p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"I made a move - no Deku around to get hurt now - to aim a blast at one, but a damn villain dressed like a magician put his hand out and managed to touch me. Everything went blank again and when I woke up I was tied down, chained up with my arms wrapped in thicker handcuffs than they'd used on me at UA./p
p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"emThat feeling of everything going black. That's what happened back at Camp. So that magician bastard's the one who did it. He touched me and it happened, that's how his quirk works. Just gotta avoid letting him touch me again./em/p
p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"Well, and somehow get outta the damn handcuffs./p
p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"I was trying not to panic. My heart was beating like crazy, I was sweating, deep down -/p
p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"The back of my mind kept running through tons and tons of possibilities of what might happen. emgoddamnt dammit what if they try and kill me what if they attack me what if i never get outta this what -/em/p
p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"But consciously I shoved that bullcrap down. emDon't think about it, don't think about it. You just gotta do it. Just gotta beat these creeps and get away./em/p
p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;""You've got permission to fight", Sensei had had that cat lady tell us. I can use my quirk to show these bastards what's what. No trees to catch fire here, IcyHot./p
p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"It took me a few minutes of that kinda panicked thinking to realize that the villain creeps were looking at me and FacePalm was talking to class="Apple-converted-space" /span/p
p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;""…this, you see, is something very important. The league of villains is going to change the way things are."/p
p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"emHe's monologuing. Good time to get out of a trap, when villains start monologuing./em/p
p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"I guessed, based on the hands, that the villain who'd choked me was the one with black, spiky hair and burns all over him. emMaybe some kinda fire quirk? That'd explain the smoke. /emThere was a blonde chick about our age in a school uniform. A dude in an allover black body suit. Another chick with big lips, stubble, jeans and sunglasses. A lizard dude. None of em looked that impressive, but it was still a ton of em, so they'd probably be trouble…/p
p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;""Who didn't make it?" Kurogiri interrupted FacePalm's class="Apple-converted-space" /span/p
p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;""Moonfish," said the Magician. "He was taken down by one of them, a boy with rather impressive shadow power. I attempted to take him too…that sort of rage would have been valuable."/p
p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"emSo he tried to grab Shadow Boy too? But he got away. Dammit…/em/p
p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"Not that I wanted him kidnapped too, but if he'd been here it would've been hard for these bastards to restrain Dark Shadow…/p
p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;""Mustard gott taken down too, so weak!" said Body Suit. "He got out just fine! He's strong!/p
p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"emWhat the hell?/em/p
p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;""And Muscular too - I think he leaked information," said Big Lips. FacePalm tilted his head./p
p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;""Muscular, really? I wouldn't have expected that. Any idea who got him?"/p
p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;""It must've been that boy with green hair," said Big Lips. "And broken arms."/p
p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"emDeku…So that's what happened to you? Dammit, you took down some important villain, while I -span class="Apple-converted-space" /span/em/p
p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"em Shut up, shut up , don't think about Deku right now, concentrate on getting outta this…./em/p
p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;""That brat's a real pain in the ass," said FacePalm./p
p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;""He's cute, all covered in blood…" smiled Blondie. "Broken and bleeding all over the place. I love it."/p
p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"FacePalm held up a hand./p
p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;""Enough about Midoriya," he said, then looked at me with the one eye I could see beneath the hand. "We're here to talk about emyou/em, Katsuki Bakugou. And your school."/p
p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"emUA. Damn. /emHow much damn troubled would they be in now? Fourth attack in less than six months…/p
p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"FacePalm lifted a remote to the TV above the bar and switched it class="Apple-converted-space" /span/p
p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"What followed was nothing less than a marathon of torture. UA getting slammed from every single media outlet, alongside reports of everything that had happened…/p
p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;""Pro Hero Ragdoll missing, presumed dead!"/p
p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;""The pro hero Pixie Bob of the Wild Wild Pussycats in the hospital with a severe head injury!"/p
p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;""13 first year students from UA's hero course comatose from villain's gas attack!"/p
p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"Then they started naming the others who were more seriously class="Apple-converted-space" /span/p
p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;""Three students treated for stabbing wounds - Mezo Shoji, Tsuyu Asui, and Ochako Uraraka."/p
p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"emUraraka? And FrogFace too? Dammit….dammit…/emThey didn't even say where the stabbing emwas…/em/p
p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"em "/emOnly ten students escaped without injury…"/p
p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;""Son of the number two hero treated for injuries…" emDammit, what injuries?/em/p
p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;""Daughter of famous Yaoyorozu conglomerate hospitalized with severe head injury"/p
p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;""Most serious injuries - UA student Izuku Midoriya, Hospitalized, comatose, reported feverish and uncertain of survival…"/p
p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"em Uncertain survival?/em/p
p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"em dammit, Deku…dammit don't you dare fucking die on me…/em/p
p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"And finally…/p
p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"em "/emOne student kidnapped by villains. UA first year Katsuki Bakugou taken away by the league of villains. UA's negligence is disgraceful!"/p
p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;""irresponsibile management!"/p
p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;""Pro Hero Eraserhead questioned for allowing the use of quirks!"/p
p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;""That student was kidnapped, it's a disgrace to UA!"/p
p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"And then,/p
p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;""We all recall last month's Sports Festival. It's clear that student, this Bakugou, is potentially dangerous. Did these villains kidnap him in the hope of winning him over to their side?"/p
p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"emHuh?/em/p
p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;""Dangerous"span class="Apple-converted-space" /span/p
p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;""villainous face"span class="Apple-converted-space" /span/p
p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;""bad kid" "/p
p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;""trouble"/p
p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;""he's probably all wrong" "you only have to look at him at the sports festival to see it" "maybe he'll join the villains?"/p
p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"They just kept going on and on like that. Pictures of me from the sports festival, footage of my fights, all the things they could dig up about me, and all of a sudden they kept pointing at me and saying, "You have to worry that that kid is gonna go bad."/p
p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"And FacePalm and the villains kept smiling whenever they said that. And my stomach started clenching./p
p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"emWait a sec…is that why -span class="Apple-converted-space" /span/em/p
p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"I'd thought, at first - they just wanted to make UA look bad, or maybe they thought I was a threat and wanted me dead…but no, they were - they wanted to, to what? to make me emone /emof them?/p
p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"But OK, that didn't hurt or anything. Who the hell cares what villains think, but…but the media, everyone out there was saying it class="Apple-converted-space" /span/p
p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;""You only have to look at him to know he's bad news."/p
p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"emThey think I'd - is that what they really think of me?/em/p
p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"And Shigaraki turned to me with a strange grin pinning up from beneath his face class="Apple-converted-space" /span/p
p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;""IT may be sudden but, won't you join us, Katsuki Bakugou?"/p
p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"emYou think I'm gonna do what these assholes thing I will? Even if everyone else thinks I'm wrong…even if everything thinks I'm gonna turn wrong…I'll never do anything but what I really want to class="Apple-converted-space" /span/em/p
p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;""Go spare me your crap and die," I hissed back at that damn villain./p