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Izuku was string at the ceiling, tears filling her eyes. She had been informed of everything that had happened after she passed out crying in the forest. Her bones were healed, but she was still healing from the massive burns to her chest and the bruising she had on her arms and legs.
She had heard the Ambulance and fire rescue had arrived 15 min after the villains had left, out of all 40 of her classmates, 15 hd passed out from the gas quirk, and were in a critical state...
11 had injuries ranging from minor to severe...
One was missing...
She felt her tears fall down her cheeks, and sobbed.
Our of the professional heroes, Pixie-bob had a horrible head injury and was still in critical condition, and Ragdoll had left behind a heavy trail of blood, but she was missing...
She had a bit of solace that some of the villains had been captured, but none of them were talking... the others ones had vanished with out a trace... With her Katsuki...
She had been stuck in her hospital bed for two days, drifting in and out of consciousness from the pain of her injuries... Two days.
She was laying here in bed, while Katsuki was missing.
Her tears fell down her cheeks as she pushed herself up with force, ignoring the pain in her chest and arms. She sobbed, looking over at a bow of apples her mother must have left her, with a note beside it asking Izuku to call her.
"Can't..." she groaned out, as she sung her legs off the bed. It had been too long, she needed to go find him... She grabbed the edge of the bed with her right hand, and saw the ring was still on her finger. She bit back her sadness, and pushed herself up of the bed, "Kacchan... Have to... Find him..." she cried out, her tears hitting the floor before she crumbled to her knees. She was weak from being in bed, she was weak because of the burns and medication... No... She was weak before that... She let those villains take him from her fingers...
"Kacchan...!" She cried out, her tears pouring down her cheeks as she tried to pull herself up. "Kacchan... Kacchan... Where are you...?" She sobbed as she looked at an empty chair, and thought back to the last time she was in the hospital... He never left her side... "Wuh... Why...?!" She cried out, gripping the sheets as she tried to pull herself up.
"D-Deku-chan...?!" She heard some one call out behind her, and looked back to see her class at the door, their eyes were wide with worry and sadness.
"Ochachan...!" Izuku cried out as Uararaka pushed past Kaminari and Shouji and ran to her friend who was desperately trying to get up. "Kacchan...! He's missing...! We have too...!"
"Izuchan calm down..." She told her soothingly as she hugged her friend tightly. Izuku sobbed into her friends shoulder, grasping at the other girls sweater. "Izuchan you need to get back into bed... You have a fever from your injuries..."
"I have to find him!" She wailed out to the room which was silent despite most of her class being in it. "I have to get out of here and find him! They might be hurting him, I can't stay here...!"
"Izuku..." Todoroki was there, crouching beside them as he lifted a cooling hand to her forehead, and she felt the soothing relief from it. "Uraraka is right, you need to calm down..." He told her, before the two of them got the girl back up onto her bed. Her tears still fell from her eyes as Asui and Ashido came up, and looked at her worriedly. She looked up at the faces, trying to calm down.
"I-Is everyone here...?" She asked, trying to hold back her tears. She didn't want to continue crying in front of all of them.
"No... Jirou and Hagakure still haven't woken up..." Iida stepped forwards, looking serious and concerned. "Yaoyorozu suffered a serious head injury so she's here too, but she's awake now as of yesterday..."
"So there's still only 15 of us..." Uraraka said sadly as she sat next to her friend on the bed.
"Because He's gone..." Todoroki said with a frown, looking away from Izuku who's eyes looked to the floor.
"All Might... He was saying that... You can't save people where your hands can't reach..." Izuku started, the class going quiet as she spoke. Tears dripped from her eyes onto her right hand where her ring was. "So thats why you've got to save everyone within your reach..."
"Izuchan..." Uraraka put a hand on her shoulder as she saw more and more tears drip down her face.
"He was right there... My fingers could have grabbed him... I had to save him..." She sobbed out, and clenched her fists. "I have this quirk... to save people... too protect them... But my fingers couldn't grab him..!" She wailed out, and brought her hand to her face. "I couldn't save him!"
"... Then this time, let's save him." Kirishima was in front of her, looking down at her. She looked up into his serious eyes, her own were red from crying.
"HUH?!" The rest of the class looked at him like he was nuts, except for Todoroki who was standing with him, a serious look on his face as well.
"Todoroki and I were here yesterday..." Kirishima clenched his fists as he looked down at her. "We heard All Might talking to the police and Yaoyorozu. She was able to get a transmitter on one of the villains with the help of a kid from class B. She's got a device that tracks it... All Might and the police said they would handle it, but..."
"So you're saying..." Iida started, stepping forwards again. "The tracking device... You mean Yaoyorozu can make us one...?"
The serious boy looked upset, and clenched his fists. "It's exactly as All Might said! This is a matter that should be left to the professionals! This is not something for us to be meddling in!"
"DAMN IT! I KNOW!" Kirishima shouted back at Iida, "BUT STILL! I COULDN'T DO ANYTHING! Hearing that Bakugo was being targeted... That Deku-chan was so distraught and lost over it... I couldn't do anything about it! If I don't do something about it here, then I won't be able to call myself a hero or a man!" He shouted back at Iida.
"Hey man, calm down. I like your determination but this time..." Kaminari looked on, worried for his friend.
"IIDA'S RIGHT! EVERYBODY'S RIGHT! BUT EVEN STILL!" Kirishima turned to look at Izuku who was staring at him, her eyes showing determination instead of sadness now. "You can still reach him!"
"So... We get the tracking thing from Momo-chan, and then follow it..." Ashido said with a nervous sweat.
"Do you seriously mean to go and rescue Bakugo by yourselves...?" Iida asked, looking at Kirishima and Izuku.
"Even though the villains marked us as murder targets, They still took Bakugo away with out killing him..." Todoroki said with a serious face. "They are probably letting him live, but we can't be sure they won't kill him. Kirishima and I will go."
"STOP MESSING AROUND!" Iida shouted in anger at them. "YOU'RE GETTING CARRIED AWAY!"
