A/N lol get trolled

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Chapter 64:

Up at the top of the Sports Festival stadium's south wall, a large chunk of stadium had been broken off during the fighting that ensued earlier that day. It had been two hours since the first bomb went off in the commentators' booth, since a portal opened up in front of Zach Sazaki while videos played of him shouting how he was not Lifebringer. The sun was farther across the sky in the west, though not yet setting. At the hole in the top of the stadium's wall, a flat section of cement was covered in soft beds and cots and blankets all around. Outside of that hole there was also a huge cement staircase going down to the ground level outside the arena, with railings on either side for the people who could go down it.

On the sides of the cement section where dozens of injured, and dead, people were laying, there were a couple of stone helipads there too. One helicopter was air-lifting more people off and the wind blew down at the people at the makeshift area for the injured and dead bodies which was set up since they still did not have too much control over their situation. The helicopter was full of injured, but it did not turn to fly towards Musutafu General Hospital. The helicopter turned to fly to one of the other cities nearby that had opened up its doors to the huge number of injured being rushed in from Musutafu. The biggest hospital in Musutafu had been attacked during the siege of the city, and though it was one of the earliest priorities to gain control of, there was a lot of damage done to it, and some of the hospital's personnel did not make it either. Despite that damage and loss of life though, the hospital was so packed full of people in and out of the doors that they could not air-lift people to it and expect them to get the treatment they needed in time. There was also the danger of flying helicopters over a city still infested with villains, as much as the swarms of heroes from around the country were weeding them out.

The strong wind from the helicopter's rotors pushed down on all the people lying around the larger cement area at the top of the steps. A figure laying on his back started to shift around right as a couple of boys from Class 2-B were stepping back onto the medical area. Students from U.A. and unharmed civilian volunteers were moving around the stands with Pro Heroes guarding them from any villains who might be in hiding. At the bottom of the steps outside the arena, a much larger group of heroes were gathered with the dozens of captured villains tied up and bound by Quirks, though the majority of them were unconscious or had passed-out on their own. The Trigger apparently took a lot out of them, and the heroes discovered that the ones who seemed to have more of their cognitive functions under control during the battles were the ones who passed out the quickest and were most unable to keep fighting once the drug had worn off.

The medical area was therefore mostly safe, though to be cautious there were some heroes posted around it just in case. Recovery Girl was laying unconscious on one of the cots a few away from a boy who stirred and sat up on his own mattress thicker than the other cots around him. The boy with messy black hair that waved up a bit in the back and on the sides glanced around him in confusion, then he looked down and lifted up his arms that he stared at with his eyes growing wide. He stared at his left hand that should have been all scraped up, and then up his left arm where he had no blue sleeve, but no wound where there should have been a pretty deep one. Then he pulled that left hand around his back and rubbed it around an area where he did not feel any pain at all.

One of two boys walking over to a cot to put someone down turned their heads, and the blond boy opened his eyes huge at the sight of the figure sitting up on his bed. He glanced back, only for Bondo to nod his head at him and use his muscular forearms to lift the rest of the weight of the body they were carrying together. It was a corpse, but an important one that they did not want to just drop unceremoniously or leave back where they had found it. Monoma glanced once more at the boy he had been helping carry, but then he nodded back in thanks at Bondo and turned again to the boy sitting up and rubbing his back with wide eyes.

The black haired boy turned his head as he saw Neito Monoma approaching, but then he got a lump in his chest and felt it ache at the sight of the cowboy-looking teacher who Bondo carried over to a line of other bodies. Snipe, Zach thought, and he hated the relief he felt in that moment too. I can still feel pain, he had realized, as it had been confusing him for a few seconds there that he could not feel any pain in his back. He felt it in his chest though at the sight of Snipe, then he pulled back as Monoma stepped right up in front of him. "Don't," Zach said, a panicked and fear-stricken look covering his face as Monoma opened his mouth to say something.

The blond boy ready to say something to Zach froze and he lowered his left hand he had lifted in front of him. He decided not to say anything cocky or whatever he was thinking when he approached, and he just said, "I checked. Since, I made the decision. I made sure. I picked you up, so touching anywhere on your body isn't… And you're breathing aren't you? You were just, overreacting," Monoma said it with a smaller smile coming back to his face as he had said the same thing before. "You're no world-ender," Monoma said, and then he leaned down and held his left hand out again.

