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Chapter 134:
"Deku, hold on," Lemillion spun to the green-haired teen behind him on his left who was walking up to the big computer screen on the wall. Bakugo's eyes opened huge as he was already staring at the screen before Midoriya who was walking forward last as he had been guarding the door of the room they just busted into, looking out for other League of Villains' members who might be coming after them. There were a couple unconscious on the floor already, and the three heroes recognized one of them as a Tartaros escapee when they had arrived.
The computer that Lemillion had turned back on, since a villain cut the monitor when they busted in, had a long list on it with a name highlighted in red at the top with a blinking light over it and the words 'IN PROGRESS' glowing to the side. On all the other names there were labels of either, 'EXECUTED' or 'PENDING' to the right of the names. Midoriya stared to the top of the screen at what Lemillion was trying to hide from him after starting his last sentence with mentioning how it looked like a hit-list, then continuing with worry in his voice as he mentioned that there was a hit in progress… Lemillion had trailed off while looking at the name, and Midoriya had looked to him to see Lemillion staring back his way with a panicked look.
Deku's eyes were stuck up on the screen now though. The door behind him was the farthest thing from his mind. "Bastard," Bakugo snarled, and he turned and reached down to a villain who was still twitching on the floor despite being covered in burns from his explosions. Bakugo yanked him up by the shirt and shoved his other hand right in front of the villain's face. "WHAT'S THAT MEAN?!" Bakugo roared, his hand glowing and scaring the villain whose eyes were only partially squinted open while his face was burnt black. His vision was blurry though and the guy was barely conscious, so Bakugo clenched that open hand into a fist and socked the man in the face to jog him a little.
"Explosion K-" Lemillion started.
"Mom?" Midoriya whispered, at the sight of the blinking name 'INKO MIDORIYA.' His eyes shifted over to 'IN PROGESS' then back to his mom's name, then the status, and his entire world was shaking around him with his heartbeat pounding in his head.
"Deku. Hey DEKU!" Bakugo started shouting, letting go of the villain and stepping forward. "Wai-" He had seen the look on his classmate's and childhood friend's face changing before Lemillion did, as Lemillion was still partially distracted by both of his interns. Shouting came from the hallway and it sounded like it was getting closer to this room, and Lemillion darted his eyes that way. He started reaching a hand out towards Deku at the same time, but he was too late as the boy who started glowing with sparks bursting out of his body at the amount of energy pulsing through him, shot straight up into the ceiling and smashed a huge hole in it that sent cracks branching out across the ceiling all the way to the walls.
"What the hell was that?!" A villain out in the hall not far from the door shouted as the whole building shook.
"We can't let them get Shigaraki's kill list! Destroy the computers at all costs!"
"Kill list," Bakugo's fists balled in fury and his vision started turning red as he lowered his gaze from the ceiling. The urge to chase after Deku was trumped for the moment by the rage he felt towards those coming closer, but he still had his rational thought processes too. One of them will tell me exactly what 'in progress' means. Deku, get to your mom. Bakugo pointed his hands behind him, and he blasted forward with a roar of rage.
Lemillion started sprinting forward too as he had a similar thought to the one his intern just had. He was also pulling his phone out though as he ran after Bakugo, sending out a message as fast as he could. There's no time! Deku, don't lose your composure. You make mistakes when you get angry. You're not like Bakugo, you get rash when you get mad! Damn it! This is bad!
In the city of Musutafu, at an apartment complex in a residential neighborhood, Inko Midoriya sat at her kitchen table with a cup of tea in her hand. She smiled and let out a laugh, lifting up a hand to her mouth and chuckling into it at something the man sitting across from her just said. "Ahh," Inko let out an exhale while lowering her cup after taking a sip. "It is sad to see you go. I really enjoy our talks, I don't think many people realize how much of a down to Earth person you really are, All Might."
The older man across from her with sunken cheeks and pushed back blond hair smiled back at the kind chubby woman who had offered him tea. His cup was empty, and he had just mentioned having to go but he smiled back at the woman who had become a friend a while ago after she had started calling him more regularly to check in on how Izuku was doing. Her son did not often bring up his goals as a hero to her nor talk about the day that All Might had told her how he wanted him to take his place in the world, but All Might was always happy to discuss 'Young Midoriya's' improvements with her. They had actually not talked much about Izuku that day though, other than the start when they talked about how he was out at his internship with Lemillion and Bakugo. Bakugo had been a topic of their conversation for a little, with Inko accrediting All Might to what she saw as a great improvement in his behavior recently.
All Might had tried to deny it and gave all the credit to Bakugo himself, but though Inko said she accepted it she really believed All Might to be too modest. She stood up to grab his empty cup to bring over to the sink when he offered to do it himself. "What kind of host would I be to make you clean up yourself?" Inko said as if it were common sense, though All Might wanted to counter about how being a good guest meant he should do it too. All Might did not mention that though. All Might looked to Inko as she was walking to the sink, as he had gotten up from his seat, and he saw a glare from out the window. It was a short flash of one that he barely noticed, and yet his decades of hero work suddenly flashed through his mind and to a moment twenty-three years ago when he caught a glimpse of a similar glare for just a brief moment, right before a hole broke through the window he saw it out of and only barely managed to dodge even in the muscular form of his prime.
He was moving before he even processed all of it and put the dots together. All Might ran at Inko who started turning to him in confusion, then the tea cups came out of her hands as All Might dove at her and tackled her. "Ah! All Might-" All Might held one arm behind the back of her head and the other behind her body as they hit the floor, trying to make it less painful as he dove on top of her. He stayed over her though as the glass showered down on their bodies, and Inko saw it in her peripheral vision falling to the sides of All Might's head. The tea cups shattered on the floor next to her, and All Might reached to the side and grabbed a chair that he knocked back in the right way to knock the table over near his feet. It took some strength that he did not know he had in this weak form, but he pulled the table back with his foot and then reached out and swung it around them so there was a wide surface between their heads and the window that they were below the line of fire of currently.
"What's happening?" Inko asked in fear, sitting up a little as All Might moved off of her body with an intense look in his dark eyes.
"I am so sorry," All Might began. I always knew there was the possibility. I believed though, because Eziano Mozcaccio allowed me to live that no assassins would be so daring. Unless he has changed his mind. I need power right now. Young Midoriya, I never should have come to your mother's home. I put her in danger. I must let you know. All Might reached down and grabbed his phone out of his pocket, and Inko realized she should be doing the same and shoved her hand down to grab her own.
