The sound of a violent explosion woke me from my slumber. My memories of Tomura and Kurogiri—playing out like a movie—quickly faded from the forefront of my thoughts as Tomura shook me to get up. Jumping to my feet as my brain rendered the current situation, Tomura and I ran out of the partially crumbled building.

Once we were outside, we saw a cloud of ash in the sky, likely from the explosion or whatever had occurred just a moment ago.

"The hero-course students must have made the first move in the end." I thought out loud. "Come on, we should get there before those hero-course brats have all the fun."

With that, Tomura and I began our journey to the site of the battle. He didn't know it, but I knew that this would be our last moment together. Our last run together.

I still remembered our first run as if it were yesterday. Tomura had been acquainting me with the alleyways in the whole of the Kyoto Prefecture. We had started with the whole of the Kamino Ward—and Tomura had only planned to show me those alleyways—but soon after learning of my impeccable memory and drive to know more, he began taking me around larger cities—until I was familiar with almost the whole Prefecture.

It made me sad, thinking about how much Tomura had helped me. He saved me and took me in when I had nowhere to go. He showed me his make-shift family and let me become a part of it when I had no one to call my home. A home isn't a place, it's a people. They became my home.

There's no turning back now.

I'm too close.

As we ran, I could see lasers and debris being flown and fired every which-way—only confirming that the battle had begun. I began to panic. I can't have Nine defeated before we get there, nor can I let him kill all of the hero-course students before our arrival.

"Tomura!" I called to my right—raising my voice to not be drowned out by the noises of the battlefield. "Get on!"

He smirked at me—seeing how I was willingly allowing him to use me as a horse of sorts—and laughed as he jumped onto me during our run. I winced at how heavy he was, but nevertheless caught him and continued running. Then, as soon as I was comfortable, I began to activate Ghost.

Flying through the air as fast as my quirk would allow me—without leaving Tomura in the dust—I could see what was happening with the hero-course students and villains. One of the students was using his quirk to swing rocks around at Nine—who was using his lasers to swiftly destroy said rocks without so much as breaking a sweat.

Honestly, the boy who had been launching the rocks looked worn out. The rocks weren't small, either. It definitely would have been easier if I hadn't killed Uraraka. Of course, their plan still wouldn't have worked. Nine is completely overpowered from what Kaminari had told me, and even with Uraraka's powers, their plans would have been fruitless.

If their plan was to barricade an S+ rank villain like Nine under a pile of rocks—loosely taped together with some tape—than they're dumber than I had thought. Actually, in this scenario, that kid they had expelled on the first day of school would have been a good help.

From what Kaminari had told me about him—and what he had observed about his quirk for the zero-point-two seconds they were classmates—the kid would have definitely been an asset to the success of this outrageously bold plan at restraining Nine. He could have properly secured the rocks—binding them together with his sticky balls—and would have held Nine down longer than the boy they had left in charge of defeating him had.

Maybe I should contact that kid after this whole mess is finished.

After seeing Nine break through the weakly constructed rock prison, and launching a rock to the head on the kid—still trying to attack Nine—I continued flying. Taking his movements into account, I figured that he was taking a straight line to wherever he was going—which gave me a general area that he would end up in.

As I flew up the mountain where the battle was occurring, I noticed two people—waiting for Nine.

Izumi and Bakugou.

They stood their ground, in fighting positions, and seemed ready to attack Nine as a second line of defense. They really should have been the first line of defense. The tape-kid definitely wasn't strong enough to restrain such a powerful villain on his own, after all. Anyone could have known that just by looking at their gap in strength, raw power, and experience.

It wasn't a fair fight, and the odds of success could have been leveled out even with just one other person.

I snarled as I flew past the two, and decided to stay and watch the battle that was sure to occur. I couldn't see how Izumi and Bakugou would have been able to defeat Nine at both of their current skill levels, and the only way I really could see them succeeding would be impossible. Not physically impossible, but it's an impossible plan for Izumi to actually carry out.

By my calculations, she'd have to give One For All to Bakugou...

However, she'd never swallow her pride and hand over the power that had been wrongfully given to her.

Who knows, maybe she's changed since our last encounter.

Probably not, but we'll see, I suppose.

I stood with Kacchan, Ojiro, Jiro, Shoji and the two brats we were protecting, awaiting the villain's arrival. I knew Sero wouldn't be able to actually defeat the villain, but I thought he'd at least be able to hold him off for a while—rather than get instantly defeated.

I noticed Sero—still trying to fight even after sustaining a blow to the head—getting cornered by the villain. Looking back at Kacchan, I realized that he wasn't there. Then I glanced back towards Sero.

There he was.

Kacchan jumped into action and fired an explosion at the villain and distracted him from Sero—who was running to find cover, as per Kacchan's orders, and due to his injuries.

Damn, he wants to become a hero, yet he needed Kacchan to save him...

Pathetic.

Grunting, the villain knocked Kacchan back—using his forcefield to shield himself from the blast.

"You're still alive?" He asked with a bored tone.

"Yeah, I guess you shoulda hit me harder." Kacchan replied, monologuing.

