A/N: The villains have struck and struck hard while Izuku has a conversation with AFO only to tell the villain that he'll reunite him with Tomura in prison. The question is what does Stain have to say to the young hero?

Izuku stared into the window of the cell and locked eyes with Stain. "You survived your injuries." Izuku stated as Stain smiled.

"I did, but that's of no importance. You've come far disciple of Splinter I can see your conviction has carried you to this point. I'm impressed." Stain said as Izuku arched brow.

"Why is that? We're on opposite sides hero and villain." Izuku said as Stain chuckled.

"Savor your enemy and celebrate his victories. Sun Tzu said something like that. You are worthy of the title of hero Izuku Midoriya, therefore every victory you earn, and every villain you defeat is a step towards a more just world, but you are not there yet." Stain said as Izuku turned his body to fully look at him.

"What do you mean?" Izuku asked, but at the same time he had an inkling of what Stain could be talking about. Stain saw this understanding in Izuku's eyes and smiled wider.

"There are some villains to whom defeat is synonymous with death. Those like Tomura can't be stopped or locked away; they must be put down like a rabid dog." Izuku frowned at this seeing that he was right.

"I will not kill." Izuku said only for Stain to jerk in his chair.

"Then you will FAIL!" He shouted as he lurched towards the door. "Mercy is not something that can be shown to all! A real hero must do what others cannot and make the hard decisions no one else can! That is what it means to be a hero if you don't spill that wretched blood who will and how many people will die until you do?!" He shouted as Izuku turned from him.

"I will not become like you Stain." He said walking away and exiting the hall to meet up with Nighteye on the other side. "Sorry Nighteye I didn't get anything useful from All for One." Izuku said as Nighteye stood there cleaning his glasses.

"I wouldn't say that. I also believe that All for One was telling the truth. He doesn't know anything about what Tomura has been doing, so we can rest easy on that part. If Shigaraki has gone rogue that is both a blessing and curse. We know at least that All for One is truly secure. If he believes that Tomura will not come for him then it's most likely true. Tomura is his own man now and he's on the loose with his last chain being broken. He could be so much more dangerous now that he's running on his own. I shudder to think what that mani-." Nighteye was cut off as his phone rang. He pulled it out and answered. "Hello." He said before going silent for a brief second. "WHAT!?"

Izuku jumped hearing the harshness of Nighteye's voice. He was burning with curiosity, but he stifled it for the moment knowing Nighteye would fill him in after he got all the information. "I see alright then keep me posted." Nighteye said before hanging up and pinching the bridge of his nose.

"Nighteye what happened?" Izuku asked as the Pro hero took a deep breath.

"The League of Villains has already made a move. Spinner and Himiko Toga attacked Uwabami last night. We don't know why or what they were after. Uwabami is currently unconscious at the hospital. She's alive thank god, and the doctors say she should wake up, but she's lost a lot of blood and the snakes on her head were severely damaged. Its better she sleeps for now." Next to him Izuku clenched his fists together as the words that Stain just said went through his mind. "How many people will you let die?" Izuku bit his lip as he clenched his fist hard enough that his gloves squeaked.

Nighteye placed a hand on Izuku's shoulder. "Stop that. There's nothing you could have done. This happens sometimes. All we can do is prepare and keep cool heads. I think it's time we leave this place." Nighteye said as he and Izuku walked out.

Himiko and Spinner entered the League hideout to the sound of rapid fire clapping. "Wow that was amazing you guys totally offed that bitch! You idiots let her live I knew I should have been there!" Shouted Twice as he continued to clap.

"As a performer I too give you a round of applause for accomplishing your mission." Mr. Compress said giving several claps of his own as Himiko did a small curtsy and giggled.

"Thank you, thank you!" She said skipping happily into the room and sitting down as Spinner took a seat as well and immediately began cleaning his Odachi.

"So how did your new sword work Spinner? A performer is only as good as his equipment and Giran said it was a topnotch piece." Compress asked as Spinner nodded.

"It worked like a dream." He said running an oiled cloth down its length.

"Don't pop a boner scaly." Dabi teased as Spinner glared at him.

