Todoroki's PoV

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I blink awake, today was the day the symbol of peace fell.

Not to be dramatic, but the idea of my father becoming the number one hero made me want to commit die.

It's ok, he'll die soon after, he will never again be able to look hero society in the face once what he did to us comes out.

I just had to trust that Izuku knew what he was doing, and that in the end I would get my revenge.

"Hey, Shouto, you up?" His voice drifts through my door

"Yeah, I'm up Izuku."

I watched as he entered the room, looking barely awake.

"You ok?" He didn't look so good, dark circles promant and skin paler than usual

"I think so, I couldn't sleep much. Probably just nerves getting the better of me." His laugh was dull, as if he wasn't ok with what he was doing.

"Wanna talk about it?"

"Not really, I just wanted some form of human interaction."

I looked at the clock, 5:21 in the morning, far to early for either of us to be awake.

"Come over here." I patted the open space beside me

Izuku walked over silently, slipping under the covers next to me

"Hey, just close your eyes, it'll all be ok in a few hours." I gently pulled him closer to me

"Shouto, what if I fail? What if I can't kill him?"

"Then we try again another day. And if we fail again we keep going, we keep trying to kill All Might until he's gone for good." I murmured into his hair

"But what if he still lives after that?"

"Izuku, stop. It's going to be ok, you will do great, and Mayhem and I will be there with you. Our loyalties are to you, not Shigaraki."

"But—"

"Just get some sleep Izu, you can think more about it later."

I heard him sign in relief as he finally drifted off to sleep.

I didn't want to sleep yet, this was nice. Probably one of the nicest things I had experienced in years.

I would do anything for him, anything.

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Mayhem's PoV

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"Morning everybody!" I grinned as I pulled on the final pieces of my hero costume. I actually liked it, but the villain version waiting for me back home was better.

"Morning loser," Mina stuck her tongue out at me

""You guys excited for the USJ?" Shoji inquired

"Indeed, I believe we are going to gain some much needed experience today." Tokoyami grinned slightly

Trust me, you will.

"You ok?, rabbit?"

It took me a moment to realize that the question was directed at me

"What? Yeah, I'm great, guess I was so excited that I couldn't sleep last night!" I grinned

"Hmm ok. Ribbit."

She knows something, doesn't she?

I watched as Tsuyu walked away, I would have to deal with this as soon as possible.

She didn't hear the phone call last night, why would that be suspicious? She doesn't even know who the league is.

"Hey dummy! You gonna stop staring into space and eat? Don't wanna save people on an empty stomach!" Mina popped into view

"Oh, sorry!" I rubbed the back of my neck

Can't run through a portal on an empty stomach

I looked over to see Bakugou looking through a notebook, covered in burns.

"Whatcha got there?" The handwriting wasn't his

"None of your fucking business!" He growled shitting it quickly

Midoriya Izuku's

"Oh, that's the kid who died."

"Everyone already knows I knew him. Stop acting like its new information." The blond grimaced

"Sorry."

He actually looked sad for a moment, was he actually that beat up over Izuku?

"Tell me something, you went to school with kids who died right?"

This was new

"Yeah, yeah I did."

"How do you cope with that? They're dead, and you're not. Why them?"

"Sounds like survivor's guilt, you should talk to a therapist, that's what I do."

God I sound like a hero.

"Everyone load up, it's time to go." entered the room

I wonder what he will feel after today

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Midoriya's PoV

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I was not in my room.

There are also arms wrapped around me.

When the fuck did I even fall asleep?

I turned my body as much as I could, to find that I was in Shouto's embrace. It was nice.

"Morning Izu." I watched as he blinked awake

"Morning Shouto, how did I get here?" I gently peeled his arms off of me

"You came in here a couple hours ago, said you couldn't sleep."

"Oh"

Silence

"You feeling better now that you got some rest?"

"Yeah, thank you Shouto."

"No problem, now I think you need to get ready, the USJ raid is in half an hour."

FUCK

I shot out of the bed and looked down at myself, I was wearing sweats and an undershirt, I couldn't kill anyone while looking like a hobo.

That was Dabi's job!

I looked up in horror and sprinted out of the room.

I scrambled to find what Mayhem and I had put together a couple weeks ago, but for some reason I couldn't find my black shoes, guess the red will work.

It wasn't anything to get worked up about, but I needed to make a good debut.

Black turtleneck, black cargo joggers, dark blue cropped bomber jacket, black gloves, and red half mask.

