Villains Aren't Born

by blaszczu2500

In a world where having a superhuman ability called "Quirk" is perfectly normal and quite common, Gareth Takemura was less fortunate than other people his age and was born without one of his own. What would happen if he was brought to the absolute bottom by the people around him and was approached by a man known as All For One who would offer to give him a Quirk of his own?

37. The Attack

I don't own MHA. I only own OC's.

Sorry if you find any grammar mistakes. I'm still learning English because it's not my first language.

ReaderOf3: I'm glad you liked the chapter and I hope you'll like what I have planned for the PLF War arc and beyond :)

NEWTON RYBACK: Thank you once again for leaving a review!

1. No spoilers about the baby.

2. No spoilers if will happen.

3. Maybe it would work if they had any proof of it.

4. I already have planned out what Gareth will say to Izuku during their next confrontation.

5. You'll have to wait and see if any of those things will happen in the war arc.

6. I already told you. You'll have to wait and see if something will come out of this idea :)

7. Perharps they will live or not. You'll have to wait and see. :)

8. I already have some plans regarding Overhaul and his role in the story following Tartarus escape :)

9. Maybe there'll be a scene like this at some point of this story :)

10. No spoilers.

11. No. He can't control it. The only thing he woul be able of doing with it would be destroying the cement construction made him Cementoss and throwing it towards someone.

12. No. They're not distant relatives.

shadowlight27: Thank you once again for leaving a review and I'm glad you liked the chapter! :)

1. Keep in mind they don't know how dangerous his upgraded Quirk is and how deadly it can be as Gareth kept it a secret from the hero society after it evolved to have an element of suprise when he and the others will make their move. It includes Hawks as well, because of how distrustful he was of him for all this time.

2. Yup. Just like AFO said to All Might when the former came to visit him in Tartarus. Gareth and Shigaraki's brotherly relationship reminds him of what he could not achieve with Yoichi.

3. Perharps it will be brought up to Izuku or some other hero character Gareth will confront in the war arc. Only time will tell :)

4. You'll have to wait and see how the Tartarus escape will go :)

5. Perharps there will be a scene like this during the Chaos arc :)

6. Hmm. It could be an interesting way of having Gareth prove his point to him how he became a hero just because he got lucky to get the right power. Not because of the person he is and his desire to save people.

7. Yup. If he would encounter them or some of them again in the future, I can see he would also tell them, "What? What's wrong? You're not cheering for the guy with a powerful Quirk who treats you like filth? I thought this was always an admirable sight for you."

2hupedia: Perharps. Only time will tell if things will work out or not :)

THE-Twilight-BlazeKnight: Thank you once again for leaving a review and I'm glad you liked the chapter! :)

1. Glad you liked the scene of Gareth and Geten training together. Perharps you'll get a chance to see them working together and fighting side-by-side in the future :)

2. Glad you like how the League (especially Toga) is supportive of Gareth and Origami's relationship. Toga really puts a lot of thought whenever it comes to planning out the stuff with her OTP :)

3. Glad you liked the date scene. Writing it was tons of fun :)

4. Glad you liked the scene between Izuku and Kendo and Tetsutetsu. Yup. Hearing about Origami only reassured Izuku in his goal of saving Gareth and that his friend can be saved. What will come out of it and what will come out of Kendo and Tetsutetsu's idea of saving Origami? You'll find out in this arc :)

5. Glad you liked the ending scene of this chapter. I was planning to have a scene like this between them for a long time now.

6. Yup. Gareth and Origami's relationship has come far in the one year they knew each other. It would come even far in the AU where they adopt Eri as they would literally be her parents by this point of the timeline of this AU.

7. Lol. Perharps you'll have a Quirk which allows you to guess what will happen in the stories you read.

TheGreatGodzilla: Thank you once again for leaving a review! :)

1. Yup. After waiting for so long, the moment between Gareth and Origami you've been waiting for for so long happened. Now. Will the pregnancy happen because of it? You'll have to wait and see :)

2. If someone would want to do it, then they have permission. Even though I don't write smut myself (I tried writing a lemon scene a few years ago and it ended up so cringy that I deleted it and never tried to write anything like this again), I don't have anything against it for as long as it's not something messed up as it's a way some people show their appreciaton for a character.

3. The difference between her and the League is the fact that the League want to create a better world for everyone where everyone will be accepted unlike her who did all of this to make everyone accept one person.

4. Hmm. Yeah. Charlie meeting someone like this could result in some interesting character development for her.

5. The latter option. Even though the peace lasted shorter in it than it did in the former option, it costed less lives for it to happen.

6. Maybe it will be brought up at some point of this story. Who knows. Only time will tell. :)

7. Yeah. I saw it. I talk about it a bit in the A/N.

Noobmaster2037: Lol. It would work well as a omake from the times where the League was dealing with poverty. I can see Lewandowski would begin to say something in Polish after this, confusing everyone from the League as if he was talking in an ancient language.

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Gareth's emerald green eyes slowly opened as he woke up from his slumber, feeling all rested and satisfied. He let out a yawn, trying to make himself a a bit less sleepy right now as he immediately felt he wasn't the only person in his bed right now. Someone was hugging his body and keeping their head laying on his chest, resting again him and feeling his body right now. He didn't ask himself who it was and he knew exactly who it was. He looked down at his person and saw a sleeping form on Origami.

His girlfriend was snuggled against his body, with her cheek laying on his chest and him hearing the sounds of her heartbeat. Her eyes were closed as her legs were wrapped around his body. Gareth could feel her hair touching him her peaceful breath against him. The black haired boy felt a smile slowly growing on his face, thinking to himself just how beautiful Origami looked like right now as he watched her sleeping form, not thinking about waking her up even for a moment as he wanted to savor the moment and enjoy her in her sleeping form for a bit more.

Days had passed since their first time together and both of them did this a couple more times on a few occasions since then, each one feeling more wonderful than the last one and both of them enjoying every second of every single of them. He was brought out of this thoughts a few moments later as Origami followed his example and started to wake up. Her eyes slowly opened and she looked at him with a small smile on her face, blushing slightly.

Gareth smiled down at her with a love filled smile, his face heating slightly, "Morning."

"Hey." She greeted him back, smilling back lovingly as she laid her head back on his chest, her dark green hair covering both of you with its length. She let out a soft satisfied exhale, feeling her face heat up as the memories of last night flew through her head, "...I really liked last night. What about you?"

"Yeah. Me too." Gareth nodded, his smile refusing to leave his face and in fact growing a bit as Origami lifted her face up a bit and placed it close to his.

Their soft eyes met each other as they could feel each other breath's on each other. A bit of her long dark green hair was covering both of them as Origami made her first move and she pressed her lips on Gareth's as their bodies were still pressed against each other. It was a small kiss, but it still felt wonderful to both of them. After pulling away from each other, both of them smiled at each other as Origami went back to her old position and laid her head on Gareth's chest again, both of them wanting to lay together for a bit more.

Gareth slowly started to run his hand through her hair a second later, "Do you think the others are suspecting us of doing it?"

"Other than Okumura-san who gave me the pills and Hasaki-chan who walked into our room the morning after our first time to wake us up, I don't think anyone knows or suspects of this." Origami gave him an honest answer. The only people she could suspect about her and Gareth's relationship reaching this point were Toga who wasn't stopping with her teasings of wanting a godchild and Minene as she often saw her sending her suggestive looks and smirks. She shrugged it off as Toga and Minene being themselves, though.

She blushed slightly when she recalled the one time when she asked Ayaka for the day after pills and how embarassed and awkward she felt about it. Ayaka's amused reaction certainly didn't help with her embarassment. The punk doctor was glad she and Gareth were being responsible and were using some sort of protection, only time when she and Gareth didn't use any protection was during their first time together because of how sudden it was. Neither of them thought much about it, though. What were the chances of her getting pregnant from one unprotected time?

The dark green haired girl slightly tightened her grip around Gareth's body, both of them remaining like this as they allowed themselves to stay like this for now, listening to the sound of each other heartbeat and breathing. She was enjoying this moment, like she always did when she woke up the morning after she and Gareth had sex with each other, and the way it made her feel a lot, so she wanted it to last a little bit longer, even if that would mean they both were just laying down together in absolute relaxation.