She pulled it out and turned her phone on, only to stare at the device in confusion as there was no signal. "I always have signal here," Inko whispered.
Could it be? All Might's heart started racing, then he yanked his head backwards but still a splash of blood cut out of his right cheek as a brown spike cut through the table and right past his face into the floor behind them. "Move!" All Might shouted at the woman who started reaching a hand out to him but yanked it back at that yell straight at her from the bloodied man.
Inko pulled back, then she darted her eyes to the table next to them that the spike had torn through but not hit either of them on target. It had broken straight through her table with little effort though, and the brown spike bored deep into the floor of her kitchen tiles too. I need to move! She shot her eyes over to the side where there was a gap between the kitchen and the hallway, and she dove for it and rolled into the divider not in any room but out of sights of the windows.
I need to get out a message somehow. Is it Raijin? Could he be here? All Might crawled backwards on the floor, and then he rolled across the floor and into the hallway through a different gap on the opposite side of the kitchen. He peeked around the hallway and looked down to the other opening where Inko had her back against the wall and was panting just as loudly as he was. "Do you have a landline?" All Might questioned. We need to exhaust all options. If the phone does work though, calling the police would take too long. Young Midoriya, may be the only one fast enough, but he is so far away for his operation today based on what he told me… But there is one person who I could call if I just-
Outside of the Midoriya apartment, a man standing on the roof of a slightly taller building frowned deeply while staring through the broken window of what was a motionless kitchen. He could see through the hole in the table that there was no body where he shot his attack, and he had caught the roll All Might made to get out of that room and into a spot that they could not see from the windows. "You just had to miss your shot," Phinx said, shaking his head in annoyance at the man prone on his side and still looking into the sniper scope.
"I don't know how All Might saw it coming! He's supposed to be retired and-"
"Lee," Phinx said, tapping a white earpiece in his right ear and saying it while ignoring the man at his feet. Vonugard started rising up to his feet at Phinx's side, slinging his rifle up onto his back as the operation was changing and he could adapt fast to it just as the team leader could. "Plan B."
But there is someone who I could call if I just- CRASH All Might spun his head and stumbled out into the hall, backing up towards Inko Midoriya with his dark eyes huge and trembling at what just smashed down her apartment's door. A ten foot tall orange monster pushed through the entranceway it made bigger while pushing through, and Inko screamed at the sight of what looked like a demon coming towards them. "Oh All Might," a voice came from the doorway, sounding excited and smug at the same time. A man walked into the door with a scar going down vertically over the right side of his face, and he wore dark blue sweats that looked so inconspicuous like he was not a trained killer on a mission but just a passerby jogger.
Lee cracked his neck to either side and smirked past his demon that he called there with his Quirk, Demon-Cast. "I always wanted to be the one to kill you. I never thought I'd get the chance, and I definitely wasn't expecting to get one today! Here we are though. The world does have, a strange way of giving us what we want." Lee smirked at the man and then ordered in a low voice, "Kill them."
All Might snapped back into the moment and he spun around, sprinting at Inko and reaching out to grab her arm and pull her away into another room. He didn't think he'd be able to kill me today? He's not saying that because he expected the snipers to make their attacks. They weren't aiming at me either! They, they're here for Inko! All Might could not say that out loud, though he was hoping the usually quick woman was slower at the moment because of the intensity and fear of the situation. "Quickly! We need to-" CRASH! Another opening into the living room they were running through broke apart behind them, and a chunk of debris slammed into the back of All Might's left leg which caused him to trip.
"Ah!" All Might dropped down and he skid across the carpet.
"All Might!"
"Go!" All Might yelled up at the woman trying to stop for him.
Inko spun and she stared at the demonic creature marching towards her and lifting up huge orange claws covered in bumps and scabs. There were sharp nails coming off each finger on the claw, and All Might held out an arm to the side in front of Inko while pushing himself back up onto shaky legs. Lee smirked past his beast, "Now that's what I call, the number 1 hero-" his orange monster started swiping its claw in at the two of them, when the entire side wall of the living room broke apart in the shape of a young man whose fist was pulled back but already swinging forward as he came through the debris. Lee's eyes were bulging huge, and he started backpedaling backwards fast at the scream that echoed through the building and outside of it for another dozen mercenaries to hear.
"SSMMAASSSSHHHH!"
Deku stood on the street outside his apartment. He had his home to his back, keeping the hole in his front wall in his peripheral vision. The boy had brought the fight outside to get it farther away from his mother and mentor back in the apartment, not that it was completely his choice to do so. The man he had attacked inside his home after smashing the orange monster going after his loved ones had fled back out the way he came, and when Midoriya chased after him, he was ambushed by two others. One of those two used an attack with a lot of splash damage, and there were still purple flames simmering on the walkway outside his destroyed front entrance.
The right sleeve of Deku's costume was torn off and still smoldering over where he threw it before, the flames not going out even after running out of material to burn. Deku's eyes darted back and forth around the neighborhood he grew up in. He saw blinds parting on different apartment windows, scared people cowering inside who he had to stay aware of while dodging attacks or deciding to take them head-on. The area was cramped, and his enemies had not all gathered directly in front of him. The two who had ambushed him had leapt away, and the one who he had chased after first had slammed his hands into the ground and created a huge white circle with strange patterns surrounding it in the middle of the road. Midoriya spotted a man leaping across rooftops to his right side, a sniper rifle on his back and an urban camo outfit on to try and blend in with the buildings better. He caught a glimpse of a man whose Quirk must have had something to do with camouflage too as the guy disappeared a second after Deku caught a glimpse of him.
Ten. Eleven, Twelve? A dozen of them, from what I see so far. Deku glared at the man closest to him while keeping everything else under close watch. He kept his apartment in view, as well as all the other villains who he knew would either try ambushing him or getting around to the building they were attacking. All Might got hurt protecting Mom. She'll wrap his wounds, but they can't get out of there. How long until the police arrive with other heroes? How long do I have to hold out on my own? They, were going to kill Mom! I can take them all myself- but I just need to stall. I need to protect them more than anything. Even if I have All Might's power, and should be able to take all of them on my own… "League of Villains," Deku started, his eyes narrowing and an intense look spreading over his face. His eyes were dark and he glared straight into the enemy in front of him's, but Lee glared right back darkly and did not flinch at the intensity in the hero's eyes.
