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The USJ battle has arrived. There is some blood and of course violence in this fight. and some murder, too. Enjoy~


Suddenly, chills ran up their spines and their eyes widened. "Aizawa!" Ace screamed and pointed to the direction the feeling was coming from. He didn't understand what Ace was shouting at for s split second before he saw the portal that they now all did. Everyone looked up in time to see it as if the twins were first to see it, not sense it.

"Gather together and don't move! Thirteen, protect the students!" Aizawa said, panicking everyone who huddled into a smaller crowd. Ace wasn't comfortable enough in this situation to form a fire barrier without worrying about losing control. He knew it would be unlikely, but first comes first and it was to protect Luffy.

He cloaked both of them in flames, knowing his power would never hurt Luffy. Even when he was asleep as a kid and his fire came out, it didn't burn his brother. Almost like it recognized him and knew not to hurt him. It was easy being around Luffy because he knew he wouldn't hurt him. They grasped hands tightly and backed into the crowd.

"There are so many," Luffy whispered as more and more presences came, all villains. They could tell by their feelings. They had been around them before, the slimy feeling was nothing especially new. The others hadn't clicked yet that these weren't part of the training until the teacher told them the gist. Villains were invading and they needed to stay safe.

"Ace… that one. The one with the brain," Luffy mumbled. "We can't go near that one."

Kirishima asked what they were mumbling about. "We shouldn't go near the one with the brain exposed. It freaks me out," the younger twin said. He and Ace were now holding one another's' arm tightly. They watched for a bit, all of the students frozen before they started to run. Ace and Luffy automatically looked out for themselves, and Luffy climbed onto Ace back and he raced to the door with fire, leaving a scorching trail behind him.

But suddenly the purple guy that showed up first was right in front of them, and Ace jerked to a stop, both of them backing up clumsily.

"I can't let you get away," it said. "Nice to meet you. We are the League of Villains. It may have been presumptuous of us, but we invited ourselves in to the home of the heroes, U.A. high school in order to have All Might, the symbol of hope, take his last breath."

While the others were shocked, Ace and Luffy were not. It wouldn't make sense for these people to come for the students.

"I believe All Might should have been here. Has there been some kind of change?" He sounded so calm and assured. And he was bad, Ace and Luffy's haki was telling them to get away from him. Three in particular. This one, the guy with hands all over his body, and the monster with the exposed brain.

They were scared. They couldn't help it. They were strong kids, but they were still just kids.

"Well, that is neither here nor there. This is the part I am to play," the portal guy said. Bakugo and Kirishima attacked, but Ace and Luffy knew it was useless. That guy didn't have a solid body, physical attacks were useless.

"He doesn't have a body to attack, you shouldn't get close!" Luffy said. And they were right, the attacks did nothing, and the portal man didn't seem fazed.

"That's right. Even if you are students, you are excellent golden eggs. But my job is to scatter you and torture you to death," and they were enveloped in a purple cloud. They were being pulled apart in different directions.

"ACE!"

"LUFFY!"

Both screamed as they were sent into different places inside the building. Ace landed hard in a rocky area and Luffy fell near the water before forming an air barrier that kept him in place and above the water. "ACE!" he screamed, going into panic mode. Where was Ace? Was he safe? Was he scared? Luffy had to be there for him!

"Luffy, calm down!" Midoriya shouted in the water. Tsu and Mineta landed there, too, but Luffy was out of commission if they needed help. He'd find Ace, finding Ace was all that mattered. He climbed a very tall staircase, but couldn't find Ace. he was being shot at from below, so he didn't stay still in one place.

"Ace, Ace, Ace," Luffy chanted, feeling panic grip his heart. He couldn't be away from his brother, he needed him. Huge tears fell from his eyes before he saw a huge pillar of white flame erupt near the rocky area, getting high enough to melt the ceiling and have the metal drip down. It was a way out.

If he got Ace, they could get out that way! But, they couldn't leave their friends behind. Luffy sprinted through the air and formed a slide to where his brother was. "ACE!" he screamed before falling into the fire and slamming into Ace, hugging him. They were both shaking, but the moment they were together again, the fear ebbed and the panic dissipated. They were no longer shaking, feeling complete and ready to fight.

