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Chapter 122:

Zach leaned his back into the cold steel behind him and let out a long breath of warm air. In the cold air around him, his breath hung in front of his helmet that did have small holes below the visor for air circulation. He watched his white breath hang in the air and took in another deep breath, then he looked to his left and watched snow fall in front of his face in small flakes. The snowfall was not too heavy, and though Zach could see it sticking on some of the roofs down below, it melted as soon as it touched the wet streets. There was no snow covering the sidewalks of the city, and he saw a couple trucks on different streets down below dropping salt on the roads to keep snow from sticking.

"Still winter," he whispered under his breath, and he watched his breath hang in front of his face again. His eyes were dark as he looked through the visor and into his cold hanging breath, watching snowflakes fall through it. Some flakes melted while dropping down into his warmer breath, and Zach stared at a flake that looked so pristine melt on its way down past his face until he could no longer make out what it once looked like at all. A small smile cracked on his face as he held out a hand and tried to catch it, "Am I a snowflake?"

Zach lost his smile and he lowered his hand. He leaned back on the metal bars behind him again, though he let his left leg hang off the horizontal one he was sitting on. I thought snowflakes were so beautiful. One of the most beautiful things in this world. Unique, special, each and every one. That's what I told… Momo, Zach closed his eyes and he let out another long, heavy breath. But snowflakes have to melt sooner or later. Winter will end soon around the whole world, not that everywhere felt its effects anyway. Some snowflakes melt before they ever touch the ground. Some gather together and last longer. Others, create ice and cause crashes on the road, Zach looked back down into the city and his mouth lowered into a deeper frown. He looked onto the roof of a building down below though, a building next to an apartment complex that was so close that they were touching.

A window on the floor just above the roof of the smaller building next to the apartments opened up. A couple of children just inside the window glanced back in worry that someone was watching, then they climbed out in warm winter clothes and onto the roof. They ran around in the snow that had started collecting there, and Zach thought as he watched them, And some bring happiness. Some put smiles on others' faces. What am I doing here? Zach let his right leg drop over the steel bar he was sitting on too. His body hunched forward and he pressed his hands down on top of his knees with a hardened look on his face. I've been resting for too long. Long enough at least. Using wings without letting any Death pull off of them, means I'll still be recovering while using them to get back. I'm almost back at full already. But, I want to look at this place for just a little longer.

Zach sighed out another heavy breath. Then he clapped his hands down on his knees and started standing up on the steel bar, pushing down at his sides to get to his feet. He had to step to the right as the bar he had been leaning on before did curve in above where his head had been, meaning when he stood he needed to move farther into the gap. Zach stood up a few hundred meters above the ground, and then he looked off from the edge of the Eiffel Tower into the city of Paris. He stared out into a city of millions, tens of millions even, and his eyes shifted around the different sections of it that he had been observing as he just rested up there in the snow. The lives going on down there, Zach thought, watching a car for a second and then pulling his eyes away to a couple walking into a restaurant, then to a man and two kids walking out the same building. His eyes passed on to a car going past that family, to another vehicle coming towards him instead so he could even see through the front windshield for a split second and thought he saw a woman in the driver's seat with a teenage girl next to her. Or was it the other way around? Are cars flipped here in France? Which means, she's probably teaching her daughter to drive… All these people are living out normal lives. Happy, fulfilling lives.

Despite what he was thinking, Zach's expression got so much darker in his helmet and his eyes lowered down with that dark look in them. He frowned, then his lips flattened and he let out a breath without focusing on it. He leaned forward on the steel bar and got ready to jump off, but he glanced up at the metropolis one more time. Remember this place. A happy city, peaceful, that wouldn't exist without me. I need to remember this, for what is coming. The fights about to start. The things I'm going to do… Zach's fists clenched and he dove off of the Eiffel Tower.

"Hey! Give me the remote!" Mina Ashido ran around the couch of Class A's common room and dove towards Mineta whose jaw dropped.

