"Are you ready?" Tomura asked, linking his pinkie with hers as a precaution.
She nodded but she felt like she wanted to vomit.
I'm not ready.
She pulled her hand away. She just couldn't look at him.
"It's going to be ok."
Ochako nodded again and placed her fingers together. She touched Tomura and he started to float towards the ceiling. She placed her fingers together again and touched her body. He pushed on the ceiling tile and moved it to the side carefully. He slipped up and helped Ochako through. She looked paler than normal.
"Are you ok?"
She shook her head.
"Things are going to be ok. We can do this ok?"
She nodded stiffly.
She's panicking.
"Look at me."
Ochako looked him in the eyes. Her brown eyes looked like they had darkened to almost black. He waved his hand in her face and she was slow to react.
"What's wrong?"
"I..."
After a moment of staring at each other, she smiled.
"I'm ok. Let's keep going."
The two of them pulled themselves forward. Once they hit a wall, Tomura listened to the tile closely and lifted the tile slowly. No one seemed to be around. Tomura replaced the tile and looked at the wall. It was hard to tell if it was metal or wood. Ochako pulled herself up beside of him to feel the wall.
"Wood," she whispered.
"I think some of it is and some isn't. It feels cooler going up and down in some places."
Ochako pushed on the wall some and it creaked. She looked panicked slightly but Tomura nodded for her to keep going.
She swallowed hard and continued to do it. It creaked and groaned under the force she exerted but some part of her was afraid the other villains would hear and they would come running. So much could go wrong without warning and it would be all her fault... again. Knowing this all rested on her and that she couldn't make a single false move.
Oh no. Oh god- OH NO.
She stopped, grabbing at her chest and her shirt.
The amount of panic going through her now was weird. Wrong. Ochako Uraraka had panicked before but she never showed it and here she was having a full blown panic attack in front of her practically a villain boyfriend. The way her heart reacted didn't feel right. Everything started to look clear and dull at the same time.
She didn't hear Tomura whispering her name or the fact he was waving both hands in her face. Ochako was lost somewhere else. The crushing reality came down at full force. The world was going to know she betrayed them. The world would know she allowed a villain paw at her naked body. Not one- two villains.
She would no longer be a hero... or is that what she wanted anymore? Ochako's body was addicted to drugs- how would it be to wean herself off of it or would she be stuck craving it and suffering the side effects forever? Could she really fight All for One by herself with Tomura Shigaraki by her side or would she end up standing alone? All the thoughts she told him to ignore was now weighting heavy on her mind now at the very worst time.
"You gotta breathe!" he hissed as her face started to rapidly lose color, "We're almost there- don't die on me now!"
It didn't seem like anything he did was getting through to her but she let out a shaky breath. Tomura pinched her arm and she yelped. She stared at him for a moment as tears filled her eyes.
"I'm sorry! You just have to focus! You're scaring me!"
Her lips parted like she was going to say something but no sound came out.
"I don't care about myself but I want you to get out. As long as you make it out, nothing else matters," Tomura said, "I can take whatever he does to me but I don't think I can bare what he could do to you- what he will do."
"Don't-
"It's true. One day I will do horrible things and the world will never forgive me for it. I've already done horrible, unforgivable things, It's almost guaranteed but if you die... the world and your friends will suffer more. Don't think about it right now... just move."
He pulled her forward.
"We can push together. We have to do this. You told me to ignore it all. You have to do it right now. Ignore the things that can go wrong and move forward."
She nodded still looking spaced out.
"Go."
The two of them together pushed against the wood and the board snapped in several places. They stayed still for a few minutes listening. No sounds of running footsteps.
"Let's go."
Tomura let Ochako go first then he crawled through second. The wood scraped against his stomach and legs.
"That looks like the end of the ship," she whispered.
Tomura pulled himself closer. He ran his finger against it.
"Yea, it seems to be."
"What do we do now?" she asked.
"Move the tile, locate the door and hit the next floor. It's weird that the whole floor looks so small."
"Yea, I know."
The two of them stayed quiet as Tomura lifted the tile and looked around.
"It looks like a closet."
"So... we should break down the door and find the stairs?"
"I don't want to risk that..." the villain said quietly.
"Take out the next set of boards and keep going until we find a window."
He nodded.
"I agree."
Tomura had no idea how long they were crawling around. He had begun to wonder why no chaos had ensured yet... Unless Overhaul had decided to let them suffer. He had looked over at Ochako a few times seeing she started to look a little pale. Her quirk had to have a time limit and the fact she could keep it up for a while meant she was really trying and pushing or the drugs had affected her DNA so much she couldn't handle it.
"Do you need a break?" he whispered.
"Y-yea..."
The two of them laid on the beam without any word. It seemed Ochako looked exhausted and she was dozing off some. Once the color returned to her face, he touched her arm with his finger. He was afraid his quirk could back at any time but it was hard to tell. It would be a lot more helpful if it did... they wouldn't have to push through wooden boards carefully.
"Hey..."
She looked at him with her sleepy brown eyes. His heart did a little back flip.
"Yes?"
"Let's go."
She didn't say anything as she got up.
"Can you use your quirk?"
