Y/N sighed silently through his nose, looking down at the city below him as he remained on Cyborg's back ever since he parted ways with the rest of the League and traveled towards the nearest city on top of him. He had flown into the city on Cyborg's back not that long ago and kept his eyes open on his surroundings ever since that happened. Despite him traveling above the ground, he didn't want to risk getting spotted or even worse ambushed by anyone or anything in any way.

The h/c haired boy kept his attention on his surroundings as he observed just how desolated and abandoned everything looked like from his point of view. The city he was in right now reminded him more of a ghost town if he was honest with himself. He didn't wonder what happened to all the people who resided in the city, though. All of them must have been hiding somewhere out of everyone's view either in the safe zones or someplace else.

He nodded to himself as he knew he couldn't complain about how abandoned everything in the city looked like right now as he knew it made moving around the city way easier for him. All he had to do now was stay away from the safe zones filled with the civilians and he should be fine on his mission of getting into contact with all the members of the Paranormal Liberation Front who managed to evade getting captured by the heroes.

Letting out a yawn, he continued to travel further into the city as he ignored the tiredness he felt right now as well. He knew now it wasn't the time for rest even if his body was screaming at him to finally go to sleep and get some proper rest. Something he hadn't gotten for the last few days. He knew he didn't deserve any rest as well. Everything bad that happened to him and his comrades was his fault and he had to take responsibility for everything he had messed and the way his screw up hurt everyone he cared about, after all.

The h/c haired boy pushed himself out of his tired thoughts and everything they included a second later as something below him caught his attention. The said something was a store. Patting Cyborg on his back to make him slow down a bit, he kept his attention on the store below him for the next few seconds, before glancing down at his clothes. The same clothes which had made his villain costume for as long as he could remember and the same clothes he had wore back when the heroes attacked him and everyone else.

Y/N knew there was something missing in his clothes, though as his vest was nowhere to be seen on him. He found himself thinking back to how he had thrown his vest away shortly after arriving at the former hideout of the Creature Rejection Clan a few days ago. He recalled how disgusted he felt by it after seeing the state it was in once he took a better look at it and he had swore to himself how he will never wear it ever again.

If he was honest with himself, he had the same feelings towards the clothes he had on himself right now, but he didn't throw them away like he did with his vest as he ahd nothing else to wear in that moment. With him having found himself close to the clothes store and him being all alone in the area, he knew it was the perfect time for him to finally switch his clothes to something he'll be less disgusted withwearing. Even if he wouldn't feel disgusted with his current clothes, he felt like he could use a change of them anyway.

"Cyborg. Take me to the clothes store below us." He ordered his Nomu as Cyborg listened to his command and obediently lowered himself down. it was only a matter of seconds before both of them touched the ground and found themselves directly in front of their destination. Y/N nodded to himself, climbing off Cyborg as he touched the ground with his feet and glanced at the Nomu next to him, "Come inside with me and keep your eyes open while I'll be changing. If anything happens, you go directly to me if I won't be near."

Y/N turned away from the Nomu a second later and pushed himself into walk towards the store with Cyborg slowly following him. He reached the entrance to the store a few second slater and pushed it open, entering the store a second later. He was followed into the store by Cyborg who remained close him. He closed the door to the store upon finding himself inside it with Cyborg, wanting to make it look like there was no one inside it in case anyone happened to passed while he'll be iside.

The h/c haired boy turned away from the door a second later and looked around the store, seeing how some parts of it must have been robbed as there were some clothes missing in it. Some of the escaped convicts must have paid this store a visit once they found himself out of prison. At least all the clothes they had stolen were adult sized and it wasn't the size he was interested in for all the obvious reasons.

He wasted no time and began to look for new clothes for himself right away. He didn't plan on choosing anything extravagant and new for himself as he intended his new clothes to remain similiar to the clothes he had on himself right now. Or at least it was what he was planning. He had no idea if this store will have everything he was looking for. Even if he hoped that will be the case here and he won't have to search for anything new.

Luckily for him, it seemed like that Mother Luck had smiled down at him for once as this store had everything he was looking for. It had the same set of pants and the same hoodie which looked exactly the same even if the hoodie was made by a different company. It being made by a different company didn't bother him much, though as he never paid much attention to what kind of company made his clothes for as long as it was what he liked and something he was comfortable it.

His luck in finding new clothes for himself run out once he found his new hoodie, though as he started to look for a new vest for himself after this and unfortunely finding it wasn't as easy for him as finding a new hoodie and new pants. Although the store had a few types of vests available even if some of them were robbed by the escaped convicts which paid this store a visit earlier, he had difficulty finding a vest that resembled his old vest.

His attention was pushed away from the vests in front of him a second later as something rang through his ears. He instantly recognized the noise and where it came from. It was the sound of someone opening the doors and it came from the front of the store. It was followed by the sound of someone stepping into the store. Needless to say. It made Y/N instantly forget about what he was doing right now and made him focus on dealing with what just came up.

"Why now?" He asked himself internally as he continued to look in the direction of the noise as the unknown person stepped further into the store. He quickly put all of his new clothes aside, knowing now it wasn't the time to focus himself on them and looked towards Cyborg who moved towards him as soon as the unknown person entered the store, "Cyborg. You move with me. Don't act unless I'll tell you to do so."

The h/c haired boy turned away from Cyborg a second later, feeling the red energy slowly starting to cover his body as he pushed himself in the direction of the unknown person. Keeping his movements slow and careful, he slowly found himself close to his target and laid his eyes on him just a second later. The unknown person or rather an unknown man didn't notice him advancing towards him as he had his back turned to him while he glanced at the clothes around him.

"What are you doing here?" Y/N  asked the unknown man once he was close enough for him, keeping himself at ready in case he will have to either fight him or knock him out if he won't leave him with any other choice. Cyborg remained close to him as well, ready for whatever order Y/N will gave him in the upcoming few minutes.

"S-Shit!" The unknown man exclaimed, jumping a bit where he stood due to taken aback he was by Y/N's voice as he turned around to face him and Cyborg a second later.

