Day 211, 8:30 AM
2 Hours Ago
"What is taking those bastards so long?" Kendo questions. She turns to the Kamisquad. "I know they're probably busy doing their experiments and everything but I want you guys to go check for them."
"I'm sure they can handle themselves," Kaminari argues. "Besides, don't experiments take time or something?"
'It is true that experiments take time but most science experiments try to reach out and kill you." Kendo pauses. "And, if Deku's hypothesis about quirks attracting zombies and they attracted a horde filled with beasts and brainiacs, then better safe than sorry. Besides, Koda, Kirishima, and Sato might need help carrying animals back here."
Kaminari sighs. "Okay, fine, we'll go. We'll go and we'll look for them. Right guys?" Kaminari looks over, seeing Jirou and the others nodding. "Assuming they're still hiding in the same place, we should be back in twenty minutes."
Kaminari quickly heads outside with his squad following and hops onto his bike. Starting it up, he rides through the gates with Kurorio following behind in a jeep.
With Deku
Forest
"So, how are we supposed to adapt?" Kirishima asks. "So far, my quirk has been keeping me safe from zombie bites."
"Simple," Bakugou shrugs, "just kill zombies without using your quirk, shitty hair. Not hard anyway, considering your quirk is more for defense than offense."
Kirishima laughs. "But your quirk is perfect for offense and defense; you might have a rough time defending yourself."
"You better watch your damn words, shitty hair."
Hagakure laughs. "You know, Mashiro, my quirk is absolutely perfect for killing zombies. As long as I don't use my refraction quirk then I can sneak up on zombies. I'm totally awesome, guys."
"I can't use my tail for too long," Mashiro sighs heavily, "it's not like I can't use it; that's like asking someone to not use their arm for an entire day."
"My quirk is useless," Sato admits shamefully.
"And my quirk didn't really do much damage to zombies," Deku admits, "not fast enough to kill them. So..."
"Why are you guys mumbling so much?" Bakugou sneers. "Instead of whining and complaining, why don't you focus on ways to improve your zombie-killing skills, jackasses."
"We did, at the factory, remember," Deku replies.
"I wasn't at the factory, nerd."
"IOh, right. Sorry, my bad. I must've gotten a headache from all your constant yelling."
Bakugou looks over at him. "You got something to say, nerd?"
"No, my lips are sealed." Deku looks ahead, steeling his eyes forward before his ears pick up on something from the distance. "Wait, do you guys hear that?"
"What?"
On instinct, Shoji duplicates an ear before realizing his mistake and quickly making it vanish. "What is it?"
"This way." Deku crouches down and begins moving through the forest, the others following his example.
Deku hides behind a tree before he spots something in the distance laying on the ground. It was a silk deer.
Deku smiles, seeing the beautiful animal laying on the ground, and instinctively begins stepping forward. Koji Koda was about to use his quirk to attract the dear before Bakugou holds his hand up.
"Quiet," Bakugou orders in a whispering tone. "Don't startle the deer." He looks over at Deku. "What's the plan, Deku?"
Deku comes within ten feet of the deer, pausing, and holds his hands up as if that will mean anything to the dear. "Hey there," Deku whispers, "hey, there buddy."
The deer opens its eyes and looks at him. The deer tilts its head before snorting.
"My name is Deku, what's your name?" Deku stays where he is, making sure not to startle the deer. "Aren't you a dear, deer?" He shrugs. "Well, I-"
BANG!
Almost as if someone flipped a switch, the deer drops to the ground. Deku blinks suddenly, stiffening his back, and stares at the deer with an open mouth. "What, what the hell?"
"DEKU!" Kirishima yells. "Deku, over here!"
Deku turns back and sees Sato on the ground, bleeding from the chest. The young boy with big lips grabs his left chest area with both hands while howling like a wounded animal. Kirishima holds his head up with Bakugou putting his hands on his chest.
"Hey, stay with me," Shoji orders, helping keep his head up. "Stay with me, man!"
"It... it... it hurts!" Sato sobs, "Please, please make it stop! Please!"
Deku runs back to his teammates, ignoring the dead dear, and stands over them. "Sato," Deku gasps. "Oh my god, what do we do? What do we do?"
"I don't know," Mashiro gasps, panting hard, "I don't want to do, man. Oh god, oh my god."
"Stay with us, big lips," Bakugou orders, "please, please stay with us."
Sato gasps raspily, eyes wandering around, looking for no particular target. "Am I dying?" Sato asks. "Am I dying?" he asks again, choking on the last word.
