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!

86. Chapter 86: Traitor

A/N Warning

Disclaimer: I don't own Boku no Hero Academia

Chapter 86:

Class 2-A's dorm's front door slammed open. A tall, muscular woman in a red costume stepped into the common room and looked around. She floated off the floor instead of taking off her shoes, and she floated towards the stairwell with a dark look on her face. She had a fair complexion, long whitish-blonde hair, and she had a red bandanna tied around the top of her long hair and over her forehead. Mother Russia flew to the third floor and three doors down from the stairs.

"Class representative, Tenya Iida," Mother Russia began outside the door. "Open up."

Iida's door flew open within the second. "Yes! Mother Russia sensei!"

"Energetic. Good," Mother Russia glanced behind him into his room. Her eyes examined the bland room and focused on the shelf covered in extra pairs of glasses for a second. She looked back into his eyes through his glasses and the tall boy with Engines on his calves tried not to start sweating under her discerning gaze. "Gather your classmates. Get everyone to put on their gym uniforms and meet in the common room. You have five minutes." Mother Russia turned around and flew back towards the stairs. Mr. Principal, Present Mic, Midnight, and All Might. 21 of you, and 4 teachers. Odds are it's someone in this building. The Russian woman's eyes were dark and she flew back for the dorm's entrance without another word.

"Y-Yes sensei!" Iida called out after her. Five minutes?! Iida turned to sprint to another room, but he looked down at his clothes and his eyes widened. Iida spun and pulled out his phone while racing around his room to get his blue gym clothes on.

Kirishima got dressed quickly when he got Iida's text. He raced out of his room and spun to the right for a second, then he turned left as Shoji's door opened up. Shoji looked at him and then past, and Kirishima started towards him while saying, "I didn't hear Bakugo get back. He isn't responding to my texts."

"You shouldn't be texting," Shoji started to the redhead about to reach him. The tallest boy in the class turned and walked quickly towards the stairs with Kirishima. The six-armed teen added in, "The principal has been oddly specific about what we can use our phones for, so I am guessing the villains may be able to read our communications."

Kirishima's eyes opened wide, "Really?" He glanced down at his pocket and had a nervous feeling about leaving his phone there.

"Hey guys," the two of them turned to see Uraraka and Ashido jogging their way so they could head down the stairs together. Ashido continued after starting to run towards them, "So, do you guys think Mineta helped catch Himiko Toga?"

Kirishima grinned at the pink girl, while Shoji and Uraraka kept serious expressions about them. "If she's caught but there are still villains around," Kirishima began. He started into the stairwell quicker and with a grin on his face, "They must be getting the rest of us to help fight them!"

Back a floor down from the group of four leaving the fourth floor, Iida looked ahead towards Koda confusedly as the large boy with a rock-shaped face got a pink shade on his face while looking down the hallway in front of the steps. Iida sped towards the stairwell, glancing at a closed door he had not heard open or shut while he was getting changed in his room and sending out more texts to make sure his classmates were in a hurry. Iida reached near the steps and looked down the hall across from Koda's room, to where Jirou and Kaminari were coming out of Jirou's room before jogging their way.

"What were the two of you doing in the same room?" Iida asked sternly. "At a time like this we-"

"We were together when the message got sent out," Jirou snapped towards the nosy class rep who had just made her cheeks flush even brighter red than when she opened the door to see Koda staring straight towards her and Kaminari. Kaminari ran past looking somewhat sheepish though with a grin on his face as he raced for his own room to get his gym uniform on. Jirou spun to Koda who was apparently less oblivious than Iida, and she said in a defensive tone, "But we really weren't doing anything stupid during an emergency."

Koda nodded at her in a way that Jirou smiled at because he really looked to believe her, though Iida got a more confused look on his face and tilted his head. Then the class rep's cheeks turned red as he was a bit slow to catch on, and he spun for the stairwell and called out for the people on his floor and everyone he heard rushing down the stairs, "Everyone hurry! We do not have a lot of time!"

"What does that mean?" Sero muttered to his right at Sato as they ran down the stairs together. They both sweatdropped as Iida shouted in for all of them not to run on the steps, even though he had just yelled at them to hurry. Make up your mind, Sero thought in annoyance. He had a bead of sweat on his face and tried to get more serious like Sato looked from Iida's first shout and his texts. "Why our gym clothes, and not hero costumes?" Sero questioned softly.

Sato shook his head and then replied in a low voice, "Maybe the hero costumes were tampered with." Sero's eyes widened and he nodded as that was definitely a possibility with Toga being secretly on campus. "Or maybe, the fight's already over," Sato added in a less confident voice. Sero nodded again just as un-confidently. None of them really knew what was going on. They had not seen anything on the news and even though they were able to text each other, all of them seemed to know as much as the others.

Farther up in the stairwell than the two about to reach the bottom, Iida looked back up after watching Kaminari start down. He looked to Todoroki who was heading down the steps in a blue uniform that looked similar to his costume but did not have the hero tools or accessories his costume had. "Is anyone left on your floor?" Iida questioned Todoroki who reached him on the platform of the third floor. Todoroki shook his head and Iida was relieved his classmate knew the answer. Iida kept a serious look on his face and did not immediately start down the stairs after the others though.

When it was just the two of them, Iida continued in a low voice to Todoroki, "What do you think of the current situation? We are being kept in the dark."

Todoroki stared next to him closely at Iida for a few seconds. I know it is not him. "How did Toga know we had our physicals today?" Todoroki asked. Iida stared at Todoroki in confusion for a moment before his eyes started to widen huge behind his glasses. Todoroki glanced down the stairs and then said in a low, grim voice, "It is getting close to five minutes. Let's find out what's going on." I don't see why else they'd keep us in the dark like this. Todoroki started down for the first floor and he could see Iida's disbelieving but serious expression on his side that made him confident he had made the right move saying something.

"Fifteen, sixteen," Mother Russia mumbled while looking towards the steps from where she floated inside the front door of Class A's dorm. She nodded her head as Iida and Todoroki arrived behind the rest of the class, then she looked around the students in front of her. She grimaced. Mother Russia grimaced in a way the majority of her class who stood before her had not seen on her face before. "Alright. Follow me."

"Um, Mother Russia sensei," Uraraka started. The older woman about to turn around glared at the short girl with short brown hair. Uraraka gulped but continued despite the glare, "Are the others alright? Deku-kun hasn't been responding to my texts."

"Yeah, what about Zach and the others too?" Kaminari asked. "I mean, we know Mineta's alright but no one else has-"

"They are all fine," Mother Russia stated. "And Recovery Girl has been recovered as well."

Relieved looks covered the faces of everyone in the class, and Mother Russia had to turn away from them at those looks. "Now come," she said. She opened back up the dorm's door and floated outside. "Do not dawdle," she called out in a stern voice.

"What's happening?" Hagakure whispered next to her at Ashido who shrugged her shoulders with a confused look on her face. She wanted to call up to Mother Russia, but their homeroom teacher was floating forward fast ahead of them and the class had to start quick-walking or jogging to keep up with her.

Kaminari glanced to his right at Jirou who looked back at him just as nervously but also with a bit of a relieved look in her eyes. "Knew they were okay," Kaminari said, cracking a smile at the darker-haired girl who had been more worried than him over the past hour. She frowned at him for a second that he was right, but that frown lifted into a smile as he had spent time trying to calm her down and convince her that their best friends were fine.

"Yeah, thanks," Jirou responded. She turned ahead and looked up towards Mother Russia for a moment, then she got a semi-confused look on her face as the woman turned on the street to head away from the path to the main school building. "Where are we going?" Jirou whispered in confusion.

Kaminari lost his smile and got more confused too. He glanced to his right towards Kirishima and saw the redhead looking over towards the main building where they had had their physicals and they all assumed they would be going. Then Kaminari looked back towards Mother Russia and thought hesitantly, Why wasn't Zach responding to my texts? Are they really okay? What's up with this radio silence thing?

The spiky-haired blond with a black lightning-bolt in his hair on the left side of his head tried keeping a confident look on his face as he caught Jirou glancing back over again. As soon as she looked back forward to continue her jog though, Kaminari started gazing around the rest of the class jogging with him. I mean, there is one reason I could see them doing something like this. You've been so carefree lately though, so I thought maybe the whole "spy" thing was just you being paranoid after all… maybe. I don't know. I just don't like this.

"So," Sero began softly to Kirishima in front of him. The spiky-red-haired teen glanced back at his classmate, only to smirk as Sero asked, "Who do you think got her? I'm thinking it had to be Midoriya."

Tokoyami looked to his left with a semi-confused look on his face, then he shook his head and faced forward again as Kirishima countered, "Nah. My bet's on Zach. He totally figured it out, so he had to have taken her down."

"It could have been the teachers," Ashido mentioned. She spun around and jogged backwards to face the two she heard behind her while saying it. Then she grinned more though while looking at Kirishima and said, "But I think it was Zach too."

"Could have been Mineta," Ojiro said. He said it and the group turned to the right to look at him with blank and confused looks as Ojiro sounded serious. Even Tokoyami who had lost focus and just faced forward to keep jogging slowed down and turned his head with a bead of sweat on it at Ojiro's statement. Ojiro sweatdropped as they all looked at him like that, but he backed himself up, "If he stuck her with even one Pop Off, she'd probably have been caught."

"Well," Ashido put a finger to her chin while running forward again. "I wouldn't say he couldn't have done it." She smirked and then finished, "But you really think his text wouldn't have been a little different? 'Toga was caught,' doesn't sound much like 'I caught Toga.'"

Ojiro hummed and nodded his head. The fact that that was the reason why it was unlikely for Mineta to have done it made a strange feeling swirl in their chests though, and Ojiro muttered apologetically at the mood change, "Sorry for suggesting it."

"All of you, be quiet," Mother Russia commanded without looking back at the talkative class behind her. The various conversations going on quieted down and most of them gained more nervous looks again or gulped at the tone of her voice. The fact that she had not told them what was going on made it seem like it would not be a fight, but she still sounded intense like the situation was serious.

There was a building up ahead the class was heading towards that they had not been to before. It was on a road covered in training grounds, and they had seen the building many times before but never been inside it themselves. It was a black building with two stories to it, and it looked like a normal building other than its dark color. There was a gate on the outside, and a sign inside the gate labeled with a strange symbol that was not Greek like the other training grounds. There was just an X overlapping an O on the sign in white bold font.

"Oooh," Hagakure leaned forward as they saw Mother Russia turning in towards that building to show it was the one they were heading towards. "We finally get to see what's in here?" She said it trying to sound excited, but the mood of the class had darkened a bit and more of them just felt nervous by the fact that they did not know what was inside.

Mother Russia flew down to the gate and she cupped a hand next to a keypad on it before typing in a quick 8-digit code. A loud clank of a lock opening in the center of the steel-barred gates in front of the building echoed out. The gate itself had a wall on either side stretching the width of the building before those walls cut back in to the front corners of the building. The floor was only cement between the walls and the front of the building though, and the front doors themselves did not have windows so they were just large metal rectangles in the wall.

The building did have windows, its roof was slanted, and it did not look like that spooky of a place the other times they had gone by it. Until then though, they had always just associated it with training. Training Ground Omega had a giant villain-like hideout in it after all, so a building like this never drew too much attention. This closer look was unnerving them all more and more each second though. The building had been labeled with the same X and O pattern on the school map just as the training grounds were just labeled with their Greek symbols. The building looked like it could be a training ground, but because of the events of the afternoon all of them were doubting that now.

"Are, they keeping Toga in here?" Kaminari asked in confusion, stepping forward while looking up and down at the weird building. "And are the others inside-"

Mother Russia turned her head and looked at the blond. She frowned at him and Kaminari pulled his head back, then Mother Russia glanced around at the rest of the students. She looked at Todoroki who was examining the building closely and with a look of understanding covering his face. Most of the others looked confused though. She grit her teeth behind her lips and turned forward, "They're waiting inside. Let's go." Mother Russia walked for the building, and the class looking at her back felt seriously unnerved at the tone of their homeroom teacher's voice.

None of them have run, Mother Russia thought. She glared harder at the building in front of her for a few seconds as she marched down the black path in the cement leading to the doors. So is it one of them already inside? A spy would know this is a trap, wouldn't they? Or are they that confident in their infiltration that they are not worried about being caught? Is it even someone in this group, or did one of them let it slip to a Class B who spread the rumor? Or was someone watching from inside the building who we did not know about? It could be. It really, could be any of those options. I hope it is… Yet, as a hero, I must hope that it is not. Because if it is not an outside variable the principal did not account for, then today we can flush out the spy in U.A.

"So, anyone else getting a really weird vibe from Mother Russia sensei?" Sero whispered with a hand cupped to his mouth so the woman in red would not hear him.

Sato got a bead of sweat on his face and nodded from Sero's right side. "I don't know, if we should go in," Sato muttered in a quiet voice, his walk down the path from the gates slowing down. Sero turned to him with a surprised look, but Sato was looking around at the wide black building with a really hesitant expression on his face. "Are we really sure…" Sato began quietly, and he turned his head to look back at Mother Russia. Sato gulped and he came to a complete stop.

Todoroki looked to his right and ahead at his classmates he was walking behind. There was a reason he had taken up behind all of them, and Iida was staying near him after what Todoroki mentioned back at the dorm. Todoroki got a frown on his face at what Sato was saying and started taking a step towards him, but Iida's eyes opened wide behind his glasses and he spun to look forward towards Mother Russia. "Wait," Iida stated after a second's hesitation. He said it loud and for the whole class to hear, and Mother Russia snapped her head to the side and glared back at him.