Shoji stood, staring through his binoculars, wondering what Kacchan was doing, and I took this opportunity to make a run for it as well. I wanted some of the glory for this take down too, and I'm not gonna get any if I'm stuck babysitting two brats.

"Where are you going?" He called after me as I ran.

"I'm going to join the party!" I replied with annoyance—as if it weren't already obvious what I was doing.

I guess not everyone is as bright and academically gifted as I am...

I jumped past Kacchan as he was knocked backwards again, and attempted to kick Nine with a St. Louis smash, but he activated his forcefield faster than I could attack him. I cussed under my breath as I was blasted back, just like Kacchan was.

This is such a nuisance.

Kacchan grabbed my hand and used his quirk to help me gain momentum, before he launched me like a human canon ball—yelling the name of this move he just created.

I impacted with the villain's force field again, sending him back as my lightning-fast attack hit.

"Not a bad effort..." He started.

"We're just getting started." I interrupted him.

I heard a muffled laugh coming from behind me and glanced towards Kacchan. He didn't seem to notice it, and I didn't have enough time to locate the source of the noise—due to the villain, firing lasers at us from the tips of his fingers.

Fighting for what felt like hours, we realized that we were getting nowhere. Kacchan and I attacked the villain with everything we had multiple times, yet he always seemed to just brush us off. As if we were flies to him.

No matter how much power we used, our attempts were futile. Both Kacchan and I jumped at him, using our quirks on his blue-dragons, but his quirk hit us both into the wall behind us.

Why are we doing this?

If he wants the kid, why don't we just let him have the kid?

He said he wouldn't hurt the kid, so who cares?

I looked up and saw the man, walking closer to us, and then I saw his blue-dragon attack. I braced myself for impact, but then the attack disappeared. It all crumbled in front of me. I then heard the laughing again.

As I was about to turn my head—to look for the source of the laughter—I heard screams of Agony erupt from in front of me. I looked at the villain in front of me and watched as his body caved in on itself.

"Come on, Kacchan! One last attack!" I shouted to my left.

We were actually going to do it!

We were actually going to beat this guy!

I ran alongside Kacchan towards the man as he stood—weakly holding his stomach—with a feeling of optimism. I knew this was it. I knew this was the end of it. That after this last attack, it would all be over; however, I was wrong.

The man's mask fell of of his face and the clouds began to swirl. This was just like the first time—when he hit Kacchan with a bolt of lightning—but this felt different. He screamed and the sky turned evil and dark. Chain lightning—both blue and white—erupted in the sky, being overtaken by the swirling storm clouds that spread darkness over the island.

I saw a flash of light envelop my eyes and heard the sounds that followed. The loud explosions of thunder that erupted as quickly as my vision darkened. The laughing, that I had been hearing the whole battle, that had only intensified since the first time hearing it. Then...

There was nothing.

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I couldn't help myself. The amusement I got from watching my sister and company struggle was just too much for me to contain. I couldn't help but laugh as I watched the two as they struggled against an opponent far more superior than they were.

They have never felt anything like this, have they?

Both Bakugou and Izumi had superiority-complexes unlike anything I had ever seen before, and trust me, I've encountered plenty of cocky bastards in my life. As soon as they were struck by one of the largest lightning bolts I'd ever seen, I burst into a fit of laughter—larger than I had ever thought possible.

Were they finally dead?

I would have preferred it to be me who ended both of their pitiful lives, but I can settle for watching, if I must.

I was waiting anxiously to see what had become of the two, but the cloud of dust that had been stirred up was thick. As the students left—along with two children, and Nine following closely behind—I decided that waiting for the dust to settle would have been time that I didn't have. I needed a chance for Nine to fight Tomura—alone—while I did something else, and I had every ounce of confidence that with Izumi and Bakugou out of the way, my plan would prevail.

I flew with Tomura—whom had been clamping onto me the entire flight—and followed Nine. He seemed to be in pain, almost as if he were weakened, which wasn't good. I needed him to be at his strongest, and with the demonstration he had just displayed, I had a feeling he was almost at his limit.

A bridge underneath me crumbled to the ground as I ascended up the mountain-side, and then two of Nine's blue dragons shot to the top of the cliff—capturing two heroes in the process—as he used the attack to lift himself up.

There, running with two children in hand, was one of the students of U.A. He had multiple arms and a muscular build. I believe Kaminari called him Shoji. He ran as fast as he could to try and make it to the mountain side, where I could see a pathway that led inside the mountain, but his efforts were all in vain.

Nine shot lasers out of his fingers—just as Kaminari had said he could—and shot Shoji in the back, whom had still been protecting the scared children in his arms. Nine repetitively shot Shoji, leaving no break, but Shoji stood his ground.

"Don't stop! Keep moving!" He yelled out at the children as he understood that he could no longer protect them.

Nine walked closer and shielded himself from a sonic blast that was being emitted from his left. Then I noticed the two heroes he had crushed to get up the mountain, trying to attack the villain in front of them.

"You two have to get out of here!" A girl with purple hair shouted to the children.

"Don't look back!" The other instructed the children.

