Kurogiri doesn't know what to think about what had happened. Sure, he'd been expecting Eraserhead to overpower the boy, but not by hugging him. The boy's wrists were tied together as tightly as the hero dared and he sat off to the side of the plaza with his back facing him.

There wouldn't be much time left until the heroes' reinforcements came and they would be defeated. The boy had failed his test in being able to kill someone. They had told him it was either him or Nomu that would do it, and like they excepted, he failed.

No matter, it would just take some more time. But what he found perplexing was that the boy wasn't using his analysis skills during the fight. Just blindly swinging.

Maybe failure was the plan?

He would have to figure that out later. Quickly walking over to the boy's crumpled form, he scooped him up and walked back to Shigaraki, who was trying to harm the students that had been watching from the water.

A crash rang throughout the facility as the front doors were suddenly crashed through. Kurogiri looked over and saw All Might standing there in his glory, except he wasn't smiling.

They might just win this after all.

Nomu perked it's head up and saw it's main target. He got off the Eraser hero and leapt into battle. The two of them were so fast that Kurogiri couldn't even see them.

Shigaraki backed off from trying to kill the two students and instead started bragging about Nomu.

Kurogiri stood there awaiting Shigaraki's order to take them all home as he pondered if he should take the restraints off Izuku. It would make it easier to carry him. They should expect resistance from him now that he's been outside.

It was only a matter of time before they left.

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Izuku stirred awake.

Electricity coursed through his body as it lingered. The collar always had a way of feeling tighter after it shocked him.

He tried moving his arms but found them tied togethe-

Oh right.

Eraserhead tied him up so he wouldn't hurt him. Izuku opened his eyes to see Kurogiri's purple mist feet. The man was watching Shigaraki. Looking around, Izuku saw the hero on the ground and two blurs fighting.

They pulled away and Izuku's eyes widened in fear.

All Might was fighting the Nomu. The Nomu was made after Izuku's analysis, he could tell from the way it moved. His eyes traced the structure of the large man in the white button up shirt. He was injured. Just like Izuku analyzed, except it was more noticeable to him in person and not just on a television screen.

His gaze went back to Nomu, it's razor sharp claws and pointed beak with pointed teeth. It's hulking body and scarred back. Made to kill, and if it was like how Izuku was thinking, it could tell All Might was injured too.

He wasn't blind, he saw that the number one hero wasn't as fast as he used to be. He had to do something.

Anything.

"RUN!" Izuku screamed as loud as he could in a scratchy voice. His throat burned like molten hot lead. This was the first word he's spoken in years and it showed.

All Mights head turned to him and his eyes widened.

Izuku tried to speak again, to get the message across to the hero, but all that came out was a hoarse pitiful cry. He tried crawling but Shigaraki's hand pressed down on his back with four fingers.

Desperation painted his face and All Might barely had time to move towards him before the Nomu came at him again.

"So the pet finally talks, huh?" Shigaraki hissed. "About time. I was starting to get bored with you."

Tears fell down his cheeks and he let out a pitiful wimpier. He was too weak to fight off Shigaraki.

Eraserhead moved and Izuku looked over, he saw the hero trying to move. His arm was broken and his face was covered in blood. Shigaraki didn't seem to notice.

Izuku was starting to feel the major backlash of screaming. He started coughing and hacking like he was throwing up his lungs and it burned. It felt like it throat had been ripped apart from the inside and he could distantly taste the blood on the top of his tongue.

He tried mouthing words to Eraserhead.

I'm sorry.

I'm so sorry.

Please go. Please run.

The hero seemed to understand him but wouldn't accept it. He was trying to crawl over to him after watching Shigaraki turn his back to watch All Might fight Nomu.

Izuku felt so weak at that moment.

His whole body burned and his throat felt destroyed, his stomach was trying to crawl it's way out of his mouth and his legs were numb. His forehead was matted with sweat that fell into his eyes but he couldn't rub them because of his tied wrists. He vaguely thought about the punishment that would come after all of this and shuddered.

Before he knew it the hero was at his side, trying to stay out of Shigaraki and Kurogiri's view. But the moment he laid a hand on Izuku, Shigaraki turned back and pure hatred followed.

Eraserhead stood on wobbly feet. His head was covered in blood and his goggles were gone, his arm fell limp at his side after being brutally broken.

"You," Shigaraki hissed. "You're the cheater! You made him stop fighting!" He lunged at Eraserhead as the man ducked out of the way. How he was still standing was a gamble. Still, he punched Shigaraki with as much strength as he could put into it and the man fell back.

The hand on his face fell off and he froze. "Father," He whispered.

Kurogiri left Shigaraki's side to help Nomu with his fight and Izuku could hear All Might struggling between his warp gates and the sounds of the students fighting but his focus wasn't on that at the moment.

The man's words seemed to stump Eraserhead for a moment but he quickly recovered. Shigaraki lunged once more, quicker than before, and time seemed to slow.

Loud bangs could be heard from not far away but we're muffled in his mind. The Nomu and All Might trading blows that sent air back at their faces and ruffled Izuku's long hair. He watched the villain near the heroes' face with an outstretched hand. Izuku's eyes widened with horror as he envisioned the dust falling to the ground in a heap only to be kicked away afterward, Shigaraki's smile forever engraved into his mind.

Then a loud explosion echoed throughout the facility and shook the ground. The three of them stopped and  looked back over at All Might to see him standing there in triumph, his fist raised in the air as the Nomu flew away and became a speck in the sky. Izuku could've sworn that he'd cried in relief, that was before he saw the blood on the heroes' shirt.

