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Chapter 46: Pushed into a corner
🕑 Added 2025-01-29 18:22:33 +0000 UTCThe attack had only been going on for five minutes, and the situation was already a mess for the heroes and students. They could all smell the smoke blowing in, with a faint blue light in the distance alerting them to the flames and the fact that a lot of it was consuming the forest—a forest that currently has over twenty students in it.
Mandalay worried for them as while her quirk didn't allow for two-way communication; it let her tell who was awake and who wasn't, that was how she realized something had happened to their teammate Rag-doll, and at least a dozen students as where their minds should be were a wall she couldn't pierce. That was bad, incredibly bad, as with the flames raging, even a rookie rescue hero could tell you they were in danger as if they had, for whatever reason, passed out; they risked breathing in too much smoke long before the flames got them.
“Good evening, U.A High School.” This situation was only made harsher by the fact that she and Tiger had to defend the 3 students behind them from these two villains, who had already taken down Pixie-Bob and threatened her life. "Allow me to introduce ourselves. We're part of the Vanguard Action Squad of the League of Villains." Spinner introduced them.
“The League? How did they even get here?” Hagakure trembled.
“More like why?!” Mineta yelled again as Magna wagged her finger at him.
“Questions, questions, so many questions. I have one for you,” She pressed her magnet ever harder into Pixie-bob’s unconscious and bloody head. Not enough that it would hurt too much, but enough to make it clear she could easily change that. "How much force do you think I'll need to crush this little kitty's head? How about should I?"
“Get away from her!” Tiger growled as Magna smiled.
"Now, let's not be too hasty, big sis Mag. You too, Tiger." Spinner got between them, his hands to both as he spared the downed heroine a glance before dismissing her to address the heroes still standing. "Deciding if someone should live or die is a serious choice, and we should be careful to ensure that we abide by Pyre's principles."
Hearing that made the student's fears all the greater. Even if they hadn't seen him fight at the USJ, they had seen the aftermath. The entire of Japan had witnessed what the arsonist had done in Hosu, his madness only surpassed by his glee for all things inferno. Word of his involvement at I-island only increased his notoriety, at least among class A students.
The three looked about, terrified that they'd hear those dreaded chimes, the hiss of a snake, a laugh that was paradoxically innocent and demonic. They watched for green flames to explode somewhere close as a creature from hell slithered out from the dark forest to claim them.
As their feared arrival, Midoriya enjoyed his ice cream, sneezing a little as he wondered if someone was talking about it before shrugging and diving back into his cold, sugar-filled treat.
“Pyre?” Mineta gulped, his legs shaking, and he wasn't alone in that for once.
“That pyromaniac Bakugo’s obsessed with?” Hagakure asked, wishing to be anywhere but there as she knew her limits. She knew her strengths, so she knew as sure as the sun rose and set that her quirk and skills wouldn’t count for anything against a stone golem hotter than lava spewing fire everywhere!
'We feared that he and the rest would inspire, but,' Mandalay felt sweat on her brow as she picked up the student's fears and the fact that this villain who wished to play at the calm one was dressed just like one of Japan's most wanted villains. “Based on your outfit, are you supposed to be a fan of his?”
Spinner laughed at her question. Ba! It was as if he was something so insulting as a mere fan. He was greater than that; fans watched him and did nothing. He was a follower; he was a believer! “More than that! I am someone who was shown the light by him! Unfortunately, he's not here as all I see in you two is damaged good but," He replied as he reached for his weapon.
“We can find a way to improve you.” Spinner repeated the exact words that had become a rallying cry for the forgotten and beaten and a call of doom for heroes. Pulling his massive buster sword out, the bandages covering it fell away, revealing the fusion weapon Pyre had honored by sighing, fusing his blood and bone into its steel.
"The name's Spinner, and I'll see to it that you're reforged into heroes worthy of the name with this blade blessed by Pyre!" He smiled as Tiger growled even harder at him.
"I don't care who you are. You're nothing but criminals!" Tiger stepped forward, the man brimming with fury at these villains that dared interrupt their camp, endanger the lives of their students, and, worse of all, lay a hand on his friend and teammate. "The woman you have there is named Pixie-Bob; she's a pro hero who saved countless lives and is giving her all for these young heroes!"
"She's looking for a mate, but otherwise, she's content," his glove flexed as claws shot out of it, the man clenching his hands a couple of times as rage embodied him. What gives you the right to judge her as wanting?"
