-the front door of his mom's house, in reality, a man stood

outside it, ringing the bell, visible through the skinny glass

window beside the door.

Izuku sat up, groggy, still fully dressed, same clothes as last

night. He went to the front door, opened it. A man in a black suit stood in front.

"Izuku Midoriya?" He asked.

"Yes?"

Wordlessly, the Man in the Black Suit handd Izuku a creamy white envelope, then turned and walked away.

Izuku looked down at the envelope, curious. He opened it, his eyes scanned the page, then widened.

Xxx

At TodoCorp, The early morning was thick with fog, on top of the towering black TodoCorp Building, behind its red neon sign. Down below, four solitary figures approached the middle of the plaza from three different directions. The plaza and the building were deserted at this hour.

Down on the ground,Izuku, walking toward the plaza, recognized one of the people coming toward him.

It was Kuri and Reiko. Izuku looks to his left, recognized the other person. It was Shoto.

They met one another in the middle of the plaza.

"Well? What do you want?" Shoto asked.

"Me? She sent me a-" Izuku began.

"Shoto, you're the one who-" Kuri attempted.

Reiko stopped her and the four of them stared at one another in confusion. But they weren't looking at each other for long before they heard something, something whistling as it sailed through the air.

It landed with a clunk about twenty feet from them, whizzing out of the fog from above. It bounces twice, hard, rolls to a stop right in the middle of them. They all took a step back, away from-a pumpkin bomb.

"Oh, God..." Shoto cried.

They all leapt back as the bomb exploded..

Shoto, Izuku, Reiko and Kuri each hit the ground with a crunch, stunned by the force of the bomb. Suddenly, the whistling sound came again.

Another pumpkin bomb dropped inexplicably out of the fog, landed to one side of them. They leapt to their feet and took off as the second bomb exploded behind them. They turned in another direction, but a third pumpkin bomb thunked to the ground in front of them. They changed directions again, scampering away just before the third bomb exploded..

"This way!" Shoto called.

Izuku, Reiko and Kuri followed him, racing toward the twin glass elevators that ran up the side of the TodoCorp Building. Shoto whipped a set of keys from his pocket, fumbled to key the elevator.

Another bomb dropped behind them.

The doors whooshed open. Shoto and Reiko. raced into the elevator, but Izuku stopped in the doorway, a look of terror on his face and Kuri stopped, noticing. He shot a hand to the back of his neck.

"Danger!" Izuku whispered as his danger-sense activated.

"What?!" Reiko asked.

"The elevator! Don't go in it!" Kuri warned them, looking at Izuku. Izuku looked at her quizzically.

Shoto growled in annoyance. "Fine, stay down here and die!"

He jabbed one of the two silver buttons, the one with a big arrow pointing up. Izuku took a step back, Kuri following him, and the doors began to close.

"Sister!" Reiko cried.

But the doors closed

Behind Izuku, another bomb exploded, hurling him to the ground.

Kuri spied an odd-shaped object, located right at the base of elevator machinery, near the giant wheel that was running the elevator cables.

It was a bomb. Pumpkin shaped.

There was a chunk and the wheel starts to turn, drawing in the cable. The elevator box begins to rise.

In the ascending elevator, Reiko turned to the window, saw her sister stranded in the plaza below, amid the smoke of the explosions.

"Sis!" She cried.

Kuri stood in the plaza, watching as the elevator slowly rose. She watched as Izuku's hands darted up to his shirt, pulled it open, he felt underneath for his costume.

But of course, it wasn't there. He burned it.

Kuri realized she was the only hero there, and darted off without a word.

Izuku turned, thinking like crazy. In the distance, sirens start to sound, people start to emerge from the fog, having heard the explosions.

Izuku looked around frantically. He sees something, his eyes lit up.

Across the street, a sign in the window of a souvenir shop on

Broadway said "HALLOWEEN COSTUMES HALF OFF."

He took off, across the street, and was nearly hit by a car,

racing toward him.

The car stopped, but Izuku kept going. The driver got out- a man in a dark overcoat. A hand snakes out from underneath the overcoat, slammed the car door. But it wasn't a normal hand, it was a charred, burnt hand.

Dabi had arrived.