A Friendship Carol

Ch.8: Why Me? Why Him? WHY THEM?

"Wow, Kacchan, you're so cool~."

Both the Bakugos' eyes widened in shock.

"No..."

"No..."

They both said in sync.

"Oh, so you do remember me?," the villain said, sounding genuinely happy.

Then he stepped out into the light that was shining over the desk, Bakugo felt sick to his stomach when he saw the man in front of him. He had green curly hair, styled nicely in a side part on top of his head, the hairstyle completed by the bangs that flopped onto the left side of his forehead. He had bright green eyes that seemed to shine in the dim yellow light. He was dressed in a white button up shirt of which all the buttons were fastened. Over top was a black waist coat with velvet buttons. He also donned a long, wine, necktie with a gold tie clip clipped neatly onto it. He wore black dress pants and black dress shoes as well. His only 'striking' or stand out accessory was the long, and well kept handcrafted knife he held in his left hand.

Bakugo felt as if all the air had been forcefully sucked out of him, and by his expression he could tell that Ground Zero felt the same.

"Deku?"

"Deku?"

Both questioned together.

"Yes!" He squealed "Oh I'm so glad you remembered me. For a second I thought I was going to have to beat the memories back into you." the grown Deku said with a smile.

"So, you're a villain? How, why, we all thought you killed yourself." Ground Zero said, getting a shocked expression from Bakugo, and a smile from Deku.

"Yes, I am a villain, after what you did I couldn't very well be a hero, now could I?" Deku said with a smile. "As for how, and why, it was easy, you killed my faith in humanity, and my respect for the so called Heros."

Tears pin pricked in the Pro Hero's eyes, he looked at the other man, "Izu-"

"NO," the villain yelled, spinning around to face away from the hero, using the force of his sudden anger to drive his knife into the desk with a bang. He loosened his grip on the knife and took a deep breath. Bakugo couldn't see his face because he was looking the other way but he could tell his smile had returned. "Izuku Midoriya, died on that bridge 11 years ago. You did the honor of killing him. All that remains is, The Lone Villain: Deku."

"The lone villain," Ground Zero said. "so it's safe to assume that you didn't join The League?"

"I guess that is all that you would hear. You're correct I didn't join those blithering idiots. Their conflicting ideals more than boggle the mind. I can't stand such nonsense. Even if they are hurting for members you don't have to worry about me siding with them. Plus I've done quite good on my own. I don't need a team, I defeated you all alone, didn't I?"

"No." Ground Zero said.

"No? Is this some power of hope speech, that others will come rescue you. Wow you have stooped low Katsuki."

"Not at all, stupid Deku, I didn't even tell those morons where I was going. I knew I could handle this on my own." Ground Zero said, struggling in the chair a bit. Bakugo winced, was that really how he talked, that was really how stuck up he sounded all the time? Ground Zero continued "I know for a fact that the person outside had a quirk. And unless you did join The League there's no way you could have one."

"Ahh, so you even remember my quirkless state. Well of course you do, after all it was by your hands that One for All was stripped of me." He turned around to face his prisoner.

"Never mind that for now, you want to know how I was able to overcome you both quirkless and alone. Easy, support gear technology has grown significantly in the past years, and luckily for me I had an old friend in the business. She had no idea I was a villain when she gave me these and the others" he said, throwing out a pair of mettle shoes with flashing green lights and the Hatsume Support Ink. logo on the back. "so you can't really blame her for making me items that enhance non-quirk related attributes."

"You're the one who killed Mei?" Ground Zero was shaking, not in fear but disbelief.

"Yes that was me. You should have seen the look on her face when I slaughtered her with one of her precious babies." Deku said with an even wider smile, like he was playing the day back in his mind.

Ground Zero was speechless, and what do all good villains do when the hero can't talk? They monologue.

"I remember the day you ruined my life like it was yesterday. You stood before the entire school at lunch and told everyone the story of how All Might gave me his power. At that moment I was done. The holder of One for All has to be a natural born hero, it was only a matter of time before the news and the villains knew that I wasn't. The school made the call, though I don't blame them. I would have to give One for All back to All Might, and he would find some spunky new teen to inherit it once the press had forgotten 'my little mishap'. I was heartbroken, and enraged, even more so by the fact that you got off scot-free, despite killing my dream. And that wasn't even the worst of it; the toll One for All put on All Might's body was too heavy for him. He ended up giving One for All to Mirio, because he had already been trained for it by Night Eye. An hour after transferring the power All Might died from the strain it had put on him. You killed him, and yet you saw no consequence. Instead, your popularity only grew. You became the #1 Hero, 'The Killer of Crime'. Little do they all know you're just a killer."

Then Ground Zero snapped out of the trance he had been in before he looked up at Deku, new determination in his crimson eyes. "Where's the girl, Deku?" he asked.

"Aah so that's why you're really here, for Eri-chan." Deku said, a thoughtful smile on his lips. "I took her in hopes she could take my quirk factor back to when it was graced will One for All's power. Unfortunately she was unable to do so. I knew that wasn't really the way it worked but I thought it was worth a try. I had her undo everything she had done once she failed. After all I like being tall." he said the last part while he popped out his right hip and placed a hand onto it.

"YOU DIDN'T ANSWER THE QUESTION! I SAID WHERE IS SHE?" Ground Zero yelled.

Deku walked a step towards his captive and looked him dead in the eyes, his sinister smile bigger than ever before. "Six~ feet~ un~ der~" he spoke those words in a sing-song voice swishing his fingers back and forth with every word.

(Holy, holy, holy, its Deku! And he's killed at least 2 people! That's crazy what do you think will happen, will Ground Zero get out alive? Love you all, don't forget to COMMENT and HIT THAT STAR. Until next time, I'm Fairy Fever and I hope you like it.)