A/N: Warning: This chapter contains suicide themes. Also, this chapter is told using a nonlinear narrative.

Part 6

2:22 PM

UA Dorms, Rooftop

Standing on the rooftop of the UA dorms, Deku looks out into the sky with his hands in his pockets, and he has a somber look on his face as he stares at the two freshly made graves near the barrier. His face is red with tears as he clenches his jaw. Stepping closer to the edge, he continues to look in the direction of the sun. Hearing somebody's footsteps behind him, he pauses.

"Hey, nerd, what are you doing up here?"

Deku steps closer to the edge. "Kacchan, do you remember telling me to take a swan dive off the roof?"

Bakugou's eyes widen before he narrows them. "Why?" He marches to Deku. "Don't you dare think of jumping, you damn bastard." He grabs Deku by the shoulder and pulls him away. "Don't even fucking think about it."

Deku closes his eyes, wiping some of the tears away before angling his head down. "I'm just so tired, Kacchan. I'm just so mentally tired of it all."

"I am too, Deku." He pauses. "By the way, in light of what happened, I'm not going to go with 'Dynamight' as my name anymore."

Deku looks at him. "What name are you going with?"

Bakugou pulls him away from the edge to whisper in his ear. "Ground Zero."

Part 1

Day 213, 9:09 AM

UA Dorms, Common Area

In the common area, Kenta sets up a bar above his head near the TV and has himself doing pull-ups. He turned so his back was to the wall and front to the couch with the girls. He starts off doing two-handed pull-ups, counting to twenty, before switching to one hand.

"Wow," Kendo awes at the sight of seeing his six-pack flex.

Kenta notices and smiles. He continues to do one-handed pull-ups until he sees all the girls drooling.

Letting go of the bar, he stretches his arms by reaching out as far as his arms can reach. Sighing heavily, he drops to the ground and begins doing sit-ups. Kendo, Mina, Pony, and Yanagi drool over him. Kenta crawls forward and does push-ups before the girls, smirking internally as more girls gather around to watch him. When pretty much all the girls in the UA class gather around, he switches to doing one-handed push-ups, counting to fifty before he sighs heavily and stands up, barely breaking a sweat.

"Gotta keep myself in shape," he snarks. "You never know when you're going to get into an emergency arm-wrestling contest."

"You sure got the abs, Kenta," Mina says. "You look hot as hell."

"I know." Kenta walks up to the girls. "Anyone want to touch them?"

Shiozaki turns away and walks off. It wouldn't feel right if I touched him.

Kenta was about to say more until he felt someone's hands on him. Looking down, he realizes it is Hagakure touching his stomach, rubbing and caressing his abs tenderly like a jealous girlfriend.

"Don't worry girls, there's plenty of me to go around for everyone."

Watching from the common area, Kaminari, Kuroiro, and Mineta groan.

"Maybe it wasn't such a good idea bringing him back," Kaminari groans.

Kuroiro chokes upon seeing Komori touch Kenta's abs. "He's stealing our women."

"A casanova," Mineta lisps. "Impressive. Yeah, maybe it would've been better if we left him behind."

"We agree," more voices say behind them.

Looking to their left, they see Deku, Kirishima, Mashiro, Kaibara, and Tokoyami frowning at the sight of their love interests all over Kenta.

Part 5

1:15 PM

Outside

"Congratulations," Kuroiro tells the prisoner in the bedroom, "we have good news for you."

Heater looks up at him. "You're going to grant me another bathroom break?"

"No, we're going to set you free." Kuroiro smiles. "Your friends are dead and you're useless; you're not a threat anymore, buddy. Sure, you may know the location of our home but that's not going to matter anymore. After all, who is there to tell it to?"

Without warning, Kuroiro grabs the hogtied Heater and drags him through the bedroom door. Along the way, he makes Heater's head bump into the jamb and nearly knock him unconscious. Heater groans, blinking rapidly to wake himself up. He offers little resistance as Kuroiro drags him down the hallway. When they reach the elevator, Kuroiro decides to take the stairs at the last second. He bumps the top of Heater's head against the stairway's doorjamb once again before tossing him down the bottom of the stairs. Following after him, he continues to drag him until they reach the common area.