"Then go on and stop us; I'll show you what the ideals of Pyre mean!" Spinner smiled as he charged the two, sword in hand and ready to taste blood.
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Of all the times an attack had to happen at night and in a forest to boot. It was hard enough to see with the light of the stars being primarily blocked by the canopy, but at least it was just enough for her to see the smoke around her.
No, no smoke, the gas that knocked out Honenuki. She heard the message from Mandalay and was rushing back to camp. Kodai was carrying Honenuki, but that meant she had to use both hands to properly shield her from the gas. It seemed heavier than air, settling close to the ground. It wasn't as if she could breathe easy as she fought to keep herself awake and aware as she moved. The last thing she needed was to get delirious and lose her sense of direction.
"Kendo!" She heard someone calling for her; turning, she saw Tetsutetsu and Shiozaki, both wearing what looked like gas masks. Still, even with the ability to breathe easier, the former supported the latter, who looked weak on her feet but less relieved to see the two.
“Tetsutetsu, Ibara, You’re all right!” Kendo shared in that relief, as she was worried when she hadn’t run into the rest of their classmates, even though she should be halfway back by now.
"Barely, if Yaoyorozu didn't find us when she did, we'd both be out cold like the rest," Tetsutetsu explained before he added that it was only thanks to Yaoyorozu that they could still function as she happened on them and quickly created gas masks for them and the rest.
“You mean-!” Kendo started her sense of worry climbing as Shiozaki's face twisted in grief and regret.
“Yes, we were the only ones that held our breath long enough. Some went down before they knew what was what." She told her, as she had tried to help them, but it was for naught. They couldn't even bring the rest with them as she had been too weak at the time, thanks to breathing in too much of this gas flooding the forest. "Awase was with us, but he's taking her to where the others are supposed to be to help them, too."
Kendo pressed her lips together, even as Tetsutetsu and Shiozaki handed her a couple of the masks they had been carrying—spares that Yaoyorozu had made so that should they find others, they could help them as well.
Fixing her mask in place, she took the first full breath of air since the mess started and fell into her big sister role. "We need to get back to camp fast. Who knows how many villains there are."
“No, I’m going to fight.” Tetsutetsu's words stopped her as he looked as stubborn as steel. Looking back on the way he came. “Make sure these two get back to camp.”
“Didn’t you hear Mandalay’s message? We’re supposed to retreat!” Kendo yelled at him, as fighting in these conditions was just asking for trouble.
"And then what? We hide under our blankets till the villains leave? Leave the fighting to the teachers? I’m sorry, but I can't, I won’t.” Tetsutetsu turned back to her, his eyes burning with determination and frustration as he looked towards Honenuki, who Kodai was letting use her lap as a pillow. He was one of the most brilliant guys he knew, and his quirk would be perfect for handling the fires…but he was knocked out cold. Who knew when he would wake up?
Shiozaki was also a badass, even if she would never use those words to describe herself or anyone. And here she was, still struggling to regain her strength after some punk decided to flood the area with sleeping gas; he hoped it was sleeping gas. His friends, his classmates. They were all suffering right now, lost and confused, and he was just supposed to do nothing?
"Tetsutetsu," Shiozaki said, worried for him in a way only she could be for someone. His words touched his heart, but they also reinforced his decision.
"The USJ, Hosu, now I-island. Each time these villains show up, we barely hold out, and they manage to escape Scott free after wrecking house and hurting many people who were just minding their business." He reminded them, as he didn't know who, but only one group would have the balls to attack them like this. The same ones that did it already. "When will it end? Hell, if I know, but I'm not about to sit back and not fight to make sure it's tonight."
He looked all three of them down, daring them to argue with him. “How can we say we’re training to be real heroes if we turn tail and run now?”
“Fine.”
“Don’t try to-wait, what was that?” Tetsutetsu asked.
Kendo sighed as she approached him. “You heard me, I agree with you, but I’m not about to let you run back into the madness,” She lightly punched his shoulder. “Not by yourself.”
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Kota wanted the week to end. It was annoying enough living with his aunt and her dumb hero friends, but now they had to let a bunch of hero wannabes live with them, too? How stupid. All they did since they arrived was train their quirks so they could show up later. And for what? To impress people, to act like they were the coolest, to call each other hero and villain, and then kill each other like morons?
He couldn't stand any of it. And he was just as annoyed by that girl, Ura-something, who seemed bent on talking to him no matter how many times he told her to leave him alone. She even followed him to his secret hide-out, but at least tonight, she'll be busy goofing with her friends.
