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Apparently, this site doesn't save my line breakers if I just copy them in and I didn't realize that until now. Sorry about that! I will go back to the other chapters and edit to add line breakers to make the point of view shifts not be so confusing.
Edit 27.04.2022: Corrected some misspellings.
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Tanpopo Rio was scared, but not alone. Aquatic villains were surrounding their boat in the Flood Zone she, Tsu and Midoriya had been warped to. Her white dress and thigh high boots were soaked, along with her long red hair that she had to brush her bangs behind her ears to keep them from falling into her face. Midoriya told them his plan and she was impressed.
"I think it will work." she said to a trembling Midoriya and Tsu nodded in agreement.
"Then here goes nothing." he said and jumped off the boat.
Using his quirk, he sent a powerful blow to the water with his finger. The impact of the blow created a intendention in the water, causing the villains to be swept away by the waves only for them to be sucked back into the middle.
"Asui!" he called and Tsu jumped with Rio clinging onto her and caught Midoriya with her tongue.
As the villains were sucked into the middle of the whirlpool, Rio pointed one of her hands towards the mass of villains and focused her quirk.
"Thunder!" she yelled and a strike of lightning hit the water and shocked all the villains.
She charged her quirk again for another attack and shouted again.
"Freeze!" and a big snowflake hit the water where all the villains were gathered.
Now the villains were stunned, or unconscious, and stuck together as a whole ice block. There was no way for them to come after them now. They landed back in the water and swam to the edge of the Flood Zone to the plaza. Aizawa-sensei was fighting the villains together with a man in a black coat who easily knocked out the villains. Several villains flew when the man leapt into the air and created a pink shockwave by hitting the ground with the blade of his scythe.
"Wow! That black coated hero is really taking a chunk out of those guys." Rio exclaimed.
"I do not think that is a hero, Rio." Tsu corrected her.
"Huh? He's not? But he is helping sensei?"
"No, Asui is correct." Midoriya said, "If I'm not wrong, that is Seraphim, one of the Black Coat vigilantes that recently appeared."
"What is he doing here then? Did he appear with the villains?" Rio asked, confused.
"No idea. But it is good he's working against the villains. Sensei would be well over his head fighting this many villains head on by himself." he summarised.
"So what do we do now?" Rio asked.
"We wait and watch for an opportunity to help. If we can." he answered.
Rio didn't like doing nothing. It burned, especially when she could help, but she was just a student and had to trust that her teacher could handle this. At one point Aizawa-sensei clashed with a villain covered in hands and retreated back, his right arm hanging limp to his side. His shirtsleeve was missing below his elbow and there were terrible cracks in his skin. She would have tried to jump in, if not for the vigilante assisting him and trashing the villains trying to attack their teacher's back.
Then the big villain moved on the attack.
The villain got his arm cut off as they retreated back and black smoke erupted out of it as a new arm replaced it. Rio had a really bad feeling about him, like darkness just radiated from him. Her teacher and the vigilante evaded several hits and Seraphim got in some of his own, but it didn't seem to put any dent in the villain at all who just healed back up. Then Aizawa-sensei and Seraphim split up as floating flower buds shot laser beams at the villain while Aizawa-sensei dodged his blows.
She watched as Seraphim started to float away from the battle and his scythe floated behind his back, swinging back and forth like a pendulum. What were they doing? She, Tsu and Midoriya shared the same panicked look as the flower buds disappeared, the villain caught Aizawa-sensei with a punch to his left hip and he hit the ground. When she was sure that the villain would crush their teacher's arm, Seraphim appeared behind him, followed shortly by a short explosion of black energy, thorns and rose petals and sent him flying with another whirlwind attack with his scythe.
The villain had now the number 14 floating above his head. As the whirlwind tossed the villain away the warping villain Kurogiri appeared behind the hand villain.
"Shigaraki Tomura." Kurogiri addressed the hand villain.
"Is Thirteen dead?" Shigaraki asked.
"No. A meddler wearing the same black coat as that man over there imprisoned me with his quirk before I could. Thirteen and the students left the building before I was able to break free."
"Kurogiri, how could you fail? If the pros show up our plans will crumble and it will be game over." Shigaraki complained. "Let's warp back."
They were going to leave? Just like that? One look at Tsu and Midoriya and she could tell they were in as much disbelief as her.
"Before leaving, let's leave a few dead kids…" Shigaraki said and rushed towards them. "To wound the pride of the symbol of peace!" Shigaraki declared and shot his hand out towards Tsu to disintegrate her.