Heater looks up, seeing the rest of the students gathering around in the common area, their cheeks red and puffy with tears. Looking around, he noticed that Shishida, Bondo, and Koji Koda weren't there. He also notices that dragon bastard. Growling, he sits it up on his knees as Kuroiro drags him.

"You!"

Kenta looks at him, an angry look on his face. "Can't put this dragon down forever."

Kuroiro drags him out the front doors, pausing just a few feet from the barrier separating them from the outside world. He forces Heater to sit on his knees. The students come outside with Bakugou and Deku standing in front of the gate.

"You know, just because you release me doesn't mean you're good people," Heater tells him, smiling smugly. "You killed my family and now you have the galls to release me? I don't know what to make of you. Honestly-"

THAKK!

Heater falls to the ground, gasping for air, his world spinning. Opening his eyes, he reaches out and touches the top of his throbbing skull, gasping in pain. There's blood on his fingertips.

"Batter up!"

KRAAK!

Kurorio swings the baseball bat across Heater's face. He grabs the young man and rotates him so he has a view of the students watching him. Heater groans and reaches out, hoping someone will take his hand.

"GRAND SLAM!"

WRAAK!

SPLAK!

SPLAT!

Sighing heavily, Kuroiro stiffens his back before dropping the bat at his feet. He chokes up at the sight of Heater's hand posthumously twitching before he turns away but not before giving his skull one last smash with his foot for good measure.

"What have you done?" Shiozaki yells, coming out. "You murdered him!"

"He deserved it," Kuroiro answers. "And I don't feel a shred of remorse." He turns to Deku. "He can burn in Hell."

Deku takes out a matchbook and strikes a match. He sets Heater's corpse on fire.

"He doesn't get to have a funeral," Kuroiro continues. "The only ones who deserve a funeral are the ones we lost."

Part 2

10:05 AM

Common Area

"Hey, Kenta." Kaminari sits on the couch, scooting closer to Kenta, smiling. "So, I just saw your moves back there and I gotta say; it's nice to see someone in shape in the apocalypse. So, is that your secret to getting girls? Having washboard abs?"

Kenta laughs. "Who is asking?"

"Me, and Kuroiro, and Mineta."

"Oh, you got the hots for Jirou and your shadow merger friend has the hots for the mushroom girl."

"Well, sorta. But, what is your secret? Washboard abs, right? Because I seriously want her to notice me. I'm not super-strong, I fry my brain after two strikes, or one, but... can a brother help a brother out?"

Kenta laughs. "Okay then, I guess I can show mercy. So, my secret is yeah, have washboard abs. If you want, I can get you on the same exercise routine I have. It took me years to get this body and build and being born taller than most Japanese certainly helps. Since you're of average height, you're kinda a loser in that area. But don't worry; with a few sessions with me, you'll build some muscle... in a few years."

"Years?" He groans and gets up. "Never mind, forget I ever asked."

"People always demand results right away." He pauses. "By the way, I've been meaning to say: you and your class should get some nicknames and masks. For obvious reasons."

"What reasons, dude?"

"To protect your identity, duh. I can tell you guys don't leave this place a lot because you haven't been wearing masks or using nicknames. That's dangerous. Do you know how many times I've almost died because someone recognized me and my power? While I didn't participate in the UA sports festival, those who recognized me knew of my quirk and were able to counterattack it. You need names and masks, all of you. You guys are celebrities because of the sports festival; you need to have a mask and nickname immediately."

"Uhh, interesting." He rubs his chin. "YOu know, I've always thought it would be kinda cool to have names and nicknames for everyone. I'll go gather my class and we can come up with names together."

"Good for you."

Part 7

3:13 PM

With Kaminari and Deku

Opening the door to Deku's room, Kaminari closes the door quietly behind him before sitting next to the green-haired boy, who still has tears in his eyes.

