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!

63. Chapter 63

Disclaimer: I don't own Boku no Hero Academia

Chapter 63:

"Thanks old lady," Power Loader said. His left arm was gone, but his side and around his left shoulder had stopped bleeding and the skin was loosely pulled together. Recovery Girl looked tired in front of him, and he was exhausted too but sat up after his heavy treatment. His skin was pale and he knew he had lost a lot of blood, but there was something he needed to do. Someone put that video on. Which means we should have control of the system, Power Loader thought.

He pulled out a remote from his pocket and pressed a few buttons on it, but his eyes narrowed down at the small display at the front of the remote. "What's wrong?" Ectoplasm's clone that was with the group of civilians, All Might, Recovery Girl, and Power Loader asked. There were a couple of other pro heroes who were injured from the battle resting near the center of the group of civilians too, and a few others still fighting or able to fight were on the outsides of the group.

Power Loader glanced up at the hero in all black, then back down at his remote that he clenched hard in his right hand. "I can't get back control. They keep getting farther away. I only had three under my control but-" Power Loader glanced back down as the remote beeped, and his eyes widened before his purple lips curled up a bit. "Though someone just came back big time, and he brought the rest of 'em with him." Power Loader looked at the display that showed the number returning, and he thought, Though he only brought half back. Still, fifteen of these guys can make a big difference… He's giving me full control too! Power Loader shook his head around as he was feeling sleepy there for a moment.

"I'm bringing them all back here," Higari Maijima, or Power Loader, said. Maijima tapped some buttons on the remote, and he grit his teeth in frustration as he knew he could do it faster with his other hand too. Too many powerful villains. Too much Trigger. And that new leader just gave the command to destroy everything. This isn't over yet! Power Loader rose his gaze and he started getting to his feet.

"You need, to sit down," Recovery Girl scolded, trying to stand up herself to say it at him.

All Might ran over and got down to help her up, then they both looked at Maijima who said, "I'm the best at controlling 'em. The kids need some help down there." Ectoplasm's clone stepped forward and held Power Loader up so he would have to do less work, and the hero in a yellow helmet just nodded thanks before typing into the controller with his right hand. "Here they come."

"Hey everyone!" Hagakure shouted towards Power Loader and the others around him. Most of them looked her way only to not see anyone, then a metal pole lifted up and waved around showing where Hagakure was as she had taken off all her clothes to fight. "There's an evacuation zone outside of the stadium with a few hundred people at it! Follow me!"

Hagakure turned her invisible head and looked down towards the arena after she called to the group she ran to get, and the pole in her hands started lowering and shaking as it did. Everyone, she thought, seeing almost half of her class down on the stage.

Down at the arena, in the very center of the stadium, Inhuman stood still while every attack that just flew at him went flying away or blasting up in the air. Flames and air force and a cannonball, they all flew back and the students had to dive away or dodge using their Quirks to avoid the attacks. Yaoyorozu's cannon got hit by its own attack while she dove from it, and Shoji shielded her with three arms as he ran himself from the explosion behind him.

Yaoyorozu glanced back at Shoji after pushing off the floor, a nervous look on her face as she saw him trying to protect her. "Shoji," she whispered. You just died. Don't, strain yourself.

This is surreal, Shoji thought, while turning his head back towards Inhuman who the physical fighters charged in at as soon as Inhuman blasted away the longer-ranged attacks. Shoji created eyes on both of his top arms, and ears on the arms beneath those. Focus though. Ignore the fact, that I was just dead. Can I ever die? If Zach is with us, can I, can any of us really… Three groups of civilians still in the stands, large ones at least. Heroes more scattered now than before, but there are less villains moving around too. How long does Trigger last for? Are the villains out of commission after they use it? Those fires are spreading, and no one's even trying to stop them when there are so many villains to worry about. None of the pro heroes are just sitting around, or they'd be sending us help. What's Power Loader doing?

Zach threw a knife forward as he sprinted at the villain with Kirishima ten feet to his right. He had not thrown it with the others who attacked from long range before, and he grinned as Inhuman pulled his right leg away a second too slow and got cut. If he thinks we're alternating close range with long range, then that's the best time to throw a- Zach's eyes shot open wide as Inhuman turned straight towards him and glared with those dark eyes into his soul. He did not know this villain, and he tried stopping as Inhuman rose a hand at him.

Midoriya appeared in front of Inhuman, swinging a kick at his body. His leg stopped though and he was blown backwards hard, and everyone running at him hesitated as they thought about how quick that was since they long range attacks had been pushed away. What is the gap?! Bakugo thought in frustration, as that was less time than it took him to dodge him earlier. Or does it depend on how much he uses? Was blowing Mother Russia sensei into the distance much stronger than he used for pushing our attacks away? In that case, Bakugo's wrists ached and his whole arms felt pain through them as he blasted some explosions from his palms. He bared his teeth and grinned through the pain though, "We have to make every attack stronger!"

Zach flew towards Inhuman while Bakugo shouted that, and he did not have the time to think about what Bakugo meant. He saw Inhuman swinging his other fist around, and Zach's right hand twitched at his side. His fingers came out of the glove, but his face covered with hesitation and he stopped himself from raising it. I can't! Zach rose his left instead to try and block, even though he had a deep gash on his left arm and a lot of blood soaking that arm's sleeve already.

Inhuman's fist hit Zach right as Kirishima reached his front, and Iida came up behind with his leg swinging around in a kick. Inhuman took a punch to the stomach, and a kick to the back, and he followed-through with his punch into Zach's body anyway. Zach's left arm did not protect him much from the fist full of so much speed and force that he heard his left arm crack as it was pressed into his torso. He felt his lungs squeeze too and his whole body screamed out in pain as he let out a yelp, cut off because he had no air to keep yelling as he was sent smashing down into the arena floor fifteen feet back and bouncing off the side of the stage.

"Zach!" Yaoyorozu yelled while spinning her head after the boy flying past her. Her distraction caused the new cannon she was making to get cut off halfway, and she gasped out while hunching over as that mistake made her realize she needed to make a whole new one, which made her stomach yell at her in pain. Can I even do it? She wondered, thinking about the amount of lipids she would need to make something of that size again. Small weapons, she thought, turning back towards the villain who reached down with the hand he punched Zach with and grabbed Kirishima by the top of the head even as he tried pulling away.

Inhuman slammed his left foot back into Iida who crossed his arms and screamed in pain as the one shot through by K-Blaster earlier and his other both felt fractured from the kick. Inhuman spun and threw Kirishima at Bakugo who redirected himself with an explosion, only for a huge force to slam into him as he was dodging, sending him flying back into Todoroki sliding towards the middle of the stage. Todoroki got slammed by Bakugo who yelled at him to move out of the way next time, then Midoriya darted forward at Inhuman, bouncing around the stage before making his attack. He appeared to Yaoyorozu on all sides of Inhuman at once before sliding between the villain's legs and swinging a leg at one of them, the same one that Zach had slashed with his knife a few seconds ago.

Midoriya's kick hit, and Inhuman's leg came off the ground and his seven and a half foot tall body started to fall. Then as he was falling, his muscular form off-balance to a point there should have been no way to recover before hitting the spot where all of them started aiming attacks, he righted himself from a forty-five degree angle. He stomped down on Midoriya who rose his arms to block, then felt the leg stomping on him press down with so much force that he could barely breathe with his crossed arms pushing into his chest. Midoriya ground his teeth though and screamed out, while uncrossing his arms and knocking Inhuman away from him.

Bakugo let out a roar of pain from ten feet away from the villain as Inhuman stumbled backwards, and Inhuman rose his gaze to see Bakugo's arms trembling and ripples going through them. A massive explosion blasted out of Bakugo's hands that filled him with agony as he did what Recovery Girl told him he could no longer do, or risk permanent injury. He forced out his biggest explosion, even though he knew it would not hit. The explosion blew apart from Inhuman's body and a lot of it even slammed back into Bakugo who screamed more in pain inside his blast.

"Bakugo!" Kirishima shouted.

"Reciproburst!" Iida's arms were down at his sides, his bloody right arm completely limp as blue light shot out of his calves.

Midoriya pushed himself on his feet fast and ignored his own pain as well as the heat from the explosion that occurred right next to him and almost engulfed him too. "Fifteen percent…" His legs unbent and he flew through the explosion, spinning his body around and aiming a roundhouse kick for Inhuman's head as soon as he got close. "ST. LOUIS SMASH!"

Inhuman was hit in the side of the head, and in the other side of his body at the same time by Iida's Reciproburst kick. Todoroki shot up high on a spike of ice and he pointed his left hand down as he continued rising over Inhuman who got kicked hard from two sides and whose mask was flying off from Midoriya's kick. Midoriya and Iida saw Todoroki above them and shot away, and then a beam of flames dropped down on Inhuman who could not push them away after pushing away Bakugo's massive explosion only three seconds ago.

Zach sat up on the outside of the arena and looked in towards it with an amazed look on his face. "Do it," he whispered. He sat up more and ground his teeth from the pain in his broken left arm. After just bringing back Shoji to life though, the pain in his left arm was not all that noticeable, nor was the pain from the slash across his right cheek, or the gash in his right shoulder or slashes on his chest. All the fire pushed away at once, and Iida and Midoriya who were moving opposite directions on his sides from the flames were hit by a powerful force that made Iida scream as it hit his arms, and made Midoriya bite down so much harder in frustration as they did not stop the villain. Zach's hopeful look vanished and his right hand shook at his side, Damn it, I, I can't…

Should I have used a hundred percent? Even if it meant breaking my leg, and taking me out for good? Midoriya landed and skid backwards, his body still glowing from the One For All coursing through it. I can't think about what comes after with a guy like this! The strongest one here. Can I really beat him while holding back so much of my power?! Midoriya snapped his head up, as everyone else did to stare at the man who rose through the dispersed pillar of flames towards the boy who fired it. Inhuman had his right fist raised up and a menacing look on his face now fully visible with no mask on it.

Todoroki spun and tried slamming his right arm into Inhuman, but he was yanked downwards towards the man a second before Inhuman would have reached him. It was not a large distance, but it messed with the timing of the swing of Todoroki's arm enough. Inhuman's right hand he just opened up into a palm balled again and he smashed a fist into the boy's unguarded chest which sent him flying so much higher into the air. "Todoroki!" Midoriya screamed up, and he bent his knees and blasted up towards him. While he was rising by Inhuman though, the man he was rising past did not turn to him, yet he was sent flying away from Inhuman's body straight at the bleachers which he slammed into and made a crater in.

Zach stood up, and he glanced up towards the screens that were dark around the top of the stadium. Are there cameras? What is showing to the world right now? I couldn't let them see me like that. At first, because it would confirm what they thought from those videos. But now, after making that declaration. After trying to be a symbol for them- Zach snapped his head to the right and watched as Kirishima went flying just like Midoriya had, but he hardened before slamming into a wall hard enough that Zach felt relief fill him. They're getting hurt. Everyone's getting hurt, and I don't know if there's any other way to stop him. Zach's fingers came out of his glove on his right hand. If someone else had been thrown like that… this villain is too strong- Zach froze and his head snapped up.

Yaoyorozu was panting as she created another stun gun, after already handing off two to Shoji standing at her side. She lifted her head though as Shoji told her to look up.

