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!

76. Chapter 76

Disclaimer: I don't own Boku no Hero Academia

Chapter 76:

In the middle of what had been a high-functioning illicit drug manufacturing plant up until ten minutes ago, Dr. Juno Kawasagi crawled on his hands and knees through the main lab. His face was twisted in fear and determination, and he reached a hand up while crawling to push his glasses up the bridge of his nose, then he kept scampering away like a rat through the dark room full of so much shouting and loud noises. He was panting but laughed between his breaths as he thought about the woman he left dying back across the lab. The north exit was just ahead of him, though it looked like exits now considering the huge hole in the wall on the west side of where the doors had been smashed down, giving the scientist a secondary option for escape as he did not see any heroes blocking that escape route.

Through the main exit up ahead of him, he could see the doors to the outside of the building and to the exterior of the warehouse where there were more flashing red and blue lights. There were also gunshots coming from that direction and the screams and roars of more villains who had made it out of the main lab, as well as shouts from heroes who had gone around the main lab to try and reconvene at Underguard's broken position and support the cops whose perimeter had been shattered on the north side of the building. Once I'm outside, I can slip away! When did Reaper tell them who I was?! It doesn't matter, I just need to find Shigaraki! Where did he go? Him or Dabi, one of them must have a line to Kurogiri. They've come for me!

The Chemist froze where he was as his hands slid to the sides on the ground and his face almost slammed into the floor covered in slippery fluid that had made his hands slip in the first place. He stared down in terror for a second, then he smirked as it was only blood he was looking at, and he laughed at the unfortunate soul to his right who was slumped against a broken table with their eyes half-open and three claw marks slashed across his chest. Chemist crawled forward again, speeding up as he was almost at the doors where he could get out of this lab, then he heard a loud smash to his left and he spun with wide eyes. He brought his hands up to his face and fell backwards, pushing his feet in front of him to get away from the wave of pink fluid that came splashing at him which was why he had been terrified before as his face got close to it. None of the Trigger I've been making here is as good as the stuff I made for Musutafu! All of it could be deadly, all of it is unpredictable!

Chemist clenched his eyes shut and covered his other orifices tighter while scrambling to get out of the wave of Trigger fluid around him. He dragged himself out of it and winced as his palm opened on a shard of glass that had been mixed with the fluid, then he quickly stood up and started cleaning off his hand to prevent any Trigger from getting in the wound. He looked around after doing this for a second, realizing that he was all alone and did not need to be crawling anymore. He smirked and started running for the northern entrance to the lab, Before I go, I need to retrieve-

A hand clamped down on Chemist's right shoulder and squeezed tightly. Chemist started reaching down for his side, but the big man behind him growled in a deep voice, "You think I don't know where you keep your weapons?" Dandy squeezed tighter, then he snarled, "Where do you think you're going?"

"You fool," Chemist snarled back, even as Dandy reached down and pulled another extra Trigger vial Chemist had snagged in the chaos to use on someone if they tried catching him again. Dandy tossed it to the side after pulling it from Chemist's pocket, then Chemist turned his head around more and said in an apologetic tone but with a taunting smirk on his face, "I never understood you, and for that I apologize, Dandy."

"Too little too late, doc," Dandy said, and he smirked at the power he had over the man who had been ordering him around for half a year.

Chemist's face twisted for a moment, and he snapped in a snarky tone, "You really are an idiot. How you do not see how they've been using you is beyond me." Dandy's smirk wiped and he gripped Chemist by the arm tighter which made the scientist whimper, only to say in a more desperate and frustrated voice, "It's obvious! Breakneck just wanted me! You were the one he needed to get me, and he called you 'partner' because he knew it's what you wanted! Haven't you noticed how they've been treating you? How the guys who were following you are the first ones Breakneck lets get captured?" Dandy got an even more furious look on his face that was starting to look unstable, but Chemist pushed even farther, "Those secret paths on the sides of the lab, did you know about them?"

Dandy's eyes opened wide, and Chemist grinned as he expected Breakneck had not told the buffoon about them. "Why wouldn't he tell you? If you really are, partners?"

"Shut up," Dandy's voice was cold, and unhinged. He gripped so tightly that Chemist let out a scream from the claws that dug into his shoulder, extending from Dandy's furry right hand. "I won't let you escape. I, I made my choice. I have to live with it now." Dandy lifted Chemist off the ground and started for the north exit himself, I have to keep him away from Shigaraki. He doesn't, know what he's, talking about? Breakneck's my comrade! My partner! I'll, I'll ask him about those- he better have an excuse! A good one!

Meanwhile on the east side of the lab, back through the secret pathway that no longer existed as it and the walls around it had caved or been broken down, Wonderlass faced off against Shigaraki Tomura while other heroes and villains fought each other around them. A new squad of cops had just arrived and were trying to assist in any way they could, but the villains on Trigger and the smarter ones who had yet to use it were too much of a threat. Most of them were doing anything Shigaraki yelled at them to do as well, as they all believed that Kurogiri would be giving the leader of the League of Villains an escape route sooner or later and they wanted to be on his good side when that happened.

"I've separated you from the Chemist," Wonderlass said in a mocking voice to Shigaraki who was proving more agile than she had anticipated. All Might warned about him, and his Quirk is deadly. If he gets a hand on me even for a moment, it could be all over. "You won't get him back," Wonderlass said, keeping her voice strong, confident, and taunting to the young man with wavy gray hair in front of her.

Shigaraki was frowning and he did not like that he was forced out of the lab by this hero. He was using everything around him, and though there were other villains only facing Wonderlass with him, none of them were eager enough to please him that they wanted to be the one to charge this crazy powerful lady responsible for most of the damage and unconscious villains around them. "You won't get your Apocalypse either," Wonderlass said. Shigaraki's face twisted in more anger, and he started scratching his neck furiously at the sound of that. They know about Apocalypse! They know it's here! They know the Chemist! How did they find so much out in such a short time?!

Wonderlass lifted a hand and put it over her earpiece again, and she spoke into her mic, "The League doesn't have the Apocalypse." Shigaraki's eyes opened wide behind the fingers of the hand attached to his face. "That means it is somewhere in the facility."

Shigaraki sprinted forward with rage splayed across his face, and three other villains ran forward at the same time to back him up. Wonderlass leapt up as two of them were medium-rangers and started attacking, then the third who was not Shigaraki leapt up as she called out, "Find and confiscate it, or destroy it if it's between that and the villains keeping it!" She spun as she neared the ceiling she had jumped with just enough force to near but not slam into, pressed her feet against it and bent her knees, making the villain flying up at her open his eyes huge as he saw what was coming. Wonderlass shot herself down like a projectile and extended her right arm as she passed the villain, bringing him down to the ground with her and slamming him into the floor.

Dust rose up from the ground where Wonderlass slammed the villain down, and then an arm shot through that dust with an open hand reaching for Wonderlass's face. She pulled her body back fast, clenching her other hand into a fist and pulling up for an uppercut into Shigaraki's chest. The thin gray-haired villain jumped up in the air though as her fist came near his chest, and then Wonderlass had to open her fist to catch the bloody black whip coming out of one of the medium-ranger's right arm. That woman opened her eyes wide, only for Wonderlass to grip on the whip and use it to swing the woman up towards where Shigaraki had jumped. As she started pulling up though, her eyes darted to her side where the other villain pulled out a pistol in one hand and held his left arm-cannon up at the same time.

Wonderlass had to release the woman she was swinging, diving to her side to avoid the explosion that hit the spot she had been standing an instant later. Then when she was rolling away from the blast she pushed her hands and feet down and jumped backwards twice, bullets hitting the floor where she had just been a second later each time. She reached to her right on her second landing and grabbed a chunk from the wall she had smashed apart chasing Shigaraki out of the main lab, and she whipped her right arm up to chuck that rock into the chest of the man firing at her. He gasped in pain with his body hunching forward and ribs cracking in his chest. Wonderlass winced during her throw and brought her right arm down to her side as she stood up, keeping a stern and angry look on her face, though Shigaraki darted his gaze to her arm after that flinch she made.

BAM- BADOOOM! The entire warehouse shook from an explosion in the north.

Outside of the warehouse, on the north side of the building that had been encircled by cop cars, several villains were in the middle of fighting against those cops and a few heroes who had come to back them up. Kurt, Sameko, and Gogogo were battling a large group of villains who had pushed through the northern exit before they arrived but were stalled by the police long enough for those three to arrive. The police were moving their perimeter back and trying to keep the other already arrested villains away from the others who might try to free them. Most of the ones already captured were on the south side of the building though, and out of the ones they had caught already in the north most were unconscious. Some of the villains fighting in the north were just looking for an escape route, but others were on Trigger and were smashing police cars and the law enforcers near them with huge grins on their faces like it was all they wanted to do.

Deathpop marched forward after the huge explosion blew four police cars in the air, then he started running with a mad grin on his face. His hands were enlarging and shrinking over and over, and he slammed one down to the floor on his right as it was shrinking in size again. The air seemed to leave his hand and filled the ground twenty feet to his right instead, lifting it up and then popping in with a blast smaller than the last one but still big enough to throw five cops running towards him back the other way.

"Push to the street!" Yuri Dregar shouted, pointing a rifle out towards a thinner part of the cop perimeter and firing. The cops over there all had riot shields though and pushed forward against the bullets slamming into them. Yuri grit his teeth as his gun ran out of ammo, and he tossed it to the side since he had no more extra magazines. I didn't want to use it, he reached down and pulled a vial of Trigger out of his pocket that he had taken before rushing out behind the League of Villains guys who had smashed through the north side of the lab. But fuck it- The vial was no longer in his hand and his eyes snapped down to it, then he started turning his head to the right where a young girl with a mouth full of sharp teeth was glaring into his eyes. She curled her fist around the vial she had snagged out of his hand, and then she punched that fist into the villain's face and ripped right through his cheek with her rough Shark Skin Punch.

Sameko smashed the Trigger vial as she took out the villain, then she weaved to the left and right and spun towards a woman with long black hair that was waving behind her body in a telekinetic field. The woman had just thrown discarded black batons from injured officers Gogogo had rushed back behind the perimeter at Sameko, and one of them almost hit the speedy young sidekick whose sharp teeth in all rows bared at the villainess. "So you're next then?" Ba-KOW! An explosion Deathpop made behind Sameko had her stumble forward, and then she was pulled the rest of the way towards her opponent much faster as the woman's long black hair curled towards her and glowed white.

