Sachi's log, entry 31: It's been a month since I ran out the things to talk about. The story's progressing too slowly for me to consistently come up with new ways to spice up this whole situation I've put myself in and I think even the author's tired of trying to find me.

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I wonder how Irina's doing.


As panic spread throughout the training grounds, Mightless stood on the top of the highest building, watching chaos unfold below him. Crook and criminals, running rampant as all of the pointer robots have switched to their security mode, attempting to defend the examinees at all cost. Meanwhile, most of the kids, who were all talking big and bragging about how easy the exam was gonna be, have lost all resolve to fight and abandoned any sense of teamwork or cooperation, stepping over one another and making a mad dash for the exit.

"And these are supposed to be our future heroes." Commented the villainous leader, "How disappointing."

"All bark and no bite." Toga added, "Shrinking away as soon as they are faced with true danger, some heroes they are gonna be."

"Which just goes to show how little people take this thing seriously." Replied Mightless, looking into the crowd with the aid of his support gear, "Then again, in times like these, the true cream of the crop begins to shine through."

Looking closely, some of the kids have managed to maintain their cool, using what knowledge they know to try to calm people down and bring things in order, as well as letting others escape, putting their lives before their own. Notably, the previously mentioned Tenya Iida seemed to be keeping the most calm, as he managed to kick open a path for some weaker, support based examinees to escape.

Meanwhile, in another test site, a small group of students banded together, with the goal of rescuing as many helpless individuals as possible until the pros arrive. As the crooks closed in, they activated their quirks in order to defend themselves.

"Dark Shadow!" Yelled one of the bird faced students, as his shadow emerged from beneath his feet, sweeping over several thugs, as well as picking up a flat piece of rubble, using it as a sort of shield to keep the majority of the villains back, "Everyone, run to the exit! Dark Shadow can't hold this forever!"

Suddenly, a massive explosion took out a vast majority of the attacking thugs, as a spiky haired kid walked in.

"Damn, first Deku shows up and now a bunch a villains attack during my big day." He grunted, before yelling out of sheer rage while unleashing an explosion on both palms, "What the fuck did I do to piss you off, Mother Luck!?"

"Quiet you! Your yelling's attracting more and more villains!" The bird kid interrupted, as he saw another group running in.

"Good." He replied viciously, flashing a devilish grin, "I have some pent up anger I need to work off!"

"Are we sure you're not one of the villains?" Asked the bird student, slightly intimidated by his behavior.

"LEEROY JENKINS MOTHERFUCKER!" Katsuki yelled in response, charging into the group as more explosions soon followed.

Meanwhile, back with Uraraka, the girl ran across the test site, looking for Toga and Izuku despite the evacuation alarm being launched minutes ago. Despite nearly being caught moments ago by a duo of crooks, the girl's quirk and surprising agility allowed her to miraculously give the two thugs the slip as she ran across what looked like a war zone, calling out the two's names.

"Izuku! Himiko! Where are you!?" She continuously cried out, as she then turn to her right, seeing some students stuck under rubble.

Knowing she could save them in the blink of an eye, she took a quick detour, freeing the students. However, as the group she freed ran off without even thanking her, she heard a sound coming from behind her. Suddenly, out of the blue came a toad villain, fat, greasy and covered in natural lube.

"Hue Hue Hue, come here little girl..." The villain chuckled, making slurping noises.

Uraraka, disgusted, recoiled back as the toad hopped towards her at blinding speed. The girl, too afraid to even make physical contact with him, could do nothing but continually back up, using her quirk to make herself lighter as she ran like a leaf in the wind.

"You're not getting away that easily!" Laughed the toad villain, as he shot his tongue out at her.

Luckily, Uraraka rolled at just the right time, narrowly dodging the upcoming tongue attack. However, the tongue wrapped around a stop sign that was in front of her, as the signs was pulled out of the ground by the retracting tongue, hitting the girl square in the head on it's way back. Being so light, the girl was knocked completely off her feet, as she did several cartwheels before the dizziness made her cancel out her quirk, dropping her square on her head.

Her vision began getting blurry as she felt a warm red liquid run down her head. Trying to place her hand on her bleeding head wound, she suddenly felt a great pressure on her wrist, as the toad villain stepped on it, pinning her down.