"You look good," Shouto spoke from the doorway

"I still need something else, I don't have time to dye my hair, and I'm wearing gloves so painted nails wouldn't make anysense—"

"Just put on eyeliner, I mean, Mayhem taught you right?"

"Yeah, that sounds good."

I need to look right when I kill All Might, this would make history.

"You need to calm down, everything will be ok. Like I said earlier, if you don't kill him this time, we will try again, and again, and again, until he can't dodge you anymore. Until he's so frail, and you've sucked every last drop of power from him."

"But what if Tomura kills him first?"

"If you think that, that whiny bastard has the level of thought needed to take out the number one hero, you may just need to be locked up."

"I don't understand, why am I so nervous? I've killed people before."

"Yes, but not the person you've idolized for so long, not the person who may have kept you hoping for a better future. Just remember what he did to your dad. Take the nerves and turn them into anger, once you do that, well I think you can do anything you put your mind to."

He scooted closer as he held out a black pencil, and I let him smeer the color all over.

It was a nice silence, and he was right. I needed to focus on what makes me angry at All Might, and furthermore, why he deserved to die.

The benefits of his death, and the idea of changing society for the better.

"Thank you Shouto."

He smiled softly and stood up to put everything away.

It was time, time for All Might to die.

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Mayhem's PoV

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The lights started flickering, and I could barely hide a grin

"Is this part of the simulation?" The lightning dumbass inquired

I could feel her eyes on me, why was she still watching me?

I would need to deal with this now

"Well hello there heroes, what a lovel— Where is All Might." Shigaraki's voice boomed

All Might should be here. Why isn't he here?

Shigaraki would kill me over this.

For the first time in a long time I felt my gut twist with fear, the idea of slowly decaying was not a pleasant one.

"Stay back students, I will handle this."

An entire army was entering the USJ, did they even know to leave me alive?

Kurogiri was behind us now, he wouldn't leave me to die, right?

Deku stepped out of the portal, face half covered, but the shock coming off of Bakugou was intense.

"I finally made it huh? After years of being told I would never step foot on this campus, I made it."

"Midoriya."

Silence, and then laughter

"YOU BASTARD! Do you have any idea what you've put your mom through? We had a funeral for you!" He screamed

"Funny, I never thought you would attend my funeral, given the fact that you wanted me dead for years. How did you put it? 'Take a swan dive off of the roof, and pray you'll be born with a quirk in your next life?' Well, I'll tell you something Kacchan, the Midoriya you knew is dead."

His fist was around Bakugou's neck in an instant, and the joy in his eyes was something I missed

"I finally did it Kacchan, I'm beating you in a way that I could only ever dream of. Now it's your turn to feel powerless!"

It was at this point that I charged at the two of them. Need to keep up appearances.

"Aw look at that, you have a friend. You ever wonder what happened to your last friends? I know what happened to them, trust me. Their agony was delicious."

"What do you know?"

"Only what I did to them, what he did. Well that was another thing entirely."

"Fucking asshole!"

"Too many of you here, do you mind?" Deku looked to Kurogiri, and suddenly the floor was no more, and I was falling.

I hit a cliff side harder than I expected, but I was ok. Not like I have never gotten hurt before

"Are you ok, Ribbit?"

This was too perfect

"Yeah I am, thank you." I brushed off my pants and looked at the frog girl

"Looks like we are on the cliff above the lake terrain."

"Did anyone else fall through with us?"

"I don't think so, what do you think those villains want, how does Bakugou know them."

"Well, we went to middle school together." Izuku walked through another portal

Tsuyu began to back up until she hit my chest

"They want to kill All Might apparently." I couldn't help a snicker from slipping

"We have to get out of here." She turned to me, and her face dropped, "you're with them, aren't you?"

"What tipped you off, Kermit?"

I started to push her towards Mido

"How could you betray your friends like that?" She growled

"Oh sweetie, I never liked any of you."

"Mayhem, can we get on with this? I kinda wanna go back to Kacchan."

"Whatever you say, Deku."

It was at this point that she started to fight back. Using her tongue to try to launch me across the cliff.

"You're rusty May."

"Well maybe if you all didn't take so long!" I growled and grabbed her tongue, pulling her towards me and shoving my arm through her abdomen, "I wouldn't be so off of my game."

She began to cough up blood violently, and I couldn't help but grin.

"Why?"

"Like I said, I never cared. You were just unlucky, really. Could have happened to anyone." I removed my arm and she crumpled at my feet

"So it was all a lie?"

