[NEW] Huh? Another Universe?! - MHA x HxH Crossover

~ 25: Malfunction ~

Waiting over in a clearing not too far away from the group of young heroes was Dabi. He had burned some trees down around him to make the path leading to this area clearer for Compress, who was supposed to be arriving with Bakugo soon. There were about ten minutes left until they had to go, according to Kurogiri's calculations, but the marble mastermind was nowhere to be seen.

With a sigh, Dabi set another tree on fire. Each tree burned also counted the minutes he had been waiting since he got here. Just then Toga skipped out of one of the bushes with a giant smile spread across her face. "Dabi~ Guess what I got!" she exclaimed.

"Blood?" Dabi replied, not amused.

"How'd you know?" Toga giggled. She turned around to showcase the bit of blood she managed to get from fighting against Uraraka and Asui earlier. "It's not as much as I would like, but I can make do with it~"

"Yeah, great," Dabi prepared to burn down another tree. "Have you seen Compress anywhere? We're running a bit low on time."

"Umm," Toga tilted her head in thought. It wasn't like she was going to answer with anything other than 'no,' but she wanted to make it look like she was at least thinking about it. Before she could finally reply, a sudden yell pierced through the tops of the trees, causing the two villains to look up. As if on cue, Compress came tumbling down from the sky, landing smack in the middle of Toga and Dabi.

"Oh, there he is!" Toga grinned.

"What happened with you?" Dabi asked, blowing out the flame in his palm. "You know what, forget it. Do you have Bakugo? Kurogiri is going to be here any minute."

Compress took a second to recompose himself. His body ached everywhere and his mind felt corrupted after getting thrown around by that clown. "I... I don't have Bakugo."

"What?" Dabi frowned. "Why the hell not? I thought you said you got a sighting of him!"

"I was this close to capturing him!" Compress refuted as he weakly got off the ground and stood, wiping the dirt away from his outfit. "But this... this clown man let him go! And instead, he captured me. If you couldn't tell, the final act got thrown into shambles because of it!" The man sighed. "I need to come up with another ending...!"

Clown man? Dabi obviously didn't know who Compress was referring to, but it seemed that the clown man might be someone to be cautious of.

"I am quite curious about him as it stands..." Compress continued. "His quirk was quite strange. I couldn't see it at all, but he was restraining my movements somehow. He also had this... this... weirdly terrifying aura around him, like he wanted to kill me... I barely managed to seal myself in my own marble!" A shiver ran up the villain's spine.

Dabi admitted, he was surely interested in whoever this clown man Compress spoke of was, but now wasn't the time to dilly dally. "Alright, speak more about this later. Right now, we have a boy to get and limited time! Do you suggest that you go back out there and find him, or do you have other plans for your stupid play?"

Compress thought for a moment before replying. "Let us go find him then. You and me. But you," He gestured toward Toga, "stay here and let Kurogiri know where we've gone if we don't make it back in time."

"Aw, but I can make a good distraction for you!" Toga tried to reason, but truly, she just wanted another chance to get more blood samples. "I'm sure Kurogiri will know that we haven't found Bakugo yet if he doesn't see us here!"

"...fine, do whatever you want." Compress was too tired to argue. "This should be fairly quick anyway." Suggesting we don't run into any other clown men...