"Are you okay?"

"He won," Deku whispers, "Anaemia won." He closes his eyes. "I've been sitting here in my room this entire time, trying to figure out how Koda found out that Iida and Aoyama are dead because of me and... I can't think of anything. There's no way that Anaemia could've known about their deaths. I can't think of anything. The only thing I can think of is that somehow... Anaemia incepted Koda with the idea that we killed Iida and Aoyama. Tetsutetsu was killed by the League of Villains at UA High and Sato was killed in front of him. The only ones not killed in front of an audience were Iida and Aoyama and only we know the true nature of their deaths."

Deku has a flashback of that night, remembering how he found Aoyama's body and how Iida killed him in anger and paranoia. And then once Shigaraki incepted the idea that Deku was a traitor within Iida's earshot before releasing Deku to deal with the consequences, Iida tried to kill him in a fit of paranoia. Deku had no choice but to kill Iida in self-defense. Kaminari was the only one who shared this secret with Deku. They wanted to tell everyone but they decided that since Deku was Shigaraki's little brother, Aoyama was the traitor, and the sweet cinnamon roll Deku resorted to killing Iida rather than try with all his heart to convince him otherwise, it was better to keep it a secret because the last thing they needed was their friends turning on them.

And look what happened, Deku thinks.

"This is our fault," Deku sobs. "We should've told everyone the truth. Had we done that, Anaemia never would've won. Had it not been for us, Anaemia wouldn't have been able to make Koda suffer and then..."

Kaminari hugs Deku tightly, sobbing into his shoulder. "I think about it every day, man. What should we do? Should we... should we tell the truth? Should we keep the truth to ourselves?"

Deku pants heavily. "We gotta tell the truth, otherwise, this will happen again."

"I agree. But not today though, right?"

Deku shakes his head. "No. More bad news after the other, our classmates don't deserve this."

"But we promise to tell them the truth one day, right?"

Deku nods. "Absolutely."

Part 3

11:01 AM

Common Area

Kendo stands in front of the group. "Okay everyone, you've had one hour to get creative; now it's time to come up and present your name and faces to the class."

Everyone looks up, suddenly feeling nervous as Kendo speaks.

"Aww great, we're presenting our names to everyone?" the students groan.

"I'll go first." Deku throws on the green suit his mother made for him. He zips it up and puts his mouthpiece on. "My survivor's name is 'Deku'."

"Oh, that'll be easy to remember," Bakugou laughs. "Just wait until you see me." He gets up to the class and puts on his domino mask. "MY survivor name: King Explosion Murder."

~Hahahahahahahahahaha!~

"Shut up!" Bakugou flips them off. "Stop laughing!"

"Oh no, it's King Explosion Murder," Sero snarks, "I'm so scared! HAHAHA!"

"Stop laughing, elbows!"

The heroes go up and one by one, present their survivor names and the masks to accompany them. The masks were made materials from their spare costumes. For example, Komori has a spare polka-dot shit to match her mushroom costume. She simply cut some of the material out and made a mask for herself. Kuroiro opted to don a mask that matched the color of his skin so he looked like a skull with two eyes and no mouth.

(Class 1-A Survivor Names and Masks: Izuku "Deku" Midoriya (Mouthpiece from original costume), Katsuki "To Be Announced" Bakugou (domino mask), Ochako "Uravity" Uraraka (helmet), Kyouka "Earphone Jack" Jirou (her mask she's always been wearing), Denki "Chargebolt" Kaminari (same mask he's always been wearing), Mina "Pinky" Ashido (pink mask), Tsuyu "Froppy" Asui (mask with frog design), Masahiro "Tailman" Ojiro (white balaclava), Eijirou "Red Riot" Kirishima (Crimson Riot mask), Mezo "Tentacole" Shoji (still wearing his mask), Hanta "Cellophane" Sero (helmet), Fumikage "Tsukoyomi" Tokoyami (large goggles), Toru "Refraction Girl" Hakagure (no explanation needed), Minoru "Grape Juice" Mineta (his hero costume mask))

