Death

by tmb1112

Death is a Quirk that can only kill. A perfect Quirk for a villain, but what if the boy who manifested that power just wanted to be a hero? Enrolling in U.A. might not be enough when all your Quirk can do is kill people. Follow Zach Sazaki from his first day in Class A on a story that spans years, as he learns to be a hero, finds out more about his Quirk, and too much to summarize!

61. Chapter 61

Chapter 61:

In the middle of Musutafu, a few hundred people standing on an elevated path of the city with escalators to their lefts and train lines above their heads were all staring off the side of that bridge and towards a huge screen on the side of a skyscraper. People in the street down below, inside the windows of buildings on their sides, and who got out of their cars on the road behind them were all staring towards that screen or one of the others around the most central part of the city. An explosion just went off at the Sports Festival below the cracked big screen the camera televising the event had been pointed at, and screams were coming out of the tv as the entire stadium fell into chaos and the reporters tried to keep calm as they shouted what they saw going on.

"What's happening?"

"Right in the middle of the Sports Festival?"

"Is Lifebringer a villain in…"

"All those heroes are…"

"Why can't they do anything…"

"Isn't this supposed to be the safest…"

"The security should have…"

"AHHHH!"

All the nervous and scared people staring at the screen down on the street closest to that building spun their heads to the left, and then the screams came from a lot closer. The hundred or so people watching from up the escalators on the bridge crossing above looked towards these people who started scrambling backwards and falling over each other. They spun and started sprinting the other way down the street, only for a bunch of them to scream and try to cut short only to be pushed down or ran over by others.

They started scattering, into the buildings on the sides of the road or towards the escalators where the people at the top started backing away from as they saw two figures marching down the street from the direction all those others looked down first.

Two men who just appeared on the road coming out of a big black portal marched forward. Jin Bubaigawa, or the villain known as Twice, walked forward in a black costume with a white line splitting it down the middle and a white mask covering the top of his head. He saw down the road another black portal close after the truck drove through it trailed by a group of five villains who started chasing civilians scattering away from them. "Alright big guy!" Twice called out, spinning to the monster of a man next to him who was walking forward on both feet, his huge thick truck swinging in front of his already bulked body. "Shigaraki told you to ignore me! So knock down as many buildings as you can! So sad- DO IT!"

Ganeshi dropped down on his front legs, leaving holes in the street as his feet slammed down.

"Over there!" A hero shouted, making Twice spin around. The Buster Hero, Air Jet, flew down the road and pointed his arm cannon down towards Twice who he recognized immediately as one of the most wanted men in the country. He looked a little farther at the beast marching forward on all fours towards the side of the street, and he recognized that trunk too and thought, Ganeshi. Mt. Lady claimed his strength was greater than hers. "I need backup over on-" His cannon that was charging pulled to the side, but he was not fast enough to fully dodge the razor wire Twice threw up at him. He maneuvered back with his jetpack, only for a scream from a citizen to alert him that he needed to spin around.

Two flying villains, one with the wings of a bat and the other who just leapt off the side of a building and spread his arms to glide over, rose up machine guns and started firing at Air Jet while they were still at a distance. Air Jet fired his jetpack faster to avoid them, but he yelled out as a few bullets slammed into his arm, leg, and one hit him in the jetpack. He started spinning out through the air and tried directing himself at least towards Twice, while shouting out through the pain to other heroes his helmet had a line connected to. "On forty-second and Main there are villains including the most wanted-"

"Thirty-fourth and Kaigo avenue we have over ten villains- ahh!"

"They're everywhere!"

Air Jet's eyes were widening, but he hit the ground and his mind blanked form all the pain for a few seconds. When he opened his eyes, he was lying on his side and looking towards Twice who he tried raising his cannon arm to fire at, only to wince in pain as the arm that was shot had his cannon at the end of it. "Take it down!" Twice yelled, and Air Jet stared in horror across the street as Ganeshi's trunk swept through the front of the building. The trunk extended as it whipped across the front of Ganeshi's body, the dark purplish-black monster smashing down all the supports on this side through from corner to corner.

Screams rang out from the entire building as it started to shake, but the structural integrity was too good for that to be all that was needed. Ganeshi lifted up on his back legs, and Twice leapt away with wide eyes yelling out, "Don't- TEAR IT DOWN!" Ganeshi paused and looked slowly towards him with a dull look on his face, and Twice clenched his hands at his sides before pointing back and yelling, "Do IT!" Ganeshi nodded and reached up, grabbed the building above where he broke the supports, and he pulled the already wobbly building towards himself.

Air Jet looked up towards all the windows with scared people in them. He started struggling to roll himself over to try and stand, and he managed to get off his side and to his stomach at least. He pushed his not-shot arm down on the floor to try and get up, and a desk slammed into the ground on his right side twenty feet, followed by a bunch of broken glass. He heard the screams getting louder, dozens more windows shattering, and Air Jet looked up to see a building tilted towards him with people and furniture falling out of all the windows. He never had to worry about it collapsing on him though, as the rain of glass that fell on him in the next two seconds shredded through him before the skyscraper ever fell.

The people behind Air Jet at the top of the more elevated section stopped screaming for their hero as he was impaled by glass and then smashed by a falling desk. They turned and started running, not wanting to still be nearby when the rest of that building fell. They sprinted down a road, and a few people pulled out their Quirks: hopping forward just a bit faster than others, hardening or strengthening their bodies in case glass fell at them, lifting arms and creating forcefields at the end of them to protect from incoming attacks. The people running and even the ones using their Quirks all stopped though as a pickup truck spun by the next intersection with a loud screech, its wheels spinning it around so the front was facing them. There were guys on the back of it with machine guns, all of them villains in costumes, one of whom jumped up on the top of the cabin of the truck and put both hands to his mouth.

The villain pulled his body back and a bright orange light shone from his throat, then he snapped his body forward as the wheels of the truck started screeching again and tearing black lines on the pavement under them. "FIRE BALL!" A huge ball of fire flew towards the civilians, and one scared woman holding up her arms with circular pink forcefields at the end of them ran forward while everyone else spun and ran away. The others looked back as the woman yelled she would help, putting her forcefields in the way. The fireball exploded against them, and the flames wrapped around the outside of the forcefields and still blasted past her, as well as wrapping back to her arms and body so she screamed out in agony as she was surrounded in fire.

The group who spun away sprinted as fast as they could from the truck, and then a lot of them screamed and lifted their heads only to cross their arms and yell in absolute horror as the shadow that fell over them was what they feared it was. The skyscraper collapsing slammed down on the elevated section of roads, and the whole street and bridge area blew apart with the sides of the road on either side splitting up. The truck speeding after those people slammed to a stop, but the road beneath it still pushed up hard and sent the truck flying towards the building that blew up a huge amount of dust and smoke as it hit down. The truck slammed down into the building's rubble with villains screaming and jumping from it, then a fireball erupted from the smoke. There was no one around to put it out as the wreckage from that building started catching fire, and it spread as fast as it was spreading across the city.

"Nice Ganeshi! On to the next one!" Twice yelled with a cheer, while a hulking mass moved through the rubble and pushed right out without any sign of injury. Twice kept staring at the building's rubble where the screams had stopped coming from after it fully hit the ground and collapsed. The Nomus will keep Endeavor out of the city, and we've gotta destroy it before heroes arrive from around the country! To save these poor, poor people. "Oh the horror," Twice said, then turned from that building and faced some heroes who reached the street only to stare towards the building they destroyed in horror.

"Fiend!"

"Twice!"

"Ganeshi!"

Twice grabbed Ganeshi's side as the beast was walking by him, and another Ganeshi emerged from the original's body. "Alright!" Twice said while the heroes running his way slowed down at the sight of that second monster appearing. "New Ganeshi! Let's kill some heroes!" Twice started running forward at the heroes coming for them, while Ganeshi went for the next skyscraper down, and Ganeshi's clone Twice created with his Doubling Quirk started storming forward after him with each step shaking the ground. Twice pulled out his sharpened measuring tape and slashed it forward at the slowest to react of the heroes, cutting across his side and making blood splash out, and Twice yelled as he did this, "Save the city!"

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The commentators' box at the Sports Festival exploded. A fireball inside made all the windows shatter outwards, and everyone in the stadium spun towards it in shock and horror. "Aizawa sensei!" Class A shouted, their attentions all snapping that way or just down if they had been looking at the screen above that box anyway. When they looked towards the box though, they saw something that made them feel small senses of relief as Present Mic was dangling from the flaming room by a bunch of cloths wrapped around him. Aizawa was dropping out of that room too, but he landed down in the audience and recovered fast despite some of his black uniform getting burnt off.

