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aerie: part 2

chapter 15

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I was a bit disappointed when I found out who I'd be fighting first. Aoyama? The belly-button guy? Seriously? However, to make things a bit exciting after all, if me and Bakugo both win our next two battles, it'll be me vs him. And that's the kind of riveting content I live for, and all the motivation I need.

As soon as Present Mic says start, I've already made it behind frenchie here. Without me being within his laser's line of sight, I have free reign to perform a delicious Ushiro Goshi. As soon as he moves the slightest bit to look behind him, I wrap my arms tightly around his waist, lift him off the ground and drop him to the floor, in a perfectly clean throw. He tries to stand up as quickly as he can, but it's already too late. Once I have you on the ground, it's all over. I wrap my arm around the back of his neck and squeeze him into submission, with him managing to cry "I give up!" before I have the chance to put him to sleep.

I drop him immediately, and he chokes and gasps for air.

"And the winner is Kaiya Miyasaki!" shouts Present Mic, and the crowd goes wild.

It's an insane feeling, to have thousands of people cheering for you. After spending most of my life in the shadows, it feels pretty crazy to have so many people witness the power that I possess.

I chuckle to myself.

Well, if they liked that, I'm sure they'd go crazy to see me fight someone actually challenging. I can't wait to see who's gonna get owned next.

After running to my locker to grab a quick snack, I make my way to the stands to find my class, so I can watch the other fights with the rest of them. Hopefully the next few fights last a bit longer than mine did.

When I spot that spiky red hair of my best bud, I sprint up the steps, but I then notice Katsuki sitting there, on a row all by himself. As much as I'd love to hear Kiri sing my praise right about now, I'd also like to see what Katsuki has to say about it.

His fight with Uraraka was before mine, and it was actually pretty intense. She must have learned a thing or two since I briefly fought her during battle training. But nevertheless, Katsuki took the win. Which mean's we're one step closer to an explosively glitchy showdown. Eek! I can't wait!

"Hey, kittykat!" I call as I skip up the steps over to him. He looks at me with a blank expression. "Mind if I sit here?" I ask very politely, like I'm not gonna sit here no matter what he says.

"I don't care," he says, "Just don't be annoying."

I don't care? Well, I'd say that's a pretty big step up from the "hell no, go fuck yourself" that I was expecting.

"C'monnn," I sing as I plop down in the seat next to him. "My life's mission is to annoy you!"

"Wh-" he says with wide eyes, frantically checking over his shoulders, before looking back at me. "Did Kirishima say something to you?!"

I raise an eyebrow. "Uhhhh, what?"

Did Uraraka knock a few screws loose or something?

"Um, nothing," he says, closing his eyes and quickly shaking his head. "So...uh... I see you're feeling better," he mutters.

Okay, what the hell is going on here? 'I see you're feeling better'?? Did I miss something here?!

I clear my throat, ignoring his odd behavior, for the moment anyway. "Yup," I say proudly, "Ready for my fight with the bird." I hit my palm with my fist. "With the light from my glitching, I'll tear that guy to shreds. I'm not even worried about it."

"Yeah," he says with a slight chuckle. "You took down that bellybutton guy no problem. It's like it wasn't even fair, he had no idea what hit him."

So he loved it, right? My fight? He was super impressed? He thought I was totally over-powered and amazing? Is that what he means by that? Because if he doesn't think so now, he sure as hell will after I kick bird-brains feathered tail.

I sigh. "That fight was disappointing. Tokoyami will be way more fun..." I glance over at him, his eyes glued to the arena. I nudge his arm playfully. "Uraraka seemed to give you a run for your money," I say with a smile.

"Yeah," he sighs, "That fight didn't seem fair either. She really thought she did something there at the end, it was kinda sad. My fight with Kirishima oughta be good, though."

"Ah, yes," I say making two fists. "It'll make me sad to see my two buddies trying to kill each other, but it will be pretty entertaining."

I'm actually not sure who to root for in that fight. Kiri, my actual friend, or Katsuki, my love-hate relationship. Well, if Kiri wins, I'll have to fight him after Tokoyami. Kiri looks pretty heavy, he wouldn't be easy to throw. And a sleeper hold would be pretty impossible on him, with his hardening and all. I'd have no choice but to glitch him out of bounds, and that's no fun. Fighting Katsuki would be much more entertaining.

I smile at the thought. "Y'know, if we both win our next fight, it'll be you and me, like old times," I say.

He scoffs. "Yeah, only difference is I'm gonna kill you this time."

I shake my head, with three clicks of my tongue. "As much as I'm rooting for you," I say with a sigh, "If it comes to that, you're going down."

He narrows his eyes, and for the first time since I've sat down, he looks at me. "Really?" he says, "Whatcha gonna do? Send me into a void for eternity?"

"Ouch, Kitty-kat!" I giggle. "But you know I could never do that to you, you're too cute!"

He rolls his eyes. "Am I gonna look cute when I blow you to bits?"

I try to imagine the look on his face if he blew me to smithereens. Cute? That hardly covers it.

I lean in close, and lower my voice to an almost whisper. "That's when you look the cutest," I say with a sly smile.

And all of the sudden, for some unknown reason, his face turns bright red. He starts to breathe a little faster, with beads of sweat beginning to form on his forehead.

Okay, what the hell is going on? Katsuki was being nice enough to hold a conversation with me, which is bizarre in itself, and now this? Katsuki never gives a second thought to my harmless flirty comments, and now he's at a total loss for words? Blushing profusely? Sweating? What the hell is going on with this guy?

"Woah, Kitty-kat," I chuckle, "Did I strike a nerve or something? I've never seen you get embarrassed before. What's gotten into you?"

He suddenly jumps to his feet. "Get out of my way," he says through clenched teeth.

Jesus, triggered much? I didn't even do anything this time!

I feel my smile fade. "Woah, what'd I say?" I was actually enjoying our little chit chat.

"Get out of my way, glitch bitch!" he shouts.

Glitch what now?

Everyone in the row in front of us turns around to look at us, and I feel my face turn red. I move my legs so Katsuki can get by, and he leaves in a hurry. I watch cluelessly as he rushes down the steps until he's out of sight.

What the hell was that about?

Kiri moves from his seat to the one next to me, and sits with a sigh. "What'd you say to him now?" he asks.

I furrow my brow. "I don't know. I didn't say anything I haven't before, I was actually being nice. I don't know why he reacted like that."

"Well, are you okay?"

I scoff. "What do you mean am I okay? You think I've never been yelled at by him before?"

"He called you... a mean name."

"Uh, yeah. So? You think I care?"

He shrugs. "I was just making sure, man."

Only, I do care.

I've been called many things in my life. Worthless, good-for-nothing, thief, villain, wretch. The usual. But I can't remember the last time someone called me a bitch.

It really shouldn't bother me, it's just a word. But I don't know. Something about it, it weirds me out. I kinda...

like it.

Oh, god. Not this again. Now why did he have to go and say something like that? Just when I thought all of my silly feelings towards him weren't really there, he has to go and drag them all out again! Fuck!

No. Think, Aerie, think. These are not your thoughts. They're Kai's, remember? And you are not Kai. No, you're Aerie. Aerie likes her boyfriend, not Bakugo.

I take a deep breath, letting all of those feelings fall to the back of my mind once again as I switch back into myself.

It's not. Real.

By the time my fight with the bird rolls around, I'm starting to get a bit itchy. My brain keeps switching from villain mode to UA student mode, and it's shaking me up. I'll look at Kiri, and see my friend, then look again, and see some random wannabe hero.

If I keep this up, I'm gonna have a nervous breakdown before the end of this thing. I need to pick a mindset, and stick to it.

Alright, as of right now, I'm Kai. I'm Kaiya Miyasaki, my quirk is glitch, and I wanna be a hero. I'm competing in my school's sports festival, and my goal is to win.

I stare straight ahead at my beaked opponent. It's gonna be a bit of a step up in difficulty from Aoyama, so this ought to be kinda fun.

"Start!" cries Present Mic, and our fight begins.

Right from the get go, Tokoyami sends his dark shadow at me. Smart move, cuz after a minute or two in the ring with me, his little shadow friend will be rendered useless.

I glitch out of the way with a yawn. I hope this Tokoyami character is good at hand to hand combat, otherwise this fight will be just as boring as the previous.

Time and time again, he sends his quirk at me, and time and time again, I dodge effortlessly. I can tell both dark shadow and Tokoyami are starting to get frustrated after about 5 minutes of this, so I decide it's time to go on the offensive.

I glitch right by Tokoyami's side, and as soon as he sees me, I glitch to the other side. I do this over and over, in every possible direction, going as fast as I possibly can. My palms are the perfect amount of sweaty at this point, making it easy for me to snap at high speeds. It's to the point where as soon as the light from one glitch goes out, the flash from another lights up. It takes no more than a minute for dark shadow to completely cower to that point where he won't come out at all.

As soon as I'm sure dark shadow is gone, I glitch directly in front of Tokoyami for the first time since this fight started.

"Scared yet?" I ask, with half an excited smile.

"I'm not scared," he replies, in that serious, deep voice of his.

"Your friend is."

Tokoyami doesn't reply, he just gazes ahead, staring me down. It's giving me the creeps.

Alright, time to end this.

I take a step towards him, closing the gap between us getting in position for a throw. But before I can make another move, he makes some sort of ninja-like swift kick, hitting me right in the ribs, which would have knocked me to the ground if I hadn't glitched back before he could follow through.

Damn, that was good! I got so used to fighting weaklings that I had almost forgotten that some people are actually capable of attacking! How exciting!

I glitch back a couple yards to give myself time to think.

Okay, he kicked me. Pretty fast, too. The guy probably has some fighting experience. I'm used to a no-striking martial art, so this is a bit of a switch up for me. And when I practice with Shiggy, he throws punches, not kicks. I'm not sure how to defend against something like that.

Okay, Plan B.

I glitch directly behind him.

A lame attack after doing it over and over, I know. But hey, it's effective as hell! If it ain't broke, why fix it?

And just as I thought he would, Tokoyami takes the bait. He quickly turns around, reaching out his hand to try and strike, but as soon as his arm is at the right position, I get into form. I'm standing sideways, facing his outstretched arm, my left side lined up with the middle of his body. I quickly put my right hand on the top of his arm, and my left hand on bottom. I turn so my back is to his chest, and lift his arm over my shoulder, I forcefully lift his body over my back as I bend down at the hips, forcing him up and over me, until he lands on the ground in front of me with a loud thud.

Bam. Harai Goshi.

When he tries to sit up, I waste no time glitching to the ground behind him, grappling with him for a moment before getting him into a sleeper hold. I wait for him to tap out, but just as I thought, he makes me put him all the way under before the round is over. And after he's out, I glitch back to the center of the ring, letting his limp body fall to the floor.

"And Kaiya Miyasaki once again takes the win!"

Huh. That was a little more fun, but there's still no way he could have beaten me.

Next round, though. That oughta be good.

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aerie, part 2

chapter 14

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"Second place? That's not so bad," says Sero.

"Yeah, but do you think that's how he feels, though?" mutters Kiri.

I watch as Katsuki has a full on breakdown at our complete and utter failure. I can't help but feel as if it was my fault, our last glitch just wasn't fast enough. We got so close to getting that 10 million, but in the end, it just didn't end up happening.

Although I'm starting to feel pretty woozy, I use what little is left of my energy to amble over to Katsuki's side, placing my hand softly on his shoulder. Half to be nice, and half to keep me standing. "Hey, kittykat," I sigh, "I'm sorry I couldn't have been more of a help," I say, growing weaker with every word that I speak.

"Get off me!" He shouts, batting my hand away.

And with my support gone, my knees buckle at the weight of my body, and the next thing I know, I'm on the ground.

"Woah, Bakugo, what the hell?!" I hear Kiri say as he runs to my side.

"I didn't do anything! She just fell!" says Katsuki, sounding as if he's underwater.

I use my arms to lift my trunk off the ground to a seated position. "He's right," I say wearily. "I just fell. It wasn't his fault." I put my hand on my pounding head, waiting for the intense headrush to pass. "I knew I shouldn't have glitched us that last time. It didn't even help us," I mutter, thoughts starting to cloud.

"It's okay, Kaiya," Kiri says. He starts to say something else, but I don't have the brainpower to catch what it was.

"Thanks, Kiri," I say, now with the sound of blood rushing in my ears so loud I can hardly hear myself think.

Man, I feel weird. I should probably get to the nurse's office.

I try to stand up, but my body just doesn't let me. I fall to my hands and knees.

I hear Kiri say something once again, but I'm not sure what it was. I lower myself back into my criss-cross applesauce position, and watch as Kiri runs off to the side of the stadium.

Hm. I wonder where he's off to.

I rest my elbow on my knee to hold my chin up, doing everything in my power to stay conscious.

"Hey, are you like, okay?" says Katsuki. Which startles me, I forgot he was even sitting there.

"Yeah..." I say, his face reminding me of what happened in the calvary battle just now. "Again, I'm sorry I couldn't take us all the way to first place," I manage to say, which was pretty difficult with my mouth being as dry as it is. "I know how much you wanted it, I wanted it too..." I sigh. "I'm not used to losing. Well, losing on accident."

"What do you mean losing on accident?" he says, "You lose on purpose?"

I start to sway side to side, trying to keep myself awake. "Psh. You think I couldn't've beaten all of y'all in the obstacle race? I can literally teleport."

"Then why didn't you?"

Wait, what am I saying?

"I have my reasons... I really did try to win this though, for you," I say, barely able to hear my own voice over the pounding of my head.

It's true, if I can't be the one to beat him, I want Katsuki to win this whole thing. It'd make me happy to see him make his badass statement at the beginning of this thing come true.

Huh, I wonder when I started to feel that way. I'm not really sure, but... man, I'm sleepy. Maybe I should just get a little shuteye before the next event...

I lower myself down to the ground, no longer trying to fight how tired I am.

Katsuki bends down to look at me. "Dude, are you good?" he says.

I nod.

I'm fine. I just need a minute...

I open my eyes and sit up in a panic, frantically looking around the white room.

What happened? Where am I?

"I see you're awake," says Recovery Girl, sitting in a chair on the other side of what I've recognized now as the infirmary.

"How long was I out?!" I ask. "Am I disqualified?!"