Iida gulped at that look, but then he steadied his expression and said, "We have not received word from our classmates in quite some time."

"Iida, what are you-" Uraraka began.

"Enough of this," Mother Russia stated firmly and in a pissed-off voice.

"If Himiko Toga was inside of U.A., then is there not the possibility that others are here with her?" Iida questioned. "Or the possibility, that she has taken Mineta's phone?" The class looking at Iida in confusion started to get sweat all over their faces, and many of them turned back to Mother Russia who herself opened her eyes wide at what Iida just said. She grimaced more than she was just glaring at him, and the muscular woman rose a hand and rubbed her forehead while Iida continued, "Whatever reason the principal may have for telling us not to contact outside of our class, it has ensured that we may be the only ones who currently know there is a situation going on at U.A. So if the villains were to try and stop this from getting out-"

"Iida," Mother Russia said in a stern, annoyed voice. "It's good you're thinking this hard. You're wrong though. Sazaki caught Toga. We got Recovery Girl back. The situation is under control."

Kirishima relaxed a bit and darted Sero a smirk at the same time that he had called it. Most others, including Sero, had not relaxed that quickly though.

"I don't think Toga could, copy Mother Russia sensei's Quirk," Uraraka began while glancing back at Iida again in a hesitant way. Mother Russia had been flying most of the way to the building so it seemed like it really was her.

Iida nodded in agreement with Uraraka, but he did not get a relaxed look on his face. He just stared at the muscular woman who nodded her head while looking back towards him and into his eyes. Even if this really was the Mother Russia they all knew, Iida was realizing that that may not be enough to exonerate her. It definitely was not enough to calm him down. The doors of the building behind Mother Russia opened though, and the woman and all of Class A turned to it to see Principal Nezu standing there in the entrance.

"Everyone," Nezu said, his voice high-pitched but serious as he looked at the students and teacher ahead of him. "Please come inside. I will explain everything when we are all together."

Jirou glanced to her sides and then back towards the principal with a nervous look on her face. She looked left though as Kaminari took a step forward towards the building. "Hey," she whispered.

"We gotta see if the others are alright, right?" Kaminari asked while glancing right at her.

Todoroki was staring towards the principal with narrowed eyes. Then he started walking forward while keeping his expression serious. Other students around him felt more confident about moving into the building too with Todoroki there.

Iida walked after Todoroki but stayed in the back of the class. He had just been the one to cast doubt over the situation, and now he knew it was his job to get everyone inside as he saw others hesitant around him. "Koda, Tokoyami, Sato, Shoji," Iida said in a low voice. They looked in at their class rep, and Iida stopped for a second in between them while staring towards the building. "Until we know what is going on, do not lower your guards. However, we must protect each other as classmates. And as heroes, we must figure out what is going on here." Iida started moving again, but he looked over his shoulder and waited for the boys behind him to keep moving again.

Ojiro and Hagakure had looked back at Iida while he said that, and then they turned to Tsuyu who still appeared a bit hesitant herself until Iida spoke. The frog-girl started walking for the building with her arms out in front of her and her back hunched, and Ojiro took a deep breath before motioning forward himself with a nod. Hagakure nodded back and they started walking, though Hagakure clenched her invisible fists that no one would be able to see were clenching, while Ojiro's tail lifted a bit.

Are they all really alright? Kaminari thought as he walked in front of most of his classmates. If this is an ambush, I could totally zap everything if I'm in front of the others by a bit. Kaminari sped up and Jirou looked at him confusedly and like he was an idiot as he seemed to lack any caution whatsoever in this creepy scenario.

Jirou turned to the principal next, and she sped up a bit herself while locking eyes with the mouse-dog-bear creature. "Mr. Principal, is everyone really alright? Mo- Are Yaoyorozu and Zach and the others okay?"

Nezu turned to the girl with earphone jacks sticking out of her earlobes. She walked in after Kaminari into a hallway that was brightly lit and had many steel doors around it. At the very end of the hall was an open door leading into a stairwell, and just outside of the door was a tall police officer in a trench coat and hat who the students had seen before after USJ. Detective Tsukauchi looked towards the students starting to fill into the building, and he rose up a walkie talkie next to his head and spoke into it.

"Sazaki has received minor injuries, though with significant blood loss," Nezu replied to the girl in front of him who spun back with wide eyes to face the principal. "But he is fine, and as soon as Recovery Girl is awake we will have him seen to." Kaminari and Jirou gained relieved looks since the principal had scared them there for a second. Then the short mouse man continued, "Bakugo also received a minor injury, but he is doing fine. As are Midoriya, Yaoyorozu, and Mineta who all are waiting for us downstairs."

"Downstairs?" Kaminari asked, and he looked down the hall towards the detective again and then past into the stairwell.

"Gero," a small croak behind Kaminari made him glance back. He looked at the short girl behind him with dark green hair who was looking towards the stairwell hesitantly and then turned to look up in his eyes. Tsuyu Asui was nervous, and what Iida had said to them outside had her very on guard at the moment. She turned to Jirou too, then back to Kaminari since Jirou started asking the principal why they had to go downstairs. "We must stick together as a class, Kaminari-chan."

Kaminari's eyes widened a bit and his eyebrows lifted up. He glanced around at the rest of the class who entered into the hallway, and he realized at that moment just how close all of them were to each other. A bead of sweat rolled down the side of his face and he glanced down at his blue gym clothes. I get being close to each other is supposed to make us safer, but I really can't do much like this. He looked back into Tsuyu's eyes though after a second of thinking about that, and he smiled at the girl who seemed so nervous to him which was unlike her. "It's fine," Kaminari said in a light tone. "The others are fine. You'll see." He turned and started after the principal who just told everyone to follow him again.

Mother Russia flew ahead of them and to the stairwell first. She flew past the cop who turned his head and gave her a serious gaze as she passed him. His eyes were discerning under the tan rim of his hat, his hands were at his sides inside of white gloves, and he had professional looking clothes under his long tan coat. Tsukauchi turned and walked into the stairwell before the principal arrived, and Todoroki narrowed his eyes towards the man from the middle of the pack of students.

I thought he would wait and try walking behind us. Is it because of what Iida said getting everyone on guard? Todoroki thought. He ignored his classmates around him who continued whispering to each other while moving in a close group of sixteen. Todoroki's narrowed eyes focused down on the principal's back just in front of their class. Are they really bringing us to our classmates? Even if these are heroes and the police, something very strange is going on. Is it because they do not trust us? They are going to bring us somewhere where if one of us turns out to be the spy, they cannot escape.

"I am afraid there is a reason to all of this secrecy, students," Nezu said as he entered the stairwell. He walked for the steps down to follow after Tsukauchi and Mother Russia, and the kids following behind him followed close behind though some darted one last look back towards the exit of the building. The lights on the ceiling made the hallway bright, but looking back, a few of them noticed that no light was coming in from outside. The doors had closed behind them.

Nezu continued in a quiet but high-pitched voice that made the class behind him silent, "Himiko Toga escaped captivity soon after her arrest." Nezu continued down the steps while the students behind him stared down at their principal with wide eyes. "However, as Sazaki used his Nightmare form to knock her out, she should have been unconscious for much longer than it took her to escape. In which case it becomes clear, that Himiko Toga received assistance after leaving school grounds. Her allies in the League of Villains freed her from her police escort-"

"She doesn't have our blood though, right?" Sero asked nervously.

"No, she does not. We recovered your class's blood samples, so Recovery Girl should be able to do your blood work later when she wakes up." Nezu turned at the midway point on the steps and continued down towards an open metal door with a pin pad next to it. Through the door was not a hallway but a large open room that had computers covering one of the walls. Just inside the doorway stood the cop, Tsukauchi, and not far from him was another hero who the students heading downstairs recognized and stopped them from commenting anything on what the principal just said.

Kamui Woods turned towards the stairwell and looked at the students walking down towards him. He had his wooden mask on as well as the wooden rings of his costume on his shoulders, his wood belt, knee pads, and boots. His tight, dark-blue costume showed off his toned figure, and the holes in his mask showed a serious look in his eyes as he examined the teenagers walking towards him. Nezu entered the room without hesitation, and the students were right behind him as they started getting more confused than nervous.

Kaminari was the first into the room after Nezu, and he looked across the wide basement that seemed like it covered the whole area of the building. "Zach!" Kaminari called out. He started jogging across the room, and the others behind him did not even feel like telling him to stick close as their worries appeared to be unfounded. Their five classmates were all in the big basement along with some other teachers like Present Mic and Midnight. Some of them stared over towards Zach with wide eyes though, as his left sleeve was red from almost his shoulder all the way to his hand, and his right sleeve had some blood splashed on it too.

Zach had the bandage Midoriya wrapped around him over the wound below his elbow, but he had ran around with the wound bleeding a lot while he held his arm up to let the blood spill one way and with his arm down so it ran the other. His left sleeve was dark red, and his skin was paler than usual though it was hard to focus on that when his expression itself was so serious that he did not seem to be in need of help at all. Zach wore his costume unlike the other four who were just wearing casual clothes and not their blue gym uniforms. The black-haired sixteen year old stood on the right of Midoriya who had Bakugo on his left by a few more feet. On Zach's right side, but with a gap between them, were Yaoyorozu and Mineta who were closer to Present Mic and Midnight.

The two teachers who had just arrived back before the rest of the class were talking to the five students already in the basement. They had just handed Memory Maker in to the police, and they had wanted to stay to figure out what the villain had done to their school nurse, but they were told to return immediately for this. Yaoyorozu and Mineta had asked what "this" was, but that was around the same time the door opened back up with Mother Russia coming into the basement.

Zach's left hand that had been slashed in his final takedown of Toga loosened up a bit from the fist he had it clenched in at his side. He looked at Kaminari with a lighter look on his face for a moment, just to give him a single nod and then look behind him again. Bakugo looked towards the door with a dark look in his eyes, and he was having a hard time holding back a snarl from his face. Midoriya gulped as he looked towards his friends and classmates who entered one by one and looked towards them. Kaminari slowed down at the looks on the faces of the three in front of him, then he turned and looked back over his shoulder in a hesitant way.

Kaminari looked past Jirou and at a few others who entered just behind him. Bakugo's eyes shifted over the group and focused on Kirishima for a second, then when he started looking at the others around him, he started walking across the room towards the class. Kirishima jogged in after Kaminari had, but though at first he was heading towards Zach, he turned to Bakugo who was walking his way. Kirishima's eyes widened and he looked at Bakugo's neck, "You alright Bakugo?"

"Fine," Bakugo said, which made a confused look form on Kirishima's face. He expected a 'shut up' as a response. For a second Kirishima thought that meant Bakugo's neck was worse off than it looked, but Bakugo's eyes made Kirishima hesitate to question about it. "Oi, listen," Bakugo started while taking his eyes off a cluster of other students and looking back into his best friend's eyes.

Yaoyorozu looked around the room and then turned to her shorter, dark-haired friend who started her way. Jirou glanced around wondering if it was really alright to just move around like this, but no one was telling them to stay still or stop going to their friends' sides. She walked towards Yaoyorozu and looked at her taller friend softly, "Momo, do you know what's going on?"

Momo Yaoyorozu shook her head once and then began in a soft voice to her friend, "Something very important. It is clearly, serious…" Yaoyorozu shifted her gaze over towards Zach and she pursed her lips at the way he was looking at everyone they knew. She thought about how he, Bakugo, and Midoriya had looked towards her and Mineta when they walked in. Even though it had only been a few minutes at the time since they had all been talking in their classroom together, the moods of the three who had had a private talk with the principal had been much darker. Zach did not even go over to her to talk like she hoped he would, and she was feeling increasingly nervous as his eyes focused on each of their classmates individually.

"Detective," Nezu said, turning to the man in an overcoat and matching hat who nodded his head once at the principal. Tsukauchi brought his radio up to his mouth, and he spoke into it while Kamui Woods shut the steel door to isolate the basement.

Some of the most reluctant students to enter were the ones farthest back towards the door, and they spun at the sound of it closing with wide eyes. "Hey, what are you-"

"Sato," Nezu said harshly. The tall boy with big lips looked down at the mouse creature who had never once used that tone with them before. "Calm down. All of Class 2-A of U.A. High School has been gathered here for an important reason. You are not in trouble. This is not a trick." Nezu started away from the doorway and towards the wall covered in big screens that had some computers lining it on a protruding section near the bottom. Although the computers were down low, they were still higher than the dog-bear could reach without climbing up on the chairs in front of them. Nezu did that with the chair in the center of the room which he walked to and started typing on a computer right away.

Tsukauchi walked up towards the front of the room to stand close to the principal, but the other teachers in the basement did not move to the front. Kirishima stared at Bakugo with his eyes huge, and then he slowly turned his head and looked around at everyone around him. If Bakugo had not explicitly hissed at him not to start shouting, he would have denied it at the top of his lungs. Instead, he just looked around the room and his breathing started to pick up as he spotted Mother Russia on one side of their class, glaring across it towards Present Mic and Midnight on the other. Does Mother Russia sensei think it's one of them? But they're our teachers- but if it's not them, it has to be one of us?! It can't be!

