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Chapter 99:

Izuku Midoriya opened his eyes and stared up at his ceiling in his dark dorm room. He opened his mouth and yawned, and he rolled to his side and reached for his phone. His phone was giving off light and when he looked at it he realized he might not have just woken up in the middle of the night for no reason. He felt a little thirsty so he thought about getting up and grabbing some water, but he wanted to check the time first. Midoriya rose his phone and saw that it was two in the morning, which confused him as to why he had received so many texts since he went to bed.

One message that his phone had just received was from Uraraka, and he stared at his screen with wide eyes just from seeing that name alone at two in the morning. He felt alert, and that alertness focused him on what the message actually said which made him lose the nervous feeling he had at receiving a message from her this late. He sat up on his bed and started going through his phone fast, then he put it down and got up to go to his desk and his computer instead.

What is Uraraka talking about? Midoriya scrolled through the news on his internet search engine and then froze while staring at a video title below some news streams he could click on. What is, that?

Uraraka sat cross-legged on her bed with her phone in her hands. She was watching a news report from earlier in the night, and the report started showing a video that Midoriya just started watching downstairs. The video was taken by a phone held up vertically, so on the news most of the screen was black on the edges with just a center portion showing a video clip. Uraraka was able to turn her phone to look at it the way it was recorded, but Midoriya stared at the middle of his computer and the narrow recording full of loud shouting in Arabic.

The front gates of the royal palace in Hatto were closed. On the other side of the steel bars of the gate were a large number of people who were calmer than the ones outside of the gate but still riled up and yelling. Many of them were glaring towards a group gathered in the middle of the courtyard, though most of them were looking up towards the top of the outer walls just like all the people outside started doing. All around the walls of the palace, and on the outer walls surrounding the courtyard, people were taking bodies off of metal spikes. Heroes still wearing their costumes, who had been rotting out in the sun, and the old government leaders too. They were being taken down while everyone started staring up towards the right side of the gate where a figure stepped up to the edge of the wall closer to the street and the thousands of people gathered out there.

A couple of other figures in dark outfits walked up to the edge of the wall, and the phone camera pointing in towards the gates and through them shifted up and zoomed towards the figures up there. The phone shook around while the person zoomed with a couple of fingers but then steadied as everyone started shouting up towards the man up there. Some students watching the recording in their rooms stared closer at the screens in confusion at the sight of the dark figure standing there in all black from head to toe. The sun was shining brightly above them, yet these people wore black and had on helmets covering their faces. They had heavy vests on, and some had weapons strapped all over their bodies like the man in the middle of the group who stood just over six feet tall.

The tall figure in the center had another figure next to him almost as tall and with some dark purple on his costume unlike everyone else who wore solely black. The figure in the middle looked to his left at the slightly shorter man, said something to him and then glanced back over his shoulder at another soldier in all black who stepped forward with two speakers in hand. The speakers were set down on the edge of the wall in front of the tallest man in the group, then the guy standing there turned to his right and another man who had come up next to him wearing his all black costume.

"It's what Muhammed would have wanted."

"I know. But after this we go straight-"

"Yes, we will."

Akhmed turned and looked back into the visor of the taller man next to him. He gave a small nod and then turned back while muttering in his helmet, "You got us locked in?"

"Just tell me when," Rebel said.

"Do it."

In the recording, the man in the center of the group on top of the wall started shouting. He yelled out and his voice blasted out of the speakers and over Hatto's streets around the palace. "Listen to me!" He shouted in English though his voice was masked by a deep modulator. There were a couple of seconds of pause as the crowds screaming towards the palace settled down. Saudi citizens working to get their heroes down stopped what they were doing, and people yelling questions at the palace shut their mouths as it seemed like they were about to get answers. The man next to the tall figure who just shouted yelled the same thing a second later while things were settling, only he yelled it in Arabic and made even more people shut up.

People had come from all around the country, many had been shouting in confusion, many did not know what was happening as they had not for weeks. They were scared. They didn't know who these people were. No one watching this recording understood what it was they were watching at first either. "Mongoloid, was a villain! I don't mean that, like he was a bad leader who was abusing you. He was a prisoner who escaped Tartaros, a maximum security prison in Japan, Enzo Kiribachi! He played you all like fools and took over your country with a group of villains!"

