Chapter 31: Twinge of Insanity

(A/N: Ignore the notice, with summer here the days messed with my mind so I thought today was tomorrow.)

Recap:

A misty figure appeared in front of the door, blocking the way. Two pure yellow slits were on what could be identified as his head, and a metal color was wrapped around his 'neck'.

"Greetings. We are the villain alliance. I apologize for the presumption, but we took it upon ourselves to enter the U.A. Academy, in order to engage with Mr. All Might, the symbol of peace. We were wondering if we might be allowed the opportunity to extinguish him."

'What!'

Time slowed down. Suijin barely registered the words in his head.

'Extinguish "Him". All Might is the #1 hero. Invincible, uncanny, and unextinguishable. That #1, are they stupid, insane? Or maybe-'

Suijin didn't know which of the options he thought was right, but all of them brought goosebumps to his skin.

"This is my role."

He spread his mist out so it enveloped the entire area, threatening to cover every inch of the platform.

"NOT ON MY WATCH YOU BASTARD."

"YEAH, THAT'S NOT VERY MANLY OF ME."

Regardless the punch and explosion did nothing to his urethral body, instead they simply shot ahead of the bunch.

Suijin sent a shot to the eye of the creature but that similarly went through.

Darkness befell everyone's vision.

"You will be scattered, and tortured, then slaughtered. Welcome Heroes, to our personal Hell."

Suijin similarly couldn't see, the last thing on his mind was his unfinished thought, the terrifying one he didn't wish to entertain for even a moment.

'They have something which can kill him.'

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Everyone was disoriented, confusion laced their barely recovered minds. Aizawa was fighting the villains below, but hearing the commotion, he turned around, trying to verify the situation above.

The villains, though common street thugs, were not stupid. This moment of confusion caused one of them with a knife in hand to slash the hobo looking man's leg.

Of course, heroes aren't that inexperienced, Aizawa moved the moment he felt the pain, preventing the knife from lodging itself too deep within his leg, but the knick would soon catch up to him.

Though for now his attacker found themselves knocked unconscious. The heroes worries were not relieved though, as another onslaught of enemies came.

'Kids, please be safe.'

Though some of the children were not faring much better themselves, contrary to his hopes,

Those like Bakugo and Kirishima were in the rubble area, in an unfamiliar building that had cracks riddled through the collapsed walls and a patchy roof. The sun, slightly blaring in through the see-through dome roof of the facility, is their only light source.

With the covered space, Bakugo couldn't make full use of his quirk, adding to his dismay that the villains seemed to have prepared, having been there for a period of time, meaning the young heroes were thrust into a battle in which they started at a disadvantage.

In the water zone, Midoriya found himself in a sticky situation with a shark-like villain and himself in the water. Minoru Mineta was far away on a boat but was paralyzed in fear, Midoriya's only saving grace is that Tsu Asui was close by; a battle of amphibians would soon begin.

Shoto Todoroki was in as easy a situation as you could face; his massive power placed in the landslide zone adjacent to the rocky one made his icy quirk with the unstable ground a great combination.

Mud froze over rapidly changing terrain, his quirk suited for mass entrapment means that the ones in a sorry situation in that battle were the villains, not the student.

The group that had it the worst was those who were not transported; they were still on the top platform. The only difference with this group was that there was a large portion of people and that the villains were transported to them.

"Wha-"

"Watch Out."

Tenya picked up the disorganized Uraraka and sped away, narrowly dodging the punch intending to take her life.

Shoji, not missing the chance, sent a punch of his own, Packed with his recent gains from lifting, one punch was all he required to knock the villain out cold.

"T-Thanks." Uraraka said,

'Welcome' came from Tenya, while Shoji nodded, both boys not knowing whom she was referring to.

"Ida, I need you to leave and inform the heroes about the situation. As said by Kaminari before, it seems the communications are down." The Pro Hero 13 stated.

"But-"

"How arrogant to speak of your plans in front of your enemies!" The misty transporter who lingered around interrupted.

"Your knowing won't matter since you're not leaving anywhere."

Turning from the misty man who patiently waited, not making any moves, 13 reassured the young student.

"Ida, by leaving to inform the heroes, you're not abandoning anyone; rather, you're saving us all. We need backup, and with no one knowing what's happening, how could they arrive?"