"You know, they say the meat is at it's most tender when young." The Toad villain slurped, "I say that rule should apply to the living as well."

Uraraka, struggling to get up, felt fear pounding in her chest. However, she also felt a bit responsible for the predicament she put herself in. She recalled what her parents said when she showed them her future plans.

"Being a hero is very a very dangerous career choice, Ochako. We're not forcing you to give up this dream, but you must expect the worse if you truly want this as your future."

Looking back to that statement, it couldn't have been more true. And because she choose the dangerous route, she is now in danger, pinned down, on the verge of being violated by a toad villain.

"So, this is the hero life that awaits me huh..." Ochaco muttered, "What an unpleasant baptism."

Suddenly, a tongue wrapped around the toad villain, as the man was lifted off the ground, dragged at least 7 feet into the air, before hitting the ground head first with a thunderous crack.

"That man's a disgrace to all amphibian quirk users." Commented a girl's voice, as Uraraka saw a hand being extended to her, "Are you okay?"

"Y-Yeah, I'm fine, thank you... uh..."

"Tsuyu Asui." Replied the girl bluntly, staring at her with her blank, froggy eyes.

"Oh, then it's nice to meet you, Asui-san." Greeted Uraraka.

"Call me Tsuyu." Replied the frog girl, "Now come on, we have to leave before more show up!"

"Right, we need to get out of here and- wait no!" Uraraka suddenly turned the other way, "My friends were caught and taken somewhere! I have to find them!"

"Leave that to the pros, we need to get out now! With the evacuation alarm rang, the entire area will be locked down in merely 5 minutes!" Exclaimed Tsuyu.

"B-but they'll see that we're here and keep the doors open, right?" Asked Uraraka.

"They can't see us!" Exclaimed Tsuyu, pointing at a broken camera, "The cameras are most likely all down, so the system will automatically assume everyone's evacuated and lock us in!"

"B-But my friends!" Uraraka retorted.

"Will surely be saved once the pros arrive! Please, if we don't escape now, we're goners." Tsuyu insisted, pulling on Uraraka's wrist.

Uraraka looked at her, then looked back. Clenching her fist, she turned around, slowly walking with Tsuyu towards the exit.

"Good, now, let's get to the exit before-" Tsuyu sighed in relief, loosening her grip.

And with that loosened grip, Uraraka dashed the opposite way, yelling even louder than before, determined to find Toga and Izuku.

"The audacity of this girl!" said Tsuyu in the closest she can get to an annoyed tone, turning around to give chase.

However, as she chased Uraraka, a certain thought crossed her mind.

"It's been nearly 30 minutes since the attack started! Where the hell are all the heroes!?"


"It's been nearly 30 minutes since the attack started! Where the hell are all the heroes!?" Thought Todoroki as he dashed down the examiner's hall, trying to make his way to the test site.

Initially, he was kept in for 25 minutes by the surrounding pro heroes, not wanting to see the son of the #2 hero, their boss to some, get hurt, as they assured him that the pro heroes will get things sorted out in a jiffy. However, after 25 minutes of empty promises and still no concrete response, the young boy had enough, as he waited for everyone to turn their heads and dashed off, freezing the door behind him shut to slow them down.

After looking through the last few operational cameras, all he saw were villains, villains and even more villains as kids were getting assaulted, held captive or simply running in fear. Despite all this, not one pro hero had shown up in that span of time. Where were they? What were they doing!? Why weren't they helping.

Suddenly, he heard chattered coming from the hall's entrance. Turning around, he went to check out what was going on. However, as he made his way to the entrance, his eyes caught a glance at an utterly disgraceful sight. Cameras, microphones, hats with notebooks tied to them, it was the press. A mob of reporters piling up at the entrance, as all the pro heroes that were on standby was placed into press duty, attempting to repel the media from seeing what was happening inside the test site.

"What the hell are they doing!?" Thought Todoroki, "Do they not know the lives of the future generation of heroes are at stake!?"

"Please, mister Nezu, can you tell us why you're not letting us cover this year's exam?" Asked one of the reporters, "Has something happened inside the test site that you people are not willing to share?"

"We assure you that there's nothing unusual happening in the test site, the exams are proceeding as usual." Lied Nezu, "It's simply that a large amount of parents have filed complaints over that last few years that we were running unauthorized exposure of their child on TV, so they want to keep their identities and image anonymous. Now please, go home!"

