Unfortunately, Izuku was not able to see the rest of the chat, as a small girl with a single horn barrelled into him. He put his phone away.
"Oh!" she said, and reached towards her horn. She did not look very well-off, covered in bandages and a thin dress.
"Are you okay?" Mirio asked.
"I'm trying to get away--don't touch me, my quirk is dangerous!" she said, backing up.
"It's okay. What's your name? I'm Miro, this is Midoriya, and we're heroes-in-training." Mirio said.
"I'm Eri, but you can't touch me, my quirk hurts people! It's bad!" the girl said. Then, someone with a mask shaped like a bird's beak, a fluffy coat and white gloves stepped from the alley.
"Eri. Come here." he said. Mirio and Izuku looked at each other.
Grab Eri and run, Kacchan had said.
"I'm not sure she wants to." Mirio said, as Eri was hiding behind Izuku.
"She's being silly. Eri, come to your father." the man said.
Don't listen to the birdface, Kacchan had said.
"My daughter runs away, sometimes. Her quirk is extremely dangerous, and she still has to train it." the man said.
You have to save her from Overhaul, Kacchan had said.
"I'm sorry, but I cannot let a young girl go with the villain Overhaul." Mirio said. Oh, they were fricked, Izuku thought, as the man extended his hand and dived towards them. He grabbed Eri and dived out of the way, but then Overhaul pulled out a gun.
"Don't move." he said, pointing it at Izuku while looking at Mirio, who was ready to attack. Izuku powered on One for All, and ran. A shot echoed from behind, and Izuku, feeling no sudden pain, kept running.
Katsuki stood in the alley, blood dripping down his chest.
"Told you I'd come." he said, and fell over. Overhaul leveled his gun at Mirio, who dropped into the ground, and launched himself at Overhaul, who ducked out of the way as Mirio fell back into the ground. Overhaul whistled, and multiple armed thugs appeared from the darkness of the alley. How could he get himself and Bakugou out before the other died?
Izuku was regretting leaving; he'd left Mirio and heard a shot, but he had to save this girl. He ran to Nighteye's agency, which was close, and skidded into the building.
"Mirio's fighting Overhaul! He needs help!" Izuku shouted, and the heroes rushed out.
Mirio, holding Bakugou, was running through the ground from the waist downwards. Shots rang out as he speeded towards the agency, which had an emergency medical room. "I'll--I'll be okay, just [bleeping] get yourself out!" Bakugou said, coughing. He was not going to be okay. Unless Mirio could save him, he'd die in the next minute.
"Oi. I'm immortal." Bakugou said, and Mirio remembered the chat.
"Secondary...murder cat quirk. This'll only be the thi--" Bakugou stopped and went limp, staring upwards with dead eyes.
"No!" Mirio screamed, and nearly got run over by a car. He'd gotten away from the villains, but at what cost? He stopped in an alley, hidden by boxes, and set Bakugou's body down before reaching for his phone. Before he could call Sir Nighteye, Bakugou choked and sat up.
"That was very painful." he said, spitting up blood.
"My shirt is ruined."
Mirio stared at him.
"Immortal, remember? Oh [bleep, the bullet might have been quirk-erasing!" Bakugou said, and reached out his hand. No explosions were forthcoming.
"[BLEEP]! Wait. Maybe..." Suddenly, there were explosions again. Then, he pointed towards the wall, which was then affected by a small explosion.
"I'm quirkless...but the funnel broke." he said, grinning.
"The funnel?" Mirio asked, still failing to process Bakugou's apparent immortality.
"The funnel through entropy that quirks are. Now, instead of just getting what I could draw from my quirk, I can use magic to its fullest extent, which includes a way to replicate my quirk--but better. I bet I could replicate your quirk. Maybe even Izuku's." Bakugou said, and then there were footsteps. A group of heroes, including Nighteye, were there.
"Hey. Stuff happened." Miro said. Nighteye gave him a look.
"It's all Bakugou's fault, really." Mirio said, edging away.
"What does Bakugou have to do with this?" Nighteye asked.
"What do you, he's--" Mirio turned around. No Bakugou.
