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Izuku had expected the trip to the mall with his classmates to be rather uneventful, but instead it was quite very eventful.
They had all arrived and agreed to stick together so as to not be difficult for Aizawa. They all stopped at their favorite stores and even headed to a pet store for their teacher to enjoy himself just a bit.
And then they had started to head back to their bus. But, rather than ever making it back to their bus they encountered a few not so good people.
The villains had made an offer to Aizawa, they would take him and two of the students back to their base with them, or they would take the whole class and leave Aizawa to worry about his kids.
The students had immediately shot down the idea that only two of them and their teacher would be going. So the students surrendered and gave themselves to the villain group.
There had been some students that had decided to stay home that day, so there were only ten of them that gave themselves up to the villains.
Izuku had been the first to raise his hands in surrender, followed by Uraraka, Iida, Todoroki, and Tsu. Mina and Denki had raised their hands after seeing the fives position of surrender.
It took longer for Bakugou to surrender, but he wasnt stupid. Ultimately, it was better if they surrendered rather than letting their teacher attempt to save them again. Immediately after seeing his best friend surrender, Kirishima placed his hands in the air as well.
Soon after the students surrendered, a portal opened behind them. They were pushed through, the portal and brought to a warehouse with many caged off areas of the room.
There were a few other men in the room with them, but they mostly just stood in the corners.
They were broken into groups of three, Bakugo with Todoroki and Midoryia. Uraraka was shoved into a cage with Iida and Mina. Which left Denki, Kirishima, and Asui to be put into a third cage.
They were left there for about an hour, before the man who had shown up to take them came back. He whispered something to the one man and he walked over to Uraraka, Mina, and Iida's cell.
He pulled out Uraraka and Mina, then called over two other guards. They started kicking and punching and hurting the two girls. When they were done they tossed them back into their cage and grabbed Iida.
They did the same with everyone else. Midoriya was the last to be pulled out of his cage. He was thrown to the floor, hitting his head hard against the concrete floor. Then, they started kicking him, and punching him. He could feel his ribs breaking, and his hands cracking, he felt as they snapped his leg too. He barely screamed though, which enraged his captors.
He was beat for much longer than the other eight, and was bleeding much more than the rest. After a while of being beaten he was thrown back into his cage.
The men left soon after washing the blood from their hands and shoes. The second the door to the room closed chaos erupted. Uraraka and Mina were checking each other over, same with Kaminari and Kirishima. Iida didn't seem that bad, nor did Tsu or Todoroki. Bakugou was a little beat up, as was Mina, but no one was anywhere near as bad as Izuku.
"Deku! Are you okay!?" Uraraka frantically asked.
"Does he look okay round cheeks!?" Bakugou yelled at her.
Izuku attempted to move his body, but with every movement something hurt more. He didn't want to scare his classmates though, so he powered through the hurt.
They all discussed possible escape routes, ways they could get out, or something. But when they attempted to use their quirks they found that they were very weak. Midoriya assumed the bars to the cages they were held in had some sort of quirk weakened that caused their quirks to have less power.
Night fell upon them quickly, but they were never brought food. The girls had opted to fall asleep, and Iida did too. Soon, everyone other than Midoriya, Todoroki, Bakugou, and Kirishima. Midoriya was having trouble hiding how much pain he was in now, but tried to power through it.
Kirishima crawled his way to the closest wall facing their cell. Bakugou and Todoroki moved forward as well. But when Deku attempted to move he let out a pitiful whimper. His broken ribs dug into his lungs, which hurt terribly.
"Midoriya?" Todoroki turned to the boy, concern painted on his face.
"What's wrong nerd?" Bakugou asked, turning to him as well.
"Just, uhg, just in some pain. I think they shattered a few of my ribs. And I can't really move or feel my legs. The only thing I can move is my arms and head." He admitted to the other.
"Well, you should get better soon right? You've gotta have some sort of healing quirk considering how quickly you heal! I mean, Recovery girl is good, but you heal faster than anyone else Midobro!" Kiri said from his cage.
The red head wasnt wrong, he did have his healing quirk, but he didnt want to kill himself in front of his friends. Although, Bakugou might enjoy the sight.
"I do have my healing quirk…." He admitted. "But I don't recommend watching…" He added on.
"What's that supposed to mean Midoriya?" The red and white haired boy asked.
Midoriya didnt answer, but rather let his mind formulate a plan. If they woke up everyone else, and he killed himself, they would all cause a major commotion. Which would cause the guards to come in and check on them. And if they opened their cell, Bakugou and Todoroki could take the guards.
The only thing he wasn't certain of, was how long he would stay dead. But, it was a plan none the less.
"Hey! Everyone up! Now!" Midoriya yelled to the ones who were asleep.
"Midobro? What are you doing?" Kiri asked with a head tilt.
"I have a plan!" He said. "But, you guys won't like it. I just need Bakugou and Todoroki to promise me that when the guards come into our cell they will attack them."
Slowly, everyone woke up, then perked up at the mention of a plan. Izuku turned to the two he had addressed. He looked at them, then waited for their confirmation. Both gave him a nod.
He nodded back to the them, then asked if everyone was ready.
"We don't even know what the plan is!" Kaminari exclaimed.
"If you knew what the plan was, you wouldn't let me carry it out." He criptically replied.
He got a few head tilts, before counting down from five. When he hit one he moved his hands up to both sides of his head.
