Chapter 42
"I really do despise having to resort to violence." Mr. Compress said, standing over Emiri's passed out form. He brought his cane up and looked at it, seeing a few splatters of blood on the end. "But it had to be done. Well, then! This has been quite the finale! I hope you enjoyed the show, little hero, because with this it has come to an end!"
Uraraka stood up, her teeth clenched as she started to make her way towards Mr. Compress, ready to make him float once again. If she could just get him away from Emiri, then she could bring her back to camp and away from these villains. But it looked like Toga had other plans.
"You didn't forget about me, Ochako, did you?" She asked as she jumped at the brunette and tackled her to the ground. "I promised the hand man that I'd get some blood! And I think yours will do perfectly!"
"Don't drain her dry. We'll need her alive if we were to use your quirk in the future."
"Yeah, yeah, whatever." Toga said, sticking her tongue out.
Mr. Compress crouched down beside Emiri's body and placed a hand on her head. For a second her body wavered, then it was emitted in a small light before she disappeared, being replaced by a small teal marble. He picked it up and placed it in a small inner pocket. "I'll leave you here to deal with that girl. There's one more show I must preform."
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A few of the villains had gathered in a clearing deep within the forest, so far the only three there were the scarred man, Dabi, Toga, and Twice. Toga was admiring a small vile of blood she had gotten, an excited grin on his face.
Though the peace between the three of them was interrupted by a scream and a crash as a familiar villain and three students fell from the sky.
"Give Kacchan and Tokoyami back!" Midorya shouted. He looked extremely beat up, and both of his arms were bandaged up.
"I know these kids! Who are they!?" Twice exclaimed.
"Mister, get out of the way." Dabi said, blue flames surrounding his hand.
"Roger!" The masked villain said, his body wavering before he disappeared completely. Just as he did, a stream of blue flames rushed straight towards the students who had attacked the masked villain.
"Faces from Shigaraki's kill list! That little beat-up boy and you! They weren't though." Twice said as he jumped at the two kids, unhooking something from his side, landing and dodging an ice attack from Todoroki.
While Twice was fighting Todoroki, Midoriya was being attacked by Toga. She had a wild grin on her face as she jumped up the air and knocked the freckled boy to the ground and sat on top of him to keep him down.
"I thought so earlier, too, but you'd be cooler if you bled more, Izuku!" She exclaimed pulling out a knife and reeling her arm back to bring it down on him. She had seen the boy earlier when he had encountered her and Uraraka and got the brunette away from her.
"Midoriya!" Shoji shouted out, knocking Toga off of Midoriya.
"Is that how it is? Are you going to get in the way? You're not my type at all, but I'll cut you anyway."
As Toga and Twice fought the students, the masked villain, Mr. Compress, turned back into his usual form and walked towards Dabi.
"You got the targets?" He asked.
"Of course." Mr. Compress dug around in his right pockets, realizing something as he was digging around.
"Midoriya, Todoroki, we're running away!" Shoji exclaimed. "I'm sure now based on what he just did— I don't know what your quirk is, but inside that right pocket of yours that you kept flaunting were these," he lifted up two teal orbs. "Tokoyami and Bakugo, right, entertainer?"
"Shoji!" Midoriya exclaimed, a wide smile on his face.
"Oh, that didn't take you very long!" Mr Compress exclaimed. "As expected of someone with six arms! You're good at feeling around!"
The three students had already started running away.
"But surely you've forgotten something, or should I say someone. I'm sure that telepath said we had two targets, did she not." Even though he was wearing a mask, it was easy to tell that he was smirking.
That caused the three of them to stop in their tracks. Midoriya turned around, pure horror in his eyes as a realization hit him. "You don't mean-"
Mr. Compress reached in his inner pocket, taking an orb out of of it and holding it between his fingers, the orb glinting in the pale moonlight.
"Koyama!" Midoriya shouted, turning around and running straight towards the villain. They had gotten Bakugo and Todoroki, but they couldn't just leave without getting Emiri. Before he managed to get to the villain, however, a familiar body of dark purple mist appeared.
This guy... he was from the USJ...! Midoriya thought, taking a step back. He glanced around it at the portal, But, Koyama, we can't let him leave with her!
"It has been five minutes since the signal."
"Let us go, Dabi." Mr. Compress said. As a portal opened up behind him.
"Sorry, Izuku, I'll see you later." Toga said, walking through a portal by her. On the other side of the clearing, Twice dove through another portal.
"Hold on, we're not leaving without the kid." Dabi said.
"Oh that? They seemed so happy that they rushed out here, so I thought I'd give them a present." Mr. Compress said, causing the three students to look over at him. "It's a habit, one of the basics of magic. When I flaunt something, It's because there's something I don't want you to see." He removed his mask and gave them a grin as he stuck out his tongue, revealing two teal marbles.
