My Hero Academia: The Next Generation Book 3

Chapter 8: Holding out

   ~~{Zota Heigaraku}~~

      "Only just a day ago, the League of Villains made their return, in a daring attack on a downtown strip mall, Shigaraki and a few still unidentified members of the league unleashed terror on the-"

    "--Right here, in this now destroyed strip mall, A shocking reveal was presented. All beginning with Shigaraki and his league of villains gathering up hostages of terrified civilians and incapacitated heroes alike."

    "Christ, the news is on every channel now. I just wanted to watch a movie." I groaned as I kept flipping between channel after channel. huffing softly before glancing over at Kazu and Suraki who were sitting on the couch beside me, we had planned to do a movie marathon on tv today. But with all the news, that definitely wasnt getting done. Though Kazu had a bit of a peeved look on his face as he glanced at me.

    "Dude! Quit changing the fricken channels. Aren't you listening to it?!" I huffed, doing as he says as I did think about what I was hearing but not processing, my eyes soon widening as I sat up a bit.

    "Oh shit... T-They're back?" I huffed, staring at the tv now as I took the time to watch and listen to what was said. Kazu doing the same, but noticing that Suraki wasn't. In fact, he seemed pretty out of it. Lost in thought by the seems of it, I was about to ask him what was up before something caught my attention on the news.

    "Sorry, we have footage from the attack? A-Alright, Ive been informed that we have footage from a bystander during the attack. However it's... Very disturbing... If you have kids in the room, we highly suggest that you should get them to leave." The reporter would wait a few moments, then the feed would be switched to the video they had. It was clearly filmed from a phone, someone hiding in a store as they were recording everything that was going on outside. There we could see a group of people with a few more being brought towards it, at the center of it was Shigaraki. He would be looking over the civilians and heroes there before his gaze turned to someone approaching... That... Someone was someone I was expecting never to see again at this point.

    Nosido would approach the group and get towards the middle beside Shigaraki, dressed in a trenchcoat. Eventually, Shigaraki made two of them sit up on their knees. Nosido standing just behind them as soon a confrontation began. Deku was briefly seen in the footage, Shigaraki and him talking for a few moments before Shigaraki made a signal. Watching closely, I'd see Nosido rest his hands on top the peoples heads, what seemed like something strange at first was soon met with instant realization. There would be screaming, the video not fully catching what happened from the angle, but just the screams alone were enough to start putting two and two together. Followed by the next sentence from Shigaraki that shocked me to my core.

   "Midoriya... Meet the next holder, of All for One." The video would stop soon after, the tv now changing to be of the news room as the two anchors were clearly in a state of shock. Hesitant to continue, the anchorwoman would eventually turn to look back at the camera and recompose herself for a moment.

    "A-As... As you could all... see... It appears that Nosido Heraki... is.... officially part of the League of Villains... As we know this kid had been a target for them in the past... a-and it seems... He..." 

    "T-This cant be real." I soon shut the tv off, staring at the now black screen as I could see the reflections of the three of us, Kazu and I had both shocked expressions, Suraki however just had his eyes shut tight. Soon, I'd hold my head in my hands, huffing softly as I shook my head. "No... Nosido wouldn't... He wouldn't!"

    "He did... I-I was there Zota... and... He is..." Suraki said, still having his eyes shut as Kazu and I slowly glanced over at him. I was still shaking my head, but I could tell by Kazu's posture that he was believing it. "That... Isn't our Nosido..."