The crowd started getting louder as that all got translated by the Arabic-speaking man next to the shouting figure. The tall man with sword hilts sticking out over his shoulders, a katana on the back of his waist, knives and pouches all over his costume, and a couple of guns on his hips swung an arm in front of him and yelled, "There was never any public support for Mongoloid! The news he put out was all lies! All the people in the cheering crowds, all a trick! He slaughtered your government, and massacred your heroes, so I took him down! But he's not dead!"

The man who swung his arm out stuck it behind him pointing back in the courtyard. "I didn't kill him, because this isn't my country!" He paused and waited for the man next to him to shout it, then he lowered his arm and yelled into the confused crowd, "Put him on trial! You can't just go back to your old government… Because he slaughtered everyone involved with it! …Shut up! All of you, be quiet!" The man sounded angry after his last pause when he was waiting for the translator got cut off by roars from everyone outside of the palace.

"Kill them all!"

"Who are you?!"

"What are you doing here?!"

"Why don't you do it?!"

The figure up on the wall who tried getting everyone to be quiet started just standing there silently. It looked like he was listening to everyone, though he turned his head and reached a hand up to his helmet while just talking with the people around him. The tall figure turned back and yelled out in his deep English voice again, "Figure it out yourselves!" He yelled, and the crowd quieted down a bit with confused or shocked looks as they stared up at the wall where that was just translated down in almost as emphatic a shout. "You don't have a government anymore, so figure out what to do yourselves! All your heroes were killed, and the rest of the world can't protect you! You have to protect yourselves! Rule yourselves! Pick your own leaders, ones that won't shut down protests but will listen and work with you to try and fix the problems in your country! And if you can't agree on who should lead, then have an election!"

"… It's not the rest of the world's fault! Mongoloid told you that, and as much as you want to think it's everyone else's fault, YOU are the ones who stood there and let Mongoloid take over your country with a hundred people! And he recruited more people to fight with him inside your country, and all of you sat by and did nothing as he killed all your heroes! Millions of you, and you just sat there as he took out your communications and your protection and started turning your people against each other! How is that the rest of the world's fault?! They all have their own problems! Their heroes are busy with their own villains! … NO! I'm not staying here, and none of the people who freed your country are going to stay and rebuild it for you! That's on you to do! I didn't come for power, didn't come for your country, or for thanks! We just came to get rid of Mongoloid, and now he and his two surviving Demons are behind me with as many of their men as we could capture!"

"…Yeah?! Who gets to decide that you kill them? You have no laws! The rest of the world is going to look here and see you all in chaos, massacring another government without any rule of law?! You know how weak that will make you all look? And I'm leaving! So how long until another villain decides to come and take advantage of you all? Don't wait and decide to come up with something once you've all lost this drive to kill Mongoloid! While you're still out here, set up the rules to run your country by! Work together! Re-establish a government here, and figure out what you're going to do to protect yourselves because as it stands, YOU'RE WEAK!"

"Set up war trials! I'm not telling you not to kill them, but if you don't show everyone that you have control over your own country! If you don't show some sort of stability! You're going to be the easiest target in the world for the next Mongoloid! If you wait, someone is going to come to fill the gap in your country! Another villain? Another government trying to push their own nation's interests over your own?! The people you know care the most about your country are the ones who live here! So figure it out!" As he was shouting, the phone camera pointing at him lifted up a bit to show something flying towards the palace from over the other side. The helicopter getting closer started lowering, and the man shouting at everyone lifted his head to look at it as it started descending right above him.

The helicopter lowered down to the wall, and the gates of Hatto's palace opened up. Two black humvees and a sand-colored jeep started up on the inside of the palace's outer walls. Saudis the group had been working with inside the gates started shouting at the people outside to move out of the way, allowing the vehicles to drive out. Soldiers who teamed up with the men and women in black held their weapons in hand and surrounded the captured villains who were mostly unconscious though many were also just chained or tied up tightly. Those villains were getting a lot more afraid as the gates opened up and the people who captured them started driving away. The helicopter on the wall started slowing down its rotors, and everyone stared up at the wall with wide eyes as the man who had been shouting at all of them really did seem about to leave.

