Rin landed almost silently from the little roof of the building her and Dabi had been standing on, the red head nearly skipped over towards Mr. Compress as if they had not spent the past half an hour fighting for their lives. She was floating on cloud nine now. Dabi had praised her, he called her hot and then kissed her. Should such a simple act make her so happy? Probably not but it did for some reason.
Strolling up to Mr. Compress, who looked to be stuck in the muddy goop that Rin assumed was from all the dead Twice doubles, was more than happy to offer him a helping hand.
"Looks like you're a bit stuck. Need a hand?" She asked as she reached her right hand out for the man to take.
"I could use a new one if you got any to spare," was the joke that had the woman laugh as Mr. Compress reached out to take her offered hand.
"Don't worry I'll try and fix you up once this is all over," she said before Compress grabbed her hand and she found herself wincing as pain shot through her palm as she pulled. Luckily he came out quickly with a little help.
"You okay?" Mr. Compress asked as he watched the pain that had crossed Rin's face. Glancing down at her palms they were already blistering and bubbling. Looked like they could have severe first degree burns, maybe even second degree.
"Well I think my fingerprints may be done for. But I can speed up the cell regrowth later. I'll be fine," she answered with a smile on her face even as her hands burned and ached. But as long as she didn't move her fingers the pain was not too bad.
"Well look at it this way. You could be the perfect criminal if you have no fingerprints you can leave behind at a crime scene," Mr. Compress said lightly, trying to keep the mood light. Which earned him a smile from the woman.
"You're right. I'll never have to worry about leaving fingerprints anywhere," she laughed lightly. She was in too good of a mood to worry about her injuries. Funny how someone could be in the middle of a battlefield, fighting for their life and still find the ability to smile.
A sudden gust of wind had Rin raising one arm to protect her face as dirt and debri hit against her body. Looking over once the dust had settled she could see a single line of where something had taken out a good block or two at least if not more. That killed her buzz a little as worry washed over her.
"I hope no one got hit by that attack," she said more so as an out loud comment to herself. But it seemed Compress had heard it anyway.
"I am sure everyone is alright," That sadly did not settle Rin's unease as she was still worried for her friends. She had not seen Toga since the fighting started. Twice had not returned with her. But his doubles were still all over the place and that meant he was alive, right? And if he was alive then Toga had to be too. Now the fighting that was going on in the distance meant someone strong was still fighting. That had to be Shigaraki. It couldn't be anyone else other than Dabi or Shigaraki, and Dabi was with her. Didn't take a genius to know who was still fighting.
He was still alive and still fighting. How he could be doing it she did not know. Shigaraki was running off of sheer will power now. That determination was a little scary. To know he had that much strength and will power was almost inhuman. Was that man actually human? Rin was starting to question it as she could hear and feel the fighting continue even though she was a good distance away from the big fight.
She did not have any more time to worry about her friends. More people were already starting to flood the streets again. Though the amount was slowing down she couldn't help but groan softly. Where in the world were all these people coming from?
"Ugh, they're like cockroaches. You kill off some and even more take their place. When is this going to end?" She asked, her body was quickly feeling exhausted. Rin wasn't sure how much more she could take.
She could hear Mr. Compress laughing at her exhausted complaint. It was all she could do to simply dodge the attacks aimed at her. Honestly Rin was starting to wonder. How much longer could this last? Their side was already exhausted and pushing limits before this fighting even started. Shigaraki had not slept in over a month. And besides Dabi the rest of them had been taking shifts to try and help him. A month of battling was hard on anyone. And Rin was out of shape, her body and quirk were not accustomed to the harsh conditions. Her body felt so heavy, forcing it to move was becoming a real struggle. She tried to stay close to Mr. Compress, but that was not always easy when it is all one can do to dodge and run. The Twice clones at least seemed to work very well and evening out the numbers. But Rin still found herself dodging people and attacks.
