Right Where You Left Me

Chapter 8

Car Radio -Twenty One Pilots

-3 months later-

"Hey I need Chargebolt, Red Riot, Dynamight, and Jade to come to the conference room please." Midoriya popped his head into the gym.

We all grabbed our stuff and headed to the second to top floor to...

"Are we getting the 'dating coworkers' talk from Iida?" Kirishima tugged on Bakugo's arm.

"I'll fucking blast him out of the building if that's what this shit is. I was just about to beat my personal best rep count." Bakugo grumbled.

"I think we'll be fine Bakubro. Maybe it's a mission! We haven't been on one in a while." Denki grinned at me as we walked into the elevator.

Once we got up to the conference room floor, Midoriya ushered us into the room. "Alright heroes, we have a heavy hitting mission for you guys. No stealth, no negotiation. We already had Mindfreak and Creati try those methods. I need you four to go in and dispose of this villain."

"That's what I'm talking about." Me and Bakugo say in unison.

"No casualties. Unless they need to be." Midoriya looks between me and Bakugo.

Midoriya goes over the details with us before dismissing us to get ready. I head to the girls floor to suit up.

"You better come back with no missing organs." Mina nudges me.

"Denks won't allow a scratch on me." I laugh.

"You've been getting really good at setting boundaries with your quirk, Ari." Ururaka smiles at me.

"Just be careful. This villain seems to have mastered his telekinesis quirk." Momona looks up at me as she ties my boots up for me.

"That's never stopped me before." I tighten my spiked belt around my waist.

"Are you ready Jade?" I hear Denki right outside of the locker room.

"Sure am, Chargebolt." I smirk as I check that my suit is on properly.

"I love when you call me by my hero name." Denki purrs.

Tsuyu opens the locker room door and Denki turns a bright shade of scarlet when he realizes that all of the girls heard him.

"Are the other two ready?" I giggle at him.

"Ye-yeah." We get into the elevator. "You look so powerful in your hero costume."

Now it's my turn to blush as he slips his hand around my waist. "How about you take it off of me after this, yeah?"

Denki pulls me against him and ghosts his lips against mine. "I would love to do that."

We begin to kiss desperately until the elevator hits the bottom floor. We meet up with Dynamight and Red Riot and head to our mission location. Once there, Dynamight tells us the plan.

"I'm gonna blast the doors open and Red is gonna shield us initially. Pikachu here is gonna blow out the power, then Jade and I are gonna go in quirks ablazing. Simple as that." Dynamight whisper yells.

"You have such a way with words." I chuckle.

"Well Red and I have a movie night planned already so I'd like to get back to regular life after this." Dynamight rolls his eyes.

"Wanna bake some cookies tonight?" Denki asks me.

"I'd love to." I smile at him.

"Alright extras. Let's fucking go."

Bakugo's plan goes smoothly, the enemies falling when need be. Except...

"Where's this shitty main villain?" Bakugo yells out. "Fucking show yourself coward!"

And show himself he did. Everything in the building began to fly around and we dodged when needed. I look around for Denki and watch almost in slow motion as large jagged pieces of broken glass shoot out at him. I grab onto the ground and raise it around him as a shield. As I do that, I decide to put the same shield around Bakugo and Kirishima.

"Jade! No!" Bakugo screams as he's closed up.

I conjure up all the ground around me as I feel something slide out of my nose. My vision gets blurry as I take the mass of ground I've picked up and divide it up into a thousand sharp spikes to throw at the villain. I feel resistance when I throw them at him so I push back harder.

My body feels heavy as I give a final push, spearing the villain as the objects flying in the air fall down. I crumble with the safety pods as I fall to the ground. I close my eyes and I hear my name being yelled.

"Ari! Why?! We could have helped!" Kirishima got to me first.

"He had things flying at you guys that you couldn't see that would have killed you." I squint open an eye at him. "Oh shit. I can't see."

I smell sunshine and citrus as another person runs over to me and quickly pulls me against him.

"Please don't leave me, Ari. Please be okay. I told you you'd get old. Don't make me a liar." Denki cries out.

"Deku! Get your ass over here. Jade is down, I repeat Jade is down!" I hear Bakugo yell into his radio.

"Denki. Can you tell me a story?" I focus solely on him.

"Can... can I look into your eyes Ari? Your big green beautiful eyes. I'm so addicted to them."

I can feel my body slowing to a halt. The mud in my veins thickening each passing second. "No. Not anymore Denki. Please tell me a story. Please?" I can't feel my legs anymore. I'm assuming they've turned into a pile of mud based on the frantic yelling from Kirishima and Bakugo.

Denki hugs my head against his chest tightly. "Did I ever tell you that the day I swore off women to focus on hero work was also the day I fell in love with you? It's funny really." He kisses my forehead. "I was hyper focused during our fight, but completely missed the clump of mud you threw at me because you smiled. And when you pinned me to the ground? I was completely lost to you. Ari. I love you. I've only ever loved you. I'll only ever love you."

"Ari?"