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!

93. Chapter 93: Camping

Disclaimer: I don't own Boku no Hero Academia

Chapter 93:

"Come on Momo, we're all heading over to Ground Zeta," Ashido called back over her shoulder while walking with Hagakure and Jirou.

"I will be right behind you," Yaoyorozu replied, looking towards the other girls and motioning ahead though she stayed where she was. Ashido glanced back towards the dorm herself, then she nodded and turned forward and started a conversation with the other two to get them to come along as well.

The girls all had backpacks on, changes of clothes inside them while they walked in their hero costumes. They were heading to Ground Zeta for "training" after all. Yaoyorozu wore her red costume open down the middle with a thick yellow belt on around her waist. She looked back towards Class 2-A's dorm building in Heights Alliance, waiting for the boy who she had asked if he wanted to walk to Ground Zeta with her. Zach had told her to go on ahead though, yet she found herself hesitating after leaving the dorm so slowly yet still not seeing Zach coming. She had waited down in the common room as everyone else she figured was still in the building left, and they were getting close to the time they were supposed to meet for at Ground Zeta.

Please come Zach, Momo thought, feeling a bit worried that he was having second thoughts. She worried that she would arrive at Ground Zeta and hear from All Might that Zach had decided to stay behind, and she was getting more worried about that every second she stood alone out on the street without seeing Class A's dorm's front door open.

Zach finally walked out of the building. He wore his black costume again with the white sheaths and grappling gun from his other one with it, and he had his black backpack on over his back. He stopped after walking outside and looked towards Yaoyorozu who had waited for him despite him being the last person inside. As long as there's no second spy, everything should be fine, Zach thought. Everything, will be fine. His expression stayed dark but he lifted the corners of his lips the smallest amount seeing Yaoyorozu waiting for him. Momo…

The tallest girl in Class A looked happy to see him coming. She waited where she was as Zach walked down the path, and the boy said as he neared her, "I said you could go on ahead."

Yaoyorozu lowered her smile a bit, and then she said in a soft voice, "I was worried you would not come."

Zach turned to the left and lifted his gaze to Momo's face she turned from him. He saw a pink shade on her cheeks that made his heart ache, and he closed his eyes before nodding his head once. "Well I'm here. Let's go." He started walking with his friend towards Ground Zeta. Zach felt butterflies in his stomach as he looked out the corners of his eyes at the girl he walked with. "Momo," Zach began in a soft voice, and the girl on his left turned in to him as they continued down the street together. Her eyes widened as Zach's dark look faded a bit, an unsure one spread on it instead as he looked forward down the street in fear. He stared down the street and whispered, "I want to trust everyone. I really, really do."

It was all he said. He stopped and just kept walking after saying that, but after a few seconds Yaoyorozu said, "You can." Her reply was soft, but she smiled as she said it in a confident way. Zach nodded in response and just stared down the street towards Ground Zeta where the bus would be waiting for them.

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At the campground where Class A had set up their tents for the night, a campfire burned while the students and their teacher sat on logs all around it. They had done fun activities since they arrived, pitched their tents with their classmates that All Might had gone out and gotten for them. They had a barbecue over the open flame of the fire some of them built themselves, while others had gone around finding the best logs or chopping some up themselves to bring back for sitting on. All Might had taken out some marshmallows he was hiding, and the excited class started roasting them over the fire while all gathered together late in the night.

They were running out of marshmallows, but no one was in the mood to go to sleep early. They knew they only had one night out there, and it really felt like a special night being out in the woods together as a class without fear of anything bad happening. They were prepared for something bad to happen, but they were always prepared now and were able to have good times despite that. They were wearing casual clothes and pajamas, and they were having loud conversations with each other across the flames.

Zach sat on a log on Kirishima's right side, and to the left of Midoriya with a few feet wider a gap on that side. To Zach's right was a long thick log that looked like a fallen trunk of a tree, and on it from closest to him to farthest were Midoriya, Uraraka, and then Iida. In front of them and a bit more to the right stood Tsuyu close to the fire with Hagakure next to her. The third girl in their tent came running back from it holding some snacks she had bought herself for late night on the camping trip, and Ashido started sharing with her tent-mates. Zach looked a bit to his right when Ashido ran back over, then he looked straight ahead again and into the flames of the raging campfire they had which was lighting up the whole campsite.

They had gotten the fire going before nightfall, and after dark All Might asked if everyone could stay in the campsite area just to keep him from getting too worried. The tents were all in the same general vicinity, with Mineta, Sero, and Zach's being the farthest one from the two girl tents. All Might's tent was set up between the boys' and girls,' as per request from the girls who were still unsure about sleeping too close to Mineta even with those safety nets in place. Zach stared into the fire and he watched the flickering flames, then his eyes rose up a bit from the crackling logs and through the fire towards a log on the opposite side two girls were sharing. He spotted those girls looking towards him, and when Zach looked at them they smiled towards him.

Zach lifted the corners of his lips up a bit, but his eyes dropped from them and back to the flames again. His smile slowly faded without ever looking really convincing in the first place. Two seats to Zach's left, Bakugo glanced to his right after looking up at the dark cloudy sky for a few seconds with a bored look on his face. I'm not the only one not enjoying this, Bakugo thought, frowning towards his classmate even as he compared himself to him. It's a bit too much like, the last camp. Bakugo thought it even though this camping trip had been nothing like their training forest, except for the fact that they were in a forest.

The talks around the fire started quieting down. No one was walking away from it, but a few others noticed each others' looks and the whole circle of them started quieting down. More of them just looked at the fire, and they imagined their fires a little under a year before at the last training camp. Instead of All Might being the one there with them at the time though, a droopy-eyed, tired-looking man was on their minds. His long scraggly hair and tired appearance would be welcome now more than ever, but they knew that would never be. Yet some of them clenched their fists at their sides with satisfied, accomplished, or accepting looks too.

"We got Killmore," Midoriya said softly. All Might looked to his left and over at his successor who had a serious look on his face while staring into the flames. Midoriya stood up slowly, and he said, "He's arrested, and…" he got a hesitant look on his face as he realized he did not know if everyone else was thinking the same thing as him.

On Zach's other side though, Kirishima spoke up while looking intensely into the flames too. "We avenged Aizawa sensei." His fists clenched harder at his sides, but a small smile formed on his face at what he just said aloud.

"He would be proud of us," Yaoyorozu agreed from across the fire.

"It wasn't just Killmore," Jirou said next to her. Yaoyorozu turned in, but Jirou continued looking in the flames while everyone around the fire kept serious looks on their faces. The mood had not really gotten darker, or more depressing. Everyone just looked at the fire or at Jirou quietly, as the short, dark-haired girl continued, "Kaminari was- he was involved too. We still need to catch him to really get revenge-"

"Not for revenge," Yaoyorozu said softly, and she shook her head while Jirou turned to her. Jirou froze for a second, and then she nodded her head in agreement with the taller girl. "But we do need justice, for Aizawa sensei."

The others around the fire nodded their heads in agreement. They hummed affirmatively, and they set their own minds to the task. They filled with determination to catch Kaminari, or Raijin, not for revenge but for justice. Because that's what Aizawa sensei would have wanted, Midoriya thought, nodding his head and stepping back from the flames.

All Might looked around at all the students and stared in amazement at the group of them. All had been acting like children, like he had hoped for when setting up this night, but they were so quick to become so mature. In that moment, they all looked like adults to him. He saw each of them in their fights in the office building, protecting hostages and fighting villains without hesitation. I stayed at U.A., to train Young Midoriya. I did not expect to find so many, who I consider amazing heroes. So many, who One For All could have been passed to. Midoriya Shonen is special, but each one of you has that spark.

Zach did not nod his head with the others. He just looked around at them all. He shifted his gaze around his left side, past Bakugo and towards Shoji and Tokoyami. He looked around them and over towards Sato and Sero and Todoroki, then past the small gap and to Koda who was on Jirou's opposite side as Yaoyorozu. He looked past the girls across the fire from him, and watched as Hagakure went and sat down next to Ojiro. She scooted Aoyama one way to sit next to her boyfriend, and Zach saw Mineta peering at the invisible girl from Ojiro's other side when he was sure the two next to him were fully into their conversation and not watching his eyes.

Zach took in a deep breath and the two boys on his sides looked in at him. He breathed in hard and started standing up, and he lowered his gaze down to the floor as he did. "I," he began. "Have to, go over behind that tree," he said in a quiet voice. He had made it look like he had something serious to say, and then in the last second he changed it in a quieter voice that made the two boys on his sides look at him in a lot of surprise.

"Go use the bus," Jirou remarked across the fire at the boy who made her crack a big smile.

Yaoyorozu smiled too and she lifted a hand and laughed gently into the back of it. A joke? I think, he just made a joke.

Zach smiled at the people around him and then looked over towards the bus parked behind some of the guys' tents. "It's camping. We're supposed to be roughing it out here," Zach said, and he turned with a grin while Kirishima started laughing next to him with a big genuine smile spreading over his face.

Mineta smiled too while looking towards Zach, and Sero cracked a big grin as well. Sero was not looking forward to staying in the same tent as Zach too much, if Zach was going to be looking as grim as he had been for two weeks now. Those two sentences alone were more humor than Zach had used in a long time though. Zach turned from the group at the fire, and while some of the girls rolled their eyes at him, Zach just started walking off for the tree line to go behind a tree and out of sight.

Zach, that smile, Midoriya thought, his face full of confusion as he watched the dark haired boy walk by him. It looked so genuine. But, as soon as you passed us, I saw your face. Why, are you pretending?

Zach's eyes turned dark as soon as he was past the outside of the fire circle. He walked over towards the trees in the clearing of this campsite All Might had driven them to not far from the outskirts of Musutafu. On most sides of Musutafu were other big cities around Tokyo, but in one side was a big park that people used for a camping a lot. As Zach walked over for the trees, he thought with his head bowed, I remember coming to this park once. Now that I think about it, I've been here. This exact location. Or, I wonder if it was this campsite. When my mom and dad took me camping. So, so long ago…

Zach walked across the clearing that was pretty illuminated from their big fire. It was not a bonfire, but it burned bright and his classmates tossed more fuel on it every once in a while to keep it burning. He could hear them getting louder again as the mood shifted back to a party kind-of atmosphere. Zach walked to the tree line, and went behind a tree before pulling his pants down and pissing on the back of it. All of them. Every person over there. Out of everyone in the whole world, I trust you all the most. I trusted Kaminari though. And now…

Zach closed his eyes and shook his head around, before pulling his pants back up and taking in a deep breath. He walked around the trees and back to the edge of the clearing, and he looked towards his classmates on the side of the fire closest to him. Zach's lips shook as he stared at those girls, and he pursed those lips harder and darted his gaze to the other side of the flames when Sato called out something loudly. He started walking into the clearing between the tree line and his campfire, when a gust of wind blew through the trees behind him and made all the branches start shaking. He spun his head and looked at those branches, at the leaves blowing around off of them while the trees made creaking noises in the gusts.

Zach started turning his head to the left. He looked around the outside of the clearing, around the trees and over towards one side of the tents they had set up. He looked over to the trees closest to those tents, and his eyes narrowed and focused in on a light he saw. The light glowed pink, and Zach's eyes started opening wide while he turned his head back towards the campfire and his classmates all around it. Zach started running towards the fire with his eyes huge…

Midoriya was staring to his right at the short girl on his side who looked nervous about something. Iida had just stood up and walked next to Tsuyu at the fire to talk to her about something, and everyone was talking and having separate loud conversations around the fire. "Deku," Uraraka began softly. "I- How are your legs?" She asked, and then let out a groan internally before spinning to look at his legs closely. She had a pink shade on her cheeks, and she continued, "I know you said your left knee was-"

Midoriya's eyes lifted over Uraraka and over into the clearing not around their fire. He started getting up off of his log, while the people on the opposite side of the fire as the larger open clearing all got up too at the sight of the person sprinting towards them. Zach's eyes were open huge and his face panicked as he ran at them, and then Uraraka's face shaded pink for a different reason. Everyone at the fire all at once spun towards Yaoyorozu and Jirou's side of the fire pit. Those two girls themselves spun their heads around and started getting up with their faces covering in shock and fear. A huge pink wall rose up from behind the tents, expanding to either side and high up in the air before arcing over them perfectly centered with the fire.

The outsides of the pink wall started curving in as the top arced out over the class all shooting up to their feet along with their astonished teacher. Midoriya looked to his right and saw the curve of the pink wall cutting in behind All Might and the girls next to Iida. He turned more to the boy running towards him, and Midoriya bent his legs with his whole body glowing while a pink wall curved up and over his head. It curved around the backs of the students who spun around looking in shock at this strange pink energy, and when Iida, Tsuyu, Ashido, and Hagakure spun around they saw Zach slowing down his run to them as there was no way he would make it to them before the wall finished curving around.

"Midoriya don't!" Zach shouted, throwing his right hand up with his eyes opening even wider. The green-haired boy bending his knees and about to fly off froze. He froze because in the tone of Zach's shout that rose over everyone else's panicked voices, Midoriya heard Zach warning him that if he tried, he would die. The tone was so clear that everyone else shut up and spun the same direction. Midoriya hesitated, because he trusted Zach and did not think that tone would be used unless Zach really meant it. Yet the pink wall closed down on Midoriya's side, and it dropped down behind him too encasing all of Class A and their tents and their bus in a giant pink dome.

Midoriya looked through the bright, translucent pink veil and stared at Zach's face that filled with a split second of relief as he stared back into Midoriya's eyes. That relief vanished though, replaced with a dark look of such intense dread that it terrified the curly-haired boy who suddenly wished he had jumped.

"What's going on?!"

"Zach!" Yaoyorozu shouted over towards the pink wall that Zach was on the other side of, looking in at them with his eyes wide and dark.

"Z-Zach," Ashido said, stepping towards the wall close to her, then running towards it.

"Hey there Zach."

I knew it, Zach thought, while turning with his eyes growing as wide as everyone else in his class's. He opened his eyes huge and took a step back, his teeth biting down in rage as he saw the figure to his right whose voice he recognized so well. Walking out from behind a tree, was a blond boy with a black lightning bolt in the left side of his spiked hair. Zach looked straight into the boy's golden eyes, even as other figures walked out from behind trees around him and into the light from the campfire.

"It can't be," Jirou whispered, her heart pounding so hard that she heard it echoing in her ears.

"No way," Mineta whispered, his voice cracking as he stared through the pink wall with a terrified expression.

A woman started walking out from the tree line, her hair long and pink and falling down below her waist. She was tall at over six feet tall, with long slender legs covered in black spandex accentuating every curve. She walked in front of Mineta with her hand sliding across the pink wall, her hand glowing the color just like her eyes that she looked in through the wall at. She locked eyes with the short boy who would have thought she was gorgeous at any other time, but just stumbled back away from at the moment.

"Don't attack it!" Zach shouted, while taking another step back, and then another as his eyes darted back and forth along the tree line ahead of him. "Backfire! It's her name and her Quirk, and telling from the look in her eyes she's already used Trigger!" His voice was loud and commanding, yet it was dark and full of so much dread as he darted his gaze from the woman with long pink hair and then to Raijin again. He looked at the blond boy and into his eyes, and he took another step back as his old best friend took another one towards him. And then Zach looked a bit to his right and his heart started pounding so much harder, his eyes widening more and a deeper look of dread covering his face.

"What does it do?!" Midoriya shouted fast at his classmate who he wanted to listen to, yet he also wanted to charge straight at the strange pink wall in front of him.

"It bounces attack forces back," Zach said darkly, his voice lower and in a more despairing voice though he stopped backing up. "And on Trigger, not only can she make its attack range bigger, but it bounces back a lot more force than whatever you put in."

Midoriya's eyes snapped down to the floor at the base of the pink wall in front of him, while his other classmates ran up towards him and right to the wall themselves. Midoriya looked at the floor and stared with wide eyes as he saw the pink translucent energy not touching the floor but going straight through the dirt. It cut through the ground, and Midoriya looked up the curve of the wall and to the top of the dome. His eyes opened wider and started shaking, as he realized that it was not a dome they were in at all. It's a sphere?!

