Chapter Twenty-Three: The Day We Had To Save Ourselves

Zai's POV-

What the fuck am I looking at?

"There's the flood zone, the landslide zone, the conflagration zone, et cetera. Every disaster and accident you can imagine."

A man clad in a space suit speaks to us, gathering at the entrance of the building that with hold our rescue training. It's Thirteen the space hero! I think to myself, my heart racing with excitement at the sight. He's a gentleman hero who does his best work in rescue situations! I've always wanted to be just like him!

Thirteen sweeps his hand out with excitement, and I'd imagine he was smiling by the tone of his voice, since I can't actually see his face. "I built this facility myself!" he says happily. "I call it the 'Unforeseen Simulation Joint'!"

"YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEES!" I cry, pumping my fist into the air. "I can't wait to start already!"

The class bursts into laughter at my outburst, even Bakugo had a small smirk on his face. Though as soon as he saw my eyes on him, it quickly vanished. 

"Before we do, I have a few things I need to mention," Thirteen interjects, holding up his hand. "As I'm sure many of you are aware, my quirk is called 'Black Hole'. It can suck in and tear apart anything."

"And you've used it to save tons of people from disasters!" Midoriya chimes in, earning a curt nod from the pro hero.

"Indeed. However, my power could easily be used to kill anything, and anyone. I've no doubt that there are some among you with similar abilities."

"In our super-powered society, the use of quirks is heavily restricted and monitored. It may seem like this system is a stable one. But we must never forget that it takes one wrong move with an uncontrollable quirk for people to die."

He's right, I think to myself with a glance towards my younger sister. Ama's quirk could easily kill a person if she really wanted, not to mention will proper training she could cause a terrible massacre.

As for myself, my quirk could easily drive those who hear my song to insanity, to the point that it seems like torture.

I could even cause a mass genocide with just a few notes.

And it wouldn't necessarily be considered murder either. These people would be willingly killing each other and themselves, especially because my quirk isn't considered brainwashing or hypnotization.

I shouldn't be thinking like this. I shake my head to rid the thoughts from my mind. The last thing I need is to start worrying about that kind of thing.

"During Aizawa's physical fitness test, you came to learn of your own hidden potential. In All Might's battle training, you experienced the danger your quirks can pose to others."

"This class will show you a new perspective. You will learn how to utilize your quirks to save lives. Your powers were not meant to inflict harm, and I hope that you all leave here today with the understanding that you are meant to HELP people. That is all, thank you for listening!"

The entire class bursts into applause as the rescue hero bows towards the class. "So manly!" Kirishima says from beside me, resting a hand on my shoulder. "Now I see why you were so excited!"

I can't help but smile a bit at his words. However, once I look over at the redhead, all I see is a terrified expression on his face. "Kiri? What's wrong?"

I follow his gaze as he points over to behind Aizawa, and I could sense the fear from him and the rest of my classmates. A giant black portal was beginning to open in the center of the USJ, and a crusty ass hand came crawling out of it.


"HUDDLE UP AND DON'T MOVE!" Aizawa screams from his place beside the space hero. "THIRTEEN! PROTECT THE STUDENTS!"

I grit my teeth with a smile, and stand my ground while the rest of the class seems to take a step back. It's a little harder to see from this distance, but I can still make out the many, MANY figures coming out of the portal that is slowly growing by the second.

Villains.

"Thirteen... and Eraserhead, was it?"

A man dressed in black speaks first once a good portion of villains have come through the portal. The one with the crusty ass hands, and for a moment I thought I was seeing things. He has more hands all over his body, including one covering his face.

"According to the staff schedule I recieved the other day, All Might is supposed to be here.."

He recieved a staff schedule? I think to myself. But how could he have gotten ahold of it? Only someone from the school would have had access to it, unless someone snuck in somehow.. 

I blink a couple times in realization, remembering the incident not too long ago with the press. Apparently the gate was completely destroyed, or rather disintegrated, which caused the alarm to go off. Did this guy have a hand in that?

Haha, hands. Get it? Cuz he's got hands all over him?

Okay I'll stop now.

"Where is he? I came all this way and brought so many playmates.. All Might, the symbol of peace.. is he here?" He continues, scratching a bit at his neck. "I wonder if some dead kids would bring him here?"

"Thirteen, begin evacuation, and try calling the school! One of the villains must have a quirk that's jamming the censors." Aizawa calls, unsheathing his scarf from his neck. "There's a good chance that one of their electric types is causing an interference. Kaminari, use your quirk to signal for help."

I feel a calloused hand slip into my own, and I look over to see Kirishima with a determined expression. "I won't let anything happen," he says under his breath. "To you or anyone else.."

Even with his words, his hand is trembling in my own. I give his hand a gentle squeeze, which is all I can do in this moment. If we do have to fight, I need to save as much of my strength as I can.

"But sensei, you can't fight them all alone!" I hear Midoriya shout as Aizawa pulls down his signature goggles. "Your specialty is erasure and quick binding capture! Head on battle is..."

"No good hero is a one trick pony," Aizawa responds, before leaping into the giant group of villains. I watch as he strikes down villains one by one, unable to keep from smiling at the confusion and fear on their faces.

"Time to evacuate!" Thirteen calls, gaining our attention and gesturing for us to follow. However, as soon as we start running towards the door, a black mist suddenly appeared and stopped us in our tracks. The same stuff that made up the portal from before.

And formed the body of a man.

"Greetings," the man says in a warbled voice. I see Winchester in the front of our group, the one closest to the villain that stopped us in our path. Melon has a small frown on her face from her place beside him, while Kirishima and I are in the back with most of our other classmates.

"We are the league of Villains. Forgive our audacity, but today we've come here to U.A. high school.. to this bastion of heroism.. to end the life of All Might, the symbol of peace."

I mean, your crusty ass friend already said you were looking for him, I think to myself, slowly letting go of Kirishima's hand. But to kill him? You would be killing not only the symbol of peace... but my friend.

Over my dead body.

"We were under the impression that All Might would be here today, but it seems his schedule was revised.. no matter. My role remains unchanged."

I feel my breath hitch in my throat as I see the black mist dart forward towards Winchester, the class gasping in horror. "Prepared to be swallowed up by the darkness, children of heroism."

My feet begin to move on their own, and I can hear Kirishima calling after me as I dart in front of Winchester, my arms out to protect him. "Like hell you will!" Are the only words I can cry before the dark mist covers me completely. 

I feel my feet being lifted from the ground, as the blind darkness takes me away and into the silence.

Why was this so fun to write xD I'm so excited for the scenes that are coming up next, you guys have no idea! If you've come this far, comment down below what you think Winchester's quirk is!

Vincent Winchester- Quirk: ???

My friend this is based off of asked me to put a picture of Mirage, so here we are. The man himself is like fucking thirty so here's the funko pop.

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