"I thought you were supposed to be smart, of course it was all a lie." I pressed my boot to her head, until I heard a sickening crack

My favorite color spread beneath her, I had missed this.

"Glad to see you back." My friend clasped my shoulder

"You know if we fail now, I'm going to have to deal with the consequences of killing a student."

"Not if they can't prove shit. All Might isn't here, doesn't mean that the message will be lost. Kurogiri is handling the entrance; clean up and he'll take you to the next location."

"Whatever, I'll do what's necessary for the success of the mission. Even if it means staying here longer." I ran my unbloodied hand through my hair

"I wouldn't ask you to continue if I didn't believe you could do it."

"I know, I just miss my freedom."

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Midoriya's PoV

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"You ready?"

Mayhem nodded, and I blasted him off the cliff into the water below.

I watched as the hero in training weakly coughed

"Since you are going to die anyway, I think you should know something."

Her eyes rolled towards me, and the glare was scathing.

"Even now, when you are dying you still believe in your morals. I'm the way I am today, because of All Might. He destroyed my hopes, with words, and I jumped off a building. So tell me, hero, if that is who you are aspiring to be like, what does that make you."

The whole dome shook as the man I had been waiting for entered, stupid grin on his face.

"Well, it's been nice to know you frog girl. But I have to go kill the number one hero."

She gave no indication that she was still listening.

I checked her pulse, and there was none.

I ran towards the edge of the cliff and launched myself towards the center, towards that stupid fucking yellow suit.

"It's good to see you All Might, we have a surprise for you."

Tomura's voice leaked through my com link, my timing was perfect.

I slammed into the ground, leaving my own mark

"Hey All Might, long time no see." I felt my face stretch into a grin

"Young Midoriya, you are alive." His eyes showed relief

I tossed my jacket to the side, and rolled my shoulders.

I began to create tiny black holes inside of him, and watching him wither in pain was so satisfying

"Young Midoriya, what happened to you?"

"You should really double check who you are training All Might, they may have a personal vendetta against you." I lifted his head and took off my mask

"Whatever they did to you, I promise I can help." He began to cough up blood

"Help me? I'm doing great."

I watched the confusion grow on his face

"DEKU!"

I jumped out of the way just a moment before Kacchan made connection with the spot I was at

"Aw, look, Katsuki has come to protect his idol." I chuckled

Unfortunately, breaking my concentration caused the black holes to dissipate

"Tch"

"What the hell is wrong with you? Where have you been this entire time?"

"With new and old friends. Have to say I finally understand why you kept your two lackeys with you for so long. They were fun to play with, Kacchan."

He blasted off straight for my head, this was too much fun

He always leads with a right hook.

I snagged his arm and launched him towards Shigaraki, but a flash of red hair grabbed him before he could make contact.

"Are you trying to hit me?" The itchy bastard growled

"Come on Shi-Shi, is it that much of an issue if I do?"

"I will tell master about this," He hissed

"And I won't care."

"Baku-bro are you ok?"

"Get off me shitty hair"

How cute, he has someone who cares about him. Heh.

"Tell me something Kacchan. Do you remember the slime monster incident? You should, it's the first time you met All Might."

I looked at the pitiful hero, on the ground, his remaining lung probably flooding with blood.

"What you see now is an act he puts on, like someone trying to show off at the beach, but what they had is long gone."

"Shut up Deku!"

Now the two boys were attacking me, and it was almost laughable. They work well together but I had reinforcements as well.

The Nomu launched itself at Kacchan, his quirk basically useless at the amalgamation that is the creature before us.

"You see, he is actually nothing more than a weak, shell of a man, who is so desperate to keep what he built that he would willingly tell a child, that his dreams could not come true, because he is quirkless."

I knelt before my former idol

"Young Midoriya, I'm sorry I said that to you, but you have to understand. I was scared, I completed the mission of One for All a long time ago, there was no need to pass it on."

"What to kill All for One? Yeah, I don't think so."

His face dropped and horror crossed his features

"You should really double check someone's pulse when you're trying to kill them. Something I've learned through experience."

"There is no way he is alive, there can't be"

"You better not be revealing too much info Deku, I will kill you if you do."

"Heh, you can try, but we both know how that would turn out." I couldn't help but smile

Suddenly there was pain in my gut, as I flew backwards.

"You finally decided to get serious."

"If All for One is seriously behind this, you have no clue who you are dealing with." He glared at me

"Oh, I don't really care. You destroyed everything I believed in, now I'm going to destroy everything you've built."

All Might came at me, but I could see the difference in his power levels. He was much weaker now than he was when I first met him.

