The students stood there in shock as more and more villains came through the portal. Most of their eyes fell onto the approaching enemy, but Doko couldn't stop looking at the portal itself. Dark violet brewing, he thought. It looked scarily familiar.
Eraser Head lowered his goggles. "Thirteen, protect the students! Get them out of here!"
The villain with the bad posture and the hands approached the bottom of the steps. "The report we stole said there would be three teachers here." He scratched at his neck, as if irritated. "Tell me, where is All Might?" The massive hulking bird-creature came up beside him, standing silently.
The leader villain lowered his hand. "Hmmm. Will killing some kids make the symbol of peace show himself?"
The villains advanced. Eraser Head took another step forward. "How did they get in?" Kirishima asked in disbelief.
Yaoyorozu spoke up, sounding panicked. "What about the sensors that detect trespassers?"
"Huh?" Thirteen turned. "We have them, of course..."
"Did they just appear here, or around the whole school?" It was Todoroki, calm and determined. "This is an isolated area and they knew we would be here. They have some kind of plan. As for the sensors, they must have a Quirk that can disable them somehow."
"Kaminari!" Aizawa said suddenly. The blonde boy started in surprise. "Try contacting the school with your Quirk. Thirteen, begin the evacuation. I will hold them off."
"Sensei!" Midoriya cried. "There's so many of them! Even if you tried to erase some of their Quirks...can you hold off that many on your own?"
Eraser Head turned slightly towards the green-haired boy, and Doko thought he might have smiled a little. "You don't become a hero without a few extra tricks up your sleeve."
Then, their teacher dived into the throng.
The students gasped, and the villains rushed to meet him...and then the scarf went ham.
Doko could barely follow the combat. Aizawa's garment weaved and wrapped through multiple villains at a time, smashing them together or into the ground. He himself bobbed and waved as other villains got in close, landing well-placed hits whenever he could, and erasing their Quirks all the way through.
"Alright, enough spectating!" Thirteen declared. "Let's go."
The students turned and raced for the exit. Midoriya lagged behind, seemingly dazed by their teacher's fighting. "Midoriya, come ON!" Iida yelled, and the boy caught up. Doko's heart was racing. Next to him, Mina appeared similarly panicked. I could just teleport out, maybe go tell someone...but I don't want to abandon anyone if I can help it. Especially her. Hold up. Where had THAT come from?
A purple mass swirled into existence between them and the door. Thirteen stopped short, and the students skidded to a halt behind them.
The portal grew larger and darker. Doko swallowed, and suddenly felt his own energy begin to panic. What...what is this? Sweat dripped down his face.
"I am afraid I cannot let you pass," said the portal, and Doko suddenly noticed two slitted yellow eyes near the top. This was a person, and their Quirk...was frighteningly similar to his own.
"Nice to meet you," the portal continued, surprisingly polite and verbose. "I am Kurogiri. We are the League of Villains."
"Lame name," Mina muttered under her breath.
"We do not mean to presume, but we have invited ourselves in to UA High School in order to eliminate the Symbol of Peace, All Might."
The class gasped in sync. Doko saw Midoriya tense up even more out of the corner of his eye. Meanwhile, his warp energy was spinning in circles somewhere below his stomach.
"We thought he would be here with you. Has there been some alteration to the plan?" The portal began to grow outward in two tendrils, as if those were the villain's arms. "In any case...I shall play my part."
Thirteen opened one of their fingers to counterattack, and then...Bakugo and Kirishima jumped forward.
"NO!" Thirteen yelped, as the two of them leapt into the villain, letting out angry battlecries. Idiots! thought Doko.
Bakugo let off an explosion, and smoke and light blinded the class for a moment. The smoke continued to billow.
Kirishima and Bakugo stood firm. "Did you consider that we might fight back?" the former asked, grinning.
As the smoke cleared, the purple mass became visible again...standing right where he had before. "But of course," he answered. "I'm counting on it."