How is he doing this? Aizawa thought while snapping his gaze away from the flaming box. He spun and looked towards the stage, where he saw another portal appear as he had dropped. He thought back ten seconds to when he and Mic had looked behind them to see a black portal opened in their commentator booth. Both of them immediately prepared to attack, but he only thing that came through the portal was a hand holding a round device with spikes sticking out of it that the person who stuck it through dropped. The sphere's spikes started pushing out, then the whole ball lit up red and Aizawa reacted throwing Mic back at the window while jumping back at it himself.

Zach thought something similar to Aizawa as he stared at the portal in front of him in terror. He can't. Is this all so premeditated- Zach's eyes darted up and around the top of the stadium, and more people who looked back in shock seeing the portal on the stage started spinning their heads too to look around the top of the bleachers. At the top of the Sports Festival stadium, black portals appeared five at a time and men and women in dark costumes stepped out of them onto the topmost parts of the bleachers, encircling the entire arena. There are too many! Kurogiri can't- unless, is it possible, if he shot up with Trigger? For something like this he had to! There are so many villains though! Is this the whole League, or- "We wouldn't join up with Shigaraki's army, and he killed Rage-Rider and Hugo…" Shatterer!

A bunch of heroes looking up towards the top of the stadium behind them were getting into fighting stances. They lifted up their arms, floated off the ground or used special gear to lift them off, and all of them were wearing their hero uniforms so they reacted fast as the Sports Festival was attacked. Portals opened up in the middle of groups of heroes though, and arms reached out and dropped bombs between them.

BOOM! BOOM BOOM BOOM!

Zach stared at the portal in front of him, as a man walked out like others had around the top of the stadium. Those other portals were opening up one by one or in small clusters and then closing, but this portal had stayed open since appearing in front of Zach, when he had heard a very familiar voice come out of it. A man stepped through the portal in front of Zach, then four other portals opened up on the stage near him which made Shoji and Mother Russia spin around as they had solely focused on the man who appeared before Zach.

Bakugo was spinning his head around as explosions started going off all over the stands, and the entire stadium was in panic, but he spotted the villain who just stepped out of that portal in front of Zach. Damn it! Bakugo thought, and he turned to Uraraka who stared back with wide eyes at the look on Bakugo's face.

Over in the student hero sections, portals opened up in the middles of them, and arms reached through and dropped small spiky steel balls that glowed red after a second. Ibara Shiozaki's long hair vines shot over and wrapped around the bomb, while one box over Eijiro Kirishima dove on top of it while hardening his entire body as hard as he could in a single instant. Explosions went off, and Tetsutetsu turned to steel and got between his class and Shiozaki's vines in case they could not hold the bomb, though her vines did well at containing the whole blast, unlike Kirishima's method.

Kirishima got blown up in the air by the force of the blast, while the ground beneath where he had been curled over it collapsed and the fireball exploded mainly downwards as Kirishima had been surrounding it on the other sides when it went off. Sero swung his elbows up and pulled Kirishima back down, and everyone in the class started yelling at each other at the same time.

"What do we do?!"

"The stadium's under attack!"

"Look at the top of the bleachers!"

"Look at the stage!"

"Zach!" Yaoyorozu leaned forward and shouted it, but there was no chance of the boy down at the arena to hear her over the screams of thousands and explosions going off around them.

Izuku Midoriya spun his head back and forth as he stood at the edge of their spectating box. I have to stop this! I have All Might's power- I need to stop this now… All Might, Midoriya's head lifted, and he looked across the stadium towards the teacher section where the teachers were scattering from under the principal's strict orders. All Might, Midoriya thought again, his heart rate speeding up more as he thought about a prophecy he had heard Sir Nighteye had during his internship in the fall. This is, right in that time range. He's, the other heroes are leaving him- even though he's always been one of the League's targets! "All Might," Midoriya whispered, and he bent his knees, Full Cowling filling his body. They're going for him!

"Midoriya!"

"Everyone!" Iida shouted, getting the class to spin towards their class representative standing near the wall where Itsuka Kendo had just dropped her head back down on the other side of. A steel fist smashed that wall down in the middle, and Iida kept shouting to both classes as loud as he could, "We are all heroes! The League of Villains is attacking, so act like heroes and stop the villains! Help evacuate civilians! And assist our teachers and fellow heroes to the best of your abilities!"

Midoriya leapt off the box and shot through the air so fast that a wind slammed into some of his classmates who were shocked at how little hesitation there was there, even though Midoriya was ready to jump before Iida was even midway through his speech. Midoriya shot high up in the air, his eyes darting down and around the stadium at all the people in need of help. Then his breath caught in his throat, as he saw something in his peripheral vision that made his blood run cold. Midoriya turned his head at the top of his arc after jumping high over the stadium, and he stared towards Musutafu City. Mom, Midoriya thought, at the sight of black pillars of smoke rising from a city where he could see a tall skyscraper falling from an already altered skyline.

Midoriya's head snapped back forward and he thought, One thing at a time. There are heroes all over. They'll protect her. All Might is going to die though. Sir Nighteye saw it! Midoriya looked down and he kicked his legs behind him towards where he saw All Might sitting earlier, where most of the teachers had been spectating from. As he shot over the middle of the stadium, his eyes glanced at the ring where Zach was standing in front of a villain, while four other villains had appeared there around him with Shoji and Mother Russia. Midoriya's eyes started getting wet again as he looked down there, thinking about Zach in that room where his arms were held out to the sides by rusty hooks, where he had still held back even in that far-gone state from saying anything secret about his Quirk.

The videos around the arena cut off, and on every screen appeared a different image. Different cameras around Musutafu, showing the city on fire to the people who had not realized yet that the Sports Festival was not the only place under attack. On the stage, Zach kept staring at the man in front of him even as the scenes of a flaming and villain-infested city covered the big screens at the top of the bleachers. "It's time for you to come back," the man in front of Zach said, glaring through the white bandanna around his eyes at the black haired boy in front of him. He had green skin, long pinkish-purple hair spiked up and pushed back over the top of his head, a red scarf around his neck with the tails flapping behind him, and he held a long black hilt in his right hand.

Zach's eyes only lingered on the blade for a moment as he noticed the differences in the villain's huge weapon, though it was mainly the same it looked like there were even more sharp blades attached to his huge sword now. The boy's eyes just looked straight into the man who looked a bit like an iguana's. "Spinner," Zach said. His terrified look at everything that had been happening around him, the one of despair and dread that everyone had seen those things during the six weeks he would have liked to never hear about again, those looks disappeared from his face. Zach's expression got oddly calm for both Spinner and the four other villains who had appeared around the stage. "What happened to her?" Zach asked, and he bit down on his bottom lip, while Spinner's eyes opened huge and he bit down hard too while gripping the sword he was holding tighter.

"Spinner!" Mother Russia shouted, pulling her elbows down at her sides. "One of the world's most wanted right in front of me," her muscles tightened and flexed visibly through her costume. "I won't let you get…" her voice trailed off, and she kept talking only to get confused as no sound was coming out of her mouth.

Shoji spun towards his teacher from the villain he had been locking eyes with, then he spun back and jumped away while lifting his arms as the crazy woman charged at him. She had long dark-purple hair and a third eye on her forehead between some long bangs. That eye started glowing red as she charged Shoji, and he dove to the side right as the beam fired at him. Then the woman lifted the katana she was charging forward with wildly, and Shoji had to scramble up and jump backwards as she slashed at him again. He crossed his arms as her sword was too close, and blood splashed from his arms, then he yelled out in pain as a red beam shot out of her eye again and into his bloody arms.

Mother Russia spun to the student and shouted something mutely at him, but as she started running forward, she did not feel the ground beneath her feet. She spun her head to the left as she saw a strange man with a white cloth covering his face, a white robe on his whole body with a black eye symbol in the center of it, and golden chains around his neck dangling over his chest. The robed man had his right hand held up at her with a strange orange glow around it. That glow turned blue next, and Mother Russia shouted again while she ran towards the villain who was wiping her senses. Her voice came out halfway through as she shouted, but she still did not feel her own footsteps, and she did not know that her voice came out considering she was unable to hear anything anymore.

Then she flew off. She did not lift off the ground using her Quirk and fly away, she just suddenly flew off at sixty miles per hour and slammed into a wall off the side of the stage with no warning. Another of the four figures who had appeared there with Spinner and just sent Mother Russia flying stayed silent while the others around him looked his way nervously, something Shoji caught and made him even more afraid as he no longer had a Pro Hero's help while surrounded by these villains.