Midoriya pulled himself out of a hole in the bleachers, and Kirishima dropped from a crater in the wall around the outside of the arena that was crumbling around him. The two of them looked up, as did Bakugo whose arms were no longer responding like he wanted them to, after using explosions to fly him towards Todoroki who had been dropping from the sky way too fast. Todoroki was down on his knees next to Bakugo at the lower edge of the bleachers on the side of the arena opposite where Kirishima stood. Iida was down on his knees below the wall they were at the top of and a dozen meters to their left, Uraraka tying her blue uniform around his right arm and trying to stop the bleeding of the arm he told her he did not even feel anymore. All of the students fighting together stared up above the stadium where fifteen robots just flew over the top of the bleachers.

"Ants?!" Kirishima called out, a huge grin spreading over his face at the sight of the robots up there that they had had so much trouble with during the first event of the tournament.

"Where have they been?" Bakugo muttered angrily and under his breath in a frustrated voice. He started panting harder and his body slouched, while Todoroki let his body relax a bit.

The boy with white and red hair struggled to try and stand, even though he felt cracked ribs and a huge amount of pain in his stomach. "Thanks, Bakugo," he managed to say, as he had yet to say it after Bakugo flew up to get him. Todoroki glanced in at Bakugo's arms that were shaking violently at his sides, "Your arms-"

"Shut up," Bakugo snarled, and he just ground his teeth harder while looking up at the robots that Inhuman rose his head towards too. "Ch, and I really wanted to-"

"My Quirk, Push and Pull," Inhuman began, his voice reaching all of the students facing him. It also reached Power Loader and the Ectoplasm clone who was the only one with him higher up on the bleachers now. Power Loader was not going to wait for Inhuman to go on about his power though, as he had seen a bit of the fight below and knew there was a time limit with the enemy's Quirk. Some villains liked talking, and often what they said was the cause of their own downfalls. Power Loader wondered if the villain before him was just trying to stall by acting like one of those villains though, and he sent half of the ANTs that had just returned to fight the enemy.

"Using it I can push and pull almost anything," Inhuman claimed. He bent his knees, and he continued while his voice's sound waves pushed out to all sides of the stadium. "Including my own muscles. I have never had to exercise, and yet my body is at the peak…" His bent knees unbent and he shot up into the air. He rose between three Terminators that were the fastest ones to descend at him, blue jets firing out of the soles of their feet and shooting them down. They had cannon arms or fists primed for attack, when Inhuman rose between them and came to the top of his arc between them and the other four dropping down above them. "Of human potential," he finished, while clenching his fists tightly and putting them together as one.

Inhuman flipped himself in midair, and he shot down like a missile through one of the ANTs below him as all of the robots turned his way and tried to attack. He smashed straight through the robot's body, then he spun as he continued dropping, and the other six ANTs were yanked down towards him as he rose both palms towards them. "RAAAA!" Inhuman slammed into the floor and a crater blew apart beneath his feet, and then that crater doubled in size and the entire floor of the arena shook with cracks going through it. He shot off the ground and blew a hole in the ground straight into the hollow underground below, and the six ANTs flying towards him were slammed into by a man swinging his fists and legs fast while already moving at a hundred miles per hour.

Everyone staring up at Inhuman had shaking looks on their faces as they stared at the robots which had shown off how powerful they were earlier when they had almost stopped all the U.A. second years from moving past the first event of the Sports Festival. "Oi oi," Bakugo started, his lips curling up but a nervous look in his eyes. "Are you serious-" he stopped asking, as Inhuman finished the seventh of the ANTs off only to glare up and raise his arms towards the other eight Power Loader had been holding back to try and attack more strategically after seeing how Inhuman handled the first group.

"This is…" Ectoplasm began, while Power Loader tapped into the remote as fast as he could. All the Anti-Nomu-Terminators fired before reaching Inhuman this time, and then all their trajectories changed as they were blown back up thanks to Inhuman pushing all those attacks away. Inhuman dropped far down to the ground, and the ANTs changed directions and shot down towards him to reach before he could use more attacks like that again. Two of them were much faster than the rest, and they pointed arms down at him with wide openings that glowed blue and red. Inhuman bent his knees like he was going to jump, then he darted to the left and sprinted straight towards where Iida and Uraraka were at the edge of the stadium.

"Uraraka hold on!" Iida blasted flames out of his calves, and Uraraka grabbed onto him while letting out a yell of fear as Inhuman charged them so fast. Iida started racing off while screaming in pain himself as his broken arms swung at his sides, and Uraraka shouted out his name. They raced past Bakugo and Todoroki who got up as Inhuman ran towards them, and those two jumped back as the ANTs were right behind Inhuman and they did not want to make it so the robots could not fire their attacks.

Inhuman changed targets and jumped right up onto the edge of the bleachers though. He charged at the two trying to get farther from him, breaking through chairs and bulldozing towards them without hesitation. He reached his hands forward and the boys jumping backwards felt grips around them yanking them the other direction. Inhuman did not catch them as they flew at his hands at his sides though, instead dropping his hands right before they reached, and releasing his pull. The momentum already on the boys' bodies though kept yanking them past him, and they slammed into an ANT each.

"Damn it!" Power Loader typed faster and the robots grabbed the students and flew off to the sides. Inhuman had lifted up an entire metal bench on the bleachers to throw at the robots for when they pushed the boys aside, but Power Loader was not risking leaving the two injured students in front of this monster if the ANTs were destroyed. He flew them opposite directions, while six other ANTs shot down into the gap they left behind. Inhuman lifted up the bench in both arms, his hands tightening on it while he leaned forward at the robots diving towards him. His eyes narrowed, and then the three ANTs farthest forward slammed back straight into the ones farther back. Inhuman shot off the ground as those robots collided with each other, and he swung the metal bench with all his strength around the side of his body and into two of the Terminators. He cut through their sides, and through the sides of two others past them, but one of the last two rose its arms and pushed back against that bench.

The other remaining one in front of Inhuman flew forward and grabbed him by the sides of his head, before raising up a metal knee into the villain's face. The one pushing against the bench fired jets out of its legs and pushed harder, spinning Inhuman around while knocking the bench from his hands. The two ANTs who dropped Bakugo and Todoroki at safe distances pointed their arms in, and the other two flew up as Inhuman fell spinning. A jet of red flames and a beam of blue light collided on Inhuman's body as he dropped. Then the two who had flown up fired down and rockets flew into the explosion of red and blue light where the villain had disappeared. BA-DOOM!

Bakugo and Todoroki each leaned away farther from even the distance they had been lowered by the ANTs near them that lowered their arms. Todoroki crossed his arms in front of his face while Bakugo just ground his teeth and leaned back from the flames, already enough burns on his body as it was.

"Rockets?" Ectoplasm's clone asked the man next to him.

Power Loader did not respond. The man with pale skin held his remote tightly in his right hand, leaning forward and gazing through his yellow helmet at the explosion across the stadium on its north side. "He destroyed eleven Anti-Nomus like they were toys," Power Loader replied. "I'm not taking any chances."

Uraraka let go of Iida's uniform and she winced as she fell to the ground again. She made herself weightless as she became sure that she could not longer keep standing, and she pulled herself up Iida's legs before just holding on with one hand as they stared back towards the smoke where Inhuman had just gotten blasted. Iida's arms were limp at his sides, but his legs were bent a bit at the knees as he was ready to run at a moment's notice. A silhouette appeared in that smoke and the two students leaned back with fear covering their faces.

"Who, is this guy?" Kirishima whispered, then his jaw dropped as the two robots closest to Bakugo and Todoroki ripped apart. Not many of them saw the small debris that had been tossed up inside the smoke, only to be pushed out to the sides so fast that they shredded the robots they crashed into. The two robots up in the air pointed their arms down and got ready to fire again, but Inhuman rose his arms while the smoke around him was still dispersing out to his sides. The final two ANTs got yanked down towards the outside of the arena, and then Inhuman clenched his hands into fists.

No one moved against him as he stood there holding his hands in fists. As he pushed and pulled at the same time, and his arms started shaking as he did it harder and harder every second. The metal of the robots shaking in the air started denting in, sparks flying from their joints as they creaked and cracked. Large robots more powerful than the students were crumpled up and then thrown up in the air right before they exploded. The two ANTs were close to each other in the air when they blew apart, so they made one big explosion high above the arena. As people looked up at it though, a shadow moved below that blast.

Inhuman arced up in the air and then dropped towards the stage that he landed in the middle of again. He landed and faced Midoriya who stood right in front of him. The boy with curly green hair did not step back as Inhuman landed. He bent his knees, clenched his fists, and he glared into Inhuman's eyes with his power filling him.

"Midoriya," Yaoyorozu whispered as she looked towards the center of the stage from the edge she was kneeling on. She was terrified, but the look on her classmate's face made her hands tighten on the stun guns she had created for herself and Shoji. Her own shaking legs steadied and she started back to her feet. Then in the corner of her eyes, she saw a darkness that made her turn and stare back towards a boy who had been thrown past her before.

All those Ants. He's a monster. He, he took down robots supposed to be capable of fighting Nomus. Whatever this guy is, I won't let him start killing my classmates. Zach marched forward, and he let out a long exhale that covered the air in front of his face in a thick black steam. Inhuman. I won't let you succeed. "Extinction." You're insane. And I, am going to stop you!

After Yaoyorozu looked towards where Zach surrounded in darkness, her eyes just kept getting wider at the sight of the boy walking forward. Shoji turned too, and Kirishima, Uraraka, and Iida looked over when they saw the rising darkness that made them stare in shock. The bones Yaoyorozu saw through the front of Zach's black veil became impossible to see, and his waving hair above his head vanished as it just started looking like a dark flame over him instead. When he walked, the darkness pulled off the back of his body leaving a trail of dark wisps behind him that twisted around and swirled up and away a few feet before fading.

I'm so strong right now. Spinner, taking your life felt good. I hated it. I was sad, despite everything you did. But the moment I did it, I felt good like I always do. And just like always, even though you never knew it, killing has made me stronger. This strong though… Zach started raising his arms and wisps rose off of them where the darkness was thicker than Zach had ever seen it when he was not trying to focus in one spot. It felt like he was covered in Death Grenades, and his lips curled up making the black veil in front of his face rise up too. His white skull barely translucent through the veil lifted its jaw into a smile, and Zach's red eyes flared through the veil as he jumped up and landed at the edge of the stage only ten feet away from Yaoyorozu.

Everyone else was looking towards him now. Not just the others who had been fighting Inhuman, but everyone in the stadium was staring towards the arena and the dark force surrounded in a black flame. Yaoyorozu was the closest so she could see it the clearest, even though a few others noticed it too. She stared at the smile on Zach's face in that darkness, and she stared at the boy who should not have been able to get up there so easily after the injuries she saw him sustain. Then her eyes shot open huge as she thought about a night months ago back on the roof of their dorm building, "I learned during my training with the villains, that killing got rid of that exhaustion. Killing doesn't just feel good, it, it rejuvenated me, but I always pretended to still be exhausted to the villains so they'd never catch on. It was one of the few things I was able to hide…"

How Zach was able to get back up there echoed in Yaoyorozu's mind, and it confirmed to her what she thought may have happened when Zach was kneeling with Spinner. She stared closer at his face though and that dark smile, and a lump formed in her throat while a pit filled her aching stomach. "But that might not have been the reason. I wasn't just hiding that, to keep secrets from the villains. Maybe I was just hiding it, because it scares me." Zach, you don't- "Zach," Yaoyorozu began aloud as the boy in front of her breathed out a heavy breath of dark steam in front of his face. His red eyes widened a bit as he heard her voice not far from him, and then his lowering smile froze as she called to him, "Do it."

