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Ever since he got into UA, Yuga was a mole. He had to put on that mask of vanity and ego to even hide his pain. During the USJ event, he hid in a safe zone with no villains. He told Shigaraki about the day at the mall. And…he'd ratted out the location of the camp.

He was the one who met with the cat. The one who overheard the plan about the test of courage.

And now, here he was, witnessing the results of that treachery. What was worse is that he knew exactly how to avoid what was coming. From what he was told, one of the newest recruits to the League had a Quirk that was, essentially, a much more lethal take on Midnight's own abilities, generating a toxic gas cloud that would force the victim into a deep sleep. He was currently walking behind Momo, looking around for any sign of the coming attack. That villain would set off their Quirk at any moment and he needed to find a way to break away from the others.

"You're quite jumpy, Aoyoma". Momo observed. "You've scared easily so far."

"I...I am not good with scary things." Yuga stammered.

She hummed. "Neither does Kyoka. But you're probably worse than her."

"Probably." Yuga stated. Two minutes later, Yuga looked up and spotted his 'sign' to separate from the group and approach the contact. It was a cat in a tree, peering at him with its green eyes. Yuga took one last look at Momo, blissfully unaware of what was going to happen. This could be the last time Yuga saw her alive.

I'm sorry. Yuga thought, as he stepped into the forest.

The cat leapt down from the tree and acted as a guide for the student, leading him through the forest and making sure to keep him as far away from any of the coming battles as possible. What good was a spy if they were caught this early. The usually flamboyant hero-in-training followed the cat closely, eventually finding his contact. Definitely a low priority at this point, but Yuga couldn't help but just think of how...unfashionable the all black costume was, even with the little bit of grey that was present for the top half of the mask.

"Heya! You're the mole, right? Nice to meet ya! Go suck an egg, little man!" Twice said emphatically. Yuga stared at him, unamused by his antics. "Sorry. I'm a bit crazy."

"I can tell." Yuga said.

"Annnnyways! I'd recommend staying around here. I gotcha a gas mask." Twice said, pulling it out. "It's a copy of MINE, so just smash it on the ground when you're done to hide evidence."

"R-right," Yuga stuttered, taking hold of the mask and sighing, "So...when is he-?"

"I have no idea! Guy's hard to read since he wears a gas mask constantly too. Kind of annoying really! And yet completely understandable," Twice answered with his usual antics.

"Good to know." Yuga said.

"Oh! Yeah, almost forgot. There's gonna be a crazy Nomu roaming through the place." Twice said. Yuga froze up. "Oh, whoops. I meant to keep that a secret."

"W-what!? A Nomu?" Yuga asked.

"Yeah, but it's got the commands to attack everyone but you, I guess." Twice prattled on. "Dabi's the only one it listens to!"

"I...I take it it's...just like the one at USJ?" Yuga ventured.

"Ha! You kidding? That thing was a work-in-progress at best! It performed admirably in the line of duty!" Twice gave a small salute in the Nomu's honor, "Plus, this one's somehow freakier."

Yuga froze. "G-good to know."

"Yeeeeeeeah." Twice said. "Just thought you should know! You're doing us a great service, y'know. We'd probably be pushing pencils waiting to attack. I mean, we haven't been in a chapter since, like, the beginning of the story!"

Yuga raised an eyebrow. "What did you just say?"

Twice held his head. "I...I dunno. That was weird."

"O...kay then," Yuga said, not really sure what to make of that one.

"Anyways, happy trails, laser boy!" Twice slapped Yuga on the back, and picked up the cat. "I'm taking him with me."

And then he left.

Yuga stared in disbelief.

His gaze then drifted down to the gas mask in his hands. As the villain said, it was the same type as his, proof of his betrayal. He gripped it tightly, anger and guilt welling up inside him. He wanted to smash the damned thing right here and now...but he couldn't bring himself to do it. Instead, he simply put the mask on, waiting for the gas to start filling the forest.

Yuga came up with one important conclusion- he was the only one who could save the day. God knows how many students could die...