And with that statement, it hit him. These people are busy repelling reporters in an attempt to preserve their school's image. Despite their future student's lives are at risk, they but their self image in front of them. Filled with anger, Todoroki came stomping out the building.

"There is a villain attack happening in the test sites! Kid's lives are at stake and no pro hero have shown up in the last 30 minutes!" Todoroki yelled to the top of his lungs.

Suddenly, everyone froze for a solid second. The pro heroes, staring at Todoroki in anger, as panic then drew in their faces, as the reporters became practically rabid at that statement.

"IS THIS WHY YOU'RE KEEPING US OUT? HOW DID THE VILLAINS INFILTRATE THE SUPPOSED MOST SECURED SCHOOL IN JAPAN? WHY AREN'T YOU RESPONDING TO THIS RIGHT AWAY?! WHAT'S GOING ON HERE!?" the reporters started to yell.

As the heroes struggle to keep up with the questions, Todoroki dashed off, continuing his journey to the test site.

"I can't believe them..." He panted out, running towards the test site.

A trail of tears started to form.

"But I can't think of that right now... I must save them!"

His panting became frantic, his breathing ragged.

"I must save him!"

So many recently formed moments flashed before his eyes clouded with tears, his face being the only thing he could and wanted to see.

"Izuku!"

Finally making it to Izuku test site, he unleashed a huge iceberg, blasting a hole through the entrance as he launched himself into what was now a den crawling with villains. Looking below him, there was a sea of crooks, waiting to take on anyone who entered.

Meanwhile, below, some of the crooks chattered.

"So, we took over their test site, what now Frank?" Asked one of the crooks.

"According to our boss, we're supposed to just run wild and do whatever we want." Replied Frank, "As long as it's shocking or makes a big headline. Got an idea in mind, Willy?"

"Well then, what better way than to kill some pro heroes?" Asked Willy.

"Hell yeah! We'd make a name for ourselves and be renowned in the criminal underworld!" Frank exclaimed in excitement, "Say, isn't that one right there?"

"No, I think that's just a kid." Replied Willy.

"Why would a kid willingly go in here?" Asked Frank.

"Oh, good point." Replied Willy.

"Say, is he coming towards us?" Asked Frank.

"Oh my he is!" Replied Willy "Hey, you there, stop right there or we will beat you up!"

The two were frozen solid in a mere fraction of a second.

"Frank?" Asked Willy, hardly able to move.

"Yeah Willy?" Replied Frank.

"I don't think that was an ordinary kid." Said Willy.

"How so?" Asked Frank.

"He was able to shoot ice. He was like an ice boy" Said Willy, "Wait a minute... Frank! I got it! That kid's got a quirk and that quirk can shoot ice!"

Dead Silence.

"Frank?"

"You're a moron Willy."

As Todoroki descended onto the test site, many thugs took notice at how easily he took out over a dozen villains in one attack. suddenly, with the attention drawn at the front gate, every thug in the area charged in, hoping to take him down. Seeing the approaching threat, Todoroki let out a wave of ice in all directions, attempting to subdue all villains in one fell swoop.

However, a duo immediately jumped over the ice wall created, and descended on Todoroki, quirks ready.

"Don't think we don't know who you are, son of Endeavor!" Exclaimed one of the villains, swiping at Todoroki with his hammer arm, "We are the "Demolition Duo!" a band of former C rank villains that were defeated by your daddy!"

"We are now stronger, and will get revenge by claiming his son's head!" Said the other villain, drilling through his ice wall with his Jackhammer arm.

Todoroki threw up another wall of ice, only for the two to shatter in in mere moments.

"All you do is throw ice around! If that's the case this will be a cake walk!" Exclaimed the hammer villain, as he swung once again at Todoroki, hitting him in the stomach and sending flying several feet into the air.

"And now for the finisher!" The Jackhammer villain added, jumping at him, trying to skewer him.

However, at that moment, flames erupted from his left side, rocketing him back and dodging the hit.

"I don't like using this side of my quirk." Said Todoroki, "But if doesn't hit you directly, I'm fine with it."

