TRIGGER WARNING: DEATH. BRUTAL,
BRUTAL DEATH.

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Shinsou's POV

Everything was dark and empty... not really in a bad way, though. All I saw was black, and I was just... floating in the mass. With the lack of shapes and figures in the area of my mind, my imagination ran rampant and, soon enough, the black abyss was filled with glittering stars. I dreamt of comets and meteors flying across and above me. It would be completely peaceful, if it weren't for the intense ache I felt in my left arm. I barely caught glimpses of it when the meteors would fly and the light revealed my body for split seconds. My arm looked normal... well... about as normal as a scarred and entirely discolored arm could look. Which is why I was confused...

What happened before I got here?

Why am I still here?

I feel perfectly awake in my head... but I can't seem to open my eyes. I swam around the darkness, feeling myself move as wind pushed past my body and grazed my skin, but my vision always stayed the same. The stars twinkled, but, were eventually being swept up like dust into an corporeal form. Above me was now a shining Mashirao... I couldn't see his face, only the vague yet bright figure of his body. He was facing towards me and, before I could bask into any more of his glory, he shot at me like lighting-

"Hitoshi! Wake up!"

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"Hitoshi, can you hear me??" Mashirao was staring directly at me, eyes filled with worry, but he soon relaxed as he saw my eyes flutter open slowly. I felt myself laying on the ground, blades of grass sticking up and poking at my body. He was leaning over me on his knees, hands grasping my shoulders.

"Thank god!! I thought you were seriously hurt-!" He lunges at me, quickly pulling me up just slightly to wrap his arms around my chest. His tail gripped tightly around my leg. With a tired grin spreading across my face, I hug hum back lightly with my right arm; the one NOT in pain.

But, as I move upwards to embrace him, my arm send a small shockwave of pain throughout my body. It somehow knocked something back into my head, and I remembered the crash. I was knocked out almost immediately upon impact since we were t-boned. Although... that's weird. Getting t-boned on a bridge with two vertical lanes...?

It was on purpose.

"Ah..." I took in a sharp inhale of breath, almost hissing. He faltered for a moment and let go.

"Sorry- did I hurt you? Your arm is a little fucked, but Shouji put it in a sling so there should be less aching to it."

"No, it just pulled a couple muscles is all. Is my arm broken? It's hard to feel through it."

"Yeah... it's all bent up, but Mr. Aizawa called teachers to come pick us up! We'll all be loaded into seperate cars and Recovery Girl will take care of you!"

"That's good, and at least there's some bright side to having an arm as fucked as mine.." I laughed quietly. "Do you know which car I'll be in?" I asked and his eyes shut for a moment, eyebrows furrowing and hand coming up to rub his cheek as he though.

"Well, we have 5 serious injuries, and 20 students, so probably 4 cars will come. You'll probably be seated with Sero, Kaminari, Bakugou and Tokoyami since you all got the worst of it. Recovery Girl might ride with you then to treat your injuries as soon as possible. Not sure when the cars will get here, but you'll be alright." His face relaxed and he smiled warmly at me. Deadass his smiles always make me forget my pain, as long as he keeps looking at me like this I don't think I'll need Recovery Girl.

"That's good... are the rest of the people you named awake? Are they alright? How hurt?" My voice steadily rose. Half the people he named are essentially my best friends... minus Todoroki. I hope they're alright.

"Calm down, don't stress yourself out too much. Tokoyami is the least hurt of you five, Dark Shadow absorbed most of the pain he should've felt. You're second to least hurt, since you can barely feel your broken arm. Kaminari's arm is fractured and his cheek bone and socket splintered, so some might have punctured his eye. Sero's elbows are...completely split open. Huge, bleeding gaping holes rather than his regular slits.. but, other than that and some major pressure on his bones.. he's fine. He was actually the second one to wake up. Bakugou... he's bleeding the worst, and he has the worst bone breakage. It was honestly heartbraking to see the genuine pain on his face while Shouji put on his slings...but I think he's alright." Mashi sighed. At least they're... somewhat ok. I've seen them encounter worse for as long as I've been in the hero course.

"This might sound a bit rude... but I'm kinda glad Tokoyami was knocked out. Even though it's not completely dark yet, despite the sun setting, the sheer terror, despair and anger Tokoyami would've felt had he been awake... Dark Shadow would have gone insane." Mashi's laugh was shakey.

"Damn... you're right. Tokyo's gotten a lot better at controlling his emotions... but there's no way in hell he'd handle this."

