Here it is, the 141st full chapter of Miraculous Quirks released on time as always. The Battle of Jaku is in full swing, Shigaraki is the focal point for the heroes while Nomus run rampant and are being contained and over all of this the shadow of Gigantomachia looms unmoving reminding them all that its there. What the heroes don't know is that the monstrous villain has a few small passengers hiding in his spikes and one of them is waiting for the right moment to strike and upend all of hero society as they know it, all he needs is the right moment to make his entrance. That is all the administrative stuff that I have for you, however, and there are no guest reviews to respond to or questions to answer so I will end this note here. Do keep the reviews coming as I enjoy hearing from y'all. That is all I have for this pre chapter note so that means that it is time to sit back, relax, and enjoy the 141st full chapter of Miraculous Quirks.
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Chapter 141: A Shocking Revelation
"Alright and there." Skeptic said as he hit a button on his laptop and the screen split to show the satellite footage of what was going on in the heart of the battle so that Dabi, Mr. Compress, and Spinner could watch it while Skeptic continued to work on the rush edit that Dabi wanted him to do before he streamed the recording to all the devices in the country. "Got into the satellites so you can see what's going on, I still need a few more moments and…what the, where'd all that ice come from?"
What Skeptic was referring to was a sudden wave of jagged ice that shot across the screen just as they got visuals on the situation. As such they missed Shigaraki grabbing Eraser Head's face and injuring him enough that he was now out of the battle thus removing Erasure from play and just saw the explosion of ice with a clearly injured figure on it. A few taps later to get a better visual and the figure was revealed to be Shigaraki who looked like a mess on the ice, his body covered in wounds with blood staining the ice in places and an odd teal edged black tendril around his legs.
"Well, well, looks like little Shoto Todoroki had joined the party." Dabi said with a grin, this was now even better than he could have hoped for as it was going to be a real family reunion soon what with the successful offspring and the failure in the same place now, it just made what was to come all the sweeter to him. "That's good."
"Endeavor's son?" Mr. Compress asked. "Yes that does look like his ice, I remember it well though he's not as over the top as he was back in the forest."
"It kinda looks a bit like Geten's as well." Skeptic said momentarily distracted from his work as Shigaraki destroyed the ice only to be hit off it though with the destruction and debris that it caused the villains couldn't make it out clearly what was going on at the moment. "I wonder if they're related, Geten told us that his family had some history with ice Quirks."
"Not the time for that." Dabi reminded the only non-member of the League with them. "Get back to work, the time can't be too far off."
"Well it looks like the boss has his Quirks back." Mr. Compress said as the smoke cleared and an uninjured Shigaraki stood there showing that he'd been healed, which could only mean that he had at least one more Quirk than his normal Decay. "He was getting loaded up with them, right?"
"I think so." Spinner said. "That doctor was the one in charge of boosting him and making Shigaraki stronger so it would make sense."
"Obviously he's got some more Quirks, just look at him compared to a moment ago." Dabi said. "Now shut it, I'm trying to watch for the right moment which is why this thing needs to be ready as soon as possible."
The others did just that as they looked at the situation as it was now or in Skeptic's case got back to work with the data that Dabi had provided him. The situation was certainly interesting to say the least as the villains took stock of what was going on around them from the safety of Gigantomachia's back.
From what they could tell there were several battles between heroes and what had to be at least regenerative Nomus going on around the center of the destruction. The Nomus for the most part getting the upper hand on the heroes as they appeared to be as strong as Hood from Kyushu, albeit not at intelligent.
That didn't mean that the heroes weren't holding their own, they were and the main a ones thinning out the Nomu numbers were a woman in a white outfit with flickering green hair who they recognized as Endeavor's sidekick Burnin and a teen girl who had to be from U.A. in a ladybug print costume wielding a matching katana that had to be heated as it was cauterizing all cuts to prevent regeneration. Still, even with a few heroes who could manage it, the Nomus were depleting their numbers which was good, the more heroes who died the more demoralized they were which was what Dabi wanted.
