Pinkish smoke was thicker the deeper he went inside the forest. The identity of the smoke was now perfectly fine-tuned in his mouth. Without a doubt, he knew the contents of this gas. His own quirk overpowered whatever made this. He walked without fear of the entire system. More noises started to shriek above the woods. And these weren't from students scaring other students.
Geus rushed deeper inside the woods. His quirk covered the front of his body and pushed away any of the smoke around him.
"Geus! Help!"
Geus stopped in his tracks. All he wanted to do was run even harder. Tears rolled down his cheeks, his muscles tensed up and used his willpower to run forward. His fear finally caught up to him, his brain told his legs to run but couldn't. Two words from that voice broke him.
"It's not you." Geus cried in a whisper. His right knee gave out and dropped him down with only his hand and another knee to support him. "You can't be here."
Tiny feet ran through the dense and thick grass. Geus kept his eyes closed and sniffed his tears away. The extra set of feet stopped, his ears told him the feet stopped possibly a foot away. "Open your eyes." The squeaky voice plead. "I need you." He cried back.
He gave in. His eyes shot wide open and immediately filled with tears. "Keena. It's not you." His arm slipped and dropped him back. Both his arms dug into the dirt behind him and pulled him along. "They got you. You're not supposed to be here. You're not real!"
The footsteps started. "The bad men, I ran and ran." Keena's fully bandaged arms opened wide. His own face drenched with tears and wobbly legs. "I need your help. I need the heroes."
A chuckle joined on his cries. Which soon became a strong and psychotic laugh. He was split on what he was, his hand grabbed and dug around his eyes. One arm reached up and tugged hard around the branch. His emotions sucked back into his body as his breath heaved.
"Help me." Keena continued to beg.
His quirk manifested around his arm."You're not him." With the extra strength, his hand squeezed and crushed through the wood. "I've discovered something while I was here. With my quirk added on my body, I can lift and produce strength double of what I can." His feet took off with slow and menacing steps. "If I can stop a child's neck with my regular strength... Imagine what I can do with this."
"You're scaring me." Keena's legs tumbled to the ground and crawled back.
"You're not Keena." Geus stood over his fake cousin and placed pressure on his ankle. The open filter on his mask flowed out his quirk and wrapped the solid gas around Keena's neck. His foot released him and rose him up with the gas. Slight pressure applied and bruised his neck. It felt good to hear him struggle for air. "Where is my cousin!" Geus shouted. He slammed Keena against the tree and extended the gas entirely around him. "Answer me."
"You, you're cute when you're angry. Makes me want to kill you even more."
"What are you." Geus applied more pressure. He got close enough to grab hold of Keena's throat.
"I'm your little cousin." Geus jumped at the sound change in his fake cousin's voice. It became feminine and now a voice he didn't recognize. Keena's face morphed away into a paste. Turned into a gray sludge and drooped to the ground. "I'm a little more kawaii with this face though."
Her face was one Geus wish he could pull off, the psycho look he could never pull off. Gold from her eyes stared directly into his soul. His eyes burned away the water his eyes produced. She shared the same gift as Iroh could do to him but in a lesser fashion.
"Where's my cousin?"
"He's with us." Her smile widened with a look on her face from videos he watched privately. "But if you hold my hand and skip with me, I'll take you to him." Her neck stretched out and rolled into the sky. "And if you bring... Bakugo."
"What's your plan with my cousin... And Bakugo?"
"I can't tell you." Her head snapped forward. "You got to come with me first."
"I'll come back for you." Geus tightened his quirk around her neck. It freaked him out a bit to see her appear more pleasure than pain. The twitchy smile she gave before she passed out twisted him a bit farther than he would like.
"What gave me away?" She groaned right before her eyes drifted away.
"Keena would never ask for a hero. He was raised wrong." Geus released the girl and watched her lifeless body hit the ground.
"Why are there so many flirting girls." Geus sighed and continued on in a full sprint.
No longer did his body feel of death or any struggles of pain. At full strength, Geus darted through the woods and closer to the source of the pink fog. Because of this, he missed one crucial detail of the girl he left behind. Her body decomposed into a brown goop. It still wouldn't have mattered to him either way if she was there or gone. He saw no threat in her.
In a few minutes, Geus reached a point in the fog he couldn't see anything. Sounds were the only part of his senses that worked in this. Voices surrounded him that was ununderstandable. Without any true knowledge of the scenery, his mind went straight to villains. Yet this wasn't a place for him to just guess. A more likely cause was other students trapped inside this gas and screamed to get out. So the choice to use his quirk was one he couldn't go with.
"Alright." Geus grabbed his school jacket and pulled it off. "If I can't use my quirk, then I can use this at least." A gunshot cause Geus to trip back and drop his jacket. "Fuck this!"
