Supernova

Chapter Ninety Two - Evil is Independent

A/N: if you catch the pun in this chapter's title, you win a prize!

I needed to get the fuck out of there.

I tried to use the trip back as an excuse, but Melanie had waved a hand and told me she could get Kurogiri to get me back. She brought out a map of the UA campus, something that both disgusted and infuriated me that they had, and asked me to point out my dorm room.

I refused. Many times.

And then I told them that if I ever caught any of them on the UA campus ever again, I would hunt them to the ends of the earth and kill them in the most gruesome, painful way imaginable. Kurogiri told me he understood, and I could take the map with me if I wished. I did wish. What I did not wish was to take him up on his offer.

Until I found out what his quirk was.

Warp Gate. He could make a portal between two locations as long as he knew the logistics of both locations. He could make a portal right here where we stood and spit me out right into my dorm room. Risk free. It was silent, immediate, and discreet. I hated it, but I would need to come back here, definitely more than once, to discuss the plan and report new information and let them know if anything changed, and it wasn't worth the risk to refuse.

Before I left, Melanie insisted that we needed a way to communicate. Blueflame tried to give me a burner phone, but I refused to take it. Mostly on principle, but also because it was fucking stupid. Elias and my dad obviously had my main phone tapped, and I couldn't risk the bracelet picking up me typing or talking on a whole ass other phone. And if it rang or vibrated? I was fucking done for.

Plus, cell phones had weird and complicated technology and I didn't understand how it worked but I knew Elias probably did, and it just wasn't worth the risk. She was frustrated. She said it was riskier to keep coming back and forth through the campus and the city.

She also looked extremely sad when I went and informed her that my bracelet pretty much definitely had a tracking device and recording device in it.

I told her I'd come back in three days and then we could use the portals. I had an idea. I just needed that long to figure it out and convince Momo of my incredibly obvious lie.

I'd already needed to ask her a favour for the plan to work. I'd known that since the first night when I'd planned the bare bones and flesh of the thing. Now that I had Melanie on board, I could go ahead with this part of it. This had been one of the most nerve wracking parts of the whole thing. But now there was more on the line with a fairly easy fix. One little tweak, and I'd be able to use this favour to get me something to communicate with Melanie.

Minimally, but it was better than nothing.

I'd needed to get her alone without my bracelet on. I'd gone back and forth about this part, because it would be easier to do during the school day, but this new tweak was going to fuck it all up and there was no way I could ask Momo for what I needed without setting major alarm bells off for anyone who was a sinister bitch that recognized the same in others.

So I asked her to join me for morning tea. I could brief Kiri, ditch him, and meet up with her after I was done our morning training session. The only time during the day besides when I slept that I didn't have my damned diamond and sapphire shackle on.

She agreed.

I knew she would. No matter how pissed she got at me, no matter how disappointed, no matter how disgusted, we were best friends, and if I called her, she would come. Her and I were alike in this way. I would do the same for her any day. It was this trait that had had me agreeing to help Elias with recalibration, effectively setting myself up for all this, even after he'd already betrayed me once and I knew he was fully capable and had a high likelihood of doing it again.