Psyrin pulled her hands up from her sides in a quick movement to show she had a pair of kunai knives in them. She slashed them across the front of her body, cutting through Sameko's costume and making shallow wounds in the left side of the young woman's chest. Sameko snarled as the blades cut through her thick skin, while Psyrin stared in shock at how shallow they were while she was putting a lot of force into the slashes. Sameko snapped her head forward and bit down on Psyrin's right shoulder, ripping through it and tearing muscles inside the screaming villain's arm. Sameko then punched her left fist forward into the villain's teeth as she screamed, then did it again while pulling her teeth out of the woman's arm. She put both arms on the sides of the villain she was fighting, and Sameko spun and threw her as hard as she could towards Deathpop, hitting the muscular man in the back and making him spin with a Trigger-fueled look of rage on his face.

Even in his rage though, Deathpop got sweat over his face at the sight of the nineteen year old girl covered in blood. It dripped from her hands, down her chest and over her costume from the x-shaped cut she had received, and it covered the bottom half of her face as it dripped from her teeth. And she smirked that mouth of bloody sharp teeth, before growling and sprinting at the villain causing the most damage there.

As Sameko charged Deathpop, a vehicle was driving down a road of Mosu Esupa only a half mile from the warehouse. The two men in the front of the truck were looking at each other more than they were the road, as it was late at night and not many people were driving when they had jobs this late, especially in a smaller town like this compared to Feruchia City which they were returning from. "Are you sure?" The driver, Ted Yahiko asked with lifted eyebrows at his partner in the passenger seat.

Huga Tiashi nodded his head rapidly. He had some lingering flakes of white powder on the bottom of his nostrils, and he brought his right hand up and rubbed his nose violently a few times before sniffling in hard with a wild grin on his face. "I knew all about it ten years back. We were gonna be huge, huger than we already were! Then All Might showed up and wrecked the place, I got 6 years for that shit! Fuckin' minute Breakneck got out though I knew it was coming. I'll tell you, didn't take me a fucking second to hop aboard when Breakneck showed up. Not a thing for Stain. Didn't even consider it when I heard 'bout Shigaraki's damn army. Breakneck though, mother fucker's a genius! He got this shit all planned out- hey, hey you listening?!" Huga, a.k.a. the Frycook, spun his head forward with a pissed-off look that the driver was not paying as much attention to him and didn't turn back after checking the road in front of them that should be straight.

They stared down the road and saw blue and red flashing lights coming from the direction of the warehouse. The truck started slowing down, and then they each snapped their heads to the sides and looked in the side mirrors, to see more red and blue lights coming up behind them. "Oh shit, shit shit shit," Ted started panicking with his eyes wide and his hands tightening on the wheel. "We've gotta get out of-"

"Look!" Frycook pointed and a mad grin came to his face to replace the scared one that had just appeared on it. He pointed as an explosion went off in the direction of the warehouse, and they were close enough now to see the building and the edge of the police perimeter around the north side of it. There were villains out front fighting cops and heroes, explosions going off, and people firing at a steady police line of riot shields stopping anyone from escaping. "The guys are fighting! Haha! Heroes can't do shit anymore!"

"We're not-"

Frycook turned his head and reached his left hand over towards the driver's face, hot grease dripping off of his fingers and making a sizzling sound that shut the other villain up instantly. "You'll do whatever the fuck I say, Ted. Now put your foot on the gas! We're trapped between cops, and we're joining up with the others! Breakneck must have a move to get out of this, and I'm NOT GOING BACK TO PRISON!"

"What's going on?!"

"What are you shouting about?!"

The truck started speeding up, and Frycook snapped to his feet and spun. He marched backwards and used the walls at his sides for balance as the truck started shaking much worse. He stepped into the wide back of the truck where a half dozen others were getting to their feet with nervous looks on their faces. They all started shouting at him, but Frycook yelled, "We're going in hot!" The man hyped up on cocaine pulled a bag out of his pocket, ripped it open and shoved towards his nose to get as much as he could in. Then he shouted with white covering his nose and top lip, "Cops and heroes! The others are fighting, we've got ten seconds! Shoot up with Trigger you cunts!"

Frycook reached to his back pocket and pulled out a small black box, then he glared around at the others who almost all looked scared except for one big guy whose shoulders were as broad as Frycook was tall. "WELL?!" He shouted as barely any of them were reaching for anything.

"We sold all the Trigger!"

"I don't have a vial with me!"

"You fucking idiots!" Frycook shouted, then he spun and looked farther back in the truck. "Screw it! Time to test what we sold it for then!" The others spun and ran back farther through the truck, and Frycook injected his arm while running back too. He leaned his head back, taking in a huge sniff and feeling his entire body rippling, hot grease pouring out of his pores and making the steel beneath his feet start melting with every step. He ran towards the back of the truck as Ted shouted from up front that he was going to 'ram them,' and then Ted started screaming at the top of his lungs in reckless abandon.

The back of the truck was full of military-grade hardware. The ones they had sold Trigger to were trading with them, and Frycook reached into a box crate that one of the others just opened up. He pushed the trembling man aside who was muttering about how fucked they were, and the guy screamed as Frycook's Grease Quick melted through his skin and muscles beneath. The huge and unperturbed villain who had grabbed a rocket launcher was opening the back of the truck with one hand, and he lifted the rocket with the other to fire at the first cop car behind them that had officers in it shouting into a radio to warn the others at the perimeter of a truck barreling towards them. Those officers opened their eyes wide in panic and fear at the sight of the villains picking up assault rifles and rocket launchers, and the huge man aiming one of those rockets down towards them.

The front cop car spun to the side as the driver yanked the wheel to the side, and the car directly behind it bumped into it while it swerved. The cop car turned on its side and started to roll, making the big man who was about to fire at them curl his lips up in a giant smirk as he did not even have to fire. He turned his head to say something to Frycook about it, only to see Frycook lifting up a belt of grenades with a crazed look in his eyes and blood coming down his face below both nostrils. Frycook's entire body was steaming, dripping hot grease from everywhere including his hands, and the big man lost his smirk and screamed, "DON'T-"

BBOOOOOOOOMMMMM!

The back of the truck ripped apart with the huge man behind Frycook flying out of it, pulling the trigger of the rocket launcher as he went and firing it down into the road below the rear of the exploding truck. Ted screamed even louder from the front of the truck, right before the fireball from the back reached the front seats and filled the area in flames. The truck's back lifted up from the secondary explosion beneath it, then another blast went off from some of the explosives that had not blown up yet.

The police and Kurt who had turned towards the truck speeding towards them all lifted their heads up with huge eyes. They gawked at the truck that was rising into the air, and then the explosions went off behind it that sent the vehicle flying towards them in a massive speeding fireball. "Move!" Kurt yelled, swinging his arms out so they extended around the eight men with him thanks to what looked like several extra elbow joints appearing inside them. He curled his arms around the cops and pulled them down as the truck was about to fly overhead, and the huge mass of flaming metal slammed down behind them on some cop cars, skid across the ground and erupted in another huge explosion which Deathpop tried to block with a huge blast of his own. Sameko screamed at the explosions and crossed her arms but still got blown away by them with her own blood splashing from her mouth this time.

Inside a small apartment building on the north side of the warehouse, four villains crouched down inside the windows stared at the scene outside with dropped jaws. They were in a building that the cops didn't have a warrant for as Rubbergirl had not learned it was part of the operation, and they had decided to stay out of it and try to escape at a time when the cops were not everywhere. The only woman in the group was the first to lose her shocked look, and she darted her eyes around outside to see a group of cops closest to their building running off with scared looks and shouting to try and find someone to tell them what to do. Valerian lifted her right hand and pushed it back through her long braided red hair, and she turned to smirk at the men behind her who looked surprised at first and then started smirking too. "Time to join the fray," she said, and the others pulled out their weapons or clenched their fists.

She turned and rose her arms, and molten lava melted off of her arms before firing out in a wave that melted straight through the wall and made the cops spin towards their building in even more panic. "Kill them all!" Valerian yelled, as the rest of her body started glowing red and making her a single solid color of bright red lava. "Join up with the others! Find Breakneck, and let's get the fuck out of here!"

Up in the air a hundred meters above the warehouse in the southern less-populated district of Mosu Esupa, a helicopter pilot, camerawoman, and reporter were all silent as they stared down at the fiery mess surrounding the north side of the warehouse. The reporter had been calling out about the raid on a villain Trigger lab and how it the raid seemed to have fallen into chaos, but she was silent now. So were the other two women, all of whom had just seen cop cars rolling down a street, a truck flying inside a massive fireball, and at the same time a wall on the west side of the warehouse blew apart with two Canadian heroes in red and white costumes flying out of it amidst the rubble.

A villain emerged whose skin was ripping off as he continued to grow, his flesh showing beneath but not bleeding like it should. His body was covered in muscles as he rose from eight meters to ten, and he kept growing while shouting in a horrifying voice that rippled through the air. He roared, and then his body erupted in blue flames followed by an explosion that caused all the walls and ceiling and rubble around him to burst into flames too. The fleshy man's screams got even more horrifying, and then a giant sword slashed through his legs in a swipe not meant for him but that he got in the way of. The sword slashed apart the burning walls around the one already knocked down, causing more of the warehouse in the west to collapse.

The reporter in the helicopter had just received a report on the League of Villains' leader, Shigaraki Tomura, and an executive of the League, Dabi. She started shouting about it as she remembered what her job was thanks to a voice shouting in her ear, and she called out, "This is like a scene right out of a horror movie! The destruction continues to spread from what had been a confined raid meant to eliminate a Trigger laboratory, thanks to the intervention of the League of Villains members who appeared inside the warehouse…"

"Turn us back around, I need a better shot," the thick, white-haired camerawoman called up to the three foot tall old woman piloting their chopper. The woman at the sticks pulled them to the side to get them around for another loop as the reporter kept calling out as much as she knew about the scene below as well as what they could see.