"Hold on, calm down." Shouji said, stopping Iida. "Kirishima's frustration of not being able to do anything... Todoroki's frustration of seeing it happen... and Midoriya's anguish of having her boyfriend snatched out of her hand and taken away from her..." Shouji stood tall over Iida, "I understand it, but this is not a decision one should make based on how they feel."
"Leave it to All Might..." Aoyama said nervously from behind the group.
"I agree with Aoyama," Tokoyami said with a frown. "I know I'm not in a position to say much because Midoriya saved me, but still..."
"Look, I know were all in shock because of the kidnapping, Izuchan especially..." Asui spoke up, a frown on her face. "How ever lets be level headed about this, you can't just use your feelings to engage in battle... If you break the rules like that, then your actions are no different than the Villains..."
Izuku clenched her fists tightly in her lap, tired of listening to everyone talk over her head... She didn't care about any of that, she just needed to save him...
I don't care, Hero or Villain, if I've got you in my arms I'm happy.
His words rang through her mind as the doctor came into the room to usher everyone out for her checkup. She looked up s Kirishima who still stood in front of her.
"I talked to Yaoyorozu yesterday..." He told her, and she bit her lip as she looked up at him. "If we are going, it's gotta be fast... Tonight. With your injuries, I don't know if you're able to move, but I'm inviting you... Because I know out of all of us, you want to go. I think, even if I didn't have anything for you, you'd still break out of here and go for it, so I'm offering my help." He looked down at her clenched right hand, and noticed her ring for the first time. "... We'll be waiting out front of the hospital."
Izuku nodded her head to her friend, before he departed from the room. The doctor walked up to her after checking her charts, and sighed. "While you were asleep, Recovery Girl was in and out of here... She gave you some strong treatment for your bones and burns. You should be able to move again but you were a mess... In this short amount of time you suffered a number of serious injuries, but... to Be honest this was a whole different level..."
Izuku looked at her arms after he took her bandages off, and saw scars up and down them, decorating her skin all over. She ground her teeth together as she pulled at her shirt to look down at the burns on her chest, the skin a different color from the rest of her.
"A whole other level... What do you mean...?" She asked, clenching her right fist as she looked up at the doctor.
"I went out of the way too look up your medical records. You haven't broken your bones too much, but every time you did it was like firecrackers went off inside of them. His time is much more serious than the last, you can only put out so much strength, 80% at most. But in a serious crisis you can reach 100% or further than that... A flight or fight response. The physical limitation is there because your body knows it can't take that burden, but you look like you triggered a very strong fight response, and release your strength for far to long..."
The doctor looked at the chart with a sigh, before removing the bandages around her head. She lifted her fingers to touch a scar that was hidden under her bangs. "Suffice to say... your ligaments hold your joints together, and you've severely deteriorated them. In other words... maybe 5 or 6 more times... I think if you keep breaking your bones like this... you'll have to live with out functioning arms..."
Izuku's face paled as he said that, and she looked up at him with wide eyes.
"whether or not you get bck to your previous condition, depends on rehabilitation... Though if repeated usage continues and it starts to hurt... well. We'll leave that up to Recovery Girl, because you're being discharged today." The man looked at her scars, and inspected them. "Though Recovery Girl was pretty mad, you must have done this one too many times. Nevertheless..." He pulled a letter out of his pocket and held it out to her. "A life was saved because of you,"
Izuku's eyes looked down at the letter as she gingerly took it from him, and held it in her hands.
Midoriya
Sorry for punching you in the face, thank you for saving me.
Even though you didn't know anything about me, you still saved me from that guy.
Please get well soon, so that I can thank you in person.
KOUTA
Izuku felt her tears well up in her eyes as she looked down at the letter in her hands, and a few dripped onto the paper. She held it close to her chest and ground her teeth together, knowing what she had to do now...
When night fell, She had been given her clothes. She pulled on a plain grey hoodie and a pair of Capri pants and slipped her red sneakers on. She stuffed her long hair into a messy bun as she headed down to the hospital entrance, and looked up as she met Yaoyorozu there.
"Izuchan..." The taller girl looked at her with pained eyes, and Izuku looked down at the ground, sure she looked like a mess. "... I see."
"Momo-chan are you alright...?" Izuku asked in a small voice, unaware her friend had suffered so much at the camp.
"I'll be okay, let's go. Those boys are waiting for us." She said as she turned and walked out. Izuku followed behind her, her hands stuffed into her pockets as she clenched the letter that was inside.
"Deku-chan... You came." Kirishima said as he stood with todoroki outside, looking to her. Izuku looked at him with serious eyes and he nodded his head to her, before looking to Yaoyorozu. "... Yaoyorozu... What's your answer...?"
"WAIT!" Iida shouted, just as Yaoyorozu went to start speaking. Izuku looked up in shock as she saw their serious friend approach them.
"Why... Of all people... WHY YOU GUYS?!" He shouted, looking to Izuku then Todoroki. "The two of you, who scolded me for my own reckless pursuit... Who received a special pardon after that incident... Why are you guys trying to make the same mistake I made?! THIS IS TOO MUCH!"
"Dude, what are you talking about?" Kirishima asked, worried.
"We're still under the protection of the school... and now.. even when they're having a hard time..." Iida wasn't looking at them anymore, and Izuku stepped forwards. "Who do you think will have to take responsibility for your actions?!"
"Iida..." Izuku reached out to touch his shoulder. "You've got it all wrong... It's not okay for us to break the rules... we don't want to-" Her hand was slapped away, and she groaned a bit as she pulled it to her chest to cradle it.
"I'M FRUSTRATED TOO! I'M WORRIED! WHO WOULDN'T BE?!" Iida shouted at her as she turned her head to look up at him, tears in her eyes. "I'm the class president! I worry about my classmates!" He reached out and grabbed her by the hand and pulled her arm up. He pushed back the sleeve on it as her eyes widened and exposed all her new scars. "It's not just about Bakugo! Look at you! Seeing you lying on that hospital bed... Just like my brother..." Izuku looked up at him, tears in his eyes and her own. "If you go through with his... If something happened... If you couldn't recover like my brother... Are you saying my concerns don't mean anything?! Do my feelings..." Iida dropped her arm and grabbed her by the shoulders as she looked away from him. "... Do they not mean anything? You're a precious friend, Midoriya... I can't let you destroy yourself anymore..."