This is exactly like my dream last night, Mineta thought with bulging eyes, only for Ashido to land next to him and grab the remote from the seat before getting up and turning to the tv. Mineta's raising arms dropped in disappointment. "What's up?" Jirou asked the pink girl who was excitedly changing the channel from the trivia game show she, Mineta, Sero, and Sato were watching.

"We were watching that you know," Sero pointed out, leaning to his side and looking around Ashido's front. The girl turned back to him and stuck out her tongue for a second which made Sero roll his eyes but then shift them back to the screen as she finally flipped to the channel she was looking for. "Entertainment News?" Sero asked her skeptically.

"You're kidding," Jirou began to her friend who shook her head and then jumped back on the center couch between Sero and Mineta. Sero scooted a bit to the outside of the couch as she landed back on it, but he focused on the screen and ignored how close Ashido just landed to him, whereas Mineta's eyes were big again and his mouth smiling at her landing.

"Pony texted me to turn this on. She said… well, just look," Ashido looked closer at the screen, leaning in even after just jumping back onto the couch.

The unorthodox news program was set up in a room with a live audience on one side, some B-level comedian hosts on another, and the main hostess in the middle of the room calling out into her microphone sounding excited with everything she shouted. Ashido hummed and frowned at what they were talking about, then she lifted the remote again and started rewinding the television while humming to herself. Jirou rolled her eyes on the couch to Ashido's right, and Ashido saw it and started, "Hold on hold on. It's gonna be good… Ooh!"

Sero's eyes widened and Sato leaned in off his couch. Jirou was not paying attention, and Mineta's eyes were more focused on Ashido than the screen so they only focused once Ashido said that in excitement. The pink girl rewound a bit more and then pressed play, and the five of them looked closely at the scene as the hostess was already speaking, "…next video we had to pay the photographer for to get the exclusive. Our authenticators authenticated this amateur video, so this isn't photoshopped or nothing!"

There was a big screen in the middle of the program that the camera zoomed in towards to make it cover the whole tv. The screen covered in static and then the video appeared clearly but only in the center of it with big black bars on the sides. They could hear people speaking English right away like they started in the middle of the video clip themselves. The camera was shaking and being held vertically which immediately made Sero start shaking his head at the sight of, though he looked closer as he had seen something strange when Ashido had rewound it.

"Everyone get in the picture!"

"Haha look! It's sticking-"

"Can you even see the Eiffel Tower in this?" A man turned back and looked through the snowy city he and his family were visiting. The tourists were clearly so as they spoke English to each other in a picture with the famous French landmark int he background, all of them with heavy American accents.

"Get close!" The woman holding the camera called out. She stepped forward and waved a hand in front of her for the kids looking around to move in closer to the older teens and their father. She flipped the screen to a front-facing camera for a second and smiled at the screen with a sly look as the mother was tricking her family by taking a candid video as she pretended to set up for the picture. She flipped it back on them though and said, "The camera's focused dear, don't worry. It can see it as well as I can almost…" she trailed off, and the camera lowered a little bit right as the family had gotten into a good position for getting their pictures taken with the tower in the background.

"What's wrong Mom?"

"Honey?"

"It's nothing… I think," she hesitated. Her camera lifted back up, and she pointed it at the Eiffel Tower in the distance. "It just, looks to me like something's on the… Eiffel Tower."

"Something's on it? What do you mean?"

"Why don't you use your Quirk, Mom?" One of the younger kids asked.

"Just take the picture already. There's nothing up there-"

"Whoa!" The mom exclaimed, and she stepped forward before raising her camera up higher.

"Did you use it?"

"What's wrong? What do you see?"

"I don't see anything!"

Jirou felt the same way as that teenage girl as she leaned off her couch more trying to see whatever it was that made the mother recoding exclaim in surprise like that. The fact that it had Ashido down there changing the channel and rewinding just to see it made her thing it was probably something big. She looked closer, as the camera zoomed in more and then focused more before zooming again on the front side of the Eiffel Tower from their perspective. First they caught the movement, then the image zoomed as far as it could get focused again and made the blurry movement clearer.

"Whoa," Sero breathed out.

Mineta's eyes bulged and he leaned forward in his seat. "Is that-" he started.