They were surrounded by enemies, "Bombs, Luffy." Luffy nodded and they compressed flames into tiny, tiny balls before throwing them at the villains, aiming perfect as some landed in their grinning, open mouths. They all exploded from the intense burst of heat and fire. Soon he and Ace were coated in blood.

Luffy looked at his shaking hands, seeing blood. They hadn't meant for it to go that far. Ace grew sick a few feet away, and Luffy rubbed his back. There were bodies all over, and villains screamed at them in fury.

Projectile attacks came but Luffy bounced them all off of solid air shields. With the other hand Ace put both hands open and released fire, where Luffy shot the air into the flames, carrying a wind of fire in the directions he wanted, hurting and scorching the villains to keep them away. They were composed, trying to not kill anyone again.

They ran off, sensing Todoroki nearest, and found an ice covered mountain with villains frozen to the ground. Ace melted the ice with every step so he didn't slip. Luffy walked just above the surface of the solid air beneath his feet.

"What happened to you guys?" he asked, for once showing an emotion other than boredom.

Luffy said, "We made bombs. They ended up in some of the villains'... mouths. And exploded everywhere." He shuddered. Ace pat his back. "Do you know what's going on?" Ace asked Todoroki. He shook his head, saying that he was warped over there and surrounded by weak villains.

Luffy nodded, and Ace said, "They do seem pretty weak besides those three. I think we can take them, but I'd like to avoid any unwanted attention." Todoroki asked who they were talking about. Ace climbed the mountain and peeked over. "The one with the exposed brain. I don't think any of us could take it. A pro-hero maybe, but Aizawa is busy and can't fight them all."

The ice man asked how they knew it was bad. "Do you ever just look at someone and you know you don't want to go near them?" Todoroki nodded. "We're getting really bad vibes from that one. It's obviously not human, as it's brain is exposed to the outside. We should definitely avoid it."

Todorki agreed. "Should we go and try to get help? Ace made a way out."

Luffy looked up at the hole that had been made. "No, running up and over the side would bring us a lot of attention. I'm not planning on dying today. But Iida should be able to get past, he's fast enough and he'll get help much quicker than if any of us were the ones to get out and sound the alarm. Damn it, where is All Might? Gunhead would already be here," Luffy hissed.

Todoroki said, "You guys are related to Gunhead aren't you?"

Ace said, "Not by blood. Don't tell anyone." Todoroki said he wouldn't, as long as they don't tell anyone he'd be Endeavors' son. They were surprised but not shocked. They both nodded, and a secret pact was made between those three. Even Midoriya didn't know who they lived with. Well, he was keeping big secrets from them.

Ace wondered if he was okay. "Should we check on Midoriya?"

Luffy said he'd seen him land with others, so he wasn't alone. "What do we do? We can't go out and alert all of them that we're here and have taken out their forces, but I also would feel wrong to just stay and hide."

Todorki asked if they could do long distance attacks. The twins nodded. "We can mix the fire and ice into a wind burst and try to take many of them out. Or we could use that to create a steam smoke screen. Then we could get to a safer place without being seen."

Ace added, "We can guide us to the next classmate and we can help them out as well, if they need it." Luffy nodded, and the three decided it was a good plan. Luffy created a compressed ball of air that Ace filled with fire and Todoroki shoved ice inside. "Ready?" The two nodded and Luffy tossed the smoke bomb and it erupted into thick steam.

Under that cover, they ran to the next section, which was the one made of broken buildings. They made it without anybody seeing them, and were behind the wall of one of the buildings. "This way," Ace said and Todoroki followed both of them until they found Jiro's group, and Todoroki froze those that had already been taken down to keep them down.

"Are you guys okay?" Ace asked.

The four nodded, and asked what had happened to Ace and Luffy, with all the blood. "A miscalculation on our bombs. We had never tried it before. It was stronger than we'd expected," Ace confessed. The others felt for them, but said nothing. "What should we do? Should we gather everyone? I made a possible escape path."

Momo looked up. "You mean when you melted the wall and ceiling?" they nodded. "That might bring too much attention and attract the warp villain," she said. It was a good point. "But we need to get word out. Melting one entire section might throw them off and all of us can escape at the same time."

