Chapter Fifteen:

This was a bad showing altogether. All The Undersiders were down for the count, Genesis's projection was limping from how damaged it was, not to mention burned from Sundancer's sun, Half the damn team was crippled and bleeding, and the last one standing was probably the one I least expected to survive the bug assault.

The brat from the USJ attack.

I must have the worst luck in the world to end up with this kid so often. First, he stops the Nomu from killing the teacher, then stops Kurogiri from killing All Might, then stops the both of us from killing him! He's so freakin' annoying.

Don't know what I'm going to do with him, but I'm going to do something.

"Looks like you beat Skitter," I said. "Impressive, I would've never expected that outcome."

"Shigaraki," The brat said. "You're working with The Undersiders?"

"Working with them? I'm commanding them!"

"WHAT!? YOU'RE their boss!?"

"Of course not. Their boss is someone else…But I have a leg over their boss. So you can call me the boss of their boss."

The brat looked at me with the eyes of a gazelle in front of a lion.

Guess that would make me a lion. I like that.

Skitter tried to get up, but the second she bent one leg to get up, she immediately unbent it. She must be in a hell of a lot of pain. "Tattletale…Grue…are they?"

"Yes, brat. They're fine, I put them with a friend of mine."

"Help…me…Shigaraki…" She coughed again.

I rolled my eyes. "You were the one that lost, Skitter. It's your own fault."

"If we don't take care of our assets." Kurogiri slithered his eyes towards me with his smoke. "We could lose them."

I sighed. "Fine."

I picked her up and put her arm around my shoulder. She winched. "Make a portal Kurogiri, we're leaving."

Kurogiri made the portal with his sinister smoke.

"Aren't you going to let me go?" The brat asked.

"Of course not." I said. "We already failed with the supplies. I bet we failed with killing All Might as well. It's no good. There's no point. We need something out of this. This is it."

"Why? What am I to you?"

"You're the brat that idolizes All Might. You mean everything to me."

"I'm not going with you." The brat said. "If I go with you, you'll have a leg above the heroes. I refuse. I rather die."

"Really?" My smile grew. "Because they're no pro heroes around. If I kill you, nothing's stopping me from killing the rest. After you, I could kill a ward. Another student. Maybe the girl you were so adamant about protecting."

Izuku looked at me with pure nervousness and animosity. It looked like he was going to freak out. Have a breakdown right in the middle of the battlefield.

But the brat was smarter than I thought. "Ok. I'll go with you."

"That's more like it."

"Izuku!"

I looked up. "The hell is that?"

"Sounds…like…" Skitter took off her mask to vomit. Then immediately put it back on. "Clock…blocker…"

"Clockblocker? What kind of name is that?" I looked at Skitter. "The Nomu didn't take this guy out?"

Skitter ralphed again, over the cries of Clockblocker.

"Dammit. Alright, well, obviously he's alive. So it's a no. Come on, Kurogiri, let's get out of here."

"As you wish."

I backed into the portal.

"Izuku! Fight back! Use your power! Do something! Anything!" Clockblocker's voice was getting closer. I could see his outline with the streetlights. "IZUKU!"

"Don't come, Clockblocker!" the brat said.

I made it through the portal. I was in Skitter's base.

"Why are we here, Kurogiri?" I asked. "You should have put me with Garaki."

"Garaki is with All For One. I don't believe it would be wise to bring a hero along."

"fine," I said.

"My…organs…" Skitter tried to speak.

"What are you saying, Bug Brat?"

"I think she's saying her intestines are bleeding." The brat said. "If she doesn't get help soon-"

"Don't worry, brat. I know one hell of a doctor."

1 hour Later.

You know that feeling when you facing off against someone who you have wronged, or someone who wronged you? And there's this feeling, this aura of anger and bile, slowly building up, until the second someone so much as breathes the wrong way, is enough for the fire to arise to set everything to flames?

That was this feeling I and Tattletale were feeling.

We sat on boxes in Skitter's base, directly eyeing each other for 50 minutes, All of Skitter's minions staying away, and neither one of us stopping the glare contest. I didn't expect her to have such dedication, but I wasn't going to stop just yet.

"Are they still staring at each other?" Imp asked.

"Yes…" Grue sighed. "They are."

"They're challenging each other." Hellhound said. "They're not going to let up until the other one falters."

"It's pointless." Kurogiri said. "They're teammates, they don't have to do this. Someone should nip it in the bud."

"I got an idea." Regent said.

What? What is he talking abou-

Suddenly, Tattletale and I bowed and headbutted each other simultaneously.

"OW!" Tattletale looked at Regent.

And I hated to say this, but I looked at the same time. "WHAT THE!"

"What? You guys were just sitting there. Not even talking."

"If you hit my father's hand. I would've killed you."

"You're kidding, right?" Grue asked.

"He's not kidding." Tattletale said.

Grue looked at me, his facial expression unreadable under the mask.