"Iida..." She refused to look up at him, pushing her sleeve back down over her arm to hide her injuries.
"IIDA." Todoroki spoke up now, and stepped forwards. Iida looked at him, still holding Izuku by the shoulders. "We're not trying to confront and attack them head on, not at all."
"We're going to rescue him with out combat!" Kirishima said, clenching his fists. "This is a covert operation! A way for us to fight, with out breaking the rules!"
"I believe in Todoroki, but.." Yaoyorozu spoke up, looking at the small group. "I came with the intention of accompanying you all, as a faisafe. I will prevent combat."
"... Iida... Everyone..." Izuku kept her head bowed, looking at the ground as they all looked to her now. "I... I can't just sit around, not after seeing him disappear in front of me like that..." She clenched her fists tightly, feeling her tears burn in her eyes again. "I wont just sit around, if I can do something... If I can save him... Then I will!" She looked up at the others, her eyes serious as her tears fell from her cheeks. "I won't sit back while he's somewhere out there! I know he wouldn't do the same either!"
"... In that case..." Iida looked at her, sweating from his nerves. "I'm going with you."
Izuku nodded her head to him, and then looked to the others. "Well then... Let's get going." she said before turning to leave the hospital grounds. She looked at her right hand, and the emerald shimmered on her finger. She clenched her fist, before being startled by Iida behind her.
"I'm sorry... I shouldn't have gotten violent." Iida said with a frown on his face as he bowed to a stunned Izuku.
"Really Iida, your argument for coming isn't that persuasive..." Yaoyorozu said with a sigh. "And you didn't need to expose her arm like that."
"It's okay you guys, I'm not worried about that." Izuku waved a hand at them, trying her best to muster a smile, but she couldn't.
"It's precisely because I can't accept everyone's behavior that I'm coming." He said as he pushed his glasses up on his face. "If I get so much as a whiff of the possibility of battle, you're all coming back with me. I'll be your guardian, so to speak." He pointed at Izuku and she felt a nervous sweat on her forehead.
"Watchman Iida..." Todoroki said with a snort.
"Me too..." Yaoyorozu looked at Izuku with serious eyes. "This is a job for the pros, there's no need for you all to get involved, but I understand Izuku's feelings, so this is a compromise... Don't forget that."
The group all looked at the device Yaoyorozu had in her hands, and saw that the coordinates were in Kamino ward of Yokohama city. They all hurried to the bullet train, and managed to get on at the last second. Izuku sat down in one of the seats, and looked at her hands as they sped off.
"It's going to take about two hours... We should get there around ten..." Todoroki sat in the seat across from hers next to Kirishima, and looked at her.
"Uhm..." Izuku looked up at Todoroki, and clenched her fists. "Did you... tell the others about this...?"
"yeah," Todoroki sighed out. "After we did, they just tried to stop us..."
"Especially Uraraka." Kirishima said with a frown and Izuku looked at him with shock. "... She's really worried about you, but said that she knew you were going to do this regardless of what anyone said. She didn't want to get in your way, though I think she really wanted to come..."
"Listen, No matter how you look at it, we're trying to do this driven by our own egos..." Todoroki said, pointing over at Kirishima, "But we know, that no matter what, if you had even an inkling of where he might be, you'd be gone in an instant... Honestly? We're here because we're worried for you too, we saw how distraught you were when you woke up..."
"... You're right." Izuku said, looking down at her ring again. "... The second I woke up, I was trying to go look for him... I don't think I would've stopped... But I stayed calm, knowing you guys were ready to move at any second..." She unzipped her hoodie, and slipped it off her shoulders. Their eyes widened as they saw the scars from her burns on her arms, Izuku touched a few of them on her right arm, and clenched a fist. "Even if you chained me up... I would've ripped myself free to go look for him... So." She looked up at the others, ".. So... Thank you." She looked at each of them in turn. "I know I'm being selfish... but this means more to me than you think."
When the group got off the train, they heded to Kamino ward, and came to a busy night shopping distract. Izuku looked around in awe of the scene and the amount of people everywhere.
"Alright let's go!" She said, turning to head down the street before Yaoyorozu grabbed her by the back of her shirt.
"Hold on a second." She said with a stern tone, "If we don't proceed with every precaution... Did you forget those villains know our faces?"
"Right..." Izuku said with a thought, looking back at her.
"But then we couldn't even just go and scout then..." Iida said with a frown.
"On that note," Yaoyorozu pointed to a shop, "I have a proposition."
"AAWRIGHT. LEZZGO!" Izuku shouted as they stepped out of the store after changing. She herself wore a tight black shirt and a leapord print top with a tight leather jacket and thigh high boots. She had even been made to style her hair and wear makeup by Yaoyorozu and she looked in a store window, not recognizing herself even from the sight of the messy ponytail and heavy makeup.
She looked over at Todoroki and snort a bit as she saw he wore a black emo wig and a messy butler suit, and Kirishima wore a pair of fake horns and wet his long red hair down, donning his own leather jackets and jeans. Iida even almost made her laugh with his bow tie and suspenders, but it was the slicked back hair and moustache on his face that made it truly amazing. How ever she was blown away by how pretty Yaoyorozu looked with her messy hair and bright red halter dress.
"Uhm... Isn't this a little much?" she asked, taking a pair of sunglasses from Kirishima who was jutting his jaw out, trying to make gangster sounds.
"We're in a night time shopping district, a bunch of kids wandering around will attract too much attention!" Yaoyorozu said with zeal, before hair spraying some of Izuku's hair hot pink.
"WE'VE GOT WOMEN WITH LARGE BREASTS!" Iida shouted out in his best gangster voice, and Izuku raised an eyebrow at that, and looked at her chest which was displayed well in her shirt. She felt nervous as some of the burns showed over the top, but Yaoyorozu quickly dabbed some make-up on it for her.
"Uhm... Wouldn't this have been free if you just made them with your quirk?" Todoroki asked, looking over at the girls with raised eyebrows.
"Th-that's a violation of the rules! I support shops... it's my job as a citizen to make sure the circulation of currency in the... That's right! A Inned to contribute as a citizen! TO THE ECONMY!" She shouted at Todoroki.
