Greetings, prospective readers, and welcome back to Prometheus! Well, to be honest, I don't really have much to talk about before kicking things off, so why waste any more time and let's get this show on the road already!

Chapter Three

His Name Is Izuku Midoriya

U.A. Infirmary - Later That Night…

Katsuki groaned painfully as consciousness began to slowly return to him. If the beeping of a heart monitor was anything to go by, he would guess that he was in the U.A. Infirmary. The other pair of hands holding onto his right arm felt very familiar.

Kyouka, thought Katsuki, a small smile forming on his face before he finally opened his eyes, only to find Kyouka sleeping, and that a thin layer of bandages were wrapped around her neck, likely because of the cut that Prometheus' knife left there, causing his soft smile to widen. "Hey there, Yuka," Katsuki said.

Kyouka slowly woke up to find her boyfriend looking at her with a warm smile on his face. "Kaachan!" cried Kyouka before flinging her arms around Katsuki.

"Whoa, hey, easy, Yuka, still feel like I've been hit by a truck," said Katsuki before realizing that his girlfriend was the only other person in the room besides himself. "Where's Eijirou and the others? I would have thought they and at least a couple of the teachers would be gathered around my hospital bed bugging me about why Izuk-er, that villain targeted me specifically."

"The others are back at the dorms, and the teachers have all gone home for the night," explained Kyouka. "But, you are right, I do have a lot of questions about that Prometheus guy. It's kinda obvious that you two know each other, and that there's some pretty bad blood between you two, but what he said about you… is it true?" Kyouka asked her boyfriend, with the utmost seriousness in her voice.

Katsuki sighed. "...Yeah," he said quietly, a mournful expression on his face. "Yeah, it's true…"

Kyouka looked at Katsuki, noticing the expression on his face. She grabbed his hand and squeezed it tight. "Hey," she said. "Tell me about him."

Katsuki sighed. "...his name is Izuku Midoriya," he said. "He was a certified genius by conventional standards. He was also something of an amateur Quirk Analyst. He had these journals he wrote in. He called it his 'Hero Analysis For The Future,' or some stupid thing like that. Those journals detailed every new or interesting Quirk he came across. And he was my best friend when we were kids, up until my Quirk came in and he was diagnosed as Quirkless."

"And what happened after that?" asked Kyouka.

Katsuki sighed again. "After that, I did everything I could to make his life a living hell, and I wasn't the only one. The teachers at our middle school, the other kids, everyone had it out for him, just because he was the only person in school that didn't have any special powers. Basically, anyone could do whatever they wanted to him and get away with it."

"And I'm guessing you did some pretty awful things to Izuku, too?" asked Kyouka.

Katsuki nodded slowly, the guilt etched on his face. "The teachers basically put me up to using Izuku as my personal combat and Quirk training dummy. And like a dumb fucking idiot, I bought into it. But, Izuku… no matter what I or anyone did to him, he never stopped trying to be my friend. Most of all, he never gave up on his dream of becoming a hero. Until that day…" said Katsuki.

"Until what day?" asked Kyouka.

"You remember… how when we first began, I told you about that time I was attacked by that Slime Villain and All Might saved me?" Katsuki asked, to which Kyouka nodded. "That was also the last day I saw Izuku until the fight at the USJ. I… told him that if he really wanted to get into a hero school, to pray for one in his next life and take a swan dive off the roof."

Kyouka gasped and covered her mouth in shock. Not once could she imagine her Kacchan actually suicide baiting someone as Katsuki continued the story.

"After I got home after the Slime Villain incident, my mom was in an almighty uproar because my Auntie Inko, Izuku's mom, said that Izuku hadn't come home from school. A week later, the police declared him dead," said Katsuki, tears starting to form in his eyes as his guilt began to overwhelm him. "It was after that that I realized what a grade-A bastard I was turning into, and told my parents about what the school, my classmate, and I did to him. So I was sent to a therapist, anger management, transferred to a different school, I even wanted to throw in the towel on becoming Ground Zero, but I ultimately decided to stick with it in order to fulfill my half of the promise I made with Izuku, and become a hero he could be proud of."

"...what about now?" asked Kyouka.

"Now… there's this," said Katsuki, his expression turning serious. "Izuku's still alive, but someone's twisted his mind and turned him into a villain, one who despises everything that heroes stand for, and quite clearly wants me dead, and likely All Might too for some reason, and God-knows whatever the League of Villains want, it is literally a hell of my own making. That's why I gotta find Prometheus and save him from what he's become because of me and this Sensei of his. I need to find him and set things right between us, no matter the price I have to pay, or who I have to Howitzer Blast out of my way."

"Kaachan…" said Kyouka, grasping Katsuki's hand tightly. "You really shouldn't do anything reckless like going in guns blazing to try and find your friend. That aside… I think your friend might be too far gone. You saw what he was like at the USJ."

"No," said Katsuki firmly. "I turned my back on Izuku once before, and I won't abandon him again, Yuka. I will save Izuku from what he's become, and I will bring him home… no matter what."

Kyouka sighed and shook her head. "Well, if you're so dead set on doing this… then count me in. I'll talk to the others and see if they'd be willing to help."

Katsuki smiled. "Thanks, Yuka."

Kyouka returned his smile. "No problem, Kaachan… just promise me one thing," she said.

"Name it."

"Never treat anyone else like you treat your friend ever again. If I hear about you treating anyone else like that, you and I are finished, and I will make sure Tenya, Eijirou, and Shouto give you a beatdown you will never forget," Kyouka said the utmost seriousness

Meanwhile, inside Izuku's Quarters At The League of Villains' Lair…

The Flash (Arrowverse) Season One OST: Time Vault Theme/Merry Christmas

"BOOM, BABY!" said Izuku as he blasted his training dummy with his new Explosion Quirk, before letting out an exhilarated laugh. "Oh, Kaachan, I'm starting to see why you loved blasting me with this! This is so much fun! A fine addition to my ever growing collection of Quirks, indeed!"

"But, still, it's not enough… powerful though the Quirks I obtain through Soul Siphon are, they are still pale imitations compared to the originals… however, that will be corrected soon enough. Now that the League has made its big debut, flawed though it was, I can put a few of my own plans in motion…" Izuku said to no one in particular as he took a key out from a small jar on his desk and opened a locked drawer on his nearby desk and took out a file marked Ascension.

Opening the file, Izuku pulled out a series of photos, some showing the image of a little boy crying over a pair of graves, but Izuku was smart enough to tell that the boy was crying tears of anger, among several others.

"Anyone of these candidates would be a priceless addition to my Anti-Social Force that will remake this world in my image… but, it's you that holds the key to what I really want. Plus, that poor child will be much better off being raised as my daughter… just as the child of Water Hose will be better off being raised as my son. Now, if I could only find someone to be my bride, my new family will be complete…" said Izuku as he held up the picture that showed what he was after.

It was the image of a man in a plague mask trying to restrain a struggling little girl with a single horn on her head who seemed to be dressed in rags and covered in surgical scars.

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