Chapter 41: Mind games

Hibiki just stared down at the child version of Izuku holding a tub of popcorn, 'What the hell...He doesn't appear to be insane or have a mental disorder, why is his mind in the form of a theme park?' She thought as she looked around she saw various rides and shops filled with theme park gifts, there were even people looking around and riding rides. 'I've had to look in the minds of several people before, none of them have been like this. When using this quirk the person's mind usually looks like a paradise of themselves feeding their own egos, a fantasy for just them with aspects of their life being the structures around them.'

She then felt something pull on her pant leg as she looked down at the child version of Izuku, "Are you, okay miss?"

Hibiki thought it over for a second before smiling and bending down to the child's level and patting his head, "Oh don't worry I'm doing just fine." she said giving the child a warm smile. 'This is probably just a fragment from his memories, this park is too detailed to be an imagination, if this is memory then all I need to do is kill the memory of Izuku and this place should crumble but a shock like that might kick me out of his head, or might let me slip in deeper into his mind, I don't know how stable his mind is. I'll play along for a while until I can get a good feel around Izuku's brain, it shouldn't take too long to find some sort of crack to slip deeper into his psyche.'

"Great," said the child version of Izuku jumping for joy, "Then would you like to go on some rides with me?"

"Sure," said Hibiki as she let the child drag him to a tilt-a-whirl, 'I've got time, thoughts move faster, after all, might as well have a bit of fun before I kill the man.'

~o~

Ochaco and Momo stared at one another as they entered the arena, Momo was busy coming up with ideas, while Ochaco was a little nervous.

'I wasn't expecting to fight Ochaco, but I should consider myself lucky, Ten would have been a troubling opponent blinking around the arena, but Ochaco doesn't have such movement, though I shouldn't underestimate her, she did well holding Bakugo at bay on the first day of training and she has received training from the same dojo Kendo is from so she most likely is very proficient in hand to hand combat. She'll most likely come in close and try to use her quirk to make me weightless and push me out of bounds. I'll need to keep my distance and attack from afar.'

Meanwhile, Ochaco's mind wasn't exactly focused on Momo at the moment, 'I hope Izuku and Yae are okay. I still don't quite get what's going on, is Hibiki a villain? No, this feels like something else, something that not even Melissa knows about, I wonder why, I mean they would have told her right? Should I just ask, would they tell me the truth?"

"Ochaco are you ready?" asked Midnight.

"Huh?" Ochaco was brought out of her thoughts as she saw both Momo and Midnight looking at her. "Oh right," Ochaco then lightly slapped her cheeks to get her mind out of the gutter and focus, "I'm ready." as she took a stance.

"Alright then, let the next match BEGIN!"

Ochaco dashed forward directly at Momo, which surprised the creation girl, 'Fast!' as Momo quickly made a crossbow and fired an arrow, only for Ochaco to dodge it with ease. 'I need to put some distance between us.' Thought Momo as she quickly created a flashbang on her forearm.

Ochaco had spared with Yae before and knew what was about to happen and slammed her eyes shut before the flashbang went off, 'She's trying to put distance between us, no that's not it.' Ochaco quickly brought her guard up as she felt a sharp pain hit her arm as Momo had hit her with a metal baton, Ochaco ignored the pain as she quickly grabbed the baton while attempting to grab Momo, but she had already let go of the weapon. Ochaco opened her eyes slightly to see that Momo was running away, Ochaco didn't know why she was running but dropped and the Baton and was about to run after her before the baton exploded around her.

At the sound of the explosion, Momo quickly turned around and reloaded her crossbow as she saw the smoke clear and Ochaco glaring at her, "Yep kind of figured that wouldn't be enough."

Ochaco smirked, "It's going to take a lot more than that to take me down."

~o~

Hibiki slowly walked as they got off the roller coaster, "I'm not going to lie that was exhilarating. I'm going to have to try the real thing when I get back." In the time she's been in Izuku's mind she has ridden several different rides that his brain has made. "Actually when I get out, I'm going to try each and every single one of these."

"Wait does that mean you've never been to an amusement park before?" asked the child Izuku.

Hibiki shook her head, "No, never had time, ever since I was little, I was always training and it just doubled when the family realized just how strong my quirk was, communicating with animals was nothing too special but teaching them, on the other hand, was something else, I guess that's why they want me to be the next head of the family."

