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The trio caught the villain by surprise, and Eraserhead successfully used his quirk to nullify Chisaki’s, unsuspecting of the seemingly unconscious body of the aide next to him and Deku, and unaware he was about to strike. In a better story, Chronostasis would strike, and only hit one of them, allowing the intern to fight and to run—

“WAKE UP ALREADY, CHRONO!”

          —But this was not the story where the good guys won.

The arrow would both of them, leaving them paralyzed, and Deku was unable to come to Lemillion’s side and help him escape with Eri. Eraserhead would, unable to stop himself, and in that moment Chisaki would utilize his affliction to shatter the area around him, forcing Sir Nighteye to choose. He would run to save Lemillion and the girl, turning his back on Chisaki to usher them through an escape route that no longer existed, and in that moment Chronostasis would run away with Aizawa, leaving Deku to watch helplessly as the scenes unfurled.

Watch in horror as Chisaki would take the body of the man named Shin Nemoto and destroy himself, blood splattering on the ground around them and into the eyes of the boy as he watched flesh rend and muscle tear and rewrite itself into something far more terrifying than the sum of it’s parts. A pair of manic eyes shifted to the frozen child, a quiet promise to return to him later.

“This is all your doing, Eri.” The dual-layered voice of the monster snarled.

It took moments to dispatch Nighteye as his attention had been turned to trying to break through the wall Chisaki had sealed, piercing him through with a pillar of stone, a clawed hand furiously eviscerating him just for good measure. 

“If you hadn’t run, hadn’t been so fucking selfish, none of this would’ve needed to happen.”

Another blackened, monstrous talon would lash out and grab the exhausted and disheartened Lemillion, slamming his skull into the concrete and crushing it beneath his grasp, the sickening crack comparable only to the piercing shriek of the girl who lay witness. 

“Look at what you made me do. Look at what heroism makes people do. You are the cure to this insanity, and what do you do?” 

The monster makes his way to the sole survivor, knowing that the effects of Chrono’s affliction would be wearing off soon, and with his mood as awful was it was now, Chisaki had no intention of letting this fight go on longer than it should have. 

“You let your selfish urges get the better of you. You run. You seek the help of these poor, sick idiots who have no idea what you are, and you doom them. Because that is all you ever do.”

The talon stained with blood and brain reached up to take Deku by the throat, grip crushing him just enough to prevent him from saying anything inspiring before he would perish, and because quite frankly, he had heard enough screaming for one day. He lifted up the boy like a limp kitten, turning his gaze now to finally meet his eyes, gold eyes not filled with anger or hatred, but merely a willingness to be done with this ordeal.

“I’m truly quite sorry that you got wrapped up in all this mess, Izuku.” His voice dropped to a quieter whisper. “Miss Yaoyorozu’s mentioned you before, and you struck me as somebody with incredible potential.” Two more arms would reach underneath his ribcage, claws digging in to find purchase. “It’s a shame. You could’ve been so useful to me, but it seems you were just doomed from the start.”

The hand holding him by the throat loosened, and the two in his ribcage pulled. Sternum cracked under the pressure as his chest was forced apart in this unnatural method, ribs snapping one by one as flesh and muscle was torn apart to reveal the suffocated lungs and frantically beating heart of the boy who had failed to bend the future. Reaching in, a talon inelegantly scooped out the exposed organs and threw them across the floor in the direction of the girl, before holding the body of Deku like the lifeless puppet it was to drop in front of her, to which she would stare at in horror. 

No more screaming, as she had bled her vocal chords raw, and she made no moves to get away from him as he knelt down to look at her.