to the world when I fought All Might," Killua quickly glossed over what the pro hero got correct. "That was my plan. He said everything for me. I hope it'll work."
"Who do you think is going to help someone working with villains?" Monoma challenged from his seat. "Someone known to have worked with villains?" he added in a darker voice.
"That's for them to decide," Killua said with a shrug, still maintaining his casual tone. "If they want to try helping me, that's great, I'll appreciate it. I think most people will understand that I'm just in a bad situation."
"Okay, look," Kirishima said and brought the attention back to him. He had a dramatic pause where everyone set their eyes on him, waiting for him to continue. "I'm a simple guy. I'm not the sharpest person, but I know some things. I'm upset that you couldn't trust me, or anyone else, enough to tell us. But I want to know something. During our rescue training, you got kidnapped. Was that for real, or did you let them take you?"
Killua's heart skipped a beat. He must have looked a bit uncomfortable – darn, his assassin training to show no emotion was slowly leaving him over the years…he was becoming more human – because Kirishima sharply narrowed his eyes at him. "I let them," he admitted, and he saw the redhead let out a deep exhale like he was expecting that. "I thought Kurogiri, the warp guy, could help." He did not bother to tell them that Kurogiri's true leader was the villain with the Quirk that could send him back. He did not want to reveal All For One's identity to these people.
"If it's not Kurogiri, then who is it?" Vlad King demanded like the pro hero he was. It was a natural instinct for him to want the answer to that.
"I'm not saying. I'm sure they'll make their move, or the heroes will find them first," Killua responded evenly. The hero huffed at the reply he got.
"So you're really just…being a villain, by not telling us?" Ashido asked sadly and with the shake of her head.
"Yeah, you really think you can come here and maybe ruin our country? Just for your sake?" Sero added on with a sad look in his eyes.
Killua did not know what to say, but fortunately, something else interrupted. "How'd you get here anyway?" Sato asked. He was very curious about the answer, and he was surprised nobody asked it yet.
"It's complicated, but my sister has a weird power back in my world," the silver haired teen explained. "She managed to send me here to…protect me, let's say. I'm not explaining more." Everybody waited in silence and digested the story Killua gave. "I know it's not nice of me to try messing with the people here," he continued quietly, going back to what Ashido and Sero mentioned. "All Might told me that too. But I don't want to give up the possible opportunity for me to get back home. The only certain possibility, I'll add."
Kaminari sighed as he thought of what Killua was saying. "Well, you haven't really done anything too bad here, all things considered. Nothing major has happened yet."
Killua pondered over those words and shrugged. "Whatever you say." He did not come here with the hope of having his actions be judged or validated by one hero and six hero students. He came here because a part of him did not want to leave them without answering some of their questions. As cruel as Killua thought he could be at times, he knew these people would appreciate some answers.
"All that said, I'm mad. I'm sad. I'm frustrated," Kirishima said with a frown. He looked down at the floor, but then he raised his head again and stared eye level with Killua and wiped the frown off his face. "But I still hope you get home."
"Yeah, I agree with that," Kaminari added his own opinion. "I hope you get home, even though I don't really like what you're doing."
"You have the power to stop this attack," Ashido said, and her voice almost sounded like she was pleading. "Please don't let people get hurt! Just stop the villains!"
The silver haired teen shook his head. "I told you, I promised not to interfere here. Whatever happens will happen."
Sero and Ashido both sighed, while Kaminari looked on with a sad expression. Kirishima's face had a mix of emotions that nobody could fully read.
Mandalay sent a telepathic message to everyone, saying that the villains' target was to capture Bakugo, and that Aizawa gave the students permission to defend themselves if necessary.
Kirishima clenched his fists. "We have to go outside and help!" he practically shouted to Vlad King. "I'm worried about Bakugo!"
"No," the hero responded firmly with the shake of his head. "Our job is to stay here, and I will protect you all."
"Well, I'll be going now," Killua said and began to turn around to walk out. He figured now was as good of a time to leave as ever, but his former classmates stopped him.
"Wait! So you're really not doing anything here? Can't you help us even a bit?" Sero pleaded. He too was worried about Bakugo, as strong as Sero knew he was. That was not even considering the other powerful students who could be helping. "We don't know anything about the villains attacking. Or at least, I don't."
"Stain's Followers," Killua answered instantly and turned around to see everyone's reactions. They all had their eyes and mouths wide, just as he expected.
"Is Bakugo all they want?" Kaminari asked and grit his teeth at the severity of the situation. He was sure anyone who saw any of the villains yet knew who they were being attacked by. But the students taking the extra lessons here in this room had no idea what was going on outside.