Yuga rushed into the forest, throwing caution to the wind. He could blindly trip and stumble all he wanted, it didn't matter if he got hurt. What mattered was everyone else's safety.

I'm the one who's responsible, Yuga thought. I'm the one who dug all these empty graves- but I don't want to bury a single soul.

The distant sounds of a chainsaw revving caused his heart to race. Oh, God. He hoped that the Nomu's grafted chainsaws were what made it frightening. There was nothing else to fear. Just its insane super strength, regeneration...and ability to probably slice anyone to pieces.

Yuga found children in the middle of the road and dragged them rapidly into the woods. The Nomu didn't have any sense enhancing quirks, only ones that blindly amplified their attacking presence. Whoever created them intended for them to outperform All Might, not to "outsmell" him.

As Yuga carried Sen into the bushes, his breathing became labored. What if this was the last child he would ever discover? What if everyone else has been mercilessly slaughtered? Suppose he arrived too late.

Such inquiries drove the child insane, but he blamed his foolish, overworked brain. He needed to think...with greater valor. Not giving up was the heroic decision, was it? He...had to continue pushing forward.

Mama and papa worked valiantly to keep me from entering that world, but All for One forced me to do so. They were powerless, just like these kids, thought Yuga. And I'll save them. Even if I have to lay down my life, this is my only way-

As Yuga repeated this to himself, a branch cracked behind him. Yuga turned around and observed Brando in all of his frightening splendor. Yuga collapsed to the ground in terror as a mishmash of Ben Tennyson's original aliens drooled. His bravery nearly gone upon seeing this monstrosity.

This...this is evil in its purest form. He thought.

This was the beast's first outing- as you've noticed in other chapters, every time thing shows up, it was notably weakened by something. Injuries and other sorts of oddities scattered around it. But, you're wondering- what caused it?

Yuga did.

Before Yuga did that something, Brando was plenty strange enough. Being composed of 1/11th Pyronite, 1/11th Vulpimancer, 1/11th Petrosapien, 1/11th Kineceleran, 1/11th Galvan, 1/11th Tetramand, 1/11th Lepidopterran, 1/11th Piscciss Volann, 1/11th Galvanic Mechamorph, 1/11th Ectonurite, and 1/11th Human would do that to a monster. Animo could only pick and choose so many features- a shame. If he could mutate it more, he'd love to.

So, that adds another horrifying layer. Being part-Vulpimancer, Brando shared many of the same powers as Wildmutt, such as enhanced senses,

Yuga's heart dropped when it started to sniff the area around him.

The Nomu Frankenstein growled as it caught the scent of a student. The chainsaws it brandished began to spin up with a deafening engine roar. The only good side to this was that the creature wasn't looking at Yuga. It was merely getting ready to pounce like a big cat. It turned and seemed to lock eyes with Yuga for the briefest of moments. The usually eccentric student felt his heart just stop then.

When the monster turned away and began lumbering off into the forest, the student's heart started beating again. He gripped his chest in pure panic. If anything deserved to be called a miracle this early in the attack, it was the fact he didn't draw the monster's ire. Somehow.

Yuga finally got his bearings together when he looked down at Sen. There was a reason to do something stupid, and these knocked out kids were why.

Yuga had to fight the force of 10 aliens and 3 quirks, all by his lonesome.

He could still hear Brando off in the distance, violently cutting down trees with his chainsaws. He wasn't lashing out at anyone specific it sounded like, he was just destroying anything that got in his way.

If memory serves right, one of Ben's starting aliens was a genius...looks like it didn't inherit that intelligence. So, if I 'cut the meat' and ignore the parts that aren't going be to a threat in battle... Yuga thought. I only have to really fight 8 aliens at once.

Yuga frowned even harder.

Somehow cutting out only a few made me realize how tough this is really going to be. Yuga shook his head. He looked to his belt. I want to see how durable this thing is. My lasers aren't a physical force...

Another tree crashed to the ground, this time sounding further away than the last. Whatever he was gonna do, he needed to do it soon.

