Disclaimer: This is purely a fan work, and I own none of these characters herein.
Kirishima, the Red Riot, did not consider himself an actor. He had nothing against acting. In fact, he considered action movie heroes some of the manliest role models he could ever have. Still, this was something he had to get over; he pulled over the villainous-looking skull mask over his face, and picked up Deku's unconscious body, clad in his rabbit-looking hero costume, looking at his companions in their own costumes. He nodded to them; Izuku seemed pretty confident in this plan, and he always put his trust in his bros and girl-bros.
As they approached the entrance to UA - where the drop point was, Kirishima leaned over to his nearest companion, Tsuyu, whose face was covered in a ski mask. "Psst. We're almost there. How do I act villainous?"
"Just act really overconfident and angry," she deadpanned. "Like Bakugou with a little more swagger and a lot less confidence issues."
Kirishima nodded and began swinging his free arm loosely as if to show confidence.
We're going to die. Tsuyu and Ochako both thought.
As they stood in front of the gates of the school, a warp gate split at face level with Kirishima, revealing none other than Arachnia.
"And who are you supposed to be?" The elder villain asked.
For a split second, Ochako began to panic; that was one part of the plan they hadn't talked about. Villain names. But before she could open her mouth, Kirishima answered, confidently. "I'm Punch Party."
An awkward silence hung over the air as Arachnia - and everyone else - processed the information.
"And they are...?" Arachnia asked, slowly.
"My Punch Party Posse. The Triple P."
Arachnia blinked. "And...you caught the Midoriya kid? You?"
Kirishima nodded. "He put up quite a fight, but Punch Party and the Party Posse always punch out the Party Poopers."
I'm calling bullshit on him not being a good actor. Tsuyu reminded herself for later.
Arachnia rubbed the bridge of his nose in annoyance, but sighed and widened the warp gate. "I am in for such a talking to when the boss learns some no-name villain caught Midoriya. No offense, kid."
Nervously, the group entered the warp gate and surveyed their surroundings. The walls were a cold steel and monitors were spaced every few feet, showing the various prisoners in their cells. The cracked tile beneath their feet seemed unkempt and slightly decayed, as though the facility had seen better days, and spilled liquid across multiple areas.
"Welcome to the hideout kid. Stay here, I'll go get the boss."
As soon as Arachnia was out of earshot, Uraraka turned to Kirishima and hissed, "Punch Party Posse?! What?!"
"I don't know, kero, I thought it sounded delinquent enough to be believable." Tsuyu added.
"Aw thanks," Kirishima whispered, "I was winging it, but maybe I'm good at this villain stuff after all!"
"Or the acting part, kero."
They all became quiet as footsteps began to echo down the hallway. Shigaraki was there, followed by Kurogiri in a rather dapper suit.
"How serendipitous," Shigaraki said, eying the group, "I was just settling in for a drink; now it can be celebratory. But first, lift up the bunny mask; need to make sure it's him. You understand."
Kirishima nodded and did as instructed and lifted the rabbit mask, revealing Izuku's face and bushy hair.
"Two black eyes on him, ahh..." Shigaraki breathed, a little too happy about seeing a teenage boy beaten to a pulp, "usually happiness isn't something one considers when taking over Japan, but that does put a smile on my face."
"So this means me and my crew get to keep our Quirks?" Kirishima asked, as per the plan, "Punching people with my rock hard fists is my life. It's all I got."
"You may keep your abilities...on one condition." Kurogiri replied.
"Which is?" Kirishima asked.
"Why, you must join us!" Shigaraki answered, spreading his arms out. "You captured this thorn in my side - you surely must be powerful. And that's the great thing about being a villain - you get to lie!"
"Lie...?" Uraraka questioned.
"Everyone is going to lose their Quirks regardless." Shigaraki laughed. "But I wanted my little pet hereto be first. Come, I'll show you..."
"Do you think that's wise, sir?" Kurogiri asked.
"Of course, of course...they are our guests, after all..." Shigaraki replied, waving them down the hallway they he had come from. Cautiously, the group of heroes followed, eyes darting along the walls. Periodically, there would be a few odd looking puddles along the floor. They came to a threeway split at the end of the hallway, but Kurogiri opened the door for them to go straight.
"What's down those other paths?" Kirishima asked.