"I... I don't know. I don't feel tired. I feel like I chugged a energy drink but I feel like I want to sleep?"
"Hm."
"I can go..."
She lifted herself the best she could in the small space. The beams around them all creaked at once making them both jump. Neither one of them dared to move. It seemed like it took eternity but there was no sound coming from anywhere.
"Go?" Ochako whispered.
He nodded and they headed for the boards to the left. They broke through them, crawled through and tried to make a move when they heard shouting. Ochako froze immediately. She looked panicked and she had every right to be. It was hard to say what would happen now. They couldn't just drop through the ceiling like they had planned too.
"I guess we have to use plan b..."
X
X
Where could he be?
Katsuki sighed.
No one had seen Izuku Midoriya for about a week now and it was hard to say where he was. His own mother didn't either but she didn't show much concern. Apparently when he was super upset and a wreck, he took off. It was hard to say where he was and Katsuki didn't know him that well apparently.
No matter how much time he had spent with him since their third year in UA, he still didn't know Deku.
The green haired nerd was so simple but so elusive at the same time. He seemed so forward but there was so much he didn't know about. There was so much he learned just from living with him it was ridiclous. It was like he never knew him at all. He was too kind hearted but he definitely was an asshole when he wanted to be.
Stupid nerd. Where is he?
He ran a hand through his spikey blond hair. He stared at the cars that went by.
I did mess up but there's no fixing it now. I blamed him for something that was beyond our control. I blamed him for a lot more than just that. The fact he even gave up on her when he found out how I felt. He is a better person than I am.
Katsuki hadn't went back home. He was afraid Shouto might actually burn him to death if he showed back on their door step. He didn't even want to go home to his parents' house either. There was a good chance Inko said something to his mom and he didn't want to face that wrath either. There was no where to return too until he found Izuku.
Maybe I should just give up the whole hero thing. I'm not even halfway decent.
He spent hours sitting on the bench close to the bus stop. Katsuki watched as people got on and off the bus but no one he recognized... which he was glad for. He didn't want to talk to anyone. He didn't want to think either. He just felt numb on the inside. He was losing people he cared about. It was possible Ochako would never come back... Would she want to come back?
"Kacchan?"
Ground Zero jumped, almost falling off the black metal bench.
"You- you! You asshole!"
Izuku smirked then his face melted away revealing Himiko Toga.
"You bitch!" he snapped.
"Your friend is fine."
Katsuki stood there frozen.
"He's... he's with you?"
"Yup."
"Why?"
She tilted her head to the side and that smile she always wore, faded off.
"He needed someone to talk too. Someone who could be more real than a bunch of heroes."
Katsuki grinded his teeth but didn't say anything.
"We have cameras and people. They said you've been lurking around. I suppose you've been looking for him huh?"
He nodded.
"You want to go with me?"
The hero nodded again.
"You will respect him and his space. He's been down in the dumps pretty bad. You don't need to make it worse.
"You don't have to fucking tell me. I already know."
The walk to their hideout was long and tiresome. They went a completely different way than the last time and it seemed to be in a different place. It could've been a quirk in effect but he would rather not ask about it. His head had been spinning looking for his childhood friend... wondering where the only woman who captured his heart was at.
It hurt. Everything hurt. He didn't want anyone else but Ochako Uraraka.
What did I do? I messed everything up. There had to be something I could've done to keep her from getting kidnapped. I should've been a better friend... but I wasn't. I've been fucking terrible. No wonder Shouto looked like he hated me.
"We're here."
Katsuki looked mildly surprised.
"Be nice. I know how you are."
He rolled his eyes.
Himiko let him in first and she followed behind, closing the door. Dabi, Spinner and Saiko just looked up from their spot on their couch. The three of them were eating ramen out of a cup watching TV. Katsuki didn't acknowledge any of them as he stood by the bar waiting. She disappeared through the doorway into the hall.
She could be fucking with me.
Not even a moment later, she returned alone.
"He's asleep."
"Oh."
"Hang out here and wait. He had a headache earlier and I gave him some medicine."
Katsuki sat right down and waited. A few hours went by and only sat there. He didn't text Shouto because he wanted to make sure Izuku was really there. Who knew what they had planned with him there. They could capture him like they did years ago. It was hard to tell what their game was... it couldn't just be wanting to save their crusty looking boss.
"Why are you here?"
Katsuki looked up. Izuku's hair was messed up and his eyes looked red.
"I've been looking for you."
"Why?" Izuku asked coldly.
"Icyhot won't let me come home. You'll look bad being here with them if someone catches you."
"Why the hell would you suddenly care about me?" he asked looking annoyed,
"I was wrong."
Everyone turned around to stare at the famous Ground Zero.
"O-oh."
No had expected that.
"I messed up... blaming you for things that were beyond our control. Things that shouldn't come between us. You're one of my best friends. It was wrong of me to blame you for all the other stuff."
Izuku smiled softly.
"I know it's hard for you."
Katsuki said nothing.
"SO CUTE!" Himiko cried with a big grin on her face.
"Ugh."
After a few minutes of silence, the blonde hero sighed.
"You wanna go home?"
Izuku nodded, "Sure."