"Looks like Army of Death to me," Sato said, seeing a familiar dark costume on the Eiffel Tower. Haven't heard much about them for a few weeks now. What's that one doing up there?

Jirou frowned as she stared at that dark figure standing on a bar of the Eiffel Tower. "What're they doing up there?" Jirou muttered. "Always going where they're not supposed to…"

The dark figure standing up on the metal bar jumped off and the woman recording stepped back in surprise. Everything got blurry as she let out that yelp, and then she froze and she rose her camera up slowly with her jaw dropped. The five students in Class A's common room lowered their bottom lips too as they saw those dark wings spread out to the sides and then flap down again. The camera followed up the dark figure as it flew towards the clouds, then the recording lost sight as the figure disappeared into the gray sky above.

The video ended and zoomed back out into the program studio. They flipped back to a freeze-frame of a blurry image the woman caught while lifting her phone back up. As the hosts talked about digitally enhancing the picture, Sato leaned back in his chair and lifted his head to look at the ceiling. Black wings? That night in the forest, he made some crazy stuff with his Nightmare form. It, could totally be…

"So, can you switch it back to our show?" Jirou asked, lifting an eyebrow at Ashido with her lip furled and looking annoyed at the interruption.

"Huhh?" Ashido spun and rose her voice like she was just asked to do something crazy. "Didn't you see that?" She pointed at the screen and then looked closer as they just enhanced the image to get it as un-blurry as they could. The figure in the dark costume was going straight up while facing towards the camera, and though he was still blurry the hosts started talking about how it was not Death because of the lack of swords sticking out from behind his back. He did not have the hilts over his shoulder or the thin sword behind his waist, but the image was too blurry to make any closer examination of his costume too. Ashido looked closer at the black wings that were spread from that dark figure and she got a hesitant look on her face at the sight of them. There were no dark wisps pulling off in that frozen image, the wings looked steady and solid in her eyes.

Ashido looked back at Jirou, but she was getting nothing there and just turned around instead. "Do you guys think that could be Zach?"

"I mean… maybe," Mineta said, hesitating and then offering it when Ashido looked at him hopefully. "But, you know I still think he's probably, in America. Maybe the guy in the Army of Death who can bring people back has the same Quirk though, including stuff with his dark form."

"That might not actually be either of them though," Sato began, shaking his head after thinking about it a little harder himself. Ashido turned to him with a frown but Sato continued, "Star-Spangled Man said that it was the Army of Death's leader that brought them back to life when they fought the League of Shadows. Even if Zach was there, or Death is just a guy who can bring people back, that guy doesn't have the same look as Death. And those wings are, they look pretty solid to me."

"Maybe Zach joined after then," Ashido said, her eyes lighting up. "After that video we saw in the convenience store. That would make sense! Then, he could be that guy in the Army of Death, and he wouldn't actually be Death himself."

"That's definitely possible," Sero started to agree. "I could see Zach joining them for what they're doing, or maybe he just wanted to meet someone else who could bring people back?" He offered it up and then leaned back and frowned, Though, I don't really think Zach could just fly around like that. And what would he be doing just chilling on the Eiffel Tower for no reason? Doesn't add up.

Jirou got off her couch with a loud sigh. The hosts on the tv just started talking about Lifebringer themselves, and she had an annoyed expression on her face as she walked past it without looking at the screen. "Fine, guess we're not playing anymore," she muttered, and she just kept walking away while a couple of the others turned their attentions from the tv to her for a second. They looked back at the screen though as the hosts were discussing what they just were, asking why 'Death' or 'Lifebringer' or 'that Army of Death member' was in France's capital.

Who cares if it's him or not? What's it have to do with us? Nothing. Jirou bit down harder as she neared the stairs and heard the others behind her start arguing about something Zach-related again. I swear, I hear his name more often on the news now than I ever did when he was still here. No one knows where he is and they just love making stuff up about him. They barely ever get it right. I know though, that he's Death. I don't know if that was him or not, or what he was doing in France, but it doesn't matter! He's a terrorist and a vigilante and, and he's a liar. Lied to us the entire time he was back. You all heard him. The person we knew was a lie. Just like Raijin. He was a villain, a drug dealer, a murderer, an anti-hero, a liar. Why do you all care so much about someone you never even knew?