"So you got one lucky dodge! Big deal!" Exclaimed the hammer arm villain, as he ran in, his hammer ready, "Any walls you put up, we'll tear down!"

"Fine then, come at me!" Taunted Todoroki.

Both villains gritted their teeth.

"You're dead!" They yelled in unison, charging in.

However, upon doing so, they started to slip and lose their footing, unable to keep their balance.

"Wh-what's going on!?" The two exclaimed, looking at their feet, "The ice... it's melting!?"

"The fire I used to propel myself was also directed at the ice on the floor." Explained Todoroki, "Ice is at it's slipperiest when it starts to melt."

"D-Damn, I can't even move forward properly!" cursed the jackhammer villain.

"Then just sit still." Replied Todoroki, sending a huge blast of ice their way.

The duo, unable to dodge, were turned into ice statues in mere moments. With the two villains defeated, Todoroki turned around, facing a massive crowd of villains. His frost slowly growing, as he eyed down the remaining enemies he must get through. Izuku's safety being his main and only driving point, he put one foot in front the other, and walked forward.

"Out of my way!" He yelled out, dashing into the crowd.

Meanwhile, a dark, bulky figure watched the young child fight for his life. His thick beard preventing him from having a mask that covered his whole face, he opted for one that covered only his top half. His tight black shirt and overalls made him look more like a construction worker than a villain, yet, at the moment, he was the strongest member of the entire attack.

"So a mere child came to save the captives and hostages before the heroes?" He said to himself, "What has this industry become?"

Suddenly, he got a call from his boss.

"Hello?" Asked the man.

"Hey! Tom! Any updates? Have the pro heroes arrived yet?" Asked Mightless, "Everyone's been waiting anxiously for 30 minutes now and I don't know how much longer I can hold Shigaraki back."

"No, nothing..." Replied Tom solemnly, "A rather depressing theory I made is that they're too busy kicking out the press so this entire attack gets covered up before actually coming to save the students."

"Are you kidding me!?" Asked Mightless, "The heroes are THAT incompetent?!"

"If they weren't you wouldn't be here right now would you?" Asked Tom, "We are doing this to show the world the hero's true color! You should be happy we have such juicy material to work with!"

"I guess, however... *sigh* it's just depressing to think these were the buffoons I once looked up to so..." Mightless sighed, "I mean, wouldn't All Might have come at least?"

"Well there does seem to be one." Tom said, hopping back a few centimetres to dodge a massive iceberg with several thugs stuck in them, "But you won't like who it is..."

"What? Who's there? Wait, I just saw a massive iceberg pop up, don't tell me..."

Tom nodded in silence. Mightless got the message. Suddenly, Mightless jumped off his post, surprising everyone.

"Izuku? Where are you going?" Asked Toga, "the heroes haven't even arrived yet!"

"Shoto's here!" Exclaimed Izuku.

Suddenly, everyone gasped.

"You're saying that..." Toga uttered.

"My little brother's out there fighting!?" Dabi cut off, grabbing Izuku and lifting him up.

"I'm afraid so." Replied Izuku.

"Damn it! We need to call off our men! They see you as their leader, they'll listen to you right?" Asked Dabi in a panicked tone.

"Oh who cares." Said Shigaraki, playing on Spinner's Nintendo Switch "So one less brat to deal with, good riddance!"

"Why you!" Dabi gritted in angered, grabbing Shigaraki.

"Oh, you wanna go?" Shigaraki retorted angrily.

"Both of you cut it out!" Toga hit both of them in the head, "Right now, we have to figure things out! Shoto's out friend, but he doesn't know about our true nature! We can't just call off the attack, as that would make both him and our men suspicious, so we need to figure something out!"

Suddenly, Izuku picked up the phone, calling Tom once again.

"Tom, go down there and subdue Shoto. Try not to hurt him too much and keep him restrained until I get there." Ordered Izuku.

"Izuku?"

"Everyone, follow me, there's going to be a change of plans." ordered Izuku.

"Hell yeah!" Everyone exclaimed in unison.

Meanwhile, Todoroki just finished taking out around 50 villains. However, his ice side was starting to take a massive toll on his body, as the frost had nearly covered his entire arm, which we had lost sensation in 4 ice pillars ago. Low on stamina and suffering from the accumulation of minor cuts and bruises, Todoroki kept on marching forward.