"What's taking so long!?" Imp stomped her feet as she spoke. "Why isn't Skitter already ok?"

"Don't know." Tattletale smiled, for some reason. "He should've been done by now."

"There might be one reason."

Tattletale turned back to glare at me. "If you're telling me you figured it out before I could, you're out of your fucking mind."

"And what? You're saying you figured out something about Garaki in five minutes what took me 15 years?"

Tattletale and I went back to glaring at each other.

Until our heads collided again.

"OW! REGENT!" Tattletale and I said.

Regent shrugged. "You'll thank me when you realize you have more time."

"Skitter!" Grue said.

We looked at the top of the warehouse, where Skitter remerged from a room at the top with Garaki by her side. She walked down the steps with Garaki coming with her, meeting us at the bottom.

"Hey, guys." Skitter said.

"Heya Skits." Tattletale said. "You doing ok?"

"I should be asking you guys that! Grue was literally missing his legs!"

"I think you'll find," Garaki began. "That with my technology and my intelligence, there's nothing my expertise can't solve. No wound too deep and no scar too big."

"I'll say," Regent said. "Kaboom Kid blasted half my face off. But the doctor fixed me like it never even happened."

"It sounds like your advertising, Regent." Imp giggled.

"Ooooooh! Does that mean I get paid?" Regent asked rhetorically.

"We aren't accepting advertising at this current moment. But we are looking into billboards." I said.

Tattletale rolled her eyes.

"It wasn't easy. This girl was a MUCH tougher case."

"Oh, I get it." Tattletale said. "She had brain damage. You had to fix her brain."

I itched some more. God, this girl was annoying.

Garaki blinked. "Correct. You didn't underestimate this girl, Shigaraki. She is smart."

Apparently, the universal signal for telling someone to cut it out doesn't translate to old men.

Tattletale looked at me with some exaggerated shocked face. "Shiggy! I am shocked! You didn't tell me you felt that way!"

I wanted to hide my scratching, but It felt like I was in hives now. "Don't make it seem like we're dating Tattletale. He left out the last part."

"You mean the part where you said she not as smart as you." I made sure I was smiling when she looked back. It was only for a fraction of a second, but I saw her frown. She went to a cheeky smile to cover her tracks. "I remember, but I'm not sure it's accurate. Even so, you'd do better working with this girl. Not against her."

Tattletale made a gesture.

"I am working with her," I said. "As a matter of fact. She was the one that started this minor feud."

"I find that hard to believe. But it doesn't matter. It looks like everyone is taken care of."

"Not all of us," Imp said. "You didn't do Izuku."

"Izuku isn't one of us." Skitter said. With more hostility than I expected.

"Skitter's right," Grue said. "We don't have to take care of him… but we do need to figure out what to do with him."

"Well, I suggest we-"

"Undersiders." a man cut Kurogiri off. He had a cut ear and a goatee. He looked familiar. "We need everyone to leave this base."

"What? Why?" Skitter asked. "This is my base. I decide what happens and what doesn't."

"It's a order from your boss."

Boss? Coil.

Now I recognize him. He was a guard at Coil's base.

It's must be important if he's showing up here.

"Oh…uhhhhhhhhh…ok. Everyone leave to go to the back."

The minions nodded and went to the back of the outside of the warehouse.

"Not a good sign," Tattletale said. "He already knows we told the heroes we have a boss."

"You mean that you told him?" Grue said. "How would he even already know!?"

"Sounds very much like a you problem." I said.

"Hey, we all fucked up there, buddy!" Regent pointed. "You're in the same boat as us!"

"Except I'm higher than your boss. I order your boss."

"Then you telling him will be the best-case scenario," Tattletale said.

All the minions left.

"Why would I do that?"

"Because I'll give you a few minutes alone with Izuku Midoriya." She said.

I pursed my lips. "Fine, I'll talk to him."

Coil walked into the room. I'd never seen him walk, but it was very relaxed, smooth. It was very strange. Everything about this guy tells me he's stressed and paranoid. I think he said so himself! It must be his power, or he's one hell of an actor.

"Undersiders. Shigaraki."

"Coil." We all said.

"How did the mission go?" Coil asked.

Ahh, I see. Posturing.

"You see…It's a funny story."

Coil narrowed his eyes.

"Sit down. It's going to be a long one."

30 minutes later

"And that's what happened."

Coil stood there silently. Not saying a word. But most likely sulking in his anger.

He finally spoke. "I see. What a pity. I expected our odds to be so good because we got your assistance. But even that was not enough."

"Yes, it's a real shame," I said. "I was hoping we could get lucky and kill All Might."

"Anyone tell you, Shigaraki, that you have an obsession?" Tattletale said.

"I'm going to give this food to Izuku," Skitter grabbed a platter of food.

"Izuku. Is that the boy Shigaraki kidnapped?" Coil asked.

Skitter nodded. And walked to the stairs.

