~O~

"Are you still up, Shigaraki?"

The said man was standing on the roof of the base gazing at the night sky in the cool breeze when that seemingly innocent voice reached his ears. Tomura Shigaraki turned around to see that Midoriya was standing right behind him.

A small warm smile plastered on the younger boy's face as he stood there with closed eyes. A calming and friendly aura surrounded Midoriya who stood with his hands locked behind his back.

Shigaraki stared at him for a moment before replying, "Yeah so....?"

"Nothing. Just asking."

Midoriya's tone of voice didn't even had a hint of something other than a friendly concern. Not finding anything attention-grabbing, Shigaraki turned away and took a deep breath. Probably trying to enjoy the free time he had before he acted up further on his plan. Though, to the light blue haired villain, it felt quite strange considering that Midoriya was standing right there, just a little behind him and yet the boy had such a calm state that it felt like he wasn't even there.

A few minutes passed in silence, Shigaraki decided to try and ignore Midoriya's presence, which he was at first doing very well at if it wasn't for Midoriya's next question.

"So, about your plan..." Midoriya started.

"My plan?"

Midoriya nodded, humming, "What am I supposed to do next?" His smile never left his face.

"You are just here to provide us with quirks. Should've known that by now." Shigaraki was rather quick to answer. As if, he was getting a little annoyed by the boy who now stood in front of him.

Midoriya chuckled slightly, "I can tell that you haven't seen the other pros of having me on your side, have you?"

"Other pros? What the hell exactly do you wa—?"

"Listen, Shigaraki," Midoriya's tone suddenly darkened, his face held a serious expression that was nothing like his previous one. And it took Shigaraki by surprise how quickly the boy changed.

"You keep this up and your plan will fail." Midoriya said straight to his face, no expression in his eyes whatsoever.

"Do you really think your plan is going smoothly? Think again. Because if this goes on, I will soon be discovered by the heroes. It won't take them long before they track you guys down. And when that happens, they will take me and probably Kurogiri as well. You guys won't be enough to defeat them or even fight them back. And then, you—!"

"Are you forgetting that Master is with us now? And they don't have All Might. They don't have their strongest piece but we have our King! We win! If they come here, we'll kill them all in cold blood. It's a perfect checkmate!" Shigaraki exclaimed. But the smug expression was instantly wiped off his face when he saw Midoriya slowly shaking his head in disapproval and disappointment.

"That is where you are wrong, my friend..." Midoriya took a deep breath and walked closer to Shigaraki. He then placed his scarred right hand on Shigaraki's shoulder before speaking,

"They know your Master's weakness."

Shigaraki's eyes widened.

~O~

Endeavor took a blank page and grabbed a pen.

He then turned to the cryptic book and started righting down all the bits and pieces together to find the message that was sent to him.

3—dayla—terre—scu—esta—r—tuas—tude—ntloc—ationtra—cenum—bers—wri—ttenpa—ge53—theth—irdo—fth—efo—urll—leady—outh—ere.

"3 day later rescue start UA student. Location trace numbers written page 53. The third of the four will lead you there." Endeavor said to himself, almost in a whisper.

"Third of the four?" The man questioned as he turned to the page 53 as said in the note.

The page had everything blacked out and there were five different numbers written on the top and the bottom of the page.

"Third of the four... But there are five numbers... What does that mean?" Endeavor questioned.

This was gonna be a long night.

~O~

Momo Yaoyorozu was in her dorm room as she just received a package from a bookshop. Power Loader had handed her over the package after he himself went to take it from the delivery man on the gates of UA High.

Opening the package, she found a book, as expected since it came from a bookshop. She sat on her desk as she examined the book. There wasn't even a small note that could tell her who sent it to her.

Sighing, the black haired girl turned to the first page of the book. Similar to Endeavor's, this book also had almost everything blacked out with ink. And the few words and or letters were still visible were clearly meant for a cryptic message that couldn't have been sent to her without causing any suspicions.

Grabbing a spare notebook and a pencil, Yaoyorozu jotted down the words that were visible.

—f—iv—Edayst—0g—obe—forei—com—eba—ck—alli—nf—0llb—epre—pa—red—mo—veac—cord—ingto—insw—rit—tenah—eaddo—ntte—llan—yone.

That was the first page.

fivEdayst0gobeforeicomebackallinf0llbepreparedmoveaccordingtoinswrittenaheaddonttellanyone.

'Let's see. Five days to go before I come back. All info will be prepared. Move according to ins? As in instructions? Instructions written ahead. Don't tell anyone.' Yaoyorozu thought as her thumb and index finger rested on her chin.

A few minutes passed, the message revolving around Yaoyorozu's head before she heard a knock on her door. Putting the book aside, she permitted the person outside to come in and just as she did, Shinsou quickly opened the door and closed it as soon as he came in.

"Shinsou? You good? Do you need anyth—?" Yaoyorozu asked but was cut off by the purple haired boy.

"Did you get the book?" Shinsou asked.

"Yeah, but, I don't know who—?"

"It's Midoriya."

The rest of their night went by them writing down and studying the messages Midoriya had written for them days ago.

~O~

"They know your Master's weakness." Midoriya lied.

Shigaraki's eyes widened.

"Nonsense! Master doesn't have any weakne—!"

"So, he didn't tell you about his fatal injury?" Midoriya stated, "Well, I can understand why he didn't. He didn't want you to be worried again, right? But what can we do? We can't have him fight any hero, especially when they can kill him in one hit... Can we?"

"Shut up! You are just making this up! Like, how would you know anything about it, huh? And even if Master had a fatal injury, he's got a pretty good regeneration quirk so jokes on you." Shigaraki said but seeing that none of his words had any effect on the green haired boy just made him irritated.

"Well, as for your first statement; All For One spend quite a few months in Tartarus. So, it's only natural that they examined him and learned about his fatal injury, his weak spot. His one hit, dead. And do you really think they wouldn't tell the heroes in training the literal trump card against a villain like All For One? Of course not! We all know about it! I'm just here giving you a warning!" Midoriya replied.

"And as for your second statement; his regeneration quirk isn't enough for him to heal properly... He will die." Midoriya added on, a small smile making it's way back to his face.

Shigaraki just stood there, trying to process what the green head had just told him.

'Stupid. It's all just a stupid lie. There's no way.... No way he will die... Or maybe...' Shigaraki thought.

"What... What do you want?" The light blue haired villain asked.

"Let me fight."

Midoriya extended his hand towards Shigaraki.

Shigaraki stared at him for a good few moments before he took his hand, pinky finger out.

That night, they made a deal.

~O~

Till like five in the morning, Yaoyorozu and Shinsou had finally decrypted the whole book.

God, how did Midoriya do this three days ago without anyone ever noticing. For how long has he been planning all this?! Did he really plan this all alone!?

Regardless to say, the two were surprised. It was stated in the messages that All For One was planning to take control over Midoriya and then slowly make an army of High ends. After that he was going to attack all over Japan from different positions.

But thing is...

The messages said it was supposed to happen.

It no longer was a possibility.

As Midoriya was going to have them under control first...