The unknown hero (BNHA)

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'It's Deku. I took Todoroki's phone. I'll send you my location. They have something planned. Something that's happening tonight. Please come save me. It's dark and cold and really lonely. How long have I even been here? Don't answer that. Don't even respond. He can't see this. I'll deleted the contact after its sent.'

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The three villains say side by side in a lit up studio. Dabi sat in the middle with Todoroki and Nine sat on either side of him. Nine had her fingers dug into his shirt. Sometimes he forgot her hatred of cameras. Whenever he asked about it she would always avoid it. If he asked too much she would cry or start to scream for no reason.

They had only been going when they met, in the woods behind the Todoroki household, but he couldn't help but think that she had something happen to her before then. Something she never wanted to talk about or even remember. He never asked her though.

Come to think of it, she was creepily good at picking locks.

The woman sat just behind the camera. She smiled at them, clearly slightly afraid. "Ok, so we're rolling. Just talk and I'll ask questions if necessary." Dabi and Todoroki nodded but Nine sat still, not even blinking. She was staring at the camera, fear in her eye.

Todoroki started.

 "I'm Shouto Todoroki, UA student turned villain and the youngest son of Endeavour, the current number one hero." He spoke like he was reading from a script, his face frozen in the same emotionless expression. "I became a villain so I could do something that I feel should have been done a long time ago. I want to reveal what Endeavour has done."

 Dabi froze up a bit as Todoroki nudged him. "Uh, right. I'm the villain known as Dabi but my real name is..." He paused for a second. This was the first time he had admitted it out loud for eight years. "My name is Touya Todoroki. Eldest son of Endeavour. This is Satomi Itou."

 The woman dropped her clipboard in surprise. "Sorry!" She squeaked, picking it up again, flushing red.

 Nine waved slightly, burying her head in Dabi's side, looking anywhere but at the camera. It's okay, she thought, They're gone. Touya's here. It's fine. It's safe. She ran her hand down her side. Todoroki remembered seeing a scar running down her side, like someone had dragged something burning across her skin.

The thought quickly left his mind as the woman regained her composure, asking them question after question about Endeavour. Nine stayed quiet most of the time, only asked the vocational question about what she was or knew. She gave short answers before burning away from the camera.

By the end she seemed on the verge of a breakdown. She was hyperventilating and wouldn't talk at all. She seemed to be clamped onto Dabi's side and muttering something. "It's fine. They're gone. They aren't here. Touya's here. It's safe. They can't get me." She muttered again and again.

 Todoroki looked up at Touya who shrugged, picking Nine up and carrying the shaking girl out of the room. She looked more like a child then, not the villain who was feared across the city, the country even. Tears screamed down her face, her eyes opened slightly to stare at Dabi's face. She knees were pulled up to her chest, her whole body shaking, making her hard to carry but Dabi managed to.

This clearly was not the first time something like this had happened.