"You were only asleep for about 45 minutes. You overused your quirk. Are you feeling alright?"

"Better than ever," I reply quickly, ready to get back to the arena before the next event begins.

"Are you sure?" she asks.

"Yeah. I'm totally fine. I usually only have to sleep for half an hour to be at full strength again. Can I leave now?"

"If you think you're up for it, you may-"

"Thanks!" I say, leaping out of the cot, out of the room, and down the hall back to the arena. But just as I get there, everyone is walking backstage already. I manage to spot Kiri through the crowd of students, and sprint over to his side.

"Kai!" he says with a smile. "You're alright! You had me worried there for a-"

"Yeah, yeah. I'm good. What did I miss?"

"Nothing, really. We're getting a break before our next event."

"Which is..?"

"One on one battles."

My heart soars at the sound of that. 1v1 battles? I'm kind of an expert. This festival just keeps getting better and better.

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aerie: part 2

chapter 13

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Alright, sports festival. This whole thing is televised, and the entire world is watching, but it's no big deal. I just happen to be a supervillain that can't lie who's infiltrating the top hero school in the-

"Hey, Kai!" Kirishima says with a playful nudge to my shoulder, and I just about jump out of my skin.

"Oh, hey," I say, clearing my throat.

I've decided the whole "getting into character" thing has become too dangerous, so I've been doing my best to keep my thoughts villainous. But when I'm hyperaware of the fact that I don't belong here, it makes it a little difficult to act natural.

"So, are you excited for this thing or what?" he asks with a friendly smile.

"Um, yeah. Very uh... very excited."

"Is something wrong?"

"Hm?"

"You're acting kinda funny. Is something bothering you?"

Alright, this is impossible. I can't say a single sentence without acting suspicious. If I don't act like someone else, I'm gonna blow my cover.

I allow myself to switch into Kai mode with a slight shake my head, just for the moment. "I'm fine," I say with a chuckle. "I'm just trying to come up with a speech for when I take that first place."

Kiri shakes his head. "Start thinking of one for second, 'cause you're going down."

"Ooh, I'm so scared," I say sarcastically.

"Should be," he says with a wink, pats my shoulder, then jogs off back to where the rest of the class is waiting to enter the arena.

I sigh, letting myself back into villainous thinking.

Well, that wasn't so bad. Switching from Kai to Aerie is quick and seamless, with no issues. Maybe I was overreacting a little. Kai's just a character, it's not like anything she thinks actually matters, or reflects how I really think. She's just a role that I play to make my job at UA easier. There's nothing wrong with that, right?

And just as I'm thinking that, my phone buzzes.

-Now, remember what I told you. No first place.

-i knowwww

-but what about 2nd or 3rd :p

-If you end up getting third, it's fine. But don't win any of the events.

-not even 1?

-No. I know you're excited, and you can do well, just don't stand out too much. We don't all of the publicity that comes with that.

-fineee. ur gonna be watching, right?

-Yes.

-okie. make sure u watch until the end. when i get 3rd, i'll blow u a kiss :*

-Okay. I'll be watching.

-okayy, it's about to be time to go into the arena so i gtg. love u

-Love you too, kitten. Have fun.

I toss my phone in my locker, and take a deep breath in.

Alright. I think I've come to an agreement with myself. As long as I'm at UA, I can allow myself to get into character. I can make friends, have fun in class, etc., but as soon as I leave the premises, I'm me again. As long as my thoughts don't get all jumbled together, there's nothing to worry about.

So, sports festival. I guess that means it's Kai time. What could go wrong?

God fucking damnit! I can't believe I had to throw my lead at the last second. How embarrassing! A teleporter who can't even win at an obstacle race? How fucking pathetic does that look? I wanted to at least beat Katsuki, but him and Todoroki were too close, and I had to let them both pass in order not to get first. Ugh! And that damned Deku! Flying in at the buzzer! Making me get fourth instead of third! This is gonna be harder on me than I thought. Being able to win so easily, but not being allowed to take the recognition? This fucking blows.

When they announce that the next event is a team challenge, my bummed out heart starts to fill with excitement again.

Shiggy won't mind if my whole team wins, right? It wouldn't draw attention to me specifically. You know what? I don't even care at this point. My competitive heart can't take this. This next challenge is mine.

When it's time to pick teams for the calvary battle, I'm a little surprised at just how many people come up to me. A group of 8 or 9 people from classes A and B gather all around, begging and pleading that I join up with them.

I start to get a giddy feeling in my throat. Look at all of these losers! Dying to be on a team with me! I guess these guys really do pay attention to who's the best of the best in class 1A.

I suppose it doesn't really matter who I choose, considering the fact that I'll be doing all the work. Maybe I'll just make them all play rock paper scissors for it. Or maybe a battle to the death, choosing the last 3 men standing. That could be fun.

But before I can make any decisions, Kiri casually walks through the crowd around me and waves. "Hey, Kai. Wanna team up?"

"Sure," I say with a smile.

The crowd starts to gripe and moan.

"What about me?!" says one.

"I was here first!" says another.

But just as I begin to run through options in my head, I see an unexpected face shove his way to the front of the group, bringing his own crowd of people with him.

"Hey," Katsuki says, with a frown.

My heart starts to beat faster. Katsuki's talking to me first for once? What a rush!

"Oh, hey kittykat," I say casually, trying to hide my excitement.

His cheeks turn red and his eyes widen horror, along with the crowd of about 20 surrounding us now. I guess they aren't used to Bakugo getting called cute pet names by his friends.

"Hey, don't call me that!" he yells.

"Did you need something?" I ask. The curiosity of what he's doing here is eating me alive.

"Why aren't you asking to be on my team?" he says, "You follow me around everywhere else."

I have to clench my jaw to keep it from dropping. His team? He wants me to be on his team?! This is priceless! I've got to milk this for all it's worth.

I fold my arms in an attempt to seem sassy, like I'm not totally stoked about this. "Oh, I didn't think you wanted to be on my team. Y'know, 'cause you're always telling to go away."

"I don't want to be on your team," he says, folding his arms to mirror me. "I want you to me on my team."

And at those sweet, sweet, words, I just can't hide my excitement anymore. "Awe, kittykat! You want me to be on your team?!" I exclaim. And just as the joy comes to a peak, I know that I can't pass up this one last opportunity to embarrass him in front of this crowd. I fling my arms around his stiff shoulders and squeeze him in a deviously loving hug.

And to my absolute shock and surprise, he doesn't even try to push me off. Here I am, giving this tasmanian devil of a classmate a bear hug, and he just stands there, awkwardly.

"Let go of me," he mutters, quietly, but I can sense just how angry he is through his tone.

I reluctantly release him from my friendly grasp. "Does that mean we're friends now?" I ask, completely unable to hide my elation at this interaction.

"No!" he shouts, "Shut up! Your quirk is just useful."

Now, I can't let him get away with a comment like that. I fold my arms once again. "Oh, so you're just using me for my extremely powerful and versatile quirk, one that would almost guarantee a win."

"Oh my god," he groans. "Forget it," he says, turning to leave.

"Wait!" I say with a laugh. "I was just messing with you. I'd love to be on your team," I say with a smile. It's true, me and Katsuki being on the same side of something is a rare occurrence, and I wouldn't wanna pass up and opportunity like this for sheer pride alone. "But if I'm on your team, so is he," I say, referring to Kiri. "I already told him we'd work together."

"I was already planning on having weird hair on my team," he replies.

"My names Kirishima, remember?!" says Kiri, obviously offended. "And my hair's not that different from yours!"

Katsuki rolls his eyes. "Whatever."

Kirishima puts an arm around each of us. "Aw, both my buddies! Workin' together. I love it!"

He's right, this is awesome! Being teamed up with my two favorite people at UA? You can't beat that.

"Okay, so we need one more person," I say in a low voice, quiet enough that the crowd around us can't hear. "What about Sero?"

"Who?" Katsuki says, lifting his head up to look around.

"Him," I say, pointing at Sero.

"Why?" he says, looking confused.

"His quirk can be useful," I reply.

Why else? Numb nuts.

"What's his quirk?" he asks.

I roll my eyes. "Sero!" I call, beckoning him over, and the rest of the crowd sighs and walks off.

"C'mon Bakugo, he sits at our table!" says Kiri. "You don't know his name or his quirk?"

"Shut up, you!" Katsuki yells. "Just tell me what it is."

"It's tape," says Sero.

I look around at my teammates, trying to figure out how we're gonna do this. Now, my original plan was for me to be the rider, glitching around as I pleased collecting headbands with ease. However, now that Bakugo's here, I doubt that plan's gonna fly with Mr. Indisputable First Place. He's gonna wanna be the star of the show.

"I'm guessing you wanna be rider, kittykat?" I ask, just to make sure.

"Duh," he replies.

I sit there for a second, racking my brain, trying to hatch up the perfect plan for victory. Then, it comes to me.

"Alright, here's my plan," I say.

"We kill Deku!" Katsuki interjects.

I can't help but smile at the blazingly immature way that he put it. I shoot him finger guns. "Exactly!" I say. "Alright, well, Kiri should be the front horse because he can withstand your explosions with his hardening."

The group nods in agreement.

"So you can use your quirk to propel yourself around, right kittykat?"

"Um, yeah," he replies, "But how does that help us? It's a calvary battle."

"Yes, but with Sero's quirk, he can pull you back in before your feet hit the ground. So you'll be like a projectile attacker! It's an edge that I don't think anyone else will have."

Katsuki narrows his eyes at me. "And what about you, Glitch-girl? Can't you just glitch us wherever we need to go?"

Shit. That's what I was afraid of. I don't like to admit my weaknesses, but if I'm not the rider, there's not much I can do for this group. I'm sure everyone was expecting me to be able to glitch my whole group no problem, but my quirk isn't exactly limitless. If I try to glitch a team of four over and over, I'm bound to slip up.

"Welll, here's the thing. If I try to glitch all four of us around a bunch of times, I'll probably pass out. It takes a lot of energy. We wouldn't want anyone..." I lean in and lower my voice. "Left behind," I say, referring to what could happen if I don't put 100% of my energy into every multi-person glitch. Making someone disappear is the easy part, it's the bringing them back that's difficult. And I'm not sure any of these guys want to spend eternity in a void.

"Wait, what does that mean?" asks Sero.

Katsuki and Kiri look at each other, then at me. I think they're picking up what I'm putting down here.

"If you can't teleport us, then what's the point of having you on my team?!" Katsuki says, angrily.

"I mean, if you wanna let me be rider-"

"Hell no!"

"Then shut up. I can glitch our group probably once or twice. But I really don't like doing that, so I'll only do it in an emergency. Like, a win-or-lose situation."

"Alright," Kiri says with a smile, putting his fist in his hand. "So you're our secret weapon."

"But you're useless until then," Katsuki adds.

I find myself smirking. "Would you rather work against me, kittykat?" I ask, "You know you'd be the first headband I'd go for." It's true, my original plan was to let him get as many headbands as possible, then snatching them all at the last second.

He rolls his eyes. "Whatever. This plan of yours better work."

Uh, yeah. I'm thinking the same thing.

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aerie: part 2

chapter 12

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Ever since Shiggy had to pry me off of him this morning, I've felt a little down.

When me and Shiggy are together, I feel whole. I feel confident, valued, loved. But as soon as he's gone, everything starts to crumble. I start to feel like I did when I spent all those years alone. I feel like a low-life, self-centered criminal, without any real aspirations besides getting a thrill here and there by doing something illegal. I start to realize that I'm just a villain that cares for nothing and no one besides my lover and his dreams. Which is great and all, I'm glad I have so much love and devotion to give to the person that I adore so much. But without him... without my Shiggy here to experience it, am I really worth anything at all?

I kick rocks down my commute to UA. The stupid school that's taken me from my comfortable spot by my boyfriend's side. I start to wonder if it's even worth it, to be apart from my rock just for a little project that I don't even care about.

But as soon as I walk in the doors of the school, like a switch has flipped, everything changes. My feelings suddenly go from lonely and dejected to excited and alive. When Kiri catches up to me ranting and raving about the anime he's watching, when Katsuki shoots me a dirty look when I walk in the classroom, when Aizawa gets onto me for doodling in my notebook instead of paying attention in English class, I feel like I'm a part of something. Instead of putting all of my energy into collecting information, I put it into getting in character. When I'm here at this school, I'm no longer Aerie the supervillain. I'm Kaiya Miyasaki, my quirk is glitch, and I'm training to be a hero. I look forward to training and interacting with my classmates, just as if I was one of them. I absolutely love showing off to the others, as well as bettering my fighting skills quirk. This is the most fun I've had in years, and sometimes I forget the reason I'm even here in the first place.

When Aizawa announces the sports festival, the first thing that runs across my mind isn't the opportunities I have as a villain, it's excitement of getting to compete alongside my peers.

And to be honest, I'm starting to get confused as to where to draw the line. I know getting in character will help me with lying, and staying undercover is top priority. But I don't think I was supposed to get to the point where I actually enjoy going to this school. I don't think I was supposed to actually care about the friends that I've made, or respect the teachers I learn from. That's actually the scary part. I know I'm supposed to hate All Might, I mean my boyfriends whole objective is to kill the guy. But for some reason, as long as I'm within these walls, I find him kinda... cool.

And don't even get me started on Katsuki. I don't know exactly what it is about him that mesmerizes me so much, but watching him spit in the face of the status quo, insult, bully, and yell his way to to top, it's invigorating to this character of mine. Watching him tell the group of students huddled at the door that he's gonna win no matter what, it has me absolutely enthralled.

"Wait, don't leave yet," I say to Kiri, "I gotta do something real quick." I push past the people that are still gathered at the door, making my way into the hall. "Wait up, kitty kat!" I call as I catch up to the man of the hour that has me in absolute awe. I don't know if it's Aerie or Kai that admires his confidence so much, but I just can't resist the urge to experience it up close.

"Oh my god," he groans, "Stop following me!"

"No way!" I say as I skip up next to him. "You're just such a joy to be around, I'd miss you too much," I say with a smile. I'm sure he thinks I'm being sarcastic, but I'm dead serious. A day at UA without watching Katsuki be himself is a day wasted.

He rolls his eyes. "You're annoying," he says.

