Out of the multiple screams and shuffling around I, along with another portion of the crowd turned our eyes over to where the gunshot came from.
While whipping my head to where it was I couldn't avoid the large block of cement that blocked the shooters path to shoot any more people on Bakugou's direction.
Meaning that all the viewers on that side were protected by cementos.
The one who had shot still had a sniper out. I didn't learn much about weapons with the HPSC so it's not like I could tell what type it was or how long it would take a typical person to reload a machine that big but the figure, which was feminine based on the curves of her tight suit, had the weapon aimed toward... us.
Towards Class A's portion of the stadium.
My eyes could see the small movement through the crowd that were scared and trying to rush their way out of the stadium and tripping over each other.
My hands clasped together without much thought and a large dragon had appeared and swirled in the way of where the bullet would have hit if she had shot.
After that there was a glimpse of blue that blitzed past my sight which I assumed to be All Might.
Next thing you know there was a rumbling.
"What's going on?"
"Bakugou got shot."
"All Might's fighting..."
These were some of the phrases being spouted by some of my classmates.
Iida looked shocked and confused with anger etched on his face clearly not knowing what to do or what to focus on.
A few gazes flew over to me and some of them were from Class B who I was inadvertently was protecting with my dragon.
And what annoyed me even more were the civilians. Still going crazy and clearly had no clear guidance. Some of the heroes were even taking part in the mindless rampage.
They should be helping them get out of here or to a safer place.
"What's that?"
A young man shouted out while pointing to the sky.
I looked up like everyone else and seen what he was talking about.
A large yellow barrier had erupted had enclosed itself around the arena.
"Are we trapped here?"
More scared voices started to ask these questions, more children began to cry out in fear.
"Iida." I called out to him, walking past Kaminari.
I would have used my dragons to try and fly some of the civilians out, but that's not a choice anymore.
I gripped on to his shoulder and made sure to speak as clearly as I could to him.
"Work with the heroes and start grouping civilians together and bring them to the emergency evac location."
We had one of those. It was built in with the stadium as well as schools in case of large scale or even just minor but dangerous villain attacks in the city for civilians to have a safe space to stay if U.A. were hosting any special events.
Iida had a stern but wobbly expression on his face like he was scared and wanted to throw up.
After taking a heavy breath and closing his eyes they opened again showing a different look on his face.
"I understand. Although we shall leave fighting villains to the heroes while we evacuate."
I nodded. I never really intended on fighting them to begin with.
I looked around while Iida was gathering more people to go with him to help the people and spotted Kaminari.
"Oi Kaminari." he turned around in surprise seeing me. "Who's All Might even fighting? Are they known."
He shook his head. "Nah I never seen em before. And I only see two."
Two. I thought.
After witnessing the number one's power in person two villains shouldn't be a problem.
I took a glance through a gap that my dragon wasn't covering to see what was going on.
And it shocked me to see that he was fighting an old man.
They were bouncing along the place, and with the older man his agility was impressive. And it worked well with what I now know what his quirk was.
It was some type of barrier manipulation. He was the one to create the great barrier to cover the stadium. And was now using smaller ones to block or misdirect All Might's punches while also using them as platforms to fight him in Midair.
The woman was nowhere to be seen, and unlike the older man she wore a mask. More specifically, one that looked to be in the shape of a crow and was used to cover mostly the top part of her face.
"Look down there" Kaminari pointed. "Endeavours fighting the villain that shot Bakugou."
And there she was, nimble dodging all of Endeavours hits and then moving towards the larger crowd and trying to blend in or use them as a way to sway endeavour from using more destructive attacks to not harm civilians.
I let out a silent groan.
"Kaminari, let's move. We're going to try and get the civilians to a safer place."
He turned to look and was immediately on go with the idea.
"Great, at least were not actually fighting."
I ignored what he said and dispelled my dragon and we made our way across the stadium.
Just two villains were enough to turn the whole day to shit.
--
'Crack.'
Another barrier shattered. All might thought.
The barriers weren't the biggest problem. It was mainly the fact that if he went all out he would most likely harm the surrounding area and may even cause debris to crush the civilians.
He stopped briefly and looked at the older man in front of him who also stood on even ground.
"I don't know what it is you wished to accomplish today. But you harmed one of my students as well as the safety of these civilians today. So I hope you know there is only one place you'll be going today."
"Haaah." the older man let out a sigh. "Honestly All Might, We don't even want to fight you."
All Might's eyebrow raised slightly.
The older man continued.
"To me, and other people fighting with my same goal. You do not fit as an enemy. You do not fit as a fake hero. You truly fight for the good of the people." He then pointed out to a random hero who was running with the crowd of civilians.
