Uraraka arrived home. Her mother welcomed her in with open arms.

"Ochako, I am so glad you're back home!" her mother exclaimed, embracing her fervently.

Her father joined in the group hug.

"I just … we thought you were gone." Ochako's father was a mess of tears.

Ochako began to cry too as she was reunited with her parents.

"This is like a dream. I thought I had become one of those parents, the ones who everyone thinks they'll never be. You never think it'll happen to you…"

"How did you survive?" her father asked.

"Well, I had pulled Tsuyu away from the group to talk about something private…"

"What was it?"

"Well, I should probably let you guys know… It's really embarrassing…"

"It couldn't beat what your father did in high school." Her mother nodded at her.

"I accidentally told a boy that I loved him over phone."

"Who is it?"

"Izuku Midoriya…" (Note: In Japanese, the last name comes first, so it would be switched.)

"Do you love him?"

"Well, it doesn't really matter, because I'm never going to see him again."

"So, that's a yes, then."

"Why did I do it?"

"Well, sometimes, we as human beings want closure. That's probably why you sent it."

"No, the closure before was perfect before I ruined it by sending that stupid text. Stupid!"

"Then maybe the reason you sent the text, is because you didn't want closure. You wanted to continue your relationship with him."

"Well, yeah, but it's not like he lives near here anymore anyway."

Her father spoke up. "Maybe you wanted closure for your feelings, even if it meant ruining closure for your friendship."

"So how did he respond?" Her mother inquired expectantly.

"He hasn't."

"Ooh, bad sign."

"Well, no, that just means he lives in a place where he never gets phone service. He's probably thinking 'What did she mean by that? Is that girl into me or something? What a pain!'"

"Well, if he's a decent man," her father started. "—He'll care about your feelings."

Ochako covered her face with her hands. "He has the best personality I know of. He cares deeply for everyone, and he tries to protect people, regardless of whether it's safe to do so. He saved my life on the day we first met. I—I was so thoughtless when I sent that text. I wish I could just take it back."

"Can't you delete texts?"

"Well, it was right before he lost connection."

"Well, I've had a lot of awkward teen years, but nothing quite like that."

"Oh, dinner is almost ready!" her mom interjected. "It's your favorite! By that I mean your fifth favorite dinner meal!"

"Fifth favorite? I feel so adored," Ochako joked. "But really, that sashimi you make hits the spot."

Tsuyu got home. She knocked on the door.

When her father opened it, he fainted, falling nearly on top of his daughter.

His blood fell on the doorstep.

"Mom! Dad fainted!" Tsuyu called.

"Oh, no…" Her mother came to pick him up. "Man, he landed right on his nose. Tsuyu, can you help me carry your father inside?"

"Why aren't you guys at work?"

"Well, our normal babysitter fell ill right about when your classroom was attacked. We called other people, but we haven't found—"

"But why are you both here?"

"Well… We wanted to be together as a family in the time following your assumed death. But, thank God, you're alive!"

"There. Set him down. Okay, can you get an ice pack?" Tsuyu's mom ran to get hydrogen peroxide.

"Yeah!"

Her siblings looked over at her in awe.

"Hi guys," Tsuyu greeted, busy getting ice out of the freezer.

Todoroki woke up.

He looked at his hospital surroundings. "Where am I? What happened?"

He took out his phone and dialed up Tokoyami. There was no answer.

"Eh, I'll leave him a voicemail," he thought. Then he spoke after the beep. "Hi, Tokoyami. Just woke up in the hospital. I'm feeling better, but I'm a little disoriented. That's all I had to say. Bye."

Then the nurse came in. She jumped when she saw that he was awake. "Your sister said she wanted to talk to you when you woke up." The nurse gave Shouto a landline phone and then left the room.

"Todoroki?" Momo asked.

"You're not Fuyumi!" Shouto exclaimed in surprise. "Who is this?!"