"Rise," Lee said, and then he brought his hands up from the floor waving his palms to the sky. Midoriya suddenly realized where that orange demon had come from, as the green head of a giant serpent shot out of the ground with the rest of its body slithering out and shooting into the air. It thinned out after fifty feet and then the tail shot out of the summoning circle on the floor, but the serpent just kept rising before curving its head down and glaring with glowing white eyes down at the teenage hero below. "By the way, we aren't League of Villains," Lee said, and then he hissed through his teeth.
The hiss made the snake shoot forward, right as Deku spotted the sniper jumping across buildings pulling off his rifle and aiming again. The man did not aim towards him, but towards the hole in the front of his apartment. "Get away from the hole!" Deku shouted, afraid his mom or All Might had come to see how he was doing. Then he jumped in the direction of the sniper in that same moment, moving so fast that the man holding the rifle only had a moment to react.
Vonugard was a professional assassin and experienced fighter though, and he already knew about the boy rising in front of him. He fired early, and Midoriya yanked his body to the side before realizing that the man could not have aimed that fast. The yank away was reactionary at the sight of the sniper jolting like that, though there was a suppressor on the end of the barrel so Midoriya almost had a hard time noticing what had happened. Because there was not as much of a blast on the shot though, Midoriya had gotten more cautious about it and dodged in case he was wrong. As he twisted his body away though, he swung around his right leg, yelling out in his head, Smash!
The wind from his kick slammed into the sniper who was still not expecting so much force from a kick a distance away. It took him off his feet and threw him back across the roof into an air-conditioning system that he dented halfway into with his head snapping back as he jolted to that sudden stop. Midoriya was thrown backwards by the force of his own kick, but he swung his other leg up to spin himself in midair to face towards the ground. He pointed his right hand down and flicked his index finger at 50%, then he spun to the side while rising up higher and punched his left fist out at the green serpent flying towards him.
The villain who had tried sprinting at the building while Deku was up in the air dodging serpents and fighting snipers never saw the attack coming. The flick of Midoriya's finger alone slammed into his back while he was in mid-sprint and smashed his face down into the pavement. The six armed brute grunted and got dazed for a second, but he brought all his muscular arms up at his sides and started pushing back down into the cracked pavement below him. Don't know how the kid knew, but I'm getting that fucking bonus. Escarlin yanked himself up to his feet and then clapped his six hands together in front of him. He pulled his arms back to the sides, leaving three sticking trails of gray goop dropping from between them that he swung up towards the apartment entrance again. The thing about heroes, is they care too-
Midoriya saw his opponent get back up, and as he had dodged around and kept attacking his other opponents, he angled himself in the perfect way to be behind the eight foot tall woman in a red track suit holding a pair of automatic pistols. His punch in her side while she was still spinning towards him and sent her airborne with spit and blood flying out of her mouth. She smashed into the thick gooey ropes coming out of Escarlin's hands, and she changed his trajectory so instead of rising up onto the walkway on the Midoriya apartment's floor, he slammed into the wall a floor down and bounced off with a look of frustration covering his face. He removed the goop from four arms and twisted his body around as he still dangled from the top two.
Deku decided he needed to get a direct hit to take this muscular villain out this time, but as he slammed his fist forward, Escarlin rose three up and blocked the boy he had just spun around to face. Midoriya tried to hold back some power even while pushing for a direct hit, but he pushed more into it and the wind exploded out around them. Escarlin was punching his fourth free arm around the other three to try and nail the boy on the side of his face, but the force was too much and stretched the goop holding him enough that he slammed into the wall behind him and cracked the entire thing. Deku yelled out in anger, "SMASH!" He broke through Escarlin's guard, and a needle slammed into the back of his right calf at that same moment that he was finishing his attack.
The young hero grit his teeth in pain but he followed through anyway. His head was already turning, and the boy in the green costume kicked his left leg in front of him to flip himself backwards in midair instead of dropping to the ground. Escarlin never dropped to the ground either though, as he was jammed too far into the wall with his eyes rolled back in his head so there was no effort to even drop down this time. Windows had cracked all over the floor below the Midoriya's apartment, and the entire building shook as the villain was lodged into the wall. All Might looked over at a piece of glass he positioned to give a view of the front of the building and the hole at the end of the hall, allowing him to look out for any villains who might get past his successor. He caught a glimpse of a green costume rising past that hole for a second, then saw Deku shooting off in a blur towards another villain assaulting his childhood home.
Midoriya Shonen. I do not know how you- "Ah-" All Might winced in pain as Inko poured some anti-infection on the back of his left leg where he was bleeding more than the cut across his face. Blood dripped down All Might's right cheek from a shallow gash that sliced right over his blond sideburns and had cut some hair off.
"Are you alright, All Might?" Inko asked worriedly, bringing her head to the side of All Might's and looking carefully at the man who had gotten injured to help her. All Might felt the situation was the opposite though, and he nodded with a look of regret on his face for dragging Inko into all of this. "Do not be concerned about me right now," Inko whispered softer, while turning her head and looking back towards the hallway of her apartment. A more worried look spread over her face and All Might turned back that direction too. "Please, is there nothing we can do to help Izuku?"
"At a time like this," All Might began. "The most we can do for him, is making this place as safe as possible so he does not need to worry about us. If we can give him a few more seconds that he does not need to rush to our aid in a worst case scenario that they get back in here." All Might started pushing himself up, against Inko's wishes though she did not pull back against him very hard. "Let us move some furniture around, and block off this room. Trust," All Might continued, turning to the woman behind him and giving her a smile. Her eyes opened huge and All Might finished, "In your son. He is very strong."
"He might be strong," a voice said behind All Might. Inko's huge eyes at the encouraging thing All Might just told her started trembling and growing even wider. All Might started turning his head back, and they looked towards the kitchen where a man was standing just inside of a broken window without any sign of how he had gotten there. He was wearing a black costume with red highlights on the neck, shoulders, and waist. The black hoodie he had worn over it was discarded, as stealth was out the window so there was no need to try staying under the radar anymore. "But in an escort mission, you should never leave the sight of those you're protecting." The man's hands flicked at his sides, curling his palms open and pointed at the ground. Brown spikes slid slowly out the center of his palms while he locked eyes on the two before him.
