•Manipulation• [BNHA × Male!OC]

Chapter 59: CANNA PUMMA BALLZ IN YO JAWWW

"RETURN OUR FRIENDS!" Midoriya yells at the slim, masked figure perched atop the branch of a tree.

The villain chuckled, three turqoise orbs held between his fingers. "Do you really think they belong to you?"

"Are they not their own people?" he muses, tauntingly rolling the spheres between his fingers.

Shoto steps forward, attempting to freeze the man in place. However, he nimbly sidesteps the attack and leaps onto the next tree.

Despite the attempt at capturing him, the villain seemed rather unphased, continuing his adopted narrator role.

"We simply wish to show them a different path than the world of heroism they have been stifled with from birth," you could practically hear the shit-eating grin in his voice.

Shoto frowns. "Don't underestimate us, stop monologuing," he glares at the villain, his hands curling into fists under the 1B student's thighs.

The masked figure chuckles and nods.

"I apologise, I do have a habit of putting on a show," he laughs.

"Why did you take Ryo and Tokoyami?" Midoriya demands sternly. "Wasn't Kacchan your target?"

The villain turns to the green-haired boy, Shoto taking the oportunity to secretly pass off the student on his back to the brunette girl behind him.

"Ah yes, well, after he defeated Moonfish so violently, I just had to," he crosses his arms and tilts his head, seemingly proud of his accomplishment.

"As for the long haired one," he paused, seemingly to choose his next words more deliberately.

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"He's of, how do you say, great interest to our leader-"

With a metallic woosh, ice emitted from Todoroki's foot, expanding into an iceberg in a split second. It was the move he had used on Sero during the UA Sports Festival.

It charged straight for the villain, closing the gap in a blink.

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Yet the bastard still managed to leap out of the way, the three classmates still, quite literally, in his grasp.

The group gave chase and yet the man was still out of their reach.

"I have a plan-!" Midoriya pants as they slow to a stop.
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As the marbles fell out of the villains mouth, Shoji and Shoto dive forward.

Shoji manages to grab the one he had gone after while Shioto was inches away from wrapping his hands around both remaining marbles.

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'just- a little- closer-!'

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"Too bad, Todoroki Shoto..."

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Shoto's eyes widened in dread as the scarred villain snatched both marbles from the boy's fingertips.

He slammed into the dirt but felt no impact as all that he could register at the moment was...

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He failed.

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And two of his friends would pay the price.

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It was probably desperaion that made him think this but, the one hope the boy had left was that the marble Shoji had saved was one of them

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Either of them.

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Please.

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"Check who we got!" Dabi ordered the masked villain who tipped his hat in response.

The aqua orbs expanded until they took human form.

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"No...-!" Shoto had muttered breathlessly, unaudible to anyone but himself.

Yet the feeling that surged through his chest were as though an amp had played his voice back a hundredfold.

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Dabi had his hand around the neck of a paralysed Katsuki.

His other hand as wrapped around the white hair of an unconcious Ryo, his body hanging limp as it laid crumpled on the floor.

Shoto dragged himself off the floor and ran for the pair.

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"Don't..." Katsuki warned, his voice uncharacteristically low, his eyes trained on the dirt-covered boy.

This made Shoto hesitate.

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And the villains got away.

Shoto falls to his knees as the sound of footsteps behind him signalled the arrival of the other two Bakugou escort squad members.

Midoriya's howl of grief pierced through the night yet the sound muffled as it entered Shoto's ears.

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He buried his fists in the dirt as he fell forward.

His teeth grit so tightly a vein ran along his neck as his eyes were wide and glassy, all the while his mind repeats...

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failure.
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UH, WELL I GUESS I MADE IT A LIL TOO DRAMATIC.

NOT GONNA CHANGE IT THO.