At least, that was what was supposed to happen. But when he looked up, it looked nothing like what Auntie said it would be. Blue flames burned through the forest on one side, and on the other, a purple mist seemed to cover everything.
"None of those guys have quirks; Auntie even said they couldn't use them to act dumb like normal, so why?" Kota couldn't grasp how things were, as their forest seemed to be in danger of burning down; those flames were blue, right? Mr Chatora explained how fires work a while ago, and the blue part was the second hottest; only white flames burned hotter.
"You can't make those flames; you need the stove." He wondered, worried that something had gone terrible wrong.
He heard footsteps behind him, heavy ones too. Jumping in fright, he turned and felt fear coursing through him as he saw someone he didn't recognize as one of the Pussycats, the other heroes, or those dumb students. They were tall, really tall-more than even that one student with the octopus arms, and he didn't know why, but that just gave off a bad vibe.
“Kota? Kota! There's been an attack, and it's really serious, so I need you to get back to camp as fast as you can! I'm sorry that I can't get there myself; I don't know where you're always running off to, forgive me, but please stay safe!" Mandalay's voice rang through his head, but it didn't soothe him; it just made him worry as she wouldn't use it if she was close. And she wasn't close because she never told her where he liked to go!
"I came up here scouting for a nice scouting point, and here I find some little brat that's not on our list." The figure before him, cloaked and with a plain white mask noted, sounded impressed and eager, which only shot ice through the small boy's veins.
"Sweet hat, kid. I like it." The figure's head shifted just a little as he looked towards Kota's favorite hat, the boy reaching for it instinctively. "Wanna trade it for this mask? I'm new, so they made me take the lame stuff and said it was last-minute orders." The man continued to explain like it was normal.
Well, Kota wasn't an idiot. He turned and started running when the man started talking about orders. He just needed to run and get as far from them as possible. Maybe he could hide in the woods until Auntie could find him!
Watching the boy run, the figure sighed, though the sound lacked exasperation or annoyance but carried excitement. "Oh well, I think you and me should have fun up here!" In a flash, he slammed into the cliff face right in front of Kota, his fist burying itself deep into the hard rock. “You ready?” His mask had fallen, or maybe he had removed it; Kota didn't know, and, at the moment, he didn't care as in those precious seconds before the villain could kill him, he saw his face and recognized it.
Dredged up memories of wishing his parents goodbye as they went to work like they always did. The two did not pick him up from school like normal, leaving it to Auntie, getting home, turning the TV on, and seeing the news about their deaths.
He felt that pain all over again, the confusion, the hate, as he realized then his parents weren't coming home, that he'd never see them, hear them laugh, or be held by them. But he also felt terror as he recalled the prime suspect, the man who killed his parents.
“It’s you…!” That was the face that met him, gleeful as his quirk sprouted muscle red stringy-like stuff around his arms, making them bigger, and Kota bet, making him stronger as he pulled back. Fear, terror, and anger swelled in him, but he remained frozen by it; his legs refused to move, and he struggled to breathe as it kept flashing in his head.
“Papa…mama!” Kota cried as he was moments from death, joining his parents in the ground.
"Smash!" Out of nowhere, a blimp in the distance neither saw shot towards them, revealed to be a determined Uraraka who, cloaked in pink lightning, punched Muscular as hard as she could. The blow didn't move him much; he stepped back more out of surprise at the real damage, but she didn't care as she bounced off him, grabbing Kota and landing further back from him.
“Wait, what are you?” Kota asked, finally breathing again as his face was covered in terrified sweat. Uraraka gave him a smile over her shoulder, one she hoped was comforting like All Might's, before she turned back to Muscular, increasing the power of OFA from 5% to 8%. Maintaining it was a strain, but she needed the speed to boast.
"Wait, I recognize you," Muscular shook off her blow like it was nothing, tapping his chin for a moment before a light bulb seemed to light up above his head. "Yeah, I remember. You are one of the brats from the list.”
‘I made it just in time!’ Uraraka thought, keeping her full attention on this guy. She didn't recognize him but didn't recognize that other villain either, and she seemed incredibly dangerous. Still, it wasn't the typical list she would expect, but it would be idiotic not to take this seriously. The guy said something about a list? What list? Like a class registry? 'Todoroki, be safe.'
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Minutes prior, Uraraka and Todoroki had been approaching the halfway point when they smelled smoke—or, more accurately, Todoroki did—and it put him on high alert. The list of people present who could cause a fire was low, and the list of those who would do so purposely or accidentally was even lower. After so many happenings in their time in the U.A., he was jumpy.