"Do you want to be the next head of your family?" asked the child Izuku.

Hibiki was silent as she looked out over the park and sighed, "You know this was fun, but I got to get moving." as she suddenly grabbed the child Izuku's throat and snapped his neck, the small body then dropped to the ground lifeless. Hibiki then whipped her hands, "Well that should cause some sort of mental rupture. Now let's see if I can find any cracks to slip deeper into his memories." Hibiki then waited for a moment as she waited for something to happen, she looked at every building, stand and ride but nothing around her had changed. "What the hell I just destroyed a memory, one of Izuku himself, why is everything still here, it all should have cracked or crumbled by now."

"Are you sure, you're okay?" came a voice behind her.

Hibiki quickly whipped her head around only to find the same child version of Izuku standing before her. 'That's not possible, unless...This isn't a memory...is this Izuku's subconscious. If that was the case then it wouldn't die unless until Izuku died, but that doesn't make any sense, why would his subconscious build a theme park, what the hell is going on?'

"Would you like some help miss?" asked the child.

Hibiki was conflicted, this was something strange to her but she couldn't think of a better option, "uh yes."

"Follow me, I know someone who can help," said Izuku as she guided Hibiki through the park once more but this time, he led her to the entrance.

As they neared the entrance Hibiki recognized the figure in the distance, "Of course, it would be him."

"Um excuse me," said the child Izuku getting the man's attention. "She could use some help right."

"Really, well have no fear, for I am here." said a mental replica of All Might.

"Thanks, All Might," said Hibiki, 'Maybe I should just pull out now, before this gets even weirder.'

"But I think my new sidekick may help you more than me." said All Might.

"New sidekick?" asked Hibiki

"I'm here!" they all turned to see a young man in a green bunny-like outfit, "I'm here, Izuku reporting for duty." said the teenage Izuku in a superhero outfit.

"Wait what?" Hibiki quickly looked down and the child version of Izuku was still there with stars in his eyes admiring the heroes. 'There's two of them but if this was subconscious then there should only be one of them, two would mean some sort of mental damage like a split personality, but Izuku has never shown any sign of mental damage.' She then focused on the older Izuku, 'I expected his mind to look more like a library or a dojo, this...this...this is something else entirely, not mad but not organized.'

"Hey are you okay miss...oh I'm sorry I never got your name." said the teenage superhero Izuku.

"Oh my name is Hibiki, you should know that."

The superhero Izuku scratched the back of his head, "Well yeah but I meant your hero name, my hero name is Deku, how about yours?"

"Hero name? Why would..." Hibiki looked down and to her surprise, she was wearing her ninja gear, the same gear she wore as her hero outfit for school. "What..." Hibiki was now sweating as she was truly terrified now, 'I came in here wearing my PE uniform, how the fuck am I wearing my gear, whenever I have used this quirk to go into someone's mind I have always worn the same clothes I had on outside, how am I wearing-' Hibiki then pulled on her gear revealing she was still wearing her PE uniform underneath it. 'I'm still wearing my PE uniform, the gear formed around me, but then that would mean...' she slowly looked up at the hero Deku, "Izuku...are you mentally shaping this place around me?"

Deku just smiled and held his hand out. "Come on I know the perfect place for a great view."

~o~

Ochaco bobbed and weaved out of the way as Momo continued to shoot small bean bags out of a bean bag gun at her, 'This isn't good, I knew her reflexes were good from watching her fight but I wasn't expecting her to dodge each one of my long-range attacks like this, if this keeps up I won't have any other choice but to fight her head on and I don't think I can take her in hand to hand combat.'

'I don't know if I can keep this up,' thought Ochaco as she kept dodging the bean bags, 'I've been dodging arrows, bombs, tennis balls, and even a cannonball but this is getting tiring, I may have been trained in Kendo's dojo but I don't have Izuku's stamina. I need to end this now.' Ochaco quickly reached down and grabbed a rock. 'Here goes.'

Ochaco quickly threw the rock at Momo, either by fate or dumb luck it landed right inside the barrel of Momo's bean bag gun, "That's impossible." said Momo dumbfounded by the chances of what just happened.

"I got you now." Yelled Ochaco as she dashed right at Momo. Momo quickly realized she didn't have time to make something new tried to use her bean bag gun as a bat and hit Ochaco who ducked right under it and landed a palm strike right in the center of Momo's gut, with her quirk activated she sent Momo flying backward rolling through the air.