Jirou clenched her fists in the stairwell up to her room, and she snapped her head to the side, "Ch." She glared down and started heading up the steps. I wish I never had to hear his name again.

In Musutafu, Japan, the second ranked hero in the whole country was meeting with the former Number 1 hero. Hawks stood a few feet away from All Might on the roof of U.A.'s main school building. He had a pass with him to allow him on school premises, so the alarm systems did not go off when he flew overhead to meet with All Might. Hawks was leaning forward with his forearms down on the edge of the roof that stuck up from the roof's floor to his stomach level, while All Might just stood on his left side facing him instead of looking off the building. Hawks turned his head a bit in and replied to the scrawnier man, "I don't think it's going to be too rough. We'll be working with Pasta Donna and Michelangelo."

"Ah, that's good," All Might said, nodding his head with a smile at the sound of those names. "I am surprised those two would call in for support though," All Might continued, lowering his smile a bit as he thought about it. Unless it was something serious.

"It's not like that," Hawks began, assuming what All Might was thinking right there with a glance at his sunken face. "They want me specifically for something. They don't want me because it's too hard or anything," Hawks waved off All Might's worries, and the older man nodded but wondered to himself if Hawks was just telling him that to soothe his nerves. Hawks hummed to himself and turned around so he was leaning back on the ledge instead of forward on it. He looked at All Might skeptically and then started, "You should really work on your poker face, All Might."

"Huh?"

"Well I'm not surprised your students know the connection between you two when you've got such a worried, parental-worry kind-of look on your face just talking about that kid," Hawks almost laughed but he shook his head instead.

"They did not find out that way," All Might began softly. "And they still, do not know-"

"I know, I know," Hawks said, holding up a hand halfway in a semi-defensive way though he did not look to care enough to make that look complete. "If you want it to be a secret though, work on that would you?"

All Might frowned a bit but he sighed as he looked at the Number 2 hero. Young Tokoyami mentioned something to him, and he figured the rest out on his own. Everyone knows how perceptive and quick you are, Hawks, but I did not think you would come let me know once you had figured it out. Nor, that you would ask to get in touch through me. At least this way, I was able to tell Young Midoriya that you know as well. All Might hummed to himself and looked off the building out over the city of Musutafu where Hawks had been looking towards a minute ago. Young Midoriya… you say that you wish to handle your classmates discovering the secret by yourself, but you must do more to keep them from speaking carelessly.

"Anyhow," Hawks started again, scratching the back of his head with his left hand and then cracking his neck to either side. "It's going to be an interesting weekend. Seen him in action a couple times back at Breakneck's lab, and the Cult fight too. I'm looking forward to it."

"Young Midoriya is as well," All Might replied to the hero who he smiled at again. It sounded like their meeting was at an end, and yet All Might's smile lowered down and he found himself hesitating as he watched the man before him start to turn. "About, the other thing," All Might started.

Hawks frowned as he was half-turned. His frown was low and All Might got confused for a second, wondering if Hawks was annoyed at him for bringing it up. "Oh, that," Hawks said. He did not sound annoyed, more like he was dodging the subject which had All Might getting a bead of sweat on the side of his face. Hawks looked out into Musutafu and then up at the sky above. His expression was tired and a bit dark, and he kept a low frown on his face as he glanced back out the corners of his eyes. "That thing you asked me to do, a long time back," Hawks said, and All Might nodded at him.

