Lightning Serenade

Chapter 106: Finale IV

A/N: I know I'm late with the update, but I was on vacation, but I'm back now! (But, FYI, most of this chapter was written while I was ON vacation, because even on vacation, my mind is still always on writing and storylines and such. The life of a fanfiction writer, huh? I love it and wouldn't have it any other way!)

The last few chapters in a nutshell:

The Fork Brigade: *creates a distraction for the media and plays UNO*

Denki: *plays keep-away with Shigaraki's body* If I were a fish...

Shouto and Dynamight: *fights Dabi and Hawks to keep them away from Denki and Shigaraki*

Hitoshi: *provides entertaining and informative commentary to keep everyone updated about what's going on with Team Shigaraki*

Neito, Aizawa, and Toga: *take turns having a staring contest at AFO*

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"Why isn't he waking up?" Dabi demanded.

Hawks had just asked, and Dabi didn't give time Denki to answer—not that Denki had an answer to give, and maybe Dabi sensed that. Dabi doesn't ask, though. Dabi demands like Denki can pull the answer out of a magic hat.

"How should I know?!" Denki responds, high-key panicking. "I honestly didn't know if I would make it this far, dude. I thought I'd be a flaming pile of greasy bones by now!"

To his credit, Dabi winced. "You weren't too far away from that point."

"I can't even blame you for that," Denki said, glancing over in Hitoshi's direction as the group on the incline started making their way to join the rest of them once it was clear the fighting was over.

Dabi snorted in self-depreciation. "You're the one who just said that it's different because he's not our soulmate."

"Didn't I just explain that I was lying my fucking ass off?"

"And what an ass it is!" Hitoshi chimed, a little out of breath from sprinting ahead of the rest of the group. "What's going on?"

"Tomura isn't waking up," Hawks said from where he knelt by Shigaraki's head, eyes not leaving Shigaraki's face just in case in that moment Shigaraki's eyes would open once again.

"Did Deku say anything about the chances of something like this happening?" Hitoshi asked, directing his question between Denki and Shouto.

"This was Deku's idea?" Dabi asked.

"Hey, now!" Denki defended automatically before Dabi could start planning anyone's untimely demise. "It was my idea, and we only went with it because it was better than Shigaraki's first idea. Deku just knows All For One better than any of us. Plus, he's the best at determining weaknesses and plans of action, so he helped me work out the details. This is all on me, so don't go setting him on fire or anything."

"Let's see what he has to say about this, yeah?" Bakugou said, reaching for his communication device.

Shouto beat him to it. "Broke boys don't deserve no pussy!"

"What the actual fuck, Icyhot?!" Bakugou spat, whirling on him.

If Denki didn't know better, he might have thought that All For One was using a quirk on Shouto or something. He wondered if Bakugou considered that strange possibility or figured that Shouto was just plain out of his mind. Luckily, Denki knew that Shouto and Momo had, for some strange reason, picked up on their own little trio's soulmate call-and-response and made a communication device of their own.

"Sorry, Bakugou," Shouto said, not sounding sorry at all. "I am unfortunately only updated on the hypothetical fuck."

Bakugou's lip lifted in an ugly display of astonishment at how anyone could possibly be as dense as Shouto fucking Todoroki, and he was about to voice those exact thoughts, too, when a new voice came through the communication device, interrupting what was sure to be a devastating insult to end all insults.