Michiko knew that this was not just a pen. Before Katsuki had even the chance to process what was happening, she had already tackled him to the ground. Kuroko used her arms as a shield to protect the others. Suddenly another explosion occurred, when she dropped the pen to the ground.
Katsuki’s ears were ringing when the shockwave was over. “Fucking hell” he heard Michiko’s muffled voice. “Are you alright?” She looked down to him.
“Yeah, what the hell?” He still tried to focus on what was going on.
“That’s Ame, she’s one of the Agents of Khaoz” Michiko growled.
“But she’s a kid!” Katsuki protested.
“So what? She’s a villain” Michiko’s eyes were dark. She jumped up and immediately started to attack Ame.
“Eto, bring the children out! You guys need to leave! This will be even more hell soon!” Sougo yelled over to them.
The fire fighters didn’t hesitate. They picked up the remaining children except of one other girl. She had raspberry red hair with pink and purple strands. Her purple eyes looked demonic. This seemed to be Eliska.
The girl grabbed a piece of debris, it was surrounded by a glow. After that she threw it towards Michiko and Ame. “Careful there!” she laughed. Katsuki jumped and he attacked the debris, this couldn’t be good! He exploded it but this caused an even bigger explosion to go off.
Katsuki was blown away, luckily the fire fighters and the children out of the room already.
“Oh my, you can do explosions too? That’s so cool! Can you make things for me explode? Like the building?” She asked in a happy voice.
“Fucking hell no! What the fuck is wrong with you?!” He cursed. Those two girls hadn’t even presented so young they were. Why were they doing this?
Her happy face dropped immediately and she got a sour expression. “I don’t like that. You’re boring! You’re going to die now!” she hissed.
She threw more stuff at him. Katsuki fired more explosions in the direction. When the explosions stopped the girl was gone. Katsuki saw that the wall behind her was broken.
“Michiko! We help the fire fighters to get out!” Kuroko yelled over the roaring fire. She and Satsuki left to make sure the others got out safely.
Sougo was already after Eliska and Katsuki was about to go too, but he sensed something terrifying. He managed to turn around and thanks to his grenadier bracers he could block the attack. He was hit by an umbrella. The force behind this attack broke his right bracer. Katsuki jumped back and lifted his left arm. The fire surrounding him wasn’t good, it got extremely hot and the space to move around was very limited.
There was a man in front of him. He had white hair, it was really messy and it framed his face. He had golden eyes, they were really creepy. They had a mocking expression. He wore a black yukata with a purple obi, underneath he wore black pants and heavy boots. He wore a purple jittoku haori. On his right side was a katana. He was probably in his mid twenties.
“The fuck do you want?” Katsuki growled.
“Oh, I’m just here to make sure you don’t do stupid stuff to my little sister and her friend” he shrugged.
“What the hell are you doing with those kids? They haven’t even presented and they do shit like this?” Katsuki was really angry.
The man shrugged again. “So what? My sister and I were trained to kill from a young age” he drawled. “But enough talking, let’s fight!”
He pushed himself off the ground and with an insane speed he closed the distance to Katsuki. The hero let out an explosion and jumped out of the way. Another direct blow from him and it would be over. He was incredibly strong.
Katsuki waited for him to land, after that he grabbed the guy and catapulted him through the room. But he used his umbrella and the momentum to make a flip and land on the feet again, he delivered a tornado kick towards Katsuki’s head. “That’s the best UA has to offer? But what do you expect from an omega? They’re all so weak, it’s no fun to fight against them” he mocked him. He laid the umbrella on his shoulder.
Hissing, Katsuki got up. “You guys piss me off so fucking much.” With the last word he set off explosions to cover the distance between them. He grabbed him by the hair and his fist landed in the guy’s face.
Katsuki’s eyes started to glow red, he was on top of the villain and delivered one blow after the other.
The villain pulled one of his legs closer to his body and he kicked Katsuki in the stomach. He let out whistle. “Not bad, this almost hurt.” He had a wide grin on his face.
The building around them suddenly rumbled heavily. They were on the second floor so this was definitely not a good sign. Katsuki gritted his teeth, they had to get out of here, as soon as possible. «Dynamight, can you hear me? You need to evacuate the building! It’s about to collapse!» Ghost radioed him.
“I made contact with the enemy, but I try to get out” he hissed. “Oi, asshole, we need to get out of here!” he called out to the villain.
“Nah, don’t think you will go” he moved again, and he used his umbrella to attack Katsuki. He could block the attacks but it was hard. He was pushed back and if he wasn’t careful, he would end up in the fire.