Not that she wasn't any less aware, Mandalay's message only confirmed what they already knew. She ordered them back to camp, but they couldn't just turn around. They had to move ahead and try to meet with Bakugo and Tokoyami, and they should be close enough for that. The lack of explosions told them enough about things there, whoever was in this attack hadn’t reached those two yet.
They had watched the path as they watched and the dark forest to either side of them; they refused to be blindsided like they had in the past. A lot of good that did as a threat stood before them. Nearly as bizarre as Pyre as she looked to be their age, she even wore what looked like some high school uniform. But that was where the normal stopped as she also had some other gear in hand, and in her hand, she held a bloodied knife.
“You good, Todoroki?” Uraraka asked as Todoroki's arm had a cut across his forearm.
“I’m fine, but how did she get so close?” Todoroki asked as they didn't see her coming or hear her. One moment, the coast was clear, and the next, his instincts honed through years of harsh training saved him from taking a cut to the bone. It was his left side, so he easily cauterized it.
"It could be her quirk." Uraraka suggested that their attacker seemed to pause, more interested in their weapon than in pressing the attack.
“Hmm, no, that’s no good. The cut was way too shallow and hardly spilled blood.” Toga mused, her eyes wrinkling just a bit.
"I'm getting sick of this; you're with the League, right?" Todoroki demanded from her, to which Toga pepped up, giggling like the school girl she dressed as, but it only made the hair on the back of his neck stand on edge.
"Yup, I'm Toga of the League's brand-new Vanguard Action Squad!” She revealed, with both hero students grimacing at the League adding new members. "And I have the best luck! I've met Pyre, and now I've met you two. I've wanted to meet you since I saw the news from Hosu. Todoroki Shoto and Uraraka Ochaco."
“How—" Uraraka started to ask, putting aside the fact that this girl wanted to 'meet' them because of Hosu for later.
"The Sports festival," Todoroki replied, though it did them little good. If she had watched the festival and Hosu, she would have had a pretty good idea of what they could do. “Great, she knows us and we know nothing about her.”
"Oh, we can change that; friends always tell friends stuff, right? I'll go first." Toga spoke up, not caring all that much about the plan; as long as she did what she was told, Shiggy could eat a lemon. "Uraraka's on that meany, Shiggy's list. He said we should kill you because he doesn't like you, but if we're friends, then it means I won't need to do that."
“Friends? With you? You’re insane.” Todoroki told her. It was dark and hard to make out details, but as soon as he spoke, they saw something flash in Toga's yellow feline eyes. They didn't know what, but they immediately realized their danger had only worsened.
"Hmm, yeah, I get that a lot. Not many people get me, but that's all right, we'll be able to get to know each other better," Toga reached for her side. “I would normally just suck straight from the cut, but if you’re going to make it difficult,” she pulled out one of her vacuum needles, squeezing it a little, its sterile 3-inch needle shot out.
She could tell how the sight of it unnerved them. Plenty of people didn't like needles. Toga adored them. They drew blood and almost never made a mess. “Don't worry; this machine doesn't hurt that much. I don't like making my friends suffer."
“She’s comin-” Todoroki blinked and again she was gone, as if she had never been there. ‘What the hell? She vanished!’
“Look out!” Uraraka cried out to him as Togo lunged for Todoroki's side, the boy barely dodging it, firing off the ice from the side she nearly cut; Toga dived back, evading his counter with ease. Uraraka added to it, powering up OFA to 5% and diving in, but the blonde proved incredibly agile. All Uraraka needed was a single touch, and she could end things, but Toga knew that and wasn't letting her get close.
Again, she seemed to vanish into thin air, but they could hear her this time as she laughed excitedly. "Hmmm, I like this game! You're fast on your feet with such a fun-looking quirk." She appeared behind them, Todoroki barely seeing her seemingly flash into being. He brought his flames to block her, but not before she managed another cut, this time through his sleeve and shoulder.
“Dammit, how is she-!” He didn't cauterize the wound, keeping Toga back as she backflipped, grabbing a tree branch and nearly casually lifting herself onto it. Watching them like the Cheshire cat did Alice.
Toga continued to giggle, her knife coated with a little more of Todoroki's blood, blood she so badly wanted to lick, but no, she had a job to do. How boring. "You're fast, too, Uraraka. I like that we can play the best games of tag; how about I be it this round?" Falling back, they strained their eyes to keep watch, but just like before, one moment she was there, and the next she was gone. And now, it was silent.