It allowed Y/N to take a good look at his appearance. The unknown man was a heteromorph. He had a rough, beastly appearance, possessing a head that resembled that of a horse or a shark, and a very wide-set, large muscular body. He had long, dark brown hair, which he wears in dreadlocks, and a reddish-brown beard around his jaw. The h/c haired boy raised his brow a bit at his appearance, feeling like it was familiar to him in some way. He just couldn't tell why this man felt familiar to him.

The unknown man let out a deep breath, having just set his eyes on Y/N and Cyborg and his demeanor a bit. He starled expression mostly vanished from his body and was replacedw with suprise. His expression didn't show any fear towards Y/N, though. "...Holy shit. The Mask. One of the Nomus as well."

"I see you recognized me." Y/N nodded to himself at this man recognizing him, keeping himself on guard and covered in the red energy in case this man will have any ill intentions towards ihm.

"It would be hard not to. Your face is wanted all over the country." The unknown man pointed out to him as he recognized Y/N instantly, even though Y/N had his face covered by his mask right now. His mask was simply too recognizable in their country right now, "We work for the same side as well."

"I see." Y/N said in understanding as he deduced who this was man. He still couldn't help but shake off the feeling like he had seen him somewhere before, though, "You must be one of the escaped convicts."

"Yes." The unknown man nodded in confirmation and looked around the store, "Came here to find myself some new clothes." He looked down at his torn up clothes, "Found some shortly after I was broken out of jail but I don't think I will last long if I'll keep them on myself."

"Alright. Help yourself, then..." Y/N began to say as his mind finally connected the dots on why this man seemed familiar to him. He cut himself off mid-sentence, getting a raised brow out of the villain who didn't know what to make of Y/N's sudden pause. The h/c haired boy pointed towards him as he asked him to make sure if he remembered correctly, "I knew you looked familiar to me. You're the big villain from Mt. Lady's debut."

The unknown man's eyes widened a bit, "What? How do you know about that?"

"Because I was there when it happened." Y/N explained.

"Oh..." The unknown's man said in understanding, feeling his suprise grow at the villain in front of him being there when he was caught by the heroes all this time ago. He rubbed the back of his head, remaining suprised by this revelation. "...That's suprising to say the least."

"Yeah. You were definitely one of the last people I expected to see here..." Y/N agreed with him as he shifted his attention away from the unknown man to Cyborg and nodded at him, "Stay down, Cyborg. He won't do anything to us."

"Is this Nomu listening to you?" The unknown man raised his brow in suprise as Cyborg obeyed Y/N's command and stayed down, lowering his guard around the man both of them had just stumbled upon.

"Yeah. You can say it helps me with moving around." Y/N nodded in confirmation and looked at him questioningly, "What's your name, by the way?"

"Kasai Kazuyoshi." The large villain introduced himself to him as Kasai Kazuyoshi.

"Alright." Y/N said in understanding and turned away from the man now named Kasai as he wanted to get back what he was doing a few moments earlier. He looked over his shoulder at Kasai as he pushed himself into walk towards where he had left his clothes at, "If you want to find yourself new clothes Kasai-kun, then go ahead. Help yourself all you want."

"Wait." Kasai called out after Y/N as Y/N stopped in his tracks and turned to look at him again with a questioning look on his face, "Is Spinner with you by any chance?"

"No. He's not. I split up from the rest as there are some matters we need to take care of, before we'll make our next move." Y/N shook his head, not giving him the full details. At least for now, "Why are you asking?"

"I just wanted to thank him for making his video." Kasai explained as Y/N raised his brow in interest, "This way people will finally begin to notice how the discrimination against people like us is still on-going, especially in the countryside, even if the media and heroes are selling everyone the bullcrap of that not being the case by showing how heteromorphs are in positions of power right now like Nezu from U.A."

Y/N crossed his arms with a look full of understanding, "I see. You experienced discrimination as well?"

"Yeah." Kasai nodded in confirmation as his expression cringed a bit. Presumably by the memories this conversation brought back to him, "The way your friend talked how he had to keep himself locked away from his house to escape the discrimination really reasonated with me. It reminded me of what I was doing to escape the discrimination. It really made it hard for me to find a job as well. Even when I managed to find one, I always was forced to quiet due to the way some co-workers were treating me. It really made me struggle and I had to start stealing from people to keep myself feed.

Y/N nodded in understanding, feeling bad for the man in front of him as he could tell how he was feeling right now from the tone of his voice. Wanting to get to know a bit more about his history, he asked him, "Was what happened with Mt. Lady the first time you tried to do steal from someone or was it your first time doing it?"

"It was my first time." Kasai revealed as he crossed his arms and leaned against the clothes stall behind him. As he continued to recount everything to Y/N , he couldn't help but feel a tiny bit of gratitude in his body. At least someone was willing to listen to him for once, "This is why I reacted the way I after I was discovered. I panicked. I think you know what happens next as you saw it with your eyes."

"Yeah." Y/N said in understanding. He couldn't help but sigh internally as he glanced at Cyborg. This is what could have happened to him if his situation with Cyborg didn't end the way it did, "What happened to you after the fact, though?"

"What do you think happened? I got locked up even if I should have gotten community service for what I did and got treated like the worst criminal. I didn't even got a chance to leave the jail on parole. Even if all I did was stealing a purse, because I was desperate." Kasai sighed. He was treated just like Kamui Woods called him. A menance to society. If he was honest with himself, something inside him was glad when he found out about Kamui Woods dying to Dabi and Mustard a few days ago.

Y/N raised his brow at him, "Really? But it was just a purse and you said yourself it was your first time doing this."

"I know. They didn't care." Kasai's answer was short and straight to the point, "I think you already know everyone who is caught doing crimes is treated by the heroes. They're treated like the worst kind of criminals. Even if their crime is just like mine."

Y/N crossed his arms, leeting out a sigh, "Yeah. Too bad they can't do the same when it comes to taking out their own trash. Nothing happened to Endeavor once the truth about him came out from his friends from work and all he got was some bad publicity."