For a horrible moment, Rio thought she was going to watch her friend's face disintegrate before her like Aizawa-sensei's arm, but nothing happened when Shigaraki put his hand on Tsu's face.
"You really are a cool guy, Eraser Head." he said.
She and Midoriya both shouted at the same time with the same intent.
"L-let go off her!" he shouted and threw a punch."Smash!"
"Fire!" she shouted and fired off a fireball.
Her fireball connected but to her horror the villain Nomu had appeared out of nowhere, crouched over Shigaraki and took the hit from both her attack and Midoriya's with his arms. He had regenerated the other arm Seraphim had cut off and he didn't even flinch or react at the smoking flesh wound she had inflicted.
"Good attacks. Smash? You must be an All Might fan." Shigaraki told them. "Well, whatever."
Nomu grabbed both her and Midoriya's outstretched arms in its giant fists and she feared he would snap them both like twigs.
"STRELITZIA!" someone shouted and suddenly both of Nomu's arms were cut off as the black coated figure was in front of them.
Shigaraki and Nomu retreated back, Nomu protecting Shigaraki with his body from an onslaught of pink energy beams that Seraphim was sending at them with every swing of his scythe. The vigilante was standing firmly in between them and the villains.
"Are you okay?" he asked them, sounding slightly out of breath.
Rio and Midoriya quickly pried off the decapitated hands holding onto them and let them sink into the water. They were both a bit green in the face.
"Ye-yeah." they were able to get out.
There was a crash from above as the doors to the USJ blew open. Rio was overwhelmed with relief as All Might appeared.
"Fear not. I am here." All Might announced.
"Finally you are here, hero. Or should I say hero trash?" Shigaraki told him.
All Might quickly rushed down to the plaza and stopped next to Aizawa-sensei.
"I'm sorry, Aizawa." he told the man upon seeing his arm and leg.
"Be sorry later. Take care of the villains. The black coated man, Seraphim, he's helping us." Aizawa-sensei said as All Might picked him up over his shoulder.
"I know." he answered.
With incredible speed he picked up Rio, Tsu and Midoriya in his arms from the water and placed them and Aizawa-sensei on the other side of the plaza on the road to the stairs. Seraphim circled around towards them, sending more energy attacks at the Nomu's as its arms regenerated again.
"Head towards the entrance, you three. I entrust Aizawa to you since he can not walk by himself." All Might told them as Seraphim joined up, still with his back to them.
Aizawa-sensei muttered something under his breath but didn't complain as Rio and Midoriya carefully put his arms over their shoulders.
"Seraphim?" All Might asked the man.
"Yes?"
"Please escort the students and Eraser Head to safety."
"Are you sure?" Seraphim asked.
"I will bring these villains down and it will be easier to do so knowing someone is protecting the students."
"Alright. An advice though. You see the number over the big guy's head?"
Rio looked over to Nomu and could see that the number had gone down to 4.
"If you hit him four more times and the counter hits 0, he will go down regardless of how injured or not he is."
"Understood." All Might said and stood up.
"All Might! The guy with his brain exposed. When I punched him he didn't even budge! He must be the one who-!" Midoriya started to explain.
"Midoriya, my boy. It is alright." he said to the boy and rushed off.
"Carolina Smash!" he yelled and hit Nomu with two slashing hits.
Nomu barely moved but the counter went down to 2.
"This will be over soon." Seraphim told them. "Let's go."
Lauriam was reeling from what had just happened. Not only was his sister here, alive, but he had saved her by the skin of his teeth from being gravely injured by that villain. She and Midoriya were currently supporting Eraser Head so he could walk on one leg while he himself watched out for any danger. He also kept an eye on the counter which was going to go down regardless of how shock resistant Shigaraki Tomura was bragging about Nomu being.
Two very fast punches later and the counter hit 0. Nomu collapsed.
"No, no, no, no!" Shigaraki was yelling, feverly scratching himself. "You cheated! Nomu is just as strong as you! How could he just go down after just a few hits from you?!"
"Shigaraki Tomura, I think whatever that man with the scythe did is responsible for this." Kurogiri pointed out.
"So the hack party member did this! You cheated!" he screeched."You heroes thrive on using violence to keep peace yet we are the bad ones!? Symbol of Peace?! Hah! You're just a violent tool to keep us down, breeding more violence! And I'll show everyone that, by killing you!"
It's over, villains!" All Might declared and Lauriam suddenly got a really bad feeling.
Like all darkness in the USJ was surging towards the downed Heartless.
"Wha-what is that feeling?" he heard Strelitzia say behind him, confusing him.
Looking back at her he could see the same kind of fear in her face that was mirrored in the face of the two other kids. They could also feel that darkness but didn't know what it was they were feeling. Strelitzia didn't know what it was she was feeling.