However, the battles with the Nomu wasn't the really interesting battle. No, that was reserved for the center of the battlefield where Shigaraki stood with three boys showing the most defiance towards him, all three the villains recognized as U.A. students Izuku Midoriya, Katsuki Bakugo, and Shoto Todoroki, while Endeavor was incased in ice for some reason but still conscious.
The same couldn't be said for other heroes around as it was clear the likes of Eraser Head, Ryukyu and that small old hero who'd attack them back when their hideout in Kamino was hit were out of the fight. Some were being taken to safety while others were being tended to right there due to their wounds with Eraser Head really getting the villain's attention as he was right behind where Midoriya was standing as two heroes stabilized their unconscious colleague.
"Why is Endeavor in ice?" Spinner asked confused as they watched the situation. "He seems to be spent for some reason. I've never seen that happen to him before."
"The old man's used too much of his power and not won, likely been a while since he's reached this point but Shigaraki can regenerate so that would explain it." Dabi said pleased at the sight. "A drawback of that much fire is that there's a limit to what Endeavor can take. He's built to withstand heat, not mine of course but his own to a point, however once he's used too much of it too quickly his body starts shutting down. That's the advantage of the ice, it's going to cool him down to let him fight more once he recovers. It's why his son is his masterpiece, Shoto Todoroki's right side is as hot as his father's but he can internally cool himself down with his left. That's what a designer Quirk looks like when it's gotten right."
"Unlikely, looks like the boss has it now." Mr. Compress said as they saw Shigaraki crouch down to touch the ground while not noticing the tone of Dabi's voice as he discussed Endeavor and his son or even questioning how Dabi knew so much as he, and Spinner for that matter, were focused on the boss not what Dabi was rambling on about. "Nothing can stop his Decay Quirk that I know of so…oh that's not good."
Spinner nodded though Dabi didn't care because he really didn't care for Shigaraki and his goals beyond how they could do to further his own goals though he was intrigued to see that right before Shigaraki touched the ground a line opened up on his chest and right arm and staggered him upright with a look of shock on his face that the satellite image was able to show pretty well. It was clearly a bad injury and they could see the muscles there which confused them as he'd just recovered from whatever the ice had done to him so why was Shigaraki now injured without taking a blow.
"Why isn't his body healing?" Spinner asked worry in his voice, of all the members he was the most devoted to their cause and their leader so it was natural for him to be worried, as they realized that the wound wasn't healing quickly like they'd have expected if he had Super Regeneration. "This isn't good."
"Well he was woken up early." Dabi noted idly as Shigaraki seemed to stabilize himself and was getting ready to use Decay despite his wounds as all he needed to do was touch his right hand to the ground for it to work which he was going to do by bracing his arm with his left hand. "I bet that's why, the doctor did say it would take four months before he was ready and it hasn't been that long. Likely his body can't handle it, all he needs…huh that's new."
The others blinked because right before Shigaraki could touch the ground there was a sudden burst of air that obscured everything for a moment as they watched. When it cleared Shigaraki was being held high off the ground by the same black tendril that they'd seen on him before while several more held the heroes who were in immediate danger off the ground too.
Tracing back to the source of the power, they all saw that it was coming off of Izuku Midoriya who was now suspended high in the air with the tendrils pouring off him as he held the others aloft and out of harms way while also keeping Shigaraki off the ground. It was a surreal sight made more so by the fact that Midoriya was defying gravity which made no sense as what little the League knew about the boy didn't indicate that he could do this.
"Now how is he doing that?" Mr. Compress asked as Midoriya moved towards Shigaraki in the air while putting the others down as far away as possible but keeping the villain high above the battlefield as he suddenly engaged Shigaraki in midair combat. "He couldn't do that the last time we saw him though admittedly he was pretty banged up back then if I recall."
"U.A. students are resourceful like that." Dabi said as he saw the feeds showing Endeavor and the others either unable to help Midoriya out or were currently helping the wounded. "But this will anger the number 1 hero, some kid is doing better than him, he won't like that."
