- Midoriya Residence -
Inko slept on the couch peacefully...
...Until the doorbell rang and a knock sounded on the door.
Her eyes fluttered open at the sounds. Waking up, she got up and rubbed her eyes, and took the cover off her, getting up as she went to the front door.
"Okay, alright, hold on..." Inko muttered as looked through the peephole.
It was Torino Sorahiko.
"Oh! Mr. Sorahiko!" Inko grabbed the door handle and opened the door.
"Hello again, Ms. Midoriya!" Torino nodded, "I hope you got yourself some good sleep, as well as your son."
Inko sleepily smiled, "Oh yes, we all got our sleep in. Izuku assured me to get some well-deserved rest!"
"Ah, that's good. By the way, speaking of the boy, I do want to ask, where is he going off to? I met him on the way back here to your home."
The mother frowned, fully awake now, "What? What do you mean?"
"Eh?" Torino blinked, "Didn't he tell you where he was going?"
"I...didn't know he was gone," Inko said, no looking a little worried.
Torino blinked again, "...Oh..." he turned to his left where he met Izuku on his way over here. "...Well..." he looked back at Inko, "He was going somewhere...did he mention going anywhere last night?"
"I...don't think so..." Inko tried to rack around her mind to think if her son said anything to her about going somewhere today.
However, Torino was thinking...
What the hell is that kid even doing then? He said he was meeting up with a friend, but come to think of it...that could be just an easy excuse to hide something...and besides, this city is having a really big lockdown today, so I don't know if it's the right time to meet up with someone in a coffee shop to talk!
"...Hmm…" Torino hummed, "...I'll be back, Ms. Midoriya. I think I need to go back and look for your boy."
"Huh?" Inko blinked, "Oh...um, th-thank you, Mr. Sorahiko! I-I don't know where Izuku could've gone though, so please be careful!"
"I will. Thank you," Torino nodded and went back to where he came to search for Izuku.
Well, since there aren't any authorities around at this time and maybe only a few Heroes are walking around, I could sneak past their patrolling eyes and use my Quirk to search for Midoriya faster. But the question still remains; what is that kid even doing out here when he didn't even tell his own mother where he was going?
- Aldera Middle School -
11:58 AM
He arrived.
After running on 8% with One for All in him, he slowed down when he was close to his old middle school. There were still empty streets around him, nobody driving their cars on the roads, except for maybe patrol cars that he had to duck and cover every once in a while. There could be Pro Heroes patrolling as well...it's a miracle he hadn't encountered any of them while he was going to his destination.
As he entered the grounds of Aldera, he stood at the front of the school to wait for Bakugou.
The place where he was tortured throughout his early teen years by his former best friend and his goons...
Izuku checked the time on his phone.
12:00 PM
Okay, right on time...now I just need to wait on Kacchan-
"Took you fuckin' long enough, ya damn Deku."
...Ah. Well, he's already here.
Izuku turned to the voice of his former childhood friend and bully, who was leaning against the wall exterior near the school's entrance.
Bakugou was wearing a blue shirt, dark blue-black jeans, and some brown boots. His hands were in his pockets as he waited for Izuku, a glare on his face as he sneered in his direction.
Sucking up all the courage he has to face Bakugou, Izuku walked over to where he was.
As soon as he neared the blonde, Katsuki pushed himself off the wall and walked away, letting his back face him as he did so.
Confused, Izuku paused and blinked, asking, "Uh...where are we going?"
"Shut the fuck up and follow me. You're good at doing that shit, aren't ya?" mocked Katsuki as he sideway glanced at Izuku with a sneer.
"...Sure thing," Izuku plainly said, his expression neutral as he followed him.
The two teens walked around and behind the building, going over to a narrow alleyway that was part of the school...the alleyway where Bakugou confronted Midoriya about being accepted in the UA entrance exam.
Once they went inside the alleyway, they stopped at the end of it, where there were two doors on each side of the walls of the alley.
Both boys were silent...
...Bakugou turned around and faced Midoirya.
"Well, here we fuckin' are. Our old shitty middle school. This place here is where you actually had the balls to stand up to me and tell me you earned your place at UA...feh," Bakugou scoffed, "At this point, you didn't earn jack shit. You're still the weak prick that I know you are."
