"DAMMIT, DO IT NOW TODOROKI!" I yelled as another blade was stabbed through my shoulder. As the orange flicker under me became much brighter, I looked into the eyes of the man across me. The spark in his eyes wasn't desperate or panicked. It was something closer to someone planning. However, the corners of his mouth twitching upwards unnerved me even more as we both were engulfed in flames. Even in the obsidian, I could still feel the heat of Todoroki's fire. As I held Stain tight to the wall, I almost passed out from the heat and lack of oxygen as it stopped, and a wall of ice moved between me and Stain. I let go and slid back down to the ground as the obsidian chipped and crumbled off me in scorched sections.

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"He's gotta be knocked out after all that... right?" Izuku asked as he wobbly stood up. Todoroki's stance relaxed as Stain didn't move for a moment.

"We should restrain him and get him to the street. Maybe we can find some rope."

"Grab the bastard's weapons too..." I grab the knife in my shoulder and pull it straight out. "Gah! Fuck!" I hiss.

"Y/N!" Izuku rushed to my side and pulled out some bandages from a pouch on his belt. "Here." He tried to wrap my shoulder as best he could, but his hands were stacking. He collapsed to one knee from exhaustion.

"Just take a sec, man." When he was done, I covered the arm and my stomach in rock and fused the stone together to act as a sling. Stabbed in the hand, shoulder, and bicep, with a gash down the back of my shoulder. I hope the scaring isn't as bad as I think it'll be with how jagged his blades were. Todoroki found some length of old rope in one of the knocked over garbage piles, while Iida and I looked for all of Stain's weapons.

"Let's see, here are four bowie knives, four pocket knives, a push dagger, and his broken ass sword. That it?" I ask Iida, and he just nods. "Native! Can you move yet?" I call over my shoulder as he gets up.

"Yeah, I'm good as new now." He said as he helped Izuku onto his back as he tried to protest. "I saw how you hurt your leg back there, at least let me do this for you."

"Where lucky someone threw this in the dumpster." Todoroki says as he ties up Stain.

"That rope doesn't even look that bad. Who the hell throws out almost 20 meters of good rope?" I question as I bundle up all the weapons and sling them over my shoulder.

"Todoroki, I can drag him from here!" Iida tries to insist.

"Are you forgetting how meshed up your arms are?" Todoroki reminds him. We start walking towards the street, and I scoop up Iida's helmet off the ground.

"Here, Iida." I put it on his head.

"Thank you, L/n...I'm sorry how hurt you got."

"I was fighting him before you showed up, remember? I should be thanking you for stopping that blade when you did." I say as I rub my neck where the blade was pressed against it.

"Even though I'm a pro, I was just in the way." Native complained.

"No, I don't think you could've done anything one-on-one with the hero killer's Quirk. He's too strong." Izuku said to console him.

"Fighting three-on-one with the guy making mistakes himself, we still barely won. He was probably flustered and forgot about Midoriya's recovery time and Y/n using his quirk to move most of the fight." Todoroki added. "So he wasn't able to deal with Iida's last Reciproburst, Midoriya's movements, and Y/n's barrage." He said as we exited the ally.

"Now, let's quickly get him to the police--"

"Wha...? Why are you here?" An older sounding voice cut off Native. It was an extremely short, elderly man with heavy wrinkles and a scrawny build. His hair was gray and spiky, styled short with some bangs hanging forward and a trimmed beard. His costume consists of a full-body monochrome suit along with a yellow cape, a belt with the letter "G" on it, very thick yellow gloves and boots, and a dark domino mask which resembles two diamonds.

"Gran Torino!" Izuku shouted in shock.

I leaned over to Izuku and whispered. "Who's the midget?"

"T-That's Gran Torino! He's who my internship is with!" Izuku was interrupted as the geezer suddenly zipped across the street in a second and kicked Izuku in the face.

"I thought I told you to stay seated on the bullet train!" He yelled at Izuku.

"Spry for an old man..." I mumbled to myself.

"What was that punk?!" He turned to me to yell, but stopped the second he saw my face, like I reminded him of someone.

"Gran Torino, what are you doing here?" Izuku asked him. Torino looked at me for a second more and turned back to Izuku.

"I was told to come here all of a sudden by the flaming blow hard. Well, I don't really know what's going on, but I'm glad you're okay." Torino said.

"Gran Torino, I'm sorry..."

"It's around here!" We heard voices yell as we also heard multiple footsteps running our way. It was a bunch of sidekicks from Endevor's Agency.

"Endeavor told us there was a request for help here, but...children."

"Those injuries look serious! I'll call an ambulance right away!"

"H-hey, that's..."

"Don't tell me... it's the hero killer?!"

"What?"

"Call the police, too!"

"Hey kid, can you walk?" One asked Izuku.

"If you prop me up, I can..."

"And you two?" He looked towards me and Todoroki.

"I only received minor injuries." Todoroki answered.