"Have you, heard anything about his whereabouts?" All Might asked the man who was known by everyone at the top of their hero society to always be sharp and open-eared. All Might had asked Hawks a long time ago for his help, before Hawks had come to tell him the truth he discovered through something Tokoyami mentioned during one of their patrols. All Might frowned deeper as he saw Hawks' expression that looked different from any of the other times he had brought this up since when Hawks usually responded with 'nothing.' "You have heard about Young Sazaki since-"

"I'm sorry, All Might," Hawks began. All Might thought for a second that Hawks meant that he had once again not heard anything, but he realized quickly from Hawks' expression that it was only his wishful thinking that made him consider that. All Might's sunken face sank deeper, his eyes wide and with grief in them. Hawks kept frowning but could not stop without explaining farther, "I did, hear about something. A guy I know with contacts in the underworld, heard some guys talking about cashing in the bounty on Zach Sazaki. I checked it out, it was legit." All Might's bottom lip lowered and he let out a soft gasp while lowering his eyes to the floor. Then All Might sucked in another breath as Hawks added, "I heard, they handed in the bounty for turning him over alive…"

The last part Hawks added was not a consolation. Hawks did not say it as a silver-lining, but in an apologetic tone to the former hero who just bit down harder at the sound of that. If he's not dead already, then he's… He's in an even worse situation. "Can you find him?" All Might asked, lifting his eyes back up to Hawks.

"Maybe," Hawks started. "I've got a hook or two out right now. I'll get back to you if I hear anything… but, I wouldn't hold my breath." Hawks paused for a second and then added in a softer voice, "I'm sorry, All Might. I think Lifebringer was a great kid." All Might looked into Hawks' eyes and saw the younger man meant that as he said it. Hawks added with a dark laugh, "Would have wanted him for a sidekick too." Hawks turned away and he looked up at the sky. His red-feathered wings spread out behind him in a huge wingspan that passed All Might's back on one side. "I'll get your successor back in one piece," Hawks assured with a wave of his hand, right before he flapped his wings and shot up into the sky. After all, he thought to himself while rising up and away, once the Symbol of Peace is back, heroes can get back to boring days. Where I could just relax and fly around for fun on the weekends.

A pair of seventeen year old boys in Class A walked across a black runway with their eyes wide as they stared at what was waiting for them up ahead. Midoriya Izuku and Tokoyami Fumikage held their luggage in one hand and their hero-costume boxes in the other. They walked forward in their school uniforms, and they stared up ahead past the blond man waiting for them and to the jet behind him. The smooth, white jet looked like a very expensive private plane, more luxurious than any the two of them had ever flown on before.

"You didn't think we were going to fly ourselves all the way to Europe, did you?" Hawks called to the boys whose looks he saw. "And if we have to fly, we may as well go in style." Hawks did not have his hero costume on yet either, but he was wearing some cool-looking clothes that the two boys ahead of him focused on next. He had a red jacket on, open down the middle showing off the tight black shirt he was wearing with a low v-neck collar. He had on jeans with the fabric over his knees faded, his blond hair was slicked back a bit, he had an earring in his left ear, and even his stubble beard did not look as scruffy as usual.

Midoriya's big eyes went back to the jet and looked it over with an amazed expression on his face. "That's the H6 fuel-compact super-jet which is only sold for private…"

"Deku!" Hawks called out, shutting up the curly-haired boy whose eyes also widened at that exclamation of his hero name. "Good to have you with us. Now get on," he motioned behind him with his head, and then he looked towards the front of the plane and some crew who were gathered about talking but also looking at the approaching interns. "We're heading off. Let's get this show on the road."

"Hawks, is it just us three?" Tokoyami asked the pro hero as he walked closer. Behind Hawks was the staircase lowered from the side door that Hawks just turned back to.

Hawks looked over his shoulder as he started up the stairs, "Yeah. Don't want everyone at the agency heading off or people might know I'm out of town. You keep this quiet too, Tsukuyomi?"

"Yes," Tokoyami replied seriously.

"I, did too," Midoriya began as he followed behind Tokoyami up the steps of the jet. He had hesitated at the bottom of them, but his classmate started right up so he followed behind after a second. He leaned up towards Tokoyami as he followed, and he asked, "Do you guys do this often?"

"I have never left the country with Hawks before," Tokoyami assured his classmate who nodded as he was glad he was not alone here on this new experience.

