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It was a fairly slow day at the League of Villains headquarters, there was absolutely nothing going on and everyone was just sitting around. The quiet atmosphere was broken by the door being flung open.
Everyone looked towards the entrance and watches Toga walk inside. Almost everyone immediately goes back to whatever they were doing, not caring that another member walked in, but Dabi notices Toga holding something and he speaks up "Toga, where the hell did you find that thing? And why did you bring it here..?" He asked, his eyebrow raised in confusion, unsure of what she even had in her arms.
Toga shrugs, she seemed to be equally confused about it as Dabi was "It was right outside the headquarters, just sitting by the door crying. It said it was lost and couldn't find it's parents, so I brought it inside," Toga explained with a bewildered expression "It's kinda strange, people never get this close to headquarters... I wonder how the poor little thing got here..? I asked it's name and it said it's name is Eri, but I dont know if that would help us return her home," Toga continued, gently setting the kid down on the floor.
Dabi groaned in annoyance and rubs the bridge of his nose "Isn't that Aizawa's adopted kid?" He rolled his eyes and continued "Why did you bring it inside? If the heroes see us with it, they'll think we stole it from them! We're not heroes, we're not going to save it! Put it back outside where you found it and tell it to leave!" Dabi growled in frustration at Toga's antics.
Toga pouts and crosses her arms "That's so mean though, look at it, it's a little baby- we need to protect it, the least we can do is try to help-" Toga tries to argue before Dabi interrupts "No, we can't help it because if we do then we're getting too close to the heroes with our guards down, it's better to leave it alone! We're villains, not heroes so drop it!" Dabi starts raising his voice and Eri starts crying softly, timidly hiding behind Toga.
The crying seems to catch Shigaraki's attention, he slowly looks up from his work, a concerned look on his face "Why do I hear crying? Is everyone okay?" He asks, worried about his comrades, not seeming to even notice Eri.
Toga just nods and continues with her first plan "We'll be fine, let's help her find her parents-" Toga starts to explain, trying to ease Shigaraki's concern. Eri starts crying harder and her quirk activates, her horn sends out a spark of light that clouds up most of the room.
Eri's accidental magical spark turns a few of the villains into younger versions of themselves, the villains being affected having been Toga, Dabi, Shigaraki and Kurogiri. All four villains almost immediately passed out from the strength of the magic strike and Eri passes out from all the energy she used up.
Dabi, having been the furthest away was least affected by the magic and woke up first, groaning in pain. He sits up and mumbles to himself "Just great... how am I gonna fix this? Guess I have to take them all to the heroes to reverse it now... damn it..." Dabi picks up the other two villains in one arm; who were now like half of Dabi's size; and then picks up Eri in the other arm before leaving the League base and started walking down the street.
Dabi sighed softly as he walks slowly, he started talking to Eri "So, do you know where we're going, or do you remember where you last saw your family?" Dabi asked softly, trying not to scare her again. Eri just shakes her head no in response.
Dabi sighs "That's okay, I think I have a basic idea of where we're going- Aizawa is a teacher at UA, he's probably there?" Dabi explained softly as he kept walking in the direction of UA.
Dabi walked for half an hour, carrying the three smaller kids, before he saw UA and started running towards it, he passed the gate, forgetting the security system and everything started locking down around him after scanning a lack of entrance IDs on them.
The only pro heroes on campus at that moment were Eraserhead, Present Mic, and all four of the Wild Wild Pussycats. All six pro heroes immediately ran to the front gate when the security system went off sounding alarms because they assumed villains were attacking, but they stopped in their tracks when they noticed all that was there were a bunch of kids dressed in baggy villain costumes that couldn't be much older than 12 years old.
Dabi presses his back against a wall, getting nervous about the heroes showing up and the alarms sounding, he starts crying softly. Aizawa's eyes soften and he kneels in front of the kids "Are you okay? Are you lost?" Aizawa asks softly before noticing Eri in Dabi's hands, "You found her! Thank you! We were worried sick. Hey, why don't you come inside, we'd be glad to help you get home? What's your name anyway?"
Dabi starts panicking and puts Eri down "I- I don't know- I can find my way home fine..." Dabi blurted out, not thinking at all about what to say and Eraserhead raised his eyebrow at him, before picking up Eri "You'll get lost again, at least let us call your family to pick you up." Aizawa said with concern.
Dabi looks away in fear "Like hell I'm telling you anything- I wasn't going to hurt Eri, she was lost so I was helping her get back-" Dabi blurted out, again, not thinking before speaking, and Eri nodded in agreement before Aizawa asked Eri to explain what happened "Well, I walked that way, and got lost, then the one girl villain with the weird hair and vampire teeth picked me up, and asked me who i was and if i was lost, then she carried me inside and the purple villain was yelling at the blue villain- then I used my quirk on them" Eri spoke slowly, stuttering as she thought out what to say, trying to remember exactly what happened.
Aizawa nods in understanding "So that explains why your horn shrunk- but does that also mean that these three are villains, they just look smaller because of your quirk?" Aizawa asked, and Eri nodded "Yeah, but.. I don't think they remember anything, I might of rewinded their memory too" Eri continued speaking slowly. "Huh that's weird... guess we'll find out if they actually did lose their memories" Aizawa says, picking them all up and carrying them inside.