"GET BACK, YOU TWO!" Thirteen cried.
"Now we will see how good of a school UA is," Kurogiri said, and suddenly dozens of dark purple smokey tendrils were snaking out towards the class, enveloping them. "Put up a fight if you wish. But it will all be for nothing. My job is to scatter you." The tendrils wrapped around them, forcing Doko, Mina, and Sero to back up against each other, yelping in terror. "From there, our troops will torture you." The smokey darkness grew and grew, covering everything. "And then..." his voice seemed to surround them. "You will die."
Fuck off. In that moment, Doko's energy seemed to rear up with deadly focus, and he teleported backwards, getting clear of the portal. At the last second, he saw Shoji leap forward and cover Mina and Sero with a mass of created limbs. Next to him, Iida suddenly appeared, having zipped out into the clearing with Uraraka and Sato in tow.
The portal began to dissipate...and it was just the seven of them, and Thirteen. Everyone else was gone.
"My, my," Kurogiri said, regrouping himself in the original position. "Some of you are still here." For a moment, Doko saw his neck, covered by a metal brace. He has a physical body, and it's not hundreds of miles away in some lair. He isn't projecting portals from another location, he's really here. He IS the portal.
Would that work in our favour?
...
Tsuyu Asui was surrounded by dark purple soup. Around her, her classmates were panicking in a lost swarm, and then all sounds faded. Her insides felt funny, like she was being flipped over and over. And suddenly, she was falling.
"Ribbit?" She looked down, and yes! The luckiest thing that could have happened in this lineup of misfortunes. Below her was water. She'd been scattered to the shipwreck zone.
Tsuyu folded into a graceful dive and hit the water with a splash, immediately kicking off with her powerful legs as bubbles crawled over her skin. She kicked, one-two, and propelled herself forward. The lake would have been dark, but she could see very well.
And what she saw directly in front of her was an unconscious Yuga Aoyama, sinking downwards in a limp position, his long blonde hair swaying back and forth.
Tsuyu swam forward and grabbed him; he was surprisingly light. Please please PLEASE don't drown. Up ahead, she saw two more entities, one swimming towards the other. A sharklike villain and Izuku Midoriya. Tsuyu swam up and over the villain, overtaking him, and as he opened his mouth to bite into Midoriya, she slammed down on him with both feet.
"Midoriya-chan!" she declared, her Quirk allowing her to speak clearly underwater. "Ribbit!" With both hands full with Laser Boy, she shot her tongue out and wrapped Midoriya up, slinging him towards the surface. He landed on the deck of the ship.
Tsuyu and Aoyama broke the surface, the latter gasping for breath, water dripping down his hair unceremoniously. "I am indebted to you, mademoiselle," he told her.
"No problem." She retracted her tongue, and then used it to sling him up onto the deck with Midoriya. Lastly, she used her Quirk to climb up the side of the ship.
"Th-thanks, Asui-san," Midoriya said, clearly shaken up.
"Call me Tsu."
Midoriya freaked out for a moment. Meanwhile, Aoyama was trying frantically to wring water out of his cape. I might have to take control here. "This has turned into a bad situation."
Midoriya's eyes narrowed. "Todoroki was right. Did you hear what the portal guy said? They knew All Might was supposed to be here. They stole information during the security breach yesterday. They DO have a plan."
Aoyama laughed derisively, all while frantically beating his cape out behind his back. "You must be aware of how silly you sound, monsieur. All Might shines the brightest of any hero. Even if he shows up, he will simply defeat the enemy."
Tsuyu put a finger to her chin, a nervous tic. She wasn't so sure, but it was difficult to say it. "Aoyama-chan..." she began. "Don't you think they've planned this so hard because they've found a way to kill him? They wouldn't want to get all the way here for nothing. And...that guy said we would die...even IF All Might comes, can we hold out that long?" She watched as the two boys faces grew more and more stressed, and knew she was freaking them out, but she couldn't help it. Is it because of my expression? I really need to work on that.