Moving to stand back to back, they tried to find any sign of her and tell that would keep her from killing them. But as they did so, Uraraka couldn't help but think about her words. She said she was on some sort of list and that Shigaraki wanted her dead, yet…she wasn't. Was Toga trying to kill them or something else?
"You…you have an odd smell, but I can't resist it." Toga started speaking, yet they didn’t see her.
“You have someone you look up to, right?” She asked, though who she was referring to, they didn't know. Todoroki only grunted while Uraraka blushed a little. Toga, from wherever she watched them, clapped. "Oh, it's the same as me, isn't that amazing? We're so similar, just like friends are supposed to be."
‘Just what is with her?’ Uraraka asked as this girl was crazier than Pyre, and he was a pyromaniac that set people on fire on a whim!
"First, you try to model yourself after them, dressing like them, eating the same foods and stuff; the thing is, it's not enough. It's never enough. You realize you want to become them; that's how adoration works, right? It's the same as love.” Toga finished the statement, having whispered it into Uraraka's ear, before she drove the needle deep into her shoulder, the device getting to work as soon as it pierced her skin, sucking in her blood. At the same time, Todoroki wasn't fast enough to counter as she slashed him across the back in the same action.
Despite the piercing pain of having the needle deep in her flesh draining her blood, the adrenaline numbed it somewhat as Uraraka tried to rush backward to slam Toga into a tree. Still, like an acrobat, she flipped over her shoulder, the needler retracted as she dashed to the side, evading Todoroki's blast of flames. All the while, she kept up the one-sided conversation.
"Say, who do you look up to? Who do you want to become? I want to become like Pyre; he's not slashed up and smells like blood but so cute and free. He spreads how he loves, so I want to do the same and always end up slashing up people I like." Uraraka hated how this girl would ever dare compare her admiration for All Might and the good he did, the people whose lives he made a little easier by protecting them to some insane arsonist.
A wall of ice split them apart before Todoroki erected walls around them as tall as the trees. Whatever her quirk was, it didn't give her speed or strength. Tapping the side of it with the butt of her knife, Toga laughed.
"Oh, don't worry, Todoroki, you're someone I like too! How cut up and bloody you were at Hosu, how determined you were, you left me blushing like it was my first crush all over again." She blushed harder, breathing a little heavier as it had been a while since she felt something this intense.
Pyre, she loved him, but in their conversations, she learned he didn't bleed like she would like. But he accepted her, he cared, and if she hadn't needed to do this job, they would be hitting up the town!
“Todoroki!” Uraraka came to his side; her shoulder's pain dulled, but Todoroki's back was open from shoulder to shoulder. It wasn't too deep, but it was bleeding pretty severely.
“It isn’t very nice to try to hide from me, you know? Don't hide from friends; you could hurt my feelings." Toga sang from the other side of the barrier, the girl audibly tapping the ice like a serial killer dragging his bloodied axe in some horror movie.
"Uraraka, I'll make a platform; you must keep moving!" Todoroki told her.
“But-!” She tried to fight him on this, as leaving here with this insane girl just screamed a terrible idea.
"You said it yourself, Mandalay won't know where Kota is; he needs someone to make sure he's all right.” Todoroki reminded her, as they weren’t too far from where Uraraka had pointed out Kota’s location. With her quirk, she could manipulate gravity to render herself weightless and launch herself there in seconds.
“Okay.” Uraraka nodded.
“Oh, are you guys talking about cute stuff? I want to join!” Toga climbed the ice wall, peaking insane with hungry catlike eyes. Todoroki stomped his foot and created a pillar of ice beneath Uraraka that rose past the ice wall, higher than the trees and even still. He stopped it when it was around the same height as a 5 story building.
Uraraka touched her chest, her quirk leaving her exempt from gravity. Their training meant that it wasn't nearly as stomach-turning as it used to be. Without weight, she crouched and powered up OFA to 10% before blasting off, shattering the ice behind her. “Good luck!” she yelled as she vanished into the night, leaving Todoroki with a disappointed-looking villain.
"Boo, Uraraka left, and she didn't even say goodbye." Toga reached for another vacuum needle.
"We don't have permission to fight, but," Todoroki rose on a second pillar of ice, glaring at Toga as he held a ball of fire in his other hand. "I'd rather get yelled at later run."
"Oh, the strong, confident type? Don't get handsy though, I'm not the type that kisses on the first date!" Toga joked before she vanished again, as the spot she occupied was bathed in orange flames.