"Zach!" Kirishima shouted, turning his right hand Unbreakable and sprinting at the wall while Hardening the rest of his body too. He jumped and slammed his hardest punch into the wall, and then he flew away so fast it was like a blur as he bounced straight through the fire, over into some tents, and then bounced into the bus leaving a huge dent in the side of it and lifting the wheels on the side closer to all the other students up for a second.

"No way," Mineta whispered with his eyes huge while looking back towards where Kirishima hit the bus. He turned back at the wall himself and he just reached his hands out at it to see if a smaller force did not do anything. He pressed his hands out into it, and he stumbled back with his arms thrown out to the sides. Mineta fell on his butt with an oof and stared in shock at the wall he had just pushed his hands into only to feel like he got pushed ten times harder himself in the other direction.

Bakugo looked back from where Kirishima hit the bus, and he glared at the spot in the pink wall where Kirishima punched to see there was not even the smallest bit of a crack there. The woman on the other side took her right hand off of the wall for a second and ran it up through her hair, a big smirk on her face as she chuckled under her breath at Kirishima's foolish attack. Her huge domed forcefield stayed in play even as she messed with her hair, though she put her hand back on it a few seconds later. Bakugo saw her move out the corner of his eye and did not see any change in the shade of the barrier in front of him, but he was no longer staring at the barrier itself. When he had looked closely at the spot that Kirishima had punched, he had started looking through it and at a figure walking out in front of three others who came out of the tree line.

Bakugo's eyes opened huge and he felt a tight grip on the back of his neck. Midoriya's breathing picked up speed too, and Todoroki's eyes bulged while he stepped closer to the threatening pink barrier himself. "Guys, this really isn't good," Mineta said from his butt, while looking through the pink barrier at another of the country's most wanted people walking out and up to Kaminari's side. The thin man with a patched-up appearance and spiky black hair looked forward with dark eyes at the shorter kid who stared back in an afraid and pained way, his face full of dread and despair. "This really," Mineta whispered, while looking over towards Zach and seeing the expression on his friend's face.

"Kaminari, Dabi," Zach whispered, looking back and forth at the two in front of him. He looked at Dabi for less time than his best friend, then he looked back at Kaminari and his face twisted in so much anger. "How?" He asked. "Who, told you?" Zach asked, his face covering in pain and his eyes darting to his left at the pink barrier that everyone inside of felt their hearts start breaking and their eyes darting around at each other. All of them who had said how much they trusted each other, who had wanted Zach to come along and finally trust them, they suddenly felt the biggest sense of distrust for all the people around them as they realized that maybe Zach was right the whole time.

"Hehehe," Kaminari chuckled with a smug look on his face. He stepped forward and Dabi stayed where he was, and Zach backed up more with a scared look on his face and his lips pursing. His hand shook at his right side, but Zach's body was looking limp and there was no real fight on his face despite how angry he had just made his voice. "Who?" Kaminari repeated. "As in, who was the second spy? What a stupid question. Aren't there more important things, you want to ask me right now?"

Zach's eyes darted from Kaminari to his sides. He looked at Backfire, and then at Dabi, and then behind them and towards some others he recognized in the tree line. He spotted at least five others he did not recognize at all standing back between trees or out in the clearing but behind Kaminari and Dabi. Zach started breathing heavier, his hands balling up at his sides and his eyes opening wide while looking back at Kaminari who smirked so much at Zach's expression.

"Kaminari!" Jirou shouted out through the barrier at the blond. "You bastard!"

"Take this barrier down," Sero snapped. He clenched his fists and stomped closer to the wall, leaning forward and grinning ear to ear with a huge smile. "We're ready for you this time!"

"Kaminari!" Ashido yelled, swinging Acid at the barrier and then biting down angrily as it just bounced off the wall without doing any damage. Dark Shadow slammed into the wall once, but both it and Tokoyami were sent skidding back across the campsite and tumbling over a few times from the force. He got up just like Kirishima did back over near the bus, but it was getting pretty clear that the barrier they were trying to smash through was not breaking.

"What?! Are you too afraid to fight us?!" Hagakure yelled through the wall. "You tried framing me!"

"Take the wall down Kaminari," Ojiro growled, his fists clenched and his tail curling up behind him.

"Where are they?" Zach asked, he asked it with so much pain in his voice that his classmates stopped yelling. All Might, Midoriya, Uraraka, and Iida all stared out towards Zach with their eyes opening huge as they held their breaths.

Todoroki was staring at Dabi, and he watched as the man with spiky black hair frowned a bit deeper but just glanced next to him silently at the younger boy with blond hair who got the biggest smirk on his face. "I knew, that you'd know it was me. I even took some time off from my purge to deal with it personally, you know?" Raijin let out a laugh, and Zach stepped backwards more, gulping with his heart speeding up more.

"Your purge?" Zach asked.

"Oh come on, Zach," Raijin said. "You know what I mean," he said it and his smile lowered down a bit while a look of absolute despair covered Zach's face. "You told me, all I needed to know to deal with all of them."

"How?" Zach whispered, his voice hoarse and cracking.

"What are they talking about?" Ashido whispered in confusion.

Tsuyu shook her head with her eyes huge, not understanding what was going on either.

Midoriya darted his eyes from Zach to Kaminari and back again. Is this, what you were so…

"I fucked up, Momo. I told him- everything…" Yaoyorozu's heart that was already pounding started beating even faster. She held her breath as the blond boy in front of them started talking, about things that had every person in Class A staring out at them in shock.

"Because of Ganji," Kaminari started. All Might's breath caught in his throat and his eyes bulged huge. He even knew about- "You told me about how Seiki Ganji was an organizer for the anti-heroes. The ones you were a part of, in secret," Kaminari said it so smugly and loudly knowing the people on his right were staring at them right now. "I know, you know I killed Ganji that same night I betrayed you guys."

"You really need to do this?" Dabi asked, looking out the right corners of his eyes at Kaminari in a slightly annoyed way.

"Absolutely," Kaminari said. He just kept grinning and spoke louder to his old best friend who spun back to him from Dabi who he had just looked at with giant eyes. "But I didn't just kill Ganji! Or Mythril, if you want to go by his anti-hero name. Oh you know I tortured him." Kaminari smirked so wide at Zach whose face scrunched up in frustration and fury. "I was pretty disappointed that Ganji didn't know anything about Webb's real life. It pissed me off, and the torture really didn't work too well. I mean, he knew of course that it was all your fault that I was doing it to him. I told him you told me all about him, right before I killed him."

"Kaminari, stop it," Yaoyorozu whispered, because she could not make her voice loud in the confusion and shock she was feeling right now.

Zach started breathing steadier for a second, but his face was still full of confusion. That can't be true. That's not all of it. The "purge." "I, I know you're lying," Zach said in a strong voice sounding like he was forcing it out.

"No, Ganji really didn't tell me jack shit," Kaminari said, sounding pretty impressed as he did. "He was nothing like that aunt of yours, and your little cousin…" Zach's classmates started staring out in horror, and some of them started screaming at Kaminari only for the blond to smirk ear to ear and yell out louder than them at a horrified Zach, "You can bet they were easy to make say what I want! They were screaming everything they knew about you, and yet I just kept zapping them! By the end, they were just cursing your name to Hell and back at the top of their lungs, while I burned them!"

"Raa, raa!" Zach's teeth that were clenched so hard opened and he roared. He roared at Kaminari, but his voice broke and his hands that had started to clench just loosened back up again. His head pulled back and his eyes were wide and shaking, and tears formed in them while his arms dropped weakly down to his sides. "Why?" Zach whispered. "How? Who- who told you… Why do you…"

Kaminari started chuckling again, and he continued, "You're right though, I guess I was lying a bit." Zach's face covered in confusion, and then even more horror than a second ago as Kaminari said, "That super computer you mentioned in Ganji's secret basement below Rasheed Corp., I hacked that shit after a while. He was pretty good at protecting his files, but I'm better." Kaminari chuckled and his eyes narrowed, his eyebrows dipping in towards his nose and his lips twisting up at the corners so far into his cheeks. "You really think a guy like Ganji was telling anti-heroes secret information, giving them costumes, without checking up on who they really were?"

No. Please no, Zach thought. His eyes opened huge, his heart raced and his breathing picked up.

"You know, he even made you a new costume. I think he was actually waiting for you to take the initiative and try harder to meet with him again… Oh yeah, the info on the computer. Well, first of all I got Conrad and Mason's information. So you can bet our contacts in Russia and America, they've been wiping out the anti-heroes over there too." Raijin grinned so wide as Zach pulled back, a look of absolute dread on his face at the one on Kaminari's. "And then, I found out Webb's real name, and his address. Turns out he really did retire after you guys 'saved' me from Shatterer. He lost his arm that night, because you got him to come help you rescue me. I showed up at his house, and even though I guess he didn't see what I did to them, he definitely heard me as I roasted his wife and daughter alive."

"RAAAA!" Zach screamed, his voice full of so much more rage. His eyes spilled water and they splashed to his sides, his fists clenching and his body leaning forward. Zach looked to be holding back so much, and he darted his eyes around at the villains around Kaminari while screaming at himself in his head, DON'T! "RRAAAA!" He roared again though, in agony as Raijin continued.

"The man who saved your life, who got you away from the villains," Raijin started. He shook his head while letting out a chuckle, while Zach's classmates stared in shock at everything Raijin was saying. Raijin continued in a menacing, bone-chilling voice, "I killed him with ease. Once his family was gone, it was like the life left his eyes… or, whatever those things behind his sunglasses were. Kind of freaky if you ask me." Raijin started laughing again, and Zach shook in seething rage with his fists clenching so hard at his sides that he ripped straight through the glove on his right. His fingernails pierced the skin of his palms, and blood dripped between his fingers which Kaminari saw in the light of the fire and the pink glow of Backfire's forcefield.

"You bastard," Zach hissed. His body shook in rage, and his eyes that were glaring so hard at the floor rose up and looked into Raijin's. He looked into Raijin's eyes, and then he pulled his head back as Raijin's expression had gone back to a friendly and confused one that looked like it was Kaminari and not the villain looking back at him. "I fucking hate you," Zach hissed. "You, you didn't have to kill them! Why?! Why Aunt Maye, and Tsura?!"

"Because you told me that you broke off ties with them! You told me," Raijin said, and he laughed before shouting, "that you didn't really care about them anymore! You said you didn't want to get them targeted by villains just for being associated with you, so it was better to let them just live their lives and you to live yours. And when you told me, I could tell you were telling me the truth!" He laughed, then he shouted, "But even though you thought you were telling me the truth, I could tell that the one you were lying to was yourself! You wanted to believe that you didn't care, so that it would be easier for you to push away the last people in the world who you loved! Hahaha! Well you can bet, by the time they were dead any love they still had for you was long lost! How many families is that now?!"

Zach's enraged look faltered. His look of rage and fury and despair just scrunched up and turned into one big defeated expression. He stared ahead with the most pain imaginable in his eyes, and his classmates looked over towards him in horror and unable to say a thing. Yaoyorozu and Midoriya snapped their heads to the woman with long pink hair, focusing their minds and trying as hard as they could to come up with a way to stop her and get the forcefield down.

"Alright, enough of this," Dabi said, making Kaminari turn to him and frown at the older man who stepped forward now so he was at Kaminari's side again. "You made your points. It's time to do it."

"Stop it!" Yaoyorozu shouted through the barrier as she did not like what Dabi just said one bit. That, mixed with the fact that Zach's arms were down at his sides and his expression was just so defeated, it terrified her. "Leave him alone!"

Zach turned his head a bit towards Momo, and then he looked back towards Raijin and Dabi and his arms shook at his sides. He looked at Dabi who turned back towards him and looked him in the eyes, and Zach's lip started shaking as a newfound rage bubbled in his chest. He glared into Dabi's eyes, and then back at Raijin who said while looking at his taller comrade, "Hold on. He still doesn't know, why we're doing this."

"He doesn't need to," Dabi began.

"I say he does," Raijin said, and Dabi stopped while looking down into the blond's eyes with his own getting a little wider.

Are you serious? Bakugo thought while looking out there. He saw the woman with long pink hair lose her smile a bit, and he saw people behind Raijin and Dabi start looking over at the blond in nervous and scared ways. A sweat drop formed on the side of Bakugo's face. As much as they all figured Raijin was being serious when he talked about how he had been making plans from the very beginning, seeing him just order Dabi to hold on with that, and seeing Dabi back off afterwards was a whole different step up.

All Might stared out at the young man he thought he had known for over a year, the one who claimed to be the reason for him losing his power, a fact to which he could not argue. Kaminari had played a big role in it, and All Might stared at the young man who smirked as Dabi turned away with an annoyed look, then Kaminari turned back towards Zach himself too.

Jirou threw her phone to the side with her face covered in frustration. He's blocking the signals, of course! That fucking bastard! "Kaminari!"

Raijin ignored her. He looked towards Zach whose hands shook down at his sides, with a look of dread in his eyes and a sad look on his face. Zach wore a black long-sleeved shirt and black sweatpants and sneakers. Raijin had on a dark red costume with yellow highlights through it in sharp squiggly patterns like lightning bolts. His hair was spiked differently, with more spikes up over the center of his head and some at the very front pushed down so there were some yellow strands crossing over the bridge of his nose. Raijin looked into Zach's eyes and he got a more serious expression on his face though kept grinning as he did, "You took down Killmore. Wasn't really expecting that, especially not you doing it yourself. I almost sent Diamondfist to go instead, make sure someone there had a personal grudge to take you out specifically. I'm glad you didn't die though."

Raijin let out a low chuckle and then spoke to his old fake friend who looked him back in the eyes so darkly yet without any fight in them. "Because they saw you. The people saw you, looking like you do now, like you always do. You broke. I broke you," Raijin taunted. He taunted it and then laughed as Zach did not argue with what he said, just stood there and lowered his gaze a bit from Kaminari's. "You, who bring people back to life despite how much it hurts you. You, who care so much." Raijin put a hand to his forehead for a second and shook it with an amazed look on his face. "That day, when the upperclassman confronted you about his little cousin who was hit by a drunk driver, you cried. You didn't even know the girl, and you started crying, because you couldn't save that random person you didn't even know!"

Hagakure and Ashido stared towards Kaminari feeling so much pain fill them as they remembered seeing that. And they remembered what came after too that had tears forming in their eyes, while Kaminari just continued to the black haired boy who took another step back but could not look any more broken already. "I know exactly how much you care, or, how much you cared." He smirked as Zach's twitching fingers finally stopped moving, and Raijin continued in a smug voice, "Because I was your shoulder to cry on that day, all while thinking about how I could use how much you care against you-"

"That day!" Zach screamed, snapping his head up and looking into Raijin's eyes furiously. "I wasn't talking about that girl, when I cried about how I couldn't save her!"

"I KNOW!" Raijin screamed back. "Yet the persona I created cared enough about you to actually get teary-eyed, to really sell how I didn't know a thing about Jenny back then! That I had no idea why it was you were really sobbing your eyes out!"

"Alright, that's enough. Let's kill him," Dabi said. He frowned deeply, and Raijin frowned deeply too as Dabi cut in on this again.

Raijin actually looked like he might listen this time, only for Zach to scream, "STOP THAT!" He roared it and the villains looked back at him, to see Zach staring at Dabi so furiously yet with confusion spread over his face. "Stop, trying to make it quicker. Or less painful- what the fuck?!" Zach's voice cracked and he sounded on the verge of madness as he yelled it. He started panting while looking at Dabi in the most confused and angry way possible. "You- stop acting like- like you care if it's any quicker!" Dabi did not say anything and just stared into Zach's eyes, while Raijin smirked a lot more at the shift in conversation. The fact that Dabi was not responding only made Zach start shaking more, and his eyes trembled like his lips as he stared in frustration at the spiky-black-haired villain. "You killed her!" Zach screamed.

Zach bit down on his bottom lip after yelling it. Then he shouted even louder, "You- you killed her! YOU FUCKING KILLED HER!"