Midoriya's face went dark, confused. "But...why?" He seemed lost and terrified, falling into his thoughts.
Tsuyu heard a noise from the water below. She and Aoyama whirled, looking down.
"Bastards! We'll kill you!" At least ten villains were swimming towards the boat, encircling it. From the looks of it, they all had aquatic mutant-type Quirks, like Tsuyu's own.
"This is bad, mon amis..." Aoyama stepped backward from the railing. "Their powers are compatible with our location."
But so are mine, Tsuyu thought. And that portal villain's Quirk reminded of her Doko's, just as Midoriya and All Might's Quirk were similar. It felt like there was a grand puzzle just beyond her reach, impossible to solve for now, but...there nonetheless.
"It doesn't matter," a cool voice said behind them. Tsuyu and Aoyama turned.
Midoriya had closed his fist. "If these people truly have a way to kill All Might, then...we have to fight them. We have to win."
...
"Shoji!" Iida declared. "Is everyone still in the building?"
Shoji had created a half dozen eyes, and was moving them all about behind himself, scanning the dome. "Asui, Midoriya, and Aoyama are surrounded at the boat. Yaoyorozu, Jiro, and Kaminari are in a similar situation in the mountain zone. Todoroki is icing villains at the landslide zone. Ojiro is in the fire zone, Tokoyami and Koda are in the raining city. Kirishima and Bakugo are fighting in a ruined building. I do not see Hagakure, but considering that everyone else is here, I doubt they teleported her someplace special. It is likely that she has just taken all her clothes off."
Sero and Sato winced uncomfortably.
Ahead of them, the portal villain known as Kurogiri still stood firm, but he made no attempt to attack them again immediately. He stayed back, watching the students regroup behind Thirteen. Doko scanned the group that they had. Mina and Shoji and Sero were here; three people he'd gotten somewhat close with compared to the others. Uraraka, with her Zero Gravity. Sato had super strength but only if he ate sugar. Hopefully he brought some with him. And Iida, who was fast. Plus Sero with his versatile mid-range abilities, Shoji's wide variety of sensory abilities, and Mina's deadly acid.
Plus they had a pro hero with them. The portal villain couldn't possibly know all their Quirks...so he was hanging back.
"Damn, we can't really attack, can we?" Sero clicked his teeth. "Landing a hit on him is impossible."
The violet warp energy had risen up to just beneath Doko's throat. He needed to take action soon.
"Someone needs to get past him," said Thirteen, suddenly. "Aizawa is down there erasing Quirks, and we still can't use our communications. That means whatever person they have on their side that can block the comms...is hiding somewhere. It will take longer for us to find them than for someone to go for help. But...they have to get past him."
Then Doko knew. "I ought to go." He hated leaving them behind, but this was what it was all about, right? Using his powers in a beneficial way? "I can get around him and out of here and back toward the school the fastest. I don't want to abandon you guys, but..."
A hand fell onto his shoulder. "No, Katayama-san," Iida said, smiling sadly. "It must be me."
"Huh?" Doko looked at him, confused. They were of a similar height, he noticed randomly. "I mean, you're fast, but I'm faster."
"This is my duty as the class rep," Iida said, seeming to steel himself up. "And besides...based on your performance in the battle trial..."
Doko winced, and he felt heat rise to his face. "I see. You don't think I can do it. Go on, then. I'm not stopping you." He turned away from the boy.
"Iida," said Thirteen. "Are you prepared?"
Mina and Uraraka looked on worriedly.
"It's not like that, Katayama," the class rep said, turning to look back at Kurogiri. "It's like Sero said. For any of us to land a hit on him is impossible...but YOU may be able to."
Doko's eyes widened.
Sero stepped forward, getting into a fighting stance. "He's right, Katayama. With you, we can take him."
