If everyone here could still fight, after seeing what happened to this one person... then so could I. I could keep moving, get myself out of the way, I could help him somehow... do something. With the stone now off my ankle, I was able to move, not very well, but I could still move. I could still get out of the way.

"How pointless," All For One said before swiftly blasting the ground directly below him. A large gust of wind hit so hard that I didn't need to worry about moving out of the way, I was already being thrown and knocked back with everyone and everything that laid along the battlefield.

"AHH!" The rubble cut up my scars and knocked me around even worse than before. This pain in my body... this pain inside of me... it was too much. I needed someone... to help me.

"I've got ya, Kid!" A voice said as they pulled me into their grasp. A yellow cape flying behind the old man as the wind slowed and he set me down a safe distance from the fight. My arms were pulled defensively around my head and chest as he took his place ahead of me. Blocking me just as Bakugou had. "I'm not gonna let anyone come near you." There it was. Those were not just words... they were a promise.

"Let's stop dwelling on heroism and start focusing on reality," All For One said with confidence, his jacket ripping as the gear in his shirt tore apart before our eyes. His arm... he had turned himself into a monster for power... for nothing but that. "The shockwaves until now were simply to wear you out, I knew it would take much more than that to kill you. In order to put you down for good, I'll punch you with the ultimate combination of Quirks I have stored up within me right now. This will end you."

No...

All Might, nonetheless, silently readied his fist, eyes focused on only All For One. Tears trapped in my eyes as I tried to scream out to him, give him something that could help him to fight, but as always, I was constantly afraid... and now was no different.

"Don't quit on me now, Kid," The old man said, turning to face me, blood running down the side of his head just like mine. His eyes were full of shock as he took in my appearance, bloody, bruised, and burnt. Adrenaline had been fueling me up until this point and it still was, but I knew that's not what he was looking at. Despite everything, I didn't know my Quirk, I didn't know what it could do, but I did know that it could help. Something in me was screaming for it to come out. That's what the old man was looking at; the bright yellow glow of my arm and the flare in my eyes.

"WIN THIS!" I shouted as my eyes shut tight, a roar sounding off as my body fell limp. The adrenaline was gone, and it left my heart pounding as much as my heart was.

From the moment I blacked out, I realized, I didn't know much but I did know three things and only those three things. Once this was over, I would either wake up back in that small room... beside my Mother, gone from this world... or... I would wake up, and see the sunrise beside Bakugou and All Might. I would step outside and feel the warm air. Just once, just once in my life... let me be outside.

The lights of my room were blinding me as my sight faded in and out. White and black. My chest felt tight as the air was being forced in and out of me. I felt like I was moving, but my body was flat with my sheets under me. I could hear something... people. A slow and then rapid beeping behind me. My heart was pounded harder, my mind running wilder, and as I tried to move, I found my body was weaker than before. Just like always... I was too weak.

I could feel the pain in my body, still and unmoving. There were more sounds now as well, something like the wind, an animal... maybe a bird, though I've never heard one before. The bleeding on my head was stopped by something that wrapped tightly to my head. I couldn't feel the blood running down my cheek anymore, and there was something small thick around my ankle. I sat myself up now, the air here was cleaner too... and everything seemed, brighter... when I opened my eyes. This didn't seem like the room I had known for my whole life, this place was new.

"You're awake," Someone said and my body jumped, a sharp and sudden beep startling me even more, "Whoa, whoa, it's okay. You're safe now." I forced my trembling body to look around, the staggering strands of my now untangled hair blinding my face to the man who laid next to me, but not him to me. It was All Might who sat in a bed beside mine, his head and arms bandaged just like mine. "You've been unconscious for some time. How are you feeling?" He seemed calmer now, happy even, a smile spreading as I answered.

"G-Good..." I said in a soft whisper, turning my head away from him. I looked around the room to see things scattered about, completely different from my room before. Most items here I've never seen before, with no knowledge of what they even were. "W-Where...?" I coughed hard, another beep startling me so much my body began flinching at the littlest sounds all over again.

