To Overthrow The Stars

Chapter Seventeen

Warning: cursing, villainous activities

1564 words.

The Funeral Portrait makes some interesting songs, this one's a solid 10,000/10 👌👌👌👌👌👌 (Just wait until you hear 'My teacher has a gun' by Badflower- that one is pretty messed up haha...)

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"Damn it Kurogiri-sensei, what if I don't want to get captured?! I've been through hell and a hand basket just fighting to stay alive because of all these new pawns in Shigaraki-san's little game!" I yell in a whisper tone, gesturing around us frantically, "I'd like to sleep in my own bed tonight thank you! I have a cat to take care of!"

"Then allow me to transport you now and you'll be done by the time this is over, no one will suspect a thing happened to you." Kurogiri suggests, "And what happened to make you befriend these wannabe heroes?"

"Because I can't blow my cover, remember?! I'm supposed to be the League of Villain's spy, right? I can't be a spy if I don't have people to unknowingly collaborate my cover." I sigh, raking a hand down my face, "Okay, just take me to All for One and the Doc, I'll let them know I need this to be quick." I groan, starting to pace at my spot where we are in the back of the forest, heat rising from Dabi's nearby blue flames, "If my cover gets blown, I'm toast. Worse than toast, actually." I shake off any remaining nerves and stop in front of Kurogiri, "Warp me over."

"As you wish." He warps me, and I assume he warps himself afterwards to continue the mission. I'm enveloped in darkness for a moment once I land, then my eyes adjust to the dark space. I find All for One sitting on his little throne, tubes sticking out from every part of his body, he greets me with a very chilling smile and motions for me to come towards him, deadly aura emitting from every disgusting pore. I reluctantly step towards him until I'm mere centimeters away.

"I only ask that you make this quick, sir, I have to warp back so that I don't cause suspicion." I say sternly, voice shaking slightly as his head nods, gaze moving up and down my body... if he had eyes, "I heard you have a warp quirk alongside your many other quirks, so I shouldn't need to contact Kurogiri-sensei again, correct?"

"Yes, indeed I do..." His smile grows ever more unsettling, "I plan on giving you a quirk and another name, so I suggest you start thinking of your villain name, unless you've already created one." He places his large hand on my face, power pouring from his body in a tidal wave. When the quirk finally hits me it's like a slap across the face with a bag of bricks, making me groan as agonizing pain envelopes my body. My limbs start to shake, knees nearly buckling as my body endures a massive amount of pressure heaving down on my shoulders.

I hold back a scream by biting my lip hard enough to draw blood, tears pouring from my eyes as all of my body gets overheated, pain burning white hot through to every corner of my being. When the process is finally done, All for One holds me up by the collar of my shirt with a smile, not even moving from his chair, "Listen to me child, you are now Chouko Kawaguchi, your quirk is that you can create tears in space and time through the connection of blood in your fingertips." He releases me so that I can attempt to stand on my own two feet, body still processing the quirk, "I welcome you officially to the League of Villains."

A suffocating feeling overtakes me and suddenly I'm propped up against a tree back in the training camp forest, the liquid warp gate disappearing not long after I get back. I lean back against the tree only to curl in on myself and go into a coughing fit from being at the edge of the poison gas field that's now dissipating around me. It doesn't take long to stop coughing but my throat is super scratchy from what I did inhale of the poison, "Damn, that middle schooler has some spunk behind his quirk." I mumble, careful not to say anything too incriminating out loud as I shakily get to my feet, using the tree for support behind me.

Not long after I get to my feet, Midoriya and Shoji are running past me, Shoji carrying Midoriya because he's the less injured one of the two, albeit his hand being chopped off. After them comes a loud crash, then a claw of Dark Shadow swings towards me, breaking the tree off just above my head. Although my legs barely work, I still manage to outrun Dark Shadow, staying just a few steps behind Shoji as he carries himself and Midoriya. I cast glances behind us to find Tokoyami in visible pain, trying to suppress Dark Shadow in the pitch black of the night as it forms around his body as some kind of reenactment of Bakugo vs. the Sludge Villain that ensued about thirteen months ago.