All Might opened his mouth to yell, but he froze at the look on the face of the man in front of him. No hesitation. Assassins like this. "What about Eziano?" All Might questioned, confusing the woman behind him who he held up an arm in front of at the same time. All Might moved more in front of Inko while the villain before him glared into his eyes. "You cannot harm those who are not your targets-"
"Unfortunately, both you and her are fair game," Phinx replied. All Might grit his teeth at the sound of the one thing he was most worried the man before him was about to say. Phinx stepped quickly into the living room across the hall, using the piece of glass All Might had put on the floor to check when a good time to move forward was. He left the view of the outside, and he made sure to kick that glass down from its position so that if the boy were to look in from outside there would be no chance of Deku even getting a reflecting glimpse of him in. "In fact, All Might, you are not my target. I'd prefer not to kill you if at all possible." He said it, and All Might's eyes did not flinch but stayed narrowed and furious. The thin eyes glaring back at him were dark and menacing, eyes that had terrified countless villains in the past but Phinx stared straight into without hesitation.
"I-I'm your," Inko began, her voice afraid at the sound of that. She was scared enough as it was, but she did not blame All Might for getting her dragged into this. This discovery was scaring her a lot more though. "Why?" She whispered. "Why would you-"
"Because All Might gave his power to your son," Phinx replied. He rose up his right hand and the brown spike that slid halfway out of it aimed straight at Inko's head, only for All Might to yank his own head in front of hers. "I feel you should at least know why you're about to die," he finished. Shigaraki. A target is a target, but I'm surprised you haven't learned not to drag in families. If Deku's as strong as I've heard, he can't know it was me unless we kill him too. A perfect three for three. Phinx fired the brown spike straight at All Might's head.
Squelch-crnch "Gah- ack… shit." The woman a few feet in front of Phinx with her right fist up and shaking dropped down to her right knee. She had tried pushing it forward, even after the brown spike had pierced through her chest that she did not expect it to break so far into. Phinx had meant to piece through All Might's head and the woman's behind his in one shot though, and he wanted it as painlessly and most efficiently as possible so he put in his maximum force. So the woman who had rushed directly into the path of the attack to block it got a hole in her left hand she held in front of her chest, her chest too, and the bloody tip of the spike was sticking out of the back of her baggy costume that All Might stared at in shock and then horror when the woman dropped down to a knee.
"Wonder-lass?" All Might whispered. Inko pulled her head to the side again to look past the man who she thought was about to die, and she stared at the woman her son had talked about many times who fell to a knee but was still trying to keep her right fist up while glaring into Phinx's eyes.
Fuck. Phinx pulled back and he got an anxious and furious expression on his face as he stared at the heroine who had come out of nowhere. Now she, wasn't a target. A hero getting in the way, collateral damage, it ruins a reputation. Fuck. This isn't good- Phinx rose his other hand and aimed towards All Might, but Wonderlass swung her right fist forward. She was not able to get closer to Phinx as her body was not obeying her correctly, but she focused all her mental strength on keeping Super used through that arm, and she swung it at full force at the assassin whose shot went off target while his arm was thrown to the side, his body blasted back across the hall and into the kitchen sink that started spraying water everywhere at the collision.
Midoriya had his fist lodged into the glowing eye of a huge serpent in midair, when he caught a glimpse out the corner of his eye through the opening of his apartment of something flying through his hallway. NO! He had made sure, or at least he thought he had made sure that only one person had been able to enter since he left the apartment. He had even made sure to take out the guy who he saw camouflage himself with his Quirk early on, so that the guy would not be able to slip into his apartment when he was unawares. He bounced on the air with small flicks of his feet, and he rocketed himself back towards his apartment while screaming, "MOM! ALL MIGHT!" Midoriya cracked the wall at the other end of his hallway by how forcefully he stopped himself to be able to turn after what he just saw fly across it.
Midoriya looked towards his kitchen sink and saw a villain looking dazed with his head slumped back on the wall, his arms sprawled out to his sides looking like he was trying to find something to hold onto. He turned the other way towards his living room, and he saw the person who he had spotted rushing into his apartment and did not panic over when it happened a few seconds ago. He had thought she was just going to make sure that All Might was alright though, or to protect the civilians or even just check if they were alright. He had no idea that when Wonderlass arrived on the scene first, having come as fast as she could when she heard the call over the police scanners, that she had heard with her Super hearing the man inside the apartment about to kill his targets. Midoriya had no idea what she was rushing in on, as she had not even had time to shout towards her old intern to warn him what she was doing. Midoriya had just been able to fully focus on the monster that had broken an entire corner off the last building he was standing on before breathing fire at him out of its unhinged jaw.
Lee stepped out of his hiding place outside the apartment complex and looked over towards his serpent that was the second of his demons to go down in the fight. He ground his teeth and his nose started bleeding. His heart pounded, but the mercenary dropped down to the ground and placed his shaking palms flat on the floor. More heroes are going to arrive soon. Deku's more powerful than I imagined, he's really the next All Might in the making. Only Kargonn can stop him. I hate summoning him. I can just imagine Demon-Cast is a nickname, for bringing monsters I imagine… except no one knows. I didn't imagine these things up. And I never called for Kargonn that first time. He just, came. Fuck. FUCK! Lee could see unconscious comrades to his sides, on the roofs of buildings and smashed into walls, and he heard sirens approaching not far in the distance.
A red circle formed on the ground under Lee's palms, wider than the white ones and making a huge circle five meters wide. Patterns stretched in from the outsides of the circle, carving into the ground in what looked like liquid that seeped away as if in blood trails to make symbols and more circles and then a different layer of symbols. The patterns carved straight under Lee's legs, and then up onto his legs which made him tremble more while forcing his arms harder into the floor so he would not pull away at the dark, cold feeling inside him. I am the master. The Demon King. Kargonn will obey me. Just, the fact that he talks scares me as to what he really is. Why he's inside me. Lee curled his fingers into the ground and grit his teeth, then tore the corners of his lips up even while red lines cut in up his neck and over his face in creepy patterns. The circle finished and then the center of it turned pure red, spreading out from the smaller circle in the middle and seeping over the patterns until it reached the outside circle.