"I'm sending you down now to Tricia Nakamura at the main staging point for this operation. Tricia, can you tell me what the heroes' plan is to get this situation under control-"

"AHHH!" The live televised news switched to a woman who started screaming right as her camera angle was switched to.

"You have to get back!"

"Get behind the new perimeter!"

The cameraman spun the camera while scrambling backwards, but he fell to the floor and rose his camera up as Bouncer Man came flying out of the south entrance of the lab. He flipped himself in midair and as he came down, he dug his fingers and his toes into the ground and tore trenches through it to stop skidding before reaching the pushed-back police line. Bouncer Man yelled at them all to get back farther, then he charged forward right as Bikergang leapt back to dodge a huge ice fist that smashed down the garage entrance Bikergang escaped out of. The ice shattered and fell apart, and a villain whose body was completely made of ice including his big icy face started laughing while creating ten more huge ice arms out from his sides and back.

A speedy villain with wheels instead of legs raced out from behind the ice villain, firing mini uzis around and making the police run forward to get in the way of the media who they had thought they were keeping far enough back. They started shouting at them while lifting shields to protect them, while the building ahead of them shook and cracked and exploded from different sides. The camera lifted up to show five big ice arms extending out towards them and then curving down towards the police line, the people around them screamed, and then the camera cut off and the image returned to the sky-view from the helicopter. The reporter half-shown in that camera angle put a hand to her ear, "Tricia? Tricia are you there?"

In a flaming mass on the north side of the warehouse, a man stood up and looked down at his arms with a confused look on his face. He had injected himself with Trigger right before Frycook accidentally blew them all up, but he still had no idea how he was alive, or how he was so calm for that matter. The shock had set in though even counteracting the effects of the Trigger, so as he stared down at his bones without feeling any pain, he just accepted it and started to smile. He turned his head, and Gogogo who had just dragged her daughter out from beneath some flaming metal turned her head to look into the flames. The pro hero stared at the skeletal figure inside the flames who lowered their arms to their sides while looking her way with a calm expression on his face.

Other cops nearby and Kurt who helped some of them back to their feet looked towards that area as well, as did Valerian and Deathpop and other villains nearby who all got shivers as they looked his way. The man in the flames who stood there with smoke rising above him and the smell of burnt flesh around him started laughing. "Haha, haahahaha, hahaha," he reached down and grabbed something he was stepping on and saw intact through the flames. He picked it up and cocked it back once while turning his skull towards the closest female hero and her daughter. He fired and the hero curled her body around her daughter before screaming out in pain as the slug hit her back and shredded through her costume and skin.

"Gogogo!" Kurt called to his comrade, then he spun towards the flames and yelled, "Get back!" The cops around him dove or lifted their riot shields to protect as the skeletal villain turned their way and fired again, laughing calmly and in a terrifying tone as he did. Another explosion went off from inside the already huge mass of flames, sending shrapnel out that hit cops and villains alike.

One man who was hit fell to the ground and started writhing in pain with blood splashing from his thigh. He looked towards Valerian and grinned though when she called back asking if he was alright. "Go on ahead ma'am," he said, moving his hands away from his bloody leg and pulling a vial of Trigger from his pocket.

"Kito! You can't! Last time-"

"Let him do it, don't spit on his resolve," Valerian snapped at Kito's younger brother who was trying to step back for him. She grabbed Kaito by the arm and spun him forward, "Do it Kito. Kill 'em all." She pushed on Kaito's back and the younger man clenched his eyes shut before sprinting forward and yelling out in rage. "I'll get him out of here," she added in a softer voice while chasing the younger man, turning her arms to lava and charging at the warehouse herself.

Across Japan, off of Hokkaido and in the far south of the main island of Honshu, Mineta Minoru gawked at the television screen in front of him and the six women at the agency he was interning at. The reporter on the screen started shouting about hero reinforcements arriving with the police who had come in from the north behind that truck, but those heroes were suddenly met with a much bigger challenge as a bright white light shone from the middle of the battlefield outside of the warehouse. A man who had been cut by shrapnel and was lying on the ground started rising to his feet, a white light glowing on his leg and closing his wound. His eyes glowed white too, even though blood came out the corners of them and poured down the sides of his face from the faulty Trigger. He opened his mouth and glowing white light came out from there as well, as it did from his hands and ultimately his entire body though still brightest at his eyes.

Seeing the villain's eyes bleeding like that made Mineta shiver as it reminded him of himself. Then he thought about someone else who he was friends with and who he had also seen bleed from his eyes before. Thinking about that person reminded Mineta of the hero Zach had gone to intern with, and who Zach had shown him a picture of when he had asked about it a few days before. And Mineta remembered that same man in the short clip from the reporter on the ground getting pushed back by the ice villain. Mineta's eyes opened huge in realization and he reached down to his pocket fast.

Across Honshu on the opposite side, the north side closer to Hokkaido, Yaoyorozu spun from the television back to Ballerclava. The hero in a tutu and half a purple ski-mask, or balaclava, that covered only the top half of her head looked to her intern and shook her head, but Momo started again anyway. "This is clearly out of hand. We need to go and-"

"If everyone were to go there to assist, villains across the country would take it to their advantage and make moves. We must stay vigilant in our own jurisdictions. At any moment they may assume that we have left our posts for this and make a move on the city," Ballerclava said, in a teaching voice but also scolding as this was the second time Yaoyorozu was asking now. Her voice was scolding more because of the high-schooler's tone as she made her request which sounded more like a demand the way she was wording it.

"But, but we," Yaoyorozu pursed her lips and spun back to the screen she had seen Bikergang on a minute ago. Zach! Are you there? That call, you didn't say anything about this! Please, Momo put her hands together in front of her chest, and Ballerclava's eyes opened wide as she looked at the girl who had been so quick to take a call an hour and a half ago, who had spoken with such a genuine smile on her face during it.

Yaoyorozu felt a buzz in her pocket and she pulled her phone out fast. She stared at a text from Mineta and pursed her lips even harder as she now confirmed that she definitely saw Bikergang as well as Bouncer Man who Zach had described well enough to her before too. The reporter on the screen shouted something again, and Yaoyorozu lifted her eyes to the screen and the blue flames the camera just zoomed in on covering part of the west wall of the warehouse. Her breath caught in her throat, her eyes growing even wider and her heart racing a thousand beats a minute. "And when I close my eyes! I see her burning!" No…

On the island of Kyushu, the third largest of the main islands of Japan, Bakugo lowered his phone and stared at the screen with narrowed eyes. "…we repeat, the leader of the League of Villains, Shigaraki Tomura is reported to have appeared in this warehouse. We have also just received news that Endeavor and Best Jeanist are both on their way. Other closer heroes are arriving one after the other, but the situation is grim here in Mosu Esupa…"

"…D-Do you really need me to say?" Bakugo heard Zach's voice in his ears. He knew his classmate was there at a scene that was starting to look more like a battlefield. In his head he saw Shigaraki standing there with his picture in hand, a knife in the other, and Zach dangling in front of him with his arms pulled to the sides by metal hooks. "You know him already- KATSUKI BAKUGO! His Quirk's Explosion and he's the strongest guy in Class A! It's not just his Quirk, but he's smart and has great fighting instincts! I never was able to think of any way to beat him, I promise! H-He gets angry all the time, and especially- he hates Midoriya-"

What the Hell is Shigaraki doing there?! That bastard, is he, is he going after Zach again? Bakugo's fists clenched harder at his sides, his teeth grinding with a look of fury spread over his face.

All Might stared at his television in his room at U.A. High School where he, like his students, lived. "Young Midoriya, Sazaki," All Might's dark eyes narrowed more at the screen and the chaos splayed across it from the helicopter's angle above. All Might's worried look started to fade and his hands clenched tighter on his knees. You can do this. You must! Endeavor, get there as fast as you can!

Inside the warehouse, but close to a hole in the wall on the west side of the building, two men held down a scrawnier villain while a burly woman lifted up the vials of Trigger in her hands. She was as thick and broad-shouldered as the two men helping her, one of whom had orange skin and three horns sticking out of the top of his head while the other was fair-skinned and had short black hair. The woman with short purple hair falling down to her shoulders reached down and squeezed her chubby hand on the face of the scrawny man with scars going vertically over both of his eyes and one diagonally cutting across his lips. "Don't you dare! Stop-" she popped the tops off of the vials. The guy snarling and snapping at them got a more scared look on his face as he could not find the strength to pull out of the others' holds.

They struggled to hold him even as he got a more terrified look on his face, "Please, I can't control Rage as is- you can't! STOP!" She squeezed his cheek tighter and poured the Trigger into his mouth, then she backed away fast and the two men holding him down started running for the hole in the wall covered in blue flames. Not far from them, Inquisitor and Dabi were fighting each other, and despite using Trigger, the Tartaros escapee was getting pushed back farther by the blue flames engulfing everything on the west side of the building. "You have no idea, what you've done." The two men dragging the scar-faced one tossed up in the air through the hole in the wall, outside to where three Canadian heroes were trying to recover and prepare the cops holding the perimeter on this side of the building.

As screams and roars of the out-of-control villain's deep voice started echoing through the air, the three burly villains who just tossed him out turned their heads at the sound of a loud moan. They were using the other villain as a distraction to try and open up an escape route, but before that route was open they had to stay in this burning hellhole for a few more seconds. They looked back and stared at Kyojin's enormous leg-less body from when Inquisitor tried slashing at Dabi and cut straight through the fleshy flaming giant who had smashed the Canadian heroes out of the warehouse. Kyojin's body was burnt and bloodied, his whole body blackened from Dabi's attacks, yet he was still alive and squirming. He rolled his huge body over, lifted his head and glared towards Inquisitor and Dabi, the only two men the villain still Triggering-out could think of through all his pain and rage.

"Well this is going to be interesting," the orange-skinned man began.

"No it's not, let's go," the woman snapped, and she ran towards the hole in the wall and jumped outside. She swung her arms to the sides and transformed them into huge white wings that she flapped once and shot across the air above scattered and shouting police officers. As she flew over the perimeter line though, a roided-out Styles snapped his head up and glared at the woman whose eyes opened huge at the look on his face. Styles smirked ear to ear, and the two men about to follow their comrade outside froze where they were as the villain with the Rage Quirk picked up a police car and threw it up in the air. He threw it so fast that it smashed through her without slowing down, white feathers and blood splashing out everywhere from the collision.