"Well, I just wanted to tell you that I'm gonna kick your ass at the sports festival," I tease, satisfying my uncontrollable urge to try and get a reaction from the guy. "You may have all these guys intimidated, But I know that I'm stronger than you. I've proved it, actually."

His cool guy attitude quickly disappears. "Shut up!" he yells, "You haven't proved shit! You beat me once and now you think you're hot shit, and you're not!"

I try my hardest not to swoon at the beautiful sound of his raspy shouts of pure rage and testosterone. "I have, and I am," I sing. "I'll prove it at the sports festival." My threats are far from empty, there's nothing I'd enjoy more than to see the look on his face when I take first place.

He narrows his eyes. "I'll kill you at the sports festival, glitch girl."

Death threats! Oh, god. I can't get enough.

"I'd love to see you try!" I say excitedly. And now that I've gotten my fix in, I skip away, over to where Kiri is waiting for me at the end of the hall.

"What'd you go and say to him now?" Kiri chuckles as we start to walk together.

"That I was gonna beat him at the sports festival," I say with a smile.

He furrows his brow. "Wait, I'm confused. Do you want to be his friend, or do you want him to hate you?"

"I don't want to be his friend, I am his friend!"

Kiri raises an eyebrow. "You are?"

"Uh, duh. That's why he intervened between me and that villain at USJ. He didn't want me, his friend, getting hurt. And on top of that, he told me that I was the best of the best at UA. He loves me!" I say with a proud smile.

"Whatever you say, man," Kiri says, shaking his head.

"What, you don't think so?"

"Hey, I don't wanna put you down. If you really think that, then that's how it is."

I roll my eyes. "You're too nice. Tell it like it is! Bakugo totally hates my guts."

Kiri furrows his brow in confusion. "But you just said he loves you."

"He does! He loves my talent and charming personality, and hates my irritating pestering and persistence. It's the perfect balance, a great foundation for any friendship."

"Yeah, I still don't get it."

"What's not to get?"

"If you know what you're gonna say will make him hate you, why do you say it?"

"Because him hating me is what I like about him!"

"Well, tell me this. Do you love Bakugo, or hate him?"

Damn. Hitting me with those hard hitting questions. That is a good one, though.

Do I hate Bakugo? I'm certainly not nice to him, that's for sure. I'm usually as sweet as can be to the people I love, so it wouldn't really make sense for me to want to pester and bother him all the time if I didn't hate him.

However, I saved him from getting mauled by Nomu at the price of getting choked out by my lover, so I have to have some sort of liking towards the guy, right?

Well, let me start here: What is there that I hate about Katsuki? Hmm. His attitude? Nah, I actually enjoy that. His ego? Nah, I respect that. So what do I actually dislike about him? Well, I guess the fact that he's a wannabe hero is annoying. But somehow, I don't really look down on him for that. In fact, I admire his passion and drive, even though it's for something I've spent so much of my life being against. Is there really anything about him that I don't respect or enjoy? Huh. I can't think of any off the top of my head.

Now this: What do I like about him? Well, there's a lot of things. I think my favorite is his voice. The sound it makes when he's insulting me is like music to my ears for some unknown reason. Ok, what else? Hm. Well, the raw emotion he shows with every word and expression is pretty fascinating. He's confrontational like I am, I'm sure he'd rather duke it out with someone than be manipulative and shady, and that's a quality that I like to see in people. He also doesn't seem to care about what anyone thinks of him, which is rare nowadays, and I think that's pretty cool. Not to mention that quirk that he uses with such power and expertise, which is absolutely riveting to watch. He has a cool guy attitude but is actually kind of a nerd when it comes to classwork, and that's pretty cute, I think. And don't get me started on how fun he is to look at. The way he sags his pants and refuses to wear a tie, reflecting his cool guy attitude, it's just perfect. The way his unruly blonde hair matches his explosive personality, I love it. And the way those sharply angled eyes glimmer every time he gets set off, I like that too. His face is nice, just in general. Not to mention the guy is fuckin built. Man, the way his toned arms look in that hero outfit makes me feel things. He's actually kinda dreamy, now that I think about it.

So I guess I like... pretty much every attribute he has. Huh.

Wait.

This may be a problem.

Kiri waves his hand in front of my face. "Hello? Earth to Kai."

I shake my head at the crazy thoughts that are going through my mind. "Oh. Hey."

"Are you good?"

"Huh? Yeah. I'm great."

"You checked out for a second there."

"Ha. Yeah," I check my wrist like there's a watch there when there's clearly not. "Oh, damn. Look at the time. Um, I forgot, I got this thing, so I'm gonna..." And before I can butcher that lie even more, I beam the hell out of there, down the hall and through the front doors of the school.

I keep my head down as I walk as quickly as possible down the steps, away from this damned place that's jumbling up my thoughts and making me think that I'm actually having fun at a hero school. The same damned place that's making me think that I could have the hots for a wannabe hero!

God fucking damnit. There's a fucking reason I've never asked myself questions about my infatuation with the sludge guy. Subconsciously, I must've known how bad this could be. God, Shiggy was right! He knew before I did! And now that it's been brought to my attention, I can't run away from the truth. I really like that Bakugo guy. Like, really like. He's smart, attractive, interesting, strong, everything that I like in a man. He scratches my brain. He fills a void. He excites me, which is saying a lot, I'm not easily entertained. But when I'm around him, the giddy feeling I usually only get by pulling off heists never leaves my throat. And now that I've brought all of these feelings to the surface, they'll be impossible to hide.

I'm screwed.

I pull out my phone to text Shiggy, praying I can get my mind off of this track before it's too late. Fuck, Shiggy! I have a whole ass boyfriend, and I'm getting a school crush on an asshole like Katsuki Bakugo?! What the hell is wrong with me?! That damned hero prep school, it's getting me all confused!

-hey alleycat pls call me

I make my way to my apartment building, the whole time trying to convince myself that it's all make believe, that I'm confusing myself with this Kaiya character that I've created in my head.

That's all it is, right?! It's normal for a girl at UA to get a crush on a classmate, but it's not real, it's all just a part of the character I created! I only pretend to flirt with him, because that's what Kaiya would do, right?! Not because I want to!

I make my way up the steps to my apartment, fiddling with the keys and bursting through my door. I throw my backpack on the ground and go straight to the bathroom to look at myself in the mirror.

When I look up, with my school uniform on and my perfect looking makeup, I hardly recognize myself.

I tear off my uniform, frantically putting on my usual tshirt and pajama pants, then go back to the bathroom to wash the preppy looking makeup off my face. Once my face is clean, I take my eyeliner and smudge it all around my eyes. I take my hands and mess up my hair, then take a step back.

There I am.

I breathe a deep sigh of relief as I let go of all of the feelings of someone else, as I realize the thoughts I was having were not mine.

I don't really have a crush on Bakugo, I'm not really friends with Kirishima, I don't really want to compete in the sports festival, that's all just a part of the character I've created. Kai's not me. I'm not Kai. I'm Aerie. Aerie, the co-leader of the League of Villains, Tomura Shigaraki's girlfriend, the Robinhood of the new world. I want to kill All Might, not be taught by him. Pro-heroes are my enemies, not my teachers. The other students at UA aren't my peers or allies, they're my targets.

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aerie: part 2

chapter 11

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The next couple days are just as gloomy as the last. Shiggy's upset that I don't have any details about the trip, I keep to myself at school, and the sinking feeling of guilt never leaving my chest for a moment.

Shiggy's plan as of now is that I send the location as soon as I'm there, scope the place out for pros, then meet Kurogiri in a safe place not too far from the campsite, and have him teleport me back to base to give a yay or nay. Seems simple enough. I'm praying that it all goes well, I need something good to happen for once.

By the time the trip rolls around, I'm pretty nervous about how it's gonna go. Shiggy didn't give me any details about his plan of attack, because I'm not allowed to be a part of it. I just hope he doesn't get himself hurt, or caught.

My assigned bus seat is, of course, the one person I'd rather die than sit next to. The explosive brat.

I put my earbuds in, trying to pretend that he doesn't exist for the most part. And right when I'm jamming out to Surfin' USA, dreaming about my time in California, I feel a tap on my shoulder.

"Hey," Bakugo says.

I reluctantly turn my head to look at him. It's bad enough that I have to sit this close to him, and now he's trying to strike up a conversation? Just my luck.

"What?" I say, as rudely as possible, hoping I can get him to leave me the hell alone.

"Why are you acting like that?" he asks, slightly annoyed.

"Like what," I say, in a mocking tone, trying to make it clear that I'm not friendly anymore.

"Like you hate me. And Kirishima. What the hell did we ever do to you?"

"Because I hate you now. So leave me alone."

Is what I should have said.

But I let out a long sigh instead. "Y'all didn't do anything," I say, then look out the window, trying to keep my eyes off of that face of his that I like a little too much.

"Then why are you avoiding us all of the sudden?"

I look over just for a second, just to get a small peek at him. His brow is furrowed in that serious expression of his.

I shut my eyes with a small sigh.

I guess giving him an explanation can't hurt anything, right?

"Look," I say. "I'm not allowed to hang out with you guys anymore, alright?"

He raises an eyebrow in judgement. "What do you mean not allowed?"

God, I should just end this conversation here. I should just not say another word to him for the rest of the bus ride, or the rest of the year, for that matter. Shiggy told me to stay away, so that's what I need to do.

But for some reason, I just can't bring myself to stop talking to him. I need to talk to someone about what's going on, I need to get this shit off my chest. I need a friend to talk to.

"My..." I almost say boyfriend, but I make a last-second decision to change it to something else. "...dad." Now that I've got that lie out of the way, I feel like I can spill my guts. "He was mad that I didn't come home after the sports festival. He apparently had a surprise for me, but I never showed up. And my phone was off all day and, ugh," I shake my head, worried that I've already said too much.

"What does that have to do with us?" says Bakugo, rudely ignoring my story.

Because he found out about my big fat crush on you and now he wants to slit both of our throats.

"Well," I say, trying to think of the other reasons why he was upset. "He wasn't exactly in love with the fact that I came home wasted after hanging out with two guys all night. Especially one that almost killed me at the sports festival."

He furrows his brow. "But that was an accident."

I scoff. "Uh, yeah. Try to tell him that."

"Is that what happened to your face?" he asks, bluntly. "Your dad?"

I rest my head up against the window and sigh.

"That's kind of fucked up," he says.

Glad we're on the same page here, pal.

"Uh, yeah," I chuckle, "You're tellin me."

I allow myself to glance over at him again, and I see an expression on his face that I've never seen before. He looks down, brow slightly furrowed. "Does he do that a lot?" he asks, timidly.

"He used to," I say softly, gazing out the window.

I think about how bad things used to be between Shiggy and I. How it'd be a month or two of heaven, the perfect relationship with plenty of quality time, care, and affection, and how quickly it could all turn into pure hell.

However, that was the past. Shiggy seemed to have turned a new leaf this last time around. We went months and months with nothing of the sort, we barely fought at all. It was wonderful.

"It hadn't happened in a long time before the other day," I say, thinking about how I was so sure that it was different this time, how convinced I was that he really had changed. "I kinda thought we were past that sort of thing," I mutter, shaking my head.

I was wrong. No matter how good things seem to get between us, it never lasts. It always comes back to that.

"Why don't you just, like, move out?" Bakugo says, obviously not understanding the complexity of the situation I'm in.

I chuckle softly. "You mean leave?"

"I mean, yeah. If that's how he treats you, why don't you just go somewhere else?"

I shake my head.

As if that were an option.

"I can't just leave," I sigh. "I love him. He's my best friend. He's my only family."

The thought of leaving the only home I've ever known has never even crossed my mind. I would die without my Shiggy by my side. I wouldn't know what to do with myself. He's my whole world.

"Family isn't supposed to treat each other like that," Bakugo says, and I furrow my brow.

Well, I suppose not. But this is different. Me and Shiggy, what we have is special. The rules of other relationships don't really apply to us. Sure, he may lash out, but I don't really mind that part. Physical pain is temporary. The part that gets me is how he acts afterwards. The way he withholds his love. But that's only a sliver of Shiggy's personality. He has way more good qualities than bad. The real Shiggy, the one that I know, is wonderful.

"It's not like that all the time," I say quietly, thinking of all the good days that we've shared. "He's usually... loving, and kind." It's certainly true that all of the happiest moments of my life were spent with him. Our first kiss, and every one after that. Every time we've made love, every adventure we've had together, our good times are just magical.

But the bad times... they're bad.

"It's just when he gets mad... he... turns into someone else."

It can be the smallest thing that sets him off. A moment of jealousy, a harmless lie, saying something in the wrong tone at the wrong time, anything. And once it begins, it's all over.

"Does he yell a lot?" Bakugo asks.

I wish.

I shake my head. "Almost never. When he gets really mad, he usually just lashes out physically. But other times, he goes with the silent treatment. And that's so much worse."

"Silent treatment?" he repeats.

"Yeah. He'll just pretend like I'm not there for days, or even weeks. No matter how much I beg him to talk to me, he doesn't say a word."

My heart aches, as the torture I speak of is being inflicted at this very moment, and it's agonizing.

"Why do you care so much? The guy sounds like an asshole," Bakugo says.

There he goes, finding holes in my logic.

I care so much because I love him, okay? Now call him that again, I dare you.

"Shut up. He's not. He isn't always like that. It's just when he gets mad."

"So, what? You're just gonna completely avoid me and Kirishima now because your tool of a father said so?"

"Pretty much."

He's the boss. What he says, goes.

"That's bullshit," he protests.

I roll my eyes. "Oh, please. Like you care."

"No. You spent this entire school year weaseling your way into my good graces, and when I finally start seeing you as a friend, you just say never mind?"

Did he just say friend?

I narrow my eyes. "What, so you actually consider me a friend now?"

"I mean, I thought I did. But I guess not, then, right? 'Cause daddy said so?"

"Hey, fuck you, alright? It's a little more complicated than that."

"Whatever, man," he says, shaking his head. "Do whatever you want. But Kirishima's gonna be bummed as hell, and I'm gonna have to be the one who deals with that."

"Oh, boo-hoo. It's not my choice, alright? I'm just trying to be a good g-..." I stop in my tracks. "...daughter."