"Now do you two have anything fashionable in those suitcases you're lugging about?" Hawks asked. He got into the plane and walked over to a seat he sat in and leaned back on right away. There were only a couple of spots in the luxury jet's interior where there were seats next to each other, most of them just individual seats near the sides. There was a couch towards the back with some tvs around it, some recliner chairs closer to the front, a bar area just outside of the cockpit, and after Midoriya got on he glanced behind him and opened his eyes wider in surprise as a few of the crew were following him up those steps.

We still have a flight crew? Just for the three of us? Midoriya smiled back at the crew of three attendants who followed him on board, then he quickly went over to one of the individual seats. He started putting his luggage above the seat in the upper compartment a seat in front of Tokoyami and across from Hawks. This is exciting. But, I need to focus. Behind Midoriya, Tokoyami questioned his pro hero, "Fashionable?"

"We're going to Milan," Hawks told the boys. They both turned more to face him fully, as their pro had told them that they were going to Italy but not where exactly inside the country they were heading. "You two won't stick out that much there. We might wind up doing some looking around in brought daylight, shouldn't be too many who recognize us right off the bat. Neither of you have very fashionable costumes either, so it's not like the people of Milan will recognize you based off those either."

"And you? Will they recognize you?" Tokoyami questioned, glancing again at his pro's strange appearance to see if he was trying to mask it or something.

"I doubt it," Hawks said, scratching the back of his head with his left head and letting out a carefree chuckle. "But it's better to fit in. Anyway, if people do recognize you be sure to keep a close eye on them."

Midoriya's eyes widened at that advice, and he sat down on the seat below where he had stored his luggage. He kept his body turned towards Hawks but rose a hand up to his chin and started thinking about what he just said. If people in other countries won't recognize us as easily, then the ones who do might be villains looking out for foreign heroes coming to stop them. If this group is important enough that Hawks had to be called in all the way from Japan, they're probably strong enough to be worried about something like that. Is that why it's only me and Tokoyami being brought, as younger heroes who might not be ones they'd look into? We're pretty famous here in Japan, but if the Italian villains just looked up hero registries we wouldn't be listed as official heroes yet. Not even sidekicks, the two of us are just interns. Still, with the amount of press the Sports Festival and Class A gets, I do expect more than just villains to recognize us there.

An internship abroad. I have heard that they are very different from fighting villains in Japan, Tokoyami hummed to himself and then asked Hawks what kind of outfits they should buy once they arrived at Milan. The pro hero replied that he had a card from the government they could use for buying outfits so not to worry, he'd pick them both out something good, which made Tokoyami grimace as he glanced at Hawks' outfit again. Tokoyami hummed again to himself though and thought back on something Shoji had told him a month ago. Russia's laws are different regarding how to handle villains. The killing of villains in hero fights is not as frowned upon, though as heroes they still refrain, most of the time. He said that Mother Russia claimed there was a taboo against murdering villains, and heroes that were known to have done it when they could have refrained, even if the law accepted it, are shunned by the hero community. That's something I've never seen before here in Japan, yet I also heard from Kirishima, that Tetsutetsu and Honenuki worked side-by-side with vigilantes in America. I have done my research into Italy, but I expect something will be culturally different here as well.

Tokoyami and Midoriya were both focused on their trip and the villains they would be fighting in Italy. They got into the mood as the crew closed up the side door and the plane started moving below them. Midoriya looked out his window as the plane started rolling though, and he narrowed his eyes and curled his lip. He tried to stay concentrated, but his focus was split and he could not deny it. Finally leaving Japan. Just like Zach did, so long ago now. I'll be looking for you too. The Army of Death never comes to Japan, and I know you're there. I know… that you're Death. I don't know where you've been, or what you're doing now… but I want to catch you. I have to bring you back.

A/N Thanks for reading! Shorter chapter this time as more of a set-up for the next arc. Midoriya, Tokoyami, and Hawks head off for Italy! What kind of things await them there? Hope you enjoyed! Leave a review below telling me predictions, comments, questions, and more!

diddles321 chapter 121 . 19h ago

Zach is rushing wayyyy too much... His work ethic is like a bodybuilder overworking himself. Too much gymming gonna make you lose gainz instead. Need some rest as well. Thanks for the grind btw :D. Hope to see more grinding for Christmas.