"Izuku... I must... save... Izuku..." He uttered.

Suddenly, a villain in hiding jumped out at him, ready to gut him alive. However, Todoroki, without even looking, reached out with his numb arm, encasing his face in an ice block.

"Izuku..." He muttered, stumbling forward.

Just then, he saw someone ahead, running towards him. His vision, blurry and faint, was only barely able to make out a shape. Fuzzy green hair, short compact framework, freckles. He gave a smile, as his walking got faster and faster.

"Izu..."

Suddenly, a massive figure descended down upon him, eyeing him down with the eyes of a beast. Seeing this, Todoroki's face shifted in anger.

"Out of my way!" He roared, throwing a massive ice wave at the man.

However, the man, not even phased by the attack, smashed right through the ice wall, grabbing Todoroki by the neck and holding him down.

"I'm sorry little one." He said in a gentle voice, contrasting his strong grip.

In retaliation, Todoroki let out another massive discharge of ice, but to no avail, the man wasn't even phased by the attack.

"Please, struggling will get you nowhere, stay down." The man pleaded again.

Suddenly, Tom felt an extreme heat, as ember started to form on Todoroki's left side.

"I said..."

Quickly letting go, Tom narrowly dodged a massive fire pillar erupting from the boy.

"GET OUT OF MY WAY!" He yelled out, letting out a massive blast of flame.

Tom, backing up, was genuinely shocked at Todoroki's display.

"To think you had this much power in you the whole time." Said Tom, "You are full of surprises, boy."

Getting back up, the flames raging on Todoroki's left side melted his right, as he eyed down his opponent.

"I hated these flames. I always thought of them as being the chains that bind me to the monster I call father." Said Todoroki, "But Izuku once said that these flames are my own, that I have no shame in using them. He wanted me to overcome my hatred and gave me the care and love I never got from my father, made me open up to the world my dad never let me be in, I owe him everything!"

His ice side also erupting with power, he started to combine to two side together, ready to unleash them both on the man standing before him.

"So anyone who dares to hurt him..." Todoroki shouted, "I WILL NEVER FORGIVE!"

With that, he unleashed a furious wave of fire and ice, engulfing everything that crossed it's way, a wave of destruction, heading right for the old former villain. In any normal cases, The villain would never stand a chance against an attack of this magnitude. However...

"You really are something huh?" Said Tom, as he placed his hand on his right arm.

Tom was no normal villain.

"Then I guess I'll go serious on you for a bit."

He squeezed his bicep, as he a metallic click was heard.

"First Seal... Release!"

Suddenly, his entire body beefed up, nearly doubling in muscle mass, as the sheer expansion of his muscles causing rips in his shirt, despite it being made of BlueJay co. Hyper-Elastic fiber, and charged right though the upcoming attack, swimming through it like a dolphin through a calm ocean, as he came through the other side practically unharmed, delivering a wicked blow to Todoroki's stomach.

Tom's Quirk: Rampage - His muscles are abnormally powerful from birth and ever expanding, developing at such a rapid pace that they would eventually kill the user. Because of this, Tom underwent a surgical procedure at a young age that implanted 5 seals into his body to restrain the muscle's rampant growth and, in turn, the user's strength. However, at some point in his life, he received modifiers to his seals that allowed them to be turned on and off. Should all 5 seals be released, the user can fight at his full power for a short amount of time before the quirk kills them. Tom has never fought with any more than 3 seals released, even against All Might.

As Todoroki fell to the ground, coughing out blood, Tom quickly grabbed his biceps again, twisting his a full 90 degrees as another metallic click was heard. He too coughed up a bit of blood afterwards.

"Damn, my muscles crushed one of my ribs on release." cursed Tom, "That usually doesn't happen until the second seal. Man I must be getting old."

Todoroki, on the ground and in pain, tried his best to get back up, only to fall over again. Desperate and on his last leg, he begun to crawl towards who he thought was Izuku.

"Izuku... Izuku... Izu..."

However, as the man came into view, his hopes shattered. He recognized that man, he heard his speech in the warehouse that day. The man walked up to him, looking down on him as his crimson eyes (contact lenses) met his hetero-chromatic ones. Suddenly, it all came back to him. He planned all this and he had heard all of it. It was his fault for forgetting. He could have warned everyone, he could have warned Izuku. This whole mess was his fault.

