Saiki's Hero Academia

Chapter 6 - Out of Control

"Kekeke." Naneki danced and laughed through the dark lab as Saiki entered while being invisible. All the investigations he had done with psychometry had led him here. At first, he thought it was going to be easy, but going through many half-destroyed objects of past fights with his powers drained his mind. This is disgusting, what are all these creatures?! The corpse-like smell of the room made Saiki pinch his nose in disgust. And what's up with this guy? He looked at Naneki, a creature even more disgusting than the Nomu's he was surrounded with. Well, at least I found the lab where these ...things are being created. Now all I have to do is destro- Suddenly Naneki stopped in his step. "WHO IS THERE?" He squealed, lifting his hand to draw his weapon, but he had none. It seems he has heard the tiniest noise from Saiki entering and it triggered his instincts. Since Saiki was going to do get rid of Naneki along with the other Nomu's he decided to reveal himself, but the sight of an enemy made Naneki recoil. Naneki wasn't built for any fights, his ability to have high IQ with his deformed body simply wasn't made for it. "Y-You shouldn't be in here! Wait, I know you, you're that student." Saiki raised an eyebrow "That student?" He shrugged it off and walked towards Naneki, it was easily pieced together that Naneki was the one to send the Nomu at Todoroki and him. "Wait, wait, wait! Don't hurt me, I haven't done anything!"  Saiki cracked his fingers, preparing for a fight. The psychic instantly found out that Naneki was lying, so he didn't let himself get stopped. Naneki decided to run towards the console and release a Nomu out of a Cryopod, it was none other than the one capable of mind control. "If you won't stop I guess I'll have to force you!" He laughed and pointed at a small Nomu, his eyes still filled with fear. 'If this guy gets hit he's done for!' Suddenly Saiki giggled, the small Nomu was obviously not going to hit a strong punch, he decided to play a little bit and show how much stronger he was, not knowing that it would be one of his biggest mistakes. "Hoh? Well, come at me then." The Nomu pounced at him like a cat, he was also approximately the size of a cat, so Saiki just sat back and let himself get hit. Right after the Nomu's fist touched his chest, it fell into a thousand little pieces.
What was-
...A few seconds of silence as his body fell flat on the ground. Confusion flooded his mind. 
I can't move! 
"Kekekeke... You totally fell for it." Naneki's eyes squinted and his devilish smile crossed his face again, this time the fear in his eyes was completely gone.
What did you do to me?! Wait... I can't reach him! My telepathy...
Suddenly he felt his body move against his will, it had gone sentient, while his mind was active and able to see his actions. Impossible! This can't be happening. "S-a-i-k-i-san." Naniki slowed his talk, walking towards him. "If you would like to walk backward." Saiki's body abruptly moved backward and stopped as his back touched a wall. His eyes were now more empty than ever, the purple changed to a dark black color, it was now just a mere shell."I was originally going to use this Nomu on you later since he was still incomplete, but you just walked right in, god has to love me!" He giggled. "Well, with the incomplete process you should still be able to hear me, what I'm saying is that your consciousness should still be alive. Sorry about that. I was going to kill that hero-soul of yours." Naneki snapped and punched Saiki straight in the stomach. "I hope you still felt that~ That's for killing one of my Nomu's!" Saiki did feel it, but the pain didn't even cross his mind. I fell into his trap and now I can't control my body! Me! The psychic! I... I...The struggle of his soul trying to gain control caused his body to react, it was shaking and his legs trembling, everything was unstable. "A reaction? Hmpf, it really is incomplete. Well, you come with me, I'll try to fix that little problem."His body followed Naneki, everything Saiki tried at that moment was failing, he couldn't use his abilities as a soul, only the darkness that surrounded him with a small screen of what his eyes saw and the sensation of what his body felt remained. It was lonely, dark, it was hell.
And Saiki didn't know how to climb out of it. 

"Did anyone see Saiki recently?" Aizawa asked the class, but everyone just shook their heads. 
'He's been missing for two days, something must be going on.'  He turned towards the board and lifted the chalk to write.