"Hm?" Black Mist answered. "Oh...those are the holding cells. We'll stash Midoriya in one shortly."
"You're going to want to see this first..." Shigaraki added, voice peppered with excitement. The tone made the others nervous; Tsuyu and Ochako exchanged glances behind Kirishima's back.
At the end of another short hallway they saw a rather tall woman at a table of chemicals and test tubes, measuring out very carefully at an odd, circular object being preserved in a beaker of fluid.
"You better have good news for me, Doctor..." Shigaraki said, in a pleasant tone, but there was a biting undertone there.
"This is Chemistral," Kurogiri muttered to the younger, "villains."
"Yes, sir, however, I used up all my resources perfecting the Quirk Erasure Serum," she replied in cold monotone, her arm stretching across the entire room to grab a specific test tube, making it apparent she had some sort of stretchy Quirk. "Once we are ready to distribute, Twice will need to clone me up some more...product." She stretched the tube around to Shigaraki without turning around.
"Turn around, doctor," Shigaraki sighed, "the test subject is here."
Like a light switch had flipped, the doctor whipped around, her short black hair flying about her face, eyes shining with curiosity behind a thick pair of goggles. "Oh good, I love to test."
"How did you make such a serum?" Tsuyu asked, hoping her usual monotone would hide how unnerved she was right now.
"Oh, here we go..." Shigaraki said, preemptively rolling his eyes.
"Ah, little girl," Chemistral said, thrilled to explain her craft, "well, after our last little experiment by Overhaul failed, Shigaraki and Kurogiri here found me. I have been known to...experiment on Quirks."
She began to giggle nervously, "you bend the ethical rules A LITTLE BIT, and the Japanese government calls you a monster, removes your license." She cleared her throat and regained her composure. "But, as I learned about the prior activities of the League, I realized there was another Quirk out there with the ability to...erase powers."
The heroes could all feel their heart sinks; this was sounding familiar.
Shigaraki turned to them. "Children...you're all familiar with Eraserhead, aren't you? Puddles, seize them."
Despite how unthreatening the name, "Puddles," sounds, all the puddles of liquid shifted, forming under the ground of heroes, and before they could move, they froze, forming ice pillars around them, leaving only their head and hands exposed. Being cold-blooded, Tsuyu immediately became woozy, and she struggled to keep consciousness. The last puddle rose, before shapeshifting into a grinning, short young man with a buzz cut and tattoos up the length of both arms.
"Yeah, it's me!" The man apparently named Puddles laughed. "I'm the puddles! Been watching you the whole time."
"You really thought those disguises would fool me?!" Shigaraki laughed, "The frog girl still crouches! You idiots named yourself Punch Party!"
"N-no, I'm Punch Party," Kirishima stuttered.
"Shut up." Shigaraki replied. He grabbed a small tablet from the tablet, pinky out, and held it up to their faces. "Look what I did to your favorite teacher!"
The students all gasped in horror as they saw Mr. Aizawa's bloody face, though he was still smiling from the gas pouring into his room. He faced the camera and Ochako felt sick...he was missing his right eye.
"We've been cloning and dissecting those wacky Quirk eyes of his, breaking them down into their core chemical components, finding out how to make that power-nullifier into a drug," Kurogiri explained calmly.
Uraraka and Kirishima gagged. Tsuyu might have if she could keep her eyes open, she was struggling not to pass out.
"Oh shut up, I'm just making him look cooler," Shigaraki grunted, "give him an eye patch and he can be a ninja and a pirate. Come on. I'm doing him a FAVOR. Kurogiri, give the good doctor our friend Izuku."
A warp gate opened at the pin point where Izuku's body was resting on Kirishima's shoulder, dropping his body on an operating table in the corner. Shigaraki and Chemistral walked over to them, and Kurogiri and Puddles turned to watch as well. Shigaraki carefully peeled down Izuku's hero suit, exposing his chest, as the doctor filled a syringe. She stretched out the boy's arm, found the vein, and injected the thick blue liquid into his arm. The two began to laugh, cackling at how simple this bad been.
But then they stopped.
Because Izuku's body and clothes melted away, leaving Himiko Toga in their place
"What." Shigaraki deadpanned.
