Lightning Serenade

Chapter 75: Full Throttle V

When the wall crumbled and the blue flames rushed in, to say Denki was surprised to see Neito rushing through, cackling, would be an understatement. Neito's eyes locked on Denki's, and Neito beelined for the bars, ignoring Full Throttle who was calling for Phantasm, as if she wouldn't have been alerted by all the noise already. No one made a move to stop Neito from getting to Denki. There were plenty of others to occupy Full Throttle and Phantasm as Hitoshi, Shigaraki, Dabi, Twice, Toga, and Spinner made their way into the room.

Neito grasped each bar in his reach as they dissolved to dust under his touch until there was enough room for Denki to slip through as he yelled across the room to not worry about Phantasm because she won't use her quirk if she can't leave the area because it affects her, too. Grabbing onto Denki's wrists, Neito put Shigaraki's quirk to work dissolving the quirk canceling cuffs, quick to adjust his grip to not lay all five fingers against Denki's skin as the cuffs gave way.

Denki opened his mouth to thank Neito, or maybe to give recognition that they understood his hints, or maybe to confess his undying love. Neito would never know because he used his grip on Denki's wrists to yank him forward, releasing his wrists only to press his palms against either side of his jaw, careful not to allow all his fingers to touch, and pulling his face closer to finally connect their lips once again. He had wondered if it would feel different, now that he knew that Denki was his soulmate, but it didn't. It had always felt so right, so perfect, just now there was a known reason for why it had always felt that way.

"Way to save some of the action for me, guys," Neito pouted.

"Well, if you weren't so concerned with hogging our soulmate, then you would have been involved," Hitoshi sassed back.

"Our soulmate," Neito parroted dreamily, gazing lovingly at Denki with a dumb smile stretching over his face. Giddy butterflies filled Denki's throat as he mirrored Neito's expression.

"Besides," Hitoshi continued, "it was two against eight. Not exactly a fair fight that was drawn out long enough for you to get any hits in, anyway."

With Full Throttle and Phantasm tied up in Hitoshi's capture weapon, Hitoshi stood, swiveled, and stalked forward toward Denki, and Denki ran the few steps to meet him halfway, unable to wipe the smile off of his face, even as his lips pressed against Hitoshi's.

"How'd you figure it out?" Hitoshi asked.

"Full Throttle did, actually," Denki admitted. "He had records from when we were all admitted to Fields Mental Hospital and the testing they did on Unit Beta, and he connected the pieces that no one else had before."

"Okay. And why didn't you tell us about Dabi?" Neito butted in before Hitoshi could continue with that line of questioning.

Denki paled, paused, laughed nervously, rubbed the back of his neck, and looked around the room for someone to act as his hero in the room full of villains.

No such luck.

He sighed, resigned. "How was I supposed to tell you that Touya was still alive, but that you couldn't go see him for yourselves?" Denki asked. He chewed on his bottom lip as he looked between his soulmates. "I thought about it, and he never said that I couldn't tell you guys, but if I was in your position—I don't know. I'm really sorry."

"Forgiven," Hitoshi said easily, pulling Denki in for an embrace.

Neito sighed and rolled his eyes. "I hate when you make sense. Nothing to forgive," Neito said, then added pointedly, "grudgingly, though." Then he wrapped his arms around his soulmates who both pulled out an arm to include him in their huddle.

"What now?" Full Throttle asked from where he and Phantasm were tied up, leaning back against the wall, looking around at their captors, helpless to do anything about it. "You going to walk up to the Hero Commission, say that the villains and heroes worked together, and hand us over?"