"You shouldn't have betrayed us," Dabi said. He said it, and Kaminari turned to him with his own eyes opening wider. Zach stared at Dabi with his eyes bulging too. Most of Class A stared at Dabi in shock, though Bakugo, Yaoyorozu, Mineta, and Midoriya all stared towards Dabi with their hearts racing so much faster. Everyone stared at Dabi like that, because in his voice was an actual tone of betrayal. Dabi grimaced after saying it, as everyone started looking towards him. "You just, shouldn't have-"

"Don't-" Zach started, his voice completely cracking so he only got out one word. He tried shouting, but breath just escaped his throat instead as he glared so angrily at the man who frowned back towards him in a pissed off way. "I, I hate you," Zach said. He glared towards Dabi and his fists clenched at his sides, blood still dripping through his fingers from when he heard about Webb. He stared at Dabi with his eyes starting to get watery, "I hate you so much, but, it's my fault. I- not for betraying you, but because I saved you that day. When I dragged you from the pier, from that villain on Trigger we were running from. You remember Dabi? Do you remember?!"

Dabi clenched his teeth and looked at Zach in a more frustrated way, one that just made Zach lift his chin and get the most conflicted, betrayed, pained expression on his face. Kaminari let out a laugh but covered his mouth quickly, his eyes darting from Dabi back to the boy in front of him who was wheezing now. Zach's breath came out louder, more ragged, and he yelled, "I saved the man, who burned my family alive. I saved you," Zach whispered, looking towards Dabi and forcing the man to look him back in the eyes.

Class A no longer knew what was happening. They stared back and forth from Zach to the villains. All of them wanted to get out there and help, yet they were getting a lot thrust on them all of a sudden. The way Zach was screaming at Dabi, the fact that Dabi sounded betrayed, all that stuff about anti-heroes around the world, Zach's family, it was too much to process all at once. They all looked towards Zach in confusion, and many of them opened their eyes wide and dropped their jaws as Zach continued yelling after holding his breath and pulling back for a few seconds. "I! You burned them- and I! As hard as I try! I can't hate you with my whole being," Zach gasped it out and then leaned his head forward while screaming, "I saved you then, because you had saved my life! Because, you gave me a second chance and vouched for me to give me a place- and, and because you were the one person in the League of Villains who I could talk to! Who, I actually felt like was my friend. I- I wanted to save you, because, because you were like a brother to me!"

Dabi grimaced harder, biting down while Raijin looked at him with wide eyes at the expression he was making. Zach hated that look on Dabi's face, and his own expression shook in rage as he shouted out, "I thought you felt the same! We spent every day together, training and fighting and, and talking! You told me things too, and I really thought we were… And yet you murdered them. You, you killed my family even though you knew how much I cared about them, because Kaminari told you as much." Zach started shaking his head, and he brought his left hand up and grabbed his temple, digging his fingers in and shaking violently. "Why? Dabi! I want to know why? Why? When you knew I was watching! When you knew I could see you, how could you burn them alive in front of me like that?!"

"I didn't think they would stay-" Dabi froze. He froze with his mouth open, while everyone in the campsite stared at him with their eyes opening huge. Their eyes widened slowly, and Zach's shaking ones stopped. His hand stopped violently shaking on his head, and his entire body tensed up. He blinked his eyes a few times, and he thought, What? Zach started lifting his head, only to see Dabi grit his teeth and then mutter, "It doesn't matter anymore, does it-"

"NO!" Zach screamed. He screamed it and took a step forward, then he dragged that right foot back on the floor and his legs shook furiously while he just glared at Dabi instead of charging him. "What did you mean by that?! What did you mean, you didn't think they'd stay? Stay what?!"

"It doesn't matter!" Dabi shouted.

"Oh my God," Raijin whispered, while looking at Dabi with his eyes huge. "You're serious," he said in realization, and Dabi clenched his teeth a lot harder in the next second which made Kaminari's eyes bulge even wider.

"No," Midoriya whispered, pulling his head back and lifting a hand up in front of his mouth as he realized what was happening.

"Tell me, you're not serious," Zach said. He said it, and he sniffled in once hard before clenching both fists at his sides and screamed, "TELL ME, YOU DON'T MEAN THAT!"

"What do you want me to say?" Dabi snapped. He glared towards Zach, and then that angry look in his eyes started to shift with a more pained one. "I thought, I thought," he shook his head and lowered his gaze for a second, then he rose it and stared over into Zach's eyes with the look in them that Zach saw every day over the months they spent together. "I thought you'd be able to bring them back." Zach leaned his head back and his lips dropped down at the corners, a huge ripping feeling tearing through his chest.

The other villains behind Dabi stared at him wide-eyed, though Raijin was smiling from next to him which was starting to piss Dabi off. The taller man just ignored the teen at his side for a few seconds more though, talking straight to Zach and only to him, "You betrayed us, but, I thought killing them was the way we'd get you under control. If Shigaraki ordered them dead, I thought he'd, let you bring them back. And we'd know you would never turn on us again, because you wouldn't be able to bring them back a second time…" Dabi slowed down, and then he closed his eyes once and opened them up slowly and with a darker look in them. "But that doesn't matter now. It's in the past."

"You can't!" Zach screamed. He screamed it and then pulled back, and then he snapped his head forward and roared, "That's not fair! You don't, you don't get to say that to me, now… But, but-" Zach's lips started shaking and then he bit down on his bottom one. "I-I, I think, I think I might've…" Zach bit down on his bottom lip again, and his eyes were open huge while Dabi's started widening themselves. "I think I knew… Or, or at least, I realized recently. The burn scars on my body, they, weren't you." Zach shook his head and he closed his eyes once hard, and then he opened them full of so much sheer agony. "I always thought they must have been you, or maybe I wanted to imagine they were and filled in the blanks in my memories- but! But you were never there, were you? The entire time I was tortured?!" Zach screamed it and he looked desperately at Dabi for an answer. He shook his head again, and then he gasped out, "I saw your eyes, at Mosu Esupa. We locked eyes for a minute, and even now… You can't, you can't seriously- you still think of me-"

"The two of us aren't anything anymore," Dabi started.

"This has been good and all, but I think it's about time we wrap this up," Raijin cut in as Zach opened his mouth to shout back at Dabi.

Zach's eyes were getting more watery, and he spun them to Kaminari the same way he was just looking at Dabi. "And you! You were my best friend! You were my brother!" He spun to Dabi, and then back to Kaminari, "I, I replaced Jenny with- and you two- the two of you…" Zach rose his left hand to his head and started grabbing it violently. He grabbed it so hard it looked like he was going to rip his own hair out, and the students of Class A started shouting towards him. "You two, I cared so much about- and now you're going to kill me?! Dabi! You can't act like you still care, up until the moment I'm dead! So stop acting like- you can't kill me with a look of regret in your eyes. You mother fucker. I, I don't know how to handle- I can't!"

"Killmore's loss is my victory," Raijin started while staring at the boy in front of him who was breaking down. Others in Class A started hitting the barrier, but they were thrown backwards and Backfire started laughing at them from the outside. Kaminari looked towards them for a second and started lifting his hands up, electricity sparking from his fingers. "Bring the people's faith in you back to a new high, just for the class they all believe in so strongly to stand by and not be able to do anything as the kid in that class the country looks to the most is killed." He looked back towards Zach who clenched his eyes shut and was still rambling like mad. "And the people know the kind of state Zach is in too. They've seen him, breaking down. They'll know how he died here. Nothing I've done so far will even come close to this."

"We have to get out of here!" Midoriya shouted while getting back up, looking to his arm and grimacing as even in control he hurt himself hitting that barrier.

"Young Sazaki! Run!" All Might shouted out towards Zach.

"Run Zach!"

"Fight!" Kirishima shouted towards him.

"No! Run away!" Jirou yelled from close to the redhead who she felt was giving terrible advice!

"Just get this bitch!" Bakugo yelled at Zach, glaring at the woman making their forcefield around them.

Zach's left hand that was shaking on his head started to lower down. He dropped it slowly down to his side while looking at the floor between his feet. "I trusted you. I believed in, the two of you," Zach's voice started getting louder. He stared at the floor with the corners of his lips up, and he laughed in a cracked, crazy way like he had lost his mind. His arms did not move, and Raijin smirked towards the boy whose classmates were going to be so destroyed hearing these as his final thoughts. "I loved you guys. Did you really have to do all of that to me? Did you really, need to, kill all of them?" Zach's head started lifting up, the corners of his lips dropping down. "Is that really… how you thought… I was going to react?"

Zach's head lifted another few inches. His eyes rose, and everyone lost their breath. Todoroki, Yaoyorozu, and Kaminari had seen Zach's eyes look like this before, but only once. In Camino Ward right before he killed Mr. Compress, he had smiled and gotten a look in his eyes that had made all the other villains jump away from him leaving only Mr. Compress who had been right behind Zach and unable to see them. Being unable to see those eyes had gotten Compress killed. Everyone there had a clear look at Zach's eyes now though, and his lips were flat this time which was even worse than smiling for those who had seen it before and who could not breathe with sweat covering their bodies. Zach lifted his gaze and stared straight into Raijin's eyes with the most intense look in his eyes that were so full of pure conviction that it took the breath away from the blond about to try and kill his defenseless former friend. The look in Zach's eyes was not one that could be bluffed, and Raijin's eyes opened wider and wider while everyone stared towards Zach Sazaki in complete and utter confusion.

"Wh-What?" Raijin said, frozen where he stood and letting it out without even thinking.

"Zach?" Midoriya whispered, too shocked to react any other way. He was just floored by Zach's last question, and he blinked a few times while staring towards Zach's terrifyingly intense eyes.

"It's weird, Kaminari," Zach said. His voice was completely calm, which unnerved every single person who had just been staring at this boy breaking down in the middle of the clearing. "You're so smart, right? So what the hell have I been doing all this time? It must bug you more than everyone else here, how calm I am right now? How little any of that actually got to me?" Raijin's eyes started shaking, and they darted over at Class A but all of those students and All Might were stuck behind a barrier and just staring out in as much confusion as he was in. "Come on, you can't figure it out? What's wrong Kaminari?"

Ashido pulled her head back and took a step away from the pink barrier. The woman on the other side of it eased back towards the woods she had come out of in the first place, taking her hands off of the barrier for a few seconds and then reaching back and darting her eyes around the students wondering if there was some plan in action she did not know of. Her eyes were scared which Bakugo saw out the corners of his, not that Bakugo was looking anywhere else than Zach at the moment. Bakugo's lips did curl up at the corners into a nervous smirk though. What the fuck is he doing?

Zach? Yaoyorozu thought, looking out in less fear than a moment ago, yet a different kind of fear was starting to rise in her.

Raijin looked back towards Zach and he rose his hands that sparked more. "Not a good move," Zach said, shaking his head at the blond who pulled his head back at that calm, confident voice. Zach's tone got darker, and yet he lifted up the right corner of his lips while looking straight into Kaminari's eyes. "You still haven't figured it out. Someone like you, someone who thinks he's so smart, you can't figure it out can you? Why I was acting that way this whole time. It has to be plaguing you right now, and you're right to be afraid Kaminari."

"You're out of your mind!" Kaminari shouted at him. A bead of sweat was rolling down the right side of his face, while Dabi stared forward in absolute shock next to him at what was happening. Kaminari laughed and then he called out, "You've actually gone insane at the end-"

"If only that was it," Zach said, a knowing tone in his voice that made Raijin's smile wipe from his face again. Zach's eyes still looked so confident, so full of pure conviction, that Raijin felt his feet sliding back on the floor below him. "Come on Kaminari, you have to be able to figure it out with that genius intellect of yours. Why it is I'm not afraid right now? It's not them," Zach said with a small nod towards the barrier and all his silent classmates inside. "Come on! Figure it out already!" Zach yelled. "Why the hell, would I be stalling you all that time? You know that's what I was doing, and that's why you're so scared right now!"

"You couldn't have called anyone," Raijin growled.

"Because you're blocking communications," Zach said and nodded his head though still with the corner of his lip raised. That corner started lowering down though, right as they all started to feel a rumbling in the ground. The villains behind Raijin and Dabi who still thought this might have just been insanity like Raijin said started lifting weapons and getting nervous, panicked looks on their faces. "You still don't get it Kaminari," Zach said, making Raijin snap his eyes back to Zach's, into those terrifying eyes of his. "How could you?! With the way I've been acting, for so long! You really think you broke me? Maybe, maybe for one night you really had me. And that was it! One night alone, you succeeded in breaking me. But Raijin! You asked me how many times I've lost my family?! Enough!" The rumbling got louder, more of them could feel it now and they all definitely knew it was real while Zach continued screaming at all the villains.

Other students in Class A backed away from the pink barrier with fear in their eyes directed towards Zach now at the crazy way in which he was shouting. The villains behind Raijin started calling out to their leader that something was wrong, and Raijin yelled at Zach, "This doesn't make sense!"

"That's because you still haven't realized it yet!" Zach roared. "You think you were the only ones to get in my head? You think you and Dabi and Shigaraki got in my head, yet I spent so long with you assholes and didn't learn a thing?! You might've been in my head, but I've been in all of yours! How am I doing this? When you've been blocking communications from before you showed up?! It's simple!" Kaminari's eyes started opening huge, his right foot stepping back, while Zach stomped his right foot forward and a knife slid out of his left sleeve and down into his hand. "Because this ISN'T, YOUR, TRAP, KAMINARI!" Zach roared, and bright white headlights shown out between the trees behind Zach. "IT'S MINE!" Zach screamed. An engine revved louder, tires screeched, and a horn blared as a truck barreled through the forest and out into the clearing behind Zach.

The truck came flying out of the woods, and then the front tires all spun hard to the right and the back of the truck whipped out to the side. Tires screeched on the dirt, villains stumbling back because of the bright lights and loud noises stared over in shock at what Zach just yelled. All of Zach's classmates gawked while staring at this truck that just barreled out of nowhere, and Raijin and Dabi stared towards it with their jaws dropped and eyes huge. The tires on the left side of the truck that came swinging out towards Zach's back started tilting, the back of the truck lifting up on them while the driver spun harder and harder to the right to do a full one-eighty spin of the vehicle. On top of the truck's very back, everyone staring towards the vehicle spotted someone standing up and yanking on a rope that was connected down to the handle at the bottom of the truck's back door.

"Zach!" A girl's voice yelled for Zach, and the lights in the clearing made the girl on top of the truck visible to everyone looking over. They saw a girl in a black costume who had long brown hair and was smiling so wide after calling out that name. "Here you go!" She yelled, while Zach ran forward and the back of the truck swung out right behind him, the other side of the lifted vehicle slamming down as the man behind the wheel spun it the other way.

"All of you! Out out out!" Another female voice shouted from inside the truck at a higher pitch than that of the girl on the roof of the vehicle who yanked the door up.

Zach's right hand lifted and slammed into his chest with a furious and intense look in his eyes as he ran forward. Raijin and Dabi were both shocked at the sudden turn of events, but Zach suddenly turning into Nightmare form and skidding to a stop shook them from their panic a bit.

"I don't know what you're doing, but-" Raijin's voice cut off while he was lifting up his sparking arms. He and Dabi both stared at the back of the truck with confused but growing eyes. Dabi rose up his arms and covered his hands in blue flames fast, and both he and Raijin got seriously nervous looks on their faces as they saw what came pouring out of the back of the truck.

Deer ran out of the vehicle and stumbled as they hit the ground while the truck was still finishing its spin. Bunnies and squirrels were pushed out of the vehicle or slid back through it as they could not hold onto anything and the back door that they had all been pressed up against was thrown open. Wooden beehives fell over and birds flew out of the truck, and against this wave of animals slammed a black wave of Death that came out of Zach's left hand he swung back at the same time that he slammed his right hand into his chest. "You both think I told you so much! That I confided so deeply in you, that I didn't have secrets?!" Zach roared, his voice coming out scratchy and deep, and the two in front of him already knew what was coming as they shot electricity and blue flames at the kid in front of them.

