Chapter Thirteen


Ellie's POV

               I woke with a sick feeling in my gut there was an ominous feeling on the wind drifting in through our bedroom window. Toshinori left in a hurry as he heard someone scream for help outside. Worry wormed through me and made me feel physically ill. Something really bad was going to happen, I could feel it in the wind. I had to find Giran today and figure out what he knew.

               Hurriedly I scrambled to get dressed and threw on a pair of black yoga pants and a plain dark blue tank top before slipping into a pair of sneakers and racing out the door. I had to find Giran and figure out what The League of Villains were planning and when, before it was too late. I mentally kicked myself as I ran down back alleys, I should have talked to Toshinori about what I'd heard.

As I rounded a corner tucked deep within the inner-city alleyways, I spotted a familiar man with greasy gray hair that looked unkempt, he was wearing a pair of circular grey rimmed glasses and had a half-smoked cigarette dangling out of his mouth. The suit he was wearing was shabby and looked as if it hadn't been washed in days. If I got closer I knew I'd be able to smell the stench of cigarettes and cheap cologne he always wore. I'd met Giran shortly after I'd been released from prison and was still hell bent on revenge he helped me find some information on some of the gangs using the street version of Pharmatech's drugs, the one that killed Eli.

"It's been ten years and you haven't changed a day, Giran." I smirked as I stalked toward him at an easy pace trying to keep from launching myself at him and beating the information out of him, I'd have to play his game if I wanted him to be honest.

He turned to me, disinterest evident on his face before realization dawned on him as he began to recognize me. His wiry eyes grew wide, "Well, I'll be damned, if it isn't the little Tornado all grown up." He laughed a dry wheezy laugh from way too many cigarettes, "I heard you married some foreign prince and left this place high and dry."

"That's a ridiculous rumor. I was just laying low for a while, had some annoying pros on my tail." I shrugged playing it cool.

"Must have been someone serious to make someone with your destructive power run for the hills."

"Same one that arrested me the first time." I said nonchalantly as I leaned against the brick wall beside him, "Speaking of, I've heard whispers on the wind there's a plot to take him down, what do you know?"

Giran pondered my words for a moment, "All Might, huh? I guess you would have a grudge against him, he busted you when you were a minor didn't he?" There was a look of wariness in his wiry gaze, he didn't believe my story completely.

"He did." I tried to keep my voice dark and bitter.

"I guess you'd be looking for a taste of revenge..." He still looked a little untrusting, "Care to hear the other rumor I heard about you, little Tornado?"

"What's that?" I asked in annoyance.

"The other rumor floating around is that you didn't marry a prince at all and you turned to the side of the heroes." He smirked. "Sorry doll, I'm not telling you anything."

"Well, you're wrong on two counts, Giran." I smiled sweetly before I spun swiftly grabbing him by the front of his shirt and slammed his  back into the side of the brick building with enough force his skull cracked against it and he let out a cry of pain, "First, I'm no fucking hero and I have zero qualms killing you here and now, secondly you are going to tell me what I want to know and you're going to be honest with me because you're a spineless coward who values your miserable existence. You've always operated alone thinking because you're in the good graces of some heavy hitters that you're untouchable but you forget, Giran. I don't give a fuck who's backing you, I will destroy anyone in my fucking way to get what I want."

He paled considerably and looked as if he were about to piss his pants. "Okay! Okay! Let's not lose our shit now. I'll tell you, not that it'll be too much help, they're probably about done by now."

"Who? What were they planning and where are they?"

"The League of Villains, they found a way to kill All Might, they're at one of the UA off campus facilities, USJ or something. That's all I know, doll. Why do you care so much?"

"None of your fucking business and don't call me doll." I kneed him in the gut with enough force I was sure I'd ruptured some of his organs and heard a few of his ribs snap.

He collapsed to the ground coughing up blood and bile as I released him from my hold, "You don't want to make me your enemy little tornado-." He cut off with a yelp as I shot him a dark glare.

"No, YOU don't want to make me your enemy, you're only breathing now because you helped me out once, I owe you no more favors, piss me off again and you will die." I snarled.