Geus sprinted head first into the center of the gas. The taste of this was at it's strongest and didn't continue to intensify. Two more gunshots rattled around his head and now metal clanks with it.
His quirk quickly formed around his head and arms as he felt the gas disappear. The speed he ran at took away the effort to stop safely. Now his sight commanded at equal speeds. Three people were around him, two people from class 1-B and a man with a gub and full head gas mask.
"Where's my cousin?!" Geus shouted.
The villain spun around and fired before his feet could plant. The hip fire shot scraped the corner of his head and bounced off. Geus went low and rammed his shoulder into the villain's waist. His arms locked around and gripped tight then lifted his feet off the ground. The actions that proceeded were blinded to Geus's memory. His quirk sharpened and launched through the villain. Hideous and gut-wrenching screams screamed louder than anyone else's. The actions were subconscious and were barely recognized to Geus. Sections of the spikes opened up inside the villain's body and poured his own gas through.
Two more shots went off the same time the screams did. A loud thud hit the ground and another one followed. "Stupid kids. Even with that surprise attack, you can't do anything. You're UA students, right? Don't ruin the image of that."
Geus now fully understood the situation. Warm fluids ran down his bare chest, and he couldn't see any of it because of the fog. 'I can't see it but he got me.' Geus remained to lay on the ground and clenched the grass. He closed his eyes and flowed his quirk over to the wound. One huge suck in of air, he changed the property from solid to gas. His left arm spazzed out like crazy, it was either that or scream in the agony he caused to the villain.
"You class 1-A students always get in the way." Someone other than the villain grabbed hold of Geus's good arm and pulled him up.
"Stand still." Geus commanded. The other voice croaked as Geus pressed his hand against the cold metal. The harden state of his quirk flowed out of the hardened state and covered head level to the arm's reach length. In an orb of his own gas, Geus saw the 1-B student he saved. "How the hell are you breathing in this?"
"I'm not! I took three bullets before my mask was destroyed. Get me out of this thing, it's my time to shine."
"Listen to me. You apparently can't breathe in this but I can help you find him. I can surround your mouth in this so we just flow oxygen between each other. I can taste the intensity of this gas and easily I can bring you to him. You just need to trust me."
The man covered in steel wasn't happy about the situation. If it wasn't for the fact Geus kept him alive, he surely would walk away. "Fine."
"Good." The shield Geus created shrank down to cover and wrap around the steel man's mouth. "This is my first time doing this so if I burn you I apologize. When I shout then you're at him, other than that I can't do much." Geus crossed his legs and sat on the path. "Go!"
The plan was simple in words, but hard in action. While his partner ran, he had to make sure the connection is strong enough to keep the other gas out while not solidifying and stopping the extension. A small hole would have to be made time to time to taste the strength for his location. One wrong move and the plan is foiled.
"There!" Geus shouted.
Another gunshot went off. "Try all you want but I can still see you through this gas." The villain snarked. "The attempts your classmate did was basically nothing." Another shot went off and this time went through the connection. Something crushed it and severed from his partner.
"Shit." Geus pushed himself off the ground and ran.
"I know you can see me." Another shot sped for Geus and punctured close to the first wound. Geus's shoulder flung back and twirled him back to the ground. "But you can't stop guns. And you're too afraid to hurt your friends. Pathetic."
The pain made it feel impossible to stand. Luckily the multifunctions of his quirk made it possible. The ends of the ports circled around his back and tilted him up. 'I won't have it in me to burn the wound. I can't do it.' Geus gritted through two more shots with insults thrown in between them. Half his quirk was used up to form a crutch.
"Not moving now kid? It's okay if you want to hurt your friends... Not like you'll see them anyways."
"What does that mean!" Geus shouted. "Wheres my cousin!"
"Can't let me die if you want that answer." The gas-masked villain popped through the smoke. His gun was pointed up with his other out for Geus. "Too easily fooled!" His hands switched places with the gun pointed and cocked.
"Baka."
The part of his quirk he used traveled under the ground and directly launched through his mask. He fired randomly at the ground and air. "My eye! My eye! I can feel it!" He screamed, his hands dug around the mask for the crack. Blood flowed out from the mask and out the tips of his broken fingers. "Remove it! Remove it please!"
The fog he created dispersed as it was forced far and wide. Geus looked to the center of the open field. Kendo stood in the center of it, her quirk activated and started to slow her arm swinging movements. Her attention turned to him, she looked so innocent to him. The face before the disaster, the determination behind the mask vanished. She looked scared, the look most people get when others see his combat style.
"Now I got you!" His partner came out of nowhere. His steel arm smashed against the already broken part of his mask. He snapped off the stalk of Geus's quirk and dropped. "Can't let this 1-A kid top me!"
