Chapter 1: Awakening
It was meant to be a simple trip to the USJ (Unforeseen Simulation Joint). There, Class 1-A was meant to do rescue exercises. However, things didn't go according to plan when a small army of villains showed up thanks to a warping Quirk.
Upon seeing the villains, Aizawa aka Eraserhead ordered the students to stand back before jumping into the fray and fending off the villains around him. Meanwhile, 3 villains, an amphorous dark cloud wearing a suit, a bird-like creature that was heavily muscled and very tall, a man whose costume consisted of a lot of fake hands, and a woman with white hair wearing a white kimono and a cyan hakama.
"It appears that All Might isn't here," the woman said. "I'm wondering if it involves the news from this morning..."
"What do you mean?" the handsy villain asked the woman.
"Don't you pay attention to the news, Shigaraki?" the woman asked sharply. "He was busy saving people for quite some time this morning. And if your master is to be believed then All Might might just be weakened enough that we can win."
"You could be helping them," Shigaraki muttered, motioning towards the villains that Eraserhead was taking down quite easily.
"And waste my precious time on a group of thugs?" the woman scoffed. "Not likely. Besides, I am aiming towards the next generation, not the old. After all, it is much kinder than what you have in store for them."
"You seem to be on a high horse, Priestess," Shigaraki stated, getting irritated with the woman.
"While I may be a part of the League of Villains, a life is a life," the woman now known as Priestess retorted. "Even if my Quirk is a form of suffering, it is far kinder than straight out making them decay. Slowly I might add."
"I don't know why I even recruited you," Shigaraki muttered.
"Because I have taken down dozens of Pro Heroes without taking a single life," Priestess reminded him. "Permanently, I might add."
"But it still isn't perfect," Shigaraki told her.
"Of course not," Priestess waved him off. "No one is perfect."
"You really should enact your plan, Priestess," Shigaraki told the villainess. "You are quite the boss for this game."
Priestess just smirked.
With the students
As the students began to evacuate, the black cloud warped in front of the door with Priestess right beside him. Thirteen got in front of the students, wanting to protect them.
"The next generation of heroes, so full of dreams and ideals," Priestess said. "Completely unaware of the real world."
The cloud looked at Priestess with its large yellow eyes.
"Oh come now Kurogiri," the villainess said. " Can't I admire them a little? If only for their naivete?"
"All Might was supposed to be here today," Kurogiri stated, turning to look at Thirteen. "But I see no sign of him."
"Most likely rescuing old women and saving cats from trees," Priestess said and her tone suggested she was amused. "It doesn't matter though, word might spread to him if we are lucky."
The villainess began to clap her hands together as if she was about to pray.
"Wait! You're Priestess!" Thirteen exclaimed in shock.
"That I am," Priestess unclasped her hands, before lifting up her right hand and her fingers began to glow red. "Unfortunately for you."
Thirteen looked at her in shock, before turning to the students, "Don't let her fingers touch you!"
"What? Why?" asked one of the male students by the name of Izuku Midoriya.
"Oh yes," Priestess said happily. "Someone asks that question. Now I'm obligated to give you the chance at experiencing my Quirk!"
Her glowing fingers then suddenly extended and pierced five students so fast that none of them could react. Not even Thirteen. One of them hit Izuku, another hit a black-haired girl with a ponytail named Momo Yaoyorozu, a third hit blond with a tail named Mashirao Ojiro, a fourth hit Ochaco Uraraka, and the fifth hit an invisible girl named Tooru Hagakure.
'Did I get five?' Priestess thought. 'Wait, one of them is invisible... Interesting.'
The five students dropped to their knees in shock as Priestess's fingers returned to normal.
"You have thirty seconds, Kurogiri," Priestess told him. "There is a 4% chance of them fighting back when they enter the Feral Stage."
Priestess was then caught off-guard by Kirishima and Bakugo, a red-haired male and an ashen-blond respectively went in for the attack. The villainess managed to dodge Kirishima, but Bakugo delivered an explosion to her face. Priestess, however, recovered quickly from the attack.
After she got up from the explosion, Priestess said, "I would show you my Quirk, but I cannot use it for another 24 hours. And choosing to attack me rather than the cloud is a very smart idea."
Bakugo began to sweat as Kurogiri covered the area the students stood in a black clouded dome and warped them to different areas around the USJ. However, many students managed to not get warped, three of them including Iida Tenya, Ochako Uraraka, and a student named Rikido Sato.
"So some of them managed to avoid my Quirk," Kurogiri stated.
"And only one of the ones who I hit with my Quirk was saved," Priestess said, upon noticing Ochako was still there.
"Will she attack?" Kurogiri asked.
Priestess thought about it for a moment.
"Let's see, if I am correct I used my ring finger," the villainess muttered, her finger glowed then began to glow and Priestess went on to say, "She will attack, but not indiscriminately. Such a shame. It would have been nice to see a new villain on our hands... Oh? Now, this is interesting..."
"I've been counting," Kurogiri told her. "And it's past 30 seconds."
Ochako was still in Iida's arms when she suddenly jumped up and began to attack Priestess starting with a punch, but Priestess managed to dodge her attacks.
"I know you can't hear me," began Priestess as she dodged another attack. "But all you have is a Quirk and if you can't touch me, then you can't do a thing."
Priestess then proceeded to knee the teen girl in the chest.
'I'm lucky she doesn't have her sword in this life or things will really be difficult,' Priestess thought to herself.