"What is going on?" Eraser Head asked as darkness surrounded Nomu.
"This is bad." Lauriam muttered, looking back at Nomu and answered a call from Elrena by pressing his earbud.
"Yes?" he answered.
"Do you need help?"
"Are you done?"
"I have one zone left."
"Make sure the kids are safe first."
"Okay, but I'm backing you up as soon as I can!" she said and cut the call.
Lauriam called Luxord as the darkness surrounding the Heartless was increasing and it was standing back up again.
"Trick?"
"I would assist you if I could, but we are having a Heartless problem out here. The professionals are on their way."
"Understood." Lauriam told him and cut the call.
"Kids, Eraser Head. Head to the entrance, now!" he told them.
"Wasn't the counter supposed to take him out?" Eraser Head asked.
"It did." he told them as Nomu stood up, both eyes were red angry flashes along its head and the symbol of a heart with black, sharp lines showed up on its chest.
"But someone decided to revive him."
"Hahaha! We got a continuation on this save!" Shigaraki cackled. "Nomu, kill them!"
Nomu roared and the wind pressure from it whipped up the sand around them. Even faster than before, Nomu rushed towards them and Lauriam used the staff of his scythe to block the punch. The blow rocked numbing pain through his arms and made him skid backwards several centimetres away from Nomu. The wind pressure blew off his hood and he could hear the kids and Eraser Head shout as they got thrown off their feet from the same wind pressure. He was sure that if he had avoided the punch instead of blocking it, the wind pressure would have sent the four behind him on a very dangerous flight.
"Run!" He called behind him and prepared himself for the second punch that Nomu was about to throw.
The second punch hit All Might's fist instead, as he stepped in and countered with his own punch, creating a shockwave that forced Lauriam further backwards. Lauriam took this opportunity to jump back to Eraser Head and the kids who were struggling to get up again due to the multiple shockwaves created by the clashing fists. He concentrated his magic and created a flower clone. It depleted his magic for a while but now, after de-summoning his scythe, he himself could pick up Eraser Head and Strelitzia over his shoulders, while his clone picked up the other two kids.
He and his clone sprinted fast up the stairs and stopped by the entrance to USJ. Through the doors he could see Luxord, the teacher Thirteen and the students fighting several Shadows and Possessors. He caught Luxord's eye who used a hand pulling on his own hood for a very obvious reason.
"What are Heartless doing here?" Eraser Head wondered as Lauriam sat him very carefully down on the ground together with Strelitzia and the clone did the same with the other kids.
He could tell the hero was agitated not being able to help due to his broken body. Hell, he was surprised the man hadn't passed out from the pain already. Pulling his and the clones hood back on, he asserted the situation. Luxord was fully able to handle these Heartless by himself, even without the help he was currently getting from the teacher and the students. The fight in the plaza on the other hand. Lauriam had a gut feeling about All Might. He masked it well, but he looked more tired than when he had seen him about an hour ago.
"They have been summoned by the same person who changed the Nomu." he answered Eraser Head.
"Didn't you say he was a Heartless?"
"He was one, until he got knocked out."
"What? What is he now?"
"An Unversed." Lauriam answered, re-summoning his scythe.
"Don't go running down there again." Aizawa warned the vigilante. "What is an Unversed?"
"A being made out of negativity." Seraphim answered, adjusting his grip on his scythe.
Aizawa noted the man's arms and shoulders were slightly trembling but not the rest of him. Nomu's punch seems to have shocked, if not injured, Seraphim's arms. How they hadn't snapped like twigs or dislocated was a mystery to him.
"Negativity?" Midoriya asked as Seraphim took out a small blue flask with a green star floating in it.
"Feelings of anger, sadness, fear, loneliness. All emotions that make you feel bad, is what the Unversed are made of." Seraphim answered him and downed the content of the flask, including the star.
Another quirk that created other beings. Great. This quirk and the quirk that created the Heartless was probably all in the same family. How troublesome. Aizawa noticed that the man's arms stopped trembling. Had that weird little flask been a pain reliever?
"Are these the same as the Heartless you explained about before?" Aizawa asked. "That they do not need a master?"
Seraphim shook his head.
"Once the master is gone, the Unversed disappears too."
Aizawa felt some relief at that, only to have it snatched away as Midoriya opened his mouth.
"So we need to find the quirk user." the boy stated.
"You three are not going to do anything so stupid." Aizawa barked and winced as the outburst jostled his crushed hip.
