Hi guys! I just wanted to say that I hope you guys enjoy this story and to please review it, thank you ;D Enjoy! Also, I put a superhero reference in this story, see if you can find it :D
It was the same time every week. A hero-in-training that goes by the name of Fukimage Tokoyami would disappear for hours at a time for no apparent reason. The teachers seemed to know what happened, because they never tried to stop him. Tokoyami tried to leave out of completely random times in order to not form a pattern.
Izuku began to notice the disappearances quickly and couldn't help but question Tokoyami's motives.
Izuku asked many people if they knew what was wrong with Tokoyami, but they all had the same answer for him.
"I have no idea, but I don't want to ask in case it's personal."
The only person who had a different answer was Bakugo.
"That egg-head? He's probably standing on a gargoyle on top of a building being depressed."
Asides from those two things, Izuku had no other information about the mysterious jet-black hero.
Until the fatal day of sparring practice, when Tokoyami finally cracked…
"Good morning, students," Mr. Aizawa greeted in his normally depressed voice, "Today we'll be doing an exercise that requires you to fight off multiple people at once. Heroes get ambushed all the time, like at USJ. This will hopefully help you think and act faster."
The class looked at each other nervously.
"Don't worry. All of you should make it out easily…" He said as everyone sighed in relief, "Alive…"
"Oh gosh!" Izuku thought as everyone began to prepare for the exercise.
Outside in the nearby forest…
Everyone stood outside anxiously. Well, almost everyone. Todoroki and Tokoyami were standing like an emotionless block of wood. Bakugo was excited at the thought of taking on his classmates during the exercise. He was silently hoping to fight Izuku, Todoroki, or even Mineta.
"Okay," Mr. Aizawa said, "The 5 groups will be the following. Kirishima, Mineta, Ojiro, and Ashido."
The four teens gathered as Mina and Kirishima high fived.
"Iida, Sato, Yaoyorozu, and Todoroki."
Iida started yelling for his teammates to group up, which they did immediately.
"Kaminari, Uraraka, Kyoka, and Sero."
Jiro had a look of annoyance as Sero and Kaminari did a little handshake.
"Asui, Hagakure, Shoji, and Aoyama."
"Lucky you!" Aoyama said, "You were grouped with moi,"
Shoji gave Aoyama a high five as Tsu giggled.
"The last group is Koda, Bakugo, Midoriya, and Tokoyami."
Bakugo growled at the sound of Izuku's name. Koda began to tremble a little but calmed down once Tokoyami and Izuku gave him encouraging smiles.
"Kirishima, Todoroki, Kyoka, Asui, and Tokoyami will be ambushed by the other three in their group. The goal is ward off your opponents for seven minutes. If you succeed in doing so, you'll get extra credit. If you don't succeed, the other members of your group will get the extra credit. Do you guys understand?"
The whole class nodded as Mr. Aizawa glanced at Izuku's group.
"Tokoyami, your group will go first. Tokoyami must stay here and close his eyes while the others hide somewhere around here. No cheating Shadow."
Dark Shadow laughed mischievously as the rest of the class walked onto a higher part of the area.
It was only a few minutes until Tokoyami began the exercise, he only took few steps on the assigned path before he felt six squirrels crawl up his leg. He yelped as Dark Shadow tried to grab the squirrels and pull them off, but more kept coming.
"Koda had a good thing going," Tokoyami thought as he noticed Koda behind a tree and ran towards him, "But I'm afraid it has to end here,"
Izuku then tried to tackle Tokoyami from behind but was stopped by Dark Shadow.
"Shadow! Restrain him!" Tokoyami yelled as Dark Shadow grabbed Izuku and threw him into a bush.
"You won't get me so easily, Midoryia," Tokoyami said with a smile as Bakugo came for Tokoyami.
"Come on, Egg-head!" Bakugo yelled, "Give it all you got!"
The squirrels began to back down when they saw Bakugo's explosives. The squirrels all ran to Koda, who immediately attempted to calm them down.
Izuku, on the other hand, was easily recovering. However, he decided to hold back to see what damage Bakugo was going to inflict before he did anything.
"What are you waiting for? Fight me like a man!" Bakugo yelled again as Tokoyami was silently strategizing.
"He can easily take me down if I take too much risks," Tokoyami thought as Izuku punched Tokoyami.
This punch however, released something from the inside of Tokoyami's cloak. The small object was a keychain of some kind. It was the cross keychain that Kirishima found in Tokoyami's room during the room presentations, and it flew right next to Bakugo.
