Saiki's Hero Academia

Chapter 9 - lortnoC

Saiki opened his eyes, he looked up at the buildings of the training ground and sat up. Finally being in control of his body again made him happier than ever before, he could taste all the coffee-jelly he missed out on again. While brushing dirt off his school uniform he noticed a small cut on the finger next to the ring that formed when he imprisoned his actual body, he didn't mind it and thought he overworked his body. Scratching his head he stood up while deciding on what to do, going back to school now wasn't exactly an option, police and heroes alike would be waiting for him and as he checked with telepathy, what he thought was correct. Scared thoughts of him returning to the school as some kind of target he made as well as the heroes' thoughts of protecting their students were all around the building. Saiki closed his eyes and with a snap of his fingers, he destroyed the all-powerful barrier he created around the training area.
From all the destruction that his new ability caused, he didn't regret setting it up in the first place. He looked around a bit more, checking for any kind of mistake he might have made, but there were none. Although as he looked around, an idea struck him, the observers that would normally roam the area would have the ability to send a message to the heroes or at least the school. He quickly flew to the nearest one that had been on its way to the earlier fight anyway, grabbed it by the camera, and looked straight into it. An action like this with his face in the center should have immediately grabbed the attention of the messenger, making him be able to transfer a few words, though he would actually have to use his voice this time. He opened his mouth and slowly began talking, as he still wasn't used to doing that.
"I don't know if this will reach any of you heroes, but I will explain myself this instant, I am afraid to return to the school as you would just immediately cuff me and return me to that weird prison. Listen up, I have no intent to kill or pursue any criminal activity, neither have I done so. The Saiki you had all been talking to, encountering, and even fighting was my mind-controlled body. I do not know much of who mind-controlled me, but I know his name his Naneki, he works for a criminal organization and his boss is called Shigaraki. Though I will not pursue criminal activities I will pursue this... asshole and probably deliver him to the police. At that point, he will confess to all his crimes and I wish to return to the school and explain more."
Saiki let go of the small robot, he didn't know if that message would reach his teachers, but now he felt at ease to go back to where all of this started. The observer quickly left the area to protect itself, still recording Saiki on his way, but without any evidence on how or when, Saiki had teleported in an instant, now standing in front of the cafe he had previously found evidence to the lab. He sat down on one of the least destroyed bar chairs, took off his limiter and concentrated on his surroundings with telepathy, going further and further into the city, checking all around for the squeaky evil voice he despised so much. His mind flew through buildings, stores, abandoned factories, and much more, trying to find a simple spec of nasty Nomus or anything else. There was no time to waste, Saiki was afraid he would encounter another mind-controlling Nomu, this time capable of revealing all the powers Saiki contained or even going so far as to destroy his soul, he simply didn't want to die in this world. His mind stopped for a second when he realized that another part of his world actually joined this one, Teruhashi, quickly shifting his telepathy to the school he searched for her, it would be a pain if anything happened. The quick shift caused Saiki to gain a small headache, his powers without a limiter had been accelerated too fast. As he finally found Teruhashi between all of this mess, he also found Aizawa and two police officers being close by, they were basically interrogating her. 

"This is the message Saiki left behind, do you know anything about this mind control?" Now knowing that the message did actually reach the heroes, Saiki felt relief calming his body, they had finally heard the explanation to 'his' actions. "No, Aizawa-san, I don't know anything about anything going on. I just came to help Saiki..." Aizawa's voice shifted to a more angry and annoyed tone. "You 'helped' him? So you did try to free a criminal, tell me Teruhashi, what exactly is your purpose in all of this, are you compiling some sort of criminal activity?" Teruhashi just messed up and Saiki wanted to help her since it's his mess that she's entangled in, but he didn't quite know how to. "Please, believe me, I never wanted to do anything bad, Saiki's brother Kusuke just brought me here-" A simple teleport and suddenly Saiki stood before them.
"S-Saiki?"
He glared at her for revealing something that stupid, telling them he was from another world would mess up his plan completely, especially with a tough head like Aizawa.