The entire circle glowed blood red and a red head emerged from the middle of it. There were five horns sticking out of the red skull, curved up and covered in sharp barbs. People standing near their windows and looking out pulled away in terror, and others started running for back doors to just start evacuating now. A mercenary hired in the team who was working with Lee for the first time backed up from the window he was watching the fight from inside. Things have broken down. If they kill them they kill them, but I'm leaving now. I'll head to the rendezvous and wait for whoever's left. The cops are already on their way, it doesn't matter if signals are blocked anymore.
Back inside the Midoriya's apartment, Deku knelt a knee at Wonderlass's side and helped her get back on her own. When she used all her power to swing the punch at Phinx she had lost her balance on one knee and fallen to the floor. The force of her punch had blown wind backwards too pushing away the other two weaker people behind her who finally rushed forward again and tried to help the muscular woman wheezing down on her knees with blood spilling out of her mouth. Wonderlass reached a hand up and grabbed at the brown spike piercing through her body. She gripped it and tried putting her Super strength to work crushing it, just to see if she could. "It's strong," she muttered, blood splashing out of her mouth as she spoke about the thing impaling her through front and back.
"Deku," All Might grabbed Wonderlass and held her there on her knees, and the boy who was staring at her with a trembling expression brought his gaze up to his mentor's. All Might's look was not one of despair. There was no panic on his face. All Might just said while looking straight into the younger man's eyes, "I have her. Keep your heart under control, and stop them." All Might looked behind Izuku and towards the kitchen where they heard a loud noise, and Deku turned too to see the man slumped into the wall had gotten off it.
All Might looked back himself at the woman he knelt next to and was holding up as best he could. How did you know, that I needed you? "Shimo," All Might whispered, as he saw Wonderlass's half-closed eyes having trouble focusing up on what was in front of her. "Hang on."
Wonderlass turned her head slowly to the side and then the bloody right corner of her lip closer to All Might lifted up. "Hey there, stud…"
Wonderlass! Deku turned to face his enemy but he could not get the sight of that woman with a spike through her body out of his mind. He heard her weak voice behind him, and his fists clenched harder still as he glared towards the murderer in front of him. A black flame flared out of Deku's body, his head pulling back and look of rage spreading over it that made Phinx pull back at the sudden sight that gave him flashbacks and terrors that shook him to his core. Deku was not expecting such a strong reaction, but he saw the darkness swirling in his vision too and he heard All Might's voice echo in his head. I need to stay in control. I am in control of my emotions. The past holders have left these for me. They're mine to control! CONTROL! Mom's right behind me, All Might and an injured Wonderlass too. Deku took in a deep breath, and then the floor cracked beneath his feet and he shot forward at the man who still had not recovered from the sight of that dark aura flaring around Deku.
Phinx was not ready. He rose his arms fast still, but nowhere near as fast as Deku. Phinx stopped raising his arms though as he was faced with a red mass of back muscle in front of him. Wind blew around the sides of the figure in front of him, and the being's feet skid back a couple of inches while the force of the punch smashed into the table and windows and sent kitchenware flying. "Kargonn," Phinx said, recognizing the figure who he had only seen once before, and getting a bead of sweat on the side of his face as he said that name.
He got there in time. Lee stood in the hall of the Midoriya apartment. He obeyed me and protected Phinx. Kargonn is under my control. I can't forget that! I can't get scared of my own-
"Phinx," Kargonn said, while Midoriya stared at the being with his determined and steady look breaking. Midoriya rose his gaze from the hand that had stopped his punch with little effort. He stared at the face of the creature in front of him that was one of the most terrifying things he had ever seen in his life, despite being much smaller than either of the creatures he had seen before. Midoriya caught a glimpse of Lee in the hallway along with the flash of red, and he knew this was similar to that serpent he had seen before. He at least thought he knew that though, when he looked at the demonic being's face. Hearing it talk made Midoriya's heart clench up though as much as it did when the demon stopped his punch mid-flight. Is it like Dark Shadow?!
"And who are you?" Kargonn questioned, pushing back on the fist against his palm and grinning a mouth full of sharp yellow teeth at the boy stumbling away from him.
"What are you doing?!" Lee called out, looking at Kargonn like he was an idiot for not curling his hand around the boy's while the kid was clearly not yet focused.
"You commanded that I protect Phinx, not that I fight this child," Kargonn said. The monster had a humanoid body, other than the spikes on top of his skull and sticking out the back of his arms and legs. He was nude. The man did not wear clothing on any part of his body, and he was clearly a man with the long appendage dangling between his muscular legs. Kargonn's face was demonic and yet at the same time, handsome. His smile was threatening yet it did not look sadistic, but intrigued and with a whole lot of excitement hidden behind those pitch black eyes. "I am glad you summoned me though, Master. It has been too long." He is too afraid of me. I must show him that I am one to be called on most frequently. I believed he would understand that from my power alone. Perhaps, this is my opportunity. "What is it you wish of me?"
Sirens came closer so they were just outside the building, and a voice yelled towards the hole in the wall, "Phinx! Lee! Some heroes are showing up!"
Phinx stepped out to the left side of Kargonn. Lee was on the right of the three and still partially in the hallway. "How many men do we still have?" Phinx asked.
"Eight are down," Lee replied.
The response did not give away to Midoriya what the exact number of enemies he still had to face was. Lee lifted an arm and rubbed under his nose as more blood dripped out from his nostrils. Phinx saw that and he glared harder at the boy before him. He glared even harder still as he saw Deku's eyes darted over to Lee when that happened as well. Lee's weak. Vorcovo is up, and Deny should still be in hiding nearby. One other still remaining nearby. Phinx rose a hand to his ear and tapped on the small earpiece in it, "Two minutes. Keep the heroes out of here for that long and then scatter. We have this."
"Mom! All Might! Get back," Midoriya lifted up his fists and he bent his legs, spreading his feet apart into a fighting stance and glaring furiously at the men in front of him. The summoner's weak. His name's Lee. Phinx is the leader. Kargonn, will he disappear if Lee goes down? Can I take Lee down? Why does he look so, ambitious? Like he has plans that have nothing to do with these two's?! Focus on stopping them! Kargonn is powerful. I have to go a hundred percent. I need to try Doubling, even at fifty? Or drop down to 40 and go for it. Do it! He made his decision fast, There are too many left. I can't injure myself with three people I need to protect behind me. Three- three people who I love! Mom, All Might, Wonderlass… Midoriya's body started glowing and energy pulsed through him so much brighter as his muscles tensed and bulged, and he yelled out at the villains in front of him, "I WON'T LET YOU KILL THEM!"