"N-No way...!" Midoriya and Todoroki exclaimed.
Mr. Compress snapped and the orbs that were in Shoji's hand opened up, revealing some of Todoroki's ice shards that had been shot at him as he made his escape earlier.
"Is that my ice?!" Todoroki asked.
"That's right, during the freezing attack, I prepared dummies and slipped them into my right pocket."
"Damn it!" Midoriya exclaimed as he started to run up to the villain, Todoroki and Shoji following suite.
"A little bit of misdirection. Forgive me." He said, holding his arms out in front of him. I do so adore a twist ending." Mr. Compress bowed, "One last bow, and then the curtain falls." He said, though as he was bowing, a familiar blue ray shot straight towards him, breaking off his mask. The shock made him spit up Bakugo's and Tokoyami's orbs, as well as loose his grip on Emiri's orb.
Shoji and Todoroki jumped forwards, both of them reaching towards the orbs- Shoji reached for two of them while Todoroki reached for one. Shoji caught one of the orbs, but as he was reaching for the other a hand moved forwards, wrapping itself around the one that was still falling, the same villain who had interrupted Shoji also caught the one Todoroki was reaching for.
"Well isn't that a tragedy? Poor little Todoroki Shoto." Dabi said, then he looked towards Mr. Compress. "Confirm it now, release them."
"That laser ruined my finale." Mr Compress said as he backed into the portal and snapped his fingers.
In a blue glow, the orb Shoij caught turned into a surprised Tokoyami, while the two that Dabi were holding turned into Emiri and Bakugo. He held his hands around their necks, as if making sure they wouldn't escape. Bakugo was a flight risk, but Emiri was sill unconscious, her body hanging limply in Dabi's hand. "Looks like we've got two for two. Checkmate." He said as he backed into the portal.
"Kacchan! Koyama! No!" Midoriya screeched, running up tot he two.
"Stay back... Deku." Bakugo said just before he disappeared into the portal.
And just like that, they were gone.
***
When Emiri came to conciseness again, her head hurt. A lot. She had no clue how much time had passed, but she knew it had passed. She tried to move her arms to rub her eyes but noticed that they were tied up in multiple spots with a thick rope.
"It's perfectly obvious to me that there's some sort of problem with U.A's current management. If I had a child who wanted to become a hero, there's no way I'd enroll them at a school that'll-" The news broadcaster was cut off as there was a click. Emiri lifted her head slightly to see familiar people standing around a bar. All of them villains.
Shigaraki laughed, "I'm so grateful for the media for all the free publicity lately." He turned and looked towards Emiri, though his eyes weren't on her, they were on who was next to her. Bakugo. "Right? Isn't it nice, Bakugo Katsuki?"
Bakugo didn't respond, and instead just sent a glare towards the villain. It was then that they noticed Emiri's recent rise in consciousness.
"Riri!" Toga exclaimed, jumping up to Emiri with a wide grin on her face. "You're awake!"
"Riri? Do you know this villain bitch, Koyama?!" Bakugo asked, turning his head to look at the white haired girl.
Emiri nodded slowly. "She's... a friend." She said.
"You're friends with a villain?"
"I...I..." Emiri couldn't get out another word as she tried to think of what to say, but words weren't coming to her.
"Oh, she never knew I was a villain!" Toga said, waving her hand, "I kept that secret from little Riri! I bet she was really surprised when she saw me in that forest!"
"Enough pointless chatter. You, Koyama Emiri, come with me." Shigaraki said, standing up from where he was sitting, "Twice, Dabi, untie her, Kurogiri, come with us."
"Of course." Kurogiri said, moving out from behind the counter and placing a misty hand on Emiri's shoulder— the girl now standing up due to two of the villains untying here from the chair. There were still ropes around her wrists, but she didn't make an effort to cut through them as she was led through a door just past the bar table.
"What are you going to do with her you bastards?!" Bakugo screeched, thrashing around in his own confinements.
"Don't worry, she'll be fine." Kurogiri said turning to look at Bakugo just before he shut the door, "The master has made it clear that she's much more valuable to us alive than dead."
Whatever Bakugo had said was muffled due to the door closing. The room they were in now was darker than the one she was just in, and it looked like there was only a TV and a few cameras in the room. The TV was on, showing a box with purple writing that read 'Voice Only'.
"Koyama Emiri, it's nice to finally be able to speak to you." A voice said, seeming to come from the speakers in the room.
Emiri looked at the screen, the corners of her mouth twitching upwards as a small smile made it's way to her face. "What are you talking about, finally? We've spoken many times before, master."
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