(Class 1-B Survivor Names and Masks: Itsuka "Battle Fist" Kendo (hero costume domino mask), Neito "Phantom Thief" Monoma (phantom mask), Ibara "Vine" Shiozaki (vines as a mask), Kinoko "Shemage" Komori (already mentioned), Shihai "Vantablack" Kuroiro (same), Yosetsu "Welder" Awase (welder's helmet), Sen "Spiral" Kaibara (mask with a spiral pattern), Togaru "Jack Mantis" Kamakiri (original costume mask), Yui "Rule" Kodai (face-mask with color scheme identical to her costume), Nirengeki "Mines" Shoda (black scarf as mask), Pony "Rocketti" Tsunotori (hoodie with white face-mask), Kosei "Airwalk" Tsuburaba (transparent face-mask), Kojiro "Plamo" Bondo (still working on mask), Manga "Comicman" Fukidashi (has no mask), Reiko "Emily" Yanagi (has original mask from her costume)).

Shinso steps forward, holding his mask for everyone to see, a mask he calls Persona Chords. "My survivor's name is... Retort."

Hatsume dons her goggles from the sports festival. "The name's MeiMei, test subjects."

That leaves only three students.

Kimiko Kimura steps forward and wears a plastic mask with holes poked for her to breathe through. She tightens the mask around her face until her appearance becomes unrecognizable. "My name is Malleable."

Shimamura steps forward, wearing a white face mask with a snowflake design and the number '-45.55 C' written on the front. "The name... Thaw."

Mogami shrugs before getting up, wearing a blank rubber mask with coins glued to it, covering every inch. "Since I can manipulate pieces of metal that I touch... my name shall be... Finger Gun." He pretends to draw a gun. "Normally, this would be the part where I draw a gun like a cowboy but my gun is missing so making a finger gun will have to do."

Part 4

12:03 PM

Koji Koda's Room

Knocking on his bedroom door, Bondo waits patiently for the boy to answer. When they were picking their names, they did not realize that Koji Koda was present until later. Under the circumstances the boy went through, they decided to leave him to himself for a few hours. Now, it was time to check on him.

"Koda, are you okay?" Bondo knocks on the door once more. "I need you to answer, man."

Deku and Kaminari come by, appearing behind Bondo. "You okay, man?" Deku asks.

"Yeah, I'm just checking on our classmate."

"Shouldn't he have more time to himself?" Kaminari asks. "You know, I'm sure he wants an entire day to himself or something."

"But he hasn't touched his food." Bondo gestures to the tray at the foot of Koji Koda's door.

"Okay, we'll do something." Deku picks up the tray of bread and knocks on the door. "He's our classmate; I'll take care of it."

Deku knocks on the door. "Koda, are you okay in there man? I just wanted you to know that your food is out here." He knocks again. "Koda?" One more knock. "We're coming in man, please don't shoot us."

Deku carefully opens the door and steps inside. His eyes open in surprise upon seeing his bed empty. Looking around, he steps inside, Kaminari and Bondo stepping through as well.

"Koda," he calls out, "Koda man?"

Kaminari and Bondo check the bathroom only to find it empty.

"Shit," Kaminari curses. "He's not here. Where did he go?"

"No," Koji Koda's voice whispers in the air. "Please, no, I'm sorry."

Looking around, their eyes land on the closet. Bondo steps forward first, careful not to make booming footsteps as he gets closer. "Koda?" he whispers out, "are you hiding in the closet? Koda?"

He approaches the closet and puts his hand on the knob. When the door is halfway open-

BANG!

Bondo falls flat on his back with a bullet hole in his forehead.

Deku and Kaminari gasp with Deku dropping the tray at his feet.

"Bondo," they whisper before looking up.

Koji Koda is sitting on the ground of the closet, shakily waving a gun forward in their direction, his eyes a blank color like how Bakugou's were when Anaemia used his quirk on them.