Jesus Christ, that was close. I'm getting too comfortable talking about this. Maybe I should invest in a therapist instead of pouring my heart out to the cause of my current dilemma.

"Suit yourself," he says, rolling his eyes. "But when that bastard beats you to death, I'll have the last word."

"Beats me to death? Are you crazy? He'd never do something like that. He loves me."

I can't believe that he even suggested that Shiggy is capable of that. My Shiggy? Killing me? Not in a million years.

"Was this last time the worst it's ever been?" he asks.

I put my tongue in my cheek. I'd rather not reminisce on the worst it's ever been...

"What makes you think next time it's not gonna be even worse?" he adds.

I don't like what Bakugo has to say about this. He just doesn't get it. He doesn't understand what me and Shiggy have.

"Look, I can take care of myself, alright? I don't need you to save me."

"Obviously, you can't. You let the bastard beat the shit out of you. Ms. Kung Fu fighter got her shit rocked by an old man."

"You have no fucking idea what you're talking about, okay? You don't know the nature of our relationship."

"No, I don't. But you know what? I don't care. Do whatever you want. But when shit gets even worse, don't come crying to me about it."

"Don't worry, I won't," I say, folding my arms and sinking down in the seat.

Going to Bakugo with my problems? Horrible idea. He could never understand what I'm going through right now. This is all his fault, anyway.

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aerie: part 2

chapter 10

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"Nomu," Shiggy says. "Take out that explosive brat. We need our escape route back."

I watch Nomu regenerate, secretly hoping that he doesn't. I hate pro hero scum as much as the next guy, but I grew a liking to that kittykat. He's the most interesting person I've met in a long time, and I'd be kinda sad to see him go.

Deku shakes in his boots. "What the- I thought his quirk was shock absorption!"

"I don't remember saying that's all he could do," mutters Shiggy, "This is hyper-regeneration. Nomu is a super-powered sandbag designed to withstand everything you've got."

And just like that, Nomu begins to charge. I do nothing but watch as the monster grows nearer to Katsuki, and I get a sick feeling.

Before I even realize what I'm doing, I snap my fingers. I snap twice in less than a second, one to grab Katsuki and another to bring him to safety.

Fuck, why did I do that?! Shiggy's gonna kill me!

I look up at my boyfriend to see the look on his face, and I shudder. I gotta go talk to him.

I immediately glitch to his side, and pretend to fight him. "Hey, alleycat," I say apologetically, as I glitch all around him, landing superficial hits here and there.

"What the hell is wrong with you, Aerie?" he says as he blocks my attacks with ease, like he's done so many times before. "Why are you interfering with my work?"

"Listen, I just didn't want the blonde one to die. He's fun to mess with at school."

"When we're done with this job, you won't be in school anymore."

"Yeah, but if Nomu fails then-"

"Nomu is not going to fail."

"Yeah, but just in case-"

"He's not."

"Yeah but if-"

Shiggy snatches my left hand from the air. "I said he's not going to fail."

"I mean, there's always a chance-"

Shiggy grabs me under my arms and swift kicks my feet before slamming me on the ground. He then takes his boot and stomps on my hand, squishing it like a bug. I let out a small yelp of pain as I feel several bones in my hand crunch and crack under his weight.

Fucking bastard! Going after my hand?! That's a low blow, even for him. I must've really pissed him off.

He then wraps his hand tightly around my throat, dragging me back up to my feet. His face shows no emotion as he squeezes my neck so hard that I can't breathe. He raises his arm higher and higher, going as far as to lift me an inch off the ground. "Are you listening now?" he growls.

Wow. Shiggy's gotten pretty strong. Kinda sexy.

My peripheral vision starts to darken, and I begin to feel weak.

Then, suddenly, we're both knocked to the ground. I look up to my right to see what the hell just happened, to see none other than Katsuki sitting there.

Oh, shit. Shiggy is not going to be happy about this. Whatsoever. I saved the guy, just for him to interfere with our personal conversation? Not a good look for me.

Katsuki quickly grabs my right hand. "Get us the hell out of here!" he yells.

"I can't you idiot, my hand is fucked!"

Shiggy reaches out and wraps his hand around my ankle, and it slowly begins to crack and crumble in an achingly painful way.

Prick! Using his quirk on me?! We had an agreement!

I kick him in the face. "Let go of me, you bastard!" I yell.

I'm gonna give this guy a serious piece of my mind when I see him again.

And before I know it, Katsuki has picked me up off the ground, ripping my ankle out of Shiggy's grasp. "Hold on!" he yells.

Before I can weigh the pros and cons of letting this guy take me away from my irate boyfriend, I wrap my arm around his shoulder, letting him propel us back to where Deku is standing.

My heart sinks as I look back and see my Shiggy still on the ground, burned from Katsuki's explosions. I want nothing more than to run to him, apologize, kiss his wounds, and go home together in our warm bed.

When me and Katsuki land, he shoves me off of him. "Run, you idiot!" he shouts.

And we sprint back to where our other classmates are standing.

"Guys, what gives?" says Kiri, seeming concerned.

"This idiot went off my herself and almost got killed by the hand guy," Katsuki replies.

"Shut up!" I yell, still pretty mad that his little stunt is not going to go over well with my easily angered boyfriend. "I would've been fine."

"How?! He was Darth Vader-ing your ass! He was 2 seconds away from crumbling you to pieces!"

"Well what about you attacking that warp gate and almost getting mauled by Nomu?! If I hadn't glitched you out of there you'd be dead!" I fold my arms. Shiggy's gonna hate me now, all because of him. "I told you we shouldn't try to take on these guys," I say, shaking my head.

"Oh 'we shouldnt take on these guys'? Yet after glitching me you went to 1v1 the leader?!"

"Guys, calm down!" says Kiri as he breaks us up, standing between us. "Kai, you saved Bakugo. Bakugo, you returned the favor. You're even-steven! No point in arguing about it now."

I mean, I guess he was just trying to help. Kinda nice for Kittykat.

"Yeah, and what do you know, Shitty-hair?!" he yells.

I roll my eyes. "Shut up, Bakugo. Kiri's right. We're even." I sigh, glancing over at the sweet little guy. "Even-steven."

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aerie: part 2

chapter 9

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Me, Katsuki, and Kirishima are spit out into a room that's half demolished.

Damn that Kurogiri. Stealing my teleportation thunder.

"That was... violating," I mutter.

"You do it to me all the time!" yells Katsuki.

I flip him off. It's ok when I do it, loser.

This idiot is the only reason I let Kurogiri teleport me in the place. I had to follow him and Kiri when they went on ahead to make sure they stayed out of Shiggy's way. I couldn't care less about the rest of the class, but I don't want to see these two get killed. I kinda like them.

Kiri scrambles to his feet. "What the heck was that?! Where are we?!"

"I think we're still at USJ," I say, trying to play dumb. And well, considering we're in a room that's collapsed... "It looks like the collapsed zone."

"Well what was the point of sending us here?" Kiri says, "Can't we just-"

And just like that, Kurogiri sends us two foot soldiers to fight.

Dibs.

I beam between them and use my favorite Judo takedowns, getting them both on the ground in a matter of seconds.

Weaklings.

"Thanks for the help, guys," I mutter, like I didn't totally wanna do that on my own anyway.

"Looks like you had it covered," Kiri says with a shrug.

"There'll be more," I say, forgetting that I'm not supposed to know that.

"How do you-"

And just like that, more expendables appear. As I fight them, I start to realize that we seriously need to have a better perimeters on who we let into our organization. These guys are weak as shit.

And just as I'm thinking that, Akio appears.

Fat motherfucker. I hate this guy. And I know for a fact that he's gonna take this as an opportunity to try and fight me.

And that, he does. He comes straight up to me, already swinging. As I try to dodge a hit from his left fist, I'm hit with his right. He makes contact right in the middle of my face, smashing my nose and causing my upper lip to get cut by my teeth. My head swings backwards, and I land on my back halfway across the room. My head hits the ground so hard that I see stars, and the metallic taste of the blood pouring out my mouth makes me gag. Disoriented, I roll over onto my side and hug my knees, waiting for my sight to come back.

I'm gonna fucking kill him.

I hear Akio slowly walk towards me. "Don't tell me that's all it took to take you down!" he says with a cocky chuckle. "I barely touched you! I thought you were supposed to be invin-"

I reach out my hand and grab the stupid motherfucker's ankle, immediately beaming us to Everest.

"Hey, what are you doing?!" I hear him shout through the roaring winds and snow, "How the hell did you get us here?!"

"Why are you talking to me like you know me in front of other students?!" I yell, "You're gonna blow my cover you moron!"

"I was gonna kill em anyway!" he argues, taking a step towards me. "Now how the hell did you get us here?! Where are we?! Mount Fuji?!"

"Everest, dipshit."

His face shows total confusion. "Wait, you teleported us all the way to Mount Everest? How did you do that?"

I shrug, with half a smug smile. "It's my quirk."

"What?! Does Shigaraki know about this?!"

I slowly shake my head.

"Why?"

"Because if I told him, I'd have to kill him."

"Wait," he says, eyes wide, "You don't mea-"

"Bye," I say with a wave of my hand, then snap back to USJ.

When I get back, Kiri's eyes widen at the sight of me. "Kai!" he says, sounding concerned. He rushes to my side, and carefully lifts his hand to cradle my cheek. "You're hurt," he says softly.

Alright, so Kiri's in love with me. Good to know.

"I'm fine," I mutter, embarrassed that I let a loser like Akio land a hit on me. "It's just a bloody nose."

"Okay, good," he says, removing his hand.

That was pretty sweet. I love this guy.

He nudges my shoulder. "Where did you go? I was starting to get worried!"

I open my mouth to say Everest, but quickly catch myself.

"Where did you go just now?" asks Katsuki, in an accusing tone.

"Well..." I say, looking around the room. "Nowhere." It's true, I did go nowhere. In between sending Akio to his icy demise.

"What?"says Kiri, "And what happened to that villain?"

"I left him... uh... nowhere."

"What the hell is that supposed to mean?" says kittykat.

"Well," I start scraping the dirt out from underneath my fingernails. "You know that place you go in between glitches?"

"The void? Yeah, I know it pretty well, thanks to you," Katsuki remarks.

"Well, that's nowhere."

"So you left him... in a void?" says Kiri, clearly disturbed.

Great, now they know I'm a murderer. Not great for my hero image.

"How?" asks Katsuki.

"Um... I'm not sure how to explain it. I just brought myself back, but not him."

"So... what happened to him?" asks Kiri.

I shrug. "I don't know what happens to them after that."

"Wait, them?!" says Kiri, with a horrified look on his face. "You've done that before?! To who?!"

Oh, great. More questions. What did Shiggy say to do when people got curious again?

I hold up my hands. "Why are y'all interrogating me?" Yes, that iconic line of mine.

They look at me with confused expressions.

"Y'all?" says Kiri, quietly.

Fuck.

I then try to change the subject, saying we should go help the others. But Katsuki has other plans. He's saying that he wants to try and take on Kurogiri. I do everything in my power to convince him not to, because I know that if he gets too close to my Shiggy, he's fucking dead. And if he dies, who will I annoy at school?

Hold on. If we kill All Might today with Nomu... there'll be no reason for me to go to UA at all anymore. Huh... for some reason... that makes me kinda sad. I've been having fun on this little field trip of mine.

I can't seem to talk those two out of going to fight Kurogiri, so it seems like my only option is to go with them, and try not to let them get killed. I wonder how Shiggy is gonna feel about that.

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aerie: part 2

chapter 8

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I have anticipation leaking out of my pores. I've next been this excited about anything in my life! Today's the day! We're infiltrating! We're killing All Might! Shiggy is gonna absolutely love me! I'm already in a chipper mood, so when I realize that Kat...let's see... alliteration... Kat... Kit kat? Oh my god, no! Kittykat! Yes! It's perfect! Alliteration, plus the perfect about of femininity to make him absolutely hate it! I've done it! God, I can't wait to use it! Ahem, so, when I realize that ~kittykat~ is assigned to the seat next to me, I just about jump for joy.

He sits down, arms folded across his chest, with an annoyed frown on his face.

"Hey, kittykat," I say with a smile.

The look of sheer horror on his face is just spectacular. "What the hell did you just call me?!" he screams.

I can't help but burst out laughing. "Your face!" I manage to say between guffaws.

"Shut the hell up!"

"I thought you'd like it. It's alliteration, like your nickname for me!" I say proudly.

"Didn't I tell you never to speak to me again?"

"You didn't say that." I smile faintly as I remember when someone said that to me.

Katsuki groans audibly.

I scoot closer to him. "I like how we always get paired together. It's like the universe wants us to be friends! We should listen to the signs, kittykat."

"Scoot over you damn lunatic! I don't want your psychosis to rub off on me."

"Ha! Always something wittingly mean to say."

He rolls his eyes.

"I like it," I say softly.

He leans his head away from me. "Gross."

Gross? Ha, what? Did he just say that me flirting with him is... gross?! What the fuck is wrong with him?! Is he blind?! Deaf?! Not right in the head?!

"If you wanna talk strong, that'd be Todoroki and Bakugo," I overhear Kiri saying.

Todoroki and B- well, hold the fuck on, now!

"Whoa woah woah," I say. "What about me?! I'm obviously stronger than Bakugo!"

"You are not!" Katsuki shouts.

We then all go back and forth, about how my quirk is better for defense and blah blah blah. I can send people into a void for eternity with a snap of my fingers, and all my quirk is good for is defense?! I can teleport across the world in less than a second, but Mr. Grenade launcher and Sir Temperature are considered stronger?! These people have lost their damn minds.

"Kai will be popular with a quirk like that, no matter how bad her personality is," says Tsu.

I jump to my feet. "You better watch it, Froakie. Why don't you hop on out of here."

"Yeah, back to your lily pad," Katsuki adds, still pissed off that they said he wouldn't be popular.

I turn to him. "What the hell did we ever do to them?"

"They're just hating because they know we're the strongest in the class, and that we can destroy them any day."

I nod. "Damn straight."

"Sit down," Aizawa groans, and we both plop back down in our seat.

I nudge Katsuki with my elbow. "So you really think I'm one of the strongest in the class?"

I mean, of course I am. But I want to hear him say it.

"Psh. Only the best of the best can take me on, and live to talk about it."