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"Damn, who'd you fight to get cut up like that?" Muscular asked. Now that he could get a good eye on the girl, she looked like she had gotten into a fight with a giant angry bee and was lost. It was a little insulting that she thought she could fight him when one arm was clearly at half strength at best with that shoulder injury.
"That doesn't matter because I'm going to protect this boy from you!" Uraraka's left arm felt funny, but she could still use it. But if she tried fighting this guy, she knew it would be a hard battle, but she had learned a lot since she started U.A., especially in her battles with the League and the Thunder. Already, she had a plan in her head to deal with this guy.
“That a fact? Your kind always shows up, talking about justice and all that boring stuff.” Muscular replied as he tore his clock off his body, revealing he wore simple clothing, boots, pants, and a sleeveless shirt. However, he was much larger than her, with a body comparable to some of the guys her father hired for heavy work. His form grew larger as what looked like muscle fibers sprouted out from his skin, coating his arms in them.
“Well, doesn’t matter. We were told to take the initiative and kill you if we saw you, so thanks for saving me the effort, but first, I’ll be sure to torment you thoroughly!” Muscular smiled as he crouched before launching himself at her, much faster than she thought but not so fast that she couldn't react. “Let’s see more of that blood!”
“No, thank you,” As he came to punch her, she ducked under it and touched his side. “For making this easy.”
Muscular, now without gravity's effect on him, flew right into the side of the mountain, his force plowing him elbow-deep, leaving him confused as he knew he was strong. Still, he didn't swing with that much force. As he tried to pull his arm out, he realized his feet weren't on the ground anymore, the man floating like a balloon, hooked in place by his fist. “What the? What did you do to me?”
“I told you, I’m here to protect this boy. Not to give you some pointless fight.” Uraraka told him that as she recalled the USJ, she recalled Hosu and I-island. Each time, the villains outpowered them or outsmarted them. She still didn't have a great enough hold on OFA to really fight someone like this, but she could outsmart him.
Powering up One for ALL, she felt the power buzzing beneath her skin as she pulled her right arm, pushing the power to 10%, the max she could handle without breaking something. “So I’ll make this as quick as I can.”
“Smash!” Muscular, helpless in his weightless situation, tried to pull his arm out, punch with her other, or kick her, but she dodged all of it and buried her first into his gut. He didn't hurt him nearly as much as it dislodged him from the wall and sent him flying right into the sky, the man cursing all the while till they could barely see him.
“W-what did you do?!” Kota asked as that seemed incredibly dangerous.
Uraraka let the power return to normal levels at 5%; her right arm now felt funny, but it was more sore than bruised or broken. Keeping an eye on Muscular was challenging but not impossible as he ascended higher and higher, flailing about. "Sent him up. I'll wait for him to get really high up and…release." Uraraka brought her hands together, canceling zero gravity, and with that, Muscular stopped mid-air until a moment later, he started to fall.
His voice, which had been growing distant, came back with revenge as he yelled about her dirty trick, a crazy thing to say when he was about to murder a child. So she felt little when he came crashing into the mountain, bouncing twice on its hard rock before rolling the rest of the way back to their level.
As she expected, he was still alive. However, he was a lot tougher than she hoped, as despite falling from 400m, he was still awake, if bruised up and confused looking, probably a concussion. “Dammit…that…hurt.” Muscular slurred his words before another strike, at 10%, sent him into the realm of dreams, the big man's falling flat on his face.
“I’m not taking chances with you. Come on, Kota, let’s get moving!” Uraraka stated as she jogged over and offered to pick up Kota.
“O-okay!” The boy, dazed, confused, and terrified, took a moment to react, and when he did, he quickly jumped into her waiting arms. Uraraka stood up, supporting him as she walked towards the cliff's edge and looked toward the camp. “Shouldn’t we do…something with him?” Kota asked, pointing towards Muscular.
Uraraka wished she could, as even just a line of rope would have been great, as she could leave him weightless and pull him along like a balloon. When she got back to camp, Aizawa could then take over. "I wish I could, but I don't have any way to restrain him or bring him with us. The best we can do is put some distance between us and tell the others about him, " she replied as she jumped off the cliff and rushed back to camp.
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Wanted to put more, but ended up with this and can't say I'm unhappy with how things turned out, though I will need to expand on 2 fights in other chapters, as well as what's happening with the rest as I haven't even shown what Slice and Chimera have been up to. Instead, this chapter focused more on Uraraka, Todoroki, and Toga.