Up in the stands, Snipe spun his head and thought, There! A portal opened in a section he was focusing on because of the lack of damage near it. He fired half a dozen times in rapid succession, and a villain fell out of the portal with his bomb rolling out of his fingers. "GET AWAY!" Snipe shouted towards that area, as he was not fast enough to shoot through the portal before the man stuck his arm out. Bomber fell out of the portal right on top of his bomb, and people around him screamed and tried sprinting away only for the bomb to go off and blow many of them and the villain who had been creating those weapons apart.

Snipe stared over in horror, and then his head snapped back with blood splashing out the back of it as well as out the back of his chest and shoulders. Down on the stage, a man with thin slits for eyes lowered his right hand that had the index and middle fingers of connected together in a long barrel with his thumb looking like a Red Dot Sight with crosshairs in the middle of it. "Damn it," the shooter said while lowering that hand. He turned to the woman with the third eye and the guy in the white robe, "Bomber's dead."

"It's fine, it's fine," the younger woman in her mid-twenties said to her comrade. Tricksie smirked crazily and then spun around while holding her arms out to the sides, blood dripping from her katana she held straight out to her right. "He did a great job already!" All the other villains who had appeared around the audience moved down into the chaos, and battles started between them and pro heroes. There were an excessive amount of heroes in the audience, but there were also a lot of civilians and media too, and the pros had to worry about protecting, saving, and evacuating them while also defeating and capturing the villains. What made it worse though, was the fact that several of the villains pulled out needles as they sprinted down at pros or leapt off of higher parts of the bleachers, and they shot up with Trigger that made them smirk wider, as their powers increased as well as their rage.

"DIE HEROES!"

"RAAHAHAHA!"

"EAT LEAD MOTHERFUCKERS!"

"Tell me Spinner!" Zach yelled at the man in front of him, reaching his left hand over and pulling off the thicker glove over his right in a single movement. I can't use it! After everyone just saw that, if I turn into a monster now in front of them all. If I go Nightmare. The whole place is on fire! People are dying! WHAT HAPPENED TO HER?! He had sweat all over his face and he was in as much panic as everyone in this crazy situation, but he yelled at the villain before him, "Tell me!"

"Zach!" a voice shouted behind him, and Zach turned his head to the side to see Shoji running up behind him and then spinning so they were back to back. Shoji's arms were burned and had a lot of blood on them, but the woman who had fired a beam into him was looking in surprise at the muscular teen who managed to stand again after being hit straight-on by her Quirk. She started laughing though, her head twitching and her katana pointing back Shoji's way slowly in a way that unnerved the teen who had been unable to avoid her at all. "We need to stop them," Shoji said, and Zach's eyes shot open wide.

"Shoji," Zach whispered. "I, I didn't mean-"

"I don't think you did," Shoji replied, cutting off Zach before he could finish. "That was just how you escaped. I know it." Zach's eyes shot open wide, as there was no doubt in Shoji's voice at all. "You're a hero Zach, let's beat these vill-" Shoji's feet lifted off the ground and he was thrown high up into the air.

Zach stared behind him with his eyes getting much wider in horror. He heard Spinner behind him, "Why don't you just come with us? You can't stay here anymore." Spinner's voice did not have much conviction in it, as his eyes were lifted too and he was staring at the tall boy who was thrown high up in the air and started coming down. "I won't say we won't kill you, but it won't be public at least. It would be better for us if you died somewhere quiet with no one watching."

Shoji did not fall. He plummeted much faster than gravity should work, and Zach stared behind him with his mouth opening wide and his whole face shaking in terror. Shoji hit the ground and made a crater in the stage at the speed at which he hit. "Shoji?" Zach whispered after a second while dust rose up around where Shoji collided. He stared down at the unmoving form on the floor, and his arms fell limp at his own sides. Zach glanced around at the villains near him, then took a step towards his friend.

"You really think we'd let you?" Spinner asked, his eyes narrowing behind his mask.

Zach started shaking more, his head lifting and his eyes staring blankly out into the stands. He stared at villains fighting heroes, and other heroes trying to evacuate others in the bleachers while flames spread around them. People were in a panic to get out of there, but many of them stopped running as they saw there was no place to escape to. The screens around the top of the stadium showed Musutafu in flames, towering buildings that had been in the skyline for all their lives falling one by one like they were as easy to topple as dominos. Everyone was screaming, the whole stadium was in chaos, and Zach thought, I can't save Shoji in this madness.

He lowered his gaze back down to the boy whose body was not moving an inch as he lay flat inside a hole on the arena. He had hit down so hard that over the sound of the thud of his body hitting the floor, Zach had heard cracks too. He could see the blood seeping out below the front of Shoji's face-down body and making a puddle. There are so many people dying right now, Zach thought, his hands shaking at his sides and his eyes filling with water. How many hundreds are being killed right now, thousands even? And I can't even save, a single, one… Zach gasped but he could not breathe, and his breath inhaled in four staggered breaths as tears started falling from his eyes. He dropped to his knees, and he said in a hoarse voice, "I haven't changed at all."

Zach brought his left hand up to his face, then he snapped his head back and screamed with tears covering it, "Not a single thing has changed!" On all sides of him were villains, and in front of him lay someone he cared about, dead. "I just have to watch over, and over, and over as they die right in front of me!" He snapped his eyes open and looked at Shoji again, then he brought his sobbing head down and screamed as he slammed both fists into the floor. "Another! Because of… It would have been better if I was never born!" Tears fell from his face to the floor, and he screamed, "I wish I was never born!"

"Don't give up, Lifebringer!" Zach's eyes shot open wide and he stared at the floor between his fists in shock.

Spinner lifted his head and looked up over Zach's bent body, then his eyes bulged at a voice screaming directly on his side, "DIE!" Spinner spun and rose his sword, the other four villains looked towards their invasion team leader, and they watched as an explosion blew Spinner away. The boy who came spinning in flipped himself and landed down where Spinner just stood, and Katsuki Bakugo snapped his head towards the four villains, three of whom spun to follow Spinner's flight through the air. The fourth had a darker appearance around him and just glared at Bakugo through cold, black eyes that had small yellow pupils in the centers.

Bakugo stared straight at that dark villain wearing all black over his large muscular body. He had a black mask on over his face with a horizontal slit open for his eyes and vertical slits over his mouth that his dark lips showed behind. The villain's arms were down at his side, but Bakugo thought he was ten times more dangerous than anyone on the stage after what he had just seen while looking down here. Bakugo's wrists hurt, and he heard a voice in his head, "To use suck attacks so frequently in a competition against your own classmates… It is not just reckless. It is beyond foolish. These injuries you sustain may be long term, and what if they hinder your ability in a fight against villains?" Bakugo ground his teeth furiously at Recovery Girl's voice echoing in his head from not much earlier, then he snapped in a pissed-off voice, "Get up."

Bakugo shot forward, and Zach lifted his head to see Bakugo flying over him straight at the villains. The villains looked ready for him, but then a voice shouted from above them all, "Don't think like that Zach!" Kirishima shouted down towards his friend who looked up at the boy with spiky red hair falling from the air. Kirishima had heard what Zach just shouted, and he had an angry look on his face and hardened his body as he dropped. The guy in the white robe jumped backwards as Kirishima dropped towards him, but Kirishima's collision with the floor broke apart the arena surface and send some debris flying out to the sides at all the different enemies.

The man with a sniper on his right hand backed up fast with jets coming out of the front of his armored boots. He shot backwards, then he jumped and did a flip away while the woman with the third eye yelled out as a piece of debris slammed into her side. "No one blames you!" Yaoyorozu yelled as she flew down with a jetpack on her back, and she fired before the villain who winced and reached at her side could look up at her. The sticky grappling hook that Yaoyorozu shot down slammed into the woman's chest, and the villain looked down at it in confusion as all it did was push against her a little. Then Yaoyorozu pressed a button on the side of the gun, and the hook electrified and the villain screeched before falling backwards with smoke coming off her body.

"Damn it," Spinner growled as he got up, burns on his arms despite blocking with his thick sword from Bakugo's explosion. "Kill them all!" Spinner called out.

Yaoyorozu landed in front of Zach on his left side, a few feet away from another boy lying motionless in a crater on the stage. "Look closely at the people in the audience Zach," Momo told him as he looked up at her back with wide eyes. "We don't blame you for those things you said," he lifted his gaze past her, in the direction of where he heard his hero name shouted before.