"Honestly, I'm cut up pretty bad, but I've stopped most of the bleeding." I answered as I adjusted my arm and handed over the bundle of weapons. "Iida, you got the worst of it, I think, right?" I look over my shoulder and see Iida walking over.

"The ambulance will be here soon! Until then..." One of the sidekicks tried to stop him.

"... You three..." He said to us. We all looked at him, and he bowed his head. "You were injured because of me!...I am truly sorry..." He said with tears in his eyes. "I couldn't... see anything...through my anger...I could've stopped you from being so injured L/n..."

"...I'm sorry, too." Izuku said to him. "Even though you were feeling so cornered, I didn't notice at all. Even though we're friends..."

"Pull yourself together. You're the class rep, right?" Todoroki said. Iida sniffed and wiped his eyes.

"Yeah. You're right. Thank you." Iida said, lifting the oppressive air over us all. The fight against the hero killer probably only took about ten minutes, but to us, it felt like 9 months

"Get down!" Gran Torino yelled as I suddenly heard large wings flapping. Something dug its claws into my crippled arm and side where I had surgery and picked me up like I weighed nothing.

"F-Fuck!" I yelled as I winced from the pain and craned my neck to look up to see it was a creature that looked similar to the Noma from the USJ, but much smaller with wings. My breath hitched at the memory of the Nomu as its claws dug into me.

"Hey!"

"L/N!"

There was blood dripping off its face as it looked like an eye was missing. It must have been part of the explosions earlier and escaped! Is Stain working with these Nomu and the League of Villains?! I tried to open it's claw's hold on my side, but it just dug them deeper, opening up the healing scars. Suddenly, the Nomu screeched as its wings froze mid-air.

"This society is overgrown with fake heroes..." I hear a voice grunt out above us. My blood runs cold as I look up to see Stain above us reeling back with another pocket knife I must have missed. "...and the criminals who wave their power around idly..." He drove the blade into the Nomu's exposed brain and crashed us down into the pavement. "...should all be purged."

"F-Fuck's sake man just stay down, please?!" I yell as I pry the limp claw out of my side. I look up at his face and freeze when I see his eyes are basically rolled into the back of his head.

"This is all..." He rips the knife out of the brain, splattering its blood and gray matter on my face. "...to create a more just society."

"Why are you all just standing around!?" Endeavor came running around the corner. "The villain should've come this way!...Don't tell me that man is?..." He stopped as he saw Stain crouched over the Nomu's body and me. Stain looked over his shoulder at Endeavor.

"...Endeavor..." He growled out. His mask came loose, revealing his mutilated face, making most of the sidekicks gasp ass he turned around. "You fake!..." he yelled. Stain suddenly started releasing such a murderous intent. It felt like a heavy blanket fell over everyone, and the air itself felt like it was jabbing me. "I must make things right... Someone must be dyed in blood... I must take back what it means to be a hero!" Stain yelled as he slowly stepped toward the frozen crowd. "Come! Try and get me, you fake! The only hero I'll let kill me is the only true hero...ALL MIGHT!" Every instinct in my body screamed at me to try to run, but my body stood up, and stone covered my white knuckled fist as I held my shaking arm up.

*CLANG*

Stain dropped the knife as he suddenly passed out, standing up. Everyone in the vicinity simultaneously let out the breath they were holding, and I fell to one knee. I heard later that a broken rib had pierced his lung at that very moment.

I also didn't realize that I was the only one ready to fight him in that moment.

After everything settled down, we were rushed to the nearest hospital. Being the first involved in the fight meant I had the brunt of the injuries. Cut on my right bicep, bruised neck, split my chin open, stabbed through my hand, calf, and both shoulders. It was a lot of stitching. With the morphine they gave me kicking in fast and my exhaustion, I was mout like a light.

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I woke up with a headache as there was much talking in the room, and the door opened.

"Oh, are you wounded kids awake?"

"Uuughh!...I am now..." I grumbled as I opened my eyes and sat up slightly.

"Gran Torino!" Izuku said, happy to see who I now know as his internship mentor.

"Manual, sir..." Iida said as his mentor walked in too.

"Kid, I've got a lot of complaints for you!" Gran Torino said, turning toIzuku, making him jump.

"Oh, S-Sorr--"

"But before that, you've got a visitor." Gran Torino announced to all of us. A tall, broad shouldered man with the head off a dog in a suit walked in. "This is Hosu's chief of police, Kenjil Tsuragamae. At the introduction, Iida and Todoroki got up, and seeing them, Izuku started to scramble to stand as well. I'm not standing right now, fuck that.

"Oh, you can just stay seated, woof." The chief said. Woof? "You must be the U.A. students who brought down the hero killer, right?"

"Yes, sir." I said as I sat up a little more.

"Regarding the hero killer we arrested...He had fairly serious injuries,with burns, and broken bones, and is receiving treatment under strict guard, woof." He fucking said it again! "Since you are U.A. students, I'm sure you already know that when superpowers were still becoming the norm, the police attached high importance to leadership and standards and made sure quirks were not used as weapons." He explained.