Zach turned his right hand from his chest, and he fired Death out of it in front of him and blocked the electricity when it was almost at him. Raijin pushed harder into it, and the blue flames collided as well so that the massive blue explosion filled with yellow sparks and pushed harder into the wave of Death shrinking down on the other side of it. That shrinking wave pulsed though, as the Death that Zach had pushed out of his left hand was pulling back into his body. His left hand held behind him had Death sucking back into it so much thicker than it had just pushed back, and the girl in the back of the truck scooted herself farther towards the front with her pink eyes open huge as all of the animals just poured out of the truck had the life sucked out of them. They collapsed, birds falling and bees dropping by the hundred. Deer and rabbits and squirrels collapsed, the bigger animals taking a bit longer but dying almost as instantaneously so there was no chance of escape.

"Well here's something you didn't know," Zach said, his voice lower and his body covering in a thicker, waving black aura that made his bones harder to see on the inside and his red eyes flare more. Dabi and Raijin pushed more into the attack, but the black wave pushing against them was growing and growing in size. "Something I don't tell people, because Death is scary enough as it is…" Zach brought his left arm in front of him after sucking the life out of all those animals, and then he roared while slamming that left hand forward and doubling his attack's size, "But when I kill, I GET STRONGER!"

An explosion of darkness overtook the blue sparking flames and made both Kaminari and Dabi jump backwards a few times to increase the distance between them and Zach. Both of them were panting after pushing all they could into that attack for a straight power blow on him. "We just had to take our time," Dabi started, though he was making the remark more as a defense mechanism because of the intense dread he felt than anything.

Raijin's eyes shook as he stared forward into the huge explosion of Death that he had never seen bigger. Then he spun to the right and shouted, "Backfire! Stay on it and make sure it's strong enough!"

The woman near her barrier but who had run several yards away from in with that big dark explosion gulped as she looked towards Raijin. Then she turned towards the black figure through those settling dark flames, and she hesitated instead of just listening to Raijin's orders. "I don't-" she began.

"Go right ahead," Zach said, turning his head to the left and speaking towards Backfire. He looked her in the eyes with his red ones, then he motioned with a nod back at the forcefield. "I know it stays up for a couple of minutes regularly, and in Trigger it should be more than twice as long right?" Zach's voice was not as completely ominous and menacing as it just was, though his arms were lifted at his sides and he had black spheres swirling around over his palms. "Well you don't want that countdown to start, so you should get back to holding your forcefield."

Raijin stared towards Zach with his lips flat as he caught his breath. He took another few steps back and then began in a low voice to the others around him, "Zach's doing something. But if this is all it is, we don't leave here until the mission is complete."

"Kaminari won't just leave, if it's only me fighting them," Zach said while turning away from Backfire. The woman stared at Zach with her eyes opening huge, as did everyone inside the pink sphere who dropped their jaws while looking at Zach. "Keep all of Class A out of my way," Zach said, his voice dark and scratchy, and his eyes locking forward on Raijin's. "So I can kill those two." Zach glared at Raijin and then over at Dabi who opened his eyes wide again.

"Zach! Stop it and just take this bitch down!" Bakugo roared out at his classmate.

"Zach!" Midoriya yelled. "What are you doing?!"

Who are those people? Yaoyorozu spun and looked back at the truck where a girl walked up in the back of, where there was another girl standing up on the roof and grinning ear to ear. The truck was still running, though the man in the driver's seat just put it into park.

"You really think you can take us all on?" Raijin asked, a smirk spreading on his face and electricity sparking around his entire body. Another villain twenty feet to Raijin's left lifted his arms, and gusts of wind blew through the canopies of the forest around them. Dabi kept blue flames on his hands and he was staring at Zach in surprise still but a bit calmer than he was before. Raijin continued to smirk as Class A shouted things at Zach the villain felt like his old friend definitely should have been listening to. "I don't know, how you did this-"

"And doesn't that upset you?" Zach asked, his dark voice chilling and making Raijin's smirk vanish at once. "Come now, Kaminari," Zach said in a low voice that was taunting again like it had been before the truck flew out of the forest behind him. "How did I know you'd be here? I was so surprised, that I thought it was a second spy who told you, didn't I?" Zach glared towards Raijin and all his fellow villains, and the tone between them shifted again as Zach's mouth on his black aura dipped down, and his jaw clenched so hard inside that veil. "But we both know there isn't another spy, even though I couldn't get you to say it aloud."

Raijin ground his teeth and glared harder at Zach, and then he rose up his right hand and fired a fast zap of electricity towards him. Zach's red eyes shot towards Kaminari's moving arm before the electricity left his fingers, and he had the time to dodge. He was aiming on the perfect angle though, that if Zach dodged, the electricity would fly back at the truck. Zach started lifting his left hand and he pushed the sphere of darkness on his palm into the blast of electricity, and then a couple of villains behind Kaminari started running forward and they rose up guns that they aimed towards him. "Darling! Cover fire!" Zach shouted.

"Yes sir!" The girl on top of the truck yelled. BANG-BANG-BANG-BANG-BANG…

A week ago…

Zach stood in a dark alley wearing a hoodie with the hood up and his face shadowed over. In front of him stood a shorter girl with long brown hair who was smiling so brightly at him as she rambled on and on. "It's called Toolbody. I can turn parts of my body into tools, I mean not that you didn't know that just from hearing the name- but I mean, well I trained this power once you brought me back… so that I could be your tool to take on the world with."

Zach grimaced at the girl in front of him, and he rose his left hand and scratched the side of his head. "I don't want a tool," Zach said, and the girl in front of him opened her eyes wide in fear. "I want, a comrade," Zach said. The girl staring at him widened her eyes so much more while Zach locked eyes with her. "A person I can trust. Not a tool-"

"I'll be that person!" she shouted, then she got quiet really fast as Zach darted his gaze back and forth in the alley they were in. "Please. I'll follow you anywhere. This is all I've wanted, for so long."

I know. And it's not perfect, but I won't just ignore this. I won't ignore you, or leave you here. "What's your name?" Zach asked. "And don't say, 'whatever I want it to be.'"

"No," the girl said, shaking her head and smiling so brightly at the boy in front of her who stared in surprise at her look. "I thought about it after our last talk. If, if it's alright. Could you call me… 'Darling?'"

"Darling?" Zach wondered.

"As my new name," she said.

He looked at her and had a bead of sweat on the side of his face. It did not sound like much of a name, more like she wanted to hear him call her 'Darling' and was using this as a loophole. He nodded his head though at the girl his age. The five foot one tall girl with bright green eyes smiled so gratefully at him, and then she started explaining again fast as she had not done a great job answering his question before, "With Toolbody, I can create anything I put my mind to as long as I understand the composition. I didn't realize it before I really started training, how many things I can turn my body into."

"It requires a lot of practice," Zach whispered, nodding at the girl who smiled so much more that he seemed to understand. It sounds like someone I know…

Present…

Both of Darling's arms had turned into rifles and she was lighting up the area around Raijin's subordinates holding guns who pulled back as the ground around their feet started getting ripped up.

"Darling?" Most of Class A was thinking, along with All Might, Dabi, and the majority of the villains.

Really! Who is that?! Yaoyorozu thought with her eyes opened even wider and staring towards the short, brown-haired girl firing like crazy over towards the villains.

Zach started running forward, his body erupting in more Death as he pushed it out of himself and made his bone structure on the inside practically invisible. His arm bones completely vanished, as did the bones in his feet and lower legs as he focused down there and sped up. He sped up faster and faster while sprinting straight at Kaminari, and Kaminari started backpedaling with lightning wrapping around his body and sparking all over his skin and costume. Zach punched his right fist forward at Kaminari when he had gotten up close, only for a flash to zip by to his right and away from him, while Death flew off of Zach's fist and past where Raijin had just dodged from.

Other villains who were around Raijin started scattering. Backfire kept a hand on the pink barrier and she started smirking again as the villains split apart. Dabi pointed his hands towards where Zach just missed Kaminari and he fired a blast of blue flames, right as some other villains started aiming at Zach who was their biggest priority target.

"Screw it, he needs more than just her," the woman in the back of the truck reached to her side and picked up an assault rifle. She pointed it off the back of the truck and called out, "Gentle! I'm giving suppressing fire!" La Brava fired and her feet skid back on the floor as her small body could barely handle the recoil of the rifle she fired on automatic towards the other villains.

Did she just say… Midoriya started turning his head to the right and at the truck where a man was walking to the back of. The man wore a flashy purple coat with the collar pulled up high around his head that was covered in gray hair. He wore baggy white pants with black stripes going down through them, had a white mustache and beard, and he threw his right arm out to the side inside the coat he was wearing before shouting, "Evildoers! You League of Villains who commit such horrible and rude crimes!" Gentle pointed his right hand forward in a purple glove, and he called out in a low voice, "The Gentle Criminal is here to put you in your place."

A week ago…

The door of a beautiful hotel room swung open, and Danjuro Tobita stepped through it in a flashy fashion. He entered into the penthouse with La Brava rushing in behind him and shutting the door with a big smile on her face. "This place is amazing!" Manami Aiba called out excitedly. The two of them were incognito, wearing casual clothes and their hair in different fashions, even dying it to give themselves the freedom to splurge and purchase a room like this for the night.

"Nothing less than magnificence, for Gentle and La Brava," Danjuro said with a grin, and Manami spun back towards the older man with stars in her eyes at his tone.

Manami, or La Brava, ran up to the coffee table in the living room and she pulled out a laptop from her bag and put it down there. "I'm going to check the message boards to see what people think of our last day fighting villains in Nagoya." La Brava typed fast and within a few seconds there were a dozen tabs up over several windows on her thick laptop. Gentle walked over towards the drink bar in their room and started examining what the hotel had for them in regards to tea, then he turned and looked towards the windows. Gentle walked over towards them and stared out into Kyoto from one of the highest points in the whole city. He grinned as he heard La Brava call out behind him in amazement, "Even more views this time! And people are really amazed, they're saying that the crime rate in Nagoya is actually down now after the weeks we spent there!"

"Of course it is," Gentle proclaimed. He turned his head and looked back to La Brava over his shoulder, "None of those ungentlemanly villains would ever, be able to defeat, or…" he trailed off and stared at his accomplice and partner in crime in a bit of confusion. She always looked to him in amazement whenever he started his fancy speeches, but she was staring at her laptop screen with wide eyes all of a sudden. They darted back to the left side of her computer and slowly read across the screen again, and then she looked up at Gentle with big eyes that made him walk over to the couch she was sitting on. "What is it, my dear?" Gentle questioned.

"Look at this," La Brava whispered.

Gentle and La Brava focused on a comment on one of their more popular message boards on a website on the dark web. 'Anon_ZS: I know you guys like to read your comments, so I hope you see this since it's your newest video. It's really important that we talk. Meet me in the alley we first met tomorrow at 5 p.m.' Gentle did what La Brava did after reading it her first time, and he reread the message and specifically the anonymous user's I.D. closely. ZS. Zach Sazaki. Lifebringer.

"What do we do, Gentle?" La Brava asked. "It could be a trap," she started in worry.

"After what we did for him at the Sports Festival?" Gentle questioned her.

"He might not know that was us," La Brava whispered. "And even if he does," she got a bit more confident and asked, "since when do we answer to summons from anyone? We don't need Lifebringer to make you go down in history!"

The Gentle Criminal nodded his head and hummed while looking back down at the screen. "It is important though," Gentle said, and he cracked a small grin while looking back at his partner. "Let us go. I want to see what it is Lifebringer has in store for us."

Present…

That's the guy who took out Hackerman, Dabi thought while looking over towards the gray haired man in the back of the truck who had been the one driving it through the forest. Dabi then turned and looked back behind him farther into the trees they had come out of before. "Move it!" He shouted at the dark form sprinting forward.

"Shoot at them!"

"Hold your fire ladies," Gentle requested. He swung his arms up in front of him on the back of the truck, right as a couple of villains started firing their way. "Gently Rebound," he said in a calm voice, and all the bullets flying at them pushed in on the air that changed properties thanks to Gentle's Elasticity Quirk. The bullets bounced back, and the villains firing towards the truck let out screams and stopped firing as it became clear they were only going to hurt themselves.

Todoroki spun his head to the right and stared at the three allies Zach had brought in who were firing at the enemies and protecting themselves at the same time. He did not bring in random people who could not fight, yet none of the people he was looking at were licensed heroes. Todoroki recognized the Gentle Criminal too, and he spun back to the left to look at Zach only to see a blur of yellow run by a black mass with two red orbs at the top that darted back and forth trying to keep up with his enemy. "You're too slow!" Raijin yelled, and he leapt up over Zach's head while the boy below him was still turning to the left where Raijin made his last double-back fake.

Raijin rose over Zach and curled his hands in below him, "MJOLNIR!" A rod of lightning formed inside Raijin's curled hands while Zach lifted his head. At the top of the rod over Kaminari's left hand, the electricity changed shape from a thin bolt into a thick hammer that Kaminari rose up and then slammed down at Zach while passing over his head.

"RRRAAAAA!" Zach roared in pain, his whole black body sparking with electricity and stumbling around. He threw his arms out to the sides though and spun around, making a whip of darkness fly out from his body in all directions. Two other villains nearby who started running at Zach when he was zapped jumped up or slid down to dodge, but Zach did not look to either of them no matter how close they were to him. Instead he spun to where Raijin was landing, and he screamed, "That didn't hurt one bit!"

"You lie!" Raijin yelled back with a mad grin. Zach shot towards him leaving black footprints behind in the floor. A black trail left behind after-images of him as he darted forward not in a straight line that Kaminari could fire electricity at easily but in a zig-zag of different lengths with each zag. Raijin rose up his hands and then slammed down on the ground at his feet, "Fifteen million volts!"

Zach swung his arms in front of him and leapt back at the same time he whipped huge thick trails of Death at his opponent. "I'm going to fucking kill you Kaminari!" Zach roared while landing and stumbling back to avoid bursts of electricity zapping the ground near his feet. He rose his arms and made black flames rise off of them from his shoulders to his hands, flaring up in the air like actual fire and making the same thing happen on top of his skull. "You think you knew everything about me, but you were wrong! You think you still have a chance of beating me right now too, and you're wrong about that too! And that's what's going to get you killed! Right here! BY MY HANDS!"

"You wish! You couldn't do anything when I betrayed you in that basement. Helpless like all the others-"

"Yet am I helpless now?" Zach asked. He ran at Raijin and swung his arms inwards while curling them, "DEATH VORTEX!" The Death that came off his flaring arms in Nightmare form shot away from him in two swirls that curled around each other and created a double-helix. Off of that helix flew thin wisps of darkness making anywhere around it dangerous, and Kaminari's body surrounded in even more electricity which caused the blond-haired boy to grind his teeth, an action that Zach noticed and that Raijin noticed he noticed.

Raijin was able to zip away with that extra speed though. He shot far from Zach and to the outsides of the area, and he ran around and swerved behind some trees before swinging back and speeding back out towards Zach. Zach ran towards where Raijin was coming back out at him from though, and he dragged his right hand down in front of him before whipping it up and in a diagonal slash across the front of his body. A wave of Death flew out of Zach diagonally towards Raijin to prevent him from jumping or sliding, giving an obvious choice of where Raijin should run to. Raijin ran there, stopped short and let a black knife covered in Death fly past him, and then he zipped by again but kept his distance farther this time while just staring over at Zach with his eyes wide again at what Zach started shouting.

"You never answered my question!" Zach yelled. "How did I know you were coming, Raijin?! I know it's annoying you, and I know you still haven't figured it out!" Zach spun around and watched as the yellow blur did circles at a distance from him being careful of his raging Death. "How did I fool you, when you're the master of tricking people? You have to be so frustrated that you really thought I was completely broken back there, only to realize that I'm stronger than I've ever been before! How could you have known though, when for weeks I've been playing this?! Every, single, second, of every minute! From the day after you betrayed us!"