"No, not yet," as Momo quickly created a grappling gun and fired it at the center of the arena, and quickly pulled herself back into the arena.

Ochaco saw this and canceled her quirk but it was too late as Momo fell in bounds. Seeing this Ochaco dashed forward and tried to land another palm strike on Momo but the creation girl quickly made a bow staff to keep Ochaco at bay, it was becoming clear that neither of them was letting up.

Bakugo was watching the fight from behind the stands, he was about to make his way back to his class before deciding to stop and watch the remaining of the fight. Normally he would have ignored the fight but since he had no idea who he was fighting next he decided to pay attention to see what they could do just in case he had to fight one of them next. "This fight is going like predicted, if I fight her I'll win." His attention was then diverted by the sudden pressure on his foot. "What the?" as Bakugo looked down and saw a hamster run over his feet down the hall, quickly followed by a ferret, "The hell?"

~o~

Hibiki followed Deku out of the amusement park to the top of a nearby building that was close to the theme park when they made it to the roof of the building Hibiki could see the entire theme park was situated in the center of the city, upon the roof they could see the whole park and every ride, but they were still close enough that they could see each individual walking around.

"Not bad of a view," Hummed Hibiki, "You can see the whole park from here."

"Yeah but we're close enough to see everyone enjoying themselves," said Deku. "It's nice you know to forget about your worries and just spend a day with friends and family having a good time."

"Friends and family? Huh!" Hibiki then realized that everyone in the park was actually someone from his life, as she looked down she saw all of their classmates, several heroes he's encountered, and people that she read about him rescuing. She even saw mental versions of Yae and Melissa walking through the park, his mother and Eri were eating ice cream together and Yushiro and Tomo were sharing a meal. "I get it now because the first person I saw was a child version of yourself I thought you tried to put me in a vivid memory from your childhood but this is actually what you hold dear the most."

"Of course, as far as I can remember I wanted to be a hero that can protect the smiles of everyone around me, I wanted people to feel safe and protected know I am there to save them." said Deku before turning to Hibiki giving her a warm smile, "As heroes, we have to do our best to protect and save everyone we can."

Hibiki's face was blank for a moment as she looked back at Deku, "You have got to be shitting me." her words causing Deku to stone face. "This whole freaking time I was in the center of your head, this whole time I could have just left and found your memories by now, do you have any idea how much time I just wasted in there."

"But didn't you have fun?"

Hibiki turned and saw the child version of Izuku looking at her, as she looked at him she noticed several small markings on the child, 'I get it now so that's what you are.' she then pointed at the child, "You shut up, I don't have any more time for such nonsense, either tell me where I can find Izuku's memories or get out of my way."

The child then pointed out towards the city, "You can find the memory library out over that way."

Hibiki breathed in calming herself down, "Thank you." she was about to walk away but the child Izuku grabbed her hand, causing her to give out an exasperated sigh, "What do you want?"

"I just wanted you to know I had fun, hanging out with you."

Hibiki kept her eyes averted from the child. "Thanks, now let go."

"I really think you can become a great hero, if-"

"STOP!" she yelled as she pushed away from the child. "I cannot be a hero, I have murdered people before, I have killed several people, my hands are stained with blood." The child said nothing and just kept looking at her with pleading eyes. "Don't look at me like that, this has been my life since the day I was born, I regret nothing. I will keep on doing what I am doing and make my family proud."

"Then maybe your family is wrong," said Deku. "Maybe you should start making your own decisions because to me it's clear that your family has gone down the wrong path."

Hibiki glared at him, "I don't need any advice or help from a fragment of a person, okay. I am doing just fine on my own."

"What utter crap." came a voice from behind Hibiki, she quickly realized it wasn't coming from either of the Izuku's and quickly spun around only catching a glimpse of the person before getting hit by a massive fist that sent her flying off the roof.

Hibiki flew through the air over several buildings before landing in the middle of the street. Hibiki groaned as she mentally yelled at herself that none of this was a real pain and just mental. With that in mind, she slowly stood up and checked her surroundings, seeing that she was in the middle between Izuku's favorite convince store and burger joint. "What the fuck hit me?"

"Heads up."