"Didn't you just want to go into the shop..?" Izuku asked her, and tried her best to smile, but she still couldn't.
"OI, ISN'T THAT YUUEI?!" Someone shouted and the classmates all froze in horror, before turning their heads to look up at the large TV on the side of a building... Her eyes widened as she saw their Sensei with the principal on the screen, as well as Cass B's teacher...
"And now, a scene from the event's that have just transpired, Here's a clip of the public apology issued by the Officials at Yuuei Academy."
"On this occasion, our incompetence resulted in the injuries of 27 first year Heroes. Despite being an institution for the future of Heroism we were negligent, and have caused anxiety within society. With the utmost sincerity, we respectfully and humbly apologize for our short comings." Aizawa was the one speaking on the screen.
"Aizawa sensei..." Izuku brought her hand up to her mouth, feeling her tears build up again.
"Reporting with NHA, this is the fourth time this year for Yuuei, where students have come into contact with villains. This time, students were heavily injured, how do you plan to explain this to families?"
"Th-they're being treated like criminals..." Izuku felt her chest hurt as she gripped Yaoyorozu's arm tightly with her hand.
"We have strengthened our secruity-"
Izuku had to look away, and covered her ears. She could hear some people in the crowd around them grumbling about how the Academy wasn't doing enough, that the teachers were all at fault... She could feel the heavy mood in the atmosphere and she clenched her fists. She turned and began walking away from the rest, heading in the direction they needed to go in, they were here for a reason... She couldn't let the media distract her from their mission.
"Well now, It may be sudden but... Aspiring hero, Bakugo Katsuki... Won't you become one of my comrades...?" Shigaraki was sitting at a bar, a clay hand on his face. He looked over at Katsuki who was chained to a chair and glaring at the whole room which was filled with villains. The Mist one... The one who looked like he was in high school and far to happy to be here, the one in the strange body suit and the last one.. He was right next to him and Katsuki shot a dark look up at him. He was the one who burned her... The one who held him back from Izuku's hands... They were all watching the news cast from Yuuei in a bar, and he could see the magician and reptile guy off to the side.
"Fuck you, go die..." Katsuki growled out at the man, glaring darkly at him. His hands were in some kind of box, keeping him from blowing the bar apart.
"Why are the heroes getting criticized...?" Shigaraki asked, holding out his hands and ignoring Katsuki. "Their response was just a tad to slow! Is it because they failed to protect the kids, right? Well everyone makes mistakes! Are they saying they can't make a single mistake?! Heroes these days, they're under strict rules, huh?! RIGHT Bakugo?!"
"The moment that protecting people began to merit compensation... Heroes were not heroes anymore.. That's stains teachin." The reptile said with a glare, and Katsuki shot one back at him.
"The Queerness of converting human life to money, how selfish..." Shigaraki laughed out. "Citizens who criticize the losers, who should instead be cheered on... Our battle is one of questions. What is a hero? What's justice...? Is this society really just? You also like winning, don't you?"
Katsuki glared darkly at the man, not agreeing with anything he had said. He clenched his hands in the box, and ground his teeth together.
"Hey Dabi, remove his bindings." Shigaraki said with an insane grin.
"What?" The man looked at Shigaraki and raised an eyebrow. "This guy is going to go ballistic you know..."
"It's okay! We have to treat him as an equal, we're scouting him after all." Shigaraki laughed loudly, "He should be able to tell from the situation that... He has no possibility of winning here, right Yuuei student?"
"Twice, free him." Dabi said, handing the keys to the man in the strange body suit. Katsuki glared up at him, of course he'd take a safe route... Katsuki wanted to kill him the most in that moment.
"I apologize for taking such a forceful approach with you... How ever." The magician stepped forwards, as the Twice guy undid Katsuki's bindings. He glared at him too, before looking down at his hands and rubbing his wrists as they were freed. "Please understand, that's we're not just a group of Hoodlums, we didn't just casually decide to abduct you. Everyone here has different circumstances, People... Rules... Heroes... We're all shackled by them. You too, should understand."
Katsuki looked at his freed hands and legs, before looking up at Shigaraki who was approaching him. Now was his chance... He reached out, and set an explosion off at his throat, before jumping back over the chair he once was in. "I've stayed quiet long enough to listen to your bullshit... If you don't know how to summarize, you're an idiot. I want to make people hate us, so join us please isn't going to cut it with me." He shot a glare at Dabi and Shigaraki who was still standing. "No matter what you dip shits say, You won't win me over... I was won over a a kid by how All Might looks when he wins, and now I'm going to become a hero, because of how She looks after saving some one..." He glared darkly at the group. "So say all you want, but nothing is going to change my mind, and I have some one I need to get back too." His eyes looked to the TV screen as the press conference continued with the principal
"By no means are we standing by and doing nothing. We are currently carrying out an investigation with the Police. We WILL absolutely get our student back."
"Ha, hear that?" Katsuki asked, preparing for an attack from the villains in the bar. "That's how it is, you shit heads!" He was thinking, these idiots only wanted to get to him, they were invested in him... But they were after his heart, and that was one thing he wasn't going to hand over, there were seven... And he sure as hell was going to take down at least two of them on his way out... He was going to get back to Izuku... "SO BRING IT ON! MY COMBAT AUTHORIZATIONS HAVEN'T BEEN REVOKED, GOT IT?!"
"Let's stab him." The highschool boy on the bar said with an insane smile on his face. "I bet he really wants to get back to his classmates... Maybe he even has a crush on my cute Izuku?"
"FUCK YOU, SHE'S MINE!" Katsuki snapped at the boy.
"This guy is an idiot..." Dabi grumbled out. "She's probably more burns than person by now, is that why you want to go back...?" He asked, grinning darkly at Katsuki who glared at him.
"If that was the case, he could have just pretended to play along..." The Magician said from the back. "He's messed up."
"Ha, No. I'm just not the type to lie about things I don't want to do." Katuki growled at them all, "And I have absolutely no desire to stick around in this shit hole, not when she's waiting for me." He looked to Shigaraki, who hadn't moved since the explosion where he had knocked the hand off his stupid face.