"Don't go!"

"We don't have any way to protect ourselves!"

"Where are you going?!"

"Who are you!?"

"Why did you do this?"

"Don't go!"

"You're free to choose your own government now," the dark figure up on the wall said. He did not shout as loudly, but his speakers continued blasting it over the streets and his translator called it out afterwards. "The old ruling class got hunted down and wiped out by Mongoloid, and now Mongoloid and his guys are down too. Choose for yourselves how to rule. Figure out how to protect yourselves. That's not why the Army of Death came here." The ground vehicles drove out of the palace and down the streets, and two dark-clothed figures inside the courtyard flapped wings and rose up in the air to fly after them and then around the palace's side. "But if another villain like Mongoloid comes here to take this country, I'll be back. Villains around the world think they can keep getting away with what they're doing, but they're wrong… We're coming for them… The Army of Death's only mission, is stopping villains… Stay frosty."

The translator next to the dark figure hesitated while the tall man next to him turned around. Across the world from them, a chubby man sitting behind his computer threw both hands over his mouth and leaned back from his seat with the biggest grin on his face before cracking up. And a man on the wall with purple on his helmet, shoulders, and belt narrowed his eyes furiously behind his dark purple visor. I am going to kill that man.

"What?"

"Pff- ch- Stay, frosty?"

"Did you really just say that to those people?"

"Hahahahahaha!"

"Mark!"

"I'm so sorry-"

"You gave me the head nod when Rebel said it's how to say like, stay on your toes, or be careful of-"

"It kind of does-"

"Oh my God."

"What a great way to end that speech! HAHAHA!"

In the recording, no one heard any of the laughter and shouting going on in the helmets of the soldiers turning away from them on the wall. The translator called out something more serious in Arabic anyway, and the translation in Japanese came out more like the man who shouted it meant for it to be. Using a phrase like that made him really seem more American though, instead of making it seem like he did not know the language he was speaking in as well as he thought he did. Not many people were focused on that last statement though, because the man who said it turned around right after finishing. He turned his back to the people in front of the palace, showing that his back had writing on it in white letters from right below his neck vertically down his costume to his waist. First was a big letter 'D, followed by 'E A T H.'" Another figure up on the wall who had brought the speakers forward turned from right behind that man, and the slender person almost a foot shorter than him had 'DEATH' written down her back too.

The man with purple highlights on his costume turned and said something in annoyance about Rebel finally getting what he expected the man wanted with Zach using unnatural slang in a serious situation. Everyone staring up at his back saw on his long purple cape something else written there than 'DEATH.' Instead, the man had the Japanese Kanji symbol meaning the same thing: '死.' The translator turned too after calling out in Arabic, and he reached down to pick up the speakers before stepping back to the side of the helicopter closest to them. He had something else written down his back in what looked like squiggles to the Japanese students watching the clip in their dorm, but they figured meant the same thing as the others only in Arabic.

The figures all got on a helicopter, and Gentle went over to sit next to a short woman who excitedly agreed with him about punishing Rebel for that. Rebel started laughing harder over the comms after La Brava said it, which had a lot of others laughing along too. Zach did not laugh, and his gaze just shifted to the man who just sat across from him in the helicopter as it lifted off. "No more distractions, Akhmed. We won't let SISIS get away with it again." The man across from Zach who shoved the speakers beneath his seat in the chopper lifted his head and nodded while looking through the visor into his new leader's. Zach shook his feet around and kicked off the Extendo-legs he had on below the soles of his shoes that were hard to walk in, then he looked past Akhmed and called to the front of the helicopter, "Head north. We're going after Shakad…"

The citizen recording the helicopter started shouting in Arabic up at it while it rose into the sky. Others around the man started shouting the same thing, all of them chanting towards the helicopter flying up above the palace. Another helicopter flew over the heads of the crowd outside the palace, and it was already moving faster so it flew right by the side of the other one. The one that just lifted off pushed its nose forward and the rotors spun faster, and the army who just freed a country left just like that.