"Sensei, is everything alright?" Uraraka said, wondering why he suddenly stopped writing instructions for the following days on the board. 
"It's nothing. It's just weird for the new student to disappear almost instantly after applying, so if you do see Saiki, please come to me right away." 
"For all I care, four-eyes can just vanish." Aizawa glared at Bakugo. 
"Remember that U.A. already has a bad reputation concerning the safety of students. The sooner he comes back the better." Thinking that he should still find out what happened to Saiki, he continued writing onto the board. Right after he began, the door to his right opened, the creaking of the chalk was almost in tune with it, so no one noticed it at first. It was Kirishima who a few minutes ago went to the bathroom, but now he seemed out of breath. "Sensei! I've just seen Saiki at the entrance he looks pretty beat up!." Not being able to finish his writings once more, Aizawa thanked Kirishima and interrupted the class to go rush to the student in need. On the way, he made a call to recovery girl in case it was urgent to heal Saiki.
As he arrived at the entrance, Saiki was just standing there, his body bruised and scratched, it was as if a car had run him over. Furthermore, his hair was messed up and his eyes empty, he looked broken. Aizawa's intuition was right, Saiki was broken to no repair, on the inside and outside. His soul had only a glimpse of light remaining which kept him alive, Naneki had tortured his body to turn him into a lifeless shell, without his powers, he was vulnerable, a bruise which couldn't hurt him before turned into a painful mess.
Naneki was supervising and controlling the body of Saiki from a simple monitor, far away from danger.
How could I be so stupid
This thought has been circling Saiki's mind over and over again, he was at the brink of giving up since he saw no way out. After all, he was a human being that never experienced actual pain.
The empty eyes made Aizawa quickly step towards him, shaking him free of his mind-cage.
"Are you okay? What happened?" Saiki's eyes moved slowly towards Aizawa, but a smile crossed his face. "I'm fine, I just had an accident!" This was Naneki, with simple electromagnetic input he was able to create a talking robot. "Let's get you to recovery girl then you tell me what happened." Sorry, Aizawa, I know his traps and you're walking right into one.
All Saiki felt at this moment was grief and sadness.

After his body got healed, it pretended continuously to be Saiki, it wasn't hard to do so, the students rarely heard him speak, so Naneki just had to adapt to an introverted behavior and everything else just came together.
"Hey, Saiki? Can we talk for a moment." The controlled Saiki looked at All-Might who entered the room and instantly questioned why. "It's a little private, just come to my office, I don't want to spout this out in public."
To not defy a teacher's request, Naneki followed him into his office.
"Sorry to drag you out like this, I have to talk to you about a villain attack. Just give me a second..." All-Might quickly skimmed through the documents on his desk and as he found what he searched for he proudly held it into Saiki's face.
Villain 'Habu', what does this have to do with me?? I have bigger problems right now.
"What do you want me to do with this information?" Fake-Saiki asked, taking the document out of All-Might's hand and looking over it.
"Well, the police department needs some information and helpers, it would be a good way to raise your reputation for the internships. Just imagine you get to be on the big screen, heroes would surely take notice." He said with excitement.
"I'll consider it." Saiki stared at All-Might for a moment, then looked around and left without saying anything. 'That was weird.' All-Might thought, looking at him leaving the room, just like Aizawa he felt that there was something going on.
Right after he was out of sight, Naneki burnt the documents in anger, leaving nothing but dust behind and headed towards the library of the school, a place where all information is kept, it was highly secured and no student could get in. But Naneki had his own way, he had tortured Saiki into uncontrollably releasing a few of his powers, luckily for Naneki, invisibility was one of them. And so Naneki quickly went through the so 'secure' library, avoided cameras and happily danced through the detection lasers. The room he found himself in at the end of the hallway was huge, like an actual library in a cylinder shape and in the middle was a computer that had all the data compressed in a server.