There were seven of them. Not much. "We should collect more, but they're on the other side. I don't know if we can get to them," Luffy said. "The three of us figured out how to make a smokescreen, so we'd be able to cover our exit."

Jiro said, "Maybe we could melt the wall and scatter, he won't know which of us has that power. And if he's distracted with us, he might leave the others and they can go get help." It was a good plan, and the only one they had.

Todoroki asked if that was their plan. They all nodded. The twins and Todoroki created multiple steam bombs and fired them off as Ace melted a hole in the building, the screen covering at least 60 feet around the area. The seven of them sprinted out of the building, dispersing. Luffy snuck around the bus and got inside putting on the radio and calling the school.

It picked up. "Hello?! This is Luffy from class 1-A. We've been attacked by a crowd of villains in USJ! They are attacking all of us and we need back up quickly! Their objective is All Might. Please, hurry!" he hissed.

"Roger, we'll come with help as soon as possible." Luffy dropped the receiver and sprinted away. He and Ace hid behind a bush, watching the door for anybody to come out. Suddenly the warp man was behind them.

"That wasn't very smart."

The twins instantly created a bomb and threw it into the purple, which blew up right inside, scattering the purple mass around. "Run!" Ace shouted and the two of them zipped away, Luffy on Ace's back as he left a stream of fire behind them. The presence had not returned.

Because of this, kids started flooding out of the building. "Run, everyone run!" a large group of students hurried out. Iida zipped past. "Don't go over there!" Luffy screeched. "The warp guy is there!"

Thirteen hurried over and sucked the remains into her finger until all of the purple was gone. "Everyone run as far as you can!" she ordered. The kids were hesitant but pulled one another back. Many of them had wounds or dirt on them from fighting. No villains attacked them but All Might was seen zooming past and into the building.

Kirishima stopped. "What do we do? Some of our friends are still in there!" he shouted, looking and sounding conflicted.

Ace pointed out that many of the villains had already been taken out, and that All Might was at the scene and the warp guy was out of action as well. "We might just get in his way," the freckled teen reasoned. "We're following orders, we have to run."

Krishima didn't want to leave, fists balled. He looked back at them. "Come with me. We can melt more walls down from the outside. Then everyone can leave and the villains are no longer confined and able to attack without being in the open."

"What if the whole roof collapses and crushes everyone?" Ace challenged. Luffy gave him a look. "Fine. but we're only going where the students are. We can find them. Be our guard, okay?" Kirishima nodded, and the three ran to the other side, and melted places where the students were. "Ojiro!" they shouted. "Hurry!" The tailed student ran through the opening in the wall.

They continued to the places Ace and Luffy could sense allies. They found more until a large percentage of the class was outside and scattered, helping the injured ones. "There's water on this side, we can't get in there," Luffy said.

Kirishima did a head count. Most were out. They were missing a handful. "Hopefully All Might can save those ones. If they're by the water, melting a hole would just release it all out here and flood."

"Maybe that's a good idea, if there are water villains, we could defeat them. But we should have Todoroki but he's gone somewhere else. Our fruits aren't good for containing," Luffy said, looking at the blood on him and Ace. Kirishima said that plan might not work. It might just needlessly flood the outside and make retreating harder.

"Damn it, what do we do?"

"Oi! Use me!" Kaminari said. "Open a hole in the water and I'll release electricity in it. I heard your plan." It was a good one, and Ace melted a small hole in the wall above the water. Kaminari stuck his hand in and released electricity into the water frying anyone inside. Then Ace melted the whole wall and Luffy grabbed them all at the same time and jumped onto an air step, hurrying them away from the huge flood of water.

He landed them on the bus. "Guys, run!" he shouted to other kids, who evacuated the building that was clearly no longer a building with melted bits of wall everywhere. Villains were following out, but not many, shouting at the kids to come back. But now that they were in an open place, it was easier to fight the villains, they didn't need to worry about their surroundings collapsing on them.

With the students working together, things were going well. And Luffy was crowded with people helping him make bombs. With lightning inside the compressed air, which they threw at approaching villains, acid from Ashido and nails and such from Momo.

They were making sure no one got to Luffy as he threw the bombs and blew people into the air to collapse. Nobody exploded with them, but they were out for the count. They couldn't see what was going on inside, but there were no more villains outside.