Workaholic all the way. At least he was taking a bit of a break at the start of this chapter, just hanging around on the Eiffel Tower... XD Another day another chapter! Thanks for the review!

Naruffoku chapter 122 . 18h ago

Zach needs to take a break. Like a week long break of non activity otherwise he's going to fall apart. I'm really feeling sad right now.

Shifting gears a bit here, but Zach doesn't seem to be doing the same. Preparing himself for the fights to come... Well, we'll see what he's up to soon... Thanks for reviewing!

diddles321 chapter 120 . 18h ago

Also Darling should take a page out of Emiya Shirou's book and lace her skin with razors/knives instead of ass cannons...

I don't really remember Emiya doing that, I remember him pulling swords outta nowhere but yeah, I guess that means he could just poke them outta his booty hole XD "ass cannons" lol thanks for the review!

Super Power Sensei chapter 121 . 16h ago

So Zach FINALLY realizes he can activate Nightmare without his hand. It has been A WHILE since you foreshadowed that progression of power. But if I remember correctly this "power-up" was implied to be related to Death changing for Zach since he was revived. So is Zach going Super Saiyan Black(since he doesn't need his hand it's what I imagine when he goes Nightmare) a progression of his quirk, or his quirk having changed?
In some way death shouldn't work on him so...
The ending of this chapter has been building up for a while. I noticed ever since Scotland and the basements, Zach has been pushing himself nonstop. (In this chapter you didn't put in the locations for where the AoD were. As if the locations didn't really matter to Zach who's strained mind, exhausted body, and drained quirk is making every mission escalate in difficulty. It was a nice detail.) While that in of itself has made his strength increase exponentially, no one can keep up that pace for THAT LONG and not crash. I hope he learns to pace himself better. And heal fully BEFORE going into the field again.
Since Gentle only has one kidney now does that mean he'll be less powerful?
Also is Sagitus dead?
Also Butt Canons...nice.
Also where are the new recruits?
Also did I mention how much of a SAVAGE Zach is?

Oh yeah. Nightmare whenever, wherever. Showed some hints a long time back, and I showed Zach getting used to the red eyes and figuring out how to enable them for a while. In the last several chapters before the previous one though, I made sure not to explicitly state how Zach was getting into Nightmare form. I kept mentioning that he was going into it, trying to be all vague about it and just say it like it happened so often there was no need to describe how he went into it, but now I've left it a bit ambiguous as to how long back it was when Zach really figured this out, since he had it pretty mastered by last chapter. As for Zach learning about this after he died and that having to do with it... well, who knows? He has been getting a lot stronger since he died and maybe some of these powers are only powers he is obtaining because he died, or maybe they were ones he just never trained enough in the first place. Zach's definitely been moving fast for a long time. Since Scotland... one of those places where slowing down, just like with The Pit, and he'd have to think too much about what it was he just saw/did... Anyway! Thanks for the long review- I'll answer a couple of those last things... Losing a kidney I don't think takes away your power. Don't remember writing in Sagitus was dead anywhere. He and the new recruits just didn't show up last chapter (there are a lot of AoD characters to write to have everyone in every chapter). Glad you liked the ass blasters! And yeah, Zach's gone full savage. Thanks again for reviewing! Hope you enjoyed the chapter!

Mark chapter 121 . 12h ago

went through an open-heart surgery and a kidney transplant. NO FUCKS GIVEN...

Haha XD Beast mode has been activated. "My heart stopped? Meh."

xilios2000 chapter 121 . 5h ago

Im calling it now the final arc is going to be a alien invasion that want to enslave humanity causing zack to lead the résistance made from both hero's like midoriya and villains like All for One simply because they have no choice and them getting help from another alien species to fight the initial invaders in the form of some kind of space CIA with in the final epilogue zack becoming the leader of the surviving humans that still remain on earth. Well either that or All for One gets his Health back and some shit goes down and zack revives all might returning him to full strenght ending the series with epic fight scene or something

Great predictions! Loved all of them, and I will never say whether or not you're right or not. This all sounds super cool and who knows, maybe it's soon to come... Thanks for reviewing!