"Well.. at least everyone's alive."

"Yeah..."

"Everyone!!" I snapped my head up to look at dad, he was waving at all of us and I saw 4 big, white cars appear in the distance. Turns out Mashirao was right.

"The cars are pulling up, so here's the deal: Shinsou, Bakugou, Tokoyami, Kaminari and Sero are going to go into a car first! They'll be healed by Recovery Girl immediately, and the rest of you will load into whatever cars are available!" Conveniently, as he finished speaking, all four of the cars pulled up. Shouji was instructed to carry the five the aforementioned people into the car one at a time. Mashirao and I shared a small and nice kiss before Shouji helped me up to file me into the car. Even as the door closed and we were prepared to leave, Tokyo and Bakugou were still asleep. Dark Shadow hugged Tokyo and slept on him to keep him comfortable, but, with Kirishima now gone, Bakugou was the most terrified I've ever seen him. So much confusion and pain appeared on his face in a short amount of time. I'm no Kirishima... but, to hopefully ease Bakugou's sleeping figure, and I pressed into the car's left door and wrapped my good arm around him, pulling him into my embrace to let him sleep as comfortably as possible. He grew less tense, thankfully. He just needs to be with someone he trusts right now, even if his mind isn't conscious enough to recognize it, his body certainly is.

And with that, and Recovery Girl using her quirk to heal up Kaminari in the front seat, we took off.

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With everyone healed and awake, and about 10 minutes left until we got to campus, the air in the car soothed.

Snipe (the one driving us) allowed us to play music over the speakers. Kaminari convinced us all to listen to his 'vibes' playlist. Staring at the darkening purple sky, a bright reddish-orange light glowing the further to the bottom you got, while Francis Forever by Mitski in the background, and Bakugou (VERY surprisingly) letting himself be held-and even wrapping his own arms around my waist-by me, it finally felt like there was some peace in the world.

Until we hit a weird pothole in the road.

We were stuck quite deep into the road, an obvious dip felt as we were pulled towards the front of the car.

"Ah, dammit.." Snipe says simply, motioning his hand to open the door...

But we kept sinking further and further.

Frantically, Snipe opened the door. He looked down and saw we weren't in a sink hole... it was an odd, blackish-grey liquid that had the consistency of a milkshake.

"DAMMIT- EVERYONE OUT OF THE CAR, NOW!!!" He practically screamed.

I tried my hardest to grip at the handle of the door, but it felt like I was moving in slow motion. Ever since Snipe opened the car door, there was an odd gas that fumed in. It smelled like used fireworks and spoiled meat.

The more I inhaled, the more consciousness I lost.

My eyes were still half lidded as I looked out of the window into the black puddle... there was no relfection... instead... it was more of a tinted window, showing a room on the other side, almost like a portal.

And, the last thing I felt before completely losing consciousness was Bakugou's trembling body holding me closer than I ever thought he could.

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The only time I regain consciousness is when the smell of firework ash and rotting meat abruptly escaped. One second it was potent enough to completely fill every sense in my body, the next it was gone. No trace left behind.

My eyes jutted awake and I shot upwards as I felt what was basically ice against my skin. Sitting up... the room I was in was almost entirely dark, save for the blue tinited moonlight shining through a barred window...

Wait... ROOM??!

WHY AM I IN A ROOM? WHAT ROOM IS THIS?! WHERE AM I?!?!

I get up panickedly but immediately hit my head on a roof above me, falling back down and flat on my ass. With a grunt, I rub the fast forming knot on the top of my head and look around the icy prison.

The whole room was dark, the blue light only shining down on the....

Cage.

The cage I was in.

As I looked around, I saw a sleeping figure next to me. In fear I jumped back, my back making direct contact with ice-cold bars and aching them the longer they stayed in contact.

The floor was made of stone, I couldn't see a door yet through the dark.

It must've been a while since someone had taken care of the room here considering the frostbite-esque cold wafting through the whole room.

Wide-eyed, I stared at the body, trying to make out who, or what, it was.

It moved.

It moved.

There was a groan released from them as they started to wake up.

"Where the fuck am I..."

What, I recognize that voice.

"Bakugou?!" I whisper shout. His head snaps to look at me, eyes already completely open. He stands up but, facing the same unfortunate fate I did, he hit his head hard and fell back down.

"FUCK-"

"Hey- hey quiet down. We don't know who or what could be in here."

"Just where the fuck is here?!" He whisper screamed. He tried to put on a facade of anger, but I could feel the trembling in his voice...