"Jiro! Jiro, come here!" Luffy called. She was hidden behind the bus. She asked what. "A sound bomb!" Kirishima yelled that it would be a great way to stun those inside. Jiro looked hesitant before she ran over. She told them to cover their ears and Luffy put his hands in a cupping motion, one above and one below, when she sent the sound of the amplifier on her leg. Luffy compressed it and the small group hurried forward where Luffy let the wave of air bring it right to the middle of the battle before it went off and everybody closed their ears.

Even the scary beast thing All Might was fighting was affected, but held its exposed brain, as if the sound hurt that more than it's ears. They formed another one that Luffy led straight to the head of the monster, which started to bleed, the blood coming from its brain. It died from the next hard punch for All Might, landing hard on the stone.

"We've taken out two of the three baddies. We have to leave the rest to All Might and Aizawa," Ashido said. "Before we're spotted." They all sprinted from the scene and out of range of USJ. Kirishima said that their teamwork was on point.

"Your compressed bombs are so helpful, Luffy. We defeated a lot of enemies with it," he said, panting as they sprinted as far as they could.

Luffy grinned a bit shyly and said that teamwork and trust can turn the tide of every situation. "I couldn't have done all of that without your help, though. Your quirks were really helpful, too. And we were lucky Ace's fire was hot enough to melt the stadium." The others nodded and finally they reached the larger group of students by the closed gate, far from USJ.

When they reached there, they explained that Jiro's sound had affected the brain monster and All Might was able to kill it. Ojiro asked how the warp guy had been captured. "Another bomb was sent in, but it was small in scale. Thirteen sucked in the remains. All that is felt is the guy with hands all over his body."

Ace and Luffy looked worried about Midoriya. They hadn't seen him inside and there were so many presences that it was hard to make out his. Especially because his was weaker than most around him, making him harder to pinpoint. "Man that was scary," Luffy said honestly.

Kaminari was surprised he'd said it outloud. "Well, everyone else is thinking that. There's nothing wrong with being scared, it has benefits, too. Unless it impacts your performance in a bad way, I guess."

The others admitted they'd been scared but once they realized they were in trouble they weren't panicking as much. A couple sat down on the grass. "I hope everyone is okay." Ashido pointed out that they'd saved twelve, and the rest were out of range for them to safely extract them. Plus, they couldn't make much noise or the villains would see them and target them since we were making escape routes.

Many of the others were keeping silent, only a handful saying anything. "Momo, can you make me a bunch of nails, I want to see something." She was surprised but gave him a handful of small nails. Luffy put them in a compressed air ball before he threw it into the space between a tree and the wall. It exploded, embedding nails in the tree and wall.

"I know what's going in one of my pockets. What else do you guys think would be helpful?" he asked, brainstorming with everyone as a distraction. Someone asked how long he could keep the balls compressed. "Until they hit a hard surface.

"You could use some of our powers to help and hide them in your pockets. That might work. And it would be teamwork, so there would be nothing wrong with using our quirks as help. I think we've all learned now helpful teamwork is," Krishima said firmly. "That's so manly!"

Iida was sort of in the corner looking ashamed. "Iida, why are you so upset?" Ashido asked. He said it was because they left some students behind, and he was class rep. He also wasn't the one to send out a distress signal like they wanted, Luffy had gotten on the bus to do that.

"We're not holding you prisoner here, you can go back. But it might bring more attention to those that didn't escape. There are multiple exits, with the sun shining through and showing they're there," Ace pointed out.

Iida was hesitant before he sprinted away. Some started mumbling if it was bad to run away or not. "You can all make that choice individually. As a group, we would bring too much attention, and the villains would realize just how many had slipped away. It's doing them more good to not alert them to the students retreating. They could possibly go even harder if they knew so," Momo explained.

"Wait! Can we wait here, for everybody?" Kirishima asked, all of the others nodding or voicing agreement. They were looked at critically for a bit before nodding and hurrying to the scene. Momo finally asked. "Luffy, Ace. Why are you covered in blood?" she asked quietly, getting everyone attention.