Something suddenly collided with her back. The hit knocked the air from her lungs and sent her tumbling to the ground. She instinctively threw her hands out to try and break her fall. The broken up cement shredded her blistered palms. She cried out at the pain. That really hurt. But before she could think about it too much, a pressure at her back kept her pinned to the ground. What she assumed was a hand had grabbed a handful of her long hair, her head was crashed first into the ground and proceeded to wrench her head back. She couldn't see who it was but they clearly weighed more than she did as there was no way she could push herself up. She clawed at the hand that held her hair, but it was useless. She couldn't use her quirk any more or she could pass out, but still she refused to let herself die in a place like this.
The ground beneath her was shaking, people were yelling. The atmosphere had suddenly shifted. The hand in her hair loosened. Her right hand was searing around for anything she could use as a weapon. A broken chunk of rebar stuck in a bit of cement was within her reach. With what strength she had left she grabbed it and proceeded to slam it back onto the upper thigh of the body that was sitting on her. The hand in her hair disappeared. She could drop her head as she listened to the body above her wale. She pushed back as hard as she could, sending the body on top of her toppling over. Jumping to her feet she swung around to take in the sight of a stringy man sitting on the ground now holding at his bleeding thigh with the chunk of rebar sticking through his leg.
"I suggest leaving that in unless you wanna risk bleeding to death," She said breathless as she turned and started to walk away even as the man screamed. She wanted to get back to Dabi, get back to where she felt the safest. Though the street has suddenly seemed empty. What was going on?
Looking around she could see the top of a mountain running through town. It was Gigantomachia running through the middle of town. She never in this wildest world would think she would be so happy to see that walking mount of a beast. But in that moment she could have almost kissed that damn walking mountain of a thing. All the enemies who were still alive and fighting able, seemed to be putting their full efforts into stopping the beast that was heading right into the middle of the city and the middle of the battle. He was heading straight for Shigaraki. Perfect, this was just like they planned. Gigantomachia would clear anyone in his path out, no one would stop him. And hopefully Shigaraki could use him to take out the big boss that he had been currently fighting with as the world shook beneath her feet. Still now was not the time to stand around like an idiot. She needed to find Compress and Dabi and they should start to make their way towards Shigaraki as well.
Dragging her feet back down the street she quickly found Compress just standing back watching the events unfold before him, Dabi had retreated to stand with him and seemed to me inspecting himself while Compress was watching the mountain bulldoze its way through the buildings and people alike.
"Looks like reinforcements have finally arrived, and not a moment too soon," She said to herself with a sigh as she felt the stress leave her body knowing the fighting should not last much longer.
"Great. He woke up early for once. If we try for a fight with him now, the league will be annihilated," Compress said as he watched the dust in the distance from the beast.
"Crappy timing I was just about to melt that ice bastard," Dabi was complaining.
"It's good timing and you know it. That ice user was going to prove to be a real issue. Your body is already starting to overheat again. And I can not release the pent up heat again," She said as she walked up and proceeded to lean straight into the man as she used him to help hold up her own body and buried her face into his chest. Though that was a bad idea as the stench of burning flesh filled her nose as she pushed herself off of him.
"Ugh you stink," She complained, not at all enjoying the smell of burning human flesh. She could hear Compress talking with the doctor but she didn't care about what they had to say.
"Well you don't exactly smell like flowers and sunshine yourself," He growled at her. And in a sense she knew he was right. Her body was covered in sweat, dirt and honestly who knows what else. She was pretty sure she felt something warm running down the left side of her face. She had probably cut her face open when it had been hit into the ground. And the bloody hand marks she left on Dabi's white shirt told her that her palms were now bleeding as well.
"We should regroup with everyone. Shigaraki is fighting in the middle of all this. We should go and help him," Rin said as she turned to start walking towards the heavy dust in the air. But before she could get even more than a few steps away from Dabi the ground started to shake. It was like an earthquake was going on. But it wasn't. Building around the middle of the city where shaking and crumpling. She could hear some crashing to the ground. And then everything seemed to go silent. No more shaking, no more crumpling buildings, even Gigantomachia could no longer be seen or hurt. It was almost an eerie silence. She looked around before looking over at the two men.
"Does this mean the fight is over? And who won?" She couldn't help but ask when the silence had persisted. She looked between the two men but all she got was a shrug from Dabi and a slight smile that she could see from Mr. Compress broken mask.