Izuku stood there, neutral face and all as he said to him, "We're here to discuss some things, Kacchan. Not insult each other. What do you wish to know?"
Growling at Midoriya for acting like he could change the subject, he seethed, "Don't act like you have the power to twist this conversation we're having! You don't get to do that, you little shit!"
The verdant-haired boy just stared at him, and sighed, "Kacchan, we're here to discuss about my Quirk. That's what you wanted, right?"
This only just made him angrier, "Of course I wanted to know about your shitty Quirk, Deku! But even after yesterday, you still pissed me off to no FUCKING END!"
"What did I do this time?" Midoriya droned, sounding a little tired.
Bakugou looked like he was going to bust a gasket, "WHAT YOU'RE DOING NOW!"
Izuku grunted, "Kacchan, just lower your voice down-"
"SHUT UP! JUST SHUT THE FUCK UP!" Bakugou then rushed and grabbed Midoriya by the collar and swung him by the wall nearest wall to his left, slamming him against it.
"Oof!" Izuku wheezed out.
Katsuki just glared fiercely at him in a rage, "QUIT ACTING LIKE YOU'RE BETTER THAN ME!"
Recovering from his body hitting against the wall, Izuku gritted his teeth from both the impact and Katsuki's yell, he just stared at him, giving out a forced reply, "I am not, trying, to be better than you."
"Bullshit!" Bakugou exclaimed, "Ever since we were kids, you would try to go on about being a Hero without a Quirk! Well, now you have a Quirk and you've been flaunting that fuckin' Quirk like it was yours!"
Izuku kept staring at him with the same expression on his face...like he was disinterested.
This just kept making Katsuki's blood boil even more.
So he raised his fist and punched the wall next to Midoriya's head.
BAM!
It wasn't a big explosion, but it was enough to make a dent out of the wall.
...And yet, Midoriya just kept his cool...
...Gritting his teeth in pure rage, Bakugou seethed through his teeth, "You're not even fuckin' flinching."
"...Kacchan-"
"STOP CALLING ME THAT!" Bakugou used his other hand to grip his collar and swing him around, throwing him at the other side of the wall.
WHAM!
"Ugh!" Midoriya hit the wall, his back against it as he stood on his feet, his balance staggering a bit.
It was then Bakugou then delivered another punch.
BAM!
...But it was blocked by Midoriya's arms going into an 'x' block in front of his face.
Katsuki retracted his arm and glared at Izuku, his anger rising tenfold.
...And that was when Izuku said, "You really are just an absolute asshole."
The blonde froze, registering what Midoriya said, "...What did you fuckin-"
"Just shut up, Bakugou."
...His anger was still there, but even Bakugou had to admit, he was shocked that Midoriya straight-out insulted him and even reprimanded him.
"...You know...I'm just going to flat-out say it, since this is what we're actually out here for...All Might gave me this Quirk," Izuku revealed, still having his arms up to his face to protect himself.
"...What?" Katsuki said as his eyes widened, his tone low and breathy.
"Yeah...he gave it to me after I rushed in to save your sorry ass while no one could do anything," Midroiya lowered his arms...and Bakugou could see his face.
Midoriya glared at Bakugou...with a fire that actually looked almost...frightening…
He didn't look like the Midoriya that Bakugou knows...he looked really...different.
"You remember that? The Slime Villain?" Izuku asked him, "You would think you would at least have the decency to say 'thank you', maybe even a nod of recognition, cause I saved your fucking life from ending that day, no matter how much you want to admit it."
"..." Bakugou just listened to Midoriya, a little in shock.
"...I never wanted to be better than you. I wanted to prove to myself that I could be something other than the weak Deku that you sprouted around calling me these past years...and you know? I actually kind of looked up to you...you had a cool Quirk, you wanted to be a Hero, and it thrived me to be a Hero as well...we even made that stupid promise..." Izuku lowered his gaze to the ground, "...What a waste that was."
Bakugou kept his eyes on Midoriya, strangely enough being quiet the rest of the time the boy talked.
"...I don't know what got you all hooked on destroying my dream of becoming a Hero, but...at the end of the day, All Might is right," Izuku said, raising his head up to look at Katsuki, "I earned this Quirk...cause I know how to be a Hero."
...The boys were quiet for a couple of seconds...
