Sorry, I did not update as soon. But from school and homework, writing seemed like a chore right now. I didn't want to give you bad content so I took a break. Updates come hopefully monthly. Just so you know, in this version Momo didn't make the tracker so the heroes doesn't know where Izuku is just for plot purposes.

Toga held Izuku in a warm embrace while Magne gently patted the back of his head. For a fleeting moment, Izuku pretended that it was his mother that was hugging him and that it was not Magne's rough and calloused hands patting and ruffling his braids but it was his father. He remembered scenes of when his family was still happy. Before the doctor pronounced him quirkless ruthlessly breaking apart a child's dream and family but it didn't matter since he was quirkless, which everyone knows is a synonym for useless and worthless.

When Izuku felt he had daydreamed enough about the far away past and his happy family, he pulled back from Toga chest which was now completely soaked. He ducked his head down utterly embarrassed. He began wiping away his tears which was still slowly leaking out. "I-I'm sorry for ruining your shirt." Izuku mumbled.

"It's okay 'Zuku." Toga said. "Sometimes it's okay to let your emotions out sometimes."

"We should have realized that you weren't happy and suffering." Magne said a beat after when Toga had finished.

Izuku finally looked up. Both of them had a kindhearted expression. He was surprised that Toga for once wasn't really happy.

"I honestly don't think that Shigaraki was thinking this through-" Continued Magne.

"-Of course he wasn't!" Shouted Toga. Izuku was surprised by the venom in her tone directed at the leader of the league. "I told that idiot to slowly woo you and not just to rape you outright."

"That hotheaded idiot has no brain." Interjected Magne grumbling.
"For all its worth, I'm sorry." Toga said. Izuku searched her face for any untruthfulness, but he couldn't find any hints of it. "We should have realised that you were holding back your misery. But you know you could always talk to us."

Izuku was weirded out that Toga sounded like a concerned friend or family member who cared about him.

"What was it that made you finally cry?" Toga asked.

"You can't ask that!" Cried Magne in frustration. "That's personal stuff."

"Oh, sorry." Said Toga sounding embarrassed. "Did Shigaraki do you know what again? I have more ointment if you need them."

"N-no he didn't." Mumbled Izuku. "We only kissed."

'This is surprising that such a caring and generous being is a villain. But I really shouldn't generalize people like that. A good example is how well Kachaan's and Endeavour's personality would be fit for a villain.' Izuku wondered.

Toga waved her hand in front of Izuku several times, before Izuku finally snapped out of his daze. "Are you still on Earth?"

"Y-Y-Yeah." He stammered.

Magne cleared her throat pointedly looking at Toga and said "We're running out of groceries and you're on the list to get some."

Toga glanced at the watch and sighed, visibly disappointed "I guess we will finish this conversation next time. You can stay in this room if you want."

After Toga left, Magne said "I am going to leave you to your own devices. I am sure that want to have them time with only yourself."

It was as if Magne had read his mind which is probably not hard to do, Izuku had really wanted to have some time to himself. With most of his waking hours spent with the other villains, and night time spent with Shigaraki. He was glad to finally get some free time.

'There's some time for me to look around. Maybe...maybe even look for a way out.' He thought.

He mentally smacked himself in his face. Izuku had been so caught up in why Shigaraki is acting so weird today that he had forgotten all about escaping the villain's lair. He hadn't even considered it.

Izuku felt ashamed that he didn't even think about escaping. There was so many counting on him. His friends, who counted on him and inspired him to be better. Who now believed in him after doubting him in the past. All Might, who had given him a quirk and reignited the hope of being a hero. All Might depended on him to save people and had chosen him out of a sea of promising successors with flashy quirks.

And his mother...who had stayed by his side when his best friend and father had left. Who was forced to work overnight to feed and provide a home for him. When his father remarried and forgot to give money to his failure of a wife, who had given him a quirkless son. She was his favorite hero, providing him with food and a roof over his head.

She was no doubt all over herself with worry. Izuku remembered her frantically looking for him for hours when he played with Kaachan out of her eyesight around the corner of a building. And here was Izuku chilling with the villains when the police are probably searching for him. Izuku's mother was the very reason that he was staying.

And god...she must be worried to death!

With new motivation filling his body and his blood pumping, Izuku started searching for a way out. He wandered the labyrinth of a building. There were so many corridors and hallways. There were no windows. Well there were, but they had metal boards nailed into the wall covering all of them.