Hibiki quickly backflipped out of the way as the hero Deku came crashing down. "What the hell do you want?"

Deku appeared out of the dust cloud he had created, "I'm a hero you know and it's a hero's job to meddle even when they aren't supposed to you and to help everyone they can, that includes you."

"Oh I see, your Izuku's righteousness, his heroic side." said Hibiki as she took a stance, "We I hate to tell you to knock off, we might be in your head, but I ain't going to lose to some cheap knock off who is too afraid to use assassination tech-"

"FULL COWL" as the heroic Deku powered up his powers causing lightning to crackle around him.

"-niques." Hibiki quickly dodged as Deku set a massive kick that caused the air to rush by her, she quickly began to move as Deku started launching attack after attack at her. "What that's not your quirk!"

"No it's not." said a voice above Hibiki.

She looked up and saw another Izuku standing on top of a building, this one however was wearing a UA PE uniform and for a moment she thought this was another fragment of Izuku's mind until she noticed this one was wearing the hanafuda earrings. "You, you're the subconscious from of Izuku, the main one."

"If you mean the one that was brought here after you did the whole mental quirk then yes," said Izuku as he looked around. "Not gonna lie I'm kind of surprised that this is what my mental space is like, is it usually like this?"

Hibiki quickly was dodging from the hero Deku, "It varies from person to person, now what the hell is up with this guy and why does he have a different quirk than you?"

Izuku scratched the back of his head as he watched his mental form attack Hibiki. "Oh well you see, my whole life I always imagined myself being a hero with a quirk similar to All Might."

Hibiki ducked under a flying kick from Deku, "A hero like All Might? That's right you didn't know you even had a quirk as a kid."

"Yep and when I learned about what All Might's quirk was, I guess you could say the mental image I had when I was younger got refined," said Izuku as he watched his old imagined superhero persona fight and put pressure on Hibiki. "You know I think I would have done alright if I got that quirk."

"Screw you!" yelled Hibiki as she moved and dodged Deku's attacks, 'His attacks are powerful and feel so real.' She then had an idea and took a deep breath and focused, dodging and moving as she would have out in the real world, while she dodged she looked around, 'I get it now, the way he thinks is grounded heavily in reality, the way he thinks is plain and simple. I first thought this place was a memory because of how normal everything was, usually, when you go into someone's mind their mental world is skewed by their dreams and desires, if I was in Monoma's head, chances are everything would be just about him and people would be worshipping him, of if I was in the purple perverts head it would be nothing but strip clubs and party girls.'

She quickly started to move as she quickly realized she needed to take this more seriously. "Finally getting serious are we," said Deku as he raised his hand as if he was ready to flick something at her. "Air Force."

Hibiki quickly dodged as a blast of air rushed past her, 'This is bad, I usually never have to fight someone in their own head, and when I do the physic was never this real and I usually could find something to exploit them, like there ego or a bad memory or mess with something they find precious.' Hibiki then stared down Deku the heroic version of Izuku. 'This mental version of Izuku literally has the power of All Might and yet it isn't god-like or put on a pedestal, and everyone back at the theme park was just happy and that's also why this one took me away from the theme park because he didn't want them to get hurt even in his own mind he is thinking of others before himself.'

"Wow, so cool." Izuku turned to see his child self who was watching the fight with childhood wonderment.

Hibiki looked up at to the roof and saw the child version of Izuku along with someone else. 'What, who's that?'

Izuku looked at his childhood self and noticed that there were scars visible even though the child's clothes. "I guess that's just a sign that I have some unresolved childhood trauma I need to deal with, but not right now." as he then noticed the third person on the roof. "You know I get the child version of me since my childhood wasn't the best and the hero me that represents my dreams and what I've always stood for, so those two belong here, but HOW ARE YOU HERE?!"

The man just gave a hearty laugh, "Even though I am long gone, no one can forget me so easily," as he strikes a pose. "It would take the world itself imploding for it to forget about me, Tengen Uzui the Sound Hashira."

Izuku blinked for a second, "Yep you are exactly how Yushiro sensei described you, but that still doesn't explain how you are here?"

Tengen gave him a serious look. "You're really questioning this after a dead man led you to a magical mountain where the last demon resides only to then teach you the Hinokami in your dreams."

Izuku had nothing for that, "Fair point, so what now?"