"Lifebringer!" The girl shouted again, and Zach's already huge eyes started shaking at the sight of her. She stood down near the bottom of the stands while people panicked and huddled together behind her with heroes higher up fighting against villains attacking all over. Zach stared at this girl, only just graduated from high school where she had been the valedictorian. Zach's breath caught in his throat as he saw her, the girl he barely even remembered saving, the second person he saved after returning from that torture. After he had supposedly given up on being Lifebringer… "Don't lose!" She yelled towards him, and Zach's shaking hands tightened into the floor beneath him.

"Guys," Zach said, pushing his hands down below him and pulling his legs up to get on his feet. Kirishima got out of his crater, Yaoyorozu glanced back over her shoulder, and Bakugo listened even as he stood ten feet in front of a bone-chilling villain who did not flinch from the explosion Bakugo just blasted at him. The man did not even move back or show any sign that he had been hit by it, and Bakugo kept grinning even as he felt unsure and nervous about the figure before him. "Give me as much time as you can," Zach said, and he ran forward and dropped down at Shoji's side. He rolled the larger boy over, and he checked Shoji's pulse just to be careful, though from the look of the front of his classmate's body, there was no need for it.

"You really think we'd let you?" The man in a white robe said from behind the cloth covering his face.

Kirishima spun to face the guy in an all-white creepy outfit with a black eye symbol on the robe's chest, and he crossed his arms with a loud clank as they hardened into Unbreakable. "You really think we'd let you stop him?" Kirishima snarled, his eyes narrowing and his expression getting fierce at he glared at his opponent.

"It is unfair," the dark man in front of Bakugo said, his voice lower than any of his comrades and sounding a bit sad as he said that. "That you should have to die so young. All humans must die though," he continued and he rose his right hand for the first time. Bakugo got pulled off his feet towards the villain's hand, and the teen swung his arms in front of him and fired off an explosion at the villain, as well as one to his front right. He pushed himself off the path for the man's hand, and he stopped flying towards the guy too with his explosions pushing him back the other way without a struggle.

Bakugo actually flew much faster the other way than he was trying with just his explosions though, and his eyes shot open huge as he just kept flying towards the stands at a high speed. Bakugo blasted explosions in front of him to try and change his trajectory again, but this time he just yelled out as he was forced against the force of his explosion and straight into the blast himself.

Zach got a nervous look on his face and stopped screaming for a second while pressing his right hand on Shoji's chest. His whole right arm was black and he was trying to hold back his yells of pain, but he stared up towards the villain who just sent Bakugo flying with not so much as a word. The large man then turned back to Zach, a dark look on his face and no emotion in his cold black eyes. He started pointing a hand towards Zach, when a yell on Zach's right came out, "RECIPROBURST!" Zach did not even see the person fly by him, but suddenly Iida was at the side of where that large villain was just standing, his leg finishing a kick that sent the enemy off his feet and rolling across the stage. That huge man flipped himself over after rolling far though, and his loose black cloak around his back flapped off of him from the kick that released it. He got back up on his feet with his tight black costume beneath showing now, revealing the bulkiest and most muscular figure many of them had ever seen before in their lives.

"Hold on Zach!" Iida shouted as Zach let out another scream of pain even trying to focus on something else while saving Shoji. "We'll protect you!" Iida jumped backwards to guard Zach as his Engines cooled down on his calves, and a girl flew over his head holding up two chairs from the stands that had been blown off where they were originally.

"Release!" Uraraka called out, after throwing each of the chairs down at that large villain.

Another of the villains pointed his hands up at Uraraka, only for his head to spin the other way and he brought his arms down fast. He fired at the girl running towards him, but she rose up a shield on her right arm that was black and stopped his bullets in their tracks. Yaoyorozu still had to stop at the force of those gunshots into her light but bulletproof shield, and then she rose her grappling gun on the other side of the shield to fire towards the villain. The gun shattered and Yaoyorozu yelled out while stumbling backwards, blood splashing from her left hand. She crouched to hide more behind the shield, then she heard the villain on the other side of her protective cover say, "You think I'd fall for the same thing that took out Tricksie? We're not just random street thugs you children are used to. Every villain here is a killer, and I've got dozens under my belt. Another since I got here."

Yaoyorozu's eyes widened a bit, and then her face filled with horror as the man said, "Thought a Pro Hero who uses guns like Snipe'd be able to see that coming."

Kirishima spun around as he heard that amplified in his ears twenty times louder than the man actually said it. He was grabbing at his ears trying to stop the pounding noises all around him, then he spun towards the guy in the white robe who swung a golden staff that came out from under the robe that had even covered his arms until now. Kirishima kept his Hardening up though, and the metal pole that slammed into him stopped and did not cause the boy any damage. "I'm going to-" Kirishima had to stop talking as his own voice was making his ears bleed as it filled his entire head so loud he couldn't think. He rose his fists and charged the villain in front of him who jumped backwards, but was not very fast and got the front of his robe slashed through by the teenager with red hair.

"Kirishima, switch," Uraraka called down towards her classmate. "Help Yaoyorozu-"

"Uraraka-kun!" Iida tackled Uraraka aside, and a bullet flew through his right arm as he pushed her.

Yaoyorozu ran forward with her bulletproof shield in front of her, and she took a deep breath but tossed up over the top of her shield before getting too close to the villain who had been able to take his attention off her because of her inaction. The flash grenade went off, and Yaoyorozu lifted her bloody left hand where the metal shards of her shattered grappling gun had slashed up her palm and a few fingers. She had a new grappling gun in it lifted with the same design as the last one, but when she moved the shield she saw the villain before her open his eyes. "Think we weren't watching?" He asked smugly, pointing his ring fingers on both hands at Yaoyorozu who saw each of them were split at the fingertips into six different holes.

BANG BANG The villain's arms snapped up as he fired, then loud thuds sounded one after the other as Yaoyorozu tried pulling her shield back fast. Kirishima skid back into her, wincing in pain as he had not gone Unbreakable, and his regular hardening could not take the two six-shots from the villain from that close a distance. Some blood ran down the left side of Kirishima's forehead, and his uniform ripped apart at his chest area and caused some blood to trickle down there too.

The villain in the white robe who Kirishima ran off from stopped chasing his prey as Uraraka turned to face him. She had asked if Iida was alright, but there was no time to see as Iida's Engines had cooled enough for him to charge the larger villain who Bakugo was flying back through the air at too. Zach screamed behind and between them all, and then out of the sky dropped a woman in an all-red uniform who slammed a fist for the back of the largest villain's back. As her fist was flying down though, a knife zipped at her face and she barely pulled back far enough, getting her left cheek slashed instead of impaled like the knife-thrower intended.

Spinner glared towards Mother Russia and he snarled, "You fake!" He rose up his huge combined sword and sprinted forward on the stage he got back up on, and he yelled, "Inhuman! Take her out first!"

The larger villain with dark eyes nodded once, and he turned his head and looked up at the woman who had pulled back instead of continuing down to punch him. She had arrived before the two teenagers racing at her, and Iida and Bakugo both dropped their jaws as Mother Russia slammed into the big screen over the east side of the bleachers. She blasted through the screen and kept flying away before arcing down out of the sky in the distance, and Inhuman never lifted a finger.

Iida slowed in hesitation, but Bakugo kept flying forward with another explosion behind him. He brought his hands forward while the large villain spun back towards him, and the man jumped to his left fifteen feet up in the air. Bakugo's eyes narrowed as Inhuman dodged away this time, What's his Quirk? The villain flexed his right arm as he rose out to the side he jumped, and when Bakugo pointed an explosion to his other side to send him chasing right after the villain, Inhuman's right fist punched forward to where Bakugo redirected himself to. He read my- Bakugo tried crossing his arms, but the fist that collided with their crossing point still made him feel his bones grinding and creaking, and he could feel the fist pushing them into his chest and his lungs getting crushed too.

Bakugo flew back over the stage and into Iida who the villain directed him towards with the follow-through of his punch, and Zach had to duck down over Shoji's body as the two bounced towards him too only to just miss the top of his head. Zach grabbed hold of Shoji's arms that were covered in his own blood with his left hand, and he pushed his body down hard against his friend's body while screaming out in pain. His right arm was black, his chest felt like every bone in it was breaking apart, but he still managed to catch sight of that dark villain raising a palm towards him. Zach felt the pull on his body, and he clenched Shoji's chest harder with his right hand, only to open his eyes wide as the villain pulled both him and Shoji off the floor flying towards him.

Zach turned his head while they flew through the air, I don't want to let go! I- I have to save-

"SMAAASSHHHHHH!" The villain holding a hand towards Zach and Shoji snapped his head up fast. Zach looked above the villain, his shaking lips twisting up at the right corner despite the pain at the sight of the curly-haired boy who just appeared in mid-flight.