...Izuku also said, "I may have gotten the easy way out here...but All Might saw that I could be a Hero with and without a Quirk...and that's all I ever wanted to hear...someone to say that I actually can be who I want to be...and you are not going to be any kind of Hero if you humble yourself and grow up."
...
...
...
...Silence...
...
...Then, the door behind Bakugou in the alleyway opens.
"Yeesh, talk about drama," said a...man coming out of the door.
Midoriya, seeing who it was that came out of the door, froze as his eyes widened.
Bakugou, hearing the new voice, turns around, his guard up.
...Wearing a full purple suit, and the same clown mask wrapped over his head, it was none other than...
The Joker.
The mad clown exited and strolled out the door, pausing to survey their expressions.
"Oh, hello there again, Midoriya! And so nice to meet you as well, Bakugou." Joker greeted them, his tone mostly sarcastic.
"Y-...You..." Izuku stuttered.
"Yes, ol' Deku, me," Joker said with a grin that was covered by the mask, "Oh, I'm sorry, was that name supposed to be just between you and your, ahem, friend Bakugou?"
"You...You took All Might's Quirk away..." Bakugou growled lowly.
"Mm-hmm, yes, that I did," Joker nodded, "Anything else?"
Bakugou growled turned fierce, "You're...going to FUCKIN' PAY!" he then started to lunge at him, his palms secreted with exploding nitro-glycerin sweat, about to strike him...
When, all of a sudden, right next to Midoriya, the other door on the wall of the alleyway opened.
Aiming a gun right at Bakugou, he fired.
BANG!
It hit him in the back.
Bakugou felt the pain shot through it.
"AAUUGHH!"
It felt like...something penetrated him...
Meanwhile, Midoriya was taken by surprise and saw who the person was that came out of the other door.
It was Hacker.
Bakugou lost his balance and was falling forward...straight at Joker.
And Joker took that opportunity to deliver a kick at Bakugou's face!
WHAM!
The blonde was reared back from the blow and he landed on his back, right on the projectile that was stuck on his when he was shot...
...Bakugou also felt something on his back...something protruding out of it.
Midoriya looked at Hacker, at Joker, and then at Bakugou in horror.
He has the time to see what that shot was...the shot that was on Bakugou's back...
It was brief, but what he saw looked like...
...A syringe bullet.
Which means...
...Oh no...NO!
"Kacchan!"
In pain, Bakugou rolled on his side clutched to his skull, easing the ache from that kick.
"Aaand done," Hacker said with a nod.
"Glorious!" Joker exclaimed as he put his kicking leg down, "Now then..." Joker reached into his suit...
Then, a speed of movement came from the left out of Midoriya's peripheral vision.
And, as if Joker predicted this, he got a gun out and aimed it at the speeding person who was coming for him.
BANG!
It hit the person in the chest...which was another syringe shot round.
It stopped the person (a man, it looked like), but only for just a bit, as he continued onward to run at Joker.
"Hm?" Joker hummed in surprise, not expecting that.
Then, the man raised a fist, his knuckles having brass knuckles on. This man wore a black face mask and a bandana over his eyes, as well as a black shirt, some gray slacks, and a green leather jacket, with black boots and black fingerless gloves.
"Whoa, watch out, Boss!" Hacker quickly got another gun, a regular one, out of his holster that was hidden underneath and behind his white large button-up shirt.
Midoriya, snapping out of his shock when seeing the mysterious man was still going after Joker after that syringe round was shot at him, looked at Hacker who was getting out his gun.
He had to act.
"NO!" Midoriya reached out to Hacker quickly, and grabbed his other gun arm, pushing his arm up as he was about to fire.
"GAH!"
BANG!
Hacker shot upward, and Izuku elbowed him in the face.
WHAM!
"ACK!" Hacker exclaimed, the blunt force knocking him back a bit.
The mysterious man swung his fist at Joker, but Joker recovered from the slight shock and dodged the swing by hopping to his right.
But the man was finished, as he kept his barrage of punches going. He kept going with his swings and Joker barely dodged them, not wanting to be hit by the brass knuckles.
Joker started to dialogue as this man was still throwing punches, "Well, we have a new participant here! And you're still going after that shot! Tell me, what's your Quirk? It must be rather lousy if you wanted it to be erased from existence!"
