Chapter Twenty: Deteriorating

(Y/N) Todoroki

Play Flower Dance - DJ Okawari (Start at 0:30, above)

The earth below everyone breaks, and lights on fire. I can control my anger enough to make sure Togata and Eri aren't hurt. I light my vines on fire as well and wrap them around all of the villains, they don't burn them but it makes it very dangerous to move with them on them.

"Give her back!" Overhaul yells, trying to break out of the vines.

I make the vines move over closer to me, staring into his eyes, no anger or any other emotion is visible on my face, but it's deep inside, "I do not tolerate child abuse. This is the easy way out, if you want the hard way-you'll be killed."

Overhaul's face contorts into fear for a second, but he growls. I begin to take Eri, Togata, and the villains up to the surface, but Overhaul breaks out of the vines. I hand Eri to Togata but before I can get close enough to wrap the villain up, Midoryia appears.

He punches Overhaul in the face and knocks him away from us. Sir Nighteye and Aizawa appear behind the green-haired boy, and I finally realize that the only thing that is keeping me going is the adrenaline. The second that this runs out, I'm done.

I'm dead.

"Holy shit.." I turn at the sound of Sir Nighteye's voice.

He stares at me in shock, and I finally take a look at myself. Frostbite has attacked the right side of my body, while many burns cover my left side. While my left palm, right, and left legs seem to be okay, my right palm is covered in dirt and vines are wrapping my right arm entirely, almost making the ice unnoticeable.

"I'm fine." I reply flatly, turning back as Overhaul stands up on his two feet to face Midoryia.

But I'm lying.

Luckily, Nighteye is able to catch me as I fade in and out of consciousness during the battle between Overhaul, Aizawa, and Midoryia. I watch spikes appear as Nighteye begins to take Eri, Togata, and I away from the battle.

Except all of his efforts were for nothing, Overhaul creates a barrier and doesn't allow us to go any further. I'm too weak to fight back, as he touches me on the shoulder and fuses with me.

Pain envelops my body as I try to stop Overhaul from fusing with me, since it will definitely kill me.

"NO!" I can hear Midoryia as my eyes are replaced by Overhaul's and my body cells fuse with his.

He has nine quirks now. I really did change the future.

"I forgot to mention to you (Y/N), and I'm sorry!" I can hear Nighteye call out, "I DID LOOK AT YOU AND SEEN YOUR FUTURE, YOU'RE THE ONE WHO'S DYING TODAY!"

And my mind disappears.

Third Person

Sir Nighteye, Midoryia, Togata, and Eri all watch in pure fear as one of the strongest people possible is enveloped into the body of a villain, and (Y/N)'s image is completely erased.

"(Y/N) IS NOT ALLOWED TO DIE!" Midoryia screams, "NOT ON MY WATCH!"

"What a tragic life, huh, Lemillion?" Overhaul mutters, "If only you two hadn't gotten involved with Eri..with me. You would not have lost your quirk forever! You'd still be able to pursue your dreams! And despite losing your quirk, Lemillion, because you insist on dragging this out, you've gotten all your friends mixed into this, NOW ALL OF THEM WILL DIE. ELEMENTIA'S DEATH IS ON YOUR HANDS!"

Midoryia's anger gets the best of him, and he fires pieces of rock and other rubble towards Overhaul, only to get the items fired back at him. The green-haired boy can't read the villains movements. With Overhaul's powerful quirk, only 8% of All Might's power will not be enough to stop the villain.

"I'll take this guy on! Go take care of Lemillion and Eri!" Sir Nighteye orders, firing at the large villain.

Midoryia agrees, and bounces off of the spikes to get to the two. Although tears fill his eyes because of the death of (Y/N), he doesn't let the emotions take over this time. He picks up the two, and uses one for all to break through the wall.

"Please..no more.." Eri squeaks, "I'm sorry.."

But Midoryia continues to run with them.

Nighteye fights Overhaul, taking a glimpse into the future. The future he sees cannot be changed. He's tried many times in the past. No matter how desperately he tried to steer away from the future he glimpsed. With enough time, surely enough, like a balance sheet governing the universe, things would always return to their natural flow. It would just be as if he inserted some extra scenes, but the ending never changed. Could it be that the very act of seeing someone else's future locked them into that fate? Even since he saw 'the death of All Might,' he decided he would no longer read people's futures. Except with (Y/N), he broke the rule he made all of those years ago to make sure she would come out okay.

