Bearticguy7: Love them! Great ideas!

Kyeo307: I'm interested in what you come up with! I'm glad you're interested in Paradise City!

Jddraign: Bakugo is gonna be a can of worms this chapter. Paradise City is intentionally confusing, as it's true ability is a mystery, to the surrounding characters, and I'm trying to make it a mystery for the readers too!

PhantomKnightPercival: I like to think Kyoka is the Gyro to Bakugo's Johnny.


Yuga Aoyama sighed in relief when a sword cut through the red fabric that was about to snatch him. "Merci, Jiro!"

Kyoka sliced through more of the fabric as the mysterious wrapped villain sent more at her. "Don't mention it, you've been fighting this guy for a while."

Mineta sobbed tears of joy as Bakugo, Kaminari, Kirishima, Momo, and Mina entered the fight. "Yay! Back up ariiiiiiiiived!"

"Alright, Ashido and I will help with evacuation, Kyoka?"

"I'll *grunt* do both!" Kyoka yelled, dodging a punch from what appeared to be a truck with limbs.

"Interesting...you almost seem prepared for this." The villain, Mummy, said, tilting his head. "I thought you were all a bunch of kids."

"SHUT UP YOU FUCKING SIDE VILLAIN!" Bakugo yelled, launching himself straight at Mummy, only to be blocked by several wrapped minions. "DAMMIT!"

Bakugo began dodging around the minions as Kyoka began cutting free trapped civilians, and directing them towards Momo and Mina. "Couldn't catch a break, huh?" She muttered to herself as she ripped a poor grandma free from the red bindings. "Come with me, I'll keep you safe!"

Bakugo used his explosions to propel himself towards Mummy, and tackled the villain to the ground, but Mummy drove his knee into Bakugo's groin. "You're an aggressive one, aren't you? Sit down for a while, cool off."

"DiIIiIIEeeEe!" Bakugo squeaked, ignoring the pain and unleashing an explosion into Mummy's face, but the villain tilted his head to the side.

Only for laser to cut through several of his minions. Bakugo had given Aoyama an opportunity to attack by diverting Mummy's attention onto him. Several household appliances fell to the ground, and Mummy started to feel concerned.

Bakugo flipped over Mummy's head, revealing that he was also buying time for Kirishima to close the distance, between them, and a hardened fist smashed into the villain's jaw. Mummy flew back, spitting out blood, and crashed to the ground.

They aren't fighting like kids! They're...experienced?!

"Look at you! Being a team player!" Kyoka playfully punched Bakugo in the arm, and he growled at her in response.

"Shut up Ears."

"I don't unserstand..." Mummy started getting up, confused. "We attacked this island, believing we would have to deal with kids, just kids! Yet for some reason, you're formidable!" The villain was starting to lose his cool, something that almost never happens.

"We've been through more than most." Kirishima responded, pounding his fists together. "You won't break us so easily!"

"My tummy hurts..." Aoyama whined.

"...You aren't helping our argument, Aoyama." Kyoka muttered.

"Sorry."

"Clearly, I underestimated you all." Mummy rose to his full height, and sent more wrappings out, ripping street lamps clean from the ground, and turning them into minions. "I won't be doing so going forward."

"Your boss must be pretty bold!" Kyoka hollered as she ducked under a lamp-minion and blasted it aside with a sound attack. "Attacking an island full of heroes, I bet he's strong too! And super smart!"

"I'm detecting sarcasm." Mummy retorted. "Do not insult Nine!"

"Oooh, a number! I'm soooo scared!"

"You should be." Was all that Mummy said as his puppets continued to attack the heroes. Suddenly, Bakugo was snatched put of the air, and all he could do was cry out as the wrappings began enveloping him.

"BAKUGO!" His friends shouted. Kirishima snarled as he bent over, allowing Kyoka to use his back as a springboard, using her sword to try and cut her friend free, while Kaminari jerked his head towards a fire hydrant.

Aoyama, getting Kaminari's message, turned his laser towards the hydrant, and blasted it, causing water to pool out of it. Kaminari raised his hand over the water, activating his quirk from his palm...