"Oh pay him no mind he's been in a foul mood since we were given our missions. I do believe he'd rather be out there slaughtering heroes than recruiting." Mr. Compress explained as Shigaraki entered from another room.

"Oh boo hoo life ain't fair." Tomura said as he scratched his head.

"Heads up boss!" Himiko shouted as she tossed a vial of blood towards him. Shigaraki caught it with two fingers before looking at the crimson liquid.

"Good work." He said before the vial was swallowed by a portal and sent to Ujiko. "So do you two know who you will be going after next?" Tomura asked as he sat down. Himiko and Spinner looked at one another.

"We should go after Mt. Lady. I really want to see her covered in blood." Himiko said as Spinner made a buzzer sound.

"No way she's too much for just the two of us. If we don't get her in one hit she'll just grow large and make a huge scene!" Spinner said as Toga frowned before begrudgingly giving in to Spinner's logic.

"Fine what about someone like that ninja guy who messed up Kurogiri?" Toga said as Spinner thought about it and then gave nod.

"Yeah he seems like a good one. What was his name Trickshot, Blade Edge or something?" Spinner said not quite able to place the face to a name.

"His name is Edgeshot and I think he's out of your league. He's the number five hero for a reason. I think you're biting off more than you can chew." Dabi said looking at the two of them before glancing at Shigaraki. "What do you say oh master planner?" He asked as Shigaraki who up to that moment had seemed a thousand miles away looked between the three of them and sighed.

"Fine Dabi go with them." He said simply before looking out the window again. Spinner and Himiko gave a look at Dabi before Toga smiled.

"Yay let's live up to Mr. Stainy's will." "And maybe if I rough up enough heroes Izuku will come after me. I really miss that boy!" She thought to herself with a blush and mad grin. Dabi stood up and gave a mock salute.

"Alright then you two let's go and no more of this off the cuff bullshit. If we're going after a top five hero we'll need a plan." He said as he walked out the door. Spinner gave a growl low in his throat at that.

"Who the hell made you the boss Himiko and I were doing just fine on our own!" He shouted following after Dabi. Toga gave a shrug as she skipped out after her two conspirators. As long as she got to cut somebody up and take their blood she was a happy girl.

Mr. Compress and Twice looked at Shigaraki. "Was that wise?" Compress asked as Tomura shrugged. "If I stifle their creativity they'll never grow, and if they can't grow then they're no use to me." He said simply as Mr. Compress gave a bow.

"As you wish Shigaraki." Mr. Compress said before going out to continue his recruitment mission.

Katsuki was walking back to the dorm with the rest of his class. He had a vicious grin on his face and this expression was a vent for the utter joy he was feeling. Today was when his gym ban would be lifted. He was ready to get back into it the exercises during the school day was not enough if he was going to catch up to Izuku.

"Is it just me or is Bakugou looking even more terrifying than usual?" Mineta asked Kaminari who shrugged.

"That's his happy face believe it or not." Denki said as Mineta shivered.

"Hate to see what his O face looks like." He said before being chopped in the back of the head by Iida.

"Enough of that talk." He said as he reached to open the door only for it to fly open pinning Iida to the back of the door as Mirio Togata stood there with an immaculate grin.

"WELCOME HOME!" He shouted surprising the class.

"Mirio-senpai?" Momo said curiously. "What are you doing here?" She asked only to be pushed aside as Bakugou jumped to the front.

"Yo blondie how about a rematch?!" He shouted with his hands popping off small explosions. Mirio looked at Bakugou before ruffling his hair.

"Sure thing bomber, but first I would like to introduce you to someone who will be staying in UA for a while." He said stepping to the side allowing everyone to look and see Eri standing there. She was dressed in an apple red skirt with a white t-shirt and red sneakers reminiscent of another well known pair.

"Eri?" Ochaco and Tsu said as they approached the young girl slowly not wanting to startle her. Eri raised a hand and gave a way before speaking softly.

"H-hello." She said her voice feather soft and barely audible. Ochaco and Tsu looked at one another before squatting down to Eri's level.

"It's ok Eri these are all our friends they're really nice." Ochaco said as Tsu nodded.