Aizawa and the police officers immediately jumped into a fighting position, an understandable action giving the situation. Although they believed Saiki would attack them, he raised his arms in a surrendering gesture and also quickly put on his limiter. "Please believe me when I say this, I am not here to cause any harm, just like I stated on my message."
"How the fuck did you get here so quickly." He pointed at Saiki who stood in front of Teruhashi. She looked up at his arms in surprise, wondering how he got here as well, but as she realized that his finger was wearing a ring she panicked.
"Did you... marry someone?"
Saiki's head sprung around and his arms lowered themselves a bit.
"Wha-"
'He married someone! It can't be. And the ring is so beautiful as well, who was it, was it Aiura, wait no this is a different world.'
Saiki huffed, it actually amused him quite a bit how Teruhashi's thoughts didn't change even when she was in a situation like this. Come to think of it, didn't she come here with a quirk?
"Saiki! Your finger, it's bleeding."
His eyes widened, he was what? The scratch from earlier had deepened itself the moment he wasn't watching, though he believed his body would've healed it right away.
"Hey you two, sorry to ruin your reunion, but what is going on, explain yourselves!"
"Please calm down." He turned around to Aizawa again. "First of all, Teruhashi has nothing to do with anything that happened to me, second of all, everything I stated in that message is true. I just... saw she needed help."
"Explain yourself! Just who are you, I thought your quirk was a fire emitter!" 
A few drops of blood fell on the ground, but even though he was injured without showing any hostility, Aizawa did not care. Saiki was annoyed.
"I'll make these words only reach you, my powers range from teleportation to the manipulation of all elements. I can teleport, read your mind, go back in time, go to the futur-" 
Suddenly Saiki's headache turned into a pounding migraine, so strong he could have accidentally triggered one of his powers. He held his head in pain.
Haven't I already been through all of this? 
"What was that just now?! Did you just talk in my head? Police, cuff him before he attacks us!" 
"Wait stop!" Saiki raised his hand, trying to defend himself from the attack, but without realizing he accidentally stopped all of their movements. They could still think, feel, talk, but they couldn't move. 
"Wha-" 
"I'm telling you, I do not want to hurt you, if I would, I would've done so already!"
Reading their thoughts, they didn't even believe him in the slightest, but that did not matter anymore. Saiki started playing a lullaby in Teruhashis's head to make her forget what exactly happened here and also to calm her. Looking at his finger he tried to understand the situation.
The cut on his finger next to the ring was a timer. The more he used his powers the deeper the cut goes, and the longer he takes in this current timeline of the world, the further it goes.
If it reaches my heart or lungs I will die...there's no doubt about that. But what happened to me, I don't remember, nor do I know how to stop this cut. I... I have to get out of here.
He panicked, he panicked badly, it even went so far that his leg started shaking. Deep on the inside, he knew what was going on, he was going to die, or already had, or is dying right now... He shook his head. I can't panic, this cut will kill me eventually, for now, I have to stop the bleeding somehow. He reset his wound to the day before, but nothing happened, so he simply just grabbed a part of his shirt and ripped it to cover the wound like a bandage. 
"Saiki..." Teruhashi looked at him.
"What is going on." She was barely able to hold open her eyes, the lullaby in his head was quite calming.
"I have no time to explain, please stay here next to Aizawa where it's safe."
"I... Alright."

Saiki quickly turned around and teleported out of the area, releasing Aizawa and the police of their cuffs. Now levitating over the city, Saiki continued scanning for Naneki, he wanted this to be over as quickly as possible.
If I don't find him today, this cut is sure to kill me...
He stared at his finger, but as a signal of a very familiar squeaky voice reached him, he quickly raised his head and looked around.
'This guy will die, die die DIE DIE!' Naneki's thoughts haven't changed in the slightest. He was ranting on about killing Saiki, ending his life with Nomu's and taking over his body again. 
He concentrated, where was it coming from, which way would he nuke the whole city to eliminate him quickly. Though it was an exaggeration from Saiki's rage, the thought itself didn't seem too bad, but then he would actually turn into a criminal. 