Kirishima started shaking his head, but then he froze and his eyes shot open wide as did most of the students' in the room as they stared at the big screens covering the wall. The wall covered in screens was the far one from the side of the building the entrance was on. The students facing the screens held their breath or started panting faster as they looked at a small, normal-looking black car. The car was a common make and model, but to call it 'normal' was actually impossible considering the car was in flames and had bodies littered around it. There was a man sticking half out of the driver's side window, two on the ground outside the open back doors with their transformation Quirks in mid-use and their sidearms on the ground at their sides. The fourth officer in the passenger seat was shown at a different angle through the broken front windshield, showing the interior of the car in flames but the man in the passenger seat clearly with holes all over his body and head.

"These, are pictures of the secret police force that was tasked with incidents regarding U.A.," Nezu said. He turned the chair and stood on it to face the twenty one students, four heroes, and one detective who were gathered in the room with him. "I show you these pictures before we begin, so that you understand the gravity of this situation."

"What situation?" Ashido asked confusedly and with a scared look in her eyes at what was going on.

"Himiko Toga was released," Detective Tsukauchi began to the class of students he had met before. He looked around at them and continued, "She had outside help, however information about her whereabouts was a secret." More of Class A were getting confused by the second. Tsukauchi continued to the students whose expressions he was watching closely, "The method in which Himiko Toga was handed over was supposed to be a secret, but it no longer applies. The four veteran officers killed this afternoon in Musutafu, were granted special permissions to use their Quirks. One of them had a Quirk very similar to a villain some of you once met, Mr. Compress."

Zach's eyes widened for a second but he narrowed them again quickly when some of his classmates looked his way. He did not make eye contact with any of them. He couldn't. The blond boy on Zach's left turned towards him again though and did not look back forward as quick as the others. Kaminari had been there when Zach killed Mr. Compress. It may have been in hiding, but Zach had told him how he felt about what he did that day since then too. As he looked at Zach's face like it was now, Kaminari gulped and started frowning with such a bad feeling in his gut. Something happened. He- they know there's a spy now. Why did they gather everyone here? Is it because, is it really because, someone in this room might be…

"The undercover officers retrieved Toga and left in their vehicle without making a scene," Nezu started again. "However, as soon as Officer Rihiko was killed his power would likely have been cancelled, as it was known to do if he fell asleep or was knocked out. There was a chance that it was someone in the police department who knew this information and let it slip to the villains. However, the police department was never contacted about Himiko Toga's appearance nor her arrest. All communications out of U.A. have been monitored since I was first made aware of her presence here." Nezu spoke in a long-winded way, but for once no one was drowning out a single word that he said. "Only those who knew of Himiko Toga's presence on this campus could have notified her allies to allow them to ambush the police on their way transporting Himiko Toga to prison…"

Some of the students in Class A started breathing faster. More of them were staring at the principal with widening eyes, and they found themselves sweating and their eyes starting to dart around at the people standing closest to them. "No one from Class B could have known where she was or that she was in custody. Very few people knew that she was here on campus. Very few people, still have any idea that she was here. Most of the staff are in the dark. Others who may have known of her presence alone are being monitored in isolation in U.A. classrooms right now. The people in this room however, along with only All Might, knew that Himiko Toga had been captured."

"Wait wait wait," Mineta shook his head around and then opened his eyes wide while looking at the principal. "So you're saying, so, so you're…" Mineta was having a hard time wrapping his head around this, but he could wrap his head around the photos he looked back up at over the principal's head. Mineta's heart that was already pounding so fast started to ache, and he felt his phone weighing heavily down on him in his right pocket. "No way," he whispered.

Zach looked down towards the back of Mineta's head. He figured that out quickly. Too quickly? Sending out that text to the people the principal limited us to contacting could have been a way to widen the pool of suspects. Or he, he was just trying to make everyone feel safe… But I can't think like that. I, I have to be suspicious of all of them? Zach glanced to his left at Kaminari who also looked down at the back of Mineta's head though the realization on his own face took another second to form as he figured out why Mineta might look like that.

"Mineta, it's not your," Kaminari started. He turned to his left and the rest of the class, then he spun back to Mineta fast who turned around to face him. Kaminari grimaced at his pervier friend's look but then continued in a softer way, "It wasn't one of us." The class group chat! He sent it in there, and everyone knew she got caught. Is it really one of us then?! I don't want Mineta thinking that… Kaminari trailed off his thoughts while looking to his right at Zach, seeing a pained look in his best friend's eyes as they made eye contact.

Could it- No! Zach thought, steadying his eyes and flattening his lips out while looking at Kaminari. He shook his head around and then darted his eyes about fast. The principal… would be expected to do something like this after this incident. I can't assume that he's just going out of his way to find the spy, it could be to throw around suspicion and push away from himself. That detective, Tsukauchi, he's been involved with a lot. They didn't say that he knew about Toga being captured though, just those other four cops. Midnight, Present Mic, and Mother… nope. Well, maybe she's a new one? A second one? Mother Russia couldn't have been the training forest though. And the League isn't that good. Plus, Spinner wanted Inhuman to kill her. He ordered it and Inhuman almost killed her- almost? Shit. Can't cancel her out. I can't, because if I cancel her for just that much evidence, I'll be cutting out everyone. I already had-

"This is, ridiculous!" Ashido called out after spinning around for a second. "You're saying it's- but we know everyone in here!"

Nezu looked into the girl's black eyes that had small yellow irises. He stared into her eyes and then said in a low voice, "Unfortunately. I fear there is a one hundred percent certainty that the spy of U.A. High School is in this room." The students stared at their principal with huge, shaking eyes. Their faces covered in sweat, as the principal started staring forward at the whole group of them with a single harsh glare. "Some of you have already known, others may have come across the idea while wondering how your training forest was located. There is a spy at this school, and now we have narrowed it down…" Nezu narrowed his already beady eyes into a student's and watched Sero's reaction, only to dart his eyes over towards Shoji and glare under his silver bangs too.

"Unfortunately," Nezu continued. The principal lifted his hands and put them together in front of his waist. He wore a black suit and had the intense gaze of a hero more than the look of one of their school administrators while facing them all. "My own predictions, my own observations and hypotheses," the principal with the Quirk, High Specs, grimaced and shook his head for a moment. "In them, I had already checked everyone in this room off as being innocent. Which means that my calculations were wrong. The measures I have taken to ensure loyalty and the safety of you students, have not been enough. I know for sure that the spy is in this room, yet I have gone over each and every one of you many times and thought we were-" Nezu grimaced harder, and his teeth bared for a second which made everyone stare at their principal with growing eyes. Even Tsukauchi, Mother Russia, and Zach who had remained pretty calm and collected through the principal's announcement started staring at him in shock at the rage spilling onto Nezu's expression.

"But I underestimated humans' capacity for betrayal. For over a year even… I could not begin to think of someone who would do such a thing." Nezu started panting, then he took a deep breath and closed his lips. He steadied his expression that he noticed was scaring the children, and then he said in a softer voice, "My apologies, students." Nezu narrowed his eyes and then said, "However now I must ask you to go along with what I say."

"What are you talking about?" Todoroki asked, giving the principal a harsh look at what he was accusing with seemingly no proof it was them. He had just claimed that he had arrived at the conclusion that all of them were innocent of this several times, and Todoroki wanted to just accept the principal's calculations instead of agreeing that they must have been flawed.

That's four. Is it really only four? I, I can add Momo! Zach thought as fast as he could with his eyes scanning around the room. Iida. Iida was with… No! Focus on Momo for just a second! Add her to the list, or suspect her. Don't just push it away. But I do trust her. But, but what?! So that's five… right? Zach's face scrunched up more, Or is it even five? Did I just defend myself to Bakugo, even though he's been turned since Camino… He hasn't. He, he hasn't… Zach wanted to reach up and grab his own head as he felt it pounding. How much blood did I lose earlier? I said it was no problem. I said I had to be here for this, even though the principal told me that we three were the only ones he was still positive about. What if it's someone like Todoroki? Who else could stop him? I, I doubt I could even do it, alone at least. But with Midoriya and Bakugo here, we could do it.

Can I really believe in Momo? She, believes in me! But, Mineta said he did too. I trusted Mineta though. I trusted all of them. Everyone in this class. The teachers too! I trust all of them! Please, be wrong. Principal Nezu, Zach started panting while looking towards the short furry principal. You have to be wrong. Momo's my girlfriend, and I trust her. I really, care about her. What about, Jirou? No, no no no! I told myself, after she eavesdropped but told us that she had done it, I told myself that she couldn't be the spy anymore! But, but Principal Nezu thought he had crossed off everybody probably using even more specific methods than that! Can I really exclude her from my suspicions without… Zach's teeth clenched and his panic started rising as the principal continued talking, I don't have time to figure it out!

"It is a breach in your privacy, but I would like you all to bring up your cell phones," Nezu stated. The class in front of him stared at the principal with wide eyes, and the short mouse-man finished, "The computer behind me will go through each of them. Each of you were on campus for this incident. Your computers will be scanned afterwards-"

"This isn't fair!" Ashido called out, and the principal darted his beady eyes to her and glared into her eyes. She gulped at that look, but then she called out, "Isn't it illegal to go through people's phones? You, you can't just order us to-"

"You all have provisional hero licenses," Nezu cut in. All the students and teachers looked towards the principal who continued, "Every person in this room other than Detective Tsukauchi is a hero. You should not have anything to hide on your mobile devices."

Todoroki started walking forward. He pulled his phone out and said in a low voice, turning his head a bit to the side to face Ashido as he did, "We have to erase suspicion."

"Even if we do this though," Ojiro began slowly, while reaching down for his own phone. He looked up at the principal and said, "If- when we all come back clean, it won't have eased any of your suspicion will it?"

"Mashirao," Hagakure began quietly after his complaint. He glanced at her, then he got a confused look on his face at the feeling of her hand tugging on his arm.

Todoroki handed his phone out to Tsukauchi who stepped forward to receive the students' phones. "If no one sent any messages off of campus during Toga's infiltration, then you would be in the clear," Tsukauchi countered the boy with the thick muscular tail. "Because all of your whereabouts were accounted for."

Others started pulling out their phones with that promise of exoneration hanging over their heads. Kirishima grit his teeth and ground them across each other a few times, but he pulled his phone out despite hating the suspicion being cast on him right now. "Think I really told them where the training camp was, huh Principal Nezu?" Kirishima asked while stepping in front of Tsukauchi, turning his head a bit and glaring at the principal who was not excusing any of them.

Zach pulled his head back a bit with a strained expression on his face as he looked at one of the few people he had already cleared. Why isn't Nezu excusing Kirishima from this? Could, could he really be? No! He died! He just reminded… but that would be a good way to try and push away suspicion. And if I think Bakugo could have been turned after Camino Ward then why couldn't Kirishima… because he couldn't be. And neither could Bakugo. And fuck it, neither could Iida. Everyone at Camino Ward, and Shoji too. I knew Mina even before school started. How much do I really know about her though? Enough. Hawks was careful enough that in infiltrating the League he still only lost an arm when he got caught, would he really be dumb enough to let Tokoyami intern with him after that? If Tokoyami was a spy?! Would U.A. let someone in like that?! APPARENTLY!

Shigaraki wouldn't have given up his piece at the Sports Festival, and he couldn't have known I would bring back Shoji. Mina almost died from one of Bomber's bombs too. Shigaraki tried killing Tsuyu from what I heard, but Aizawa sensei cancelled it and- "Sazaki, Midoriya, Bakugo, you too." Nezu said while looking to his left towards some boys he did not see moving yet.

Guess he doesn't want the others knowing he still thinks some of us are definitely not the spy, Zach thought, and he started walking forward though with a frustrated look on his face. This better not go too far back. The check should just be, for whatever it is they're looking for. Which wasn't me. Don't find random old deleted messages between me and Webb... Zach slowed and he stopped reaching for his phone with his uninjured right hand, because his eyes narrowed on a girl not far in front of him who had just taken her phone out but opened it up instead of walking forward with it.

"Toru," Ojiro whispered fast at the girl next to him.

"One second," Hagakure said.

"Hagakure," Nezu said in a firm, silencing voice. The room became quiet and everyone spun to the girl trying to subtly go through her phone. "Bring your cell phone up here, please."

"One second," Hagakure said louder and in a nervous voice.

Then her phone was gone from her hand. "Hey," Ojiro said in a harsh voice at the boy with half white and half red hair who just stepped in front of him and snagged the seemingly-floating phone out of Hagakure's hand.

Todoroki had a dark look in his eyes though, as he looked down at the phone and the picture Hagakure was just trying to delete. Todoroki blinked and stared at the picture in confusion. He stared at the bed covered in stuffed animals that looked like Hagakure had just taken a picture of it. There was a 'Are you sure' option up showing Hagakure had just tried to delete the picture, and Todoroki cancelled it out before looking closer at the picture for something damning that she might be trying to erase. Then he spotted the pair of gloves laying flat on the bed near the edge of it just in the corner of the frame of what had apparently been a selfie, now that he noticed there was a slight dip into the top of the bed covers showing someone was on it.

Slap! "TODOROKI!" Hagakure shouted, grabbing her phone back and pulling it close to her chest while Todoroki pulled his face back, a red hand-print on his cheek.

"Hagakure, you must-" Nezu began, but Todoroki held a hand up before anyone could say anything else.

Todoroki cleared his throat and then turned his back away from most of the class. "It's fine," he said in the most straight-faced way he could manage, though Zach could see his cheeks gain a red shade to them even over the slap mark on one side.