"She's right you know would you like to meet everyone?" Tsu asked as Eri gave a small nod. Smiling both Tsu and Ochaco took one of Eri's hands each and walked her over to the rest of the class who had gathered in the common room. Mirio was standing in front of Iida and rubbing the back of his head after apologizing to the Class Rep for unintentionally slamming a door on him. When he saw the three girls appear he moved behind Eri and placed his hands on her shoulders to comfort her.

"Everyone this is Eri she'll be staying in the faculty dorms starting today." Mirio said as Eri gave a slight bow. The other students looked at each other before moving forward to introduce themselves.

"Hi I'm Mina Ashido it's nice to meet you Eri." Mina said gently shaking Eri's hand.

After brushing himself off and readjusting his glasses Tenya went to introduce himself. "I'm Tenya Iida Class Representative. It is a pleasure to meet you and welcome to Heights Alliance." Iida said giving a perfect right angle bow that startled the small girl, but also put a small smile on her face.

"Hello Eri I'm Toru Hagakure, and I have to say you are just too cute!" Toru bounced up and shook Eri's hand as well. Each student came up to make their introductions. Eri slowly grew more comfortable with each intro even go so far as to touch Jiro's earlobes of her own accord. Eri sat down on the couch in between Tsu and Ochaco who had become sort of a buffer for the girl mitigating anything that might upset Eri or alarm her.

"So if Eri is here does that mean Deku is as well?" Ochaco questioned Mirio who smiled and shook his head.

"Not at the but he should be here soon. I along with Mr. Aizawa brought young Eri from the hospital to here. Eraserhead is currently preparing a room for Eri in the faculty dorms. Izuku should arrive shortly at least that was the last text he sent to me." Mirio said as he looked at his phone before smiling. "Oh he says he got caught up stopping a car chase and might be delayed." He said with a laugh.

From his seat Bakugou was tapping his foot impatiently on the floor. He had intended to fight Mirio, but at the mention of Izuku showing up he decided to wait until he got here. "That damn Izuku making me wait like this!" He growled his palms practically steaming as he sat next to Kirishima.

"If you guys would like a rematch I wouldn't mind. I've just gotten out of the hospital myself and would like to shake off the rust." Mirio said getting several students excited.

"Awesome now that's a real man. I'll take you on!" Eijiro shouted as he flexed his arms.

"I would also like to test the results of my Work Study." Tokoyami said standing up as Dark Shadow appeared at his shoulder.

"Let's wreck house!" The shadow creature shouted. Mirio just smiled before crouching down to Eri.

"You don't mind do you Eri?" Mirio asked as Eri shook her head. "Alright then let's go to the gym." Mirio said as the students swapped into their gym clothes and moved to the gym. Eri sat next to Tsu on the sidelines with Toru, Jiro, Mineta, Denki, Sero, Aoyama and Koji who had brought along his pet rabbit that Eri was completely fascinated with as she delicately stroked the rabbit's pure white fur.

"D-does she have a name?" Eri asked shyly as Koji smiled and nodded.

"Her name is Haru." He said as the rabbit's nose twitched after hearing her name. Eri's eye's grew wide as she stared at the rabbit and attempted to twitch her own nose. It was the most adorable scene anyone could have witnessed is what Tsu thought to herself.

"Oh my goodness you're so cute I could eat you with a spoon!" Toru said from beside Tsu. In the middle of the gym Mirio was stretching as Bakugou, Ojiro, Todoroki, Iida, Kirishima, Tokoyami, Shoji, Ashido, Momo, Ochaco, Shinso, and Sato stood across from him.

"Ok guys whenever you're ready!" Mirio shouted as Bakugou exploded towards Mirio who clicked his tongue. "Doing the same thing will result in the same resu-!" Before Bakugou got in range of Mirio he launched an explosion clouding the senior in smoke. "Oh I see." He said as he turned around expecting Bakugou to attack him from the back only to have fire be shot through his chest.