Geus coughed. He couldn't see it but swore blood splattered. "I'm a year older than you." Geus looked down at his shoulder, mutilated skin covered one patch and the other had blood drip out. "But yeah." Geus coughed again, with each huff caused his ribs to tighten. Neither gunshot wound was even close to it so the pain was a mystery to Geus. It was strange, the true wounds felt almost not there but his abdomen burned.
"So." Kendo caught up with the two of them. "When you asked me about before, this is what you meant." All of them looked at the bloody mess on the ground. Only the unconsciousness stopped his agony from coming out.
"Yeah."
"And you mean to do this? The name's Tetsutetsu by the way."
"Yeah."
"That's a bit brutal don't you think?"
"Yeah." Geus pulled his crafted crutch out of the ground and limped in the direction of the camp.
Tetsutetsu reached under Geus's arm and supported him. "Don't be a hero, let me help you out." Kendo did the same under his other arm.
"Don't be a hero." Geus snickered. "Treat a kid as a monster, he'll act like one too. Truth, I don't like it but my mind does. I may not be perfect but I'll fuck anyone up."
A giggle came from Kendo. "Don't try to act dark and cool, it doesn't suit you."
Geus hooked his arm under Kendo's gas mask and pulled it off. "Don't copy my look." He released it for the ground. "It doesn't suit you.
"So what Midnight said was true." Tetsutetsu teased. "Cross class lovers."
At the start of the UA Festival, any comment like that would've turned Geus to defense and deny everything. Thanks to his classmates, all they could get was a small forced chuckle. While Kendo, on the other hand, couldn't meet with Geus's eyes and kept her tomato face straight. It was true he would think if that person was the true cross lover but it was never the right time or place to act on it. And today was no exception. As his cross classmates helped him to the camp, he couldn't help but smile down on Kendo.
"Itsuka isn't the class cross lover, I have my feelings towards another."
Tetsutetsu couldn't help but laugh. "Not surprising, no way anyone from class 1-A could like her."
Kendo instantly turned to an angry pout. The look in her eyes just wanted to smack her friend around. But Geus tightened his arm around her shoulders.
"By the way, both of you need to reach in my pockets and apply an air filter. I don't know how much longer I can hold my breath."
"It's a good time to catch your breath yes." Another man walked through the woods and into their clearing. Another villain from this assault. Short black hair, purple colored burns on his eyes and mouth. And talked with a cocky demeanor. His hands waved up to show his surrender. "You all can relax, I'm just here to talk."
"Where's my cousin?"
"I can't spoil the entire thing to a couple of kids. You can come with us peacefully and you can see Keena or we'll just take you."
"I'd prefer to not piss off him any more than I currently am. Just make this easy for me."
Geus stretched his arms over them and limped forward. A straight threat to the villain. His hand extended out and covered it in a blue flame. "Look kid. Cooperation is what will get us all through this, want your cousin back come with us. Our main objective right now isn't to kill all your classmates right now. If a few do then" his shoulders shrugged. "so be it."
"How can I even trust that you even have my cousin. This could just be some front to take advantage of."
"You saw Toga right?" He groaned and rubbed the back of his neck. "You'll follow us for sure. I just didn't want to get him mad." The flame on his hand vanished, and both his hands went into his pockets. "whatever."
Geus's quirk surrounded his body and formed a wall in front of him. "I don't need to move to take you down."
His hand grabbed the side of his head. "Don't need you for that." Flame engulfed his head.
The three of them choked on their breath. The villain's head turned into gray sludge and melted his entire body.
That was the last villain any of them saw. They reached the camp as emergency services put their efforts to erase the damages. One student was captured, a few were hurt, and many were unconscious from the fight.
A private prison bus was also inside the group of rescuers. The familiar sight of Bailey broke Geus. He shoved the two aside and ran limped over to him. It took a moment to see Geus. He was shocked when his eyes landed on the boy, he was full of blood, a dislocated shoulder, and tears down his face. Bailey closed the distance and caught Geus before his twisted legs dropped him.
"They got him." Geus cried. His face dug into the armored sleeve Bailey wore. It wasn't comfortable and only pained his face even more. But he couldn't just let his friends see him like this.
"I know," Bailey whispered. He swung Geus's body over his arms and carried him back to the bus. "We'll get him. We'll get him back."
"Why do I care so much? I hated the little bastard till now. But all I want to do is get him back."
"It's called being a hero. The will to save others." Bailey climbed up the stairs of the bus. "He's also your family. When my grandfather died, I cried all day." He placed Geus on his seat and sat across from him. "I was never close with him. Only cared to see him on holidays and couldn't care less if I saw him any other day. But that night in the hospital all I could think about was him dying. The bad feeling doesn't matter when it comes to family." Bailey's two forward fingers pressed against Geus's heart. "It's corny I know. But your heart still sees them as your own."