"You're not dying," Kirishima says desperately, "you're not dying man."
"Oh my god," Mina cries, backing away. "No, please, Sato."
Sato gasps once more, his breaths becoming more shallow with each passing second. Blood seeps out of his wound, painting Bakugou and Kirishima's hands a crimson red. Blood leaks out of the corner of Sato's mouth as he blinks slowly. His rapid movements slow down to the pace of a snail as he looks up to the sky.
"Mom," he gasps, "Mom, please, please help me, Mom, please save me. I don't want to die." A tear rolls down his cheek. "I don't want to die, please, Mom, I don't want to die. Please, please, please..."
Sato's body clamps up, his words no longer coming out of his mouth, the air all but gone from his mouth, and his heart not beating in his chest. His eyes, once full of life and hope, now freeze in places, pupils dilated to the side of a penny.
"Sato," Koji Koda whispers, "Sato?" He leans down. "Sato?" Koji Koda closes his eyes but they do little to prevent the tears from escaping. He rests his forehead on Sato's forehead before reaching down to close his eyes.
"We're sorry, Sato," Kirishima sobs, Mina holding onto his shoulder, "we're sorry."
Deku's lip quivers as he reaches up to wipe the tears away. He remembers a long time ago that All Might told him to cool it with the waterworks and he has been told that he cries too much. But this... this was everything to cry about.
"Holy shit," a new voice suddenly yells.
Deku turns back to see a man in a camo jacket with a hunting rifle step toward them, standing over the dead deer. He wears a camouflage face mask with a pair of sunglasses.
"I am so sorry," the hunter says, "I-I didn't mean to. I swear, I-I was just trying to shoot the deer. I am so sorry, I didn't mean to!"
Bakugou tackles the man to the ground and punches him across the face. The hunter pushes him off of him. As Bakugou prepares to attack him once more, Kirishima and Shoji quickly hold him back.
"You killed our friend," bakugou yells, "you killed him!"
"I'm sorry," the hunter cries, "I didn't mean to. I never... I never killed someone on accident before."
"My explosions sending you flying to the moon will be the accident in a few seconds."
"He didn't mean it," Kirishima begs Bakugou to listen to reason, "it was an accident!"
Two more hunters come running through the woods, catching up with the first hunter. The second hunter wears a snow camo facemask while the third hunter wears a dessert camo one.
"Heater, what's going on?" the second hunter asks before raising his rifle at the students. "What happened here?"
"Your friend killed our friend!" Bakugou yells, "That's what happened here!"
The second hunter looks at Sato and shakes his head. He spots the deer. "I'm sorry for your loss."
Kirishima and Shoji continue to hold Bakugou as Deku steps forward.
"You shot the deer and the bullet hit our friend," Deku says in a choked tone. "You killed someone, even if it was on accident. Our friend's blood... is on your hands."
"I'm sorry, Midoriya," Heater the Hunter says.
Deku freezes. "What did you call me?"
"Midoriya," Heater answers without looking up at the kid. "That's your name, Iuku Midoriya? And the person I killed... was Rikido Sato."
Deku remains frozen in place. "How do you know my name."
The second hunter sizes up Deku. "Izuku Midoriya. You can manipulate fire but you lack the ability to create it." He turns to the group. "Katsuki Bakugou; you can make explosions with your glycerin. Eijirou Kirishima; you can make your body as hard as a rock. Mezo Shoji; you can duplicate parts of your body on your tentacles. Mina Ashido, corrosive acid creation. Koji Koda, communication and control of animals. Mashiro Ojiro and Toru Hagakure, tail and invisibility."
The students look up at the hunters.
"Who the hell are you guys?" Bakugou demands, clenching his fists.
"My name is Whiteout, and this guy beside me is K-Hole. And the man who shot your friend is Heater."
Bakugou eyes them suspiciously. "Hold on, I know for a fact those aren't your real names." Bakugou squares up to them. "Who the hell are you? Take off your masks."
"That's not going to happen, Bakugou."
"Why? You're allowed to know our names, faces, and quirks but we're not allowed to know yours? Your friend killed our friend so the least you can do is show us your face."
"Not very manly to be hiding behind a mask like a coward," Kirishima growls.
Mina stands beside Kirishima.
Koji Koda watches with trepidation, opting to stay behind to take care of Sato's body.
Huh, these guys are wearing masks and they're going by nicknames? Deku reaches into his pocket to pull out a pack of matches.
Whiteout draws his hunting rifle on Deku. "Hands out of your pocket."
Looks like we're on the receiving end of what happened to Kaminari.