"You're telling me. All they preach about peace and justice and yet, they always turn a blind eye for their friends." Kasai nodded in agreement, letting out a sigh of his own as he clenched his hand in anger. He calmed himself down a second later and looked at Y/N questioningly, "What are you doing here, by the way? If you have a Nomu with you, then I doubt you're hiding here."

Y/N pointed behind him as he gave him his answer, "I'm here for the same reason as you are. To get myself some new clothes. I was trying to choose a new vest for myself when you entered this store. I have a hard time choosing it, though as none of them really look similiar to what I used to wear."

"I see. Does it really have to be something the same, though?" Kasai asked. From the look on his face, Y/N assumed the recently encountered villain must have had something in mind.

"Do you have something in mind?" Y/N wanted to be sure if his assumptions from Kasai's tone were correct.

"Yes." Kasai nodded in confirmation as he pointed towards the article of clothing he had in mind, "What about a cloak?"

"A cloak?" Y/N raised his brow at the suggestion as he looked towards the cloaks for sale in the corner of the store,

Kasai nodded in confirmation, "Yeah. I watched a TV report where people were talking about you and one of them referred to you as the Scarlet Demon. If they want to call you that, then you may at least give them what they want."

"Kasai-kun. What I'm trying to show the civilians is that I don't want them to get hurt. Wearing a clock won't really help me with that." Y/N pointed out to Kasai, looking unsure about wearing a clock even if he had to admit something like this would help him with moving around as it would make him harder to spot as well. Especially during the night.

"Who said you will lose civilians support by wearing it?" Kasai pointed out to him in return, "Your actions is what will matter to them. Not your clothes."

"Yeah. You're right. I'll go try it out." Y/N admitted him to be right on this matter as the thought of how useful wearing a clock as a replacement for hsi vest would be for him right now. Knowing trying it out won't hurt him, he pushed himself into walk towards the part o the store where the clock was located.

"Alright. If you'll need me, I'll be picking some clothes for myself over here." Kasai told him, going back to what he was doing before Y/N and Cyborg made themselves known to him as Y/N nodded in understanding.

Not wasting any time, Y/N made his way to the part of the store where the cloaks were left on display and choose the first black cloak he had gotten his hands on. After getting his hands on it, he went to the clothes he had placed aside earlier and picked them up before making his way to the nearest changing stall. Upon finding himself inside the changing stall, he wasted no time and quickly started changing his clothes.

The h/c haired boy finished changing his clothes a few moments later and stood directly in front of the mirror in the changing stall as he eyed himself and the way he looked like in his new clothes. He placed the hood of the cloak over his head, nodding to himself as he looked satisfied with the way he looked. Even though cloaks weren't exactly his style and he would have preffered a vest, he couldn't deny the fact that it would make for a better choice of clothing for him right now.

He let out a tired sigh and walked out of the changing stall a second later, sending his old clothes a quick glance as they laid placed on the ground. Even though his disgust towards them remained in his body, he couldn't help but feel a bit sad about throwing them away. Those clothes were something which had accompanied him from his starting point as a villain all the way to the point he is in right now. A part of him would definitely miss them. As weird as that sounded.

There was something else he was left to think about when he was changing his clothes. When he took off his old hoodie to replace it with a new one, Eri's letter to him fell out of his pocket. He really considered opening it and reading it in the moment but figured out the changing stall was not the best for it. Especially since Kasai was waiting for him outside of it. This is why he hid it in the pocket of his hoodie, waiting until he'll be all by himself and in a place he'll consider good enough to finally read it.

"Kasai-kun! I'm ready!" The h/c haired boy called out for the villain he had his conversation with several minutes earlier as he walked into the main area of the store where he saw Kasai who was now holding whatever new clothes he had chosen for himself. The villain turned towards Y/N as Y/N stopped in front of him, "What do you think?"

Kasai eyed Y/N's new appearance and smiled at him slightly, "Looks nice. Exactly what you needed if you ask me."

"If you say so." Y/N nodded at him as he looked over his shoulder at Cyborg and pointed at him, "I'll be leaving now. I have a lot of stuff I need to take care of right now and I don't think I have much time to spare for it."

"Alright. I understand. I'll be leaving soon as well. I just need to get those clothes on myself." Kasai nodded at him, gesturing towards the clothes he was holding right now as Y/N motioned to Cyborg to start moving. Cyborg obeyed him and started to make his way towards the exit from the room. Y/N followed him and walked past Kasai just as Kasai called out for him, "The Mask."

Y/N stopped in his tracks and looked at him with the eyelids of his mask showing two questioning marks, "What is it? You don't need to call me the Mask well. Just call me by my name."

Kasai nodded in understanding and voiced what he wanted to say to him, "Just wanted to tell you something. When you and your comrades will make your next move, I'll be glad to join you and will be more than happy to stand beside Spinner when he will continue to spread across the world."

Y/N smiled slightly at him underneath his mask, "Alright. Welcome to the team, then. You will definitely be a great help when it comes to us spreading our message further."

"Thanks. Thank you for accepting me straight away." Kasai smiled back at him as he held his hand out towards Y/N, "Until next time, then. It was nice meeting you in person."

"Likewise." Y/N replied, keeping his small smile on his face as he grabbed Kasai's hand into his and shook it. After pulling away from each other, the two exchanged one final glances with each other before parting ways. Y/N walked out of the store, finding himself on the street where Cyborg was waiting for him. He climbed on top of him, placing his hand on his stomach as it asked him for food. Ignoring the hunger, he ordered Cyborg to go up and Cyborg instantly followed his order as he summoned his boogie pack and took off into the air.

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Ochaco Uraraka was not feeling well right now. The saying the last few days have been nothing, but stressful for her was quite the understatement. Their fight against the Paranormal Liberation Front was hard and it went horribly for them, leaving many of her fellow heroes and even many of her fellow students injured. Many of them even lost their lives in their fight with the villains and Midnight and Snipe who both were one of her teachers at U.A were the best examples of it.

