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!

130. Chapter 130

Disclaimer: I don't own Boku no Hero Academia

Chapter 130:

"Before the first event of the Festival," Principal Nezu continued to the crowd of tens of thousands surrounding the arena, and to the millions watching the broadcast in Japan and around the world. "I would like to take a moment of silence." The principal's words silenced the stadium in an instant and everyone stared down at the mouse figure whose tone had gotten serious all of a sudden. After all the introductions and the pledges, sounding very similar to any other Sports Festival's before it, the principal finally spoke on something everyone was thinking about. Nezu continued once everyone had quieted down, "Just next door to this stadium, is the former stadium for the Sports Festival which after this year's graduation ceremony, has been officially removed from being property of U.A. High School. The stadium has been transformed into a memorial, for all the people who died a year ago to this day in the horrible attacks on the Sports Festival and the city of Musutafu."

Nezu paused for a moment and now there was full silence around the stadium. "7,042 people died in the Sports Festival Invasion. For each of them, their families, and all those affected by those events, I would like to take this moment of silence." The silence extended with not a voice to be heard this time as Principal Nezu closed his eyes and lowered his head for the moment. His hands clenched at his sides while his eyes were closed. Members of his staff who had died in the attack, students enrolled in his school who had not made it, the people he felt he had failed by being unable to protect, they all rushed through his mind.

Out in a tunnel on the exterior of the stadium, the third-year students of U.A. High School kept silent too. They had been led away to await the first round of the festival, but they could hear their principal back behind them.

Mina Ashido felt her side ache with phantom pain. She had her eyes closed and could see a portal opening up near her as she tried to run to the arena of the previous Sports Festival. She saw the small spiky ball fall out of that portal, and the explosion that followed and ripped open her side while she tried yelling at the others around her to get away. Her eyes clenched harder as she saw who it was she was running down to the arena to help, because of the videos that had been playing showing his torture. "Oh! Mina Jirou. Quirk: Hardening…" Zach… I hope you're watching. Wherever you are. Ashido's fists clenched and her eyes opened while her head rose from its bowed position.

A couple of students in the general studies course looked over at a former classmate whose eyes were dark and narrowed ahead at a closed steel door holding the students back. Just like all the other students in his new class, he was thinking of the student who he had replaced after the Sports Festival. Nirengeki Shoda, Shinso thought. His eyes were open unlike most of Class B's as they all thought of their former classmate, who was a hero in each of their minds. Shinso thought of the same short boy though, "Twin Impact: FIRE!" Shinso heard Shoda's voice echo in his mind when he was stuck while trying to evacuate other students. The villain who had kept his mouth shut and charged straight at him was slammed under a broken bench of the stadium, and Shoda had called out to him. "Shinso, keep getting them out of here. I will take the rear and- Wai- AH-"

Shinso clenched his eyes shut even though he had just imagined what he saw that day with his eyes open. It was something only a couple of the others in Class B had witnessed, but something that mattered so much to the indigo-haired teen who had taken Shoda's place. And while he took Shoda's place in Class B's classroom, the white bandages he had made himself so he could use them during the Sports Festival reminded all of the Class A students around him of someone else lost during the Sports Festival the previous year. Kirishima stared ahead of him at the bandages draped around Shinso's neck that he had asked the other student about a while ago, which led him to hear about how Shinso had respected and even idolized their previous homeroom teacher. Kirishima's fists clenched harder at the sight of them this time though, a furious look spreading on his face instead of the smile he had last time when Shinso first told him.

"I'm gonna miss him…" Kirishima bit down harder, his eyes clenching shut in the silence as he thought about the hospital room where he first really mourned his old homeroom teacher. He heard Zach next to him say that, and his teeth clenched so hard he started shaking at the voice he heard that followed. "Yeah… me too." Kirishima saw Kaminari's sad face saying it and he felt his heart ripping up. No one believes he was ever real. I can't- I still can't believe it was a lie though. Not all of it! He couldn't have made a face like that, after killing- Kirishima balled his fists even tighter and had to harden them so he would not cut through his palms. Sensei, Kirishima's shaking eyes steadied and opened back up, his expression hardening just as his fists had. Watch me. This time I'm- "…Told you, not until we get our fight." Kirishima's thoughts interrupted with his strongest motivation to keep moving forward through the previous year's Sports Festival, the promised fight that never came.

Sero rose his head with an intense expression on his face. Thoughts of fighting side-by-side with Kaminari at the previous festival faded, and though his gaze shifted to Shinso for a second it focused back ahead on the steel wall when the principal's voice started up again. "After the Sports Festival Invasion, we were seemingly thrown into chaos. A chaotic world where the worst villains of the previous decades were all released from Tartaros. Other nations faced their own problems regarding villains, and here in Japan criminal activity hit new highs. Villains were on the rise, and they rose higher and higher… but heroes stood strong." The principal's small, high-pitched voice sounded serious and uplifting at the end there as the tone shifted. Nezu looked around at the tens of thousands in the stands around him, and he continued to them and to everyone watching on tv, "They stood in the face of those villains, in Japan and around the world. And they have pushed, them, back."

The crowd cheered before Nezu could continue his speech. The small mouse-bear-dog man closed his mouth for a moment instead of speaking over the people. He decided to let them cheer, in their bellowing roars of approval for the heroes Nezu was talking about. The small white creature started before everyone had fully gotten quiet, "In March, this past month, we have seen the steepest decline in villain activity in decades of villainy across the world." Nezu paused again as the crowds cheered so much louder at the sound of that statistic. Nezu kept his serious look on his face but added to himself in an optimistic tone only in his head, And current numbers for April are making out for another steep drop. Too steep a drop, some would say.

"The heroes you know have brought about this decline, including the third years with us at the festival today." The students in the tunnel waiting for the first round to start opened their eyes wide and lifted their heads. As some looked up at the speakers though, most others around just stared at them. The hero course students realized it too and started looking around at their classmates who were facing them and smiling. The crowd started cheering loudest too as Nezu continued, "…The young hero prospects of Class A and Class B of U.A. who were out there fighting with heroes as interns. Showing the villains that the new generation is up to the task of standing up to them-"

The stadium and the world already knew the young heroes of Class A, and Class B of U.A. Specifically Class A though, their fame had become widespread so their names were known world-wide, and names were being cheered out in the stadium so loudly that they reached the teenagers in the tunnels below.

"Ingenium!" Iida heard a yell through dozens of others that had him standing up straighter and then getting back into a ready stance to start sprinting.

"RED RIOT!" Kirishima's lips curled up at the corners into a huge toothy smirk.

"Pinky!"

"Froppy!"

"Battle Fist!" Kendo heard her hero name shouted among the others that had mostly sounded like Class A's. She took in a deep breath and then turned and flashed a smile at a boy already grinning at her, and Tetsutetsu's eyes widened as they heard a shout of 'Real Steel' too.

"DEKU!"

Midoriya Izuku rose his gaze to the steel doors in front of him as clanking noises started coming out of them. "So without further ado," Nezu continued, and the steel doors started to open outwards. "Let the first round of the Sports Festival commence."

Midnight stood outside of the doors as they spread apart. The teacher holding up her black whip cracked it down at her side while grinning big at all the intense-looking students on the other side of the gate. "The obstacle course has three paths!" Midnight called out. She swung an arm to the side and moved aside herself to reveal the ramps moving up around the outside of the stadium. There were tall walls a hundred meters out from the outer edge of the stadium, each one blocking in the obstacle course path that circled the entire stadium building. The ramps went up high though, and sections on the top of the stadium started extending inwards over the crowds already looking up in amazement at the screens that showed the outer obstacle course's creation.

There was a second path at the top of the building that went around the circumference of the stadium alone, and then the steepest ramp went straight up and cut even farther inwards so it was farther in to only have the circumference of the lower arena of the stadium below all the bleachers. "With each path up in elevation, the obstacles and faux villains you will be facing will get that much harder! The course also gets shorter the higher you go though, so keep that in mind as you make your choice!"

Iida's eyes darted up the ramps and then snapped back down to the course ahead of him that was supposed to be the easiest one. Its length does not matter. I will be fastest down here.

Yaoyorozu shifted her gaze from the top path back to the second one. Without knowing how powerful the top tier obstacles are, there is no point. I would also waste more energy on the steepest slope. I can handle whatever the middle tier is however.

Straight to the top. Midoriya stared straight up the steepest ramp just as a classmate of his down the line was doing. Neither Bakugo nor Midoriya looked towards each other, but the two of them bent their legs while staying fully focused on the same point.

"On your marks!" Midnight shouted, and she rose up the black whip to point up above her.

Mineta pulled a couple of Pop Offs from his head and he bent his legs. "Grape Juice!" Someone really shouted it!

"Get set!"

Manga Fukidashi let out a long exhale, the letters 'ahhhhh' coming up faint on his white speech-bubble head. Toru Hagakure glanced to her right and Mashirao Ojiro somehow saw the movement and gave her a nod back with a corner of his lips lifted up. Hanta Sero lowered his arms after cracking them out in front of him, Jurota Shishida dug his feet into the floor below, and Pony Tsunatori rose her head and pointed her horns up above her with an intense look on her cute big-eyed face. Hatsume Mei lowered her goggles over her eyes and twisted the knobs on the sides of them with a huge grin spreading over her mug. Hitoshi Shinso bent his legs and leaned forward, just as Shihai Kuroiro did next to him on his right side.

Midoriya's legs started to glow and he pushed his feet down as he saw Midnight's mouth moving. Todoroki's right foot steamed and his left smoked. Bakugo's clenched fists opened up and sparks flew out of them. Iida's calves ignited, Tsuyu bent her knees to hop, Yaoyorozu's chest glowed, and Midnight shouted to the horde of students, "GO!"

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"Get behind me!" Endeavor shouted, while jumping forward and swinging an arm out to the side to protect Shichi Koi. The hero official of over ninety years who looked like a very droopy Dalmatian stumbled back as the fiery arm swung in front of his body. Endeavor pushed flames out of his arm, but he still ground his teeth in pain as the heat was not enough to fully melt the bullet fired at Koi's head the instant Endeavor leapt to that spot.