Zach clenched his teeth and forced his smile up still, even as he became nervous as to what he was thinking when he came up there. Stronger, yeah. But don't get carried away. "Let's do it Midoriya!" Zach shouted at the boy who had also turned to him like Inhuman when the dark form of Zach's appeared. Zach bent his legs, and then he kicked off the ground hard with black wind coming off the bottoms of his feet as he did. The ground cracked below where he kicked off, and black baseball-sized spheres formed over both of Zach's hands without him needing to charge them very much.

"Together!" Midoriya agreed with a shout, the ground cracking beneath his feet too.

Zach threw the spheres of Death forward before he or Midoriya would reach. Inhuman narrowed his eyes and the balls shot backwards, only for Zach to hold his hands out and catch both of them back in his palms so they would not fly past him. He forced more black wind out the back of his body to keep pushing forward through the pushing force he felt slam into him. Midoriya had kicked off harder himself so when the push hit him while still at a distance thanks to Zach's throws, he managed to push through it too. The two of them shot at Inhuman who leapt backwards while raising his arms with his palms opened. The boys expected a pulling force, but those palms clenched into fists and Inhuman jumped straight back to where he was after landing on his dodge back.

Midoriya yanked his head away and dodged even though he was not expecting the hand punching at him. Zach was a little slower, but he still rose up his arms and wrapped Inhuman around the punching arm as it neared his chest. Inhuman's fist hit him in the chest though, and his arms got thrown off of the villain before his whole body slammed down into the ground. Zach bounced backwards, then Midoriya got slammed down too only by an invisible force as his foot was in the middle of colliding under Inhuman's chin. Midoriya slammed into the floor while the villain stumbled back himself.

Zach bounced up after hitting the ground, and he shook his head while spinning around in the air. He hit the floor on his butt and rolled back before planting his feet and digging them down. He slammed his hands into the ground too, ignoring the pain in his left, and he dragged his fingers into the floor leaving ten marks dragging across the solid arena. Zach ripped back with those hands and threw some debris up covered in black veils while also sending himself flying forward back at Inhuman. "INHUMAN!" Zach yelled in his dark, overlapping voice. He focused Death up at his head and twisted his body by forcing out Death around him in a circle from all sides of his body one part at a time. "Human Death Spear!" Zach yelled, swinging his arms up through the pointed Death missile he was in the middle of.

Inhuman leapt up high into the air, and Zach missed his attack so he dropped into a roll before raising his arms over his head again. All of the dark aura around him started gathering into one place, and he spun around his body before throwing that huge mass of darkness up in the air. Inhuman glared at the huge sphere rising at him, and it exploded out before reaching him to his sides and out past his body, but none of it touched him. Zach grinned though as that happened, When he touched me before, it might have just been for a second, but…

He's slower, Midoriya thought too, noticing it as well as spotting how Inhuman had been panting a second before leaping away. Midoriya had to wait until the Death faded from the air to keep attacking, but apparently Inhuman did not. A small hole blasted in the veil in the air and Inhuman dropped through it so fast that he hit the arena and cracks split it a hundred different ways. He landed closer to Zach than Midoriya, and Midoriya kicked off of the rising piece of floor he was on that split midway up. He shot towards Inhuman while Zach yelled out in pain from all the debris smashing into him, and the green haired boy smashed straight through rocks as he pulled his leg back behind him.

Inhuman charged at Zach while lifting his left hand, and he pulled Midoriya's leg towards him fast before letting go right away. He just made Midoriya spin around a few times and wind to fly out in all directions around him, sending the debris rising from the stage blasting out to the sides. Inhuman meanwhile, grabbed a huge rock that rose up when he smashed the stage, and he slammed it into Zach's face right in his glowing red eyes. Zach's thoughts got jumbled as his feet lifted off the floor, then Inhuman pushed the rock forward using his Quirk.

Zach was already lifted off the floor with a rock in his face, but that rock broke apart as a massive force slammed into the boy surrounded in a black aura. But… I was so… stro- Zach's back slammed into the wall of the arena so hard that the entire wall collapsed on top of him.

"Zach!" Shoji, Yaoyorozu, and Kirishima all shouted back towards where the wall collapsed on their classmate.

"SMASH!" Midoriya slammed his right leg into the front of Inhuman's body, and he grit his teeth so hard as he forced himself up to 25%. He felt his leg creaking, his bones straining as he forced out the top level of his power without taking himself out of commission. He hit Inhuman in his left arm that the villain rose up to block with, but it was still a strong enough kick that he sent the villain flying backwards and gasping out as the leg pushed his arm into his muscular chest.

Inhuman hit the ground outside of the stage, and he started rolling only for the ground around him to cover in an ice sheet. Ice rose up around Inhuman and surrounded his body completely this time instead of leaving his face uncovered like the first time Todoroki tried. I can't, Todoroki thought while forcing a giant ice spike out of the ground around Inhuman including over his head. There was a broken ANT only a few meters away from him, and remains of others were littered about the stadium. Anything less than- Todoroki stomped his right foot down harder as the huge ice spike broke apart. No break! He instantly shot more ice towards the villain in the middle who blew the ice apart, but Inhuman had his left hand risen to the side.

Todoroki had to cut off his ice before even starting it again, because Iida and Uraraka came flying towards Inhuman and would have got caught inside the ice spike. Midoriya flew towards him faster than the two being yanked his way, and Inhuman spun towards the boy reaching him faster than any of the others were moving. How can he take these hits?! Midoriya spun his leg, but Inhuman ducked down and then Midoriya went flying away from him. As Midoriya flew back, Inhuman started running forward, letting Iida and Uraraka crash down past where he had been standing. He charged at Midoriya who turned himself in midair, only for a giant fist the size of his torso to slam down in his gut. Inhuman's hand opened up after hitting Midoriya, and the boy who just slammed into the floor pulled fast back up only to be punched into the floor again. Inhuman started dribbling him by opening his fist and pulling him up only to punch him down again, and he did it five times before he kept his palm open and grabbed around Midoriya as he bounced back up. He lifted the boy he grabbed and Midoriya screamed as a tazer stuck into his chest from Shoji's stun gun.

The six-armed boy opened his eyes wide, then Inhuman growled, "Dead humans should stay dead." Shoji flew straight up into the air. A look of sheer terror covered Mezo Shoji's face as this was exactly what he remembered before he died earlier. Then the ground all around Inhuman cracked apart from his left and right sides at the same time. His head started pointing down before he could slam Shoji into the floor now a hundred feet below him. Shoji spread his webbed arms and started gliding towards the stands where he could be back on solid ground at least before heading back to the arena, panting hard while looking down to see what it was that caused Inhuman to stop attacking him.

Out from the floor on Inhuman's left side, three thick spiky vines of blond hair shot out of the ground and wrapped around his body. Similar vines came out of the ground on Inhuman's right, only green and wrapping around Inhuman's legs and pulling them together tightly. The blond ones squeezed on Inhuman's torso, though the blond boy across the arena who stood near his green haired classmate whose power he Copied was struggling to squeeze Inhuman's muscular body. Monoma and Shiozaki squeezed tighter, and as Inhuman lowered his hands and grabbed at the vines on him, the ground beneath his feet turned soft and he started sinking down.

Juzo Honenuki stepped forward on Kirishima's right side while the red-haired boy panted and rubbed some more blood out of his eyes at what he was seeing. "Class, B," Kirishima said. He glanced the other way towards some rubble and a boy he was worried about, but he had faith in his classmate buried in there. Come on, Zach. We need your help. Kirishima turned back towards Inhuman but muttered, "Where's Tetsutetsu?"

"Got taken down fighting some villains, but he's alive," Honenuki replied fast to Kirishima, while daring another step forward to increase the strength of his Softening. "Do it, Yui!" He shouted as he could see the monster struggling to lift his legs from the ground.

Kirishima noticed after Honenuki mentioned other fights, the boy next to him without any lips had a bloody gash on his back and some blood on his left hand. Even though Class B had not been down there with them on the arena, it was clear they had been fighting too. Others besides Kirishima in Class A looked behind Honenuki to where a girl rose up more than twice her size and spun her body, throwing the classmate in her hands across the stage towards where Inhuman was sinking. The large boy Yui Kodai struggled to toss had a strange appearance with seven eye holes on the top of his oddly-shaped sand-colored head.

Kojiro Bondo started using his Quirk, Cemedine, as he got close to Inhuman. The liquid that looked like glue or cement considering it could harden fast came down in a wave towards Inhuman. Then all of that Cemedine blew up into Kojiro's body while he was still dropping. He was knocked backwards by a force too while surrounding in his own Quirk, and Honenuki spun his head and called out his classmate's name. "Look out!" Kirishima jumped forward and yelled, "UNBREAKABLE!" Honenuki started looking back, his eyes widening as a giant piece of metal from a destroyed ANT had been flying his way. It smashed into Kirishima fast, and the debris exploded out away from him. It hit Kirishima hard enough though that he was pushed back into Honenuki while surrounded in his strongest Hardening.

"Ahh!" Honenuki let out a yell as Kirishima slammed into his front, knocking him backwards so his Quirk failed on Inhuman who had not risen out of the floor yet.

Inhuman lowered his arms and grabbed the blond vines wrapping around his body. He ripped them apart to his sides, then he rose both arms and pushed his palms out against Midoriya's leg that got swung at him. His hands pushed back towards him, but he clenched them both around the leg while Midoriya's eyes opened wide. He spun Midoriya around his back and threw him into an incoming jet of flames, and Todoroki clenched his open left hand fast into a fist, stomping his right foot forward and slamming ice up in front of the flames just in time. Inhuman looked over his shoulder after seeing Todoroki's fast reaction time, and he glared at the ice spike that shattered a second after Midoriya hit it, with Midoriya smashing through and straight back into Todoroki. The two of them slammed into the bleachers and Inhuman smirked as he heard their screams.

Then the dark villain in all black turned his head to look across the arena. He glared at a girl with green hair who was struggling as he tried pulling his feet apart from each other, and she screamed as she was thrown to the side into Monoma who just started turning towards her. Shoji landed up in the stands, and he looked down at Inhuman while panting, his hands shaking in terror at the sight of that villain who finally yanked his feet apart. In a few seconds, Class B's reinforcements… He saw where Kojiro Bondo had landed on Yui Kodai and they were struggling to get out of Kojiro's hardening glue. Then Shoji looked down to see Kirishima on his hands and knees trying to help Honenuki. Monoma was getting up from beneath Shiozaki and he started shaking her around with a panicked look on his face at the blood running down the right side of her forehead.

Shoji looked back towards Inhuman, Who is this guy?

"Now then," Inhuman said in a deep voice, walking forward and on top of some debris. He walked up some destroyed pieces of stage at its outside then up onto the cracked surface. He stepped forward on it and to the middle of the arena. Inhuman took a deep breath and he reached down to his side, and every student there trying to fight him stared in horror as he lifted up a small black box from his pocket. He opened it, and inside the box was a needle that had been undamaged in the fight so far.