As the man threw one last punch, he got into a battle stance, gritting his teeth behind his mask as he glared at the mad clown, "Joke's on you, Clown! I don't have one! Lost it a long time ago!"
The clown-mask-wearing psycho's interest piqued as he stood there, putting the gun away and getting ready for another onslaught of punches. "Oh...really? Now that's interesting...then that makes you a Vigilante, doesn't it?"
The man, Vigilante, glared at Joker even more ferociously. "Yeah. Name's Knuckleduster. And you're going to pay for what you did to All Might and this kid here."
"Oh, is that so?" Joker grinned wickedly behind his own mask, "Well, Knuckles, I guess we'll have to make this duel a little intense."
Then, Joker flicked his right hand, a card blade coming out of his suit's sleeve and into his fingers.
"Keep it coming, Dusty," Joker said with sadistic glee.
Meanwhile, Izuku was fighting Hacker, just recently elbowing his face in, and using his arms to twist Hacker's gun arm away from either Knuckleduster and Katsuki. Then Izuku kicked back at one of Hacker's legs, tripping the Robot Man, and in the midst of that, he twisted his arm to release the gun in his hand. Letting go of Hacker and letting him plop onto the ground, Izuku dived for the gun and picked it up in a roll. He got up quickly and aimed the gun at Hacker...
But Hacker aimed his left arm with the other gun at Izuku...the one that did Katsuki in.
Izuku didn't know if he was going to shoot at that point, but now he has to make a decision, but at the same time, he's at an impasse.
Hacker smirked, "Heh. Damn, kid, you actually know how to fight. What happened to all that fancy footwork back at the rich kid's mansion? You finally got the balls to do something?"
"Shut up," Izuku seethed, "You and Joker are going to pay for your crimes."
"Heh-heh. Bold of you to assume that me and my Boss came here alone."
"Huh?" Izuku uttered, his eyes widened.
"BATTER UP, BRAT!" said the shrill voice of Hare!
Before Izuku could turn to his right-
WHAM!
-he was hit by a hard blunt object across his head!
The force of the blow threw him into the wall, knocking him hard enough to let the gun come out of his hand and inflicting damage to his head.
Back at Knuckleduster and Joker, the former heard the voice of Hare and quickly turned to see what happened. Upon seeing Hare swing and hit Izuku upside the head with one of her bats in her hands, he yelled out to him.
"MIDORIYA!"
"Oh, now, that was a mistake there, partner," said the voice of Joker.
Knuckleduster quickly turned around-
-and Joker rushed toward him, his right arm prepared to swing the card blade at the Vigilante's throat.
Backing away from the swipe, Knuckleduster avoided the swipes and swings of the Joker's blade. It was then that the Vigilante swung his left arm to try to get a hit on the clown, but Joker inwardly swiped the card blade at his left arm, slicing his arm.
"GRK!" grunted Knuckleduster...but it didn't deter him, as he raised his right fist to deliver one brass-knuckle punch to the side of Joker's masked face!
"PUDDIN'!"
"SHIT! BOSS!"
Joker was thrown a bit by the stronger man's punch, but he regained his balance and could only...chuckle?
"Ho-ho-ho-ho-ho-hoooo..." Joker adjusted his masked face with his free hand, "That wasn't too bad there, old timer!"
Knuckleduster could only sneer.
"YOU!" Hare exclaimed in a rage, "DON'T HURT MY PUDDIN', YA OLD BASTARD!"
"Ergh," Hacker grunted as the pain subsided from him as he got his gun back from Izuku and got up a little slowly, "Uh oh. Now you made her mad," he said with a little humor in his tone.
Izuku was on the ground, slowly recovering from the hard-hit Hare inflicted on him. He raised his head up to see where Bakugou was. It seemed like he was getting up, albeit a little sluggishly.
Hare then rushed to Knuckleduster and swung one of her bats at him. The Vigilante turned quickly and grabbed one with his hand as it was vertically aimed at his head.
"RAAAAUUGH!" Hare swung the other bat in her left as his side, but Knuckleduster caught that one with his hand as well.
One would think that's the end of it, but...
All of a sudden, Hare lifted her booted feet and planted them on Knuckleduster's chest, flipping herself off of him as she let go of the bats and backflipped away from him. Knuckleduster, taken a little by surprise, was pushed back a bit and now had the bats in his hands, but once Hare landed, she did something even more surprising.