Only for Kyoka to crash into him. Mummy had controlled Bakugo to attack her, and he had blasted her into Kaminari to prevent the electric attack. Luckily, it wasn't a high powered attack, so Kyoka got up and brushed herself off, and helped Kaminari up.

Aoyama as thrown next, and their flamboyant classmate landed with a THUD.

Kirishima took Bakugo's blast, but the other minions started beating on him too, and he was unable to attack, he could only keep himself hardened to avoid being beaten to death.

*click*

"LET GO OF ME YOU BASTAAAAARD!" Came the muffled scream from within the wrappings.

BOOM!

Mummy's eyes widened in shock as Bakugo freed himself by detonating one of his grenades, flipped towards a wall, and springboarded towards him.

He attempted to move out of the way, but his own wrappings stopped him.

"WHAT?!"

"HOLY SHIT, I DID IT!" Kyoka yelled as she sent Hamon through one of the pieces of fabric. "I FUCKING DID IT!"

THAT'S NOT HER QUIRK! WHAT?! Was all that Mummy could think before he was blinded by a bright light...

And then everything went dark.


"Jiro, did you just use Hamon?!" Kaminari said, shocked. "When the hell did that happen?!"

"In Italy." Kyoka said, flexing her fingers. "Although I've been able to ever since the Pluck mission, I just didn't notice until recently."

"Wow, you certainly learned pretty quick."

"Nope, that my friend, was an accident. I still have no idea how I did it, it was more unconscious then intentional." Kyoka sighed and sheathed her sword. "I still have no idea how to do it on command...but I am able to do it. Gyro promised to give me some lessons when we have the time."

"Well, that's one of the villains taken care of." Mina kicked the smoking Mummy.

"All of the civilians are safe." Momo walked up to them, rubbing the back of her head. "The class is evacuating them as we speak."

"Ochako is in charge of that, right?" Kyoka asked, and Momo nodded. "Good on her, now we shouldn't have to worry about someone getting hurt in the battle."

Momo nodded, and pulled out a walkie talkie. "How are things on your end?"

"This villain kicked the shit out of our classmates on the beach, big wolf looking guy, calls himself Chimera. Gyro and I managed to repel him though, he couldn't match up to the two of us at once." Johnny's voice responded. "He ran back to this 'Nine' guy."

"Is everyone okay?"

"Nothing they can't recover from, but he was durable as fuck. He knocked out poor Sato...Sato. You know, one of the strongest people in our class?"

"These villains are competent." Kyoka began wrapping a bandage around Aoyama's head. "They know what they're doing, it wouldn't surprise me if this Nine guy is pretty strong."

"I wouldn't be surprised either." Momo replied. "Alright JoJo, stay in touch, we-"

BANG!

A bullet went straight through the walkie talkie, and Momo screamed, dropping it. Kyoka whirled around, pointing a wrist amplifier at the oncoming threat...

Tombstone put away his gun. "Sorry, couldn't have you telling your friends that I'm here."

"YOU!"

Bakugo stomped up to Tombstone and grabbed the vigilante by the collar. "WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING HERE?!"

"Why am I anywhere? You know why."

"Holy shit...is that..." Kaminari took a step back. "You're that vigilante...Tombstone!"

"I really should start tearing down those wanted posters." Tombstone muttered. "Can't go anywhere these days..."

"He helped us with the Necromancer." Kyoka explained, glaring at the vigilante. "However, he also tried to kill me, if I'm remembering this correctly."

"I wasn't in my right mind...I apologize for that." Tombstone lightly grabbed Bakugo's wrist and pushed his hand away. "That's in the past."

"Uhhhh, no it isn't."

"I'm here to do you a favor." Tombstone said, eyeing their other classmates, before pointing towards Kaminari. "You...you're the electric one, right?"

"Er...yes?" Kaminari was petrified.

"Your quirk could be used to disable a security system, right?"

"Uh...if I overload it, yes."

Tombstone nodded, and pointed his gun at Kaminari's face.

"WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH!" Kaminari screamed and covered his face, while his classmates hopped to his defense, but Drink With the Living Dead pointed a set of dual revolvers at them all.

"Nobody move, if you want to keep your heads."

"WHAT THE HELL?! GET AWAY FROM HIM!" Kyoka screamed, and her heart locked up out of fear for her friend.