“Too bad that you’re not an alpha” the guy mumbled. “I mean, you got style and all. Look at that outfit, it’s so cool” he rambled. “Those bracers are nice.”
“What the fuck is wrong with you?” Katsuki growled. He let out a bigger explosion, the villain jumped back.
“Nothing is wrong with me, I’m complementing your outfit. I mean, that’s really the only thing I can compliment.”
Katsuki got even more pissed off. He got into a secure stance and lifted his arm, he fired one of the bigger explosions. He hit the villain full force. “Compliments my ass” he yelled.
In a different part of the building he could hear more explosions, suddenly the whole building started to shake. Katsuki hissed again, this was not good. The ground underneath his feet began to rumble. He knew that he absolutely could not stay here any longer.
He didn’t know where the villain was, but he had to get out here, so he made a run for it. He dashed towards the door, the fire almost closed off the exit. But before he could get to it, he was tripped over and he hit the ground running. He coughed, his gas mask came loose and he inhaled a lot of smoke. The villain mounted him and pressed him to the ground.
“Not so fast” he growled.
“Let me go, we need to get out of here!” Katsuki roared in between the coughs.
“You need to get out. I’m fire proved.” He grinned maliciously. “But it’s your lucky day. Khaoz doesn’t want you get killed, she still wants you as a pet. So let me take you to her.”
This triggered even more rage inside of Katsuki, his red glowing eyes turned into a vibrant yellow, suddenly a burst of energy rushed through him and he had an image of a beast inside of his head. How the chains broke and it got freed. Katsuki’s teeth got sharper and his claws grew, they almost broke through the fabric of his gloves. He pushed himself off the ground, the villain still on top of him.
He got startled by the sudden movement. Katsuki turned around and fired a huge explosion from close proximity. He blasted him away, but it also hurt him, he almost deafened himself with that. After that he got up and made his way into the corridor. The hallway was in flames completely. The smoke was biting in his lungs, he coughed more. He wanted to move forward, but as soon as he made a step, more rumbling could be heard.
«Dynamight, Moruga, Blue Rabbit, where the fuck are you? You need to get out of the building!» Ghost called again. He only heard it because she was yelling into his ear over the headset.
«Still in fight with this little bitch» Moruga answered.
«I’ve lost sight of the other girl, I’m making my way out, it’s too much smoke» Blue Rabbit growled.
“I’m trying to get out too” Katsuki said. He could feel it, before it really happened, the ground underneath his feet gave up, at the same time, the villain tackled him as the ground broke. Katsuki somehow got a grip on the debris.
His feet were dangling in the air while he tried to pull himself up again. But the villain had wrapped his arms around his middle, he didn’t have enough hold to muster the strength to pull himself and the extra ballast up.
“Fucking hell are you crazy?” Katsuki yelled out. The beast inside of him roared. The glowing got more intense, as he tried to pull himself up.
“Aww, fucking omega is too weak to pull us up, what a shame” the villain mocked again.
“Let the fuck go!” Katsuki kicked after the villain. Under them was a sea of fire, he absolutely couldn’t fall down here. The heat crept its way up his body, he felt like he was cooked alive.
“No way” he laughed.
“Dynamight!” Michiko called out. She looked burned and beaten up, the girl was nowhere to be seen.
She grabbed his arm, to his shock her right arm was completely burned again. He could see, that her ears were bleeding too.
Michiko tried to pull Katsuki up, but suddenly, the villain climbed up on him and he tackled Michiko. “Long time no see” he grabbed her throat and her right arm. Suddenly Michiko screamed as black fire emerged from his hand and her arm was in flames.
Katsuki, who was still hanging over the edge got angry, how dare he hurt her? He let go of the debris and he fell down, but he immediately used his explosions to get up again. He grabbed the villain and he kicked him away. He then lifted his bracer up and he pulled the handle back, he pulled the pin and he braced himself for the recoil. A massive explosion hit the guy full force. He said he was fire proven, so it would most like not kill him.
He fell down the hole in the fiery sea. Michiko was screaming next to him. The black fire covered her wrist and it crept up her arm. She had grabbed her arm by the elbow. “Fuck, this is Enma!” she yelled, otherwise Katsuki wouldn’t have understood her. She shifted her weight and out of her pocket she pulled a knife. “You have to cut my arm off! You can’t extinguish his hellfire!”
Katsuki stared at her. Did he hear her right? “WHAT?”
“YOU HAVE TO CUT MY ARM OFF!” she yelled even louder. “PLEASE IT HURTS!” She shoved the knife in his hands. Katsuki hissed and got rid of his other bracer. “DO IT!” She pointed to her arm.