Yuga focused his energy into the belt, and fired as hard as he could. The beam smashed into the Nomu, causing it to stumble. Yuga gave a sigh of relief. "Good...I can hurt it."

The Nomu looked around, using its sensing skills. Yuga's heart skipped a beat, as it stared in his direction. Yuga blinked, and the thing rushed at him. He dodged out of the way, rolling into a bush to avoid impact.

It was about to bring down two of its chainsaw arms down on where Yuga had been, but the creature stopped itself before the blades would even reach Yuga. Twice's words echoed in Yuga's head when he saw that.

"...it can't hurt me. It has orders not to," Yuga muttered to himself, "And as I understand it, Nomu can't disobey orders."

The Nomu must've somehow isolated Yuga's scent, and was selectively ignoring him. Or maybe he was tracking him some other way.

Yuga fired another quick blast. At point blank range, it was more effective. The Nomu stumbled backwards again, and roared.

It lashed out, slashing at empty air in a fury. It snarled, ignoring Yuga entirely. For once, Yuga was grateful that these brutes were so single-minded.

And then it started sniffing around. Yuga's heart dropped, when it sped off in another direction. "W-wait!" Yuga yelled, starting to chase after it.

The Nomu cut through two trees as it ran off, hoping to stop the student from following it. It had a job to do and it had wasted enough time struggling against its programming.

Yuga dodged the trees, and tried to blast the Nomu down over and over again. His attacks kept missing, due to the superior speed and power the beast had.

"No no no!" Yuga yelled.

It sliced through more trees, all in an effort to stop Yuga. It was like the universe was telling him that this wasn't his role. That he shouldn't take the heroic route.

The Nomu stopped before his future victim- Komori, of Class 1-B. The beast yowled again, and unleashed all of its chainsaws. Yuga dove to shield them from any chainsaws. if he died here, okay. He was fine.

He did something good tonight.

But somehow, he managed to be faster. He grabbed Komori and flew out of range of the Nomu's assault. He didn't get away unharmed as some of the chainsaw's blade did manage to scrape him as he flew by.

Yuga huffed, as he looked at his back. A nasty gash- had it been any deeper, his spine would've broken instantly. Yuga held Komori tight, as he endured the pain. K-keep...going! He thought.

The Nomu locked onto the unconscious Komori's scent and roared. To the monster, it was thinking that its prey was escaping, running away from it. It revved its chainsaws and dashed after Yuga. The student could hear the revving chainsaws getting closer and closer, panic quickly setting in and getting worse.

Yuga hugged her close, and turned his back. The stress was building up in his body, and his vision was blurring.

A long-forgotten professor had a hypothesis. He was intrigued how he sparked quirks. Humanity had a power-imbuing skill called a semblance. The professor pondered if a quirk and a semblance are linked. He thought that the quirk was the person's semblance 'naturalized' into their body. In stressful situations, quirks often times had a moment of 'awakening'.

But for Yuga, his laser quirk did not change.

Something else did.

As he ran, the stress building up worse and worse, he failed to notice the chainsaw revving come to a stop. The Nomu continued the chase, of course, but it still looked down at the chainsaws themselves. The motors and blades were all gunked up by clusters of...mushrooms?

Yuga glanced around, completely perplexed. He looked down and saw Kinoko covered in mushrooms from head to toe. "W-what?" He inquired but then shook his head. He had to get her away, while the Nomu was distracted. As the Nomu breathed fire onto its chainsaw to free it, he fled.

Did Komori activate her quirk unconsciously? Yuga thought.

Brando tried to burn away the mushrooms, jamming its weapons with Pyronite flames. The fungi were disintegrated in an instant, but that didn't solve the problem. In fact, that just made it worse. After the ashes scattered to the winds, more fungi grew to replace them, even starting to appear on other parts of the chainsaws and the Nomu's arms as well. Usually fire was one of Komori's weaknesses, but here it seemed to be more of a temporary measure.

Yuga placed Komori on the ground before noticing something strange about his hands. The skin on his fingers appeared to have unraveled, showing not muscles beneath, but black 'bony' material with red lines glowing on it. It made Yuga think of the time when Izuku used his mysterious quirk too much on his fingers.