Honestly, Aizawa had never been this beat up before. The fall from Seraphim blocking Nomu's attack had not been good for his injuries. Neither had him being picked up and slung over someone's shoulder, twice, been any better.
"Vanitas can create as many Unversed as he wishes and defeating them will only make the energy used flow back to him. To say you would be fighting an uphill battle would be to understate it." Seraphim explained as the vigilante eyed his injured limbs and rummaged in his coat.
"Then what do we do?" Tanpopo asked.
"We will wait here for the other pros to get here." Aizawa told them.
"Trick said that they are on their way." Seraphim informed them as he pulled out something from his coat.
"Good." Aizawa answered.
"Catch." the man told him as he lobbed a round yellow stone at him.
Aizawa caught it by reflex, internally cursing at the reaction, and the stone began to glow. He saw moons and stars engraved in the 'stone' before it burst into light and warmth flooded him from top to bottom. His students cried in alarm as his body glowed. Once the glow died down, Aizawa was no longer in any pain and he felt rejuvenated. Like he never had overused his quirk and had had a full night's sleep. Or two.
"W-what did you do to sensei?!" Midoriya cried, taking a shaky fighting stance towards the vigilante together with Asui.
"I healed him." Seraphim simply answered.
Tanpopo was hovering over him.
"Aizawa-sensei? Are you okay?" she asked him, concerned in her eyes and hands out like she wanted to touch him but didn't know what to do.
He gently flexed and stretched his right arm and left leg, amazingly able to use the limbs without any pain and slowly stood up. The cracks in his arm were even completely gone.
"I'm alright, Tanpopo. Midoriya, Asui. Stand down." he told them and all three children stared at him in disbelief.
"Y-you can stand. B-but how? That stone really healed you?" Midoriya questioned.
"What was that stone, Seraphim?" Aizawa asked.
"A healing agent." was all the man said.
Aizawa felt a headache on the horizon. First the explanation of Heartless, then his 'curse' and now this miracle healing. Couldn't he get a straight answer for once from the man? Since Seraphim was unlikely to give said answers, he instead surveyed the area. He quickly realized he couldn't do much more than looking after his three students.
The battle going on behind him with Thirteen, the students and Trick was being fully handled. The fight at the plaza though was a different story and he couldn't help much. He was sure All Might was closing in on his limit. Fool or not, Seraphim could probably hold his own against Nomu if needed, and also against Shigaraki and Kurogiri, if All Might reached his limit.
He hoped it wouldn't come down to have a vigilante do all their work for them.
Learning of the Unversed and seeing the dark beings outside, the Heartless, did not make Rio feel good. It was hard to think that quirks like that existed. What was not helping was that Seraphim, after healing Aizawa-sensei, had kept on glancing at her pretty much the whole time since they got up here.
"I'm sorry, but do you want something?" she asked unnerved and embarrassed.
"Stop making my students feel uncomfortable." Aizawa-sensei told him off.
Seraphim bashfully looked away.
"I apologise. It's just…" he trailed off.
"What?" she asked.
He looked back at her again.
"Do you know what those are?" he asked, pointing to the beings fighting her classmates and Thirteen outside.
"Sensei said they were called Heartless, right?" she looked between him and her teacher, who was eyeing the vigilante.
Seraphim didn't answer and asked another question.
"Do you know the name Strelitzia?"
She shook her head confused.
"You don't recognize me, do you?" he said so softly that Rio almost didn't catch it or the sadness in it.
"Wha-"
A crash from the plaza interrupted her and they all looked back to the fight. Seraphim chuckled.
"Well that is one way to defeat it."
Apparently, Lauriam hadn't had to worry about All Might fighting Nomu.
"PLUS ULTRA!" All Might shouted loudly and with one mighty punch sent the Unversed through the roof of the building.
He would have laughed for real at the absurd show of force if he hadn't just found out that Strelitzia didn't recognize him. Not even with his face shown did she recognize him. It hurt to know she had forgotten him, but he took some solace in the fact she was alive. If she was alive and able to use magic, then she could get her memories back. Lauriam clutched at that ray of hope and focused on the two remaining villains down at the plaza.
Shigaraki was having another toddler level temper tantrum over All Might's second defeat of Nomu and Lauriam was angry at this level of childishness. He warped, leaving his clone behind with Eraser Head and Strelitzia, and appeared to All Might's right. There were three boys watching from the sidelines, looking like they were ready to jump in at any moment. They must have appeared during All Might's clash with Nomu and they visibly tensed up when he appeared.
"You hack!" Shigaraki shrieked when he appeared. "All Might couldn't beat Nomu! He was created to defeat the Symbol of Peace! It is all because of you!"