He's terrified. Completely and utterly terrified.

The black abyss of the room around us with the only source of light being from the blue moon outside, reflecting off the cage surrounding us which smelled of blood and reflecting nothing but pure glacial judgement and mercilessness into our glassine eyes.

We were scared.

"Where are we?! Who took us?!" Bakugou's voice began to crack under pressure, he was facing towards me on his knees now.

"I don't know- I don't know." I tried to say as calmly as I could.

"Where's Eijirou?! What IF SOMEONE TOOK EIJIROU?!"

"Bakugou I- I don't.."

"WHAT ARE WE GONNA DO IF WE DIE DOWN HERE?! WHo WILL RESCUE US?! WHAT WILL WE DO THEN, SHINSOU?!!"

He screamed.

I couldn't take it.

I didn't scream back, I didn't feel a break or a snap...

I melted.

Any facade of coolness I had, it stopped completely.

I looked down, and I couldn't hold it in anymore.

I just... cried.

There was no noise, just the small paps of tears hitting the metal cage. I heard Bakugou gasp quietly. His eyes bored holes into my skull.

"...I don't know."

Bakugou's breathing was quiet, I could practically hear gears turning in his head even if I wasn't looking at him. I only heard his body shift as he got closer...

And hugged me.

It was more gentle than one could ever believe Bakugou was capable of doing. He was a warm body in this frigid room, arms comfortably wrapped around my waist with hands resting calmly on my sides, and face dug directly into my shoulder.

I had no choice but to hug him back, hanging my arms loosely around his shoulders and digging my face back in his neck in return, warm tears staining his uniform.

"Shinsou... I.."

"I know. You didn't mean it. We're both scared, we're both panicking. You're scared for Kirishima, I'm scared for Mashirao. You're scared for yourself and everyone, I'm scared for everyone and myself. I'm scared for you. I'm scared."

His breathing was as shakey as ever.

"It's ok to admit it."

"I'm... scared for you too.. I'm scared. I'm terrified."

"Good.. it's alright. We'll find a way out of here, and we've find a way to save everyone. Like heroes."

"You'll save everyone, huh?" A gravelly, almost sick voice speaks from the darkness.

Rather than me and Bakugou breaking apart into fighting positions, we keep one arm each wrapped around each other, facing towards where the voice came from.

"How cute... what nice friends you are. Thinking you can save everyone in your class."

"WHO THE FUCK ARE YOU?" Bakugou screams. Slowly yet suddenly, bright lights turn on, showing the rest of the room... cages surrounded the area. The staff driving the cars as well as our friends completely passed out in the cages circled around the room. At the center of it all... was Overhaul.

"I THOUGHT YOU FUCKING DIED?!" Bakugou screams in half fear, half anger.

"That was a temporary setback." He glares at us, pulling gloves over... what seems to be too solid of a color to be an actual arm... prosthetics.

"Who'd you say you missed? Eijirou and Mashirao?" He walked almostly obnoxiously slow towards one direction of the room.

Silently, Bakugou and I watched as he paced towards a cage.... THAT HELD KIRISHIMA AND MASHIRAO.

Bakugou and I shot apart, ramming into the bars ahead.

"EIJIROU!!! EIJIROU WAKE UP AND LOOK AT ME!!! BABY I'M SO HAPPY YOU'RE OKAY!!!"

"MASHI- MASHI YOU'RE ALRIGHT! WAKE UP AND LET'S GET EVERYONE OUT OF HERE!!!!" We both screeched until our own ears hurt.

"They won't wake up for a while.. their doses were much heavier than yours, I'm afraid." He cracks his knuckles, staring down at them with shark eyes through the gaps in the bars.

"But do you know who else got low doses?"

On cue, there were groans heard in the two cages next to us.

To our left, Kaminari and Sero, to our right, Tokyo.

"KAMI!!! SERO!! TOKYO!!!" I screamed, crawling on my knees back and forth to look between them.

"OH MY GOD!! SHINSOU, BAKUGOU! TOKOYAMI- HANTA!!"

"DENKIII!!!" The two of them wept in each other's arms

"WHERE ARE WE?!"

"Wouldn't you like to know, Tokoyami." Overhaul says simply, slowly removing one of his gloves.

"Would you all mind giving me your attention?" The disgusting fucking disgrace of a human speaks. Reluctantly, we turn our heads to look at him as he still stood next to Mashirao's and Kirishima's cage.