"... Wait... Shigaraki! Calm down...!" The mist guy shouted, before Shigaraki glared in Katsuki's direction, and he clenched his fists.
"Stay out of this, okay...?" Shigaraki bent down to pick up his hand before placing it back on his face. "This one... Is an important piece. If possible, I would have liked you to hear me out, that maybe you would understand..." He looked in Katsuki's direction again.
"Fuck you, there's no chance." Katsuki snapped in anger.
"Then I've got no choice," The man shrugged his shoulders. "They say there's carrying out an investigation, we don't have time to persuade you. Teacher... Lend me your strength." The man looked over at a screen, and Katsuki got a bad feeling...
"This is the location the tracking device is pointing too..." Yaoyorozu said with a nervous sweat as they all looked up at the building's wall. Izuku felt her whole being pulsed with energy, and she stepped up to it, touching the wall.
"So... this is their hideout...?" Kirishima asked, looking up at the building.
"I don't know but... As far as we know the villains haven't moved from here all day." Yaoyorozu looked at the rest of the group. "Just because there are villains here, doesn't mean Bakugo is here..." She looked at Izuku who started to sweat nervously herself. "Right now, we have to take account all of our information..."
"We don't have anyone here who excels at sneaky activities like Jirou or Hagakure..." Iida looked at the others. "... If I judge that things are even slightly dangerous, I will stop you. Because you're my friends, I won't hesitate to call the police."
"Thank you Iida..." Izuku looked towards the building they were in front of, and clenched her fists. "Let's think about all of our options..." She looked down at the ground, and as she started thinking. She looked up around them, and started moving along the wall towards a gate.
"There aren't any lights on... It doesn't seem like anybody is inside..." Kirishima said in a hushed tone.
"There are weeds everywhere around the front door..." Izuku muttered out, looking through the gate. " Maybe there's another entrance... Some way or another we've gotta see whats going on insi-EEEK!" She felt some one grab her butt and turned around to see Iida and Kirishima pushing some drunk business men back from both her and Yaoyorozu.
"HOSTESSES! What are you up to?! Come drink with us! Yeah!" One yelled at her, and she stepped back as Todoroki put an arm out in front of her protectively. "Such big breasts on that one!" They pointed at Yaoyorozu.
"Let's go," Todoroki pulled Izuku along with him, and the group escaped from the drunks.
"There are still people everywhere..." Izuku groaned out as she looked at the ground. "We can't do much that will draw attention..."
"Let's go around back, we might have to squeeze a bit but we're not getting any information from here..." Todoroki suggested, and the group nodded to eachother before heading down a narrow path between buildings. Izuku had no trouble at all passing through, but the others were having a bit of a stuggle.
"It's so crammed... I'm going to get stuck." Yaoyorozu said with a groan, and Izuku looked back to see a nervous look on Kirishima's face.
"We cant make any moves unless we're confident it's safe... At least no one can see us here..." She looked up and spotted a window high up. "There... From that height, we should be able to see inside...!"
"Will you be able to see when it's so dark?" Todoroki asked from beside her, and she sighed out.
"I can make some night vision goggles," Yaoyorozu tried to get her arm up.
"Hold on!" Kirishima pulled out a device. "I've got something like that... You can get some cool stuff off of amazon. I only brought one though..."
"Isn't that one crazy expensive...?" Izuku asked, looking at him past todoroki and Iida.
"Never mind that, alright?" Kirishima grinned.
"Alright, Izuku and Kirishima... you guys look through the window, We'll lift you up." Todoroki looked to Izuku, and patted his shoulders.
"Wuh..." Izuku looked nervous, "J-Just don't look up my skirt, alright?"
"No promises." Todoroki said flatly and Iida chopped his hand on the other boys head. She groaned out as she climbed up onto Todoroki's shoulders, and stood on them, while Kirishima got on Iida's.
"Huh, it's pretty dark inside... I don't see mu—WHOA!" Kirishima cried out as he looked through the night vision goggles and almost toppled back.
"E-Eijichan, what is it...?!" Izuku asked, concerned, Kirishima handed her the goggled with a shaky hand and she took them nervously. "To the left... Look..."
Izuku lifted the goggles to her eyes, almost afraid to look, but she had to check to see if Katsuki was alright. She looked through the window, and saw a messy warehouse... and tubes... and tanks... "No way... Are those... NOMU?!"
I've got to blow my way out of here... I have to get back home... She's waiting for me or... Knowing her she's probably out searching for me, and if she comes here she's going to get hurt again... Katsuki was glaring around at the villains, waiting for them to attack.
"Kurogiri, Compress... Put him back to sleep." Shigaraki said, shaking with anger as he looked Katsuki's way.
"If you want me to listen to you, you can go fucking shove it and die!" Katsuki yelled at the villains, angry now. He needed to distract them... the door was right behind hi-
There was a knock, and he turned his head to look back at the metal door behind him.
"HELLO! PIZZA DELIVERY!"
"What...?" Katsuki raised an eyebrow, before there was an explosion, and he looked to the wall in the bar and saw All Might crashing through the wall. He ground his teeth togethr, as Kamui woods came in next and captured all the villains with his wood quirk. He raised his eyebrows as more and more heroes filled the bar.
"YOU CAN'T RUN AWAY, VILLAIN ALLIANCE! WHY YOU ASK?!" All Might stepped over the rubble proudly. "BECAUSE WE ARE HERE!"
The villains were panicking all around, but Katsuki's eyes were on All Might, and All Might alone. The hero turned to look at him, and he clenched his fists. "It must have been scary, you did well to endure! I'm sorry... but-"
"Is she okay...?" Katsuki asked with a serious expression, and All Might paused. "Tell me she's alright!"
"Midoriya? She's... been better, but she's alright." All Might said with a frown, before grinning again. "She's back in the hospital, resting up I'm sure!"
"IDIOT!" Katsuki snapped, "Like she knows how to fucking rest..." He was ignoring the villains, he knew he had to get out of here and get home. He stepped across the rubble to head out, walking up to All Might. He stopped Katsuki and placed a hand on his shoulder.
