Back at the villain hideout, all the villains surrounded Bakugou with Tomura trying to get him to join the League of Villains. Dabi honestly wasn't that interested in the conversation that was happening. He just couldn't get Shouto's face out of his mind. Just before disappearing behind the warp, Dabi was able to get a good glimpse of Shouto's features. Just as he heard, Shouto's hair was neatly split, white on the right and red on the left, despite the situation in which they met. He remembered seeing Shouto's turquoise and grey eyes staring daggers at him as he vanished behind the warp. Thinking back, how did the young boy receive such a horrible scar? From training? From a villain attack? Or from the so called 'pro hero' Endeavor who was the young hero's father? Just the thought of Endeavor made his blood boil.
The sound of someone knocking on the door of their secret hideout come bar shocked him out of his thought process. The whole room's attention turned to the door at the unexpected visitor. The sound of the pizza man announcing his presence stunned the villains even more. Just as Twice tilted his head in confusion, a "SMASH" could be heard as the door flew off its hinges. The villains were taken aback by the sudden attack and presence of the heroes. With everyone's attention on All Might who suddenly appeared through the door, the villains were unprepared for Kamui Woods who used his quirk to break through the windows.
In this state of chaos and confusion, the villains were a huge mess. Before anyone was able to anything, something similar to tree trunks held them in place. Just as Dabi was about to counter the attack with his flames, he felt something hit the back of his head. His vision started swimming and he noticed some of this colleges shouting out his name. The last thing he noticed before darkness eloped his mind was the warp being taken out as well. And everything became black.
The next moment when he regained consciousness, he heard his colleges yelling for the long range attackers which were him and the warp. Still on the ground, Dabi opened his eye and realised that they were no longer at their hideout but at some scarce land. At one end, All for One was fighting all might while at the other there was a string of explosions and a cold breeze? Dabi tried to gather his strength to stand up but his arms and legs failed him. He turned to the direction of the string of explosions and squinted his eyes to get a closer view of what was happening. There was someone blasting away towards the direction of 3 others, a green haired male, a bespectacled male and someone with red and white hair. At that moment, he realised that the last male he noticed was non other than Shouto. 'Ah they must have come to recuse the noisy explosion guy'.
Although Dabi knew that he had to stick to the plan and not let Bakugou escape. He was most than happy to let the foul mouthed youth go. Moreover, he was in no state to stop them with his vision still blurry. Letting them escape meant that the other villains won't be able to have a go at his target. His blurry vision and spinning head were now getting the better of him making him feel abut nauseous with all the explosions go off around him. Before he lost consciousness for the second time that day, one last thought floated through his head: 'Run Shouto, run as far as you can, I'll meet you soon...' With that last thought, Dabi fell back into unconsciousness. But if you looked closely, was he smiling?
When he next awoke, he was in an unfamiliar room. As he slowly got up to his feet, his vision still swam a little while he slowly tried to adjust to the new room. In the direction of the door, muffled voices flooded into the room. It was most likely the voices of his so called team mates. Once he felt that he was stable on his own 2 feet without having to rely on anything else to prop him up, he opened the door and walked out.
"Dabi, you're finally awake." Shigaraki Tomura turned towards the sound of the opening door and mentioned nonchalantly. While the others only exchanged a few words with him, it wasn't long before he realised that there was someone else in the room. Someone he had never heard of. However, that someone's aura was so strong that that the moment he said his first word 'villains', the whole room fell into silence and everyone's attention was immediately on that man.
The man looked to be around middle aged but then again it was hard to deduce his actual age due to the lack of features on his face. Linking everything in his head, Dabi came to the conclusion that that man was their 'boss' also known as All for One. Dabi had heard about him countless times from Shigaraki but this was his first time meeting him in person. Apart from his quirk and his position in the league of villains, the lack of information about this man made Dabi feel uncomfortable and somewhat inferior although he would never admit to feeling so.
"Villains, our latest plan to capture Bakugou Katsuki and make him an ally of ours has gone to vain. However, do not fret. There are many opportunities where we can still get the heroes back at their own game. The next time we strike would be the perfect time as their beloved symbol of justice has fallen. But, we cannot underestimate the students, they are more dangerous then we thought. Especially Midoriya Izuku, Bakugou Katsuki and Todoroki Shouto. For our next plan to work out, we firstly need to improve ourselves to be better than the heroes and to eliminate anyone who stands on our way of reaching our goals. I'll be gathering more members to help us. In the meantime, improve yourselves and if you feel the necessity, get rid of any students who stand in our way. Shigaraki, I'll leave the students to you and your team. You can do whatever you please with them."
At the end of his speech, a visible grin could be seen on both All for One's face as well as Shigaraki Tomura's. In Dabi's mind, everything was still a huge mess. What exactly happened after he lost consciousness. There was this huge void in his memory that he needed to fill as soon as possible. Seeing that they were dismissed, Dabi wanted to get a little more rest before he began training. Just as he was about to re-enter the room where he was resting before, Shigaraki Tomura called him aside, saying that he wanted to talk to Dabi.
"Dabi, this incident was a huge failure because you and the warp were taken out even before the fight began. Despicable. For you to redeem yourself, I have a task for you. Of course the warp has his own task to redeem himself. But for you, your next mission is to get rid of Todoroki Shouto once and for all.
Hey guys, I'm really sorry to say this but I'll be taking a hiatus. I'll still try to update whenever I can but if I'm unable to, I'll see you guys at the end of the year.