"Your classmate, Yaoyorozu. I just wanted to inform you that you, I, Uraraka, and Asui were the only four survivors of the villain attack on UA that I know of. Maybe a couple of the others managed to survive, but I highly doubt it. You should probably contact your family; they probably think you're dead. Call me later if you want more information, but you should really contact your family as soon as you can."

"Yes. Thank you for filling me in." Did that mean that the friend to whom he sent a voicemail was dead? That really didn't feel good. He called his father.

Meanwhile, Endeavor was yelling at Nezu because he thought his son had died.

Nezu looked down at the ground. Nothing the school could have done could have prevented this except for suspending school in advance of the attack, which they had no way of knowing would happen.

Then his phone rang with Todoroki's ringtone. Nezu saw Shouto's name on the screen.

"What?!" Endeavor exclaimed. He answered the call.

"I'm alive. Quit freaking out and apologize." Then Todoroki hung up. He had assumed that his father would do something rash when he heard the news of Todoroki's supposed death.

"Was that your son?" Nezu asked.

"Yes," Endeavor admitted. "I don't know how he survived that attack, but my irritable son must be some tough nut. I'll give him that."

Then Todoroki called his other family members and then Yaoyorozu again.

Word got out to the authorities that they four had survived.

"—this is Toshu Dageki." (打撃・徒手) Inawara poked Toshu in the side. "His given name means kegs of sake, so you could guess that he's always drunk."

"No, it means bare-handed! My name means bare-handed blow, and that's all!" Toshu seemed irritated.

"Actually, your full name could be phonetically misinterpreted as "Drunken Brawl", but I wasn't going to go there."

"It means bare-handed blow. Period."

Inawara giggled.

"So, you were really working hard out there earlier," Wakadou stated. "That's good. I don't respect people who don't work hard."

Izuku nodded his head nervously. Something about Wakadou reminded him of Bakugo.

"You're pretty green, aren't you, Midoriya?" Tori looked closely at Midoriya. "Where'd you go to school before coming here?"

"UA High," Izuku croaked.

"What?!" Inawara exclaimed.

"How'd you get in there?" Wakadou asked. None of them yet knew that UA was no more.

"I passed the entrance exam."

"How does a scrawny guy like you pass the UA entrance exam?"

"It's a long story…"

"Wait, are you that guy from the sports festival?" Tori asked.

"Uh, yeah, I did participate in the sports festival…"

"Oh! Wow!" Inawara exclaimed.

~ time of UA's downfall ~

Bakugo blasted out the wall moments before the poison gas enveloped his classmates.

He saw the gathering villains all over campus. This was no small attack.

He yelled, sending explosions all over the place.

One of the villains struck at Bakugo, missing him by a hair.

Bakugo quickly realized that this was not a battle he could survive being present for, forget winning.

He blasted himself up into the air and away, muttering obscenities.

~ one month later ~

Izuku and his classmates were taking a rare school field trip.

They were going to be learning about great heroes at Japan's premiere hero museum.

Over the last few weeks, Midoriya had grown closer to Inawara and Wakadou, along with Kotori and Dageki.

"Who's excited for the museum?!" Wakadou exclaimed with sarcastic glee.

"I am!" Midoriya responded. He didn't catch that none of them wanted to go, with all of their sarcastic glowing remarks about yearning to go.

"I'm going to learn about dead people, and it'll be like, so fun. Like, let's learn about dead heroes!" Inawara exclaimed in an odd voice. "It's totally not depressing and boring."

"Well, not all of them are dead…" Izuku wore a look of confusion. What were they talking about? He loved his new friends, but he didn't always understand them.

"Personally, I just want to find where they are handing out free cookies," Tori stated.

"I don't wanna go…" Dageki moaned.

"Come on, be a sport," Wakadou responded sarcastically. "You know, the only way you'll succeed in life is blah, blah, blah. That's what our teacher says, after all."

"If you'll work together with others, right? Is that what she says?" Midoriya asked.