"People like him do not fit the expectation of a hero." his voice was laced with anger and disgust that seemed to give an unsettling feeling to crawl up All Might's spine.
"He who should be giving the citizens solace and peace while guiding them to safety, is running and acting the headless fool along with them. He is someone who shouldn't have been given the title of hero."
All might felt like he had heard this same rhetoric, one that was preached by another villain who was gaining notoriety recently.
"That doesn't leave the right to kill or maim them." All Might tried to refute back.
"Condemning them doesn't work." the elder man forced out. He then pointed to Endeavour. "And he is a big reason why. You can look up many of the crimes he's stopped and still see the amount of victims there were because of his negligence and use of power. But he just throws money at them expecting it all to go away."
All Might thought about that. Something like that always happened, not only with Endeavour, but plenty more heroes as well.
"And it is never on purpose!" All might growled while clenching his fist.
"Intent no longer holds much meaning when all that's left is a corpse." the older man said solemnly breaking All Might out of his state that was quickly growing in anger.
"Even the boy my associate "Crow" shot. We looked deeply into his history and figured that he would just be another Endeavour. Sure he'd safe a lot of people, but how many will he involuntarily harm."
"Even someone as strong as you All Might. There are barely any incidents where we could link you to anything like what Endeavour and other heroes have done. And even with what we did find, there was only one incident early on in your career in the states and you would visit that victim everyday until she was out and back on her feet."
All Might was shocked. Information like that wasn't easily accessible. And even if people knew where to look it was extremely hard, always covered by the the mass good he had done which had sometimes irked him out.
"And of course you know what happened to that little girl right?"
Of course All Might knew. It was something he was exceptionally proud about.
"She is now America's number 1 hero."
But how does this villain who All Might has never seen know of such things.
"People like me are the ones taking on the truly dirty and disgusting jobs that normal people wouldn't want to do. You may call us villains and that is fine. But all we want to do is rid the world of the fakes and create a true utopia for day-to-day citizens to feel safe and secure by heroes like you."
The older man's firm grey eyes stared resolutely at All Might's sonic blue ones.
"So even if fighting against someone like you is distasteful. It is something I am prepared to do to achieve the vision I seek."
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"Move."
"Get out of the way."
"It's not like we can go anywhere..."
"We need someone to break the barrier."
The crowd around the seats trying to enter the tunnel was packed.
Filled with people pushing and shoving each other not knowing what to do.
People were mostly trying to enter the tunnel as it was furthest away from the villains and that equaled being safe.
But what really annoyed me was the fact that one of the heroes was also down here pushing and shoving.
Trying to use his status to push his way through the crowd and of truly unarmed and scared civilians.
He was in a classic hero costume. Mostly blue with lighter blue accents and some parts of yellow on his boots and to top off the ugly costume he had a yellow cape that was best described to be as something that just got in the way.
I didn't really see what type of face I was wearing but... "Oi." I said loud enough to get his attention.
He turned around with a deep scowl on his face "What do you want brat?"
I was stunned. How could someone act like this.
"I want for you to work with us in evacuating the civilians to a evac center that's been set up in the building."
His face seemed to loose the wrinkles he created from his scowl. "Really where is it?" he asked in a hurried tone.
It still irked me. I know most people don't look at it but in the emails that are sent out to the people who buy tickets to attend these type of events there are always instructions at the bottom that tell you what to do if situations like this happen. And as a hero he should be the one trying to lead the civilians to to safety.
So I can accept why civilians may not know but it is still annoying that heroes don't.
"Wait. Before that--" he grabbed my shirt in an incredibly aggressive way.
"Listen just tell me where it is."
I looked at him with clear anger in my eyes. And looking around there was a crowd that were slowly having all their focus on us. He still continued clearly not caring what was happening.
Before I could fire off a retort about how he was acting like I wanted to Kaminari got in between us.
"Hey now, we're all heroes and heroes in training so let's just work together." he said in a light tone trying to dress down the situation. "Let's get the people to safety." he then pointed them out.
He and even I looked around even more to see the circle of people some even with their phones out quickly trying to hide them and scurry behind someone.
The anger on the "Heroes" face was evident but he did his best to calm down.
"Alright." he first said quietly. "We'll form a triangle formation with you two kids in the front and me at the back and you'll lead us all the there." he said still mad but trying to hold a controlled look.
Kaminari looked at me and nodded his head. "Yeah, alright." I said while pushing past him without making much effort to look back at him.
Fools like him always get what's coming to them.
Hope you enjoy.