"Huh." Mirio said.
The group reconvened at the agency, where Izuku was with Eri. He had been talking to her, and telling her that he quirk wasn't bad, and she could learn to control it--and maybe Eraserhead could help. Mirio walked in.
"I have some questions for Bakugou." he said, overcome. Izuku's phone beeped.
Kaboom, Bastard: if i had a nickel for every time i've died i would have three nickels which isn't a lot but it's weird that it happened thrice
REDRIOT: do you mean clinically or metaphorically or
Dekiiiiru: Mirio and I just saved Eri
Kaboom, Bastard: yah cause i was there
Dekuiiiiru: u were there?
Kaboom, Bastard: ask Mirio
"He was there...he disappeared when the heroes showed up, though." Mirio said.
"He attacked Overhaul?" Izuku asked.
"No, he, uh, stopped you from getting shot. Then we ran away." Mirio said.
"Izuku, can I borrow your chat?" he asked.
Dekiiiiru: This is Mirio borrowing Izuku's phone. Bakugou, how did you do what you did?
Kaboom, Bastard: i thought we covered this. magic powers
TuesdaysAreSuperior: what did you do
Kaboom, Bastard: so i'm quirkless now
TuesdaysAreSuperior: WHAT DID YOU DO
Kaboom, Bastard: i'm going to be the first quirkless hero instead of izuku isn't that ironic
electric_attraction: You lost your quirk? HOW?
Kaboom, Bastard: stuff happened
Uraravity: what do you mean, instead of Izuku?
Purple Cat: wait did you actually lose your quirk?
Kaboom, Bastard: what do you think
Nevermore: you do remember there's a UA traitor who might be seeing all this
electric_attraction: no there isn't Shouto and I found a device accidentally transmitting info to the LoV and broke it, we're pretty sure Monoma put it there to mess with Class 1-A and set it up wrong
TuesdaysAreSuperior: yeah
Sonic: Monoma only announced his rivalry after the USJ.
TuesdaysAreSuperior: FRICK
electric_attraction: we may have a problem
Dekiiiiiru: kacchan use your magic powers to figure out who the UA traitor is
Kaboom, Bastard: it doesn't work like that, but there are four other realities
Kaboom, Bastard: in one Dunce Face is the traitor, in one it's Present Mic, in one it's nobody, and in one it's Izuku
Kaboom, Bastard: but that doesn't mean anything bc Knife's a villain in all of them, and Izuku didn't get One for All in any of them
fractalblooddungeon: I'm what
Uraravity: what's One for All
Kaboom, Bastard: *
TuesdaysAreSuperior: don't worry! everything is fricked
TuesdaysAreSuperior: I found out who my great-grandfather was and am having an internal crisis
TuesdaysAreSuperior: and then I come here and this happens
TuesdaysAreSuperior: I need a distraction is there a secure facility anyone wants me to break into?
REDRIOT: u could break into the LoV headquarters and find out who the traitor is
REDRIOT: I'm kidding
TuesdaysAreSuperior: I have to find it first
Fullmetal Ponytail: wait no don't actually do that
TuesdaysAreSuperior: too late
TuesdaysAreSuperior: everything changed when the fire nation attacked
Frog: so, the UA traitor
Sonic: We should not start suspecting each other. That would cause just the type of problem the traitor is no doubt looking to cause. We need to leave this to the teachers.
MasterChef: Bakugou said in one reality Present Mic was a traitor can we trust the teachers
Now-you-see-me: are you actually listening to Bakugou's rubbish
MasterChef: I'm taking it with a grain of salt but do you think Bakugou would just randomly lie
Dekiiiiru: I believe Kacchan
Uraraka: I believe Bakugou
TuesdaysAreSuperior: I do too
Nevermore: Dark Shadow and I do as well
King of Beasts: I also believe Bakugou!
electric_attraction: I got possessed by Shouto so anything is possible
REDRIOT: I believe Bakugou he's too manly to lie!