I sink down in the seat with a smile.

Wow. He actually said something kinda... nice. I hope Shiggy doesn't kill him in a few minutes.

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chapter 7

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"Then what?" Shiggy laughs.

"I body slammed the bastard!"

"No fucking way."

"I did! And you shoulda seen the look on his face, too! Priceless!"

"Well, I'm glad you had fun. Tomorrow should be even more exciting. We're about to leak All Might being a teacher at UA to the press. We have it all set up so that the alarms are gonna go off, and you're free to get into an office and grab what you need."

"Can't wait," I say with an excited grin.

"Alright, kitten. Well, I have to go now."

"What? But you just got here!"

"I know. But I have business I need to attend to back at base. I'll see you later, okay?" he says, walking towards the door.

I don't even try to hide my disappointment. "Um, alright, I guess."

"Okay, bye kitten," he says, then leaves, with not so much as a kiss goodbye.

I haven't seen Shiggy in person in over a week, and when he finally comes to my apartment, he stays for 10 minutes, asks me about UA, then dips? This is bullshit. He never calls just to say hi, he never visits just to see me. All he seems to care about now is my stupid mission. I can't wait to get this shit over with so I can finally go home.

When Bakugo arrives at the lunch table, my heart skips a beat. Without Shiggy to come home to, this is my favorite part of the day. I'm sure he's pissed about getting reprimanded by Aizawa today, and I'm ready to rub salt in the wound.

He sits, and I give him the side eye. "You don't acting like a baby?" I ask.

Unlikely.

He stares straight ahead and starts to eat, ignoring me.

See?

I sigh. "Look, I'm sorry," I say. "I kinda lost my cool for a second there. I just felt like... disrespected."

He doesn't reply.

I gently place my hand on his back. "I forgive you, though."

He shakes my hand off him and scoffs. "You forgive me?"

"Yes. Friends?"

"Absolutely not."

"Well, what's going on here?" says cheeky little Kirishima as he sits down across from us. "I can cut the tension in here with a knife!"

I'm starting to take a liking to this Kirishima guy. He's warm, inviting, friendly. Very different from the people I usually surround myself with.

"Just chatting with my buddy here," I say, giving Baku...blondie a nudge. "He was just asking me what color band I wanted on our best friends bracelets."

Kirishima shakes his head with a chuckle. Kirishima... well, that's an easy one. Kiri. Simple, short, and sweet. Also starts with a K, like my nickname. Hey, now that I think about it, sparky's first name starts with a K too. Maybe I should do something with that. Katsuki... Katsuki... Kats...

Suddenly, a loud alarm goes off.

That's my queue.

"What the hell?!" says Bakugo.

"What's going on?" asks a frantic Kiri.

"I don't know," I lie, "But I'm getting out of here!" I snap my fingers, and just like that, I'm gone.

I brought myself to the second floor, across the hallway from the administrators. I hide in an empty classroom, but keep my line of sight clear, waiting for our little rat principal to show himself. And just like that, he comes scurrying around the corner and down the hall, along with a few more administrators. As soon as he's gone, I beam straight into his office. I waste no time searching for the schedule, searching file cabinets and drawers, until finally, right there in plain sight, a school calendar on the wall. I quickly pull out my phone and snap a picture, sending it to Shiggy before beaming the hell out of there back downstairs.

I think I underestimated how freaked out everyone would be, because when I tried to beam into the hallway, there's nowhere for me to go. My teleportation glitches, and I appear above a panicking crowd of students. Before I have time to even think, I fall to the ground, knocking someone over with me. As I'm starting to get the life trampled out of me, I look through the forest of ankles and see no other than Bakugo on the ground with me, screaming that someone help him.

Priceless. What a ray of sunshine in this sticky situation.

"Bakugo!" I shout, reaching my hand out for him to hold on to. "Grab my hand!"

He hesitates for a moment, then reaches over far enough for me to touch him. As soon as we make contact, I beam us both into the classroom next door, which happens to be Present Mic's.

We arrive completely out of breath, hair all fucked up and uniforms crinkled.

"Are you okay?" I ask.

"What the fuck is wrong with you?!" he shouts. "You almost killed us!"

"I know! I'm sorry."

"What were you thinking teleporting into the air in the middle of a stampede?!"

"Um," I say, breaking out into a cold sweat.

What the hell do I say?! Think, Aerie! Think!

"I'm not used to crowds." I blurt.

Yes, that was good. Great, even.

I clear my throat. "I'm used to going wherever I want, whenever I want. I panicked."

"You couldn't have just come to a classroom like this to begin with?"

Fuck, fuckkkk fuck fuck fuck. Now what?!

"Well, you see..." I say, biting the inside of my cheek, tensing every muscle in my body. "When I be-...glitch... short distances, I have to visualize where I want to go." I nervously bite my thumbnail. "Yeah... that's right..."

God, I'm blowing this.

"As well as have it in my line of sight! Yes! And I uh... I don't know this school yet, so I um..."

"Oh, I see. So you decided the best course of action was to kill us both."

God, he's fucking up my concentration.

"Shut up! Everywhere I glitched there was only enough space to glitch me in the air. Yeah. So I kept falling and getting trampled. And um... I thought if glitched next to you, you could help me off the ground." I cringe at how poorly constructed this obvious lie is. "But I knocked you down too... so that didn't exactly go as planned."

He folds his arms. "So how did you get us here then?"

"Um, what?"

"If you had to visualize where you want to go, how did you get us here?"

Fuck! God fucking damn it!

"I've been in this classroom before," I say. Not a lie.

"Why?"

"I uh... um... I um..."

What do I say?! What do I say?! He's gonna find me out, and the whole organization is gonna go down in flames! I'm gonna be locked up for life! It's all over! I'm dead!

Wait a second, I can just tell the truth. That part isn't suspicious, just embarrassing.

"...I ate here. On the first day."

He points his finger in my face, not seeming to notice my obvious fabrication. "Listen to me, glitch girl."

Ah, yes. Glitch girl. There's no way I could possibly come up with a nickname as perfect as that. So simple, pretty objectifying, and all tied up in a satisfying bow of alliteration. Beautiful. Just beautiful.

"If you ever even think about teleporting me again, I swear to god I'll kill you."

Psh. I'd love to see him try. And is that really what he's upset about? Teleporting is fun! Some people would pay serious money to get to beam with me.

I shoo the ungrateful bastard's hand away. "Would you rather me have left you on the ground?"

"Wh- It was your fault I was on the ground in the first place! Ever since this school year started, you've been a pain in my ass! I'm so tired of your bullshit! You better leave me the hell alone, or you're gonna regret it."

His little threats are cracking me up.

"Ooh, I'm so scared," I say. "What're you gonna do, Katsuki? Blow me to bits? We both know that isn't gonna happen. You can't land a single hit on me. I thought you learned that during battle training."

"Just leave me alone, alright? And don't call me that!"

I feel myself smirk. "If you don't want people to fuck with you, don't be such an easy target."

He looks at me with a testosterone-fueled scowl, then turns to leave. But before he turns the doorknob, he takes another look at me. "Stop trying to be my friend," he says, "I will never like you."

Ouch, Kats...cradle? Kats...meow? That kinda hurt.

He then tries to turn the knob, but it doesn't budge. "Fuck," he whispers.

Ha! Locked! That's what you get bitch!

He looks at me. "Do you mind-"

"Yeah," I scoff. "Good luck with that, asshole." And with that, I beam back to class 1A.

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aerie: part 2

chapter 6

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"What's that, Bakugo?" I say with a smile. "You're excited to be on my team, too?"

"Shut up!" he shouts, "That's not what I said!"

I can't help but to giggle a little.

All Might gives my little friend some words of encouragement as I stand around, trying to seem like the whole purpose of me being here isn't to murder this guy. When he eventually moves on to other students, I decide to poke the Baku-bear once again.

"I'm actually excited to work with you, Bakugo," I say, "You have some serious skills." It's true. I would like to see all what he can do.

"Tch." He rolls his eyes.

"So it'll really show how good I am when I outshine you," I add with a smirk (I couldn't help it).

"Didn't I tell you to shut up?! Why do you always have something annoying to say?!"

"Because getting a rise out of you is so easy!" I laugh, then tilt my head towards him. "And you're cute when you're mad."

I'm a bit shocked at my own words just now, I can't believe that just said that out loud. Man, if Shiggy heard me say that, he would have a cow.

Bakugo's face turns a bright shade of red. "Shut the hell up!" he shouts, obviously embarrassed.

Well, with a reaction like that, maybe it was worth it.

I wait for the dumb rules to be explained and blah blah blah. Then, it's go time.

Me and Baku...boom? Nah. That's terrible. There's no way I'm gonna be able to top Bakubro. Me and ~sparky~ start upstairs, guarding some kind of fake weapon (like any villain actually does shit like that). I try to make small talk, but he has some sort of hard on for hating Midoriya. He calls him "Deku" which is apparently offensive, but I'm not exactly sure why. And for some reason, he gets pissed off when I state the obvious fact that Deku has a quirk. I try to give him my plan, one that would guarantee a win, but he doesn't seem interested in the slightest.

"Bakugo?" I say, "Are you listening to me?"

"Yeah, whatever."

I fold my arms. "So you understand the plan? Do you have a better idea?"

Unlikely.

"Yes. Here's my plan, I sneak attack Deku while you defend the weapon."

God, this guy's an idiot.

I try to explain to him why exactly that is the most boneheaded plan of all time, but he completely ignores me. And as soon as the clock starts, he takes off.

Ignoring me?! Blowing me off?! And now he's going to go do all the fighting himself?! As if! That guy's fucking dead!

I march around the room, sending everything in sight to nowhere so Uraraka can't use her cute little quirk on me. It's pretty annoying, there's so much unnecessary junk and props and whatnot. So by the time Uraraka finally shows up, I'm actually kinda pissed off. Part of me wants to say fuck it and let her capture the weapon, but no. Our loss needs to be Bakugo's fault. Also, I can't pass up an opportunity to practice my Judo on someone that isn't my boyfriend.

"Hey, hero," I say with a smirk, folding my arms across my chest.

She looks around the room frantically, and I can't help but giggle at the look on her face as she realizes there's nothing in here that she can use against me.

I waste no time beaming right in front of her, ready to fight. "Let's go," I say with an excited smile.

Her eyes widen in fear, but she resumes a fighting stance to match mine.

"Okay, you can go first," I say, beckoning her with a wave of my hand.

"Huh?" she says softly, looking like a deer caught in headlights.

"Make the first move! Go on."

As soon as she moves her hand the slightest bit, I snatch it from the air, turn around as I place my shoulder under her armpit, and throw her over my back. Boom. Ippon Seoi Nage. My favorite.

She lands with a loud thud, and I smile.

"God, that was so easy!" I laugh, "You didn't even put up a fight!"

She scrambles to her feet, still looking terrified.

"Okay," I say, getting back into my fighting stance. "Try again."

She gulps, then gets in position.

"Go on, now," I say, with a grin.

She reaches her hand out again, this time looking like she's about to hit me with the weakest punch I have ever seen in my life.

I grab her wrist from the air, then throw her to the ground in the exact same way.

"Ha!" I say, as soon as she hits the floor. "You let me do it again! How are you gonna be a hero if you can't even defend against a move I just did 10 seconds earlier?!"

But when she doesn't get up, I look down at her face, and notice that her eyes are shut.

"Wait, did that seriously knock you out?!" I chuckle. "You're that weak? Oh, shit. This is priceless!" I bend down to look at her cute little sleeping face.

But just as I lift my finger to boop her nose, her eyes open. I don't have time to defend before she reaches out and touches my shoulder, sending me into the air.

My feet lift off the ground, and I start to laugh. "Oh shit!" I wave my hands sarcastically as I crack the fuck up. "You got me," I taunt as I float up towards the ceiling.

She starts heading for the weapon, so I snap my fingers to end her fruitless endeavor.

I beam right behind her, wrapping my arm around her neck in a sleeper hold before we start floating off the ground again.

"Release me," I say through clenched teeth.

She struggles for a second, then puts her fingers together, causing us to fall to the floor.

I consider letting her go like a good little hero, but decide against it. She tricked me, now I'm returning the favor. I squeeze a little tighter, putting her to sleep in less than 3 seconds.

Once she's out, I stand up, brushing my hands together. I look at poor little Uraraka, cocking my head to the side as I study her limp body laying there, completely out cold.

Maybe I should've given her a chance. It was pretty unfair of me to completely overpower a frail little girl like her, she had so much hope in her eyes. I kinda feel like an asshole.

But you know who the real asshole is here? That Baku...hoe.

I beam down to the first floor, and see that Bakubitch aiming his blaster at the poor Deku guy, about to pull the pin.

What a climactic moment, perfect for ruining.

I beam in between them, grab sparky's arm, and take him up to the 4th floor.

As soon as we manifest, he snatches his arm away. "What the hell are you doing?!" he screams, "I was about to beat him!"

"I don't care," I say, very matter-of-factly. It's true, I couldn't care less about this stupid exercise. This guy didn't give a rat's ass about what I had to say, and there was no way I was gonna let him win after that.

"What floor are we on?!" he screams. I study the vein popping out on his forehead, the scowl on his face, the rage in his voice. It's pretty fascinating. "Take me back right now! If you don't take me back we'll lose!"

"I don't care," I repeat.

He shoves past me, starting down the hall. "Deku! Where are you?!"

Deku?! He's still thinking about that damn nerd?!

I beam in front of him and trip him with my foot, shoving him to the ground.

Pay attention to me!

He lands on his hands and knees. "What the hell is wrong with you?!" he shouts, then stands on his knees, aiming his palms at me.

Is this fucker seriously about to blast me right now?! Oh, it is on.

I beam out of the way, appearing behind him. "You're acting like a fucking child," I spit.

I will admit, I'm actually pretty angry at this point. He's giving all his attention to that damn Deku, and not giving me so much as a second thought! It pisses me off.

He turns around, trying to blast me again. It takes no effort whatsoever to dodge, and I manifest right back behind him. Ready to humiliate this prick, I lift him up by his waist, and slam him to the floor. Not Judo. I actually saw that on WWE. I'm resisting the urge to elbow drop this bastard and call it a day.

