To Overthrow The Stars

Chapter Thirteen

Warning: mentions of blood.

1516 words.

More original art at the top by me!

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We rush into Hosu as burning buildings cost the night sky in flames, citizens scream all around us, running for their lives from giant creatures with large, beady eyes. Endeavor is ahead of Todoroki and I, telling bystanders to run, and we soon face off with the town square where heroes and creatures alike are getting battered by the fight between each other. That's when Todoroki gets a phone notification.

"Send all the people you can to this location." He shares the information with Endeavor and runs off.

"May I?" I ask the pro hero, pointing in the direction of a nearby diner, "I saw some civilians trapped in there, I'd like to help them." He nods reluctantly, and I sprint towards a side street in Hosu, expecting the worst. A few civilians are running along side me as I pass more and more buildings on both sides, "Everyone, I need you to keep going straight, okay? The pro heroes will take care of you!" I shout, pointing them in the direction of safety services as I make a sharp turn down an alleyway off to the side.

The sad thing is, I know that Shigaraki's pet Nomus are here, wreaking havoc on this town, and I heard a rumor that the hero killer is back on the streets and looking for the unworthy heroes. I can't tell anyone though, or they'll say I've been working with the villains; to be fair, I'm not really on anyone's side, but I'm acting like I am on the hero's so I can stay away from suspicion of treason. I make my way toward the convenience store where I saw people hidden under the tables, "Everyone in here! My name is Kismet, I'm here to help!"

Suddenly, a strong gust of wind brings a Nomu right down at me, the blast sending me flying into the glass and shattering a hole through it. I land beside I tiny child, no older than maybe seven years old, and she looks up at me with pure terror in her golden eyes, short brown hair blowing into her face. With how I pass her, the world seems to move in slow motion, as if trying to tell me something.

I tucked my body during flight so it wouldn't hurt as bad as it could have, but that Nomu still packed quite the punch when it landed. Jumping to my feet I motion behind me, "Everyone under the back tables now! This is going to get dangerous!"

A mob of bodies sprints past me to the back tables, crouching and watching as the Nomu looks through the broken glass, beady eyes on me, "Hey bird brain!" I yell, making note to apologize to Tokoyami later for using his partial race as an insult, "Why not pick on someone your own size?!" I step through the hole in the fractured window to face the Nomu. I then use the stored up bad karma from when he blasted me through a window with his landing, shooting it back at it tenfold in the form of chain lightning, the small tentacles going through the Nomu and giving it a good electric shock. It stumbles, stunned, so I kick it in the gut with a bit of my quirk behind it, sending the beast flying into a trash dumpster in an alleyway in front of me.

"Everyone out! I only stunned it, it will come back! Run like the devil is after you and follow me, anyone who can't run I'll carry!" I shout towards the civilians, motioning for them to exit their hiding spots. A small crowd forms from under the tables, a woman holding the seven year old I saw earlier, both sobbing, "The pro heroes and police will help you when we get out of Hosu, just follow me. Is anyone hurt or unable to run? Please speak up now because we don't have much time."

No one speaks so I gently kick down the glass that sits in shards on the sill and motion for everyone to file out, making sure to glance behind me every few seconds and count how many people are behind me. I counted them when they stood in the diner looking at me, so I need to make sure they are all keeping up.

"Ouph!" The mother of the seven year old girl trips and nearly crushes her child, I rush back to them and grab the girl, helping up the mother and running off to the front of the group. The girl clings to my neck for dear life, shivering and sniffling, body dripping with sweat, "You'll be okay, everything will be alright once we get to safety." I mumble to her, looking back to count once again to find everyone still grouped behind me, and we soon reach the ambulances and fire fighters, pro heroes fighting to defend the border of Hosu as well.

Backdraft finds me running with multiple civilians, one of which is in my arms, and stops spraying a burning building for a moment to yell for the police officers to help me. Everyone is panting and on the verge of anxiety attacks as we reach them. I hand the girl back to her mother and direct the group to the paramedics, then yell, "I've got to go!" As I run back into the burning city, straight towards the coordinates Todoroki mentioned.

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Stain is battling Midoriya, Todoroki, and Iida, as well as a pro hero who seems to be wounded. It's a heated battle and from what I've heard of Stain's quirk- yup, he just paralyzed Iida by licking up some of his blood off the knife he wields. I grimace. "Quite the fight, huh?" A scratchy voice says from behind me. I jump and turn around to face Shigaraki, "Don't look so surprised, it's just me. Anyways, how do you like the display my Nomus have created? Isn't it glorious?"

"You're one sick man baby Shigaraki-san." I cringe away as he lifts his fingers on his right hand towards me, "Why not attack somewhere with less civilians? These people could be converted if you tried hard enough."

"No, these people are just as self righteous as the heroes are." Shigaraki turns his attention to scratching his neck and watching his master's creations destroy Hosu, "You really are a hard person to read, you know."

"I'd like to keep it that way." I grumble, sneaking a glance back at my classmates to make sure they're okay, "You obviously came here for more than to gloat, what do you want?" I pry, sitting at the edge of the building so that the ledge is up against my lower back.

"Oh, nothing in particular, just for you to see what I'm capable of."

"You mean what your minions, who aren't even your creations, are capable of?" I laugh bitterly, watching as he vigorously scratches his neck, not liking what I'm saying about him, "You can be egotistical and have pride bigger than any of those Nomus, but mark my words Shigaraki: I. Don't. Like. You." I arch my back so that I fall over the ledge of the building, landing gracefully enough and hiding myself amongst the shadows of Todoroki's ice remnants.

Everything seems to be going rather rough, but the end result is staggeringly different as each hero course student sends a kick to Stain's head, knocking him down and out for the count. I sneak around the corner which I would've come from if running from the middle of Hosu, and run into the alleyway, "Holy crap guys! Are you okay?!" I ask, concern lacing my tone. I glance down at a wounded pro hero, then at Stain as my peers figure out how to detain him, then between each of the boys, "Oh my All Might, you guys look like you've been beat up really bad! What happened?!"

"Hinako, what perfect timing you have, do you have anything we can use as a binding material?" Iida chops his hand through the air, keeping his dominant one on Stain.

"Uh." I look around to find a rope-like string sticking out of a nearby garbage bin, "I don't, but I see one in the garbage over there! I'll go grab it!" I rush over to grab the cable and rush back to help tie up the hero killer, then I try to inspect the wounds of my peers, "Did you guys fight him all by yourself?" I ask randomly, patching some holes on the hero costumes as the boys drag him out onto the street.

"Indeed, although it was my fault you both got dragged into this mess." Iida says to Todoroki and Midoriya, a solemn look on his face.

"Like I said earlier, that's what friends are for." Midoriya states, looking up to see pro heroes gathered around, Endeavor and Gran Torino among them. They stare at the boys in awe, looking between them and the unconscious Stain like it was some kind of miracle they beat him. I hold back a chuckle at their expressions, tending to the costumes of my peers, reluctant to mend their gashes and cuts because I don't want to damage them worse.

A brief summary of what happens afterwards: Midoriya gets kidnapped by a Nomu, Stain saves Midoriya from said Nomu, Endeavor gets the credit for catching the hero killer, Todoroki calls himself the 'Hand Crusher', Midoriya, Iida, and Todoroki all get messed up pretty bad, etc...