"...We should get up and get ready for the day. We have an important meeting today." Gareth told her after a moment of relaxing silence for both of them. As much as he wanted this moment to continue, he knew he and Origami had to get up because of their organization having an important meeting today. He had some plans he wanted to attend to before the meeting as well.

Origami nodded, knowing he was right as she let out a small sigh and lifted up her head from his chest before looking up at him, "I really wish we could stay in our room and stay like this for a bit longer."

"Me too." Gareth agreed with her, wishing he could stay in the room and lay with Origami for a bit more, but today was an important day and they couldn't really do it, "Duty calls, though. We can always lay together for a bit after the meeting will end if you want to."

"Yes. I would love to." Origami nodded in agreement, smilling at the thought of it as she immediately began to look forward to it. She sat up on the bed, stretching her arms above her head. She didn't care about it leaving some parts of her nude body in display to Gareth, having gotten used to him seeing her like this at this point, "What are your plans for today before the meeting will start?"

"I and Rappa talked with each other yesterday and we agreed to have a little sparring session before lunch. Knowing Rappa, Tengai-kun will probably accompany us for it." Gareth gave her his answer as he followed Origami's example and sat up on their bed, stretching himself up a bit after doing so.

He shifted his attention to the cupboard next to to his bed when he stretched his arms above his head and set his eyes on his Quirk Erasing Bullet which was laying on top of it, hidden within it's case. He always kept it on the cupboard next to him to make sure he always saw it after waking up and always made sure to take it with him after putting on his usual clothes. He always wanted to have it close to himself as he knew an opportunity to use it could come at any moment. He just didn't know when it would come.

He shifted his attention back to Origami a second later and looked at her questioningly, "What about you? Do you have any plans before the meeting will start?"

"I'm planning to met up with Himiko-chan and Magne and hang out for a bit with them. Hasaki-chan might join us for this as well." Origami explained, her smile still evident on her face right now as she felt happy right now. Who could blame her for it? She woke up in the bed with her boyfriend next to her and was going to hang out with her friends. Who wouldn't be happy in her place?

"We'll see each other at the lunch, then." Gareth stated. Before the meeting will start, the League agreed to met up in their usual living room and have a lunch with each other where they would talk with each other about their day and some other stuff before they will get to business during the meeting with the rest of their organization during the upcoming meeting.

"Yeah." Origami nodded, getting up from the bed and stretched her arms above her head after finding herself in a standing position. She shifted her attention back to Gareth a second later, "I really wanna take a shower before we start the day." She smiled at him, "Are you joining me..?"

Gareth smiled at his girlfriend, nodding his head to show her he would be be more than happy to join her for the morning shower. He got up from the bed a second later, not minding he didn't have anything on himself in front of her right now and started to make his way towards the bathroom as Origami wasted no time and followed him. They exchanged glances with each other and smiled upon entering the bathroom and closing the door behind them, both of them enjoying the way this morning started.

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It was a start of a beautiful sunny day in Musutafu City. With spring approaching with big steps, everyone allowed themselves to prepare for the upcoming day and intended to make the most in the best way possible. Many people would definitely make a good use of this weather and would go on the walks either with their family or their family pet or their friends or by themselves. Unfortunely not everyone could enjoy it like this as they still had to attend either their work or school. It still wouldn't stop them from enjoying it to the fullest, though.

Asano was one of them. The police detective had just arrived at his police departament and got himself out of his car, more than ready to begin his work today. He hummed to himself with a pleased smile on his face as he pushed the front door of the police station of the Musutafu City open, holding his hot morning coffee in his right hand. He walked through the front doors, entering the police building and started to make his way towards the office part of the building where his desk was located.

As he continued to make his way towards the office part of the building, he stumbled upon a woman by the name of Yukiko who was working in the departament as the receptionist. The police detective could easily consider her a good friend of his. Both of them often talked with each other whenever he was at the police station and wasn't busy with something. They often talked about their common interest in literature as well. There was even a time when he considered asking her to join the Liberation army. He was was forced to give up on this idea, though after she, just like Nishijima, called it a terrorist organization when he asked her about it and made it certain to him how would asking her to join it would end.

"Good morning Yukiko-san." He greeted her with a kind welcoming smile on his face as Yukiko silently smiled back at him, like she did everytime when he greeted her in the early morning when he arrived at work. He couldn't feel but feel like something was off about her smile today, though. It seemed forced. He didn't ask her about it, though as he knew his eyes could have been playing a trick on him today, considering it was morning and all.

Brushing this as a trick his eyes his eyes just paid on him, Asano walked further into the police station as he wanted to get his work started for the day. As he stepped into the part of the station where his desk was located, he immediately noticed one thing. It was the tension in the room. Everyone seemed to tense up when he entered it and Asano could have sworn he saw a few of them sending him dirty glances or glares. He rubbed his eyes at the view of this, trying to once again brush this off as his morning eyes paying a trick on him.

After rubbing his eyes, he pulled his hands away from them and looked around himself and saw the dirty glances and glares were gone from his colleagues faces. Or at least he thought they were gone. Most of them were looking away from him now. Asano shrugged it off, knowing they must have been doing whatever work had been assigned to them today and decided he should get to work as well. As he shifted his his gaze to his desk and the files on it, he couldn't help himself but grow a bit excited. Excited of what was to come.

"...Only a little over a month left and our grand commanders's body will be completed! I truly can't wait for it and for everything he and our co-commander have planned for our revolution!" He thought to himself with a satisfied and excited smile on his face, looking forward to what the next few months will bring for him and his fellow warriors from the Liberation Front.

"Kyochiro-kun." A familiar voice rang through his ears, pushing him out of his thoughts. Asano's smile grew wider at the sound of it, having instantly recognized this voice as he was more than familiar with it at this point.

He looked up towards the source of this voice and saw Nishijima standing in front of him. His friend and partner was up from his desk and was looking down on him, "Good to day, Tadaomi-kun. How is your morning going so far?"

"It could have been better to be honest." Nishijma gave him an honest answer.

"Really?" Asano looked at him questioningly, "What happened?"

"I'm a bit tired. Didn't got much sleep last night." Nishijima explained, rubbing his eyes to prove his point, "Something was keeping me up at night, no matter how much I wanted to fall to fall asleep and how much I was trying to make myself fall asleep."

Asano looked at him sympathetically, "I see. I'm sorry to hear that. Those kind of nights are always the worst. I never can focus on anything whenever I have them."

"You're telling me. I can already tell this will be a long day for me." Nishijima nodded, "What Chief Kobayakawa has planned for both of us today isn't helping either."

Asano raised his brow at him at the mention of the chief having something planned for them, "Really? He has something planned for us? What is this? This is my first time hearing about this."

"Really? That's weird. I thought you were filled in about this." Nishijima stated with a slightly suprised look on his face. Something about Nishijima's suprise didn't seem genuine to him, though, "We have to interrogate someone. He got himself into a big trouble and we're supposed to get answers out of him. This is why I am talking with your right now to be honest. We're about to head to the interrogation room to take care of this task."

"Alright." Asano said in understanding, getting up from his seat and looked at him quesitoningly. He was still slightly confused about this job Kobayakawa had for him and Nishijima, but knew he had to do it nevertless as it was a part of his duties, "Are you sure you can do this, though? You did tell me you're tired."

Nishijima shrugged, "I'll be fine. Don't worry about me. I'll drink a quick coffee and I'll be as good as new."

"Okay." Asano nodded.

Asano and Nishijima wasted no time and pushed themselves into the interrogation room in some other part of the building where they would take care of the job they were given by their chief. As Asano walked ahead of Nishijima, the latter of the two stopped in the exit from the office part of the building and looked over his shoulder at his and Asano's colleagues and saw all of them looking at him with pity and sympathy written over their faces. He nodded at him, appreciating the looks they had directed towards him.

Letting out a sigh, Nishijima pushed himself into walk again and followed Asano towards the interrogation room. It was his expression slightly began to change. It didn't show his tiredness anymore. It showed a mixture of a few emotions. It was showed hurt. It showed disappointment. It showed a bit of anger. This anger was directed towards Asano as he knew what his friend had done and what he was planning and himself for failing to notice all of those things until now, despite all of this being right under his nose.