Ace looked down. "We were both panicking, and made bombs that were too compressed. The ones that make direct contact with the villains blew them up. We've never made bombs that compressed before, so don't worry about the ones sized as baseballs or bigger. These ones were the size of marbles. I was panicking and so my power went out of control. We didn't mean for this to happen," Luffy explained with a wobbling voice. He put his head in his hands, breathing deeply. Ace was shuddering, too. They were very disturbed.

"It was self-defense and an accident," Momo said kindly. They both said they knew that, but they'd killed people.

"Thirteen was right. Quirks can kill easily," Luffy muttered.

Ace asked, "Can anyone get the blood off?" They all looked sad, but not afraid. After all, Luffy just proved that he could use his quirk just fine and with control. But nobody had a quirk for that. They didn't have anyone who could use water in the first place. They shook their heads and Ace sighed.

Luffy asked, "Do you think Midoirya's okay?" Ace frowned and said he didn't know.

"All Might, Aizawa and Thirteen are there, not to mention the people going to help. And the scary monster thing was taken out by Jiro's sound bomb. If Midoriya wasn't hurt before they helped, he would be fine now. Probably broken some bones, though. I'm still mad at him."

Luffy nodded. The others were talking amongst themselves, so they didn't hear Ace and Luffy's conversation. "He lied to us about something big. We used to hide things from him, but not lie. Never lie. He… didn't tell us something super important but lied instead. I… don't know how to feel. We've never encountered something like this," Ace said sadly, voice full of hurt.

The younger twin curled into a ball. "It made me feel how we used to. Worthless and unwanted." Ace knew the feeling and agreed with him. "I don't want our own friend to drag us down like this. I need a break if he's not gonna tell the truth." Ace looked at him sadly and put his arm around his brother's shoulder.

"If you need a break, I do, too," he said nicely. Luffy leaned his head on his shoulder. Their outfits weren't ripped or burnt, but they were stained with blood. Washing them should get it off, though.

Uraraka went up to them, having been quiet and in the back of the group. "Are you worried about Deku?" They both nodded. "Then why aren't you going to help him?" she asked, eyebrows furrowed.

Ace looked down. "We did all we could think of. We can only hope he finds an exit. Again, bringing attention to the fact that we all escaped, meaning we defeated the villains, would make the leaders angry and go into a frenzy. If Midoriya is still in there, as long as he doesn't do something stupid, I have faith that he will make it out. Probably with some broken bones."

Uraraka said, "What if you're wrong?" She didn't sound accusing.

Luffy answered, "Then we'd regret it for the rest of our lives. But All Might has been there for at least ten minutes and Aizawa sensei is there. We took out two of the big ones, they only have the fodder and hand guy to deal with." Luffy looked up.

Uraraka looks down. "You're right. We just have to have faith in them and Deku. He had a great strategy with me in our battle." Ace and Luffy smiled, though they were tight. Of course they cared about MIdoriya's safety. But, for them, they would always choose one another first. There was no life without each other together.

It was taking too long, and they were all getting impatient. "I'm starting to think this wasn't the best plan," Ace said. "Why are they taking so long?"

Kirishima pointed out that there were still a couple missing from the group. "Should we go see the problem?" The students looked at one another. "The strategy before was pretty good. We could fight long distance with Luffy's bombs."

Uraraka said that was the best course of action. So, those who had taken part in throwing the bombs sprinted back to the building and saw that the nomu had gotten back up somehow, even though its brain was bleeding badly and it was sloppy. They'd thought for sure it was dead. It was attacking All Might and Todoroki said, "Change of plan," and iced out and up the Nomu's body, stopping it from attacking all might.

Villains around were getting up, injured and disoriented. Nobody caught the group as they were now crawling on their bellies not to be seen. They needed the pros to get here already. Plus, there were some students who hadn't made it out yet. But they were focused on helping All Might right now. Once they were at a good viewing point where awakened villains couldn't see them, they formed a plan.

"It reacted badly to sound before," Jiru said and they formed a compressed ball of sound and threw it direction into the nomu's open mouth as it made angry noises. This time, it worked well enough that they were positive it was dead. The whole head blew to pieces, covering poor Midoriya, Bakugo and All Might, who was injured. Hand guy grew confused and then furious, shaking in rage.