“FUCK!” Katsuki exclaimed he got behind her, while she extended the arm. The black fire covered now her whole hand.
“HURRY UP!” she ushered him. Katsuki gritted his teeth and he plunged the knife in her arm Michiko screamed in pain. To cut through the muscles, the fat, the blood vessels and the other tissues was not the difficult part, the knife was sharp enough to glide through it like butter, but it couldn’t cut through the bone. “FUCKING BREAK IT! C’MON HURRY PLEASE WE NEED TO GET OUT OF HERE!”
Katsuki nodded, suppressing a coughing fit, somehow. He got up to his feet, Michiko’s arm was extended to the ground, where her burning hand touched it, the fire started to burn the ground too. Katsuki’s foot came down on her arm and he could hear and feel the cracking of her bones. She tried her absolute best to muffle her screams but she really couldn’t. He stomped on it a second time and it was completely through. He got down again and could finally amputate the arm. His hands were covered in blood. “WHAT NOW? YOU’LL BLEED OUT!”
She grabbed the stump and she activated her quirk. She completely burned her arm and cauterized the wound. She was breathing heavily, sweat dripping down her body. “WE NEED TO GET OUT OF HERE!” She tried to get up to her feet, but she couldn’t. Katsuki caught her, before she could fall again. He pulled her up and supported her, together they made their way out of there. The smoke was too thick and Katsuki coughed the entire time.
“HERE TAKE MY MASK!” Michiko removed her gas mask and shoved in Katsuki’s face. He inhaled deeply, it felt so much better, even though his lungs were still burning. He picked her up, bridal style and he made a run through the building. The window side of the building was completely on fire, otherwise he would have jumped out.
After a few deep breaths he gave the mask back to Michiko, as she started coughing. They buddy breathed through the mask on their way out. It was scorching hot and Katsuki felt really dizzy because of the smoke and the heat. His skin was burned and he was trying to hold his panic together, Michiko stopped moving in his arms.
But he had to get her out of here! He put the mask back on and he picked up the pace. His eyes glowed brighter and a strange sensation washed over him. He could feel a way that would bring him out, where the fire wasn’t as hot as elsewhere. He followed the trail and sure enough, there was a window not completely surrounded by fire. He made a run for it and crashed trough it. He slowed the fall down with his explosions, but the impact was still hard. He tried to protect Michiko from getting hurt further. He felt how a massive pain shot into his leg. The impact had broken it. “FUCK” he exclaimed. He needed to get away from here. He forced himself up and as good as he could he dragged Michiko away from the burning building.
He fell down still trying to protect his boss. He suddenly registered movement. He looked up and there she was. Khaoz stood in front of them. She wore worker pants and boots and a dirty fine rib vest. She had a chain belt around her hips, and dirty brown gloves. She wore a gasmask so he couldn’t see the lower part of her face, but those blue eyes stared down on him. She wasn’t a piece of burnt coal any longer. She looked normal again.
Then her gaze lifted up to the building. “Isn’t it beautiful? All the fire, the smoke, the heat …” She mumbled. Katsuki couldn’t understand her however. His hearing was almost gone at this point.
“WHAT THE FUCK DO YOU WANT?” He hissed and tried to protect Michiko.
She crouched down next to him. “I’M JUST HERE TO LOOK AT THE BEAUTIFUL FIRE.” She took the gas mask from his face. She rubbed over it, it was completely black due to the soot. While she was doing that, the three others came out of the burning building as if nothing even happened. The two girls ran towards her.
“This was so fun, Khaoz” Ame laughed.
Enma stood behind Katsuki “This one is fun, I can see why you want him” he put his foot into Katsuki’s broken leg. He immediately shot around and fired an explosion towards him.
He knew that this situation was bad, really bad. How was he supposed to fight against them, when they were all fire proof? Would they take them? Would they get tortured?
“Let’s be civil here.” Khaoz mumbled. She crouched again, she grabbed Michiko by one of her pony tails and lifted her head up. “Hmm, my beautiful fighter girl … you look so fucking perfect” she chuckled. Then her gaze shifted to Katsuki, she reached out for him and he flinched back.
She didn’t stop and pulled the headset out of his ear. “Hello there, Dynamight and Moruga are behind the school. They are heavily injured. I would hurry up” she talked into the headset.
«Who the fuck is there?» Ghost answered.
“Khaoz” she just answered before she destroyed the headset.