REDRIOT: wait Kaminari you what
Nevermore: I was there when it happened it was weird
Nevermore: Shouto and Zuko and Kaminari were all yelling at each other
Uraravity: who is this Zuko who keeps getting mentioned
Nevermore: Tuesday's passenger
Bakugou: an anime character from another reality
Purple Cat: Todoroki on Tuesdays
TuesdaysAreSuperior: me
King of Beasts: Todoroki's adoptive brother
REDRIOT: this tells me nothing
TuesdaysAreSuperior: all of the above
Dekiiiiru: I don't know what that implies, and I'm not sure I want to
fractalblooddungeon: let's ask him tomorrow
The next day, a team of heroes had led a raid on the yazuka and won. This definitely had nothing to do with the fact that Katsuki needed some targets for his new and improved powers. Also, All for One broke out of Tartarus, and so it was only while Shouto walked to school that he checked the notebook.
"READ GROUP CHAT!" it said, so Shouto did.
TuesdaysAreSuperior: what the frick
(TuesdaysAreSuperior) changed their name to (HeroShouto)
HeroShouto: what the frick happened yesterday
Dekiiiiru: you tell me
Kaboom, Bastard: good day to all you bastards
electric_attraction: everyone wants to know who Zuko is
HeroShouto: did you tell them
Nevermore: not exactly
HeroShouto: please don't
fractalblooddungeon: I want to know tho
Sonic: Himiko, you should respect his wishes
fractalblooddungeon: fine
HeroShouto: so Bakugou has magic powers
Uraravity: yup
REDRIOT: wait did you use your magic to make me trip at the Sports Festival I knew something was up
Kaboom, Bastard: yeah but I knocked All for One on his face back at Kamino so
Frog: wait All for One got out
Purple Cat: we're fricked. Touya says he's inventing a device to steal the quirks from everyone in the world
Fullmetal Ponytail: I'm still dealing with the fact that Shinsou has regular correspondance with a reformed villain who also happens to be Shouto's brother
Spider_Tape_Man: are you still planning to break into LoV headquarters
HeroShouto: no, not one bit, but I'll probably do it next Tuesday
King of Beasts: I'll ask the city pigeons for clues as to where it is
Tailman: I can ask my cousin to help he's got a postcognition quirk
Now-you-see-me: a what
Tailman: if you find something that belongs to one of the villains he can touch it and learn about things that happened in its past
talktothehands: this all very interesting but can't we just ask Touya
Purple Cat: hang on I'll text him
Dekiiiiru: Are we actually doing this?
Sonic: The last time we tried to hunt down a villain, it ended rather badly.
REDRIOT: the last time you what
fractalblooddungeon: remember Stain
REDRIOT: didn't Endeavor catch him
HeroShouto: yeah after we beat him up
electric_attraction: how is that ending badly
Sonic: We almost died.
HearMyEars: Fair.
Fullmetal Ponytail: things went well at kamino though!
Purple Cat: Okay we have a location!
Sonic: We should tell the teachers, and they should organize a hero team.
MasterChef: there are twenty-one of us, I bet we can take the villains, and we'd have to tell them about Touya
HeroShouto: won't we at some point anyway? Like, after we beat the bad guys I don't want him to get arrested he hasn't even done anything bad besides attack us at summer camp
Purple Cat: True.
Dekiiiiru: We can't! It's illegal!
Kaboom, Bastard: I can disguise us with magic.
Fullmetal Ponytail: Are we just accepting that Bakugou has magic powers now?
REDRIOT: yes
fractalblooddungeon: We have a man on the inside that is sooo cool!
Purple Cat: We aren't the only ones. Hawks has joined the LoV.
Nevermore: HAWKS HAS WHAT?
Purple Cat: Touya says he's undercover and bad at it, and is letting him join anyway bc he thinks he's hot
talktothehands: We didn't need that part.
HeroShouto: I still have his number from the internship
electric_attraction: ooh text him freak him out
HeroShouto: nah but maybe Shinshou should text Touya
Notes:
to summarize: Eri was saved, Mirio was traumatized, and the bad guys have no idea what's about to hit them.
(Just kidding. All for One will be fully prepared by the time the raid's ready to go.)