"Hey, what's going on?" Kirishima asked, jogging towards the couches of the common room where he saw a group of his classmates gathered. He had seen a horrified look flash across Jirou's face at what she was watching, and he ran up and around the couch to get closer to the screen blocked off by his standing classmates. "That's right nearby-"
"We have unconfirmed reports that this is an attack by the League of Villains. Their target from what we have gathered is one Inko Midoriya, the mother of-"
"You have to get back! It isn't safe to be this close!"
"And now Kamui Woods has arrived on the- whoa!"
BOOOM!
"They're after Midoriya's mom?!" Kirishima exclaimed. He spun towards the door and his fists balled in fury. His place isn't too far from here. If we rush. Maybe we could still-
"What was that explosion?" Sato asked, his voice nervous as he looked at the screen and the panicked reporters rushing down the street farther from the initial police perimeter. "And, what is the League of Villains doing? We haven't heard from them in-"
"Does it matter?" Jirou snapped. "Whatever it is, we need to…"
"…Unfortunately we haven't received any word from inside the neighborhood since the attack started! The only information we have heard from our police source that came in about this was from Lemillion who discovered the attack in progress while on a different mission. We know Deku himself is on the scene now, as well as several pro heroes who responded to the threat…"
Mineta pulled back on the couch he was standing on. Why isn't anyone calling the police from inside? Unless, they can't?
Kirishima was done waiting. He ran at the front door and he nearly slammed it down in his hurry. The reporters continued shouting as they ran, "…our news helicopter is on the way to the scene right now, but we still don't know much about the assailants or the situation inside the neighborhood right now! We can only hope that Deku has…"
"Kirishima wait! I'm coming too!" Jirou yelled, and she ran towards the front door and her classmate who just glanced back at her once and nodded his head. They rushed out of the dorm ignoring shouts from their other classmates behind them, leaving a half dozen others wondering what they should do now.
"We, should go," Ashido began, and she turned to the door again herself after staring at the screen for a few more seconds in hesitation. "If it were one of our parents, Midoriya would come help us."
None of the others could argue with her there. The entire feeling of this situation had them all unnerved though, and Sato's mind was not on Midoriya's mom but on his own. Going after our families? Or is it just Midoriya's? Why now? Is Raijin there? If he is, can Midoriya beat him? Mom… Her face appeared in Rikido's mind and his teeth bared in anger. What the hell is this, feeling?
Todoroki Shoto opened up his fifth story window as running down the stairs would take too long after he made his decision. His mother's face and long white hair faded from his mind, and he glared into the distance where he saw a trail of black smoke far, far away. I can reach in time. Ice shot out of Todoroki's window and he leapt out onto it while pointing his left hand behind him. His hand glowed and his eyes darkened, I won't let them do this to you, Midoriya. I've seen what losing family can do, even to a great hero.
Dozens of people started for the location of the attack at the same time. Heroes Midoriya had fought alongside and classmates who wanted to help him. He had touched the hearts of a lot of people over the years, and yet the assassins facing him knew how little time they had. The explosions that went off were a failsafe Phinx had prepared in case the need arose for a smokescreen, for a way to slow down the heroes and cause more damage that they would have to focus on instead of all convening on a single location. Two comrades of his outside of the apartment had guns they removed the silencers from, and one of them had a flashy Quirk too that managed to keep the attention of the three heroes who arrived first after Wonderlass. Those heroes were able to call in for support while they were fighting though, letting the merc with the flashy Quirk know that their comrade who was blocking the cell lines had either been taken down or had run away. That thought made him think about ditching and hitting the rendezvous too already, as things were getting too dodgy and chances of getting arrested were rising every second he was there.
Phinx knew the way the others were thinking. He did not tell them to stay for too long because he knew if he had shouted to just hold off the heroes, they would know that he did not have a control on the situation. He gave himself a time limit so that they would think he could control it up until then, because the heroes would not gain control in just that amount of time, and so that he himself would know when was the time to just abandon the job and run. His reputation mattered a lot to him though, and he felt it was because of his reputation that even in these tough times he still had job offers coming to him frequently. So Phinx focused on the woman who was his main target, the one he had been specifically hired to kill.
Phinx sprinted forward and dove, his body rising just over the chair tumbling across the floor towards him. He hit on the other side and rolled forward over his head, coming out of it with his right hand jabbing forward and firing a brown spike at the woman pulled back far in the room. The spike was in mid-flight, when a fist slammed into the side of it and redirected it across the room and through the wall. Phinx was shocked that the boy moved fast enough to knock away his shot in mid-flight, but he did not get flustered and just jammed his other hand forward while the divider wall behind him blew to pieces. Instead of two gaps in the living room connecting to the hall and kitchen, the entire wall blew apart with Kargonn diving through at his opponent who had rushed away to stop Phinx.
Deku spun around while planting his hands down on the ground, and he kicked both legs at Kargonn at 80% power while doubling all his strength. He felt his bones creaking and he clenched his teeth hard only to still yell out in pain as he felt a fracture in his right leg where the needle had hit him in the calf a while back, making that leg feel so much weaker the longer he had fought for. Midoriya had pulled the needle out of his leg, but the strange sensation he initially only felt in his calf had risen up to his thigh and hamstring, not that the pain of that feeling was noticeable now that he had fractured that leg. The double kick had so much power that all the debris flying forward around Phinx smashed back into Kargonn who was still in midair falling out of the wall. Without anything to plant himself on, Kargonn was thrown back through the divider, while the ceiling cracked above them and the walls dented outwards with paint chipping off of them at the powerful kicks made indoors.
"Izuku!" Inko shouted towards her son who screamed in pain after that kick.
"Stay back!"
All Might grabbed Inko by the arm and pulled her behind him, as the man in charge of the operation was not down for the count even after being slammed into a side wall by the force of those kicks. Phinx grabbed the wall behind him and pushed brown spikes out his palms to ease his back off of it. He glared towards the two adults on his right more than the boy who was dropped down on his left foot and right knee. I just need one shot to-
"NOOO!" Kargon roared. Phinx spun and his eyes grew the size of saucers. The force of the kick that just hit him did not feel like it had hit him with its full force. He thought that was because the kick was aimed more at Kargonn, but when he turned he could see back into the hall and where Lee had been standing with a bloody nose. The blow had smashed through the wall's rubble and slammed into him too, in fact the blow was meant mostly for him even though he was the farthest one from Deku's mom at the time. "Stop it! You can't- NO!" Kargonn's eyes snapped down as the floor below him turned red, a circle spreading out from his feet and expanding. "I don't want to go! Raa! RAAA! RAAAAA!" His face started twitching, snapping back and forth with his smooth skin scrunching up and his chiseled jaw line distorting. He reared his neck back and let out a horrifying roar that echoed outside the building and around the neighborhood, terrifying the evacuating civilians so much that the evacuation turned into a panic of people sprinting away from the area.