Zach glanced down at his right hand again, a hand still covered in a black glove after everything that had happened. Then he turned to Monoma's hand and he stopped panting as hard, though he was still in a bit of a daze as he reached up with his left hand to grab the blond's. Monoma pulled Zach up and steadied him on his feet as Zach wobbled where he stood for a second. It felt like waking up, except he did not feel like he was just dreaming. So this is what, it felt like? For all of them? Zach turned his head left and right, staring at everything with his eyes huge. He then turned straight forward again and looked Monoma in the eyes with wide ones of his own, "How, long has it been?"

Monoma sighed and then turned his head towards the line of dead bodies that Zach glanced at after seeing Snipe be put down. "Since you died, more than an hour. I know that's not…" Monoma trailed off. He looked back at Zach and continued, "But after I brought you back, I used your Quirk again." He paused and then pursed his lips before saying, "Once." Zach looked him in the eyes in confusion as to that answer and to why Monoma looked so frustrated at saying it. "It just, it hurts so-" Monoma stopped himself and glanced apologetically back at Zach. "And I was exhausted. I thought I needed a break, but every time I came back up here I just, I just found something else to do."

What is happening right now? Zach stared blankly at Monoma and then started nodding in understanding after a few seconds. Then his eyebrows narrowed in and his eyes got thinner too as he glared at Monoma. Monoma thought for a second that it was about what he just said, but Zach said in a low voice, "You shouldn't have done it." Monoma opened his eyes wider for a second, before frowning at Zach for saying it. "Just because nothing bad happened," Zach said, shaking his head at that look in Monoma's eyes. "Couldn't you have just thought for a second? What if I was right?" Zach opened his eyes that he had clenched for a second, and he looked terrified as he whispered, "What if I woke up, and everyone was dead around me? Sitting up surrounded by your bodies, in a dead world that I had-" Zach's lips started shaking and his entire body trembled at the idea in his mind, something he believed very well could have happened when he opened his eyes right there.

"I never helped you," Monoma whispered. Zach's terrified look shifted back to Monoma after he had darted his gaze around in fear that the people around him were going to start dying. Monoma wanted to tell him to stop panicking, or tell him that 'what ifs' didn't matter. He couldn't stop himself though, and the blond continued with a pained look in his eyes as he looked back into Zach's, "I, was part of the reason you got targeted by the villains." Monoma clenched his fists down at his sides, thinking about the tortures he saw at the start of the villains' attack. "I was a part of the reason, you had such a hard life, and I couldn't just let you die thinking the only meaning in your life was how many people you killed or saved."

Zach started staring at Monoma in so much confusion that it was actually making him forget all about what he was just thinking on. That 'what if' scenario scared him, but what Monoma was telling him reminded him of what he was saying after that, right when he died. Monoma was thinking on that too, and he said in a lower voice to the confused boy in front of him, "Changing the answer. I saw your trial. I saw you, say that it was all that mattered to you. Was it good that you were born? It was," Monoma said, and he tried flashing Zach a smile but failed and had his lips lowering down just as fast as he tried raising the corners of them. "But, that's not-"

Monoma had to pause for a second, not liking that he was having a hard time keeping it together here. "That's not a good life," Monoma said, and Zach's eyes widened at Monoma stared into them with such a sad look in his eyes. "If all that mattered to you, was finally getting to a point where it wasn't a terrible thing that you were born… It was sad, knowing that you were thinking about that in your last moments. Knowing that you never lived a real life." Zach started breathing faster at what the boy in front of him was saying, at what was shaking him to his core. "Zach, saving people, if that's what you want to do that's great. But you can't just live for others. I know it might sound selfish coming from me, but I feel like I need to tell you since no one else will. You who save everyone no matter how much it hurts you, you who live for others and feel so much joy when you do help them, you deserve better than a short life where only the most terrible things have happened to you."

Zach blinked a couple of times while staring in shock at Monoma. Then he lifted his head and stared up into the blue sky above him that no longer had the black pillars of smoke in it that he had seen while closing his eyes before. He had thought the sky looked beautiful then, but with a clear sky now considering the fires around the Sports Festival had all been put out, Zach let out a gasp as he stared up at it. It's, amazing.