When he was about to pass the corner and enter the hallway with the interrogation room at the end of it, Asano looked over his shoulder and saw the look his friend had directed towards him right now. It took him by suprise as he had never seen his friend direct a look like this towards him. He only ever directed it towards the worst criminals both of them stumbled upon together. It made him realize something might be bothering his partner right now. He stopped in his tracks and was about to turn around to his friend and ask him about this.

His words died in his throat when a squad of Japan's Special Assault Team rushed out of the corner. Each man was wielding a MP5a5, "Stay where you are!"

Asano's eyes widened in suprise and confusion, having completely forgotten what he was about to ask his friend about a second earlier, "W-What? What's going on?"

A man in the front of the squad aimed his MP5p5 at him, "Shut up and put your hands up where we can see them!"

Feeling himself growing more confused, Asano knew he had no other choice but to comply to their demands otherwise something may have happen to him. He raised his hands in the air, really wanting to know what was going on right now as the man in front of the squad told him to get on his knees. Asano once again complied as Nishijima let out a sigh, finding his disappointment in his friend growing bigger with each passing moment as he pulled out a pair of handcuffs and approached him from behind.

"...You think you know a person." He muttered under his breath as he stopped behind Asano and grabbed him by his hands. Not wasting any time, he put handcuffs around his friends wrists and pushed himself into the ground, making his face face the floor.

"Tadaomi-kun? What are you doing? What's going on?" Asano asked his friend a second after getting laid down on her floor.

"It's over, Asano." Nishijima stayed silent and someone else provided Asano the answer he was waiting for. Asano looked up towards the source of this voice and saw Chief Kobayakawa walking towards him with a cold look on his face, "Everyone knows about little liberation with the rest of the freaks from your organization. Like I said. It's over for all of you. By the end of this day, all of you will be locked up where you belong."

Asano chuckled nervously, praying he just misheard his boss, "Excuse me. Can you specify to me what do you mean? I feel like there is something wrong with my ears, because of me having trouble falling asleep last night."

"You stop with these excuses, Kyochiro-kun. You heard him right." Nishijima confirmed Kobayakawa's words to Asano, his voice filled with disappointment, "Do you want to go into detail? Very well." He pulled out a file out of his bag and read it out loud for Asano to hear, Asano Kyochiro. A high ranking member of the Paranormal Liberation Front lead by Shigaraki Tomura and one of the advisers of Takemura Gareth, the co-commander of the said organization."

After those words left his partners mouth, Asano felt himself growing more nervous because now certain his ears weren't playing a sick trick on him. He was now certain they had been discovered and it made him panic a lot as he knew how badly it could end for them. As he found himself in a situation like this without a way of escaping as he was surrounded right now, he couldn't help but ask himself? How were they found out? They were doing their best to keep themselves a secret from the public. Someone must have ratted them out.

Kobayawaka shook his head, disgust slowly becoming more evident on his facial features, "An acting membership in a terrorist organization? I thought better of you Asano. I really did."

"Is this you asked me about the MLA so long ago?" Nishijima looked at his former partner with a mixture of regret and disappointment on his face. Disappointment was more evident, though, "You weren't asking me because you were curious to know what I thought about it. You asked me because you thought about recruiting me into your little army."

Asano sighed, knowing there was no point in hiding it anymore now that the secret was about, "...Yes."

"You tried to do the same with Yukiko-san as well?" Nishijima wanted to know. Even if the asnwer was already obvious to him from the answer he had received from his now former partner a second later.

Asano nodded in confirmation, "Yes."

Nishijima shook his head, his disappointment in his partner becoming more evident on his face, "You tried to get both of us to join a literal terrorist organization. Why did you do all of this? I thought we were friends."

"I did all of this for the greater good." Asano gave him an honest answer, remembering the answer he gave Gareth when Gareth asked him why was a police detective like him working with their organization.

"For the greator good? How is being associated with a terrorist organization doing any good for the world?" Nishijima demanded to know, looking utterly baffled by his partner having this kind of mindset.

"Don't bother trying to understand him." Kobayakawa told him, not caring about a single word Asano had to say about himself, "There's no point in listening to people like him. His brain is probably already too fried with the MLA bullshit he was selling himself for god knows how long."

"Yeah. I suppose you're right, boss." Nishijima sighed sadly as Asano let out a humorless chuckle, finding it similiar to something Gareth once told him during one of their conversations. He shifted his attention back to Asano a second later. His expression turned more regretful when he uttered his next words, wishing things didn't turn out the way they did, "A shame turned out the way they did and a shame you decided to ruin your life like you did. I genuinely liked working with you and hanging out with you after work. To think you were doing such things behind the scenes for all this time..."

Asano looked up at his former partner, wishing things didn't turn out the way they did between them. He was aware of how their friendship could be affected by his work for the Paranormal Liberation Front and unfortunely the worst possible scenario regarding it was playing out now. It was even worse than the possible scenarion he had come up for this confrontation as it involved him getting caught with the Paranormal Liberation Front having been found out without even having a chance to do anything.

He looked away from him, turning the face the floor again as he had nothing else he had to say to him or anyone else around them. Letting out another sigh, Nishijima turned to look at Kobayakawa and gave his boss a nod of his head. Kobayakawa nodded back at him and ordered the special forces to take Asano away. Asano was grabbed and picked up from the floor a second later. As the special forces began to carry him away, he thought about only one thing. He wished and hoped the others didn't found themselves in such a bad spot like he did just now...

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After Gareth and Origami prepared themselves for the day by taking a shower together and washing their teeth, the villanous couple put on their usual villain clothes and walked out of their room. They parted ways shortly after. Gareth went to the gym to have his sparring session with Rappa and Origami went someplace else in the mansion to hang out with Toga, Magne and possibly Slice. Before parting ways for now, both of them exchanged a quick kiss and wished each other goodbye until the lunch with the others

Gareth arrived at the gym a few moments after parting ways with Origami and walked into the place. He looked around himself upon entering it, wanting to know if Rappa was already there. Unsurprisingly Rappa was already and even more unsurprisingly Tengai was with him. They weren't the only people in the gym right now, though. Minene, Arasaka and Daiki were in the gym as well, all of them were occupied with their own stuff right now and didn't notice him enter the gym right away.

Arasaka was wearing his martial arts attire, kicking and swinging her feet at the training dummy in front of her as she was putting herself through some morning workout. Daiki was doing the same. He was doing it in his usual way, though. The black haired young man was swinging his blade at the training dummy in front of him, giving himself a small training of his sword skills. Minene was the only one from them who wasn't doing anything right now. The purple haired woman sat cross-legged on the floor, watching their friends train.

"Hey, guys." Gareth greeted Rappa and Tengai, making his way to them as his voice instantly caught Minene's attention. He quickly turned around where she was sitting and shifted her attention from her friends to Gareth. She smiled at the view of him, rubbing her hands excitedly as she was knew what was about to happen between him and Rappa.

Rappa smiled at Gareth underneath his bird mask, "Hey, man."

"Good day to you, Master Gareth." Tengai greeted Gareth in return in his signature respectful tone, "Did you sleep well tonight?"

"I'm sure he did~." Minene muttered under her breath, smirking slightly with a small blush on her face as she eavesdropped on the conversation these three were having from where she sat.

"Yeah. I did." Gareth replied, blushing slightly at the memories of last night. His blush thankfully went unnoticed by Rappa and Tengai and neither of them asked him or wondered about it.

Tengai nodded in understanding, "Very well. I'm glad to hear it."

Gareth shifted his gaze between Tengai and Rappa questioningly, "What about you two? Did you sleep well?"

"I slept rather well today." Tengai gave him his answer, "Thank you for asking."

"I had a good sleep as well." Rappa added, crossing his arms as he let out a sigh before adding, "I just wish there wasn't a meeting today. All this sitting around and planning everything out almost bored the hell out of me. You know I was always the type of person to jump into action. I just wish things would get exciting around here."

"I wouldn't have to worry about waiting for things to get exciting, Rappa." Tengai told him, "We are only a month away from Master's Shigaraki return, after all."

