"Thank you for saving me," said BirdHead.
"The villain that kept us on the defensive…you took him out in an instant," said IcyHot, sounding jealous as hell.
"Tokoyami, are you all right? Everything worked out like we said," said Dupli arms.
"Shoji, Midoriya, I'm sorry. My spirit was not prepared. When Shoji lost one of his arms, I gave into my anger and released dark shadow. In the depth of the darkness, I was consumed with fury, further spurred on by their rage. It built up to a point where I could no longer contain it, and I hurt Shoji in the process."
"Save it." Duple arms was curt. "If I were you, I wouldn't be talking about that right now."
"That's right. We've established that Kacchan is one of the villains' targets," said Deku. I turned to him and tried not to flinch. Up close his injuries looked even worse.
"Bakugou? But why?" Bird Head asked.
"I don't know," said Deku. "But in any case, I think we'd be safest in the facility with the two pros."
How the hell did you get both your arms broke and your eye blacked out…
"I see. So our mission from here on out is to escort Bakugou," said Bird head.
And lost your entire shirt…Huh? My thoughts snapped back to attention as I realized consciously that they were talking about me like I wasn't there.
"However, if we go through the clearing, that's where the pussycats are currently fighting. If we follow the path back, the villains will definitely spot us. We can't afford another setback. We should cut straight through the shortest route," said Deku.
"We don't know how many of them there are. There's the possibility that they could suddenly ambush us," said IcyHot.
They're still going, like I'm not even around, like I'm helpless…
"But Shoji has the ability to detect enemies!" said Deku. "And Todoroki's got his freezing. What's more if Tokoyami's all right, we still have a method of controlling the unrivaled power of dark shadow. With this lineup, quite frankly, not even All Might would scare us."
That did it, and I finally snapped. "What the hell us this!?"
"You walk in the middle," IcyHot sneered at me.
"Like hell you're protecting me, you assholes!" I shouted. You still think I'm weak or something?
"Let's go," said Duple Arms.
And as we walked, everyone continued to ignore me. Deku wouldn't even answer my question. IcyHot still acted like I wasn't around.
And then out of nowhere - everything went black.
I came to for only a moment. A villain's hand was around my neck, and black warp gate crap was closing in around me.
He was running towards me as the villain pulled me back through the gate. Looking desperate, looking like he did back then when he jumped at that sludge villain to try and save me. Only there was no All Might here this time. Maybe others were there, but in that moment I couldn't see anyone else, but Deku running at me, ready to jump into that gate after me with two broken arms.
"KACCHAAAAANNNN!"
There was only one way to stop him, one way to save him. I could've tried to move - maybe tried to resist, but at that range, they'd have gotten him too…I could've let him try and help me, but there was nothing he could do with broken arms like that, splinted now.
Only one thing to do.
"Stay back, Deku!"
The gate closed over my eyes. I didn't take them off of Deku the entire time.
I was standing inside an old-fashioned bar, some creepy place full of cracked jukeboxes, barstools, no apparent windows. Face Hands was sitting at the bar. The warping bastard stood on the other side. A bunch of other villains I hadn't seen before had gathered around.
I'd been taken away from training camp and right into the hands of the enemy.
I'd been fucking kidnapped by goddamn fucking villains.