If a villain this strong already… Yaoyorozu stepped forward on shaky legs. She was still on the stage, the only other person actually, though on the outside of it. "Why?" She looked towards Inhuman and called out to the villain who looked at the girl closest to him, a pile of rubble behind her off the stage at the arena wall. Zach! Get up! Midoriya, Bakugo, Todoroki! Everyone catch your breath, come up with a plan, and win! We cannot let this villain inject himself with Trigger! In Yaoyorozu's mind the second she saw Inhuman pull out a needle, she saw a horrible future that had her legs shaking and her heart pounding faster than ever. She saw Inhuman standing there in the middle of the stadium, while everything around him blew away. She saw all of her classmates, the stage below him, the bleachers and walls of the stadium, all the people still on them, heroes and villains and civilians alike. "Extinction." "INHUMAN!" "Humans, so quick to kill each other if given orders…"

"What do you have against humanity?" Yaoyorozu asked the villain in front of her. "Why, do you need to do something like this?" Why tell us what your goal is? Why use a villain name like Inhuman, unless you're trying to make a point? Please, God, let this work! "You don't seem like just another of the League of Villains," Yaoyorozu said, and she did not need to fake her expression while saying it to this monster who was like none of the others they had seen so far. "So why?! Why work for them? Why do all this?"

Inhuman stared straight down into Yaoyorozu's eyes. The tall, busty girl standing there felt such intense terror as she looked back into Inhuman's gaze. Without even moving, she knew he could throw her so fast backwards that she would likely die when she finally hit something. "But my own personal goal is simpler. And that is: Extinction." I don't want to know the answer, but- "Who are you?" Yaoyorozu asked, her eyes full of fear and her legs shaking as she asked it. "Why do you want to wipe out, humanity?"

"Because humanity is a scourge," Inhuman replied. His black eyes with yellow pupils narrowed at the young girl in a blue gym uniform. He paused after saying it, but he did not turn his attention from her to the others around the stage. "To stand before me and ask 'why' while in so much fear, you have gained my respect, human." Inhuman stood up straight and lowered the Trigger vial down. "So I will tell you, why it is you must die today."

As much as it was what Yaoyorozu was hoping for, her skin only paled more as Inhuman said that. I only have until he's finished speaking! If I try raising my stun guns, he'll blow me away before I fire. Midoriya! Get up! She could see her classmate in the corner of her vision getting up, despite all the damage he took the last time he attacked. Momo was careful not to actually look Midoriya's way though, giving Inhuman her undivided attention to show how much she cared about this, or to show him respect, or just in fear that if she looked away he would choose to kill her in that moment.

Midoriya pushed his hands on the ground in front of him and coughed, and blood splashed down onto the floor between his hands. He glanced to the right and saw Todoroki leaning up from the hole in the stands behind them where they had been smashed as he went flying through Todoroki's last ice wall. Todoroki had blood coming down the corners of his lips, feeling the cracked ribs in his chest and the bruised stomach messing with him. He almost could not push himself out of the hole, but he opened his eyes and saw Yaoyorozu down there standing in front of the villain all by herself. It gave him the extra strength, though he did gasp as he felt something poking into his lungs, and his gasp sent some flying bloody spit out just as Midoriya had spat red at the floor.

He's so strong, Midoriya thought, looking away from Todoroki and back towards the stage. He could see Yaoyorozu on one side of the stage, and she was looking straight at Inhuman with a terrified look on her face as they talked. Yaoyorozu's giving us a few seconds. I don't know how long it will last though, and she can't protect herself if he pushes her away as fast as he threw me. Who else can still move? Midoriya looked around, and his eyes opened wide as he stared around the arena.

Iida was panting heavily as he stood back up on shaky legs, puffs of smoke coming out of his calves a couple of times before the exhausts in the back actually started glowing orange. Uraraka climbed up his right leg and held onto his side, placing her feet down gently while keeping her own gravity off. She had a chunk of stadium wall in her right hand too, weightless and ready to be thrown, even though the hand holding it was cut up and bloody. Iida's arms were down at his sides, his right one dripping a lot of blood fast, but he could not feel the pain in them anymore as he saw his fellow class rep standing there alone in front of the villain.

Kirishima stood up and balled his fists. Honenuki looked up from behind him where he had a bloody gash on his face after a super-hardened Kirishima had slammed back into him, and there was a piece of blue gym uniform jacket wrapped around his forehead tightly. Kirishima stood there shirtless with his muscular body hardened, and he bared his teeth as he stared towards the villain who just said he would kill Yaoyorozu. We have to stop him, Kirishima thought, and he wiped blood from his eyes again before raising his fists in front of him.

"Humanity is the most flawed species in this world," Inhuman started to the girl with a dark ponytail who stood before him. "Always fighting amongst themselves, from the very beginning. And there will always be fighting. Always be war. Even in schools they teach children to fight, to stand for something, because others stand for something else." Inhuman shook his head and his expression got even darker as he glared at the sixteen year old girl. "World peace is something so many talk about like it is an attainable goal, but that is false. There can never be peace."

"Wh-Why not?" Yaoyorozu asked. "If villains like you didn't do things like this," she continued, her voice hurried and sweat covering her face. "Then children wouldn't have to fight. It's the fault of-"

"The attack would have happened whether or not I joined them," Inhuman said, looking down on the girl standing twelve meters in front of him. "An attack like this would have happened even without the League of Villains. Villains would exist even if All Might was still the Symbol. Because he was the Symbol of Peace, in a world that can never know such a thing. Not so long as humans exist." Inhuman did not look away from Yaoyorozu, but a chunk of arena that had broken off the side of the stage suddenly flew towards the bleachers high up and slammed into an Ectoplasm clone that had just flown down to Bakugo and was flying around the edge of the lower bleachers in Todoroki's direction.

Damn it, Ectoplasm thought from inside a tunnel of the Sports Festival's stadium where he was facing off against four villains with only Present Mic at his side. They were strong villains too, and ones that knew each other well enough that they had combos using each others' moves.

"Fuck," Bakugo muttered under his breath, as he had told that Ectoplasm something when the teacher tried getting his help. Ectoplasm's clone never got to send his message and the teacher's own to the others, but Bakugo did not know if he should start running towards them to tell them either. Is he going to kill anything that moves? Bakugo thought, while his arms started twitching at his sides from him trying to move them. Alright fuck it. Bakugo's fists clenched and his entire arms screamed in pain. This guy's in charge now. He's the strongest one here. Bakugo's lips twisted up and he leaned forward with a dangerous smirk on his face. So I'm going to beat him!

Yaoyorozu darted a glance to her left when the debris flew away, but she snapped her gaze back so fast as Inhuman had never turned and kept speaking to her. "Do you know why, humans can never know peace?" Inhuman asked.

Yaoyorozu gulped but shook her head once. "Because of discrimination," Inhuman said. "It is something that will always exist. People, will always desire what others have. Others have those things because they were born in different circumstances. Their lives were inherently different. This unfairness leads people to envy, and desire, and lust after others' things." Inhuman's voice was deep, and it started pushing farther from his body with every new word out of his mouth. "And they steal, and take, and rob each other. But those with more don't see things like those with less do. They try to protect their things, but the others still try to take them. And they steal life from one another." Inhuman said the last part in a sadder tone, his eyes lowering down to the stage for a moment. Then he rose his gaze into Yaoyorozu's eyes and she felt chills course through her body.

Those eyes! More sweat covered the girl who felt shivers through her body as Inhuman continued, staring deep into her eyes and straight into her soul. "But those with more things can beat down those with less, unless those with less band together. Then when they have more, others band together to take from them. There will never be equality. Never be a world where people are equal in the amount they have. When some people have so much more than others for no reason at all, how could others not start to hate them while envying all they have?"

Inhuman posed the question and Yaoyorozu's breath caught in her throat. She had been trying to breathe calmly, but that statement made her freeze and her eyes to grow even wider. My house, she saw a mansion. My things, she saw her bed that filled her entire room, and how she had compared her room to a closet in front of classmates who had already looked shocked by her furniture. Is that, is having those things- do people dislike me because of it? Yaoyorozu's eyes got even wider, but she started breathing again as a steadier look formed on her face.

"The poor will always want what the rich have. As long as people don't own the same things, there will be violence. Because inequality in any form, even of wealth, belongings, family, is still inequality. People born in worse places will despise those born in better lands. Discrimination can't be ended. Discrimination leads to envy. Envy breeds hatred. And hated will always lead to violence-"

"You're wrong," Yaoyorozu said, her hands tightening on the stun guns at her sides. Inhuman's voice was echoing around the arena and the bottom rows of the bleachers where some others who were fighting him were still standing. Yaoyorozu cut him off though, and yet she held firm even as he started glaring at her for countering views he obviously held with great weight. "Not all people are like that."

"They are," Inhuman repeated.

"Not Zach!" Yaoyorozu shouted at him, and others around the stage looked towards Yaoyorozu in surprise as she said it. "He's, he's seen my house," Yaoyorozu said. It was the thing that stopped her from thinking in such a disturbed way about the villain's ideology. It stopped her from actually believing the words coming out of his mouth, and she continued in a loud and firm voice, "He knows the life I live. He's seen how big my house is, seen the money I was born into…" She pursed her lips for a second, then she said with a frustrated look on her face but a strong voice coming out, "He's had such a hard life, but he's never asked me for anything. Any money even though he has none…"

In Yaoyorozu's head she thought about all the days she had gone to Zach's room so they could work on their final reports together. She had told him once about the phone call she caught the end of between him and his Aunt Maye and cousin Tsura. He told me his living situation, but he just asked I not make a big deal of it. She bit her teeth down and then called out, "And even though the villains burned his apartment down, and he didn't own any of his own things, he never asked for anything. Even though he doesn't have any family, he's never hated me for mine. How can what you're saying be true, if someone with so little doesn't hate someone like me?"

Inhuman leaned back, then he growled, "He does hate you." His voice was angry, and the dark villain continued, "You may not know it, but inside him he despises you. You who claim to have, and those who have not, you will never be able to live together in peace. You humans will continue to kill and murder and steal life from each other as you have for tens of thousands of years. Your violence is never-ending-"

Inhuman's head started spinning to his right, but the push he sent out in that direction missed the boy who expected it and changed his flight path midway with an explosion beneath him. He had fired himself so fast towards the stage by making an enormous blast that the noise came out of right as he was making his second explosion, and the push from Inhuman slammed into the outside of Katsuki Bakugo's first huge blast. Bakugo rose above the push that flew beneath him, just dodging as he was able to force out a second explosion before screaming in agony. As soon as that push flew beneath Bakugo though, Midoriya was shooting forward and he reached Inhuman just as Bakugo was lifting over the top of the villain's head.

Midoriya slammed a kick into Inhuman's face and pushed hard into it before twisting his body and slamming the villain backwards into the air. A huge spike of ice rose towards Inhuman's left side, and he glared towards it after shaking his head from that kick, and the ice shattered apart before the spike could reach him. Right after the spike broke apart, Iida sped by the side of it with the red light from his calves turning blue. He reached the spot the villain was coming down before he hit, and the teenager dodged the punch Inhuman slammed at him while moving his top speed. He slammed his right leg with blue light coming out the back into Inhuman's left leg, and then Midoriya punched his right fist into Inhuman's chest and ground his teeth in pain as he felt his bones grinding. Bring it higher! He thought, as he reached up to 28%.