As the warehouse and surrounding area fell into complete chaos, some heroes were still in the central laboratory facing just as small a group of villains. Everyone else had scattered. There were several holes in the walls, both the northern and southern exits of the main lab were open for the remaining villains to move freely between, though it did not seem like anyone had regained control of the place. Shigaraki's appearance destabilized the villains. It broke Breakneck's operation apart with what he shouted about how Kurogiri would take them away, mixed with the dissatisfaction of certain individuals unhappy about how Breakneck let some of their guys get captured that morning. The fear of heroes capturing them, with the knowledge that Breakneck could use his Quirk to leave them all behind, the fear that Shigaraki was lying and might just kill them after using them, the memory of Breakneck and Shigaraki both sacrificing their pawns for their greater goals, it had the villains not knowing what to do, who to follow.

All the villains wanted the same thing. Dozens of them wanted to escape the heroes. They had Trigger, the chaos needed to make their own plans and escape attempts, and many of them were still trying to hold onto hope that Breakneck or Shigaraki would get them out of there so they were fighting for whatever any villain leader asked them to do. Killing cops and fighting heroes, using Trigger or gathering up special vials from a secret location, betraying each other and ripping their building down on top of their heads. The Trigger was not all the good stuff either, as Chemist had been planning on his own, creating shot batches and making sure that some of the villains who had him prisoner had those spiked Triggers with them.

A woman who had the lower body of a snake slithered across the floor at eighty miles per hour, darting her gaze to the left at the four vs three fight going on that she decided to stay far away from. She slid through some Trigger and cut herself on some glass, and Trigger got in that wound while she continued to go. She started laughing, cackling as she sped towards the northern entrance where all the explosions and thus the most chaos was coming from. The southern exit had been too much for her when Underguard had come-to for a minute, releasing his green gas cloud and getting the Triggered villains in front of her to start beating the shit out of each other. The female villain snapped her head up as she heard an echoing ghastly shriek piercing through the air above her, and she spotted someone she had been working with swinging across the beams on the roof using black webs that covered most of her body.

"Venomess! Let's team-"

Venomess looked down at spread her lips to show a horrific smile parting between the black webs covering her face. The webbing was thicker and covered more of her than her comrade had seen before, and the woman who looked like a snake slowed and then turned the other way as her fellow villain licked her lips while looking down towards her. What the fuck is happening right now?! She sped towards a hole in the wall and screamed as the black-webbed villain dropped down in that hole before she could reach it. "What's wrong with you?! What the fuck is going on?!"

BOOOM!

Roady, Deku, and Sky-Girl stood in a triangle formation around Lifebringer as he gasped and wheezed on top of Plucky's body. He threw up, hurled on the floor next to her body with blood mixed in with it, and two of the men facing the group got hesitant looks on their faces like they did not know what they were doing there. Neither was willing to ignore what Hydro had told them though, and the promise of being able to leave with him through Kurogiri's portal was too enticing to pass up.

The fourth of the villains surrounding the young heroes was the one scaring them the most though. Even though he was a small figure only two feet tall, who unlike the others had not been using his Quirk, Fez was deranged. The scythes in his hands were drenched in blood. He had no hesitation on his face, kept laughing despite how strong the heroes were proving to be. Sky-Girl was the oldest of the heroes before them, but the girl in her mid-twenties was also the most badly injured. Half her face was covered in blood, her right leg was slashed by Horny who lay unconscious not far from their group, and she was barely keeping her arms up in a fighting stance. Her red wind failed her and dropped the protective barrier that had been protecting them from the villains' longer ranged attacks, and Roady and Deku each shot her a look as they could see she was wobbly on her feet and barely holding on.

"Don't stop, Lifebringer," Sky-Girl muttered, as he heard another hurling sound from the boy behind her. "Even if it kills…" Sky-Girl's voice trailed off as her legs came out from beneath her. Fez picked that moment to sprint forward, so the other two standing with her had no time to turn to see if she was alright.

So fast! Roady stepped backwards but Zach was right behind him now, so despite the dark red and black lines covering his vision he knew he had to stay where he was. The short man sprinting at him slashed his bloody scythes before reaching Roady, and the younger hero who tried leaping in front of Roady to get a hit in before Fez was ready had to yank his body away in mid-air. Then Deku had to pull his head even farther, barely dodging a small thin needle spat as a projectile from one of the other villain's mouths.

Roady turned and ran towards the spot Midoriya just left, and he jumped up and spun his right leg for the side of the villain's head as the man with sharp red claws tried going for Lifebringer. The villain pulled away and tried slashing at Roady's body as the twenty year old landed, but Roady was jumping back already and to where Sky-Girl fell to her knees that Hydro was about to reach. He did not try to fool himself into thinking he could damage the man who spun a villain's head around his neck with a smack of his hand, so Roady grabbed Sky-Girl instead and yanked her away from the big man slower than he was who stomped down where she had been kneeling a second later.

Hydro's stomp on the floor made a loud thud that Zach snapped his bloody eyes up for. Zach glared up when he saw it was Hydro's leg there, and the big man with a cannon on his back froze while opening his mouth to shout something down at him. Zach looked straight into Hydro's eyes, and in a low voice he snarled, "One second." The black coloring on Zach's arm beneath his white sleeve ran back down it, and he smacked his hand up to his chest while Hydro was hesitating and looking down at him with wide eyes. Zach's eyes turned brighter red and started glowing, a black veil covered his body, and he let out a deep breath of black steam that rose in front of his skull-like face.

Roady turned his head after hearing what Zach said, while Midoriya flicked his fingers and used powerful air blasts to push away the villain with spitting needles and Fez. They were thrown back, though with Fez flipping around over and over in the air and landing on his feet unlike the other. Midoriya glanced back too though, while Sky-Girl turned her head and opened her eyes huge. Sky-Girl was not staring at Zach with such wide eyes though from where she was on her hands and knees. She looked at Plucky who was moaning and lifting her head up, a confused and tired look on her face followed by one of intense fear as she remembered the pain she had been feeling right before…

Death, Plucky thought, lifting her shaking hands. She snapped her head up from her hands though as she saw the hulking figure behind her bend his body down and point a cannon at her. The cannon glowed bright blue, and Plucky thought for sure she was about to die again. Then she realized that the darkness in her vision was not just because the room was that dark. The blue tint from Hydro's cannon made her realize the room already had a dimmer blue shade to it, which confused her considering how dark her vision was on her left side.

This is chaos, Zach thought, as he got up to face Hydro who started charging his cannon at him. People are dying outside. I can hear the shouts in our earpieces. In all this, there's no way I can keep bringing people back to life like that. The villains will keep going out of control, keep killing more people faster than I can bring them back. I can stop them though. Using this form, I can stop them from killing others. Midoriya shot past Zach's body and slammed a kick up into Hydro's chest, making the large villain who did not see Midoriya coming because of his rage towards Zach lift off the ground. Hydro's body unbent and his cannon fired exactly as Midoriya timed it to while pointed straight up instead of towards them.

The cannon fire flew towards the ceiling and blew a hole through it, and loud creaking noises came from above reminding Roady and Zach of the metal beam that had almost hit them on their way to Plucky's side. Zach sprinted forward while Hydro was falling back, but the bald man snapped his head down and balled his fists furiously at the boy who had used this form to capture him once already. He slammed both fists in their steel gloves forward, and Zach could not just weave them as Hydro punched each a certain gap apart from each other. Zach had to dodge to the side, while Hydro landed and planted his feet firmly down below him. Fez leapt up at their backs, Roady shouting towards the younger boys to watch out before having to turn and block one of the others himself.

What is it I need to do right now?! Zach thought while jumping away from Fez and then swinging an arm in front of him to try and make a Death Wind that would knock them out. Hydro and Fez jumped away, and Zach could not make it strong enough to reach the other two villains or he would have hit Roady for sure. What is it I came for? Is it to fight Hydro? People are dying outside. Chemist should still be around here. Can't let Shigaraki get him. Breakneck, is escaping… As Zach thought it, he caught something appear in the corner of his eye. He thought for an instant that maybe it was something he just had not caught before, but considering what he had been thinking of before the appearance he had to double-check.

Zach's eyes narrowed towards the staircase in the middle of the room, one that was wobbly and did not look very sturdy, but that a man was walking up the top of after appearing three-quarters of the way up it. He hasn't left yet. All Might said he was predictable. He isn't as confident anymore that he'll win. He would flee, like at the bank when Midoriya arrived. Why? Why is he still here? He must think he can still escape with ease in this chaos, but he still needs… what? What is it he's still here for? Chemist? To keep his operation going? Or, What Wonderlass had confirmed to them over their headsets while Zach was reviving Plucky echoed in his mind, and he leapt back again to dodge Hydro who just barely missed a punch aimed for Zach's left side. The wind of Hydro's arm passing Zach's face pushed some of the black wisps away from his skull, making his face less shrouded by darkness than it had been since he used his Nightmare form.

Zach glared with his glowing red eyes at Hydro's face. Apocalypse. It's here. I need to stop it. Destroy it all. Breakneck knows where it is, and Shigaraki doesn't. The Chemist probably doesn't either as Breakneck's prisoner. He was in charge, not Dandy. This whole thing is him. The crime rate in Feruchia, Apocalypse, whatever he stole from the bank earlier. "Deku, Roady," Zach called out, his voice low and overlapping with a darker tone. His voice scared two of the villains fighting, though one was only scared for a second before Deku's foot nailed him in the side of his head and sent him flying unconscious across the floor. "I'm going after Breakneck," Zach said, and he spun and sprinted away while Hydro gawked at the kid with the audacity to leave him in the middle of his revenge.

"Where do you think you're going?!" Hydro shouted, pointing his back cannon towards Zach and charging it even stronger than before. Midoriya spun and opened his mouth to shout at Zach too, but his eyes opened wide as he saw Hydro about to fire at Zach's back.