The aftermath of their fight with the villains from the Paranormal Liberation Front was not any better. If anything, Ochaco considered it to be much worse than the actual fight. Everything about it was just so bad and shocking. It all started with the reveal of Dabi's being Endeavor's long lost son, followed by the revelation of Endeavor's abuse and everything just continued to go downhill from there as more revelations were made to the public, resulting in their country being in the state it was in right now.

She and her classmates were affected by the videos as well and the Mask's video possibly affected them the most as it involved not only the villain in question, but also two of their classmates and revealed the truth about Bakugo and Izuku to them and everyone else. The saying this revelation shocked everyone was the understatement of the century. Their shock only grew more after everything in the video was confirmed to be true by Bakugo himself when he got questioned about it by Sero, Mineta and Hagakure.

Ochaco was shocked by this revelation as well. She already disliked some parts of Bakugo's attitude in the past, but this had turned everything to a completely different level. She and her classmates were convinced Izuku and Bakugo were rivals even if Bakugo was taking their rivarly to the extreme. All of them had overlooked what their relationship really was like and it brought them to the point they are in right now...

This revelation made her think back to various incidents in the past as well. It made think back to when Izuku and Bakugo went head-to-head for the first time. She recalled how horribly violent Bakugo was and how he nearly blew up Izuku's head. She recalled all the other situations when Bakugo acted horribly towards Izuku. All of it flooded back into her head like a massive wave in the middle of a summer.

Kirishima had been noticeably quieter as well. Out of everyone from her classmates, he was probably affected the most by the truth about Bakugo and his reaction to that didn't really suprise anyone. The red haired boy just couldn't believe his Bakubro turned out to be someone like this. He knew Bakugo had a nasty temper, especially at the start of their education at U.A, but being an actual bully which almost drew someone to suicide? It was just so terrible for him to find out.

It made him think back to the interaction he had with the Mask when he went against him and his classmates back at the mansion. He recalled how angry he was when he brought up to him how great of a hero Bakugo is and how it triggered him. It made him ask himself if there was more to the story, especially when the Mask declared how everyone will know the truth soon enough and it was exactly what had happened.

It explained what happened between him and the Mask back in the Camino Ward as well. The Mask didn't beat him up just because he was a villain who was trying to make him join the League. The Mask must have beaten him up to make things even between them. They had no idea what happened between them in Camino as well. For all they knew, some words could have been said between them to make the Mask beat him up the way he did.

Ochaco shook her head, thinking back to the behaviors in the past and she cursed herself mentally for not noticing how many signs hinting all of this were in the past. Bakugo growing uncomfortable and keeping himself away whenever the Mask was brought up around him following the revelation of who he was underneath his mask was among them as well. It was another thing she had overlooked in the past until now and another thing which made sense to her now that the truth was out.

All of it made sense now...

Y/N's  video wasn't the only video she had watched. She watched the video of the rest of the League as well. It included Himiko Toga's video as well. Ochaco cringed as she recalled the details of the video as Toga explained her past to the world. She explained how she was treated like a freak by her own parents for behaving the way she did due to her Quirk who were constantly demanding her to be a normal girl they wanted her to be and how the Quirk therapy didn't do anything to help her outside of telling her to surpass those thoughts until one day they exploded on a classmate she had a crush on.

The video made Ochaco feel bad for Toga. No one should be called repulsive for having the kind of power they have. No one gets to choose what kind of Quirk they have and they shouldn't be called repulsive for being unfortunate enough to be born with the wrong power. It made her think back to when Toga spoke highly of the League and how they never judged her for the way they were. The League must have been the only place where she could be herself without being called repulsive by anyone...

It made her ask herself if she was too harsh on her when they had their conversation as well. She judged her based on what was normal to her. She didn't know what was normal for her as she never bothered to find out. The thought of it hadn't crossed her mind as well until she saw Toga's tearful reaction to her words and saw her video. Maybe she could have been more open to her back then. Toga didn't hurt anyone to get to her as well.

She knew she wasn't the only having thoughts like this right now. She knew her classmates or at least a good portion of them were having similiar thoughts after seeing the videos and seeing how similiar some members of the League were to them or people they knew. Spinner reminded everyone of Shoji as soon they saw his video and the same went with Mustard reminding them of Shinso. She was really curious about Shinso's thoughts on Mustard now...

Kendo and Tetsutetsu's suspicions about Origami's homelife were confirmed as well and to be honest the details of it were far worse than what she had expected. It confirmed their assumptions of Origami being someone like Eri with the only difference being Origami being saved by the villains instead of being saved by the heroes like Eri was. She didn't know how was the stuff with her mother going right now as well as she apparently left the country to start over someplace else away from her demonic daughter.

The League weren't the only people who caught their attention with their videos. Their allies who had their own videos and interviews released caught their attention as well. Chimera, just like Spinner, reminded everyone of Shoji and Ayaka was someone who got framed by someone above her and had to start working for the criminal underground to survive as she wouldn't get a normal job anywhere else with her tainted reputation.

To add salt to the healing wounds, Izuku had left U.A as well as he was afraid of All For One going after everyone there because of him. He didn't even say goodbye to them. He just left and left each of them a letter. He explained to them why would All For One go after him in the first place and filled them about his Quirk and how he was born Quirkless. A fact that Ochaco was still trying to process. The same went for her classmates. Aside maybe for Aoyama. He seemed to feel extremely distressed about it. She could have sworn she saw a hint of guilt there as well.

It made her realize how sick of a joke the situation between him and Y/N was as both of them were Quirkless and ended up receiving their power from someone else. To make everything worse, the people they ended up receiving it from happened to be sworn enemies. Ochaco still couldn't believe hos sick of a irony it was. It felt like the world was trying to play a sick joke on them for it's own amusement right now.