Of course, the biggest mistake was that they turned their backs on Kirishima and his three disguised underlings. Because the third underling was the REAL Izuku Midoriya, who easily was able to break free from the ice with his Full Cowl over the noise of their evil laughter. And before they could turn around, he had already unleashed a devastating roundhouse kick to Kurogiri, which sent him flying into Puddles. They crashed into a storage shelf of chemicals which toppled onto both of them, knocking them out. Puddles lost his grip on the ice housing his friends, and Kirishima immediately smashed the vial containing Aizawa's eye, and flipped the entire table into Shigaraki and Chemistral. Shigaraki ducked and lunged, but Uraraka had already torn a glove off and tapped the villain, floating him to the ceiling helplessly.
Tsuyu, still freezing from what happened, fell to the ground, but Deku scooped her up in his arms before she could hit the floor. "Time to go!"
He kicked the door open, and Uraraka and Kirishima followed. Kirishima stopped, and destroyed the wall next to the door in one punch, pulling a bunch of metal debris and rocks out in front of the door as a makeshift barricade.
As they charged down the hallway, the body heat from Deku's running warmed Froppy up, and she flipped out of his arms. "I love you, but I still can't believe your plan worked."
"Thanks," he panted, "Uraraka and Kirishima, you guys take the left chamber, we'll go right; let everyone go and let's get out of here!"
As they came to the previous fork in the hallway, they split as he commanded, and Izuku tackled his way through another door.
"Well we hit the cells," Froppy pointed out at the long line of cell doors, made of some sort of thick, glowing blue steel. "Now how do we free everyone?"
"There were holes in the plan." Deku replied, nervously, before shaking that off, "maybe I can break the door down."
He charged at the door and unleashed a leaping dropkick at it, but even with as much power as he could muster without breaking his legs, he merely bounced off harmlessly.
"Well, can't punch my way out of this one," He sighed, looking around.
"That was a kick, kero."
"Tsu..."
"I know. I think there's a control panel over by that wall." She gestured towards the opposite wall with her tongue, and the two began charging towards it.
But as the approached, a trickle of water fell from an air vent, revealing Puddles, who had come to stop them.
"Hey guys," he grunted, "That's not an ICE way to make new friends!" He yelled, sending a pillar of ice at them, not unsimilar to how Todoroki would. They both managed to dive out of the say to the left.
"I'm going to throw you to the control panel," Deku whispered to her, "when he charges up another ice attack. He knows they mess you up now."
"But you'll get hit! Kero!" she hissed back.
"Trust me. I'll be okay!" He reassured her.
Puddles reared back for another ice pillar. "Come on, are you two really giving me the COLD shoulder?"
"Okay, I trust you," Tsuyu agreed, "And I don't want to hear any more ice puns. Kick his ass."
As Puddles began to throw another wave of ice, Tsuyu and Izuku locked arms, and he spun her around and threw her through the air over Puddles' head. As Deku completed his spin, he used a 20% Full Cowl to clap his hands together, creating a shockwave that broke the ice pillar, and sending shards of frozen water back at the villain. Puddles had taken his eyes off Izuku though as Tsuyu sailed over his head, so he was a sitting duck as chunks ice began cutting him.
"Argh!" He yelled as one rammed into his eye.
This was the perfect opening; Deku sprang forward, leaping into the air and front flipping, bringing his right heel down across Puddles' head in a devastating axe kick.
The control panel was pretty rudimentary - probably in case anyone needed to use it - Froppy was able to quickly shut off the vents and open all the cells rather easily once in front of it. She turned to Deku as all the cells slid open. "I'll start at this end, kero! Start at the entrance and we'll meet in the middle!"
"Got it!" He yelled back, before leaping back towards the entrance of the room.
Froppy could kick shackles out of a wall no sweat, and it didn't take much power through Full Cowl to yank the chains out of the wall either. They quickly realized that this wing was housing the students that had been kidnapped from UA. Once the gas had worn off, they were all incredibly happy to see their friends (except Bakugou, of course, who silently seethed that he had - yet again- been saved by Deku), but an alarm began to blare through the base.
Their classmates were starving, exhausted, and dehydrated, but rose to their feet and did their best to get to the door, Froppy and Deku rounding them up from the back of the group. But as they started moving forward, he looked down to see a small portal on the floor with a familiar disfigured hand sticking out of it. It was closing in on Froppy's leg.