Class 2-A and All Might had accepted their situation. Enough of them had tried escaping at this point that they found themselves realizing the only way out was if this villain in front of them got tired or was forced away for enough time. It sounded like it had to be a lot of time too from what Zach called over to her before, in a knowing tone like he had seen her use her Quirk both on and off of Trigger before. That would not even surprised most of his classmates at this point. All of them were staring out into the chaos around their campsite in such confusion and shock, yet also hope as they watched Zach battle it out with Kaminari as best they could which for some of them was a lot harder than others at the speeds they were moving. What Zach was shouting had his classmates staring at him with wider eyes again though, their hearts racing as they listened to their friend who had been so distant and detached for weeks now.

"Because I didn't know if there was another spy in the school! Someone else who could be telling you how I'm reacting, yet it wasn't Class A I was worried about. I lied to them anyway though, because what's more convincing than their genuine expressions?" Zach let out a laugh, sounding like a taunt as he glared towards where Raijin stopped for a second. "Because even if there was no spy at school, when I go out in public, I needed them to look at me like I had broken! Whenever someone who could be a spy sees me, it could seem like I was just making an expression to hide something. However if you were to say, look at Kirishima standing next to me on the twelfth floor of Killmore's office takeover, when the helicopter camera was aimed straight at us and I made sure he was looking at me with an expression that showed the weeks of distrust and brokenness…"

Kirishima dropped his jaw and stared out at Zach in disbelief. Sero's eyes bulged as he thought about Zach ignoring him and walking to that window despite his injuries just to look out with such a dark look. Everyone had seen that clip on tv that the news did not show too often because of their expressions too. And not one of them had realized he was faking it.

"I knew, that you wouldn't be able to resist coming after me to finish off the job! Because if you had succeeded at breaking me, then the only thing left to do was kill me! So I needed it known that I was destroyed, crushed, so that you would come to deal the finishing blow yourself. And I knew you would come, especially after I called you my 'nemesis' on national television, how could you resist?" Zach screamed it and he charged at Raijin who got so much angrier a look on his face as Zach made it out like he had been manipulating him the whole time. As Raijin prepared to charge back at him though, Zach yelled, "But that still doesn't explain how I knew you'd be here! How I had everything in place, to put you in my own fucking trap inside your trap!" Zach rose both hands in front of him and combined Death Grenades both in mid-formation so it did not seem like they were ready yet. He fired the larger attack early towards Raijin and then blew it up even earlier, making Raijin put on that extra burst of speed that Zach saw hurt him before and he saw hurt him even more this time as he had to speed away from the encroaching Death tendrils.

How did he know!?

"Zach!" A voice screamed in panic.

Zach's head spun and his feet covered in so much Death that it looked like an explosion beneath him. He shot towards the truck, his red eyes glowing brighter and a furious look on his face as he ran as fast as he had the entire night at the vehicle and then shot up towards the top of it. Dabi looked towards the truck with his eyes wide as the monster he just sent at it was getting charged by a black missile. Dabi started running at the vehicle himself though, While he's fighting it…

"When they're all together!" Raijin called out, grinding his teeth to shake off his frustration and confusion even as his mind worked at its fastest speed to try and figure out what was going on. HOW?!

Zach flew up at the top of the truck and the girl who was pulling back but had her right arm grabbed by the large black Nomu that Dabi had taken with them for insurance. The Nomu turned and swung the arm with the spinning chainsaw on it at the black figure that just leapt straight up to the top of the truck without issue. Zach spun his body faster in midair and dodged the spinning blade. He slammed his left fist out into the Nomu's chest and blasted a huge amount of Death into the monster while reaching over with his right hand and grabbing the brown-haired girl by her other arm. Zach pulled the girl out of the Nomu's grip while the creature lost strength surrounded in a flame of Death. It fell backwards off the top of the truck, and then Zach jumped off the side of the vehicle while still holding the girl he saved in his arms.

"Put her down Zach!" Midoriya shouted over at the truck.

"That idiot," Raijin said with a smug look spread over his face.

"Give it to me," Zach whispered.

"Here. Good luck. I believe in you."

Zach turned while slowly lowering the girl in his arms down next to the vehicle. He turned and he started walking back towards the back of it, while all the villains who had been running towards him to finish their group off as they were all in one place started getting so confused. Raijin slowed down himself, and Dabi opened his eyes huge as the girl Zach put down walked up behind him with black wisps fading off of her. "You-" Raijin began, as Class A started to realize it, Shoji and Tsuyu's eyes going widest first faster than their classmates.' Raijin's eyes darted to the girl behind Zach who smiled wide and confidently before bending her legs down, and springing up in the air using springs that formed in her knees to bounce her back to her position on the truck's roof. "That girl," Raijin said, looking up at her and then back at Zach. "You seriously-"

"Kaminari," Zach said. His voice was deep and scratchy, and he spoke in a low voice that once again chilled many of the people there. His classmates worst of all were looking towards Zach in fear, and they were feeling less and less like they knew the person they were looking at after seeing that girl behind him not react at all from his Death. "You don't know anything about her, or about me. As much as I told you," Zach narrowed his glowing red eyes, and he glared at Raijin and over to his right at Dabi, then behind them at the ten other villains total in the clearing with them. "As much as I trusted you, I never told you everything. I never told anyone, everything. You, Yaoyorozu, Midoriya, everyone heard different stories and no one got the whole truth." Zach's body started losing its flaring appearance.

The two in the truck behind Zach looked at his pitch black back carefully for a second but mostly kept their focuses on the villains facing them and readying their Quirks and weapons too. Darling recreated rifles on her arms though her right was in a lot of pain from when the Nomu grabbed her, though she was smiling so wide at how fast Zach came to save her when she called for his help. Zach said in a low calm voice but his eyes flashing with rage for a second, "Ganji once told me, 'It's important to make contacts while you are still at school.' You think because you killed everyone you thought I knew outside of school, I had no moves?! You think I told you everything?! I may have trusted you more than anyone else, but I never trusted anyone with everything! Only I know everything about myself."

"So what?" Raijin asked. His face was pissed off and he had some sweat on it but he grinned while continued, "You hid some-"

"You're going to figure it out anyway, because I think you really are that smart," Zach started again, pissing off Raijin more by cutting him off. "Because if you were thinking straight right now, you'd know that if I had a spy in the League of Villains, I would have just used them to find your bases. I would have gone to where you all were, instead of making you come to me." Raijin's eyes started widening more, as did all the other villains behind him including Dabi who lowered his bottom lip while staring at Zach. "But come on Kaminari, who else knew about this? The only person outside of the League of Villains. The man who wanted to regain favor with you, because he lost me on New Year's, allowed me to get back to U.A."

"Days before I came back to class, I was being hunted and chased and it didn't stop just because I got to this place!" Iida, Midoriya, Kirishima, Ashido, and Jirou remembered something Zach had shouted at them after running away from an emergency right after returning back in January.

Yaoyorozu stared out towards Zach with her eyes huge too though, especially as Kaminari asked with his face twisting in anger, "The Hunter?"

Zach nodded his head. Chills went down Yaoyorozu's spine. She had heard Zach say that name before. He had told her what had happened to her on New Year's, and she started panting hard which made Jirou turn to her with a confused and terrified look that got even more frantic at Momo's expression. All Might had heard the name before and he started panting while looking out at Zach. Zach's classmates got uneasy, unnerved looks on their faces as Zach's dark mouth twisted in anger and his voice got so much darker, "You had him hunt me down on New Year's, dragging me through the streets of Musutafu, and I tried to crack my own skull on the pavement but couldn't because of the snow, just to escape him! I tried that, because I knew it would have been better than getting brought back to Shigaraki! But Webb saved me!" Zach shouted it and through his dark tone came a voice that was so distraught and angry. "And I mean it. Every moment from the day after you left, I've been hiding everything, but that doesn't mean it didn't hurt when my family went missing, and it doesn't mean I didn't feel a thing when you told me that you had massacred my mentor's family in front of him!"

Zach started breathing heavier and his dark breath shadowed over his face, making dark swirls in the red orbs of his eyes. "I told you about Webb saving me, yet I never told you how I met the Hunter again. Because how could I tell you? How could I tell anyone?" Zach's voice was so dark and ominous that the people in the truck behind him and even on top of it felt chills. Zach's tone just reached a point that he was scaring them all. "How could I tell you, that I had convinced a man that I was the devil?" Zach's question echoed through the air and a sudden gust of wind rushed in without the villain who could do that moving a muscle.

Raijin stared at Zach with his eyes opening wider and wider. "You think the way we looked at you in that basement was fear? You've never seen fear, like the fear on a man's face when he thinks you're going to kill him and drag him down to Hell. When he thinks you're going to keep killing him over and over and over for eternity."

Gentle! We've made a mistake!

This kid…

Zach!

"That's right," Zach said, his voice lifting up a bit and losing its most ominous tone that just had everyone freeze in place more than they already were. Zach's dark aura settled even more, so that it was like a flat dark veil around Zach's body that was thinner yet no easier to see his bones through like it was actually just as thick just more condensed. Zach continued while looking into Raijin's eyes, "I did something like that, I, crossed that line… for you!" Zach shouted it and his voice sounded so frustrated through the darkness. Raijin's eyes opened wider, and Zach yelled louder at him in pain rather than a tone meant to scare, "I told you I got Webb and Ganji to help me find you, when Shatterer had taken you, but- But they didn't know where you were any better than I did! But I had grabbed one of your socks, and I knew how to track down the Hunter, and I threw away my own soul!" Zach screamed it and he started panting afterwards while everyone stared at him in silence. He took in a few short sucked-in breaths, and then he snapped in fury, "I crossed that line, for YOU! Because you mattered that much to me, that I wouldn't just take a bullet for you, I would have literally turned into a monster- the devil! Just to save you!"

Zach shook his head, and water spilled out of his red eyes and down his dark face. "I convinced a man that I was the devil, and maybe just doing that makes it true. Maybe I am the devil," Zach said, lifting his head and looking into Raijin's eyes with so much rising fury, any water in his eyes vanishing away. "Because a crazy fucking murderer like Hunter, believes it's so! He's not afraid of you, he's not afraid of the League, he's not even afraid of Eziano fucking Mozcaccio!" Midoriya and All Might stared out towards Zach with their eyes shaking so much already but shooting an extra bit wider at that last part. Dabi backed up at the tone shift in Zach's voice, and he rose up his hands with blue flames flaring out on them. "But he is afraid of me," Zach said. "And he should be…"

Zach lifted up his right hand. He rose it and all the villains in front of him tensed up or started raising their weapons, activating their Quirks. Zach rose his right hand to his neck though, curled around something he had grabbed from Darling. He rose his hand in no threatening motion to the villains who were all staring at him in confusion. He cocked his neck a bit to the left while putting his right hand so covered in Death that it was hard to see what he was holding up to his neck, and then Zach pressed his thumb down. Raijin's eyes shot open huge, and he rose his arms and pointed them forward with electricity swirling around them, but instead of firing he just yelled, "Everyone get back!"

Zach started running forward. He ran forward and tossed his right hand out to the side, opening it up and allowing the Death to fall off of an object that every person there except for Darling, Raijin, and Zach stared at in shock. A needle fell from Zach's hand, and all of the villains started running away at the same time. Zach's body that had Death condensed so closely to it, it pulsed. He slowed down after starting to run away from the truck he had felt he was too close to. Oh whoa…

La Brava said to Gentle in a panicked voice, "Let's get out of here."

"Trust his plan," Gentle said, and La Brava's eyes shot open huge. "Trust me," he added to the younger woman before she could argue. La Brava's pink eyes opened even wider, then she turned and looked out at the boy whose body pulsed again.

Zach's bones became invisible inside his aura, and Raijin yelled out while swinging his arms at Zach after finally getting a safe distance. Two thin beams of electricity shot at Zach, then right as they were about to slam into his chest at different points, holes opened up in Zach's body and those lightning bolts went straight through him. "Why would you go so far?!" Raijin shouted at the boy who he had been fighting pretty closely with before, who had just made sweat cover his face and the faces of all his allies and enemies around him by opening holes in his body to show there was no longer a solid form inside that dark veil.

Zach lifted up his right arm, and he stared down at it with his glowing red orbs in the center of just a swirling black mass where his head should have been. He stared at his hand that pulsed again, and again, and then he rose his eyes up and looked at Raijin. So this is what it feels like. Even though there was no face on the dark mass with those red eyes on it, a thicker darkness formed on the bottom of that mass and twisted up at the sides before opening to show it was a mouth. Zach's red eyes swirled with black wisps, and all his classmates just fell completely silent at what they had just witnessed.

Was that- Jirou thought, looking towards where she thought she just saw a needle fall.

"'So far?!'" Zach roared, his voice echoing over the campsite while his body pulsed again and then sucked back down into its normal size. His voice was deeper and scratchier, his normal voice no longer hidden behind it like the voices were overlapping. "It isn't so far! Right Dabi?!" Zach yelled, snapping his head towards the man with spiky black hair who held up his hands covered in blue flames defensively. Dabi's eyes started opening huge though at what Zach just yelled at him. "You remember! The Trigger deal in Shanghai, where you killed all the Triakuza dealing with us. I asked you why you did it, and you told me they tried to sell us bad product!"

Tsuyu's bottom lip dropped and she took a step back from the forcefield in front of her. She dropped down to her butt, and on her sides both Hagakure and Ashido backed away with scared looks in their eyes. Kirishima kept staring out towards Zach with his entire expression shaking in shock and confusion, so much confusion. Bakugo started grinding his teeth, but the corners of his lips curled up as everyone around him stared out in horror. You better know what you're doing. You fucking crazy, crazy… WIN!

"I asked how you knew it was bad just by looking at it. Do you remember what you told me?!" Zach yelled over at Dabi, as his body pulsed with darkness again and the wisps started swirling around his limbs instead of all sucking back in this time. "You told me it was in the color! Bright purple, the brighter the better! And oh man Dabi, if this shit wasn't the brightest purp you ever SEEN!" Zach's entire body erupted in Death out of his right side. His arm bulked up and Death pushed out to his right side making any villains in that general vicinity leap backwards and yell out in fear.

"HAhaha! HAHAHA!" Zach's left side erupted next in Death, and then Raijin shoved his hands together and Dabi did the same pointing at him. Wind blew in and the ground shook beneath Zach's body. Villains fired guns at him, they fired lightning and fire and all sorts of different attacks. Zach's head flew to the right side five feet away, his body staying where it was, to dodge the super fast thick bolt of lightning Kaminari fired at him. He pulled his head away and his neck extended out as a thick trail of Death. Then the rest of his body started extending after his head that continued rising up as a pillar of black smoke that curled in and spun higher and higher up like a giant massive coiling snake. Attacks missed his body between the coils or just went straight through them, while Zach rose up twenty, thirty, forty feet in the air.

All of the thick coils of Zach's winding body started to expand and spread down into each other, giving Zach a huge form with a thick base that got thinner up towards the top. He had become a giant at over forty feet tall, and huge thick arms slowly started pulling off of his side and taking form as he bellowed out laughter from up above. As Kirishima heard this laughter, he felt a lump in his throat imagining the first villain he had ever fought on Trigger. But then he thought of something else that made his eyes bulge and his fists clench tightly at his sides. "You know Kirishima, it hurts a lot whenever I bring someone back. But when I take a life, I get the opposite feeling. One of euphoria. But! I will never stop saving lives. As much as it hurts me physically, the feeling I get from saving a life, knowing that the person will get to go home to their family, is a thousand times better than that weird pleasure I get from taking one…"

"He's getting high," Kirishima whispered. His friends around him had mostly backed up, and he spoke a little louder as he saw some of them look in at him, "Not just off the Trigger. He told me before, that killing gives him this, this weird sense of euphoria."

It makes him stronger and makes him feel high?! Mineta thought in terror while looking over at Kirishima.

"If that's already true," Midoriya started to whisper.

Yaoyorozyu's eyes were huge as she looked up at the giant laughing form of darkness that was more terrifying than anything she had ever seen before. The villains were in complete disarray over it too, and Zach's laughter echoing over the forest was not making it any easier. She thought about a look she had seen on his face at the Sports Festival, when he had first used Nightmare after killing Spinner and she had felt the worst chills at the look on his face. "Zach, Zach!" She shouted.