Inhuman flew backwards coughing, spit coming out of his mouth after those consecutive hits. He still rose his right hand though while his mouth was open with spit coming out of it, and Todoroki brought his left hand back down again. Can't use flames, Todoroki formed an ice trail in front of him and pointed the left hand behind him instead, using his fire for a different method. He blasted himself towards Inhuman while thinking, Not from a distance. Not when he can pull someone in front of them. But from close-

Inhuman saw Todoroki's thought process as the boy shot towards him, but he could not just switch plans that easily. The screaming boy he had started pulling towards him opened his bloodshot eyes and rose his arms that Inhuman stared at with huge eyes since they had looked impossible to move. Bakugo's mouth opened into a mad smile even as his face looked insane and full of pain. "DIE!" Bakugo screamed, and blood splashed out of his forearms as he blew an explosion out at Inhuman, only for it to be pushed away from the villain. As the explosion pushed back though into the boy screaming in agony, a jet of flames pushed through that explosion's smoke and slammed into Inhuman who had taken his eyes off Todoroki even though he knew he was coming.

"Throw me!" A voice screamed while Inhuman was surrounded in flames. He was slammed back by the fire, but all the fire pushed away from him at once right as he hit the floor. His costume burned off of his arms and legs, leaving him sleeveless and showing off all of his dark tan muscles that flexed as he dragged his fingers into the floor at the edge of the arena. He snapped his head to the left and saw Kirishima flying towards him surrounded in Unbreakable, blood coming off the sides of the boy's body while he was swung by a bunch of long blond vines. Monoma yelled out as he snapped his head and threw Kirishima out of the vines thanks to the Quirk he copied from Ibara Shiozaki. His green-haired classmate had his jacket wrapped around her head, and Honenuki was over near her but looking back wide-eyed as Kirishima was thrown fast at Inhuman right after the villain had used his pushing power.

Kirishima brought both arms back behind him, and he slammed them forward right as he reached Inhuman who lifted both of his larger hands in front of him to block. Kirishima's fists collided with Inhuman's muscly palms, and blood splashed out of the villain's palms at how hard Kirishima hit him. An a different liquid splashed out when Kirishima slammed his fists there, something that made everyone looking close enough to see open their eyes wide with hopeful looks. Glass imbedded in Inhuman's hand, and the villain whose vial of Trigger just shattered growled while clenching his open palms over Kirishima's hardened fists. He spun to the side to try and slam the diamond-hard boy into the other student flying at him, but Midoriya ducked in midair then continued his spinning-kick under Inhuman's arms and into his stomach. HIGHER! He hit 31%, and he felt the tendons in his right leg start ripping, and his left shin screamed out in pain as small fractures hit it.

Inhuman blasted backwards and smashed into an arena wall, blowing it apart around him with debris flying all over the place. All of that debris rising in the air stopped though, and it all shot forward ridiculously fast at the students who stared in horror for an instant. An ice wall rose up in front of all that debris, blocking it all because of how thick the wall was. Then Todoroki dropped down off of an ice wave behind the wall he created, and he slammed his left hand into the center of the wall while his entire left side of his body glowed red. "Piercing Flame!" A thin beam of fire cut through the wave that had even blocked all of the debris Inhuman smashed at it, and then that thin beam expanded ten times its size and ripped the wall apart.

Everyone stared through the falling ice at the point in the wall where Todoroki's flame beam collided, then their heads snapped up as an ice chunk came flying down so fast into the boy who created it himself. "Todoroki!" Midoriya shouted, then snapped his head up again to see Inhuman had risen above the flames and hidden in the falling ice. The villain jumped from one chunk, and another flew over towards his open hand that he slammed his feet down on instead. "Full Cowling," Midoriya bent his legs and they ground in even more pain. "THIRTY-FIVE PERCENT!" He shot off of the ground and through the bottom of the ice chunk Inhuman jumped off of to dodge him.

Inhuman spun and blasted a huge force in the direction of the boy who just hit that ice. Midoriya shot down to a chunk of falling debris that had been lodged in the side of the ice farther from all the students, and he used it to shoot himself behind Inhuman and into a much larger piece of ice that got cracks all around it from how fast Midoriya had to dodge that push. Midoriya used Inhuman's own pushed debris as a foothold, one that shattered apart after he flew off of it even before Inhuman's push blew that smaller debris into dust. The air on one side of Inhuman became clear of all debris as the ice and rubble shot away into the bleachers, but another wave of ice rose up over the stands as it all came crashing down. Heroes and villains in the middle of fights higher up in the stands lifted their heads as the shadow came over them, and then that smaller wave shattered and all started falling, but at least it was falling slow enough for everyone to run around and dodge it, or destroy it with their own Quirks.

Midoriya bent down on the ice chunk he had slammed into, while Todoroki pushed off the rest of the ice Inhuman had smashed on him. Todoroki coughed up some blood, then he pointed his left hand up in the air and fired a blast into the sky. Midoriya swung his right leg at Inhuman when the villain tried pulling him close, and Inhuman had to stop and then yell out in pain again as his body was surrounded in fire. All the rest of the ice debris melted as they dropped down into the ground, and then a gust of wind slammed into everyone still around the arena.

Inhuman fell right on top of the stage, but the stage around him started ripping apart. Cracks spread over more of the regular arena floor, pieces of fighting stage went flying out to the sides, and students got pushed backwards or even thrown off of their feet. How is he still getting stronger- Midoriya froze as he pushed back against the force, staring towards the middle of the stage where Inhuman had risen up. The man looked even bulkier than before, a crazier grin on his face even as he was panting and had blood coming down from the right corner of his lips. Midoriya glanced down at the bloody hands of the villain, specifically the hand that had been holding the Trigger vial. In the wound Kirishima cut in his palm, did some of the Trigger get into his bloodstream?! Is 35 still not enough!? Midoriya could feel his body already close to breaking, and he was trying as hard as he could not to go up to 100%.

"Humans!" Inhuman shouted, bringing his elbows down to his sides and snapping his head back as he shouted. "You cannot stop me! You who are so violent! Your discrimination, your envy, your hatred, it's a never-ending cycle!"

Midoriya stomped towards Inhuman and shouted at the villain while swinging his aching right arm out to the side, "You claim we're all so violent, but how is what you're doing helping the problem! You're just-"

"When did I say I wanted to do that?" Inhuman asked, turning his head and lifting it to stare down into Midoriya's eyes. The force stopped pushing away from him and he kept panting, but he smirked menacingly with blood between his teeth while glaring his yellow eyes into the boy's. "I was just explaining why humans are violent beings inherently, and why I am Inhuman!" He shouted, and he rose up his arms at his sides, the broken ground at his feet pushing off the floor and then hovering at his sides as he clenched his hands into fists creating an equal force on the sides of the rubble. "Because I will create equality!" He yelled, while cracks covered all those rocks from the pressure on both sides and split them all into tinier pieces. "When I am the only one left! It is the only way. But, once I am the only one left alive, no one else with more or less than me… I will have lost something that defines humanity. Their violence against their own species, it's what makes them human. So what will I become when there are no other humans?" A mad look spread over Inhuman's face, and he yelled, "That's what I want to find out!"

My moment! Yaoyorozu stood directly behind Inhuman, having made it look like she was just running towards an injured classmate while she was still in his peripheral vision. She got out of his eyesight and then started creating, and she had gotten closer to his back too. She stood there holding a pair of pistols, not the same stun guns she had before. She no longer thought they would be enough after seeing Shoji use one accidentally on Midoriya only for him to still be able to fight afterwards.

Yaoyorozu held real pistols in her hands, and she rose them and the silencers on the barrels towards Inhuman's back. She brought them down a little and pointed at the back of Inhuman's legs right as he finished yelling at Midoriya, and she knew she only had a moment but the guns still started shaking. It's okay! Just like Snipe sensei does- Her guns that started to steady as she told herself that it was okay to shoot someone, froze completely right as her eyes shot open huge. They bulged because she thought about Snipe, and she remembered something another villain had told her after she arrived down on the fighting stage that was in pieces in front of her now.

Yaoyorozu had tazed the female villain with the katana, and Kirishima had defeated the one in the white robe. She had seen Zach kill Spinner too, which she knew now for sure after seeing how strong Zach had been when he finally used his Nightmare form. But she also remembered that Zach was not the one who actually defeated Spinner. She remembered that there was a fifth villain down there, one who had not stepped in but she had caught a glimpse of earlier in the battle staying far from Inhuman. The man had looked hesitant about going along with Inhuman's orders, but she had also considered that maybe he thought his new boss had the fight under control. So as she stood there with the drop on Inhuman, a sudden thought hit her right before she was going to fire the silenced pistols in her hands. What if- BANG!

Her guns were silenced, so the sound of that gunshot made her entire body tense up in terror. She knew it was herself the gun was fired at, and she clenched her eyes shut as she dropped the pistols from her hands. Yaoyorozu's head started to bow and she opened her eyes as she looked at her chest, because she heard the shot come from behind her. She opened her eyes and expected to see red all over the front of her body, then her eyes shot open much wider at what she saw in her peripherals. Inhuman spun around furiously at that gunshot, only for a kick to slam into the side of his head and send him flying off the stage. Yaoyorozu kept turning though, while Midoriya just glanced over before turning to Inhuman and shooting after him again as the villain rolled back onto his feet.

Behind Yaoyorozu, in between her and that villain who lowered his hand-guns with a shocked look on his face, a dark form stood looking straight at her with glowing red eyes that somehow looked worried. Ow, Zach thought, before snapping his head to the side and raising his right palm that formed a sphere of black over it. He spun around towards the bleachers and stomped his right foot towards them, while Yaoyorozu stared at his back in shock that it had a flaring black aura coming out of it. K-Blaster scrambled backwards as the boy glared towards him with his scary red eyes, after barely flinching from the cluster shot in the back. "DEATH GRENADE!" Zach yelled in fury, and he threw the sphere as a line-drive towards where K-Blaster was running towards.

The villain turned and dove, but just dodging the spot the sphere landed was not good enough. The Death Grenade's black shrapnel blew off of the attack and slammed into K-Blaster. The villain on his hands and knees trying to scramble away collapsed with his eyes rolling into the back of his head. Zach watched it happen, then he turned again and looked at Yaoyorozu worriedly. His skull was visible through the black veil now, and Zach did not feel any stronger than when he usually used Nightmare. Even though he felt pretty tired though, his power still felt like it would if he used this form normally. "Are you alright?" Zach asked, his voice strained as he questioned the girl before him.

"Z-Zach," Yaoyorozu started. "What about you?" She asked nervously. She could hear the strain in his voice, but he turned away after she asked the question.

"I'm fine, I focused Death around my back even more than it usually is already," Zach said. He glared towards the side of the arena where Midoriya stood alone facing Inhuman, both of them panting, both with blood coming down from the corners of their lips, but Midoriya's entire body shaking as he stood there like he was at his very limit. "We have to beat him, Momo," Zach said, and the girl who just glanced over towards the rubble she had thought Zach was trapped in snapped her head back to look at him. He turned and looked at her through his red eyes, his vision tinted red because of it. He looked in her eyes and saw not a trace of fear as she looked back into his. "Until we beat him, this won't end."

Midoriya flew across the entire arena in two seconds. He slammed into the bleachers halfway up the stadium, and the other students around the arena looked back in horror as their classmate was just hit by something that should have killed… They all stared up and watched as Midoriya stepped through the dust that rose from him slamming into that spot in the bleachers. Midoriya brought his elbows down to his sides this time, and he yelled down and across the stage towards Inhuman, "You're wrong! Humans might be violent sometimes, there may be all the bad parts of them that you say there are, but there's something you don't understand! We're all fighting right now not because we hate, but because we want to protect! People risk their lives for others who they don't even know. You know why?!" Midoriya bent his knees, and then he shot off the bleachers leaving a crater in it, that doubled in size and blasted up rubble as he flew back the way he came just as fast. "Humans are inherently good!"