"No, stay away!" Koji Koda yells. "Please, no! Don't come any closer!"

Deku and Kaminari hold their hands up.

Shit, the hallucinogen is still affecting Koda, Deku realizes. Shit. We need to get Shinsou in here, now.

"Hey, Koda, it's okay," Deku tries to tell him, forcing a smile on his face. "It's us; it's me. Deku."

"And me, Kaminari."

Koji Koda shakes his head. "No." His breathing picks up. "No, please, no, don't! Stop! NO!" His grip on the gun tightens. "Please, no, I promise I won't tell anyone! Please, please!"

"We're not going to hurt you, Koda," Kaminari says. "It's us."

"Yeah it's us, the guys who killed Iida and Aoyama. And you're next."

Koji Koda shakes his head. "I didn't do anything! No! Why! Why did you do it?!"

"Do what?" Deku asks, inching closer to the scared boy.

"You know about it. That means you have to die?"

"NO!" Koji Koda continues to scream. "Why did you kill Iida and Aoyama? Why did you kill them?! Murderers!"

Deku and Kaminari freeze in place, their eyes the size of the moon as they replay Koji Koda's words in their mind.

Iida and Aoyama? they both think, How does he know about Iida and Aoyama?

Koji Koda sees a swarm of ants and beetles crawling out of Deku and Kaminari's mouth and eyes.

"NO!" Koji Koda cries. "No, not again! Please, no!"

No, I can't go through this again, no, not again!

He puts the gun in his mouth and pulls the hammer.

"NO!" Deku and Kaminari scream in absolute horror.

BANG!

...

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Part 8

~Promiscious girl, wherever you are, I'm all alone and it's you that I want!~ Juzo Honenuki sings into the mic.

~Promiscious boy, you already know that I'm all yours! What you waiting for?~ Setsuna Tokage follows after her classmate.

~Promiscious girl, you're teasin' me! You know what I want and I got what you need~

~Promiscious boy, let's get to the point 'cause we're on a roll, you ready?~

4:44 PM

I-Island, Bar

The crowd in the bar claps to the beat of the music while chanting and cheering in their names. Several people throw cards at the duo as they dance and prance on stage and the DJ in the room plays with the buttons on his keyboard, illuminating the stage with a red and green light.

Sitting on the other end of the bar and away from the crowd forming around the recommended students of Class 1-B, Shoto Todoroki picks up the beer bottle in front of him and takes a drink.

"Taste like piss," Todoroki says to the person sitting beside him.

"Of course," Toyua 'Dabi' Todoroki says. "Beer will never get a man drunk. Rum, yeah, that'll do the trick." Dabi takes a pack of Camels out of his jacket before lighting one for himself. He hands the second cigarette over to his younger brother.

Todorki inhales deeply before blowing the smoke out softly. The two Todoroki brothers share a smoke as they look over and see the 1-B students finish up their performance. Somehow, when the duo reaches down to pick up the cards, they manage to make themselves not look desperate when they do so. After grabbing the 150 cards off the ground, they return to Todoroki and Dabi's side and begin sorting out the cards.

"Nice Nelly Furtado and Timbaland performance there," Todorko tells them.

"Thank you, I really felt it when I was singing," Honenuki admits. "As much as I wanted to sing 'Promiscuous' as a solo, it works better as a duet."

"For obvious reasons." Tokage counts the cards and begins separating. "Twenty-five for each of us." Before she can hand them out, she notices a few missing people. "Where Yaomomo?"

"Finishing something up," Todoroki answers.

The bell above the front door chimes with Momo Yaoyorozu and Himiko Toga walking through.

"We're here; sorry we're late." Yaomomo reunites with Todoroki. "Sorry, it took longer to create that car for that piece of shit at the shop than I thought."

"Did they give you any trouble?"

"If they did, you would've known." Toga takes out her knife. "Do you see any blood?"

"I'm not colorblind." Todoroki takes a drag.