The threat was credible! Hinata Juuzo thought in shock, on her butt on one side of the room with her back up against the wall. She had been the most skeptical of the four top hero officials in the room who the threat had been targeted against. On the day of the Sports Festival, why come after us- Juuzo felt the wall behind her back vibrate, and then the powerful steel behind the ornate wood design was broken through before the wood was too, and then Juuzo's back and her front as well as a fist went through her chest. "Agh-" she opened her mouth to scream but a gasping grunt was all she made out.

"Juuzo-san!" Enshio Goro called to his side in panic. The thin man in a black suit took a step back in fear, then he rose up his hands and created small flames out of holes on his palms. The youngest of the four officials, now three, in the room with Endeavor narrowed his eyes at the wall where a man stepped through while raising his arm. Goro gulped and he pulled his head back some more at the sight of his colleague with a fist through her, and he took another step back as the large villain stomping through the wall swung his arm to the side and made the official's body fly right off of it.

"How did they find us?!" Hiroshi Koudo shouted, staying close behind Endeavor just as Shichi Koi was doing after Endeavor just saved him.

Endeavor's eyes darted back and forth behind the flames covering the top half of his face. The flames that made up his eyebrows narrowed down with his eyes filling with an intense hatred at the villains stepping closer to him. On his left a few feet away, the youngest hero official who was younger than him was trying to stand firm and keep holding up both arms with flames on them, even though Goro had blood on his right arm from a gash he had gotten right at the start of the ambush. Endeavor's eyes shifted fast over Juuzo, though his teeth ground harder at the sight of the woman's terrified but lifeless eyes.

The safe room has turned into a coffin. Which of their Quirks can track us? I need to find out before getting the other officials out of here. "Villains," Endeavor started, and he brought his elbows down to his sides. His glare was intense and enraged, but Endeavor could see into each of the villains' eyes. He had thought about what he was going to say, but the looks in their eyes warned him of something. Professionals. Every last one of them. Where did the shot come from? None of them look afraid. Like, the hero officials weren't their only target here. "So you think you can kill me?" Endeavor questioned. Some of the approaching villains stopped where they were near the broken door of the safe room that was stuck open by a slimy orange substance.

"As expected of Japan's Number 1-" one of the villains speaking in front of Endeavor began. It was a man in between two much larger villains, in front of the one who had orange goop dripping from his fingers. They were out in a hallway in a building outside of Tokyo that looked inconspicuous on the exterior but was actually a secret bunker… or at least it was supposed to be a 'secret.' Endeavor was glaring into the villain's eyes as he started speaking back to him, formulating a plan of action while also sizing up his enemies. The man speaking started turning his head though while out in the corridor outside of the safe room. He turned his head and his eyes bulged at the sight outside the window.

"Fuck!"

Crash! A window in the hall shattered and a black blur flew inside.

The villains were fast to react. The ones closer to the safe room charged straight at Endeavor. The one who had spotted what was coming first jumped backwards and slipped through the wall on the opposite side of the hall as the windows, and the one with orange slime coming off his fingers backpedaled while throwing his arms forward and tossing slime at the dark mass that just busted in. A shot flew down the hallway and the dark blur that missed its first target pulled its body to the side fast, and a shot flew just past its head into the wall next to it.

"He's already here?!" A burly villain with green skin yelled while running into the safe room right at Endeavor.

"Kill them first!" The one in front of him who was faster and bulkier roared. His body doubled in size as he entered through the front of the safe room, while the villain who had already busted in through the side wall reached down and grabbed the floor beneath him that his fingers dug straight through like it was putty. He ripped the floor up that was actually very strong to keep from underground attacks in the safe room, and the villain tossed the floor up at the officials behind Endeavor.

Endeavor turned to the man on the side of the room and jumped towards the sturdy floor flying at him. He pulled a fist back and slammed it into the ground, knocking it back much faster at the man who threw it. The silver-skinned figure's eyes bulged before he got slammed right back through the hole in the wall behind him that he dug through a minute ago.

The villain who had doubled in size while charging at Endeavor smirked wide as the top hero in the nation turned his back to him. I'll kill him first then-

Endeavor turned back around as the beast barreling towards him started tripping forward. The villain hit the ground and skid past him on his side, and Endeavor looked over towards the dark figure at the front of the safe room just past an unconscious green villain. Death had a hand pointed behind him and filling the entire doorway of the safe room with a wall of darkness blocking the hallway beyond and the villains who he ignored after splitting the enemy group in half.

"Death," Endeavor said, staring at the dark figure who he had seen turning his way which allowed him to focus on one side of the room. The three hero officials in the room with them were all gawking at the dark figure that had just flown in out of nowhere and was now before their eyes for the first time. Dark wisps stopped coming off of his body and left him there in a pitch black costume covered in knives and black hilts on his belt and the straps over his shoulders and crossing his chest. He had thigh straps too and there were more hidden blades on his sleeves and his boots. His armor was tight to his lean but muscular body, and yet that tight armor was also thick in places other than his joints that made him look bigger than the last time Endeavor had seen him. He's taller, Endeavor thought as he faced the figure before him.

"Have you come to help us?" Koi asked.

"Some of you," Death replied, his voice modulated and low. His head turned away from Endeavor after the first thing he said, and he rose his right hand with his index and middle fingers sticking out in his glove like a gun. He aimed at Enshio Goro who had lowered his flaming hands but now had his right hand shifting slowly towards the back of his waist. Goro's eyes opened huge, and Endeavor started turning to the side himself to look back at the official behind him.

"W-Wait!"

"Stop," Endeavor demanded, and he started lifting an arm into the path of where Death was aiming. A thin black line fired over the top of Endeavor's arm when he had only half-raised it. Endeavor's eyes grew huge behind the flames in front of his face, and he turned his head and watched as the black line slammed into Goro's chest and knocked him backwards like a domino toppling over. "What are you doing?!" Endeavor shouted, spinning and raising arms that covered in flames right as villains smashed into the room from three sides.

"How'd they find the safe room?" Death replied darkly. Then he turned away from Endeavor and towards the villain who had just slipped into the safe room through the wall to the side of his dark flames blocking the doorway.

Endeavor glared at Death out the corner of his eyes for a second, but then his eyes shifted towards the man who smashed down the floorboards to come back in the hole he had initially created. Another villain had just appeared too, in between the two who they had already seen before. This one formed out of thin air, though his body faded in like the particles were coming together out of the atmosphere in the room until he turned whole. His hair was bright yellow and spiked up over his head, to the sides, and behind his skull.

"Looks like they're calling in more help for this," Death said, after seeing the blond villain whose face he recognized well.

"You came early, Death," Dyno said, and the blond smirked a smile of half gold teeth at the dark figure before him. "I was hoping you'd be here though." He darted his eyes to the side for a second and then narrowed them darkly at a form on the floor before shifting his attention back to Death. "What'd you do that poor Goro for?"

A blast of Death shot out of Zach's back and into the wall of the room on the opposite side of Goro. The explosion was so powerful that it flung him across the room while his right arm was lifting up in front of his body, and Zach slammed his hand into Dyno's throat as the villain had his mouth opening to say something else. Air gasped out of Dyno's mouth and Zach slammed an elbow into his chest to remove the rest of his breath while smashing the man up into the wall on the other side of the safe room to the side of another villain's hole. As the big man with silver skin on Zach's left was still turning in towards them, Death leaned his helmet forward and snarled into Dyno's face, "Where is the bomb?"

Endeavor's eyes snapped open huge and then his fists balled and he charged at the silver villain who was turning to Death and lifting his arms. As Endeavor charged at him, he yelled, "Get down!" It was directed behind him at the officials, and they ducked down and got out of sight. It was just in time too, as the darkness covering the doorway was fading and a few longshots flew inside and just over the heads of ducking hero officials. Koudo shouted in fear, and he pushed his hands down on the floor to get farther away from the room's entrance. His shout gave away his position though, and a bullet flew through the flaming darkness and right into the stomach of the sixty year old man whose hands slipped out from his sides. His whole body was pushed back across the room and into the wall on the other side of the entranceway.

Koi turned his head and looked over towards his younger colleague, then he started crawling over on all fours like the dog he looked like. His colleague coughed and wheezed in pain after that shot, and the older man crawling his way began, "Stay still. You weren't hit in-" Thud A body dropped in front of the crawling old man with the face of a Dalmatian, and he froze where he was at the look of the masked woman whose lips were uncovered showing they were sewn shut.

"Damn it! Get to cover!" Death shouted, then he swung the arm he just aimed behind him back in front of him and punched Dyno in the face with it as the villain struggled against the vice grip on his neck.

Endeavor blocked a punch from the man who had ripped a hole into the safe room, then he slammed his own fist under their parried arms and sent the guy flying through the room towards his buddy who turned his body translucent and let his comrade slip right through him. The Flame Hero was right next to Death, and though he turned to the translucent man who still posed a big threat to the other officials in the room, Endeavor spoke to the dark-costumed figure on his side, "Is there a bomb at the Sports Festival?"

"There's no way they would have been able to put it there beforehand," Death replied, and he tightened his grip on Dyno's neck as the man's face was turning purple. As Death choked the last of the life out of him though, Dyno's lips twisted up at the corners in a maddened smirk. Death loosened the grip and he swung hard in the same direction Endeavor punched his last villain, throwing him through the translucent one too and grimacing in his helmet as he was unable to discover anything about his permeation-type Quirk based on the second throw. "Some of them are fanatics, but one will tell me how they're getting the bomb in there. They'll wait for a perfect moment though, and we're still in the first round. We have time."

"Not much," Endeavor said. He frowned more as when Death emphasized how one would definitely tell him the truth, the permeable villain they had not been able to hurt so far just smirked in an insane way back towards them. Shoto. "We need to evacuate the stadium-"

"Try it, and they'll send it in immediately before evacuations even start. We need to find the bomb carrier. The one who can apport the bomb directly into the stadium." Death said this while glaring straight at the translucent villain through his visor, and he saw the twitch on the villain's face at what he was saying. "We find him, or the bomb itself, and we can stop this."