The others could only really nod at that as they watched Midoriya use his strange tendril power and the raw strength the had to repeatedly attack Shigaraki. The force the kid was using looked to be near All Might's level and was hard to track with the naked eye, especially when watched as satellite feed on a laptop screen, but for every hit he landed sent blood flying and yet despite this and the damage that Shigaraki was no doubt taking. However, despite all that was happening to him, the boss remained smiling the entire time the two were fighting though the damage had to be piling up now.
Still, none of them could look away, even Skeptic was getting slowed in his work as he got distracted by watching the repetitive blows that were landing on Shigaraki. It was clear that Midoriya had the upper hand in the fight as he was keeping Shigaraki off the ground the entire time while pummeling him, which showed a tremendous amount of skill on his part. They all suspected that Shigaraki had Super Regeneration, it seemed standard whenever the doctor worked on you, but it seemed like he was getting hurt faster than he could heal and if this kept up things wouldn't look good.
However, neither Spinner nor Mr. Compress were worried. Both had faith in the boss that he'd find a way to pull through and defeat Midoriya despite the situation. Meanwhile Dabi was just watching the fight neutrally as he didn't care who won it so long as he got to do what he wanted and there was still not a good moment for that just yet, not that Skeptic was ready yet regardless.
Dabi felt that the best time would be after Shigaraki went down, what better way to tear down hero society than right after a great win over the most wanted villain in all of Japan. Regardless of if the heroes beat Shigaraki or not, the boss would need some time to recover and so long as Endeavor was still alive and conscious Dabi would be able to maximize the impact of what he had in store for the nation.
They were so engrossed in watching the fight in the air as that was the main show that none of them noticed what was going on down on the ground. Unbeknownst to either the villains watching on Gigantomachia's back or Midoriya and Shigaraki as they duked it out in the sky, Bakugo was analyzing the situation down on the ground and knew that Deku wouldn't win and had come up with a plan.
If they'd been watching they'd have seen that Shoto Todoroki was done with the first aid on the injured heroes and had moved to keep his father cool while Bakugo got ready to blast all three of them up to the fight to aid Midoriya and have Endeavor end this in a single blow just like how he'd handled Hood in Kyushu. However, they weren't watching the ground so they didn't notice Bakugo blasting up with Todoroki using fire from his left hand and foot to help his classmate as they took Endeavor to the battle.
As such they were all shocked when, as the black tendril thing was stretched out at its fullest, Endeavor suddenly grabbed Shigaraki from behind and holding him such that his arms were out to the sides thus preventing Shigaraki from using Decay as all three kids suddenly fell back to the ground. As they did, Endeavor unleased his Prominence Burn ultimate move as hot as he could manage with a goal of incinerating Shigaraki where he was as the villain was too dangerous to be left alive.
"Shigaraki!" Mr. Compress and Spinner yelled out at the same time their eyes wide and full of horror as they watched their boss be burned, his screams of pain reaching them where they were and no doubt all those on the battlefield, hero and Nomu alike, could hear the situation as it reached its apparent climax.
"Well looks like the boss is toast." Dabi muttered not caring about Shigaraki's fate though he couldn't be heard over the shouts of the other two. "And that should be…well I never, looks like the bastard's still got some tricks up his sleeve. This will be useful for me, depending on how the next few moments play out, and so long as Endeavor doesn't die."
What Dabi was referring to was the sudden ending of the flames and as they ended they all saw three solid looking, jagged black tendril things with red cracked lines on them had erupted from Endeavor's back. They all knew that as All for One's Rivet Stab Quirk that he'd used on Magne and Kurogiri in conjunction with Forced Quirk Activation to activate their Quirks in Kamino.
Now Shigaraki had it and was using it from his spine, not fingers like All for One had, to pierce through the right side of Endeavor's chest and out his back ending his Prominence Burn and leaving a hairless, burned, but still alive Shigaraki in his arms. They then watched as a wounded but conscious Endeavor fell way and Shigaraki, now just a burnt husk with no hair and eyes, seemed to float in the air and turned towards Midoriya.
