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Aizawa's POV 

I had just reached the stage with Eri when Red's scream filled the air. I looked up, horror already clenching my throat when I saw all the water in the moat rise into the air and cover the three boys and push All Might out and away from them. I was sputtering and coughing up fluid before he turned around and looked at the scene with horror. Bakugo, Midoriya and Red were shining with a bright white light from the center of the water sphere. A fourth figure, a dark shadow, seemed to be trying to claw his way out of the water but was failing miserably; AFO.

I watched as Bakugo brought himself out of the water and landed just outside of the swirling vortex. When he finally opened his eyes they were glowing red. Wait glowing? I haven't seen that since the day they searched the school. 

"Formation Z," his words were cold and low but somehow every single one of my students were on the stage taking a spot just outside of the massive swirling sphere of water. 

"Aye," it was only one word but spoken by 17 students at the same time was terrifying. I watched as they each added their quirk to the water. Tempest's fire and ice mixing almost seamlessly, Uravity had been touching debris the whole way over and Froppy used her tongue to fling them at the sphere adding them to the water as well. Iida began running just behind everyone and within seconds had turned to sphere in a whirlpool. Charge Bolt put his hands into the liquid and started electifying it. 

"What are you doing? You're going to kill Midoriya and Red!" I screamed trying to put Eri down and run at the same time. 

"Stop, Uncle Aizawa! They know what they are doing, trust them." Eri screamed directly into the clip on mic on my shirt refusing to let go of me while I'm trying to run. 

"But!" I stopped when I looked down at her only to see her face streaming with tears. I look up again and notice all of my students are crying silent tears, even Bakugo. 

"Explain to me." I was standing in front of my most explosive student and I waited for him to answer me. Instead he slowly took off his mask and looked up at me sadly. 

"If you want to know all the answers press your forehead to mine, but know that it is the same as if you had already signed the gag order. It's all on video you will be legally bound to it." He was breathing so slow I almost couldn't tell that he was breathing at all. 

"Know this; you won't be able to avoid the pain. You will feel it all down to the last scratch of what Red and Deku are feeling now. The rest of us can block most of the pain and Deku helps block even more than I could ever guess. But you will feel it all. Do you understand?" His words are slow and low but I heard everything even without the mic picking it up and broadcasting it all around us.

My students are in pain and they expect me to let them bare it alone? Never! I pull my goggles down so they are around my neck and I give Bakugo one last look and see his eyes are closed even as tears continued to stream out of them. He was simply waiting for me to either walk away or press my forehead to his? I silently take a breath before pressing my head against my students. 

*****BAM*****

I open my eyes and see Mr. Kirishima whipping a belt at me screaming "Faggot, you're worse than a villain! Don't ever call me dad again!" I blink in surprise and the scene changes and I see Bakugo and Deku in one of the dorm rooms with Eri and she calls Bakugo, Papa and Deku Daddy. 

"You can't tell anyone that we are the ones who adopted her because then they won't let us bring her to UA with us. It's one thing to watch over her and another to raise a child here." Bakugo tells me. 

"Don't worry Kacchan, I love you and our daughter. No one can ever take either of you away from me," Midoriya looked so serious it was kind of scary. 

I watched them all cuddle on the bed together including myself (Red) before I blinked again only to see Tetsutetsu trying to get my attention at the dance. No, he hurt me once yeah, but it's my choice whether or not let him keep hurting me! I walk away to the snack bar before crashing into Todoroki. 

I blink again, now I'm training, hovering in the air while both Midoriya and Bakugo are attacking me. I am finally able to hold my own without them holding back! A stream of white hot fire hits me and I'm sweating but I'm still holding out before I throw a shirakun at each of them. Nailing them each in the gut. Blood is everywhere and I start to freak out. 

"No worries you did great!" Bakubro laughed before taking a drink and I watch in amazement as the wound disappears before he turns and kisses Deku and I see his wound heal as well. 

"I'll never get used to that," I (Red) laughs before falling to the ground. I blink and this time I am fighting against Endeavor, and winning! 

"You will never touch my boyfriend again!" I hiss as thoughts of Todoroki laying bloody on the floor fills my mind. When I finally knock him out of bounds and win the match I can't feel anything but Todoroki's amazement and love through the mental link that Deku has set up between all of our classmates. 

Mental link? I think to myself as I watch as Todoroki shoots up onto the stage and pulls me (Red) into a kiss. 

Blink - Now I'm fighting Dabi and Twice with Todoroki and the fight seems to be a blur. They really are nothing compared to training with Deku and Bakubro. Blink. 

I'm running on the stage towards Deku and Bakubro not paying any attention to All Might or AFO as I run by until the villain grabs me and I feel nothing but searing hot pain fill me. I can't even hear my own screams as they are ripped from me. 

I am literally being pulled apart piece by piece, the only reason I know what that feels like is because of Eri sharing her memories with Deku, Bakubro and I. I can't breathe, the pain is too much but right before I can black out I get hit with a ton of water. It brings me back to my senses but It doesn't change the fact that I can't use my quirk anymore. I don't understand it's like I have so many quirks I don't know what to do at all. It hurts. It hurts so much. 

The only one I know how to use though, my hardening, is gone. If not for the gentle familiar water pressure around me I would have lost myself to the insanity within moments. 