Gasping, he tackled her to the side, just narrowly avoiding all finger fingers closing around her ankle. As the rainy-season hero looked up at her, confused, he uttered, "He's here."
Portals began popping up all over the room, hands reaching in and grabbing at thin air. The students began to yell and shoot whatever their quirks were towards the portals in retaliation, but they closed before anything could connect. Finally, a warp gate opened at the entrance, blocking their way out.
"GOOD JOB DEKU," Bakugou shouted, "THIS DID ABSOLUTELY - OW!"
A prehensile tongue had slapped him across the face. "Shut up." Froppy directed, not even looking towards him.
Shigaraki stepped through the gate, and everyone was poised to attacked, but he waved a finger. "I wouldn't do that if I were you. Take a look at the screen."
He gestured to his right, and one of the many surveillance screens showed that Uravity and Red Riot had been apprehended by Dabi and Arachnia.
Shit. Deku grimaced. I hope they're okay.
"You all make our way to your cells, or your friends and ALL the Pro Heroes they failed to save WILL DIE!" Shigaraki yelled, pointing to the cells along the wall.
"Good job, geniuses." Bakugou griped. "Did your stupid Deku plan have a stupid Deku back up plan for this."
The room rumbled.
"Actually, yeah," Deku replied.
A giant foot smashed through the roof, stomping down on Shigaraki, breaking his warp gate and knocking him out. "OW, MY DAMN FOOT!" Mt. Lady yelled from above, retracting her hurting appendage.
As she did, Endeavor, Hawks, Best Jeanist, and the other top 10 heroes dropped down into the base, followed by All Might.
"Actually, this was the main plan," Froppy pointed out to Bakugou, "breaking you all out ourselves was the back-up plan if Deku's tracking device failed."
"They fell for the tracking device bit again?!" Momo asked.
"Right?! I thought for sure they'd scan us for it the second we got in, but nope!" Deku laughed.
The Top Heroes showed just why they were ranked that way; they burst into the room Dabi and and Arachnia were in, and together, disposed of them quite quickly. Kurogiri knew when to fold them, and fled the situation. All Might apprehended the disposed of Shigaraki with special restraints to combat his quirk. The rest of the villains fled, though most were captured.
"Sorry it took so long, you're so far underground it was hard to pick up a clear signal." All Might explained to Midoriya and Asui, but looked around and added, "Although you nearly pulled this off by yourself. I'm impressed."
What happened in the next half an hour was a sight for the students to see; the Top Ten Heroes and the police force had raided the entire hideout, securing the facility, and carting off the villains to jail. Ambulances were called in from all over to take the students and heroes to be checked out, due to their extreme cases of dehydration and other such conditions.
"You were supposed to screen all entrants for tracking devices, you idiot," Dabi growled to Arachnia as they were placed in the back of the police transport.
"Look kid, you get to my age, and you forget shit." Arachnia grumbled.
Sitting outside the base, Deku, Uraraka, Kirishima, and Tsuyu watched as the police transported the villains, and their friends began to get taken by medical transport. Before it was his turn to be checked out, Todoroki snuck over to them though; he had questions.
"How did you manage to pull this off, Midoriya?" He asked.
"Well, they sent Toga after me, which was their first mistake when Tsu and Kirishima kicked her butt. Then they ran this ad about erasing everyone's Quirks unless I was surrendered to the League." Deku explained.
"So he came up with this plan," Uraraka said excitedly, "Where we'd force feed Toga his blood so she'd look like him, knock her out, and then turn her over. We'd wear trackers and then the Pro Heroes could storm the place."
"It took All Might a lot of convincing to get the Pro Heroes to do it, since we're underraged and unlicensed." Tsuyu added.
"But the Pros will be getting all the credit. All reports will say it was their plan and we were just the brave volunteers." Kirishima sighed. "But the manly thing is that you bros and girl-bros are safe."
"That's...astounding." Todoroki replied, "I am in your debt."
That nice moment was interrupted though, as Bakugou burst through the crowd of students, angrily charging towards his saviors.
"YOU DAMN NERD! I'M GOING TO -"
That's as far as he got though, because Kirishima charged forward and scooped him up in a bear hug.
"BAKU-BRO! I'M SO GLAD YOU'RE BRO-KAY!" Kirishima yelled, tears of joy streaming down his face.