"Yeah," the ex-assassin replied quickly. He shook his head at them. "I can't help much more. I'm not a hero, and you shouldn't pretend I am. I never was, and I doubt I ever will be." He turned around again, but then he remembered something, so he looked back one last time.
Kirishima spoke over him though before Killua said his last thing. "Why can't you just do things that we would accept more? The hero way? You don't need to be a hero; just be a good person. Sero said it already, but why do you need to play around with our world? You said it yourself that you had that other plan with All Might when you fought him. It was to get the attention of the world, right? Make them feel sad and maybe one of them can help you? Why not just stick to that?"
"The villain route is the only sure-fire way I have of getting home," Killua responded with a strong gaze as he looked Kirishima in the eyes. His gaze shifted over to Kaminari, Ashido, Sero, Sato, Monoma, and Vlad King as he continued. "If the villain route works, that's great for me. Speed is important too. I can't stay here for so many extra months, waiting for someone to pop up and send me back. I have things to do in my own world too, you know."
Nobody said anything, though they all wondered what it was Killua needed to do so urgently. The teen continued, "I know none of you agree with what I'm doing. Just know that, if things go south here, in this world – and I know what I mean when I say that, but you don't…not yet, anyways – then I hope I don't let you down again. I've set a limit for myself." With that said, he walked out without another word, and nobody stopped him either.
Kirishima growled as he watched Killua leave his sight. Fighting Killua was not the correct option, obviously. He saw the level of power the boy from another world had. Fighting would not solve anything for him. They talked it out, but it ended as an "agree to disagree" type of situation, which was not satisfactory for the redhead. He punched down at the table again, but then he winced in pain because he did not have his Quirk activated.
A hulking monster slapped Momo Yaoyorozu in the forehead with its arm. She cried out in pain as she hit the ground far away from the Chainsaw Nomu. Her face bashed against the ground, and she could feel fresh blood trailing down from her forehead as she faded in and out of consciousness.
Yosetsu Awase got hit in the face too and spun around before losing his balance and falling. Blood dripped down from his below his headband, but he looked much better after the hit than Yaoyorozu.
The Nomu shifted its attention to the last person standing in its way. "Awase, take Yaoyorozu with you! Weld her, or something, but just go!" Gon shouted out and stood in front of the brainless beast.
Awase's eyes widened huge, but he did not argue. He ran to his right and Welded one of Yaoyorozu's arms to his arm and began carrying her. He turned his head to the side and was in awe when he saw Gon leap over two chainsaw arms at once. The green haired teen delivered a powerful kick aimed to the Nomu's face, but the beast raised two Chainsaw arms from its left side and blocked it.
The kick was still strong enough to push the Nomu back a bit. From the corner of his eyes, Gon saw Awase slowly walking away while carrying Yaoyorozu. The Nomu came back and it was aiming for the other two students to kill them once and for all, but Gon ran faster than the eye could see knowing that neither Awase nor Yaoyorozu were watching him right now. He punched the Nomu so hard it went flying through several trees, cutting them down like they were nothing as each tree barely slowed its momentum until it finally stopped.
"Oops, I might have overdone that," Gon whispered to himself. The loud noises that sounded from the monster crashing through the trees was sure to alert Awase. The green haired teen turned around and saw his classmate staring at him with huge eyes, but he did not say anything. Gon began panting hard as a display that he was really tired after that attack, and Awase seemed to accept it more after seeing how tired Gon looked.
The Hunter heard the Nomu get back up, and he prepared to fight it again. Surprisingly, the Nomu turned around and walked off in the opposite direction. Gon relaxed his muscles that were ready to fight again when he continued staring after it, but it made no sign of turning around and attacking again.
In a minute, Gon caught up with Awase and Yaoyorozu. "What happened to the Nomu?" Awase asked.
"It just walked away, without a fight," Gon answered with a frown. He was still trying to think about what that meant. "Maybe it's being controlled, and it was called back?"
"Bakugo," Yaoyorozu muttered from her semi-conscious state. "They might, have got to him," she added slowly.
Gon facepalmed. "Of course! That has to be it! Their goal was to get Bakugo, so maybe they got him! Or, at least, that was one of their goals, from what Mandalay said." He turned to Awase and said with a very serious look, "I trust that you can watch over her. I'm going to head to the main camp!" Awase nodded, and Gon ran off. Right when Gon bolted away, Yaoyorozu made a tracker and asked Awase to catch up to the Nomu and attach it to the beast using his Quirk.