Here goes nothing. He thought, then twisted hard.
His body slumped to the floor when a loud crack echoed across the walls. It took a few moments for everyone to respond, but then chaos erupted.
Many people screamed out some variation of Midoiyas name, others just started screaming.
Soon, the guards came rushing in to see one of their hostages bodies on the floor. Just like Deku had planned, they unlocked the cage door, and entered the makeshift room.
Once the three guards were in, Bakugou and Todoroki attacked. They didnt attack because of the promise they made, but rather because they weren't letting anyone touch their dead friend.
After they had taken down the guards, which hadn't been that hard, Todoroki rushed over to Izuku's body. It had been about three minutes since he had died, but all of them were in deep grief.
Bakugou grabbed the keys off of the one guards belt loop, then started letting everyone out of their cells.
Since they all couldn't fit inside the cell where Midoriyas corpse lay, they moved his body out of the cage and set him on the floor in the center of the room.
A few more guards entered, along with the man that had taken them from the mall.
They all got up into defensive stances, but then the guards and man raised their hands above their heads.
Their teacher emerged from behind them, along with All Might in his small form.
"Where's Midoriya!?" Aizawa turned on the men.
"I don't know who that is! All I know is that I put all of them here! The kid must have escaped." The leader responded.
The eight students that stood in front of them moved away from where they were guarding Midoryia's body.
"Oh god! Problem child!" Aizawa yelled out, then launched himself forward to the dead boy.
All might didn't move from beside the villains, either too scared to move, or so that the men couldnt escape.
"What happened!?" Aizawa desperately asked.
"He said he had a plan," Kirishima responded. "But…" the boy cut off, not being able to share the rest.
"But the fuckin nerds plan was to snap his neck and then have the rest off us fight the guards!" Bakugou sorrowfully explained.
Aizawa pulled the boy further into his chest, then started crying over the boy. He couldnt believe he let one of his students die! He couldn't save them from being pulled through the portal after they had surrendered, and now his student, his kid for Christ's sake! He was dead.
Then, Midoriya's body shifted in his teacher's lap. His eyes fluttered open, then scanned the room.
"Did we win?" He asked, as if he hadn't just died and come back to life.
"You just died! How the hell are you alive!" Uraraka exclaimed.
"Uhm, well that's my quirk I guess? I cant die. Or well, I cant kill myself or be killed. I dont know if old age works though. But every other method I've tried hasn't worked." He answered them.
"Hold on, what do you mean by 'other methods'?" Iida asked him.
"Well, I learned about my quirk about a year ago, and since then I've been training it! When I first discovered my quirk it took me about four hours to come back, but now it only takes me anywhere from seven minutes to two!" He excitedly stated. He was proud of his progress over time.
But, it didnt seem that anyone else was. Rather than sitting around and talking though, their teacher called the police to take on the villains and take their reports. Once they were done with the police they headed back to UA.
Most of them were sent to Recovery girl, but still had enough energy to continue through the night. They got changed and washed up then returned back to the common room to talk with their classmates and teacher.
Word of what Izuku had done and what his quirk was travelled fast. Soon, everyone in class A knew if the stunt he had pulled and what his other quick was.
After they chatted with their friends a bit, their teacher rounded them up at the couches and gestured for them to take a seat.
"Problem child," Aizawa said, addressing Midoriya,"All Might has explained to me how you have two quirks, but, I need you to explain your quirk to us. How you've been training it, how it works, everything."
Midoriya nodded to his teacher, then asked to go get his notebook full of information on his quirk.
He came back with two full notebooks, and a third that was halfway full.
"That's everything I know on my quirk. It's all of my tests and training and everything. I made sure to log it all for the future, just in case."
He handed the notebooks over to his teacher, then sat back in his seat.
"I know that I cant kill myself, as that is obvious from earlier, but I also can't be killed by others. I've tried every way that I could think of, I've burnt myself, drowned myself, hung myself, ate poison, jumped off a building, bleed to death, shot myself. But nothing seems to work. And with other people, they've suffocated me, shot me, stabbed me, everything, and yet nothing seems to work.
So instead, I decided to stop seeing if I could die, but rather how long it would take for me to come back to life." He simply told his classmates and teacher.
They sat in silence for a while as Aizawa scanned the notebooks, taking in the newfound information about his student. Eventually, the silence was broken by Sero.
"So your quirk is that you cant die right? Well, how did you find out that was your quirk?" The black haired boy asked.
Izuku scratched the back of his head, then laughed a little.
"I uhm, well, before I found out about my quirk, I was considered quirkless. People dont really like quirkless people, and they would make fun of me. This one day, the person that I thought was my friend told me to uh, kill myself. And well…" he broke off at the end, not being able to admit what he had done.
It was different when he was killing himself for research or for quirk training. But his actual attempt, that was different.
"You did, you tried to kill yourself. And when it failed you started to kill yourself for training." Aizawa stated, filling in the blanks.
Izuku nodded in agreement to his teachers statement. The class sat in silence for a moment, before some students declared that they were going to bed. Slowly, the entire class filed out of the room and went to bed.
Then, it was just Midoriya and the sleep deprived teacher. They discussed how to safely train the quirk, and Aizawa mentioned therapy. Izuku agreed and ended up having a cup of tea with his teacher. Eventually, they both fell asleep on the couch together.
And if the next morning when the class woke up they took a picture of the two on the couch, no body needs to know….