“DON’T WORRY, DYNAMIGHT. I WON’T TAKE YOU NOW! BUT KNOW THAT I AM WATCHING YOU! AND I WILL STRIKE WHEN IT HURTS THE MOST! YOU WILL NEVER BE SAFE FROM ME! I WILL MAKE YOUR LIFE INTO A LIVING HELL RIGHT WHEN YOU EXPECT IT THE LEAST!”
“WHY THE FUCK ARE YOU DOING THIS? WHAT HAVE I DONE TO YOU?” Katsuki asked.
“OH YOU DID ABSOLUTELY NOTHING TO ME! I JUST WANT TO DO THIS BECAUSE IT IS FUN TO SEE PEOPLE BREAK!”
With that she got up and the group of four left the area, before any of the heroes could arrive.
Katsuki fixated her with this eyes but he really couldn’t keep them open much longer. He passed out right as the paramedics and heroes arrived.
Katsuki and Michiko were brought to the hospital along side masses of injured children. Both their conditions were critical. They suffered from smoke inhalation, they immediately got oxygen as treatment. He woke up two days later.
Katsuki’s right leg was broken, the left ankle was sprained. He had suffered severe burns to his arms. His hearing was massively damaged, they could not completely fix it either. He suffered a hearing loss of twenty percent on both ears.
Michiko was in an even more critical condition, she had lost a lot of blood and her arm of course. She had three broken ribs, burns on her body and her ears had suffered also critical damage. Since she had already a hearing loss on her left ear beforehand, it wasn’t as easy to fix. Doctors said that she would probably lose her hearing on the left side forever.
Katsuki just had gotten the operation on his leg done. He was completely exhausted. He wondered what had happened to the children. Were they okay? Khaoz’ words echoed in his head too. Why on earth did she want to ruin his life? It didn’t make sense!
His arms were in casts, so were his legs. They had done a skin graft on his arms and it had to heal too. He was on a ventilator since his lungs were still damaged and he had trouble breathing.
The door to his room opened and his parents, as well as Inko entered the room. “Oi, brat, what did you do this time?” Mitsuki was next to him, she looked really exhausted, Katsuki could see that her eyes were red, she had obviously cried.
“Walked into a burning building” he rasped. He couldn’t really speak. Carefully she laid a hand on one of the casts. Masaru was behind his wife, he looked completely done too. He didn’t know how Inko handled all the times when her son was in such critical conditions.
The omega had also tears in her eyes, she sat down on Katsuki’s other side and carefully she ran her fingers through his hair.
“How are Michiko and the others doing?” he asked.
“Michiko hasn’t woken up yet, she’s still in a coma, she lost lots of blood.” Mitsuki told him. “The other three are fine, the man has only minor burns.”
Katsuki nodded slightly. He was worried about Michiko. There were suddenly knocks on the door.
“Yes?” Mitsuki called out. The door opened and his classmates were here.
“Damn you, Katsuki! Don’t do this fucking shit with us!” Denki exclaimed. He jogged over to the bed and mustered his bandaged up classmate.
“Yes, that really scared us, god damn” Mina came closer too. She dragged Eijiro behind her. He looked worried too.
“I’m fine … I guess” talking really hurt. “What happened to the students?” The students were quiet. No one answered. “Oi, what the fuck? Tell me!” He got louder.
Sougo entered the room, he walked over to the bed. His gaze was cold, he had bags under his eyes. “The school was completely burned down. Nothing is left anymore. As for the students … many got out without major injuries, they made it in time. Thirty however were critically injured they inhaled too much smoke and they are here in the hospital.” The tone in his voice implied that this was not everything.
“Sougo, tell me what happened. Are there more injuries?”
“You don’t need to worry about that, baby” Mitsuki tried to distract him.
“Bullshit! I need to know!” His eyes were focused on Sougo.
The other classmates stared between them. They were unsure what they should do. Sougo eventually sighed deeply, his voice sounded like it came directly from the grave. “Six little girls were found dead. Their bodies were burned so heavily that they could only be identified via her teeth.”
“Oi, fucking stop it! He doesn’t need to know that!” Mitsuki yelled at Sougo. She jumped up and was about to hit him, but he grabbed her wrist and stopped her.
“He will hear it eventually! And I rather tell it to him myself then let him find out over the media” Sougo growled.
Katsuki felt numb. “H-how … wh-when did they die?” He asked.
“It’s not your fault, if you ask that. It happened in the beginning. The students reported that suddenly those two girls appeared. And no one knew them. This girl, Eliska, made one of them explode immediately before the building was even on fire.”