"...I always felt like there was something off with their relationship to be honest. Ever since what happened between them at Aizawa-sensei Quirk's assessment. I tried to write them off as being rivals with Bakugo being the case of someone taking it to the extreme, though." Iida stated with a shameful look on his face, having a conversation with Ochaco both of them agreed to met up and have a talk about everything. They felt like it would be healthy for them to get everything out of their systems. Todoroki wasn't with them as they didn't want to bother him right now. Not after what came out about Dabi being his older brother and Endeavor being an abuser.

Asui wasn't with them right now as she was keeping to herself right now. Her classmate and a friend was devasted by Selkie's death by the hands of Rappa as she bonded a lot with him during her internship. Ochaco was saddened by his death as well, having gotten a chance to met him while she was with Ryukyu. From what Asui told her the last time they spoke, she contacted Selkie's crew about his crew and Sirius openly stated will she advocate her best for Rappa to get the harshest sentence possible. Either life without the possibility of parole or death penalty.

"Me too. I always thought Deku and Bakugo were middle school friends. Just like Ashido and Kirishima." Ochaco admitted, having the same shame filled expression as Iida as she added, "I just kick myself over how wrong I was. I just can't believe I wrote it off as them being rivals for all this time. Todoroki-kun has been Deku's rival since the school festival and yet, he was never mean to him or called him names. I don't understand why would Bakugo view Deku as a rival. You saw how he was like at the start of a school year. Right?"

Iida nodded in agreement, letting out a sigh, "Yeah. I know what you mean right now. My feelings are the same time..."

"Do you remember what Bakugo called Deku during Aizawa-sensei Quirk's assessment test?" Ochaco asked him, having found herself thinking about it after Iida brought this up.

Iida nodded in confirmation, "He called him a Quirkless loser. It doesn't suprise me now that we know about One For All. He must have been certain Midoriya was Quirkless until then."

"So, Bakugo is just a Quirkist piece of shit?" Ochaco asked, her expression hardening a bit as her tone became filled with venom. A complete constrast from it's usual happy and cheerful tone. If Bakugo acted like this at the best hero school in the country, then she could only imagine how things were like in Aldera Junior High. Just thinking about this school and what it must have put Izuku through made her angry just thinking about it.

"Looks like it." Iida nodded in agreement, not bothering to call Ochaco out on her language as her adjusted his glasses a bit. Even though his face kept it's usual tone, Ochaco could tell Iida was not happy. She knew him long enough to know when he's not happy.

"At least now I can understand why L/N always acted like he had out for him whenever the League attacked us. No matter if it was the beating he gave him back in Camino Ward or him taking away his Quirk with one of Overhaul's bullets." Ochaco stated. Bakugo being Quirkless now was another fact she was trying to process. If she was honest with herself, she was suprised by how small sympathy she felt towards Bakkugo. If she felt any at all. It made her wonder what will happen to him now as well. The school didn't say anything to them about him for now.

"You're not the only one." Iida nodded in agreement as Ochaco looked slightly suprised by it. Iida was always in the more skeptical part of their class when it came to saving the Mask. Even after he saved Eri from Overhaul, "Don't get me wrong. What L/N has done is unforgivable. Nothing will ever excuse his actions and my thoughts on it are the same as they were before. However, it doesn't mean Bakugo should be excused of his actions because one of the victims became the third most wanted person in Japan right now."

Ochaco silently nodded at him, letting out a sigh, "We really need to talk with Deku about it. We need to ask him why he never told us about any of it. He knows we would have been there for him and would have supported him if he told us about it. Why did he kept covering for Bakugo for all this time? Even if he was treating him the way he did in front of everyone."

"Even if we wanted to question him about it, we are unable to do so right now." Iida pointed out, letting out a sigh of his own as he felt worried for his friend and whatever will happen to him right now, "While I can understand his concerns, I still would have preferred if he stayed in U.A with us.

"I know..." Ochaco agreed with him, her tone becoming more tearful out of worry for Izuku. Iida took notice of the way her tone had changed in this moment and tried to comfort her the best he could as both of them continued their conversation.

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Kai Chisaki was feeling far from good. It was nothing new to him, though. He wasn't well in a long time if he was honest with himself. He first started feeling like that since Shie Hassaikai has fallen and his arms were taken away from him by the League, preventing him from using his Quirk on the old man to wake him up from the come he had placed him in and thus leaving him in an eternal come with no way of waking up.

The former leader of the yakuza pushed himself out of his thoughts regarding his old boss as glanced up a bit and looked around the place he was in right now. He had no idea where he was right now and didn't care much about it. All he knew about his current location was that it was some abandoned apartament. Kurono had dragged both of them into this place earlier today when the sun was starting to appear on the horizon to wait out the day.

He let out a resigned sigh and glanced down at the ground again, finding himself thinking about Kurono and how he kept dragging him around ever since both of them escaped Tartarus. He found himself thinking how Kurono was constantly telling him how they will make the League pay for everything they did to them once they will get themselves back on their feet. How was he planning to get them back on their feet? Overhaul had no idea. He never bothered to ask him about it as well.

If Overhaul was honest with himself, he never paid much attention whenever Kurono talked about the League as he didn't care about it or them. All he cared about right now was seeing his old boss. It was the only reason why he was keeping himself alive and was allowing Kurono to drag him around for as long as he did. If it wasn't for his thoughts of wanting to see his old boss, then he would either allow himself to be locked or would kill himself on the first change he would get.

He didn't even care if the League took away his arms and stole his bullets anymore. They meant nothing to him. Those feelings remained in him even when he saw Y/N, Origami and Magne again. Even if they were mixed with feelings of anger and rage. The said two feelings didn't show themselves in him and he left himself muttering to himself how the League ruined everything for him instead as all of them were burried somewhere deep inside him underneath the feelings he had regarding his old boss.

"Kai." Kurono's voice called out for him and Overhaul pushed himself out of his thoughts and looked up towards the source of the voice. He saw Kurono standing in front of him in the civilian attire he had chosen to himself when he dragged both of them into a clothes store shortly after they left the prison together. "The sky is getting orange. It will start getting dark soon. We should start preparing ourselves to leave."

"If you say so..." Overhaul voiced his understanding in a blank resigned tone.