Ojiro had a half-mad, half-understanding look on his face at Todoroki's embarrassed turn. He glanced at Hagakure and whispered, "I didn't know you saved those pictures."

"You didn't?" Hagakure asked just as quietly, while the rest of the class around them sweatdropped as they assumed what this conversation was about, and why Todoroki just got slapped.

What could he have even seen? Half the class wondered at the same time, and they felt bad as they realized why Todoroki had to look closer before figuring out what it was he had probably peeped at.

Jirou let out a relieved breath and even chuckled to herself which made her taller and bustier friend next to her get a confused look on her face. Jirou glanced up at Yaoyorozu and opened her mouth to explain, then she went red in the cheeks and just grinned more before saying, "I'll tell you later." So glad I didn't listen to him.

Oh man, Kaminari thought while looking over towards a relieved Jirou. Guess she was right though, he figured, reaching a hand up and scratching through his blond hair. Who would've thought the school'd actually go through our phones though? I thought it was just an excuse. Kaminari walked up behind Zach in what had become a line to hand Tsukauchi their phones. Most of the class was staying pretty quiet or just whispering to their neighbors, and Kaminari leaned forward and whispered, "Don't have anything like that on your phone, right?"

It was meant to be a joke at first, but then Kaminari thought about some of the stuff Zach had told him recently which made a bead of sweat form on the side of his face. "Right?" He asked a bit more nervously.

"It'll be fine," Zach said. It's probably a good thing I haven't had any contact with Webb or Ganji since the Shatterer thing. Oh fuck! HUN- Oh oh haha, Zach lifted his left hand and ran it up through his hair but then lowered it fast to try not to let his relief show. Good thing I called him about Eziano on that lady's phone at the airport. I really thought, I might've been fucked there… Shit. Zach's expression got darker as he took a step forward because Tokoyami and Shoji had both handed up their phones at the front of the line. If I can think ahead to do something like that to avoid being caught, couldn't someone else here? The detective said our whereabouts are all accounted for, but is that really true for everyone and for every second since she got caught? Couldn't someone have borrowed a phone from a classmate out on the street? Or just pickpocketed someone and left the other phone in their room? I've carried two phones before for these exact reasons. If someone in here really has been a long-term spy, they'd know even more tricks than the ones I can think of!

Zach handed his phone to Tsukauchi, and he looked up into the eyes of the detective who had questioned him at his review only two weeks earlier. They locked eyes and Zach frowned deeply at the man who had been so suspicious of him that day. Zach turned away and his expression was dark again. He was at USJ. He, he's been in the police force the whole time as someone privy to information that's pretty important. Could it be him? I think, I think it might be. Then again, I know that I want it to be him more than anything. I know it would hurt the least.

Midoriya looked at Zach as the darker-haired boy walked by him with his eyes cold and hiding most of the pain in them. That cold expression was one Midoriya could not find himself right now, and he glanced in front of him again at the girl with short brown hair, and then past her at his taller friend with Engines sticking out of his calves. He saw Ashido hand over her phone with a pout on her face but an actual more upset look behind it, though he argued with himself that anyone must feel that way if they thought they were being suspected as criminals and having their things gone through. He knew that the principal did not think it was him, but even he did not want to hand his phone up that easily. The amount of messages and calls to All Might… but Principal Nezu and Detective Tsukauchi both know about the connection between us. They won't let that become a big thing. But, but that still doesn't make it alright. I might be in the clear, but what if other people have to explain secrets like that? Secrets that aren't really bad, but ones they don't want to share with the whole class? This really is going too far… but, what if it really does catch someone?!

"Teachers too," Kamui Woods said, glancing next to him at Mother Russia who turned and frowned back at the younger man. He gave her an apologetic nod but then a serious look, and she nodded back at him while turning and walking towards the front to hand over her own phone.

The Russian woman looked past the students and towards her colleagues to see if either would hesitate to bring up their own phones. Midnight had a bit of a nervous look on her face, and she walked quicker than a reluctant but accepting Present Mic who glanced at her confusedly. Midnight turned to the left a bit and a short girl whose body was see-through and flashed a grin before turning to Nezu and leaning down next to the principal's head. Midnight started whispering to the mouse-dog-bear who nodded his head along with what she was telling him with zero shame, considering he was an animal. He turned and nodded at her, then Nemuri Kayama handed her phone to the detective who was giving the R-Rated Hero an odd look.

Tsukauchi decided not to think too much about it, and he turned and took the new phone he got to the panel sticking out of the wall of big screens. He plugged the phone into one of the dozens of ports between computers, then he turned back around to continue doing this as quickly as possible.

While Tsukauchi got the last few phones, Nezu turned his chair back around and typed in a few things into the computer as more phones were inputted into the system. The photos showing the crime scene where Toga had escaped from vanished from the screens to show a black background covering them all instead. Nezu typed some more things quickly into his keyboard and some folders popped up on the screen. The computer screen in front of the principal was smaller than the big screens covering the walls, and his was actually covered in a lot more than what was currently visible to everyone else.

The last students walked up and started handing their phones to the police officer at their own paces. They were doing it of their own volition, and as Hagakure handed hers in, Tsukauchi stared at the phone with a deep grimace on his face. They all, turned them in. He looked at the invisible girl in front of him but she turned away and walked to her boyfriend with a muscular tail who was frowning towards the detective himself. We can't be wrong about this. We need to figure out who it is!

Tsukauchi plugged the final phone into the high-tech computer system. Another folder popped open on a window on the screen, and then Principal Nezu typed in fast on his keyboard. A message popped up on the big screens that showed, 'Recovering Deleted Files.' Several of the folders pushed out on the list to show the information inside them was being recovered, and Zach's eyes narrowed darkly at his own that pushed out between Jirou's and Sero's that also pushed out after a second. Guess a lot of people, delete stuff on their phones, Zach thought as everyone around him got even more upset looks on their faces. Some of them had deep or even nervous frowns too, though less than half the class's folders did not push in to show there were files deleted in them.

"That's not fair," Hagakure whispered, her shoulders slouching and her short sleeves showing that they just did.

Ojiro put a reassuring hand on her shoulder and started, "It's alright."

Mineta's jaw dropped when his folder pushed out, and the biggest look of sheer panic covered his face in the next instant. NOOOOO!

Jirou glanced to her left at Kaminari who looked at the window full of folders in surprise. She had a more surprised look on her face, but he turned to her and asked, "So what were you hiding? Huh?" He bounced his eyebrows at her a couple of times.

Jirou wanted to tell him to get serious, but she was too surprised by what she had just seen herself. "You really, don't delete anything off your phone?"

"Nope," Kaminari said proudly. Then a bead of sweat formed on the side of his face and he reached up and scratched his cheek. "I didn't really think, anyone would ever really go through my phone though… Probably a few things on there I should've- well actually," he grinned as it turned out his failure to see something like this coming did not matter anyway. "Guess deleting them wouldn't have made the difference," he said with a shrug, and Jirou frowned that he was actually right about that.

Maybe it only recovers things from a certain amount of time back… I really hope so. Those pictures I took in the winter, they were just- I just wanted to see if I was good at taking them- Gah! This whole thing is so unfair! Jirou thought while slouching her shoulders in resignation.

"So really," Kaminari whispered, leaning closer to her as he said it after seeing her red cheeks again. "What kind of files are we about to-" Jirou's left earphone jack came up and shoved into Kaminari's ear, making his whole body vibrate and him to shake around in pain for a second.

"Nothing," Jirou said, pulling her earphone jack back while saying something completely unconvincing considering her reaction.

"Ow, alright," Kaminari muttered, reaching up and rubbing his ear. Guess I'll see in a second, he thought while looking back at the screen again.

Zach looked over at Kaminari and he frowned at the way his blond friend was acting right now. He saw a few others looking just really upset that their personal lives and information were being searched through by their school without really any of them giving permission. First U.A. had become a boarding school meaning they all had to live on campus and abide by school rules at all times, but this was a next step that none of them wanted to go through. If it works though? If doing something like this, really finds the perpetrator, it'll be worth it. I want to know. I need to! It's been bugging me for so long… "bugging me?" Is that all?! I used to take this so seriously! Why am I, dreading, finding out who it really is now? I told myself that it was Class B without any real proof for the majority of my class not being the spy!

"Zach," Yaoyorozu whispered as she walked over and stopped next to him. He turned to the right and into the eyes of the girl who was three inches taller than him and got close before speaking in a low voice. "There are other explanations than there being a spy among our friends. Perhaps someone was watching the school, and they recognized the police officers which told them that something had gone wrong. It is very possible."

Holy shit she's right! Zach thought. He smiled, then his smile dipped down a bit and his eyes shifted to his right at the tall girl standing there looking out the corners of her own eyes at him. His eyes darted back towards the principal who turned his head and said something quietly to the detective before turning back to the computer. It looked like Nezu got back to work still typing away to find something, but Tsukauchi stepped aside and lifted up a walkie talkie to his mouth and spoke into it. Things started to move slower for Zach as his eyes shifted around the room.

His breath started to speed up while his body and the room around him slowed down. His hazel irises darted around faster and faster, a light red tint forming in the centers of them, and his heart raced so fast that he could hear it pounding in his head. That wasn't a casual something Nezu whispered, it was a command. He's playing it off. Tsukauchi isn't reacting a lot. Kamui Woods just moved though. He was standing still. The other teachers are staring at the screen waiting too. Everyone's looking at the screen, no- Todoroki, and Bakugo, and Midoriya and Iida too. They all noticed. They see Tsukauchi, but none of them have spotted Kamui Woods yet. Who is he moving towards? What is going on? Did the principal find something, and what everyone is looking at up on the screen right now is a diversion?! Keep them thinking it's still in the process of recovering their deleted files when it's already long past complete? Then who is it?! Who is he looking towards- Zach's eyes focused into the holes on the wooden mask on Kamui Woods' face, and he followed the angle of his eyes into the group of his classmates and on a girl who made Zach's heart pound even harder and his eyes to start shaking at the sight of her. Zach started moving, and Yaoyorozu turned more to really look at the boy next to her.

"Zach, what are-"

"Everyone," Nezu started, and he stopped typing all of a sudden with seemingly no change on the big screens covering the walls. He turned his chair around and stood up on the seat, and then he continued in a firm voice while a cluster of computer windows popped up on the wall screens behind him. "After my message to you not to contact anyone outside of your classes, no texts or calls were made from your phones. However, a signal was pinged through an application on one phone, in a pattern I have yet to decipher but is clearly a code of some kind." Everyone in the room started panting while looking at the principal. Their eyes opened huge and their hearts twisted as they all hoped this was wrong. Nezu turned his head and snapped his beady black eyes to a single figure in particular though he was unable to look into her eyes, "This message was sent from Toru Hagakure's-"

"What?!" Hagakure shouted, then she stumbled to the side as Ojiro pushed her and swung his tail around. He spun while swinging it, and the man who he had noticed come up behind not too far away wound up wrapping Ojiro's tail with his Arbor Quirk instead.

"Hey!" Ojiro shouted at Kamui Woods who stared at the blond student with wide eyes for a second. "Back off," Ojiro said, his eyes narrowing and his voice serious.

"H-Hagakure?" Ashido began, turning to her side where the invisible girl had stumbled.

Hagakure's body turned and the girl exclaimed at her pink-skinned friend, "It wasn't me!"

Zach froze mid-step and stared towards the invisible girl whose shout sounded so genuine to him. Yaoyorozu froze behind Zach with her eyes wide. Midoriya turned his head to the left, Uraraka and Iida doing the same to look back at what just happened in that single instant. Bakugo's huge eyes narrowed quickly and he opened his clenched fists to curl his fingers forward, making small explosions in his palms. Jirou and Kaminari turned and they stepped back with huge eyes because they had been close to Hagakure when the wood came pushing out at them.

"Ojiro Mashirao," Nezu began.

"Hold on a second," Uraraka whispered, her eyes getting huge and shaking as she looked at her invisible friend.

"It- it wasn't-" Hagakure spun back and forth and shouted at the students around her. "It wasn't me! I didn't do anything!"

She sounded on the brink of tears, but Todoroki narrowed his eyes at the girl who had been messing with her phone when he snatched it out of her hand. Did she switch to that picture right before I…

It, it was Hagakure?

She's invisible, so, so could she have been spying on the teachers and…

"It wasn't her," Ojiro said, and he took a step back while Kamui Woods removed his Quirk from around Ojiro's tail. The instant capture of the girl in suspect did not work, and Kamui Woods did not like how so many of her classmates around her looked at the moment.

"All of you," Nezu began, dropping off of his chair and stepping forward towards the class. "Move aside." Many of the students glanced back at him but they were all quick to spin back Hagakure's way. "This is not a damning sentence. Hagakure is now our prime suspect, but if there is an explanation for-"

"I didn't do anything though!" Hagakure called out towards the principal, and she stepped closer to Ojiro's back when she saw him moving towards her.

"She didn't," Ojiro agreed, looking over his shoulder and towards Nezu, and then back forward and at Kamui Woods who took a step towards them.

"Hold on, hey hey," Kirishima held up his palms and shook his head, a disbelieving look on his face. "There's no way one of us is actually a spy. Those message- ping, things, are probably something else!"

"Kirishima," Bakugo growled. The redhead glanced back, and Bakugo said in a low voice, "If it is something else, they'll figure it out." He glared past Kirishima and towards the invisible girl who looked his way only to pull back at the glare he was giving her. "Turn yourself in, and we can figure it out."