"TOMBSTONE, WHAT THE FUCK?!"

"SHUT UP, ALL OF YOU!" Tombstone snapped, and pressed the barrel of his gun into a terrified Kaminari's chin, and got extremely close to his face. "Something like that happened at the USJ, right? Something like that...something that you can do. Interesting...isn't it?"

Kaminari was shaking, and it looked like he was going to collapse. "W-w-what are you..."

"Don't lie to me...did you have something to do with the USJ attack?" Tombstone pressured Kaminari further, only to find that Kaminari had grabbed his wrist. "Do you think you can attack me, boy?"

"I'm not very smart...but it almost sounds like you're accusing me of putting my friends in danger." Kaminari said, fighting his fear to look into the glowing eyes of his aggressor.

Said eyes narrowed. "Maybe I am."

"There was an electric quirk user on the villain's side that day, ask my friends. He did it, NOT ME!" Kaminari was angry now. "I would NEVER DO SOMETHING LIKE THAT!"

Tombstone felt a hand on his shoulder, and turned around...

Kyoka slugged him in the face. Somehow, she had managed to sneak past Living Dead. The stand turned around in surprise as blood flew from it's mouth. "HOW THE-"

BOOM!

Bakugo blew the distracted stand to the side, and Kaminari shocked Tombstone's wrist, and the vigilante cried out as electricity arced through his body. Finally, Tombstone managed to free himself, and began firing his gun at Kyoka's feet.

"YOU FUCKER!" Bakugo grabbed Tombstone by the throat and slammed him into the side of a building. "YOU SAY YOU'RE OUR ALLY AND YOU DO SHIT LIKE THIS?!"

"Can't you see that there's a goddamn traitor?" Tombstone choked out.

"HAH?!"

"The USJ, whatever the hell happened at that training camp...the villains had to have gotten the information for both attacks somehow...one of your classmates is a rat." Tombstone glared at Bakugo. "I thought you'd be on top of this."

"Dude...none of our classmates would do something like that!" Kirishima yelled.

"O-oui..." Aoyama agreed, clearly shaken up by both fights.

Tombstone shook his head. "Poor sentimental fools...I suppose I should've expected this."

He proceeded to knee Bakugo in the balls.

"AGAIN?! MMMMMMMMMMMMMPH!"

A purple ball had attached Tombstone's foot to the ground, and Mineta threw another one, sticking Tombstone's hand to the building as Aoyama opened fire with his laser...

And blew off the front of Tombstone's wrappings. Smoking, the black fabric fell to the ground, and Tombstone turned his head to face the person responsible.

He was old.

His wrinkled skin was a pale shade of white, and his eyes were empty eye sockets, with green orbs being the only thing visible. It was worn, scarred, and it was clear that this man had been fighting for many, many years. Tombstone's hat had also came off with the explosion, and shaggy white hair fell to his shoulders. A scraggily white beard surrounded the ancient gunslingers mouth...

Just by looking at this man's face, at the worn battle-ruined face of this sad, broken old man, it was enough to reduce Aoyama and the others to tears.

Both of fear, and of sorrow.

This was the face of tragedy.

Tombstone didn't look mad, he didn't even look aggressive. The only thing this broken old man's face conveyed, was of pure grief, the ultimate sadness. Tombstone wasn't some bloodthirsty monster looking for his next kill...

This was the only thing this poor man had left. He was a sad, broken, ancient old man with nothing to gain, and nothing to lose.

Drink With the Living Dead had been wrestling with Kirishima, but now it slowly let go of the hero student and walked over to it's user. "Jack..."

"Get this thing off of me..." The old man spoke, softly. "Please..."

Living Dead looked at Mineta. "Please...remove it...we won't threaten you anymore...don't let him suffer more than he already has..."

Mineta plucked the ball from Tombstone's hand, and the old man looked at him. "There's...a traitor..."

They weren't even looking at Tombstone anymore, this was who the vigilante really was.

"If there is a traitor...we'll take care of it." Bakugo said, even he didn't seem angry at the old man anymore.

"I need to take Shigaraki down...and All For One...and Santana...I need to take them all down...I'm not good for anything else..." The old man looked Bakugo in the eye. "That's why I go to such extremes...now you see me for what I truly am, pathetic."

