*A/N Please proceed with caution, there may be topics that are more than just uncomfortable to read or think about in this chapter and particularly in future chapters. Please review the summary about trigger warnings, these chapters WILL hurt and it is not my intention to attack any of you. Trauma will be discussed and "experienced" in future chapters. If you feel that it is too much for you I will not blame you for skipping the chapters and moving on to the final chapter and ending. Now on with the story.*
It's almost time for graduation and it's kind of scary. We are about to finally enter the world we have all dreamed that we could help save. I mean sure we have all been working on our internships and it certainly didn't help that we were constantly being attacked every time we turned around. But everything considered maybe it did help?
Is it too late to change my mind? Yes, yes it is. If I knew everything I do now back before, when I was still in middle school. I don't know what I would have picked. To endure it or find a differnt way, I just don't know but I have worked hard for my dream. So have my classmates and even the extras in class B, who knows they might actually be worth something in the future?
Regardless classes went on and it only got harder as our finals got closer. Even Aizawa Sensei and All Might were stricter. We studied hard and Icyhot, Deku and I were constantly studying and training, not to mention all of the different strategies and ideas we came up with. We ended up starting to have our sessions out in the common room because Deku thought it would be a good idea to get someone from the support class's opinion on a bunch of our ideas.
It was some girl, I think her name was Mei? Anyway she was more than a little weird, calling her projects her babies but even I could see she was a mad genius. We had blueprints drawn up and more than just a few notes taken down. Not just for her either, Deku had his notebook out too and notes and summaries written for our new support items and upgraded suits. We didn't really change our appearance much at all, I think mine changed the most just because of how we condensed my gauntlets but changed how they held the fluid so that they could work better, reducing the waste that I am currently dealing with.
It was a nice design and visually appealing, at least to me, but it constantly left bruises on my legs and weighed my arms down too much making extended fights riskier not to mention how often they got hung up on things just walking by on a normal day. Yes, it was well past time for me to upgrade them and I needed to do it before graduation.
Of course that wasn't the only change but it was the most visual one. Icyhot had upgraded his regulators to keep his hot side cool and his cold side warm and now he had them along his legs too, because in a fight he needed to have that mobility. Then there was Deku, his suit needed more bracers but not like the current ones he already has. He needed something light but also good for stealth, I noticed a long time ago that his movements are clunkier than before and he was generally louder which in the middle of a big fight, no big deal there is a lot of noise there already. But during patrols and say undercover missions it would be a huge risk.
Mei even helped me convince him to add shock absorbers to his boots and his face mask was upgraded to not only clean the air but to send updates via a little eye piece to warn him if there was something in the air like poison or drugs. It would send him the notification even if he wasn't wearing the mask on his face and it was just around his neck even.
There were several other upgrades and some changes in the materials as well but not much that a villain or even another hero would notice unless they knew how his suit worked before. When the changes were finalized we sat back and relaxed before Mei started cackling and I felt my skin crawl.
As per her and Deku's long standing deal, we all tested a handful of her new inventions and hell I even added one to my hero suit. Rocket boots, did I need them? Technically no, but did I NEED them? Fuck yeah I did. She even made some modifications so that in case of an emergency I would be able to carry one person using them as well. It did however take a few test runs and I'm quite happy that I have some immunity to explosions thanks to my quirk, because my feet hurt like hell now.
She finally left with the blueprints and we made our way up stairs to sleep. That was far more exhausting than it should have been and I for one am not hungry and they claimed they weren't either.
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We were in class finishing up our last exam when there was what looked and felt like a rocket hit the side of our classroom. The explosion sent Deku and I flying back as well as a few other students and Icyhot used his ice to help catch us.
Fucking Toga came in through the hole with some nobody next to her as she cackled. Icyhot managed to reach Deku and I so we were all standing together ready to fight when the nobody extra shot us using a revolver like gun. I looked down to see not a bullet wound but a dart with red and green feathers on the end. Icyhot, Deku and I pulled them out and took a step forward ready to fight when we all three of us started wobbling. The next thing I know, the ringing in my ears from the explosion was all that I heard and my vision blacked out completely. I was out cold.
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"Wakey wakey, eggs and bakey!" Toga laughed dumping icy water on me making me cry out as my body started setting off explosions randomly. I looked around to see Icyhot and Deku next to me, all of us soaked and strapped to what looked like steel slate tables but they were almost standing up rather than laying down.
"WHAT THE FUCK DO YOU WANT NOW!?!" I screamed only for one of her many knives to be pressed against my mouth, I think she cut my tongue a little bit because the taste of copper had filled my mouth but it wasn't so much that I was swallowing blood or anything.