"Don't talk to her like that!" Ojiro shouted, snapping his head to the left and glaring much angrier at Bakugo than Bakugo was looking at Hagakure. Ojiro's hands shook as fists at his sides, and his tail curled more as he saw the looks of others all around him. "I know for a fact that it wasn't Hagakure, and I'll fight anyone who tried to arrest her for something she didn't do!" He shouted it loudly and his voice filled the whole room, silencing it while the girl behind his back stared at him in shock.

"Mashirao," Hagakure whispered. She looked around, her body twisting side to side as she looked at everyone staring straight towards her.

Zach opened his eyes as wide as they could and his fists unclenched at his sides. At the same time, Nezu looked past the students and towards Kamui Woods, and he nodded seriously towards the Number 5 hero who narrowed his eyes at the two students right in front of him. Zach started lifting up his right hand, his eyes widening and his heart racing even faster as he brought a foot forward, "Wait-"

"AAAHHHHH!"

A bright flash filled the basement. Zach clenched his eyes shut and despite the darkness, the flash stuck in his vision as he started to fall forward. He had screamed in pain, but he clenched his teeth fast after the roar because he heard something that made everything else so much more confusing. Over the sounds of screams all around him, Zach heard the shrieking voice of a girl he recognized. That's Haga- Zach's face hit the floor and his mind was jumbled more again. The flash in his head started to get dimmer though his mind was regaining thoughts quickly, and he heard a voice over the sounds of the screams, "Zach! You alright?" Zach opened his clenched eyes and started lifting his head at the sound of that voice.

All sound faded from Zach's head. His heart was pounding but he was unable to even hear that over the dull hum that just filled his mind. Zach rose his head slowly, but he could not feel his hands that he wanted to bring up to his sides to push up with. He slid his chin up the floor and then pressed the bottom of it down to rise up his face, and he rose his eyes, and he stared at the hand extended out in front of him for him to take. Zach looked up that arm and up the blue sleeve on it, and in the background he could see the tv screens all flickering with sparks coming out of them, and in the bottom of his vision he could see his other classmates all lying on the floor, and at the top of that arm he saw the worried expression of his best friend looking down at him.

Kaminari had seen Zach stepping past him on his right when everything flashed, and he spun to Zach first because his shout was the loudest he had heard. Kaminari's worried eyes darted around, but then focused back on Zach who he had reached down for. "Come on, get up." Kaminari looked down into Zach's eyes and was about to look away again, but the black-haired boy down below him was not moving for some reason. Zach was not moving, and Denki Kaminari started staring into Zach's eyes that were shaking while looking up into his. "Come on, get," Kaminari began again. He tilted his head and opened his mouth, but such a confused look spread over his face in the next second. "Come, c-c-" a spark of electricity came out of the left corner of Kaminari's forehead. Then some more sparks flew out of his hair, and he lowered his arm down to his side while standing straight up.

The blond boy with a black lightning bolt in his hair cracked his neck to the left, then the right, then he rolled his head around before stretching both arms up in the air above him. "Well then," he said, his voice sounding the same as it just had though with a different tone in it. He looked down into Zach's eyes again, and his lips curled up at the corners and spread far up his cheeks. "It's about, fucking, TIME!" He yelled, and then he did a small spin and looked around at every person in there other than him who were just laying flat on the ground and not moving. Some more heads started lifting up, but as much as others struggled they were finding it impossible to move their bodies. "Hahaha, hahahaha," each person who looked up made the blond boy standing there smirk even more and start laughing even as he saw their looks.

"What," Zach began quietly. He blinked a few times, then he struggled his absolute hardest to move his right hand at his side. He could not move it an inch though. Zach darted his eyes from his right back up in front of him and he opened his mouth to shout something, but the utter confusion and terror of the moment overtook him and just made him stare forward with his mouth wide open.

Kaminari lifted up his right hand and started scratching the side of his head with it as he looked towards a empty shirt collar where he saw movement making him think the invisible head there just lifted up a bit. "Toga was being dumb, as usual, though it's a little disappointing it's her fault… But I think it's about time anyway." Kaminari grinned while staring harder at the empty space next to a tail that had landed closer to Hagakure's face than her boyfriend's head that was facing the opposite direction and down at the floor with a look of horror on it. "I saw that look right there," Kaminari started while looking at the invisible space of Hagakure's head. "Even without seeing you, I could tell that expression. You were just about to accept the blame, weren't you? It's something I didn't plan for. Something, I should have thought about. Love!"

"Hahaha," Kaminari rose a hand and rubbed it on his forehead with a smile but a half look of disbelief on it. "Now Ojiro trying to defend you, I could kind of see that coming. Threatening to fight everyone to protect you though? Just to stop you from being arrested? Now that got me. But, it's gotta be a requited love between the two of you, huh? The only way to stop him from getting himself arrested, is to just admit your guilt yourself?" Kaminari chuckled again but then shook his head with his eyes narrowing and his lips losing as wide a smirk. "Well, then people would have figured out it's not you. Sooner or later, someone would figure out how easy it is to ping someone else's phone from a distance with certain superpowers." Kaminari rose his right hand, and thin bolts of lightning came out of each finger and ran straight up to the ceiling. Every light in the room flickered and sparked, and the computers below the wall screens that were all sparking already burst out with more electricity too.

"Who are you?" Zach asked, forcing it out and then snarling with a furious look in his eyes. "Where- where is-"

Kaminari glanced over towards Zach and he smiled in a normal way. He smiled in such a friendly and understanding way, and then he broke out with a crazed smirk spreading across his cheeks again. "It's me!" Kaminari called out, and he swung his arms out to the sides. "Come on, don't recognize me? Or is it just, that not one of you can believe it? No one even dares, believe such a horror? Such an unbelievable truth?!" Kaminari called it out, and then he turned towards a girl with dark hair whose head was slower to come up than most of the others around her. He watched as her chin slid up on the ground, and she had to use her cheeks too as even moving her neck was so hard that getting her eyes to face him was difficult. "Here, let me help," Kaminari said, and he bent down towards the girl with long earphone jacks for earlobes who felt a gentle hand under her cheek turn her head and rest it on her chin so she could look up easier.

Jirou looked up, and Kaminari's face was down only a foot in front of her with such a sadistic smile on it that only got worse as he watched the expression change on her face. Kaminari let go and stood up straight again, looking like he was holding back giggles as he looked down at that expression on Jirou's face. "Oh man, priceless," Kaminari said, and he laughed a few more times though they sounded forceful and mocking. He turned his head and looked around at the others who were all lifting their heads and turning them as much as they could towards the boy standing near the middle of all of them. Mother Russia strained her muscular body, and Kamui Woods tried to activate his Quirk. He could not control it in his current position though.

Someone was able to use their Quirk though, and ice started covering the right side of Todoroki's face, only for Kaminari to point his right hand towards his classmate. Lightning shot out of Kaminari's hand as an actual straight-fired beam that made Todoroki open his mouth and let out a horrifying scream, "AARRRAAAGGH!" Todoroki's body shook violently and his face fell flat to the floor when he was done screaming, his mouth open and spit drooling out on the floor below him.

"H-Hey!" Bakugo finally found it in him to shout, despite being struck silent for over twenty seconds after lifting his head. "What are you-"

"Shut the fuck up Bakugo," Kaminari said, turning a bit and letting out a scoff at the look on Bakugo's face. The spikier-haired bleached-blond boy shook in anger at that response and he tried dragging his arms up at his sides even harder.

Not far from Bakugo, Midoriya's head shook hard and he clenched his eyes shut for a second. Use it! One For All has to work now! If I pulse it through-

"Hey Midoriya," Kaminari began. "I'm a bit worried you might be able to do something with All Might's power and all," Kaminari paused, his lips twisting higher in his smirk while the boy he just spoke to shot his eyes open and stared at the floor in shock. "So if you move a muscle, I'll roast Uraraka."

Midoriya's eyes that he just snapped open shot over to his right, to a girl with brown hair whose eyes bulged and whose face covered in sweat. Midoriya turned back to Kaminari and ground his teeth for a second before starting, "How are you doing this?" Kaminari lifted his eyebrows, and Midoriya continued in such a frustrated way, "Kaminari, can't use his electricity like that! He can't just target-"

Kaminari cracked a bigger grin that made Midoriya stop talking. He leaned his head back and began in a casual tone that also sounded a bit nervous, "Uh, you guys, when I use my electricity it short-circuits my brain." He lost his nervous facade and smirked again, "Makes it real easy not to have to fight when villains show up, when I've got such an easy excuse not to. And, I can't target with Electrification unless I have some special gear? What a fucking joke-"

"Who are you?!" Zach shouted, making Kaminari turn towards him again. Zach glared into Kaminari's eyes and he teeth shook as he pushed them so hard together. A look of rage spread over Zach's face, his eyes getting violently dark and his chin pushing forward to a point that the rest of his body was moving from the muscles in his face alone. "What did you do with the real Kaminari?!"

"The real… You really don't get it." Kaminari shook his head and let out a small laugh, then he pointed his right thumb in at his chest and leaned down. "I am the real Kaminari. The guy you knew, oh he's gone now."

"I don't believe-"

"You know how the brain works?" Kaminari asked, and he tilted his head while looking down at Zach in an interested way. It looked like he was actually wondering if Zach knew the answer. "Well, it's pretty complicated, but I'll break it down to a couple of important things you should keep in mind. In between neurons are these things called synapses. Usually, neurotransmitters are shot between these neurons at lightning-fast speeds. Electrical transmissions through the brain, through the body, between neurons and all your muscles and cells." Kaminari grinned while looking down into Zach's eyes, "Simple, isn't it?"

Zach just got a much more confused look on his face, though at this point horror had spread across it too because the way the guy in front of him was speaking had him freaking out.

"Kaminari," Jirou gasped out finally while staring at the boy in front of her in terror. Sheer, absolute terror covered her face as she said his name.

He glanced her way, then to the left as he saw Yaoyorozu looking towards him in fear as well. Zach saw where Kaminari was looking, or where whoever this person was turned to look, and Zach struggled so much harder to move his body. Kaminari looked back down at Zach and chuckled to himself at the struggle and pained look on his face. "Well, I don't know what's so hard to believe," Kaminari started loudly. He turned around and took a step back more into the center of a gap between his classmates. "I get it, no one would ever suspect the stupidest guy in the class. But come on! How could any of you really think I was stupider than the pink one? I mean really?!" He started laughing while the rest of the class stared towards him in shock. Ashido's eyes started shaking and growing wider as Kaminari turned her way. "That might have been one of the hardest things to do. Making sure I got good enough grades to stay in, while still getting worse scores than you! It was, well, it was tiresome more than anything. Because I couldn't just pass each time, or it would start to look like I was doing it on purpose which takes too much skill."

"Hey," Zach whispered. His eyes were shaking, but his teeth clenched so much harder and he got louder the next time, "Hey! HEY!"

"Kaminari!" Kirishima shouted too. "What the hell are you talking about?! What is this?!"

"Who are you?!" Zach screamed. He yelled it over the rest of his classmates at the blond who turned to him and really looked into Zach's eyes. They stared each other in the eyes, and Zach said in such a furious voice, "How long have you been… What did you do with the real Kaminari?"

Kaminari stared at Zach in silence for a few seconds, and then he started walking towards him. "I could tell you, that it was recently. I could say that the real Kaminari got killed by Shatterer before you showed up, and I stepped in to take his place. Or maybe, it was just while you were being tortured during winter break sometime? But the truth is Zach," Kaminari took another step so he was right in front of his best friend, and then he leaned down and said, "I've always been the spy. From day one."

"I don't believe you," Zach stated.

"Yeah you do- wait, really?" Kaminari tilted his head and looked closer into Zach's eyes. They were close up, and Kaminari smirked even more at the look of disbelief in his friend's expression. "No, you wouldn't be able to, would you? It just, would be too much right?" Kaminari smirked even more, and he started laughing as he asked the question he seemed to know the answer of already. "Guess I really did too great a job. Splitting my own mind wasn't too tough. Once I realized how to control my own brain, I figured out how to control more and more of it exponentially until I could use a hundred percent of my mind at all times. So, it wasn't too hard to keep control while giving certain thought processes over, wasn't too hard to block certain memories and keep information I didn't want him to know from filling his mind."

Zach's face covered in more confusion, but anger too and he opened his mouth to shout something. "Oh, it's not possession," Kaminari assured while Zach's mouth was wide. "It's much cooler than that. And I'm not split personality either. It's more like, the Kaminari you knew was never real. He was just, a puppet I created in case there were any mind readers at U.A. Someone who would infiltrate perfectly, because he didn't even realize he was doing it!" Kaminari laughed a bit and then leaned back as he called out, "When Aizawa sensei told me to try and call for help at USJ, it took everything I had to keep from smiling. Because he actually tried! He tried to contact the school, while we were fucking blocking the signals! AAhahahahaHAA!" Kaminari snapped his head down and looked at the horrified look on Zach's face, "What? You really thought Shindeki Buda was blocking the comms? Glad you took him out though, made one less loose end for me."