Dabi was glad that Endeavor wasn't dead, that was an honor only he should have and only after he was done with his little show and Endeavor was sufficiently broken right before he took down Endeavor and Shoto together in a grand conflagration to end all conflagrations, and now it looked like his moment was almost at hand. Even with the wounds, Shigaraki had to collapse soon and the moment he did the heroes would turn to Gigantomachia thus giving Dabi the opening he needed to destroy this filthy, corrupt, hero society.
However, Shigaraki was still conscious and move so all they could only watch, Spinner and Mr. Compress both glad that their boss was alive and given his healing Quirk would recover over time, as Shigaraki turned to Midoriya and held out his hand to him. He seemed to say something that shocked Midoriya, they couldn't make out sound on the feed, before Shigaraki sent out 4 tendrils of Rivet Stab from his right hand at the boy.
From their vantage point it looked like the move was designed to kill him and thus end the threat Midoriya posed, which they agreed with as the boy had shown to be too much of a thorn in their side to be allowed to live, but they didn't know the true reason for it. Regardless, they all just watched as a massive explosion went off and right before the Quirk was going to hit Midoriya he was shoulder charged out of the way.
Instead, Katsuki Bakugo took the attack for him, the Rivet Stab stabbing him through the upper left leg, left shoulder and twice through the gut so while serious the wounds weren't fatal if treated right away. All they could do was stare wide eyed at what had happened, even Dabi was shocked at what he saw and Skeptic had stopped his work to stare as well as the blow hit and Bakugo seemed to remain in the air with the wounds in him as Midoriya turned to stare at what his friend had done. What happened next was completely unexpected.
As Bakugo fell to the ground after Shigaraki removed the tendrils from his body, his ankle was grabbed by Todoroki who was already supporting his father as well both Midoriya and Shigaraki seemed to hang in the air while Rivet Stab fully returned to Shigaraki and his healing slowly began. The pause only lasted a moment before Shigaraki once again sent out Rivet Stab at Midoriya only this time Midoriya, who by now had his own, more fluid and whip-like black tendrils roiling off his body, turned and attacked.
"Huh, I didn't realize that those things could be broken." Mr. Compress noted as they watched Midoriya break the various tendrils of Rivet Stab with his hands, fists and even his mouth by chomping down on one of the tendrils as he angrily charged at Shigaraki. "He's got some darkness to him though and I'm not talking about those tendrils that he's producing."
"That's just blind rage." Dabi noted as Midoriya neared Shigaraki the power visibly pouring off the boy. "See, this is it, he's dead."
"I'd agree." Spinner said as Skeptic finally got back to work now that the excitement was over, he was almost done regardless so only a few more moments and things would be ready pending his final hack that was needed to stream the message to all devices. "If Shigaraki had used his right hand."
The other two blinked at that, well Mr. Compress couldn't be seen blinking behind his mask but he did, as they looked closely at the screen. Spinner was right, Shigaraki had used his left hand to grab Midoriya's face, the hand that only had his ring and pinkie fingers remaining so he couldn't properly use Decay. However, there was a strange red light coming off Midoriya and heading to Shigaraki showing that something else was at play there.
"What's going on?" Spinner asked.
The others just shrugged unable to answer that as they watched the seeming stalemate going between Midoriya and Shigaraki on Skeptic's computer as he continued his work though Skeptic too glanced at the image from time to time just as confused as the others were at what was going on. Things seemed to pause as the two combatants hung in the air with the red light present. They had no idea what was going on or the battle of wills taking place in a special mindscape within Midoriya's head so all they could do was stare at the screen and wait until something happened in the major conflict on the battlefield.
As all of this was happening, Marinette and Adrien had been running around and dispatching Nomus as best they could to help thin their numbers so that they wouldn't get in the way of the main battle. Still they were able to note the battle going on between Shigaraki and Midoriya, it was hard to miss the arrival of Todoroki's ice, the black tendrils of Blackwhip, and the loud sounds of the engagement going on as they fought the Nomu with the other heroes who were in the area.
