Right now I'm sitting on the beach in one of the already cleaned sections waiting for Shinso to arrive. While working out a schedule for the beach clean up a familiar purple haired boy comes into view and walks up to me looking as tired as ever.
"Do you ever get sleep?" I ask
"Rarely." He answers plainly before sitting down infront of me. "So whats the plan?"
"Well right now I'm working on a new schedule. I just need to know which days and times you'll be available to come and help so we can figure out how much we'll aim to clean everyday." I look over to the insomniac boy waiting for an answer.
Almost immediately he answers "I'm always free so I can come any day for however long you want."
"Don't you have homework or like friends." I ask. He shakes his head with a pained expression on his face, instantly making me feel a little guilty. "I'm sorry, I didn't mean to say it like that."
"It's fine." He says flashing a small smile, then changes the subject. "So when are you available?"
"I might not be able to come everyday. If I'm not here before you arrive just assume I'm not coming."
"Kinda unpractical don't ya think. You should hurry up and get a phone." He complains while shoving his hands into his pockets.
I smile and assure him that I'll get a phone soon. Time goes by and since today we were just making a schedule we leave early and part ways. Shinso-kun is going the opposite direction as me so we say our goodbyes and now I'm all alone walking through the city. I've got nothing to do right now so decide to go back home and see how my mum is doing since Shiggy is still being a bitch about getting stabbed.
I'm making my way through, a right now deserted tunnel I used to always go through while making my way to school. I don't really miss school, it's not like I had any friends anyway, plus all the teachers hated me. Whenever Kacchan would hit or burn me, I was always the one to get in trouble even though I was the victim. Apparently i must have done something 'really bad' to provoke Kacchan first. Since when was exisisting 'really bad'.
I'm busy remembering all the bad times (which was literally all the time) when I suddenly hear something speeding up behind me. I turn and all I'm able to see is a flash of green fly before my eyes before I instinctively jump out of the way. A huge glob of slime stops in its tracks before turning back around to face me.
"Wow your fast," it says as it edges closer towards me, "unfortunately though I don't have time for chit chat."
It suddenly pounces and I'm unable to dodge in time. Amidst my struggling it snarls, "Thank you so much for becoming my escape. Your my hero."
It makes it's way into my mouth trying to flow inside me almost like I'm some container. I try to wrangle my way out but continually fail, it's slimy and gross and just as disgusting as its words. It's suffocating me but there's nothing I can do about it since I'm unable to grab it.
"Haha, you can't grab a hold of me, I'm liquid." It's peircing laugh continually echoes throughout the tunnel as if making fun of my struggling.
I continue to struggle but my vision is getting darker and I'm starting to loose consciousness. I might be suicidal but I refuse to be killed by this disgusting slime ball. Although, I say this but there's really nothing I can do about it. Reality sinks in and I realise that there's8 no one who can save me now. It was fun knowing the league for the little time I was with them, and hopefully they don't get too worried about me.
I give into the villian and my conciseness is just about gone. I stop wriggling as desperately as before, my energy slowly being depleted. I have some regrets but there's really nothing i can do about it now so, goodbye world, I guess this time I'm actually going to die.
"I am here!" Are the last words I here before everything gently turns to nothingness.
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"Hey, anyone in there."
I'm awoken to continues tapping on my face and I slowly open my eyes. The light is blinding and it takes a while for my eyes to adjust but then a huge shadow looms over me and out of nowhere I'm suddenly face to face with a huge grin.
Suddenly recognising the grin as All Might's I instantly sit up which was a huge mistake since I end up colliding with him and getting an intense headache as well as a huge wave of nausea.
"Woah, you okay there, I didn't mean to hurt you." He stares at me that smile still plastered on his face.
Unable to come to terms with what is happening the only word's that escape my mouth are, "Am I dead?"
All Might laughs while patting me on the back super hard which is more then enough proof that I'm totally still alive. "Fortunately, I found the villian just in time to save you, though I must apologise since you only got caught up in this mess because I'm so unfamiliar with this new landscape."
"So I'm not dead." I'm guessing i said that with a little disappointment in my voice since I swear I saw the no.1 hero's smile falter for a second.
The hero seems a little unsure of what to do or say so he picks up a soda bottle, which is now housing the slime villian that attacked me, then gets up.
"Well then, I should be off now, I have to deliver this to the police station." The hero says, getting ready to jump.
It was at this moment I may have done the most stupidest thing in my life, even more stupid then jumping of a building. In the spur of the moment, like the idiot I am, I held onto the no.1 hero's leg just as he took off for the sky.
...
"Woah what are you doing, I love my fans but this is a little too much don't you think." All Might says as he tries pushing me off him making me hold on even tighter. "Get off me kid."
"I-i can't, if I l-let go... if I let go now I'll die." All Might must have noticed I was right cause he stops trying to push me off. As soon as he does I hold on tighter and bury my face into his leg.
He lands on top of the roof of a building and starts lecturing me on how dangerous what I did was. I already know what i did was stupid so I'm not really listening. I ignore him, and decide to ask him the question which led me to grab onto him in the first place. Realising I'm not listening he sighs and makes his way to leave so without thinking I quickly blurt out the one thing I've always wanted toknow.
"Do you think a quirkless person like me can become a hero?"
My question stops All Might in his tracks and he turns around I assume 1to give me an answer until all of a sudden out of nowhere he suddenly deflates into a smaller, skinner version of himself. I stand here shocked and speechless.
I might have shifted back a little because All might senses my worry and starts to explain to me.
"You know how people hold in their buff at a swimming pool to show of there abs," I nod, still not understanding what he meant. "Yeah well my quirk is like that."
I open my mouth to say something but no words come out so I just continue to stare in bewilderment.
All Might sighs then continues speaking, "since your aware now I might as well tell you but you must not share this on social media." I nod again still confused but suddenly he lifts up his shirt showing me the most gruesome wound I've ever seen. It looks so deep and gross, I wouldn't be surprised if he is missing a few organs.
"I got this wound 5 years ago fighting a villian. I'm missing my stomach and my respiratory system is a mess." He says almost like he read my mind. "Due to this injury I can only keep my buff form for a maximum of three hours a day. The reason I laugh is to distract myself from all the pain and responsibility this work gives me. A pro is always risking their life and constantly getting into fights, for this reason I just can't bring myself to tell you that you can be hero without a quirk. It's good to dream but unfortunately a dream is what it's only ever going to be. You shouldn't mix dreams with reality kid. If you want to help people so bad why don't you think realistically and join the police force instead."
He gets up and makes his way out the door, leaving me here on my own with his harsh words. I'm stuned and have no idea what to think. Still dazed I sit here and gather all my thoughts.
I can't believe even All Might doesn't think I can become a hero, he didn't even try to sugarcoat it either. Did he really just straight up tell a suicidal kid to give up on his dream and then walk away like it was nothing. I guess this is why people say never meet your idols. He took my already damaged hopes and dreams, smashed them into tiny little peices, then blended them all up into a dust just so i could never put them back together again. This was my last hope of being pulled out of the darkness. The last thing that could possibly make me regret my choice of becoming a villian, instead all he did was drag me all the way down and now there's no more escape.
I gather my things and make my way down from the roof feeling dejected . I make sure to look around first so I don't end up accidentally running into the no.1 hero again. Once the coast is clear I leave the building and start making my way back to the base.
Before I wasn't so sure about this whole villian thing, the only reason I accepted Shiggy's offer in the first place is because I thought I could be useful somehow, I wasn't planning on actually doing anything illegal. That doesn't mean I am now but this last half-hour has just made me even more determined to be useful and help others, even if it means doing so as a villian.
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