Rappa nodded, slowly beginning to grow excited at the thought of Shigaraki's return, "Yeah. You're right. I just can't wait for him to return and see how interesting things will get after after his operation! I can't wait for him to show everyone how he ain't a pansy!"

"I'm sure he will." Gareth smiled. He couldn't wait for Shigaraki's return as well. The fact that they were only one month away from seeing him against at this point was making him all the way more excited about it. The thought of seeing him again was enough to make him smile nowadays. He couldn't wait to see Shigaraki again. He couldn't wait talk with him again. He couldn't wait to play video games with him and more importantly couldn't tell him he saw him as his brother too.

"Are we starting right away or do you want to do a quick warm up at first?" Rappa asked a few seconds alter, more than ready to begin his morning sparring with Gareth.

Gareth shifted his gaze to him and nodded, stretching his arms above his head, "Sure. We can start right away if you want to."

Rappa nodded at him, smilling as pumped his fist excitedly. Like he always did before a sparring with someone, "Great. Let's go!"

"I'll be right behind you." Gareth nodded back at him.

Rappa shifted his gaze to Tengai, "Try to cheer me on during my fight with Gareth for a bit."

"Unforunely I don't think I want to play favourites here. You I know I don't do this whenever you sparr with someone from the League." Tengai replied. From the tone of his voice, Gareth and Rappa could tell he was smilling underneath his bird mask right now.

Rappa facepalmed at this, letting out a small sigh, "Right. I forgot about this."

"If you would be sparring with someone else like Chimera for example, then you would have my full support, though." Tengai added to what he said a moment earlier.

Rappa smiled at him, "Good to know."

"Show him how well you can kick butt, Gareth!" Minene shouted from the side, keeping her hands clasped as she excitedly awaited the sparring between him and Rappa. Arasaka and Daiki stopped what they were doing for a second and didn't roll their eyes at it and instead exchanged amused glances with each other, having gotten used to their friend acting like this over the course of the last few months.

Rappa and Gareth glanced at each other a second later after this, the former letting out a chuckle at Minene's support of Gareth while Gareth blushed slightly at this. They moved away from Tengai and made their way to the sparring grounds of the mansion. They stared at each other for a few seconds and exchanged fist bumps before stepping away from each other. They stopped in an equal distance from each other ang got themselves ready for their upcoming fight.

Gareth shifted his gaze away from his opponent for a second and set his eyes on Minene, seeing the purple woman watching him excitedly with her hands still clasped together as she continued to cheer for him. Only this time her cheers were silent. He attention back to Rappa a second later and nodded at him, telling him he was ready to start without saying anything to him. Rappa nodded back at him, making his first move to begin the sparring. The brawler advanced towards Gareth, intending to winning this sparring with him as Gareth prepared himself to take him on and his upcoming attacks on.

The time passed and the friendly sparring between Gareth and Rappa continued as both of them exchanged one punch after another with themselves. Tengai and Minene watched all of it from the sidelines, the former staying silent for all of this time and latter staying silent as well as she didn't want to distract Gareth from his sparring with Rappa. Her excited blush remained on her face, though and her excitement was growing bigger with each passing moment of the fight.

Even Arasaka and Daiki watched the fight between Gareth and Rappa, having taken a short break from their own workouts and having seen this fight as a perfect way to relax themselves a bit from the workout they had just put themselves throug. Daiki took a sip from his water bottle, silently cheering on for Gareth, because of him being his adviser and all and Arasaka bounced up and down on her feet a bit, silently cheering for Rappa, because of him being her fellow fighter who likes to use their fists and all.

Tengai nodded to himself, watching the fight in an approving manner as he saw no need of keeping himself prepared to activate his Quirk and form a barrier around either Gareth or Rappa. He didn't keep himself at ready for it as he didn't knew there was no need of keeping himself at ready for it. He knew Rappa wouldn't do anything to hurt Gareth in any way during any of their friendly sparrings. In fact. He didn't have to do it whenever Rappa sparred with someone nowadays as he was containing himself more after what happened in Deika City.

The fight between Gareth and Rappa eventually ended in a draw as neither Gareth or Rappa were focused on winning it and were instead focused on the fun of it. Minene, Daiki and Arasaka were a bit disappointed they didn't get a chance to see if whoever they were rooting for would win the fight. Tengai once again nodded in approval of it, nodding slightly to himself.

Rappa walked over to Gareth and held his hand out to him for a fist bump right after the fight ended, "Good fight."

"Yeah." Gareth nodded at him, smilling as he fist bumped him, "It was certainly a nice way to have some fun before the meeting."

"You know it." Rappa agreed as he and Gareth turned away from each other and pushed themselves into walk towards Tengai, "You did well, by the way."

Gareth hummed questioningly at this, "Hmm?"

"You improved well from our first fight and from when we started our training sessions. If both of us weren't not sparring for the fun of it, then I can tell I would have some trouble with you." Rappa explained.

Gareth smiled at him gratefully, "Thanks. I still wouldn't do this without the training you gave me ever since you joined the League."

Rappa chuckled, "You say it everytime we sparr."

"Because it's the truth." Gareth replied as he and Rappa made their way to Tengai. Upon making their way to him, Tengai held out two water bottles from them, one for each of them as he knew they must have been thirsty from their sparring. Gareth and Rappa gladly accepted the water bottles from him and drank from them, ending their thirst.

Minene wrapped her arms around Gareth from behind a second after he put this water bottle aside. From the tone of her voice, he could tell the purple haired woman was blushing in excitement now, "...Gareth! That was amazing. Watching you sparr with Lieutenant Rappa was so exciting! It just makes me wanna hug you like this~."

"Thanks?" Gareth blushed slightly at the action, feeling how Minene was pushing herself deeper into him and he felt her chest getting pressed deeper into his back.

Minene leaned a bit closer to his ear and whispered, 'Would you like me to give you a massage? I'm certain it would help you in loosening some tense muscles from the fight and help you relax a bit~."

"Maybe some other time." Gareth shook his head at her offer, having gotten a few massages from her over the course of the last few months after learning about her work as a massager as he wasn't really interested in having a massage from her right now, "Could you stop right now?"

"Of course." Minene nodded, pulling away from him,

"A draw?" Arasaka said as Gareth turned around and set his eyes on her. Her words weren't directed towards him, though. They were directed towards Rappa instead. She had a playful smirk on her face as she elbowed, "I have to say. I'm almost disappointed. I expected to see more from you."

Rappa shrugged, "It's not like either of us were aiming to win this fight. It was just for fun."

"For fun, huh?" Arasaka crossed her arms, "You mean to tell me you don't have fun whenever we train together?"

"When we practice together, I think you rather aim to win." Rappa pointed out as Gareth looked slightly suprised by this. He had no idea Rappa and Arasaka were training together in their free time.

"You know it." Arasaka nodded in confirmation, smilling. Even though she found Rappa's fighting style too chaotic at first, she found him to be a rather good training buddy after they trained together once at the gym in the mansion.

"What time is it, by the way? I lost the track of it after arriving at the gym." Gareth asked as Daiki took a look at his watch and gave him the answer. The black haired boy nodded at this and set his eyes on Tengai and Rappa, "Alright. We should get going. Our lunch with the rest is supposed to be around this time."

Tengai nodded at him, "Very well, Master Gareth. I was supposed to say the same."

"You two go without me." Rappa told them,"I'll stay here until the meeting and train for a bit more."

Tengai looked at him questioningly, "Are you sure?"

"Yeah." Gareth nodded at the question, "You're not hungry after this?"

Rappa shook his head, "No. I don't. I had a big breakfast."

"Alright." Gareth nodded in understanding, "We'll see you at the meeting, then."

"Just try not to break anything until the meeting." Tengai added, having no ill intention in his tone as he meant those words as a joke.

Rappa chuckled, "How can I? You're taking all the stupid with you."

Tengai allowed himself to chuckle at Rappa's retort, "I'll make sure to remember it."

Gareth and Tengai shifted their gaze from Rappa to Minene, Arasaka and Daiki a second later, wishing them goodbye for now and telling them they'll see each other later during the meeting. Arasaka and Daiki nodded at this, voicing their own answers to it as Minene waved at Gareth to bid him farewell for now. They moved away from them a second later and walked out of the gym. Gareth looked towards the right, wanting to make his way towards the living room but stopped for a moment as he saw Tengai going to the left instead.

