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!

75. Chapter 75

Disclaimer: I don't own Boku no Hero Academia

Chapter 75:

"Using a whole tub for it?" Dandy asked, turning to Breakneck with a hesitant look on his face as their men continued draining one of the giant tanks of Trigger they had made.

"This whole batch is done anyway," Breakneck replied without looking back, then he turned and called out an order to someone wheeling over a cart for the boxes of Trigger they were filling up.

"But it'll all be sold in a couple of days," Dandy said. Breakneck rolled his eyes while facing away from the oaf behind him, and Dandy continued without noticing that look, "I worked with the Chemist for months. Trigger is profitable-"

"Not as much as Shiftz is going to be," Breakneck said, then he started walking forward and yelling at someone who was carrying a heavy but expensive piece of equipment over to this area for their new operation.

Dandy started raising his right hand at Breakneck's back, then he frowned and lowered it to his side again. We should just get another tank for the new drug. It's not like people aren't going to want Trigger anymore.

"Hey there big guy," Blazerage said in a relaxed tone from behind Dandy. The bigger man turned and saw Blazerage with a pen in his mouth, a glowing red light on the top of it as he sucked back. Blazerage pulled the pen out of his mouth and spoke while still holding back everything he just sucked in, "If the demand's the same but the supply goes down, then we just raise the prices. Match the demand curve with how much supply we've still got. We'll make the same from Trigger if we've really got the surplus you're thinking- ack kah ack!" Blazerage coughed up a ton of smoke that filled up the air in front of his face. It was milky white and gray and he waved an arm in front of his face to get some fresh air to breath in, and he took a huge breath once he had that air only to cough some more times from the smoke still in his lungs.

"Ever heard of not dipping into your own supply?" Inquisitor remarked as he walked by, darting Blazerage a look and shaking his head at the man's slow way of turning to him with a grin on his face.

"It's been twelve years man," Blazerage said, and he started grinning ear to ear while lifting the pen again. "Can you believe this thing? It's so much stronger than anything back when I was selling. Anyway, it's not even from our own stash. I know not to get into the product. Suspicious losses'd get you killed quick back in my gang. Some of the guys'd say 'til the moment I fed 'em to my dogs that they 'really didn't use it Mr. Blazerage!' Fucking idiots," Blazerage lifted the pen again and started taking a massive hit, his eyes opening wide as he could feel it only a second into the puff. He pulled the pen away and looked to Dandy again, and he spoke with smoke coming out of his nose and mouth, "You fuckers in the League of Villains, what a stupid fucking name by the way, you don't get the subtleties of running drugs. Who the fuck cares if we could sell it? Or if people would buy it? We're the ones in charge, not the damn druggies."

"Coming from you-" Dandy began.

Blazerage pocketed his pen and glared through the smoke at Dandy, and a lot more smoke started coming out of his nose and mouth at the pissed off look on his face. "Since I'm the one running shit, I'll decide if and what people will grow or have them make me whatever the hell I want them to make me. Even if there's no fucking demand from anyone else. I'd run a fucking business just for myself-"

"Blazerage," Inquisitor remarked back over his shoulder. "That's how you got caught. Don't be an idiot."

Blazerage smirked and turned the other way, and he started walking towards Inquisitor while pulling his pen back out of his pocket. "And how was is you got caught again? Oh yeah, that old timer Yoroi Musha got you! He was three times your age right? Right?"

"And he's still at it, still in the top ten," Inquisitor turned after saying that, and he finished, "And he'd throw any one of us in prison without a struggle. Well, except for the boss."

"Already calling him 'the boss?'" Blazerage asked with a laugh as he got up to Inquisitor's side. He turned his head to the right as one of the grunts near him turned his way, and he snapped, "The fuck are you looking at? Get back to work!" The villain looking at him opened his eyes wide and then turned and sped off to keep working fast, though he glanced over his shoulder towards Dandy for a second who looked at the guy he had been working with for half a year now and who had followed him here.

The Tartaros guys, they aren't like the rest of us. Why are they treating my guys, and, Dandy thought about the way Blazerage reacted to him implying that he was a "druggie" compared to when Inquisitor straight up called him an "idiot." A more upset look formed on Dandy's face and he glanced towards Breakneck again who Inquisitor referred to as "the boss." We're partners. I'm not, the odd man out. "Breakneck, what should I-" Dandy stopped himself, biting down hard as that was a question someone who was not in charge would finish.

"Hey, you're in charge too," Breakneck said, as he walked closer to Dandy to speak in a quieter voice and not embarrass the bigger man who was looking frustrated. Breakneck patted a hand on Dandy's right shoulder as he walked by, "I'll work on getting Shiftz set up, all this product we're moving to make space for it though needs to be pushed. Rest of the guys are looking a little unmotivated too. Lots of stuff to do around here," Breakneck walked by Dandy and kept smirking as he imagined the look on Dandy's face changing. Don't have to say a thing to the others for them to just run shit on their own. Blazerage is high half- most of the time, and he's still a hundred times more useful than you, you big oaf. Breakneck shook his head and then headed across the room towards a couple of hired hands who were waiting on a batch and not doing much. I need some new cadres. Soon as Shiftz hits the market, the big shots will come rolling in. "You guys, get over to tank 6 and start-"

Two thick metal doors at the end of the laboratory broke inwards and came off of their hinges. BANG- CLANK CLANK They thudded against the floor after the initial smash, and everyone in the room turned towards the doors at the same time. They looked that way, and their eyes started opening huge at the lights they were finally able to see since they did not have any windows in that huge room. Blue and red lights flashed through the windows at the top of the warehouse's exterior room beyond the lab, as well as through the open garage doors behind the woman who just busted in. Between the two doorways were a couple of trucks where some villains were tied up and the drugs they were loading up had dropped at their sides.

The woman who just slammed the door down was bald and had two thick parts of her black helmet on her temples. Her red eyes and the blue irises inside them narrowed while those same colors flashed behind her from the cop cars parked outside. A dozen other figures moved into view behind her, and there were silhouettes of police officers outside the exterior doors as well as surrounding the confiscated drugs. Breakneck spun from the side of the room towards the back door on the opposite side of the room before anyone said a word, before anyone was shouting or the hero who broke down the doors could threaten them. He prepared to vanish, when the two men closest to that door who also spun to it right away turned to each other and dove at one another with crazed looks in their eyes. There was a faint green mist near the back doors, a cloud of it seeping through the cracks and under the doorway because of the man on the other side wearing a black mask and a dark green coat.