He shut his mouth and I disappeared in a gust of wind praying I wasn't too late. I landed outside of a dome shaped building outside of the UA campus. The doors flew open with a loud crash as I hurled a gust of wind ahead of me. The screams of a cluster of terrified teenagers met my ears first. I darted inside in time to see a small cluster of students trying to fend off against two monstrously large men. Rage burned through me, they were attacking children?!

The winds shrieked mirroring my rage and lashed out at the monstrously large men sending them flying with enough force they rocketed out the glass windows overhead as I stepped inside. The cluster of teens turned to me staring at me in terror not sure if I was friend or foe. I saw the still form of a pro hero laying at their feet, Thirteen, the rescue hero with the quirk blackhole.

"W-Who are you?" A girl with pale pink skin, alien dark eyes and two pink antennae sticking up atop her head asked me warily.

"Not someone to concern yourself with. Stay together, if anyone else approaches you that you don't know, find somewhere to hide or take off runn-." I paused as I saw a few students appear at the top of the steps holding the bleeding broken form of my childhood neighbor, Shota Aizawa. My heart dropped, he was in bad shape.

A gentle wind lifted him from the students' grasp and carried him to me. His dark eyes slowly fluttered open and he stared up at me in awe. "E-Ellie?"

"You look like shit." I grimaced sympathetically.

"Ellie, find all of the students...please...protect them..." He coughed up an alarming amount of blood.

Toshinori would want me to make sure his students were safe first before trying to help him. "Fine, but if I do this, you have to save your fucking apologies." I grumbled.

Aizawa nodded and I gently set him on the ground before turning to look at the small cluster of students, this wasn't all of them. They all watched me warily. It took all I had to quell my rage enough for me to talk to them rationally.

"Do you know where all of your classmates ended up?" I asked as calmly as I could.

A tall boy with silver hair who had the lower half of his face concealed with a mask and had not two but six arms protruding from his side raised one of his hands and I watched in awe as the hand morphed into a mouth. My eyes widened as he proceeded to tell me the whereabouts of his classmates.

"Okay. Thank you. The rest of you stay here and look out for each other." I sighed before taking off to the mountainous area of the strange building that had various sections of various terrains all set up within it. The USJ was designed as a training building for various natural disasters there was an area for rockslides, landslides, a shipwreck, fire, cityscape evacuations and weather.

I landed amongst an open area and found a lot of villains that looked as if they'd been fried to a crisp in some electric blast and were all unconscious. There were three teens huddled together, two girls with dark hair and a boy with blonde hair.

"Are you three okay?" I called to them only to swear under my breath as I spotted a man pop out of the ground behind them, "HIT THE GROUND!" I yelled and was glad they all did as I said, though the boy appeared to be slightly loopy and the two girls pulled him to the ground with them. With a wave of my hand a strong gale force wind hurled their attacker away. "Sorry kiddos, no time for pleasantries, I've got shit to do so bend your knees when you land and you should be fine."

With another wave of my hand a gentle wind swept the trio off the ground and carried them toward their classmates near the entrance. I hurried on my way to the landslide area, most of the villains were already unconscious and appeared to be frozen. I spotted a pair of shoes behind a boulder and remembered Toshinori had mentioned one of his students was invisible.

               "Invisible one, think you can make it back to your classmates, unseen?" I pondered causing the poor girl to jump. Though I couldn't see her, her shoes had turned so I assumed she was now facing me.

               "Ah, y-yes I think so."

               "Good, be quick and stay with the rest of the class please." I watched her shoes retreat and make it safely to the stairs leading to the other students undetected before hurrying to the next student.

               I found a boy with shimmering blonde hair and a strange belt around his waist cowering behind the building that was designed to hold the cityscape, but there weren't any students in the cityscape the remaining students were in the center of the square with All Might and in the fire zone and squall zone.

