okay, who's ready for
the chaos?...

I SAID WHO'S READY FOR
THE CHAOS?!

no one is ever really ready
for chaos. but it's a thrilling
time, nonetheless.

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also, should Tomomi sing
for the school festival?
which song should she
sing, if so?

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      After a few more days, the pro heroes teamed up with Nighteye to locate where Tomomi and Eri were exactly. Nighteye revealed how one of his men had bought toys for a little girl and a very expensive necklace, which he theorized as a manipulative tactic to gaslight Tomomi.

   Why? No one knows. Why was Overhaul gifting such an expensive gift to his victim if he only needed her for one thing?

   Just before they began their raid, Aizawa stopped by the hospital to tell Fuyumi, the twin's older sister and legal guardian, about the recent news. And while she was happy to know that they know where she is, she could only really make him promise to bring back her sister in one piece.

   Because she couldn't think about how they found Tomomi the first time she was taken. She didn't want to see her sister in that state ever again. Lifeless and damaged.

   After that was done, Aizawa began leaving the hospital ( Fuyumi was visiting her mother ). But he stopped in his tracks when he ran into someone he really hoped he wouldn't run into anymore.

   Enji Todoroki paused as he stood opposite to Aizawa. He was slightly shocked to see him there. But he shook it off and his eyes turned stoic.

   Aizawa looked at him blankly as the two waited a few seconds before speaking to each other.

   "You found her?" Enji asked, the tone of his voice was very much unreadable.

   Aizawa, deciding that now wasn't the time to be petty, just shook his head. "Yes, we did.....We'll get her back." He said monotoned.

   Enji nodded a little before walking past him. But not before saying something under his breath. "You're her teacher, you should stay that way."

   Now that irritated Aizawa and it made him snap. Before he could pass him, Aizawa replied with "If you acted like her father, maybe she wouldn't be looking for one right now."

   His words made him pause his walking as his eyes widened. Did he really just say that to him?

   Aizawa didn't bother to see his reaction as he began to leave. He had a job to do and he was not about to let some absentee father of a hero stop him from focusing on getting the girls back.

    It had been about 8 or 9 days since Tomomi received that necklace and in that time, Chisaki periodically came in to fill up a small bag of her blood, rendering her pretty weak and dizzy.

   But she managed to push through. She's honestly been through worse. So this was nothing to her. But what always brought her back was how much she wanted to get Eri out of here.

  She kept telling herself that she had to wait for the perfect moment. Eventually, one of them would slip and then she would be able to escape. She didn't know when that moment would come but she was hoping soon. Tomomi was starting to get bored and her arms and legs were getting tired of the restraints.

    "Hello, Miss Todoroki." Chisaki's voice flowed into her ears as Tomomi began looking around. Her arm was sore from the big needle Chisaki kept injecting into her vein so they were wrapped into a medical bandage.

    Her skin was also a little paler than before so when she whipped her head to look for the source of the voice, she felt a little dizzy.

    "Ready for another round?" He asked, as he began to move towards the metal table nearby. "Of course, you are."

   "How courteous of you." Tomomi mumbled, rolling her ice blue eyes.

   "Yes, well....I see you still don't like my gifts." He said, gesturing to the other gifts he gave her.

   In those few days, Tomomi had been given gifts from Chisaki for each time he took her blood. It was like a manipulative tactic of his. But she was not going to fall for it.

   "Why would I ever accept anything from you?"

    "Fair enough." He said, turning to her with the needle in his gloved hands. "You are a smart one, indeed."

   "And you are a ill mannered sociopath." She shot back, glaring at him. "Who needs to come up with better mask choices."

   "What have I told you about that smart mouth of yours." He warned her in a dangerously low voice. "It can get you into a world of trouble with me and you are in no position to sass me."

   "What's the matter? Didn't you tell me that you liked that I was fiesty before?" She coldly replied, ignoring his words. "You are very dimsided for a smart man like yourself."

    "And you're nothing but a child who's on her way to a loony bin with the amount of issues you have." He insulted right back. "What was it? Daddy didn't love you? Your brother kicked the bucket? Now you're looking for a father figure to fill a void that will never be full?"

    So he wants to hit people where it hurts, huh? she thought, her eyebrow twitching in annoyance. How original of him

     "That's original coming from a man with a bruised ego." She snapped back, knowing that it will hurt him. "If you're upset that a minor hurt your feelings, just say that."

    "You little-" He began but a huge boom made the room shake a little.

   "What the hell was that?" He mumbled, setting down the needle on the table next to her hand.

    The two listened as alarms began sounding through the building. The ground rumbled a bit and it sounded like a break in.