"Villains!" Wonderlass yelled, her voice booming and filling the entire lab. "We have a warrant to search this building, and a lot of you are currently breaking the law, which means the rest of you are under arrest too for being accomplices to those crimes. We'll figure out who and what later." Wonderlass stepped one foot forward and onto the thick steel door that had fallen in front of her, and she stomped down on it making a creaking sound under her foot of the steel denting in. "Give yourselves up, put your hands in the air, and the law will look upon you more favorably. And I am the law in this instance, so you do not wish me to look upon you unfavorably."

"We're trapped!"

"What do we do?!"

"You idiots! We're in a lab full of Trigger!"

"You have taken too long to comply," Wonderlass said.

"SHIT! FIRE!"

Wonderlass stomped her foot down harder and popped the entire steel door under her foot in front of her. She dug her fingers into the steel and held it in front of her body as bullets slammed into it from the other side and gunshots went off around the room. "Deku!" She shouted, and she pushed the door forward.

Deku?! Breakneck thought with wide eyes, while popping-up behind a tank of Trigger where two of his men were stacked up behind with rifles in hand already. "We need to take back control of the facility. We have the numbers. We have the weapons. We have the Trigger. Meet at rendezvous Bravo, and if you get caught and squeal where we're meeting up, I'll have you raped to death in prison." Breakneck disappeared and the two men who he had just appeared between stopped hesitating. They popped out from their hiding place and fired wildly towards the heroes in more fear of Breakneck than of getting arrested.

"Open up a path." Breakneck appeared and snapped orders at other villains.

"Get the drugs back."

"Inject with Trigger on my mark, we have the power."

"Go out the secret exit to the west, Blazerage to the east. The warehouse is huge and we need to figure out how much we're in control of." Breakneck vanished from the two he had broken out of Tartaros with, then he appeared between some of the weaker grunts with them and hissed in a threatening voice, "The only way we can escape is out those doors. Push to the trucks." He disappeared again and appeared next to one of the villains they recruited who was even dumber than Dandy, "Use Trigger. We can beat them easily with all the stuff we have." Breakneck vanished and shot across the room, but he spun with huge eyes again as the metal door the heroine was holding up went flying through the room and smashed straight through one of the huge tubs of pink fluid.

Deku landed and then jumped to his left using Gran Torino's fighting style, avoiding the shots of the villains who did not pull away when he smashed the door farther into the lab. He hit the wall on the east and then bounced off of it towards two men who were only starting to turn his way as they had seen him move but it was a blur to them. "Breakneck!" Wonderlass shouted from the center of the room near the south exit where she had picked up the other huge metal door now. Midoriya turned his head with his eyes opening wide while he finished the kick into a villain's side that smashed him into his comrade, while back in the warehouse's exterior just behind the rear ends of the trucks, Zach and Roady both stared in shock towards Wonderlass's back. "I see you over there! This is your operation, isn't it? We knew it couldn't be Dandy, that simple-minded idiot! How long have you been using him for?"

Dandy snarled and he started charging towards the woman who threw the metal door at him while the other villains around them stopped firing. Dandy slammed his right fist forward with his arm bulking up and getting hairier, then his claws extended and the man with the bumpy face leapt up through the splitting door and put his hands together over his head. Right as Dandy's arms got to their highest point over his head, a man with spiky orange hair sprung up over Wonderlass's head from back outside the door, using the full force of his Spring Quirk, "Coil Release!" Bikergang put his arms that were pulled as tightly as his legs had just been to send him flying up like that together in front of Dandy's chest with his knuckles pointed out. All the force pulled back in Bikergang's arms released at once straight into Dandy's chest without him seemingly doing a thing, just as soon as his knuckles collided, Dandy went flying backwards fifty feet and slamming into the ground.

Wonderlass threw the other door to the right at a pair of bulky villains lifting up vials, and the door shattered the vials and the villains' teeth as it knocked them off their feet. One of the two was quick to start getting back up, but two arms reached out of the ground and grabbed him by the insides of his elbows. The villain spun his spiky black head to both sides with a panicked look on his face, then he started raising his eyes up and looking at the black form emerging from the floor. The shadowy man's right arm formed out of the top of his torso, with a red boxing glove on the end of it that he started smashing down into the villain's face over and over before hitting once hard in his temple to knock him out. Russell pulled out his special capture tape and was glad Wonderlass hit these two even closer to the corner on the side of the room they had taken, since the majority of the lab was in chaos and still under villain control.

Deku finished tying up the three villains around him, and he picked all of them up and leapt back towards the main doors. He landed next to Zach between him and Kurt who smiled at the curly-haired boy's actions and said, "We'll get them out of here. Get back in there, eh?"

Midoriya nodded once, then he shot forward again to rejoin the main attack force inside the lab. Zach watched his friend go and he took a deep breath but held his position. Underguard and Rubbergirl are keeping the back door shut. This is their only escape route. The precautions they made to keep anyone from seeing inside their main operation are the same things that kept them from figuring out we had arrived until we were through the doors. Vixen's recharging from taking the front, but in a minute she'll head in with Sky-Girl. Wonderlass and Midori- Deku, will keep everyone's attention with flashy big attacks right in the center. Bikergang too. Everything's going well so far, and hopefully some start giving up-

"Inject!" Breakneck yelled, and a dozen villains in the lab stuck needles in their arms. It was supposed to be fifteen, but Russell, Wonderlass, and Bikergang were all able to stop one of them when they saw the needles coming out. Breakneck had made quick counters though, different plans with different members which was why some of the villains were looking around in confusion only to look in surprise at their comrades who injected with Trigger. "Push them back! These fucking heroes," Breakneck's voice got more sinister, his voice hissing and taunting from far back in the room and up in elevation compared to everyone else. He stood halfway up a staircase near the middle of the room up to the control room on the top half of the east side of the lab. "The rules keep them from evening the playing field. Those of you who shoot-up don't worry, the other half who don't will get you out if you pass out!"