"What a haul! I can't wait." He rushed towards it and plugged in a USB-Drive to gain information on many things, but a few were locked with a password. Naneki's quirk didn't have any problems with those either, quickly hacking the software and literally ripping out pieces had taken him a few minutes. The inner Saiki had sat down, a soul doesn't get tired, so he was almost forced to watch every action while thinking of a way to stop himself. Then he remembered the struggle and how it caused a reaction. If he could time it at the right moment, he could misspell the password and rig the process, this would at least stop Naneki from getting what he desires. Even though it hurt him to move around with a half shattered soul, he struggled, boosted himself with courage and tried to get the slightest reaction to mess up his sentient body hacking. He then tried to remember what it felt like to move his fingers and focused on an exact point.
From Naneki's view, he put in the password without one mistake, but in between Saiki had made slight mistakes unnoticeable for him. 
"Wrong..." Naneki felt slightly irritated at his quirk not working, but he kept making mistakes. He tried again and again but Saiki made him deliberately fail. 
"Wrong...Wrong...Wrong!?" Naneki slammed his fist on the computer in front of him in pure rage. All of a sudden alarms started echoing through the library, as everything got shut down the walls around Naneki started smashing down armored reinforcements and locked him inside, he chased each of them with his eyes and every one of them smashed the understanding of having screwed up into his brain. 
I did it! Now the teachers just have to capture me. 
It took a few minutes, but the teachers flooded to the entrance, interrupting every lesson in the school. A few students were behind them, watching and following every move of their favorite pro heroes. But as the doors opened with the teachers ready to encounter and fight a disgusting villain in their territory, they were staggered at the sight of their student uniform. The principal stepped through the crowd and shouted towards the student who was standing in the dark, not revealing his face. "Who are you? Show yourself!" Naneki stepped towards them, showing the face of Saiki, even though he usually kept the same expression, Naneki's influence on his body had caused a huge smile. "Saiki...?" Aizawa's eyes widened for a second, even with his early suspicions regarding Saiki's behavior, there was simply no way of not being surprised. The other teachers quickly turned around and pressured the students to leave, classes would be dismissed for today. Though the teachers thought they had more time, Naneki attacked them right away, he just had to get through them and escape and that was exactly his plan. With Saiki's powers, he could almost do anything. 
Neneki casted raging fire in front of him, rushed through the flames, hiding from the sight of the teachers and almost immediately grabbed Aizawa by the shoulders and kicked his left side to stun him. Aizawa reacted just as fast as his opponent was and tried to erase his quirk, but Naneki had already disappeared out of his sight, with a quick turn Aizawa stood strong on his feet again, looking at Saiki practically flying through the other teachers as if it was a game to him. He activated his quirk once more, stopping him in his step, which made Naneki trip and land on his knees. 
"Tch-" Naneki said, returning his gaze to Aizawa. 
"Now!" Aizawa screamed as Midnight used her quirk, exuding a sleep-inducing aroma from her body and put Saiki to sleep who roughly fell flat on the ground. Naneki screeched as he lost his opportunity to recover the body and got off the control module he was using. 
"Shit!" He kicked the wall surrounding him, causing damage to himself. 
"Are you okay Midnight?!" The remaining teachers rushed towards the sleeping student from the library. "Yes, he fell asleep quite quickly...It's unusual." Aizawa didn't even hesitate and restrained Saiki with his scarf. 
"Wait." The principal stopped his teachers. "I want to hear what he has to say. I know this is sudden, but I want a student to explain himself."
Fully restrained and Aizawa's quirk at the ready, Midnight got rid of her own effect, which should wake up her target. But even after minutes of sharply watching, Saiki didn't move an inch. "What's going on?" Aizawa asked. They checked to see if he was even still alive, but his heart was beating and his lungs still breathing. As they opened his eyes by themselves they quickly noticed the emptiness they were showing, he wasn't dead, but more like a soulless kind of state. Since Naneki had left the control module, there was no one controlling Saiki's body, Saiki saw this as an opportunity to take over and create some kind of connection with people again. 
"H..." a slight whisper left his lungs, Saiki's soul was able to desperately reach out to them.