"Now, after I show you this, I want you all to look at Tokoyami." He flexes his hand, and reaches it inside, gently touching Mashirao's tail.

He explodes.

Nothing but blood covered the cage and Kirishima's body.

"MASHIRAOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!"

I repeatedly ram myself into the cage.

"OJIROU!!! OJIROUUuuUuUuu!!!!"

"OJIR- FUCK OJIROU!!!!!"

"NONONONONON- OJiIIROUUU!!!"

"I told you all to look at Tokoyami did I not?"

With nothing but pure melancholy spreading throughout my body, I turned to look at a disheveled Tokoyami as sobs wracked my entire body. He was sobbing just as hard as I was, gripping his head with his hands, tearing out feathers. There were puddles of tears already flooding the room.

Every one of us was sobbing.

"Do you guys see that? What time is it right now?"

"BAAAASTAAAARD!!!!! STEP THE FUCK AWAY FROM EIJIROU BEFORE I MELT YOUR SKIN INTO A FUCKING PASTE!!!! I'LL BLAST YOU TO FUCKING HELL AND BACK- WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE?!?!?"

With an unamused expression, Overhaul reached in and grabbed Kirishima. He tore his entire body apart but rebuilt it just as quickly outside of the cage.

He dragged Kirishima's unconscious body right in front of me and Bakugou.

Before Bakugou could so much as reach out towards Overhaul, he grabbed Kirishima's head and.... his skin cracked apart like the earth in a harsh erthquake, before our very eyes, we saw Kirishima's eyes and tongue be liquified. With the intense pain felt, and how slow the process was going, Kirishima woke up immediately, letting out a screech petrifying enough to curtle satan's blood.

"KATSUKI!!! IT HURTS!! WHAT'S HAPPENING, WHERE ARE YOU , whrERE AM I- EVERYTHING'S GETTING DARK- I'M BREAKIBG APART KATSUKI!!! KATSUKI!!!!!!!!"

"EIJIROU- FUCK- EIJIROU- EIJIROU!!!!!!!!!"

Kirishima exploded.

His blood caked Bakugou's face.

"nOooooOoOOOOOOOO!!!!!!"

Overhaul grabbed Bakugou by the collar, repeatedly slamming his face into the bars.

"YOU SEE THAT, YOU WORTHLESS PIECE OF SHIT?! IF YOU HADN'T SCREAMED AND JUST KEPT QUIET, EIJIROU WOULD STILL BE ALIVE! IF YOU WEREN'T SO FUCKING USELESS, HE WOULDN'T HAVE DIED!! IT'S YOUR FAULT. IT'S YOUR FUCKING FAULT HE DIED!!!" Overhaul finally let him go, and Bakugou was sprawled across the floor, fresh blood spreading from his own wounds and mixing with Kirishima's. He was sobbing. Sobbing and hiccuping. His entire body shook.

"Eijirou... Eijirou... Eijirou....." He whispered over and over again.

"I'm sorry... I couldn't save you... I'm sorry, Ei... I'm sorry baby... I'm sorry baby..."

My body wouldn't stop moving. I was shaking and hiccuping and crying harder than I ever had in my entire life. But... I still crawled over to Bakugou with shaking limbs, I pulled him up and hugged the life out of him. He never cried harder, he never hugged back, just letting more tears flow, whispering into my shoulder, "I'm sorry Eijirou... I'm sorry Eijirou... I'm sorry Eijirou...."

"Now... with that out of the way. It's nighttime, and look at Tokoyami."

All I saw was Tokoyami's blurry figure through my tears. Curled up into a ball and whimpering.

"No Dark Shadow." Overhaul's eyes closed slightly in a smile.

..He's right.

By now, Bakugou's quirk would be going crazy. Kaminari would be short circuiting whether on purpose or accident, Sero would've tried to apprehend him with his tape...

Our quirks are completely gone.

"This isn't temporary. They're gone.

Forever."

It'd be impossible to cry any harder than we already were.

"Now, I haven't made my mind up on who I'll keep alive. It'll be one of the three cages, for sure." He smiled, irises and pupils shrinking in insanity.

We can't speak.

We only watch as he goes from cage to cage.

I turn around and close my eyes tight, holding Bakugou as close as I can.

"Don't look Bakugou... don't look Katsuki..."

We sobbed in each other's arms as we heard what was happening around us.

We heard the cages crush and creak, making paste of whoever was inside. We heard the squelching of blood. The breaking of bones, the spewing and squirting and explosions of organs.

Some cages were crushed entirely.