Zach lowered his gaze and stared at Monoma again, then he moved a little to the side and started walking forward. He walked past cots where some injured people glanced in and up at the boy with a scar across the right side of his face, wearing a torn up blue gym uniform that showed off a lot of different scars around his body. This world, he walked towards the hole in the stadium wall before the steps going down, and he stopped when he could see out over the world beyond. Zach's gaze shifted around Musutafu that looked nothing like the city he had known his entire life. Pillars of black smoke still rose from out there, but he could see people putting out fires in a tall building, heroes flying out of windows and carrying people who had been caught on higher floors. He heard sirens and shouting people just at the bottom of the steps where there were thousands he had only glanced at for a moment, but then his gaze shifted and panned to the outsides of the city. Living. I always thought about how much, I loved this world. Living in it though. I haven't been doing that, for a while. Maybe since Mom. Mom…

His eyes lifted up towards the blue sky again. Zach let out a deep breath of air, and his eyes softened as he imagined his mom's face up there. It was okay, that I was born. It was a good thing. He smiled, his mom's face surrounded by others that used to make him so sad. And then Yaoyorozu's face appeared in the sky, Momo. At her sides appeared two more faces, Kirishima, Shoji… Other faces started appearing one by one, blurrier faces that were all smiling at him gratefully, and then just the faces of his classmates from Class A and all his teachers. Zach closed his eyes after seeing them all, his fists clenching at his sides while he lowered his head back down.

Has Death changed? Zach opened his eyes and stared out into Musutafu. I don't know, but it's time to find out. A smile spread on Zach's face for a second, a serious one as his fists clenched even tighter at his sides. Everyone knows. My life is just, so public now. People might pity me, but I'll show them they don't have to. This life of mine. This life brought back because of this Quirk I hold. I'll make something of it. Be a hero like I always wanted to be. I can do it! But, maybe other things too. Things I thought I couldn't have. A life, worth living. One my parents would not just be proud of, but also be happy to hear I lived, if I ever see them again. A family. A home. Zach's eyes focused and his smile returned to the serious one as he turned his head to the side.

Like other people have. Like many people have lost today. "Monoma," Zach said, looking back at the blond boy who had been staring at him in confusion, wondering what he was thinking about. "Come on," Zach said, motioning towards the stairs with his head. He gazed at the cots around where he had been laying and smiled for a second at the sight of so many people he cared about looking safe and alright.

"Where?" Monoma asked, stepping forward and looking down out the hole thinking Zach must have seen something that needed their attention.

"The hospital," Zach replied. He glanced away from Monoma and again towards the area with so many bodies around it, "It may be too late for the people here. But there are probably a lot of people barely being kept alive. Those who got really injured and rushed to the hospital, who are probably dropping one by one right now." Zach turned his head again while Monoma started to get nervous, but the blond boy gulped and then clenched his own fists in determination as he thought about that look on Zach's face. "Instead of feeling regret that you only saved two people, let's go save more. As many as we can. Okay?" Zach asked, and he stepped forward up to the top of the stairs in front of him.

Monoma stepped up on Zach's side, glancing in at the look on the shorter boy's face that made his fear over feeling all that pain again start dissipating away. "Yeah," Monoma agreed, smiling himself to match Zach's look. "Let's go."

An Hour and a Half Ago…

Inside the Sports Festival stadium, in a hallway littered in corpses, a student in a blue uniform ran down the hallway panting and darting their gaze around. They slowed right as they saw a person up ahead, the only person standing in the entire hallway despite how many heroes had been in there. The man the student looked towards spun with a glare in their direction, and the sixteen year old in a blue uniform pulled back from the dark-haired teacher's scary glare.

Aizawa lost that glare after seeing who it was, then he snapped his head back down and stomped his right foot harder into the face of the villain below him. He pulled his arms up and tightened the hard cloths he used as weapons while stomping on the villain's face and breaking his hurt nose even more so the villain roared out in pain. Aizawa had a bloody cut on the left side of his face, and he was missing a lot of his uniform, more-so than when the student last saw him falling out of the commentators' booth with his uniform almost completely burnt off on his right side. "What, happened here?" the student asked in shock while looking around the hallway they were in and all the blood on the floor and puddling around villains' bodies.

The villain getting stomped on stopped struggling as hard, and Aizawa grimaced but moved his foot to see the large man's face finally going dull. The dark-blue-skinned man's eyes were closed, and Aizawa muttered while looking down at him, "One of the League's big shots." Aizawa sounded pissed, and it was for good reason considering the amount of other heroes he had been fighting this monster with in the cramped hallway where the guy's Quirk worked so much better, and he was not a pushover in close combat either. The two serrated daggers lying ten feet away from the villain's body were each drenched in the blood of heroes, and Aizawa glared furiously down at the man for another second before lifting his gaze as he heard an explosion somewhere else in the stadium.

"Let's get him somewhere where other captured villains are being held," Aizawa said, looking up at the student who was staring down at the villain beneath his feet. The kid looked up and nodded, then Aizawa turned as the teen looked over Aizawa's shoulder with their eyes opening huge and a foot stepping back. Aizawa spun and glared behind him to cancel the Quirk of whoever might be behind him. He spun, and he stared in confusion at the empty hallway behind him.