"Koi," Endeavor called out. "Get Nezu notified-"

"No," Death countered. He said it darkly and in a low voice, and Endeavor's eyes darted back to his side again before shifting all around the room at the force arriving on their position. "Endeavor, trust me. We can handle this." Endeavor's eyes opened wide but his expression steadied, his fists clenching harder at his sides while his teeth ground in acceptance. Trust you? You've said before that we don't have to trust each other to work together. You're my enemy… But right now, I have no choice. Villains entered the room and they had the men inside cornered in a box room lined with strong steel on all sides. There were two entrances, both full of villains that were coming out of nowhere which both Endeavor and Death noted.

The one meant to apport the bomb is responsible for making all these villains appear in the building, Zach theorized at the sight of how many were moving in on them. There's no way they could have all been hiding here and Endeavor not noticed before he came in. They would draw attention too. They don't want it to be obvious that they're being teleported in here though, hence why they're doing it out in the halls or farther in the building then coming here… or maybe it's just the range of the apporter? Damn it, but we're so far from the Sports Festival stadium that- or maybe they can only send living things a certain distance. It's possible there are two… Zach's red eyes darted back and forth over all the enemies he was looking at. His mind raced a hundred thoughts a second as he kept track of everything going on around him, Several already on Trigger. I recognize most of the faces here. I have to be careful with Death in the confined a space, it's gotten too strong. One redirection of my aura condensed at an official and they're dead for good. Need to bring back Ms. Juuzo at one point, but I should wait until the end when it's safer. Though I need to get her body to a safer area. Mr. Koudo looks to be bleeding out too. Don't let Koi die. Don't let Endeavor die. He's the one they probably want to kill most of all. I need his help with this too though. The first round is taking place around the outside of the stadium, the dirty bomb with those specifications I saw wouldn't reach… I need a total victory here. I need them to try for perfection and not let them set it off early just because I showed up. They expected I would come though, which is good. It's a good thing, and a bad thing.

It's good because they aren't all panicking yet. But considering what I've been doing lately, the fact that they aren't panicking means… Death erupted around Death's black gloves into huge flaming balls of darkness. His knees bent and he had dark flames shooting out the backs of his legs and blowing to the sides below the soles of his feet. His red eyes flared brighter inside his visor though from the outside he still just looked completely black. His glowing eyes narrowed on one of the enemies and he snapped his head forward at that one man, "HOW MANY TIMES DO I HAVE TO TELL YOU?!" Death's voice came out deeply modulated, though its scratchy and menacing tone came through just fine. The sudden shout made the man who Death focused straight on take a full step back and lose his cocky, ready expression. The spheres of Death on the dark figure's hands doubled in size and he yelled, "Death comes, for ALL VILLAINS!" The floorboards below Zach's feet dented down and then broke at the speed at which he kicked off…

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"Let the first match of the round of 32 STAAAARRT!" Present Mic shouted while leaning up over the counter in front of him in the commentator's booth.

The second round of the tournament had not been as eliminating as years past. The rules at the start of the second round detailed that the teams the competitors had gotten into had to reach a certain point in the competitive battleground/ race track on the second round's arena set-up. It had been a difficult race, with a short time limit, lots of obstacles, and some teams still going after others to try and get higher placings in the round, but as long as they reached the finish under the time limit then they were in to the next round.

The third round had 32 students in it, and every single one was in the hero course. Sato, Hagakure, and Ojiro had all missed out on the final round after teaming with a few general studies students they knew from the year before. Kazumi and Sahara, along with one of their classmates who had finished the first round in time too teamed up with the three Class A's, only to miss the finish line by a few seconds in the second round. Five of the Class B students missed out too, after an invention that Hatsume Mei created accidentally crashed into a few members of their team when her support class team was knocking themselves out last round. Despite a pretty even divide between the Class A and Class B members in the finals though, the first match was between two Class A students who had never fought before.

Sero was quick to snap his right arm forward and fire Tape out towards the frog girl ahead of him. Tsuyu hopped to the right and then started running forward, and Sero swung his tape from his right arm in the direction she dodged. The tall black-haired boy in Class A swung his left arm too and fired more Tape while cutting it off after short intervals. He started running away from Tsuyu while continuously firing at her, a big grin covering half of his face through the start of the fight.

Tsuyu Asui was agile, and she was dodging Sero's attacks with relative ease. Her big frog eyes darted around though as she noticed on her last hop that she came close to landing on some tape, with the sticky side pointed up on the ground. Her eyes darted back to Sero and she thought about how the closer she got to him, the harder it would be to dodge his Tape that was fastest immediately upon leaving his elbow dispensers. Sero fired more behind her and Tsuyu saw he was intending on her to go for a frontal attack right there as it looked like he had missed her because she was too fast. She did not fall for it and kept her distance which Present Mic shouted about in confusion since he had been talking about Sero trying to keep the fight long-ranged from the start.

Sero lowered his smile a bit, but he cracked a smirk as he made eye contact with Asui where she stopped. "Running out of room, Tsu!" He called across the arena at the frog girl who was standing in a five meter gap between some of his sticky tape.

Even though he's not connected to the tape anymore, Tsuyu thought as she kept those discarded lines of tape in her vision. I know how sticky they are. If it gets stuck to my feet, he can attach more to the pieces dangling off. I'll become too big of a target. Sero-chan doesn't have unlimited Tape, but he does have enough to easily cover the entire arena. I cannot let this drag out much longer.

Sero ran forward and he swung his right elbow forward. "And a charge by Sero! He's keeping Asui on the defensive!" Tsuyu dodged to Sero's right, but the boy ducked down and pointed his left elbow under his extended right, straight towards the spot Tsuyu was dodging to in the air. Tsuyu's legs curled in towards her body, and she kicked them down as if springing like a frog again. Sero's tape was perfectly on-line to hit her, but Tsuyu kicked down on the air and flipped herself over letting the tape fly just below her. Sero's eyes widened at that midair jump, then he grit his teeth and tried swinging his arm after her.

Tsuyu was faster. She snapped her tongue out towards Sero who was not in a good position to dodge because of the way he crouched to fire after her. He had run forward too so that his Tape would have a better chance of catching the speedy girl, so he was too close to dodge Tsuyu's tongue easily. Sero cut off the tape coming out of his elbows, as his usually great mobility was reliant on the use of more tape there. Tsuyu's tongue did not warp around Sero, but instead the end of it slammed into his chest while moving at its full speed. Tsuyu had the height advantage where she fired from up in the air too, so Sero did not just get knocked backwards but knocked down too.

Sero hit the floor and rolled backwards, right over some of his tape that got stuck to his back and bunched up behind him. Sero was skidding backwards, but he pointed his elbows out to the side and stuck tape on the ground ten feet away on either side. He stopped extending it while still skidding, and Tsuyu stopped rushing towards him as she was about to try and get a big kick on him. Sero's extended tape slingshotted him forwards as he retracted back into his elbows along with the bounce back from reaching the end of the tape while still with a lot of momentum anyway. He extended a leg out at the girl who ducked below him, then jumped backwards and to the left as Sero tried firing a line of tape down at the girl ducking below him. He pulled that arm to the side and fired again, and again, and again, and Tsuyu hopped from each spot to another with incredible speed.

She dodged and dodged, then she sprang back towards him and right between two lines of tape he tried firing from near point blank. She had read his attack through his eyes though, and Tsuyu extended her legs and pressed her feet straight into Sero's chest. There was a moment when her feet pressed into his body that Sero only felt a light press of her feet into his torso. His eyes were growing wider though, the crowd was getting louder as Tsuyu crouched into his front. Then she extended her legs. Tsuyu flung herself back the way she had come from because of how much force she put into the double kick. Sero on the other hand, was thrown much faster across the arena and right off the side of it.

Sero winced as his chest pressed in, his eyes closing from the pain. Tsuyu was watching his face, then her already huge eyes grew wider too as she saw his right eye squint open and his twisted lips to curl up at the right side. Tsuyu's eyes darted right and left, but it was too late as Sero yanked his arms back and made the tape that had flown past Tsuyu's side and connected to pull back into the girl and wrap around her chest. Sero was still in midair, and he was over the side of the arena already, but he swung with as much force as he could muster to lift Tsuyu from already up in the air to rising much higher until she was up and over his body. He continued swinging his arms to try and fling the girl right up over him and down on the other side before he slammed down on the ground, but Tsuyu's tongue snapped out of her body and wrapped around Sero's upper body and head.

Sero's face turned beet red below Tsuyu's tongue as it wrapped around his chest, neck, chin, and his mouth. Then he gasped out, opening his mouth into Tsuyu's tongue which would have made his face even more red, if it was not covered in pain because of how fast Tsuyu just brought herself down into his stomach. She came flying out of the air like a missile with her legs extended that she smashed into Sero's lower body, (though still above the belt). The hit made his legs swing up on one side, and his upper body that Tsuyu pulled up with her tongue raise on the other, thus keeping her tongue from hitting the ground even wrapped around Sero's upper back. Tsuyu smashed Sero into the ground, and she unwrapped her tongue fast to release him and just finish standing on top of Sero's body.

Tsuyu was panting and she still had tape wrapped around her upper body, but she looked better off than Sero whose head turned to the side with his eyes closed. Even in his unconscious state though, there was a somewhat satisfied look on his face that the cameras caught while the crowds were cheering. Mineta was up in the stands leaning forward in his seat, shouting curses down at Sero in frustration. The rest of Class A was cheering for their classmate though, except for Bakugo and Todoroki, and Tokoyami who was in a waiting room already as his match against Setsuna Tokage was up next.

Midnight came over to where Tsuyu just stepped off of Sero's stomach, and she swung a red whip up in one hand over Tsuyu's shorter body. "As Sero Hanta hit out of bounds first, the winner is Asui Tsuyu!" The crowds cheered again at the official decision, and Tsuyu croaked before looking around at the cheering thousands around her. A cute smile came to her face and the crowds cheered even louder.

