Capítulo 4: A Twist of Fate
"A hero? Don't take another step!"
The villains loud exclaim echo throughout the bedroom, and he aims his gun steadily at me with seemingly no intention of putting it down. Maybe he sees through my exterior, and at my vulnerable weak inner state. After looking back at him, I'm unable to focus my tendrils on keeping Toga wrapped up, and she manages to slip out while I'm distracted. After I grasp the current situation, I turn back and realise that Toga has dissapeared from the wall. Well, ...shit. But I can never focus on two things at once, as I hear the chamber of a gun go off from behind me, it's sound instantly filling the entire room.
I turn back to the villain in almost an instant as I hear the gunshot. The world seems to...slow down. I see the bullet in my sight. It's headed straight for my chest. But I can't move myself either, not fast enough to get out of the way in time. Surely, this can't be it for me. I analyse the bullet, it's headed straight for my heart. Well, ...double that shit. Am I dead? Seriously? This early on? There's so much things I've been wanting to do in life...
Graduate and become a proper hero, make my Mom proud of me, meet new people, experience the world...fall in love... There's nothing I can really do though right now. My life is ending right before my eyes, and I can't do anything about it. You know, this might not even be that bad. I really don't want to suffer anymore...be alone in this cruel world... live everyday without a reason to keep going... Saving the city? Saving people? Keeping a smile on everyone's faces? All fake reasons I tell myself for self-satisfaction. I might be a hero, but I'm not a noble one. Not in the slightest. I'm not All might, I'm just Deku. The average, weak, pathetic eighteen year old sitting on buildings, left to rot and die. I have my own selfish desires that take priority over everything else I try to fight for. Toga was right, huh? I really am just a pathetic hero. Maybe I do deserve to die here. And just accept...my fate.
Then I see something. Out of the corner of my eye, a rapid blur that quickly approaches and slides in front of me. Yellow. The same yellow I saw in that alleyway a few hours ago. Toga? It can't be, is she dashing in front of me? For what, to save me from the bullet? No this can't be, she's probably uh...trying to slash me, by running in front of a bullet...no, that's stupid, even she wouldn't do anything like that.
Right?
The bullet strikes Toga, and her shoulder gets pierced by its mettalic shell. It's force sends her crashing towards me. Her fragile body colliding with mine as we get knocked to the wall behind me, the one where she just was. Blood starts to leak out of her shoulder, and starts to drip down onto me as she leans on my body. She lets out a cough, splattering blood over the floor.
Wait...what?
Did she just...take the bullet...for me?
I'm not given a moment to ponder for any longer, as I notice the villain from before attempting to reload his gun. My legs spring into action and I pounce at the villain, charging up my fist before smashing my hand through his face, instantly knocking him unconcious. The villains' limp body flies out of the doorway, and gets launched down the stairs. Using blackwhip again, I grab his unconcious body and throw it full force out one of the windows, cracking it's dusty glass and I watch as his body gets thrown into the street outside. Now someone, hopefully a hero can come pick him up later while he lays there.
That might've been a tiny bit brutal for my standards. I think I might've broken some bones or something actually... Whatever, I still felt him breathing, he's alive. What's more important here is...Toga! She was bleeding like hell up there! I dash back up the stairs and come crashing through the doorframe and land in front of Toga. Her hand on her shoulder, trying to limit the blood oozing down her shoulder.The moment she sees me, she struggles to stand up, a smirk on her face. Her legs wobble, but then she collapses again, and she lays on the wall behind her, staining its cheerful wallpaper with blood.
"Heh...well, this is a predicament, huh?"
She manages to spit out those words with a smug aura to them, keeping her superior attitude even though it's clear she knows she's dead lost. I stand there, my eyes set directly on her, and her leaking shoulder. I have to do something, or else she dies here. But before any of that, I have to ask the biggest question on my mind.
"Why did you just save me?"
It's obvious to ask this before anything, looking from my point of view, she gained absolutely nothing from taking a bullet and it even seems like she's taking an immense amount of pain right now. Why? Why would a villain that despises heroes give themselves up for one?
"He would have killed you...
And I won't let anyone take what's rightfully mine...and you're MINE."
She spits the last two words at me, looking at me with those cold, predatory, empty eyes of hers - her mind has become completely warped by the thoughts of violence and destruction...and I realise her reasoning. She can't bear to have her prey taken from her like that. She wants to kill me, not anyone else.
"What makes you think I can't just throw you out the window like I just did to the other guy?"
She smirks at me, looking down to the floor, before staring into my eyes, smirking.
"You could have...but you didn't.
So tell me...
...Why didn't you?"
A look of confusion flashes across my face as I'm left to think about this. Throughout this entire fight, I could've just knocked her out within an instant. Was it to get more intel on All for One? Was it because I was exhausted? No that can't be right, I knew All for One wouldn't be here, and I just knocked that other villain clean out.
An idea forms in my head, the reason appears and it's clear as day why I prolonged this fight. Because I liked it. I liked talking to a person again, it's the first person I've talked to in a few months, of course I'd want to keep talking to them somehow. That just meant prolonging the fight further.
"Well?
Answer me.
Answer me or I swear...I will pull this trigger right here and now."
Her voice is cold and harsh and pulls me from my thoughts again. From her other arm, she pulls out a pistol. Seriously? Where'd she get that from?
She cocks the hammer on the gun back, causing a loud click to echo through the room.
"I'll give you two minutes to think about it."
My true reason is...embarassing, and just pathetic. Relying on a cold-blooded killer for social interaction just proves how uterrly lonely I am. Humans need other humans to survive, parents, teachers, friends are all needed to develop a healthy child. And here I am...all alone, with no one but myself.
"Not the right decision, is it?
That's the problem with heroes...you're all too weak-willed to make the tough decisions..."
She cocks the hammer on the gun again, making that loud click echo through the room and I see every trace of her usual sadistic joy fade from her eyes.
"...Time's up."
As she says this, she aims the barrel of the gun straight at my head. She doesn't fire immeadiately however as I get to react in time.
"The gun? Oh."
I grab the gun from half the room away with my blackwhip tendrils and throw it down the stairs with an immense amount of ease. Her eyes widen in surprise as the gun is suddenly torn from her hands and thrown away She probably didn't even see me move, and I'd taken the gun and thrown it from across the room as if I wasn't even trying.
"Well played."
She grins at me, this time it's a cruel smile that's filled with a sort of twisted respect. I think she finally surrenderred to my strength, and it's a way of admitting I'm stronger. I've won properly this time, and the villain isn't even knocked out. She's leaning on a wall, powerless and weak. But unlike my other wins, this time, I don't feel anything like satisfaction. Just...guilt? Guilt? Seriously? I've won...why am I feeling guilt for a villain?
"Now, what do I do with you?"
She somehow continues to smirk, her predatory, cat-like eyes taking in my face before her lips curl into a cruel, cold, sadistic grin.
"That's entirely up to you...
...Do whatever you'd like with me...
...You earned your victory."
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