"Look out-" Roady began, then he had to lean away and stop sprinting at Hydro as a cluster of sharp black needles flew by his body. Midoriya pulled his body back too as a scythe came spinning past his front with blood splashing off of it and onto him. As the blade was passing though, the steel of it started to wave around and change shape, then it curved back towards him and extended towards his body when he was about to keep running. Midoriya pulled his body to the side fast, but he still got slashed across his left shoulder from the Quirk he had not seen yet. Yet as he pulled away from Fez's attack, he barely felt the pain as he saw Hydro firing his cannon.

"Should be saying that to him," Zach said in a low voice as he ran, not loud enough for the others behind him to hear. It was not even loud enough for Hydro to hear, so the big man hunched over with his cannon pointed towards Zach was not prepared in the least even after the others had all seen it. They saw it at the tops of their visions, and Fez tried shouting towards Hydro to warn him. The bigger villain had hunched to aim at Zach though, forcing him to cut off the top of his peripheral vision so he did not see the thick steel beam falling for him thanks to his previous misfire at the ceiling.

The beam slammed down on top of Hydro's cannon and crushed down, Hydro's legs coming out from beneath him and his mouth opening with a gasp. Then all the blue condensed light inside his cannon erupted prematurely, a blast that pushed the others away and made Fez scream in rage. Sky-Girl lifted her head with huge eyes as she felt the heat from the blue explosion on her face. Plucky was kneeling next to her looking a lot better than her best friend did since she had wiped most of the blood from her face. Plucky looked past that explosion as it died down, spotting a dark figure running away without looking back once.

It was Hydro's own attack that dropped that beam on him, but, Roady thought as he stared after Zach. He shifted his gaze slowly back to where the explosion had faded to show Hydro's body inside it. His eyes opened huge as he stared at that man, twitching on the ground and then dragging his arms up at his sides. "He's still alive?" Roady whispered in shock.

"Haha, haha! That's right!" Fez shouted, spinning towards Roady with a bead of sweat on his face though he was pretending like he had not been nervous there at all.

"Zach!" Midoriya called out after his friend. He wanted to chase after him as he ran off alone in this dangerous situation, but Roady's right arm was covered in blood, Sky-Girl was in no condition to fight, and he did not know if Plucky would be able to get up so soon after being revived. He remembered Shoji getting right back up on his feet at the Sports Festival, but he also knew some people just stayed unconscious after being brought back like he heard Kurt 2 had earlier.

Plucky stared after the dark figure who was almost out of her line of sight. "Reaper's here?" What the Chemist told her before she died, the question that had distracted her after she had mentioned Lifebringer, echoed in her mind. Reaper? Why, did he call you that? Was that your name when you were here- when you were, one of them? He was scared of you. I think. Does he think you're out for revenge? You're going after Breakneck right, not the Chemist? "He's, the most disturbed, disgusting person I've ever met."

"Plucky, if you can move," Roady started. "Get Sky-Girl out of here. You two need to-"

"I can still…" Sky-Girl's voice trailed off again, this time with her head nodding and her eyes shutting for real. Plucky was already helping her just to stay on her hands and knees, but all of Sky-Girl's weight collapsed in her arms and Plucky had to struggle more to hold her up.

"Yeah," Plucky agreed quickly, while Midoriya jumped around to face the other two villains still up. She saw Hydro pulling himself up more too, and she did not want to be there when the man who could survive that last explosion got back to his feet. Midoriya had tried to prevent that, but Fez was not letting him and had the needle-type Quirk villain helping him out still too. Plucky got up and pulled Sky-Girl with her, mustering all her re-found strength to put her friend on her back. Both of them were covered in blood, and Plucky had some more disgusting liquid over her costume as well. Thinking about why she felt so wet made her shiver and her body freeze up for a second, but the sound of Hydro's voice roaring in fury behind her made her start running back for the southern entrance of the lab.

Lifebringer, Plucky thought as she ran. She clenched her eyes shut for a second, then she opened them and a smile pulled on her face. I won't say a thing. I don't know, anything about you. I really don't. But you brought me back to life, and I ain't the kind of girl to forget something like that!

"Let's finish these guys quick," Roady said, while lifting up his right hand and showing Midoriya that he was holding a pistol. The villain using needles to attack Roady opened his eyes wide, and the young hero said, "I don't like using this. Rather do things a less damaging way, plus it makes villains think I'm weak in a fight, and that's not cool." Roady pointed the gun forward at the man who took a step back in fear while wishing he had not wasted all of his ammo firing at Wonderlass right after she broke through the doors. Roady continued in a lower voice, "I want to go back up Lifebringer."

Deku nodded and rose his fists in his white gloves. He stopped panting and took a deep breath that had Fez looking at him nervously, since the boy was treating this like it was going to be the final attack and that he was already prepared for it. "Hydro, get up," Fez snapped quickly. The scythes he was holding both started waving around, the steel of the blades extending and spinning around his body in a defensive way, though the would occasionally slash out while the short man licked his lips.

"Gah!" The female voice shouting in pain in Deku's ears made his eyes open wide, then he had to dodge to the right as two metal blades whipped out towards him and tried cutting through his body. The other villain puffed his cheeks and tried spitting the needles he filled his mouth with- BANG BANG bullets flew into his knees and Roady tssked as the man screamed out in agony, then he spun the other way as he saw an orange line curving in his vision. The blade was meant for Deku, but Fez extended it long enough that had Roady not ducked it would have slashed across his back.

Wonderlass! Midoriya started breathing faster, and he darted his eyes up towards the staircase to the next level of the lab in what looked like a viewing room over the whole laboratory. All of the windows of that room were covered by metal shutters though, but there was a square glass window on the door at the top of the stairs. That window shattered when he darted a glance up to it though, a chair leg pushing through it and then sitting there as whoever pushed it through let go. Hydro got to his feet, Midoriya leapt forward, Fez slashed his blades, and Roady started firing. As Deku flew at the opponents in their final clash though, he heard Wonderlass's voice shout in pain again in his ear, then he heard her yell something else. "Deku! On me!"

"Eastern perimeter we have two casualties, but Gilgamesh and his agency just arrived as reinforcements."

"More heroes arriving in the north, but the situation is out of control-"

"Three blocks away two villains flying to the west. Should we pursue-"

"We can't waste the manpower…"

"Someone get an ambulance down here!"

"Lindsey? Samwell?! Someone respond!"

Zach stood in the second floor viewing room of the Trigger lab, facing the only man up there in that room with him. He had ignored what Breakneck tried saying smugly to him as soon as he had entered, because when he had been watching Breakneck through his peripheral vision, he had seen the man disappear on his way towards the door when he was so close instead of just using the door itself. The chair through the door's window blocked the main lab from view now, and all the shutters were closed. The power had been cut in the lab a little while ago, so Breakneck could not use the control panel behind him that he considered once he realized what this dark figure had just done.

Zach lifted his right hand and reached through the dark haze around his head. He tapped a button on the side of his helmet, cutting off the voices that were distracting him with thoughts about how he could go save people outside. The sixteen year old with a dark aura around his body and his skull showing through glared towards Breakneck with his glowing red eyes. He suddenly wished he had worn his black costume to the fight instead, as his whole body inside the translucent veil looked white from his neck to his feet. Zach knew he still looked ominous though, and he forced some of the thicker Death from around his back to his front to give him an even darker shade like he was getting more powerful while just standing there.

"Lifebringer," Breakneck began again to the boy who had calmly blocked out his one escape from the room. "I take it that means you know all about Flashstep? I'm glad the records on me were so thorough that-"

"I just asked All Might," Zach interrupted. "And he told me," he said it and then let out a long breath of black steam that hung in the air around his face and dimmed his skull from view, though his glowing eyes still showed through it. Breakneck's eyes looked as angry as Zach's glowing ones though at the mention of All Might's name, but Zach kept his expression steady despite how intimidating Breakneck actually was. He opened his mouth to continue, but Breakneck whipped his right hand up at his side and pulled a pistol out of nowhere.

Zach's eyes opened wide, then his body turned sideways as Breakneck fired. The bullet slammed into the door behind Zach, and it was time for Breakneck's eyes to widen though Zach's were still big. In Zach's head though he saw the knife flying towards him on New Year's, how quickly his hand had risen to catch it even when his mind had not yet processed what was coming. With how much I've been training in Nightmare mode, my reflexes have gotten even faster. But, to dodge a- Breakneck vanished, and Zach ducked down right before another bullet fired. This time it was not solely based on his reaction speed, but the facial expression he saw Breakneck have an instant before he teleported, and All Might's advice to him all played a factor.

Zach snapped his right hand up and reached for Breakneck's extended arm holding a smoking gun. Breakneck started pulling back while grinding his teeth that the boy dodged again. He wanted to aim down at him, but he also knew to keep his distance from what he knew about him. Breakneck had done his research well after getting out, to figure out which heroes he had to be careful of in the new age he had returned to the world in. As he pulled back though, a black blade flicked up from Zach's other side and slammed into his gun and the hand holding it. Breakneck vanished again and reappeared across the room standing on top of the control panel as far from Zach as he could get.

Breakneck's entire body felt wobbly, and he darted his eyes to his bloody right hand that was no longer holding his gun which clanked on the floor and went off again, firing a bullet into a wall because of the hair trigger it had. What is this, feeling? Breakneck grit his teeth and steadied his legs, then disappeared and appeared across the room to his left this time. He kept a distance from Lifebringer, while still dodging the other knife that the boy threw at him with a flick of his wrist. "I heard you were with the League for a while," Breakneck started. His eyes shifted towards the door that Lifebringer was moving away from, but Lifebringer's red eyes had shifted that way as well even as he moved for Breakneck's gun and bent down to pick it up. He wants me to appear there to look through the corner where the chair isn't really blocking. It's the one angle that he couldn't block well, but I have to be right against the door to see through it. I'd have to become the perfect target.

Zach picked up Breakneck's dropped gun and walked back towards the door that he stood in front of again. He smirked and the black veil in front of his face did the same, his boney jaw moving into the position behind it in a creepy and frustrating way to the man who saw his escape route blocked again. Get even sloppier. Get angry. Teleportation, it's OP. You've always known that, so All Might catching you must have been mind-blowing. How could anyone ever capture you? And now you're out, and you want to be more careful this time. You still think you're great, but you won't underestimate your opponents, and that means I can account for certain things. Such as you noticing an obvious trap, to give me the time to pick up your gun. And you'll probably need to come up with a plan. I do too. But to stall for time to think, what would you tell me?