"Thank you for the praise." Lauriam answered with a fake jovial tone and smile.
"Villains, you are finished!" All Might spoke, but didn't move to apprehend them.
Lauriam looked confused over at All Might and realized he looked even more exhausted than before under the smile. There was also white smoke coming from him that was mingling with the dust from his punch and wouldn't have been noticeable unless he hadn't been standing right next to him. The fact that All Might wasn't telling him to let him, a hero, handle this was concerning. Overexertion?
"Shigaraki Tomura, I believe we can still win this. Nomu has hurt him and he hasn't moved to attack us." Kurogiri said.
"Yes, yes. You're right. No hack is going to stop my win." he answered back, but the moment he got ready to attack, Lauriam leaped forward and swung his scythe at the man.
Regardless of what was going on with All Might, Lauriam wasn't about to let these two hurt him. His scythe ran across Shigaraki's chest as he jumped backwards to avoid it and opened up a long wound. Shortly after, Kurogiri had to cover his companion and warp away several knives cowered in electricity that came flying through the air. A few of the knives hit its target and Shigaraki jolted in pain.
"Am I late to crashing this party?" Elrena called out as she stepped out of a dark corridor, summoning her knives again and getting ready to throw them all.
"Another on-!" Shigaraki yelped as a hail of bullets rained down on them, hitting his arms and legs before Kurogiri could completely cover him from this second barrage.
Up at the entrance, the teachers of U.A lined up to look down, menacingly, at the villains.
"The cavalry's here." Luxord announced when he warped right next to Lauriam at the same time Kurogiri spoke to Shigaraki.
"Shigaraki Tomura, we need to leave now."
"This isn't over, hero trash!" Shigaraki yelled when Kurogiri warped them away as Luxord tried to catch them in another card. The card wasn't able to capture them in time before the warpgate faded and it returned empty back to Luxord's hand.
"We should leave too." Lauriam called to the other two, as the teachers were running down the stairs to the plaza to handle the downed villains.
And to probably apprehend them too.
"You three." All Might called and they all turned to him.
There was a lot of white smoke coming from him now, but he was still smiling.
"Thank you for your assistance!"
Lauriam laughed in surprise. Elrena and Luxord seemed just as startled.
"Only a coward would have stood around and done nothing ." Lauriam said.
"Yeah, no sweat!" Elrena answered.
"No need to thank us." Luxord called as the three of them warped away to outside of USJ.
The Unversed had created a sizable crater from being launched outside. Concrete had been shattered and trees had been uprooted or broken off by the impact.
"Well, this is a mess." Elrena stated at the destruction.
"Truly. But it seems we do not have to worry about this one fighting again." Luxord said.
The Unversed wasn't moving and simply stared blankly into nothing. The last of the negativity had already left its body, turning it back into Nomu. The darkness that had made it a Heartless was still there but lay dormant, not responding to the three of them approaching.
"You know," Lauriam began and rested his scythe against his shoulder. "I was expecting us to continue the fight. Either with this villain or against Vanitas."
"Vanitas? Wait, he's here too?!" Elrena questioned.
He nodded.
"Yes. The Heartless being turned into a Unversed was that feeling of immense darkness we felt earlier. But, I didn't see Vanitas anywhere."
"Perhaps we should speak of this somewhere else? We are still trespassing." Luxord reminded them.
"You are right." Lauriam admitted and de-summoned his weapon. "Back to base."
Once more they warped and arrived in their living room.
"So Vanitas is here too?!" Elrena exclaimed, almost immediately. "How?! Did he escape the Keyblade Graveyard? Did Sora spare him? If so, why that little turd?"
"That is the question." Luxord agreed, frowning. "Even if someone did spare him, I do not believe he would take them up on it."
"No, Vanitas would rather fight to his demise than be spared by anyone. And then mock them for even trying." Lauriam agreed.
"So, if he was beaten, his replica body would have been destroyed too, right?" Elrena said.
"Yes. Once his body was gone, his heart would travel back to his own time." Luxord answered.
"So what the hell is he doing here?" Elrena grumbled.
"Maybe I can answer that." a far too familiar voice spoke out as a dark corridor opened up in front of them.
Any guesses on who that could be?
If anyone was curious; Lauriam used a Potion on himself and an Elixir on Eraser Head.
So I have decided to continue writing this fanfic past the done chapters. All the favorites, follows and comments have really been motivational so I really want to continue to share my story.
This does mean that updating will happen less frequent. I will start to only update on Mondays for as long as there are done chapters, and after that I will try to update as frequently as possible. I hope you understand!
Next update: Monday 2nd of May