Sato lined up with Sero. "Go, class rep! If you get out, there's all sorts of things you can do to help us. Don't let it go to waste."
"I'll support you, Iida-kun!" Uraraka declared, stepping forward.
"Come on, Doko, let's do this." Mina came up beside him, smiling. "Just like the entrance exam!"
Kurogiri flared up for an attack. "Discussing your plans so openly? I thought UA raised their students smarter than that!" The purple tendrils leapt forward toward them gleefully, getting ready for another full scatter.
"It doesn't matter if you heard us or not," Thirteen growled. They raised their finger. "BLACK HOOOOOOLE!"
A rushing vacuum of air enveloped the villain's attack, and pieces of purple energy sucked in toward Thirteen.
The villain spoke again, and his voice sounded strangely warped under the rushing gravity. "I see. Black Hole is quite an impressive Quirk, isn't it? And yet...Thirteen, you are only a rescue hero. Your battle experience is...how should I put it?"
Suddenly, the purple darkness began forming up BEHIND Thirteen, and disappearing from where they were aiming their attack.
Kurogiri's yellow eyes narrowed from behind the hero. "...Lacking."
The class gasped. Thirteen tried to turn in surprise. "A warp gate!" The vacuum energy of Black Hole was going through the villain's portal...and tearing into Thirteen's back.
"THIRTEEN! NO!" Uraraka screamed.
The hero's costume began to tear into pieces, sucking backward into the portal. "And now you're dust," said Kurogiri.
The entire back of Thirteen's suit opened into darkness. "H-he got me..." they croaked, falling to the ground, the Black Hole attack diminishing to nothing.
Doko reeled. Oh my god. Oh my god oh my god oh my god. Next to him, Mina and Uraraka were crying in despair. Iida and the other boys looked on, pale and disbelieving.
The villain began to turn. The yellow eyes began to fall upon Doko. The energy inside him focused sharp again.
"Iida," Doko growled. "If you're going to run, do it now."
The class rep's eyes widened in surprise, and then he closed them, gritting his teeth. His engines fired, and he dashed forward past the villain. Damn it! Tenya thought, his heart racing as the door grew larger and larger. I am the class rep! Everyone is in MY hands! And I'll get help, and I'll save them ALL!
"I don't think so," the villain said, and another portal began to form right in front of him.
Iida frantically turned to skid to a stop, his metal boots grinding sparks off the ground. But he was still moving...right into the portal...
Shoji leapt into the air, six arms splayed, and then he tackled the portal into a bear hug, suppressing it against the ground. "Go!" he croaked to Iida.
Kurogiri turned back, still standing next to the other students and Thirteen's body. "Why, you impudent little..." part of his body shot forward to pursue Iida, but some of him stayed behind. Mina and Uraraka looked up from Thirteen's body...and they both noticed his metal neck brace.
"I will not allow you to escape!" Kurogiri declared, snaking up over the running Iida, and then falling down upon him...
Uraraka touched the villain's neck.
"Huh?" Kurogiri suddenly went floating up, weightless, moving away from Iida without meaning to. "What is this?"
"I don't know how it works..." Doko turned to look at Uraraka, bewildered. She was gripping the brace tightly, looking angrier than he'd ever seen her. "...but if he's wearin' somethin', that means he IS somethin'!"
Doko sweatdropped. What's with her accent and word choice?
Uraraka flung the villain upwards into the air, sending him flying. Iida was at the door, forcing it open. Kurogiri regrouped himself and pursued, racing through the air.
"No you don't!" Sero shot out a length of tape, attaching it to the neck brace. He disconnected it, and Sato grabbed it, swung it in a circle, and released with a grunt of effort.
That's right! Doko thought with a rush. Teamwork! He may not have been the best planner, but in the heat of battle...everything came together.