Sparky scrambles to his feet. "You're crazy!" he screams.

Not the first time I've heard that one.

"We were supposed to be a team!" I yell back, trying to act like that's still the reason why I'm pissed off.

He steps closer to me to get up in my grill. "Exactly! So what the fuck are you doing sabotaging us?!" he screams. I can feel stray drops of his angry spit hit my face.

And that's when the giddy feeling comes back.

Whoa, there, Baku...babe. You can't scream in my face like that. It... does things to me.

I shake my head, trying to free my mind of the strange thoughts I'm having about this hothead. "I don't give a fuck about your stupid childhood grudges!" I yell. "I had a good plan and you completely ignored me! I don't-" I place my hands on that strong, muscular chest and shove, trying to get him out of my face so my heart will stop fluttering. "Like that shit!"

"Well I don't care what you want! I care about winning!"

"Well, forget it. I'm sure Deku is already halfway to the weapon by now, or Uraraka has woken up."

Then, this dude has the nerve to shove me back, and the giddy feeling in my throat returns once again, even stronger. "You pissed away the whole fight!" he shouts.

I step back in his face, no longer trying to resist my feelings of infatuation. I want to see the angry beads of sweat on his forehead. I want to smell his irate breath. "I don't care," I say again. "Maybe you'll think twice about ignoring me next time, asshole."

"Who the hell do you think you are?!" he yells.

I grin.

Who am I?

I'm Aerie. 19 year old martial artist, wielder of the most powerful teleportation quirk ever recorded.

Growing up, I was what they call a childhood prodigy (some would say genius, but I try to stay humble). My favorite things to study are world languages and cultures, due to the fact that I have access anywhere at the snap of my fingers. I'm fluent in several languages, including English, Japanese, Russian, Spanish, French, and Italian (although I will admit that my Russian is getting a bit rusty). And embarrassingly enough, considering I've been living in Japan for 4 years now, I'm still working on my kanji. Shit's difficult, Especially when your teacher is running a villain organization and doesn't make much time to help anymore.

I'm originally from Texas, but I ran away when I was 11, for reasons I don't feel like getting into at the moment. Let's just say that I don't like heroes. Or cops.

I wasn't always a conniving little criminal, though. At first, the only crime I regularly committed was shoplifting, and that was just to get by. I would take food and water from convenient stores, then beam to whichever place I wanted to sleep that night. But after a while, I started to realize how incredibly easy stealing was with my quirk. I started to get curious, taking things like nail polish or eyeliner whenever I saw the opportunity. But my innocent curiosity quickly turned into a hobby, and I started taking more valuable things, like iPods, clothes, and jewelry. All stuff I didn't really need, but that were a bit of a challenge to get my hands on, which made it kind of exciting. And that's when the real fun began.

With being able to go wherever you want, whenever you want, things start to get dull after a year or two. There's only so much skydiving you can do before even that starts to seem like a bore. But when I steal, the rush of adrenaline I get never disappoints. It's just as invigorating, every time. Before long, thieving became my favorite pass time, and I was a goddamn rockstar in my field in my glory days. I quickly graduated from diamonds and jewels to copious amounts of cash from national banks and mints. I can proudly say that I'm still public enemy number one in several countries (unnamed of course), due to being the most successful bank robber to ever exist. I've pulled off the top 4 heists in history, all before I hit the age of 17. With several hundred million under my belt, most of which having gone to various charities, you could say I'm a bit of a modern day Robinhood. However, that's not entirely accurate. I'm not just a kindhearted citizen who wants to be a hero by helping the poor, it's really that I collect so much plunder, I have no idea what to do with it. Besides, like I said, I don't steal for the loot. I do it for the rush. Adrenaline is a bit of an addiction of mine.

I've lived in 16 different countries, each completely on my own, but I liked it that way. From the ages 11-16, I was living my best life, traveling the world and seeing all of it's wonders, thieving my way into pure bliss. Between living in hundreds of cities, and having experienced everything that could be considered exciting under the sun, I'm probably the most well versed person my age on the planet. I had been on my soul-searching journey for 5 years at the ripe age of 16 by the time I met Shiggy.

As of now, I'm the second in command of the League of Villains, which is soon to be the organization to take down the symbol of peace himself. My greatest achievement, though, is being Tomura Shigaraki's partner in crime (literally). Ah, Tomura Shigaraki, what a man. He's had me wrapped around his finger since the night we met, and I can't help but feel like the luckiest girl in the world to get to be by his side as he takes the world by storm.

Don't get me wrong, I've got him wrapped around my finger just as much as he does me. He's madly in love with me because I'm the way that I am, according to him. However, I know that it certainly doesn't hurt that I'm one of the more attractive people I've met. I've never had a problem stealing the heart of anyone that I want, doing with it what I will. It's a bit of a super power in itself to bat your eyelashes and have the world brought to you on a silver platter.

But that's besides the point.

Ahem, in short, I'm intelligent, agile, beautiful, experienced, interesting, I'm the full package. Pretty much perfect, if you ask me.

What can I say? God likes me.

I narrow my eyes with a sly smile. "You're worst nightmare," I whisper with open hands, wiggling my fingers. I then beam back to the start.

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aerie: part 2

chapter 5

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Alright, day 2. And I'm sure as hell not eating in someone's classroom this time.

After I get my tray, I look out at the sea of wannabe heroes, trying to find a place to sit where it looks like someone isn't gonna interrogate me. But after a second or two of looking, I spot an opportunity that I just can't pass up.

I try to swallow my giddy feeling as I make my way towards the spiky blonde hair of that guy that I love to bother so much. And just when I'm about to tap on his shoulder, I overhear the conversation he's having with that Kirishima guy.

"She got second place, right behind you," says Kirishima.

Talking about me I see. Figures. Just a couple of mortals, conversing about how amaz-

"That's because the opponents were robots, and therefore stupid," Bakugo replies with a sneer. "I doubt she could fight anyone with a brain."

What?! This motherfucker's talkin shit?! About me?! The nerve of this guy!

"You wanna bet?" I blurt, giving away my position.

He turns around with a disturbed look on his face. "Get away from me!" he shouts.

I stare at him blankly.

Yeah, right. Like I'd do anything he wants ever again.

I look up at Kirishima sitting there, looking like a deer caught in headlights. "Hey, Kirishima," I say, forcing a sickeningly sweet smile. "Can I sit here?"

I try to my best to resist a cheeky remark.

"Or did you wanna continue talking about me in private?" I add.

So close.

"Of course you can, Miyasaki!" says Kaminari, seeming a little too excited about it. But hey, at least someone in this school has taste in women.

"It was all good things," says Kirishima, "On my end at least."

"I'd hope so," I say as I set my tray down on the table. "And you can call me Kai."

I figured Kai is easier to say than Kaiya or Miyasaki, and since it's a nickname, I don't have to lie when I tell people that's what I go by, right?

I plop down in the seat next to Bakugo with half an excited grin.

That's his name, Bakugo. I learned it yesterday. I don't like it. Sludge guy fits him better.

He scoots over, giving me the side eye. The moment is so intense, it's like I can feel the rage radiating off of his skin. It's absolutely amazing.

Kirishima clears his throat. "I was just talking to Bakugo about your teleportation. It's kind of exciting to be in a class with someone with such a rare type of quirk."

I smile.

Ah, yes. Shower me in glory and compliments. I live for it.

Bakugo suddenly stands up, looking like he's about to leave.

"Whoa, where you goin, Bakubro?" says Kirishima.

Bakubro? Oh my god. Why didn't I think of that?! Now I'm gonna have to come up with a better one.

"I'm leaving," he says, glaring at me.

No! I can't let him leave! This is the highlight of my whole day!

"Good luck finding anywhere to sit," I say, hoping the cafeteria is as full now as it was by this time yesterday.

He rolls his eyes and sits back down, then turns his head to look at me. "Why do you always follow me around?!" he shouts, "Have I not made it clear that I want nothing to do with you?!"

I do my best not to break out the most satisfied smile of all time. "Like I said, there was nowhere else to sit," I lie. And just like that, I feel my stomach begin to turn.

Oh no.

"Well, don't worry, Kai. You can sit here with us now," Kirishima insists. "We'd love to have you!"

I force a smile. "Thanks, Kirishima."

"Anyway, about your quirk. You have a distance limit on your teleportation?"

"Um... yeah, I um..." My stomach churns and lurches as it twists tightly into knots. "I can't go any farther than 14 meters at a time," I somehow manage to say without gagging.

"Is that your only limitation?" asks Sero.

I swallow my spit, trying to keep down my breakfast. "Pretty much, yeah."

"And you can teleport other people?" says Kaminari.

I take a deep breath in, trying to settle the acids sloshing around my insides. "And objects."

"That's amazing!" says Kirishima. "What are your parents' quirks?"

Fuck. Not my parents. Questions about them make me sick even if I don't lie about it.

"Um," I mutter. I'm about one question away from blowing chunks all over these guys. "They're both quirkless, actually."

"That's dope, so you're a first gen! I bet your kids' quirks are gonna be OP."

"You bet your ass!" I say, trying my hardest to force a smile through the agonizing nausea.

They go on to talk amongst themselves, and I take that as an opportunity to make a B-line for the bathroom.

I try to seem casual while walking through the cafeteria, but by the time I make it to the hall, I'm sprinting.

When I eventually reach the bathroom, I don't even have time to make it to a stall. I get to the trashcan as fast as I can, and after what's seemed like ages of agony, I finally allow myself to throw up.

A lot.

When it's finally over, tears streaming down my face and a bitter taste in my mouth, I get a text.

-How's day 2?

Bastard. This is all his fault. Making me of all people go undercover. I'm not built for this. Yes, I'm a villain. But I'm a thief. A bandit. A burglar. A pirate. Not a liar.

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aerie: part 2

chapter 4

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After the most anticlimactic first half of my first day of UA, we're dismissed to lunch.

I'm starting to wonder when things are gonna get exciting. So far, this field trip has been nothing but stressful and boring. What the hell was up with that "quirk apprehension test"? I thought this school was supposed to be prestigious! I was expecting at least a little bit of a challenge from this place. I wanna take my quirk to the limit! Put my hand to hand combat skills to the test! Not see who can step side to side the fastest like we're in a high school gym class.

I make a pit stop at the bathroom to take a picture in the mirror for Shiggy, since he didn't get to see me in my uniform this morning. It's gotta be some kind of sexual fantasy of his to bang a wannabe hero, right? Either way, I look adorable, and he's gonna love it.

It takes me a while to find the cafeteria after that, and I'm just about the last person to get my food from the lunch line. When I'm finally ready to sit down and eat, I scan the tables for any possible place I can sit, with no avail.

Not wanting to look like a total reject by walking around aimlessly searching for a space to squeeze in, I head for the empty hallway.

I'll just eat in the bathroom. Like old times. At least I won't have to worry about anyone bombarding me with questions in there.

But just as I turn the corner to make it to my private dining area, I bump into someone coming from the other side. I nearly drop my tray, but I manage to save it just in time.

"Whoa there, kid," says the guy who almost made me lose my lunch. A teacher, I'm assuming. With a hairdo like that, wearing sunglasses indoors, the guy's got pro hero written all over him.

"Sorry," I mutter, then step around him to get back to where I was going.

"Wait, where are you going with that?"

I stop in my tracks. "Um..." I say as I slowly turn around, trying my hardest to think of an answer that doesn't make me sound like a total freak.

"Were you gonna eat in the bathroom?" he asks.

Shit.

"I didn't know where to sit," I reply.

He smiles sympathetically. "Oh, come on, buster. We can't have you eating alone in a bathroom stall, kids at this school are gross! Why don't you come eat in my classroom? Just for today."

Not knowing how to say that I'd rather die than do that, I nod, biting the inside of my cheek.

This couldn't be worse. How embarrassing! This guy is gonna think I'm a total loser! Eating alone in the classroom of a teacher who I don't even know? Pathetic.

"First year, huh?" he asks as we walk down the hall.

"Yeah."

"What class are you in?"

"1A."

"1A? Ah, so you're with Shota."

"Aizawa?"

"Yeah. What's your name, little lady?"

"Um..." I can feel beads of sweat forming on my forehead.

Fuck. I haven't had any time to prepare.

"K-Kai..."

"Kai? That's short for Kaiya, right?"

I nod, breathing a sigh of relief.

"So you're the teleporting one!"

Even in this situation, I can't help but smile.

The teleporting one. So even the teachers talk about me, huh? Reveling about my grandeur, even though they only know a sliver of my power? I love it. This attention, it really gets me going. I'd like to see the look on his face if I told him what I'm truly capable of.

"That's me," I say, with a sudden boost of confidence.

"Well, here we are," he says, stopping at the doorway to an empty classroom. "I gotta be somewhere, so choose a desk, and I'll see you around."

"Thanks," I say, and with a friendly pat of my shoulder, he leaves.

That guy's actually not so bad, for a pro hero at least.

I slide into a seat on the front row, and take out my phone to see if Shiggy got my picture.

-You look adorable, schoolgirl

-thanks :p

-How's your first day going, kitten?

-pretty good, i introduced myself without fucking up lol

-Nice! What are you doing now?

-eating lunch in an empty classroom like a reject

-Empty classroom?

-yea, i was gonna eat in the bathroom but a teacher said i can eat here

-Why would you eat in the bathroom?

-idk

-nervous to talk to people ig

-and there was nowhere to sit so

-And you're completely alone in the classroom?

-yea

-y

-See if you can get your hands on a schedule.

Oh, right. I forgot there's a mission supposed to be going on here.

-wait fr? that's sketch. what if he comes back

-Glitch away.

-i mean ig i can try

-but if i get caught im blaming u

-Go ahead.

Before I can second guess myself, I beam over to the teachers desk, and start to search for anything that resembles a schedule. I'm careful not to make it completely obvious that someone has rifled through all his things, but I have no luck finding anything useful.

I beam back to the desk as soon as possible, heart beating out of my chest, and pull out my phone.

-no schedule

-How hard did you look?

-there was only like 4 papers on the desk and nothing in the drawers. there's probably a schedule in the principals office or something but idk how i'd get to that

-We'll find a way. Eat your lunch.

-okie :3

-<3

But just before I can take a single bite, the bell rings.

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aerie: part 2

chapter 3

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"Second place? What did I say about not showing off?"