Zach sprinted towards Inhuman, and a smile spread over his dark face as he heard something he had said himself during their final reports. It was a main point of his paper, and a part of him thought that maybe Midoriya had actually thought about it because of that. He had no idea how much the boy flying towards Inhuman with his right leg pulling out at his side had thought about that though. Midoriya shot towards Inhuman, thinking, Yaoyorozu was right. Everything he says is wrong. Because if all of that could happen to you, only for you to still be here as a hero, Zach! And if you can still think that after everything! Then I can believe it too! Midoriya felt it getting stronger in his right leg, without him even trying to force the percentage up. He just felt it getting stronger, and yet he did not feel his bones grinding any harder than before. Forty percent! Forty-five! Midoriya reached Inhuman with his entire body starting to shake as One For All glowed through him.

FIFTY! Midoriya kicked down beneath him with his left leg, and with that much power flowing through him, he dodged the push from Inhuman with ease. He rose over the villain's head and reached down with both hands, grabbing the villain and spinning around his body, throwing him back towards the middle of the arena as his momentum was going to keep him going into the rubble behind Inhuman after that midair dodge. He threw Inhuman and then pressed his left leg back out into the wall he collided with, keeping his right bent at his side and tensing even more as he pulled it farther back. TIME TO FINISH THIS!

Zach crossed his arms as the push Inhuman missed Midoriya with slammed into him and the rest of the others around him. The powerful villain knocked Yaoyorozu back, but as she was rising off the ground, six arms caught her and pulled her into the tallest boy in their class's chest. Zach glanced back and saw Shoji catch Yaoyorozu, and then he saw Uraraka flying away without any gravity, but Uraraka shouted down at the rest of them, "WIN!"

Kirishima skid back twenty feet on Zach's right side, until he had skid past Zach himself and had to push his feet down harder as he saw Zach standing still despite that push. Iida forced more heat out of his calves as he was skidding back on Zach's other side, and then the three of them charged forward right as Midoriya threw Inhuman their way. The push had just happened, so Inhuman could not use it as fast or as strong from what the others had experienced so far. Zach jumped up, leaving dark footprints behind on the floor and a trail through the air he crossed while raising both arms out at his sides. He swept one arm forward and then the other, and Inhuman glared at that wind as it was about to reach him, blowing the rest of it away with as much push as he managed to recover in the second since Midoriya threw him. Zach felt the push against him even, stronger than before what Inhuman had been able to muster.

Iida blamed Inhuman's recovery time for his push on the small dose of Trigger that got into his wound, but Inhuman using it again to push Zach and that wind down meant that there was really none left stopping him and Kirishima. The villain rose his hands at both of them as they started attacks though, and their faces pulled towards his palms. Then two pillars of ice rose up in front of Inhuman only to cover just his hands, as well as fifty feet above them too as Todoroki did it fast and did not hold back very much. Iida and Kirishima went around the pillars, slamming a hard fist into Inhuman's face and a powerful leg into the villains stomach. Then Bakugo dropped from the air and landed on Inhuman's shoulders, pointed both hands down on top of the villain's head, and fired.

Bakugo, Iida, and Kirishima all went flying different directions. Then Inhuman's right hand that was pulling out of the shattering ice pillar pointed at Todoroki and yanked him towards him faster than anything had been pulled so far in the fight, and he grabbed Todoroki by the face and slammed down towards the floor. Todorki lifted his left hand as he was being slammed down though, and Inhuman pulled his head to the side only for the left half to still be burnt by a flame pillar shooting out of Todoroki's hand in the instant before his head hit the floor. Inhuman pulling away and getting burned also weakened how hard he was slamming Todoroki down, but he could not push any harder as he had to leap back to dodge the black ball flying at him.

Zach did not clench his hand into a fist to destroy his attack early, as despite it looking like a Death Grenade he had not charged it much at all considering Todoroki's position. The black ball of Death landed in front of where Inhuman was rising back, then Inhuman sent a force of push down at Todoroki who was pushing down at his sides and Zach who started running at him again. The two of them were hit by a strong push, but they both yelled as they were thrown backwards and into the floor, "Now! MIDORIYA!"

Inhuman started turning his head, but the curly-green-haired student was already behind him. Midoriya's pant legs shredded apart, mainly his right that all the way up to his thigh violently shredded. He was rising above Inhuman, but his body was horizontal, parallel to the ground. He had his right leg pulled up so high above him that it looked like he was straining to do a split. His leg was bent at the knee and all of his toes were curled in with his leg muscles twitching all over. "DO IT!" Iida, Kirishima, Shoji, and Yaoyorozu yelled towards him.

"WIN! DEKU!" Uraraka screamed from high in the air, the same time Bakugo screamed it from where he just finished rolling across debris on the arena.

"NEW YORK CITYYY-" Midoriya spun his body and slammed his leg down into Inhuman's half-burnt face right as the villain finally lifted his gaze enough to the boy above him. Midoriya's leg dented into Inhuman's face, and Midoriya screamed out, "SMMAAAAAASSSSHHHHH!"

The force of wind off of the kick felt as strong as any of Inhuman's pushes. Everyone around the arena and on the bleachers got pushed back, every single other fight cutting off and anyone still conscious in the stadium spinning towards the center where that scream came from. Inhuman hit the ground in the middle of the destroyed fighting stage, and still cracks split out from the middle of the arena to the walls of the stadium all around it. In the hollow section below the arena, debris started falling down and around the mountain that had been pulled back beneath the surface. The cracks lining the arena got thicker, and holes started opening up all over it while debris flew out from Inhuman's collision in every direction.

Outside of the stadium, All Might stepped forward in front of the huge group of evacuated people he had kept calm with a speech while they were protected by other heroes. He stepped back towards the stadium as he stared at the huge screen on the outside televising what was happening in the middle of the arena. He felt the collision outside where he was standing, and everyone around him stared in shock for a few seconds after hearing that shout before the attack, and then they all started cheering at the top of their lungs.

Across Musutafu, Twice stared up towards a big screen above his opponents' heads, his eyes huge and his jaw dropped at what he was looking at. "That Inhuman was taken down by-"

A pillar of flames dropped down on the street in between the villains and the heroes they were facing. A bloody, hulking form walked out of that fire and glared intensely forward at the villains who all took a step back away from the man who appeared before them. The heroes behind him started cheering, while that hero started running forward without saying a word, melting the street beneath him with every step.

"Reinforcements are here!" Nejire Hado shouted as she dropped down from the sky right in front of the group of civilians evacuated from the Sports Festival. One of the former Big Three of U.A. from the previous year's graduating class, she turned to her old teachers at the front of the group behind her who all smiled seeing the powerful blue-haired girl's arrival. "All over the city," she continued, while smiling at the scared people behind her teachers who stared at the young hero in shock and even more excited faces than when they were just cheering a few moments ago. "Heroes have arrived from around the country, and the Police are moving with them through the streets to get the situation under control!"

Inside the Sports Festival stadium, Gentle and La Brava backed away from the three heroes in front of them. "I see you located Hackerman too, oh Principal," Gentle said to the small mouse creature who looked from him then back to the room on their side. "There are still villains from the League of Villains all over though," Gentle continued, though he narrowed his gaze as he said it to the heroes before him. La Brava smirked at them too, and Gentle asked, "What is it you would like to spend your time doing?"

"Thank you, for changing the videos," Nezu said, figuring out what had happened almost as soon as he arrived thanks to his High Specs Quirk. "But Gentle Criminal, you are under arrest-"

Gentle turned the air bouncy in front of him using his Quirk, Elasticity. He grabbed La Brava with his other hand, and he shot away down the hallway with a grin on his face. He gave them a small courteous nod, before bouncing away down the hallways as fast as he could. The famed master tactician of U.A. There is no need to take such a risk. "La Brava," Gentle said, and the small woman he was carrying looked up at her partner's face. "Our work here is done," Gentle said. "Do you mind giving me your help, one last time today?"

La Brava held onto Gentle tighter and his body started to glow. "You never need to ask," she said. "Do you want me to start recording now?"

Gentle smirked as his body started glowing thanks to La Brava's power-up she granted him using her Quirk: Love. He looked down at the girl and called out with a smirk on his face, "Of course!" La Brava pulled out a camera right as they started speeding up, and Gentle cut down another hallway before letting out a laugh at his luck. "One more for the go! You villains who have no sense of manners!" A group of three villains with two of them looking pretty injured already turned, disheartened looks on their faces from the shift in the tide of the battle. Their faces filled with horror at the sight of the man and short girl flying towards them with a crazy pink glow pulling off of his body like flames. The girl recording called out Gentle's name, and the Gentle Criminal smashed the villains into the floor and walls.

"It seems," Gentle said while landing past the villains who La Brava pointed her camera back at. She then pointed it up at Gentle's face as he finished, "The Sports Festival is over."

Outside in the center of the stadium, the arena's floor shattered. It could not hold together anymore after all the damage. It was barely holding on before Izuku Midoriya smashed Inhuman into the center of the arena, and as Midoriya dropped down towards the floor his eyes started growing wide as the floor beneath him was breaking apart. "Everyone!" Midoriya called out around the arena where his classmates had been pushed away by his kick and blocked from his sight by the dust that rose up from Inhuman's crash-down.

Uraraka returned her weight to herself, then she got rid of it again as she lowered near the stadium's edge. She grabbed onto the floor and threw herself back down towards the collapsing arena stage even as her legs yelled out in pain, and she tacked a boy who had his arms down at his sides twitching in pain and covered in blood. Bakugo turned in annoyance as his feet left the ground, though they would have done so a second later anyway as the ground beneath where he had been standing dropped.

"Hold on," Shoji told the girl he was holding in front of him. He let go with his top four arms and spread them to the side while jumping up, right before the ground beneath him fell apart. Yaoyorozu wished she still had her jetpack, but she was exhausted and starving enough that she doubted she would be able to make another one even if she had the time. Shoji glided them towards the center of the arena though, where as the arena started falling down, they all were able to see the top of a mountain below them.

The summit of the underground mountain was still broken apart from the second event of the Sports Festival. The mountain's peak's elevation rose even higher than it originally was though, as the arena and the fighting stage that had been centered above like the mountain's summit all collapsed down on top of it. With all that falling debris, fell a villain who was burnt and bloody and broken. He dropped down with the debris of the arena, and then he coughed and his clenched eyes started to open to give him a blurry view of everything falling with him.

Todoroki tried freezing a lot of the floor around him to the outer wall to prevent it from falling. He and a boy near him struggling up on that ice sheet spun towards the middle of the arena though, as some falling debris pushed to the sides. Some of it even hit the ice floor Todoroki made, cracking it apart and making them start falling into the hollow ground. "No way," Todoroki muttered, and then he bit down and swung his right arm beneath him despite the pain filling his body as he did it. A wave of ice formed beneath him and Zach, and Zach flipped over to land on the sloped wave.

"Take him down!" Zach yelled, sliding up the wave and off the other side just like Todoroki. Midoriya dropped down above them, and Iida sprinted down a breaking piece of arena floor. Iida sidestepped as that huge chunk broke into smaller ones, then he jumped off as it broke even more. Kirishima slammed down into the summit with his entire body hardened, and he sprinted forward to where Inhuman just slammed down and was struggling onto his feet.

Kirishima slammed a fist into the villain's back after jumping up at him, and Inhuman swung an arm around his back only for Kirishima to duck beneath the slow-moving arm.