Three Minutes Ago

"Power Loader, go," All Might said, stepping forward to the side of the pro hero in front of him. "You can't-"

"The Principal gave me strict orders," Power Loader replied to the man who had been there to hear those orders.

"This is out of control," All Might countered back harshly. Power Loader clenched his teeth and darted his gaze around outside of his helmet too all over the stadium. "You need to get out there and protect as many people as you can."

"All these villains, in one place, it's unusual," Power Loader said, narrowing his gaze from a group of villains gathering on one section of the bleachers where people had evacuated and nearby heroes were defeated. And there are strong ones too. Just mixed in with the others. What powerful villains just- wait, is that Fallout?! What is he doing here?

"It's not," All Might said in a low voice next to his fellow hero. Power Loader started looking in at him as All Might continued, "It's like Sazaki reported after facing the War Boys. He claimed something about 'Shigaraki's army.'" All Might's eyes narrowed in more and his fists clenched hard at his sides as he saw all these people screaming in every direction, people he could no longer go and save with a smile. I'm so helpless! "We had been looking into it, and the decrease in crime the last month had-"

"All Might move!" Power Loader grabbed All Might with one hand and yanked him back, then he slammed his other hand forward and sparks flew out as Power Loader's metal fingers clashed with a villain's claws. This is why I couldn't just leave you up here, Power Loader thought, before jumping back to avoid the hairy villain who slashed his other claw in now with a furious look on his face that All Might avoided the first one.

All Might fell on the ground when Power Loader threw him back, and the scrawny former number one hero looked up at his fellow teacher and past him at the villain standing there. They were in the teachers' section, but all of the other teachers had gone now and it was no more a protected area than anywhere else. When All Might looked up at the villain who appeared behind him though, his eyes opened wide as did Power Loader's inside his helmet. The villain was covered head to toe in reddish brown fur, with a villain costume of dark yellow and black around his body. He did not have a mask over his face, revealing his snarling mouth and sharp teeth that already had blood on them, just as his sharp claws did. Those claws dripped blood, and the villain crossed his arms together and slashed them out, making sparks fly from his claws while hunching his body over and growling in a more threatening way at his targets.

"Saberclaw," Power Loader said in a cold, hateful voice. "Saw you on the news two months ago, villain," Power Loader lifted his own hands that had metallic fingertips he could use to even burrow underground with. "Why join with Shigaraki now?"

"Grrrr… ka, kakaka," the villain started chuckling, the corners of his lips curling up a bit. He lowered his right hand down to his side, and he grabbed something off of his villain costume.

"Don't move!" Power Loader shouted, running forward towards the villain who just jumped back in response. Power Loader stopped, glancing to his side and behind him where All Might was pushing back to his feet. Can't leave him here alone. The villains are targeting him, we think. It should still be one of their objectives, even if it seems like they have bigger things at play here! Power Loader's eyes snapped back forward and they shot open wide at the sight of what the villain was holding in his hand. "Wait! Why would you go so far-"

"It's not 'so far' anymore," Saberclaw said in a smug tone, and he licked some blood off of his sharp teeth before raising the needle in his right hand. He brought it towards his neck and slammed it in while Power Loader and All Might stared with wide eyes. Saberclaw started shaking, groaning as his body hunched over and his fur got a much darker shade. His fur grew out longer, his eyes turned red, and his claws sharpened and glistened as they extended farther out of each of his fingers. "Trigger, is a hell of a drug," Saberclaw said, right as the claws on his feet dug into the floor below him, and he kicked himself forward. "Why fight a pro hero like you, without it?!" He shouted, then he slashed down so hard that Power Loader leapt back and grabbed All Might to pull him away too.

Saberclaw's claw missed where Power Loader had just been standing, and the two heroes he was trying to kill stared in shock as Saberclaw's right claw slashed through the seats, railing, and floor all with a single swipe down. Everything was cut by four sharp claws that split apart chairs or dug straight through the ground, and even steel did not survive getting cut through by the villain's already sharp claws. "GRrrrr…" Saberclaw rose his gaze towards them, then he shook his head a couple of times and rose the corners of his lips into a smirk again. "I'll be the one to kill All Might, and move through the ranks of the new world we create today. Villains will rule by the day's end. And you will all, taste, my, VENGEANCE!"

"All Might run!" Power Loader shouted at the hero behind him, while he ran the other way at the villain who looked enraged right there right before charging. Power Loader ducked under the left claw's slash, and he slammed his own elbow forward into the villain's gut which made the man with so much momentum in the other direction bend over it. All Might grinned as he saw his comrade's blow, but then the scrawnier man's dark eyes opened wide and he opened his mouth to shout about Saberclaw's other rising claw.

Power Loader reached up his free hand though and grabbed the villain around the arm as it was rising, tightening his metal claws around Saberclaw's furry forearm. He yanked that arm behind Saberclaw's back while spinning himself around him, and he jammed it down into the villain's back. Then Power Loader rose the first arm he slammed an elbow forward with, and he wrapped it around Saberclaw's throat while on the villain's back. Saberclaw put his other hand down on the ground though, and as much as Power Loader pushed down, the villain on Trigger had made himself much stronger. Saberclaw barely felt the pressure, or the pain in his right arm that he was trying to yank from the hero's arm-bar.

A foot slammed into Saberclaw's face, and the villain's head snapped to the side with blood splashing out of his mouth. Power Loader's eyes opened huge at the sight of the tall muscular man in front of him, only for that figure who just appeared to vanish and collapse down to his knees as a scrawny man with sucked-in cheeks, and blood splashing from his mouth. All Might's kick did not have as much power in it as he used to be able to muster, but the hero with blood all over his chin and teeth smiled that he was able to even do something right there. His fellow teacher called out his name seeing All Might collapse like that afterwards, but All Might lifted his head and showed Power Loader his smile. "It's alright," All Might said. "Now Power Loader, please go help the other teachers-"

"Are you two alright over here?" Ectoplasm asked, or one of his clones did that just reached the area since he had heard someone say they saw Power Loader fighting a villain.

"Yeah," Power Loader said, while getting off of the furry beast below him whose head was turned sideways on the ground and his eyes closed. "It looks like-"

"MOVE!" Ectoplasm yelled, and his clone dove forward. Ectoplasm's clone pushed Power Loader, but Saberclaw rose up in an instant slashing both claws in front of him. One of them tore from Ectoplasm's waist up through his head with all four of his sharp nails, while the other only cut a piece of Power Loader's side while the hero was getting shoved away. It kept rising after leaving his side though, and it tore Power Loader's left arm off and shredded his bicep and elbow apart.

Blood splashed over All Might while Ectoplasm's clone vanished. Power Loader fell to the side letting out a scream of pain, but Saberclaw did not spin towards the hero in a yellow helmet to finish him off. A couple of other Ectoplasms not currently fighting around the stadium spun their heads and looked towards the teachers' box in fear as All Might was left alone with that dangerous villain on Trigger.

All Might stared at the furry beast in shock too, but mainly because Saberclaw had apparently faked being knocked out by the kick that All Might thought had been at least strong enough to take him down. It being Trigger, he did not think Saberclaw would have the patience or skill to trick them like that. The former Symbol of Peace saw the other hero in so much pain behind Saberclaw, but Power Loader still turned his way and shouted his name in fear of what was about to happen. I couldn't do anything, All Might thought frustratedly, while lifting his gaze up to the villain in front of him. How many villains stronger than him have I taken down through the years? Pitiful. I let my colleague get hurt for me, I am no longer any symbol at all. All Might looked up into the red eyes of the villain standing right before him, such a frustrated look in his eyes as he sat there on his knees with blood coming out of his mouth and dripping off the bottom of his face.

"Now All Might," Saberclaw said, grinning madly with blood dripping from his top row of teeth as he spoke. "Die. Die in despair knowing the world you leave behind, will never have such a thing as peace!" All Might's eyes opened huge, his arms falling limp at his sides as Saberclaw rose his claws covered in heroes and innocents' bloods. Saberclaw cackled as he slashed down, "KAKAKA-"

"ALL MIGHT!"

Saberclaw's eyes started darting up above All Might's head, but the thing screaming at them and getting louder quickly was faster than a missile. Saberclaw stopped slashing down, a furious look spreading on his face. As he pointed his claws out at the figure flying so fast he doubted they'd be able to avoid getting impaled, the boy in a blue uniform flipped himself in midair with a tap of a foot down. He rose right up over Saberclaw's bloody claws, saw Power Loader behind him with so much blood on his body, and saw All Might below looking up and still losing the look of despair that the child caught sight of and made him bite down in so much anger. Then, as he continued flying past the furry villain's arms, his bit-down teeth ground harder as the corners of his lips curled up into a smile, making All Might's look change even more as he saw the boy in front of him changing his gaze directly to the villain whose eyes he looked into.