Gareth raised his brow at him going the wrong way, "Where are you going?"

"I'm going to get Twice. He should be having one of his sessions with Hawks right now." Tengai replied, "He told me to come and get him when the lunch time will come. You know sometimes he can lose track of time during those."

"Yeah. I know." Gareth chuckled a bit, recalling how Twice arrived at the meeting a bit late because of him losing a track of time in whatever he was doing with Hawks, "Alright. I'll see you at the lunch, then."

Tengai nodded at Gareth, pushing himself into walk where he suspected Twice to be with Hawks right now as Gareth followed his example and pushed himself into walk as well, going in his own direction and hoping he won't come a bit late to his planned lunch with the rest of the League. As he went further into the mansion and continued to make his way towards his destination, he took a look into a room he had just walked past and stopped in his tracks as he noticed Mustard inside it.

Mustard was working on a drawing in his sketchbook right now, not noticing Gareth standing in the hallway and watching him from it as he was too focused on his drawing. He picked his sketchbook up a second later and nodded to himself with a satisfied smile and a slight blush on his face. Gareth walked into the room a second later and walked over to Mustard, wanting to collect him from this room and walk to the lunch with him.

"...Kataoka-kun?" He called out for him.

Mustard was starled by it a bit, the blush on his face becoming more embarassed as he dropped his sketchbook on the floor with suprise, "G-Gareth."

"I'm sorry for starling you. Since I saw you here, I thought we could walk together for the lunch." Gareth explained with an apologetic look on his face as she reached down to pick up Mustard's sketchbook, "Here. Let me get it for you."

"N-No! Wait! You don't need to!" Mustard shouted, beginning to panic. Unfortunely for him it was already too late to do anything as Gareth had already picked up the sketchbook from the floor and saw the drawing he was working on just now. Gareth's eyes widened in suprise when he laid his eyes on the drawing and what it showed. It showed a very well drawn Toga with a heart surrounding her.

He shifted his gaze between the drawing of Toga and Mustard a few times, "...Kataoka-kun?"

"Dammit..." Mustard muttered under his breath with a massive blush on his face as he knew his secret was discovered. He took a deep breath. With his secret discovered by Gareth, he knew there was no point in hiding from him anymore as Gareth probably realized it himself from looking at his drawing, "Y-Yeah! I like Toga!"

Gareth's suprised expression slightly grew at this, "...Oh."

"Yeah. I know." Mustard replied, looking away from him to hide how embarassed he was right now.

Gareth stared at Mustard silently for a few seconds, not knowing what to say right now, "...Have you tried talking with her about it?"

Mustard deadpanned at the obvious question Gareth had just asked him, "Really?"

"I'm sorry! I just said the first thing that came to my mind." Gareth replied, looking slightly embarassed and sheepish at the question he just asked Mustard. He looked at him questioningly, "

"How the hell should I know?" Mustard replied, pinching the bridge of his nose as he had no idea what to do in a situation. He had no idea what to do in this situation ever since he realized his feelings for Toga "I have no experience in stuff like this. People in my school were a bunch of assholes and I never ever got close to something like this. What the hell am I supposed to do now? Just walk over to say and tell her I like her?"

"It could be a good start." Gareth stated, rubbing the back of his head as he tried to come up with a good advice for Mustard. He had no experience with confessing to someone as Origami was the one who confessed to him first and he went along with it. He was having a really hard time coming up with an advice for his friend. It was when he recalled something from a webseries he once watched and decided to go along with it, "...Kataoka-kun? What do you think of Toga-chan?"

Mustard pulled his hand away from his nose and let out a sigh, feeling his blush growing deeper than he thought it was possible when he gave Gareth his answer, "I think she's an alright person on the side. You know. Underneath some of the crazy behavior she puts on in front of everyone every now and then. She's fun to hang out. Spending time with her is always fun, even if I don't act like it. She's always supportive of everyone in the League, including me and always liked to watch me draw and gave me ideas for some drawings as well. She has a cute face as well..."

"Why don't you just tell her everything you told me?" Gareth suggested, hoping the advice he was giving him was good as he went further with the advice he saw in the webseries.

Mustard looked at him questioningly, "What?"

Gareth provided him an explanation a second later, "Everyone you just told me. All of your thoughts on Toga-chan. Just tell her all of this when you will go ask her out."

"Would this even work?" Mustard raised his brow at this, feeling himself growing nervous at the thought of doing something like this.

Gareth smiled at him slightly, holding Mustard's sketchbook out to him, "Only one way to find out, right? We still have about a month until Tomura-kun comes back. You have all the time you need to do something about it."

"Yeah. Maybe..." Mustard sighed, taking his sketchbook from Gareth as he remained nervous and afraid by the thought of going to Toga and telling her how he felt about her.

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After their rather awkward convesation about Mustard's feelings for Toga, Gareth and Mustard walked out of the room together and made their way to the living room. Upon arriving their destination, they saw most of the League was already here. Only Rappa, Dabi, Tengai and Twice were missing. Gareth nodded to himself, not suprised by the said for missing for now. Rappa was at the gym, Dabi was probably being himself and keeping to himself, like he did for most of the time and Tengai and Twice will most likely join them soon.

The rest of the League smiled at the view of them arriving at the living room for their lunch, some of them already going through their own meals and gestured to them to join them by the table. Gareth and Mustard nodded at them, splitting up from each other a second later as they went to sit next to different people. Gareth sat down next to Origami, leaving his girlfriend between him and Magne and Mustard sat down next to Mr. Compress, leaving the entertainer between him and Spinner.

Not wasting any time, Gareth and Mustard took their own meals and began to eat their food along with the rest of the League. As the time passed and all of them continued to eat their lunch in a nice friendly atmosphere, all of them started a small talk between them to make the lunch more pleasant and turn the atmosphere of it into something nicer than it already was and shared their thoughts about how their day was going so far and what they were thinking about the upcoming meeting.

Origami placed her fork on the table after finishing her meal and placed her hand on her stomach, feeling a bit hungry even with all the food she just ate. She looked around the table and set her eyes on Magne's plate next to her. She noticed there was still some food left on it, including a piece of meat and saw Magne was not eating anything from it right now. Perharps her friend had just finished eating without eating anything on her plate. If that was the case, then she would make a good use of what Magne left behind.

"Magne?" She called out for her a second later.

Magne looked at her questioningly, "Yes?"

Origami pointed at the unfinished food on Magne's plate, "Would you mind if I ate it?"

Magne shook her head, "No. If you want to eat it, then go ahead. I don't think I'll put more food in me."

"Great. Thanks." Origami smiled gratefully, grabbing Magne's plate and pushing it closer to herself. She dig into what was left on it a second later.

Mr. Compress chuckled at the view of Origami getting more food for herself, covering his face with his usual mask as he, just like Magne, finished eating his food, "My. I see someone was hungry here."

Origami nodded at him, swallowing the piece of food she had just put in her mouth, "Yeah. I just felt more hungry than usual today."

Toga smiled teasingly at her, "You're gonna gain weight if you eat this much food~."

Origami's eyes widened in embarassment at this, "W-What? Are you saying I've gained weight?"

Toga giggled at her reaction, "Relax. It just means there's more of you for Gakkun to love~."

Gareth rolled his eyes at Toga messing with Origami. He had a smile on his face neverthless, "Don't worry Origami.. You didn't gain any weight. Toga-chan is just messing with you."

"Guilty as charged~!" Toga confirmed to Origami she was indeed just messing with her, "Just relax, Origami-chan. If there one person who would know if you gained weight, then I'm sure it would be Gakkun."

"I see..." Origami said in understanding, going back to her food as she was slightly relieved Toga was not serious and was instead just messing with her again.

Magne smiled at her reaction and stretched her arms above her head, "We're only one month away from Shigaraki kun. I just can't wait for him to come back."

"Me too, Magne." Toga nodded in agreement, smilling in excitement at the thought of Shigaraki's return, "Only one more month of wait and then boom! We will destroy the current system with Tomura-kun and our plan of rebuilding the society will begin."