"W-what the?" He asked, totally confused. Was this a new power of his laser quirk, or-

Was this something else entirely?

When first giving Yuga his quirk, All for One made up a little white rice lie. Instead of only giving him the laser quirk, he also gave him the 'subtle' quirk he was planning on giving him anyhow. He was curious to see how Yuga would develop, which quirk would influence him more- the dark and chilling one, or the bright and showy one?

Yuga watched the flesh cover his fingers again, but he was horrified. His hands were shaking like they were covered in blood.

"Did...I somehow...?" Yuga began, before he heard the roaring of the Nomu again. In a burst of flame, the Nomu burned away all of the mushrooms still on its person. It tried to find Yuga and Komori again, figure out where they could've gone, but then its head jerked in another direction. Something, or someone, else had caught its attention.

Yuga blasted him again with another laser beam to the face. The creature roared, as it flew into a mad frenzy. It must've been a pretty severe hit- Yuga did hurt his brain.

It roared and just lashed out at anything it could, not caring about what the actual target was. At this point, it was just running on primal rage.

The Nomu fired slime at Yuga, which he narrowly evaded. It struck a tree instead, and Yuga was happy for his gas mask. The filth seemed rather repulsive. He started to run, but the Nomu slammed its diamond arm into the ground, and a giant diamond crystal shot out near Yuga's feet. Yuga jumped back, and fired a laser at it- it reflected off the gem, and into the Nomu's chest again.

Brando was launched back, slamming into a tree and cracking the trunk. It growled as it got back up, eyes no doubt filled with rage.

Yuga began to run. This power meant he could more than just agitate it with simple laser beams. Besides, he couldn't just fire forever. It would...upset his tummy.

The Nomu roared and, in a rage, chased after him once again.

Yuga dove toward the woods in where he had concealed Rin. He seized his arms and directed them toward the Nomu. His scales began blasting towards Brando's torso and face after activating. Some of the scales became stuck in his face, increasing his wrath. Some even made it into his eyes...

Yuga ran as the beast howled in pain. While it was distracted- he ran over to Reiko's body, and used his new powers again. You're going to regret tearing up the place so haphazardly...!

The Nomu was, thankfully, going right along with Yuga's improvised plan. His chainsaws cut through any nearby trees around him and any that weren't cut down were hit with the slime he fired earlier. It was just a whirlwind of attacks now, much more of a blunt instrument than Dabi had probably hoped.

Yuga activated Reiko's quirk, and suddenly, the trees started to slam into the Nomu wildly, battering him around. Yuga ducked down, as he began to think about his new power.

I hate this- I'm just like him when I'm doing this. I'm using people for my own gain! Yuga frowned.

Branches slammed into the Nomu, making him stagger with each hit. When it had enough, it roared and lashed out with his chainsaws, cutting right through the wood as it flew towards the abomination.

Yuga rushed over to another bush, where he finally found his solution to the Nomu issue. His hands were about to reach out to the pair, but the Nomu ROARED one last time. The chainsaws started whirring like crazy, and Yuga nearly screamed- this could be it, finally!

His hands unintentionally touched his navel...

It seems this second Quirk of his affected his primary one as well. As his hands made contact, he accidentally fired off a beam of energy that drew the Nomu's attention.

The beam traveled faster, and shined brighter than any of his other blasts...but it HURT. It felt like Yuga's stomach had exploded for a brief moment.

The Nomu charged at the source of the laser, roaring and ready to bash Yuga aside like a ragdoll.

Yuga yelled again, as he fired again- the beam smashed into the Nomu's face, and caused it to fall back.

"I-it's down..." Yuga huffed. "N-now's my chance!"

As he tried to run though, that pain from the involuntarily fired beam hit hard. Yuga crumpled to the ground at first, trying desperately to get back up and take advantage of the still-stunned Nomu.

