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"Are you guys done coming up with a conclusion yet?" A voice from behind us said.

We didn't even have to turn around to know that that wasn't a UA student talking to us.

We all turned around and saw a man, his age undetectable but his aura gave off great power. He sat on top of a high rock. He looked like a glitched image. All of his colors were inverted. His would be pale skin was a dark glowing blue with white along the edges.

And what was he wearing? Like a glitched image, pieces were everywhere. In some places he was wearing our green and white school uniform. In other places he was wearing our blue and white gym uniform. In rare small spots, he was wearing a combination of all of our hero costumes in one.

His voice was distorted too. You could tell it was a guy, but every now and then it would skip like a disc had been scratched. Other times his voice would raise and lower in pitch, or rather, speed up and slow down. What was he?

All the glitches out pieces started to come back together to show one single image. His voice became a steady tone and his blue skin reverted to a normal pale white. His eyes turned from a black and white to red.

He jumped down and looked at us. "What is it you extras?"

"Bakugo?!" The class said at the same time in shock. We looked at the bakugo who stood in front of us, then at the bakugo who stood with us, backing away slowly from the both of them.

"Huhhh?!? Guys that not me. I'm not the traitor!" The bakugo on our side yelled.

The bakugo in front of us laughed and then changed into Mina, then Denki, then tokoyami, then me, then back to his glitched form.

We stood there dumbfounded. He started talking again but in a deep reversed voice. At first, none of us could understand what he was saying. Then he zapped out like an old tv being turned off.

"The headsets can verse things." Iida saying quickly taking his off. "We have to go back to where we found them though. There's a system there that records everything that has been said. We can reverse it there."

"What are we waiting for. Let's go then." Kirishima yelled as he started making his way back to the school.

When we got there, Iida put his headset in one of the computers and we skipped past all of our dialogue up until we saw the villain. We listened closely as we heard the reversed audio say:

"There are hundreds of thousands of us in your world and in others targeting your class only. Not just worlds but timelines too. We will take over your identity, then the school, then the city, and lastly the world, the galaxy, then the whole universe. No one can stop us, so don't resist."

"And that's when he zapped out." I said.

"Woah that's heavy." Denki added.

"What is their power? Can they shape shift? No. That still wouldn't explain why he was glitching or how he zapped away. Plus he said there are hundreds of thousands of them. This can't just be any type of quirk. Traveling across worlds and timelines?" I asked trying to rationalize what was going on here.

"What are we going to do? They're threatening to take the whole universe and we still don't know where our teachers are!" Tokoyami mentioned.

I put on some headphones and listened to the audio over and over again. Every word he said from the first time he spoke. Everyone watched me in silence hoping I would come up with something. But nothing turned up until he shape shifted into bakugo and spoke.

"Guys, this isn't him talking right here. This is the real bakugo talking." I told them.

"But how? He's right here." Mineta mentioned and pointed towards him.

"Remeber when he said they traveled across multiple words and timelines? This could be a bakugo from another timeline. They really are stealing our identities." I said.

"But how can you be for sure?" Iida asked.

"Because he talked as bakugo, but not as any other person he transformed into. Plus, listen to this audio." I replied, unplugging the headset so that the audio would be on speaker again. "There's something we missed."

I replayed the audio at the point that bakugo spoke.

"What is it you extras?" Bakugo said on the audio, then laughed again.

I then replayed the audio, but backwards where the laugh was.

"Helphelphelphelphelphelp!"

"The real bakugo is in that one, but the others were mere images of the people he saw in front of him which is us." I informed.

"So he can only turn into people he can see, and only talk in the voice of the people's identity he's stolen?" Iida asked trying to understand.

"From what I've gathered, but there's still so much more we don't know about them. Where did they come from? How do they teleport? And most important, how do they steal people's identities?

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