As Kurogiri went flying, Doko warped into the air, and punched the villain's neck brace as hard as he could, downward. "HYAH!" He warped to the floor again before he could gain enough velocity to start falling, and the villain slammed into the floor next to him, hard enough to leave a dent. Doko stood back up straight from his landing, feeling the lavender energy course through his muscles.
Iida left the building, putting another burst on his engines, racing out of sight.
The remaining five formed a shaky circle around the fallen villain. Shoji returned, making six. They approached slowly, watching for sudden movements.
Kurogiri rose up from the floor ethereally, his corporeal body billowing up on itself. "Well," he said shakily. "It seems he got out, and is going to call for help. That is unfortunate. I should warn Shigaraki, but first..." Suddenly he shot up, and before any of the other five could do anything, he was right in Doko's face. Yellow eyes stared into violet ones.
"You're like me, aren't you child?" Kurogiri asked him.
...
In the landslide zone, Shoto Todoroki was freezing villains left and right. "Pathetic," he said, sliding forward on his ice and freezing another one up to the neck. "This League of Villains did a poor job of recruiting skilled troops."
"Sh-shut up, kid..." one of them stammered, trying to struggle free of the ice.
Shoto raised an eyebrow at him. "If I'm a kid, what does that make the lot of you? Not adults, that's for certain. I wouldn't struggle if I were you. That will only speed up the process. All your nerves are shutting down right now, one by one."
"You're training to be a hero," another said, a bit more confidently than the first, and remaining still. "You'd never dare to kill another human."
"Is that truly a chance you're willing to take?" Shoto asked. He took a step forward, and brought his right hand up to the villain's face. There were only a few truly dangerous foes in this group, and none of them are here with me. In that case...I should try to get information.
He began to spread cold wind over the villain's face, threatening to freeze it. Tears began to swim in the villain's eyes. "Tell me," said Shoto. "What makes you think you can kill All Might?"
...
Momo Yaoyorozu felt strange. She was panicked and afraid, of course, but also strangely focused at the same time. The villains were closing in, and her mind raced. Think. Think of a way out of this. My Quirk has nigh-infinite possibilities...there must be SOMETHING!
The panic was threatening to take over. She swatted an enemy away with her staff, feeling the metal weapon connect with a solid CLANG. I hope I didn't just kill you! She flipped backwards, dodging the punch of another enemy, putting her back to Jiro again.
Kaminari rushed to regroup with them, ducking under the clutches of a massive villain. "My life just flashed before my eyes!" he squeaked. "Seriously, this is crazy!"
As he slid to a stop next to Jiro, she flicked her earphone jacks in annoyance. "Stop talking and focus! We need to come up with a plan to get away from all these losers."
Yes, Momo thought, kicking another villain away gracefully. A plan, yes. But what?
"Give me a weapon, then!" Kaminari pleaded.
"You're the electric guy, aren't you? Just attack them with that!"
"It doesn't work that wayyyy!" he complained. "I can't focus what direction my shocks go. I'll just end up hitting the two of you. And the signal is still jammed, so I can't even contact help! I can't do ANYTHING right now! I'm counting on you two!"
"Shut up and quit whining. I know just what you can do." Jiro gave him a kick towards the massive villain, and Kaminari panicked, running right into him with a SMACK. And then...electricity lit up the clearing.
Momo's eyebrows rose, and she gasped out of her mouth.
"Oh," Kaminari said nonchalantly, shocking the villain who was five times his size into submission. "I guess it does work."
Jiro rolled her eyes. "What an idiot." She plugged her earphone jack in and sent out a sonic wave, causing two more attacking villains to fall into Kaminari's electricity, getting shocked too. Another guy leapt towards her, but Momo instinctively created a net and tossed it at him at the last second. The net snared the villain and he fell to the ground, getting shocked as well.
"You both need to stop joking around!" Momo cried breathlessly, feeling her fear begin to take over.
Jiro gave her a sheepish look. "Sorry. It seemed like a good idea at the time. Hey, Kaminari, you should have gotten something for your costume that lets you aim your damn attacks!"