All the gunfire stopped for a second, and Breakneck looked towards the end of the room and the woman who busted down the doors who was still only fifty feet through the door. "You can't stop me! I'm Breakneck, mother fuckers." He rose up his right hand with a handgun in it, he pointed it across the room towards Wonderlass, and then he disappeared. BANG

As the gunshot went off, several things happened at the same time. Around the west side of the exterior part of the warehouse already full of heroes and police, screams cut through the air and the group at the southern entrance spun their heads to the left. The main group of heroes blocking the exit and prepared to move in to help at any moment stared over at Kurt 2 who was flying back across the dim room flashing blue and red from the windows high above. There was a sword sticking out of his chest, two more through his shoulders, and as he was flying back, two more shoved through his thighs before pinning him to the wall impaled five times.

"The exterior is supposed to be secured!"

"There must be an exit inside-"

"It's the Tartaros escapee: Inquisitor!"

At that moment, someone else was supposed to be coming around the east side of the southern entrance and making their own flanking maneuver. Inquisitor got a dark look on his face as he turned the bend to face the heroes, as no attack came from the other side. Blazerage you high fuck, if you slipped out of here-

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A minute before Breakneck fired his handgun after vanishing from the staircase where everyone in the room had been looking at him, Blazerage made his way to the east side of the room and slipped out through a secret exit only a few of them knew about. He snuck through a passage and opened a door that he expected people to be on the other side of who had no clue the wall could move inward. He had a smirk on his face and rose his hands with orange flames bursting to life at the tips of each of his fingers. The dim exterior hall outside of the main lab lit up a bit, only for Blazerage to get a confused look on his face.

"Looks like some of the guys weren't completely incompetent," Blazerage remarked, looking to his left and then right at the two cops' bodies littered near him. "You guys still around? We gonna flank and fuck them in the…" Blazerage turned his head to the left again as he saw a couple of men walking his way. His fingers continued to flicker with flames, but those orange flames got brighter and he called out in a louder voice, "You two do this?"

"Is that Blazerage?"

"So there's the secret door. I knew it was around here somewhere."

Blazerage's smirk lowered and his red eyes widened. His breathing started picking up speed as the two men walking through the darkness came into the light of his flames. "Oh shit," Blazerage said, and he started chuckling to himself while backing up towards the still-open secret door again. Not good. "I'm taking it you two ain't here to back us up?" Blazerage made the joke, and the other two walking his way stopped and smiled back at him. Their smiles unnerved the Tartaros escapee though into losing his own grin.

One of the men facing Blazerage had spiky black hair and skin patched-up all over his body. His skin was discolored and stitched together, he wore dark clothes with a bit of blue color to them unlike the man at his side's dark gray and black clothes. Dabi rose his right hand while grinning at Blazerage, and a blue fireball ignited in his palm to light his face up more and give it a menacing blue hue. Blazerage's hands burst into stronger flames too as his face twisted in anger, and fear.

"I went to all that trouble breaking you out of Tartaros, and how did you repay me?" Shigaraki Tomura asked from Dabi's right side. Shigaraki shook his head, and then he smirked again with a crazed look in his eyes and said, "There's no point trying to apologize now. Accept your-"

Blazerage bit down and he yelled, "Fuck you ya' prick!" Blazerage punched his right hand forward, and Dabi slammed his right ahead too with a much larger blast of blue flames than the fireball Blazerage blasted forward. The recent prison escapee snarled and had to punch his other fist forward, but he spun his head to the left and ducked down anyway as he saw movement and expected Shigaraki to come for him while he held off Dabi's attack. He kicked his right leg out to make a whip of flames and jumped to the other side, crossing his arms and letting the blue explosion of flames to fly by him and into the narrow passage he had just come out of. Blazerage landed and spun, only to hear a soft click on his side a few feet away, and a sharp pain in his chest.

But he- Blazerage's eyes shifted to the fading blue flames and through them where he thought he had seen movement, but there was no one there and he could only stare blankly in confusion as he collapsed to his knees. He brought his hands to his chest and flames formed on them, and he bit down but did not feel the pain too strongly as he seared his skin shut. "You want some help with that?" Dabi offered while running forward, and Blazerage lifted his shaky head to stare at the spiky-haired man in confusion. Then his bloodshot eyes snapped open huge and he opened his mouth to scream, but Dabi put his hands on either side of Blazerage's head and fired blue flames towards his opposite palms. The man in the center of his flames did not let out a single sound, other than the sizzling and searing of his skin and flesh.

Bang! Shigaraki and Dabi turned towards the narrow passageway where Dabi's flames had faded from. "Sounds like they're still going at it," Dabi remarked, as for a few moments there it had been pretty quiet in the main lab.

"It's time to make an example of them," Shigaraki said, and he walked into the secret pass with a smirk on his face but a furious expression in his eyes. "I don't want them captured."

"Hold on, this is about getting the Chemist back," Dabi said while walking after Shigaraki. "If you wanted to do something like that, we should have brought more guys-"

"I have all the guys I need," Shigaraki replied, his smirk getting more dangerous as he started chuckling under his breath. "In that room already," he finished, and Dabi looked at his back amusedly before nodding and just following after him.

Inside the lab just in front of the two of them, Breakneck snapped his head up and stared wide-eyed at the boy who turned his neck and glared back down towards the man who missed his shot from point blank. Deku had everyone in the room staring up at him in shock, as Breakneck's shot had come from where Midoriya had just been standing and scared all the heroes who heard it. All Might was right, Midoriya thought as he looked down at Breakneck's surprised face. When Breakneck got everyone looking towards him in the center of the room up the stairs, lifting his gun and pointing the short-ranged pistol across the lab towards Wonderlass, Midoriya expected it was coming for someone else.

Because I shouted Smash too, and he was defeated by All Might. I was in his line of sight and even though he didn't look at me, I knew he was coming for me. Deku spun around in the air and he pointed his right hand down in his white glove, and he flicked a finger at 20% to make an air cannon that knocked Breakneck off his feet and slamming into the ground. The villain crossed his arms, then his eyes shot open wide as a woman with a shaved head and a man with spiky orange hair were both coming down at him. He vanished and reappeared up above them, only to spin his body sideways and pull his gun in at the boy who just went passing by the front of his body. Midoriya's eyes opened wide as Breakneck dodged him, and he had to snap his body backwards as Breakneck turned the gun and fired three times from almost point blank at his upper body.

He's so fast! Like fucking, All Might! Damn it! Breakneck vanished as he dropped from the air before the boy who dodged his shots again could recover and attack him some more.

"We're under attack out here!"