BANG

Aizawa stumbled a step forward and dropped down to his right knee. His eyes were open huge in shock, and he coughed once while raising his hand, only for his eyes to grow even wider as he saw blood splash from his mouth onto his hand. He spun his head and glared behind him with his eyes narrowing and a furious but confused look on his face. Aizawa glared at the sixteen year old, or the person who looked like a sixteen year old walking towards him. Aizawa rose his right hand and grabbed at his chest where he felt that bullet come out of, and he saw the student lowering a pistol that had some smoke coming out of the barrel.

"Sorry, Aizawa sensei. Can't let you arrest him," the student said. Aizawa tried pushing down on his left foot to get off his right knee, but his body was shaking and he couldn't find the strength to do it. The villain behind Aizawa opened his eyes, showing Aizawa he had been faking falling unconscious which made the pro hero feel a huge pit in his gut while raising his attention back to the figure wearing blue past him. "Too bad about Hackerman, but I doubt I'll get the same opportunity with him." The student stood there a few feet away from the blue villain who rolled himself over and started getting up, pushing out of Aizawa's binds that the hero could not try to stop or he knew he would fall off the one foot he was still managing to stand on. The teen was wiping the pistol's grip off with their school gym uniform, and then they said, "Looking good so far. Definitely enough damage to get all focus here-"

"Why?" Aizawa asked, his voice cold and his eyes piercing the student before him who leaned back at that look, only to smirk at the teacher before him. "What's the real plan? All this destruction can't…"

The student turned to the blue villain who finally got the cloths off of him, and they tossed the gun they were holding to the man. The six foot tall villain lifted his right hand, since his left arm was broken at his side and could not move. The villain with a bloody face caught the gun while Aizawa trailed off, and the student turned from the hero to say, "Killmore, finish him and leave the gun nearby with your prints on it." The student turned away and started walking the other direction. "And hide the body too. Just in case Zach somehow survives this."

"Damn kid," Killmore said, spitting to his side a huge glob of bloody spit. "You're fucking ice cold." Killmore turned towards Aizawa who tried raising his arms to throw the cloths, but he was panting too hard and could feel the bullet had pierced right through something important in his chest.

Aizawa kept panting while staring at that student walking away. His face was full of shock, and then he bit down and he called out, "Toga!" The student twenty feet away from where Aizawa fell down to his other knee opened their eyes a little wider. "Himiko, Toga!" Aizawa yelled.

The student turned their head while continuing to walk. The teenager looked back towards Aizawa, and they said, "Oh sensei, you already know that's not true. Since you're canceling my Quirk right now, and nothing's happening."

Aizawa's eyes widened again and his vision started to get blurry, while the student turned back forward and just kept walking. They walked away without looking back, and the student said, "Weird, I thought you had dry eye."

BANG

A/N And it's back. So, Zach's alive! I had the idea for him dying and my immediate follow-up idea was take a break after posting that chapter to troll everyone. I think it worked pretty well. XD Anyway, sorry to those of you who actually did think that was a solid ending, but hope you all enjoyed anyway! Though, that ending... If things looked like they were going to start getting brighter there at the start of the chapter, don't worry, this story is called Death. Kind of want to get to the review responses, considering I got like a hundred reviews for the last chapter... So I hope you're excited for the continuation of Death, and in this past week I took off from posting I've written another 7 chapters so I can get back to posting every day again! Really should be doing more work now that I'm back at college- pshh, college can wait! Leave a review below telling me predictions, thoughts, questions, etc!

An Average Jo chapter 63 . Aug 17

Im guessing theres an epilogue at least.
Then the end. Such a kick in the balls though.

Eyyy don't worry! Didn't think I'd actually get so many people with the sudden surprise ending. Enjoy the rest of Death!

Bobberison chapter 63 . Aug 18

BRUH

Bruh, he good!

Shade11224 chapter 63 . Aug 18

Self revival might need to be added to the arsenal

Monoma pulling through clutch! Who knows though, maybe Monoma acted before Zach's power could have kicked in itself? Or maybe getting brought back has changed Death to allow it next time... or maybe Dead is Dead. Thanks for the review!

