I crawled through the vents, keeping my jacks peeled for the sounds I was looking for. The place was built like some kind of haunted house, and I really didn't like being in it.Heroes don't freak out based on being spooked. Heroes face their fears. Keeping going. Do what you need to do.

There were strange sounds echoing all around me, but at last I was able to make out something.

Villains talking.

"It is time. You know as well as I do, Endeavor is not enough. No one has faith in him, not even with that bit of publicity the League of Villains scared up for him. Nobody feels joy or hope from that man. We must strike while the iron is hot."

A booming, echoing, serious voice? A man's, but run through some kind of vocoder, or like he was speaking through a mask. Ok. Villain #1 identified.

A woman's voice next, serious, calm. "Indeed. But are you sure that the new technique will work? Any slip up will make the whole process far too easy to detect."

"I am well aware. But NIGHTMARE's quirk is perfect for it. In the right concentration, fed through the waves - through sound, through the internet, through all those tiny things that connect people together, it will show the world - the truth."

I was was close to them, almost on top of them. My breath was coming a little fast. I didn't know what Nightmare's quirk was, but I knew I didn't want it 'fed' through anything. Had to hurry back, get what I could to the others -

"I think - Hold on. We have company."

I froze. I tensed, ready to move. Or to fight.

All of a sudden the vent fell out from under me. I was free falling. I turned around - maybe I can brace my fall with one of my blasts -

A tendril had grabbed me and dragged me down. A villain in a cloak and helmet was drifting towards me. From underneath the cloak he'd seized me with that tendril. A woman in a tight bustier smiled at me, her arms folded and a smug smile on her face.

And a small child was standing beside her, her long black hair covering her eyes, dressed in a white smock with bare feet. She reminded me of Samara from the Ring. Even though she was tiny, and just a child, I felt something unsettling just looking at her.

"A hero eavesdropper," said the woman. "Unfortunate."

"I've seen her on television. She's a student in Class 1A. Earphone Jack - her quirk allows her enhanced hearing and concussive blasts."

Holy crap, how do they know that!?

"Interesting - that could make for quite a tantrum." She smiled, and patted the girl's head.

"Best incapacitate her."

I tried to move my earphone jack. Come on - come on, I can do something!

The girl was coming towards me, and the tendril was wrapped around me. It was pinning my headphone jacks to my sides. Crap, think of something -

The little girl raised her hand and blasted something at me-

I was suddenly sinking into - some kind of river? A river of blood?

"Jirou!" Yaomomo screamed. I turned around. She had been stabbed through the waist by a villain, one of those twisted creatures All for One had created.

"What!?" I gasped. "Jirou..." came Kaminari's voice. I turned. A Nomu had grabbed his head and was twisting it off. I tried to run towards him, but I was sinking into the blood - it was thick - I could hardly move -

Midoriya - screaming for me - his throat being cut - Bakugou - Tokoyami - all my classmates, Mr. Aizawa - They were all being killed, right before my eyes, twisted, stabbed, murdered like something out of a horror movie - my heartbeat was going faster and faster, I was starting to feel like I was having a heart attack...

Mom - Dad - being slowly strangled, crushed -

I saw their eyes go blank. And I started screaming - screaming -

"Jirou - Jirou!"

I was in a hospital room, surrounded by the others, and shaking.

"Where - what happened?"

"You'll have to tell us," said Gang Orca. "You were lucky we made it to you in time - you nearly got crushed by the debris."

"Debris?"

"You were screaming," said Shoji, staring at me with large, worried eyes. "Writhing and screaming, and your jacks were plugged into your hands. The percussive blasts were coming out - And -"

"And what?"

"It brought the entire building down on us."