Toga slashes Dabi's forearm. Dabi doesn't even flinch. He holds his hand out without looking and allows her to suck his blood.

"So, how was your performance?" Yaomomo asks.

"Got enough cards to last us a while," Honenuki answers. "And I think I might become a singer instead of a hero; I have such an amazing voice."

"That's not what I heard tonight," Dabi snarks. "Care to take a drag or are you afraid of biting the cigarette?"

"Screw you, patchwork."

"Not even in your wildest dreams, skeleton face."

A few seconds later, a man wearing ratty old clothes reminiscent of a homeless person approaches the kids from behind with a small group of men following him.

"What's up, sisterfuckers?" the man smiles.

"What is it, Adrenal?" Todoroki asks.

"It's not for you, brotherfucker but rather, you cocksucking girlfriend here." He turns to Yaomomo. "Hey, bitch, care to settle a bet: Does the carpet match the drapes on Todoroki?"

Todorki narrows his eyes and looks over at Adrenal and his friends.

"Come on," Adrenal nearly begs, "come the fuck on, is it fucking true or not?"

Yaomomo blushes, intensifying as the four men surround her from all sides.

A girl with shoulder-length blonde hair and blue eyes approaches the group, wearing an armband with a red cross. "Please answer the question, Creati, please?"

"I asked the goddamn question first, Algaea, not you; stop trying to interrupt me like a goddamn cockblocker." Adrenal turns back to Yaomomo. "I'm asking a simple question, Yaomomo; it's not like I'm trying to ask you the science behind why bitches are bitches. Does Todoroki's sexy, cunt-wetting carpet below match his cunt-wetting drapes above?"

Aglaea smiles, looking down at Todoroki. Since his back is to her, she settles on staring at his ass.

"Just answer the question," Adrenal demands. "Answer the question or I'll go fucking insane and starts-"

"Yes," Yaomomo finally answers, hiding her face behind her hands. "The carpet does match the drapes."

Adrenal's eyes widen. He yells in triumph at the top of his lungs before dancing around the bar, his three friends following.

"I won the bet!" Adrenal yells. "Yeah! 100 cards for me, face-fucking bitches!" He turns to the crowd. "Fuck you! Fuck you! And most certainly fuck you, bitch!" He and his friends skip out of the bar but not before one of them moons everyone in the bar.

Todoroki puts his beer bottle down. "What are they talking about?"

Aglaea smiles, blushing hard. She steps forward, putting her face near Todoroki's. "Todoroki, you are beloved by all. You have a lot of fangirls and they think you're very hot. I just want to let you know, that when you come of age, I would be happy to sculpt you." She turns to Dabi. "Can I sculpt you?"

"Only if I can burn you."

She flinches. "It's not a kink I got into but I'm willing to try anything."

"You can sculpt me if you want," Toga tells her, "but only if I can cut you."

Aglaea continues to smile. "I'll consider it."

Aglaea pays for their drinks. "This round is on me and as a way to apologize for Adrenal's behavior."

"Nothing we haven't experienced before." Todoroki takes a sip of his beer and then a drag of his smoke.

Just another day on I-Island.

Character Cards

-Airi "Aglaea" Asanuma

Quirk: Perfect Touch (She can heal certain wounds by making physical contact with the victim's body)

Occupation: Nurse (Formerly), medic for the I-Island Elites.

Age: 36

Birthday: January 18th.

Height: 151 cm.

Blood Type: O

Likes: Men.

Other Facts: Greek mythology enthusiast.

Criminal Record: Four counts of sexual harassment - Charges Dropped.

-Kenzō "Adrenal" Kanemaru

Quirk: Adrenaline Activation (He can activate one's adrenaline).

Occupation: Peddler; member of the I-Island Elites.

Age: 39

Birthday: November 3rd

Height: 160 cm.

Blood Type: O

Likes: Cheese pizza.

Other Facts: Expelled from Masegaki Elementary School and Aldera Junior High for swearing.

Criminal Record: 24 counts of drug trafficking - Wanted.