When Gon got to the main camp, he saw Killua and a few villains he vaguely remembered from his short visit to the League of Villains' hideout. Out of those few villains, two of them were heading through the portals Kurogiri made. A very beat up Midoriya, along with Todoroki and Shoji, were also at the scene.
"Killua!" Gon shouted out and made his presence known. His friend whipped his head in the direction of the familiar voice until he saw Gon. The silver haired teen internally grimaced. He did not know if Gon would try complicating anything. He had some faith that Gon would "accidentally" not be able to do anything to stop the villains, but Killua was not entirely sure.
"Gon!" Todoroki shouted back at the newcomer. "Help us! They have Bakugo!" Gon came running closer, but at that moment, a bright, sparkling beam flashed out from the bushes and struck Mr. Compress. Two small, blue, marble-sized balls fell out of his mouth. Shoji ran for one, and Todoroki lunged for the other, but so did Dabi.
Shoji managed to grab the one he was after, but Dabi was able to snatch the other one right before Todoroki did. "That's sad, Shoto Todoroki," the villain said to the teen whose eyes shook from being empty handed. Mr. Compress used his Quirk to reveal who was in each of the marbles. Tokoyami appeared out of the one Shoji held while Bakugo came out of Dabi's. The villain clamped a firm hand around the ash blond teen's neck.
Gon could see that Bakugo was legitimately scared. He did not know the other boy well, but he knew Bakugo would always want to appear strong, so he did his best to hide his fear. Gon ran in closer to where Dabi and Mr. Compress entered through the portal. "Killua, don't do this!" he shouted out to his best friend who also went into the portal.
Killua turned back with a sympathetic look on his face. Midoriya was running towards the warp with a furiously determined expression written all over his face. "KACHAAAN!" he screamed out as he ran for the warp where Bakugo's face was barely visible as he got pulled in.
The silver haired teen stepped in Midoriya's way and firmly planted his feet to the ground, blocking Midoriya from entering the warp. "Don't come, Deku," came Bakugo's very quiet and strained voice, only for Killua and Midoriya to hear, at the last moment before he completely disappeared into the warp. Killua showed off a satisfied smile and hopped backwards into the portal which disappeared as soon as he entered it. Midoriya was frozen in shock ever since Killua got in his way, and he did not even try bypassing him or entering the warp too to save Bakugo.
The green haired boy from Class A had tears coming to his eyes and slowly trailing down his face. He yelled out in defeat as Gon, Todoroki, Shoji, and Tokoyami watched him sympathetically.
16 Class A students plus Gon were gathered in Midoriya's hospital room. Jirou and Hagakure were still out from Mustard's gas Quirk, Yaoyorozu was resting in her room from her head injury, and Bakugo was taken by the League.
Gon had entered a little later than the Class A students, but when he did, Midoriya had tears rolling down his face as he painfully talked about not being able to save Bakugo from the League. A few of the students at the back like Sato, Shoji, Ojiro, and Aoyama silently took notice of the Class B student who joined them.
"We can still save him," Kirishima said seriously to Midoriya. Uraraka and Iida stared at them with huge, disapproving eyes, especially Iida who had been caught in a situation he should not have been in during his internship. He understood better than the rest that taking action into his own hands was not the right decision to make.
"This is not the time for us to be taking actions like that!" Iida exploded with his fists clenching at his sides, his anger rising beyond what anyone had seen from him during the whole school year.
The redhead gave an answer to Iida. "I know! But I couldn't do anything back then. My friend was being targeted, and I couldn't do anything! I have to do something now!"
"Kirishima and I agreed on this yesterday," Todoroki cut in, his low and cool voice contrasting greatly from the yelling Iida and Kirishima were using. "Yaoyorozu had a Class B student attach a tracker to one of the villains. A Nomu. She gave one of the receivers to All Might. We're going to ask if she'll make another one for us."
"All Might is already on the case," Shoji repeated. "He'll get Bakugo back for sure. Other heroes will help too."
"Shoji's right," Tokoyami agreed. "Though, I needed to be saved too, so I don't know how much I can say."
"Acting outside of the rules by fighting again…" Tsuyu said with a finger on her chin. "Those would be acts of villains."
There was a long silence, and Gon felt this was as good of a time as he would get to make everyone aware that he was here too. "Everyone," he said out loud, scaring several people with the new voice that was less familiar to them than any of their classmates'. Gon moved up closer to Midoriya's stretcher, and he stood right behind Uraraka.
"Gon," Midoriya said as he stared at the Class B student.