Mr. Compress clapped his hands one time, "Good to know I'm not the only one looking forward to his return. I just can't wait to see the effects our reset plan will bring into the world. I truly hope it will be something he would be proud of."

Magne raised his brow, "Him?"

"Someone very dear to me. Someone who motivated me to become to become Mr. Compress." Mr. Compress explained, putting his hat back on his face.

"Really? Who was it?" Magne asked, feeling herself growing interested in it.

Mr. Compress tipped his hat, "Perharps it's a story for another time Magne."

Magne crossed his arms, "Really? You're keeping a sister on edge with this mystery here."

Mr. Compress chuckled, "Well, it's my job as an entertainer to keep people on edge. Right?"

"Can't." Magne sighed, "Can't argue with you here."

"At least this month gives me enough time to think about it..." Mustard muttered under his breath, thinking back to the conversation he had with Gareth before both of them made their way to this room to have their lunch with the rest.

Toga looked at him questioningly, "What do you mean, Hiroto-kun?"

Mustard blushed slightly at this, "Nothing!"

"I can't wait to play some video games with him again and introduce him to Chimera as the fourth player in our team." Spinner rubbed his hands excitedly a bit as the thought of it. He shifted his gaze to Gareth a second later, "Gareth. I think I choose a perfect game for the four of us to play together as the first gaming session."

Gareth looked at him questioningly, "Really? What is it?"

"Left 4 Dead 2." Spinner explained, looking interested to see what will Gareth think about his idea.

Gareth smiled widely at this suggestion, "Great idea. I'm getting excited just thinking about it."

"Great. I knew you'd like this." Spinner smiled back at him, "Once we'll get to it, I'll claim Ellis by the way."

Gareth nodded at him, "Alright. I'll be Nick, then."

"Alright." Spinner nodded back at him, finding himself growing more excited about this idea the further he and Gareth discussed it, "It leaves Coach and Rochelle for Chimera and Shigaraki. Who do you think will get who?"

"I don't know." Gareth shrugged, "We'll find out in a month from now on."

Spinner nodded at him, "Yup."

Origami shifted her attention away from her food to the entrance to the room, "Tengai-kun and Twice are taking their time with coming here."

Mustard nodded in agreement, "Yeah. Can't argue with you here."

"I wouldn't worry too much about them." Mr. Compress said, "I'm certain they will join us in a moment."

"Yeah. I wouldn't worry too much about them either." Magne nodded in agreement as she looked down at her watch and nodded to herself, seeing what hour it was, "We still have about several minutes of lunch met before we will leave for the meeting. They'll be here in a moment."

Mr. Compress crossed his arms, "Speaking of which, what do you think today's meeting will be about?"

Mustard shrugged, "Probably the usual stuff that is brought up during meetings as large as the ones we have today."

"Which means I'll probably be falling asleep during this time." Toga added, "At least the old haired grouch and the blue bitch aren't as much of a pain in the ass to work with as they used to when we first formed the regi..."

Their conversation came to an abrupt end as the ground underneath them began to shake, starling everyone in the living room. Everyone quickly gave up on what they were doing and looked around themselves as the ground below them continued to shake for some unknown reason. A few of them grew alarmed by what was happening as well and instinctively prepared themselves for the possible confrontation and even a fight with someone just in case if this commotion was caused by someone. Not something.

Spinner and Origami were among them. Spinner immediately grabbed his blade, ready to pull it out at any second as looked around himself in alarm, gritting his teeth as he did so as Origami got up from the floor, quickly forgetting about finishing her meal and pulled out her katana. The members of the League quicky found out it wasn't just happening with them and was happening all over the mansion as all of them they heard people screaming from different levels of the building.

Mustard composed himself, looking towards all this commotion, "...What the hell?"

"An earthquake?" Spinner asked, letting go off his blade.

"What's going on right now?" Origami asked with an alarmed look on her face, having composed herself where she stood right now as she lowered her katana a bit.

"Skeptic!" Gareth's reaction to all this commotion was immediate as he quickly used his earpiece to contact Skeptic, "What is happening right now?"

"It's the heroes!" Skeptic immediately provided him the answer he was waiting for as his panic filled voice rang throughout Gareth's ears, "We're under attack!"

"What?" Gareth exclaimed in suprise, his eyes widened as everyone from the League looked at him, now having their attention on him as they knew he just found out what was happening right now.

"How did they found us?" Kizuki's muffled voice sounded next to Skeptic, revealing to Gareth that the two were now together whenever they were in the mansion right now.

"Gareth!" Minene's voice rang through his earpiece shortly after Gareth heard Kizuki next to Skeptic and before Skeptic could give him any further explanation on their situations, "We're under attack! Heroes are coming! Many of them!"

Magne looked Gareth with an alarmed and questioning look on his face, "Gareth! What's going on? Did they tell you?"

Gareth pulled his hand away from his earpiece as he looked around everyone and explained their situation to them, "We're attack. Heroes attacked us."

Origami's eyes widened in suprise, "What?"

"How did they find us?" Toga asked with a suprised look on her face.

"Exactly!" Spinner nodded, looking equally as stunned as Toga was, "We kept ourselves hidden for all this time!"

"We must evacuate at once!" Mr. Compress shouted.

Magne looked at him, "What about the rest? Twice, Dabi, Rappa and Tengai-kun? They're still somewhere in the mansion."

Origami nodded in agreemened, "She's right. We can't leave them behind."

"Right." Mr. Compress nodded, cursing himself mentally for not thinking about them, "Excuse this old man for this. All this suprise caused me to forget about them not being with us for a moment."

"What about the others?" Mustard asked, "A lot of us already went underground for the meeting. It includes the old man and the politician. We have to tell them about what's happening right now."

Gareth pinched the bridge of his nose, letting out a deep exhale at all of this as he knew he had to quickly decide on what to do right now as he and the others didn't have much time to waste. He came up with a plan a second later. He pulled his mask off of his shoulder and covered his face with it, "Alright. We'll split up into three teams. I will go to look for Rappa and Dabi with Origami and Kataoka-kun, Toga-chan, Atsuhiro-kun and Magne will go to look for Jin and Tengai-kun and Shuichi-kun will go underground and tell Re-Destro and Hanabata about everything. Afterwards, we will figure out what to do next."

Mr. Compress nodded in understanding, stepping closer to Toga and Magne, "Very well."

"You can count on me. I'll be underground as soon as possible." Spinner said in understanding, promising Gareth to take care of this as the rest of them either nodded at him and voiced their understanding of his plan, showing the black haired boy their understanding of it.

"Good." Gareth nodded at them and quickly touched his earpiece again, "Kasumi-chan. It's me again. Stay where you are. I'll be there with Origami and Mustard in a moment."

"Alright." Minene voiced her understanding of it, "One more thing. Lieutenant Rappa told me to ask you if lieutenant Tengai is with you right now."

Gareth shook his head, "Tell him Tengai-kun is not with us right now, but Mr. Compress, Toga and Magne are heading out to look for him now."

"I will." Minene replied, "I'll see you in a moment."

After ending his conversation with Minene and wishing the rest good luck in their own tasks, everyone split up from each other and went to find the rest of the League or went to inform the underground of what was happening right now in Spinner's case. Upon rushing out of the room they've been in when all of this started, all of them got a chance to see how the situation looked like outside the room they had just their lunch in before they got interrupted by this sudden attack.

The situation looked far from great to say the least. The building was split apart and everything around them was falling apart. Everyone slowly began to gather themselves in front of the The floor they were on right now was extremely unstable as well as it continued to shake. They knew they had to leave it as soon as possible otherwise the possibility of them falling down into the concrete was high and they knew how badly it would end for them if it would happen.

The members of the League split up from each other a moment later, each of the three teams heading off to take care of their own tasks. As Gareth continued to make his way towards the gym where he knew Rappa would be, the same went for Minene, Arasaka and Daiki, he began to wonder how did all of this happen and how did the heroes knew about them and their plans. His mind immediately flew to Hawks as he was suspicious of him and his his intentions regarding their organization from the start from the start.