"Tokoyami?" Izuku said as Tokoyami let out a gasp of fear.
"What's this?" Bakugo asked as he picked up the keychain.
"Don't you dare touch that!" Tokoyami yelled as he pushed Izuku off him.
"This is one of your stupid keychain things, huh?"
"Drop it, Bakugo! Please, just leave it alone!"
Izuku noticed Tokoyami beginning to tear up. Something was wrong.
"Kacchan please!" Izuku added, "Give it back to Tokoyami."
With a sneer, Bakugo placed the keychain in his hand and blew it up mercilessly.
The whole forest seemed to go silent. Koda and Izuku stood in shock as they watched the scene before them. Bakugo dropped the ashes and laughed.
"Ha! Maybe that old thing was slowing you down!" Bakugo said as Tokoyami clenched his fists.
"How could you?" Tokoyami cried as he ran toward Bakugo and punched him in the jaw.
Bakugo then grabbed Tokoyami and used his explosions to blast Tokoyami into a tree. Tokoyami commanded Dark Shadow to attack Bakugo from behind.
"I thought Shadow was afraid of the light!" Izuku thought as Dark Shadow shoved Bakugo into the ground.
"Tokoyami! He's going to use the explosions!" Dark Shadow exclaimed as he hid behind Tokoyami.
"You don't have to worry, Shadow," Tokoyami said, "I'll take him on without you if needed."
"Tokoyami! Stop!" Izuku yelled as he tried to punch him.
Tokoyami whipped around and gave Izuku a powerful kick to his ribs, which sent Izuku flying a few yards away and crashing into Koda.
"Guess that bird brain of his is dumber than I thought," Bakugo muttered as he ran towards Tokoyami again.
"That's enough!" Mr. Aizawa said as he caught Bakugo and Tokoyami in his scarf right before they clashed once more.
"I don't know what happened, but you both need to quit your ranting!" Mr. Aizawa said as Tokoyami cried out during his struggle with the scarf.
"Let me get him, Sensei!" Tokoyami said, "He destroyed the keychain! The one thing that meant everything to me! I'll fight him without a quirk! Just let me go!"
Tokoyami was crying at this point. His struggles were getting weaker until he finally broke down, and Mr. Aizawa dropped the two.
Tokoyami fell to his knees, clasping the keychain's ashes. Shoji tried to comfort him, but Tokoyami just pushed him away and stumbled back toward the school.
"Go to recovery girl, Tokoyami," Mr. Aizawa said as Tokoyami passed by him.
The class was dead silent after what just happened. The calm and collected Tokoyami just went berserk all over a keychain.
As the remaining groups fought, Izuku sat in silence with Koda.
"Do you know what happened back there?" Izuku asked Koda.
"T-to be honest, I d-don't know," Koda replied, "However, I do know that the k-keychain that Bakugo destroyed was very important t-to Tokoyami. We were talking about prized possessions a while ago, and he p-pulled that very keychain out of his c-cloak. He said it was a g-good luck charm."
"Is that really all it was?"
"I know it wasn't, b-but I'd rather not get into his p-personal business."
"I feel like we should go talk to him, he's been quiet and seemingly sad for the last few days."
Koda simply nodded in agreement as he turned towards Shoji, who just came back from his battle with Asui. Shoji walked towards them and sat next to Koda.
"Shoji, did you know what was going on with Tokoyami?" Izuku asked as Shoji simply shook his head no.
"I've asked him once, but he turned away and seemed to get a little emotional about it, so I changed the subject," Shoji said.
If there's one thing Izuku knew about Tokoyami, it's that no one ever described him as emotional. He's always quiet and only speaks when addressed to or when it seemed necessary. That keychain must've been really important if Tokoyami cried over its destruction.
It wasn't long before Mr. Aizawa told everyone to go back to the school. Everyone except Izuku, Shoji, Iida, Koda, and Uraraka seemed to act as if nothing happened as they walked back.
The dorms, 7:30 pm…
The dorms were sort of chaotic as usual. Bakugo and Kirishima were in a heated argument about whether pancakes or waffles are better. Mina, Yaoyorozu, Tsu, Jiro, and Hagakure were all laughing about a meme they found on the internet. Mineta was on the couch silently wishing he could hang out with the girls. Aoyama, Ojiro, and Sato were in the kitchen trying to make French pastry. Koda, Shoji, Uraraka, Izuku, and Iida were all in Izuku's room trying to figure out Tokoyami's keychain situation.