"You can keep 'em, old man! I got my OG sticks right here!" Hare then swung her arms to her sides...making her arms look like giant baseball bats themselves!
Knuckleduster stared at the woman and flipped the bats up, letting the handles land into his own hands. He then got into a fighting pose
"Bring it," Knuckleduster growled, ready to go.
But then, there was another flash of speed passing the two fighters...
It was a blonde-headed individual, and he was heading towards Joker.
"HEY!" Hare hollered at the blur.
Knuckleduster looked back at who was running past them, curious as to who would do so right now.
Hacker blinked as he registered who was running towards his boss.
Izuku looked at the person who was heading toward the clown-masked-wearing lunatic with wide eyes full of shock.
"Kacchan!" Izuku hollered out to him.
Katsuki paid no one any mind. He just kept running to his target. No distractions, no interruptions.
It was just him and the Joker.
And he's going to make this bastard pay.
Sweating up a storm after he was shot, and the adrenaline making him sweat as he ran, he was close to Joker, raising his right palm and ready to strike his masked face, his stupid, cocky, bitch face-
He struck his hand against his masked face.
...And Joker was still standing...
...No explosion, nothing...
...Bakugou's glare then lessened...it lessened into a more confused face...
"...Wha...What?" Bakugou asked, puzzled...
Then...he realized...
When Joker pulled out that gun on All Might and shot him...his whole body changed...
It was like...his whole Quirk was gone.
...Gone.
"...My...My Quirk..." Bakugou said with fear in his tone as his eyes grew wider, both of them filled with horror and dread, as he now realized...
...Joker then put the card blade into his suit, not fazed in the slightest by Bakugou's bold move.
"...Tell me, young Bakugou, what was the point of that? Surely you must've heard how All Sack of Crap lost his Quirk."
...Bakugou's whole body shook in trepidation.
"...N-No...I-I still got my Quirk...I-I do...it's-it's just...it's just-"
"It's gone, kid," Joker flat-out said.
...Gone...Gone?
"...No...it-it can't be...I..." Bakugou stood there with his hand still on Joker's masked face. "...You're...You're lying!"
"...Okay, how about I show you that I'm not?" Joker advised.
Joker then grabbed Bakugou's arm, the one that had his hand on Joker's mask, and pulled it off, his grip weakening once the realization was starting to sink in.
"See? No burnt marks!" Joker said in a mocking way, "And just to give you even more evidence," he used his other hand and pulled the bottom part of his mask...
It was then Izuku saw that cursed image in his mind again, his eyes widened in shock.
That evil demented smile.
He stopped pulling the mask and left it above his nose, to showcase that wicked smile.
"And what do you know? I'm perfectly fine! ...Well, I got myself hit by old Dust-Bunny over there, but still, no damage to my pride whatsoever! Oh, actually...Hare?" Joker said to her and nodded to his left.
Knuckleduster got his head back in the game and tried to turn around...but it was too late.
Hare went down and swiped a leg underneath Knuckleduster and knocked him off his feet, making him land on the ground onto his front.
"ACK!" he exclaimed.
The woman then cartwheeled and landed on Knuckleduster's back and got his arms wrapped up with her bat stick arms, letting him let go of the bats that Hare was holding a while ago, and pulling his upper body upward so he wouldn't move.
"URGH!" Knuckleduster exclaimed as he was pinned.
"Shouldn't have kept your eyes off me! Makes me insulted! I'm quite the looker!" Hare teased sadistically.
"Yeah, to blind people," Hacker mumbled as he rubbed his arm, the one that Midoriya manhandled.
"Shut up, Nerd!" Hare glared at Hacker.
"Tch! Whatever," Hacker rolled his eyes.
"Either way," Joker continued to say to Bakugou, the boy actually looking afraid at this point, "You're the second person to see my smile. Do you know who the first one who saw my smile was? Your so-called friend, slash, victim of abuse."
Bakugou's eyes went wider.
"Oh yes. I heard everything. You don't like Midoriya, do you? I mean, I don't blame you, but still...what could be the reason that you don't?" Joker asked with sadistic glee.
The blonde just stood there, speechless...
"...Oh, and Midoriya, my good boy?" Joker called over to Izuku.