Even if he immediately thought about Hawks when it came to the person who could have gave all this information about them to the heroes, Gareth had a hard time wrapping his head around how he could do it as he and Skeptic kept their eyes on him for all this time and he didn't do anything which would even hint he was giving the information about them to someone. Whatever he was doing, he was extremely good at hiding it. Whatever or whoever it was, Gareth cursed himself mentally for failing to notice this. As a co-commander, he should have noticed something like this was happening even if the person was good at hiding it and yet he failed to do so.

Origami and Mustard ran closely behind Gareth, following him closely towards the gym as neither of them could believe this was happening right now. The dark green haired girl turned away from Gareth for a second and glanced at the front of the mansion, remembering the stationary machine guns she had placed in front of the front upper windows of the mansion as a way of defense shortly after the Paranormal Liberation Front was formed and saw all of them were knocked off of their positions, making them useless where they had landed.

She shook her head to herself, clenching her hand a bit at what was happening right now as she shfited her attention back to Gareth and saw a tentacle sticking out of the corner they were about to pass together. Gareth was probably too distraught by what was happening right now to notice this. She instantly cried out to her boyfriend at the view of this, "...Gareth! Watch out!"

Her warning unfortunely arrived too short as the tentacle grabbed Gareth and wrapped itself around him. Origami and Mustard froze in their tracks at the view of it, knowing Gareth can't do anything with his power in such position and immediately tried to come to his rescue but unfortunelt for them, whoever was responsible for those tentacles was faster and wrapped them their tentacles around them as well, causing them to drop their weapons to the ground. All three of them were lifted up from the ground, their position making them unable of doing anything.

Whoever was responsible for those tentacles revealed themselves to them a second later, revealing themselves to be a woman in their mid 20's with a hero suit designed after an octopus. Origami recognized this woman from the TV almost right away. It was Kazane Kuraishi otherwise known as a Pro-Hero Octopus. The Pro-Heroine stepped closer to the captured villains, looking up at them with her eyes narrowed she wasn't happy to see any of them. Gareth, Origami and Mustard tried to free themselves from their grasp but unfortunely all of their attempts were in vain. Even if Mustard could use his Quirk right now, it wouldn't work on Octopus as she wore a small gas mask over her face.

"Dammit! I can't get free!" Mustard cursed, desperately trying to find any way of escaping Octopus' grasp.

Origami cringed at the feeling of the tentacles wrapped around her, "This is gross! Put me down!"

"You let them go right now!" Gareth glared angrily, his mind quickly telling him to make sure Mustard and Origami were safe as he was doing everything in his power to free himself from Octopus' tentacles. He shook his head, cursing himself for being incapable of using his Quirk in such a position. Even if he trained it as much as he did ever since his advisers were assigned to him. His body slightly began to shake in a mixture of anger and sadness. This couldn't be the end. He couldn't get caught like this. All because he didn't have his guard up for once.

"This is Octopus! I caught the Mask, Weaponsmith and Mustard into my tentacles!" Octopus paid no attention to the screams from the villains she had just captured and informed her fellow Pro-Heroes through an earpiece. She pulled her hand away from her earpiece and set her eyes on Gareth, Mustard and Origami, "This is where your plotting ends. You'll spend the rest of your lives locked up! You won't be ruining the society from now on!"

"We won't be ruining it!?" Mustard glared at her upon hearing her most recent words, "You heroes ruin it more than most villains do!"

"You can stop with this nonsense!" Octopus shouted in return, brushing this off as some nonsense of a person with a grudge against society in her mind, "You can say all you want, but it doesn't change the fact that today will be the day when we will mark an end to the League of Villains! No matter how much you will scheme, the good will always w...!"

Octopus' words died in her throat as she got stabbed through the back of her head with Origami's katana by an unknown person, killing her instantly. Her eyes rolled to the back of her head as her lifeless body collapsed on the floor like a ton of bricks, with Origami's now bloody katana still sticking out of the back of her head. Gareth, Origami and Mustard landed on the floor as they were freed from Octopus' tentacles after her premature and unexpected death.

Gareth, Origami and Mustard collected themselves and quickly exchanged glances to make sure if they were harmed in any way by Octopus after they were either grabbed by her tentacles or released by them. Luckilly for them, they didn't receive any major injures from their encounter from Octopus. They looked towards where Octopus used to stand a few seconds ago and saw the person who just saved them from getting captured by her.

It was Twice.

"Drop them..." Twice quietly uttered to himself, looking down at the lifeless body of Octopus in front of him.

"Jin!" Gareth's mood instantly went from panic to a mixture of happiness and relief once he saw his friend. Origami and Mustard smiled at Twice, the two gladdened to see Twice as well as Twice dropped Origami's katana to the floor, having no further need to use it.

Origami smiled gratefully at him, "Twice! Thank you so much! I was starting to think we were done for."

"Yeah. Talk about a perfect timing." Mustard nodded, smilling slightly himself as he had to admit to admit. Twice couldn't have chosen a better moment to arrive here and help them. He wasted no time and pushed himself into run, knowing he and the rest couldn't waste much time now and Gareth and Origami shared his train of thought and pushed themselves into run, beginning to make their way towards their destination again.

"Now that you're here, Jin, make as many clones as you can!" Gareth shouted, running past Twice with Origami and Mustard staying closely behind him. When they ran past Twice, Origami made sure to pick up her katana and Mustard made sure to pick up his pistol, "The three of us are heading to met up with Rappa, Minene, Takeuchi and Arasaka! We'll join you as soon as possible!"

"...I-I'm sorry Gakkun." Twice said all of a sudden and his choice of words immediately caught attention of Gareth, Origami and Mustard as all of them weren't expecting to hear something like this from him right now.

Gareth stopped dead in his tracks as soon, having immediately taken notice of Twice's tone as well. He turned around to look at him with worry beginning to form underneath his mask, "Jin? Is there something wrong? What do you feel sorry for?"

"I-I feel sorry because this is all my fault. I messed up again." Twice said in a very shaky apologetic tone as he took one shaky step towards Gareth almost as if he was forcing himself to talk and was doing his best to keep himself together.

Gareth pushed himself into walk towards Twice in worry, his concern for his friend making him forget about his current task for a moment, "Jin. What do you mean?"

"H-Hawks. He played me. He made me trust him..." Twice explained, stopping in his tracks because he was unable to take the next step as Gareth continued to make his way towards towards him. His tone was filled with genuine regret when he added, "I'm sorry. I know how much work you put into preparing everything during those past few months. All of your hard work went to waste because of me..."

Gareth stared at Twice silently, allowing himself to process everything Twice had just told him. Hawks was responsible for all of this? Hawks was responsible for what was happening right now. The black haired boy clenched his hand as soon as his brain process this information and this realization hit him like a ton of bricks, feeling a wave of anger go through his body at this revelation from Twice. He directed this anger towards Hawks and more importantly towards himself.

The black haired boy directed this anger towards himself for not doing anything about Hawks, even though he was suspecting him from the start. He wished he acted earlier and did something about him, but knew he couldn't anything about him until now as Hawks never gave him a reason he could use to justify disposing of him to the others. Despite Skeptic keeping his eyes on him for all this time, they never saw him do anything suspicious and they couldn't do anything about him because of it. Whatever Hawks was doing behind the scenes, he was doing a great job at hiding himself from their view.

He was pushed out of his thoughts when Twice spoke to him again, "I-I got someone hurt again as well and it's even worse than the last time as someone actually died because of me..."

Gareth felt how the anger he had directed towards Hawks had vanished in an instant after this as it was replaced in concern and him wanting to know what Twice meant by this, "J-Jin? What do you mean? Who died?"

"I-It's Tengai-kun. He's dead..." Twice revealed, sounding on the verge of tears when he brought up the former yakuza member to Gareth, "H-He tried to defend me from Hawks and got caught between us. Hawks killed him while he was trying to protect me from him. All this is my fault. I'm to blame for everything.."

The black haired boy felt how all the air left his lungs as soon as Twice explained to him what happened and revealed to him who had died. Hawks did this? He killed Tengai? Tengai was dead? A shocked gasp left his lungs at this realization. Tengai was really dead? He just talked with him not a full hour ago. How could be dead? Why was he dead? Why would Hawks even kill him? For just protecting Twice? He knew their operation was supposed to be as clean as possible and yet it did not stop him from killing Tengai?