Carzysgt chapter 63 . Aug 18

BRUH where's Mercy, we need a rez!
Haha, honestly I'm blown away by what you've created and this ending has left me heartbroken on multiple levels. Seeing you post a new chapter was always such a treat, and the quality of your writing for an OC remains unmatched. This journey left me with great memeories of reading a new chapter almost every night for the summer, and I thank you so much for the privilege of reading your creativity.
Personally speaking, I couldn't stop thinking of the battle on Titan in Infinity War as the class struggles in this chapter. This chapter's progression from a hopeless battle to a triumphant second wind and then a sorrowful farewell exposed just how quickly and seemingly effortlessly you can shift the emotion of the scene and the weight of every word.
Your tone, pacing, and attention to detail immediately impressed me when I discovered your story and I'm so glad you've maintained such a high quality for over 60 chapters. I don't often empathize with written characters so strongly, but you stirred feelings in my chest and tears from my eyes time and time again. I'm amazed at what you've accomplished, and I can't wait to read what you do next. Keep being awesome!

THANKS! I'm really glad you compared it to that fight on Titan since I Loved that fight in Infinity War. I hope you enjoyed the newest chapter and am glad that it's continued on even though you seemed pretty satisfied by the ending. Haha that rez has finally come, so enjoy Death as Zach's story goes on!

D-Koy24 chapter 63 . Aug 18

No no no this can't be it! You can't just end it like that! He never got to... H-he never... HE NEVER GOT TO THE SHIP *Eyes filled with rage as his mind filled visions of ship Momozaki* ... Come on man, that's just unfair to us momozaki fans you lead on *cries in corner while muttering about an author being a tease*...
Ah anyway I liked the chapter, nice death scene and honestly I kinda wanted a kiss in there or Moml saying something like "... you can't die just yet, I-i never got to..." then he dies. :3

XD Don't worry, the sinking ship got its holes plugged up... and Zach's even thinking about a life of his own now after his pep talk with Monoma there in the start of the chapter. Hope the troll didn't make you too upset... and I hope you enjoyed the newest chapter!

Vernesha95 chapter 63 . Aug 18

That was fucking amazing. You are an amazing writer, and I loved every second of reading this story. Can we get aftermath point-of-views? Please? Specifically Midoriya, Momo, Bakugo, Kirishima, and Kaminari. Maybe some pro-heroes too.

That's a fucking awesome review! A lot of you guys looking for that epilogue, hope this is just as good! Thanks!

Kerchanko chapter 63 . Aug 18

To start off I want to commend you for writing such an amazing story. I started reading back when you had just put up chapter 33. I've kept silent simply because I don't like to influence the writing of the story, it's your story and I want to keep it that way. (adds some extra suspense and anticipation for me) That said, I must complain about your ending... it felt forced. Which leads me to believe (and hope) that you're only saying it's the ending to tease us into thinking it is and you're going to put out a new chapter in a few days to make us wait in agony, (if you plan on doing that I hate and love you) but if you're serious that this is the ending then please at the very least (I beg you) put out an epilogue chapter showing the aftermath of the attack and Zach's death. Thank you for such a great story. I look forward to what you write next.

Lol totally called me on it. I was expecting more reviews like this in the comment section. No need for an epilogue as the story continues on like you hoped, and believed! Thanks for the review, nice job on calling it, and hope you enjoyed the chapter!

Momozaki chapter 63 . Aug 17

*Blows up table Bakugo style*
THEY NEVER KISSED

Nice name. No promises ;)

Guest chapter 63 . Aug 18

Dammit. That's not fair! I kinda saw it comin and I'm still sad. I really enjoyed this fic, i thought it was a unique take on the series and I thought it was especially good with how you kept the characters in-character. The development of the OC was also great when comparing to how he was in the beginning. Kinda wish it could continue for a while but alas, all good things must come to an end i guess.

Don't sound so accepting! Gawrsh, made it sound so definitively over, I almost believed it myself. XD Cool you "saw it coming" though.

Guest chapter 63 . Aug 19

Something tells me Monoma isn't going to listen to Zach.

^^^ Nice one.

joebob323 chapter 15 . Aug 24

Okay, I have to say that was THEE most emotional scene I've ever seen you write. Kudos, this story is definitely as high quality as the rest of your stories!

...FUCK!

...I knew this was going to happen, but I hold hopes for a revival in the future chapters.

Hey Joebob! Don't know if you've caught up yet and had to deal with this, but I think you escaped it lol. I'm glad you like this as much as my other stories, and I hope you're enjoying it if you've just reached this chapter (whenever it is you're reading this)... Also, Jenny noo!

Raidenff chapter 62 . Aug 23

Bruh this troll has gone on too long :( I'm having withdrawals

Alright alright, I've finally given in. Hope you enjoyed! Thanks for all the reviews you guys. It really was just to give myself some more time to get ahead so I can post in a row again, and it seemed like a good place to take the gap... making it seem like the end was just some fun on my part. Don't be too mad at me, and enjoy the rest of Death!