Izuku gasped, looking at the Joker while he struggled to get up.
"Just to let you know...you're a hypocrite," Joker told him with a mocking smile.
Midoriya froze...his expression a blank look of shock.
"From what I heard...you would be nothing without that Quirk. In fact...it's not even yours, is it? It's All Might's...right?"
...Silence...
"...And you know, from what old All Might said, this Nana that he speaks about, that being Slyph...might have something to do with his Quirk as well..." Joker faux-thought about it, "Hmm..." he directed his attention to Midoriya, "Tell me, boy, did All Might ever tell you anything about his Quirk? Where it came from and all that? Hmmm?"
...Izuku was fully standing now, getting his balance straight as he got into a fighting stance. He glared at Joker as he looked ready for anything.
"...Well, if you all ask me...you're both hypocrites," Joker said with his evil smile intact.
Gritting his teeth in anger, Izuku seethed, "Don't talk about All Might like that."
"Oh, okay, so I should talk about you then?" jested Joker, "About how you basically lied to your classmates and told them that it appeared later on in life, and how you were Quirkless once?"
Midoriya's breath hitched as his eyes widened in shock. "Wha…How did you-?"
"That was me," Hacker cricked his neck, "Had a fly on the wall that couldn't stop lurking around UA."
Gasping at that, Midoriya's eyes widened another inch in dread as he stood there, his stance faltering...
"Yes, good show on that, Hacker," Joker complimented him.
"Thanks, Boss."
"Hmm. Now, back to you, Midoriya, this leads me to my question..." Joker's smile then became a lot wider, tighter as if he wanted Midoriya to remember it as he says this, "Was it all...worth it?"
Midoriya stood there, now slouching his shoulders as he thought about what Joker said...the feeling of shock washed through him as he began to realize...
Was it...really all worth it?
As if Joker read his mind, he said, "You see, the deeper you dig through this society, the more it has...mold...rotten, disgusting, slimy mold. Every Hero says they want to help people, when all Heroes want out of them is to get their hard-earned cash that they got for their mediocre low-paying jobs, and use their cash for their own selfish needs. The good people praise these Heroes' for their good deeds, while those same Heroes go do shady behind-closed-doors shit in the background, whilst all these morons still blindly worship these frauds, when in reality, it's just a job to pay the bills and live off of their lavish lifestyles! The people and minorities don't mean anything to them. They just want a good-paying job, and treat the whole Hero role like it's some celebrity status, treating people that are beneath them as low as the lowest scum!"
"..." Midoriya stood there, frozen...
"...And you're no different than them," Joker said, his smile still evil and psychotic, "You lied, you schemed, and you've lost your own way."
"...I...I..." Midoriya couldn't muster any words…
He's...He's right.
"DON'T LISTEN TO HIM, SONNY!" hollered the voice of...Torino!?
Then all of a sudden, a blur came soaring through and hit Hare's head, sending her forward to Joker's side.
WHAM!
"ACK!" Hare exclaimed as she tumbled over to Joker's left.
"What the fu-" Hacker said as he raised his gun arm at the speeding blur.
Torino landed on his feet and sped through to his left before Hacker could shoot him.
BANG!
Obviously, Hacker missed, while Torino zipped up to the wall and zipped towards Hacker to kick him in his side.
WHAM!
"GAH!" Hacker yelled out as he was sent to Joker's right side against the wall.
Izuku, snapping back to reality, turned to the Torino, his eyes wide as he called out his Hero name, "G-Gran Torino!"
Torino grunted, "Hey there, kid! We're going to have to talk about telling stories after this is all over!"
"Oh, believe me, it's over," Joker said as he twisted Bakugou around (who was still in shock at losing his Quirk) and wrapped his arm around the blonde's neck. He then got another gun out and aimed it near Bakugou's head.
"Kacchan!" Izuku exclaimed.
Knuckleduster got up after Gran Torino kicked Hare off of him, and adjusted his muscles before going back into a fighting stance.
Gran Torino gritted his teeth as he cursed through them, "Damn it!"
Joker's smile still was exposed, taunting them as he asked his two lackeys, "My, those looked like pretty hard blows. Are you both alright?"
"Ugh...yeah. May have broken one of my artificial ribcage bones, but nothing too bad," Hacker said as he rubbed his right ribs."