Gareth clenched his hand tighter, feeling the next wave of anger go through his body as his anger towards Hawks. It wasn't anything like the anger he felt a moment earlier, though. It was more murderous. It was something he hadn't felt in a long time. It was something he hadn't felt since Overhaul and when he saw him blew away Origami, Magne and Mr. Compress arms and experiment on Eri. Even something about this feeling was different from when he felt it in the past. It felt much bigger. Much worse.

"...Tengai-kun is dead?" He was brought out of his thoughts by Mustard's voice. He looked over his shoulder at him and Origami and saw them looking equally as stunned by the revelation of Tengai's death to Hawks.

"Rappa..." Origami said, putting her hand over her mouth as Gareth's eyes widened at the mention of the brawler. How were they going to tell Rappa about this? He and Tengai were best friends. They were joking around with each other the last time they saw each other and now one of them was gone...

Twice weakly placed his hand on Gareth's shoulder, making him look at him again, "...G-Gakkun. I-I can't make more of myself. Not anymore. I'm so sorry. For all the trouble I gave you and the rest.."

Gareth opened his mouth, intending to ask him about it, but his words died in throat when he noticed something about Twice and state he was in. Twice was dissolving away. What came out of him was a similar goo that always came out of his clones whenever they were seconds away from dissolving away after receiving a significant amount of damage. It made him realize the next thing. He wasn't talking to a real Twice here. He was talking with a clone. The real Twice was gone...

The black haired gasped in shock upon realizing this, "Jin..."

"G-Gareth..." Twice called out for his friend for one last time, making sure to call his friend by his full name, not the nickname, because he knew it will be the last time he will get a chance to say something to him. His teary eyes looked directly into Gareth's ones. His voice was so weak when he uttered his last words to him, "...Thank you for accepting someone like me as your friend..."

Gareth slowly wrapped his hands around Twice's clone, doing his best to stop tears from forming on his eyes as he realized he was saying goodbye to someone he had grown to see and care about as his close friend. It was even't the real Twice he was saying this goodbye to right now. The knowledge he won't be able to say goodbye to real Twice completely broke his heart, "The honor was mine, Jin."

It was the last thing Gareth said to Twice's clone and it was the last thing the clone ever heard, before it dissolved into nothing in his embrace. Gareth fell on his knees right after it happened, the remains of the clone of someone he considered his close friend covering his clothes for a second before they too faded away into nothingness. He clenched his fists as red energy began circling around them, trying to steady his tearful breathing.

Mustard and Origami watched the entire thing from where they stood with saddened looks on their faces. Neither of them could believe what was happening right now and more importantly could believe what just happened in front of them and what they just learned. Tengai and Twice were dead. Two of their comrades were dead. Twice who always tried to make them happy and always tried to make the best of himself, despite his problems and Tengai who always treated them with respect and always gladly took pictures of them with his cameras were gone. How could things go as badly as they did right now?

They shifted their attention to Gareth and looked at him with worried expressions slowly beginning evident on their faces. They didn't want to imagine what Gareth was going through right now. They knew how close Twice was to him ever since the returned from the Shie Hassaikai and knew he was the one who brought Tengai into the League in the first place. They gasped a second later. How were they going to tell Toga about Twice's death? Both of them knew how close she was to him as well.

They slowly started to make their way towards Gareth to comfort him, even though they knew how little they could do right now to make him feel better. They stopped behind him and before either of them could say anything to the black haired boy, Gareth slowly turned around to look at them. He reached his hand up and took off his mask, showing them the expression he had on it right now and it wasn't the kind of expression they expected to see from him right now.

They saw there were no tears falling from his eyes and didn't saw expression of sorrow or grief like they excepted to see. They instead saw expression of pure rage and anger. The two of them looked at him in suprise, because they have never seen Gareth display such emotions before. He didn't show such anger when he was confronting Bakugo at their old hideout at the bar or when he saw Tomohito when saw him on the street during infiltration of the provisional license exams or when Overhaul blew away Origami, Magne and Mr. Compress' arms.

"You want to do it like this? Fine. We'll do it like this. You drew the first blood here..." With his furious expression not leaving his face, Gareth quickly attached his mask to his shoulder and began to make his way to the front of the mansion where he suspected most of the fighting was taking place right now, feeling how pure bloodlust and desire of revenge was filling his entire body.

"Gareth..." Origami whispered to herself with concern evident in her voice as Mustard silently stared at Gareth with concern written over his face.

"Kasumi-chan." Gareth called out for Minene, touching his earpiece as he paid no attention to Origami and Mustard's worried expressions. His mind was on something else right now, "Are you Takeuchi-kun and Arasaka-san where I told to remain or did you rushed into the battle with the other advisers?"

"We're in the place you told us to stay. Lieutenant Rappa is with us." Minene quickly answered, slightly taken aback by the tone of his voice as she had never heard him use such a tone before.

"Good." Gareth nodded. Internally he cringed at the mention of Rappa. How was he going to tell him about Tengai?, "Stay there. I'll be there in a moment."

"Is everything alright, Gareth?" Minene asked with genuine concern in her voice, "You don't sound alright."

"No. I'm pretty far from okay right now." Gareth didn't even try to deny how he was feeling from her, "Be ready all of you. I'll make my way to you soon. We'll be moving out soon. Remember everything we practiced together ever since you were assigned to me. We'll be putting all of it into action soon."

"Understood." Minene's immediately voiced her understanding of his words, the concern she felt towards him staying evident in her voice.

Origami and Mustard exchanged worried glances with each other as they watched Gareth slowly make his way away from them towards Minene's current location. Neither of them had seen him act they did right now before and having never seen him so angry until now. It just made him all the way more worried for him. They wasted no time and followed Gareth towards where he was heading right now, having no choice but to follow him towards what will happen today.

"Hawks." Gareth thought to himself, disgust and rage and more importantly bloodlust filling his mind at the thought of this person as he continued to make his way towards where Rappa, Minene, Arasaka and Daiki were waiting for him right now, "I fucking warned you and you still pulled off something like this. You better pray I won't meet you on the battlefield, because nothing will stop me from making sure you won't leave it alive when that happens."

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*My War starts playing.*

Here we go! The PLF War arc is here and the PLF has already suffered first casualties on it's side in the form of Asano being captured and Twice and Tengai being killed by Hawks (Yes. I can confirm it. Tengai died trying to protect Twice from Hawks and was caught in the crossfire of Hawks' attacks. Before any of you ask, what happened there will be shown at some point in the future)

As you already know, this season's ending is doing the most, the fact that it's changing the sequences to match the episode. This is how the sequences would change after this chapter:

The first picture would show Gareth and Toga in the moment they comforted Twice back in the Overhaul's arc. The picture would show Gareth and Toga on Twice's sides, both of them smilling at Twice as they comforted their friend. The picture would after cut into the next picture of Gareth and Toga without Twice, both of them looking sad by the departure of their friend.

The second picture would show Rappa and Tengai and would show Tengai watching Rappa training, both of them smilling at each other like they were friends. The picture would afterwards cut into Rappa looking towards where Tengai used to stand earlier with a saddened look on his face, missing his friend and all the times when he had to stop him from breaking into a sparring session with someone.

After all this time, we finally got AFO's backstory and holy shit. I wasn't expecting it to be so messed and we thought Shigaraki's backstory was dark. Good to know AFO wasn't inspired by comic villains to be evil. He liked comic book villains because he was already evil. With all the stuff we got in this chapter, you can tell Horikoshi is really practicing for that horror manga he wants to do after MHA.

Watched A Silent Voice and it was amazing. It made me cry by the end of it. This movie really hit me. Especially with the main message of learning to forgive yourself and finding the strength to move on.

Tengai's info card:

Hekiji Tengai

Quirk: Barrier

His Quirk allows him to materialize an extremely durable dome-shaped forcefield around himself.

Affiliation: The League of Villains/Paranormal Liberation Front

Birthday: 11th April

Height: 181 cm

Blood Type: AB

Likes: Photography

Hope it wasn't so bad. See you in another chapter.