---

"Switch."

"Do it."

Endeavor and Death sprinted at each other. They charged straight at one another with a very small gap between their left sides as they pulled their right arms back. The villains right behind them swung at their opponents' backs, but the other two men were faster and punched their right arms forward.

"Flashfire Fist: Burn Out!"

"Death Dragon Fist!"

Endeavor fired a blast of flames down the hall so wide that within a second he was burning up all the oxygen inside it. The villain Death had been unable to hit slowed down as he began suffocating. He had moved to the outside of the hall to stay farthest away from the hottest part of Endeavor's attack, but the attack was purposely spread wide and burnt up all the breathable air, making the speedy villain unable to keep running. On the opposite end of the hallway, the dark punch that emerged out of Death's fist changed shape while plowing through the thick fist of green seawater coming at Endeavor's back. The fist changed shape into the head of a dragon that pushed forward and bared its sharp teeth at the villain who screamed softly before falling with their mouth still open.

BOOM!

Crash!

Zach spun around and waved a hand down at the floor and the arm reaching up towards him with a blade extending off of it. A wave of darkness flew at the arm and then condensed into a spear-shape and shot down into the hole the arm quickly pulled back into. Endeavor meanwhile spun his head to the left and aimed a hand at the wall, curling each finger out and growling, "Flashfire Fist: Hell Spider." Five thin red lines shot out of his fingers and carved through the wall like it was butter, and a scream rang out from the other side. Zach looked through falling chunks of wall and spotted an arm dropping in the mix, though the scream got more distant and quieted itself where the villain disappeared off to.

Zach stepped forward and put his right foot near the hole in the floor he had brought his Death Spear down into a moment ago. His leg surrounded in thicker darkness, then the rest of his body started surrounding in it too which allowed him to slip straight through the floor and drop as a mass of darkness into the floor below. His body reformed in the shape of a man, and he walked forward with a heavy black mist pulling off the sides and back of his body. He marched towards a figure trying to crawl away who turned and dropped the blades he was still holding when he saw that monster coming towards him.

"This, is impossible!" The man shouted, his voice cracking. The American villain was another Zach recognized, and he kept marching towards that figure without slowing down. "You can't be here! I know you were in Brazil just the other- And you were in Australia- How many of you are there?!" Zach stopped and the man pushed his head towards Death and yelled, "You can't be everywhere at once! So you're just one of-"

"I am Death," Zach said. His voice scratched and deepened, and he stepped another foot closer to the man who pulled his head farther away with fear spread over it. "And you, Felix…" Zach's voice got lower and more menacing, bone-chilling to the villain whose face paled at the sound of his own name. "Are a villain. I've told your kind many times, that I will come for you. But you never seem to listen," Zach's right hand moved from his side, and a long black blade shot out of his grip and sliced into the floor at the tip where it was thickest. Felix's eyes snapped to the end of the blade and he started pushing himself farther back down the hall, but his head started spinning as black wisps that were just coming out of Death all stopped waving around and turned the same direction.

Dark trails shot out of Death's feet and snaked across the floor. A non-existent wind pushed the tendrils of Nightmare towards Felix, waving around in the air and cutting through it in the most horrifying display the villain had ever seen before. Death started walking forward over trails of darkness already covering the floor, and he dragged his Death Sword down the floor with him, making sure the carving noise was loud enough for the villain he was approaching to hear. "You have three seconds to tell me where the bomb carrier is," Death said. His voice was cold and almost without mercy, but it also sounded genuine. "Or I'll kill you and find someone else."

Felix's face covered in terror and his eyes snapped up to the hole in the ceiling where Death had come down for him from. Some of the darkness Death already attacked him with had touched his skin, and he could barely move as it was. "Don't look up there. None of them can help you now. The other villains won't, and there are no heroes here to save you." Felix's eyes dropped back and he saw the floor on either side of him getting darker as the snaking Death on the ground curved around his sides. Wisps of darkness came off of those black lines, trapping him inside a flaming Hell that Death walked forward in until he was just in front of the villain.

Death rose up his sword, and Felix realized his three seconds were up. "Wait!"

---

"The second match of the round of 16 is a DOOZY! Sure we aren't in the finals already?" Present Mic asked the teacher at his side.

All Might shook his head while still smiling himself and looking down towards the arena stage where two young men had just stepped forward. "They both showed tremendous improvement through the first events, and although their opponents in the first rounds did well to stand against-"

"They dominated in the quickest two matches of the round of 32!" Present Mic shouted to finish for All Might. "An epic rematch people have been looking for since their fight two years ago! A championship bout in the second round! On one side the explosive personality and Quirk, KATSUKI… BAKUGOOOO! And on the other, is he hot? Is he cold? He's both! It's…"

RrrrIIPP A villain sitting in the back of a truck watching a tv on the wall started lifting her head while getting up out of her seat. She looked up while reaching forward. I'll just send it- her hand twitched and her entire expression covered in sheer terror at the dark mass she saw through the hole on the roof of the truck. "RRAAAAAA!" Death slammed his head down and roared at the woman who already flinched, but suddenly lost focus on anything else around her except the demonic force above her head. I NEED TO- her eyes started darting back down, her hand moving forward again, but the dark wave that pulsed out of that screaming figure above her slammed into the front of her body and rushed straight through her into the wall at her back.

Zach kept forcing more Death out of his body down into the woman even after she fell to the ground. He dropped inside the truck, in between the large object in the middle of the vehicle and the woman collapsed on the side of it. He finally stopped pushing the Death out of his body, and instead all that darkness sucked back into him with even more than before as his power pulsed. Zach turned his head and looked at the screen on the opposite wall as he heard a familiar voice speaking. "…But after Young Tokoyami's dominant match in the previous round, I am expecting a closer fight between these two. Closer than their previous battle as well, as I believe Todoroki will surely use his flames…"

Zach lowered his gaze from the tv and to the bomb in front of him. Sucks for Tokoyami. Stuck against his natural enemy again no matter who wins. Maybe he's got a way around it now. Zach reached his arms out to the sides and grabbed around the dirty bomb in the back of the truck. Black wings shot out of his back and flapped down at his sides, and Zach shot out of the truck and into the sky again. In case they have a secondary means of getting this into the stadium that Felix didn't know about. As long as they didn't prepare a backup bomb. I doubt they did, or she would have focused more on saving herself than attacking the stadium. Fucking fanatics.

Zach flew back towards a nearby building the truck had not been parked too far away from in a hidden but inconspicuous location. He flew in through a broken window and called over to a man all on his own in there but looking around like he expected someone else to be there. "Endeavor! Where should I put this?" Zach kept his right hand on it, but he let go with his left and pointed to his side at a wall where a person started slipping through. Fucking idiot, Zach thought at the man who took the bait of him being 'distracted' way too easily. The unconscious man fell the rest of the way out of the wall, face-first into the floor and a few feet away from another unconscious villain.

Shouldn't be many of them left. I don't want to leave this bomb anywhere near the officials, or Endeavor, or anyone who might take it and try and finish the plan. How do I get rid of a bomb without it exploding? I've just got to deactivate it… Fuck, I did really well in this course too. It's always under pressure too, so if I just take a minute and try defusing it. Zach put the bomb down and he ignored the grunts from Endeavor and the villain who had jumped out at him as soon as Endeavor turned his way to see what Death was talking about. Just hold him off for a minute Endeavor, Zach thought, while going away on the bomb only twenty meters from the officials in another room that he could keep an eye on now that he was back inside the building. There were so many variables, so many things he needed to worry about at all times, that bringing the bomb back to the others was the concession he had to make with himself in order to ensure the others weren't all getting killed without him there.

"Perfect," Death said, while looking through an open panel on the bomb and grinning at what he saw inside. His grin only lasted for a second, but he was relieved by what he was seeing in there. Because it wasn't on a timer, they were just going to send it in and blow it up without giving anyone time to defuse. There was no need to make the inside complicated. Still check for dummy wires… nope. Zach ripped out the wire he needed to, froze, then let out a breath of black steam. I knew it was right, but I guess it's impossible not to hold your breath there. He relaxed and let go of the deactivated bomb. Then he lifted his head and looked down the hall to a panting Endeavor who had a villain grabbed by the throat, smoke coming out from between his fingers as he choked the man out with a fiery hand.

Endeavor smashed the villain down into the floor at his feet, then he stood back up fully and took in a deep breath himself. He turned towards Death who lost the dark aura around his body to leave him just in his black costume again. "Let's gather up all the villains back in the safe room. Look out for any more," Death suggested it and then reached down and grabbed the two men closest to him who lay unconscious next to each other. He lifted them up and started walking back towards the safe room, and his eyes started to darken inside his visor as he heard Endeavor speak in agreement behind him. Death's eyes closed inside his visor, then he clenched his hands tighter into the two men he was dragging. They were going to kill everyone. Remember that.

---

"Are you ready for the semifinals, All Might? YOW! Because I'm super looking forward to them!"

"I do believe we are in for some interesting match-ups," All Might started, while smiling up towards a giant screen outside the commentators' booth where he could see the semifinalists' faces. Their faces were put in a corner of the screen each, with the first round's fighters on top and the ones in the second match next to each other below them. The face on the bottom left of the screen made All Might smile the most, and he continued, "All four of these students have shown remarkable improvement in the three years they have been at U.A…"

"And that's saying something, since they were all finalists their first years too!" Present Mic shouted, followed up by thousands of cheers in the stands from people who had been watching these students compete for three years now. "In match one we've got Bakugo Katsuki, otherwise known by his newly declared hero name: EXPLOSION KING!" Cheers rang out through the stands, but Bakugo's face stayed intense inside his waiting room as he curled his fingers in and made fists over and over again. "The champion of the first year, and a finalist last year, we've never seen him lose!" Present Mic shouted it and the cheers got even louder.