Finally locating the voice, Saiki immediately teleported outside the building, to his surprise it was a normal company's building, but on the inside would await death, or just a simple loop of what already happened, the mind-control Nomu. 
Preparing for the infiltration, Saiki turned invisible, created a fully guarded barrier around his body, killed any sounds coming from his body or steps, and for the naked eye turned into nothing, undetectable. It deepened his cut quite a bit, now being at the end of the finger, but the bleeding wasn't strong.
He teleported inside.
Awaiting him was a huge room in which were more cryopods that contained Nomu's of all kinds, this time being able to determine their looks, Saiki stared at small ones with bright colors, bigger ones with beak-heads and claws, while others were boring but had huge blades as arms. It was a scary sight to behold, but Saiki didn't get distracted from his target. His invisibility only lasted so long.
He looked at Naneki, who was raging in the middle of the room. With disgust and pent up feelings, Saiki's heart beat faster and faster, his blood rushing through his head. He wouldn't even waste two more seconds trying to analyze the room. He flew through the room at high speed and thrust his fist through Naneki's chest, his blood splashing all over Saiki. As his invisibility turned off, Naneki stared at him with scared eyes. Saiki looked down on him with blood covering half of his face, he felt nothing more than happiness at this moment. 
"So..." Naneki coughed up blood. "You did come to kill me..." His voice was trembling as if he had actually feared this moment, as if he had actually feared dying. 
Releasing Naneki, he dropped to the ground, now with a pool of blood surrounding him.
"Tell me, how do I release my body from your mind control."
"That's all you care about?" His squeaky voice chuckled in the last minute of his life. 
The Nomus! I have to get rid of them immediately.
Saiki flew to ever pod and destroyed it, killing every Nomu possible in the progress. With ever pod blowing up, Saiki was more and more covered in the blood of his enemies, some blue, some red, some green, but it didn't bother him. 
While destroying one of the last pods, Saiki suddenly heard a noise from one of the previous ones. A Nomu with dark skin and two huge claws stepped out of the fire and when Saiki looked at his face he finally remembered.
I... Died? What? How did I get back to life, how is that Nomu still alive... What is going on...
A tear of sweat rolled down his face, the fade memories of him dying were horrible, he remembered the pain, the situation, and this Nomu. 
The Nomus' eyes rotated around, checking through the room, as he saw a dead Naneki he stopped in his tracks. A sudden and loud screech to his creators' death made Saiki hold his ears shut, it was too loud to be bearable. Saiki's invisibility was still on cooldown, he couldn't just disappear from the scene. He also couldn't let this thing roam free.
The Nomu started sniffing around the area and as he caught the scent of Saiki covered in all of the Nomu blood he turned around, enraged but intimidated at his comrade's death. Him not attacking gave Saiki a second to think, but he had only one option, to fight it. He raised his arm to his limiter, slowly took it off and dropped it on the ground. 
Saiki looked at his enemy in a standoff and while moving away from the pods he created something that could aid him in his fight. A clone. 
"Debao I need your help in this, would you be my protector?"
"But of course Kusuo, I am you after all." 
Debao already aware of everything that is happening dashed towards the Nomu while Saiki awaited the outcome of the fight.
But even though Debao wasn't wearing his limiter, he was outmatched. Though he didn't die, in just a few seconds of trying to release elements and sheer power on the Nomu, he had already lost an arm.  
"Debao that's enough, please teleport out of here and wait for me." 
Immediately following Saiki's instructions, he disappeared into thin air. The Nomu was a bit exhausted but hadn't even gained a scratch from any of that. Now it was just standing there, his breath visible in the air.
Just what am I going to do if my clone can't kill it. 
Saiki was remembering the fight he had with himself, which undoubtedly was the strongest opponent he had ever fought in his life. That ability he used was one of a kind... Judgment. 
He quickly started conjuring the same thing he had done before, a small knife while white flames surrounded his body. It still burnt him quite a bit, but at least he knew how to handle it a bit more. Last time he drew a kanji shaped letter which simply meant the word thunder, though he couldn't read the alien-like language, that's what he had in mind at that time. 