"I know you're all talking about Bakugo. But, I also want to save Killua," he said seriously. This isn't a part of Killua's plan. I do think Killua needs saving. I don't know what All For One will make him do, so I need to get him away as quickly as I can! He glanced around at the others' faces. Almost all of them had some facial reaction to what he said. A few were impassive, but most looked unsure or even against the idea of going for Killua.
"He joined the League willingly, and he didn't do anything to stop the attack," Kirishima grumbled, surprising everyone who did not know of the conversation he and the others had with Killua. Even Gon was shocked because he did not know about this.
"He's right," Sero agreed. "Killua's a villain, just like the others." Ashido hesitantly nodded along with a sad look on her face. Gon knew she wanted to believe in him.
"No," Gon shook his head, determined to change their minds. "All Might explained it, right? He's a good person in a bad situation. I think he needs some more direction to fix things."
"As much as I want to believe in him," Kaminari started with a look that showed he was admitting something he did not want to. "I don't know if he can fix things. He seemed fine with working with them to get home when we talked to him at the camp. He came to us."
"But he did say he drew a line for how far he'll go," Ashido said hopefully. "Though he didn't explain what that meant," she added as her lips curved down slightly into a frown.
"He still fought All Might!" Sato argued, being the last person of the group who was there at the time when Killua came to the camp. "He's super strong. We can't force him to do anything. We've seen his power."
"I haven't tried yet," Gon said stubbornly.
"It does not matter what you all want to do!" Iida nearly bellowed, surprising everyone again with his outburst. "We must leave it to the heroes. What they do with Killua is up to them."
Gon's eyes and aura flared up momentarily, to the point where Iida and Uraraka felt a strange presence for a split second very close to them. They turned around to Gon, but by then, he already controlled himself, so they figured they were imagining things.
There was a knock at the door, and a doctor came in to tell everyone Midoriya needed to have some tests done, so they needed to clear out. Before Gon, Iida, and Kaminari left, they listened to Kirishima who stayed back for a few extra seconds to tell Midoriya they were meeting in front of the hospital that night and awaiting Yaoyorozu's decision.
Later that night, Gon, Todoroki, and Kirishima stood outside the hospital. "There's Yaoyorozu! And Midoriya!" the redhead exclaimed as his other two classmates exited the building and were walking towards them.
"Yaoyorozu, what's your decision?" Todoroki asked calmly once all five of them were together. The other three boys stared at her with an expectant look.
She reached into her pocket, but before she could say anything, Iida stormed towards them with an angry look. Kaminari trailed behind him. "Why do you need to do this?! You know the consequences!" he yelled while looking between Gon, Midoriya, and Todoroki. "This is not our place. This is wrong, just like last time when I went out and fought for my own personal reasons!"
"Wait, what?" Kirishima asked with a confused look and darted his eyes at everyone around him. Only Yaoyorozu and Kaminari were sharing the same confused look as he was. "What are you talking about?" He felt a hand on his shoulder, and he turned to it and saw Todoroki shake his head slowly.
"Iida, we're not fighting them head on," Todoroki explained once he took his hand off Kirishima's shoulder. "We'll get Bakugo without fighting."
"I am coming along just to make sure things do not go too far," Yaoyorozu said softly but firmly. Her redhead classmate broke out in a huge smile while Iida's jaw dropped, not expecting Class A's Vice Class Representative to agree to this.
"I have to save him," Midoriya said quietly. "I can't help but think about that."
Kirishima grinned because things were looking like they were falling into place. He turned to his blond friend and asked, "Kaminari, are you coming too?"
"Uh," he hesitated, unsure of what to say. "Bakugo's my friend too. But, Gon," he said and looked specifically at the green haired teen. "If you think Killua can be, I guess, saved? Then I'm with you. I believe you. At least, I want to believe you."
Gon happily nodded. "I do think so! We can help him get away from the League."
"How do we do that without fighting?" Todoroki asked.
Gon's shoulders slumped. "I didn't think that through. If we can't help him without fighting, then…we'll have to leave. Take Bakugo and get out of there."
"Hold up," Kirishima said and put his hands up. He stared bitterly at Gon. "How do you know we can help him? He seemed really sure about not helping us when all of our classmates were getting hurt at the camp! How do you know him so well that you can say this?"
"I'm curious too," Midoriya added and looked straight at Gon. "You two always seemed close. But if he's from a different world, then…" He let his sentence trail off because he knew everyone understood what he was getting at.
"I'll be honest, I think you're from that world too," Kirishima admitted, which surprised mostly everyone. "I have no proof, but Midoriya's right. Killua denied it at the camp, but you two were always closer than any of us in Class A were to Killua, and we were in his class!"