"Tokoyami-san!" I yell behind me, only swiveling my head because if I swivel my body I'd be crushed in an instant, "I don't know what Midoriya-san is planning, but please come back to us once this is done! I... I won't lose you to darkness, I swear!" Although I can't say much because technically, I'm both villain and hero. "What is your plan anyways, Midoriya-san?!" I yell to my peer.

"We're drawing Dark Shadow to light!" He yells back, and we soon come up on Todoroki and Bakugo fighting a villain. Todoroki seems to be carrying someone, so I run over to him and take the Class 1B student off his shoulder, allowing him to use full power, along with Bakugo, in order to save Tokoyami and take down Moonfish.

Dark Shadow does the Moonfish part for them though, hulking him into the ground and then into a tree, leaving him battered and shredded by the impact. Todoroki seemed unsure at first when Bakugo said to let him be, but if I know something, Bakugo has the intellectual and fast-paced thinking skills that can be compared to Midoriya. So, when Tokoyami finally gains control again, I sigh in relief, whispering my thanks to Bakugo as I make my way in front of him in our Bakugo Protection Squad formation. He tsks in acknowledgement and shoves his hands in his pockets before moseying on behind me, Tokoyami taking point behind him. I'm sorry, but I have to do this to you... 

I keep walking as the muffled cries of Bakugo and Tokoyami call to me from within Mr. Compress's marbles, "You're doing good playing the damsel, you deserve the ranking of main actress for your performance my dear." Compress whispers into my ear from behind, staying in the shadows to not alert Midoriya, Shoji, or Todoroki, "See you once this is done."

The warm presence from behind me fades as we come across Uraraka and Asui, who are fighting the blood-crazed Toga. From the looks of it she got a good vial of so of Uraraka's blood so I should be expecting the familiar face to be destroyed with Toga's enactment once the time comes.

Toga runs off, claiming there's too many people, and I take that moment to make my escape, pretending to be captured as well so that no suspicion is passed on to me. I duck behind the tree coverage and rush off to Dabi and Twice. Dabi has burnt down half the forest at this point, but as I see him and Twice finally wrap up their games, Dabi doesn't seem to be done burning things. He reaches for my face instinctively, and I narrowly avoid his attack by tilting my head to the left, "Now, now, Dabi, not a way to treat your master now, is it?" 

"Like hell if you're my master." He groans, sticking his hands in his pockets.

"You don't scare me in the slightest. Try me pipsqueak! So, you're our senpai now? Cool!" Twice gives me an eyebrow raise for the first of his comments, then raises a fist for his second and waves it around at me, then on the third section he's giving me a thumbs up.

I don't understand him in the slightest, so I grin cockily and start walking forward, "Cmon guys, I'll lead you to the meet up spot. How about we have a victory breakfast tomorrow if this all goes smoothly? If Shigaraki's master pays, I'll go pick us up some waffles."

"Celebratory breakfast? Never heard of that before. Get mine with extra syrup!"

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I pant, hands on my knees and a few cuts and burns on my skin to look like I've been through it like the rest of the students. Toga was even so kind as to give me a few droplets of Uraraka's blood so that it looked like my eyes and the scar on my hand bled from quirk overuse. Aizawa, some of the others from Class 1A, Monoma from class B, Vlad King, etcetera look at me in shock, "Aizawa-sensei..." I still act like I'm catching my breath, "Midoriya-san... Bakugo-san... he- they- the villains... outside..."

"Slow down, what are you trying to say?" Aizawa looks at me skeptically.

"Poison gas... took some of the class... Bakugo-san he- the villains got him." I spit out, still pretending to gasp for air. And I'm not sorry he got captured...

Well, maybe I am... but only a little bit.