They're Not Here: A BNHA Villain Deku Fanfic

Chapter 7: The Before

Their remains float in the water. The left side of her face and a bit of her left foot is all that make her recognizable. The rest of her remains are a dusty mess that mingles with the completely decimated body beside her. Asui Tsuyu. I fought her in my first battle training. She lost then. She lost now.

"This...this...no! This is a trick...has to be...one of their quirks is messing with us, right?" Kirishima looks up at me from where he's crouched over the dead bodies. He wipes vomit off of his chin with the back of his hand. "Right?"

I look away to hide how badly my face is twitching. "She's dead, man. And whoever she was with is dead too."

"What? I mean no...we can't...this can't..."

"Stay here if you have to," I mutter. I start to slosh my way towards the bank only to fall on my ass as Kirishima jerks me backward. "The hell-" I start. Then I see him. The loser with the hand on his face leering down at us.

He tilts his head and smiles. "Huh? There's more of you...eh?"

He lifts his hand (his actual hand...not one of the many hands attached to him) and I lift my own. He disappears in a veil of smoke and flames.

"Okay! Come on!" Kirishima shouts.

"Are you out of your damn mind? We're fighting that hands bastard!" I bellow back.

"What? For real? He killed Tsuyu!"

"We don't know he did that. And if he did..." I glance back at him briefly. "All the more reason to kick his ass to hell, right?"

Kirishma looks from me to the corpse and then back to me. He nods. "Okay. Let's do this then."

We don't. At that moment All Might's voice thunders through the entire facility and all eyes - heroes and villains alike - turn towards him.

A few minutes later I'm watching All Might lose. I move first. Kirishima's right behind me and Icy Hot Bastard comes out of nowhere.

We help All Might fight back the villains but just when we think we can start to chill a little bit it happens...All Might turns into the crackhead from my dream.

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There were two student fatalities in the attack on USJ. Asui Tsuyu and Minoru Mineta have been confirmed as deceased.

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Kirishima is still snuffling when All Might walks into the office we were called into. Icy Hot has been leaning against the wall staring at patches of space for about fifteen minutes now but he does All Might the honor of looking up when he walks in.

"Thanks for coming in," All Might says quietly, sitting down on the sofa across from where Kirishima and I are sitting. Icy Hot stays where he is.

"Took you long enough," I grumble.

"Er...sorry about that. Um, this'll probably be the last time I'll be meeting any of you kids in here," All Might goes on. "There's no avoiding it. Yuuei will more than likely be shut down by the end of the week."

"Seriously?!" Kirishima bursts. "I mean...we did everything we could, right? They can't-"

"We didn't do enough," All Might breaks off. He hunches forward and stares down at the floor. "We didn't do enough."

He suddenly disappears in a cloud of steam and when it dies down we all see the small, gaunt man all three of us saw after we fought the League of Villains yesterday. "I thought...I think explaining this to you is the least I can do."