Another Chance (My Hero Academia)

Chapter 67

*No One's POV*

Back at the UA dorms, everyone stared at the TV in horror. All of UA was on edge as they watched Riki not only protect the Nomu, but crash down into the ground with it. Shoto was kneeling on the ground, praying for his father as he saw him rise from the smoke.

"Come on...Riki, where are you?!" Mina yelled at the TV.

The smoke and flames had dispersed and all that was left was HighEnd and Endeavor. Riki was gone. As the crowd cheered, Endeavor and Hawks looked around for Riki, not finding a single trace of her.

"Wait, where's that girl?!" Someone off screen yelled as pro heroes rushed around to help Endeavor and Hawks find her.

It was no surprise that Aizawa bolted out of the dorms and rushed to the scene, leaving his class to watch helplessly.

"She's gotta be okay, right?" Denki asked worriedly as everyone crowded around the TV again.

"Could your father's flames...you know..." Uraraka mumbled, a terrifying silence filling the air.

It happened to a regenerating Nomu...it had to work on a human body.

"She's touched my old man's flames before. At the Sports Festival. She wasn't even fazed by his flames. But the ones here...they were past his limit." Shoto replied weakly as everyone felt their stomachs drop.

Slowly, they all turned back towards the TV.

Multiple heroes, including Eraserhead, Midnight, Present Mic, and All Might were out on the sight, stumbling through the rubble in a panic of disbelief.

"Riki Aizawa still hasn't appeared yet. Officials are saying that there is no evidence of her remains so there is no answer as to what happened to her. She could be anywhere." A female reporter said in a stressed tone as the crowd joined in with the heroes to look for Riki.

Aizawa didn't know what to believe. Could she have teleported away? Fly? Did she turn invisible?

She can't be dead.

If he knew anything about Riki is that she always finds a way to get around something. No matter what situation, she will appear out of nowhere after putting herself in grave danger.

"What happened with her?" Aizawa asked Endeavor after thirty minutes of tearing the scene to even more shreds.

"I don't know. She appeared on the Nomu and started begging it to wake up. She didn't pay any attention to me when I warned her about us crashing. She...she said that she would die with them." Endeavor spoke from the back of an ambulance.

Surprisingly, Endeavor was scared of Riki's situation and what would happen. Was this because it was shown on live TV and it could put his reputation in danger? Or was it because he possibly just put himself at fault for killing someone?

"She seemed to know the Nomu." Hawks said while walking up, tiny wings replacing the big ones on his back. "They both were hugging when I reached them and Riki shot flames at me. She was really overprotective of the Nomu and she even mentioned something about not being able to save them. My guess is that she knew the people that were made into HighEnd. From what she said to you, it makes sense."

The two males went quiet, "Do you think she's dead?" Hawks asked while looking at the scene.

Aizawa felt the need to punch him for asking such a question, but he knew that it was going to come up sooner rather than later. He sighed, "I..I don't know. She has multiple quirks, so she could be anyway for all I know."

"But we would've seen her flying away." Hawks spoke.

"She can teleport."

The two heroes stared at him in surprise, "Really?" Endeavor asked.

"Apparently so. She's revealed to have eleven quirks, although it may be ten due to the Hassaikai Raid." Aizawa responded, staring out at the sight that still showed no sign of Riki.

"Eleven? Then that makes her a living Nomu. The only living Nomu." Hawks gaped in shock.

"Yeah. My students don't want to call her that since her quirks could be from her life and death."

"How'd she get them?" Endeavor asked, hiding that fact that he was in utter disbelief.

Aizawa shrugged, "I have no clue. Whenever I've tried to talk about it, she always closed off and turned cold. I'm not surprised though. She went through a very traumatic experience before I found her. She never opens up about then."

"Hey! We found something!" A few heroes yelled and Aizawa immediately ran over, pushing people out of his way.

Everyone crowded around the heroes who held something in their hands. Now it was clear. To everyone across the world. Bloody strands of black and white hair hung from the heroes fingers, along with a piece of her bloodied clothing, speaking for the situation at hand. She never left the scene, and the ash and rubble beneath their feet was... Through the silence, Aizawa dropped to his knees, Present Mic, Midnight, and All Might following right after as they started crying.

Back at the UA dorms, the students fell to their knees in horror, not believing this was their reality. Why did she protect the Nomu? Why did she attack a hero? Why did she risk her life when she could've been safe?

Everywhere, sobs filled the dreadful silence. The world was shocked, a heavy feeling building up in their chests as they watched the news on a screen.

Riki Aizawa...was dead.

To be Continued . . .

Sequel: "Ruined"