"Oh it was feint surprising." He said before slipping into the floor and popping up behind the group only to see an ice wall in front of him. Not bad they blocked my sight and then covered their blind spot with a wall of Ice. They really did get better. He thought to himself before being showered in broken ice as Kirishima and Sato brought the wall down on Mirio who phased through the avalanche and launched a punch at Kirishima's face. His knuckles made contact with what felt like a stone wall while Kirishima didn't even flinch.

"I'm harder than I was before!" Eijiro shouted as he went for a punch of his own. "Red Gun Turret!" He shouted as his hand passed through Mirio's chest before having Mirio pass through him completely and landed on his feet but as soon as he did Ojiro swept them out from under him with his tail.

"Keeping you off balance is the key." He said as he went for an axe kick, but Mirio fell into the ground, but not before making his hand tangible and grabbed hold of Ojiro's collar bringing him down into headbutting the floor. The tailed boy groaned as he rubbed his forehead.

Mirio appeared out of the floor grabbing his pants as Sato and Tokoyami sandwiched Mirio between two attacks that passed through him with ease. Tokoyami clicked his tongue as he grabbed hold of Sato and pulled him through Mirio as Todoroki launched a flame attack at Mirio alongside Momo who launched several flashbangs to block Mirio's vision of the attack.

Mirio phased his head to block out the light and right as he felt the heat of Todoroki's attack he phased into the ground and then launched straight into the two clotheslining both Todoroki and Momo who had formed a shield to block the attack as they were thrown back.

"See, see Tamaki I told you he'd be here." Nejire said as she walked into the gym followed by Tamaki.

"He really doesn't know how to relax." He said shaking his head as he sat down along with the rest of class A.

"Go for it Ochaco fight, fight!" Nejire shouted pumping her fist.

Hearing Nejire's words of encouragement Ochaco rushed in just as Bakugou launched another smoke screen. She dashed into the smoke and threw various blows at Mirio who phased through each one before retaliating with a gut punch. There was a glint in Ochaco's eyes as she had anticipated that and placed her hand palm out right before the blow knocked the wind from her she activated her quirk.

Mirio began to float in the air "Woah this is new!" Mirio said as he floated out of the smoke cloud right into an explosion by Bakugou. Of course he phased right through it, but he was immobilized while he was in midair. All he could do was phase through their attacks.

"Wow you guys got me. Your teamwork was really amazing." He said as Ochaco undid her Zero gravity allowing Mirio to drop to the ground. "You guys took those work studies to heart. I'm so proud." He said crossing his arms and nodding his head enthusiastically.

"Wow even if he wasn't fighting seriously you guys put Mirio in a hard spot. Nice job!" Nejire shouted enthusiastically as Tamaki shook his head.

"You shouldn't have said that Nejire." He said shaking his head as the Class A students looked at Mirio who rubbed the back of his head.

"Is that true?" Todoroki asked as Mirio shrugged.

"Well I'm not exactly back at one hundred percent, so I couldn't go all out, but that doesn't matter. You guys did great." Mirio said as he heard the heavy footfalls of Katsuki Bakugou.

"Ok blondie you bastard fight me for real here and now dammit!" He shouted as the door to the gym opened showing Izuku who had just arrived. Before anyone could react Eri bolted to Izuku and hugged him around the waist. Izuku smiled and rubbed Eri's head.

"Hey Eri." He said and to all the girls there this looked like the perfect image of a father and daughter.

"He'd be such a good dad." Nejire said openly what all the girls in class A had been thinking.

"IZUKU!" Bakugou shouted as he rushed over to Izuku. "You're finally here you asshole. Now fight me! I want to show you, you're still far behind me!" Katsuki shouted as Izuku looked at Bakugou and nodded.

"Sure thing Katsuki I've wanted to fight with you for a while too." Izuku said as he turned to walk out of the gym. "But I don't think we should do it here. After all you've already destroyed one Gym. Let's meet in one of the training grounds." He said before hearing a cleared throat.

"What are we chopped liver. Don't think you can get away with just taking on Bakugou. We all want to see what the pro hero JForce has to offer." Tenya said stepping up. Izuku looked at the eyes of some of his friends and it reminded him of the sports festival when everyone was trying to take his million points. He couldn't help but smile at that and nodded.

"Alright let's go all out guys." He said with a grin.