But she didn't.

He would only look a second into the future now, and respond accordingly. He took whatever measures he could, to deny Overhaul of the future that was almost in his grasp. And though he knew his actions were merely drawing out the inevitable, this was the best course of action he could take- but he had reached his limit.

One of the spikes penetrates Sir Nighteye's stomach.

As if he were clinging onto something, Nighteye looked into Overhaul's future. Amidst the scene of his likely defeat, he held only a sliver of hope that the girl would be saved, the boys safe, and Overhaul defeated and apprehended.

Midoryia's face fills with anger and fear. He stomps on the ground, finally, he can use 20% of All Might's power.

"You guys coming here has only made things worse for yourselves. You do recognize this, right? Give it up," Overhaul says, "It's just going to turn out exactly as I said it would. Everyone will die."

Midoryia growls under his breath, "I won't let that happen..even if that's what fate has decided..I WILL BEND THE FUTURE!"

Midoryia attempts to smash Overhaul's head in, but the villain easily dodges the attack.

Back with Togata and Eri, the little girl remembers being disassembled and reassembled by Overhaul's hands. She rushes back towards the villain and Midoryia.

"What!?" Midoryia yells, "Stay away! Eri, you need to stay with Togata!"

Overhaul smirks under the mask, "Eri, do you think this boy can overcome this situation on his own?"

"N-No."

"In that case, what is it that I should do?" Overhaul replies.

Eri is terrified, "Come back..and in exchange, you need to fix everyone back to normal!"

Overhaul nods, "Indeed. Rather than others getting hurt because of you, it's much easier for only you to be the one who gets hurt," He turns to Midoryia, "You may have momentarily placed your hopes in Lemillion or Elementia, but that fleeting hope that had begun budding within Lemillion has now been broken. Have you realized it yet? Your actions were the cruelest possible things you could have done to Eri, and for that- you are unwanted."

Midoryia growls, "Even so! Even if you think it's none of my business..you were crying! No one will die today, I will save you!"

Suddenly, the large villain from the beginning of the fight crashes through the floor. Tsu and Uraraka from team Ryukyu appear fighting the villain.

Midoryia takes the chance to attempt to grab Eri but Overhaul creates a spike and moves her towards himself, taking her quickly as Midoryia angerly yells at him.

As Overhaul attempts to go up and out of the underground through the hole, Eri catches a glimpse of Lemillion's cape. She accidentally uses her quirk, reversing Overhaul's body back to before he fused with (Y/N). Eri jumps at Midoryia, holding the cape still.

"Give her back!" Overhaul screams, trying to reach for her.

(Y/N) falls past Eri and Midoryia, unconscious but alive. Midoryia grabs the girl's hand and holds her as they both fall. Midoryia brings up his left leg to attack, screaming as Overhaul creates drills to block it. But suddenly Midoryia disappears.

Midoryia was using one for all at full power. He was angry, but with Eri's rewind quirk, the injury he should have received never did. Now (Y/N) had finally awakened, her body is still frostbitten and burnt as well as covered in vines, but she's alright.

When Midoryia lands, he glances at Eri.

"Right, your quirk is to reverse someone's body." He mutters.

"She can rewind anything she touches to nothing! That quirk of hers is cursed. Return her to me! There's no way to stop her without my disassembly!"

"I won't," Midoryia replies, "No matter what. The instant my leg broke, before I could even feel the pain she reverted it for me. It's such a kind, gentle quirk."

Tears fill the girl's eyes.

"Now that I've experienced how it feels. I understand. She continues to revert my body with blinding speed! In that case, if I'm constantly accumulating grave injuries at an even greater speed, Eri..will you lend me your power?"

Overhaul fused with the large villain from the beginning, but as he charges at Midoryia all the little boy has to do is kick him.. and he flies away. When he flies back, Midoryia uses his new super speed to get behind the enemy before he can even comprehend what is happening. The green-haired boy doesn't give the enemy a second to recuperate as he goes to smash Overhaul's head in.

(Y/N) appears beside him, using the air to propel herself up to their level she punches the enemy with her friend.

A little further away, Uraraka is with Sir Nighteye.

"Sir, didn't you say that (Y/N) and Deku were supposed to die?" She asks the pro hero.

"That is the unchangeable future that I saw but this..this is.."

The fists that open up the future.

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