Wakadou looked at Midoriya like he was an idiot, with an unimpressed deadpan stare.

"It would be cool if they did have cookies…" Inawara snapped out of her trance. "Stop giving me ideas, Kotori!"

Kotori chuckled.

"This is just more training I'm missing…" Dageki complained.

"Hey, don't you need to give your muscles a rest now and then like the rest of us?" Wakadou asked.

"No. That's my quirk, remember? Every time I use my muscles they get stronger. I can't overwork them. That's why they bulge so much. I want to bulk up as much as I can."

"You already have the third widest muscles in our entire school, Dageki. Don't you think you're good?" Tori asked.

"Man," Izuku thought. "If I had been born with Dageki's quirk, training for One for All sure would've been easier." The powers were actually quite similar: Dageki's quirk stockpiled muscular strength, while Izuku's quirk stockpiled raw power and could be passed on.

The bus stopped.

They got out one at a time.

When they were all out, the teacher began explaining to them what they were going to do.

"Wait a second…" Izuku said to Wakadou. Then he jumped up on Wakadou's shoulders.

"Why are you on my shoulders?" Wakadou asked.

"See that hand that's grabbing your foot? Shigaraki is here."

"What—" He looked down, realizing that there was a hand grabbing his foot.

The students who tried to rip their foot out of the hand grabbing them began to decay, as did their teacher, screaming and wailing. Thankfully, Inawara, Kotori, and Dageki had been too flummoxed by the hands grabbing them to act.

"Just stand still, everyone. I think Shigaraki is about to show himself." Midoriya's face looked very somber.

Everyone that had shown a fight or flight response was now dying. Only those who froze were okay, which was about three-quarters of them, surprisingly.

Shigaraki arose from the ground. "Deku! I'm so happy to see you! It's been a long time, hasn't it? In retrospect, I should have kidnapped the gravity girl and the frog lady. That would have been a hoot. Wait, why didn't I just do that in the first place?! That crafty frog… Anyway, just so you know, I'm here to torture your friends, kill them, torture you, find out where All Might is, and kill you!"

"All Might?" one of the students muttered.

"Stay away from me, Shigaraki! Your organization already killed my old classmates. Isn't that enough?!"

"No. No, no… NO. It'll never be enough. But … how about I make you an offer?"

"What?"

"Not you, the one you're sitting on."

"Me?" Wakadou asked.

"Yeah, you. Drop Midoriya, and I'll let your class go free."

"I refuse to hand over someone who was smart enough to climb onto my shoulders when your hands started surfacing."

"Should I kill you, then?"

"You're the head of the Villain Alliance, aren't you? The worst of the worst?"

Shigaraki lit flames of five different colors above the fingers of his left hand. "We are no longer just the Villain Alliance. We are the New World Order, and the first step to that plan is extinguishing One for All, All Might's power, or even better, taking it for ourselves."

"Is that your quirk?" Inawara asked, dumbfounded, to Izuku.

Izuku tried a technique he had recently learned. He funneled his power through Wakadou's body, shocking Shigaraki, disabling him momentarily. He had found that his power could be turned into energy, yet it was different from Kaminari's quirk, because Kaminari's quirk was easily converting energy into lightning, while Izuku had to pass the energy through something.

The energy flowed through Wakadou, electrocuting everyone including Shigaraki.

They all fell forward as if dead. Midoriya hit the ground hard, but quickly got up.

Midoriya ran at Shigaraki. He had to kill him.

Right when he was about to reach him, Kurogiri nabbed Shigaraki and took him through a portal.

"No… He won't be so careless again," Izuku stated. "I need to restart their hearts."

Izuku was able to one by one, defibrillate them back to life. The process was tedious, but he managed to get it done before any of them died.

They all seemed confused when they woke up. They remembered what happened, but gaining consciousness where they did was still startling.