Izuku Midoriya spun his right leg into the villain's head, and he pushed hard while twisting his entire body. He did not send the villain flying in any direction, only slammed him off his feet and them smashed his head into the floor behind him with the direction of his kick. Midoriya did a flip in the air as Saberclaw slammed down, then he spun and kicked his other leg up in the air over All Might's head. His eyes darted up in a single instant when he turned, and he saw a pair dropping from above with butterfly knives in their hands. They had appeared out of nowhere, and Power Loader's eyes bulged in horror as they dropped on All Might's sides. One had on a red costume and the other a blue one, and they were going for All Might's throat right at the finishing move to take out Saberclaw, the moment when most people let down their guards in a fight.

Midoriya was not letting his guard down though, not while there was still so much he needed to do. He had leapt over the stadium to get to All Might, but he redirected himself towards a side of the bleachers where he saw Present Mic and Aizawa needed help first. He had seen Power Loader over guarding All Might, and no villains had been around them at the time, so he went where he thought he was needed more first. An Ectoplasm clone that came to help them finish up with the powerful villains they were fighting yelled about All Might though, and Midoriya had to leave them to go save his defenseless mentor only he was fast enough to reach. Midoriya's kick behind him sent enough wind force at the Twin Assassinos that they were blown off path from All Might's throat.

Dust blew up from Saberclaw's collision with the ground, but Midoriya's kick sent it all blowing to the sides while pushing the villains farther from All Might's back. All Might was confused as he never saw the villains dropping over him, and he started to turn only to still not see them as the two who landed immediately disappeared into thin air. Not good, Midoriya thought as the villains vanished. Why drop down from the air then? Unless, it's not an invisibility power, he looked up and darted his gaze around the sky, and he spotted two figures who had just appeared fifty feet in the air above them. I don't know why you would, why you have to maybe, Midoriya landed and his knees bent, his fists clenching at his sides while One For All coursed through him. But it doesn't matter.

The Twin Assassinos were facing each other and speaking rapidly in Italian about how they had revealed themselves without getting the kill, an unforgivable failure that they were each trying to blame on the other. The villain in red and the one in blue started turning forward as someone else appeared in front of them though, and they were wearing masks but Midoriya saw their eyes go wide through the thin slits on them, right before his leg slammed into the side of one and blasted him into the other. He kicked the air behind him and shot after the two he sent flying through the sky and down towards the stadium again. Midoriya spun and kicked the other one this time as he saw the villain pulling out his knife through the pain.

All Might looked around in the air, and then he spun to his right again as two figures crashed down one after the other right on top of Saberclaw's body. The furry villain did not yell out in pain, so All Might lost his lingering doubt that Saberclaw was faking it again. "So the boys failed?" A voice said directly behind All Might. Power Loader's vision was blurry and he was looking towards where the villains just crashed down, but he shifted his gaze in horror at the sight of a man in a purple costume who looked similar to the other two assassins but was a bit taller and had a white cross designed into the back of his purple cape. Midoriya dropped down in front of All Might, and he stared forward in shock and with clenched fists at the sight of a villain who had a pistol to the back of All Might's head.

"That voice," All Might whispered, right as he felt the cold steel press into the back of his head. "Eziano?"

The man was the one the two other assassins were afraid of which made them argue at each other over who would take the blame up in the air. Both of those assassins were unconscious behind Midoriya though, but the boy who had shot down after his defeated enemies had a lump in his throat as he stared at the man who All Might seemed to recognize. He did not just fly down and attack this man, because the guy had been looking up towards him through his mask while holding that gun to All Might's head. "Let him go," Midoriya whispered, his face covered in fear as the villain had them in a terrible position here.

"Hmm," the man in the purple outfit named Eziano hummed. "I suppose I will take my children and go," he rose the gun's barrel off the back of All Might's head. His eyes focused through the mask into Midoriya's, he stared closely at the child for a few seconds, then he looked down at All Might and said, "It's not enough yet. It's not enough, and it won't be fast enough." He walked around All Might's right side while the former top hero was on his knees, and he started walking towards where his children lay over Sabertooth.

Midoriya's fists tightened even more and he clenched his teeth in anger as this villain thought he could just walk right up to him. "Don't do it!" All Might called out, and Midoriya froze and turned back to his mentor. All Might's eyes were wide, and he said while turning to the right again, "Eziano! Why join Shigaraki Tomura? What is there in it for you?"

How does All Might know this villain? Why is he so- Midoriya lost sight of the villain walking his way. He thought he still saw the man, but the image he saw walking towards him was fading away, looking like an after-image that just disappeared before a voice spoke from behind Midoriya. "It is not Shigaraki who I came for. Nor any of his plans that I am interested in. It was solely Inhuman who I came to see." Midoriya spun around and stared wide-eyed at the villain who was behind him holding up both of the unconscious other assassins in his left hand. He had them raised off the ground a couple of feet but did not look to be struggling to hold them. Eziano also had his head turned looking out from the teachers' area towards the arena down below. "They are under-utilizing him as just another villain who they recruited into their army, no idea that he is one of their strongest members, if not the strongest."

Midoriya snapped his head to follow Eziano's gaze. He did not know why this villain was helping them as it seemed like he was, but he looked where the assassin was staring down to the middle of the arena. As he looked down, there was no need to ask who the villain was as Mother Russia was lifted off the ground and thrown so fast that Midoriya had to snap his head straight up to see her go smashing through the big screen above the bleachers. His head snapped back down just as fast and he saw his classmates battling against villains all over the stage, Kacchan! He saw Bakugo going straight for the monster who just sent Mother Russia flying, but he spun around again thinking of All Might. I can't leave him with these- There was no one in the section other than him, Power Loader, All Might, and the unconscious Saberclaw.

"All Might!" Midoriya called out. Was that the prophecy? Is it stopped?! "I, I have to go!"

If Eziano Mozcaccio thinks he's the strongest, All Might's face covered in sweat as he looked towards his student. "Be careful, Young Midoriya," he sounded worried, but he knew there was nothing he could say to him to stop him from doing this. Since there was nothing he could say to stop him though, there was something he had to say. "You must win," All Might's gaze turned from worried to incredibly serious, and Midoriya's eyes shot open wide at that look. Everything depends on it. "Die. Die in despair knowing the world you leave behind, will never have such a thing as peace!" He can't be right! Midoriya shonen! Prove him wrong, and become the peace this world needs!

Midoriya turned and he jumped off of the teachers' area without another word, flying up towards the center of the arena and then flipping himself and kicking his feet straight up above him. Shoji! He shot himself down like a rocket towards the stage where the dark villain so muscular it seemed like Strengthening must be his Quirk, and he screamed at the monster known as Inhuman, "SMAAASSHHHHHH!"

Zach felt the pull leave his body while raising his eyes towards Midoriya slamming a kick down so hard at the enemy's head. Inhuman had a hand risen towards him which Zach knew must have been pulling him and Shoji through the air, but he lowered that down while glaring up at the boy above him. Midoriya's kick that was swinging at him stopped inches from the villain's head. It just stopped without him seemingly doing a thing, and all the force blasted out from the kick backwards and out to the sides. Midoriya got thrown away too though he flipped himself over and landed on his feet and with a hand down on the ground in front of him. Zach and Shoji hit down on the ground and Zach's right hand came off of the larger boy's body as they rolled. He scrambled back over to it though and dove on him, putting his right hand back on and then wincing in pain but holding his yells back this time.

Midoriya leapt over towards Zach and Shoji and got between them and the villain before them. "Zach, is he-"

"I'm working on- ahhhh!" Zach's right arm got darker black and the sleeve around his forearm ripped apart, and some of the uniform on his chest ripped too as he felt his lungs getting cut up like swiss cheese. "He can push and pull people!" Zach yelled through his yell, "And not just people, I think- AHH!"

Inhuman looked past Midoriya and down to the boy who had been watching him since he arrived. Zach lifted his head more, his eyes bloodshot as he stared past Midoriya and into the yellow pupils of the dark man over seven foot tall and covered in huge muscles. Zach had his teeth clenched but forced them open again in a gasp, "GAH! He might have a time gap between when he can use his powers too, since he dodged and punched Bakugo after sending Mother Russia flying." Zach clenched his eyes shut and snapped his body back as he felt a sharp pain in his spine, and then slashes in both of his arms that almost made him let go of Shoji.

"Thought so," Bakugo said right as he shot past Zach's right side and Midoriya's too. He charged at the villain and shouted, "Deku!" Midoriya opened his eyes wide, but he nodded and bent his knees.