The video ended, and the news program that was playing it earlier that Uraraka was watching started talking about Enzo Kiribachi for a few seconds. They talked about his bulk, the fact that Mongoloid always had that turban on his head to cover his face and how it made sense. Then they started talking about the figure who just shouted all that though. Uraraka was panting while staring down at the shaking screen in her hands. He was too tall. And, and that couldn't have been him! 'Death,' is just… If he was trying to hide his face, why, why use that name?

In a room on the third floor of Class-A's dorm, Kyoka Jirou's hands shook violently and then clenched into fists. "…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…" You mother fucker. I, I really thought you were- DEAD! I thought you were dead! I, I hoped you were! FUCK! What are you doing?! She thought about the subtitles she saw on the bottom of the screen towards the end: 'stopping villains.' What Zach said to her alone while he drove away in that forest echoed in her mind again. Jirou clenched her eyes shut tightly and then dove onto her bed and buried her face in her pillow. "AHHHHH!" She yelled into it in frustration. It's you! What are you doing? You're insane! You- you can't just, do whatever the fuck you want!

Jirou yelled into her pillow again and then started panting. How? She thought in shock while opening her eyes and staring at the pillow below her. How the hell did you do it? Who were all those people? A helicopter?! Where the fuck did you get- RAAA! I thought you were dead! Why? Why did I think something so stupid?! Of course you're not. I know that's you. You must have known that I'd know, but you're trying so hard to keep it a secret?! I KNOW!

Midoriya stared at his computer screen after the end of the video, and then he bowed his head and stared at the top of his desk with huge shaking eyes. Is that Zach? Even if it's not, he's there. A group like that. That's why he went missing- and that guy in purple! The Gentle criminal wears purple… that could be a coincidence, but his body type is the same! And, and! "Use everything…"Midoriya's eyes opened huge as he rose them back up to the vertical video clip and the subtitles frozen on the bottom from the people who were chanting up at their leaving heroes. That speech, how many uses does it have? I- I can see… Midoriya rose his right hand and put it over his mouth.

The dark-green, curly-haired boy started muttering under his breath, "It's not just about getting the people of Saudi Arabia to fend for themselves, establish peace. Even though he said that's not what he came to do, it's obvious he wants peace to have said those things. He doesn't want credit for it? The masks double to that effect, showing no one there is getting any glory, no reason for them to have done it other than peace? But more than that. The part about what they are, their goal, how many of Mongoloid's… Demons? How many are still alive, meaning they killed some even trying to capture- and it was more than a warning to villains. It was a rallying call. How many people?"

Midoriya's eyes opened huge and he lowered his hand from his mouth. How many… more people will follow you now? Villains around the world, were just warned. Where are your boundaries… without, without a government? Without regulations, or rules, or needing to ask for permission to enter countries or anything… You don't have a limit to where you can go. Who you can, save. When I heard the name Mongoloid I, I knew something was strange. But we were constrained by the rules of law. By our governments. UN resolutions- yet, if you knew something, why not give that information to… to the bureaucracy, that takes too long and gives time- but, but if they knew the things you must have! Or, did you even know? Or was it just a guess? And if it was just a guess, did you just invade a country- You just invaded Saudi Arabia! No matter what the reason, what the- how could- Who were all those people… How did you get the Gentle Criminal to follow you? And that girl, and the Hunter… People, follow you now. Your, ideology was popular before, and you were trying to push it. You always tried to push them, but as a symbol of them and not with, action. Now you've switched, and you're accepting help, and with that speech…

How many more will follow you? How big will you get? With your power, with your ideals, and your lack of restraint. Army of Death? Villains around the world? You've made yourself a target, but also an outlet! An outlet for people like you! In a few months, without hearing a thing about you, how did you get so much power?! Zach. I believed in you, and I was getting nervous when I didn't hear anything, not because I was worried for you but because of how big I figured your plan must be for you to wait so long in a world this chaotic. Midoriya clenched his fists over his desk. He turned off his computer and then glared down in his dark room with an angry look in his eyes that were also full of frustration. And yet as much as what you just did might be good- was good! You just saved… But, you're going too far. You'll keep going farther. Did you kill again? You're making, an army?