“Just shut up! Don’t you dare tell him those grizzly details!” Mitsuki yelled.
“Mom! Stop it! I need to know that!” Katsuki growled.
Mitsuki turned towards him, it was so strange when he called her ‘mom’ instead of ‘old hag’.
“The situation when we arrived at the scene, we actually saved those kids, if it weren’t for our interference they would have been incinerated too.” Sougo told him. “All those girls that died … they died before we even arrived, there was nothing that we could have done to save them.”
“They were so young …” Katsuki mumbled. “This Enma guy said that he and Ame were trained to kill from a very young age …”
“Yes, they are. Enma and Ame are very skilled killers. They are two of the few people in the AOK that don’t hide their identity, but they get covered by Khaoz’ network so we don’t know where they are. They stem from the very influential Kaen Family. A powerful warrior family, at least they were. About five years ago, they were completely eliminated and the only two survivors are Enma and Ame. It was Enma who killed his family, just to prove that he was the strongest.” Sougo frowned. “Ame on the other hand is involved in a series of child murders from two years ago. She’s fifteen now …”
Everyone was shocked to hear that. They couldn’t even begin to imagine, how fucked up one’s head had to be, to do such a thing. Killing children? Murdering the whole family? Inko cried when she tried to imagine it.
“A-and the other girl? Eliska?” Katsuki asked. A fifteen year old and already involved in a killing spree …
“She’s a newer member of Khaoz’ group, we don’t have much information about her, but she is probably from Czech. Her quirk reminded me of a family of assassins that live there. But we have to investigate it further. If she really is from Czech, her childhood must be really fucked up. Ever since the Polish-Czechoslovakian War from the 80s the country is in ruins. So it’s natural that many killers are born, it’s one of the most profitable professions, especially with a bomb quirk like that.” He murmured.
“Fuck, this is so fucked up …” Katsuki rumbled. “To think that so young children could do something so violent …”
“Yes, it is fucked up, but in other parts of the world, child soldiers are common, sadly.” He sighed.
“Khaoz was there too. Behind the school, I managed to get Michiko out and she was just there. I asked her what she wanted from me, she said she had nothing against me, it was just fun for her to ruin my life …” he frowned. “How fucked up is that?” His voice quivered a little.
“Yeah … that’s Khaoz, she does what she wants.”
“Then why don’t you fucking stop her?” Mitsuki yelled. “How can you let her go just like that? She hurt my son!”
“Believe me, Mrs. Bakugo, if it were that easy to catch Khaoz, I would have done so three years ago, when she kidnapped my friend!” he raised his voice. “But she is good in what she does, she has a fucking army behind her and they are very well trained soldiers. Enma alone could probably wipe the floor with the whole class here! Especially when he uses his quirk! Michiko lost her arm to that!”
“Then why don’t you get stronger heroes to work with you?” Masaru asked, he tried to calm his wife down.
“We try! But every time we consult other heroes, Khaoz just disappears for a couple of weeks. She did this multiple times! She’s after Michiko as she is after Katsuki now! But since she declared that to him now … I don’t think she will strike in the next few weeks. When Michiko escaped it took her three years to show up again. She isn’t that stupid to dwell on one person. She has multiple targets.”
“Even more reason to catch her. We should all try to find her” Tenya commented.
“Don’t be fucking stupid. She won’t show up and you won’t find her unless she wants to be found. Believe me, I know how frustrating this is! I’ve been there, done that!”
Katsuki got quiet he closed his eyes and exhaled deeply – as good as he could. He was still not over the fact, that those girls had killed six other students that they were killers in the first place. How fucked up was that?
After that, the students were shooed out by the nurses. Katsuki needed to rest, or otherwise his injuries wouldn’t heal. His parents and Inko were allowed to stay, but they left a little later to eat something.
Katsuki was lying awake in the middle of the night, he looked to the dark ceiling, tears were running down his face. Horrifying images and sounds of Michiko’s arm breaking and cutting through the flesh haunted him. Could he not catch a break? Was this already part of Khaoz’ plan? He tried to keep himself calm but it was hard. He was troubled by the fact that six girls had died, before he could even do something about it, and multiple other children were injured. Michiko lost her arm … And it was his fault, she wanted to help him and this happened.
His hands felt numb and he couldn’t use his quirk. It frustrated him, more than ever he wished to be an alpha. Maybe his strength would then be enough …
His confusing thoughts were suddenly interrupted when he heard a sound on his opened window, he turned towards it. What would happen now? Was it Khaoz again? A black figure was in front of the window and it magically opened. The figure entered the room.