They hid behind the wall, not wanting to get caught and distract All Might. "We can inch around the back and aim for the hand guy. All Might seems injured," Kaminari suggested. The group of five walked quietly behind rubble and around before Ace said they were making smoke screens and would attack directly when the hand guy wasn't looking. He already had something covering one eye.

"How will you know where to go?" Jiro questioned in a whisper. Ace replied to just trust them. They made a huge ice and fire bomb that Luffy compressed tightly. They counted down from three and smashed the ball in between them and the remaining enemy. The brother dashed forward, and didn't use their quirks, but broke his arm and restrained him, flipping him over their shoulder and slamming into the ground.

Luffy and Ace knew the steam was dissipated and dashed back out without being seen. But, somehow the portal guy was there, not in front of them, but beside the hand guy who was furious. The small group slowly made their way out of the stadium and around the other side to another hole, hiding there as well. "We caught that guy. Did he escape Thirteen's black hole?" But they got the nomu, which was the most important at that moment. With the hand guy injured and the nomu gone, he was on the defense, seeming hesitant and uneasy. Everyone stayed where they were, not making a sound.

They were about to attempt another throw before the heroes arrived, finally, and All Might was frozen in place, his strength depleted, Ace and Luffy could tell. So, the hand guy was shot by Snipe, injuring him from a distance. The kids stayed still and silent, only hearing the one sided battles.

Thirteen started to suck in the warp guy once again, but they left too soon for her to get much.

They all sighed in relief and gave each other high fives. "Our teamwork is awesome," Kaminari said brightly.

"Children, Come out," All Might said. Bakugo and Midoriya were there, panting from fighting themselves, with brute force and no real plan. Their plan had all been formed together, not just one of them. "What were you doing?"

Ace explained, "We created bombs of sound and other substances and threw them. One of the sound ones landed in the nomu's mouth and blew it up." They were asked about the attack on the hand guy, whose name they didn't know yet. "Using Todoroki's ice and my fire, we created a steam bomb. Then me and Luffy attacked when he couldn't see us through the haze."

Luffy grumbled that they thought Thirteen had captured the warp one. "You are very smart to have stayed unseen and were a sudden distraction. I commend you on your strategy." Then he turned to Bakugo and Midoriya. "I commend your bravery, but it was reckless, young Midoriya and Bakugo. I don't want you doing something like this again."

As he scolded and complemented them, the other teachers and pro-heroes arrived, finally, and took down the villain fodder easily.

Bakugo hissed and Midoriya saddened. He looked to Ace and Luffy, who turned around with the other students and they headed back to the others. The building was severely damaged by the melted walls, the ceiling starting to collapse on those areas.

Once nobody was inside, the building had the ceiling collapse where people had been burying the fallen bodies of the villains. And Ace and Luffy were still covered in blood, even if it was mixed with sweat on their faces. They headed to the gate where only those who had not been left further away for safety. Only a handful of them. The pro-heroes had gotten past the group though, so they knew they were all safe.

"Young Ace, Luffy, please come here." They heard All Might say. They approached, not sure what he'd say. Aizawa was being treated and All Might had to go, but he said he needed to tell them something. "How did you get the blood on yourselves?"

They looked down, balling their fists. "We were messy and scared for a minute, and Luffy's bombs were too small and aimed too accurately. They-the villains exploded. One even got in a mouth and she exploded all over us," Ace said with tears. "W-we didn't mean to, it was an accident. We're sorry."

All Might took both of them into a hug. "You did not kill them because you wished to. You have a conscience. I know how hard this must be for you since you are both against destruction and causing pain. Do you best to learn from this, and move on, knowing you will work to never have something like this happen again.

"I am proud that you saved your fellow classmates and then helped turn the battle from a distance. Your teamwork is commendable and I am proud of it. I will tell the pro-heroes this story so you don't need to. You have each other, and both of you are safe and alive," All Might said kindly. They both nodded and walked back with the other students to wait.

They wiped their tears away, shoving aside their pain and guilt. They weren't monsters, they felt terrible about it. And they didn't do it on purpose, it was self defense. They held hands tightly. Then they saw Midoriya waiting for them in a more secluded corner. They dropped their expressions, and held each other's hands tightly.

