Muted Voices (A BNHA/MHA x OC Fanfic)

Chapter 98: Betrayal

Koto's POV

I help a family out of their fire escape to Todoroki's ice slide. He ushers them onto the last evacuation bus.

"Another one over here!" Jiro calls from a block down the road. Todoroki runs over to create another ice slide. I place the last child on my lap and slide down to the ground. I lead her and her mom to the bus and move forward with the rest of my team.

But it's when Jiro and I are helping the old man and his cat down that the girl stills, her eyes widening. "We have to go now."

The building rumbles beneath our feet. Dust rains down on our heads, and Jiro and I cover the man with our bodies.

"Let's keep moving," I say, lifting the man onto the slide. But the ice begins cracking before we can help him down.

Jiro looks around, but Todoroki has already run to the next place. "Froppy! Uravity!" The student calls.

From an adjacent city block, Tsu wraps her tongue around my friend and flings her over. Ochaco grabs onto the old man, and lifts him into the air. She blasts her grappling wire down to the main road to deposit him. Jiro and I leap from the window and blast sound at our feet to slow our descent.

But on the main road, Ochaco looks frantically over her shoulder as she taps the bus with her full hand to make it float. "We need to go!"

As I get to the road, I turn and finally see the incoming destruction. It approaches in a wave of dust and debris. The road and buildings crumble in a radius spreading from the hospital.

Tsu wraps her tongue around the front bumper of the bus and begins dragging it away. Deku sprints past us in the opposite direction as we make for the city limits. I look over my shoulder to see him brace his feet and flick a wall of pressurized air at the debris.

The rising wave halts, but the ground continues to crumble. It's not from force, I realize. It's Shigaraki.

"Faster!" I exclaim, illusing beneath my feet and at the back of the bus to get people out faster. Ochaco and Tsu continue evacuating the buildings. "Ingenium!" Iida looks back to Jiro and I upon hearing our shouts and runs back to lend support. We hop onto the back bumper as he pulls the bus outside city limits.

"Attention all," a deep voice calls over our earpieces. "Endeavor, here! I've engaged Shigaraki at the hospital ruins! Anyone who can move without touching the ground needs to form a perimeter! He's heading for the evacuees! Expand the battle perimeter! Start evacuating the city outskirts too!"

How did his damn quirk get so strong? If Shigaraki is affecting the area this far out...I shudder thinking about the wreckage at the hospital. My hand itches to go for Mic's receiver, but I don't want to distract him if he's engaged with a villain. We still have to focus.

From where we stand in the suburbs of Jaku, we can hear the blasts over the wreckage.

"Don't tell me he planted bombs too?" Jiro laments.

But the bursts of light appear high above the wreckage, trailing towards the hospital with another dark speck. "It's Bakugo," I whisper in awe. "And Midoriya."

"They're running into the fray?" Iida exclaims. "Didn't they learn from last time?" At the sound of crunching pavement, we all turn to see Todoroki forming an ice path forward. "Not you too!"

"I'll bring them back," he calls over a shoulder.

Iida makes to go after him, but I put a hand on his elbow to hold him in place. "We need to keep evacuating," I remind him. "They all have quirks that can handle it, no use sending another person to bring them all back."