"For all I know, you're reaching for matches in your pocket so keep your hands out, Ignition Boy," Whiteout orders.
Deku removes his hands from his pocket.
"I'm sorry about your." Heater very carefully picks himself up while holding onto his rifle. "Had I known that Rikido Sato was behind the deer..." Hearter looks up, his tone suddenly changing. "I WOULD'VE AIMED FOR THE HEAD!"
Bakugou charges for them when Whiteout suddenly snaps his fingers.
Suddenly, the lights turn, too brightly. So bright to the point that the students see nothing but a paper-white light. Deku felt as if a winch was picking him up and hoisting him in the air suddenly and he reached out to try and blindly grab for something but his vision was still paper-white.
Shaking his head, a feeling washes over him as if he were falling over but he feels his feet connected to the ground. A nauseous sensation overpowers him, making him choke up and simply fall yet, he was still standing. When his vision slowly comes back, he realizes he's looking up at the sky while at the same time, facing forward. It takes him a moment to realize that he's lying on his back and yet, he till feels like he's standing on his feet.
It must be a quirk of some kind that messes with the senses.
"Hey there," K-Hole stands over Deku, his hands on his knees. "How are you feeling, Midoriya? Feel good? I hope so; this is the only good feeling you're going to get for a long time."
"What the fuck did you do to us?" someone yells out of Deku's sight. It sounds like Bakugou. "Why can't I activate my fucking quirk!"
"That feels good," a feminine voice proclaims though Deku is unsure if it is Mina or Hagakure.
"Load them up," an unfamiliar voice says. It must be one of the hunters.
"Yeah, yeah, whatever. Come on, UA, let's go."
Deku smiles suddenly, feeling someone touch his hand and haul him forward yet, he still feels like he's sitting on the ground. "Am I flying?"
"Yeah," K-Hole's voice comes through. "You're deep in the K-Hole, A-hole."
"What's a k-hole?" Deku slurs.
"A place you never want to leave."
K-hole loads Deku in the back of the truck that Whiteout brings around.
Heater and Whiteout quickly load the rest of the students up with the exception of Hagakure. Heater looks over, sees her floating gloves and blindly reaches for her. His eyes light up behind his mask. "I don't know what part of you I'm touching, Hagakure, but I guess it comes with the territory of being invisible."
"Pervert," Hagakure slurs.
Heater manages to put Hagakure over his shoulder and carefully walk over to the truck. Heater stumbles a bit but manages to catch himself. As he was about to load Hagakure on the truck, he stops suddenly.
He coughs with his eyes going wide. He loses his grip on Hagakure and drops her to the ground and clutches his throat. He falls to his knees, coughing and hacking his life out with wide eyes.
"Get away from them!" a new voice shouts.
A dirtbike of some kind pulls up to the group with the one and only Denki Kaminari himself, wearing his facemask with a yellow diagonal lighting bolt on the front.
Kaminari jumps off his dirtbike and runs to the hunters. Whiteout pulls a gun on him and aims for his chest. Kaminari pauses and holds his head up.
"Who are you?" Whiteout demands.
"Who are you?" Kaminari snaps back. "What have you done?"
"What have you done?" Whiteout gestures to Heater.
"I didn't do that."
Jirou and Mineta move around, staying out of sight, and crouch beside a tree. "Mineta, trap them."
Mineta pulls out his balls and throws them at Whiteout, trapping him to the ground.
"Watch this!" Jirou plugs her jacks into her boots, sending sound waves his way.
Whiteout screams in pain before he instinctively snaps his fingers and causes another whiteout on the students.
Kaminari staggers back, catching himself against the tree before his vision returns a few seconds later. When his vision comes back, he spots Whiteout's shoes on the ground with Mineta's balls sticking to it and the truck taking off but before that happens, Kuroiro manages to shove Shoji, Mina, Mashiro, and Deku out of the back of the truck, leaving only Bakugou and Koji Koda in the truck.
"Damn," Jirou staggers, her eyes returning but her balance toppling over. "Godman flash grenade."
"Bakugou and Koda are still in the truck!" Kaminari heads back for his bike and climbs on. "I'm going after him." Without thinking, he revs up the bike and rides off.
"Wait," Jirou shouts but Kaminari is out of earshot.
Kaminari follows the path of the truck took and does his best to be very careful to avoid zombies and obstacles. Kaminari maneuvers around several tall trees and follows the truck onto the same path that it took. Kaminari maintains his speed with the truck while keeping a good distance behind. Seeing Whiteout aim his hunting rifle at him, Kaminari's eyes go wide.