Zach dropped down towards him covered in his black aura. He's worn out! Zach waved both arms at Inhuman and yelled, "Get back Kirishima!"

Both dark winds from Zach's arms crashed into Inhuman, and then they blew away and Zach felt a push into him too, weaker than the last ones.

The small amount of Trigger he did ingest, has worn off, Todoroki thought. He lowered the arm he was going to shoot flames out of, and as he landed close to Inhuman, he slammed his right foot down and created a huge spike around the villain who just made a push. He left Inhuman's face out this time, but the villain who weakly tried pulling his head Todoroki's way only got Iida's leg slammed into his face that broke apart the ice behind his head anyway.

Then the rest of that ice broke, as Midoriya slammed a foot into the side of Inhuman's sluggishly lifting head. Inhuman's eyes rolled back into his head, while he slammed down into the middle of the mountain's summit, while the arena fell apart around them and slid down the sides of the mountain. The arena and fighting stage above fell down the mountain as if there were avalanches rolling down it, but none of the people who had been on the arena and fell through landed on the slopes of the mountain. All of them landed on the summit, and they all stared towards the middle of the stage where Midoriya dropped down and fell on top of Inhuman's back.

Midoriya was staring down at the villain's head he was standing on top of with one foot. He was panting and wheezing, but his fists were tightened at his sides and his face was full of intensity. Then Todoroki said, "He's unconscious." He was standing on the side that Inhuman's face was turned towards after that last kick that smashed him half into the ground, but everyone there was still shocked to hear Todoroki say that. They stared at the villain unmoving on the floor, each one of them ready to keep fighting despite all the damage done to them.

Midoriya kept his fists clenched at his sides, breathing harder and harder as he stared down at Inhuman who had forced him to go all-out. His body ached and his bones felt tightened like any movements might break them. The boy standing there on bare legs on top of Inhuman's body clenched his eyes shut, and he snapped his head back as he finally accepted what Todoroki said. "AHHHHH!" Midoriya yelled. It was not a scream of pain, or frustration, just a roar of victory. He screamed it from on top of Inhuman's body, with Todoroki on one side and Iida a few feet farther on the other. Uraraka landed down closeby too and Bakugo pulled away from her, stepping once towards Inhuman only to bite down as he saw the villain's eyes rolled back in his head.

Kirishima stood a couple of feet back from Todoroki, panting and staring at Inhuman with wide eyes. His mouth curled up and his sharp teeth bared as a wild grin spread over his face. "YEAHHH!"

"Ha, haha," a dark laughter came out on Kirishima's left and back a couple of feet. The redhead who just shouted like Midoriya turned and looked at his friend who was limping forward still surrounded in a dark veil. Zach was lifting his right hand to his chest while looking at Kirishima, "We really, did it." Zach pressed his right hand to his chest, and the black veil surrounding his body disappeared. He was already leaning forward as he walked, stumbling towards the center of the summit over a large chunk of former fighting stage. As the dark veil lifted off Zach's body, Shoji was landing down on the edge of the summit behind him with Yaoyorozu.

Kirishima went to smirking at Zach ready to laugh along with him, to staring with eyes that grew huge and his jaw dropping. Zach's smiling lips had trails of blood coming down either corner, yet it was because he was slouched that Kirishima gawked at the wound on Zach's back.

Zach's hunched over body started falling forward, and he rose his arms at his sides to catch himself, but his arms could not hold his weight when he dropped down. Zach collapsed to the floor and the others standing around the summit looked his way. Many of them wanted to do the same, to just collapse after that long and tiring fight. When they looked at Zach though, at his back that was covered in red around an area of his uniform shredded apart, they realized that he was not collapsing from exhaustion.

Shoji started running forward, but Yaoyorozu stayed frozen where she was standing for a second longer. She stared at Zach's back in terror, her heart pounding as she heard his dark voice in her head, "I'm fine, I focused Death around my back even more than it usually is already." Yaoyorozu started running forward, and she heard again in her head, BANG! Zach! She sprinted over the summit to Zach who was laying on his front but curling up on his hands and knees to get off his face and stomach.

"Z-Zach, you alright?" Kirishima dropped down next to his friend whose back he kept darting his gaze to. He grabbed Zach by the side, but he did not want to turn his friend over to make him lie on that wound.

Zach turned himself over on his own though, flipping onto his back and then wincing as he hit it. He put his hands down at his sides at the last second to prevent from falling on it too hard, and he started taking deep breaths as he stared straight up above him. He could see Kirishima in the corner of his gaze, but he stared up at the smokey but blue sky for a few more seconds before turning towards him. Kirishima held his arms out, and he put them under Zach's back as Zach's arms were shaking violently while he turned Kirishima's way. Kirishima took the pressure off Zach's arms, and Zach immediately stopped shaking with a more relaxed look on his face as all his weight fell into Kirishima's arms.

"Yeah," Zach began, looking into Kirishima's eyes. He said it slowly, and his smile got softer after saying it. "Not, really," he whispered, then he pursed his lips in pain at the look that spread over Kirishima's face.

Midoriya was panting harder and harder as he stepped farther from Inhuman and stared down at Zach whose back he had seen in the few seconds Zach had been face-down. Was it back then? He thought about the moment Inhuman had spun around hearing the gunshot behind him, when he saw Zach in between Yaoyorozu and the villain who had shot at her. He lifted his gaze a little and saw Yaoyorozu's look, and the expression he saw on it confirmed his thoughts as well as made him feel so bad for the girl running their way. No, no this can't happen!

"I'm sorry," Zach whispered, as he saw more people running up around him even though he was finding it more difficult to look around after removing Nightmare from his body. Oh man. This really… "I know, it won't feel like a victory anymore- ack ack," blood splashed out of Zach's mouth as he coughed, and Kirishima could feel his arms were soaked under Zach's body.

"Guys, we have to get Recovery Girl over here!" Midoriya shouted at the others around him.

All of them who had just run over towards Zach spun to Midoriya and they started nodding. Each of them had wanted to collapse just like Zach did until a few seconds ago, but they all looked raring to go suddenly and Zach felt a pang in his heart at their expressions. "You can't-" Zach began, his eyes tearing up a little as he whispered it. Midoriya turned to him, while Todorki nodded and turned to run. Iida spun and forced flames out of his calves, and Uraraka backed up a couple of steps with a look of fear over her face. If Zach- there's no one who- Uraraka bent down and grabbed the floor at her sides after making herself weightless, and she threw herself into the air back towards the huge hole in the arena above.

"Zach, you're going to be alright," Midoriya said, staring into Zach's eyes sternly as he said it. "Just hold on-"

"Say goodbye, Midoriya," Zach whispered. He gasped it out, and the others still around him stared at Zach in shock. Midoriya shook his head and looked up, but Zach gasped at him, "Say it! Please!" Midoriya froze and he turned his head back with a look of horror on his face at the knowing tone in his classmate's voice. "Friends, should be able to say goodbye," Zach gasped at him. In his head he saw Jenny as she screamed his name, and tears spilled out of Zach's eyes as he thought about all the times he wished he could have said something, any one of the millions of things he needed to say to her. "Say goodbye. Please. Say it. You don't want, to regret it," Zach whispered.

Midoriya leaned his head back and his face covered in an ugly look as his lips twisted and his eyes watered. He spun away though, and he said to the boy behind him while bending his legs he ignored the pain in, "I'll be right back. Just, hold on." He shot off of the floor with a wind that pushed into everyone still there, and Zach breathed out with a tear rolling out of his left eye as he saw Midoriya rising away.

Shoji lifted up one of his hands towards Zach, something he wanted to say but froze before getting out. He, can't! If you die, who will bring you back? Shoji's arm started shaking and his eyes opened huge as he saw his shaking hand held out in front of him.

Yaoyorozu ran past Shoji's side and dropped down to her knees next to Zach on his other side as Kirishima. "Zach," she whispered as she dropped there hard, though not even wincing as she scraped her knees. "Why?" She said, looking down at his face as he turned towards her. She had tears in her eyes, and she lowered her hands down to Zach's bloody left hand and grabbed it hard while looking down at his face. "Why did you do that? Why did you-" he started lifting the corners of his lips again, and the tears spilled out of her eyes and ran down her face. "You took a bullet, for me."

Bakugo stared down at Yaoyorozu, and then to Zach again whose face her tears dropped onto. A bullet? That's what tore his back up that much? Why does he look like that? Why? Damn it- DAMN ITI Bakugo turned and his hands started moving at his sides. Where's Recovery Girl right now-

"Bakugo, don't," Zach whispered, looking past Yaoyorozu at the boy who just turned away from him. Bakugo froze and started turning his head back, and then his eyes grew open huge as Zach was not staring at his face. Zach looked down at Bakugo's hands that he saw start moving, and then he lifted his gaze and whispered, "Your arms. Don't. There's no point, in crippling yourself."

"Shut up-" Bakugo started.

"Please, just run if you have to go," Zach said. "Don't, do it," Zach gasped out, more blood dribbling down his chin. Bakugo clenched his teeth so hard as he spun away from Zach seeing that look, and he started sprinting away over the destroyed summit of the mountain.

Yaoyorozu spun and looked after Bakugo with wide eyes at what he was doing. Bakugo would have done it anyway, despite the pain he must be in. Why? Why wouldn't he? Unless, he doesn't want Zach to think he's hurting him, in his last… Yaoyorozu's lips started shaking and she spun back to the boy whose left hand she held even tighter. "Why?" She whispered, clenching her eyes shut this time as she said it down to him.

"He's not," Kirishima started, looking up from Zach to the girl across his body from him. Then he turned and looked to his left at Shoji who brought his hands up to his head and started running them all through his gray hair with a look of despair in his eyes. Kirishima looked back down at Zach and his own eyes started getting more watery.

Up on the outside of the arena, on one of the walls around the hollow ring, some students from Class B stared forward at a girl without any gravity as she rose up towards them. They had been brought over to the bottom edge of the bleachers by blond vines right as the arena was collapsing, lifted near where Yui and Kojiro had gotten out of Kojiro's glue-type Quirk. The two of them were helping Honenuki and Shiozaki who had come to after being knocked out earlier, but the blond with them stared from the edge at Uraraka as she called out asking if any of them knew where Recovery Girl was.

"I last saw her out with a group on the south side of the stadium," Honenuki called out, leaning right to look past Kojiro and face Uraraka. "She has her hands full though-"

Uraraka dropped her Zero Gravity and then ran straight past all the Class B students up the bleachers towards a hole into the stadium where she could get to the south side from. Uraraka's face was covered in pain as she ran on injured legs, but she ran fast despite it. Monoma watched her run, then he walked over to Shiozaki and put a hand down on her which confused the girl with green hair. "Monoma, are you going to keep fighting?" Shiozaki asked, and she tried pushing her arms down at her sides.

"Stay there, Shiozaki," Monoma said, while running back down to the edge and looking off again like he had been before Uraraka rose up. His hair extended down again using the Quirk he restarted his time limit with after noticing it had run out a minute ago. He climbed down the wall, looking towards the center of the mountain with a nervous look on his face. What am I doing? He thought, but he swung himself off of the wall anyway and towards the mountain's slope that he extended his thick vines down into to lower himself down slower.