All Might looked in at Present Mic and he sweatdropped but smiled, deciding not to jump in as Yamada was much better at riling up the fans than he was. Mic continued yelling, "He's not going to have an easy fight though. Last year these two went up against each other at the start of the final tournament, and though Bakugo was the victor, it was a battle hard fought! Now Bakugo has already come up against people he's fought before all day, but we'll see what he can do against our own Iida Tenya, the next… INGENIUM!"

Iida heard that shout and he let out a long, deep breath. Nii-san, his eyes rose up and his fists balled at his sides where he stopped pacing a room away from Bakugo. Kendo was more difficult to defeat quickly than I predicted, but I knew it would be hard fought nonetheless. Bakugo has fought against a harder line-up than I have. This is Bakugo though. I will not make the same mistakes as last time…

Principal Nezu had a small smile on his face as he listened to the roars of applause and the commentary from one of his faculty. His beady black eyes shifted around the stadium, then next to him at Power Loader who had his one arm lifted in front of him with a tablet showing a dozen different moving camera angles. Power Loader was keeping a close eye on them though he was smiling inside his helmet too at everything Present Mic was shouting. Nezu glanced at the tablet screen for a moment, and then he looked back forward with his smile but a completely serious look below it. We're almost there. So far we have had no surprises. We are getting close to the end though, and the tension is rising. I have seen people leaving their seats. Not many, but enough that I can hear the difference in volume from earlier.

"…And in the second match, a rising star who shook off that blandness to him from his first year! He hasn't broken a bone yet this tournament for a change… we have Midoriya Izuku! A.K.A… DEKUUUU!"

Midoriya slid down into his chair a little as the cheers got much louder than they were for either of the two who were shouted out before him. Neither Iida nor Bakugo were up in the Class A section of the stands, though Midoriya could see his opponent out the corner of his eyes looking towards him out the corners of theirs. He took in a deep breath to stop looking so nervous, but a hand smacked onto his back and made him cough instead of letting out his exhale slowly. "Listen to them. They're going nuts over you!" Mineta exclaimed jealously at his classmate who had knocked him off the stage a few rounds back in the tournament.

"I'd say I'm rooting for you out there Midoriya," Ashido started, leaning over Midoriya's other shoulder as Mineta. "Buuuut…" Ashido smirked and pulled away from the boy who got a more nervous look at the calm, collected look he saw past Ashido when she moved her head away.

"For the final competitor," All Might began, speaking before Present Mic could go on his rant. "I want to say this. All the students in the festival today have improved in leaps and bounds from where they were to where they are now. No class in the history of U.A. has been through more than Class A has, and that experience shows with who we see once again filling all the spots of the semifinals. But even in that class of so much improvement, I believe that the person I have seen the most improvement from…" The girl up in the Class A bleachers section started lifting her head towards the commentators' booth with her eyes opening wider in shock. "Is Yaoyorozu Momo."

"THAT'S RIGHT!" Present Mic shouted in agreement, nearly jumping out of his seat like he wanted to yell that from the second All Might started about it. Present Mic thought back on another man who used to sit at the seat next to him, and he smiled more while yelling, "Eraser Head said it the first year too! Yaoyorozu had the skills and know-how, but not the confidence to make things happen in the spur of the moment! But you'd be hard-pressed to find any hesitation in her moves today! Crushing powerhouses left and right with plans I never even saw coming! Sweeping her way through the tournament like a pro! She's the one I'm rooting for, YOW, (even though I probably shouldn't be biased), IT'S CREATI!"

Midoriya relaxed a tad as he saw a slightly red shade come to Yaoyorozu's face at all that was just shouted. The cheers were as loud as his just were too, Maybe even louder. Midoriya watched as Jirou leaned in from Yaoyorozu's other side to tell her something, and then Midoriya looked forward himself and he lowered the small smile he gained when he saw his opponent looking just as nervous as he felt. I have to focus fully on our fight if I want to beat Yaoyorozu. I'm sure she's already made a great plan to beat me, so I can't be distracted. Except, I'm sure she will be too, just as I know I can't convince myself not to be at least a little preoccupied. We all are.

Todoroki took in a deep breath from the top of Class A's stands. He looked down at his phone again and an unanswered text that he had sent out a while ago. Dad said it was an important mission. I don't know why he wouldn't say anything about it. It may be better that I am not in the semi's though… not that I'd use that as an excuse. Bakugo was just too… but it is good. Because I don't want to be thinking about fighting my classmates at a time like this. Not now. With this feeling in the air. The knowledge that we're nearing the end and still, nothing is happening. Dad hasn't texted me back. His mission probably has nothing to do with the Sports Festival though. I haven't seen him on security detail… why wouldn't he tell me what it was he was doing today?

A short time until the Sports Festival ends. Perhaps they will not attack the third years, but one of the other stages where they would feel a higher chance of victory? Doubtful. It would make the biggest impact here. Yaoyorozu drowned out Present Mic as he started shouting more about the first match that both she and Midoriya planned to watch fully before going down to wait for their fight. How many are thinking about it in the backs of their minds? We are a target for villains. A target for any who want to send a message. Everyone is waiting to see it. Everyone knows it's coming, or at least they would not be surprised if it did come. Not surprised, but still crushed. We're on the right path now. Yaoyorozu's gray eyes focused down on the arena. The closer it gets to the final fight, the more nerve-wracking it gets. They waited until the semifinals last year. We are being brave, putting on this show in the face of crime that is still higher than it was during All Might's time. I must put on a brave face and act as if there is no danger. Smile so that everyone can see that we are not afraid of villains, even if we know that there is a high chance they could attack. That is our responsibility. Not as students of U.A. But as heroes.

Nezu looked around the stadium again as the competitors for the first match of the semi's started coming out to the stage. All the precautions in place. All the new security measures. They must hold! Nezu balled his tiny white hands into fists and took a deep breath to calm his own thoughts. ANTs patrolling everywhere. They are readied here and through the city, with self-destruct switches in them to activate failsafe bombs in their heads. Even with Hackerman out of the picture, if Raijin attempts anything I will be ready. The heroes visible in our security to dissuade villains are more than ever yes, but our true number is hidden as our heroes prepared at this very moment for imminent attack can not be seen by the public or it would be assumed that an attack is definitely coming. They will stay at the ready until the Sports Festival has ended and everyone is off the premises. I will take no chances.

Far from the Sports Festival stadium, in her apartment in Musutafu, Inko Midoriya held her hands together in front of her tv screen. She stared at the spiky-haired blond stepping up on the stage and got a nervous expression on her face. Her expression was already nervous though, so the chubby green-haired woman just pressed her hands together tighter and curled her fingers in, pushing her head down onto her hands with her lips pursed in a scared way. "Oh Izuku, this is getting so much harder to watch. Every second is… please, stay safe." She lifted her head and looked at the two boys on the screen, and she whispered in a softer voice, "And win."

Inko said it, waited a few seconds, then she called out louder, "But mainly stay safe!"

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"Rrrg, ggrr," Zach ground his teeth and tried to hold in the painful noises he was making. Hinata Juuzo sat on the floor with her back up against a wall a few meters away from the dark man kneeling over her colleague. She had a hole in her shirt and was still holding a hand over it pressed into her chest in shock that her body was all healed up.

Endeavor came back into the safe room and he did not have any villains with him this time. He looked over towards Death and Koudo for a second, then his gaze shifted over to the unconscious Goro, then to the oldest man in the room who was watching Death in silence himself. "Is that all of them, Endeavor?" Shichi Koi questioned, still without looking over towards the Flame Hero.

"Unless some ran," Endeavor replied. He looked over towards the pile of villains stacked up on one side of the safe room, and he glared at the men and women who had come to kill them. He had a bloody gash on his right arm and one higher up on his right shoulder, but other than that he had taken little damage during the fighting. "What about the bomb carrier?" Endeavor asked, looking towards Death who removed a hand from the body of the official below him. Death shook Koudo for a second, but then he just let go and stood up as the official fell unconscious after being brought back to life. "You only brought the bomb back here."

Zach stood and looked towards Endeavor through his dark visor. His face was completely hidden behind it, and the other three in the room with him who were still conscious could not see the expression his face just made. Zach turned his head and nodded at the wall in the direction of the truck he had found. "There's a side road off the exit, Uno Street, a lot of trees on the sides of the road. In between two big ones, there's an alleyway with a truck parked inside. I left her inside it." Zach paused and looked over towards the pile of villains in the room, "She was the only one there. I'm guessing she sent all the others here to help, when they heard I arrived."

"Th-Thank you," Juuzo said. The other three looked over towards the woman, and she kept a hand over her chest to keep herself covered but used the other to push herself up the wall she leant on. "For coming," the woman in her fifties whispered softer.

"Don't thank me," Death replied. His voice was still deep and modulated. His tone sounded cold too, and Juuzo pursed her lips at what should have sounded menacing but did not to her anymore.

Koi frowned deeper at Death's back, and he glanced over towards Endeavor only to see the Flame Hero still standing where he was after Death had just brought back his other colleague. The older man hummed to himself and then began in a low, stern voice, "Death. How did you know that Mr. Goro was working with the villains? You took him out before giving him a chance to explain-"

"I didn't know," Zach replied. "Not before I got here. But," he looked over towards the youngest of the four hero officials who was not laying with the rest of the villains but on the floor not far from his feet. "One of you had to be the traitor unless the villains had a Quirk allowing otherwise. It was likely one of you had told the location of the safe house though, and his reaction gave himself away when I arrived." Death paused and then he nodded at the unconscious man on the floor, "Also he has a gun he was reaching for, if you don't believe me. Check his waistband."

Endeavor did not need to check. He believed Death already, but he still glared at the figure in front of him as he heard the man speaking. He's definitely taller. Still growing. "Dad, there's something, I need to tell you…" Endeavor clenched his fists hard at his sides with a closer look at the muscular man in a black costume standing before him. "Now that the attack has been stopped," Endeavor started, shaking off strange thoughts for now and focusing on the moment. "We must notify-"

"Don't," Zach said. He looked at Endeavor and frowned more at the look on the Flame Hero's face. Zach's frown twisted in frustration and hesitation too, his heart racing faster again while his eyes darted across the room. "Goro, Dyno, the villains from different groups, they had a plan here. You get what that plan was right?"