"Oh no, he's going to kill me!"
Kuroiro leaps out of the shadows of the truck and tackles Whiteout but Whiteout manages to punch Kuroiro across the face. Kuroiro knocks Whiteout's gun out of the truck but Whiteout draws a knife. Whiteout thrusts the knife forward, aiming for Kuroiro's stomach but he manages to catch it and hold it at bay. Whitehout knees him in the groin before pulling him in a Muay Thai clinch and knees him several times in the gut. Kuroiro takes the knife and stabs him in the hip. Whiteout sneers but the adrenaline keeps him busy. Whiteout grabs the top of Kuroiro's scalp, despite the shadow merger having only two inches of hair, and tugs tightly, his sharp nails piercing into the shadow merger's skull.
Kuroiro rips the knife out and aims for a higher place in Whiteout's body but Whiteout blocks Kuroiro's attack by using his forearm to catch Kuroiro's forearm. He twists Kuroiro's arm around and redirects the position of the knife, making Kuroiro stab himself in the leg. Kuroiro screams at the top of his lungs before ripping the knife out and stabs Whiteout in the stomach before the hunter can react. Kuroiro shoves the hunter out of the truck but the hunter manages to grab the edge of the truck and hang on.
Kuroiro looks at the last two prisoners in the truck - Bakugou and Koji Koda - and moves to pick them up. He hauls Bakugou up and throws him over his shoulder, ready to bail out.
Outside, Kaminari travels closely behind and throws a pointer on the back of Whiteout's left leg and moves in to shock him. "Time for me to use my move."
Whiteout snaps his fingers once more.
Unable to see with this blinding white light covering his entire vision, Kuroiro screams in pain before the driver of the truck, K-Hole, drives over a dead body in the road, causing the truck to leap in the air and make Kuroiro and Bakugou fall out of the truck, hitting the ground hard.
Kaminari, unable to see, slows his bike down with regret before his vision comes back. Kaminari stops in the middle of the road, seeing Kuroiro and Bakugou laying on the ground, gronaing and wincing from the pain of falling out of a truck going sixty-four kilometers per hour. Kaminari looks ahead, seeing the truck vanish in the distance, prompting him to clench the handles on the bike hard before he turns the bike around and rides up to Kuroiro and Bakugou.
"Holy shit, are ou guys okay?" Kaminari leaps off his bike and tends to their side.
"You bastard," Bakugou groans, "you didn't get the kid with the rock for a head."
"Koda," Kaminari corrects.
"Damn it, Pikachu."
Kaminari grabs Kuroiro and pulls him to his feet, wincing as the knife wound in his leg before both boys help Bakugou to his feet.
"I don't know what they did but..." Bakugou begins slurring, "I'll kill those bastards." He limps towards the dirt bike. "What are we waiting for, let's go get him!"
"We don't know where he is," Kaminari reasons. "I don't know where they went and I'm not letting you walk all the way back; you're both injured."
Bakugou picks up the dirt bike and climbs on but he falls to the ground, hitting his shoulder hard, wincing.
"I'm taking you back." Kaminari gulps. "We'll get Koda later."
Kaminari pulls the bike up and helps Bakugou sit on the back. Kurorio merges with Kaminari's jacket, uncaring of the consequences of attracting zombies, and holds onto Bakugou tight. Kaminari takes off, riding in the opposite direction and reuniting with the rest of his classmates.
9:00
Kaminari reunites with his classmates in the woods where the Kamisquad gather around Sato's corpse, crying and whispering apologizes to him.
"Explanation, now," Jirou demands, tears staining her face.
"This deer," Deku groans while sitting up against a tree trunk. "These guys were hunting this deer. They shot it... and the bullet went through the deer and hit Sato." He shakes his head. "We didn't know what to do with gunshot wounds. We tried to save him but..."
"Who were those guys," Mineta growls, "who was it that killed our friends."
"Some kind of hunters but we can ask them that ourselves," Komori smiles wickedly. "Take a look, shroom." Komori points to the side where Heater is sitting against a tree trunk, more mushrooms growing in his throat and causing him to cough with wide eyes. Heater falls over to the side, gasping for air and yells in pain, closing his eyes, and crying. "They left one of their hunters behind so we have all the time in the world to make him pay."
"That's the one who killed Sato," bakugou slurs. "Good, now let's show him what happens when he kills one of our teammates."
"Koda," Hagakure suddenly yells, "where's Koda?"