"Hello Baby, I've missed you so much! We all have," her wicked grin sent chills down my back that had nothing to do with the ice water I was doused with.
"Don't call him that!" Deku shouted at her and I saw her take a step back, actually surprised by his outburst.
"Oh don't worry Deku. You're the only one in my heart," Making me fight against my restraints trying to explode her fucking creepy ass, anything to get her away from one of my lovers. Even though Icyhot stayed quiet I could easily see the rage seeping off of him anytime she got close to either one of us. We were all in erasure cuffs but thanks to my quirk, the nitroglycerine sweat, anytime I get too hot or too cold it would explode making it not only hurt whoever was close by but myself as well. All because I couldn't control it, thanks to the cuffs.
"Oh don't think we forgot about you little peppermint! You see we have a special surprise for all of you, we heard that two of you were dating and we just got a new friend with a fun quirk!" Her crazy laughter rang out making me wince away, my ears still ringing from the explosion earlier, or maybe from whatever they used to knock us out with?
"Come on in, Calamity!" Toga squealed happily, she was basically dancing from her excitement.
Another girl around our age walked in with a very small controlled smile on her face. Her hair was long and black, her eyes golden, her figure was very slender and small, but even with her mouth closed I could see two fangs sticking out like a fucking vampire. I have a very bad feeling about this, the fact her villain name was Calamity only helped to increase it.
"Hello, it's nice to finally meet the heroes that I have heard so much about," when she opened her mouth I saw that all of her teeth were slightly pointed but not as much as Kiri's, but something about the way she talked looked all wrong for her mouth. Like her words couldn't match up with her mouth or the other way around.
"Why are we here?" Icyhot asked glaring at the girl and I cried out in pain from Toga stabbing a knife into my shoulder making both Deku and Icyhot struggle to get loose.
No, no, no, no. This can't be happening, this can not be happening. The burning sensation in my shoulder only proved that it was but I can't help denying it still. It's one thing for the league to kidnap me, but both of my lovers as well? I can't let anything happen to them!
"Don't hurt him so much or my quirk won't work as well," again Calamity's words were not matching up with her mouth. I don't understand it but I am feeling sleepy.
"Oh come on he can't be dating either Deku or the peppermint, not after what we did to him." Toga scoffed and both Icyhot and Deku struggled harder to break free of their restraints. They are ready to kill her and anyone else involved.
"Be that as it may I need to check them all. Besides the process is painful anyway, so just sit back and enjoy the show," Calamity smiled again, what is wrong with her Japanese? It doesn't sit right in my ears, nothing she says does.
She walked over and reached up tapping me on the cheek a couple times before it felt like I was on fire.
"My quirk, lets me see your trauma while you relive it in your mind. To anyone watching it will look like you are just screaming to be screaming but you and I will see all the things that made you, you. Every broken bone, cut and scrape, every time your heart was broken or smashed to pieces. Everytime your whole world flipped on it's head, I will see it all. While you get to feel everything you felt while it happened." She smiled and I sucked in a breath, I now understand why nothing she said seemed right. The fangs in her mouth were not like vampire fangs, no not at all. They were snake fangs and when she gave a full smile her fangs came out and were larger than her jaw.
She reached up and I heard an audible click as she popped her jaw back into place and her smile disappeared leaving only the small controlled one back in its place.
"Don't worry, I'll be watching all of them at the same time and then when they are all done," she paused letting her smile grow again but catching herself before her fangs popped out again. "When they are all done, you will, if you are the one dating one of these two, get to live out their traumas too.
I felt the blood rush out of my hands and face, her quirk does what?
"Of course that goes for you two as well," she turned to look at Icyhot and Deku, this time unable to stop the smile and her fangs popped out again. "My quirk lets me watch your lives, like a movie. In the span of about five minutes to everyone else give or take a minute depending on the age of the people I'm using it on, and if they are romantically involved their traumatic past gets shared by the lovers. Isn't it sweet? Of course it takes a great deal longer for that part."
She didn't bother to pop her jaw back into place this time as she laughed. "Of course, most of the time if the couple lives through it, they usually split up. Most are not able to either forgive themselves for letting their lover experience their pain or unable to not blame their lover for letting them go through more." Our eyes widened in shock and I turned to look at Deku and Icyhot, while neither girl were looking at us.
"I love you, I refuse to blame either of you," I mouth the words and see them answer the same adding on, "I won't let you blame yourself for this either." I nodded in agreement and we all let our bodies relax. There isn't much we could do physically so we might as well prepare our minds for the pain that we were about to experience, both our own and our lovers.