Well, I think I should try drawing something else now...
The knife drew what he deeply desired in this fight, and now as he slowly traced a new letter with his eyes closed, it created... a gun?
The gun itself was glowing in a purple neon color, with sharp edges around it. He quickly got a hold of it and the knife disappeared. 
What am I supposed to do with a gun?
The weapon that he was now holding was the deep desire of having a weapon to kill against a Nomu that wouldn't die to any of his clones' powers. He held it and aimed at the Nomu, the clear fighting stance towards his enemy made the Nomu suddenly jump towards him, but Saiki had his finger already on the trigger. A beam of light flashed out of the gun, similar in looks to the previous judgment ability. The immediate recoil threw Saiki against a wall, which made Saiki cough in shock, the impact was too strong. As he looked back at the Nomu, it was completely gone. There was no trace of it left, not even blood, he completely eradicated it. 
The gun disappeared after one shot, so Saiki was just left standing there, wondering what happened. Then looking at the building, he had left a huge hole that would show the destruction from room to room, only ending at the next building he could now see. 
The light from the outside cleared the room a bit and he could finally make out more than he saw before. He stood up straight again and looked around.
Out of nowhere, he heard steps coming from the room he blew a hole into, a Nomu's hand grabbed the edge and went forward to slowly show his face. A low bass growl came from him and his eyes focused on Saiki only. It had not ended yet.
Even though his body had a huge hole on the left side, the Nomu was still standing, he screeched through the room, turned his arm into a blade, and slashed horizontally through the room.
Saiki quickly jumped and evaded the almost invisible attack. Now in the air, he tried summoning the knife again, but it had no use. 
The Nomu dashed towards him continuing to slash through the air, Saiki in the meantime summoned fire in a whip-like style and wrapped it around the Nomu to slam him into the ground. Saiki then grabbed the whip with his hands and pulled himself to the Nomu, landing with his feet on the half-cut off torso. Quickly following up by using telekinesis on of the metal pieces from a destroyed cryopod he slammed it into the Nomu's arm leaving him with only a torso and head. The whip wrapped around the arm and threw it away, Saiki didn't take any chances of it being able to regenerate a ripped off part. 
Not being able to resist in its weakened state, the Nomu just laid there. 
Saiki grabbed the piece of metal and slowly thrust it with enough force to cut, through the Nomus head. 
Is it over? 
Saiki lost his balance for a second, the cut from his finger had reached the upper half of his arm, through extensive use of his powers, not only did the cut deepen but the blood also started pouring out like crazy. He got a bit dizzy. The loss of blood made him too weak to even teleport out of the building. He had to slowly walkout, a trail of blood following each of his steps. As he got to the opening of the building he blew out, the bright light of the sun blinded him.
Before him now were police officers along with heroes from the school, they were quick to arrive at the scene, but it was expected since Saiki created a huge commotion. 
Holding his bleeding arm he was now just standing there. Everyone was devastated at the sight of a young student covered in blood.
"Hold it! Stay right there, Saiki." Aizawa stepped out between the heroes. 
"We are going to take you into custody for attacking U.A. and various other crimes, it would be easy if you didn't resist." 
Saiki wasn't even listening, the cut was still slowly advancing on his body and the loss of blood had drained his stamina. Simply looking at Aizawa he stumbled to the side and fell to the ground, slowly passing out.
Even though he was an enemy, Aizawa shouted for the police to call an ambulance immediately. 
Saiki was afraid, he remembered how he died the last time, it felt too similar, he didn't want the darkness to engulf his mind again, he didn't want to pass out.
Please, somebody...
I can't do this alone. Please...
He passed out.


Saiki had successfully defeated Naneki.
Saiki was alive. 
The cut is around his shoulder.

Authors Note: 
I tried a different approach to the story, so I was writing 2 chapters at the same time.
I hope you still enjoy reading this story. I will take a short break before I start on chapter 10.
Thank you for reading :)