Then Momo knew. If he's afraid of hitting us...I've got it!
"Jiro, give me twenty seconds!"
"Huh? Okay." She sent another sound wave out towards the approaching villains, taking out several more. Momo clenched her teeth in concentration. Just a little more...
A villain jumped off the cliff behind them to pounce onto Jiro and interrupt her sound attack, but Momo dives forward and kicked him away. "Done!" she declared, and sent the blanket erupting out of her back. "Sorry about the delay! I need more time to make something big!" The blanket spread out over her and Jiro.
"What the hell's this?" one of the villains snapped, getting close.
"It's an insulation sheet," said Momo, smiling now. I managed to come up with something!
Kaminari smirked. "I get it, Yaoyorozu. You're telling me that I can be..." he held his hands up, yellow sparks shooting out. "...INDISCRIMINATE!" He threw his hands into the ground, and electricity flooded the clearing, shocking all the villains into a smoking, charred mess.
When it was over, Jiro sighed from beneath the blanket. "That was pretty metal...uhmmMMM, your CLOTHES?!"
Momo made a sound of confused intrigue and turned to the other girl. "Oh?" Jiro was a frantic, blushing mess. "Oh right. I can just create my costume again. One second..."
Jiro had suddenly pounced on her, hugging her front. "Kaminari! Don't you dare look in this direction...huh?"
Both girls stood up, Momo having finished repairing her revealing uniform. Their electric classmate was walking around in dazed circles, holding two thumbs up, blood leaking gently from his nose. His eyes had gone all loopy.
Jiro rolled her eyes. "Typical."
...
Mashirao Ojiro had never really considered fire before.
When you were a kid, there were the standard fears. The dark. Falling from a great height. Tight spaces, perhaps. But fire? How come he'd never thought about it?
Because now, it was ALL he could think about.
A villain dashed forward to grab him, and Mashirao flipped sideways to dodge, using his tail to spring off the ground. But upon completing the flip, he skidded too close to the raging inferno that reared up on the sides of the street, and faltered, cringing back. The villain managed to land a blow in that moment, sending him flying...toward another fire.
Frantically, Mashirao flipped over in midair and dug his tail into the ground to slow down. It hurt his bare skin like mad to scrape against the pavement, but it was preferable to getting cooked. He had no intention of becoming Roast Tail today. Where the hell is everyone else? Am I all alone in here?
"You're out of your element in this zone, kid," one of the villains called from down the street. "This is a bad matchup for you, with all that loose cloth and exposed skin you've got. Just lay down and surrender and we might let your death go a little faster."
Mashirao winced. "Sorry, but I don't really feel like it. I've got my whole life ahead of me, see? Meanwhile, you guys are old and wasted your lives getting recruited into some lameass criminal club. Maybe you should be the ones to get burned."
"Gaaaaah...we're not THAT old! Get him!"
Two villains came rushing up, one of them running THROUGH the flames. They sent those with compatible Quirks to the various zones. This was well planned. Mashirao used his tail to swing up onto a lamp post, and then kept swinging, using his momentum to punch both villains away as they came at him. He straightened himself again...and a fireball filled his vision, lighting his eyes up, racing right towards him.
Mashirao panicked and sprang backward off the lamp post just as the fireball blew it to pieces with a rushing crash. Okay, that's new. The wall of flames seemed to part into two as another villain walked towards him, their silhouette slowly resolving into a person, backlit by the fire. It was a woman, holding another floating fireball above her hand. She was grimacing in fury. "NO ONE calls me old and lives to get away with it." She threw the fireball.
Mashirao slid out of the way, but nearly fell into another fire, skidding to a halt as the villain's attack exploded next to him. Disoriented, he turned in a circle...and a third fireball grazed his tail.
Mashirao screamed in pain and fell to the concrete. The street was unbearably hot on his bare skin, and his tail was smoking, the hair on the end of it singed.