"The transitional government of Saudi Arabia currently under control of the military has instated martial law based on the laws of the old regime before Mongoloid's takeover. Referendums are already taking place however in order to establish a new, democratic government suggested by the leader of that Army of Death. The referendums to determine how elections will take place were decided on by a joint military and representative congress established the very night Mongoloid was deposed. The transitional government has established military courts to put Mongoloid and his men, including two who were leaders with him in the hostile conquest of Saudi Arabia. The Seven Demons of Mongolid's forces were mostly killed during the invasion of the Army of Death two days ago, but Slyfer and Farzad are set to go on trial tonight immediately after Mongoloid's execution that was voted on unanimously this morning. Although only two of the Demons are set for trials tonight, the majority of Mongoloid's forces have similar trials in Hatto and across the country in the coming weeks. Not all on trial are from Mongoloid's initial force, but also the Saudis who joined with Mongoloid whose guilt will be determined based on the extent of their knowledge of what Mongoloid's true motives were or to what extent they assisted in the villain's schemes…"

Momo Yaoyorozu changed the channel on the common room's tv to another news program that had a picture of a man up on it that made her lower the remote. "…Around six feet tall, a muscular figure by the looks of it. And quite an assortment of weapons in the arsenal."

"Can we be sure that this is the leader?"

"I think it's fair to assume that. Based on what we've heard, this was the man the people credited with defeating Mongoloid. I don't know if any of them actually saw it, but if they're all in helmets that keep their identities a secret anyway, what would be the point of tricking everyone to thinking it was a different person in all black?"

"Could be the guy with purple, he was just standing there but had a different appearance that made him stand out. He could have been the one telling the guy next to him what to say."

Yaoyorozu frowned at the screen and started lifting the remote in her hand. "Let me ask you this," the third person in the news room started. "Either of you been thinking of someone in particular after this? Some, missing person who might have an association with this 'Army of Death.'"

"Haha, well I think we've all had the thought. I could see it too."

"You think Lifebringer's joined with these, resistance fighters? Rebels? I don't know what to call them."

"Terrorists sounds about right."

"Terrorists?"

"It's an army of Quirk users who seem to be from a lot of different countries if those writings on their backs indicate anything." The man holding a hand out to offer up his reasoning for calling them 'terrorists' chuckled while lowering his hand. "And as much as I'd like to say I like the idea of a group of freedom fighters going around stopping villains in the Middle East, they have 'Death' written on the backs of their costumes. They nearly wiped out Mongoloid's strongest forces. And it sounds like they are far from finished…"

"Yaoyorozu," Todoroki said, looking towards the couches to see a tall girl sitting on the middle one staring closely and intensely at the screen.

She turned towards him in surprise as she did not notice him approaching. "Oh, Todoroki," she began and gave him a small smile before glancing back at the news herself.

Todoroki turned to the screen, and he frowned then started over for the couch and took a seat on the one to Yaoyorozu's left. He stared at the screen and watched as the news hosts started talking more about Saudi Arabia's new government. "…though aid is being accepted from foreign countries, the leaders of the democratic movement are pushing for limited foreign involvement in how they establish their new government. It seems like they're taking what that Death figure said seriously."

Death. That's what they're calling him now? Todoroki thought while lowering his gaze from the screen to the floor in front of it. He glanced to his right at the girl with a spiky black ponytail who was watching intensely again. "Do you think it is Zach?" He asked her.

Yaoyorozu glanced back towards Todoroki, then she turned back to the screen. "I believe it is very simple," she replied with her lips flat. Todoroki stared at her confusedly, and Kirishima and Sero glanced over from a table they were sitting at behind the couch area since going and sitting next to Yaoyorozu had seemed like a bad idea when they walked past her before. "This group will only get larger after this. I have already heard news that they were spotted in Gorran today. So, if people start to come back to life in the areas the Army of Death goes through, we will know."

Todoroki nodded his head and then turned back to the screen. Kirishima looked past Yaoyorozu and at the screen himself, surprised and nodding his head as that sounded like a good reasoning he had not thought of. Sero stared at the back of the tall girl's head for a few more seconds. He had a sad look on his face at how detached and unimportant what she just said sounded to him. She broke it down in a logical way while at the same time saying there was no need for discussion around who that person could be. Sero wanted to have that talk though, and he frowned deeper then looked back at the screen since this was big news and he was as interested as everyone else to what was going to happen to Saudi Arabia now.