"So I got a little carried away. Who cares? I didn't get first, so it's not like anyone is gonna give a shit."

"Didn't I tell you not to teleport other people?"

"I mean, yeah. But it was life or death! I couldn't just let the guy get crushed because of me."

"Why not? Are you some sort of hero now?"

"Oh, save it. It's no big deal. It'd be way more suspicious if I didn't help the guy."

"Don't do it again."

"Why not? If I'm supposed to be playing this character then-"

"Just don't."

"But-"

"Don't-" Shiggy snaps, with a scary look on his face, lifting his hand up in anger. "-backtalk me," he says in a softer tone, as he closes his hand into a fist and rests it over his mouth.

I scoff. "Who are you, my father?"

"This isn't a game, Aerie. You always say you want to be a part of this, so you need to be serious about it."

I fold my arms. "Well if you're gonna act like that, I don't want to be a part of this after all."

He takes a deep breath to collect himself. "Look," he says. "I'm sorry. I shouldn't have snapped like that. It's just that this is really important, and I feel like you're not taking this as seriously as you need to, kitten."

"Listen, alleycat. I got this, okay? So what if people think I'm powerful? How is that suspicious? I'm not gonna do anything that would get me caught."

He sighs. "Just please, don't make any decisions without me. We're in this together, remember?"

"I know we are. But I can't just pick up the phone and ask your opinion on my every move. You have to let me make some decisions myself."

He sighs, gingerly placing his finger under my chin and pointing it up to look at him. "Okay, kitten. I trust you," he says, then gives me a little kiss on the nose. "But don't blow this," he says softly, staring into my fucking soul. "Got it?"

I gulp, sensing his threatening undertone. "Got it."

"Morning, sleepy head."

I groan. "Do I really have to wake up at the crack of dawn every morning?"

"C'mon, get up. Today's the day we infiltrate UA. We're one step closer to destroying-"

"Yeah, yeah. I'm up." I throw the covers off of me and sit up, rubbing my eyes.

Why am I doing this again? Oh, that's right, to make Shiggy happy. Jeez, why doesn't he have any normal hobbies? It's always "kill All Might" this, and "destroy the corrupt hero corporation" that. Why can't he just like... cars or something.

I kick my feet off the bed with a stretch and a yawn.

The things I do for love.

I eventually conjure up the energy to amble to the sink to splash water on my face.

Shiggy leans on the bathroom doorway. "Okay, kitten. Remember what we practiced. Try to avoid questions about yourself. It's better to avoid them than for you to lie."

"Yes, for the millionth time, I understand. I told you, I got this."

"Alright, alright, I'm just making sure. Let's just go over this one more time. What's your name?"

"Kaiya. Kaiya Miyasaki."

It hurts to say it.

"Alright, good. And what's your quirk?"

I gulp. "Glitch."

"And how far can you glitch?"

"14 meters."

"That's perfect, kitten. If anyone asks you those questions, that's how you answer. Just like that."

I nod.

I hate that I can't just lie like everyone else. I don't know why, but every time I say something that I know isn't true, I break into a cold sweat. I start to sputter, I blink a lot, my mouth gets dry, and sometimes, if I say a bunch of lies, I throw up. It's just how my brain is wired. It's a curse that's been fucking my life up ever since I was a kid.

And god knows why, but Shiggy thinks I'm capable of being a spy for him. And I don't know, it's kind of sweet for him to put so much faith in me. So I'm not about to let him down.

He hands me my uniform. "Remember, beam to your apartment before you put this on. We don't want anyone to be able to trace you back to this location."

"I know, I know."

When I arrive at the school, I'm a little apprehensive. There's a lot of people here. But hey, maybe that's a good thing. It makes it easier to blend in. I shake my head to shake off my self doubt, and walk through the doors.

My name is Kaiya Miyasaki. My quirk is glitch. I can teleport 14 meters.

I keep my head down as I make my way through the hall.

Kaiya Miyasaki. Glitch. 14 meters.

When I finally make it to classroom 1A, I take a deep breath, and walk in.

I can do this. Hell, maybe no one will talk to me, and I won't even have to-

"Miyasaki!" exclaims some nerdy looking guy as he runs up to greet me. "I saw you at the entrance exam! That quirk, it's amazing! I'm Tenya Iida from Somei-"

"I'm Kaiya Miyasaki," I blurt.

Hey, that was pretty good! I didn't even stutter!

I feel myself smile at the small feat of mine. I'm relieved I got that over with. I suddenly get a boost of confidence, and now, I feel like I can just be myself.

"You know," I continue, "The one who didn't ask."

Iida looks at me like he can't believe what I just said, and I grin.

I love talking to people.

He adjusts his tie, seeming flustered. "I thought you would like to know, considering I'm your classmate and we will be spending the year together."

"Yeah, I don't really give a-"

And that's when I see that spiky blond hair out of the corner of my eye.

Sludge guy's in my class?! I can't believe my luck!

"Fancy seeing you here," I say to him, crossing my arms.

He rolls his eyes. "Don't talk to me, glitch girl."

Glitch girl? He gave me a nickname?! I love nicknames! Glitch girl! I love it!

I chuckle. "Okay, explosion boy," I reply.

Not the best I've come up with, but it's all I could think of in the moment.

His face twists into an expression of shock mixed with horror. "Call me that again and I'll make you wish you hadn't woken up this morning!" he shouts.

There he goes again, yelling at me. I start to feel a rush of adrenaline course through me.

So much emotion in one sentence! Amazing!

"Oh, I thought you didn't want to talk to me," I remark, hoping I can make him yell again. I love to hear the sound. I toss my backpack onto the desk next to his and slide into the seat.

I can't get enough of this guy. This year is gonna be awesome.

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aerie: part 2

chapter 2

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There's a shit ton of people here. Like, way more than I expected. Who knew so many people buy into this prep school bullshit? Can't you get the same exact hero license by going to any dingy old hero school?

I look around at everyone, trying to "scope people out," as Shiggy put it. Not sure what that means exactly. They all look like hero nerds to me. But I guess some of these dweebs may be my classmates soon, and I should probably get on "collecting information," otherwise this little field trip of mine would be pointless.

After looking around and trying to figure out how many of these people are actually worth shit, I see a familiar face in the crowd. With that spiky blond hair and angled eyes, there's no doubt about it, it's him.

No fucking way! It's the sludge villain kid! Me and Shiggy laughed about that shit for hours! This is awesome. I've got to go talk to this guy.

I quickly my way through the crowd to get to him. "Hey!" I call.

He frowns at me. "What the hell do you want?"

"Aren't you that sludge villain guy?" I ask, trying to hide my excitement.

I need to get his autograph or something.

"Get the hell away from me!" he shouts, obviously triggered.

Not gonna lie, I'm a bit taken aback. I haven't been yelled at like that since I was a kid. It's pretty shocking, but in a good way. It kinda makes me feel alive.

My initial reaction is to giggle.

What's with this dude? Sore subject?

"And begin!" yells someone over the intercom.

Everyone takes off running, and I pull ahead of the pack with ease.

Damn, these people are slow. And they think they can be heroes? What a joke.

However, there is one person keeping up with me, sludge guy. He's actually kind fast. Not fast enough to get away from the sludge villain, though.

He looks over at me, makes a disgusted face, then sprints even faster to pass me.

Bastard!

"Oh, no you don't," I say to myself, then beam ahead of him.

I turn around to see the look on his face now, and it's absolutely priceless. I salute to him and sprint on ahead.

Take that. Now I'm "the hell away from you." Happy? Loser.

I'm the first one to get to the robots, and now that I'm in front of them, I'm a bit intimidated. I was trained in Judo (with a little teleportation sprinkled in there), but that's for fighting people, not 15 foot tall machines. But hell, it's now or never.

I beam to the top of the bigger one on the left, and just as I'd hoped, the one adjacent starts to attack. I quickly get beam back to the ground and watch as they crash into each other like the dumb machines they are.

Easier than I expected.

I beam around like crazy, racking up points like it's nobody's business. This whole "glitching" thing is annoying as hell, I have to snap like 10 times to get around where I want to go. It's kind of hard to gauge the distance, and I slip up here and there. I should probably work on that.

But after using the same method on the robots over and over, and I'm starting to feel like a one trick pony.

Time to shake things up a bit.

I try to figure out different ways to approach this without just beaming them to nowhere, (which is obviously the simplest and most effective way of going about this). But alas, Shiggy said not to show anyone I can take objects or people with me. He doesn't want anyone knowing my "true power." But martial arts doesn't get you too far fighting giant mechanical opponents, so it's back to method numero uno. If I can't show off by diversity in my technique, I can at least rack up a shit ton of points.

But after a while, the robots get too spread out for me to do the bait and switch method.

60 points is not enough! There's got to be a group of them somewhere around here.

After minute or two of searching around the arena, wasting precious time, I finally spot a group of 3 three-pointers all together about 100 yards away.

Perfect, 9 more points for 69!

After snapping 6 or 7 times to finally get there, I waste no time beaming on top of the one in the middle. But when I get there, I hear someone behind me screaming "Die!"

I turn around to look, and see sludge guy midair, palms glowing, looking like he's about to hit me with some sort of attack. But when he sees me, his face goes from determined to pissed, and instead of activating whatever quirk he has, he falls right back to the ground.

What an idiot. I could've just beamed out of the way.

The other robot has already sensed me and is about to to attack, which is gonna squish this guy into mush. What Shiggy said about not beaming other people replays in my head, but I just can't let sludge guy get turned into a pancake. Asshole or not, I'm kind of a big fan.

Before I have time to second guess myself, I beam down and grab him by the arm, bringing him on top of the other robot with me.

Whew, that was close. Alleycat's gonna be mad, but at least sludge guy will be forever in my favor.

But instead of kissing my feet in gratitude, the ungrateful prick snatches his arm away from me, with a horrified look on his face. "What the hell was that?!" he shrieks, seeming panicked.

Ah. Some people react like that the first time they go nowhere. Oh well, he'll get over it.

I playfully punch his arm. "You just glitched, brother!" I say with a proud smile. "No need to thank me."

He turns to face me, actually looking pretty intimidating. "Thank you?" he says, kind of getting in my face.

Oh, wow. Something about the way he said that just now makes me feel weird. I start to get a giddy feeling in my throat.

"You're welcome!" I say, kinda panicking at the strange feeling. I beam back to the ground to try to focus on killing these things again instead of that spiky haired... raspy voiced hothead with those crimson red eyes...

Jesus, what the hell has gotten into me?

I watch the -sludge guy- leap in the air, spin around, and unleash powerful explosions from his hands, destroying all three before I even had a chance.

Holy shit. This guy's kinda awesome.

I beam back next to him to bitch about him stealing my kills, but he turns to me looking pissed as hell.

"Why would I thank you?!" he shouts, "It was your fault I fell in the first place!"

What's with this guy? Why is he screaming at me like that?! I've never seen such unadulterated anger conveyed so unapologetically! What a riveting experience!

I shake my head to clear my moment of infatuation. "Yeah, but I also saved you. So let's call it even," I say, then beam the hell out of there before I gawk even more at his fascinating behavior.

And just like that, the entrance exam is over. With me in second place. Score.

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aerie, part 2: aerie

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"Thats where you come in, kitten."

"What?" I chuckle.

"You're gonna be our little spy."

My smile quickly fades. "I'm what?"

Shiggy rolls over on his side to look at me, propping his head up on his hand. "Think about it. You're the right age, you have a flashy quirk that would definitely get you past the entrance exam, it's perfect." He tucks my hair behind my ear. "And I know I can trust you with this."

I turn to face him, and snake my arms around sides, burying my face into his tshirt. "No fucking way I'm doing that," I mutter.

This man has lost his mind if he thinks that me going undercover is a good idea.

"Oh, c'mon, kitten," he says as he wraps his arms around me lovingly. "Aren't you always saying you're tired of being cooped up? This is your chance to go out in the world."

"And hang out with a bunch of wannabe heroes all day? That's not exactly my crowd, alleycat."

As much as I've been wanting to get out of the house, the thought of being surrounded by people who's whole life's purpose is to stop people like me isn't very enticing.

"Besides," I add, "I could never get away with it. You know I can't lie."

"Well, don't think of it as lying, just pretending. The only lie you have to tell is your name. Other than that, you can just be yourself."

"Just be myself? My villain self?"

"Just don't happen to mention any of your criminal endeavors. It's really not that hard."

"Then why don't you do it?"

"Kitten, you know I can't. And if I could trust anyone else with a job as important as this, I would. But you're the only one I know who wouldn't fuck this up."

"And what if I do fuck it up?"

"You won't. All you have to do is attend classes and tell me what you're doing. You won't even have to do any scheming or sneaking around."

"But scheming and sneaking around is what I'm good at."

"Then we can utilize those skills of yours! For something even better than heists."

Psh. Like anything is better than heists.

I guess it could be kinda fun though, being a spy. Going undercover on enemy grounds, gathering intelligence, secretly plotting against my classmates and teachers all while pretending to be one of them. It'd be like a movie.

However, as exciting of an endeavor as it may be, I'm just about the last person who should be chosen as a double-agent.

"People would ask questions," I sigh.

"Who says you'd even have to answer them? You could just act like you don't like personal questions."

"That's so suspicious. They'd know right away."

"Oh, come on, kitten," Shiggy says, giving me a squeeze. "No one is going to suspect a cute, innocent looking girl like you."

I put my tongue in my cheek. "You think I'm cute?"

"The cutest," he says, then plants a kiss on the top of my head. "C'mon, please? For me?"

"No."

As much as I'd love to please him, the repercussions of failure just aren't worth it. Not only would I be letting Shiggy down, I'd be sacrificing my anonymity. I don't want to be afraid to show my face in public for the rest of my life because I was caught being a villainous spy at UA. Then I really couldn't get out of the house.

Shiggy sighs deeply. "Oh," he says softly, as he takes my wrist and pries my arm from around his waist. "Come on, kitten," he says in a low voice, moving his body over mine as he reaches over me to pin my arm next to my ear. "There's gotta be a way I can convince you."

I narrow my eyes at him. "Not gonna work."

He smiles slyly as he takes his other hand and slides it under my shirt to rest on my waist. "You sure?" he says, slowly walking his fingers toward the waistband of my pajama pants. "There's nothing I can do to you to make you say yes?"