Tori cleared his throat. "I am fairly certain I speak for everyone when I say this. If you are endangering all of our lives, we don't want you to be here." Tori stated.

Midoriya responded. "I need to get good training for my quirk somewhere. The fact is that I left UA High to protect my classmates, and look at what happened to them." He didn't want to think about it… didn't. He had heard about the destruction of UA only recently. He had been heartbroken. They didn't know of any survivors.

"Well, when you say it like that, it sounds like we should all skedaddle." Inawara determined.

They looked back at the dead students and the dead teacher.

Dageki spoke up. "This is why I hate field trips."

Izuku started to cry. "It seems like lately, I bring death wherever I go."

"Then why did you come to our school?!"

"I—I thought that they wouldn't find me here…"

"Well, aren't you a smart one! I knew there was something different about you." Tori stated. "I never would have guessed this."

Izuku's tears increased. He had brought so much death. All of his friends from UA, as far as he knew, were dead. Now a quarter of his new class was dead, and the rest were in danger and hated him for it. He thought of all of his old classmates, (he hadn't heard the news that four survived), and once again, his mind rested on Ochako Uraraka, but this time, it wasn't muffled under the covers of his bunk. It wasn't sniffling in the dead of night. He was falling apart in dramatic fashion before the very eyes of his classmates. He didn't know how he was going to make it anymore. Why they hadn't gone after his mother yet, he had no clue. He just hoped that they had forgotten of her existence. He couldn't go back to her. It would endanger her even way more.

"I thought you weren't a weakling, but now you show your true colors, huh?" Wakadou stated.

"My entire class died! Now many of us have died! My teachers have died! And you're going to call me weak?! Yeah, I wonder how weak you'd feel if everyone you loved was at high risk of getting killed because of their association with you! I wonder how weak you'd feel if you could barely even defend your own life. I wonder how weak you'd feel if you realized that even with a great quirk, you cannot save the people you care about most. Yes, weak is what I am. But that doesn't define who I am. I have trained to become a hero so that I can save people. What are you all training for? Money? Fame? Taking out villains?"

"That's ironic," Tori stated. "You're going to end up costing more people their lives than you will save. Because of you, we're all in danger. I say this with a heavy heart, and apprehension, but seriously, kill yourself."

Midoriya couldn't take it anymore. He grabbed Tori by the neck, his green sparks dancing around his glove. "Be quiet."

After that, everyone was afraid of him.

Author's Note: Never commit suicide or tell anyone to, period. It is not an escape mechanism for suffering. It always makes it worse. This is common sense, but, you know, not all of the characters in this story are very savvy when it comes to matters of life and death.

Think about this. Pain signals are warning systems of our bodies that alert us when we are being damaged. If someone kills themselves to escape pain, that's like feeding oneself to wolves because one is tortured by all of the horror stories one has heard about wolves devouring people.

"I have to extinguish One for All, before we take over the world!" Shigaraki shouted. "I can't believe that little brat! Well, he and All Might will be killed at my hand soon enough. I shouldn't be so rash…"

"I still don't understand why we don't just take over the world first," Kurogiri stated.

"Well, you know that lady with the Foresight quirk we have in Sector KA-4? She warned me against trying to take out the world before destroying One for All. She has no motive to lie to us. She said that One for All is our only roadblock."

"I still don't understand…"

"You know why One for All is so dangerous, right?"

"No…"

"One for All stockpiles power. It can be passed down like All for One, but One for All, while it is much weaker than All for One right now, gets more powerful with each user. I need to get rid of it as soon as I can. You know that I am only the second bearer of All for One. I have previously taken the idea of stealing One for All out of consideration, but I actually think that now I want to pursue that first. Although, I don't think the previous holders would be willing to lend me their power… It only works if the first holder approves of you, if it works anything like All for One."

This chapter took a long time to write. I hope you enjoyed! I am not sure how quickly I want to wrap this up. Maybe a few more chapters. (I know, this will be hilarious if I make the story super long.)