Yaoyorozu was staring back at the screen like the other three on the first floor with her, but she was not listening to the hosts any longer. Instead she could see herself in Zach's room the day before they gave their final reports back in April. "...People who are already out of school can have pro heroes offer courses to them in self-defense, and we could change the laws that prohibit citizens from stepping in when a villain appears. Make whatever pro hero arrives on the scene the commanding officer, and let the others help him or her out following the pro hero's experience. Why is the line separating heroes and civilians thicker than the one separating them from villains?"

In Momo's head she thought about how she had cut in to ask him about that specific line before. The busty seventeen year old hero thought about how she had voiced a concern when he rehearsed with her. I told him that his wording of what he wanted society to become made it sound too militaristic, too much like an army. But he still used it during his presentation, because his response… "Maybe an army is what we need to stop them." Telling them to protect themselves, is like telling them to train their Quirks so no one else could take over like Mongoloid. But that's not what you mean by "army" anymore. It's not that you want the public to become an army, but you're going to create that army yourself! I don't want to be right. I want, to believe that that isn't you. Because, if you're doing something like this… You're not going to come back, are you? I believed. I wanted, to believe. But that might not be you! It didn't even look like you. Yet, everyone suspects it. People think it could be. At least people here. Baseless suspicions, yet we all have them.

What are you doing Zach? Is this all part of your plan? What is your plan? Did you just announce it to everyone, or are you still hiding it? Believing in you has never been so hard. Because I know you think you know what you're doing. And you're going so far this time. No one ever sees you coming. What you did at Camino Ward, VTS, the 'Lifebringer Incident.' I should have seen this coming. But I never thought, something like this, was even possible. Yaoyorozu stood up from the couch keeping her calm expression on her face, but once she started walking away she started looking worried and she brought her hands together in front of her chest for a second. Please, keep doing good Zach. Stay good, and stay alive. Most of all, stay alive. You've made yourself into a bigger target than ever.

"They got him?" Zach asked, his eyes widening and a grin spreading over his face.

Gentle nodded his head from across the truck the two of them were in the back of with only Darling there with them. She was laying down across a bunch of the seats though, asleep as they traveled through southwest Russia towards the countries of Eastern Europe Rebel had some new missions for them in. Zach had just woken up not long ago after going to sleep around the same time as Darling, and Gentle had put down the tablet he was on to talk to him instead. "The plan worked. Akhmed was the one who killed Shakad."

Zach started to lose his grin. He looked down and frowned at the sound of that. Gentle continued, "There was an order out from Gorran's government to kill on sight. Akhmed wants to go hand in Shakad to the ISK himself."

Revenge, and glory, and I get why he'd want to do those things. Everyone in his country would think he's this big hero-

"But I told him if he did, he'd have to leave your army, Death," Gentle said. Zach's head twitched and he lifted it with a look like he was groaning internally. Gentle smirked and finished, "He accepted to just hand him in wearing his helmet."

Zach nodded but he kept frowning while looking at Gentle who was still smirking. "You too?" Zach muttered. Gentle let out a chuckle, and Zach shook his head before leaning back on the wall behind him that shook on with the wheels bumping on the rarely used highway through southern Russia's backwoods. Gentle still wasn't calling me that. He might've been the last one. The Army of Death isn't supposed to mean Death's Army, like I'm Death. It's just supposed to mean all of us are the Army of Death, like that's what we're bringing for villains. Like an army of-

"See, you are 'Death' because it is your army. Thus the Army of Death is-"

"I know why they're calling me it," Zach grumbled. He sighed instead of arguing like he was about to that what he had thought of in his head was just a really intimidating way to try and stop future villains from ever starting. "I'll accept that name," he said after his sigh. He rubbed his chest that still ached from his fight against Mongoloid in Hatto, then he lowered it as rubbing just made him focus on that pain. "If people start calling me the actual Death though," he started again hesitantly. "Like the spooky skeletal reaper-" Zach cut himself off but he was too late, and Gentle was grinning even more at him now before chuckling at Zach's look that showed he knew exactly what he had done. Zach shook his head and leaned back, "I know I know."