Kurono crossed his arms and leaned against the wall behind him, "We should start making our next moves as well. Everything had already died down following out escape and the current situation in our country is perfect for us. Everyone will be too busy to notice us regaining our strength and it will be already too late for them by the time they will notice this."

"If you say so..." Overhaul gave him the same answer a moment earlier, "Do whatever you want. I don't care about it. I just want to see the old man..."

Kurono sighed, hating to see his leader like this, "Kai. As much as I understand why you want to see him again, you never really about making the League pay for what they did to us when we were locked up? Not even once?"

"Yes. The old man was all I thought about back then..." Overhaul replied without any hesitation in his voice as he kept looking up at Kuruno with his expression staying unchanged, "When we will see him? You told me we will see him soon when I brought him up to you after we left Tartarus."

"We will see him soon. Don't worry." Kuruno reassured him. Taking Overhaul to the old man became his main priority. If Overhaul will see him, then maybe he will become more open to his ideas and making the League pay for what they did to them, "But would you please try to consider everything I've told you about since we managed to leave the prison?"

"Even if I wanted to do anything about them, then how I would fight them...?" Overhaul asked as he lowered his gaze a bit to look at his hand stumps, "You know I can't do anything without my hands. My power is useless without them..."

"I know. This is why I came up with a possible solution to this problem." Kuruno explained as Overhaul looked up at him with a hint of suprise beginning to show on his blank face, "I've been thinking on how we can make a comeback ever since both of us have been locked up in Tartarus and I think I came up with a way how we can make you capable of using your Quirk again. I'm not sure if it will work, but it's still worth trying."

"I see..." Overhaul said in understanding. Even though his voice remained as blank and resigned as ever, there was a part of him which couldn't help but become intrigued by it. Kurono found a possible way of him regaining his Quirk? What could it be? The only way he could think of right now was Eri and he doubted Kurono planned on getting his hands on her for it as it would way too risky. Especially since he did mention how the current situation in their country was meant to help them get themselves back on their feet while staying undetected.

"We're gonna need more people for it as well as we'll have to gather some equipment for it and have the right person to perform the procedure." Kurono told him further as Overhaul's expression slowly began to shift by the mention of the words 'procedure' whatever it meant in this context, "This is why we're gonna try to get into contact with some of the members our organization as well. Mimic and whatever remained of the Eight Bullets should be free as well from all the prison breakouts which happened across the country."

"Not all of them will be avaiable..." Overhaul pointed out to him as his mind flew to Rappa and Tengai and how they defected the yakuza and joined the League, becoming top commanders in the army Y/N and Shigaraki gathered under their lead.

"I know." Kurono nodded in agreement, letting out a sigh as he knew who Overhaul was referring to right now. He couldn't think of anyone else but Rappa and Tengai when Overhaul uttered his remark about them.

He couldn't help but feel nothing, but disgust and anger when he found himself thinking about Rappa and Tengai as well. If it wasn't for what already happened with them when the heroes clashed with the Paranormal Liberation, then he would gladly make them pay for abandoning the yakuza for the League. He was satisfied with what happened to them when their new organization went against the heroes. It didn't mean he wouldn't mind seeing Rappa join Tengai, though.

He got himself out of his thoughts about Rappa and Tengai and shifted his attention back to Overhaul, "We shouldn't bother ourselves with them. Not for now at least. Rappa was caught and locked up and Tengai was killed by Hawks. Good for him if you ask me. He had this coming for betraying us and going with them. What did he think would come out of it?"

Overhaul stared at Kuruno, not saying anything about the comment he just made about Rappa and Tengai.

Kuruno took notice of Overhaul's silence and allowed himself to finish what he wanted to say to him, "What we should focus ourselves is with getting into contact with everyone who stayed loyal to us. I can already tell Mimic will be more than happy to help us out in our plans."

"How will you get into contact with him or the rest in the first place...?" Overhaul wanted to know.

"I'll figure something out once I'll bring you to the old man." Kuruno replied, uncrossing his arms as he pulled away from the wall and pushed himself into walk towards Overhaul. He reached him a second later and stopped directly in front of him, "Now, let's just prepare ourselves to leave this hideout and leave it as soon as it gets dark. The sooner I'll take you to the old man and you'll see him, the better."

Overhaul silently nodded at Kurono, not saying anything to him due to him not feeling like he had anything to say to him right now as Kurono wrapped his arm around him and helped him up. Not wasting any time, Kuruno took him out of the room into the other part of their current hideout where they began preparing themselves to leave their hideout as soon as possible by gathering whatever little supplies they had with them.

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Y/N looked up the orange sky above him, letting out a tired yawn and nodded to himself as he knew what to do now. Nothing much had happened since he went into a clothe store to change his clothes and stumbled upon Kasai shortly after arriving there. He wasn't contacted by any of his comrades as well. They must have been too busy with moving into a new location to contact or to begin searching for more survivors from the Paranormal Liberation Front.

He didn't have any notable encounters after his conversation with Kasai as well and he doubted anything will change about that. Even though he wasn't certain what was the exact time right now, he could tell night was nearing from the color of the sky. It's not like it mattered anyway to him. He wasn't intending to take any rest anytime soon. Even if his body continued to scream to him how it finally needed to get some proper rest.

"...Y/N. Are you there?" A familiar voice rang through his earpiece as All For One contacted him through it.

Y/N's reaction to it was instant as he immediately reached out towards his earpiece and touched it, "Sensei?"

"You're here. Good." All For One said in a satisfied tone as Y/N patted Cyborg on the back to make him slow down a bit and to make him lower himself a little while he'll be having his conversation with All For One, "I'm calling you to inform about us having moved to a new hideout just like I planned."

"Alright." Y/N said in understanding, "Where is it?"

"It's located in a cave at..." All For One explained to Y/N, filling him on all the details of the location and Y/N nodded in understanding as he made mental notes for when he will arrive there. Whenever it will be, "Skeptic and Curious are already working at locating the other suriving members of the Liberation Front as we had set up the stations for them and are intending on bringing in more equipment for them to work it. Expect either of them to contact you tommorow."

