This' Where My Demons Hide (Villain AU)

Chapter 14 - In the Minds of the Marauders

Midoriya walked to his room in the lair. Normally, Todoroki's with him, but he's on time out with Bakugo because they were fighting earlier in training. Also he wanted to get away from Toga so he will retreat to his room. Opening the door, he was greeted by a wall full of photos that's ripped off, notes pasted here and there and knives stabbed into some of the photos.

"When will we meet again?" Midoriya muttered, closing the door. He grinned and stared proudly at his messy masterpiece, feeling all Picasso with his abstract. He took out a dagger from inside his vest and twirled it in his fingers.

"When Shigaraki fully trusts me, he will let me kill with Nekta-senpai and one of you will be my first victim," he said, pointing the blade to the photos. These photos are the photos of his former classmates.

He replaced his grin with a PokerFace.

"You never really did anything wrong. For all I know, I should be killing Kacchan, but since Nekta-senpai seem to take a liking on him, I can't at the moment. So you guys will be the great replacements!" He cackled, twirling his blade again and stabbing it on the green stuff toy beside him. One of the stuff toy he asked the League to get him.

"I wonder which of you will be first," he said, sitting down cross-legged on the floor. He swayed from side to side and closed one eye, "I wish I could see you guys sooner."

He grinned widely again, scratching the back of his head.

"Maybe I'll never know until I get to see you guys again!" He took the stuff toy and pulled out the dagger. Then he repeatedly stabbed the toy with a seried of loud laughter bouncing off the four walled room.

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Todoroki was in his own isolation room. It's not much different from Midoriya's room, with photos---torn, burned or cut to pieces---and multiple toys for what Nekta likes to call killing practices. The only difference is the room is filled with ice, putting the isolation freezer to shame.

"I'm back from punishment, dad!" He greeted , cheerfully. Unlike Midoriya, the photos tortured in his room are all Endeavour's.

"It's a lot more enjoyable than your trainings, I can assure that," he said and took one photo of him and burnt it. He smiled and let it fall to the icy ground.

"You know, Nekta said that if we continue on what we are doing now, we'll be out to the field and we can do what we want as long as she approves it," he continued on his little monologue. He was looking for a photo that's not yet ruined and saw none except one, but it wasn't his father's.

"Oh I can't ruin this," he said, taking the said photo and stared at it with a maniacal laugh, "Even though I'm insane, I still love mom. But you! Hahahaha! You I hate!"

He said and made a knife with ice, something he learned and polish since Nekta'd been training him.

"Just you wait! I'll get my payback for all you have done!"

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Meanwhile, Bakugo is in his isolation freezer. For two months being here, in and out, he slowly becomes immune with the freezing temperature to the point he can make small spark in his hands.

Dealing with the continuous tortures and punishments that he undergone for all his misbehaviours in the League of Villains, he never lost his sanity once and kept on struggling to get out, unless it's Nekta's he's dealing with.

Like what he got from asking her about the effects of the emphatic parasite, it gives mental disorders and what he got? The one that symphatize or bond with his captor, the Stockholm Syndrome.

Just knowing that makes him feel annoyed. He sticks with these extras because of Nekta that he never gets to lay hand because he sympathizes with her or more specifically, he identifies her as someone in the higher hierarchy. Someone he have to obey and treat as a guide. As much as he wants to get annoyed by that, he can't.

He don't know where and what to get annoyed anymore. He's completely ballistic about his thoughts right now.

"Goddamn it!" He muttered and made small sparks with his palms, standing up. He's a wild dog in a freezing temperature. Leaving him here not fully tamed is a mistake.

He'll take advantage of his current surrounding to practice his quirk and train to get out of here. He can't let just some pitiful syndrome hold him back from his plans. He might've gave an impression of surrendering to the dark side when he helped Toga and the Marauders escape from Uraraka and Iida, but he's not fully in the shadows yet.

"I'll have my payback," Nekta's face flashed in his head and he growled, "Starting with that b*tch."

And there he started on his attempts of making explosions in a temperature where his sweats can't manifest to create tiny sparks.

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Nekta stood in the middle of the park in the dark night. No one is in sight and she is safe unless someone sees her. She's in her villain outfit after all.

She stared down in the fountain in the middle of the park. Due to it's already in the middle of the night, no water shows any display in the fountain and the surrounding is completely quiet.

The cold wind never bothers her in any way as she just stood there and stared at a certain spot. This said spot have fresh paint on it, but whoever is in charge with this park never put in mind that the carvings embedded on the side of the fountain is carvings of someone who have nothing else to do.

The carvings composed of swirls and curves that somehow makes an illusion of leaves and plants. These were all mistakes a long time ago.

She's now seventeen, and in her first eight years, she'd seen how these carvings got here. No one even paid attention to the details of the fountain except her so no one really noticed the pattern mistakes on it.

And after the patterns are finished, that's when she joined the League of Villains where she met her brother-figure, Shigaraki and her father-figures, Kurogiri and All for One.

"I can't believe it's already been nine years," she muttered and squatted down to the fountain, caressing the mistakes.

Yes, these mistakes somehow relates to her. Mistakes that was never noticed and casted away one day. But even mistakes can be take in and serve great part at some point. And that's what she will do.

"I promise, one day. AllMight will pay. He won't get away for he has done to me," she said and stood up, leaving the fountain and the park.

That was the one night that she didn't kill anyone.

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Midoriya Izuko, Todoroki Shoto and Bakugo Katsuki. They are the League of Villains Team Marauder led by Nekta Ramirez, the second in command of the League beside Shigaraki Tomura.

This team is composed of slowly rotting teenagers that have their own issues to deal with. The more they dive into the darkness, the more their hearts turn into villains they never originally planned to be.

And Nekta, the mysterious villain with no known history, will make sure of that.