The black-haired boy on the ground in front of Kaminari felt his heart slowing down. His vision was blurry as his mind started racing at a thousand thoughts per second. "Oh, oh! There it is. You're finally getting it, huh? You're finally figuring it out!" Kaminari said it excitedly, and then he leaned down again as the expression coming to Zach's face was one he really enjoyed. He leaned closer and crouched in front of his friend while pushing his face towards his, and everyone else in the room stared towards them in horror and pain and some in increasing pity as they caught a glimpse of Zach's face. "If I was never really short-circuited at USJ, then you didn't really have to push me out of the way, did you?" Kaminari asked while locking eyes with Zach's. Everything else in Zach's vision blurred away so Kaminari's face was the only thing he could see, as the blond continued, "And even though Kaminari might not have realized what he was doing, I always controlled what words actually came out of his mouth. So when Monoma pretended to already know, you think I didn't know what I was doing? Wouldn't have been very Kaminari-like to go and spread that rumor, but accidentally giving it up, well that just gives me more of a reason to get the school to give me your home address, so that I could go apologize in person…"

Kaminari chuckled and his eyes narrowed more. His voice got darker, and he leaned his face closer in while Zach's eyes opened wide. Zach's eyes bulged and his breath caught in his throat. It felt like his heart had stopped. "And when you gave Kuroiro that letter, while you were trancing about as Lifebringer, who else was he going to ask where to find your house than your good friend Kaminari?"

"Kaminari stop!" Yaoyorozu shouted. A look of panic and horrified realization started spreading on her face, while everyone else was still just staring towards Kaminari in confusion, rage, horror. Those looks got a lot more straight-up horrified as Kaminari continued though.

"But I couldn't just tell Kuroiro where you lived. I convinced him to let me come along. And I couldn't just hand that letter off to your best friend, because what if it had damning information about the League? I needed to read it myself, so I convinced, Jenny, to read it aloud. But then! I heard something amazing!" Kaminari called it out while the room had become completely silent, while every single person in it stared at him in absolute horror. "In that girl's voice when she read your letter aloud, I heard LOVE! So much love. She loved you so much, but it wasn't just her love that I heard. I was worried you had sent information about the League, but instead you just wanted to tell her you were alright? You wanted to tell her not to worry about you?! Oh she may have spoken in a voice that told me she loved you, but the words of your letter alone told me how much you loved her." Kaminari pressed his face forward so his forehead was down against Zach's and his eyes were looking straight down into his friend's, "And you can bet, I told Shigaraki as much!"

Zach's breath ripped out of his throat as he had been holding it too long. He gasped and choked, and then Kaminari pulled his head back though Zach no longer had any support for it. His face flattened into the floor, his eyes as wide as saucers as his mind broke and his world shattered around him. Zach felt his chest ripping open, and his jaw nearly unhinged as he opened it as wide as possible and screamed, "AAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH! RRAAAAAGH AAHH! AAAAAAAAAAH!" He wanted to reach up to his head and pull his hair out, and he wanted to slam his head into the floor, but just lifting it the smallest bit took the most amount of effort and all he could do was scream until his lungs gave out and he started choking on air again.

Kaminari started looking around after standing straight up again. The lights flickered and covered his sadistic face with horrible tints as they all stared at him. He laughed at the looks of the people around him who had now finally reached the point they hadn't when he just paralyzed them at first. "So you're finally getting it, huh? Finally realizing this isn't some fucking game? Little kids-"

"Kaminari!" Iida shouted. "You have-"

"Oh my God! Shut the fuck up Iida!" Kaminari yelled, spinning and looking towards the class rep with a pissed-off look in his eyes. "Fuck, you never stop talking. I always wanted to say it, but you're the most annoying person in the world!"

"You bastard," Bakugo started snarling.

"Was it all really…" Ashido began.

Iida opened his mouth and shouted, "Kaminari!"

Kaminari snapped his right arm up and pointed his index finger at Iida, and he flicked it back while pressing down his thumb on it like firing a gun. A thin beam of yellow light shot out of Kaminari's finger and into Iida's back, and Iida's face fell flat on the floor while the entire room became silent again. "Ahhh," Kaminari let out a cathartic breath and then said in a calm voice, "Don't make me repeat myself."

"Wh-What did you just do?" Uraraka called out after looking to her right at Iida for a second. "Iida!" She called out at her friend who was not moving.

"What did I do? Thought it was pretty obvious," Kaminari replied. "I just pierced his heart with twenty million volts. He's not getting up from that one… ever." Kaminari lowered his hand and he started laughing while the terrified looks on the faces all around him only got worse. He turned towards Bakugo who had started snarling at him and who he was going to respond to before Iida rudely interrupted him again. "You know Bakugo, it's pretty weird that you actually made a friend here. Kirishima's a nice guy though." Bakugo's eyes that were locked on Iida's unmoving head started rising back up towards Kaminari again, and Kaminari smirked at the fear he saw in Bakugo's eyes while he could not move an inch of his body. "Guess you didn't realize it yourself, but why do you think I actually hung out with you? Talked to you, tried to help you at the licensing exam… I mean really, you're just such an asshole. But, League could still be into you a bit I guess, so I figured why not make friends with him? So come on, was I your second best friend? I mean, I can't think of anyone else other than Kirishima who actually talked to you around here. Guess Midoriya might be up there, but I was pretty sure the hate…"

Kaminari turned to Midoriya when he mentioned his name, and Kaminari's eyes opened huge at the look on Midoriya's face. It made him stop talking mid-sentence and a giant smile to cover his face. "Oh man Midoriya, that's funny," Kaminari said. Midoriya had just been staring towards Iida and calling to him in a hoarse whisper for a few seconds, and he had turned to Kaminari looking so angry yet at the same time he had tears in his eyes that were starting to spill out of the corners. Then Midoriya's clenched teeth opened wide, and Bakugo who had opened his mouth to shout a retort froze with his mouth open. And even Zach who had started wheezing while Yaoyorozu tried talking to him, even he froze with a breath half-wheezed out as Kaminari continued, "Aizawa sensei gave me that same exact look…"

Nezu was thinking as fast as his mind allowed it. He could not move his body, but he also could not move his mouth which he wondered if Kaminari chose to do on purpose or if it was a side-effect of him being an animal. Either way, his rapid thoughts slowed down and his beady eyes widened. Present Mic and Midnight stopped staring in as much shock, horrified looks spreading over their faces and tears filling their eyes like they did nearly every students' in the room.

"Right after I shot him in the back. Eeeehehehe! Ahahaha! AHHAHAHA!" Kaminari burst out laughing as soon as he finished it, because of the tears spilling out all his classmates' eyes. Looks of absolute despair spread over the faces of Class 2-A. Some of them pressed their faces into the floor, and others could not hold back gasps or cries or screams as they heard that. They could imagine Aizawa sensei's face looking at Kaminari feeling so betrayed, and all of them who had mourned their homeroom teacher so much found their hearts ripping as Kaminari bragged about doing it. Zach thought about how he had cried on the hospital bed after the Sports Festival and how Kaminari had put his arm around his back to comfort him. Present Mic opened his mouth to scream at him, and a zap of electricity slammed into him like it had Todoroki to shut him up before it even started.

What is he doing? Midoriya thought, snapping his head down because he could not look at Kaminari any longer. Why is he- no, no there has to be a reason! Iida! Wait! If we can get Zach to… This paralysis, it has to wear off at some point, right? He seems to think I'd be able to move quicker than the others, so it's probably a temporary paralysis. We have to get Zach to Iida, but we need Kaminari to leave- but we need to capture him! How do we catch him, when he has this power?! Is Todoroki okay, or is he, like Iida…

"Why?" Zach whispered. He was staring down at the floor below him with tears filling his eyes. He started sliding his face back up, as weak as he suddenly found himself feeling, and he looked into Kaminari's eyes as the blond turned back towards him. "Why would you… even if, the whole time… Why would you do, something like- ah, ah, why would you do this?"

"Thank you," Kaminari said in a relieved way, like he had wanted to explain but did not want to come out and say it himself without anyone asking. Kaminari leaned his body back while standing straight up, and he glanced up at the flickering lights over him before saying, "It's because, I like to win." He said it, and then he lowered his head and relaxed. Many people in the room gawked at him, while Zach's bleary eyes just stayed the same and he continued to stare at Kaminari waiting for him to continue. Kaminari frowned for a split second that he did not hear the appropriate response of a shout of furious confusion. He continued without Zach asking again, "Winning, is the most important thing in life. To me at least. I opened up my entire mind, and I was smarter than everyone else. I was the smartest six year old in the world. And because I was smart, I beat everyone at everything."

"Hey bastard, shut the fuck-" Bakugo froze with his mouth open as Kaminari turned towards him and looked him in the eyes. Kaminari had a warning look in his eyes, and Bakugo could see Iida as he stared at Kaminari's look. He could see the unmoving class rep, and he still could not move a single inch the way he was lying on the floor.

"Any more interruptions?" Kaminari asked, lifting his right hand and creating a mass of sparking electricity over it that illuminated the room much more than the flickering lights and computers were. "Now let's see," he hummed for a second and then snapped his fingers making the electricity around his right hand vanish. "That's right. Winning. I know it's pretty important to you too Bakugo, but you don't really get what winning means." Kaminari looked back at Zach who had asked the question initially and who had tears on his bottom eyelids and starting to spill down his face again at Kaminari's uncaring, smug, victorious look. Just seeing that expression on Kaminari's face again made Zach feel like someone shoved a hammer through his heart and then smashed it with the same hammer.

"When you always win, it gets boring. Natural-born winners, us guys with electricity-type Quirks, right Jirou?" Kaminari asked. He turned to the girl who had once used that phrase to try and distract Shindeki Buda back at USJ more than a year ago now. More tears just spilled out of Jirou's eyes, and then Kaminari asked at the look on her face, "Oh what's wrong? Thinking about how I stole your first kiss? Or the other times since then?" Kaminari let out a small sigh, then he said in a disappointed way, "If things had kept going for a bit longer, I really could have stolen something important from you. Wouldn't call this a loss though. I mean, wonder if you'll ever get that far now without thinking of me. About this."

Kaminari chuckled and then shook his head around fast before spinning to Zach again, "And when winning gets boring, well, it doesn't really feel like winning anymore. And victory is in the eyes of the beholder. So if I don't consider it a victory, it doesn't really matter to me what other people say. It doesn't matter that my parents loved how I got good grades, or how my old friends always wanted me on their teams, it didn't even matter that I knew whatever I did, my life was set. So why did I do this? Why, did I need to become a spy in order to win again?" Kaminari laughed and then narrowed his eyes before saying in a cold voice with his lips twisted up in a smirk, "Because of All Might, of course."

"All Might. Seeing him on tv, I saw myself," Kaminari continued while gazing around at the others all around him. "Oh yeah, how could that be? I was just a kid and All Might was the number one hero. But it was the same. He always won. And he always won easily. The more I watched him, the more I could see into my own future. I could see using my Quirk in amazing ways. I could see myself becoming this great hero, one that everyone looked up to for always beating the villains, for always saving the day… But, heroes always save the day anyway." He said it and got a confused look on his face as it came out of his mouth. "What's so special, about winning something people expect you to win anyway? Winning, when everyone already thinks you're going to win? Getting picked first because they think having you on their team means they'll win? Taking hard classes and getting good grades and going to good schools and getting good jobs, it's what everyone thinks winning is."

"Yet I realized something. The victories that really matter, are the ones where everyone else loses," Kaminari smiled after saying it, looking fondly back on that realization and saying it to these people he had never been able to really talk to for over a year now. "In sports, only two teams of dozens make it to the championship, and still one of those teams winds up the loser. In our own Sports Festival, only one person can win it each year. So then, why does winning suddenly change meaning when it comes to heroes and villains? Why then, is it a victory when a hero wins, if most everyone else wins too because of it? If things stay the same afterwards, if they're just as boring as they were before, then it's not really a victory. If I did things the same way All Might did them, well, it would have been boring. Everyone would have been a winner, and that would have meant that no one was, not even me. But then I realized something, watching All Might on tv one night, as he saved even more people and stopped even more villains. This guy, this symbol, he's what everyone considers as the ultimate winner. He is, at the top."

Midoriya's heart started pounding harder again, his eyes shaking as he stared at the blond saying this while looking around at all of them. No… It couldn't be!

This fucking bastard! Is he saying- Bakugo's teeth clenched and his eyes trembled in rage.

"If there is someone who everyone expects will win, always, then what would it be like to beat that person? Because I was the person who always won when I was a kid. So I started to lose at things on purpose to do an experiment, and oh man did it pan out. I got a few points off on tests, and I saw people in the class so excited, so fucking thrilled that they had scored higher than Kaminari! I tested it playing sports too, and boy how happy they got that they beat the team with the number one pick on it! So it became pretty clear to me, what it was I wanted to do now. Something I'd never even really considered, because All Might was a Symbol of Peace that never got tarnished. The way I could win, was to beat All Might!" Kaminari threw his arms out to the sides, "And oh what a coincidence, there were some people who already wanted to do that and who were so glad I wanted to help them. Hahaha," Kaminari chuckled darkly afterwards while everyone in the room suddenly felt a lot worse than they already had been.

"Getting Kurogiri in, and blocking the communications to give them the time to weaken him," Kaminari continued. "It was a nice start, but it didn't finish off the Symbol like I'd hoped. It came though," Kaminari said, a post-victorious tone in his voice as he looked around and then back at Zach. "I really have you to thank, that I was able to be there to witness All Might's fall. Denki Kaminari wouldn't have cared enough about Bakugo to head out to Camino Ward, but for you? For his good friend Zach who he felt he owed, well, how could I not take a trip to Camino? No way I could have expected what was to come. I actually had a much different plan in mind that night." Kaminari laughed darkly and then looked over towards Yaoyorozu, then left to Midoriya who was closer to him and started staring in confusion then shock as Kaminari continued, "When we showed up at the place the tracker had brought us, because it was where the Nomus were, who was waiting inside that building?" Midoriya's blood ran cold and his face turned blue, and Yaoyorozu, Kirishima, and even Todoroki who was barely focused at all found themselves short of breath.