Izuku superstitiously looked around to see if anyone was watching. When he saw no one he reached out trying to break the board off. Izuku wrapped his fingers around the edges of the board, pulling it. It didn't even budge. He activated one for all just enough so that he wouldn't hurt himself. It still didn't moved. He fired up his quirk to 5%, the familiar and yet so strange power filling up his body. He tried again. It still didn't budge.

Disappointed, Izuku sunk down his back to the wall until he was sitting on the cold wooden floor. He sat there for a long time. How could he even pretend to be a hero when he couldn't even break off a board? If he ever will be one. A dark voice in his head said.

He shaking off the bad thoughts and started wandering again. Izuku came across many more doors. All of them were locked. Izuku didn't try to open them just for the slight chance that was a villain's room. Izuku didn't want to raise suspicions. Though there was a possibility that he could just say he wanted to go to the bathroom and thought that was one. But he didn't want to risk for the fact that he might have to talk to them.

Izuku spent hours wandering around until he got lost, he not once saw any of the league members. Giving up, he started to look around to familiar places. Finally, he came across the barroom where they ate breakfast. God he was hungry!

No one was in there. Not even Kurogiri, the bartender. He went and walked around the bar table, hoping to find snacks in the pantry.

And stopped.

He saw someone rummaging through the shelves that were full of vodka. It was Dabi, the guy who had purple patches of skin that looks like it was stapled on, with spiky black hair. The weird guy that asked Izuku if he wanted to marry him. Dabi was in the middle of a process of shoving the liquor bottles into a bag full of vodka.

The moment Izuku came in, Dabi froze in the middle of reaching for another liquor bottle. Dabi turned around sighing in relief that it was just Izuku. "This is not what it looks like."

"What does this look like?" Said Izuku curious. "Because it sure looks like you are stealing vodka."

"Whatever you do, don't tell Kurogiri." Blurted out Dabi. "Besides, what are you doing here?" He said defensively.

Izuku felt like he was a little child being found by his mother with his hand stuck in a cookie jar. Does Dabi think I am trying to escape? Because I am. What if he tells Kurogiri?

"J-J-Just trying to get some snacks." Izuku stuttered out nervously. Is getting a snack not allowed here?

"Oh, the snacks are in the top pantry." Said Dabi tension moving away from his body, pointing to where it is.

Izuku's eyes followed to where Dabi had pointed. There it was, mocking him. It was full of snacks just like Dabi had said. But it was at the top pantry, and with the shortness he had inherited there just know way in reaching unless he climbed the shelves.

Dabi was confused on why Izuku couldn't just get the snacks until he realized what was going on. "Oh, let me help you reach it."

Dabi went over to the pantry effortlessly grabbing a package off without even tiptoeing. Izuku burned with mortification, wordlessly taking the bag of pokies. He tore them apart and forcefully shoved some pokies into his mouth.

Dabi looked down wringing his hands together, and asked "Did you mean it? When-when you said that you hated Endeavor."

Izuku swallowed, "Of course it is true!"

"Why do you hate him? I mean he is a pretty popular hero."

"Because I know his son, Shouto." Izuku noticed Dabi started at the mention of his name.

"Oh, I noticed you guys were friends." Dabi said trying to ask nonchalantly, as if he didn't care.

"He is fine if that is what you are asking." Izuku said.

"What no?! Pfft. As if I care!" Dabi lied.

"I was told some things about Endeavor."

"Ehh, what did he tell you?"

"I know how Shouto got his scar."
"How?" Asked Dabi intrigued.

"I know how Endeavor forced Rei to marry him in a quirk-marriage. How he abused her. And how he forced Shouto to train with him. How the abuse made Rei snap and throw boiling water at Shouto's face because she was reminded of Endeavor." Izuku said reciting what Shouto had told him at the sports festival.

"He sure told you alot."

"He did because he is my friend." Said Izuku. "Do you know what else he told me?"

"What did he tell you?"

"Todoroki told me that he missed his older brother, Touya." Izuku said this staring into Dabi's eyes. "He wishes that Touya would come back and visit."

Dabi eyes widened in surprise, his mouth closing and opening in surprise. "H-How did you know?"

"Because you just told me." Izuku smiled when a look of defeat came across Dabi's face, delighted he gained the upper hand. "Bye, thanks for helping me."

He started walking out, when he turned back and slapped the shocked Dabi in the face. "Don't ever hurt my friend again."

And skipped out, munching on his pokies.


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