Bakugo wanted to say that the old man wasn't...he really did.

But he couldn't.

"Have you ever tried saving people?"

The old man turned to Momo, who was looking at him with sympathy. "Saving people is more important than taking down villains. With your stand...I'm sure you could."

"My experience has taught me otherwise. I'm a killer, I have been for a very long time, and that ain't gonna change." The old man began walking away. "I've tried...I really did...but it's too late. I'm going to find that traitor...wherever they are. I've got nothing left..."

Bakugo remembered the story the vigilante told him, the day he was kidnapped by the gunslinger. The prideful sheriff, the man who put his job over the people in his life, and he paid dearly for it...

By becoming Tombstone.

Tombstone was warning him, he was heading down the exact same path that this broken, pathetic old man went down, a path that probably had no return...

"You're so awesome Kacchan!" A six-year old Izuku's voice rang through his head.

"Kacchan...why?"

"Katsuki, you were my friend! I thought you were cool at one point! The only reason I ever chose Izuku over you, is because he didn't make me choose! You ruined our friendship a long time ago..."

"Are you like Susan?"

"YOU TOLD HIM TO KILL HIMSELF!"

"People do like you, you just have this bad habit of pushing them away..."

"Pushing them away..."

Pushing...them...away...

Just like him.

"OI, PORCUPINE!"

"Huh?" Bakugo snapped out of it to find that Kyoka was gripping him by the shoulders, she had probably been shaking him.

"What the hell was that?! You scared me!"

"It's nothing..." Bakugo muttered, before he stuck his head around. "Where did he go?"

"He left...we're lucky he didn't challenge any of us to a duel..." Kyoka muttered, and pulled Kaminari into a hug. "Dude...are you okay?"

Kaminari nodded and hugged Kyoka back. "I seriously thought he was gonna shoot me...I guess he was just trying to find a traitor."

"Is there actually a traitor though?" Mineta asked. "I don't think anybody from our class would do such a thing."

"No way man, not at all." Kirishima responded. "I refuse to believe that."

Momo shared a glance with Kyoka, and the two had a mutual understanding. As horrible as it would be to doubt their classmates, they couldn't afford to be naive. There could very well be a traitor...

"I agree! I trust everyone here!" Hagakure chimed in.

Oh my God, I forgot she was there. Kyokathought to herself.

Bakugo grunted, and began walking away. "I'm finding Deku."

"Why?"

"I just feel like it! Knowing that nerd, he's probably fighting the big bad by himself."


Why the fuck do I always end up fighting the big bad by myself?!

Izuku dodged an attack from the silver-haired villain as he began firing lasers. Okay, I've dealt with lasers before, this is just the Necromancer fight again, fight like JoJo, evade...

Izuku used Full Cowling at 8%, trying to get a read on his opponent.

"Deku!" Katsuma, who was apparently the man's intended target, ran forward, along with his sister Mahoro.

"STAY BACK!" Izuku dodged around another laser. "GET TO SAFETY!"

For some reason, this man was after those two. He had managed to rescue them from whatever he was about to do to them, but the man had followed persistently.

It didn't matter.

Izuku dashed to the right and swung a roundhouse kick at the man's head, going for a knockout, when he hit a shield made of air.

This...isn't his quirk...or is it? Does he somehow have two? Or...

Izuku quickly realized the true gravity of the situation. HE HAS ALL FOR ONE?!

HOW?!

Multiple quirks...and he was about to touch Katsuma earlier...HE HAS ALL FOR ONE!

With everything that had happened to him so far, truthfully, All For One had been pushed to the back of his head, replaced by threats such as the Necromancer and Santana. Yet, here was a man with the same quirk that One For All was created to destroy.

And this guy wasn't All For One himself...somehow, he had the same quirk as his predecessor's nemesis.

Nine smacked Izuku aside, and tilted his head in intrigue. "Your quirk...it's unique. I hope you don't mind if I borrow it."

Izuku attempted to dodge out of the way, but Nine was fast, powerful. He brutally grabbed Izuku's face and began lifting him into the air.

No...

NO!

HE'S GOING TO STEAL IT!