His injury.

That must be where it was.

Shigaraki started throwing a fit, but none of the words the man was hissing registered in his mind at that point other than the terror that he knew where All Might was hurt. If he knew, then the league could find out too.

Eraserhead didn't seem to notice how bad it was and before he could even take a step, Shigaraki punched him in the head so hard he fell to the ground. Added with his other injuries, it wasn't a surprise it knocked him out.

He lay on the ground, feet away, still and unmoving.

Kurogiri picked up the downed hand from the ground and gave it back to a raging Shigaraki.

All Might put his fist down and stood there, placing his ground. "What? Are you scared?" He said. The man stood in a plum of smoke, his eyes boring into Shigaraki. The more Izuku looked, the more the smoke seemed to be coming from All Might's body.

Kurogiri seemed to notice it too and that scared him, it scared him that the warp villain could tell that it was an act. All Might was stalling.

Shigaraki seemed to fall for it, though, and started scratching furiously at his neck. "If only Nomu was here. He'd rush you right now. Pound you into the ground without giving it a second thought."

"Tomura Shigaraki," Kurogiri leaned forward. "Please, do not fret. Look at him, he has definitely weakened. Nomu's attacks were successful."

He stopped scratching his neck and looked back up and then down at Izuku.

"He's on his own. The children seem to be frozen in fear. And look, our underlings are recovering. We likely have a few minutes before their reinforcements arrive. If we work together we can do this. We haven't missed our chance to kill All Might!"

Izuku's mind was going miles an hour with thoughts, solutions, and ideas. Fighting Shigaraki or Kurogiri was a dumb idea, he couldn't even move enough to try anything anyway. Speaking wouldn't work, his vocal cords were damaged to the point he was almost completely mute. He could try to mouth something to All Might, but his focus was on Shigaraki, not Izuku. His dagger was a few feet away, but too far to get to without attracting Kurogiri's attention.

"Yeah. Yeah, you're right. This is it, we have no choice. We have to do it now. I mean, the big end boss is right here. We could break him right now," Shigaraki said.

Before Izuku had the chance to squirm or struggle, Shigaraki reached a hand down towards Eraserhead. Five fingers outstretched to complete what was interrupted earlier. Izuku clenched his teeth tightly as tears ran free down his cheeks.

The image of one of the only people who'd ever been kind to him before crossed his mind. The picture of his disintegrating into nothing but dust and flakes of flesh to be blown away-

Then the bang from a gun rang throughout the room and Shigaraki reeled back in both surprise and pain.

Blood fell from his hand as he held it. Snipe stood at the top of the stairs with his gun out as he quickly reloaded and shot his weapon, the bullets flying in different directions.

"Ah man, the pros are here. It's game over for real. Let's go home and try this when we get-" A bullet rammed into his arm and two more into each of his legs.

Izuku tried to crawl away in alarm, fear coursing through his body but before he could, Kurogiri's mist went around him and Shigaraki, blocking out more bullets. He tried reaching his tied wrists out for help, for anyone to save him. Terror drawn onto his face like a cruel art piece.

Thirteen started using their Quirk to suck up the mist but it wasn't working fast enough. They would soon be gone.

He mouthed his last parting words with the number one hero, who stood there in shock and confusion.

Help me!

And just like that, he was swallowed by darkness and pain followed.

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Shouta woke up to the intoxicating and disgusting smell of disinfectant and the sterol scent of a hospital. For a moment he didn't know how or why he was there. He stared up at the pale white ceiling through thick bandages thinking about it.

Then it came crashing down on him.

He lurched forward and looked around in a frenzy. That villain, Shigaraki, he'd knocked him out. Surely more heroes arrived and his students were safe. All Might has been there and defeated that monster.

Surely everyone was okay.

Izuku.

Shouta started trying to get up, he had to find Izuku. The villains had him, but All Might wouldn't let them get away with the boy, right? Where was he? Was he in the same hospital as him? How hurt was he? He should be in the hospital with the kind of wounds he had. The boy was covered head to toe in bandages, he was obviously hurt.

Doctors heard his heart monitor pick up frantically and came running in. They pushed him back down on the bed, telling him to calm down.

He couldn't calm down, a child was hurt.

His voice felt like sandpaper but he tried to speak anyway, "Izuku. Where is he? Is he okay?"

The doctors seemed concerned and puzzled, as if they had a right to be confused. Izuku was probably scared and alone right now and needed a familiar face, even though it was wrapped in bandages.

"Sir. Sir, you need to calm down. Just relax, okay? Calm down," They weren't answering him.

Izuku was tied up and sick the last time he saw him. He definitely had a high fever and was bleeding, where was he? Could he see him soon?

His inner questions went unanswered as the doctors forced him to calm down and lay against the bed. They gave him some water and he gradually grew more and more tired.

Shouta's energy has been sapped so quickly that he felt weak.

Izuku.

I hope you're okay.

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Yo!
So this is this weeks chapter!
It could've had a better flow to it but I think it's as good as it can get.
I would've rewritten it to get it have a better flow but I have to stay true to the time marks in the show ƪ(˘⌣˘)ʃ
Anyway, I made the ending very angsty for you, so I hope you liked that.
By the way, my friend had, for some reason, decided to call me Ace from now on. It's literally one of the farthest things from my real name.... so I LOVE it. You hear that guys?
It's Ace-chan from now on and that's my new name!
I'll see you guys next Sunday!
Thanks for reading!
Bye!
~Ace-chan

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