"I can't," Lee muttered, slouched down on his butt with his lower back against the wall but the rest of his body hunched forward. He tried to lift his head, but he felt out of energy completely and he could not hold onto his Quirk any longer. He did raise his eyes a bit and stare in an uneasy way at the red circle that spread on the floor ahead of him. Lee rose his eyes more and he saw Kargonn turned to him, his black eyes full of livid fury, and Kargonn snapped his head towards him and let out a bloodcurdling roar. Kargonn's horns and hands seared as he slammed them out towards Lee, an invisible barrier appearing up from the edge of the circle below him that kept him from getting out of it.
"You can't make me! I won't go back! THIS WORLD IS-" Kargon's legs dropped down into the floor, and he roared and slammed his arms out again, clawing his sharp nails through the invisible barrier that was unable to hold him. He slammed his smoking arms outside of the barrier and dug his claws into the ground outside of it, but his body continued sinking down more and more into the red circle each second. "I won't! YOU HEAR ME?! Master! RUN! RUN NOW!"
He knows… Lee thought, his heart racing even as he felt barely conscious. His vision was blurry as he saw the demon sinking back to where it came from, wherever that was. He loves coming out. He knows, if I'm caught again, he won't be coming back…
"I don't think so!" Deku slammed Phinx's left arm into the wall behind the man, when Phinx started raising it with everyone still staring towards a sinking Kargonn. Midoriya brought his right fist back after smashing Phinx's arm into the wall with his left, and he pulled Phinx's left arm farther to the side to make him off target when the man started moving his right too. The yank caused Phinx to fire one of his Spikes into the floor between Deku's feet instead of through the top of his right foot, and then Deku slammed his right fist forward while biting down and tensing his entire body. "CHICAGOOOO-" Deku's fist slammed into the side of Phinx's head while his left hand kept pulling the man to the side, and then Deku twisted his body and came off his own feet while swinging his right arm down at the floor. "SMMAASSHHH!"
Wind blew away from Deku in all directions, shattering the last of the windows and blowing all the glass in them outwards. All Might held his arms out in front of Inko to protect her from the force, but he stumbled back into her and she had to hold her arms up to stop him from falling. Inko had to close her eyes for a second but she squinted them open and stared towards her son, his body horizontal with one arm pulling Phinx's to the side and the other fist slamming the villain's face into the floor. The collision with the floor was a whole extra hit on Phinx who was already done from the hit in the face, ribs breaking and his arm dislocating as Deku pulled it too hard while smashing his body down. It was a good thing alone that Deku did not rip the man's arm off completely.
Behind Inko and All Might, a woman with a shaved head and wearing a dark blue costume was leaning against the cracked wall. Wonderlass had her eyes squinted open too, and she lifted her lips at the corners despite the blood trails going down them to her chin and dripping off. "Nice work, kid," Wonderlass said.
Deku was panting in the middle of the room, staring down at Phinx and grinding his teeth in pain as he stood on his agonizing right leg and his left that felt creaky too. He heard that voice though and his entire body froze, Phinx's left arm dropping from his grasp and his head turning to the side. He looked past his shocked mother and proud mentor, while All Might started turning with his look turning to shock too at the compliment Wonderlass just said.
She never, Deku started thinking, his face twisting in an ugly way. His eyes darted back towards Lee, and they only briefly stopped on a part of the floor that was empty and had no sign that something very spooky just happened there over it. Lee's head was bowed again and he had some blood dripping from his face into his lap, his legs sprawled out in front of him to the sides and the man not budging an inch. Phinx was laying flat on the ground too, his head snapped to one side and him barely looking able to move, though he was twitching a bit. Deku ran towards Wonderlass after checking and making sure that they both were unable to keep fighting.
All Might ran over to Wonderlass's side too, and he fell down next to her as he tried ignoring the pain in his left leg only to fail as his legs were not muscular and could not hold him with that injury. All Might did not even call out in pain though as he fell, he just rose his head back up and looked worriedly at Wonderlass who gave him a small smile. "You look like such a weakling right now," Wonderlass said, her voice quiet and her face pale and weak. Her breathing was soft, and Midoriya's eyes grew huge as he got down on her other side as All Might.
"Wonderlass," Inko Midoriya started, stepping towards the woman slouched against a cracked wall of her destroyed apartment. Inko's eyes had water in them, and she said to the woman who lifted her head to look back at her. "It is great to finally meet you. I see, Izuku was right. You are an amazing hero." Inko thought about the scary man who her son had just defeated, who had fired that brown spike trying to kill her and All Might. "Thank you, for saving my life," Inko whispered in a pained tone.
"I, we have to save-" Deku started.
"Not, this time," Wonderlass said, then she coughed and blood splashed out of her mouth in front of her. "Help me with this, Deku." She said it in a stronger tone, while raising up shaky arms. She struggled to bring them up, and her face got more and more frustrated the longer it was taking her to just do this alone. Deku's eyes shook but he reached forward and grabbed her hands, and he brought her hands to her chest where the back of a brown spike was sticking out of. His eyes darted behind him again to check on the villains when he heard a crash outside. Deku also heard the shouts of other heroes though, and his legs were hurt making it so he could not help without seriously injuring himself even more. He did not know if those were just excuses or not, but he looked back forward and fully focused on Wonderlass who his hands moved up to the chest of, grabbing the brown spike just as he had helped her do.
"Are you sure?" All Might questioned softly.