The female villain walked toward him slowly, laughing. "You children think you can put up a fight because you've been at hero school for a few days? Pathetic. It's already over for you, and you only lasted a few minutes. Consider that a last lesson before I silence you for good."
Absurdly, Mashirao noticed a floating piece of rebar behind the woman. He said nothing.
She raised her fireball up. "DIE!"
But as she brought it down, the rebar swung across the back of her head, colliding with a painful-sounding CLUNK. The woman's arm fell, her fireball dissipated, and she swayed, her eyes rolling back. Then she collapsed, out cold.
"Ojiro-kun, I saved you!" said a bubbly voice.
"Hagakure?" His eyes widened as he felt a hand close around his and help him up. "You've been here the whole time?"
"Yeah, I left my gloves and boots at the end of the street and just went beast mode on the other villains. They were all big dumb goons anyway."
Mashirao's eye twitched. "Are you sure it's okay for you to be naked with all this fire around?"
"Maybe not! That's why we should get on out of here, don't you think?"
"You have a point. Come on."
...
Koji Koda was terrified.
First of all, there'd been that awful situation on the bus. Everyone crammed into the same space, forced to socially interact? It was a recipe for disaster. How could they just start TALKING like that?
Then, things had gotten even worse when he'd discovered that they were doing rescue training. Sure, there had been a forest biome by the looks of it, but would there be any other animals for him to use in the other places? Would he even be able to rescue anyone? Probably not. He'd been less than useless during the battle trial, only getting lucky by having the smartest girl in class as a partner. Surely his classmates would start to look down on him soon.
Oh, and some villains had shown up. All those things added together built a terror inside Koji that was unshakeable, unremovable. When the portal guy had scattered them, he could have landed in the forest where there might have been something to work with, but no. He'd gotten sent to the squall zone. This rain hurts! And now he had no plan. No animals. Just...well. Maybe there was ONE animal.
As he got cornered in an alleyway by two villains, Dark Shadow came sweeping out from the building, slamming both of them into the wall hard enough to stay stuck there. Tokoyami emerged, following his Quirk out into the rain. "Taken care of!" Dark Shadow declared, giving a thumbs up next to the defeated villains.
"That was six," said Tokoyami, addressing Koji as if they were partners or friends or something. "They will keep sending foes at us. I can keep repelling them for as long as necessary. Dark Shadow thrives in this environment, after all. But it might be useful to find some kind of exit to the central plaza."
It must be nice, having a Quirk that works here. Hold on, wait! Because Koji had been warped to an area where there were unlikely to be animals, he'd assumed that the villains knew what their Quirks were and had deliberately crippled them. But...if Tokoyami was here too...
"They don't know our Quirks," he squeaked, barely perceptible.
"Huh? Speak up, lad!" Dark Shadow made a show of putting a talon up to his shadowy ear, as if listening hard.
"Stop it, Dark Shadow. You make a good point, Koda-san. That explains why these enemies have been unprepared to combat me." In the torrential rain, the cloaked Tokoyami looked like some kind of brooding warrior. "That info may be useful to some of our classmates as well, if they are similarly locked in the throes of battle. It may affect our overall strategy in a positive manner."
I'm sure the others have figured it out anyway. I'm not that special.
"But as I was saying," Tokoyami continued, "let us find the exit. As good as this gloomy rain is for Dark Shadow...it is starting to ruffle my feathers a bit."
END OF CHAPTER SEVEN
Writing this was quite the challenge. I wasn't sure how much of the arc to retread and what I could comfortably add on to it. In the end, I decided to retread some things, changing a few details where I could and trying to use a fresh perspective for scenes that you've seen before. I hope it wasn't too much of a slog.
Next time, Kurogiri and Doko go head-to-head...and the other USJ stuff that you know will happen too. Probably. It will probably take two more chapters to finish this arc, not just one.
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