"And then, the profession of "hero" emerged to fill that gap, woof. For an individual's use of force and power that can easily kill others, actions that normally would be appropriate to denounce, to be accepted officially is thanks to early heroes who followed the ethics and rules of the profession, woof...Even up against the hero killer, for uncertified individuals to cause injury with their quirks without specific instruction from their guardians or supervisors is a clear violation of the rules." He explained.

"The four of you and the pro heroes Endeavor, Manual, and Gran Torino must receive strict punishment."

"What! That's bullshit! If we didn't use our quirks, we were all going to die!" I shouted as I sprang up. "What were we expected to do, lie down and bleed to death?!"

"No one would have realized the hero killer had even appeared if we did not act!" Todoroki got just as heated as me.

"Are you saying that as long as it turns out all right, it's okay to bend the rules?" The chief asked us.

"That's not what we're saying, and you know it!" I tried to counter.

"*sigh* That is why you are not full-fledged heroes yet. Goodness, what are you being taught by U.A., woof?"

"Fuck was that?!/You dog." Both Todoroki and I barked (lmao).

"STOP!" Iida yelled trying to get Todoroki to stop stomping at him. "He is absolutely right!"

"Hang on a minute. Hear him out until the end." Gran Torino got between them.

"That was the official opinion of the police. And the punishment and such would only happen if this were all made public, woof." He said as he scratched his nose. "If this were made public, you would probably be applauded by the public, but you would not be able to escape punishment. On the other hand, this is a bit underhanded, but if it is not made public, the burn scars would support Endeavor being the hero who saved Native and his student intern, and it would end there, woof. Thankfully, there were no civilian witnesses. This violation could be crushed here, woof. But this would also mean no one can know about you three's involvement or achievements. Which would you prefer?" He asked Iida, Todoroki, and Izuku. "Personally, I don't want to be the one to find fault with promising young ones because of one big mistake, woof."

"Either way, we will need to take responsibility for being negligent in our supervisory duties." Manual said, accepting his responsibility. Iida walked up to him and bowed in apology.

"I am truly sorry."

"All right. If you understand, then don't do it again!" Manual light chopped Iida on the head, already accepting his apology.

"I-I'm sorry." Izuku added.

"Please take care of it." Todoroki said with a small bow.

"Because of the unfairness of us adults, not all of you will not be able to receive the praise you would probably have gotten, but at least, as someone who also protects the peace, II can say thank you." The police chief bowed to the four of us.

"...Lead with that next time, yeah?" I grumbled as I sat back in my bed.

In the end, the story that will be released to the public is that Native and I bought as much time as we could with Stain after being targeted, and Endeavor came in with the save. It doesn't sit right with me because it feels like I'm taking way too much credit after all three of them saved my ass, but it's either that or all four of us risk being barred from getting hero licenses. After they left, Izuku got his phone from his belongings and sent out texts and calls explaining what his mass text was about while maintaining the cover story. A while later, he came back in with his crutches.

"Oh, Iida, Y/n , just now, Uraraka said -" Izuku came in to pass along her greeting, not noticing the rather somber looks on our faces.

"Midoriya. Iida just finished getting examined." Todoroki explained to Izuku.

"My left hand might have long-term damage..." Iida told him and Izuku's face paled.

"Long-term... damage...?!"

"Both of my arms were pretty beat up, but it looks like the damage to my left was especially severe." Iida said, rubbing his arm through the cast. "There was damage to my brachial plexus. But it just means that I'll have trouble moving my hand and fingers sometimes..."

"But Y/n's injuries were similar to yours! Does that mean-?" Izuku asked, turning to me.

"No, I got lucky cause when he stabbed my hands, he used a blade that wasn't serrated, so they were rather clean cuts, I'll just have some scars. Stain used his fucked up chipped blade on Iida, so that's what did the most damage..." I explained as I held up my arm.

"Apparently, there's a possibility that it can be healed with nerve transplant surgery." Iida said.

"That he doesn't plan to get." I quickly added, shooting Iida a side eye.

"What?! Why!" Izuku questioned Iida.

"...When I found the hero killer, I stopped being able to think. The first thing I should've done was tell Manual... but I forgot myself in my anger." Iida explained. "I hate him, but he spoke the truth... That's why until I become a true hero, I think I want to leave my left hand as it is. As a reminder." He said as he held up his shaking hand.

"...Iida, I feel the same way." Izuku said, looking at his scarred hand. "Let's become stronger... together." Izuku held out his fist to Iida, as they promised to each other.

"I feel... kind of bad..." Todroki mumbled.

"About what?" Izuku asked him.

"I feel like if I get involved...other people mess up their hands...Is it a curse?" Todoroki asked out loud to all our shock.

After a moment, I whipped my pillow at him.

"They were having a moment, dumbass!"

After a pause, the three of us besides Todoroki were laughing our asses off.