Worthless Necessity [HitoZuku]

Chapter 44 - Are my only friends

"Mandalay!" Aizawa yelled, as he spotted the Pussycat, along with the rest of the students.

"Eraser, I take it you got the telepathic message." She asked, and Aizawa nodded.

She continued, "Midoriya just took out Muscular, he's injured, but he went into the forest, and Shinsou followed him. He won't listen to Tiger or I; I've been sending him telepathic messages to come back, but he's too stubborn. If you tell him to come back, maybe he'll listen."

Sosaki heard Aizawa mumbled, "Problem child." under his breath, before the Erasure hero looked at her, "Okay, what about 1-B?"

"Still in the forest, I think. Magne and some other guy called Spinner went into the forest, and Tiger went after them already."

"Got it." Aizawa nodded, "Tell the students to use their quirks; I'll take full responsibility!"

"Huh?" Sosaki was taken aback as Aizawa growled, "There's a villain with a fire quirk, and I'm sure he's the one setting the forest on fire, which means they also have another villain with a cloning quirk. They're targeting the students, Bakugou and Todoroki specifically. As of now, they need to survive, and to be able to match up against villains who are willing to kill and have much more experience, they need to use their quirks! Also, Midoriya may be a target as well. He's had previous interactions with the League, and I'm sure that Shigaraki holds some sort of grudge against him."

"Alright." Sosaki muttered, quickly sending out the message, "I'll bring the kittens back, you take care of the villains."

Sosaki turned to leave, before she paused, "Doesn't Shinsou have a mind control quirk? Can't he use that on Midoriya?"

"Tch." Aizawa sighed, "Midoriya won't speak if he has to, and if he's injured by Muscular, the damage can't be good. He's probably in so much pain that he'd snap out of Hitoshi's mind control immediately."

Sosaki blinked.

First name basis?

She waved the thought away. They had more important things to deal with. She would question the Erasure hero once all the students were safe.

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"Get away from me! You'll die!" Tokoyami screamed, as Dark Shadow rampaged about.

Shoji ducked behind a tree, trying to hide from Dark Shadow, as he heard footsteps. He eyed the forest warily, before a bleeding Midoriya burst out of nowhere, with Shinsou close behind, hot on his heels.

"Midoriya, slow down - Shoji? Tokoyami? What's going on?"

Shoji quickled shushed them.

"We got the warning. A villain came out of nowhere, and we managed to get out at the cost of losing a bit of my arm. It's just a duplicate, so it will heal, but I don't think he took it well." Shoji showed them his limb, which was already starting to heal, "We heard Mandalay's messages, and you... Midoriya... I don't think you should be moving around like that."

Midoriya just shot Shoji a small glare, before turning to look at Dark Shadow.

"Righteous indignation and regret are strong emotions. Coupled with a sentient quirk..." Shinsou muttered.

"Yep." Shoji nodded, "It's attacking indiscriminately, reacting to any kind of sound. Getting fire, or finding Aizawa should help."

"Where's Bakugou and Todoroki? They went before you." Shinsou asked, but Shoji shrugged, "Don't know. We've been here on our own, before this guy in black and really long teeth-knives popped out of nowhere and - Midoriya, what are you doing?"