"Now we save my family," said Tengen as he looked down at Hibiki who was struggling against Deku.

~o~

Momo was running backwards as she kept dodging Ochaco's palm strikes, 'This is bad, I'm running out of lipids and she's isn't letting up, if this plan doesn't work then I'll have no choice but to surrender.'

Ochaco smiled as she saw Momo was on the ropes, 'Yes just a little bit more, if I can keep this up for just a bit longer I'll win.'

Momo suddenly stopped as she noticed she was getting close to the edge of the arena, "Now or never." as she dropped her bow staff and made a small bomb in her hand and quickly dropped it between them.

To Ochaco's surprise it wasn't just a small smoke bomb, no this bomb had enough blast to push her back a bit, 'What was that some sort of last-ditch attack? Did she underestimate the blast because that might have sent her out of bounds?' As the smoke cleared Ochaco saw that Momo was still in bounds with metal rods grown out of her legs into the ground, slightly burned but in bounds and holding a bazooka. "Oh no!" Yelped Ochaco as Momo fired the bazooka, Ochaco's mind froze for a split second as she thought she was going to get blasted away but what came out of the bazooka was a net, due to her hesitation Ochaco didn't have time to getaway.

The net wrapped around her pushing her to the ground, Ochaco quickly tried to untangle herself but Momo was already above her holding the bazooka right at her, "Please, just surrender."

Ochaco didn't want to but she couldn't see any way out of her situation, "I surrender," she grumbled reluctantly.

"WINNER MOMO YAOYOROZU!" announced Midnight, causing the crowd to go wild. While this happened Momo dropped the Bazooka and helped Ochaco out of the net. "Give it up for the two of them for that amazing match."

Momo then help Ochaco up, "That was a good fight," said Momo.

"Thanks," mumbled Ochaco, "But I really wanted to win."

"Well you almost did, that net was all I had left," admitted Momo.

"Wait really!" asked Ochaco wide-eyed. "Then the bazooka?"

"Was out of ammo."

"Ah!" Ochaco almost fell down as she realized she lost to a bluff.

"Hey don't make that face, you really did great," said Momo as she tried to comfort Ochaco, "Come let's get you to the medics." Momo helped her out of the arena.

~o~

"Ah, and I thought Ochaco was going to win," said Melissa as she felt bad her friend didn't make it.

"She fought well though," said Jack, "She should be proud of that fight."

"Oh yeah," said Ojiro in agreement, "You can really see that she's been training.

"Indeed," said Yushiro as he watched the tv recap before turning back to the students. "But now the fight is over so I believe the rest of you should return to your classmates, this is an infirmary, not a place to watch the tournament."

Before any of them could leave the doors to the infirmary slammed open as Aizawa, Present Mic and Shinso ran inside, surprising everyone inside.

"What the heck is going on?" asked Recovery girl. "Shouldn't you two be in the commentator booth?"

Nezu then popped out of Aizawa's scarf. "I'm afraid we have a situation here."

"May I have your attention please," said Midnight through the TV, "Can Shika Jika and Shoto Todoroki please make your way to the arena."

"You heard her folks it's time for the next round, the teenager of fire and ice versus the Deer berserker. Let's get this fight started." Came Present Mic's voice over the intercom, this made all the students do a double-take as they looked at the screen and then back at Present Mic.

"I don't suppose that's a recording?" asked Ten

"No, someone stole my voice." said Present Mic with crocodile tears. "How dare they fake my voice."

"We have bigger problems, Mic, the other teachers are all hypnotized by a bunch of rodents and are being held hostage," said Aizawa with annoyance to his friend.

The students looked at Shinso who nodded, "Yeah we're under attack, I've been running all around this place being chased by a-"

"Puppy!" said Eri as she pointed towards the door where the Capybara was sitting looking at them.

"Oh fuck not this thing again!"

"What the fuck is that?!" asked Ten.

"Not a puppy," said Ojiro as he used his tail to block Eri.

"Is that a Capybara?" asked Melissa bewildered.

"Be careful students, that capybara has a quirk," warned Nezu.

"Seriously?" said Jack as he coated his fist in ash.

BANG

A bullet hit the ground right in front of the capybara causing its eyes to go wide as it started to shake and turned towards a very pissed off Yae who was holding an unconscious ninja over her shoulder with a pistol in her hand, "Hey big rat, if you don't want to be dinner, I suggest you get out of here now." she said with a dangerous look in her eye.