Russell spun his head as he heard that, and then his eyes opened huge as someone shouted, "Kurt 2 is down! We're trying to get his body behind the perimeter for-" Russell heard a shout of pain, and he dropped down into the floor and moved for the door they had entered from.

"We have to keep the rest of them in here!" Bikergang shouted, then he leapt backwards as two villains who had injected with Trigger right before Breakneck tried attacking Midoriya charged his way. Wonderlass stepped forward while he leapt back, and she slammed her right fist into the claws of a villain before ducking the other's sword. She charged forward extending both arms out to her sides and decked the villains backwards with stiff-arms, before stomping into the ground hard and cracking it with her hard stomp. Her red eyes darted left and right, then they narrowed and she charged at a tub of pink liquid right as a Triggered-up long-range villain fired shaking cannon arms at her.

"Watch the product!" Tyrone yelled as the tub closest to him broke apart and a wave of liquid dropped on top of two villains ducked down behind it. Some of it got in their mouths and noses, and the two who had not injected with Trigger like the others started staggering around with a half-finished batch coursing inside them. They roared with their muscles bulking and Quirks enhancing with unfinished product. One of them started glowing bright red while the other's muscles rippled violently, and the one whose muscles were bulging darted a quick look at the man next to him to see he looked about to explode. That increasingly muscular man grabbed his comrade who was looking at his hands in panic as they got way too bright, and he swung the panicked and now screaming man towards the door the heroes had entered from.

"Wait! I don't want to DIE! AHHHHH!" BA-DOOOOM!

CRASH!

The back doors of the room that everyone thought were impossible to go through because of the green cloud around them, slammed inwards and flew an eighth of the way through the lab, one of them smashing straight through the upper body of a woman halfway through turning towards it. The doors hit the floor and one skid while the other covered in blood and guts from that villainess cartwheeled for another second before stopping. Everyone in the room looked back towards that open doorway, only for two figures in torn green coats to be thrown through the room like ragdolls. "Underguard!" Bikergang shouted across the room, his eyes wide and his face getting panicked at the sight of their mission leader's broken body.

"Reinforcements?!"

"We're beating them!"

"RAAAAA!"

"RROOOAAAARRR!"

Who the hell was back there? Did Blazerage or Inquisitor take the initiative? Breakneck started smirking from where he had disappeared to in the shadows of the main lab. He tried looking to the back doors to see who was there through the smoke and darkness, beyond bulking Triggered-up villains and past all the equipment of his quickly deteriorating drug lab. Then he turned his head to his right and looked directly across the room from where he was standing to see a man looking terrified and screaming his way, "Breakneck! We have to get out of here! It's-" the man screaming froze mid-sentence, the terror in his voice making even the most disoriented and rage-filled of the drugged villains turn his way. They all looked towards the man who rose a hand desperately towards Breakneck with terror across his face, before that hand started disintegrating and blowing away before the rest of his body decayed too.

Breakneck stared straight through where his own man's head had just been to the face of a figure who had a gray hand covering it. The wrinkles of his face and his smirking chapped lips were visible behind that hand, and everyone in the room except for Breakneck and Wonderlass looked towards him in shock and fear. "Was hoping you'd show up," Breakneck started after a moment, and he smirked at the leader of the League of Villains before him.

Outside the south entrance to the lab, the heroes and police were trying desperately to keep control of their situation. Russell had come out of the lab and moved towards Inquisitor on the west side of the lab, attacking with the rest of Team Canada except the leader Kurt who had gone with Gogogo and Sameko around the east side where they had lost contact with some of the police. They had taken a squad of officers with them, and another squad was leaving now with Lobscar to go join them and head around the building to the north side where Underguard's position had broken through. Underguard had gotten a message out during his fight, and just before Shigaraki appeared in the lab, the news was passed across the rest of the operation. The League of Villains were there.

Zach knelt between Bouncer Man and Roady with the rest of the main police force still at the southern entrance as well as the Feisty Foursome. Vixen's capture Quirk had recharged, but they had weakened their main position so much from what they were ever supposed to that she and Sky-Girl were staying outside the entrance instead of pushing in. Bikergang's voice called into their headsets though letting them know about Underguard and Rubbergirl, as well as Shigaraki's appearance inside the lab, and Bouncer Man shouted at the four of them to back up the others in the lab. "We can hold this position with the police," Bouncer Man assured the women who looked towards him hesitantly.

Plucky looked towards him and then to the boy who let out a scream while holding his right hand over Kurt 2's chest in the middle of a circle of police officers holding riot shields. The girl with curly pink hair falling to her shoulders in a tight green outfit striped with pink lines felt a pang in her chest as she listened to him scream. Then she glanced next to him at Roady who she had worked with before and who was telling Lifebringer to keep going without worrying about being attacked. Plucky spun to Spunky and said to the leader of their hero team, "Let's do it. Without Russell in there, and the League's appearance, we need to move."

It's not part of the plan, Spunky thought. The woman in a tight green outfit with yellow stripes on it darted a look around at the girls with her, then she nodded and spun to the huge entrance in front of them they were guarding. Looking through it, she could see a couple of villains charging it at the moment without any heroes in their paths. She did not know where Deku, Wonderlass, or Bikergang were inside the lab, but they were clearly overwhelmed by the looks of it. "Feisty Foursome, move in and capture all the villains." Spunky glanced back once while the others readied their Quirks and weapons, then she turned from Zach who dropped his arm from Kurt 2's body while gasping in pain, "Dr. Kawasagi is still the priority objective here. If the League is here, my bet is they're here to get him back."

The Feisty Foursome ran inside, while Zach shook Kurt 2 a bunch of times as the man was closing his eyes with an exhausted look on his face. "Hey hey, get up Kurt," Zach shook him some more, and Kurt 2 opened his eyes a little wider, then he smiled and opened his mouth like he was going to thank Zach. Then he fell flat on his back and Zach slouched his shoulders while panting in exhaustion.

Roady reached down and grabbed Zach by a shoulder and started, "Get up, we-" Zach flinched when Roady grabbed him, and he bit down in pain at the feeling of a sword going through that same exact shoulder. He had just felt five swords piercing his body and he clenched his eyes for a second while Roady let go of him, his eyes opening wide at the look that had flashed on Zach's face.