Thankfully they didn't have to worry about Decay, which was good for Adrien as he had no strength to contain it, as Midoriya was fighting Shigaraki in the air to prevent that. While Marinette could potentially help Midoriya out she'd shot the suggestion down when Adrien had made it. Sure, she had the tool for it and might be of use but she wasn't sure she could use it to kill Shigaraki the way she dispatched the Nomus. The Nomus were already dead abominations so ending them was simple but Shigaraki was alive so she wasn't sure if she had it in her to kill, she'd not reached that point in her hero career just yet.
Then there was the additional factor of the speed of the clash. Even in her space mode and with her enhanced constitution, she wasn't sure she'd be able to keep up with the engagement and all it would take for her sword to be rendered useless was one grab from Shigaraki's hand and he'd use Decay on it. That Quirk was such that he could use it on her yo-yo, an item Mage forged from Magic, so her Lucky Charm wouldn't be able to withstand it no matter how durable her items were.
No, there were just too many variables, made more so when they saw the telltale fire of Endeavor's Prominence Burn attack that they were sure would end Shigaraki, for Marinette to leap in. She'd just get in the way and risk too many good lives if she joined the fray.
Therefore, it was better for her to keep using her katana, with Adrien helping to identify, distract, and stun the near High-Ends, to remove as many of these monstrosities from the battlefield as possible. This would benefit the heroes in the long run, they both knew it, and with the Prominence Burn attack they were sure that Shigaraki was done.
That was why they didn't see that it had failed or that Bakugo shoved Midoriya out of the way and gotten stabbed by one of the many Quirks that had been added to Shigaraki as a result of All for One being transferred to him. Nor did they see Midoriya getting enraged and attacking Shigaraki only to be grabbed and All for One to be used on him.
What they did see, however, because it was impossible to miss was the aftermath of the battle of wills withing One for All's mindscape that led to Midoriya, with the aid of Nana Shimura and the first holder, expelling All for One and Shigaraki, who were having their own issues and which would have other implications for Midoriya down the road. After all, it wasn't hard to miss the massive sphere of bright white light tinged with a rainbow hue that exploded above the battlefield.
"What was that?" Adrien asked as the light washed over them, Marinette using the distraction it provided to slice a bipedal Nomu with spikey protrusions all over its body like a sea urchin, which she'd been steadily cutting away until now, from the top of its head to its crotch to split it in two as the light radiated over the battlefield. "Something's going on in the main battle between Deku and Shigaraki."
"Whatever it is it can't be good." Marinette said turning to it as the two halves of the Nomu fell away and light faded almost as soon as it had burst into the air. "Can you see what's going on?"
"Looks like Shigaraki and Deku were in contact and then blasted apart by something." Adrien said as he narrowed his eyes. "They're in the air and falling to the ground."
"Right, then lets go help out." Marinette said as she spun and sliced the top half of the head and upper body off some feline Nomu that looked like it was an attempt to make a sabretooth tiger and realized that there were no more Nomu near them, just the sliced remains of the ones Marinette had ended. "We've handled what we can and thinned their numbers. It's time to help Deku and the others. This battle has to be almost over after that."
"Agreed." Adrien said and with that the pair began to run towards the battle unaware that there was still one more twist to the chaotic battle to come.
"What was that!" Spinner exclaimed as the light filled the screen and blinded them while it also washed overhead so there was no way to miss it. "What's going on?"
"Looks like Shigaraki's got some new power we didn't know about." Dabi mused, the light was the result of whatever Shigaraki had been trying to do to Midoriya which had clearly failed as now both were falling to the ground and appeared to be barely conscious. "But he's not got a good hold of it yet due to being woken up early. It looks like our time is almost here…and little Shoto has just come to aid."
Dabi was right, Shoto Todoroki had appeared on a wave of ice to grab Midoriya and add him to what his was carrying, fire also coming from his right foot before he landed on the ground and slid over it to until he dropped the three people there. As that was happening, Shigaraki seemed to be fighting to stay conscious as suddenly tendrils of Rivet Stab burst from his fingers, excluding were his missing digits were, to stabilize him before he hit the ground and hold him above the battlefield.