               I used the wind to guide the blonde boy back to his classmates before ducking into the fire building. It didn't take long for me to find a teen with short blonde hair and a large fleshy tail wearing a white martial arts style outfit. He appeared to be alone and was holding his own fairly well against the low-level thugs. Out of the corner of my eye I spotted a thug with a gun taking aim at the boy. Shrieking gale force winds erupted around me lashing out at all of the remaining thugs.

               The boy jumped at the sound of the screaming winds and turned to me before he realized the winds were striking everything and everyone except for him. The winds died down once all of the thugs were rendered unconscious and I offered the boy a smile.

               "You're alone?"

               He nodded.

               "Color me impressed, brat, you handled yourself pretty well." I smirked, "Come on, we need to get you to the rest of your classmates."

               He followed me to the exit, "Um, who are you?"

               "No one you need to concern yourself with."

               Once we stepped out of the fire building he turned to me with a polite bow of his head, "Thank yo-." He cut off as I sent a gust of wind to carry him back to the others.

               I turned on my heel with a smile, Toshinori certainly had some pretty impressive students. The last building containing students needing to be rescued was the squall zone. It was a city scape setting like the fire zone but was filled with pelting rain and wind. It was the kind of area where I thrived.

               As I stepped further into the cityscape I noticed two students standing in the middle of a street back to back. The first boy had a face like a crow's the second boy was tall and bulky and had an odd shaped head that almost looked like a rock. They were surrounded by thugs and looked to have been fighting for a while. Casting out my hands I sent gale force winds shrieking towards the thugs, sweeping them all up in a vortex of screaming winds.

               The two boys turned in my direction. "Unless you wish to stay and play with these assholes, I suggest you come with me and I'll get you back to your classmates."

               They exchanged looks and nodded before scrambling toward me. I released my hold on the raging winds and all the thugs fell from the sky screaming in panic. This was taking too long, I was losing my patience, I needed to get to Toshinori. After getting the two boys safely back to the other's I headed for the square in the center of the building. My path was blocked by a strange humanoid creature with a sharp bird like beak and beady eyes, it was somewhat hunched over and had a lumbering gait. Its skin looked like tar with streaks of rust.

               "What the fuck are you?" I grimaced, it looked like a thing of nightmare.

               It let out a weird shriek and lunged toward me.

               "Sorry bird brain, I'm really not in the mood for your shit." I waved my hand in its direction and my eyes widened as it vanished from sight, it was fast! Almost as fast as All Might!

               The air behind me shifted, I could feel the creature in the air in the subtle shifts in the wind around me. I managed to dodge a lethal chomp of its sharp beak aimed for my throat. Rage bubbled up inside of me. This stupid thing was a pain in the ass and was keeping me from getting to Toshinori, what if he was hurt?

               "Get the fuck out of my way!" I snarled and thousands of miniscule blades of wind lashed out around me slicing the creature to ribbons and hurling its bloodied carcass into the square. It landed at the feet of a scrawny lanky man with silvery greyish blue hair. He had strange disembodied hands clinging to his arms legs and one on his face.

               There were four students in the square. The blonde punk with the angry crimson eyes that had tried to attack Midoriya before the exams appeared to be holding down a villain made of wispy black mist. Midoriya was standing off to the side looking panicked. There was another boy with bright red hair on the other side of the angry blonde and the fourth boy had two toned hair one side white the other side was currently covered in ice but looked to be red beneath the ice. There was a small trail of ice leading from the boy with the two-toned hair to another monstrous bird like humanoid creature that was currently stuck in a painful grapple with All Might. My blood ran cold as I noticed blood staining the side of his white shirt, Toshinori was injured and looked to be at his limit in his muscular form. Everyone looked to the carcass of the strange bird like creature that had attacked me in awe as it appeared to have just fallen out of the sky.

               "Ellie!" Midoriya gaped as I stepped into the square and I sighed. Well I guess I couldn't go for the 'villain bonding' route to try and get information and a sneak attack now.  He just blew my cover.

               The man with the disembodied hands turned to me curiously. And the man made of mist being held by the angry blonde teen turned his glowing yellow orbs in my direction. "Well, if it isn't The Tornado. I'd heard rumors you'd turned hero, I guess they were true."