"Yeah," Zach said, pushing his hands down at his sides and standing up. "Get him out of here," Zach said, spinning to an officer on his right who nodded back at him a few times and then called to his subordinates to follow Lifebringer's order.

"You good?" Roady asked.

"Fine," Zach replied, and he moved forward to get up to Bouncer Man's side again.

"This guy's a monster!"

"How is he so strong?!"

"He's not even on Trigger, eh?"

The three sidekicks from Bikergang's agency heard the voices of Team Canada who were facing Inquisitor, one of the villains who they had prepared for during their planning meeting for the operation. Zach stopped panting and shook his head around, getting a serious and ready look on his face again. Are Underguard and Rubbergirl alright? Bikergang said they were "down," but Kurt 2 was "down" too. What's going on around here? Shigaraki showed up? Shigaraki… is here? Zach had heard it while kneeling over Kurt 2, and he had actually lifted his hand from the Canadian man for a second because of the shock he had felt. Why attack now? It's for the Chemist, not me. It's not for me. He's not here for me-

Zach stared through the entrance of the main lab in front of him, and his breath caught in his throat. He stared into that huge dim room that was illuminated by the occasional flash of a gun firing or someone's Quirk, while red and blue lights flashed around him from the police cars outside. He stared into that room and could not breathe, as a huge blue light flared in the room with flames coming into view near the middle of the room. "Dabi," Zach whispered.

Roady's eyes opened huge at the sound of that name, then he spun to the left as the boy next to him took a step forward. Roady opened his mouth to say something, only to see the most furious look he had ever seen on a person's face covering Zach's. "Jenny," Zach whispered even quieter, his heart pounding and his mouth twisting in complete utter rage.

"Lifebringer," Bouncer Man said, raising a hand and covering the earpiece in his right ear to block out his voice. Zach froze with his eyes opening huge, and he turned to Bouncer Man with that wide-eyed look to see the tall, tan man looking down at him with a harsh and serious look. The man opened his mouth to say something else, but Zach quickly shook his head and then stepped back to be right in between the other two again.

"I know," Zach responded. Heroes, don't look for revenge. Iida made that mistake. Zach spoke louder, "Dabi's here too. We need backup."

"There are too many villains on Trigger in here," Sky-Girl's voice called into their headsets.

"The perimeter on the north side of the building has broken through!"

"Chief! Send out for help from other heroes!"

"Oh shit- the media's here!"

"Keep them behind the perimeter! We do not have this situation under control!"

Inside the main lab, Deku could hear all these things being shouted in his headset but he did not have the time or luxury to respond or focus on any of it. All around him were villains. Half of them had used Trigger, but that did not mean the other half were not just as dangerous. When he heard about Shigaraki even, he could not turn to look for where in the room he was as he was attacked by two different villains on Trigger whose Quirks had manifested wildly different from each other, with one of them even showing off a second Quirk as part of a composite the villain setting it off at random seemed to have not known about beforehand.

At the north entrance, after smashing the doors down, Hydro stomped forward into the room with his fists at his sides inside big steel gloves. He had on a dark costume, and the cannon on his back stuck over the top of his bald black head with smoke coming out of it. After smashing the doors down, when others turned towards Shigaraki and then Dabi who created a huge explosion of blue flames to announce their arrival, a figure on Hydro's back climbed up to his right shoulder with a crazy smile on his face. The two foot tall man rose up the pair of scythes in his hands attached together by a steel-link chain, and he cackled as he leapt up in the air with his eyes glowing bright red.

Fez leapt up ten feet over Hydro and swung the scythe in his right hand, the blade started waving and extending, and it sliced across a tank of Trigger and a man running for cover on the other side of it. Hydro bent his body forward and his cannon glowed bright blue again, and he fired a beam into the middle of the room twenty meters in front of him where a domed explosion went off and sent tables covered in crates and bags of drugs blasting to the sides.

As the chaos ensued, Shigaraki had faced off with Breakneck after entering the room, and there were a great number of villains around them staring at the two glaring into each other's eyes. "You wanted me to come, did you?" Shigaraki asked.

"Gave us a new escape route, didn't you?" Breakneck remarked, smirking and showing no fear of the League of Villains' leader before him. His men looked towards him, then to Shigaraki again feeling a little smug themselves at the sound of that. "Now we can get out of here-"

"But I just came in through the side right here," Shigaraki said in mock confusion. "We bumped into Blazerage on our way in. He must have known about the secret passage then, huh? Weird that no one else is using it," Shigaraki smirked while Breakneck's smile lowered down a bit, his men starting to get more confused expressions on their faces.

"He was flanking the heroes to get us all an escape-"

"Well now he's dead," Shigaraki cut in. "And your operation dies with-"

"As long as I have the Shiftz formula, and the doc, the operation continues," Breakneck snapped back at Shigaraki. "And you can't stop us-"

"All of you can rejoin me," Shigaraki announced. "And those of you who are new, welcome," Shigaraki smirked towards Breakneck who just smirked back at him and started shaking his head. Shigaraki continued, "Kurogiri will get you all out of here before the heroes catch you."

"You expect them to follow you?" Breakneck asked, his eyes narrowed while he continued to smirk. He did not dart his gaze around, but he did not like the looks on the faces of some of the guys in his peripherals who did not seem to know what to do right now. They did not know who to follow, and they glanced around at each other with hesitant and scared looks as they were trapped between heroes and the League of Villains.

"Shigaraki," Tyrone snapped over. He was a five foot tall man who was huge at the shoulders but had a narrow waist, his skin was pitch black and his eyes glowed white, and he held an assault rifle in his hands while standing between two other guys he had joined this operation with. "You let half the fucking League get caught in that Musutafu invasion. Any one of us could have been in that half, and you did it all for yourself, no bigger purpose… But Breakneck just let a bunch of guys get caught earlier, sacrificed them for that fucking formula of his." Tyrone's hands tightened on his assault rifle, and he bared his teeth that were sharpened like his claws. "So I don't know who to follow, but if this place falls into enough chaos, I know I'm finding an opportunity to escape."

"Don't give up!"

"Just follow Breakneck's plan and we'll-"

"But Kurogiri can actually get us out-"

"I'm with Tyrone!"

"No you're not!" Tyrone yelled over, and he rose his rifle and fired at the skinny man running towards him because he liked Tyrone's plan. "Every man for himself!" Tyrone roared, then he glanced to either side at the guys who had been with him and smirked, and they smirked back and nodded in silent agreement.