The boss looked a real sight. His eyes were back and his hair returning to the length it had been when he'd been woken up but every patch of visible skin was burned, some areas worse than others. Clearly Super Regeneration was at its limit and there was only so much he could do now that he'd taken all this damage.
The best course of action would be for Shigaraki to realize that Gigantomachia was here and use him to get them all to safety so that he could properly heal up while they regrouped, but it seemed that the boss didn't want that. What they didn't know was that inside Shigaraki's head he was at war with All for One who was trying to order the retreat and take over his useful puppet's body but Shigaraki was fighting him and had been ever since All for One had made his presence known during Endeavor's Prominence Burn attack.
"How's he…" Mr. Compress began before two spirals of yellow energy shot out and at Shigaraki breaking his River Stab tendrils that were holding him aloft and sending him crashing to the ground. "Well damn, who did that?"
"Some pro or student most likely." Dabi said, the person wasn't important, he was just keen to make sure that he still had his moment as Skeptic continued to work, his edits almost done now. "It doesn't matter, it's almost time."
"We should get the boss and get out of here." Mr. Compress said though he knew that none of them could get Gigantomachia to move as the monster only listened to Shigaraki. "This situation is getting bad."
"Nah, it's just about to get really good." Dabi said with a grin. "We just need the boss to hold out a little longer."
The others didn't want to argue with Dabi and besides Gigantomachia was still unresponsive though his panting seemed to have stopped, which had to be a good sign. No doubt he was waiting for orders from Shigaraki now that he was here so they really couldn't do much until Shigaraki saw sense and ordered Gigantomachia to get them and flee the battle now that it was clear they'd lost.
All they could do was watch as the newcomers, a girl with long periwinkle blue hair who was flying on two spirals of yellow energy from her feet showing that she was the one who'd hit Rivet Stab, and a hero in a suit of armor that looked like Ingenium's but wasn't the same and they knew it couldn't be him as Stain had forced him to retire almost a year ago. Something was about to happen and they were right, it was just not exactly what they were expecting as fire burst to life on Todoroki's right arm as he and the female newcomer, who they didn't know was a U.A. third year called Nejire Hado, got ready to join the fight.
Even with his injuries and slowed down healing, Shigaraki was sill in the fight as he forced himself up off the ground and into the air with Rivet Stab, the tendrils from his fingers holding him up while more burst from his spine to support his body while also branching out in places to give him an offensive attack. However, before he could, Todoroki was on Shigaraki, reaching him thanks to the fire from his right foot propelling him at the villain before he slammed a flaming fist into Shigaraki's chest. At the same time Hado sent a concentrated blast of Surge at 100% that struck Shigaraki in the back right as Todoroki punched him.
The result was a fire explosion that caused Shigaraki to let out an inhuman scream as several of the tendrils were shattered as the fire and whatever the yellow energy was coursed over his body. Spinner and Mr. Compress were really worried but suddenly, before any of them could do anything, Gigantomachia final moved.
The giant being who was All for One's, and now Shigaraki's, bodyguard hadn't moved since he'd landed mainly because his body had been waring with all the tranquilizers in it so he'd been panting as he fought to stay conscious. What was keeping him fighting though was the scent of his master who was nearby but he couldn't move to aid him because he had no orders and was still trying to not succumb to the tranquilizers. Otherwise he was fine, the fall had just buried him partially in the ground it hadn't hurt him so he could still fight he was just awaiting orders from his master on what to do.
Those orders still didn't come but when he heard his master scream something within Gigantomachia compelled him to move and protect his master. With a roar he ripping his legs out of the ground, sending debris and air everywhere that caught up the heroes nearby despite Endeavor's warning at seeing the monster moving.
None of this was heard by Gigantomachia as turned to his master and swiped his hand to catch Shigaraki out of the air and keep him safe. As he did, the force of Gigantomachia's move sent air waves all around that blasted Hado back where she used Surge to steady herself while Todoroki was sent crashing to the ground where he rolled on impact.