"Let me get this straight," Iida said as he sat on Izuku's desk chair, "Tokoyami's keychain was destroyed in the middle of the fight, which caused him to go all out on Bakugo?"
"From what we know, yes," Izuku replied, "But I don't know what that keychain meant to him."
"It could link to his mysterious disappearances every month," Uraraka added.
"You guys might be on to something," Shoji said as he fiddled with one of Izuku's action figures, "Tokoyami, like Koda and I, hardly talk about our feelings with anyone."
"I've tried multiple times to get him to open up, but he doesn't say anything," Izuku added as he began to get a little teary-eyed.
"It makes me question what he's been bottling up inside," Iida said.
"Has anyone seen him after class?" Uraraka asked as she tried to calm Izuku down.
Koda nodded and began to use his hand movements.
"I saw him walk to his dorm when I went to get a snack earlier," Koda signaled, "He was walking towards his room and I saw him holding the keychain's ashes in a jar. I assumed Recovery Girl made that for him. I'm surprised if the teachers knew about Tokoyami's problem."
As time slipped away, everyone started to head to bed one by one. It wasn't until Izuku was the only one in his room kept awake by his thoughts that he thought that there was something they were overlooking.
He didn't have much time to think, because he heard a small scratch on his wall. It sounded like it was coming from the hallway.
Izuku nervously opened his door to reveal the dark hallway. He couldn't see anything, except a small light emerging from downstairs. Izuku quickly slipped on a sweater and jeans and followed the mysterious light.
Izuku followed the light outside the school, which was very unusual.
"It has to be a student," Izuku thought, "Who else would be up this late?"
Izuku was nervous at first about being out at 9 o'clock, but this could be something dangerous to the school, or worse.
The moon was shining softly among the campus. One ray seemed to go astray as it drifted toward an opening in the forest. It didn't seem natural but seemed as if someone had forced the bushes out of the way in order to get through.
"Was someone trying to get in, or get out?" Izuku thought as he began to mutter to himself.
The mysterious light disappeared, and Izuku looked around in confusion. Suddenly, a small crack was heard. Izuku gasped in fear and stood in a fighting pose in case things got ugly.
"Shoot," A voice said as Izuku slowly went through the forest's opening in hope of finding the source of the voice.
As Izuku treaded through the dark forest, he heard rustling up ahead.
"That must be the other end," Izuku thought as he continued to follow the small cracks and rustles.
It wasn't long until Izuku could see the moon's light at the end of the path. A cloaked figure suddenly climbed over the wall silently and quickly. He seemed to stretch his arms and pull himself up.
"That's it!" Izuku thought, "A stretchy-armed villain was trying to break into the school! I could probably catch him if I run."
Izuku ran up to the wall and suddenly jumped over it using One for All. As he was up in the air, he caught sight of the running figure. But Izuku didn't catch sight of the tree he was about to hit.
Izuku landed with a smack on a couple branches and fell to the ground. He surprisingly wasn't knocked unconscious, and somehow only got a cut or two instead of a concussion.
Izuku managed to pick himself up and continue to follow the figure, who at this point was pretty far ahead.
After a while, it felt as if Izuku had been running for hours, and his legs have basically gone numb from it all. The figure also showed no signs of giving up either. They were still ahead and showed no signs of slowing down. Suddenly, a huge storm hit them both out of nowhere.
The rain fell like hard rocks on Izuku as he tried to shield himself. The lightning was constantly striking left and right with no signs of stopping. The clouds were dark and foggy, making it almost impossible to see.
The figure seemed to have been in this predicament before, because they supposedly got through the storm with no trouble at all.
Izuku winced at the constant rain and was fighting to keep his eyes open. He kept running straight hoping to end up somewhere away from the storm. As he ran, the storm became stronger with each raindrop that fell.
Pain surged through Izuku's body as his ears rung from the thunder and his eyes were blinded by the lightning. He kept pushing through. Izuku fought the urge to collapse, but he didn't give in. With one final yell of determination, Izuku ended up on the other side of the storm. It didn't take long before Izuku knew he wasn't on the other side of the storm, but in the eye of it.
As Izuku steadied himself, he looked up and was completely speechless at what lied ahead.
I know, why did you put a cliffhanger on this? I was considering making this a one shot, but I realized that this was better as a multi-chapter story. I'm sorry if the story seems rushed, please don't flame me. I'm also planning to write a few stories about my favorite villain, Spinner! Anyway, Beast boy and the Indoraptor are Beast mode! I'll be back.