"He's saying something!" Aizawa got closer to examine his words, as they were hard to understand. 
"Help... me." Those words left everyone around Saiki silent, while Saiki tried once more he suddenly felt pushed out of control again.
Quickly piecing together what happened only today, Aizawa got up and presented his theory to the other teachers, without leaving his student out of sight. "The bruised body, the weird behavior and now this." Aizawa got more silent to not scare any of the students still listening, but the principal continued. "You think he's being controlled, am I correct?" 
"To put it simply, yes." He nodded. "He was almost instantly targeted after defeating a Nomu I'm guessing. There is no way villains didn't have a part in this.
With concern for Saiki, they carried him to a safe room in which they kept him restrained in case he would rebel again. While all this happened, Saiki's soul was watching, happier than ever to find out they had easily cracked the code he gave them. Now he had found a time gap to reach the outside again, it was Naneki leaving his console. Filled with the hope he needed, he continued to watch carefully. 
After a while, All-Might snuck into the room for a talk with Saiki. He sat down next to him and tried to start many conversations but all turned out empty as he simply didn't react. Suddenly Saiki's eyes sprung open, he quickly looked around and noticed the slim figure of All-Might. This was in fact Naneki, who took control again. 
"All-Might! Please, let me out! I was being controlled." He said with tears almost filling his eyes. 
Kind of embarrassing to see myself cry.
"I know, I know, but I can't, you need to calm down first." Naneki struggled, pretending to do it out of fear. "How long will you hold me here for? Tell me, please!" All-Might just simply shrugged. "I don't know, I was just here to have a small talk with you, to confirm this... control mess. Since we haven't really talked before, may I ask why you wanted to become a hero?" 
'If he is being controlled still, this is the way to find out.' Saiki jumped up out of excitement, of course, All-Might was lying, but only he knew that. 
"Why? I simply want to save people, that's all! Now let me out." 
All-Might's eyes widened, he let his head fall and he looked at the ground. 
"Is that so?" He chuckled with a tone of sadness. "So you are being controlled, huh, Saiki?" He looked at Saiki's body "I thought you were stronger than that." Naneki now showed his true colors, Saiki's face turned to an enraged mess of emotions, all of them flooding towards his true target. "I'll kill you." He started to laugh. "I'll kill you, I'll kill you..." Repeating it many times All-Might got up and stumbled backward to get away from this demon.
"Just who are you." Finding his balance again, he quickly left the room informing all the teachers of what he witnessed. It was a swift talk, but he got everything he needed. Now it was up to Naneki and Saiki to fight a battle of control. 


BONUS - Back in Saiki no psi nan
"What?" Teruhashi's eyes filled with tears. "Saiki is dead?"
'That can't be... No, no way.' Out of surprise of Teruhashi overhearing their conversation, Aiura and Toritsuka tried to shake it off by changing the topic, but she had already changed her assumptions. "I'll... Be right back." Teruhashi walked past them, her hair covering her eyes. As her walk got faster she rushed to her locker, picked up her shoes and ran to Saiki's house in order to check upon him. If he was just sick, she would come up with the excuse of her teachers giving her the notes of today. 
As she got to his house, she quickly rang the doorbell and rushed towards the door. It was her mother who opened. Her cute apron and happy expression made Teruhashi calm down for a moment.
"Eh... Is Saiki home?" A quick squeal started the mother talking. 
"He's not." The short but not very trustworthy answer made her question everything again. Kusuke suddenly appeared behind his mom.
"Hey, Kusuo isn't here right now, you can go back to school." 'What a cold answer.' Teruhashi thought. 'But no one has actually told me where he is!'
"Where is he then?" Kusuke's eyes showed more disgust to her than usual. "That is none of your business, get lost." 
"Kusuke! You shouldn't say that to our guest!" She stopped her son. 
"It's a game between brothers, she doesn't need to know." He shrugged.
"Game?" 

Author's note;
Happy new year! I hope it's going good for y'all. 
The story is getting kind of tricky to write, I'm totally up for suggestions!
Thanks for reading :)