The smirk on Zach's face lowered a little again as he thought about all the others in the lab. Then he hardened his expression and spoke fast but in a dark and menacing voice, "I don't get it. What the Hell were you thinking breaking with Shigaraki?" Breakneck's eyebrows lifted and the tall, lean villain stared at his dark enemy in some surprise. "You had to know he would come after you," Zach continued in a darker voice that started to sound taunting instead of questioning like he was laughing at Breakneck's decision.

Oh ho ho, this is going to be easy, Breakneck started grinning at the kid whose glowing eyes narrowed while he started to look more confused.

"Shigaraki united all the villains in the country," Zach continued in a strong voice again, though he kept his face from looking as confident and more like he was getting frustrated at the way Breakneck was looking back at him. The reason none of this has made any sense to me from the start. I couldn't see Dandy breaking off on his own, but it also didn't make any sense that someone smarter would leave the League with him considering how powerful they are. "He broke you out of Tartaros with the biggest villain attack in generations. It doesn't make sense."

"Yeah, you'd think that wouldn't you," Breakneck said in a knowing tone. "But the League of Villains isn't what it was before they broke us out. I must have known Shigaraki would come for me? So what?" Breakneck smirked wider and started chuckling at the teenager in front of him. "You don't know a damn thing, so don't pretend like you've got it all figured out. Yeah Shigaraki popped-up here thanks to that Kurogiri, but it wouldn't have meant shit if you heroes weren't attacking today. I'll admit I might not have had the power to destroy them all, but why do you think it is Shigaraki comes now in the middle of an attack that's already got us preoccupied and damaged? Why is it that he's telling the guys he'll let them back in, instead of just killing them all for joining someone outside of the League?"

Zach started breathing a little faster but he tried not to let it show, which was difficult when his breath came out in puffs of black wisps. Why would Shigaraki do stuff like that? The League is weaker? They broke more prisoners out than were captured at the Sports Festival Invasion. So I assumed they were stronger than ever! They threw our plans into chaos today too, just a few of them were capable of it… But if All For One knows about Midoriya, why haven't they done anything about him? If they wanted the Chemist back that badly, why send a small infiltration group instead of an army able to take out all the heroes and Breakneck's guys? Unless, if they lose too many guys on missions like these, they'll lose the faith of the rest of the villains still following them?! Villains are all in it for themselves. Very few are just for the ideology, and many of those guys follow Stain and nothing else… "Stain," Zach whispered. If, no. Even if Stain had left, All For One-

"You're pretty quick there, kid," Breakneck said, looking mildly impressed with what Zach just said. "If I had to blame it on something, you're right. It was Stain. I mean, there were some other factors too. Didn't even see Stain's video before it happened, but after I saw how big a deal it was when he left you can be sure I watched that shit. Fucking chills man!" Breakneck laughed for a second and then shook his head like he remembered what he was talking about. "But even though for me, it wasn't about the ideology," he paused and smirked at the shadowy teen before him. "The second he turned his back, their time was over…"

Four Weeks Ago

"Forcible Quirk Activation!"

Breakneck was hanging back near the exit of Tartaros. Villains were panicking and shouting for help around him. A few huge Earth Beasts were holding down several villains around the exterior of the prison, though Pixie Bob was currently knelt over the body of a muscular man. The man had gotten in the way of Shooter's attacks meant for her, and Pixie Bob cried for her teammate who was not moving or responding to her at all. Breakneck turned his head to the left and looked up a bit towards the edge of the prison's walls where he saw some long-ranged heroes had arrived not long after he made it out of the building. Do these guys really not have a plan?

"Whoa! Look at that!" Breakneck turned and saw some others who were holding back to avoid fighting the heroes start running towards a huge swirling portal outside of the prison. Breakneck's eyes widened as he realized what All For One had done to open up the Warp Gate even though Kurogiri had been knocked out. Toga laughed happily and started running for the portal, calling out a thanks to 'Tomura' who had made it a priority after they made it outside and saw her captured by the Pussycats to get her free. Then Toga started running for the man who marched towards that portal with a limp in his step.

The Hero Killer: Stain lowered the katana he grabbed from a villain who had offered it to him inside the prison and he let blood drip off onto the floor in a line behind him. The line led all the way back to the body of the number four hero who other heroes were screaming in despair and rage and fear over. Stain left Edgeshot behind, but his eyes did dart to the right at a group of over a dozen villains who were all looking towards him with starry looks in their eyes. They were cheering for him, and a few of them were sacrificing themselves by running into areas the heroes would clearly capture them just to keep the heroes away from him while he walked towards the portal with a limp.

Breakneck watched as the crazy high school girl ran up to Stain and started jumping around him while speaking in an excited and happy tone, even though she was drenched in blood. "Everybody inside," Shigaraki called out, turning to face the huge swarm of villains who had not yet been captured. Others who had been caught called over for the rest to release them so they could come along too, but Shigaraki ignored them and said, "If you follow me, I will get you all out of this wretched place." Shigaraki started raising up his arms, but his head spun to the side before he could continue a speech and he called out, "Sensei!"

That's, All For One? Breakneck watched as the man who had been so menacing when talking to Edgeshot and the Pussycats at first, dropped down to a knee and started coughing. The myth? The legend?!

Not far from Breakneck, a man with spiky black hair who was walking towards the portal himself stopped and looked around at everyone they had broken out as well as their own guys. "Hmm," Dabi hummed. He turned the other way and watched as Toga leapt through the portal, then stuck her head out and called for Stain to 'come along.' He stared closely at Stain for a few more seconds, then he looked around at all the other prisoners who had been broken out with them, locking eyes with Breakneck for a moment too.

There were others who had stayed back like Breakneck during the fighting. Even though Breakneck thought for a moment about escaping as soon as he made it out the doors, he had wanted to see what the League's plan was after getting out. I think going through the portal is the best option here. Still don't know much of the situation in the world right now. Breakneck cracked his neck to either side, then he glanced right and motioned towards the portal with a smirk cracking on his face.

Blazerage stretched his arms up over his head, the orange flames going out on his fingers and a smug and excited look in his clear eyes as he headed for the portal. Bet shit's gotten so strong since I was thrown in here. It always gets more powerful with time.

Breakneck walked for the portal himself, then a woman in a red and white costume turned from her teammates. The woman with cat claws and ears on her costume had tears in her brown eyes and a look of rage on her face. Mandalay did not try charging at the villains though, nor did she try to stop them from entering the portal like some of the others were attempting futilely nearby her. "Hey villains," Mandalay's voice filled the minds of hundreds of men and women ahead of her who looked around for the person speaking to them. She did not discriminate who she was speaking to, contacting everyone she could while glaring their way.

Breakneck turned and looked towards the woman with dark red hair and a matching colored tail who seemed to be the one talking to them. Can she hear us back? What kind of Quirk is this? Doesn't feel like she's attacking. "I hope you realize, you're all just pawns to them. The League of Villains, they're only using you to get All For One out. The rest of you were expendable."

Using Telepath, Mandalay put her thoughts into the villains' minds even as they continued walking or running through the portal All For One had opened up for them. "And the rest of you actually in the League!" She continued shouting mentally as she saw others who she recognized as wanted League of Villains' members. "You're just as expendable to Shigaraki Tomura! How many of your comrades did we catch here today, who Shigaraki left behind so easily to get All For One through that portal? How many are being captured in Musutafu right now, with no way of escape considering Kurogiri and All For One's conditions?!"

Breakneck frowned and started for the portal himself again as he saw another team of heroes arriving up ahead. If all of the villains were still there he would feel more comfortable staying to listen to the hero for a little longer, but the mass of villains pouring out of the prison they had taken control of was getting smaller by the second, and what she just said made him worried about the longevity of that swirling black portal. Her voice continued as he moved for the portal though, "Shigaraki was fine with any one of you being captured or killed as long as he could get his precious mentor back. Just sacrificial pawns in the games of an immature villain who's really just an amateur…" Breakneck entered the portal, a dark look on his face and a deep frown.

He walked into a huge room larger than any warehouse Breakneck had ever seen before. There were giant television screens on one wall with several villains against it sitting at chairs with computers near them. There were hundreds of villains moving about in there, with a central group near All For One and Shigaraki who Breakneck looked straight towards after getting inside. I know what you were trying to do, hero… But you're right. Breakneck looked at the expression on Shigaraki's face as he called out for 'the doctor' to come and help his 'sensei.' Though All For One's probably using that brat. He managed to get him to care enough to break him out of prison at least, and even if I was just a secondary side-piece, it's not too bad if it means my freedom.

Breakneck vanished and reappeared up on a catwalk in the middle of the room. A couple of villains had flown up to it, and he appeared between two who were perched up on the railing he started leaning forward on. A man flew up towards the place he was leaning but Breakneck did not move for him. The guy didn't need him to though, as he just flipped around in midair and grabbed the bottom of the catwalk with his feet to hang there like a bat. Villains spread out through the building, and Breakneck found himself a good place to watch it all with some other hardened criminals who had been thrown in prison with life sentences.

"If Kurogiri's down, how are we getting all the guys out of Musutafu?"

"Dabi, what Mandalay was saying-"

Dabi frowned at the guys confronting him, and the group of them eased back at his look. He was not over near Shigaraki and All For One like the other executives of the League including even Toga who had run to Shigaraki's side when he called to her. The new Trigger knocks people out depending on how much power they use while on it, Dabi thought. Kurogiri went all out, and for a long time too. Those guys are goners if they can't get out on their own.

Dabi turned his head a bit and looked around the room behind him. But that's not a big problem in itself. He saw the restlessness around him, people who had been freed from Tartaros and were looking for immediate instructions, but were finding none. They were excitable, and for the first time in decades for some, they were free. Some of the more violent types started giving others near them threatening looks, and most of the people they glared at glared right back at them. We freed a whole lot of big shots, Dabi thought, his eyes focusing on a few people in particular who he knew about beforehand, as well as some he saw fighting with amazing Quirks during the prison break.

