Ultra Blue Violence (Dabi)

Chapter Twenty - Six: Zenith

"Dammit." growled Katsuki Bakugou holding a hand over his mouth trailing behind Shoto Todoroki.

"There must be some kind of gas filling out here." said Shoto, carrying his unconscious classmate on his back. "I'm worried about the others who are still in the forest. But I don't see there's much that we can do now. Hopefully Ragdoll can take care of everyone else."

"Don't tell me what to do, Icy—"

The two boys were stopped short in their tracks seeing a strange person kneeling ahead in front of a dismembered hand. His entire body was wrapped in leather. His arms were strapped around his torso like a straitjacket and additional straps coming down to his legs decorated with red spikes.

"Crap." cursed Bakugou. "Who's that? Hey, which group was in front of us again?"

"Tokoyami, I think, and Shouji."

Their hearts where now pounding in their chests with fear at the sight of the dismembered hand at this strange man.

"So pretty." the person in their path gurgled horrendously. "No... have to work. Can't..." Painful sounds escaped his mouth as he rose to his feet. "But it's so delicious. Beautiful flesh. Don't tempt me." The strange man turned around. "I have a job to do." his entire head was covered in black leather and spiked straps only leaving his mouth open. There was metal prongs keeping back his lips to expose his teeth.

A crazed and excited look came to Bakugou's face. "No fighting. Is that the rule?"

That was when a mental broadcast came from Mandalay for a second time.

"Everyone in Class A and Class B, in the name Pro Hero Eraserhead you are granted permission to engage in combat. I repeat. Use your training. You may fight these Villains."

Not shortly after another message was relayed. "Listen, we've discovered one of the Villains targets. A student named Kacchan. Kacchan, you should try to avoid combat, and stick to a group. I hope you can hear me!"

Bakugou ran at full speed towards the Villain ahead of him with every intent of fighting. "I can focus if you got out of my damn head! I can take care of myself!" A mirage of blades shot out from the Villains teeth in a jungle of blades causing Bakugou to holt when ice protruded a wall in time to block the mirage of teeth.

"Don't rush into this fight carelessly!" shouted Shoto, with a trail of ice from his foot to the wall in front of Bakugou.

"Have to keep going..." the Villain said, suspended in the air by his own teeth. "Have to work... do my job!" he screamed in agony.

"Weren't you listening to Mandalay?" said Shoto, still carrying his unconscious classmate. "They're here because they're after you."

"Telling us not to engage and then changing their minds. I don't know how but I get the feeling this is Deku's fault."

Rage was filling Bakugou by the second and he jumped out from behind the wall of ice ready to engage in a battle. "Well, I don't care what anyone says—!"

A part of the teeth blades extended from the main branch trying to reach Bakugou when more ice blocked the attack and raised to the Villain. The teeth retracted and the Villain tried to make another web of blades only to be blocked by ice again, and he propelled himself back into the trees.

"Dammit," cursed Shoto. "He's good at manoeuvring through the terrain with his Quirk."

"This freak looks like a scrawny little sidekick to me! Come on, you bastard!" Bakugou shouted. The Villain rose from the canopy leaning entirely on the blades protruding from his mouth.