The moment the last words left Thirteen's lips, the earth trembled. The lights overhead fluctuated, casting long shadows over the immense artificial landscape of USJ. The class lapsed into an unnatural silence—seconds passed in awkward stillness.
Then it began. A strange warping sound echoed within the dome.
From the center plaza—a few feet away from the fountain—a purple-black distortion twisted into existence, boiling like ink in water. From it emerged a figure wreathed in thick, black fog. Yellow eyes gleamed like lanterns within the smoke.
"Keep everyone back!" Aizawa bellowed, positioning himself between the students and the portal. He dropped his goggles in one smooth motion and released his capture weapon from his sleeves. "Thirteen, protect the students."
The class stared in horror as more and more forms began to spill out of the misty portal—dark silhouettes, each one more twisted than the last. Villains. Dozens of them.
"Wait—how did they get through the alarms?! " Mina Ashido exclaimed.
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"Seriously, where's the security system? Shouldn't the sensors have gone off by now?"
Before anyone else could respond, Hikari's voice cut through the tension. Calm. Cold. Concentrated.
"They're jamming the campus alarms. I can still sense everyone outside the dome, but. I'm not able to broadcast any messages. We're cut off."
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"Mr. Aizawa, your Quirk is best suited for one-on-one battles… You're going to be outnumbered here."
But Aizawa simply smoothed his scarf with a practiced ease, his voice sharper than steel.
"You can't be a hero with only one trick up your sleeve. Don't sell me short."
And with that, he leapt into action.
Aizawa vs the Underlings
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A whirlwind of movement—Aizawa rushed the first villain, eyes blazing red beneath his goggles. The moment their eyes met, the enemy's Quirk shut down on the spot. Aizawa's binding scarf lashed like a snake, coiling around the villain's waist and slamming them to the ground with bone-jarring force.
One came at him from the left with slashing claws, to be swept aside by a perfectly placed roundhouse kick. Aizawa moved like liquid steel—smooth, deadly, efficient. His scarf lashed out again, snaring two more attackers before slamming them together.
A third leapt down from above—this one with fire exploding from his hands—but Aizawa's eyes held on. The flames dispersed in an instant, and he lashed the villain in mid-air with his scarf, slamming him into a pillar.
His eyes never stopped flicking back and forth. He was calculating. Waiting. A predator in the midst of a maelstrom of chaos. Near the entrance, the roiling mist condensed.
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"Nice to meet you. We are the League of Villains."
The words felt like a bullet to the chest for Hikari. Her blood ran cold. Her breath caught in her throat. That name. No… not them. Her legs froze in place as a storm of memories was about to erupt—cold steel tables, voices behind glass, darkness in the shadows. They're here… for me? Her stomach twisted.
She was just about to retaliate when Bakugo and Kirishima launched their attack.
"YOU PICKED THE WRONG SCHOOL TO BREAK INTO!" Bakugo roared, unleashing a blast of flames at the villain.
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"You live up to your school's reputation. You should be more careful, children. This is no longer playtime."
In an instant, black fog exploded from the villain's body. Hikari acted on instinct teleporting to a safe distance away just as the roiling mist closed over the class.
"I will disperse you all to different places," the smoke villain announced. "My allies will keep you entertained."
When the smoke cleared only a few remained. Tenya Iida. Shoji. Sato. Sero. Ochaco. Mina. And Hikari.
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"Everyone else is alive. I can sense them—just scattered. We are not alone."
The reality hit with a huge impact. Separated, Alone and Surrounded. They weren't safe not yet."
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"You attacked students. That alone merits a full demonstration of my powers."
Her fingers clenched as she used her Quirk Black Hole. Space around her hand warped, ripping with a brutal tug as if gravity itself was collapsing into her palm. The smoke villain hung suspended, watching as everything around him began to be dragged in.
"Fascinating," he breathed. "A power meant to save… being utilized to destroy."
Wreckage, tiles, even bits of scenery were pulled toward Thirteen's singularity. She tensed, the strain visible in her stance as the pull intensified.
He opened his mist outward, redirecting the space around him, dispersing his body into the air like mist. The movement scattered the pull, disrupting Thirteen's vortex.
"You're powerful," the smoking villain retorted, drifting serenely out of range. "But you lack the will to kill. That is your greatest weakness."
Thirteen had no time to respond before he vanished into his own gate.
And they were alone again—cut off from rescue, beset by danger.
And Hikari… could feel it coming.
The League was not finished.
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