All For One had collapsed and was coughing a lot, as the mask he was wearing and the tubes coming out of it were damaged by Edgeshot early on after they made it out of the prison. Shigaraki helped him up and started away with him and the doctor who had come to help, and Shigaraki turned to Toga and said something that made her face light up with a blush spreading fast over her cheeks. She looked shocked at what she was just told, and that made Dabi grimace and start towards her. He's putting Toga in charge because he's not thinking straight with All For One hurt like this. If Kurogiri was awake, or something… Dabi rose a hand and rubbed it through his hair with a pissed-off look on his face. This is tiresome, "Toga," he started, shutting up the girl before she could start shouting to everyone in the room and convincing them that they were all crazy.

The biggest prison in Japan, Breakneck thought while looking down towards the two arguing near the hall Shigaraki Tomura just left down with AFO. All these faces in one place, it's a disaster waiting to happen. Or an opportunity. Can they take the reins? All For One was legendary for gathering people like this. Uniting everyone with their different ideals and goals. I might even be open to listen to him, but to those two kids, Breakneck's mouth dipped down more at the corners as Dabi turned and started calling out, Toga looking disappointed with a pout on her face next to him.

"We're in the middle of an operation," Dabi said. "We'd like for you all to stay here at least until the duration of it is over. Then what you do-"

So he's trying to stall for time? Breakneck wondered, and he hummed to himself. If they could hold on just long enough for All For One to get on his feet… but who knows how long that will be? He lifted a hand and scratched his chin, then he shifted his gaze around the huge crowd of villains. Many of them started shouting which was why it seemed Dabi had stopped talking, but most of those shouting villains quieted down as they saw Dabi not looking at any of them but turned and looking across the giant room and in the direction of the closest set of doors.

Toga's eyes opened huge when she saw where Dabi was looking, and she called out while running forward, "Stain-san! Where are you going?"

Stain stopped and he turned his head to the side. He looked behind him into a room packed full of villains. The portal back to the prison had closed, and there was no way any heroes would be following into the room now. He gazed around with a disgusted look at some of the villains he had seen back at the prison, while he just got confused by the looks coming from that girl and a large number of others who he had been kept isolated from in the prison.

"I don't plan on working with you," Stain said, turning back forward and continuing towards the doors. "I still disagree with Shigaraki's motives, though I begrudgingly thank him for getting me out, so that I can continue my work." Stain's eyes narrowed as he walked, and he slashed the katana he was still holding out to the side so blood splashed off of it.

"Who the FUCK does that guy think he is?!"

In the middle of the pack of villains, an eight foot tall man started marching after Stain. "That was the All For One who-" the man stopped walking as five people got in his way. Stain had paused and glanced over his shoulder again, only to stare in confusion instead of the bloodthirsty way he was planning on. Then Stain's eyes opened wide as without warning, someone behind the tall villain and not in the group in front of him stabbed extending sharp claws into either side of that villain's neck. The claws extending in from either side connected with each other, slicing the big villain's head right off.

A woman dropped down on top of the big man's corpse, and she held his head up while bowing her head respectfully and staring across the room. After bowing towards Stain, she said in a subservient tone, "Allow me to come with you, Stain-sama. I will-"

"Why?" Stain questioned, a dark look in his eyes as he looked back at the creepy woman whose body was covered in blood from the faucet that had splashed up and down from the man's bisected body.

Toga turned her way and pouted before reaching down for her knives, Who does she think she is?! I love Stain-san! I want to-

"Allow us to come with you as well," a charismatic voice called out. A man stepped out from the group, wearing a cloak made from guards' uniforms that shadowed over some of the top of his face yet did not cover-up the big toothy smile he had as he offered his assistance. He also spoke using the Royal we, but it became clear after a second that he was not just speaking for himself. Others stepped forward after he called it out like it was a feasible option, and no one called out against them this time. Many of the prisoners who had been trapped in Tartaros for a much longer time were looking around in confusion and some even in fear at the cult-like following Stain seemed to have.

Who the fuck is this guy now? Breakneck thought, though he was staring with a lot of interest towards him, especially since the winged-villain on his left had an amazed look on his face like he was shocked to be seeing Stain like this.

"I don't know why you would do so," Stain started.

"We all follow true to your ideals!" The emphatic man called out, trying to convince Stain to let him come along. He swung his arm out to the side and continued, "You may not have known, but the world since your arrest has changed! We, we were all truly moved by your vision! The fake heroes of the world, they need to be purged." The man who swung his arm clenched that arm's hand into a fist and pulled it down in front of his chest. Blue electricity started sparking around his hand and then down his arm, and his face that was shadowed over got a bright blue sparking tint to cover it, showing a madness in his eyes that his charismatic smile did not match.

How did that happen? Stain looked around, his heart rate speeding up a bit at the looks on the faces of dozens of villains looking towards him. Others, feel this way? They continued my work after I was arrested? Then, my work wasn't cut off. But it hasn't been long enough. I know there are still fakes out there. All of them… Stain's teeth bared and he turned away again. "I work alone," he said, and he continued towards the door. "If you really do follow those ideals, then don't get in my way." He paused, then he added, "And I won't get in yours."

Breakneck's eyes opened wide and a smirk spread across his face. He knew what was coming, and he saw the winged man on his left side start shaking with excitement after a second of having a shocked look on his face. That guy, just recognized their resolves. Saying that, is like saying he respects anyone who really believes those things. And these freaks trying to follow him…

Well, that's disappointing, Dabi hummed and watched as Stain walked right out the doors without looking back again. As he left, villains shouted how they would not disappoint him and would stick true to his ideals. Some started heading away immediately, others Dabi could see were still considering their options, like Dabi himself was doing. He looked towards Toga and wondered what the crazy girl who had joined the League at the same time as him would do. Then he turned his head to the side and looked back in the direction of Shigaraki and All For One. He glanced towards where Shooter and Valentine were standing near Kurogiri to guard him, darting violent looks at any opportunistic villains who might try grabbing him and leaving. What are the chances Twice and Spinner make it out? Hackerman should be able to find them a good route, and as long as Endeavor is busy with Inhuman, as I doubt those Nomus held him off for long.

"Dabi," an obese man who made his way towards Dabi from the computers lowered his head for a second when Dabi looked to him, then he rose it and continued, "We have the Anti-Nomu-Terminators. These ANTs, or Ants, proved to be more than enough for most of the Nomus Endeavor had to face." Dabi looked over the fat man's head and towards the big screens and computers on the side of the massive room. Other villains who had glanced towards those televisions themselves started watching closer while they decided what to do for themselves. They watched the assault on a major Japanese city, on what should have been the most protected event in the country run by the most prominent hero school, and they listened to the despair and pessimism of the reporters talking about the chaos and destruction on a scale like no other.

Breakneck looked down towards the guy with the cloak of guard uniforms with a hesitant expression. Out of everyone left in the room, that man alone scared him. It had been only a minute since Stain had left, but the man was quickly going around and saying something to others who both he and Breakneck had noticed were especially interested in Stain. The ambitious, Breakneck shifted his gaze from that man towards a girl who had been questioned by him but held back unlike the woman with sharp and bloody claws who did decide to join him.

The undecided, Himiko Toga looked hesitant after she denied the cloaked man's offer. She looked towards the doors that Stain left through again with a sad and confused look on her face, but then she turned to the hall that Tomura had gone down and thought about what he had told her right before leaving. Toga thought about how he had been so quick to order everyone to free her from her restraints back at Tartaros, and a red tint came to her face again even though she looked sad as she turned back the direction Stain left.

The followers, Breakneck focused down towards Blazerage who he spotted talking to a man at a computer while leaning over the back of the guy's chair, getting uncomfortably close as he asked the man some questions. Breakneck's gaze shifted to the group following after the cloaked man, to the League of Villains guys who never once looked hesitant even when Mandalay was trying to shake their resolves.

The ones who are going to get caught right away, Breakneck stared towards a man with red skin who was smirking towards a couple of female villains, only to shake his head like he had to remind himself to hold back. A couple of others from the old War Boys tried talking to Damian, but he shoved them away and started for the doors himself, a crazed look in his eyes as he was ready to create some chaos on his own. And guys like him are going to rat out where this place is in no time. But, there's no way after all this planning the League doesn't have a plan for that. That Kurogiri will recover, and if this is the kind of place these guys are running, there are sure to be dozens of smaller ones they weren't willing to bring all these loose cannons to. I think, I'd like to know where some of those places are. Learn more about this organization, before I make any decisions.

Breakneck chuckled and put his hands both back over the railing interlocked with each other. And the patient. The smart. The ones who won't get caught up in their own ambition, but won't toss it aside either. Guys like me, who are going to run this shit. He smirked as he heard something shouted from the screens on the side of the building. A rumor he had heard but did not know if he should believe, though there was no doubting it now. All Might's gone. No one can stop me. All For One obviously isn't what he was before… not that I'll, say that aloud. Breakneck chuckled to himself and then got a dangerous look in his eyes that the other villains up on the steel catwalk near him got unnerved by. I'll take off soon enough. Take on this world that's going to become saturated with villains I can get to join my new crew. I'm sure some of the guys here will be willing to tag along. Once I've got a plan going… I'm back, mother fuckers.

Present

"I really did consider staying," Breakneck told the dark figure in front of him. "I was ready to follow, for once, but All For One didn't just bounce back like I was hoping he would. Hoped to learn a thing or two from the guy, maybe ask for a better teleportation Quirk, not that Flashstep ain't great." Breakneck laughed, then an explosion rocked the entire building and both he and Zach stumbled to the side while the ceiling over their head cracked.

Zach turned his head to the right and swept his arm, making a Death Wind whoosh across the doorway. Breakneck yanked backwards and jumped away, then he gasped out right as he was about to get hit, as he managed to teleport across the room to behind Lifebringer as his recharge time limit finished. Zach spun around instantly and rose up his hands, creating dark spheres on them that grew thicker and larger in a second. Breakneck threw the chair he had yanked out of the window before teleporting away towards Lifebringer though, and Zach had to duck while whipping his right arm in front of him before the Death Grenade was finished. Breakneck leapt to the right to dodge, and Zach did not condense the attack enough for the shrapnel to really fly out with any force when Breakneck dodged it.