The three of them turned and started to run, made it a few steps, then right as everyone started raising weapons to attack each other, Wonderlass dropped down on top of Tyrone and slammed him into the ground. The two guys on his sides started looking in, but Wonderlass reached out and grabbed one of them by the head. The other pulled away from her other hand, so she swung the man she did catch around her body and slammed him into the other, sending them flying towards a turned-over table which they smashed through and rolled into a stack of drug crates that fell onto them.

Wonderlass looked straight towards Shigaraki after throwing those two through the lab. She kicked the man below her and tossed him aside while stomping forward, and she glared into the eyes of the man with a hand covering most of his face. "Shigaraki, Tomura," Wonderlass growled. All Might, if not for this bastard… Wonderlass's fists clenched tightly and the floor beneath her feet started to crack as she bent her knees.

Breakneck smirked as she faced him, but his eyes darted around at the men near him and he grimaced once more. The formula. The Chemist. Apocalypse. All I need. "Keep fighting! We'll win this!" Breakneck disappeared, leaving the men to figure out whether to trust him, to believe Shigaraki, or to follow Tyrone's example for as much good as it did him. They had to decide fast too, as the Feisty Foursome charged into their part of the room room with Vixen and Spunky at the front.

The oldest woman in the group who had purple highlights to her green costume leapt up in the air and opened her mouth as she arced towards the middle of the lab. Vixen unhinged her jaw and out from her mouth poured a dark blackish-purple sludge in a wave that swept down into the room. A speedy villain on Trigger zipped out of the way of the wave and picked up a rifle she was almost too fast to grab as she was running by it. She pointed the rifle up and started firing, but the bullets slowed in the air before reaching Vixen. The speeding villain got confused and kept running while firing, only to realize that she was slowing down too.

Spunky dropped down in front of the speedster who was announcing her position with her firing, and Spunky punched the two thick gauntlets on her hands into the confused villain. An electric shock blasted from her weapons, and then Spunky turned and ran back the way she came for a second. "Deku!" She tossed up and behind her, and Deku leapt towards her to catch the light speedster. He jumped back the other way while tying up the woman in his arms, and Spunky turned back and rushed to the sludge some villains were stuck in.

As Vixen and Spunky whittled away at the villains' forces, Bikergang had grabbed a couple of people in green coats on the other side of the room and was trying to make his way back across it. There were even more villains in there than they had seen in the pictures Rubbergirl had taken though, and the arrival of the League of Villains had made it harder. Deku had come with him to help out at first, but Bikergang ordered him to keep working on capturing as many villains as possible. Only with fewer enemies were they going to get this situation under control, but good news suddenly came in through all their headsets.

"You have to help me!"

"Yeah, I've got him," Plucky called into her headset while the man in front of her begged for help.

"So you know who I am?! Thank goodness!" Doctor Kawasagi had a frightened look on his face and stood close to the woman with pink highlights on her green costume and matching pink hair. "You have to get me out of here. These villains they-"

"Dr. Kawasagi, you are under arrest," Plucky said.

"Another three villains have been captured."

"Get them out to the police perimeter outside-"

"The northern perimeter is still in chaos!"

"Too many are on Trigger!"

"Where are those reinforcements?!"

Plucky grimaced as no one really responded to what she had said. They all had other things to do though, and she bit down as she heard from Lindsey that the western exterior hall of the warehouse was filling with villains outside of the main lab. The man in front of her reacted to what Plucky said though, and he pulled back in feigned shock at first, only to narrow his eyes at the woman before him. "How did you find out?" The Chemist hissed in a snarling voice.

Plucky grinned at the man in front of him, "Actually, I was unsure about it myself, but it looks like Lifebringer was telling the truth." She said it softly so the same boy wouldn't hear her say how she doubted him over their headsets. I liked the kid, so I'm glad this-

Chemist's eyes opened wide and he asked, "Reaper's here?"

Plucky's smile dropped, and the woman stepping forward to take the Chemist into custody and get him out of the lab froze. She looked at him with a hesitant and unnerved look, and her eyes darted to the side as she thought about the boy behind her who she was about the bring the Chemist back towards. As her eyes started shifting to the side, a vial slipped out of the Chemist's right sleeve and into his hand. "Alright, just get me out of here, I don't care if I'm under arrest-" Chemist ran forward with a panicked and scared look on his face, and Plucky spun back towards him and started lifting her arms to keep the frantic man at a distance from her.

As Plucky rose her arms though, Chemist darted to his right and grabbed Plucky's left arm with one arm. He twisted her arm while jamming down the needle in his other hand, only for Plucky to punch him in the face across her arm with a furious and terrified look on her face. She smacked away the needle that had just pricked her arm, and then she gulped while staring at the blood tricking out of where she was injected with something. She turned her head and looked down at the man who was laughing while facing the floor beneath him. He was on his hands and knees, and he started cackling madly while lifting his head to look in her eyes. "What did you-" Plucky began, then she felt a churning in her stomach that made her wobble a foot to her right, then stumble left as she tried to balance herself.

"I was meaning to use it on Dandy or Breakneck," Chemist began. He got back up to his feet and rubbed an arm across his cheek where he felt pain from that punch in the face. "A nice poisoned strain of Trigger I concocted," Chemist said, while Plucky hunched over and heaved blood violently all over the floor. She brought her hands up to the sides of her head as she could suddenly hear everything in the room, not just the shouts of people far away or quiet whispers of villains trying to hide from the heroes or other villains. She heard breathing, and footsteps of people in the exterior parts of the warehouse, cops speaking outside, and the heartbeats of people all around her, including her own that was out of control. One of Plucky's hands lowered from her ears that started to bleed, and she grabbed at her chest before hurling blood and puke all over the floor again.

"Who is that?" Roady called over the headset as they heard someone heaving violently which had shut everyone else up for a moment.

"Bouncer Man, help me with them," Bikergang called over from just inside the main doors of the lab's southern entrance. The three sidekicks of Bikergang's agency looked towards the man who had just gotten back close enough to them to see, and their eyes opened wide to see who Bikergang had brought over. Bouncer Man ran towards him and grabbed Underguard from Bikergang who continued holding Rubbergirl while moving farther out of the lab.

Eight cops, Roady, and Zach ran up towards where Bikergang placed Rubbergirl down on the ground. "Are they," Zach began.