    "Ah, your friends are here." Chisaki said, seemingly not fazed by the revelations.

   Nothing bothers this guy, I see..... Tomomi thought, noticing his calm demeanor.

    "Doesn't matter, seeing as I've already got what I wanted from you." He said, grabbing something off of the table. "They won't find you here."

   "You sound so sure of yourself." She replied in a monotone.

  Chisaki looked at her for a brief moment before making his way to the door, leaving her in the room all together. And again, Tomomi was left with her own thoughts and with no way out.

    If she tried to use her quirk to get out of this, her brain was going to be fried. So freezing the neck brace was out of the question. But she was still determined to get Eri away from that sociopath.

   There has to be some way..... She thought, frustrated as she looked around the small medical room.

    She looked around, looking for a way to disable the neck brace. It was remote detonated and Chisaki was not stupid enough to-

    Tomomi paused as she looked at the medical table 2 feet away from her. There it was. The remote to the neck brace. But she would be stupid into thinking it was that easy. Chisaki was not an idiot.

    "Seems like you got yourself into a pickle." A deep and low voice spoke from the far left of the room.

    Tomomi whipped her head to the source, wondering where that was coming room. "Hello?" she called out.

    Not too long after, came a tall man in all black. His face had a skull tattooed over the entire surface of his handsome features as if it was painted there and his hood was covering his head.

    His hands were stuffed in his black pants pockets as he walked close to Tomomi. Even though he seemed very intimidating and very frightening, she didn't feel threatened by him. Like he was purposely making himself less of a threat to her, somehow.

    "Who are you?" She asked as he stopped right by her side.

    "Not that it's important but my name is Kurayami Ishida." He introduced himself formally. "You're Tomomi Todoroki. The girl who will forever have a target on her back."

    Tomomi frowned a bit. Was that an insult or what? She couldn't tell with his tone of voice. It was completely unreadable.

    "Don't worry, baby girl." Kurayami said casually, waving his hand over her neck brace. "You're not my enemy. And there is nothing I want more than to see Chisaki's demise."

    The death symbol on the palm of his hand glowed as black smoke began to fall and spread all over the metal material. Tomomi froze as she wondered what he was doing.

    Kurayami ignored her curious gaze at him as the black smoke from his hands began to melt the neck brace open. Tomomi gasped a little as she felt her neck become free from the shock collar. The remains of the collar opened up, allowing her to breathe properly.

    Once he was done, he waved his hand over her strap, also melting them off completely. Setting her free.

    Once she was free from the straps, she immediately rose up and looked at Kurayami with curious eyes. Why was he helping her? She had so many questions to ask him.

    "I know what you're thinking." He said, stuffing his hand back in his pocket. "And my answer is this.....Us X-cell kids gotta stick together, right?"

   "What?" She said, shocked by his words. He knew? How? She just met him.

    Kurayami nearly chuckled at her shocked face but remained stoic and emotionless. "I know a lot about you....because I am a lot like you and people like us are very hard to find....remember that. Try focusing on the center of your hands."

     She frowned and looked at her hands. Wondering what he meant by that. He couldn't possibly be talking about the strange burn scars on them, right?

    "But w-what do you mean-" she was about to ask but he disappeared once she looked away from her wrist. It was like he was just an imagination.

    "Where did he go?" She mumbled, looking around the quiet room.

    Tomomi sighed as she didn't have time to thing about it. She looked at her palms, gazing over the frost bite burn marks on them again.

    Deciding to take his advice, she began focusing on her palms.

   She frowned, channeling her quirk into her hands. Her veins in her wrists and forearms began glowing like no other as she focused harder.

    She noticed the light blue glowing substance started traveling from her wrists and up her hands. Like he said, the glowing substance in her wrists began to center right at the burn marks.

    Then suddenly, a burst of sapphire blue fire shot right out of her hands and up the ceiling, making her jump. The fire shot through the ceiling, penetrating the concrete material.

    She looked at the holes it created. Around the cracks, grew pure white dry ice as smoke emitted from it. Tomomi's eyes widened tenfold as she could not believe what she did.

    Looking back at her hands, the fire dimmed down to a weakened ball of flame  as she rose one hand up, allowing the extremely cold flames surround her hand.

    "What is this?" She whispered, waving her hand around a little. ".......Whoa...."

     Another boom brought her out of her daze, making the flames disappear. She remembered what she needed to do. "I have to find Eri."

So yeah, this is a bit of a shortish
chapter and I apologize for the long
ass wait.

Writer's block freaking sucks. But I'm
back!

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