"What? You didn't like the story?" Breakneck asked, while Zach was suddenly stuck with a multi-layered decision. The worst part was, he knew that Breakneck had not just thrown the chair at him to prevent him from attacking right away. He gave me the chair so I would reconsider putting it through the window again. Does he have another gun? Is he baiting me, or is he doing what I was doing and really doesn't have anything but wants me to panic because of it? Stay calm- Breakneck vanished, and Zach spun to look the other way in the room where Breakneck should have appeared. Instead, he caught a glimpse of Breakneck standing just on the other side of the door through the broken glass where the chair had been. Fuck! The angle!

"It's a race against the clock now kid! A race to see who gets the Chemist and Apocalypse first. Will it be the heroes, the League, or am I coming out on top?!" Breakneck leapt backwards as Zach tried throwing the second Death Grenade that was more perfected through the door. He made it explode prematurely, but Breakneck vanished in mid-jump before the sphere of darkness had even blown.

"Shit!" Zach yelled, and he slammed his right fist into the wall next to the door. His fist left a dent in the steel of the wall, and he glanced at that dent with slightly wider eyes as how far in it actually went. Then he shook his head and grabbed the doorknob with his left hand, yanking the door back open and running out onto the stairs again. He got onto them, they wobbled around, and then the building shook and a beam from the ceiling dropped down on the bottom of the steps, breaking right through them. Zach started running down the stairs as he felt them shaking much worse than the way up, Crack- KA-CHHH

Zach leapt, and his eyes opened huge as the stairs collapsed behind and below him. "Oh shit," he swung his arms around to the sides and focused Death down on his legs. This was a farther drop than during the capture the flag game though, and he prepared for a large amount of pain as he neared the floor. He bent his knees and dropped into a roll when he hit the ground to weaken the fall as best he could, and then he ran right up onto his feet and kept going across the floor of the lab. "What the hell?" He muttered to himself as he ran. There! "Breakneck! I won't-" Zach shook his head and stopped shouting in his scary voice as another explosion shook the building. What have I been doing?

Zach reached up and pressed a button on the side of his helmet again. "Breakneck's moving for the northern exit-"

"We're under heavy fire!"

"Endeavor's plane is twenty minutes out!"

"That guy is too bright! I can't see a thing!"

"We've been blinded!"

"Comms are out on the south side, a runner just came around…"

"Medical evac point is a half mile west of regroup point Bravo."

BwwooooOOOOO! BwwooooOOOO! BwwooooOOOO! A loud siren started going off and echoing so loud that Zach expected it could be heard across all of Mosu Esupa. It sounded like a tsunami or earthquake warning, like an air raid siren calling for mass evacuations of the area, and it just kept going.

Forget Breakneck. For now, at least. Zach started sprinting again, towards the north side of the building as fast as he could. It is a race. And I need to stop him from getting Apocalypse, from getting the Chemist, but! But those are long-term things I'm trying to prevent! This town sounds like it's about to fall apart! If the villains on Trigger break through the police and hero lines, and they make it into the town to escaping civilians and use them as hostages! I can't let that happen! Zach started focusing Death stronger around his arms, his Nightmare form's thicker black veil covering up the white costume on his sleeves underneath even though they were made of bones.

Zach ran by a hole in the wall without even looking towards it. Had he looked to the right for just a moment, through the hole on the east wall and into the exterior of the warehouse past it, he would have seen something that might have stopped him in his tracks. Through that hole in the wall, even the man with hands all over his body and wavy gray hair did not notice the figure who might have taken his attention away too. Instead he faced the boy who had come to face him, who always came to face him. Wonderlass was panting and down on one knee to Deku's left, a frustrated look on her face as she had gone beyond her limits.

Super is always at full capacity, Deku thought, while keeping his eyes focused on Shigaraki and the men behind him. He was alone there with Wonderlass who he had shown up just in time to kick away a murderous Triggered-up villain about to kill her. She fights as normally as she walks around or eats, because she doesn't need to power up. She's always at full. But that means, if she's ever in a fight and needs to use more than normal, needs to go beyond what she already is at, she's breaking through limits that already strain her body every minute of every day. Right now, I can see she's in so much pain. I didn't understand your Quirk, Wonderlass. I didn't understand why you were so unknown, despite how amazing you seemed. I'm sorry for what I said… Midoriya clenched his fists tighter in the white gloves of his green costume and rose them while glaring harder into Shigaraki's eyes.

"You know, Midoriya Izuku," Shigaraki Tomura began. "I don't think we've actually really fought before." Shigaraki started laughing and Midoriya got a bead of sweat on the side of his face though he tried to hide his anxiety at Shigaraki's tone. "I hate you, so much. I hate you," Shigaraki lowered his head that he lifted while laughing there for a moment, and Midoriya saw a terrifying look in the laughing villain's eyes. A look of sheer rage and hatred also mixed with excitement and glee that he was getting this opportunity. "Of course you're here. You're everywhere," Shigaraki said. "Always trying to stop me, always failing."

Midoriya thought about the training forest. The scream he let out when Bakugo and Zach were through the portal. He imagined All Might in his weakened form in front of everyone, something Shigaraki had made happen with his League of Villains. He thought about the Sports Festival, how scared his mom was when he found her in Musutafu afterwards, how many people had died that day. Then Midoriya steadied his expression and said, "If Inhuman was allowed to continue his rampage, I'm sure a lot more of your villains would have escaped."

Shigaraki's smile dropped down instantly, as the boy reminded him how they were not all failures. Inhuman, giving All Might time at USJ, saving Bakugo, Midoriya had gotten in his way many times and Shigaraki glared furiously into the boy's eyes. Midoriya stared back at him with a strong expression on his face and an unwavering look in his own eyes though. Despite the sweat on his face, Midoriya smiled towards Shigaraki and called out with his fists clenching harder in front of him, "I won't let you escape this time, Shigaraki Tomura! You're going to prison where you belong!"

The floor beneath Midoriya's feet cracked, then broke apart as he shot towards Shigaraki. Wonderlass stared after her intern with wide eyes, and then a huge grin covering up the fatigue and pain on her face at the look on the boy's face she just saw. Over his face she saw a translucent one of a man with pushed-back blond hair and two blond bangs pointed up like rabbit ears. He was smiling in the same exact way, and Wonderlass's hands started gripping the ground and digging through stone even as her arm muscles roared at her to stop moving. Deku, she thought, as she dragged herself back up while in excruciating pain. The heroic smile on his face had brought one back to hers, and she roared in pain and rage and determination. You have proved yourself. Now take that bastard down! I will defeat the rest! Her red eyes with blue irises narrowed down at the half dozen villains gathered with Shigaraki who all took steps back away from her. They saw her look directed at them, and all of them who thought her muscles had ripped apart keeping her unable to fight gulped as she charged.

Shigaraki sprinted forward and met Midoriya with his arm outstretched towards the boy's face. The boy changed directions in midair though, flipping himself up and over Shigaraki before spinning to kick down on him. Shigaraki leapt up himself though and reached a hand out to grab at Midoriya's face with speed that matched the teen's and made him pull his face away. The fact that he could still pull away that fast even after redirecting himself once in midair already though, made Shigaraki grind his teeth and glare in rage at the boy whose face his was passing in front of. "Today," Shigaraki said as his face passed close to Midoriya's. His voice got quieter and Midoriya's eyes bulged, his breath catching in his throat at the words whispered into his soul. "One For All dies with you."

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A/N Thanks for reading! Shigaraki knows! AHHH... Hope you enjoyed the chapter! There's a whole lot going on I tried to convey in what was probably only a few minutes of time passing through this whole 18k word chapter. The perimeters around the building are breaking, sirens go off through Mosu Esupa, more villains enter the fray returning from drug runs or out from buildings the heroes did not know were part of the operation. Breakneck's flashback reveals some stuff about the League I've kept a mystery since the Sports Festival, and I hope you guys enjoyed that scene! Breakneck is after Chemist and Apocalypse, as are Shigaraki and the heroes. Who's going to come out with them, if anyone? Will heroes like Endeavor and Best Jeanist arrive in time to prevent the escape of the villains, or can the heroes there already do it themselves? Or is this going to be another devastating loss for the heroes?! The stakes are high as more heroes fall, Shigaraki faces off against Midoriya, and Zach rushes off to stop the rampaging villains! Leave a review telling me what you think, questions, or predictions for the upcoming chapters!

Super Power Sensei chapter 75 . Sep 12

I think it would be a better idea for Zach, the heros, and the police to gather all the casualties at any given crime scene and put them in one place for Zach to revive after everything is under control.

You're right, but the heroes would have had to plan for taking casualties in that case. They had the element of surprise and were planning on trapping the villains inside, and though using Zach like that may have been a good idea, to plan for deaths is not something they're looking to do. Though it'd a good backup to have I agree. But also, to say that Zach could just revive them after it was under control is also off since he's got that time limit... Plus Zach's got offensive power too, and considering how much bringing people back hurts him they'd probably try to avoid that at any cost. Then again, lot of casualties happening right now so some people might be thinking the same thing. Anyway, nice point and thanks for the review!

Guest chapter 75 . Sep 12

Honestly while you're remaining true to the actual series. I can't imagine that anyone would punish heroes (or Zach) for killing villians anymore. They've become a massive threat to public safety and if it were our universe the kill on sight order would have long been issued.

In our world, yeah I could see that. Kill on sight for sure, at least in the US. In BNHA though, I mean All For One pretty much destroyed a city and they threw the guy in prison. It's also been said in this story though that heroes don't get punished always if they kill villains. Grappler mentioned it a long time ago. Zach didn't have a hero license though and was said to have made bad judgement calls which made his trial happen before. Still though, if Zach were to just go in and straight-up murder a bunch of villains when there were ways to take them down not involving killing, def not okay. Even in our world in that case, which is one where cops would be quick to shoot "villains," they don't just charge into drug dens and start killing everyone inside. Even if those drug dealers were to start attacking, the cops would shoot back at them, but the goal would still be to capture more than kill, even if they would be let off without punishment if they did kill the villains. So I'm trying to stick true to BNHA world, but I agree with you too and we've seen Zach scrolling through the internet and seeing petitions for changing the laws, allowing murder of villains, etc. It's a good point, and thanks for the review but hope you see why they didn't just start massacring the villains here. XD

Guest chapter 75 . 21h ago

Breaking Bad?

Boku no Meth Lab.