"Alright. I'll keep my ears open for them." Y/N nodded to himself in understanding, letting out a yawn as his stomach grumbled a bit, "Is there anything else I should know about?"

"No. Contacted you just to inform you about this. Now if you'll excuse me, there's something I need to take care of as I've been working on it ever since we had arrived at our new safe haven." All For one replied, ending his conversation with Y/N and Y/N once again nodded to himself in understanding.

Having no further need to keep his hand on his earpiece, Y/N pulled his hand away from it and looked down at Cyborg. Just like Y/N ordered him a moment earlier, the Nomu had lowered himself a bit and the two were flying at the hight of a two floor building. Just as the h/c haired boy was about to signal Cyborg to return to his normal flying height, he got interrupted mid-action by a sudden smashing voice in the not too far distance from him.

"What the hell?" He asked himself internally, suprised by the sudden noise in what looked like a quiet desolated city as he glanced ahead of himself due to it being fom the direction it had came from while Cyborg didn't move from the flying height he was in right now due to Y/N being stopped from signalling him to move up.

He continued to glance in the direction of the noise for the next few seconds, seeing how He shrugged it off a second later, writting it off as someone breaking into a store or something. Even if this breaking sound didn't sound like someone breaking a glass window at all. The h/c haired boy quickly got himself on a high alert again a second later just as he was about to fly past the area the noise which caught his attention rang from in the first place as a female voice screamed to someone to leave her alone.

It was when Y/N found himself directly above the place all of this noise came from as he ordered Cyborg to stop for a bit, feeling his alerted state growing with each passing second and looked down below him. He was instantly greeted by the scene of a man standing above a knocked over woman as he was trying to do whatever he had intended to to her. Y/N set his eyes on the woman on the ground. He glanced behind him and saw a man laying on the ground. Even though her face was covered with a hood, he could tell she was a foreigner and had a blonde hair.

"Cyborg. Down." He ordered the Nomu and Cyborg obeyed him and lowered himself down completely until both of them landed on the ground. The arrival of Y/N and Cyborg caught the unknown man's and the foreign woman's attention as both of them instantly turned around to look at them.

"What the hell..." The unknown's man words died in his throat as he turned around to face whoever had just arrived and ruined his fun. His eyes were narrowed in anger until he saw a Nomu and a cloaked figure in front of him. It was when they they widened a bit in suprise, "A Nomu? Who the hell are you?"

Y/N didn't gave him a direct answer as he removed the hood from his cloak, revealing who he was to both him and the foreign woman, "What's going on?"

The unknown's man suprise grew further as he laid his eyes on the masked villain in front of him, "...Holy shit."

"The Mask..." The foreign young woman muttered under her breath. The fear had vanished from her face and her tone was replaced with a mild wae and admiration. Y/N got a better look at her face as well. She was pretty young. She must have been in her early 20's. He saw a freshly made graffiti behind her as well. The said graffity showed him and labelled him as the voice for the Quirkless people.

"I'll ask again. What's going on here?" Y/N repeated himself. The tone of his voice was extremely close to demanding.

The unknown villain shook of his suprise after a moment. He didn't seem worried about being caught in the open like that as the person who caught him was a villain, after all, "Relax. I'm not doing much. I'm just using my newfound freedom like any sane man in my position would. The girl over here was all by herself so I thought I could ask her if she wants to celebrate my regained with me. I haven't partied with a woman in a while as well."

"Not doing much?" Y/N asked, the eyelids of his mask displayeing two questioning marks as he pointed towards the woman on the ground, "Can you explain to me what do you mean by that? What I'm seeing right now doesn't feel like not doing much to me. She clearly doesn't want anything to do with you as well."

The unknown villain shrugged like it was nothing, "Does it matter now? Even if she doesn't want anything to do me with me, I can see just have her come with me. We can live and do what we want right now, after all. It's why I was so happy to finally leave the jail as well.."

"Really? This is the only reason why you're doing everything? Because you can and want to?" Y/N asked. From the tone of his voice, the foreign woman could tell he was displeased by the answer. The unknown villain failed to notice this, though and continued,

"Yes. Why I should have any other reason for it? Life is too short to bother yourself with bullshit like this." He confirmed it to Y/N with a nod of his head and a smile on his face.

"I see." Y/N nodded to himself in understanding, knowing what he should do right now as his body became covered in the red energy in an instant. The masked villain wasted no time and used his Quirk to lift the unknown villain from the ground as well. The unknown villain looked around himself with a suprised look on his face, having not been expecting this to happen as he felt something putting pressure around his neck all of a sudden, preventing him from breathing. He looked towards Y/N and saw him holding his hand out towards him.

"W-What the fuck?" He gasped out to what he thought was his fellow villan, struggling to catch a breath as Y/N kept him lifted up above the ground, "W-What are you doing? Aren't we on the same side?"

Y/N shook his head, narrowing his eyes at him underneath his mask as the eyelids of it displayed two skulls, "No. We're not."

"The fuck do you mean? We're both villains..." The unknown villain pointed out in confusion, finding himself more out of breath with each passing second.

"Yes. We are. But we're different type of villains." Y/N told him as he used his other hand to take off his mask and showed his glaring and disgust filled face to the man he was holding above the ground right now, "I'm doing what I'm doing because I need to do this to create a new world. You're doing what you're doing for the sake of it. For your own personal excitemenet. Villains like you disgust me. You're not better than heroes in my eyes. You're the reason why people always view us as nothing, but pure evil people who are doing what they do for the sake of it."

"L-Listen..." The villain began nervously, seeing where everything was going as he began to fear for his life from the tone Y/N used to utter all of those words to him now.

Y/N kept his eyes narrowed at him, "You know what I was once told by someone when it comes to being a villain?"

"W-What is it?" The unknown villain struggled out his words, hoping Y/N will let go off him once he will listen to what he had to say to him.