"Zach!" Midoriya yelled up towards his friend whose red eyes glanced down in his direction.

Zach's swirling thick base was not in very much control, with thick black wisps pulling off in different directions in the clearing. The wisps on the side closer to the big pink dome started pulling away from it though, but Zach only looked that way for a second before looking back down at Raijin who just threw a bunch of electricity in his body and filled him with lightning. Zach felt like gritting his teeth, but he did not have any teeth to grit. Yet he was able to speak out a dark mouth shape on his face, his voice deep and scratchy and very loud. "I watched Chemist's trials with you Dabi, and I've seen that there are Trigger out there that barely mess with cognitive functions at all but are still illegal! It's stupid, to give villains such a ridiculously huge edge against heroes." Zach's giant arms bulged right as he started reaching them down towards groups of villains who all scattered different directions faster than he was moving his arms down. "I still don't know how strong Death can be!" Zach yelled, and he let out a loud laugh again after it as more scared looks spread over the faces of all the villains he was looking down at.

"We have to get out of here," Dabi snapped over at Raijin.

Raijin glared towards him and then back up at the monster in front of him. "If everyone goes on Trigger-"

"It won't matter," Dabi snapped louder. "Do you fucking see that? He's out of his mind, and he just Triggered Death. We don't know what that'll do. He doesn't know what that'll do. We have to go."

"You're a hero!" Midoriya yelled at the top of his lungs.

Zach froze for a second. He glared down towards the villains just as darkly, only for one of those scared villains to agree with Midoriya shouting, "Yeah! You're Lifebringer! You- you can't just use Trigger!"

"It's not heroic!"

"Zach calm down!"

"You're out of it!"

"I thought," Zach started, his booming voice reaching down on the ground and his huge Death body starting to shrink a bit. His arms moved a little faster as his body shrank down, and he rose them up and down as if working out the kinks of this huge body. "That I could try and be a symbol," Zach continued. "I could try and be the Lifebringer people wanted me to be. I thought that heroes mattered so much, because people look to them to feel safe. And after beating Shatterer, I started to feel like I could actually become something like that." Zach's mouth curled down at the corners and he growled down in a deeper voice, "That's stupid though. Not because it won't work, because it could, but because I can't do it. I thought that being a symbol was more important than the actual work I did. But if I have to break the rules to do good, then so be it." He finished and glared down specifically towards Raijin and Dabi.

Zach started raising his right hand, and a swirling ball of Death started forming there. It was easily ten feet in diameter, a sphere of darkness that gained shape and size so fast that it terrified most of the villains into backing away and then spinning and sprinting back into the forest behind them.

"If you attack with that much Death," Dabi called up to the kid who was doing the most threatening thing all night. "You'll kill-"

"YOU THINK I CARE?!" Zach roared.

"Zach!" Yaoyorozu screamed, tears in her eyes as she tried to force her voice to reach him.

Zach clenched his mouth shut as some of his classmates started yelling at him, and he pulled his thirty foot body back while glaring down in Dabi's eyes in so much fury. "You're mad? You're surprised? Or hurt?! That I really am going to kill you?!" Zach's entire body started shaking and black wisps pulled off of him, while Dabi turned around and started sprinting back into the forest after most of the others except for only Raijin who just spun and yelled at Backfire to get back there. Zach's body shook more, "You, you who were once my brother! You saved my life, but, but you're a villain…" Zach screamed it, and then his body started getting lower down while he rose up the huge sphere of Death more in his right hand like he was getting ready to throw it.

Zach's glowing red eyes flared as he glared into the woods after Dabi who was trying to run from him after giving him that look… "And when Ganeshi snapped Shigaraki's neck, and Spinner lifted the tablet to show me the Akers' apartment that Hackerman was tapped into. I- I would have done whatever you asked. But, but even after I brought him back, even though I did what you asked, you killed her anyway, along with everyone else!" Zach screamed it and his voice pierced the night. His friends shouting at him from inside the pink sphere stared out at him with their faces twisting in horror, and even the ones who had backed away out of fear of Zach felt their hearts pounding at every word out of his mouth. The villains ran through the forest in fear, while Gentle, La Brava, and Darling stared up at Zach's back in shock as he kept screaming, "Twice held me to the chair, and Kurogiri teleported you into their house. Kaminari told you how much it would hurt me, and Kurogiri, he took Jenny's blood and gave it to Toga, so she could torture me with the face of my best friend! Shigaraki made me watch, while you burned them alive, while she screamed my name! And he dug the knife under my eye to force it open when I wanted to stop watching, and he made me listen to her screams for months! You killed her Dabi! You think I'd feel sorry for you? You think I could ever stop hating you?!"

In every single name Zach had just said, his friends heard hate in his voice. Sheer hatred and rage with each name he mentioned. What he just described, watching these villains murder his family, it had every one of his friends moving back closer to the edge of the forcefield that they hoped would come down soon with Backfire not in front of it anymore. Ashido had tears filling her eyes as did most of the girls, and a few of the guys too including Midoriya who pressed his hands into the forcefield only to be bounced back again and have to run back up to be with the others.

"His scar," Ojiro whispered. The most defining scar under Zach's right eye, hearing how he got it being forced to watch the villains massacre his family made Ojiro feel sick. Every single time he had looked at Zach over the past six months, looked at that scar and imagining what could have created it, he never imagined anything as bad as what he just heard described. Knowing it was after VTS too, when Zach would blame himself for it happening, it had Ojiro's eyes filling with tears and his fists clenching so furiously at his sides.

Yaoyorozu stared up towards Zach's face that she could not make out the pain on. She just stared at his huge black face swirling with darkness and the two giant red orbs full of so much hatred. Zach. Please don't do it-

Zach swung his huge sphere of Death in front of him, and Raijin sped past Zach's back to get on his other side as where he threw the huge sphere down. He threw it slowly, and it killed all the trees at the edge of the clearing and flattened out on the floor. The Death pushed down on the ground and then blew away in a wave, but the villains had started running too early and even the slowest of them still escaped the edge of the attack. Dabi spun after the Death stopped, and he watched trees blackened and drained of life cracking and splintering and collapsing. He looked farther out and saw zapping electricity, but he just frowned darkly at the sight of Raijin back there still with that monster. "We're getting out of here!" Dabi shouted back towards the younger villain.

Raijin spun his head towards the other villains far from him through a cluster of breaking dead trees that all had the life sucked out of them. Likely making Zach even stronger. Raijin's body surrounded in electricity while a thick whip of Death broke out of Zach's body and flung back at him. Zach lowered his left hand down towards where Raijin was racing by, but he was too slow and just slammed his wide palm into the ground behind where Kaminari just was. "Hahaha! You know you've lost!" Zach shouted after Raijin's back. "You lost AGAIN! HAHAHA! I wonder what villains are going to want to follow such a joke as the old, weakened League of Villains now?!"

Zach's body got smaller and smaller, shrinking down after he threw his huge mass of Death down into the edge of the forest. The villains were leaving their unconscious Nomu behind, but none of the others in their team had gone down yet. Zach started running after them in the wider clearing now, and he called out, "All For One isn't really back is he?!" He shouted it towards Raijin's back and watched as the blond spun his head around inside his veil of electricity. He saw the other villains past him and at the edge of the new tree line but moving farther back look towards him with wide eyes too, while Zach's classmates and new allies stared towards him in confusion. "I knew that broken body of his must not be able to fight anymore! He's not just 'biding his time' like people think! You League of Villains are done for!" Zach got smaller so he was only eighteen feet tall now, and he bent his legs that broke apart out of his thick base. He started running forward faster, chasing after the villains who were running away from him.

"Run away! Run! Knowing that I've beaten you again!" Zach shouted it, and he saw Raijin flinch and slow down. Zach slowed down himself and watched as Raijin turned his head and looked over his shoulder with a shaken expression at what he just heard Zach say. "That's right Raijin, you lose. You hate losing don't you?"

Raijin's eyes darted back to the pink barrier that had all of Class A in it. He shot his eyes towards the truck, then to his side trying to look behind him while keeping Zach in view. "Oh there he is," Zach said, his voice colder and less taunting. Is came out as a hiss and made Raijin snap his gaze straight back into Zach's big red eyes. Zach lifted his arms and created huge black claws at the ends of them, and he slammed them down on the ground in front of him. His body hunched back and dark flames flared out of his body as his black claws dug straight into the ground. "You want to shout at me, that you'd be the one who wins if you get away here. Because I gave up everything for this!" Zach clenched his claws down harder and smirked at the blond whose body surrounded in lightning.

"You will lose!" Raijin yelled.

"You know me better than that," Zach growled, his voice cutting through the air and to his left towards his classmates. Some of them had started shouting at Zach not to let Kaminari get away, while others just yelled at him to stop like All Might. They all became quiet though as Zach growled, "You don't get it Raijin. How could you ever? You, who are so obsessed with yourself. The biggest sociopath in the world. You could never understand what's going on because you don't get one simple thing!" Zach started laughing while Raijin snarled back at him and started surrounding in a huge veil of electricity sparking all over the place. "If you ran away, it wouldn't really be your loss as things are now! I'd lose everything, all of my cards are on the table, yet you know me, Kaminari! I told Backfire to stay before because I didn't want you running, and now I'm yelling at you all to run?! How stupid can you fucking be? Why the hell would I inject with Trigger, when I was already so much stronger with the animals I killed? When I wasn't losing in the first place, and injecting with Trigger would make you run away?!"

Raijin's eyes that were shaking started to open wide, right as something else opened up far behind him that Zach's red eyes locked onto. Yaoyorozu held her breath while her jaw started dropping. Confused looks spread over the faces of all of Class A, and then they started turning to the left after a flash of black that just shot out of the huge bulking mass with its arms curled forward as if ready to pounce. Out of that blur came a shout moving so fast that it got farther away through it, "Because if you realized that there was no chance of victory, you'd call your emergency escape route!" A whip of black flew at Raijin while he spun in towards Zach, making him jump away instead of towards his old classmate who just made his expression cover in panicked rage.

"DABI!" Raijin shouted while still in his arc back, though his eyes were huge and shaking as he stared at the thin black trail in front of him that left most of Zach's body behind.

"You really think using Trigger made me slower?!" Zach roared, while he sped between all the villains and straight towards a swirling blackish-purple form he just saw appear out in the forest. He caught a glimpse of a metal brace inside, and his right hand formed out of the flying black form he just shot himself out of that hulking mass of Death that he condensed his real body inside of while yelling at Raijin. A dark hand reached forward, and yellow eyes above a metal brace started opening wide but there was no time to react. Not for him, not for the villains around him, not even for Raijin who tried sprinting back only to stop as Zach slammed his hand into the metal brace and clenched down on it.

As soon as he grabbed that metal brace, Zach pulled the Death from his arm down to his lower body and pressed quickly-forming legs into the ground. He jumped up in the air and pushed Death out his side to swirl into the sky, spinning around and around as an impossible to hit target while dragging a shadowy man up into the sky with him. "You try to use your Quirk, and I'll crush your throat," Zach growled in a low voice, and Kurogiri's huge yellow eyes shook in fear as he felt the crunching of the metal brace Zach had gripped in his dark hand.

Zach flew up in the sky, swirled back towards the main clearing and then forced out Death from below his form to keep him elevated.

"Get him!"

"We can't lose Kurogiri!"

"Everyone back!"

Dabi spun to Backfire, "Get back there!" He yelled at her, and the pink haired woman nodded as this situation just got a lot more intense with their escape route and comrade gone.

I did it.

"Yay! Mission complete!" Darling jumped up on top of the truck and pumped a fist into the air.

"He really did it," La Brava whispered with her eyes huge. Some of Zach's classmates looked over when they heard Darling's shout and they gained the same expression as the pink-haired woman in the back.

Gentle looked past Zach's floating body and towards the newer part of the clearing where Zach had killed the trees. "Get ready," Gentle warned, and the girls with him lifted up their guns or gun-arms again.

"I've got you, Kurogiri," Zach growled. "You know how easy it would be for me to kill you? Don't you fucking move."

"ZACH!" Raijin roared up towards the dark form holding Kurogiri by the throat.

"YOU FUCKING LOSE!" Zach roared, turning from Kurogiri but keeping him in his peripheral vision while pulling Death away from his right arm. Death was so thin on his hand that he created that it started to look lighter, but Kurogiri could feel the same amount of crushing force, and there was so much Death in front of him that there was no chance he was moving. Zach's voice sounded serious too. Sazaki, Kurogiri thought, and for the first time in his life he felt terrified of the boy in front of him. What have we created?

"Ha, haha," Sero started laughing and he brought his hands up through his hair. "Holy shit! That was his plan?!"

"You got him Zach!" Mineta shouted, pushing away his fear for the dark figure in front of them.

Midoriya saw the woman with pink hair running over and he looked at Todoroki and Bakugo and nodded. The three of them ran at the barrier only for it to flash pink from Backfire from a short distance as she pointed her hands at it. They all stopped themselves, instead of causing the damage they knew it would cause looking brighter than it was even earlier while she was holding it. Backfire sprinted to the barrier and grabbed it with both hands, then she spun and rose up a pistol from her right side and aimed up at Zach. She fired, and a bullet flew through the long thin black mass raised fifteen feet up in the air with an arm sticking out at around thirteen feet holding Kurogiri.

"Let him go kid!" Dabi yelled up. "We aren't leaving here without our Warp-"

"You're right, you aren't leaving here," Zach said. His voice was low and dark, and all the villains around him who were preparing to attack him froze at the same time. They stared up as Zach's red eyes shifted around each of them. "You don't understand, the power I feel right now. None of you will be escaping here!"

"Get him back!" Raijin yelled, as he looked up and saw Kurogiri clenched there tightly in Zach's hand but still conscious as Zach forced Death away from him.

"If you try, I'll just kill him!" Zach roared, and all the villains around him held back as he sounded completely serious. Zach looked down into Raijin's eyes as if daring him to do an attack. He was nearly three times Kaminari Denki's height, and he just proved that he was as fast if not faster with the sudden burst he used to get to Kurogiri. Raijin wondered if he could zap Zach before Zach killed Kurogiri, but then his thoughts derailed as Zach asked in a low voice, "Are you serious? You really think, I caught Kurogiri, to stop you?" Raijin stared up into Zach's eyes in confusion, and Zach started laughing. He laughed, though his voice was dry and cold, "That's what you never understood, Kaminari. The reason you failed here. Because you're too fucking self-centered to realize one simple thing: it's not about you." Zach shook his huge dark head and clenched tighter on Kurogiri's brace, while the villain in his hand was starting to feel weaker anyway. "This, has never been about you, or Dabi."

Zach looked to his right at the man he was clenching so hard by the throat. The metal brace that let him know where Kurogiri's physical body really was. Zach glared into Kurogiri's eyes but kept speaking down to Raijin, "I couldn't have known you'd be here, even with the nemesis thing and knowing it would be better with communications blocked. I couldn't have known Dabi would come either. Hunter doesn't have the kind of control to decide what you guys chose to do here. There were so many variables, so many ways tonight could have gone down, but I knew one person I could account for no matter what. If it was absolutely clear that you had no chance of winning, whoever came would be sure to call him to save them." Zach looked deeper into Kurogiri's eyes and he could hear the man in front of him start wheezing.

"Sazaki," Kurogiri began.

"YOU LIAR!" Raijin roared up.

"Do you really think, I would put all the people closest to me in danger, for you?" Zach asked. "The people I care the most about? You think I would put them at so much risk just for revenge? Something so petty… It's not about you Kaminari, but, but it's also not about me." He turned his head a bit and looked down, and he hissed at the villains looking up at him, "I didn't do this because I hate you. I did it, because every night I go to sleep in Nightmare form, in fear of Kurogiri. And, and if someone like me who has been through so much, who is so strong! If I'm afraid of him, then, can you imagine how regular citizens feel? Every night, afraid for their children's lives in the next room because Kurogiri could be there. Afraid to walk down the streets, because Kurogiri could bring an army of villains to kill them and everyone they know!" Zach's body started shaking, and he snapped his head back to the man to his right who he stared looking at so hatefully through his flaring red eyes, while dark wisps ripped off of his right arm and flew to the sides to prevent from reaching his hand. "You might've been just as important a player in the League of Villains' schemes, Raijin, but leaving U.A. has made you just another strong villain. Whereas Kurogiri, you're, you're the biggest threat to peace in our world."