"Hey, Shigaraki. You're still just a green horn, You villain alliance..." All Might looked to the villains who were bound by Kamui woods. "you underestimated this boys spirit... The diligent polices... And our fury! So no more games! It ends here Shigaraki Tomura!"
"Haha... Justice... Peace...? This rubbish society capped by such vague concepts... I'll destroy it! I'll start by removing the cap that is All Might!" Shigaraki laughed even though he was bound in wood, and Katsuki glared at him darkly. "I've only jut begun to gather comrades! This is just the beginning!"
"Fuck this..." Katsuki was growing anxious as the villains went on and on. They had tried to escape using the Warp Hole guy, but a hero that came in, had stunned him with his quirk, which was one that made him paper thin... he raised an eyebrow at the guy in confusion, as the hero thanked him for the information on the warp guys weakness.
"There's no where for you to run..." Katsuki looked over at the small old guy he'd met before, Gran Torino was his name... He knew Izuku for some reason...
"Nonsense... This... This..." Shigaraki was panicking now, and Katsuki looked to him in anger. "Not like this... Nonsense... Get out of my sight... Vanish..."
"WHERE IS HE RIGHT NOW, SHIGARAKI?!" All Might shouted, making Katsuki look up at him in confusion.
"I HATE YOOOOOOU!" Shigaraki yelled out in anger, and some Nomu exploded out from no where. Katsuki looked around before he felt something explode from in his stomach and come up out of his mouth, it was black goop, like what the Nomu were coming out of. He clawed at his throat.
"FUCK!" Her gurgled out as All Might scrambled to grab him, but he was swallowed up and disappeared.
"WHOA!" Izuku cried out as Mount Lady crashed through the building they were looking into, She felt herself almost tip back before she grabbed onto the wall to keep on looking. "M-Mount lady... Gang the Orca... Even..." her eyes widened as she saw her internship Hero, "Best Jeanist...! Tiger is here too...!"
"Izuku, are you okay?!" Todroki asked her, and she looked down to see him looking up at her. She felt her face heat up as she closed her thighs, almost toppling off him again. "Sorry! But... Pink huh?"
"DON'T LOOK UP HERE!" She cried out, and let out a sigh before she looked through the window with Kirishima. "They're collecting all the Nomu... I see ragdoll...!"
"Come on, Midoriya, it's time to go..." Iida called out from down below, and she felt Todoroki move, before she fell off of him. He groaned out as he caught her and set her down with ease. "The heroes were making their move way before us... Now let's get moving, there's nothing else for us to do..."
"... They said something about going with All Might... Is he where Kacchan is...?" Izuku asked worriedly as she followed behind everyone else.
"If All Might is there, all the more reason for you to relax, Izuchan." Yaoyorozu smiled back at her. "So let's get going, okay...?"
"I'm sorry Tiger..." Izuku stopped dead in her tracks as she heard a chilling voice coming from the warehouse. Todoroki looked back at her in confusion, but she felt One for All Pulsing inside of her. "I thought she had a useful Quirk long ago... Since the opportunity fell into my lap, I decided to take it."
"Izuku... come on..." Todoroki urged her, but she looked up at him, her eyes wide as she looked at him. "Izuku...?"
"Ever since my body became like this... My stock has fallen quite a bit." The voice made her whole being shake in fear, and she felt her face sweating. Todoroki grabbed her hand, trying to pull her along but she pulled him back along the wall. "Just when Tomura was starting to think for himself, and beginning to lead others... If possible, I'd like you all to stop interfering..."
It happened in less than a second, a loud explosion shook Izuku to her core, and she pressed her back against the wall behind her. The pressure was intense... She couldn't move, she couldn't turn around... Her breath was caught in her throat and she felt tears in her eyes. "... He said Tomura... He means Shigaraki..." She choked out. "No way... All Might... Is this...?" She looked at the others as they all pressed themselves against the wall, shaking in fear. She pushed past Todoroki and Kirishima, and looked through the hole that opened up from the force of the blast.
"Well well!" She could hear clapping, and saw Best Jeanist on the ground among some rubble. The man had easily blown away 2 city blocks worth of buildings, nothing was left... she felt more sweat trickle down her face as she looked on. "As expected of Number 4, best Jeanist! I was trying to blast everyone away, but you controlled their clothes and pulled them from harm... You've got nerves of steel!"
She could see his back, he was wearing a suit, but it was too dark to see his face or head from where she was but could make out a strange helmet... She shivered in fear, she knew this had to be him, One for All was pulsing in her chest... This man was All for One...
She watched in horror as he used some kind of quirk to knock Best Jeanist out of commission and she held back her tears and put a hand over her mouth. She then heard a splash of some kind of liquid, and his voice...
"Smells like shit... the fuck is this...?!" She turned her head to look over at him, It was Katsuki... He was right there... She felt some one grab her wrist as she went to move and stopped her. She looked to Kirishima in a panic, before looking back out at the scene before her.
"I'm sorry, Bakugo." All for One said in that menacing voice, as Katsuki glared at him. She needed to get to him, this was not a villain any of them could stand against... She saw more villains appear from the same black goop in the air. Her whole being wanted to move, and she gripped the wall with her hand, trying to hold herself back. "You've failed again, hmm Tomura? But you cannot get discouraged, all you need to do is try again. I brought back your comrades, and that boy too, because you deemed him an important piece. Try as many times as you like, that is why I'm here... Everything... Is for your sake..."
Izuku felt herself shaking, she needed to move, Katsuki was right there... He was in the most danger she'd ever seen before in her life, right infront of an enemy who just blasted way god knows how many pro heroes... She needed to get to him... She had to do something! He was only 7 meters away... she could use One for All and make it in a second, those villains had no idea she was here... but then what... All for One was right there... The man who had hurt All Might beyond repair... She needed a plan, she had to move!
She stopped as she felt more hands grab onto her, and she looked back. Kirishima and Todoroki had her left arm.. She looked to her right and saw Iida and Yaoyorozu holding onto her. They were all shaking in fear, she could see the sweat on their brows... She looked into Iida's serious eyes, and ground her teeth together.
"It looks like He's coming in for a visit..." All for One said with a scoff, before Izuku looked up and saw All Might in the sky, as he crashed down on the villain.