"Haha, you guys talked in your hospital room about going to save Bakugo and Zach, so I let him know we were coming between then and when we met up that night. If I had known the cops were going that same night, probably would have given a different warning, but things worked out perfectly." Kaminari grinned again and then started stretching his arms out while glancing over his shoulder and across the room towards a steel door. "I got to see the downfall of All Might, something I helped orchestrate, with front-row tickets." Kaminari lowered his arms back down to his sides and twitched his fingers while everyone continued staring at him in shock at every word out of his mouth. "But since my decision to beat All Might, I added on a lot of things I could break too in order to win. U.A., this peaceful world, and oh man have I been going to work! I was right after all, because beating All Might has got me on a high that just won't go down! An endless victory, because I get to see the consequences of my win every fucking day."

"You," Zach whispered, staring at the ground in horror but catching his breath from his screams that had made him lose his voice for a minute. He lifted his eyes and got louder, "You couldn't have- this doesn't make-" Kaminari looked at him and kept smirking, and Zach rose his cracked voice to call out, "It can't be! You! Shatterer! We- we-"

"You know," Kaminari began with a smug look towards the boy breaking down while desperately trying to shout reasons at him. "I really thought I was unlucky there for a minute. I mean, what were the chances they grab me out of everyone? But right before I was about to just kill everyone and dip, ruin my year long infiltration… you showed up. And oh man, how my luck had turned!" Zach's eyes shook worse and tears spilled out faster while the blond laughed at him. "Denki Kaminari couldn't have beaten all those guys, so I was holding out on the heroes to come save us. But then you showed up. And all I had to do was fight by your side, and I finally got past that wall you've got up, got you to tell me, everything." Zach's heart skipped a beat and his eyes froze, then widened so his eyelids pushed so far apart at the smirk and knowing look on Kaminari's face.

"And I even messed up again that night!" Kaminari shouted at Zach with an amazed look on his face. "I couldn't believe you didn't catch me, but I guess even before that night you couldn't have guessed it was me. But while we were fighting Shatterer, when I thought we had taken him down, I started up my dumb face. It was too early though, and Shatterer came back! He came at us, and I saw you look towards me and you knew I couldn't move fast enough to get away from him on my own, but I knew you weren't fast enough to dodge and get me out of there while you needed to fight in Nightmare. So I jumped out of the way. I moved faster than I should have been able to looking the way I did, and I thought Shit! It's all over." He chuckled and shook his head at Zach while his friend clenched his eyes shut and lowered his face back to the floor, because he thought about that exact moment he had found so amazing at the time. "But you," Kaminari continued while Zach bit down and screamed in his head, "you just assumed I had gotten stronger, more able to fight even after using so much electricity. Because you couldn't believe that it was me. Hehehe, and now, I know everything. Everything I need," Kaminari chuckled in a much darker and more ominous way, and then he turned to the door and started walking towards it. He walked towards the exit of the basement and stretched his arms out to the sides before clapping them in front of him in a ready, refreshed way.

"You won't be leaving here, Denki Kaminari," Nezu called out in a strained, high-pitched voice.

Kaminari frowned and he sparked electricity from his fingertips. He smirked again while glancing to his right and over towards the white-furred creature staring back at him. "Oh, and why's that? Because there are precautions in place if that door opens, where other heroes will be alerted and the police too? Or is it that the whole building is full of defense systems that will turn on and attack me? Or it it that you have ANTs hidden around here that'll come out and swarm me if I open that door without the right access codes?" Kaminari smirked while looking towards the creature staring back into his eyes. "I've always been ready for this. I'm always prepared to escape and disappear at a moment's notice, because someone who always wins plans ahead! U.A. has been losing so much lately, that I don't even know if I'll find this challenging. I hope it is though, to give me my thrill." He turned to the door and flicked his right hand at it, and a stream of electricity flew out of his hand and into the door, into the keypad next to it, into the wall systems around it and all.

The keypad exploded, locking clanks came from the door, and Kaminari let out a whistle and then a laugh. "Man, you actually made that take a couple of seconds. Nice job," Kaminari's compliment sounded genuine as sarcastic as it was worded to be. "You've really bumped up your systems since the Sports Festival, but it still wasn't any harder than blocking the stadium's communications, or flipping a switch in a dozen Ants at the same time to make it easy for Hackerman." Kaminari chuckled while looking towards the principal in such a victorious and smug way, "Did you even wonder why some of the Ants were still under your control that day, but others weren't? Or did it just not occur to you that in that first round of the tournament, zapping them with my electric currents that I control, was more than just a strategy for reaching the summit?"

The whole time. Every moment. Even in the times we, even when I thought it was him- I, I told him everything! I trusted him! It was all a lie! Even the Sports Festival, even Shatterer, everything?! I, I told him to zap the section! I gave him the opportunity to hijack the Anti-Nomus! I can't let him- AHH! I can't handle- I have to! Iida! Don't, break down! Focus!

"Man, there is so much I still want to tell you guys," Kaminari said while spinning back around and facing everyone again. "But, I can see the Temparalysis is wearing off a bit. So, I think it's about time we finished this," Kaminari rose up his hands and got a crazy smirk on his face that made the people wondering what he meant by the paralysis wearing off struggling their very hardest to prove that was true.

"You can't," Zach said. He said it in a low voice, hoarse but loud enough to reach closer to the door where Kaminari was standing. Others around Zach looked in towards him, while Zach stared at his best friend with panic in his eyes but his mind racing as fast as possible. "You, you can't kill us all!"

"Oh yeah I-"

"That first blast, it took a lot out of you didn't it? That's why you've really been standing around here this whole time. And, and then you killed Iida too and zapped Todoroki and Present Mic and that made you have to wait even longer." Zach spoke faster and cut off Kaminari who opened his mouth to retort, "You may not get short-circuited like you were- like, like you were pretending to be! But there are limits to Quirks, no matter how powerful! And you've already opened the door, yet you told Principal Nezu that you know just opening it might have alerted other heroes! Can you really waste more electricity on a bunch of people who can't even fight you?!" Zach screamed it and then started panting hard while glaring towards Kaminari through tear-filled eyes.

"Wow, you've got a good point there Zach," Kaminari said. He grinned back towards the black-haired boy he was talking to, and then he said in a venomous voice, "But I could easily kill one more person. Let's see who to pick. One more kill for the road." He smirked at the terrified looks on the faces of his fellow students who struggled even harder trying to move. He looked around then he stopped back on Zach and said, "Oh, you're thinking because I said it's wearing off, that you could just bring them back right?" Kaminari turned his head from Zach and looked straight over towards Kirishima whose eyes bulged huge and who tried covering his body in Hardening as fast as he could. Then Kaminari turned the other way and looked at Shoji whose eyes grew enormous under his silver bangs.

Zach's face covered in sweat and terror at the two Kaminari just looked at. "No, please," Zach whispered.

Kaminari glanced back towards Zach, then he hummed and lifted his right hand to his chin. "You're probably right though. I should save all my power for the escape." He started turning around for the door, and others in the room pushed as hard as they could to try and move before he left. Zach started shaking his head violently and slammed his chin down to try and drag himself forward. Midoriya found One For All and tried pulsing it through his body with his mind, and he could start to feel a tingling sensation in him though it was spreading slowly. Todoroki opened his clenched eyes and he started turning his head sideways to try and look for Kaminari, try to stop him before he left.

Kaminari took a step towards the door, and then he continued, "But you know what?" He froze, and everyone else froze too with their breath catching in their throats and their eyes bulging at the shift in tone like he had changed his mind. Kaminari turned his head to the right and said, "I've always wondered what fried frog smells like."

"Ger-" Lightning crashed down on Tsuyu Asui and surrounded her entire body in a blast of electricity that fried her skin and face and shut her up in mid-croak.

"NO!" Midoriya screamed.

"Tsuyu!"

"Tsu-chan!"

Kaminari turned back to the door and smirked as he listened to the screams behind him. "If you want to think of that personality I created as 'the real Kaminari,' go right ahead." Kaminari stepped to the door and grabbed it with one hand, and he started pulling in towards himself while lifting his other hand ready to attack anything and everything he might have to face out his way out. He continued as he opened the door to the basement, "Now that my spying is done, I'll be going by my villain name for now on. Raijin, the God of Lightning." He stared into the empty stairwell for a second and then looked back over his shoulder one last time still with a smirk covering his face. "I look forward to killing you soon."

Then he left. He walked out the door and did not close it behind him. He just walked out and rose both hands with electricity sparking off his fingers, a mad look in his eyes as he prepared to take on anything U.A.'s principal might have prepared for him in the off chance the spy had managed to defeat all of them. Kaminari's feet became impossible to see from everyone's positions lying on the floor, and then the sound of his footsteps rising up the stairwell faded away too.

"Ahhh, ahh ahh," Jirou lowered her head after a few seconds and pressed her face hard into the floor. She tried pushing her mouth into something to muffle her sobs, but she just got louder each second as she felt her heart tearing apart. Her mind was swirling, and she started biting down on her lips so hard, drawing blood as she felt Kaminari's lips against them. "AHH!" She screamed, opening up her bloody lips and letting out a scream.

"Tsukauchi, can you move yet?" Nezu asked in a strained voice towards the detective not too far from him.

"Not, at all," the cop trying to drag his arms up replied in a strained voice too. He felt a tingling sensation in his neck and some burnt skin on the back of it, and the detective brought his gaze back towards the open doorway where the student spy had just escaped through. That Quirk, is too strong. That boy… he was not just a spy. He's not just a piece of Shigaraki's. Tsukauchi struggled harder to move even while a bead of sweat formed on his face. He's a, different kind of monster.

"Aizawa," Midnight whispered, closing her eyes and pressing her face into the floor as tears spilled out of them. She imagined in her head that blond boy coming in to the main office to tell Aizawa that he was pulling out of the Sports Festival to help his friend. She had been so impressed by him, and she cursed so loudly in her head as she imagined that same impressed expression flash on Aizawa's face when Kaminari turned around after giving his reasons for withdrawing. And then she imagined the body she had found with a few others, hidden and with bullet holes in his chest and head. Midnight let out a gasp at the thought of that body, and tears pushed through the cracks of her clenched eyes to drip onto the floor.

Midoriya looked around and he saw half of the others around him were crying. He wished he could wipe the tears that lingered in his own eyes though, because he needed to move. It was the time for action. He glared back towards the exit and strained even harder, and his fingers moved at his sides, his toes wiggled in his sneakers. He slammed his head into the floor and left a dent in it as he filled with Full Cowling. "Get up," he growled at himself, and he strained harder to drag his arms up at his sides. And then Midoriya froze. He froze and stared forward as a head slammed into the ground in front of him and made blood splash out from the chin that just ripped open. That bloody chin dragged backwards and pulled the rest of the body behind it forward, and Midoriya stared at the face of the black-haired boy who had tear streaks covering his face but no more pouring out of them.

Zach's eyes were locked on Iida's body just past Midoriya and Uraraka. He lifted his chin from down near his chest and then snapped his head up and out to slam his chin down again, and then he dragged backwards while leaving a smear of blood on the ground under his face. "Iida," Zach muttered, his face pale behind his tear streaks and a sense of urgency and panic in his eyes. "Iida, Iida, Iida," Zach muttered it louder, and he groaned as he tried pulling himself farther only for his chin to slide on a trail of blood on the floor, making him lose the friction that he needed to yank the rest of his body forward. Zach slammed his face down on the floor in frustration at how hard it was to move, and then he snapped his head to the right and bit down into his right shoulder.

Midoriya and Uraraka stared in front of them with huge eyes as Zach bit down hard into his white sleeve. He bit harder and harder until the white material on his shoulder started to seep through with some red. It got redder the more Zach pulled, using his entire jaw strength and yanking his arm up with his teeth. "RGrr Grrr, grraaa!" Zach let go while swinging his arm forward, and then he slammed his chin down and dragged his body to the right where his arm was bent in towards him. He glared at his right hand, and he leaned forward as far as his body would let him. Zach dragged himself, and he reached out his head and bit down on his right hand, scooping fingers into his mouth and then biting down and grinding his teeth back and forth to rip through his glove.

Zach shredded into his hand and made the tearing skin of his right hand touch a part of his head. A black aura surrounded Zach, and he felt with it a surge of strength and a sensation of pain in the hand he was still biting into. Zach opened his jaw that showed through the black veil over his body, and he slammed down his hand that had blood coming out of it and out of the black aura over it. Zach pressed that hand into the floor, but his entire body was still struggling to move and he just started shaking violently instead.

"Zach," Uraraka started in a hoarse voice as he saw the boy pushing so hard forward and continued dragging himself towards Iida with as much strength as he could muster. She opened her mouth to continue, but she froze with it open and could not think of a single thing to say. She just stared at the black form in front of her that was grunting and making guttural, strained noises as he crawled up to Iida.