"I do not know but I guess we should go and see," Mr. Compress said before he started to lead the way through the rubble.
"I don't see why we should bother," Dabi complained but yet he still started walking.
"Because we need to know if Shigaraki is dead or alive," She said bluntly as she fell into step with Dabi and was leaning into him for support as her eyes felt heavy as she walked. She could feel a strong and almost painfully hot arm wrap around her shoulder to help guard her as she walked.
What they found was rather surprising. A large crater sat in the middle of the city. Rin didn't even want to think about how many blocks had been just flattened during the fight as the crater had to have been blocks large. Shigaraki was standing in the middle of it. Or at least Rin was pretty sure that was him. It was a bit hard to tell at first. His hair was stark white, his body beaten and bloody. But those bright red eyes of his told her that that was indeed Shigaraki standing there. And he had been the victor. People who were once trying to kill them were now running around. Hanabata was barking orders at people. Getting some to help get Re-Destro out of the crater. It was not exactly what she expected, then again she did not know what she did expect.
Still she pushed off of Dabi's side and carefully started to make her way towards Shigaraki. He was still standing there in what remained of his torn pants and nothing more. Though it's not like the sight of him shirtless was anything new. But her eyes roamed over him anyways. Not to take in his lack of clothes but to take in the sight of him and all of the severe injuries he was now sporting. He stood with all the weight on his right leg and almost none on his left.
"Shigaraki!" She called out as she approached him as fast as she could. Those bright red eyes turned to look over at her as she approached. He didn't greet her, but he also did not push her away as she started to fuss over him.
"Left ankle looks like it is broken, but no laceration that's good," She was now rambling to herself as she reached out to grab gently at his left hand as her eyes bounced between both hands and arms. Her medic school knowledge was kicking in as she listed off the injuries to herself as she worked out mentally how to deal with each one. "Right arm looks entirely broken, as well as a drawback from over use of one's quirk. Skin is also damaged up and into the shoulder but seems to still be intact. Left hand is missing the thumb, first and second fingers, third and forth are damaged but look savable."
"I need someone to get down here and help me get him moved," Rin had turned and was barking her own orders at people who were not far away form Re-Destro who was apparently half the man he was when this fighting started. She seemed to get a mix of reactions from the people. Some looked almost scared of her, or maybe it was the man standing beside her that they really feared. Others looked angry at her.
"Do as she says," Re-Destro said when no one instantly jumped to help her. That seemed enough to have two of the people fussing over him to jump up and run over to Rin and Shigaraki as the two of them were both barely standing on their own as it was.
"Let's get out of this hole, Shigaraki. But first I will stop the bleeding of your hand," She said as she started to use her quirk to stop the bleeding from his hand. But even doing that simple action had black dots crossing her vision. With the help of the two strangers they were able to help Shigaraki climb out of the hole in the ground and she followed closely behind before the sight of two Twices running towards them with another Twice on their back and Toga caught her attention. Toga was out cold. That had Rin run up to greet them.
"Put her down. What happened?" She asked as she watched the Twice duplicate put the girl down on the ground on her back.
"She's hurt,"
"I saved her," were two replies she got at the same time from the two Twice's. Fuck, the man was hard enough on his own Rin wasnt sure she had the patients to put up with more at this moment.
Checking her pulse it was weaker than she would like but still going. Her breathing was normal, not too fast or too slow. All looked good as Rin took in what she could see of the poor girl who was covered in blood from head to toe, and it was likely her own.
"Is she going to make it?" Was the heart wrenching question that came from the blonde and mask-less Twice. She almost didn't even recognize the man without his mask. He was still perched on the back of one of his clones. His eyes looked so worried as he looked down at Toga.
"She is stable. I will stop the bleeding and then getting her to a doctor would be best. Or we need to wait for me to recover more," She answered as her hand felt a little warm as she activated her own quirk to try and stop what bleeding was still going on. It did not take long though before the world was spinning. Rin could feel her body falling backwards as she had been kneeling beside Toga. But she couldn't stop it. She could not even force her eyes to remain open any longer. She heard all three Twice's call out to her, lucky for her hands caught her before she could hit the ground.