"To attack the Sports Festival, and to kill us," Koi began. "Correct?" He had a feeling from the way the dark figure said it that he was missing something there.

Juuzo pulled out a phone and she quickly went onto a live stream for the Sports Festival. "The final match is starting. It seems Bakugo Katsuki and Midoriya Izuku are the finalists. If we are going to cancel-"

"You can't cancel it," Death said, cutting her off and shaking his head as he looked to the woman near him. "What's the point? We already stopped the attack. Just, let them fight."

Endeavor frowned more and he glared over at the bodies of unconscious villains all stacked up and unmoving. Their plan. The reason for the attack. "Death's right…" Endeavor grit his teeth after saying it, while the other three looked over towards him. "The purpose of attacking the Sports Festival is clear. The Symbol it represents that, I cannot."

"They want to keep their age alive," Death said, nodding with Endeavor and speaking up himself about it. "The age of villains. They don't want it to end. So the Sports Festival going off without a single villain incident, after the chaos of last year, is unthinkable." Zach ground his teeth and he started walking over towards the villains they had gathered up, "These villains aren't all from the same group. They joined together for a single purpose though. Killing you four, killing everyone at the Sports Festival, none of that means anything to them. All they care about is the attack." Zach stared down at the villains and his breathing started picking up faster. His eyes darkened and his fingers curled, his expression turning cold and that quickened breathing pace slowing back down. "And if anyone knew that there was even an attack planned, the villains' plan succeeds. They'd have to cancel, they'd ruin this occasion, they'd keep the whole world feeling like villains are still powerful enough to try something against the Sports Festival, against U.A., against Class A, against heroes and their society."

Endeavor ground his teeth more and kept glaring at those villains harder with every word out of Death's mouth. Everyone will still know. Even if the Festival finishes where it should, they'll still find out that there was an attack planned. Villains will still- Endeavor's bottom lip started dropping, and his right arm started to raise only to flinch as his eyes bulged and his face covered in complete shock. Koi and Juuzo pulled back, both of them gawking and staring in horror at the dark figure standing near the villains, who just opened up his clenched right fist and fired a black blast out of his palm and into the stack of villains.

Death opened his hand and fired a black trail of darkness over all of the villains piled in the room. Dark flames covered them all and flared huge all the way up to the ceiling, leaving the other three behind him staring at Death's back with a wide backdrop of flaming darkness. He just kept his hand lifted partially in front of him, aimed down at the ground and firing a stream of Death out of it and into the nearly two dozen villains laying there. "What are you doing?!" Endeavor shouted, taking a step at Death's back.

"I'm not a hero, so I don't have to let that happen," Death replied. He turned his head sideways and glared out the visor back at Endeavor who froze with shaking eyes at what Death just said. Endeavor wondered if his mind had been read for a second before realizing that they had both just been thinking of the same thing, and Death knew it. Endeavor's fists clenched harder, but the dark flames were dropping down behind Death and darkness pulled back into his body like a strong wind sucking into his body. "No one can know what happened here," Death said, glaring into Endeavor's eyes and saying it in his coldest, deepest voice.

"Did you just," Juuzo started in a whisper. She stared towards the bodies when the darkness fully left them, showing pale men and women with lifeless expressions and a different kind of no movement than before. Not even twitches or the slightest up and downs of their chests.

"You killed them," Koi said, the old man's shaking eyes returning to normal and then glaring at Death furiously. The dog man stepped forward and looked to Endeavor, "Endeavor. Take Death into-"

"Shhhh," Death's voice gave Koi chills and made him freeze with his mouth open. "Don't think that you can-" he froze mid-sentence. The smirk that just crossed over Zach's face faltered, and he reached a hand up slowly and gripped the side of his head for a second. Then he lowered that arm and dropped his smile into a deep frown. "You didn't have a choice in what happened here," Zach turned towards Endeavor alone and stared at the taller and more muscular hero covered in his orange flames. "I made the decision to kill him, and you couldn't stop me."

Stop you? We were thinking of the same thing. "I'm not a hero…" How much- how much thought went into- that wasn't just random murder. But… "Death, this isn't, the way things are going to go."

"They have to," Death replied.

"Even if we wait," Endeavor cut right back in, his face darkening as he took a step towards the dark figure before him. "This will come to light. We will make it known what happened here. And Goro must pay for-"

"Send him in for something else. Make it bad, but not enough to get him sent in with the worst villains. That'll keep him quiet." The others stared towards Death confused and angry, and nervous at the dark voice that spoke calmly and with a plan already. "He's not a fanatic like the others. He wouldn't want it known he was trying to get thousands killed."

"How could you know-"

"I tortured one of the villains while we were fighting, and I filled in the rest of the gaps myself," Death said it coldly and made Juuzo pull back at that voice that she was once again afraid of. "He helps the villains here and they help him. By taking out the other top hero officials and Endeavor in an attack that would become synonymous with the attack on the Sports Festival. And yet, he would have been the heroic survivor of the attack, even sustaining a wound himself. But even with a wound like that, he would have been the first one on the scene at the Sports Festival. He wouldn't have faltered, acting quickly to reroute heroes and ensure the population that things were under control. In a time of so much chaos, he would have been the one who brought this country back into the light. His reaction would have been so fast after all, because he knew the attack was coming in the first place and had plans to gain power when it was finished."

The others darted their eyes over to the young man unconscious on the ground whose plans were being revealed even though Zach was speculating on nearly every word out of his mouth. "And all he would have had to do during all this, is make sure that some of the heroes he's calling to help reconstruction and rescue efforts would be coming from specific ports. He would make some openings, for all the villain groups out there who are terrified and on the run, looking for a safe haven from me." The way Death said that sent chills down Koi and Juuzo's spines, while Endeavor just turned back to the dark figure and stared at him with wider eyes as he continued. "Goro's a fool though, to think that it would really work out for him. Hawks and Best Jeanist would have figured it out in no time, that an attack organized so perfectly and carried out without flaw couldn't have failed to kill one of the officials. And the fact that he was so quick to respond, only received a minor injury, they'd realize it and arrest him. But it would be too late."

Zach ground his teeth inside his helmet and his eyes darkened so much more while he glared over at Enshio Goro. "Because by the time they realized it, the villains would have already set up inside Japan. And, and the people will have already started trusting Goro." Koi's glaring gaze started to shift, his eyebrows lifting and his face pulling back. Endeavor stared down at Death's helmet with his breath hitching, at the sound of the pain in Death's voice. "In that time of complete panic, Goro would have come to the forefront and told everyone that things were going to be alright. He'd do it for popularity, to make everyone believe in him and to get behind any policy changes that he tried to put in place. They'd believe in him so strongly as he's out there in the thick of it despite his own wounds, yelling at those despairing people that they could rise again! And after everyone believed so strongly in him, after they trusted him! If they had to learn that he was the cause of their despair the entire time… If families who had lost loved ones started believing in this man and following him and caring so much about him, only to learn that he was a monster, betraying them from the start."

Death's voice was deeply modulated, but it was full of passion and anger, and despair. And the other three in the room felt like they were hearing someone speaking through experience. All three of them thought of the same thing. Death continued in a lower voice, his fists uncurling at his sides, "It would crush them. They'd never recover from it. Goro would be sent to prison, the people would be disillusioned, and the villains infesting Japan would get even stronger."

Juuzo leaned on the wall behind her and she rose her eyes to the ceiling. I can see it. Everything he just said, could have happened easily. I always thought Goro was too ambitious, but this is… And Death, he went through this himself. He trusted, Raijin. This is really Zach Sazaki.

"Goro has been captured though," Koi said. Zach turned and looked at the old man who appeared to be a Dalmatian, and that man continued, "And so were the other villains, who you so brutally killed."

"They would have talked," Zach replied. "The minute they woke up, they would have talked about their plan. Everyone would have known that the villains were still trying."

"That doesn't matter," Endeavor said. He glared at the man before him and growled in a deeper voice, "You cannot come here and decide for yourself what laws to follow. You cannot come here and kill twenty unarmed, unconscious men, and think that we will just keep it a secret for you."

"The whole world is watching the Sports Festival," Death said. "It doesn't matter if it's here or anywhere else. Everyone, is watching. Everyone is afraid there will be an attack. The villains are waiting to see one too. If there is even mention that an attack was planned, foiled, it will still make everyone know that nothing has changed. Even though they'd be wrong, but that wrong knowledge would turn into something. It would undo everything. Villains will be emboldened once more, so the whole point of the Sports Festival to show that heroes are in control of society again will be seen as a joke, a lie! Even if it's stopped, it will show that villains are not cowering so far below heroes like is being advertised. The Sports Festival has to go on without a problem. It needs perfection to really mean anything! So… no one can know what happened here." Death turned and he started for the door, creating flames of darkness on his back that Endeavor glared at so harshly like the man was daring him to try attacking him as he left.

"Endeavor, arrest him," Koi ordered.

Death froze, before Endeavor could step after him. Zach ground his teeth and bared them in fury. He heard the old man's voice continue behind him, "You do not make decisions for this country. You are a murderer and a terrorist. The people will know the truth. We do not act in conspiracies-"

"Don't you get it?" Zach snarled. He turned his head and glared past a hesitant Endeavor towards Shichi Koi. The old man did not flinch though at that look, and that made Death pull his head back with his eyes going wide and his face covering in panic. "You can't! You can't tell anyone I was here."

"I must," Koi replied.

"Death, this was too far," Endeavor said. Death snapped his head to Endeavor now still with a panicked look on his hidden face, and Endeavor continued to that dark visor, "I've seen you fight before. I never thought you would go so far though. You let men live who killed your comrades in the League of Shadows' base. From then to now, something has changed. You have changed. And I cannot-"

"I let them live, because there was no reason to kill them!" Death shouted, his voice hitching which the others heard through the helmet's modulator and made them the most unnerved since Death killed the villains. "Wh-What do you- You can't tell any…" Death reached up and he held a button on the side of his helmet, then he let go and started shaking his head before speaking in his own voice, "You can't do this. What's the point of telling people?"