Midoriya stared out through the pink barrier and up towards Zach with his eyes shaking and his fists loosening at his sides. Zach. That's, your reason? For all of this? You did all of this… for, for other people?

Bakugo's grin that had spread as soon as Zach caught Kurogiri faltered. He stared up at Zach, and he felt his heart racing faster and faster at what he had just shouted. There were things tonight that Zach had done and said that had Bakugo ready to go out there and kick his ass, yet he no longer had that urge at all. He just stared out and his eyes started shaking like the rest of the class's, like All Might's too.

Sazaki, All Might thought, taking a step forward towards the pink barrier and looking up at the top of the dark form. You broke, so many rules. Lied, and, and you have captured…

"You, would just use a portal and escape…" Zach said. Everyone there other than Zach stared up at him frozen where they were. Their thoughts cut off and their eyes widened. Darling's only widened for a second before she started grinning and raising up her gun arms while darting her eyes around the other villains. La Brava glanced up at Gentle and whispered nervously to him, and Gentle kept staring towards Zach with his own eyes wide as the black wisps on Zach's arm started pulling farther down his lighter forearm towards the hand on Kurogiri's throat.

"Zach wait!" Yaoyorozu shouted up at him.

"Don't do it!" Kirishima yelled.

"Hold on Zach!" Dabi yelled.

"Don't!" Another villain called up.

Raijin shook where he stood, his face so covered in rage as he was processing what Zach had yelled at him. It's, not about me?! What the fuck is that supposed- that mother fuck- HOW CAN HE- I broke him!

"Zach please!" Midoriya screamed up, tears in his eyes. Everything until now, it's not too far! Please Zach!

"Sazaki, don't," Kurogiri started. "You've, got me," his voice was weak, and Zach wondered if he would even be able to use a portal anymore.

Zach's hand started unclenching in Kurogiri's metal brace. He glared into the villain's eyes though, and he spoke in a deep, booming voice while darkness spread out from the base of his fifteen foot tall body and started spinning around him. It spun around and rose up in a circle around his body over six feet tall, keeping a gap between him and the villains. "USJ," Zach spoke, his voice cutting through the dark night with no natural light from the sky with the heavy clouds covering it. Light flickered from the flame behind Zach's classmates and from the lights of the truck and pink barrier, and everyone stared up at the face of this huge dark form as he growled out, "The training forest, and, and the League escaping Camino Ward, it was all you. You're a monster-"

"Life-bringer," Kurogiri argued. He said it slowly, and Zach's red eyes widened for a second. "How many, people, did we save?"

Zach pulled his head back and then hissed out, "Hundreds." His hand tightened back into Kurogiri and made the tired villain flinch though, and Zach started in a pained voice as he said, "You're right. You… remember all the people we saved together? You and me. I got you, to do things my way. I told you we didn't need to threaten doctors and nurses to save people, and you listened and did things my way. You were smart. You were, someone I had started to trust." Zach shook his head and then his voice got louder, "I looked for the good in villains, and I found it, even in you. But you- I never knew why you did what you did. I never knew why you would do so much evil, kill so many people, yet you were always there. You sent me to hospitals and car crashes to bring people back to life… And you teleported Dabi into the Akers' apartment, and you stood there and watched as he burned them alive! I remember the people we saved, Kurogiri. I remember them well. But I will never forget her. I will never forget seeing you there in the background, watching as Dabi burned her."

"Zach," Hagakure whispered, her eyes full of fear and pain at the same time.

"Stop it," Midoriya whispered. "Stop it!" He called out louder, though he did not know if his voice was even reaching Zach anymore.

"We have to do something," a female villain on Raijin's left snapped over at their leader. "If he kills him, we're screwed."

"He won't," Raijin snarled, though a bead of sweat slid down his face. He won't! Will he? I- I don't know-

"You made the League of Villains what they are," Zach said. He got louder and gripped Kurogiri harder, "And you, pulled me back through that portal at VTS. You brought me back when I just wanted to run, and you tortured me! You forced food through portals and down my throat when I wouldn't eat, and you dripped water on my face for hours- DRIP DRIP DRIP- NO! But that's not why! Even if you couldn't portal yourself, All For One can warp people he knows to himself, so you'd never be caught for long! You- who infiltrated U.A. and brought upon the end of All Might, and you! You who brought the destruction of Musutafu, the Sports Festival, killing hundreds! THOUSANDS of people! You allowed your Quirk to be used for so much evil, and you released the most horrible monsters ever known from Tartaros to bring even more fear and terror across the world!"

"Get him back!"

"Save him!"

"Do it!" Raijin yelled, only for lightning to surround him and him to sprint backwards as fast as he could as a huge thick whip of Death flew out towards him after he yelled it.

The whip of Death was not slow like Zach had been moving before. It whipped out so fast that two of the villains running forward to try and stop Zach could not change directions in time. Death surrounded them as they screamed, "AAahh-" They reached out inside the dark smoke they were barely visible in, and they collapsed to the ground with their skin pale and their eyes still open.

A pulse of strength went through Zach's entire body, and he said in a deep low voice, "Oops. I don't know my own strength in this form. But telling from that power boost, the two of them are dead." Zach's body pulsed again, and Zach growled, "And so is he." The power boost he just got had pulsed through his arm too, and darkness surrounded the man he was holding in his hand flaring with black flames. "Your reign of terror ends here. Kurogiri, goodbye," Zach threw his right hand down and released Kurogiri so fast that he slammed through a tree and smashed into the ground with a loud thud. Everyone in the forest stared at Zach in fear at the monotone voice he just had while talking about killing those three.

Then Zach's head turned and his red eyes swirling with black glared at the villains around him. "Hahaha hahahahahaaa… Who's next?" A funnel of black wind whipped up from the ground and completely surrounded Zach's body in a tornado of Death. Red orbs glowed bright through the funnel, and all of the villains spun and started sprinting away as fast as they could.

"Where do we go?!"

"There's no escape route!"

"Run the old fashioned way!"

Dabi scrambled backwards and then he spun and started sprinting as fast as his legs would take him.

"Where do you think you're going?!" A huge ball of black flames flew down after some villains, and one of them turned back and let out a scream right before the ball slammed down around his back. He tried running another few steps but tripped and went down still surrounded in that darkness, while to his left only thirty feet away all of Class A stared out at the dying villain in shocked horror.

Raijin was sprinting away, as fast as he could ahead of all of the other villains. Backfire screamed out asking what they were doing and then just turned and ran too as she saw Zach's eyes shift towards her for a second. Nine villains started scattering out into the woods, and Raijin slowed down as he heard Zach's voice roar out behind him, "How does it feel to lose, Kaminari?" Raijin slowed more and he looked back over his shoulder, and he turned around more while looking back to see the funnel going down and fading away, and a five and a half foot tall black figure walking out through it and in his direction. "You've never really lost before, have you? So this has to be a new feeling for you! HOW MUCH DO YOU HATE IT?!"

Raijin clenched his fists so tightly, but he took a step back. He's trying to egg me on. I'm not that, that…

"That's right, you can't figure me out. Because I've lost, I've lost so many times and I learned from each of them things someone who always wins could never understand! You'll try, but you don't know why I would egg you on so obviously when you know that I know how smart you are. But if it's not to get you to run back here, then is it reverse psychology? Do I want you to run, because the Trigger's wearing off? Or did I make my huge form go down like that myself, after finally getting control over my new power? Am I tired? Am I letting you run away, or am I still trying to kill you?"

"Raijin, we're running!" Dabi yelled to his left without slowing as he reached the blond who had been faster than the rest of them.

"Wait, a second," Raijin started. He looked through all the trees at the figure just walking towards them, only for Zach to stop and not start running in the forest after the retreating villains.

"Oh, so you are going to stay and fight me?" Zach asked, and he stayed where he was only to take a nervous step backwards.

Other villains stopped upon hearing that tone, and they started to think that what he said about his Trigger wearing off might be more of the truth than they had thought. Backfire turned around from farthest back in the group of villains, and she opened her mouth to call at Sazaki only to freeze as Zach lifted his arms up and brought them to his right side. Zach pulled his right hands down to his right side and pressed his wrists together with his fingers curled out. His dark form pulled its elbows back, and an explosion of darkness erupted in front of his palms before shrinking and condensing more and more into the densest sphere of Death imaginable.

"Backfire!" Dabi yelled back towards the woman. "Put one up!"

"I can feel the Trigger wearing off," Backfire said in fear, while turning and sprinting back towards Dabi and Raijin who ran her way. The other villains who had scattered in different directions but mostly to one side all started running towards her too, and she yelled, "Get close- holy shit!" She looked over her shoulder and locked eyes with Zach for a second which made her trip and fall and then start pushing away on her hands and knees. She spun and rose up her hands, creating a wall of pink out from the floor that started spreading.

"Reaping… Death…" Zach slammed his hands out and the black sphere on his hands shot forward with a huge beam of darkness behind it. "WAAAVVVEE!"

Backfire screamed and pushed out more of her Backfire forcefield. It curved at the outsides as the end of the huge sphere of Death was about to reach her, and the end of the Reaping Death Wave exploded against her barrier. "AAAEEEEEE!" She screamed and pushed her hands out harder in front of her, while Death wrapped around the outsides of her flashing pink wall as far as she was able to extend it. One of the villains running over dove for the safety of behind the barrier, only to just miss as Death washed past him in a flood. Raijin turned his head to the right as the scream cut short and he saw a body fall in that darkness, and he started backing up away from the forcefield that had more and more dark Death smashing into it every passing millisecond.

Instant, Death, Raijin thought. Their comrades were falling one by one, and Raijin stared down at Backfire's back as she started letting out a scream for a different reason. Ectoplasm!

Backfire tried to hold her barrier, but a voice roared through the darkness slamming into it. "You think Backfire can stop Death!? What is there to bounce back? Death isn't a force. It isn't something your pathetic Quirk can deflect! Death is a concept! Something that is coming for all of you!" Zach roared it while pushing his arms out harder and forcing out as much excess Death as he could manage, and he started panting when the last of it fired out of his arms.

Black wisps slid through the pink barrier, and all the villains hiding behind it backed up farther. They spun around one by one and started turning to run, while Backfire collapsed and the black wisps seeped through her barrier even faster. They seeped through and dipped down onto her skin and around her body, wrapping her up and coating her in Death while other villains stumbled and sprinted away. The dark wave of Death on the other side of the barrier started to fade, though the barrier stayed where it was just without dark wisps coming through anymore. The black wave faded and Raijin kept backing up as he looked back into the clearing, though everything around them was now part of the clearing too. Trees toppled over and collapsed, blackened and void of life, brown leaves ripping from branches that cracked in the slightest gust of wind, and a big gust just blew through filling the forest with cracking and collapsing noises.

"That was everything I had Raijin," Zach said. He stared towards the blond from over a hundred feet away, and in his red eyes swirled a black color that twisted them. Even in that black aura, wrapped around his five and a half foot tall body, with eyes that were just pure red with black swirls, Zach's eyes suddenly shared the same feeling as when he first lifted his head. When he rose his head and struck fear in the eyes of everyone watching. His red eyes had that conviction again, the determination to win so strongly that he was willing to kill, or do anything to do it. "Or was it?" Zach asked. A flash of lightning surrounded Raijin before zipping away in the opposite direction as Zach as fast as the villain could move.

How much of that was a bluff? Zach looked down at his hands, and he took in a deep breath as he tried to stop himself from shaking. Ignore that feeling. Don't smile. It's the Quirk. Stop it. Don't laugh. Not, not now. Zach turned his head to the left and looked over towards a pink forcefield. I knew they stayed up even if she was unconscious, but this works out really well. Six minutes around for Trigger low-balling, she was holding it for a while but I'll go for five left. Use half of that. Zach lifted his right hand and he pressed it on his chest.

Gentle rose up a hand and he ran it from his forehead up through his hair. Didn't say a thing about killing all of them, but you didn't give away a lot of this plan. Hunter, the Trigger, you kept me in the dark, Sazaki. "The objective, is capturing Kurogiri." You didn't catch him, but…

Zach looked at Class A through the pink barrier of Backfire's forcefield. He stared at them and then started walking towards the class and his teacher. He walked towards them with his expression straight, though he was taking in deep breaths with his mouth open a bit and through his nose as well. The Trigger's wearing off. It was a good strand, but it fades quickly. Not too quickly though.

"Zach," Todoroki began. All of Class A stood up near the edge of the barrier, and as Zach stepped closer, he saw not one of them step away from him. His eyes got softer for a second as he saw that, then Todoroki asked, "What have you done?"

Zach turned his head to the side and darted his eyes around. There were bodies littered around the forest. Kurogiri, Backfire, four other corpses, and broken trees littered the area around the campsite. "Sazaki," All Might said. There was no 'Young' before his name, and All Might continued in a low and so regretful tone, "You know, we're going to have to arrest you."

Zach looked back at All Might. He saw some of his classmates spin inwards towards All Might in shock, including Yaoyorozu and Kirishima who looked like they were about to shout arguments at him. Zach just replied first, "I know, All Might. And that's why I won't be going back with you." Everyone inside the forcefield looked out at Zach and into his eyes.

"Lifebringer let's go!" La Brava shouted towards his back.

"We have four and a half minutes!" Zach called out. He shouted it and then stared deeper into All Might's eyes while the scrawny man with sucked in cheeks stared at him nervously. All Might opened his mouth to tell Zach to hold on, but Zach continued quickly, "All Might, I took your advice and confided with 'those whom I trust the most.'" All Might pulled his head back and his eyes opened huge, his right foot stepping backwards. He felt like Zach just punched him in the gut reminding him what he told the boy after Zach returned from facing Shatterer and the War Boys. "And I told Kaminari about things I shouldn't have told anyone, and people died. Good people, great people, died because of me." Zach's eyes lifted and he stared into All Might's eyes so frustratedly, his fists clenching at his sides. "You didn't really know, the extent of what Ganji did. What all the anti-heroes did, in the shadows, to keep this society safe! They did so much that people will never know, and I wiped out their entire organization."

Zach shook his head and he clenched his teeth so angrily as his friends stared at him. "In different countries, around the world… I destroyed the anti-hero society by trusting Kaminari about Ganji, but it was more than that. I only told him, because I took off my helmet fighting the War Boys. Because as much as I tried to be an anti-hero, I was too idealistic to keep on my helmet and not let that scared girl who almost got raped see my smile, see me tell her that everything was going to be alright. Doing that, to save one person, how many thousands did I doom?" Zach shook his head and then glared so much harder into All Might's eyes, "Why did you save me that day, All Might?"

Bright red lights shone from the back of the truck as Gentle threw on the engines. And the red lights shone brighter as the truck sped in reverse towards where Zach was standing. "Let's go!" La Brava yelled out at him.

"I have a few minutes-"

"You have one, then we're leaving! With or without you!" La Brava yelled it and Zach clenched his teeth so hard with his head pulling back, pain strewn across his face as his eyes darted back and forth along his classmates.