"One of you must restrain her!" Thirteen announced. "She is not in the right state of mind and will hurt herself going forward."
"I got her," Hanta Sero, a student who wrapped Ochako up in tape that came from his elbows, said.
"Wise choice," Priestess commented. "My Quirk put her in a feral state of mind and she was overwhelmed by it. As such, due to this life and its influences combined with my quirk's power, she sees us as threats to her friends so she will attack us to protect you all."
"What did you do to her?" demanded Iida.
"Well, you see," the villainess began, but before she could continue an explosion interrupted her at the shipwreck zone. She then looked at Kurogiri and said, "You sent one of my victims there."
"I did," Kurogiri confirmed.
"Oh! Then I guess I should see who it is," Priestess stated. "It should only take a minute."
Her thumb began to glow blue.
"This one can now focus a strange mystical energy," Priestess stated. "I wonder if that would change her Quirk..."
Mountain Zone
Two students watched as their friend Momo Yaoyorozu was defeating villains left and right with martial arts and with the firing of dark red orbs that, in a past life, were called Gandr Shots.
"How is she doing this?" a boy named Denki Kaminari asked.
"I don't know, but something is very wrong here," a girl named Kyoka Jiro commented.
"What do you mean?" Kaminari asked.
"Yaoyorozu!" Jiro called out to her friend.
It didn't work, however, as Yaoyorozu was too focused on her task of taking out the villains around them.
"Oh yeah!" Kaminari snapped his fingers in remembrance. "She was hit with that weird Quirk!"
"And you just now remembered?" Jiro asked.
Back at the entrance
Priestess's index finger glowed blue.
"Oh my," Priestess muttered. "That is very interesting... two people having the control of the same type of mystical energy... And they both led interesting lives."
Fire Zone
Ojiro was single-handedly taking down villains left and right with inhuman strength and speed. All they could see was a blur and when they did catch a glimpse at the teen's face, they saw a wild, savage grin and a wild look in his eyes that reminded them all of a wild beast that cannot be tamed.
"He's one of Priestess's victims isn't he?" one of the villains asked no one in particular.
"Yes, he is," one of the other villains responded.
Ojiro then slammed into another villain, before jumping up and threw a villain into a building causing it to fall and bury the villain in a burning pile. He then turned to look at the villains and smirked before running towards them once more.
Back at the entrance
"No, not him," Priestess muttered as her pinkie began to glow blue. "What the... This is what she was?"
Landslide Zone
Shoto Todoroki was stumped when he saw his invisible classmate take down so many villains just by touching them. They appeared to be either paralyzed or dead because they were so still.
He grabbed one of the villains that were trying to escape by freezing him in ice.
"You'll explain what is going on now!" Todoroki told him.
"I think this is Priestess' doing!" the villain exclaimed.
"Priestess?" Todoroki asked.
Another villain then was taken down but this one was definitely dead as their neck was clearly broken.
Back at the entrance
"... Nope," Priestess stated after a moment of silence. "Definitely not the one in the Shipwreck Zone."
There was yet another explosion, but this one was followed by something falling from the, well the ceiling and it landed right in front of the two villains. It was a shark-like villain and they had what looked like multiple stab wounds and a gaping hole in their chest cavity.
"What did you unleash, Priestess?" Kurogiri asked, a hint of fear flowing through his system.
"I-I don't know Kurogiri," Priestess said. "It's my middle finger. The boy that asked why my fingers should be avoided. I'd rather not have to flip myself off, but it looks like I have no choice."
(Play Last Stardust by Aimer to appreciate this next part)
Her middle finger glowed blue as she gazed at it. But then she screamed. The students and Thirteen looked at the villainess in surprise, while Kurogiri looked at her in concern. He had known her as an acquaintance for quite some time and he had only seen her like this only twice before. So shaken by her quirk that when she had returned to the bar that operates as the League of Villains hideout, she had practically demanded some booze from him.
"I have unleashed a monster!" she exclaimed. "A monster that no one can stop! A monster with no hesitation or doubt in his course of action! A monster who walked through hell just to find happiness in the hands of a man who saved him from that hell! All of his skills, everything he knows he trained himself in. He is the incarnation of war itself! The feral stage alters the body for skills gained through life, reflexes from his past are now so ingrained that nothing can disrupt them! Not only that, but the same energy that is now flowing through each of the others is now flowing through him and much like them, he can even use it! How is that even possible?!"
Everyone turned to the shipwreck zone and watched as Izuku jumped from villain to villain launching off their shoulders before summoning a bow in mid-air and launching explosive arrows killing dozens of villains as each one hit their marks and sending fish guts everywhere.
"I am not joking when I say that he will become the strongest hero on the planet! He was just a third-rate, weak child! How is this even possible?! The Hero of Wrought Iron is now reborn in a world where it is possible to achieve his dream! And no one can stop him!"
(End Last Stardust by Aimer)
Priestess then ended her rant as she broke into laughter of madness
End Notes:
Priestess
Real name: Unknown
Quirk: Soul Revelations - With each of her fingers on her right hand she can make someone regain their memories of their most recent past life. However, once she does, she is unable to use that particular finger for 24 hours. She can also review the memories herself for those 24 hours. But, there is a side effect that she does not know of, if the soul is powerful enough, then its power changes the target's quirk factor and gives them a weaker version of their power from that life.
Note #2: I was given permission by the original author (EmmaIveli) to use this chapter as the start of my own. Please check out the original which can be found on her account on Archive of Our Own and on fanfiction.net. Thank you.
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