I opened my eyes to see Deku and Bakubro in front of me. The relief in Bakubro's eyes was enough to set me at ease. I'm in so much pain right now but if my brother believes in me, then I can withstand anything! I feel myself smile and he nods at me, his eyes glowing that familiar bright red, it's like looking into unconditional love itself before he turned to leave. The pain flowing through my body melting away in an instant as Deku took his place.

Deku is still right in front of me, his eyes now glowing that wicked neon green, it looks so toxic and enchanting at the same time. I nod in understanding, he is going to heal me but it will take time and it will be painful. I close my eyes and feel as he sets his forehead against mine. 

The familiar feeling of him sifting through my memories started to warm my very soul. I feel my body move on it's own only to know that it is actually Deku stretching his mind into mine getting familiar all over again.

I feel as he goes through each quirk searching for the correct one and finding it. I feel as Deku's green electricity flows through me before I open my eyes again surprised by the loss of contact from him. I watch as he grabs AFO and the villain starts to convulse in pain. It only seemed to take a moment but then Deku was in front of me again the villain, nearly forgotten about, drifting away from us. 

I can feel the heat that is Shoto's quirk both heating and freezing the water and relax further. I should be drowning. I know this but I know that Bakubro would never let that happen. My mouth was open and I was easily breathing the water in and out like air.  Kami's quirk jolted through the water bringing feeling back into my fingers. When did they go numb? 

'Deku, am I dying?' I ask him knowing he can easily hear my thoughts. I see him smile before shaking his head no. He reaches out and I lean forward again closing my eyes. If he says I'm not dying, then I am alive. That's all there is to it. 

I feel his warm touch again and my body relaxes even more, 'Deku is it okay for me to sleep? I'm so tired.'

'Yes, sleep and when you wake up everything will be the way it's supposed to be,' I nod in understanding. This time closing my eyes and losing myself to the darkness, peace claiming me.

*****ZAP***** 

I wake up gasping on the ground in front of Bakugo. I look down and see that I am myself again and the pain was finally gone, the hoarseness of my throat being the only thing to remind me that I had been screaming only moments ago. 

I look at Bakugo and once I have myself calm again ask, "The gag order is it only for Eri and you two or everything?"  

"Depends what do you mean by everything?" Bakubro- I mean Bakugo answered, narrowing his eyes. I see, so he doesn't know what all it is that I saw. 

'Endeavor?' I asked using my mind testing the theory that he could still hear me. 

I watch him smile before he answered out loud, "No the gag order does not cover that particular subject."

"Good I'll leave this," I gestured to the miniature hurricane behind him before continuing, "to you while I take care of that." I was practically hissing before I dragged my acting body back up and I turned around only to see Endeavor currently trying to pull Todoroki away from his post and getting frost bitten as a result. 

Todoroki's eyes were still closed and he wasn't moving an inch but now I could feel everything he was feeling. I could feel the network of students as their pain was my own. I could still feel Red's body even though his mind was asleep, I could feel Bakugo as he continued to heal everyone with the exception of Grape Juice who was not in the mental network. I could feel my students' pain, their hardships, their victories as if they were my own. 

I concentrate back on the task at hand; Endeavor. I walked over to him and used my quirk getting his attention when he suddenly couldn't use his own. He looked around confused at first until he saw me all but stomping over to him. 

"What the hell are you doing? I'm trying to get my son away from the ticking time bomb behind him-!" He was yelling and the mic was broadcasting everything that was said across the stadium and the many TV cameras across the world. 

"Did you try to push him away from yourself every time you whipped my student? Or did you ever once consider the fact that he was human at all? Or only as your creation?" I was raging, my words were far colder than any ice I have ever seen the boy use in the past. Pissed does not even begin to cover how I am feeling.

"What the hell are you talking about?" He looked at me shocked, before it seemed to dawn on him. "I don't know what Shoto has told you but-" I cut him off again. 

"But you never once used your quirk to show him what real pain was, when he cried begging you to stop? That he would be a good boy. Or what about all the times you locked him in his room without even a meal for days on end?" I was seething, how could I have never known that my students were hurting? 

Endeavor stared at me in shock but I didn't stop there. "If it wasn't for his sister he would have died of starvation or malnutrition!" I threw a punch at the so-called number one hero. Somehow even with All Might being healed he was only a part time hero now, so he could not be considered the number 1 hero. Even with citizens and fans alike disagreeing whole heartedly. 

"You will never touch MY STUDENTS AGAIN! DO YOU HEAR ME? NOT TEMPEST, NOT RED RIOT NOT ANY OF THEM. OR SO HELP ME GOD THERE WON'T BE ENOUGH OF YOU TO IDENTIFY. DO YOU UNDERSTAND ME!?!" I don't know at what point I started screaming but suddenly I was. I watched as Endeavor tried to square off his shoulders and he was going to attack me but he was sent flying into the air instead. 

I looked around more than slightly shocked until I saw the massive amount of water was just gone and Midoriya was gently floating down. Midoriya was holding Red as if he were a baby. He stopped right in front of Todoroki and gave the now peacefully sleeping boy in the duel users arms before turning to me. 

"Welcome to the team, I expect great things from you at the Wonder Duo agency when we officially open after graduation," he was calm and smiling up at me before he turned to his own boyfriend. He was only able to take a couple steps before he crumpled Bakugo catching him in his arms before he could hit the hard ground. 

I watched as he healed the boy before turning around and supervising the clean up of the area, making sure that the now quirkless villain, couldn't actually go anywhere. Just because he was quirkless now doesn't mean that he has paid for his sins yet. I was going to make sure that he did.