Zach dragged his tingling arms up at his sides that he had only been able to wriggle around to move a bit faster up until then, and he rose them almost up to Iida. Then Zach froze, and he brought his shaking right hand in towards his head again. Zach pressed his hand against his head and turned off Nightmare form. He could still move his arms as much as he just could though, and he slid his left hand up in front of him to Iida's head, then along the side of it and to Iida's neck that he pressed his fingers into. Kaminari could, have been lying… The hopeful thought was crushed and Zach's right hand reached forward next, and he pressed it into the top of Iida's head while slamming his own face back into the floor to fill his mind with pain and keep himself alert. He did not need to get that extra bit of pain in a second though, considering how he felt his heart getting pierced by lightning in that next moment.

Bakugo stopped struggling as hard to move himself, which was actually starting to work, and he lifted his gaze across the collapsed class a bit to where Zach started screaming. "Fucking, stay awake," Bakugo snarled, though it was under his breath and mainly to himself. Only Kirishima heard it, though the redhead just continued bringing his arms up at his sides at his full strength. Kirishima groaned and slowly uncurled his fingers that he had tightened into fists when he first regained feeling in them.

Bakugo ground his teeth in so much anger. He could barely think straight with how much he was screaming in rage in his head. He started pushing himself up though, just as Midoriya had done a few seconds earlier twenty feet away from him. Bakugo panted while looking down at the floor below him, but he was starting to feel more and more sensation through his entire body. It had been a couple of minutes, but he stared at the ground with huge eyes while panting as he thought about how all of them were made incapacitated for so long by a single attack. The whole time. That mother, fucker… Bakugo clenched his eyes as hard as he could, biting down and shaking in fury along with another emotion.

"You, bastard," Kirishima whispered through a pained gasp. He hardened his head and slammed it down into the floor, and he hunched his back up as the sparking sensation in his spine started to feel less painful. He smashed his head down again, and he started growling in frustration, and rage, and tears fell to the floor beneath his face and splashed off every time he smacked his head down.

"Ahh. Ahhhh," Zach's voice got softer and his screams turned into more just quiet 'ahh's of pain. His right hand shook so much on Iida's head, and then it fell off and Zach started panting so hard as his face flattened down into the floor. He could feel spit sliding down his lips and drooling onto the floor, and he could feel the wounds in his left arm and left hand had opened up while he was moving, and now his right shoulder and his right hand too. He was bleeding again, and he had already lost a lot of blood. "Iida," Zach said, panting again as soon as he got the word out. He brought his head up slowly and glared through half-closed, bloodshot eyes at the taller teen laying in front of him. "Get up, you fucking, weakling. Don't you, fucking, fall asleep."

Iida's mind was hazy and he felt tired. Hearing those curses though, and those insults, he rose up his head and brought his arms up at his sides quickly. Iida pushed his body up faster than anyone else around the room though many of them were already on their hands and knees now, and Midoriya was actually getting up on his feet. Midoriya spun to Iida though while his teeth were clenched and his legs shook violently under the strain he was putting on them before his nerves stopped sparking with the electricity that had filled him. Iida stood up fast and he looked down at his chest, at a burnt section around the front left side of it and a hole in the middle of that blackened area in the blue. "Zach-" Iida started.

"Carry me, to Tsuyu," Zach growled while raising his eyes and glaring into Iida's through his glasses.

Iida froze with his mouth open, and then he snapped his head up and looked across the room. His eyes bulged as he realized why Zach asked that, even though he had already been dead before Tsuyu was killed. When he looked towards Tsuyu's body though, her body that Zach had been unable to see well while crawling on the floor, Iida felt an even stronger pain because of the way the boy in front of him looked while asking that of him. Iida looked back down at Zach, at his bloody body and tear-streaked, pale face. Iida stared into Zach's half-closed eyes and he felt chills, but he clenched his teeth and he reached down without arguing against what Zach just said. "It won't, kill you?" Iida asked while lifting Zach up.

"Zach, you don't-" Yaoyorozu began, turning from Jirou who she was trying to talk to and calm the girl's sobs. Iida glanced over at Yaoyorozu, then back at the boy he had just picked up with little difficulty even though he did it slowly as he did not want to further injure Zach.

Yaoyorozu and Iida both flinched as Zach replied though, "If I don't, he wins." Zach pulled his body towards Tsuyu, and Iida started jogging across the room while holding Zach up in both of his arms.

Shoji and Tokoyami turned their heads and watched as Iida ran by. Shoji continued pushing down with all of his arms, and he snapped his body back in one strong movement so he was kneeling up with his body vertical. The recovery was slow, but it was speeding up and he was finding it easier and easier to move with every second that passed. Shoji looked to his top right arm and tried focusing his Quirk, and he managed to create more arms extending out from it. Shoji reached over back towards the computer wall that was broken and sparking just like all the other electronics in the room, and Shoji grabbed the principal and picked him up before retracting his arms.

Mezo Shoji placed the principal down on the floor in front of him, and he asked in a serious voice, "Principal Nezu. Are there measures in place to stop Kaminari?"

Nezu was on his feet, but Shoji had to keep his hand holding the principal up or the creature would fall right over. Nezu could barely even shake his head 'no.' "I, didn't think it was him," Nezu whispered. "I, miscalculated. His Quirk, his motive- it was all…" Nezu's beady black eyes were shaking, and Shoji's opened huge at the look of confusion and despair on the principal's face. "I couldn't calculate his moves," he whispered in an even softer voice. "I failed," he shifted his beady eyes over towards Tsuyu Asui's body as he said it. "To protect my students," his eyes locked on the girl that Iida lowered Zach down on top of. He stared at the small girl whose body was covered in black burns, who looked "fried" just like Kaminari wanted her to be. Then Nezu's eyes rose from that girl though, to the boy on top of her who hesitated while looking down at those same burn marks all over Tsuyu's body.

Others were starting to get up around the room, when Zach finally put his right hand down on Tsuyu's body. Midoriya, Bakugo, Todoroki, and Kirishima first, then Shoji got up while resting the principal back down, and Sato managed to get from his knees to his feet shortly after. Sato bent down to check on Mineta who he did not see moving, only to shift Mineta's face a bit from face-down and see bloodshot eyes and tears streaking over the small boy's face. Mineta's lips were pursed and trembling and there was such a look of despair in his eyes that it hurt Sato even more than his own feelings over what just happened.

Yaoyorozu pulled herself closer to her best friend who she pulled an arm up to in order to grab and pull close. She managed to even get up on her knees when she was close enough and could see the expression on Jirou's face of just so much betrayal, heartache, and anger. Yaoyorozu glanced across the room though as she heard the scream that just pierced the basement. She glanced towards Zach while putting a hand on Jirou's back, and she felt her own heart breaking as she saw the boy kneeling there on Tsuyu's roasted back.

Zach took in a deep breath as his hand had come off of Tsuyu for a second. He shook his head around to focus, screaming at himself that he was not allowed to stop until she was alive again. Zach focused his mind enough that he was able to grab his right wrist and press it harder into Tsuyu's back, and he clenched his teeth in fury as the focusing managed to get his mind straight enough that he could think on what just happened. "Raa! RAAA!" Zach screamed down at Tsuyu's back, his heart pounding and ripping again, and he screamed out in agony. Only his scream of agony did not sound like one of pain. Zach screamed in rage, and in sadness, and in betrayal. "AAHH! RAAGHH! FFUUUUUUCCKKK!" Zach roared and bowed his body farther.

JENNY! USJ! JENNY! The training forest! JENNY! "YOU FUuuaaAAAH!" Zach screamed, and he clenched his eyes tightly while feeling his entire body surrounded in electricity like he was being electrocuted. It was hot, and he felt his skin searing and turning red, and he let out another horrible scream that filled the basement. "RRRAAAAAAA!" Zach roared furiously, and then tears spilled out of his eyes as he shot them open and stared down at Tsuyu in horror. In his head flashed a thousand good times with Kaminari. His friend. His closest friend.

His room! His, his room was filled with all those things, all those cliche boy things that any guy would like but he, he never seemed interested in any of that stuff! It was like he got it all just to look like a normal- And being pervy! Not as bad as Mineta so that it draws attention, but enough that people know, so that if he's caught spying on girls or Midnight sensei even he could have played it off as being a perv- "AAAhhaaa! AaaaaAAAHHH!" Zach screamed again and tears splashed out of his eyes as he broke down. It was all a LIE! He was, he was FUCKING WITH ME! My best friend. I, I became best friends with him, after he had gotten Jenny… Zach's teary eyes started shaking, and he brought his left hand up to his head and off his wrist. Zach grabbed his head and dragged his hand up through his messy black hair with a look of horror on his face that was starting to twist.

"We have to catch him," Midoriya said, taking deep breaths and looking around at the others who stood up near him.

Iida turned and raced back towards the others, feeling the strongest of all of them after Zach brought him to life at full health. "How long ago did Kaminari leave? I'll go-"

"You can't go, on your own," Todoroki started between panting breaths, burns on his face and his body but a look of anger on his face more than pain.

"Call him Raijin," Kirishima snarled. The others glanced towards him, and Kirishima clenched his fists so much harder before growling, "He was lying. The real Kaminari, I, I know he's in there-" Kirishima bit down so much harder at the looks they all gave him as he said it, and he tried to hold back more tears since they were being serious here. "But let's go capture him," Kirishima agreed. "Right now," he growled in a deeper voice.

Bakugo turned and glared towards the door of the basement, and he took a step towards it while thinking of Kaminari's electric Quirk that was completely new to them. He knows everything about our Quirks and we don't know jack shit about his.

"If he gets off campus," Midoriya began. "We might never catch-"

"Aaahaha…" The students stopped talking about going after and catching Kaminari. The group of them turned their heads, and they looked towards where the screams had stopped. Zach was still on top of Tsuyu, still had his hand down on her back even though her skin was looking less blackened than it was before. Zach could feel her insides fixing up, because he could feel his own insides like they were on fire. And yet as he felt that, he opened his mouth with his eyes closed and the corners of his lips curled up. "Aaaahhhahahahaa! AHhh Ahhaha! HAAhaha!" Zach's head snapped back, and his eyes opened huge while he pressed his palm down on Tsuyu's back.

I'm not a curse! I realize that now. I've never been a curse. All the terrible things that happen to people around me. All the terrible things in my entire life! I'm the one who's cursed, aren't I?! I'm cursed to lose everything! "AAHHAHAHAHAHA!" Zach opened his mouth wider and his voice came out so loud that he could not hear the people who started calling over to him. His eyes were opened huge and shaking violently, and his head was full of the sharpest pain like his migraine had a migraine. Zach just screamed out laughter though, at a realization dawning on him in a moment of pure madness. I'm done! I'm DONE living this way! Bad things happen to me. Someone like me can never live happily in this world. That's just it, I'm cursed! And things will never change. Bad things will just keep happening! Zach snapped his head down and kept laughing while looking at Tsuyu's back. But I'm going to bring good to this world!

This world that picked me, cursed me to have the greatest misfortune! This world that plagued me with the Quirk of Death, a dead family, a horrible fate, I fucking love it! "HAHAHAHA!" Zach cackled madly, I think that even after Kaminari?! WHAT THE FUCK?! He brought his hand off of Tsuyu's back as he felt a feeling that he always felt when bringing people back. And he rose his right hand and brought it up through his hair like he was doing with his left. He dragged his hand up through his hair while laughing like a mad man, and the people who had stepped closer to him pulled back as a black aura erupted around Zach without him even realizing it. He had bitten through his glove though, and in dragging his hands through his hair and doing it over and over again, he had activated Nightmare mode. "Ahhahaha! AHHAHAHA! AHahahaaa AAAHAHAHA!" Zach did not even notice the change in his own tone as he snapped his head back and glared his glowing red eyes at the ceiling, his heart in pieces and his chest hurting as much as it did while he brought Iida back.

Zach's laughter came out darker and scratchier and scarier as every person in the room stared towards him. They stared at their classmate, and Tsuyu lifted her head up and stared in front of her in terror at the cackling dark form sitting there with a flame of blackness surrounding him. Zach screamed out but changed it to laughter as fast as he could. Yaoyorozu stared over towards Zach and she pulled her right hand up to her mouth while tears fell out the corners of her eyes. He's, laughing to stop himself from breaking down. But, but he can't-

EVERYTHING HE DID! It was all just to fuck with me! It was all, a FUCKING LIE! But despite it all! I know this world is beaut-iful?! BEAUTIFUL! Because, because most people don't have the misfortune I've had. They're happy. They must be. Because even I have had happy moments in my cursed life, so they all must have so much more! Right?! All of them have happiness, and I know that feeling! If this curse on me is to give me the greatest misfortune then, then I'll take it! I can deal with it! I'll just take every bad thing, take all the darkness of the world, and I'll send out light myself. I won't let the world have it's way! I won't let him- it! Turn me into a villain! I'm going to win! I'm, fighting fate itself! "Ahahaa AAAAhaha AHHHHAHHH! AHHa- AAaahhH!"

It was stupid to think that coming back to life changed a single fucking thing! I, I can't have a life like that! I could never have those things! But I'll still- In Zach's mind, he saw Kaminari's smiling face flash in front of him. Zach's screams that were attempting to be laughs stopped, and he started panting and getting more ragged. His body shook, swaying side to side with his red eyes growing wider and his heart pounding faster and faster. "Raaa… RAAA- AAAHHAHAAAAAHHH! AAAAAHHHH! RRRAAAA! KAMINARI!" Zach's mind blanked and he fell, Nightmare fading from around his body.