This was no brainier for the capybara as he quickly dashed down the hall away from Yae, running right past Ochaco and Momo.

"What the?" said Ochaco as the capybara ran past them.

"Was that a Capybara?" asked Momo.

"Probably belongs to the sound bitch." said Yae.

"Sound bi- Yae why do you have a pant-less guy over your shoulder?" asked Ochaco.

"He's not pantless, he just ripped his pant legs off." as Yae dropped Woodwind to the ground. "This is a ninja I just fought, he's apparently Hibiki's cousin."

"Hibiki?" said the others as they looked at the ninja.

"Wait a minute, I know this guy, he's one of the ninjas we fought not too long ago," said Mic.

"Yae, tell us what happened," said Nezu.

"No time," said Yae as she checked her gun, "Hibiki did a bait and switch on me and took Izuku."

"WHAT!" said the group as they all looked at her in shock.

"Izuku tried being nice and talking her down instead she used some weird snake shadow quirk to grab him," said Yae. "I'm gonna need my rifle now."

Melissa felt a painful void in her chest, she knew damn well that Yae was no lair and that this was serious, for a brief moment she thought she may never see Izuku again which scared her more than she imagined. She ran forward and grabbed the unconscious man and started shaking him, "Wake up right now, tell me where Izuku is right now!"

"Sorry Melissa, he was pissing me off so I knocked his lights off." said Yae as she knew that she should have kept him awake.

"Melissa stop," said Yushiro putting a hand on the girl's shoulder, "Tomo will find him." as he looked at Tomo who already summoned Ragdoll's visor.

"Really?" asked Melissa as she stopped shaking the ninja, but when she stopped the Woodwinds head popped right off his body. "AAAAAHHHHH!"

"His head popped off!" yelled Eri.

"What the?" yelled Yae as she pointed her pistol at the rolling head.

"HAHAHAHAHA, did you really think I would let you just capture me like, you dumb brat." came Woodwind's voice from the detached head. "Next time we meet brat I ain't going to go easy on you." as the body of Woodwind shook for a moment as both arms raised in the air, flipping everyone off.

"FUCKER!" yelled Yae as she shot the body a few times, causing it to crack and splinter.

"It's made of wood." pointed out Ojiro.

"No shit, tail," said Yae who was visibly pissed.

Yushiro looked at Tomo who was already activating the quirk. "Tomo."

"Way ahead of you, sir. I'm locating Izuku and any other uninvited guest here at the tournament," said Tomo.

"Before we run off, we need to catch everyone up to speed," said Nezu hopping off of Aizawa. "And make sure our facts are straight."

~o~

Hibiki was getting fed up with having to dodge Deku's air blasts. 'This is bullshit, I haven't been able to land a good hit on him at all. It's clear here he has the advantage, I don't have my weapons or any backup in here, if I don't think of something quick I'm going to have to just pull out.'

"Oh, I know that face, thinking about running are we."

"Huh?" Hibiki then looked over to the side as she saw the strange man from before and quickly recognized him as the one who sent her flying, "You're the asshole that hit me earlier, you don't look like Izuku what are you some distant uncle of his that represents some part of him?"

"Ha, no well maybe I could be an uncle of his, the way he and his mother cry does remind me a lot of my wife." said Tengen as he thought it over before looking up at Izuku, "Maybe you and I are related. Could explain the crying and your wives."

Izuku almost fell off the roof as the world around them suddenly turned a light shade of red, "Wives! I don't have wives."

"Not yet you don't, but I believe in you." as he gave Izuku a thumbs up. "Do it with style."

"What is that supposed to mean?"

While this was happening Hibiki noticed that Deku had stopped moving and was a bright shade of red, "Embarrassment, I can work with that." as she devised a plan, "Hey Izuku who would you rather date Melissa or Yae?"

Izuku's eyes went wide as his entire body turned red, "Wawawawhat!? What are you talking about?" he muttered.

Hibiki moved quickly landing a solid hit against Deku by punching him in the face, Deku quickly recovered by rolling over back onto his feet while holding his nose, "Hey that was a cheap shot!"