"You shouldn't have kidnapped the boy, Shigaraki," Coil said. "You're putting too much attention on us."

"It's just a student. Not even a real hero." I shot back.

"It's an international incident!"

"We needed something out of this!"

"We needed the supplies!"

"You say that. But the students were already recuperating. We didn't have time to get them."

"According to you, only Clockblocker remained."

"The child that controls a part of time? Yeah, I can see how you thought that would work." I signed. "Listen, this was the best option, whether you like it or not. You just don't see that because I'm saying it."

"Do you say that because it is the best option? Or because you knew that this would hurt All Might?"

We got in a glare-off. I thought it would last longer. But we were interrupted.

"I SAID NO!" The brat yelled.

I sighed, not taking my eyes off Coil. "Crap."

Coil looked away at the room where the sound came from. "Looks like Skitter is having some trouble. I believe you all should help her."

"Fine."

The Undersiders and I walked to and up the stairs. We heard the arguing from the room and weren't even in it.

"Bullied you? BULLIED YOU!? IS THAT HOW VILLAINS THINK!? That they get to do anything but the second someone acts mean to them, THEY GET SO PETTY THAT THEY TRY TO KILL WHOEVER IT WAS THE SUPPOSEDLY WRONG THEM!?"

"NO! WE think that whoever tries to kill us or fucks with us has to suffer! HAS TO BE PUT DOWN! WHAT'S IT GOING TO FUCKING TAKE FOR YOU TO REALIZE THAT YOUR HEROES ARE ROTTEN TO THE CORE!?"

"That's enough," I said, walking into the room. "Morals don't matter to a villain."

The brat closed his eyes. "Thank you…wait…shit."

"Ah, a screwed if you do, screwed if you don't kind of thing," Regent said.

"So! You're All Might Lite," Imp said.

The brat raised his chin. "My name is Izuku Midoriya, and I will stop you, stupid villains!"

"Stupid villains?" Regent scoffed. "That's the best you got?"

The brat looked down sheepishly. "ummmmm…uhhhhhhh…Don't…don't insult me! I dont need to be insulted by you!"

"No, what you need is an educating." Grue looked. "What should we do with him? Break his legs?"

"I can sic my dogs on him." Hellhound said.

"I think that'd be wise." If I got to kill the brat. That would make up for losing the chance to kill All Might.

"You want to sic your dogs on All Might Lite?" Regent said.

"Fitting name," Tattletale said, "considering he has All Might power."

What? WHAT!?

"What. The hell. Did you just say?"

"You didn't know, Shiggy?" She said. "He has All Might power."

"His strength multiples when he farts?" Regent asked.

"That was a joke he made."

"It was?" Hellhound asked.

I really hope she wasn't that stupid.

"It was. His actual power is the jack of all trades. Super strength, super speed, super durability."

"That's impossible," Grue said.

"How is it impossible? His power is genetics, like All Might's OBVIOUSLY someone else could be born with-"

This isn't possible. This isn't possible. This isn't possible. This isn't possible. This isn't possible. This isn't possible. This isn't possible. This isn't possible. This isn't possible. This isn't possible. This isn't possible. This isn't possible. This isn't possible. This isn't possible. This isn't possible.

I wasn't even paying attention. I COULDN'T pay attention. I had to go to the corner of the room in order to hide my panic attack.

I only heard one thing.

"So, what do we do with him?"

"We need to kill him," I answered Grue's question.

Everyone turned to me. I didn't even realize what I said until I said it. But I don't regret it. "You heard me. We need to kill him. We can't let another All Might run around."

"You want to be known as a hero killer?" Tattletale asked.

"It's a student. Not an actual hero, besides, I tried to kill All Might, you know the answer to that."

"There are worse heroes than All Might," Grue said.

"Not in Japan there's not! We can't survive two All Might's!"

"He'd probably be retried at the time," Imp said. "The first one, I mean."

"And what? You think I want All Might Lite as a replacement? Screw that. We need to kill him now."

"Seems like a you problem," Regent said. "Only japan has to deal with him."

"Unless he travels and then you have to deal with him!" I sighed again "If we don't kill him…We're dead…We'll never survive. He'll be like an All Might like in his prime! You think you can survive that!"

"I got an idea."

We all looked at Skitter.

"Really?" I said. "And what is that?"

She gave us her answer.

Author Notes: Whew! This was a close one, Thought it wouldn't get out soon enough! I worked all day to get it out. Thank you all for staying so long. Things are about to get VERY interesting. So stay tuned. I'll post a sneak peek at my Patre0n as usual. Also, I want to point out, I trie dot make the inner thoughts sound different for every character with a POV. Pay attention for it.

Also, I'm going to post an original superhero web novel like Wildbow. called 'Ultimate'! it's over on my site, 'TheUltimateWriting, the same name as my Patre0n. Check it out if you want to see how I do with something original.

That's all I had to say. This is Super Ultimate Number One, sighing out. Peace!