               I quickly scanned the students over, they all looked, for the most part, unscathed. Midoriya appeared to have at least one broken finger, from using One for All. "I do very much hate being called that... You're the second person today whose heard that rumor. I'm curious where all of you are getting your information from because it's far from accurate. If I were a hero, my main priority would be saving these brats and making sure they don't see anything too horrific and try to apprehend all of you peacefully without causing too much harm to any of you...what would I be called if I didn't give a fuck what these little brats saw and wanted you and all of your friends to die screaming at my hand for having the audacity to hurt someone I love? That doesn't sound very heroic to me."

               "E-Ellie, protect the students." All Might was still struggling to break from the grip of the other bird like humanoid, even if he were injured he was strong as hell which meant the bird brain was a formidable foe.

               Raging winds whipped around me violently shrieking and screaming eerily as they tore through the square sounding like cries of agony. He didn't look like he had much time left in his muscular form and the bird brain was applying pressure to the injury he'd received from his fight with All for One. "Sorry, they all look like a bunch of delinquents that aren't going to listen to a fucking word I tell them, as long as they're smart enough to stay out of my way, they should be fine."  I cast my hands in his direction sending two blades of wind to strike the strange bird creature's non-frozen limbs before lunging at the man with the hands attached to his body.

               "It doesn't matter, by now all of the other students have been picked off one by one." The mist man chuckled as Toshinori managed to break free from his captor.

               As I was about to strike the man with the disembodied hands clinging to his body, a third humanoid bird brain creature appeared before me. This one had tar colored skin with faint greyish streaks and was smaller in size than the one All Might had been grappling with. I narrowly managed to dodge a lethal chomp from its beak before hurling it away from me in a screeching gust of wind. I leapt back to regroup and position myself in front of the students as Toshinori staggered to his feet and gripped his bleeding side. It was bad.

               "You have terrible information gathering skills." I sighed knowing Toshinori was probably worried about the scattered students. "I've already retrieved all the brats you had scattered about, they're all safely together in one spot, unharmed."

               Midoriya let out a sigh of relief.

               All Might smiled at this, "Thank you, Ellie. Please get these four to safety, I'll handle the re-."

               "Like hell." I hissed at him, "You're injured, why don't you look after the brats and leave these assholes to me?"

               "What kind of husband would I be if I left them all to you?" He asked me with a wince causing the students behind us to drop their jaws in awe.

               I flitted to his side and shot him a glare. "I don't know...a living one?!"

               "Ellie, please, get the students to safety." He looked down at me seriously his trademark smile beginning to falter.

               I bowed my head and bit my lip nervously, this was going to hurt, "I'm sorry..."

               "For wha-?" He cut off with a cough as I punched him in the gut with all my might causing him to double over.

               "That." I turned my back on him as a cool calm focus washed over me. "Alright brats, hightail it to the entrance and stay out of trouble."

               The students gaped at me as All Might hit the ground and coughed up an alarming amount of blood but they made no move to do as I said.

               "Go willingly or I'll send you flying." I snapped.

               "Who the hell do you think you are, hag?!" The irate blonde snarled just as the strange bird like creature All Might had just broken away from and shattered began to reform and reshape itself. I could feel the subtle shifts in the air, it was going to go after the blonde holding its comrade.

               I waved my hand at the blonde teen and sent him flying toward the entrance, "Don't call me a hag, punk!"  I lunged forward as the other bird brain made a move to attack the remaining three students. Utilizing all of the fighting techniques I'd learned over the years I caught it by the arm, and punched it in the gut with a fist encased in blades of wind sending it flying once more. "MIDORIYA!" I snarled at the shell-shocked freckle faced boy. "GET MOVING! DON'T MAKE ME TELL YOU AGAIN!"

               It had been a long time since I'd had to fight for my life or to protect others. I flipped over the head of the grey streaked bird creature as it recovered from my strike using subtle shifts in the wind to send it flying into the other bird brain creature All Might had been struggling against before launching myself at the mist man and the pale haired man with the disembodied hands covering his body. Midoriya scrambled behind me to get his remaining classmates out of harm's way. Two blades of swirling vicious winds appeared in my hands as I lunged at the remaining two villains. 

