The pathway was filling with gas and smoke. Some kind of noxious gas and burning trees. Icy Hot picked up some class B kid we stumbled across. Brunette cat lady's voice came into our heads as we walked.
EVERYONE! Two villains have invaded the area! It's possible there are still more lurking in the shadows! Those who are capable, head immediately to the facility. If you should come face to face with the enemy, do not engage them in combat! Continue your retreat!
"Goddammit," I muttered, looking around. Weren't we supposed to be keeping the damn security tight? What the hell did they screw up so badly for?
"Is this gas also the villains' doing?" Todoroki wouldn't shut up as we kept walking. "I'm still worried about the others, but there's not much we can do. Let's back off of the goal point and head to the 'll leave things here at the midway point to Rag doll."
"Don't order me around -" I began, but then I saw it. A creepy villain in black, bending over a severed arm on the ground. And muttering something.
"Who-wo was supposed to be ahead of us?" I asked. Who was cut, who was hurt?
"so pretty, so beautiful…ah no, i mustn't, I have work to do. But I just can't leave it alone…ah…"
Growling and mumbling. And I hate to admit it, but creepy as fuck. And he'd turned around to face us.
"I have work to do."
"Don't fight, is that the rule?" I asked. Like hell I'm not tackling this creep.
He'd thrown his head up and teeth were creeping along the ground towards us. Fucking extended teeth. I got ready.
"Cut it out!" IcyHot shouted at me like an idiot.
But before I cold point out how idiotic that advice was, we got another buzz in our heads from the brunette Cat lady.
Members of Class A and B, I hereby authorize you all for combat!
Fuck yes, finally!
I jumped up, ready. This creep doesn't know who he's
We've identified one of the villains' objectives! The student named 'Kacchan!' -
WHAT?!
Whoever Kacchan is, as much as possible, avoid combat! Refrain from solo movements! Got that, Kacchan?
Kacchan - only one person calls me that. And only one person could've decided to screw me over so that all of a sudden I was the only person who couldn't fight.
The villain mumbled "I've got to bear this, I've got a job to do".
"This is not a time to be reckless!" IcyHot scolded me again, like I was five. "Didn't you hear? They're after you!"
"Kacchan, kacchan, shut the fuck up, get out of my head!" I shouted, finally too frustrated to keep it in. "That damn Deku must've done something. First they say to fight, then they say don't fight, goddamit! Fuck it, I don't care!" I jumped, ready to take action, but the villain's damn teeth sliced through my shirt. IcyHot's ice came up in between us.
The villain ducked and avoided being frozen. He was navigating the landscape using his teeth extended like extra limbs.
"This guy knows how to make good use of his surroundings and his quirk," said IcyHot.
"Looks to me like a gangly weakass who needs his teeth kicked in!" I shouted.
"If you go exploding stuff here, you might start a fire that could surround and kill us all! You know that, right?" snapped IcyHot. I hated to admit it but I hadn't thought of that.
"Shut up, I get it," I muttered.
And the damn villain was starting the break through IcyHot's ice. Stabbing through it with those damn creepy teeth.
"I can't get any closer, dammit!" I shouted in frustration. "The only choice is to go at him with full power!"
"No, you can't!" snapped IcyHot.
"If the trees catch fire just cover em with your ice!" Moron, what do you suggest we do?!
"Explosions would block our field of vision," he babbled at me. "What do we do if your attack fails to take him out? He's got us beat in both range and power."
You overthink shit even more than Deku. Dammit, even he'd be doing something about this -
"There they are! I see ice! They're fighting!" That was Deku's voice -
What the fuck? Did he somehow show up the second I thought of him?!
We turned. Dulpi-ARms dude was running our way from where Deku's voice had come as some huge looming thing seemed to be rampaging through the forest behind him.
"Bakugou, Todoroki! one of you please, make some light!" he shouted.
I looked around for Deku - I'd definitely heard him - and then I saw him. On Dupli'arms' back, wrapped up in his arms - and looking like he'd been crushed by a truck. His eyes were shadowed, one was black and swollen half shut, and what I could see of his arms was a broken mess.
But he didn't seem to even notice. He was looking only at me.
"KACCHAN!" he cried out.
"Shoji, Midoriya and - Tokoyami?" said IcyHot behind me. It was then that I realized what was chasing Deku and Duple-Arms through the trees. An out of control version of Bird Head's Dark Shadow. It was uprooting trees and out of control - but it all clicked. I got it then. Deku's plan.
You led him here so that he could -
"He's attacking indiscriminately - I'll make some flam-" Icy Hot Began, but I held up a hand to stop him.
"Wait, dumbass. Just watch."
And as we watched, Dark Shadow grabbed the creep villain who'd been giving us a hard time and blasted him through the woods into oblivion.
"WANT TO RAGE, NOT ENOUGH FUN - " it was screaming, but now it was my - well, our - turn. Me and IcyHot threw flames at that thing like there was no tomorrow and boom - Tokoyami was back to normal.
"I'm the worst matchup for you," I reminded him.