"That was payback for all those air blasts," said Hibiki as she cracked her knuckles "And now time to pay you for making me run around like a monkey. Izuku, out of all the girls in our school who do you think has the best butt?" Izuku's face flushed red as he started muttering that he had never seen anything like that before. 'He's too easy and too pure for this.'

"What are you doing?" asked Tengen stopping her from attacking. "Why are you fighting him?"

"Ah," Hibiki gave him a confused look for a second before realizing he had a good question, "What a minute why am I fighting you, I'm here for Izuku's memories not for her to pick a fight with one of his fragments. Goddamn it, I keep wasting time with this nonsense. I should have gotten the info for the family by now, grandpa is going to kill me for screwing around."

"Why?"

Hibiki gave him a glare, "Are you kidding me that's the whole reason I'm here, that's the whole reason I kidnapped this moron, so I could get the info for the family, I was even told where the memories are stored and I'm still just screwing off."

"But didn't you have fun?" asked the child Izuku.

Hibiki glared angrily at the child, "That doesn't matter, having fun doesn't matter, what matters is getting the job done."

"But do you even want to do the job?" asked Deku. "You keep saying this is for the family but is that what you want?"

Hibiki was getting pissed angrier than she had been in a while. "That doesn't matter, what I want doesn't matter, what matters is protecting the family and making sure that our secrets are secure."

Tengan sighed, "How pathetic, has my family fallen so low that the one who should be the next head of the family is nothing more than a mindless puppet."

Hibiki gave him a death glare, "Excuse...me? WHAT!"

"You have the ability to control animals and use their powers and all you can do is follow orders from those who probably don't give a damn about you." Hibiki was now seeing red as her anger was reaching a boiling point, "Oh don't give me that look, any family that is willing to let a child kill at an early age, doesn't actually care for them, they are just looking for another tool to use."

That was the last straw for her, "I'm going to FUC-"

~o~

Hibiki blinked for a second as she realized she was back in the unused confection stand with Izuku standing in front of her still trapped in his own mind. "What?" she then looked on her shoulder as she saw one of the mind squirrels standing on her shoulder, "Why did you pull me out?" The squirrel pointed to the door where she saw non-other than Katsuki Bakugo. "Bakugo?!"

The explosion boy looked around at Hibiki then back to Izuku who was still trapped in his own mind by the squirrel on his head, "What the fuck is going on here?!"

Hibiki thought for a moment before smiling, "Well well well, the perfect chisel to break this mind has just arrived."

"The fuc-" before Katsuki could continue one of Hibiki's snakes dropped from above quickly biting Katsuki on the arm, "AH a fucking snake." As he ripped it off his arm and was about to blow it up but his body stopped listening to him, "Venom?" With the last bit of strength, Katsuki used his other hand to blow the top part of the snake bite off of his arm. "Shit!" he growled before glaring at Hibiki. "You bitch!"

"Oh don't worry that venom is non-lethal so you won't die," said Hibiki with a smile as she saw the wound, "Impressive with a precision blast like that you probably will be upon your feet in an hour, we should be done by then." as she placed a squirrel on his head.

~o~

"What the where did she go?" asked Izuku as he looked around his mental cityscape, "I'm still here so that squirrel's quirk must still be activated." He took a moment to look at a few of the stores on the street, "This place is almost exactly like my old neighbourhood but these stores don't seem right. Katana Central, Heroes are Us, Katsudon Delight. Is it because these are all subjects I enjoy or is it just filler because I don't remember the stores that were here?" Suddenly without warning the ground started shaking as he saw cracks suddenly appear in the sky and the buildings started to crack. "What...what is this...why am I scared?" Down the street Izuku saw an explosion in the distance, "That must be the cause." Izuku took a deep breath and used the Breath of Lightning to run to the explosion, when he got there he was surprised at who was there, "BAKUGO!"

Bakugo turned to Izuku, "Deku, where the fuck are we," the ground started to shake even more, "And why the fuck is the ground starting to shake?"

"Kaachan?"

"Huh?" Bakugo turned to see the child Izuku looking at him with tears in his eyes. "What the hell is this?"

"This my friend," said Hibiki from up above on the roof in just her PE uniform, "Is what a mental breakdown looks like."

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A/N: Hello everyone long time no see, I have been busy with this and a lot of other projects, also yes there are two chapters ready and available on my P~A~T~R~E~O~N, I'll try and upload more later on, my life has just been crazy lately.

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