Izuku felt the power being slowly drained from his body, and he kicked and screamed in a desperate attempt to break free of Nine's iron grip, but it proved impossible.

Nine, however, seemed to be struggling himself.

NO, YOU CAN'T HAVE IT!

Suddenly, flashes of several different people in hero costumes filled Izuku's eyes, and Nine cried out and dropped him. "What was that?! I...couldn't steal your quirk? No...it's more like...I couldn't steal your quirks. I exceeded my quirk capacity just trying to steal yours, that's the only explanation."

Izuku dropped to the ground, immobile. He couldn't move, he couldn't do anything at all...

But he still had One For All.

Nine kicked Izuku so he'd be laying face-up, and noticed the silver capsule in the center of his costume. "I see...you're one of the people who fought the Necromancer..."

WHAT?!

"I recently made the acquaintance of a man named D'arby, a man who sought to rip the remnants of the Necromancer's power away from the heroes who defeated him. You're Izuku Midoriya, the one that the Necromancer hated the most...he was kind enough to explain the nature of the eye's ability."

Nine reached down, and ripped the silver case out of Izuku's chestplate, and studied it. "I see...it's not the eye itself. I may not be able to steal your quirks, but this will be compensation enough...it should help keep my illness in check until I can get the Shimano boy's quirk...thank you."

SHIT! I can't get it back!

He has regeneration now...well, it will only lessen his illness, it probably won't stop it completely, but still, he has an advantage if he gets that capsule!

Nine narrowed his eyes as Izuku began twitching in an attempt to move. "Stop, it's pointless."

Nine blasted the downed Izuku with a laser, sending the paralyzed hero rolling through the forest, and began to walk towards the wounded hero.

"Deku..." Katsuma said, as he emerged from the bushes with his sister, in tears. "Deku's hurt..."

Mahoro suddenly activated her quirk, and a large illusion of a cartoony Izuku with blood all over it rose above the forest...


"HELP DEKU! DEKU'S HURT! HELP HIM, PLEASE!"

Ochako stared at the giant Izuku looming over the trees, and her breath caught in her throat.

"Deku...?"

All she could do was stare, stare as the message that her best friend...her crush, was hurt. Completely frozen...

And then she sprinted as fast as she possibly could, gunning towards the forest with a speed she had never achieved before.

"HOLD ON DEKU, I'M COMING! I'M COMING!"

Please...hold on...


"DIIIIIIIIIIIIIE!"

"Hm?" Nine turned around and blocked Bakugo with an air shield, raising an eyebrow at the explosion that followed. He simply batted Bakugo away, sending him crashing into the ground.

Izuku managed to get to his feet, and stumbled towards Nine. "Don't...hurt...Kacchan!"

Nine beat Izuku down to the ground once again, and stomped on his back for good measure. Izuku coughed up blood from the impact, but began to get up again.

Bakugo lept to his feet, bruised and a bit dazed, but determined. "Damn it Deku! Can't leave you alone even for a second!"

Nine blasted Izuku again, and Bakugo angrily propelled himself towards the villain, and landed a hit on Nine's side.

Nine grunted, but blasted Bakugo away too...only…

There was a grenade in midair, hurled by Bakugo. He had filled the thing with his sweat and tossed it when he had hit Nine, this was his real attack.

BOOM!

The explosion destroyed the silver capsule in Nine's hand, and dealt significant damage to the villain himself.

So Nine responded by using his Hydra quirk, and a massive dragon made of energy clamped it's jaws around both heroes and began slamming them on the ground, repeatedly.

Nine released them, and watched as their bodies fell to the ground. He then turned his attention to Katsuma and Mahoro, who were both tearfully watching the fight, and began approaching them.

Only to feel two sets of arms clamp around his legs. Izuku and Bakugo were still trying to fight…

So he began to activate his original Weather Manipulation quirk.

A bloody Izuku looked up and saw the sky beginning to darken, and then at Bakugo, who was still trying to half-heartedly restrain Nine.

Kacchan...you're already hurt, and...someone needs to keep fighting for them, to fight All For One if I can't...even if you never forgive me for this…

I'm going to save you.

Izuku pulled back his foot, and kicked Bakugo aside.

"DEKU, WHAT THE FU-"

CRASH!

BOOM!