The young student debated in his mind. Uneasy at the situation could be seen, but slapping himself on both sides of his cheeks, he replied,

"Yes Sensei!"

Giving a quick bow, Ida suddenly sped towards the door.

"I'm afraid I, Kurogiri, cannot allow you to do that."

The villain tried to go and stop the engine boy from leaving, but intense suction pulled him in the opposite direction.

"Black Hole." The villain recognized what was obstructing him.

"Hmph."

Not giving him a chance, 13 asked her students to retreat behind her, increasing the suction and pulling Kurogiri off the ground.

"A powerful quirk, pulling anyone into the miniaturized black hole, Unfortunately, as a rescue hero, you didn't train your quirks combinative power, only focusing on the direction of the suction."

Deciding that was enough words, Kurogiri moved his mist. He opened two gates, one between the hero and himself, and set its destination; the other gate, located to the back of the hero.

The result is that her own quirk sucks 13 into the portal, and with Kurogiri lowering the distance, the back of the hero is sucked into her own black hole, leaving the hero incapacitated and greatly wounded.

Hagakure rushes to support the fallen hero, while Kurogiri leaves his victim alone. The man, now free from his binds, lunges at Tenya, who, at this point, was a few meters away from the glass.

Just when his mist opens up, ready to engulf him, he finds himself once again not in control of his body's direction.

Shoji, noting that things were about to get dicey, made the decision to throw Uraraka to the Mist-Like Man, though unfortunately he was unable to explain the plan due to time constraints.

Luckily, even though she wasn't told what to do, the girl figured things out rather quickly, and slapped her hands on the only solid part of his body, the solid metal collar around what could be presumed to be the man's neck.

This made him float uncontrollably, and before he could simply enlarge his mist, Sero shot two strands of tape wrapping around the metal collar and pulling him towards the students, Shoji assisted in restraining the villain.

This gave the vice president enough time to jump through the window, and with the sound of broken glass clicking and clacking against the floor, he was gone.

Their situation was going well considering things, and if Suijin knew, he'd be wishing for some of that luck.

Suijin was in the rocky zone and was surrounded by villains. Mina wasn't too far away either, in her own predicament.

Unlike the others, their villains hadn't been transported there. Originally, Suijin and Mina had heard shouts, and seen sparks of electricity, so remembering their classmates, they deduced that Kaminari should be close.

So the pair intended on finding and regrouping with him, but the villains had chanced upon them, hence their current predicament.

Dodging his head to the right Suijin used the chance to spin his head in a 360 degree motion. The nozzle ended up hitting the villain's funny bone.

This caused the instinctive action to clutch their arm, something Suijin didn't miss and sent a powerful Blunt shot to knock the man back into his comrade.

Catching a break Suijin looked up and made eye contact with the two 'leaders' of this operation; they were a surprising bunch to Suijin.

"You." He said it absent mindedly.

The skinnier one, though still big enough to be classified as overweight for an adult man, replied sarcastically.

"Wow, the hero finally decided to pay attention to us."

"You look different from the other day with more enemy's to deal with, by the way, how's that fairin for yah?"

Their tone suggested they couldn't get any happier at the change in the situation, with Suijin now being the one under pressure.

"How? You're supposed to be locked up in jail awaiting trial."

"And? All Mights supposed to be here, but I guess things don't work out the way they want. Ain't that right...Boss."

Suijin grimaced slightly at the implications. Ignoring Suijin's look, the villain went on.

"A few dollars spent here, a key handed there, bodies on the ground, some fighting, and we were free. Could you believe it? Not even hours after we were out, we got wind of some news. A raid on All Might."

Confirming Suijin's suspicions and the words in his head, Suijin only had one question left.

"Why?"

The two sitting atop the rocks had a confused expression on their faces for the first time today.

"You can't beat All Might, the money you get would be confiscated, so why?"

Unfortunately for the young hero, he was still thinking about the situation naively.

"Kid, Listen closely. I'm not here for their money; that's a nice added bonus, but we're here for your despair, your screams of sorrow, and your eyes filled with regret."

Laughing to himself in his twinge of insanity, he continued.

"The rush of dopamine that brings me—is there any other reason, needed to commit a crime."