"They deserve to know the truth," Juuzo started.

"'Deserve?' They deserve to believe that they live in a peaceful world again! They don't deserve the fear that will come if you tell them this. Sometimes, keeping secrets is a good thing!" Death shouted it in a higher-pitched voice, full of desperation. He looked back to Endeavor who started shaking his head, and Death stomped back towards the top hero whose eyes opened wide at that step that brought them so close together. "Do you think-" Death started shouting it then he pulled his head back. Zach bit down and he tried to stop himself, but he snapped his head forward and he yelled, "Do you think that was easy?!" Endeavor froze and his eyes slowly grew to the size of saucers as he heard the agony in the voice that just screamed at him. "You really think I'm just a fucking mask?! There's a person inside here, you know?" Tears filled Zach's eyes and he shouted at the fiery man before him, while the three in the room stared in shock at Death.

"If you tell everyone what they tried to do, then... then what did I kill them for?!" Death shouted. He spun towards a stunned Koi and yelled, "So you can't- you can't- please!" Kill them too! No! The world needs Endeavor, and they're innocent, and, AND- AAAAGHHH! "You think I want to kill people?!" Death yelled, spinning back at Endeavor and roaring it right into his face. "You think, it was easy to do that? To kill them when they couldn't even fight back? Of course it wasn't. I'm, I'm not a monster. But! I did it, a monstrous thing, so that no one will have to know what they attempted here today. So that anyone around the world thinking about becoming a villain only sees the power of heroes today, their strength and resolve and the fact that no villains were brave enough to try ANYTHING! But if you tell them, then regular people watching the finals right now with a pit in their chest, who are going to be so relieved and laugh at their own anxiety, they're going to think that it was right to be afraid! They're going to be TERRIFIED! And, and villain activity around the world is going to surge again and Endeavor, I- I can't deal with it this time. I can't be everywhere at once. I can't- I have to get out of here right now because there are too many, they're everywhere, and if you make another surge- IF YOU! Create a surge in villains just because you can't deal with breaking a couple of rules, you're going to destroy the world! I CAN'T DO THIS, if you create thousands more villains. And that's what you're going to do if you tell people what happened here."

Juuzo stared towards the panicking, screaming man in a black costume whose voice cracked multiple times in what he just shouted. Her heart was pounding and her eyes darted side to side at Koi and Endeavor. Is that really what will happen if we tell people about this? Isn't that, part of why we tried to keep the threats against us a secret in the first place?!

I'm moving faster and faster. As fast as I fucking can, and taking a day off here is messing with a schedule so packed of villain fights that there's no time to stay here arguing any longer! But I'd have to move even faster if villains surged, risk so much more, go into attacks with less recon and lose so many more of my comrades by not planning long enough. I'd be sending them all to their deaths, and the villains will just keep rising. Please. "Please," Death said again, steadying his voice and looking desperately through his mask at Endeavor who had stared at him in shock there for a few seconds before regaining an intense and stern expression. "Stopping the attack is only a part of this. Making sure, that it's actually a victory. Not like Stain… Endeavor, you were there. You saw what happened just from him saying a few words. And the Sports Festival last year, led to so many more than the seven thousand deaths of people here, but to tens, hundreds of thousands of deaths from villains encouraged by the attack across the world. Millions even… Crime is down. Villains are afraid. Most of them really are, but they'll be convinced it's still their time if you can't keep quiet about this." And the coming counterattack from what I did at Wampajawa, it will be so much stronger. The surge will fill the villains' forces when they come. The world loop will never finish, they'll kill us all. I can't. I'll lose. It will have all been for nothing. "I have to leave," Death whispered.

Zach took a step back away from Endeavor. He kept shaking his head, I have to get out of here. If they tell me they'll talk again, I might start considering, making them all just disappear. SHIT! It's just Death. It's making you emotional. Killing so many, feeling so good but so angry and scared, the euphoria won't wear off. Why do I feel so fucking confused?! Zach stepped back again, "It's up to you. I, I can't force you to do anything just like you can't make me stop. But I have to keep moving. I have places to be. Villains to fight. Please just don't tell." Zach reached back up and he held the button on the side of his helmet again, having turned off the modulator so they could hear the real emotion in his voice that he thought he needed to convince them. His voice became deeper once more and he said, "It would be your fault. You'd, destroy this world so close to peace."

"But a peace gained through these methods," Koi started, his voice depressed but low and reluctantly accepting as well. He rose his eyes and said in a sad voice, "What would it mean? What would a peace built on top of so many bodies bring?"

"That's why it can't be," Death whispered back. "That's why, it has to be a secret." Koi's sad eyes grew wide as he stared back at that boy in the doorway of the safe room.

Zach saw that look on Koi's face and decided it was the perfect place to leave them. He started turning, then he heard the burly growl of the muscular man closest to him. "Sazaki." Zach froze and he started turning his helmet back towards that hero. Endeavor glared at the dark visor in front of him, his fists clenched tightly at his sides, but nothing they were talking about could push farther to the front of his mind that something Shoto had told him not long ago. "What do you know about Touya?"

"I know, I should have told you earlier. Zach, told me when he was about to leave, the last words he said to me were that he thought he could stop Dabi on his own, because they were like brothers and, 'we're our own brothers' keepers.' But he said that he couldn't do it now, so I had to stop him. I had to, 'Stop Touya.' …He did tell me why. I didn't understand him. He said that it was because of you that he kept it a secret. That, 'Endeavor's such a great hero, I couldn't stain his name by revealing the secret I knew.'" Endeavor's eyes narrowed at the dark figure before him who stayed silent after his question. "Is my son really…"

"Endeavor," Death started. He looked at the hero and questioned in a frustrated, confused voice, "What the hell are you talking about?"

"I know it's you, Zach Sazaki. Lifebringer-"

"I'm not Lifebringer," Death retorted, shaking his head once and saying it in an annoyed voice at the accusation. The other three stared at him with in confusion at how annoyed this man really sounded by that. "I'm not Zach Sazaki. I just, have a similar Quirk."

"Then take off that mask," Koi said. "And show us who-"

"No." Death turned and walked out the door. Black wings shot out of his back and spread across the hallway he stepped into. There was no goodbye. No final words or warning. He flapped his wings and flew out the window, and he shot away into the sky like a missile to avoid anyone from catching a glimpse at him too close to the ground. Make the right decision. Burn those bodies Endeavor. Or bury them somewhere. Whatever. Just let it be, a conspiracy. Conspiracies don't need to be bad things. No one needs to know what I do. No one needs to know I was ever here. It's better for everyone if heroes take all the credit, all the time. Villains will still spread the rumors to each other. Fear of me will last. Don't say anything though. Please. Zach flapped his huge black wings and shot even higher in the air while also flying off to the west. With the boost I have right now, this strength so much stronger than, than I've ever been…

Zach rose a hand to his helmet and tapped the button on the side of his head twice, holding it longer on the second time when his display changed what he was doing on his helmet. He rang The Cloak, and Raylei picked up, "Death? I'm watching the Sports Festival right now. Have you-"

"It's handled," Zach replied. "I'm on my way back. Let everyone know that we're moving in on all positions in the next few hours. Have all teams on standby to await my arrivals."

"Understood, Commander."

Zach flapped his wings of Death again and he created a dark shockwave in the air that pushed white clouds away from him with the force at which he swung them. His eyes were straight ahead and his mind shifted to thoughts of the next fights he was already on his way to. His mind shifted focus though for a brief moment, his eyes glancing to the corners and back behind him in the direction of his hometown. Midoriya and Bakugo, huh? One final rematch, in front of the world this time. Good luck, Midoriya.

Back in the safe house Death just flew away from, Endeavor stared towards broken windows and then turned his head and looked back towards Hinata Juuzo. She was kneeling at the side of Hiroshi Koudo, checking his pulse for the first time and then relaxing again as despite not seeing the man's body moving, he was in fact breathing. She dropped down onto her butt and looked back across the room though with a grim expression on her face. "So," she said, her voice low, and dark. She turned to Endeavor who was staring at her, then she motioned at the bodies with her head. "Are you going to do it?"

There was no command. She did not order Endeavor to do a thing. The question told him that she was not going to stop him though. Shichi Koi looked over at his colleague, then to the bodies, then over to Endeavor who had just faced the bodies himself. "I do not condone this," Koi began. Endeavor shifted his eyes to the corners and looked over at the older man, but Koi's face looked twice as wrinkled after he said that, and he turned away from the Flame Hero while letting out a long, exhausted sigh. "But, I will- I will go along with… I wish to leave this world, in better shape than I came into it…" the old man lowered his gaze to the floor and curled up his paws before letting go as just that much effort felt exhausting to him. "Endeavor, do you think," Koi turned his head back and looked Endeavor in his turquoise eyes. "That boy knows what he is talking about?"

"That boy." You still believe it, Endeavor hesitated before responding only to think that. He grunted though and turned back to the bodies himself, his expression dark yet accepting as he nodded his head once. I had only just started to think about it. I knew, that turning in these men would cause, something. I began to realize it, and Death knew that I was thinking that way… Yet he, was so far ahead of me. He talked while moving closer to them, close enough that I would not be able to stop him once he began. He did it without making it out like he was about to kill them. Without giving time for argument, without, letting me have a choice in the matter. In the moment he killed them, how many different things were on his mind. Keeping any responsibility for killing those men off of me. Making sure that heroes and himself were far separated. Stopping them from talking about what they did which even if we had just captured them and tried them for something else, because they were "fanatics" they would have told anyway. He was right. On every aspect… He was there that night. With Stain. I remember him with Shoto, does he know that I remember that? Was he trying to let me know? Except, he said he wasn't Sazaki, in such a convincing voice. I read the reports of that incident, that Sazaki claimed to be throwing everything away. His own name even. Does he truly not consider himself as Zach Sazaki anymore, or is he just lying to hide his identity? Or, is it even Sazaki at all? Is Sazaki the only one who could have gone through betrayal, to make me think that he was talking about Raijin, or did I just jump to that because of my own preconceptions?