Lightning struck them both, but Izuku had willingly taken the worst of it. Izuku fell to the ground, smoking, and laid still.

Bakugo was still hurt pretty bad, and was already losing consciousness. He couldn't even notice that Nine had begun coughing, or that Ochako, Tsuyu and Koji were coming to their rescue…

All he could see was Izuku, broken, burnt, and practically lifeless. Bakugo, despite his fading conciousness, began to drag himself over to the fallen hero.

"De...ku...you...idiot...you aren't...allowed to die…"

Bakugo reached for Izuku's wrist, and sighed in relief once he found a pulse. It was faint, but it was there.

"Deku…"

"Something will happen." Diego Brando's prediction rang through Bakugo's head as he stared at his childhood friend, who had been horribly injured...all to save him. "Something that will change you forever…"

Then, he collapsed on top of Izuku, a tear making it's way down his cheek.


When Katsuki came to, he was lying on a mat back in headquarters, his whole body feeling like it had been crushed by a steam roller.

"Hey Ferret…"

Katsuki realized that Kyoka was sitting in between him and the still unconscious Izuku, and Ochako was off to the side, her head hung low.

"K-k…"

"Easy...you had the shit kicked out of you, yo-"

"Kyoka."

Kyoka's eyes went wide. He...just used my first name…

"What is it?"

"Where's...where is everyone?" Katsuki's voice came out hoarse. "Jo...Jo...where's JoJo?"

"Here."

Katsuki lookef to his right, and Johnny was sitting in a corner.

"Can we...talk?"

Kyoka looked at her boyfriend, who remained in the corner, the darkness making his face unreadable. This was the first time she heard Johnny speak since he rushed back to headquarters after hearing about the fight with Nine.

She was worried for him, for all of them.

"Kyoka...could you and Uraraka leave us alone for a moment?"

Kyoka nodded, and took Ochako's hand, and gently led the guilty heroine out of the room, reaching down and touching Johnny's face as she did so. Kyoka looked at her fingers, and rubbed them together.

They were wet.

As soon as the two girls left the room, Katsuki and Johnny stayed silent for a while, and then Katsuki finally said:

"I always knew he wasn't looking down on me…"

Johnny remained silent.

"I just...everyone always told me I was special, that I was gifted, and when someone who was supposed to be weaker than me wanted to help me...it felt like I wasn't living up to their expectations."

No response.

"I...never hated you or him...I just...wanted to feel big, so I made everone else feel small...I wanted to be the main character, but I felt like I was being pushed to the side."

Silence.

"Do you know...why I joined the band?"

Johnny leaned forward slightly.

"It's because of Ears. I used to be jealous of her...because it felt like she was taking you and Deku away from me. She knew about OFA before I did...but...somehow she ended up becoming my friend."

Katsuki leaned fowards, with some difficulty. "I joined the band to get closer to her, so I could get closer to you. It was stupid, I know...but I had to try...but I'm just a damn failure."

"..."

"I tried to be the main character, I was so certain that I was...but then you guys fought Santana without me...and I only distracted the Necromancer, and when the time came for me to fight a big villain…"

Katsuki looked at the comatose Izuku. "Well, you can see what fucking happened. It's obvious now...I'm just as pathetic as Tombstone...I'M THE FUCKING EXTRA!"

Katsuki began coughing, he wasn't ready to scream just yet.

"What are you trying to tell me, Katsuki?"

"I'm telling you to take out the villain. Don't bother with me anymore, don'teven try to heal me. A fucking loser like me doesn't belong here…"

Johnny stood up, his face still covered in shadow, as he approached his injured rival. "YAKAMASHI!"

"Huh?"

"This self-pity isn't like you, not at all. The Katsuki Bakugo I know would never give up like this...so shut up."

"The Katsuki Bakugo you knew couldn't even keep his best friends in his life...because he wasn't worth it. Deku may have never looked down on me, but you did...and I don't blame you."

Johnny stooped down, and Katsuki's eyes widened. Johnny had been crying...hard. He still was…

"Do you really think these tears are only for him? Do you think, even for a second, I would've let All Might bring you into the fold, had I not trusted you? You aren't the only one who was pretending to be cold, Katuski...I did lose hope for you at one point, and I am truly, deeply ashamed of myself. You aren't an extra, Katsuki, you're a part of the whole."