The Hunter sighed. He did not know if he should lie here or not. If he did, he thought it very possible that it could be revealed shortly. Killua had told him that one of All For One's goals was to kill All Might. And, as it turns out, All Might was on this case to rescue Bakugo and arrest the League. He had a feeling the superhero and supervillain would have a fight very soon, and Gon's lie may or may not get revealed around that time. It just depended on how everything played out. If Gon is not at the scene at the time, then there is no chance his lie could be revealed. But he was not sure if he did not want to be at the scene, especially since he had no idea what Killua would do in the near future.
He sighed again, but he nodded, to everyone else's surprise. "You're right," he said to Midoriya and Kirishima. "I am from the same world as Killua. That's how we know each other."
"Now I'm a little confused, because I'm not sure that's how I was expecting to be told…" Kaminari trailed off when he saw Yaoyorozu and Todoroki nodding.
"You don't sound too convincing. Just your tone, doesn't really persuade me," the teen with two hybrid Quirks agreed.
"Well, I'm telling the truth!" Gon said frustratedly. "I thought if I lied, it might come back and bite me later if it somehow gets revealed that I'm from a different world. So that's why I'm telling the truth now. I'm doing it so if that times comes where it's revealed, I won't feel bad that I lied, and you won't feel like I lied to you."
"Well, that's great," Kirishima grumbled. "Killua said you weren't from another world. There, he lied about that too!"
"Hold up, Kirishima, I don't think you should be mad at him about that," his blond friend said with a frown. "He didn't want Gon to be revealed, but Gon just decided otherwise." Kirishima sighed and nodded reluctantly.
"So you really think we can save Killua without fighting?" Iida asked again.
Gon nodded, and then Kaminari asked another question. "Dude, are you as strong as Killua too?!"
"Uh, yeah, maybe," he replied sheepishly and rubbed the back of his head. "Anyways, we should get going."
"As much as I want to hear more from Gon, he's right," Midoriya added in agreement. "Yaoyorozu, lead the way."
"Wait!" Iida said and held his hands up. "I did not give my decision yet." He paused for a moment. Midoriya and Kirishima gulped, hoping Iida would tag along or leave them. He sighed, "I will come along with you, but only to make sure you do not take things too far. We will NOT fight with our Quirks. If I feel that things are even the least bit dangerous, we are leaving immediately. And if you take things too far, I will not hesitate to call the police."
Everyone agreed and listened to Yaoyorozu who held the tracker and told them the location. They had to take a train to Kamino Ward in Yokohama, which she said would take about two hours. On the way to the train station, Midoriya, Iida, and Yaoyorozu talked about the plan to rescue Bakugo, while Kaminari and Kirishima kept asking Gon about his powers and his world. Todoroki would chime in on both conversations from time to time.
The League of Villains, Killua, and Bakugo were in the Kamino Ward hideout. Dabi and Twice made sure to restrain Bakugo's arms and body very tightly to a chair.
The ash blond teen glanced around at the villains, and his eyes lay on Killua last. He ground his teeth and growled at his former classmate. "What's your excuse? What are you here for?"
"I thought that was explained by All Might on TV," he responded easily. "I'm working with them so that I can go home. A different world."
Bakugo growled again while continuing to grind his teeth, wondering if that story was true or not. He did not say anything though, but then Shigaraki turned on the little TV. Reporters on all news channels were talking about the attack, and many of them sounded like they had lost faith in U.A. as a pillar of the hero society.
"We're getting a lot of media attention," Shigaraki noted in a surprisingly nonchalant tone. Killua was sure the villain would have been much happier, but he did not sound like it. Shigaraki turned to glance at Bakugo. "Don't you think?" Bakugo did not give answer; he just continued looking at them like he wanted to destroy them. "The heroes only made some mistakes. They're getting criticized this much for not being perfect? By the people they're supposed to protect?"
"Stain's teaching is that heroes are no longer heroes once they earn money for their actions," Spinner said while Bakugo continued glaring at them.
"We want to question what it means to be a hero, what is justice, and if this society is fair," Shigaraki continued. "We're going to win in this. You like winning too, right? Tell me, Katsuki Bakugo, will you join us?" he asked in a surprisingly nice and calm tone that Killua did not know he had in him.
Thanks for reading, hope you all enjoyed! I didn't see a point in retelling all the fights like Midoriya vs Muscular and Kendo/Tetsutetsu vs Mustard and whatever else there was. Just pretend it's all the same as canon. I know my ending here is the same as canon, but I didn't want to skip it because I think it's important. Anyways, thanks again for reading!