He crawled over to the duo he'd placed in the bushes earlier- Jirou and Shoda. "I hope his works..." He said, propping Jirou up. His plan was to have Jirou's earjacks shoot out and have his secondary quirk boost her powers...and then have Shoda's power 'repeat' the attack with his quirk.

The Nomu shook its head, slowly getting back to its feet, using its chainsaw arms to prop itself. It was still pretty slow, so Yuga had plenty of time to enact his plan. Brando locked onto Yuga and slowly made its way towards him, the engines of his chainsaws revving up as he got closer. Yuga had to steel himself for this, time it just right.

Yuga activated his power, and Jirou's earjacks blindly shot out and stabbed into the Nomu's chest. It unleashed a powerful burst of sound.

The Nomu looked at the two jacks now embedded in its chest, tilting its head slightly before the burst hit. Its body rippled as the soundwaves slammed into its body. If this was an ordinary person, Quirk or no Quirk, there would have been some heavy injuries from that. Broken ribs, internal bleeding at the most. At the worst, organs could rupture from the high concentration of sheer sound. Nomus were more resilient than that...but that didn't mean the attack was useless.

Yuga took his hands off Jirou, and activated Shoda's quirk. He moved his hand over on top of Jirou's hands, praying it would work.

I don't know the specifics of how it works, but- I'm crossing my fingers! Yuga thought.

Shoda's Quirk went off as planned. The attack from Jirou's jacks was then repeated and sent the Nomu flying. For the sake of comparison, if Jirou's boosted attack was twice as strong as normal, then the repeated attack was four times as powerful.

"G-good." Yuga said, standing back up. He hadn't realized it, but at some point, the gas had cleared up. He took off his gas mask, and breathed a breath of fresh air.

Nomus were made from people- and they have more than one quirk. He looked down at his hands, troubled by his revelation. Am I…being groomed to be a Nomu too?

He thought back to the kids at the orphanage, and realized that they had all disappeared one by one. Didn't Izuku get snatched by a winged Nomu in Kamino?

Winged Nomu.

Just like Tsubasa.

Yuga listened to the beast trash around the area.

I...am a monster. Yuga thought, burying his face in hands.

Yuga walked away slowly, shutting out the Nomu's sounds. It couldn't attack someone consecutively as long as it was in the vicinity. He'd 'statused' it with a dreadful affliction.

Yuga slumped down in the bushes and balled his body up. He wanted to weep, but even with this new activation quirk...he couldn't bring himself to.

Yuga was alone.

…until somebody found him.

"Got someone." A voice said, as it got closer. Yuga sat up. Could it be?

"Aoyoma!" Momo said with a smile. Aoyoma nearly jumped when he saw Momo, but quickly straightened himself out.

"M-momo…" Yuga stuttered. He was most worried about her- he thought that she'd already crossed through here and-

"What happened? Why are you out here?" Momo asked. "I thought you either ran back to camp or got kidnapped-"

"W-well! I got…dragged away by a villain, but I was able to escape him." Yuga lied. "He was…something. I managed to steal a gas mask off of him." Yuga held up a gas mask. Momo gave a sigh of relief.

"Well, I'm glad you're alright. And the fact you escaped a villain is a good sign that the others can handle them." Awase said. "Since you're still awake, we're hoping you can help us with something. We found Tooru-"

Tooru- she was another person Yuga hadn't even considered was out here. God, if he hadn't acted, she would've probably been found by the Nomu and-

Yuga shook his head. Now is not the time to think about that.

"I'll do it." Yuga said.

"Huh?"

"If you wish for me to take her back to the camp, I will do my best to make sure she arrives safely," Yuga frowned. "I was stupid enough to try and wait the gas out- I had no idea that others were nearby. Allow me to make up for my error!"

Momo nodded. "Thank you, Aoyoma." She said, as Awase put Tooru on his back. Yuga gripped Tooru's hands tightly.

Tooru didn't deserve this. Nor did anyone else in this class. His sins were irredeemable...

But somehow, he'd break free from the guilt.

"I'm sorry, Tooru…I hope this makes up for what I've done." Yuga said, running off down the path.

Awase huffed. "What an overdramatic guy."