"...let me go, you dummy." Bakugou grumbled, turning bright red after an awkward pause.
"I'm so confused right now." Tsuyu whispered to Deku. He just nodded.
As the night waned on, All Might secured a ride home for the four students who had pulled off the plan. Worn out, Kirishima and Uraraka passed out in the backseat fairly quickly. Tsuyu rested her head against Izuku's shoulder.
"Thank you, Midoriya." She whispered to him in the darkened car.
"For what?" He asked, confused.
"You saved me, this time. Remember?" She asked, "Shigaraki's hand nearly got me."
He rested his head on top of hers. "I'm just glad you're safe. Thank you for sticking with me through this."
Her tongue found his nose in the darkness. "I'll stick with you through everything, Midoriya. I love you."
"I love you too," he replied, allowing his eyes to close as he relaxed into his seat.
Over the next few weeks, life slowly returned to normal for the students of UA. The school remained closed while they repaired it and updated their security to prevent teleportation - something the Support Class was more than happy to help with. Their work was still sent home to them in a weekly package, but they finally received word classes would be resuming. The students were happy, though there was still some controversy in the media surrounding the events that had transpired.
"Are you sure you want to keep going there, Izuku?" Inko had asked her son, "There are other programs out there..."
"I'm sure mom...being a hero is all I've ever wanted. And I won't learn it from any place better," he assured her. "Besides, most of the League has been disbanded."
She sighed. "I know that look in your eyes. I suppose I can't stop you from your dreams. I've learned that all too well."
Izuku turned and hugged his mother. "I'm going to be the greatest hero, mom. Mark my words."
"Just take care of yourself," she sighed into his shoulder. "And take care of that Tsuyu, too. She's a keeper."
"Heh...a-alright mom," he answered, embarrassed. "You got it. I think I'm going to get some sleep. Me and the others had a hard day of training."
"Alright. Goodnight, son," Inko smiled. "I am proud of you. Worried. Terrified, even. But proud."
"Thanks mom. Goodnight."
Deku sat on his bed and waited a few minutes, to make sure his mom wouldn't come back in, before taking out his phone.
-Coast is clear.
He opened his window, and within moments, Tsuyu crawled in and leapt into his arms.
"Sorry," he whispered, "mom was just really worried about us going back to UA."
Tsuyu just smiled and leaned in, kissing him. "I overheard. It's sweet she wants you to watch out for me. I'm glad she likes me."
"What about you? Are you excited to go back?" He asked.
She nodded, "The break has been nice, but it'll be nice to have things going back to normal. And," she began, crawling over him, pushing him back down against his bed, and kissing him once more, "I've missed staying in your dorm with you. My bed gets real lonely at night..."
Izuku was already turning crimson, but he was already lifting her shirt off all the same, "I've missed that too..."
As school settled back in, things didn't immediately return to normal. Mourning the loss of his eye and Stanley, Aizawa took a sabbatical to find himself. Midnight took over for him for awhile, making their learning and training...different. But as he returned, and life went on, the students of 1-A graduated to year 2 of their hero training.
It was a few months into their second year of hero training that Izuku approached Tsuyu after class - earlier than their scheduled date, and asked her to put on a blindfold. She did, hesitantly, and blushed as she felt him pick her up and take off running. He had come so far- he could now summon 50% of One for All's power with his Full Cowl.
Within moments, he stopped, and said, "Okay, you can take it off."
She dropped the blindfold, and rolled her eyes. Deku had taken her to their stream - where she had told him her feelings - and had set up a small picnic.
He frowned when he saw her reaction. "You don't like it?"
Tsuyu burst out laughing and threw her arms around him. "I love it, you dork. But you're a little predictable in the romance department, and I figured you'd take me here." She kissed him, "But this is really sweet, which is why I love you."
Deku rubbed the back of his neck. "I thought it was the hair."
"That's a strong number two, kero."
"I just wanted to start off our date here tonight," Izuku explained, grabbing her hands. "It's been a year."
She beamed at him. "You're a corny dork and I love it. You're the best."
He beamed back. "Well, you kept me for a year. Gotta be doing something right."
She smooched him. "Yeah, and you're stuck with me forever now."
"Good." Izuku replied, enveloping Tsuyu in his arms. "This has been the best year of my life."