"You're... Mightless." He uttered out.

"You must be the son of Endeavor." Said Mightless in a domineering voice, "I'm amazed that you've heard of me."

"You... what have you done with Izuku?" Todoroki uttered out, grabbing Mightless's pants and slowly climbing up him.

"Oh, that green haired brat." Said Mightless, "We needed a hostage in case the pro heroes overwhelmed us. However, that rat and his girlfriend managed to give us the slip. Not that it matters though, since, obviously, the pro heroes are not coming from the looks of it. I wonder, why is that?"

Todoroki, remembering what he saw, gritted his teeth in anger.

"They... they will come!" He lied, trying to scare the villain boss.

"Oh, is that so? Well then, if that's the case, we'll be needing a hostage if we were to escape." Said Mightless, grabbing Todoroki's limp body and picking him up by the hair, "And now, we have the son of the number 2 hero, the golden egg, filled with promise and potential, served to us on the world's brightest silver plater."

However, just then, Todoroki started to laugh.

"Huh, you find this funny?" Asked Mightless.

"Oh, it's not that, it's just, the fact that you think my dad would give a damn about me being held hostage, that idea is just..." Todoroki struggle to hold in a laugh, "No, the fact that Izuku isn't caught, the fact that he still might be safe, If that's really true, then I'm perfectly fine with being your hostage."

Hearing, Mightless almost recoiled back, moved by his words.

"He put went this far to save someone he cared for, got beaten, yet, despite learning that he might lose his life, is perfectly contempt with his situation knowing his friend's safety?" Thought Mightless, "Truly, he has the traits of a true hero... No, I must carry on with the plan!"

"Alright men, get the restraints and tie him up, make sure his quirk is nullified." Ordered Mightless, as people wearing masks and cloaks emerged to restrain Todoroki, "And get the camera ready!"

Meanwhile, Ochaco and Tsuyu watched the whole thing unfold from the top of a nearby building.

"So Izuku and Toga are safe, that's a relief." Said Ochako.

"Yeah, but that kid isn't" Said Tsuyu.

"I know." Replied Ochako, conflicted, "But, to simply run off despite him clearly needing help... honestly, it fills me with guilt."

"But what can we do?" Asked Tsuyu.

Just then, looking to their right, they saw people approaching the entrance.

"The Pro heroes! They are finally here!" Exclaimed Ochako.

"Yeah, so now, we can leave it to them!" Said Tsuyu.

"Didn't you hear? They're gonna be using that kid as hostage! The heroes will be at a disadvantage!" Said Ochako, "We have to save them! I pride as a hero is telling me to!"

"We aren't heroes yet though." Said Tsuyu.

"I know, but, I may have an idea!" Said Ochako.

Meanwhile, at the front gate, a massive gathering of over 50 pro heroes have shown up, and leading the charge was the number 1 hero, All Might.

"Alright, what are we looking at?" Asked All Might.

"4 Overrun Test Sites, an estimate 25 students still trapped inside and about over 300 villains in total, averaging at around 80 per site." Replied Number-Crunch, a pro hero, "We on the other hand have 58 pro heroes."

"So about 15 heroes her site should do the trick." Speculated All Might, "Alright, Eraserhead, your group will be taking on test side 1, Midnight, Test site 2, And present Mic, test site 4. I'll deal with 3."

"Good choice." Said Number-Crunch, "From what little visuals we had, that's where the boss is."

Walking up to the door, All Might winded up his fist.

"It's show time!"

Meanwhile, back in the test site, Tom also detected the approaching heroes.

"Boss, here they come!" Said Tom.

"Finally, I've been dreaming of this moment for a long time!" Said Shigaraki, all giddy.

"Has the hostage been secured?" Asked Mightless.

"He has." Replied Magne, "Is the collar necessary though? Looks a tad kinky if you ask me."

"That's what standard quirk nullifying collars look like! Have a problem, take it up with the design team!" Said Mightless.

As the group, along with the remaining villains prepared for the pro heroes arriving, Mightless put on his multitude of support gears.

"It's showtime!"

Meanwhile, Ochako and Tsuyu are eyeing down the group, ready to unleash they own plan to save Shoto.

"It's showtime!"

To Be Continued...