"They took him," Kaminari answers. "I lost sight of him. I wanted to follow but Bakugou and Kuroiro were both badly injured and I couldn't leave them behind. I didn't want to do it but-"
"No," Deku shakes his head, "if you left Bakugou and Kuroiro behind to chase after the truck, who knows what could've happened? You did what you had to."
"It's my fault," Kurorio says, wincing from the knife wound. "It's my fault; I couldn't save him in time."
"So the odds are even," Kirishima says.
"No," Shoji snaps. "We lost Sato and Koda and they only lost one expendable member, no, the odds are far from even."
"We'll take him back to the dorms and 'politely' ask him where his friends took Koda," Bakugou growls. "I got a lot of things to say to this bastard who took Rocky."
"So do I," Jirou sneers.
Deku picks himself up, steadying himself with his hands on his knees and sighing heavily. "Kaminari, where's the jeep you guys came with?"
"Parked half a block back there," Kaminari answers.
"We need you to take Sato's body back. Please, he has to go home; if we leave him out here in the wild, he'll never get the funeral he deserves."
"We will," Kaminari nods. He helps steady Bakugou against the tree. "We'll carry Sato back. What about you guys?"
"We'll head back to our cars and drive back."
Kaminari and Kuroiro quickly head over to Sato's body and very carefully, they lift him up and gently take him back to the car. When they finally make it to the jeep, they load Sato in the back of the jeep, some of Sato's blood staining Kaminari's shirt before they hop in. Jirou takes the driver's seat and starts up the vehicle before Kaminari heads back to retrieve his dirtbike and escort the jeep back.
10:35 AM
UA Dorms
"Open the gate!" Kaminari shouts as he closes in on the UA Dorms.
Kendo opens the door.
Kaminari comes riding through on his dirt bike with the jeep with Kuroiro, Jirou, Komori, and Mineta inside following close behind.
"Kaminari, are you okay?: Kendo asks before freezing in place, eyes wide. She spots something on the chest of Kaminari's white shirt.
Reluctantly with a shaky voice, she asks, "Whose blood is that?"
Kaminari's body goes rigid, his gaze lowering. He pulls down his mask to show her his lip quivering.
Tokoyami and Tsu gasp when they look into the back of the jeep. "Sato!" the two students yell before running to him.
"Sato, wake up," Tokoyami yells. "Please, don't do this!"
"He's gone," Tsu sobs, "he's gone, ribbit."
Kaminari clenches his fists. "It wasn't zombies. It was the living. A bunch of grade-A assholes killed Sato and tried to kill us.
Kuroiro climbs out of the jeep, limping, and putting a hand to his knife wound. "I got stabbed again."
When the rest of the students come out, they head over to Sato and mourn his loss while some of the 1-B students head over to Kuroiro and do what they can to help him with his wound.
"What happened?" Kendo demands.
Kaminari quickly explains the events of what happened. Seeing the look of despair on her eyes, he quickly added in good news. "We brought back of them, the bastard who killed Sato."
A few minutes later, two cars pull in and the students who went out to test Deku's experiment with zombies come limping out of the cars. The one car with Bakugou as the driver has one of the students head over to the trunk and reveal a hogtied Heater inside.
Deku, Bakugou, Kirishima, Shoji, and Mashiro stand over the trunk, looking down at the hunter with malicious looks in their eyes.
Bakugou leans forward, giving Heater the best vengeful glare he could manage. "I can't wait to get acquainted with you, asshole."
Character Cards
-Taishi "Whiteout" Shirazu
Quirk: Blank White (Can induce a blinding white light into any living creature within a twenty-meter radius)
Occupation: Tow truck driver (Formerly), hunter for the Bystanders.
Age: 27
Birthday: April 11th
Height: 170cm
Blood Type: A
Likes: Mixed berries yogurt.
Other Facts: Can solve the Rubik's cube.
-Shinsanpei "K-Hole" Enoyoshi
Quirk: High in the Sky (Can induce the effects of ketamine in a person).
Occupation: Sales Representative (Formerly), hunter for the Bystanders.
Age: 24
Birthday: May 8th
Height: 165cm
Blood Type: B
Likes: Jet Li movies.
Other Facts: President of an alcohol and drug prevention program in high school.
-Kazutora "Heater" Sano
Quirk: Thermal Scope (Can see the heat of any living creature through a scope).
Occupation: Window washer (Formerly), hunter for the Bystanders.
Age: 21
Birthday: November 2nd
Height: 155cm
Blood Type: AB
Likes: Blueberries.
Other Facts: Rejected from the Japanese Self-Defense Force.