"ALL FOR ONE! GIVE EVERYTHING YOU'VE TAKEN, BACK!" All Might shouted in rage as the two of them clashed in a major blast.
She ducked down out of the way to avoid the rubble coming at her, but she had seen Katsuki tumble back from the force... She needed to get him out of there!
"The bar isn't more than 5 Kilometers away, you sure took your time, well over 30 seconds." All for One let out a dark chuckle. "You've gone soft, huh, All Might?"
"You're one to talk! What's the deal with that weird mask, huh? Don't you think you're trying to hard?" All Might taunted back at the villain. Izuku pulled herself up to look again, and saw Katsuki staring at the two of them in awe. She turned her head to look back at All Might who leaped at One for All, but the villains arm expanded in size, before blasting her hero halfway across the city, knocking the villains back from the aftershock, and her Katsuki. She saw as All for One turned to Tomura, and woke up the Warp Hole guy, before pointing at Katsuki as he told them to leave.
"No..." Izuku choked out, and she tried to move, but the others held her back. "We need to get him out of there... I won't let him get taken again...!" She looked at the others, tears finally falling from her eyes. "Let me go...! Please...!"
"No, It's too dangerous." Iida hissed at her, "We are all in trouble right now!"
Izuku turned her head back to look at the scene, and All Might came crashing back in. She gripped the wall in front of her. "All Might... Katsuki... I need to... I need to go...!" She told them pleadingly as they held her back. "You don't understand... He'll die...! Those villains are panicking...!"
She watched as Katsuki defended himself from the villains who were trying to restrain him. She gripped the wall tightly, crying. All Might was distracted as he went to help Katsuki, but was shot down by All for One and tossed back.
"We need a plan then... an opening..." Todoroki looked up at her seriously, " We're not letting you dive into that on your own... We're still not allowed to fight...!"
"An opening..." she choked out, and looked back at the fight taking place. She looked around at all the possible routes, all the possible outcomes... There had to be a way to save them with out anyone getting hurt... If they could rescue Katsuki, then All Might wouldn't have to worry about protecting some one like she had to with Kouta...
"... I've got it..." She said with a stunned look on her face, the others looked up at her in disbelief. "We can avoid combat... and rescue him... And then get out of here..." She looked down at them all. "Kacchan has been staying on guard with these opponents. He's been keeping his distance... The time to act is when he's two steps away from a villain... We've got to move now."
She got into position, holding onto Kirishima around the Middle while Iida was on the other side. "Shouchan... make a ramp of ice there, as high as possibe..." She said, pointing ahead. She looked to Kirishima who hardened himself and put up his hands. She hugged her friend tightly as she looked ahead, "Iida, now!"
Both her and Iida kicked off the wall behind them with powerful blasts, and they burst through the wall using Kirishima to break through. They took off with all their speed towards the ramp, They kept running, never stopping as they ran up the ramp, before taking off into the air high above the villains. They were flying over the battlefield, and she looked down at them all... Then their eyes met, and she looked at him.
"KATSUKIIII!" She screamed out to him, and she saw the stunned look in his eyes, before he blasted off the ground with his quirk, heading towards them with speed, before She reached out her hand to him. He grabbed it, and she smiled for the first time in days as she looked at him, Kirishima wrapped an arm around her middle to hold onto her, as they flew over the battlfield.
"You idiots..!" Katsuki snapped at them, but he was smiling back at her too. They could hear the sounds of astonishment from below, but She ignored them as she pulled hard on Katsuki's arm and he grabbed her with both hands.
"Bakugo! On my signal uses you explosions...!" The group looked back as they heard a boom behind them and saw the villains heading their way, but Mount Lady grew in that second to stop them.
"Get outta here... you dumb brats...!" She said with a smile as she fell back to the ground. Izuku narrowed her eyes, before looking ahead.
"KACCHAN! USE YOUR EXPLOSIONS NOW!" She shouted back, as they came crashing down to the ground. He softened the impact with his power, before Iida and Izuku used their quirks to keep up the speed and continue running away. She could hear a powerful blast of power behind them but they had to keep moving! They had to get away! The group paused for a moment to let Kirishima down to his feet. Katsuki grabbed Izuku by the hand, and the group took off running, heading for a safer place than where they were. She held back her tears for the moment as they made it back to the train station, and she heard her new cellphone ring in her pocket.
She stopped to answer it, and huffed for breath. "Shouchan...?"
"Izuku, everything okay there...?" He asked her and she looked up at the crowd running away from the scene they left behind.
"We're fine, are you and Momo-chan okay?" She asked in desperation.
"Yeah, we're running away with the help of some pros,"
"Thank goodness," She looked up around them, trying to catch her breath still. "We're in front of the station, seems like we're out of the shock wave from before..."
"SUCCESSFUL RESCUE!" Kirishima cried out, his arms in the air as he grinned at Katsuki.
"You idiots!" Katsuki snapped at Kirishima and Iida, "What are you doing in a dangerous place like that?!" He rounded on Izuku as she hung up her phone and grabbed her by the shoulders. "And why are you dressed like that?! What's wrong with you?!"
"Haha, it's a disguise!" She smiled brightly up at him, and laughed for the first time in days. "Kacchan who had us all worried!" she looked up at him, and felt her tears burning in her eyes. She was still grinning as they poured down her face and he looked at her with shock. "Y-You had me worried... I was... I was so scared for you... I..." She broke down into sobs as she threw her arms around him and hugged him tightly. She felt his arms wrap around her too and hug her tight. "Idiot... you're so stupid...!"
"Shut up... So are you..." Katsuki's voice was in her ear as she sobbed into his shoulder, clinging to him tightly. "I can't believe you... throwing yourself into more danger for me... you idiot..."
"Kacchan I..." She pulled back to look at him, but he stole her lips with his to quiet her down. The other two got nervous and quickly looked away from the scene. She didn't care if anyone saw, she had her Katsuki back... When their lips parted, she wiped the tears off her cheeks quickly, before looking up at the helicopters that flew over their heads in the sky. "All Might..." Her eyes widened in realization, All Might was back there in that chaos... He was fighting the villain... All for One... "A-All Might!" She shouted, turning to run back but Katsuki grabbed her around the middle and stopped her in her tracks.