Inhuman rose both hands, and Midoriya flew off the floor before he could intentionally jump after Bakugo and try to get to Inhuman as soon as he used his power on his classmate. Bakugo felt the pull towards the villain too, but he just smirked crazier and put both hands in front of him, curling his right in front of his left and yelling, "AP-"

Inhuman clenched his hands into fists while the two were flying towards him thanks to his Quirk. The two boys clenched their eyes shut and screamed out in pain, "AHHHH!" Bakugo's hands lost their positioning, and Midoriya's raising leg twitched as he felt it getting squished like the rest of his body. The two of them dropped down to the ground exactly below them, losing all their momentum but not getting blown back the other way. The pressure on both sides of them went away and they gasped, both of them wheezing in pain from that force they just felt on their bodies.

What, was that? Midoriya thought as he pushed himself to his hands and knees, forcing his eyes open to stare at the ground. He snapped his head up and stared at Inhuman who started walking forward while the boys looked at him wide-eyed. Midoriya and Bakugo each on his sides in front of him, and Zach straight in front, between and behind them still over Shoji's body. Inhuman's mouth opened behind the vertical slits of his mask, "Push and Pull," he said. "Sazaki is right. I can push and pull whatever I want. There are restrictions, limits… not that I would tell you humans what they are."

"You humans?" The three he was facing thought in unnerved ways.

Kirishima had his eyes closed across the arena, but he spun to his right and slammed his left fist forward covered in hardening. A smirk spread on his face even though he could not feel anything all over his body, because he heard the grunt and gasp of pain on his side. He closed his eyes because they were playing tricks on him, and although he had lost feeling over his body, his opponent was a big guy. He opened his eyes at the same moment he was feeling the ground beneath his feet again, and the villain's stomach on his fist, and the liquid dripping off his hand. Kirishima's eyes widened at that last one, and he stared forward with his sight returning as the villain he punched was not just hunched over his arm, but actually impaled on his fist a few inches. Uraraka lay injured on the side of the stage not far from him, and she stared over with wide eyes as she was suddenly able to see again too.

"I, couldn't feel-" Kirishima began, then he heard an explosion and looked above the villain who had just been trying to kill him. He glanced around the bleachers full of people still fighting against villains all over, then he pulled his left fist back in a single movement which allowed the villain he had punched to collapse to his knees. It was the stomach. Maybe he'll be fine, Kirishima thought, hopefully. He spun around with blood dripping off his left fist, and then he crossed his arms only to still get lifted off the ground and have to re-harden his entire body. "What the heck?!"

"Kirishima!" Midoriya called to his right as they all went flying. "Help us against this villain!" Midoriya kicked his legs behind him, and Bakugo blasted explosions to force him the other way. Bakugo also flew down though, and he pressed his foot against Zach's back and fired more smaller explosions out behind him.

Zach was skidding across the stage with his right hand clenching Shoji's body and his left down on the floor behind him like his feet that were skidding over the ground so he could hold on. Zach's left hand lost a lot of its skin and his fingertips were bleeding after that, but this time he did not let go of Shoji, and he did not thank Bakugo either as the momentum stopped in a painful way. He just pressed his hand harder into Shoji's body, while Inhuman spun and slammed a fist into Ectoplasm's clone as the teacher had sent one down to try and help the students against the force who had appeared in the center of the stadium.

Iida raced up after Ectoplasm's clone that he thought the villain would use a power against, but Inhuman did not and Iida's eyes opened wide as he knew the villain could use it on him now. Inhuman just sprinted towards the tall student though whose Engines just started slowing down, and Iida's eyes shot wider at the huge man's speed. Inhuman's feet left holes in the ground when he ran, and he snagged his right hand forward while Iida changed directions to try and get back. Inhuman grabbed the boy by the back of his shirt and yanked him up, then grabbed around both of Iida's legs hard.

Bakugo, Midoriya, and Kirishima all started running across the arena. Midoriya spotted something on his left though and he spun towards Zach who he saw the person aiming at, "Zach get-"

Bang Bang Bang

Dink Dink Dink

Yaoyorozu held the shield in front of her as steady as she could while crouched a few feet in front of Zach and on his left side. His eyes opened wide as he stared at the girl who just dropped down there, a jetpack on her back losing its flames, a grappling hook in her hand that was not holding the back of the shield. "Momo," Zach started, and then his eyes clenched shut extra hard as he felt what he thought was his heart bursting from blunt force.

"Iida!" Kirishima shouted.

"Zach keep going," Yaoyorozu said behind her, while she looked through the strong glass part of the top of the shield where the bullets had just hit to make those 'dink'ing noises. "Save Shoji…"

"Iida!" Midoriya shouted too as he spun back and saw Inhuman lifting higher and squeezing. He made Iida scream before he even slammed down as it looked like he was about to do, and then Inhuman's body froze all the way up to his right hand. Ice surrounded the villain's legs, his torso, his left arm, and all the way up his right arm to his right hand and even covering some of that. Midoriya had his legs bent already before that ice appeared, and he shot through the air and grabbed Iida with one hand, before yanking away and freeing his friend's legs from the villain's hold.

Behind Inhuman and at the bottom of the bleachers, Shoto Todoroki dropped down onto an ice slope to the arena and slid across it over towards the stage where he had frozen the villain. These villains are all strong. Pro heroes are dropping left and right up there, and each of the villains seems to have a vial of Trigger to use if the need arises. Already strong villains using Trigger, and some of them I could tell weren't losing their minds from it. If the side effects aren't as bad, then other villains like this can't be allowed to shoot up. I should go find them after checking if Shoji's- All of the ice surrounding Inhuman shattered and blew away in every direction.

All of the young heroes with provisional licenses crossed their arms or pulled back to try and protect themselves. It was not just the ice they had to worry about, but the force that came out of Inhuman's body which got weaker the farther from him they each were. Most of them were still thrown off of their feet, with only Bakugo pointing explosions behind him to keep him in place, yet Bakugo ground his teeth in pain from doing that. His arms twitched as he fired off more explosions, but his eyes narrowed as he thought, Can we beat a guy like this, if I don't use them? Damn it! Bakugo clenched his fists when the force stopped pushing against him, and he moved forward again and glared at Inhuman who looked straight back towards him.

Inhuman then turned his head a bit to the right from Bakugo who stood before him on his front left. He looked towards Midoriya Izuku who moved forward, while Tenya Iida raced up farther back on his right side. Behind him which he saw with a small turn of his head, Todoroki had recovered easily by melting the ice that flew at him from Inhuman's body and creating more behind him to stop him from getting pushed too far back. And on his left but farther back towards Todoroki than Bakugo, Eijiro Kirishima kept himself covered in Hardening which he felt was the right idea when that dark villain glanced at him for a second with his dark yellow eyes.

I did it.

Inhuman looked forward again and in between Bakugo and Midoriya. "That's not right," Inhuman said, his dark voice getting a strange tone to it like he was upset. "Humans die. They die, and they stay dead."

The five looking at Inhuman could not turn away as they heard that, because the villain's voice was unsettling, his words made them question his mental state, and they did not need to look away to know what he was talking about. Still, the five facing this terrifying villain grinned. All of them lifted the corners of their lips at the sound of that, and their enemy refaced the two in front of him. Midoriya shouted about how they wouldn't let him kill anyone else, and Bakugo shouted a curse at him. Iida yelled they would bring him to justice, and Kirishima shouted how they would crush him, while Todoroki just let out a calm breath and rose up his left hand in front of him.

"Momo," Zach said.

The girl in front of him was still looking through her shield to keep an eye on the long-ranged villain who was farther away now after Inhuman's attack sent all that ice flying in every direction. She glanced back though with the small smile on her face she got after hearing Inhuman's voice ahead of her, and Shoji also looked up with widening eyes from when he just opened them flat on his back. Zach was standing and Yaoyorozu's eyes widened as the boy standing there was not smiling like his classmates around the stage.

Zach felt tired after that. He stood up though, and he glared to his left towards a man who was up on his feet, yet was not moving around. Spinner had given out his orders, but he was just standing there while the others who appeared on the stage fought. Spinner stared at Zach who got up and looked towards him, and he rose up the black hilt in his right hand and pointed the blade of blades towards Zach while glaring narrowed eyes behind his bandanna. "Come, traitor," Spinner said. "I'll finish this."

"Momo, can you make me these things…" Zach spoke softly while facing Spinner, then after a few seconds he called out louder, "I want to know, Spinner!" He ignored what the green, scaly man said, and he shouted, "What happened to her?! What did you do?!"