"Badly injured," Bikergang replied. "But they're not dead."

"Bikergang!" Roady exclaimed. "You're hurt!" The others around them had not noticed because of the extent of Underguard and Rubbergirl's injuries, but they all looked to Bikergang now and saw him grabbing at his left side once his hands were free again. He moved his hand for a second, and he grimaced down at the wound where someone's sharp whip-like appendage had impaled him from a distance right when he landed near the other heroes' bodies all the way across the lab. Making it back to a safe place with them and not in the middle of villains fighting villains was hard, and he was panting but moved his hand from the wound and turned back towards the room behind him.

"Get them out of here," Bouncer Man said, spinning to the cops. He looked at their expressions behind their visors, and he could come up with anything encouraging to say to the scared men and women still there at the very lightly guarded exit of the lab. Then he saw those scared looks become even more terrified, and a few of them stepped backwards which made Bouncer Man spin around and look back into the lab where Bikergang was staring with a look of dread on his face.

"Ra raa, raaa, haaa," a burly figure covered in black fur who looked like a bear was running on all fours and scraping up the ground under his claws with every staggered sprint in their direction. A woman flying over him in a full costume with wings sticking out of her back and katanas in either hand screamed to push the exit, and a bunch of other villains came out of seemingly nowhere to rush them at the same time.

"Noo!" A voice screamed over their headsets. "Plucky! Plucky are you- oh my God!"

"Lifebringer!" Spunky's voice shouted into his ear, but Zach had just taken a step back at the sight of the eight villains charging their exit. Some of them were already bloodied, some looked like they had been fighting heroes inside the lab, but they all looked like they were enraged and on Trigger. The cops behind Zach were stepping away too, and Roady's hands shook at his sides as he looked at them.

"Lifebringer!" Sky-Girl shouted, the same voice that had been screaming in dread a moment ago. "Plucky, she's- hey! Get away!" Sky-Girl grunted and yelled out in fury, then she yelled, "Get in here! Please!"

"We can't hold this position," Bikergang whispered. He spun towards Bouncer Man, then to the boys past him, then to the cops behind him, "Fall back outside the warehouse to the secondary perimeter!" The officers did not need to hear anything more than that to start running, then Bikergang spun towards Zach who had stopped backing up and was staring into the lab with wide eyes, then took a step towards it. Bikergang grit his teeth through the pain, and he said, "Bouncer Man, you and me then."

Roady looked to his right with wide eyes, only to see Bouncer Man nodding in agreement with what Bikergang just said. "Guard him Roady!" Bouncer Man shouted, and then he sprinted forward and rose up his big hands in his black gloves that he balled into fists. The tall tan-skinned man slammed his fists into his chest and then smashed them down on the ground in front of him, making most of the villains charging his way hesitate. That meant that the relentless one that looked like a black bear had a wide gap between him and the others, and Bikergang sprang forward and slammed his right leg into that bear-villain's face.

Then Bouncer Man ran forward, and he opened his fists and curled his fingers into the villain's thick hide. He used his Quirk, Grip, to lock in and dig his fingers into the villain's flesh. Then he spun and threw up in the air at the flying woman who came diving down at him, tossing the heavy villain between her katanas to nail her with a few hundred pounds of fat and muscle.

"Let's go Lifebringer!" Roady ran forward while Zach was staring towards the other two with wide eyes, and then Zach pushed his soles down and ran after him. They ran through the doors and immediately cut to the left, moving deeper into the shadows and out of sight of the villains who were distracted by the two who had charged them.

Roady started calling out for Sky-Girl to find out where Plucky was. Zach looked around the room and kept his eyes peeled, only to pull back as a giant metal beam that had been attached to the ceiling crashed down only ten feet away from him. I didn't even see it coming down! CRASH A huge hole blasted in a wall on the opposite side of the room near the doors that had been smashed down a minute ago, and then a flash of light illuminated near it followed by a bunch of different pitched screams.

Roady's eyes darted right and left, up and down, and he held his arm out to make Zach stop short behind him. He motioned to the right and they darted over towards a broken tank that had been full of Trigger, their feet making splashes and squishing noises on the floor as they ran through the pink liquid. Zach ducked down because Roady did, and Roady stared in front of him panting heavily for a few seconds until the path had turned green again. Sky-Girl told them exactly where she was, and Roady darted out from behind the tank and more towards the middle of the room, though still on the west side that they were running out from.

As they ran in from the west, Zach stared across the room and farther to the northeast corner where blue flames were covering walls and just made something explode in a huge ball of fire. "There," Roady pointed and Zach snapped his sweaty expression down. There was smoke filling the air between them and the ceiling, so Zach could not tell if there were more metal beams on the verge of falling. The artificial lights that had been few and far between to start with had cut off while they made their mad dash, and the police lights outside seemed to have dimmed as well, making the room only full of the blue tint from the flames covering part of it. Zach could see in that blue tint the red puddle on the floor around Plucky's body that had some other deathly colors mixed in with it.

Zach ran towards Plucky, and Roady ran right past her and towards Sky-Girl who glanced back at them and showed Roady that half of her face was covered in blood and she looked exhausted while fighting a female villain with spikes covering her arms and legs. The woman had only had one steel horn sticking out of her forehead, but now that horn was much bigger and she had blood coming out of her skin around it while she laughed at the girl before her who could not get as strong a hit on her as she was getting back. "Instead of Unicorn, I think I'll go by Horny for now on!" Horny called out, blood dripping off several of her steel horns while the heroes looked nervously back at her.

"What happened to her?" Zach asked in confusion as he looked at Plucky's body. No entrance wounds- oh my, oh fuck! "It was him, Chemist," Zach whispered, putting it together as he had not done before in the anxiety he felt from the villains rushing their position or the panic of charging into the lab. Thinking about what he heard Plucky say a minute ago though made it very clear to him what he was looking at. Roady glanced back for a moment then spun forward as he realized Horny was faster than she looked even with all those protrusions sticking out of her body. Zach thought about all the horrific hurling noises he had heard from Plucky as she must have died, which he confirmed by checking her pulse that he could not feel through the glove on his left hand.

Zach started lifting his right and his fingers slid out of his glove, and he stared at his hand that was shaking at the memory of those swords piercing him only a few minutes ago. He grabbed his right wrist, then he snapped his head up with even more fear as two villains running for the south exit turned his way. "A hero," one of them said, smirking at the boy in the white costume who would make for a good hostage. They had heard one of the exits was clear, but from the battle they could see it was not as clear as they wanted it to be.