               My path was blocked by the smaller of the bird brain creatures it hadn't taken long to recover from my toss. I sliced the air in front of me with the wind blade without breaking stride. A single blade of wind broke from the swirling blade in my hand with enough force and precision and sliced clear through its neck separating its head from its body. The two villains before me looked momentarily worried that I'd reach them.

               I barely felt the shift in the air as the humanoid bird like creature that had been grappling with All Might moments before made a move to attack me. A moment of panic overtook me as I realized it moved faster than either of the other two, I wouldn't be able to dodge in time!

               Strong arms encircled me and I let out a panicked yelp as I was suddenly tucked against someone's bulky muscular side gripped under one of their strong arms, All Might! He got to me just in time and met the strange humanoid bird like creature's lethal punch with one of his own. The moment their fists collided I shielded my eyes as a strong burst of energy shot forth from the impact of their blows.

               My heart was racing in my chest from the sheer power that exuded from the collision. If I'd been hit by it, I'd have died. There was no way my body was strong enough to have taken that much damage.  Hot tears of frustration welled in my eyes as I chanced a glance upward at Toshinori's face. He looked like he was still in pain, struggling to maintain his current form. I'd made it worse! I opened my mouth to apologize but he beat me to it.

               "Sorry, Ellie." He grit his teeth as he stepped forward and continued carrying through the force of his blow sending the strange creature flying backward.

               "What? Why are you apologizing? Did you get brain damage?!" I snapped as a single tear slipped from my hold.

               "I hesitated before...and I let you fight them all alone-."

               "Because I punched you, idiot."

               He set me on my feet. "It was the push I needed." His trademark grin was back in place, "I'll take it from here, stay with the students keep them safe."

               "But-."

               "Please Ellie."

               I bit my lip, I didn't want him to fight them alone but I couldn't refuse him, "Fine...but if you go and get yourself killed I can't guarantee I won't destroy this whole fucking city and everyone in it." Another tear slipped from my hold.

               He lightly caressed my cheek with his thumb wiping away my tears. "I'll be fine. I promise."

               "You better be..." I turned and sprinted away in the direction Midoriya and the two remaining boys had gone just in time to see Midoriya trying to make his way back to help.

               I caught him by the collar and dragged him back up the stairs with me to where all of the students were gathered. Midoriya looked momentarily surprised that I'd caught him and had the strength to drag him along with me before trying to protest.

               "But, All Might needs-."

               "All of you to stay safe and not distract him." I finished his sentence for him as I dropped him from my hold once we reached the other students only to sigh in annoyance and deflect the swing of the irate blonde I'd sent flying earlier. Like before, I directed his hand to the sky as he released an explosion in his palm before kneeing him in the gut, "Listen up, punk, call me hag or try to sneak attack me again and I'll send you across the fucking globe. Sit down, shut up and leave me the fuck alone, I'm having a very shitty day and I have no patience left for your bullshit."

               The rest of the students eyed me warily, though I'd saved them all they still weren't certain if I was a good guy or not. I didn't really claim to be either, I was neither good nor evil, hero nor villain. Once I released my hold on his wrist, the angry looking hoodlum grumbled something incoherent under his breath but thought better than to try and fight me.

               I turned my back on the rest of the students to watch the fight between All Might and the remaining bird like creature. The angry blonde with the piercing crimson eyes stood on my left to watch and Midoriya stood to my right silently cheering All Might on. Just as All Might sent the strange humanoid bird like creature flying through the roof I noticed the mist man and the guy with the hands try to make their escape. I cast my hand out readying to use the winds to capture them.

               The sound of a gunshot behind me alerted me to the arrival of the rest of the UA teachers. I felt the burn as a bullet tore through my wrist halting my attempt to apprehend the ringleader. Blinding pain shot from my wrist and I gripped it with my uninjured hand and dropped to my knees with a loud curse. There were frantic pleas from the students behind me trying to plead my case and tell them I'd saved them all.