"Ooooh, my head...I-I'm fine though, Mr. J!" Hare winced as she started to get up, albeit she was struggling to get on her feet.
"Good! Well then, Hacker, tell ol' Kurogiri we're off and ready to go!" Joker ordered.
"Huh? Uh...okay," Hacker then pushed a button on his left top wrist.
"Well, it's nice to catch up with you, Midoriya, as well as meet your old pal here, and as well as meet up with you two old farts, but now, I bid you all adieu," Joker told them.
Then a portal of black mist came from behind them on the wall.
"Step inside, Joker, Hacker, and Hare," Kurogiri told them.
"Thank you, Kurogiri!" Joker grinned sadistically, "Oh, and also, no offense, Midoriya, but I might want to borrow ol' Bakugou here for the time being."
Both Izuku's and Katsuki's eyes were as wide as saucers, the terror in each of their faces expressed.
"Let him go, Joker!" Knuckleduster exclaimed in a rage.
"Or maybe I could end his meaningless life right here and now! Which one should I do? Decisions, decisions..."
"Don't harm the boy, Joker! Just let him go!" Gran Torino exclaimed as well to the psychopath.
"...Hmm..." Joker looked down at Bakugou, "What do you think I should do, Baku-buddy?"
...Bakugou just couldn't say anything...his face expressed too much of what he was feeling, eyes wide, mouth agape, breathing slowly but frantically, sweating real sweat...
Midoriya could recognize that look.
K-Kacchan...he's...he's more than in shock...he's...he's actually...
Scared.
And it was then, that Bakugou looked at Midoriya, wide eyes and all as if he was sending him some kind of...message...a message through just one look and one look alone...
Bakugou looked at Midoriya and basically silently said to him with one look.
Help me.
And just like that, Midoriya ran over to Joker who held Bakugou hostage, not hearing the cries of Knuckleduster or Gran Torino. He started to activate One for All 8% and was basically almost there.
It doesn't matter if Kacchan was a jerk back then or if he is now. He's still a person in trouble! And I will not let anyone die! No one! Not in the hands of this maniac!
He activated it.
I won't let anyone get hur-
BANG!
...Izuku was shot...
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...Kunckleduster and Gran Torino looked on in shock, their mouths dropped open in horror.
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...Bakugou also looked on in shock, for once in his life, now royally scared of what was occurring right now.
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...Kurogiri, Hacker, and Hare even looked on in surprise.
...
...And Joker just couldn't help but give out the biggest, happiest, yet evil smile on his face.
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...Izuku was sent back, the speed making him stop and flip on his back...to land on the ground hard.
...Joker just extended his gun arm at the target...at Midoriya...and shot him...
...Midoriya grunted at the pain...the wound not being as bad as an actual...bullet...wound?
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...It was then, Izuku realized...
...He glanced at the wound on his left shoulder, where the shot hit him.
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...It was a syringe shot.
...Izuku lays there...eyes widened...an alarmed and horrified look on his face, his mouth agape...
...He shakily reached for the syringe shot...grasped it...and painfully pulled it out.
He brought the shot up above his face while he was still on the ground...registering that it was, in fact, the syringe shot that did...All Might in.
The one that erased his Quirk.
…His hand shook, his eyes watered with tears, his mouth shivering, the horror on his face evident as he suddenly now felt...despair.
It was then and there, he realized...
...That his Quirk was gone.
Joker still had that devilish smile on his face and said one thing.
"Joke's on you, kiddo. Heh-heh-heh-heh-heh-heh-heh-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-haaa! HAAAAA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HAAAAAA!"
He brought the terrorized Bakugou with him to the Black Mist portal that Kurogiri made, entering inside it, and laughing all the way. Kurogiri snapped out of his shock and got the rest of them inside of the portal, and soon he evaporated, bringing the Joker, Bakugou, and his two lackeys with him.
...It was quiet...
...Well, tell me what you think! XD
But yep! Both Izuku and Katsuki ain't got no Quirks no more! :O What are Izuku and even Katsuki going to do!? Well, keep reading the story to find out! ;)
Seriously though, I hope I did well with the Izuku and Bakugou conversation, as well as Knuckleduster's fighting style, and everything else and whatnot. XP
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Thank you all for reading and keep on rocking everybody! :)
-TSP