"But…"

"Katsuki...you are better than this. Don't you dare quit now, or I'll kick your ass. We are going to go out there, together, and we are gonna beat that bootleg All For One's ass, together...I know we have a long way to go, years of bitterness and resentment...but…"

Katsuki's eyes began to water as Johnny said the one thing he truly needed his childhood friend to say.

"I want to try and be friends again…"

Katsuki nodded, his pride preventing him from running the waterworks, but not from saying how he felt.

"Me too…CAN SOMEBODY COME HEAL ME ALREADY?! WE'VE GOT A VILLAIN TO KILL!"

"Aaaaaaaand he's back."

Katsuki tossed himself out of bed and began army crawling out. "HEY, WHERE'S THE FUCKING DOCTORS?! HOW CAN AN ENTIRE ISLAND NOT HAVE ANY DOCTORS?! CAN YOU PEOPLE FUCKING HEAR ME?!"

"Yare yare daze...I should probably stop him before he hurts himself even more, right Kyoka?"

A head of purple hair peeked out from the doorway. "How did you know I was listening in?"

"Lover's intuition."

Kyoka rolled her eyes as Johnny walked over to Katsuki, but she just couldn't stop herself from smiling.

Finally, her plan to bring the Three Stooges back together was working.


Momo scratched her chin as she attempted to create the necessary parts for fixing the cell tower, listening to Kaminari's advice through a walkie talkie.

Despite barely passing for almost every subject at school, Kaminari had an extensive knowledge on electronics...although that makes perfect sense given his quirk.

If only he could apply that knowledge to everything else.

She was about to create another part, when a mechanical hand suddenly clenched around one of the bars of the tower. Momo gasped and pulled away, just as a pyramid-headed stand rose to meet her, towering over her.

"Momo Yaoyorozu."

"W-what?!"

"173cm tall, or 5'8" in American standards, genius level intellect, blood type A, born in the Aichi Prefecture on September 23rd...got into UA on reccomendation, skipping the entrance exams."

"H-HOW DO YOU KNOW ALL OF THAT?! WHO ARE YOU?!"

"Your quirk is Creation." Paradise City continued. "It allows you to create almost anything from the lipids from your body, as long as you know the chemical composition. However, the objects you create cannot harm stands, as they are simply objects and not your quirk itself, therefore...you cannot harm me unless you find my user."

Momo was frozen, this stand had appeared out of nowhere and began spouting off her personal information, all without clarifying exactly why it was doing so.

"Don't even bother trying to locate them either, my user is back on the mainland. By all accounts, you are alone, and at a complete disadvantage...so I suggest you simply lie down and accept your fate."

"I'm afraid that isn't an option...you come from Europe, perhaps the Yorkshire region?"

"I see, sometimes my accent seeps through once and a while...and you were able to make a somewhat accurate guess based on that alone. Yes, I'm from England. Are you trying to deduce my identity?"

"You seem to know everything about me, so why not? You may have a stand, but brains beats brawn almost 100% of the time."

"I couldn't agree more, although the truly fortunate have both. I will be honest with my intentions then...I seek One For All, and you have been identified as part of the user's entourage. For all I know, you could have it, and you're hiding it under a quirk that would seem ineffective against me...perhaps you are just luring me in…"

"Why?"

"You're about to find out."

Paradise City began extending it's limbs, it's empty eye sockets focused on Momo as it's twitching fingertips inched closer to her face. "Fighting your group would be a pain. There is no logical sense for me to fight you all at once. Therefore, I shall take you to Elysium one at a time...congratulations, you are the first."

Momo began backing up, the long spaghetti limbs reaching out and trying to touch her with every step. "You...you don't scare me!"

"Nor should you be afraid...for what awaits you is paradise. A paradise that must be maintained...do not worry, your friends will join-"

Ping!

The stand's fingers brushed against the iron shield that Momo created. "Stands are similar to ghosts. On one hand, they can not be harmed by common weaponry...one the other, they are still bound to reality. I may not be able to attack you...but I can defend."

"You're only prolonging the inevitable..."

"Or buying time for it..."


I wonder how Paradise City knows so much about her?