At the summit, Zach held Yaoyorozu's hands back with his left that she was grasping at with such a terrified look on her face. "Why? Why?" She whispered, lowering her head over his body that Kirishima lowered flat onto the floor a moment ago. Kirishima kept Zach's head risen though, but he brought his other arm up to his own face and covered both of his eyes with it. "You could have, tackled me out of the way or-" Yaoyorozu cut herself off, thinking about how Zach was surrounded in his Nightmare mode. "Or, or just done something. Anything else," she gasped at him. "Why did you have to-"

"You, talked me down once," Zach whispered while looking up into Yaoyorozu's eyes. Her eyes bulged, and she stared down in shock at Zach as he started smiling again while looking up at her. "When I was on the ledge, in the, darkest place I'd ever been. You saved me," he whispered, something he always wished he had told her but never had the courage to do.

Kirishima lowered his arm, lifting his gaze up to Yaoyorozu. He thought about the night he watched the Lifebringer video with Zach and Kaminari, when Zach looked so dark afterwards only for him to call the two of them back to his room just a little later. And he remembered how Yaoyorozu was there that night, and his chest clenched up as he wondered if that was the night Zach was talking about. And I just- even after you saved my life, I just left you to… Kirishima saw Zach held up by rusty hooks, getting carved up to leave his body looking the way it did when he came back in January. And at VTS, I didn't do anything! At Camino Ward I didn't help you! I can't ever, ever ever ever… Kirishima clenched his eyes shut and his right hand started shaking under Zach's head. "I'm sorry," Kirishima whispered.

"Don't be, Kirishima," Zach whispered, while his breathing was slowing down and he could hear a pounding in his ears. He looked away from the girl whose hands had started shaking while holding his, facing Kirishima and wincing at that look on Kirishima's face. "You are, one of my closest friends," Zach whispered. Saying that made him think of something that had his slowly pounding heart clench up, and he whispered, "Thanks for being my friend, Kirishima. Tell Kaminari too. I'm sorry…"

Outside of the Sports Festival stadium, Denki Kaminari stood near a few other Class A students around the side of a huge group of evacuated civilians. He was staring up at the screen on the outside of the stadium building, and he heard shouting coming from inside where a couple of heroes had just run in to reinforce other heroes inside still in fights against villains. "What's going on? Are they alright?" Sero asked, glancing at Sato as they stared at the screen that had showed a huge hole in the arena after Midoriya kicked the enemy into it, only for that video to cut off a few seconds after the hole was formed.

On the screen now was the Principal of U.A., sending out a message from inside the stadium that there were still villains all over the city and Sports Festival arena, and that backup was needed everywhere. He claimed that the situation was under control now though, and he started calling out known evacuation points for all the citizens scattered who may not have been around heroes. Kaminari stared closer at that screen, then he snapped his head down as he started running towards the stadium. "Kaminari!" Sero called out. He took a step forward, but behind him Cementoss called out that they needed to hold this position more than ever now that Nezu had told people they could come here for safety. Damn it, Kaminari! Sero thought while looking past his friend who had a frantic look on his face before he started sprinting at the stadium.

Sero turned back to Sato, then the other way at Ojiro and Hagakure. "Come on," he called to them, and he spun back to the stadium himself and fired tape out of his elbows that way. Everyone, what happened? Sero thought, running ahead with his other classmates after Kaminari and ignoring the shouts of their teacher behind them.

Zach, Kaminari thought as he ran into the stadium. You told me how that power works. I saw you get hurt in it before when we fought Shatterer. Please, don't die!

"There are still villains around," Sato called out as he ran in after Kaminari.

"Everyone be careful!" Ojiro warned too.

On the other side of the Sports Festival stadium, Midoriya dropped down in front of a huge group of people. He ignored Nejire Hado who turned his way with a smile and ready to say something, and he ran right by All Might who had opened his mouth too. He spun his head around a few times, then he turned back to All Might and called out what might have been the phrase All Might was most dreading without even knowing it, "Where's Recovery Girl?!"

At the summit of the mountain beneath the Sports Festival arena, Zach nodded at Kirishima after apologizing for leaving like this. "Zach, thank you," Shoji said, and Zach looked between the two on his sides towards the tall boy who he had brought back to life in the middle of all that chaos. "You're, an amazing hero."

Zach smiled at Shoji who the other two spun to with huge eyes at that statement. Neither of them wanted to accept it, and then both of them opened their eyes huge as they looked behind Shoji. They dropped their jaws, their heart rates speeding up violently as they saw the boy rising up over the edge of the summit. "Thanks Shoji," Zach whispered. He blinked his eyes shut slowly once, his body relaxing as he lay back more on Kirishima's hand. He was smiling despite everything, and he said in a soft voice, "You, too-"

"Stop being so dramatic, Class A." Zach sat up more, wincing in the pain he felt in his back but staring forward with wider eyes at the person walking forward on Shoji's side.

"Monoma," Zach whispered, and then he smiled for a second seeing him there.

Monoma got unnerved by that smile, but he rose his cocky smile a bit after faltering for a second. "Recovery Girl will come here soon," Monoma said. "You're not going to-"

"I've felt it, over a hundred times," Zach whispered towards Monoma who he was glad to get to see once more. The other four there with him stared at Zach with wide eyes, and his classmates had wondered why he looked so accepting of it for so long now. "Death," Zach said softly. "I know the feeling, by now," he coughed after saying it, but it was a weak cough and dry. Some more blood came out the corners of his mouth, but his skin was already pale and his eyes looked unfocused.

Monoma walked up to Zach and dropped down on his knees next to Yaoyorozu. Then he did what Kirishima, Yaoyorozu, and Shoji hoped he would after seeing him get up there, but none of them had said so. Monoma put his left hand down on Zach's left shoulder, and Zach focused his gaze again while staring at Monoma with widening eyes. "Don't worry," Monoma said, his voice more serious now as he looked straight down into Zach's eyes. "I keep Quirks I Copy for five minutes, and it doesn't take that long for you most of-"

Zach let go of Yaoyorozu's hands and brought his left up to Monoma's chest. He grabbed Monoma by the shirt and the boy on Yaoyorozu's right leaned back as Zach leaned his head up towards him. "Don't bring me back," Zach said, his eyes huge as he said it. Kirishima was smiling as Monoma was speaking, the others too, and they all stared in shock down at Zach after he said that.

"What?" Monoma asked, confused and glancing down nervously at the bloody hand trembling as it grasped him by his uniform.

"Zach, what are you saying?" Yaoyorozu whispered, and she leaned forward more with a serious look on her face. "If you think you did anything wrong because of what you said while with the villains. If you think any of us, or even anyone else- we wouldn't let anyone-"

"It's not that," Zach said, louder and with a more serious tone in his voice than he had had since he collapsed. He let go of Monoma's shirt, but he kept looking seriously up into his eyes for a few more seconds. Then his gaze softened, but he stayed looking more alert now as he turned to Yaoyorozu in an apologetic way. "When I brought Kirishima back," Zach started. Kirishima's eyes widened as somehow he had to do with the reason they could not save Zach, and it was crushing him before Zach even continued. "Something, changed," Zach whispered.

He turned Kirishima's way and looked the redhead in the eyes. "Something inherently changed inside him, for Death not to work on him anymore," Zach said. Kirishima's eyes opened even wider as he thought about VTS, thought about Zach touching him with his right hand and how he did not die.

"What does that mean?" Monoma asked, glancing at Kirishima to see if that was true and then back down as it seemed like it was.

"I don't know," Zach replied, looking back at Monoma with a more scared and regretful look on his face. "But, if using my power to bring back someone else changed the way my power works on them, then I don't know what my own Quirk being used to bring me back to life will do. Maybe, it'll stop the effects of touching myself with my hand, if Death doesn't work on me anymore." Zach paused, then he gasped out and whispered, "But what if it's more than that? Something, worse?"

"You don't know-" Yaoyorozu began.

"That's exactly why," Zach countered back at her, shaking his head and feeling so much pain as he saw that desperate look in her eyes for an answer. He turned to Monoma who he knew might not listen to him if he had to look at that look on Yaoyorozu's face, a look that made him want to tell them to forget everything he just said. "You can't do it. What if I come back, and touching anywhere on my body kills people? Or, or what if when I breathe, the particles I breathe out have Death attached and start killing people? And it fills the air and the atmosphere and wipes out all life on Earth?"

"You're overreacting," Monoma said quickly to the kid before him.

Zach just looked at him with terrified eyes that Monoma thought that way, and he made the blond lean back while whispering, "I could end the world." The others stared down at the horrified look on Zach's face, as he whispered at Monoma, "I, could be the world-ender." All of them had been there for his final report, and they leaned away at the terrified look on Zach's face that he would be the one they were talking about that day. Then he started coughing, gasping for breath while forcing spit out his mouth at the same time. "Ack kah ple- ack, so please, just let- ack ack, let me die." Tears spilled down the sides of Zach's face as he told them it.

His eyes started to close, more bloody spit coming out of his mouth and dripping off his face that the bottom half of was completely covered in red now. Kirishima's hand started shaking on the back of Zach's head as his friend's eyes started glossing over and losing focus of everything in front of him. Zach's head turned a small bit as he whispered again, "Let me die. I, changed the answer," he looked straight at Yaoyorozu whose eyes opened huge hearing what she heard him say in the videos at the court house. Then he whispered with two more tears falling, one from either eye, "Momo." I made up for it, Zach thought, his mouth curling into the biggest smile as he stared at the girl getting hazier in his vision. I didn't think anything could, because of how much I loved Jenny- but Momo, you're such a good person. So good, that just saving you… it's gotta be enough! "Just let me die," Zach whispered, his eyes closing. "I changed the answer. I changed…"

Zach's left hand that Yaoyorozu had grabbed again after it dropped from Monoma's shirt, lost its hold on her. Zach's eyes were still only half-closed, but they stopped closing. His chest stopped moving too. The four circled around him saw the last of the light vanish from his eyes. And up in the bleachers just on the edge and looking down, Kaminari pulled his head back as he was about to shout down towards the summit. He stared down there and heard Yaoyorozu start sobbing loudly, and he leaned back with his eyes huge and filling with tears as he saw who was lying there. Shoji rose up an arm in front of his face, and Kirishima bowed his own at Zach's right side while lowering his friend's head down to the floor. He opened his crying eyes and lifted them to stare at Zach's face, and the smile that was on it as his heart stopped beating.

On the summit he had reached first place on in the first event of the Sports Festival, surrounded by friends who cried as his heart stopped beating, Zach Sazaki finally succumbed to his Quirk's namesake. Zach Sazaki, was dead.

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A/N The end. Thanks everyone for reading Death. I hope you enjoyed the story. Leave a review telling me what you think!

D-Koy24 chapter 62 . 21h ago

I feel like the song 5,4,3,2,1 (murder song) by Aurora played in the background during the Spinner dying scenes and I just imagined all the flashbacks you mentioned, and hey like you mentioned in the review section I do see where pain and inhuman are similar... but I still prefer magneto pain HE'S AWESOME!
~D-Koy, GRAND THEFT AUTO!

Checked out that song, def a good song to write a character death to. GTA ftw! Thanks for all the reviews through Death, and I hope you enjoyed the chapter!

Guest chapter 62 . 17h ago

The HYPE is real
Can't wait to see what you have next
Hopefully everyone's still alive next chapter

You just had to jinx it... XD Well Zach goes down. Hope you liked the final battle and that it lived up to the HYPE! Thanks for the review!

-Once again, thanks everyone for reading, favoriting, following, and to all of you who reviewed to this story! Hope you enjoyed!