One thing is certain, Endeavor narrowed his eyes at the dead bodies in front of him, then his teeth ground in frustration at the thought in his head. Death has surpassed me. Endeavor's fists balled and his expression maddened, but only for a moment before loosening up and getting just darker. While my ADTF has gotten weaker and less motivated, his forces grew stronger, larger, more organized. As our funding was cut because they fell from the limelight, they appear in secret with more powerful tech than ever. As I try to keep the peace, be a symbol for the people… he facilitates it. He fucking murdered those men. And women. He did it because I couldn't. Because he couldn't let it be me, but someone needed to. I could have done it easier than him. I could have killed them, and barely lost any sleep but he- Endeavor thought back on those yells from the boy whose voice had cracked, who sounded like he had been on the verge of tears when Endeavor made it out that he would tell everyone about the attackers anyway.

And he was able to come up with all of that faster than I could follow. As much as it hurt him to do, and I do believe him when he said that. I was wrong to think he had changed. Damn it. This time was different. That was foolish of me to say. Leaving in such a hurry too, he's returning to another fight. Endeavor turned his head and looked back out into the hall, to the windows and through them where Death had flown out a minute before. I cannot compete. He stopped what he believes would have been a new surge in villain activity across the globe, and a thousand more anonymous tips last month than ever before, who knows how many villains… And he wants no credit. Endeavor thought on what Death said last to Koi, and he turned back to the bodies in front of him which he was dreading what he had to do them now. "That's why, it has to be kept a secret." He doesn't want anyone to know what he does, not because he doesn't want the glory, or doesn't want them to criticize him, but because he wants people to think that this world is recovering due solely to our efforts. To the methods of heroes. The right methods… I'll know though. I will live with this knowledge. I will… keep this Number 1 rank, and do what I can from here.

Death. Sazaki. Whoever you are… Endeavor rose a hand up and the hero officials looked away as it covered in flames. No, that's not right. I know who you are. You're, a terrorist. You're a murderer. A thief. You're forcing me to burn these bodies to get rid of the evidence of your crimes. And you… are saving this world.

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A/N Thanks for reading! Death sweeps in and takes care of everything without letting nearly anyone know he was ever in the country. Sorry to all of you who thought this was the big moment XD. The Sports Festival flies by this time, with most people blissfully unaware that they were supposed to be bombed to hell. We'll see if that stays a secret like Death wants, how the Sports Festival impacts the state of the world, and what comes next for the Army of Death... I'd like to say I'll get another chapter out tomorrow, but I tried that last time and wound up taking a while for this one. Wasn't too motivated for writing this chapter though, and I'm looking forward to the next a lot. Also, had to spend 2 days driving to college and then getting some work done right after I got here, whereas tomorrow I've got a full day of writing, and football (leggo Saints). But mainly writing! Hope you enjoyed the chapter, the interactions with Endeavor and Death as they fight together against a swarm of big-time international villains. Zach straight up murders all his enemies here, and though it makes him a bit off near the end, he really does believe that he needed to kill them this time... Anyway! Leave a review telling me what you think of the chapter, predictions for what is coming, or questions for the story!

Naruffoku chapter 129 . Jan 5

Did you miss a chapter? When did they establish the city, what happened at Wampajama? And did you say that the UA sports festival was going to be bombed?

Nope. No miss. Lots of stuff happens with the Army of Death, so many possible arcs I could go into since Zach is just fighting one battle after the next. They established the city recently though. Wampajawa it's been mentioned that half the AoD was killed in taking down that City of Villains. And yes, it was going to be... but not anymore! Sorry if it sounded confusing last chapter, but we had seen mostly just U.A. for like 8 chapters straight so I showed just as the semester went by for them a lot had happened for Zach and crew too.

lolmyster42 chapter 129 . Jan 5

Man, the Not-Olympics just can't catch a break. And man if the Cloak didn't give an X-com feel the named soldiers dying left and right with the other surviving half developing negative mental status ailments mission after mission sure does. All it's missing is somebody mocking Zach for all his failures in a little screen on the upper-right side of his helmet's HUD.
-shrugs- That's what Zach gets for choosing Ironman difficulty.

Well Sports Festival finally does catch a break this time! When half the crew dies, there were for sure going to be a lot who we knew who dropped in that group. And at the speed at which Zach's bringing everyone to battles, the amount of shit they've seen with the research facilities and sex slaves and... well, and villains in general, and the fact that they die, I think a few of them losing their minds is to be expected. Some of them are just changing a lot though without fully breaking down, though XD that Ironman difficulty is too tough for some. Thanks for the review!

Obakekarakasa chapter 129 . Jan 6

I was a bit confused at the start before I rerealised there was a timeskip, though I think I understand now.
And the awaited 'japan arc' is seemingly arriving, that could be fun.
Wish I could have a vacation, not that I deserve one but I want to leave this city for the first time in my life :/.

Yeah again, sorry for the confusion y'all. Leaving out Wampajawa was intentional and I knew I would be for a while, and I thought the Blackstar return scene would be a good place to discuss some of it for the first time but I didn't really make a big enough mention of it considering how big the fight really was. The 'arc' winds up going, pretty quickly as Zach heads out immediately after finishing his mission. And I hope you get yourself a vacation one day! Lol thanks for the review, hope you enjoyed!

diddles321 chapter 129 . Jan 6

Jumping left and right. Very confused on what the hells happening. I don't remember any of the OC's and the ones I do are dead outta nowhere. Some keywords like timeline and world loop have got me expecting some steins gate shit. Welcome back :)

There're always a bunch of scenes in most chapters. Last time we had three, and each was a little time delayed from the one before it since we did see Mark in all three of them. Sorry to suddenly name-drop all those deaths on ya', but I'm sure there're more OCs in there you guys care about still, I hope... Glad to be back, sorry for another long update though.

Super Power Sensei chapter 129 . Jan 6

Review of 129 from 01/05/19
Written 01/06/19
First of all, welcome back. Seems like you enjoyed the holidays.
Just came back from watching "Into The Spider-Verse" and man was this chapter a total 180 from the fun, upbeat tone of the movie.
How did Rappa come to join the AoD?
Hyper didn't deserve that kind of death!
And why IS SERAPHIM GONE?!...[breaths in and out]
...Life City huh? It may look like nothing much now but neither did Zach, Gentle, La Brava, and Darling last July. l'd like to imagine in 2-3 years the city would be the My Hero version of Wakanda(but less African). All futuristic and colorful(like the city from "Meet The Robinsons"), TOWERING skyscrapers(like from Spiderman 2099), and a new booming culture due to all the different kinds of inhabitants. They would all have one thing in common though, their love, admiration, respect and/or gratitude for the AoD; and more specifically my man (King)Death. Three things pertaining what's already there though. One, where is it located? I know it's been taken over by the AoD but was this place previously known as Villian City? Two, I understand the purpose of having the volunteers wear black(which I agree with), but having them wear ALL black can be intimidating if you haven't been saved by them before. Humans have primal instincts and biases towards colors and black isn't a color that says welcome. A happy medium would be nice. Keep the cloaks but maybe neon green pants and shirts for the nurses and doctors and yellow pants and shirts for teachers and caregivers.
Three,(this kind of involves the first one)persisly when is this taking place? You mentioned the barrier cloaking the city and how from the outside it looks like a snowy valley. What season is it at that location for the surrounding area to look that way? This is relevant because the weather will affect the culture of this new city. Will it be cold all the time, or will they have summer days where people can dive in pools and barbeque outside with shirts off and sunscreen on. Not to mention the environmental hazards for when the first native children are born.
I'd write more but I have to work. See ya!

Spiderverse was lit, just want to say. Also, yeah def a turnaround from that one. Hyper goes out in a rough way, we lose Seraphim too, and Whoresla- I mean, Access. Grabble... It's a rough day in the AoD, though we do have Rappa now! Maybe we'll see how he came to be here soon... The AoD has grown huge from those 4 back in July, so maybe Life City can match their growth with Zach and his Army trying to help them out. As to where it's located... ehhh, no spoilers? I know, but I haven't mentioned it yet so I'm just gonna keep it quiet for now. 2, while black could be intimidating, at least for the group Mark brought in on the ship they were all helped by the AoD, considering he was bringing them in there. Maybe there are some others in the town not wearing black, and the wearing black thing could just be to welcome the new people too and show them that they're the same as the AoD's who helped them. 3, when? Well, I guess early April was the start of last chapter. Wonder if that helps you figure out where they are, (probably won't lol). I'd like to say we'll find out more about the weather in Life City next time we get there... but no spoilers! Thanks for the long review, and hope you enjoyed the chapter!

xilios2000 chapter 129 . Jan 6

Man if life city gets discovered by the world at large it would realisticly cause a international shitstorm of cosmic proportions man the meme's that would come of it would be glorious with the country life city is in likely to something monumentually cuntish with endless flame wars and discussion on the internet with it all coming to a head when /pol/ kekistani operatives doping some crazy shit like somehow steal death's helmut without him noticing or something

The memes! THE MEMES! The world would def be blown away by the existence of this strange little city popping up out of nowhere, but at least it's cloaked for now... Thanks for the review, got a kick out of it XD

00 chapter 1 . Jan 7

Random and unrelated, but what's the deal with your username?

(Its the model number of a blood pressure machine)

Cool! You might be the first person who's ever asked me that on here. My name is Matt, so that's where the M comes from. Then my brother and best friend's names start with B and T respectively. The two of them were in the room with me when I created my first ever username, and then I think I typed in a bunch of ones but finished on a 2 'cause I mean, why not? XD The blood pressure machine thing I've seen before too when I google my username, though I'm glad now that this account pops up before it! Thanks for the review!