"Master, I'm sorry, I couldn't move after I arrived for some reason and had no orders after getting here but my duty is to protect you and I have done that." Gigantomachia said surprising the League on his back by showing that he was able of some conscious thought on his own while Ida called out to Todoroki and Hado to make sure that they were ok. "I have you now, please give me your next order so that I may do as you command."
As he spoke, Gigantomachia opened his hand to reveal Shigaraki in his palm. The leader of the League of Villains was lying there unconscious as Gigantomachia stared at him and continued to pant as the move he'd done had helped the tranquilizers work faster within his body while the heroes recovered. As this was happening, Spinner made his way up to Gigantomachia's shoulder to see what was going on with Shigaraki while Dabi just grinned, his time was almost at hand and one nod from Skeptic told him that it was just about ready pending Dabi's signal.
"Shigaraki, are you ok? We saw what happened to you." Spinner said as Endeavor and his son rose on the ground below, Deku with them as Endeavor had brought the green haired boy with him as he joined Shoto. "You look like shit. Tell me you're healing."
"He's out cold moron." Dabi called over as he got up and began to walk to the edge of Gigantomachia's back having seen on the computer where Endeavor was so he knew where to go. "Hey, don't send it out just yet, wait for my signal."
"Sure, it's ready whenever you are." Skeptic said typing away to make sure he could do as promised while Mr. Compress just looked on in confusion and Spinner looked worried for the boss while all Gigantomachia did was hold Shigaraki as he awaited orders from his unconscious master. "I'll hit the button as soon as you tell me to."
Dabi didn't say anything because it was finally time for his grand entrance. He was smirking as he left Skeptic to his role and pulled out the bottle of hair dye remover from his jacked and shook it as he made his way to the edge of the sentient rock that they were on just as Endeavor got to his full height ready to resume the fight despite the injures he'd taken from Rivet Stab and earlier in the battle.
"Hey, number 1, up here." Dabi yelled as he shook the can some more in his left hand and waved at the top hero to get his attention and noting that Shoto had also gotten up. "From up here you all look so small but now your still close enough to hear me. Good, Shoto got up and is with you as well, this is perfect. I couldn't have scripted this better if I tried, oh how much fun I'm about to have with you two, just like old times…well no but you'll see why soon enough."
"Dabi!" Endeavor roared up at him, he was too focused on the man and not what he was saying to register anything just yet. "You're here with the League? You were on that thing all along?"
"Yup, been here since that weird girl sent us here but she had white hair so I think that's a good segway for me to show you mine." Dabi said as he poured the bottle on his head and the black dye was removed to show his true, white, hair that really got Endeavor's attention and Dabi grinned knowing that he had it so it was time to make it clear. "And don't be rude old man, you're acting like we've never met except for that time in Kyushu. What kind of a way is that to great your long lost, supposed dead, son? Well, from now on call me by the name you and mom gave me. Call me Toya."
Of course I couldn't resist such a cliffhanger, this arc is full of great moments like this and what better way to end the chapter and move onto Dabi's Dance (not going to be named that as a chapter though as I don't use the same names as episode) than to leave with such a teasing ending as we set up the most expected reveal in MHA (at least to me because come on it was clear that Dabi was related to Endeavor even before it was revealed that Endeavor had a fourth child who was supposedly dead). I know this chapter was a little different but I wanted to do something different in the war and show it from the villain's perspective as they were in the center of it all. Don't worry, as all this is happening Toga is off having her moment with Uraraka and everything else is happening at the medical center by the villa and what not but for this chapter it was all about the villains on Gigantomachia's back's reaction to what was going on and waiting for that grand entrance for Dabi to unveil his truth. There was a little Marinette and Adrien of course and they'll certainly appear more in the next chapter because it's time for their, and the nation in general's, reaction to Dabi's revelation. That is all that I have for y'all, however, so I will leave this chapter off here. As always, if you like it or have any questions please let me know in reviews or PMs, I will try to answer them as best I could and post any questions asked between uploads at the start of the next chapter and do follow and favorite this, so you are alerted to future uploads. Do keep the reviews coming as I like hearing from y'all as you enjoy my work, it motivates me to keep producing the best work I can for y'all to enjoy. Until next time.
Stringdog