Zach started speaking faster while locking his eyes back on All Might's, calling out louder to shut up his classmates who all started trying to talk to him, "Eight years ago, you should have just let me fall when I leapt off my building." His classmates shut their mouths and they all stared out at Zach and a few at All Might with their eyes shaking in shock. Midoriya turned towards All Might slowly, then back at Zach with his bottom lip lowered at the agonized expression on his face. Zach continued fast though despite what he just said that had everyone silent, "I, I killed people. I destroyed your Symbol- I, I followed the villains in the training forest. I didn't get caught, I chose to go with them. People saw that and lost faith in U.A. I forced you to hold back, to come and save me, and I walked into that portal at the courthouse! I made people question what being a hero meant while bringing people back as a villain, and I committed dozens of horrible crimes with the League. I, have been a plague on this world. Everyone who's ever loved me has died horribly. Cursed…" Zach clenched his teeth so hard to cut off his rambling and then shouted, "BUT! But when you caught me after I jumped off my roof, and I told you how I wouldn't hurt anyone and still be a hero, that was the talk of an ignorant child! I couldn't fit as a hero since I can't obey the rules if they mean letting people die, and I couldn't make it as an anti-hero either because there were rules with them that stopped me from saving people completely. I've tried as a hero, and a villain, and an anti-hero, but I'm done trying to fit into these societies. How much good could I do, if I just, cast Zach Sazaki aside? Cast Lifebringer, and Reaper, my past, all of it away?" When he said 'all of it,' his eyes flashed with more pain at the sight of his friends who he cared so much about, who were what had been keeping him there for so long.

Zach's head spun as the back of a truck came skidding to a stop next to him. La Brava yelled down, "Move it!"

Zach spun from her back to the others in front of him, and then he took a painful step back which made them yell at him to stop.

"Zach don't go!" Kirishima shouted.

"Please!" Yaoyorozu called at him. "You can't do this!"

"Zach get back here!" Iida yelled out angrily, as much as it tore him apart inside to do so.

"Sazaki," All Might said, his voice getting lower. "The rules aren't different for you, no matter what has happened in your-"

There's no time! Zach's eyes darted to La Brava again, and he could see on her face she was seriously considering leaving him there.

Zach spun and he had such a frustrated look on his face as there was so much he wanted to say. There was so much he wanted to explain, to tell the people in front of him who he cared about more than anything. His head spun to Todoroki though and his teeth clenched harder than ever before he snapped, "I'm sorry! I thought I could take down Dabi on my own, because we're our own brothers' keepers. But, but- I don't know if I'll be able to do it now, so you have to stop him Todoroki. Stop Touya," Zach pulled his head back as Todoroki's eyes bulged huge and the others around him looked in in so much confusion. "I'm sorry I didn't say anything, but Endeavor's such a great hero, I couldn't stain his name by revealing the secret I knew."

"What are you talking about?!" Todoroki yelled at Zach, but Zach just took another step back as he heard the engines of the truck revving.

Zach shook his head in pain, and a flash filled the sky covering his face in its light. The dark clouds that had been above for a while now were thicker than ever, and the wind gusted stronger as rain started to fall. "What was it for? Why did someone like you, All Might, have to suffer because of me? Why did amazing people like my parents, the Akers, Webb, all have to die because of me? I don't know. But, I'm going to find that answer." Zach darted his eyes to the truck and heard Gentle shout from the front that he was leaving in ten seconds. Darling shouted from on top that Zach had to come, and she looked ready to jump off if Gentle tried driving away early. Zach could see that look on her face, and it made him take another step back though he couldn't turn away from Class A. "How many times have I almost died? How many times, have I thought about killing myself? How many times have I tried," he whispered, "just to be stopped?"

Momo saw Zach turn and look her in the eyes. She stared at him with her heart breaking, thinking about what he told her that night on the corner of the building, "No one deserves that much power. And the stronger I got, the more control over this power I had, the more like Death I actually became. So before I go back to thinking that way. Before I become the real grim reaper, who commands death, a demon…" No, no no no no no. Zach. No! Not like this!

"I'll be uncompromising, even if it costs me my life. I'll never do anything I feel is wrong again. I won't lie to those I care about," Zach looked straight into Momo's eyes. As rain fell from the sky and onto his black hair and all over his body, he said, "I promised you, when I came back from saving Kaminari. I promised I would never leave without saying anything again… so this is me saying goodbye." Rain poured down faster and pushed Zach's bangs down on his forehead, some pushing down over his eyes and water dripping from his chin. Lightning flashed in the sky and thunder boomed, and Zach's eyes were full of so much reluctance to go. His eyes that shifted over his entire class, locking eyes with each of them with fear and pain and sorrow in them. Yet as he looked around too, as the light faded from the sky and the red tint of the brake lights covered Zach's face instead, his expression changed. His lips that were twisted in frustration flattened out. His eyes so full of all those emotions got colder and steadier, his eyebrows narrowed down, and his fists clenched at his sides.

Class A stayed dry inside their forcefield, and all the dry students stared out at Zach's face that had a red tint to it. His wet hair pushing down and shadowing his cold and dark eyes as he started turning away from them. He stopped after almost fully turning to the truck, and his irises shifted to the right corners of his eyes to look back, so he could say to all of them, "Goodbye." Zach jogged to the back of the truck and leapt up through the open door. His hands shoved in his pockets while he went, and he dropped his phone off the back of the truck. Then his index and middle fingers of his left hand pulled out some money from his wallet and he let that drop too. His wallet fell into the mud behind the truck, his student I.D., his motorcycle license, his ATM card, and his provisional license all left behind in the dirt.

"Zach wait! Don't go!" Yaoyorozu yelled, and she slammed her fists forward only to bounce back away from the forcefield.

Darling smirked down towards the shouting class inside the forcefield and specifically the girl who just failed to get out. "Darling! Shoot anyone who chases us," Zach called up to the roof, and all the shouting behind him stopped. His classmates stared at his back in shock, Yaoyorozu from the floor where Ashido and Ojiro were trying to help her up. Todoroki stared out at Zach in as much shock as he had been for fifteen seconds now, though his eyes started to narrow in fury even as his mind raced.

"You can't-" Midoriya started, looking over at Zach's back through the pink light and falling rain.

The truck jolted as the gears shifted. Zach turned his head and he smacked on the side of the truck twice hard, "Let's go!" He grabbed a handle on the wall while La Brava ran up for the passenger seat. Darling lifted up her arms in front of her and combined them, creating one long sniper rifle while planting her feet down in the footholds set up on the roof to help her stay there while they were moving. Zach looked out the back of the truck, then he reached up and grabbed a string hanging down from the open back of the vehicle. He grabbed it and yanked it down while staring back at Class A, and he slammed the metal back of the truck blocking them from sight.

"I've been lying for weeks," Zach said. He stared at the closed steel door behind him and spoke in a low voice, "Every second I was hiding something, but that night I talked to you I wasn't lying. The things I told you, I meant all of them. I know it's not fair so soon after Kaminari, but I'm sorry, I can't stay here with you all anymore. Because to me, it's not about being a hero… It's about stopping villains…"

Jirou covered her ears with her hands and snapped her eyes wide as his voice faded from her range. She stared out into the trees where the truck retreated through, getting farther and farther until the red lights behind it weren't even visible anymore. She had seen Zach stare straight at her right before he slammed the truck's back down, and she had shoved her earphone jacks down into the floor as fast as she could. Jirou felt her heart pounding so hard and she closed her eyes again once the truck was gone, while her classmates around her she had had to cover her ears to drown out kept screaming into the distance.

Tears spilled out of some eyes while others just looked furious, and still others just stared at the pink barrier and hoped it would stay up longer. Yaoyorozu could not stay up on her feet even with the help of her friends, collapsing down to her knees with her legs pointed out in different directions. All Might stared out into the distance and could no longer see any light from the truck that drove away. Then his right hand lowered down and he grabbed his phone. All Might pulled it out, and like he thought there were bars there as Kaminari was no longer blocking their communications wherever he had run away to. All Might turned his head in the other direction as where Zach just drove away, then Zach's direction again, and then down at his cell phone.

Kirishima clenched his fists so angrily that he broke through the skin and they started to bleed. How much he had doubted Zach, been annoyed by him in the past weeks by his untrusting, suspicious looks, they all jumbled around inside him as he now knew they were all fake. Zach lied to me! He was lying the whole time- but not because he didn't trust me? Because he wanted people to see me look at him like I thought he didn't trust me? What?! Why are you leaving?! We can work this out! It was, self-defense because they attacked… but you! You set it all up?! This was you- and all of it, Kirishima looked to his left over at some dead bodies in front of him, corpses littered about the forest from people who Zach had killed without hesitation. It was just because, of your Quirk's- but you injected with Trigger too. No, it was you. It was all you. Killing Kurogiri, was that a good thing? But- what about all these people?! You can't just- YOU CAN'T JUST LEAVE ME LIKE THAT! "ZAAACHHH!" Kirishima roared off in the direction of where the truck had gone.

Midoriya clenched his eyes shut so hard as he heard the pained shout from Kirishima, followed by a cry of pain from Yaoyorozu. Todoroki yelled in fury Zach's name too, and Bakugo looked near him at the boy with a burn scar on his face while thinking of what Zach had just told him out of nowhere. Bakugo turned back and looked out through the barrier, and on his right side he saw Shoji lift a hand up to his eyes and wipe them with a fist. Sato screamed Zach's name, and Midoriya clenched his eyes so much harder while biting down and balling his fists in anger. Midoriya's chest filled with pain. He shot his eyes open and stared at the floor in shock, his breath held in his throat, I didn't do a single thing for him. I thought, I tried. But I never knew anything. I never, knew a thing. How could I let you do this? How could I let you feel like this was your only option?

Bakugo stared out into the distance with Midoriya in the right corner of his vision. He turned his head a bit and saw his curly-haired childhood friend grab up at his chest with a look of sheer agony on his face. Bakugo lifted his head with his lips flat though. He stared through the barrier and out in the distance, He did it on his own, Deku. It was his choice. To do… What are you, going to do now? You fucking bas… Zach?

A mile and a half away, a truck stopped and four people rushed to a van they drove up next to. They piled in and started driving away in their new vehicle, pulling out onto a road and then driving fast towards the highway. "Was killing Kurogiri always part of your plan? Or were you really out of control back there?" Gentle snapped, glaring into the rearview mirror at the boy in the back seat who was panting and had his left hand lifted up over his eyes.

"Kurogiri at least, I didn't… I think I knew," Zach said. "I'm sorry. I had thought about his portals, about All For One, and I think I knew that when it came down to it I wouldn't believe capturing him would be enough." Zach grabbed the top of his face tighter with his left hand. All those others though. How many was it? Five total? Six? Did I accidentally drain the unconscious Nomu too, or was that just a pulse from earlier? I don't know. "I'm sorry Gentle, La Brava."

Gentle Criminal sighed but continued speeding off down the empty road before slowing as they curved onto a more main road before the highway, where there were other vehicles near them. "It's not how I like to do things, but I do agree with you. He could have escaped… And I had not thought, about all those reasons you did this myself," he added in a lower voice. Zach's eyes lifted up and his hand lowered so he could meet Gentle's gaze in the mirror. "Perhaps, your actions really will make people less afraid."

La Brava turned in the passenger seat and looked up at Gentle's face with wide eyes, then she smiled and looked through the windshield herself. "Not just his actions, but the Gentle Criminal's too!"

"Yeah," Zach whispered, though he was responding to what Gentle said and not La Brava. A head leaned onto his right shoulder with a sigh and Zach let out a long tired breath at the same time. "I really hope so," Zach said. Or else, it would have all been for nothing. "No," Zach whispered. His face got more serious and he said in a louder, more assured way, "I know it will." The two in the front seats and the girl on Zach's right side all looked at him and saw him looking so sure of himself, so determined, and looking through the windshield and into what lay ahead. "And this, is only the beginning."

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A/N Thank you all for reading one million words of Death. I hope you enjoyed the chapter, one that's been building up for a long, long time. Just about everything from all of Death showed up in here. Dabi, Kurogiri, and Raijin, Gentle and La Brava, Zach's stalker friend now going by Darling... Anyway, big chapter this time. Longest in all of Death. And it deserves that longest status, as it is one of if not the most important chapter to date. Glad it just happened to be when I reached a million words too. So, Zach killed Kurogiri, massacred some other villains, shot up with Trigger, worked with some unlicensed people... and now he's evading arrest. Anyone realize Zach had been faking it the whole time? (last couple chapters*). I had to try hard to keep from writing too much of Zach's internal thoughts when he might be thinking about his big upcoming plans, though there were some indicators in there. Didn't want to spoil anything about this chapter though which is why it focused a lot on Zach's friends, why we saw a scene of Zach's classmates seeing Zach come out of an alleyway and talk about thinking Kaminari was watching him instead of why he was really hanging out in dark alleyways... ;) Huge developments this chapter. Kaminari killed the anti-heroes. Zach vs Kaminari. Dabi thought Zach would be able to bring back the Akers. Zach tells Todoroki... And Zach leaves. Let me know what you guys thought of the chapter, comments, questions, or predictions for what lies ahead for our hero now in a review below!

IntricateHummingbird chapter 92 . 2h ago

Road to 1 million words! And yay they are going on a trip

Hoping you weren't looking forward to a cheery camping trip... And 1 million reached! Thanks for the review!

Eedura chapter 92 . 7h ago

I wonder what his stalker thinks about all that happened. More of her pls

Ask and you shall receive. XD

Guest chapter 92 . 5h ago

Ah man, Zach's a dick again.

Nope, just a fake dick. Though... guess he could still be considered one, maybe?

diddles321 chapter 92 . 3h ago

Everything is way too gloomy. Zach and the others won so I thought he would finally rebound and be positive again but he's staying a paranoid and hesitant dickbag. Can he just cheer up already? Please make Zach cured of his paranoia and dark edgy looks in his eyes already lmao.

Bam. Fake-out!

Shade11224 chapter 92 . 8h ago

Well honestly it's gotten pretty stale relationship wise as he's literally having the same interactions every chapter, about how he doesn't trust anyone even though he clearly seems to. It's most likely he's trying to distance himself I know but it's really boring to not see any new development. I really liked the last chapter especially since it shows Zachs increasing levels of distrust in his own self and his reckless. This is probably one of the first times I'm completely up for you rushing an arc just so we can see what is really going on in Zach's head.
Thanks for the Chappy!
P.S. I react purely off of the emotion of reading a chapter, but being serious I feel recent social interactions have actually been dry, because we actually don't have any idea of Zach's plans besides he's probably going to leave UA so my advice is to drop a few crumbs to make us read more into his reactions.
That's just what I think would improve the recent lack of brain food in trying to figure out Zach's plans.

It was all a trap. Tried leaving in some crumbs here and there, but couldn't help y'all out too much and spoil this for you. Also, Bam! Fake-out.

Super Power Sensei chapter 91 . 7h ago

Review for chapter 91
Three things...
One, am I wrong for thinking this hostage situation has a bigger purpose? Given Rajin's intelligence and egotistical behavior, I can't see him getting rid of his enemies this way. How are things around Musutafu? Was this all a distraction for an attack elsewhere or were the League's goals already met?
Two, this chapter was really intense and had me on edge the entire time. It really shows the difference between Zach's and Izuku's intelligence. The fact that everyone was playing dumb as to why the students were at the scene was endearing and funny as hell! This act shows everyone was on the same page and wanted the hostages safe.
Three, given the amount of clout and popularity Zach has, can you introduce some type of Lifebringer merch? People in the streets recognize class 2A of U.A. And Endeavor's knowledge of Tsuyu's hero name implies he and other heros, near and far, knows all of 2A on some level. But EVERYBODY knows Lifebringer. Especially near the end of the chapter where I'm sure someone got a million dollar snapshot of him punching Killmore. How about a white hoodie with the word "Lifebringer" in white surrounded by black borders on the front. Then on the back (because I dislike shirts with designs on one side) of it have some death in a spherical shape, and in the middle put Zach's skull and red eyes. I might attempt to photoshop this.

Three answers: 1- Raijin seemed to be looking to use it for something, but with Zach thwarting this plan he kind of thwarts the plan to make Killmore's defeat into more of a victory too. So double victory for Zach. 2- In chap 91 I was having some fun with the stuff Zach was thinking about. He had been spending all his time recently on his long term plans, but all of a sudden he's in a building rushing at these villains and didn't know what to do. Glad you liked the "going on a run" thing too, XD. And yeah, for number 3... might be a rough sell now... Thanks for the review! Thanks to all of you guys again for reading through a million words! I hope I'm still keeping you on your toes and catching you off guard. I have a lot of fun writing and editing this almost every day, and I hope you all continue to enjoy through the next million words! ;)