Zach spun his head after seeing both turn and start coming for him, and he opened his mouth to let Roady and Sky-Girl know, only for blood to splash from both of them and Horny to laugh as two more horns had come out of her body exactly where she willed them to. Her laughter went from sounding smug and excited, to nervous and crazed like she did not know when the horns would stop growing and it terrified her imagining them coming out of her entire body. Zach started moving his right hand back to his body at the sound of her crazed laughs, then he darted his eyes down to Plucky, then over to the men running towards him now only fifteen feet away.

"Is that-" a deep voice started, making the two men running towards Zach slow. "Sazaki?" The tall, bald villain with a cannon sticking out of his back made Zach spin towards him with a look of terror spreading over his face. Hydro's face covered in absolute rage as Zach turned to look at him though, "IT IS!" Hydro started running forward, barreling right through a man who happened to be running in his path. He smacked his arm to the side when the guy stumbled away from him in mid-sprint, and Hydro's right fist in a steel glove snapped the guy's neck and made his head spin around over his shoulders, something that had the other two going for Zach to stop and back up nervously. "Six months! I spent six months in Tartaros because of you, you fucking little shit!"

Roady managed to tear his eyes off the crazed woman he refaced despite the gash on his right arm, and his eyes opened wide as he recognized the villain from a huge news report back in November. At the time he had been pissed because of the way everyone else started talking about Lifebringer despite how he was still breaking the rules, which was why the faces of those two villains he had caught that day stuck with him so much. Hydro! "Lifebringer, get back-" Roady's eyes opened huge and then he had to pull his head to the side as Speedroute gave him a green path. He had seen mostly black lines that were like death flags all across his vision except for that escape route, just barely letting him dodge a spike aimed for the head that actually fired from Horny's body this time.

Zach reached down and grabbed Plucky's body with his right hand, his fingers still out of his glove though he tried pulling her backwards even as his entire right arm turned black. He coughed and gasped in the intense agony he started feeling, which made his heart hurt because he knew she must have felt this as she puked herself to death. The pain and sadness he felt almost managed to top his terror, but he still screamed out in more fear than pain as Hydro was about to crush his head with how he dove forward while pulling his huge right fist back.

"Zach!" A foot slammed into Hydro's side and sent him off-target while still in mid-flight. Midoriya aimed and sent the villain flying towards the two who had just turned and started rushing the south exit where they would be able to target an already overwhelmed Bikergang and Bouncer Man. Midoriya landed and turned to see if Zach was alright, only for Zach to stop trying to drag Plucky away and just drop on top of her body. Midoriya turned the other way again as he heard a roar of fury, and he saw the man he just kicked away at 20% getting back on his feet with only a pissed-off look on his face. Even the two he had been smashed into were getting back up too, though Hydro snapped at them to help him out and they could join the League of Villains, which the others did not argue with considering how strong they had seen this guy to be so far.

"It's Hydro," Midoriya started.

"Guard me," Zach said, looking up for a second. Midoriya looked down at him, and the curly-green-haired boy's eyes shot open huge at the sight of Zach's eyes full of blood. There was blood coming out of the corners of Zach's mouth, out his ears too, and his arms were shaking as he held his right wrist with his left hand and pushed all his weight down on Plucky's chest. "Please, Deku. Protect me, so I can save her."

"Three officers down on the east side of the warehouse!"

"We're in a firefight in the north-"

"Lindsey!"

Zach's heart hurt as much as his organs that currently felt like they were shutting down and tearing apart inside him. I can't save everyone. But, but I have to be able to save someone!

Midoriya's huge eyes at what Zach just asked him returned to normal and he spun to face Hydro who was coming for them again. He remembered the villain from that day at VTS, he could see how much that guy wanted to kill Zach right now, and he rose up his hands in a fighting stance between Zach and the villain out for revenge. How Zach just made that request to him echoed in his head, and Midoriya replied, "Bring Plucky back, Lifebringer. I'll protect you."

"We've got your back!" Roady called over too, while he slammed a fist into the back of Horny's head when he found his opening.

Horny started to turn towards him, only for her eyes to open wide and another horn to spike out of her chest towards the girl flying down towards her with a visible red wind coming out the back of her body. The wind swirled as the steel horn came out, spinning Sky-Girl's entire body so the horn only sliced across her right leg instead of piercing it. She slammed both feet under Horny's facial horn and into her teeth, knocking the older and scarier woman backwards with blood splashing out of her mouth from where her broken teeth slashed into her tongue right there. Sky-Girl landed and glanced back to see the agony all over Lifebringer's blue-tinted face, yet he held his arms down on Plucky anyway. "Yeah, we'll protect you," she agreed, instead of shouting anything at him this time. I take it all back, kid, Lifebringer. Please, save my best friend.

Zach started to scream, but he cut himself off and bit down as hard as he could. He pushed his lips out to the sides and lifted the corners of them right after Roady and Sky-Girl had looked back towards him. "Good!" Zach called out, the most forced smile on his face that the others had ever seen. Despite how forced it was though, Zach was not just smiling for the sake of the others or the ideology of it. Plucky. I'll save you. I promise! In all this madness, with the people I hate the most within arm's reach, I'll SAVE YOU! Because I'm a hero! I'm going to be a hero, right here. Right now! And I am going to save you! "Come back, Plucky. I've got you. I'm definitely, going to save you."

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A/N The raid has begun! The League shows up and the plan breaks down fast! Thanks for reading, and I hope you enjoyed the chapter! Villains shooting up with Trigger, heroes dropping, and the perimeters getting breached! The raid on the Trigger lab is going poorly as even capturing the Chemist proves to be fatal for Plucky as the sneaky scientist isn't planning on trading one captor for another. Hydro's after Zach, Breakneck's trying to protect what he needs to keep his operation going, Shigaraki's there to get what's his back and to send a message, Chemist wants to escape... as does most everyone at the lab! Lots of villains, lots of goals, Quirks, drugs, and guns. Leave a review below telling me what you think, comments, questions, or predictions for the upcoming chapters! Can the heroes stop the villains?! Will they be able to stop Breakneck from escaping this time? And what about the League?! Find out next time on Death!