"Ace, Luffy, I… I don't want to lie to you, or keep things for you. I want to tell you, so bad. You never lie to me. I can't tell you about my quirk situation. It's not up to me, I've been told not to say a thing to anyone. Including my best friends. Please believe me, I want to tell you. I've asked them if I can tell you and they said no," Midoriya explained, eyes wide in desperation.

Ace thought for a minute while Luffy looked at the ground awkwardly. Then Ace looked at him with challenging eyes. "You got that quirk from All Might didn't you?" Midoriya's face went white. He stuttered out a "h-how?"

Luffy knew what Ace was saying was right as everything suddenly clicked. "Quirks have never manifested so late in someone. You seem to be All Might's favorite. His presence grows weaker every day as yours grows at the same pace. You both have super strength, and your moves' names are the same," Ace listed. Then his face softened. "You know we wouldn't have said a thing, right?" he asked quietly.

Midoriya nodded, and wiped his tears. "I'm so glad someone else knows," he cried. "I couldn't even tell my mom. I'm sorry I lied, please forgive me," he blubbered. Ace and Luffy hugged him and promised they wouldn't say a thing to anybody. Luffy asked if All Might would be mad if he knew they knew.

The most timid of the bunch said, "We've been in contact for a bit, so he knows how much I trust and treasure you. And I wasn't the one to say it, you guys figured it out. I wish I was as smart as you." Then he smiled. "I'm sorry that I made you guys so upset. I could see it on your faces, and you guys held hands. You always do that when you're feeling strong emotions. I'm sorry I did that to you."

Ace and Luffy were swarmed by students, pushing Midoriya a bit out of the way. They gushed about Ace getting everyone out and them all working together as a team to help the others. And about how they helped with All Might's battle. Bakugo was pissy with this, growling out that he had helped fight with All Might and they just barged in.

"Well, nobody was taking out the nomu," Jiro pointed out. "The sound bomb had worked before, so we just tossed in into its mouth to kill it that way. It was common sense to form a plan before acting recklessly," she said bluntly, pissing Bakugo off and telling them to shut up.

The police came over and said that they should return to their classes, and informed them that the teachers were all alive, but that Aizawa was in serious condition with many injuries. All Might and Thirteen would heal. But none of the students were severely injured but for some light scratches.

They went into the busses and back to the school, all of them pretty quiet. "My parents are going to be so worried," Uraraka said, breaking the silence. Most agreed with her, that theirs would worry and maybe doubt U.A. Ace and Luffy knew Gunhead would be freaking out but would still trust U.A. and let them continue going there.

The two were right and were there to pick them up immediately after school got out. They climbed into the back seat. "We aren't injured at all," Ace said quickly.

"What the hell happened?!" Gunhead demanded, still parked so he would be able to focus on driving safely after knowing everything was fine. They explained the situation, from the beginning of the day to then.

"We… we killed people," Luffy confessed. "It was an accident, the bombs were too compressed and too close. There… was blood all over us," he whispered. Gunhead turned around, and took both of their hands.

"Then do your best to never let that happen again. Determine and hone your powers so it isn't easy to slip up. Ace can control his flames' temperature to not burn certain things. I don't know if your new bombs will work like that, but learning to keep their intensity low or high is important. And I am proud of your teamwork. Heroes need to work together, not just you two working together," he said firmly but kindly.

Ace asked if they would go to jail for it. "Don't worry about that. The circumstances were abnormal. Using your abilities to keep safe and protect one another were important. And going back, while it might be looked down upon by officials, nobody but the nomu were very injured by your powers. You and your friends had control and used it to your advantage. I am proud."

They both smiled small smiles. They wouldn't tell him about Midoriya's secret. It would stay between the four of them. The two brothers, their friend and their teacher. He had redeemed himself in their eyes from when he let their friend get very injured. Still not as much as Gunhead, but that was to be expected. Gunhead saved them in a way no other hero could. So of course he was their favorite and inspiration.

They had a feast that night, though the brothers didn't eat too enthusiastically. They were still upset, but were trying to move on. It was self defense, those people were aiming to kill them. They didn't like that they'd killed, so they didn't feel like monsters.

If they had been happy or didn't care, then they would be monsters with no conscience.