"No, you're not going back there! We're just a burden to him!" He told her firmly and she looked up at him, panicking. "You're grounded, do you hear me?"
"You don't understand...!" She shouted in a panic, and looked around. "H-He's in trouble... big trouble...! That's... It's All for One...!"
"What...?" Katsuki watched her panic in his arms, before her eyes found the giant TV in the square they were in. She saw the scene on it and her eyes widened in horror as her hero was blasted up into the air by All for One, she could see the hnts of his quirk weakening on his appearance, before Gran Torino grabbed him out of the air beofore the two heroes hit the ground again. She couldn't hear what they were talking about, but she broke free of Katsuki's grip and pushed through the crowd to get a closer look on the screen. He followed behind her in worry, looking up as well.
"He's in trouble..." She felt a nervous sweat on her face.
"It's like a bad dream! In a flash half the Kamino ward was destroyed! Presently All Might is battling with the villain thought to be the ring leader of the group! Unbelievable! A single villain! Destroying the street and now he's fighting on more than equal terms with the Symbol of Peace!"
"This is bad..." Izuku covered her mouth with her hands as she watched the news cast. All for One's mask was destroyed, exposing his disfigured face. She shook with fear as she watched the scene, and felt One for All pulsing within her being. She grasped the front of her shirt over her chest, and ground her teeth together, as All Might used the last of his power, and sent a powerful blast from his fist at All for One...
"What the hell..." Katsuki was in shock as he stared at the screen. It showed a Skeletal All Might in his baggy costume, blood pouring from his mouth as he stood his ground. Izuku felt tears well up in her eyes and sweat drip down her face.
"A-All Might... No..." she couldn't move, The crowd was buzzing with speech, but it all sounded like a loud hum to her as she stared at the screen.
"Uhm.. what happened? Everybody is able to see this right...? All Might seems to be... withering away..."
"H-His secret..." Izuku choked out and Katsuki looked down at her, seeing the horror on her face. He must have looked the same as he turned his eyes back up to the screen from her. The two figures on the screen weren't moving, at a standoff of some sorts as they seemed to be talking, but she couldn't make out the words as her whole mind spun with thoughts... She could see a frown on her Hero's face... blood was everywhere, before she heard him scream with all his being. Tears rolled down her cheeks again as she heard a victim in the area shouting for him to help...
Katsuki put a hand on her shoulder and she turned around as she heard the crowd muttering about how he had to win. Katsuki looked back too, as the crowd started to shout words of encouragement at the screen, and her tears poured down her face as she turned her head to look back up at the screen herself. She could feel the crowds emotions in her, and she closed her eyes.
"WIN! ALL MIGHT!" She screamed at the top of her lungs, before looking back up at the screen, as All Might used the last he had of One for All in his arm, showing the same golden color as hers for a brief moment and crackling with red electricity, before it buffed up to his size from before.
"You're right, All for One... There's so much... So much we heroes have to protect! AND THAT'S WHY, WE DON'T LOSE!"
The audio was finally working on the news cast, and Izuku's eyes widened as she saw him charge up his arm. He got ready to fight All for One as the villain approached her Hero, before Endeavor crashed onto the scene. Many Heroes showed up to help out the ones who were injured, and even Tiger could be seen saving the woman All Might had been protecting, all while Endeavor attacked All for One with raging fire.
The whole crowd was cheering for All Might as they watched the screen, and her eyes focused on her Hero. She didn't care what anyone said, in that moment, he still looked as strong as he did, all these years... Even covered in blood and looking like a skeleton... He was still the worlds Symbol of Peace. She felt Katsuki grip her hand tightly, but she couldn't take her eyes away from the screen, she knew she had to keep watching. All for One blew the other heroes away, before he made his arm look like a horrific science project. She brought her fingers up to her lips, her eyes widening in horror as the two opponents went in for one last attack on each other.
The crowd moved and shifted as they felt the loud impact of power as much as they saw the horrible explosion on the screen. She gripped Katsuki's hand tightly in hers as the smoke obstructed their view of the fight, but they could head another loud boom of power from the distance.
"ALL MIGHT!?" She cried out as she watched, and tears fell down her cheeks again. She couldn't see him, the debris and cloud was crazy, before the crowd heard it.
"UNITED STATES OF SMASH!" All Might cried out loudly, and for a third time there was an incredible sonic boom of power they could feel from where they were, and Izuku stumbled into Katsuki but he caught her with ease. She looked up at him with wide tearful eyes, seeing the shock on his, before she looked back to the screen. The dust was clearing... She could see All for One in the rubble... And All Might... He was still standing...
He raised a bloody fist, and the whole crowd cried out in cheers for him, but Izuku felt more tears burning in her eyes as she gripped Katsuki's hand tighter. It was so painful to watch... It was his final Hero moments, she knew it because he had bulked back up.
"THE VILLAINS... NOT MOVING! IT'S A VICTORY! ALL MIGHT! HE IS VICTORIOUS! HE'S STILL STANDING!"
The reporters shouts made her chest hurt more as it swelled with sadness. She saw as her Hero went back to his skeletal form and the reporters scrambled to the ground to get an intervew with him, the camera shaky.
"Let's go..." Katsuki looked down at her, and she nodded her head, before turning away from the screen. She could hear some one in the crowd shouting about the trains not working.
"We need to let the heroes know about Bakugo..." Iida and Kirishima were right there, and the group moved to leave.
"All might...? Why are you...?"
Izuku stopped in her tracks, and turned her head back with a snap to look at the screen. All Might was pointing a finger at the camera, and she felt her whole being freeze in that moment.
"YOU'RE... NEXT."
Izuku dropped Katsuki's hand in that moment as she stared at the screen, and heard him call her name, but the crowd was cheering wildly around them as she stared at the screen. She felt Katsuki's hand touch her shoulder, but she couldn't look away as her her's finger lowered. She knew what he meant... What her hero was trying to say... She broke down to tears, and wiped at them with her hands as she sobbed loudly.
His time was at an end...
It was her turn...