"You're getting slow old man."

I ran behind him and launched a kick at the back of his head, but he managed to grab my leg and throw me towards Nomu.

I started back towards him, the ground cracking underneath the pressure.

"Tell me something All Might, if someone died because of something you said, would the world ever know? Would you? Or would the bullshit society we live in cover it up?"

I tried my best to muster the black holes, but with everything going on I could only manage a small one on his left side.

But it was better than nothing

"If you continue to work for that man, you will destroy the world." Blood covered his whole lower lip

"That's what I want."

"He will betray you."

I slammed my fist against his head

"Not if I prove myself too valuable. He will not leave me alone again."

In an instant there was immense pain in my right shoulder.

I grabbed it to find that I had been shot

"Thank the world, the pros are here." The red head coughed, he was supporting Kacchan an trying to defend the both of them from the Nomu

"Young Midoriya, please. Please don't do this, whatever I did to you, I promise I can make it right." All Might's voice broke.

"No, no you can't."

"We need to go, call back the Nomu" I headed straight for Shigaraki

"NO! We have come too far for this now! We can still fight," He hissed

"See, this is why I don't understand how he wants you to be the next king. You're childish and can't understand that with the pros here we don't stand a chance, you couldn't even take out Eraser Head properly." I spat

"You failed to kill All Might, who had the bigger blunder." He wrapped his hand around my neck, almost enough to activate his quirk

"That's enough, Deku is right, we will retreat."

With Kurogiri's opinion added, I made my way back to the portal.

"Izuku, I will end you for this."

"Sure thing Katsuki, but you have to find me first."

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Mayhem's PoV

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If the pros hadn't—

I failed.

If my information had been right, I could've left with them.

Who the fuck contacted the pros? Who the fuck messed it up?

"Good job informing us class rep."

The hero spawn.

"We found one of the students! Call the Recovery Girl!" Someone shouted

Looks like they found Tsuyu.

It was probably too late, shame. She could've made a great pawn.

Screams, sobbing.

A symphony of mayhem, an air of chaos, I breathed clearly for once.

"Students please back up."

The stretcher covered in a sheet passed, it was pure luck that we ended up on that cliff together.

My body ached, bruises and cuts littering my arms and chest, yes I could protect myself, but I wasn't supposed to be unbreakable, yet.

"Hey, Shitty hair." I turned to see Bakugou, he looked like shit, his costume was torn, and blood covered at least thirty percent of his body.

"I appreciate what you did back there, I wasn't in the right headspace."

"No problem BakuBro. Always happy to help." I gave my best fake grin, before the tears started

I felt his arms wrap around me, and I smiled, he was too easy.

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Shouto's PoV

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When the attack team got back we were hoping for better news, but when Tomura punched Izuku in the face we knew things had gone very south.

"You had one job! You had one job and you messed it up!"

"I had one job? YOU STOOD IN THE SAME PLACE THE ENTIRE TIME!"

"I was observing"

"You were being lazy. Like always"

"I WAS COORDINATING!" Shigaraki yelled

"Enough! Both of you!" I stepped between them

"Stay out of this hero spawn. You're only here for leverage against your father, nothing else!" He hissed

It's true but he doesn't need to address it…

"Shouto is far more important than that! All for One is the one who requested that we bring him to our side, you really think he would go after someone for something as trivial as that?"

"I-"

"Are you questioning our leader Tomura?"

"You know what I meant" Shigaraki snarled then stormed off

Izuku sped off in the other direction, and I moved to follow him

"You may wish to give him time. You know how important this was to him." Kurogiri stopped me

I nodded and walked towards my room.

The rest of the night was silent, not even the distance sounds of Shigaraki's gaming system could be heard.

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Midoriya's PoV

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I fucked up.

I fucked up so bad.

All I had to do was open a larger black hole, so why didn't I?

Why couldn't I have just killed him?

It was so easy to kill the others who hurt my family, but not him.

I hesitated and that cost us the mission.

That cost Mayhem his way home.

It cost us months of preparation, the Nomu, and even the element of surprise.

The heroes would probably. Interrogate every single one of the low levels we left behind. It wouldn't be much, but enough.

All Might and Kacchan would most likely want to inform my mother, like she wasn't already in the loop.

I fucked everything up, and now I would have to deal with the consequences.

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Hi. I'm alive, surprisingly.

Um, the last few months have been interesting. That's all I will say. I'm sorry I've taken so long on this chapter…

See you guys soon, hopefully.

Love,

Jade