"I want this thing, out of me," Wonderlass replied. She cracked a bloody grin, "Haven't been impaled, by something this big, since you still had that muscle form of- AHH!" Wonderlass started yanking the spike from her chest, but she was moving slow and could barely find the power to do it. The spike kept sliding out even when she stopped putting in as much pressure though, and her eyes squinted open again after clenching them in pain. All Might looked at Deku appearing like he wanted to tell him to stop, but Wonderlass said to the boy locking eyes with her, "Thanks, for this. And…"
If she can just hold on for a little. If we can stop the bleeding once this is out, then I could get Eri to reverse the wound-
"And thanks, for these past few months." The other two there glanced at Deku confusedly, while Izuku's eyes started shaking and rising from the spike he was pulling out to Wonderlass's face again. "I know you did something, last time," Wonderlass said. "To save me…" The pressure Wonderlass was putting on the spike returned, twice as hard as before and moving it faster which let the blood pour out the hole in her back and then out her front too as she yanked it all the way in one last burst. She gasped out as she finally removed the painful object that had been lodged through her. The spike dropped from her hand and hit the ground next to her, and a satisfied look spread over Wonderlass's face as she leaned her head back on the wall behind her. "Thanks… goodbye."
Wonderlass's head tilted a bit to the side, her neck muscles loosening though her smile stayed plastered like that on her face even as she let out her last breath.
Izuku opened his mouth to respond but it froze that way at the sight of the slight movement of Wonderlass's head. Eri! Eri could- Eri… Eri can't, I can't- Midoriya's hands were shaking at his sides. His eyes watered up and his head bowed, his breathing speeding up faster as his eyes bulged huge. She died, saving my mom. They targeted my mom because of me. Because I'm trying to be the new All Might. I'm putting her in danger, and I- I got Wonderlass! "Ahh, haa, ahhh," Izuku started breathing in and out heavily, his breath staggered and his heart aching in pain as he rose his eyes back to the woman before him. I, I can't. Eri can't, turn this back- and I can't make her, not after… but, there is…
Zach. Midoriya's heavy staggered breathing cut short. All Might had just lowered his head and closed his eyes, reaching down and holding one of Wonderlass's hands with both of his. Inko shifted an unsettled look at the side of All Might's head, thinking on something she had heard earlier that she needed to talk to both of the boys in front of her about soon. She stepped forward between the two though and she put a hand down on All Might's left shoulder, and the man rose his head a little and turned in. As Inko reached out for her own son though, she heard his voice. "Zach," he whispered it and his heart raced faster, while the other two stared at the seventeen year old with their eyes wide.
Zach! Why aren't you here?! Midoriya clenched his teeth and he looked up, pulling away from Wonderlass and calling out at the ceiling, "Zach!"
"Izuku," Inko whispered, her face pulling back with pain as her son couldn't accept what had just happened.
"Young Midoriya," All Might began.
"ZACH!" Deku shouted at the ceiling. He roared it like he was really calling his old friend. He yelled it and he started panting, getting up to his feet and clenching his fists so hard at his sides in mental and physical pain. Come back! If you're watching. I know some of the others still think that you would come to save them if they died, so come back now! "ZACH! I need you-" Midoriya froze and his voice cut off. He froze and he started lowering his head, and Inko and All Might stopped looking at him in as much pain at the voice they heard that shook all three of them.
"Don't," the voice whispered, scratchy and barely audible. Izuku lowered his eyes and he glared in fury at the man whose attacks were those brown spikes, the same kind as the one he just pulled of Wonderlass's chest. He stomped towards the man whose head was face was down, but his body was moving as he twisted around and tried to pull himself up weakly. Izuku spotted through the hallway the man slouched against the wall just twitched too, and Lee's head started to lift up. Midoriya's head turned back solely to Phinx though, his breathing speeding up more and more, as the man there lifted his face covered in blood, "Don't bring, Sazaki here…"
The blood all over his face did not make it difficult to see at all. Inko, Izuku, and All Might could all see Phinx's face clearly. They looked towards the man who rose his head with fear filling his eyes. He stared at Izuku in a terrified way at how the boy was just shouting sounding like he was actually calling the one he was shouting for to them. When Phinx saw his face though, he hesitated and he realized maybe his mind was still just too boggled from what had just felt like a train slamming into his face.
Lee rose his head up with sheer terror covering his own bloodied mug though, and he started in a hoarse but panicked tone, "Please. Please you, you already caught us."
"What are you-" Deku started.
"Send us to prison," Lee begged, his eyes shaking and the boy in front of him looking less blurry as his panic made him stay conscious. "Please," he said, his voice raspy and gargled by the blood in his mouth that spilled out as he spoke. Deku stared over towards the man and he pulled his head back at the look on Lee's face. The two men who had faced him down with a demon among them, who had just fought him tooth and nail while trying to kill his mother and mentor, they were scared.
All Might looked at the men too with his jaw dropped. The way he had looked at them, the looks he had given and seen Deku give only for those men to stay composed and keep fighting calmly. Just at the sound of his name, All Might thought, his heart pounding in his chest with an expression of fear crossing over his face. Inko Midoriya pulled back too, looking back to her son and then All Might, and then to those two near-unconscious villains who were still apparently awake enough to plead for their lives.
"What do you know?" Midoriya asked, looking back to Phinx and bending down in front of him. Phinx's eyes grew wider, and Deku snapped at him, "What do you know about Zach?"
Phinx's mouth closed, and his head bowed back down to the floor. "Hey! HEY!" Midoriya shouted at the man who fell silent. He spun to Lee who was the more afraid of the men, and who was still looking at him with a trembling look though he shifted that gaze to Phinx for a moment. "What are you talking about? Do you know about- Tell me!" Midoriya shouted it when the man he was speaking to just dropped his head again, his strength to argue and struggle leaving him as he realized that the shouts of the teenager in front of him were really just in vain. "I'll, if you don't tell me I'll…"
Lee and Phinx did not care about what his threats would be though. They weren't afraid of heroes. The two were only afraid of the one they were not going to talk about there, and risk inciting his wrath. They were only afraid, of Death.
A/N Hope you enjoyed! 2 If you guys don't remember Lee and Phinx, they were the guys from the Syndicate chapter in the mercenary team hired by Fergus... Phinx was the one who shot his Spike into the kid nuke, though that was a long time ago now (back before Christmas of the previous year). Anyway, thanks for reading! Midoriya's mom gets targeted, Wonderlass gets killed ;(, but Deku stops the hit on his loved ones. Leave a review telling me what you think! I've been liking the latest chapters of the manga and added in a part about it (in case you were confused by Deku's new power and haven't read it yet, sorry for spoilers). Also any predictions or questions for what's coming... and boy is stuff coming... XD