               A gun barrel appeared in front of my face and a gruff voice growled at me, "On your feet, villain." My dark eyes flicked upward to the man pointing the gun at me. He was tall and had a tan gas mask over his face and looked like he'd walked out of a terrible cliché wild west movie.

               I noticed the principal of UA, Nezu, a short furry white man, bear, dog, cat looking creature out of the corner of my eye surveying the scene before him and got to my feet as I clung to my bleeding wrist to slow the blood flow. "Hey furball, control gun's a blazing here before I separate his head from his body." I hissed at Nezu angrily never taking my eyes away from the western pro-hero, Snipe. Nezu was one of the few people who'd attended our wedding and knew our secrets.

               "Ah, everyone, please calm down, Ellie isn't a villain." Nezu attempted to keep the other pro's in line.

               "Like hell, she was trying to attack All Mi-."

               "For your information, cowboy, I was going to apprehend the ring leader behind this whole shit show, so thanks for letting them get away. Now get the fucking gun out of my face before I make good on my threat."

               "I don't trust you Tornad-." I sent him flying in a flurry of wind causing the other pros to jump into action putting themselves between me and the students.

               Snipe fired off three expertly aimed rounds at me. I used the raging winds around me to slow the bullets enough to catch them perfectly poised between the fingers of my injured hand and drew back preparing to launch them back at him with a deadly accuracy using my wind. A hand lightly caught me by the forearm halting my attack. I turned with a glare to see Present Mic, Shota's old hero partner after they'd graduated from high school.

               "Unless you want to lose that hand, I suggest you let go." I snarled.

               "Calm down, everyone." Nezu attempted to smooth things over once more. "Ellie is All Might's wife."

               "WHAT?!" Students and teachers alike yelled in awe.

               "That was supposed to be a secret, furball!" I snapped at the short furry principal.

               Present Mic released his grip on my arm and took a step away from me to give me space. I was still seething with rage. Everyone was staring at me, it was making me uncomfortable I hated being the center of attention, I didn't want people to know about our marriage I didn't want them all to think less of Toshinori because of me. My emotions were about to run away with me I didn't know whether to cry, scream or lash out at every living thing, I needed Toshinori, he was the only one who could calm me down, he was the only one who accepted me whole heartedly.

               A hand lightly dropped on my shoulder and I turned to find the freckle faced fanboy offering me a reassuring smile. I felt the rage inside of me begin to dwindle. Though there was fear in his green gaze it was shadowed by acceptance and understanding.

               "Thanks for saving everyone, Ellie."

               I lightly swiped his hand away and offered him a small smile, "You're lucky I like you brat, if anyone else had tried to touch me just then, they'd have been ripped apart."

               Midoriya paled at this, the thought hadn't even crossed his mind he'd acted without thinking, just like his mentor.

               I reached up and pat him on the head, "Thank you, Midoriya." Turning on my heel, I disappeared in a gust of wind and reappeared in the square where All Might was currently laying after collapsing in sheer exhaustion after his fight. His muscular form had faded away, though luckily one of the other faculty members who knew of his weakness thought to put up a cement barrier around him to shield him from view. His light blue eyes fluttered open as I appeared at his side and he offered me a big cheesy grin.

               "The students?"

               "All safe."

               His gaze drifted to the blood streaming from the bullet wound in my wrist, "You're hur-."

               "That was the idiot cowboys doing." My eyes narrowed into a glare as I knelt beside him.

               He reached up and tenderly cupped my cheek in his hand. "Are you alright?"

               "I-idiot, you're the one who's injured!" I cried as I caught his hand in mine. "I should probably leave town for a while..."

               "Why what's wrong?"

               "They all know about me now, its going to cause you problems, I shouldn't have come with yo-." I cut off with a squeak as he pulled me forward and I tumbled atop his chest and couldn't help but smile as he wrapped his arms around me.

               "You belong right here, with me." He kissed the top of my head, even though he was probably in a lot of pain he was still worrying about me, about my well-being.

               Tears welled in my eyes as I struggled to hug him back and avoid causing him any pain. "You're such an idiot." I choked.


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