"There's no killing without conviction." Y/N recalled Stain's words to the villain as he kept him above the ground with his tight grip of red energy while Cyborg stepped closer to him, standing by his side almost like a growling dog, "This is what I've been told by the hero killer a long time ago and they really stuck to me and I've been trying to live by them ever since that happened."

"W-What? A-Are you serious?" The unknown villain and his voice showed just how close he was to passing out due to the lack of air, "Y-You're holding me like this just because I didn't came up with some reason to do what I do, like you? W-What would you do if I had one? W-Would you let me go?"

Y/N shook his head, "No. I still wouldn't let you go. If you watched my video, then you should know how much I hate whenever someone uses their power to abuse those weaker than them. It's rather distasteful. Like a filthy hero who uses his position to get away with everything."

"W-Wa...!" The villain nervously tried to plead with Y/N. Y/N was having none of it, though as he moved his hand. It was when a sickening snap echoed across the area as the villain's neck was snapped by him, killing him. The masked villain released his lifeless body from his grasp, allowing it to fall on the ground as the foreign woman looked up at him with a mixture of gratitude and admiration. She didn't even pay attention to the body in front of her.

Y/N shifted his attention to her a second later, acting nonchalant even if he had just taken another life as he stepped closer to her in order to check if she was alright or not after what just happened to her, "You okay?"

"Y-Yes." The foreign woman slowly got herself up on her feet, her emotions on her face remaining unchanged as she shoved herself towards Y/N and wrapped her arms around him in a grateful embrace, "Thank you so much! I had no idea what he would do to me if I didn't show up."

"Don't worry. It was no problem." Y/N told her, keeping his face uncovered right now as he reached up with his other hand to pinch the bridge of his nose. He let out a yawn as well, "Why were you doing all by yourself anyway?"

The foreign woman pulled away from him as she turned around and pointed at the griffiti in front of them, "I-I was working on this graffiti. It's the only one I have worked on as well. I already made a few of those..."

"Why?" Y/N asked her.

"Because this is what you deserve. People need to know who speaks for people like me" The foreign woman told him without hesitation in her voice, making Y/N determine this woman must have been Quirkless. Otherwise she wouldn't use such choice of words, "It was about time someone brought up how Quirkless people are treated and your video gave this issue the recognition it needed. Now it's time to show everyone who we view as our voice."

"I-I see." Y/N said in understanding, not knowing how else to react to this as he continued to pinch his nose. He felt himself becoming weaker as well. Almost as if his body was giving up on him right now. He was already exhausted from everything and his lack of proper sleep in the last few days. Him using his Quirk to kill this man must have made him reach his limits of whatever energy he had left in himself.

"Are you okay?" The foreign woman took of the way he was acting right now and looked at him with a concerned look on her face. Her concern only grew when she saw how Y/N looked like right now. She saw his bags under his eyes and how he looked more like a living dead right now than a human being. His stomach grumbled as well, making her believe she must have been hungry as well, "You don't look so good."

"Yeah. I'm fine. I just need to..." Y/N began to dismiss her concerns, but his words died in his throat before he could finish what he was saying as he pulled his hand away from his nose. He knew he had to leave. Now. The last thing he wanted to do right now was passing out in the middle of a street like that.

Y/N turned away fromt he foreign woman, not giving her any more words and tried to push himself into walk towards Cyborg. If he was about to pass out somewhere, then he wanted it to happen on Cyborg's back. He never made it to the Nomu, though as his body gave up on him and made him feel like he was about to pass out in just a few seconds. His stomach grumbled as well, making everything look and feel much worse for him.

He fell on his knees as his legs gave up on him making him unable of reaching Cyborg and his mask fell out of his grasp, landing on the ground next to him. He looked over his shoulder and saw the foreign woman watching everything from where she stood with a suprised and concerned expession on her face, looking like she was about to step up to check on him. Even if tried to reassure her what he was fine not even a full minute ago. It was when his vision slowly started fade away as he started to black out, leaving everything around him blurry. His body slowly began to fall on the ground just a second later.

The last thing he saw before losing his consciousness was the blonde haired woman pushing herself into run towards him. It was followed by her worriedly screaming out, "...Shit!"

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Can't believe this story had it's second anniversary last month. Time really flies fast. It doesn't feel like two years to me...

Here we go with the Dark Deku arc or rather the Resistance Mask arc. FulgarTheVulgar suggested it as the name for this arc from Y/N's POV and needless to say, I really liked it.

The Final War is about to start in the anime and I'm super excited to see it animated. Especially since we'll be getting stuff with Dabi now.

The new Helluva Boss came out and the episode was really good, by the way. The stuff with Cherubs in Hell and them getting traumatized over the stuff Blitzo was buying and them thinking Ozzie's was an armory really made be chuckle. Seeing Fizz again was nice as well and I loved his interaction with Blitzo and the being buddies with each other. The stuff between Blitzo and Stolas went as well as I expected it will go and it was heartbreaking to watch. I'm pretty sure Blitzo will have a mental breakdown in the next episode.

We got a confirmation of BO6 being a game coming out this year and to be honest I couldn't care less. Especially after what happened with MW3 last year. I think the Black Ops storyline needs a rest as well and Treyach should make somthing new instead. I would be more interested in a remaster for BO2 or the original MW3 as well.

I replayed the original and superior Modern Warfare Trilogy out of boredom. No matter how many times I replayed this trilogy, playing it always brings me so much fun.

Ghosts of the Pasts (One of my favourite TF2 SFMs) released it's final episode and concluded the saga of Once Upon A Time In 2fort. The final episode was great and was a geat conclusion to this great series. It's wasn't a good ending or a bad ending. It was heavily bittersweet. Seeing the series end is a bit sad as well as this series is something I've been following since the first episode came out 11 years ago (I'm getting old...)

Oshi no Ko season 2 is about a month away from us and I'm super excited to watch it and see the arc it will show animated. Maybe season 2 will finally make me write the Modern Warfare and Oshi No Ko crossover I had in mind for almost a year now after I started writing the first chapter of it in the August of last year.