Spinner bared his teeth and ground them harder, then he started rushing at Zach now that the boy was back on his feet. You were always like that Spinner, Zach thought, his eyes narrowing more and his teeth baring this time like Spinner's had. Out of everyone there, it was easiest with you. You were the easiest one… Zach reached out towards Momo's back and he grabbed the hilts sticking out of it. He shoved one knife into his waistband and reached back with that hand, grabbing the next handle that Momo was making as fast as she could. This time it was to a gun though, a grappling gun that Zach pointed towards Spinner while he started sprinting at the villain.

"I'm finally going to pay you back now!" Spinner shouted at the boy running at him.

Zach, Momo Yaoyorozu thought as she looked to her left after the boy running at the villain on the country's top most wanted list. "…no Momo, listen to me. I have to face him. Spinner is waiting for it, and the shooter won't attack me while we fight. Because, Spinner's like that. Just protect Shoji… I want to know Spinner!" Zach, please use it. I know you're afraid of what will happen, but I want you to be safe!

Shoji pushed his arms down at his sides, and his tired eyes opened more as he turned and looked at them. He felt exhausted, but he stared at his clear skin where he knew he got slashed and burned. He looked up in the air, and he remembered getting lifted up there and slammed back down. Zach, brought me back? Shoji rolled over and pressed down on his hands and knees. He turned his head to the left and looked towards Zach, and he stared wide-eyed at the boy who dodged Spinner's blade to get close, only to clash his knife with one of Spinner's in the villain's other hand.

Zach leaned forward towards where the knives were pushing together, and Spinner leaned back towards him so their faces were close together as they both pushed opposite directions. Zach glared into Spinner's eyes, and Spinner glared right back into Zach's. Zach ground his teeth as he looked into Spinner's eyes, and he growled, "I hate you."

Spinner pushed off and their knives parried apart, then he slashed his bigger weapon across the front of his body with all the various blades sticking out of the white bandages wrapping it. Zach jumped up in the air and fired his grappling hook down, and Spinner pulled his head to the side avoiding it even grazing his face. Zach slashed back down with the knife, and Spinner brought his knife and parried again, then they slashed back again and had to parry each other's weapon. Zach landed and Spinner yelled while pulling his huge blade back, "I hate you too!"

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A couple of miles outside of the U.A. Sports Festival stadium, on the roof of the main U.A. school building, a pair of criminals were together at the edge closest to the Sports Festival stadium. Students all over campus were rushing around, and students from the hero course in the third year had been brought out by the staff still remaining on campus for the day. They had all rushed into the city, and two villains were on the roof of the most prestigious hero school in Japan with no one there to protect the place.

The two of them were not there to attack the hero school though, and they were not with Shigaraki's army. "All villains have become the League of Villains," the tall man standing behind his partner said, his voice annoyed and a dark look in his eyes. "Hundreds of them, all over the city." Gentle Criminal turned his head right and looked towards the billowing smoke pillars and flames rising from the metropolis near them. As he looked that way, another building collapsed and a huge mass of smoke and ash and dust rose into the air and billowed down every street around it. It was not too far away from U.A., so all the students panicking and running around campus started screaming as the giant cloud of ash started pushing their way.

In front of Gentle and kneeling on the roof of the building, La Brava typed fast into a laptop that had a video playing in the top right corner of it. The video showed some of the destruction in Musutafu, and it kept changing around to different camera angles of the devastating damage to the city. Being broadcasted all over the country, and to every country in the world where people were watching the U.A. Sports Festival, everyone could see how the villains were destroying the city of Musutafu, but then the camera angle changed back. It showed what it had been showing for most of the time anyway, the Sports Festival itself where giant screens above the arena were showing that destruction in Musutafu anyway. Showing the Sports Festival had a different effect though. Instead of just random destruction and chaos, the people of the world were able to see the strongest symbol hero society still had, being destroyed by villains.

There were bodies strewn about in the stands, heroes and villains and civilians alike. There were flames from the explosions and the whole stadium looked different from twenty minutes ago when Zach Sazaki was fighting Mezo Shoji on the arena. When the camera changed back from the city and showed the arena and the bleachers all around, things looked even worse than they did earlier. Now though, one of the villains down at the arena was surrounded by finalists from the second years who had all shown off their powers during the earlier fights. They were some of the strongest new heroes out there, three of them getting into the semifinals even, and yet the villain in between them had no damage to speak of on him as the stadium burned around them.

Under the camera angle on the computer, different black windows covered the screen with coding on them, and La Brava typed faster as she saw a firewall pop up in front of her. She bit down and muttered, "He's trying to keep me from… Found him!"

"Wonderful, La Brava!" Gentle called out his praise, and La Brava's face turned bright red like her hair. She kept typing into her computer as she saw some more code pop up, and then words cut in on the code, and then over her entire computer screen that made her lean back. Gentle looked down at the screen too, and the light on the webcam at the top of the laptop screen turned green. A picture was taken of their faces, and then the words on the screen got more underneath them. 'I warn you,' Gentle and La Brava both read the words that appeared on their computer. 'Gentle Criminal and La Brava. You are out of your league.' Their faces appeared on the screen below the threatening words that stretched out of the windows like there was no limit for them.

La Brava smirked after the threat, and she reached forward and closed the laptop. "My Gentle isn't afraid of you," she said in a smug tone, then turned to the tall man next to her who was grinning too and leaned back where he stood. "Shall we go?"

"We shall," Gentle responded. And he held out a hand for La Brava to take. "The Chivalrous Thief, cannot allow such un-gentlemanly actions go unpunished!" Gentle made the ground below him Elastic, and he and La Brava bounced high into the air. Gentle's eyes narrowed while he flew off in the direction of the Sports Festival, Zach Sazaki. The tall man white white hair and a bushy white mustache thought back a few months to a day he and La Brava met the boy they saw all over the screen they had been watching earlier. The corners of Gentle's lips lifted up, and he thought, You were right.

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A/N Thanks for reading. Plot twists ftw! And people thought this tournament was actually gonna go as planned XD Musutafu is under attack with Twice and Ganeshi popping up in the city, along with hundreds of other villains. Bombs go off around the Sports Festival, villains appear everywhere, buildings start toppling as the powerful Ganeshi rips 'em down... chaos ensues! Assassination attempts on All Might as well as an ominous message from a villain All Might seems to know, who only came for the villain Kirishima, Iida, Midoriya, Bakugo, and Todoroki are all surrounding: Inhuman. Zach faces off against Spinner shouting about some woman... and Gentle and La Brava head towards the Sports Festival. What's going to happen next?! Hope you enjoyed the chapter! Leave a review telling me what you think or predictions for the upcoming chapters. Review responses:

LordOfTee chapter 60 . Aug 13

HOLY FUCKINGSHIT!11 PLOT TWIST FUCKING PLOT TWIST! ALL PERSONNEL PREPARE FOR UNEXPECTED DIVERGENCES.

Out of nowhere! Glad I got you guys all with the sudden twist, and I hope you enjoyed the chapter!

Celestial stratos chapter 60 . Aug 13

Zach should just quit trying to be hero, go live in the woods or something. You reap what you sow. Zach was stupid for joining the villains and now it's continuing to bite him in the ass. Doesn't U.A
have counter attacks/contingency plans to stop shit like this? I mean kurogiri can literally just open up a portel in the middle of school and kidnap zach again and the heroes wouldn't be able to do anything. Seeing as how you like torturing zach i hope you don't do the same to momo or worse... You're forbidden from harming her so commands your king! I'm serious i will sick my momo defender squad on you.

Go be a hermit Zach, it'll be less painful. I could see it. U.A. might have better countermeasures, but at the end of the last chapter they found out they were being blocked out of the systems as those videos played, with Hackerman coming back into play. Zach thinks about Kurogiri using Trigger earlier on this chapter too, giving the villains access points all over the city. With Momo right in the middle of the stage in the center of all this chaos, who knows if she'll be able to stay safe... ;) We'll see! Thanks for the review! Hope you enjoyed!

JehovahReigns chapter 60 . Aug 13

Well they're not going to trust him again. Idk how you'll save Zach but I trust your writing. At the very least it'll be gripping... this was horrible to say the least. Leave him alone pls, needs a life long break

He never gets a break. We'll see if Zach manages to come back from this, though he brings Shoji back to life on the stage with the help from his classmates who don't seem to have given up on him. Thanks for reviewing!

Guest chapter 60 . Aug 13

That sent chills down my spine...please update soon I don't think I'll last the week if I don't know what happens next

Day gap in between hope wasn't too long for you! Hope you enjoyed the chapter, and thanks for the review!