It was no a very good counter to mention that people would think of him by a name he had chosen himself in the past. Gentle smiled thinking of the name 'Reaper' and how Zach had so casually said it like he forgot he used to use that name himself. Zach muttered under his breath, "Walked right into that one," and then he chuckled himself. He rose his head after saying it and looked towards the ceiling. If people think of me like that, like Death, it works even better. It's not what I was going for, but it can work. The Army of Death isn't a symbol for normal people. We'll stay in the shadows and barely let them see us. We're not going to be a symbol of peace, or freedom, we're going to be a symbol of fear. Only for villains. A symbol of terror for any who decide to do harm to the innocent. And if villains start thinking of me as Death, well, I already know they're going to be a lot quicker to do what I tell them. Villains have the entire world living in fear. Taking down Kurogiri makes Japanese people feel a bit safer, but they know the villains who used Kurogiri's portals are still out there. And the rest of the world have villains they're terrified of too. Villains aren't afraid of heroes though. They're not afraid of what heroes will do to them. And though I will try to keep from killing, it's case by case. Let's see how much risk the villains will take, now that they know they're being hunted.

A/N Thanks for reading. The world has now been introduced, to the Army of Death. Zach's classmates are suspicious, some of them more confident than others about where Zach is now. Zach and his army leave Saudi Arabia behind with a speech and some unconscious villains. The Army of Death continues on, with no rules, with no government telling them what to do, and Zach has taken the mantle of Death. I hope you enjoyed the chapter, and the end to the introductory arc of: The Army of Death... And about to hit 100 chapters! So that's awesome! I'll try to get the next one up tomorrow, it's a fun one! Let me know in a review below what you think of Zach's path now, or some ideas for what you think is coming or even what you might want to see from this new team Zach's got!

Shade11224 chapter 98 . 22h ago

*Sigh* I'm so disappointed in myself, my resolve broke after a few hours. By the way if you ever do draw an idea from my name I want the guy to be a complete sarcastic ass with light bending powers so he can just be the biggest troll possible.
Thanks for the Chappy!
P.S. I really want to be added in even if I get mentioned once every few chapters for comic relief.

Hard to hold back. I understand. Lol but really, (sorry Intricate), Hummingbird didn't actually come from the review section. I'm not adding y'all into the story. Too much work (plus I'd never get your personality right or live up to your expectations of yourself). Gonna just have to live with the characters you've got! And if a character does appear with the name Shade11225, know it's def 100% original and has nothing to do with you. But yeah, don't hold your breath for it. XD Hope you enjoyed the chapter.

Big fan of death chapter 98 . 9h ago

Dude, i gotta say, I fucking love this story so much, I started reading a week ago and binged it all. I read every second I could, I missed countless hours of sleep over this. I even cried a little when ka- Raijin was exposed to be the traitor, so please dont end it soon. please
P.S at the beginning of the story a lot of the names you made sounded really English/American, but i can see you greatly improved, just needed to say that

Thanks! I'm glad you've been enjoying it so far through the binge! Love it when people can catch feels over my writing so kind of glad I made u cry ;P but yeah don't worry, it's not ending anytime soon. As for the last part, it's not really that I changed it up to stop doing that. Zach and Jenny and both of their parents both had English names. That was pretty intentional, 'cause I had the idea of Zach and Jenny's names but figured it wouldn't make sense for them to have them unless there was a trend of it through their families, leaving their lineage vague and kind of up to you guys to decide what was really up with them. Kaitlyn and Jack were Zach's parents, and John and Mary were Jenny's, but I don't think too many of the other characters really had American names. I'm not saying here that they were Caucasian the whole time or anything, just that the names were always intentional, and maybe there was some American in their heritage. Who knows? I didn't. But to keep the names of the two whose names I really wanted making sense, I had to make some others too. Always kind of wanted to explain this somewhere but never really found a good place in the story and never really thought it would be too necessary to add in as a plot point, so I'm glad you mentioned it. Thanks for the review, and I'm happy you liked the first million words of Death. Enjoy the next million! XD