In some he created iron spikes that shot up from the ground, stabbing those in the cage. Those who met that fate weren't killed instantly, so all we heard was screams.

I heard the screaming of Jin and Shuichi in one as well.

How did he find them

How did he find them...

We're just kids

We're just kids.

Eventually.... it was just the five of us left.

"Eenie... meenie... miney.."

"NO!!! NO PLEASE NO!!!!"

"LET US GO PLEASE!!!!"

"PLE-"

"Mo."

Kaminari and Sero were gone.

The echoes of their screams would haunt me forever.

Overhaul was laughing hysterically. Maniacally.

"Now... will it be Tokoyami or you two...?"

His voice was in a sing-songy tease. The chills sent up my spine...

"PLEASE!!! PLEASE DON'T KILL ME!!!" Tokoyami screeched.

...Tokoyami's too smart for that.

He isn't begging to not die.

He's begging to be killed.. using reverse psychology... to spare us.

I snap my head up in shock, staring at Tokoyami with pure dread. He looks at me and smiles sadly. It was the saddest smile I'd ever seen him, or anyone in that fact, make.

"...how dumb do you think I am, Tokoyami?" Overhauk let out a breathy chuckle.

"I know what you're trying to do... trying to spare your worthless friends... not even CONSIDERING that living with this guilt... would be a fate worse than death." I saw the look on Tokoyami's face contort immediately into... everything. Every emotion at once.

Overhaul bent down into a squat slowly, making piercing eye contact with Tokoyami, who physically recoils from the sheer pain and fear felt in his heart.

Overhaul makes contact, pressing his finger tips onto Tokoyami's forehead, who was staring down at the ground with his beak wide open, eyes glassy and staring emptily at the floor; he's lost.

"I want you to come back to life... or live in the afterlife... knowing you made your friends experience a fate worse than death." He smiled one last time before tearing Tokoyami's body to shreds. He didn't explode... lacerations cut him into ribbons, he was still alive despite his organs literally spilling onto the floor. He'd die in a matter of seconds.

Yet... with his final words... and final actions... he stared at me, dead in the eyes. I saw the light leave his eyes in real time, the once glittering rubies turning into molten stone.

"I'm sorry Hitoshi. Katsuki."

He died.

Overhaul bent down and looked at us, Bakugou still digging his face into me and muttering incoherently.

Overhaul laughed.

"Is this all it took to break the almight Bakugou Katsuki? I must say... I'm disappointed." He scoffed in my face. He reeked of death.

"Who are you to talk of disappointment?" I practically snarled at him. He shook his head at me, sighing almost dreamily.

"Do you know... you've killed the one thing that kept me alive in this world. You murdered the one person I lived for?"

"Yes."

"Well.... do you know what that means?"

"What?~" he teased.

In the blink of an eye, I let go of Bakugou, and clamped his throat between both of my hands, aiming to kill.

"IT MEANS I'M NOT SCARED TO DIE, YOU FUCKING BASTARD!"

He began coughing and hacking as my iron grip only got tighter and tighter.

He's killed everything I loved the most.

Everything I've loved in general.

If I die? So fucking be it.

He grabbed my wrists and forced my hands off of his throat, leaving deep scratch marks. Ones that were deep enough to be considered slits. Blood came pouring out.

He took my right wrist and turned it a full 180 degrees. The loud crack heard was nothing to me. The pain meant nothing to me.

He quickly ran back, landing back on his feet but on a fault. He immediately gripped at his bleeding throat and fixed it completely, the only thing left being the blood from earlier.

I saw hives... they immediately broke out on his skin. His own blood caused him to break out in hives.

I shut my eyes completely, expecting, waiting for him to lash out and kill me without a second thought.

Nothing ever came.

"YOU THINK THAT WILL BE ENOUGH TO MAKE ME KILL YOU?!" His laugh made my blood and body freeze.

"Oh no...nonononononoNO." He revealed a manic smile from beneath his mask.

"No. Now you'll get to live knowing you failed to kill me. You failed to get me to do what you wanted. You failed."

He punched me.

And I was out cold.

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Bakugou and I woke up in an alley.

Once we woke up, we scrambled to each other.

We hugged.

My wrist was broken.

He was still covered in Kiri's blood.

Mashirao's dead

Mashirao's dead.

Everyone's dead.

I didn't want it to be true.. I refused to believe it was true...

I heaved a heavy sigh

It was never supposed to end like this...

Never...

-(THE END)-

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(A/N: ...

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