"We're in the hospital," He replied, "Grand Torino said you went out during the fight, as soon as it was over he rushed you here so you could get help." Grand Torino... was that the old man? Was I... really saved? 

Tears began in my eyes and they wouldn't stop, not in the slightest bit. I continued to sob beside him as I heard him climb out of his bed, walking slowly over to me. His footsteps light and welcoming.

"Everything's okay now, you're safe." His bandaged hand touched my shoulder, just barely but it was enough for my body to go stiff and pull away from his grasp. It was just like his... when he wanted me to relax, he would touch my shoulders and tell me everything was okay. I trembled in complete horror, my hair falling away from my face as I looked up at him. He could see it now, in my eyes, how scared I truly was. "If you're uncomfortable with it, then I won't touch you." I nodded and slide myself to the far side of my bed.

"A-Am I... D-Do I-" My voice was so cold and rough that the words I made only sounded like bare grunts, my eyes glossing over as I struggled to speak. It was easy at the fight... I didn't even think about what I was saying then.

"Hey, hey, don't force yourself," All Might said and reached for me yet again. I flinched at the very flash of Dabi's hand reaching for me. Being in their grasp for so long... especially Tomura... a reaching hand is the scariest thing in the world to someone like me. I continued to shake and try to speak, and each time All Might would attempt to calm me down, to speak to me as if I could be calmed down. The beeping continued to spike and fall rapidly.

"Toshinori," Someone said as they stepped into the room. I flinched back once more, this time at the sound of the door slamming against the wall. "You should be resting."

"Tsukauchi," All Might said and turned to the man who came in with the long brown coat, "What are you doing here?"

"I had a few questions left for you and the girl, if she was awake," The man said as he removed his coat, "Grand Torino will be joining us later."

"Okay then," All Might said, "Well since she's awake we can start with her questions. Is that alright?" Tsukauchi said as he took a few chairs and set them down near my bed, "That way you can rest as soon as possible." I was confused by what they would even be asking, but with a glance to All Might and his smile, I knew I would be safe. Even if we were both hurt.

"I'll stay in here," All Might says to his friend, even though no one asked him to leave, "She knows me, and based on how's she's acting I have a feeling she'll be more comfortable if I stay." I nodded again, knowing that he was right.

"Fine by me," The man says and sits down, All Might sitting beside him, "My name is Detective Tsukauchi. I'm just going to be asking some questions to clear up some things that happened recently." I nodded again. "Can you tell me your name?" My name? It's been so long since someone even called me by my name... what was it... what was it? I pulled my head away from them and tried to think. "It's okay if you don't want to give me it. How about how old you are?" This one took even more thinking.

"Give her a cupcake... for every year. Let her have some knowledge of herself." I remember her begging that much of him and he agreed, but counting things that I didn't think about often was hard for me. Unlike with Tomura's group with eight people, it took me a long time to count the cupcakes I've gotten over my lifetime. Slowly, I used my fingers, starting at five, because that was the last time I remembered being told my age.

"We can move on," Tsukauchi said but All Might raised a hand to him.

"Give her time," He said, as I continued to count with muffled breaths, his eyes fixed on me.

"F-Fifteen..." I said, my voice less cold than before, they could understand my shaking whisper and it felt like it was becoming normal again.

"Okay," Tsukauchi replied, scribbling something down, "How long were you there? With All For One, I mean."

"Fifteen," I said again with a small nod, the beep now expected by my slow trembling body. Why were they asking about him? What did they want to know? Was he nearby? Could I really trust them?

"Fifteen what?" He asked, "Days? Weeks? Months?" I shook my head and leaned back, my eyes closed as I tried to remember on my own the events that had happened. My hands shaking in my lap as I thought about the days with and without her, as I thought about the boy who reached out to me repeated, just like the woman across the alley did years ago.

"Years," I finally said and stared at the blinding white ceiling.