From what I had observed, I'd say Nine was after the children. What on Earth did he need them for though?

As well as that, what kind of scumbag would go after two children?!

I felt my blood boiling as Nine pushed all of the heroes-in-training out of the way and had a clear path, leading towards the children. As I watched the two kids cry, I decided to go down there and finish this. I wanted to kill this Nine-guy myself as he grabbed one of the kids by her neck.

"Unless you want your sister to die right now, you'll get over here!" He ordered the other child—who couldn't have been over five or six years old.

I could feel Tomura digging his nails into my shoulders—out of rage—as we watched the exchange and descended from the air. As I flew closer and closer, still watching attentively as the child ran towards the man—choking his sister as leverage—I heard a voice I hated more than anything.

"Smash!"

I punched the villain square in the jaw as he held the little girl by her neck. Watching him fly backwards, I noticed the girl being propelled the other way. Kacchan caught the girl I had sent flying and set her down. The two kids seemed relieved we had still been alive, and the villain seemed confused.

Did he seriously think the same trick would work on us twice?

What a dumbass...

"Take your sister and run." I instructed the boy, keeping my glare fixated on the villain in front of me.

"Right!" He answered back, before grabbing his sisters wrist and leading her away from the battle. "Come on, sis!"

As the kids ran away, Kacchan and I began to prepare for the fight that was sure to occur. Activating our quirks, we both shot ourselves forward in perfect sync. We swiftly propelled ourselves forward, and attempted to kick the villain in front of us, but he quickly activated his forcefield and blocked our attack.

"How could you possibly have avoided my lightning?" He asked us in a strained and horas voice.

"You already hit us with that, dumbass" I replied, smirking.

"So, we planned for it, and used that idiot Kaminari as a lightning rod." Kacchan continued.

I applied more pressure to the man's shield and shattered it in two, which in turn caused him to fly backwards, yet again. He recovered faster than I had thought he would have, and began to shoot his lasers at us. Kacchan countered his attack with multiple large explosions from the sky, and then went on the offensive and fired multiple condensed blasts towards the villain—creating a cloud of ash around the villain's figure.

From the ash, his two conjured dragon-like attacks emerged and shot up towards me. I, of course, being the strongest of my classmates, smashed through the attack with ease; meanwhile, Kacchan was still attacking, rather than countering like I had been. He used a special attack I had never seen in action before, but it sure as hell looked cool. The explosion that came of it was immense, and succeed in reaching the villain—while also blasting me backwards.

I landed behind Kacchan, and we both stared into the blazing flames—waiting to see whether the attack Kacchan had landed was successful in knocking the villain unconscious or not. As the flames grew less intense and we could see inside the fire, we were disappointed to see the villain still moving.

Purple marks began to appear along the man's body as the storm clouds started to unravel in an angry motion. Looking upwards at the sight, I noticed the electricity beginning to emit from the grey clusters of clouds in the sky and gulped.

How much stronger can this man get?

Looking back to the fiery scene in front of me, I saw waves of purple being flushed out of the man's body. From there, the ash and flames were launched towards us and away from the villain. As the dust settled and the ashes cleared, I could see the man, floating with the same purple waves flowing out of his body—his hair, flowing upwards like mine did as I used one-hundred percent of One For All.

I would be lying if I said I didn't think he looked menacing and terrifying, and I'm no liar.

After his cinematic moment passed, he began to turn, and he brought the fire with him. I watched in awe as the flames swirled around in the wind. It was beautiful. It looked almost as if they were preforming a dance. The flames twirled and spiraled into clusters of flames—swirling like tornadoes made of fire—until they all collided into one giant tornado of fire and lightning.

Looking around, I noticed the seas raging from below us as lighting struck at every point around us.

"A tornado..." I thought out loud.

"He can control all types of weather..." Kacchan finished my sentence.

I then looked around our battlefield and noticed the kids still here, and not hidden like I had told them to.

Damn brats...

Not listening to what I tell them...

Fire was surrounding everything, and the constant strikes of lightning every few seconds wasn't exactly helping with the situation.

I can't hold back against this villain...

I need to use One For All at full power...

"Let's do this..." Kacchan started, looking ready to kick this villain's ass. "I'll blast this villain with everything I've got!"

With those words, we both propelled ourselves forward, using our quirks.

"Detroit Smash!"

"Howitzer Impact!"

As we yelled out the name's of our special attacks, we both came into contact with the tornado surrounding the villain. I could hear the sounds of the kids screaming behind us, but I couldn't think about it. All I could think about was defeating this villain, and what would come afterwards.

I felt a surge of pain in my arm, as if broke, and I was knocked backwards—due to the impact; however, the tornado caught both me and Kacchan and swirled us in it's grasp, which completely disorientated us.

Slowly, the tornado dissipated into the air and dropped us, but not before completely ravaging the mountain we had been battling on. With rocks flown around and displaced, I couldn't help but wonder whether the kids were ok.

"It's no use..." The villain began. "You simply don't have enough strength to defeat me... You would not survive the new world I will create."

"What new world?" I asked before feeling the stinging pain of the villain's lasers hitting my skin.