I clear my throat. "Positive."

He leans his head down to whisper in my ear. "Liar."

"So it's settled then?" Shiggy asks, propped up on the pillow with his hands behind his head.

I bend down to pick my shirt off the ground. "I mean, I guess," I say, pulling it back over my head. "If you really want me to."

He beckons me over, and I crawl on the bed to snuggle up next to him.

"But if this all goes to shit, you can't blame me for it," I add.

"I'm fine with that," he says, putting his arm around me. "But I know you can do it."

What can I say? I'm a sucker for the seductive bastard. He always knows just how to get to me. How can I say no feeling so euphoric and satisfied? He could probably convince me to a lot of things by fucking me like that.

Besides, I kinda want to do it anyway. I haven't been to school since I was a kid. It'll be fun to go to classes and eat lunch in a cafeteria. And UA is supposed to be the best of the best when it comes to hero schools, so I'll get to better my quirk and my fighting skills, too. For free!

It'll also be nice to get to prove myself for once, to show everyone that I can do more for this organization than rob banks. Shiggy elected me as co-leader of the League, but I'm not sure if that really means anything to anyone. The others treat me with respect, but I think it's just because I'm the leader's girlfriend, not because I'm the second in command. And who can really blame them? I boss around the subordinates, but I don't do much villainy other than pulling off a heist every once in a while. Maybe this will show everyone that I really am worthy of the title.

And hey, if it'll make Shiggy happy, I'm all for it. Especially if that means he's gonna fuck me like that again.

"Alright, kitten," Shiggy says, sitting down next to me on the couch. "The apartment's all set up. I'll help you move in once we get in to UA."

"Do I really have to stay there?" I groan. "I wanna stay here with you."

"I know, kitten. But you know we can't put this address down on any forms, and we need somewhere for them to send the acceptance letter. We also can't risk someone following you home and you accidentally leading them here."

"I know, I know. You don't have to explain it again. But..." I rest my head on his shoulder. "I don't wanna have to sleep without you."

"Oh," he says as he rests his head on mine. "You'll survive. It's not gonna be forever."

"But-"

"Hey, we're doing this. I already got you a new identity, and it wasn't cheap. We had to backlog registering your quirk. I had to pay the hacker guy close to a million yen."

"It's not liked you worked for it," I mutter.

We both know I'm the breadwinner of this relationship.

"Nope, all thanks to you, kitten," he says, then kisses the top of my head. "I picked you out a name, too."

"What is it?

"Kaiya Miyasaki."

"Ooh. Very Japanese."

"Well, I wanted it to be pretty standard. Also, your quirk is 'glitch' now."

"Glitch?"

"Well, we don't want people to know how powerful you really are, so instead of 214 meters, we'll say that you can only teleport 14. So your quirk is more like a video game glitch than teleportation."

Oh, the irony. He 'doesn't want people to know how powerful I really am.' I already feel like a complete loser calling beaming 214 meters 'teleportation', and now he wants to give me another limitation?

I take my head off his shoulder to look at him. "What the hell am I supposed to do only teleporting 14 meters? That's nothing!"

"I'll help you train. You can still do some serious damage only glitching. I know you can. You're an extremely agile and capable fighter."

I fold my arms and sink back into my seat. "Stop trying to butter me up. I already said I'm gonna do it, you don't have to convince me."

He smiles. "Okay, kitten. We have 2 months before the entrance exam, so we have until then to prepare."

"Ok."

"Okay, so here's the deal. Whatever the entrance exam is like, don't try to stand out too much. We wanna keep a low profile here. We don't want to draw any attention to us."

"Ok, mom. I got it, alright? Can I go now? I wanna get this over with."

"Okay," he says with a smile, then kisses me goodbye. "Good luck."

And I'm off.

I'm pretty nervous about this whole thing, now that the time has actually come. I'm not too worried about the exam itself, more so my competitors. I'm not very experienced socially. Shiggy's pretty much the only person I talk to, and I don't really know how to act around other people. Especially wannabe heroes.

But on the other hand, I'm also really excited for this. If I get in, this will be the most fun I've had in years. Getting to go to a real life Japanese school, with a uniform and everything? So awesome! With a life like mine, new experiences seldom come by. This will be a new place to explore, with new people to meet. Along with the mission at hand, it's sure to keep me entertained.

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aerie: chapter 41

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By the time I can finally see again, I'm standing with someone's hand gripping the back of my my neck, pulling me back into the same spiraling black portal from USJ. Several of my classmates are gathered around, staring in horror as I'm sucked into the warp gate.

With Deku holding her back, Kai holds out her hand, desperately screaming "Katsuki!"

I get a sense of relief knowing that she's safe. I'd rather it be me being taken than her anyday. I'm gonna have a word with Deku for putting his hands on her, though.

"I'll be fine," is all I have time to say.

I'm soon enveloped in darkness.

By the time I emerge back into reality, I've revved up my palms, ready to attack the first sorry son of a bitch I lay eyes on. But before I can make a move, I receive a blow to the back of the head, and everything goes dark once again.

The next thing I know is the sound of my ears ringing, and the throbbing of my aching skull. I let my head hang down, slowly swaying it side to side, feeling pretty disoriented.

What the hell happened? Where am I? Where's Kai? What is-

Then it all comes back to me.

I snap my head up, frantically searching the room so I can kill the bastard who had the balls to knock me out, but I'm alone. I try to move, but quickly realize that I'm chained tightly to a chair. I struggle for a second, trying to wriggle my way out of the cold metal, but it's no use.

"Hey!" I yell, "Where the hell are you fuckers?!"

But I get no response.

"Shigaraki, you eczema covered piece of villain scum! Where are you?! Come face me!"

I yell and scream until my throat hurts, but no one ever comes.

What the hell is wrong with these guys? They go through all that to capture me, just to leave me in a room by myself? No interrogation, no torture, nothing? What gives?

I sit in the chair for hours upon hours, just waiting for something to happen. Dozing off here and there, screaming at them when I get bored. I must've been sitting in this chair for days by the time they finally show up.

The door creaks open, and in walks Shigaraki, alone.

"Oh, finally you decide to show your crusty ass face," I taunt. "Take these restraints off me and fight me like a man!"

He stands in the middle of the room with his hands in his pockets. He looks at me, seeming slightly amused. "So you're this 'Bakugo' I've heard so much about. You don't look like much."

"Am I gonna look like much when I pummel you into the ground, you little freak?"

He tilts his head. "You don't know why you're here, do you?"

"I'm here to end your pitiful life!"

He sighs. "I pity you, Bakugo."

"I pity your mother," I spit.

"You have no clue what you've gotten yourself into."

Why is he spewing that cryptic bullshit like it means something to me?

"You should get a fucking clue that I'm gonna kick your ass, singlehandedly."

"So many empty threats. You're very immature." He cocks his head. "I don't know what she sees in you."

"Huh?"

What the hell is this lunatic on about?

"Unfortunately, we were unable to capture our actual target, but you're the next best thing."

Actual target?

"Are you talking about Kaiya?"

What the hell does it matter what my girlfriend sees in me? This guy is a grade A freakshow.

He chuckles. "Ah, yes, Kaiya. Kaiya Miyasaki. That is who I'm talking about."

I don't like this asshole even saying her name.

"What the hell does she have to do with anything?"

"Well, you see..."

Then, out of thin air, a green flash.

Speak of the devil.

Kai appears, looking distraught, hurriedly searching the room with panicked eyes.

I'm saved!

Shigaraki stumbles back, with a puzzled look on his face. He narrows his eyes as if he cant believe what he's seeing. "Aerie?"

Who?

Kai quickly spins around to look at me, but as soon as she sees me, the color drains from her face. She shuts her eyes and stomps her foot. "Fuck," she whispers.

Wait, what? What the hell is she doing? Why isn't she glitching us the hell out of here instead of standing there doing nothing like an idiot?

Then, for some reason, she rushes over to my side and starts desperately prying at my restraints.

"What the fuck are you doing? Glitch us the hell out of here!"

"Shut up!" she yells, frustrated, as she frantically searches for a way to get the chains off.

Shigaraki snaps out of his trance of disbelief, and starts to slowly walk towards her. He reaches down and places his hand on her shoulder.

She immediately glitches to the other side of the room. "Don't touch me," she spits.

Shigaraki sighs, then crosses his arms. He holds up his hand and beckons her with his finger. "C'mere."

"Fuck no."

He ambles over to my side, laying a single finger on my shoulder. "Come. Here."

She looks at me, then back at him.

"No, don't do it, Kai!" I yell, "Just get out of here!"

She snaps her fingers, appearing a few feet in front of me.

Shigaraki slowly makes his way to her, then folds his arms again. "Are you gonna tell me how you got here just now?"

She slowly shakes her head.

He holds out his hand. "Give it."

"No! Don't!" I plead, "Just get out of here! Don't worry about me, just go!"

She looks up at the ceiling and takes a deep breath, before placing her hand in his.

"Good girl," he says with a cocky smile.

"Let her go!" I yell, knowing she's totally fucked without her quirk.

He looks down at me, emotionless.

Oh, fuck! He has her! What is he gonna do? Hurt her? Kill her?

But instead of crumbling her into dust, he simply squeezes. The bones in her hand crunch and crack as theyre crushed in his grasp, and she cries out in pain.

"Kai!" I struggle in my restraints. It kills me that she's so close, but there's nothing I can do to help her.

He continues to squeeze harder and harder, with no signs of stopping.

"That's enough!" she cries, but he still doesn't let go. He squeezes her already demolished hand even harder. She takes a swing at his face, punching him square in the jaw, knocking off the hand he hides his face with, revealing his terrifying expression.

Ha! That's my girl!

He drops her hand, but before she can pull away, he grabs her by her throat. He squeezes tightly, and lifts her an inch off the floor. It's just like at USJ, only this time, I can't save her.

"Let her go you sick freak!" I scream.

She sputters, trying to pry his fingers, face turning red.

"Are you done?" he asks, unfazed.

She struggles for air, and all I can do is watch helplessly as this bastard slowly chokes the life out of her.

"Hm?" he cocks his head to the side.

"Yes..." she squeaks.

He finally releases her, and she lands back on her feet, coughing and gasping for air.

"On the ground," he growls through clenched teeth. He kicks her on the side of her leg, knocking her to her knees.

She lands hard, cradling her hand close to her body. She's at his mercy now.

Shigaraki bends down, grabs her face, and points it at his. "Where've you been," he says with a sly smile, "Kitten?"

I scoff. "Kitten?"

What the hell is wrong with this psycho?

"I know-" he swings back his leg and knees her in the face, causing her to fall from her knees to the floor. "You've been getting-" he kicks with his other foot, hitting her in the face with his shoe. "-my calls." He then steps on the hand that he just crushed, causing her to yelp in pain.

"Stop!" I cry.

My heart races as I try to comprehend what the fuck is going on here.

What the hell is he talking about? He's been calling her? Why? How did he get her number? Why didn't she tell me? Why is he calling her weird names? What the hell is this?!

Kai curls into a ball to protect herself, and my heart just about breaks at how defenseless she looks.

Shigaraki grabs a handful of her hair and drags her back to her knees. Blood pours out of her nose and mouth, and she spits it in his face. He wipes the blood off his cheek, then smiles. "I've missed you, kitten." He pulls her in by her hair and smashes his face into hers in a bloody kiss.

All I see is red.

"Hey! Get your hands off my girlfriend!" I scream. I struggle even more, rubbing my wrists raw from trying to pry off the chains.

I swear when I get my hands on this piece of human scum I will annihilate everything he is and everything he ever thought of becoming. I'm gonna paint the fucking walls with this guy.

Shigaraki turns his head towards me with an expression I can't quite put my finger on, licking Kai's blood off his lips. "Girlfriend?" he says, then looks back at her. "Seriously?" he says to her, seeming unimpressed.

She glares back at him.

"Am I missing something here?" I blurt.

Shigaraki grins as he peels his eyes off Kai to look at me again. "Oh, Bakugo," he sighs, shaking his head with an expression of pity. He points at her, "This here," then back at himself. "Is my girlfriend."

"What?" I say with a slight chuckle.

What the hell is this loser talking about? In his fucking dreams!

"Not anymore!" Kai protests.

Wh- Anymore? What hell does she mean "anymore"?! So she was-? What?!

And that's when the reality sets in, and just like that, everything suddenly makes sense.

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"Hey, Todoroki! Switch with me!" says Kai, offering Ponytail as a trade.

"Ok," he says, seeming apathetic about the situation.

Kai then skips up next to me with a smile.

"What," I chuckle, "You couldn't handle being without me for one exercise?" I tease, hiding the fact that I'm totally stoked to get to do this with her.

She narrows her eyes. "Shut up. I know you'd rather be with the than Mr. Threw-the-match."

I smile slightly. "I guess you're right."

"Besides, I wanted to see your face when you get scared shitless."

I scoff. "Scared? You're the only scaredy cat between us two."

"Psh. I never get scared."

"Liar. You were scared for two weeks straight just because you couldn't teleport."

"That was scary, okay?"

"Well I can't teleport at all, and I'm not scared."

"Shut up. You have C4 for hands."

When it's finally our turn to walk through the forest, I do everything in my power to spook her out. By telling her stories of the creepiest cryptids, then pausing with a "Did you hear that?" But it doesn't seem to be working, and I eventually give up. She really doesn't spook that easy.

I sigh. "It's not fair that you don't have to actually work on improving your quirk."

"Can't fix what ain't broke."

"Seriously. I have to put my hands in boiling water, and you're over there acting like you're breaking a sweat by teleporting 15 meters."

"Gotta keep up the facade, love. Can't let anyone know my full strength."

"Except me."

"Except you."

"What was it again that made me so special for you to tell your deepest darkest secret to?" I say with a smirk. I love to hear her say it.

"Nothing. I just chose you."

"And why was that?"

"I felt like I could trust you. Now shut up about it, before someone hears you, and I have to kill them."

I shake my head, then stop in my tracks, getting a brilliant idea. "Hey," I say, "Whaddya say we ditch this place for a while. Go somewhere nice."

She smiles. "Like where?"

"I don't know... maybe the Ritz-Carlton in the Maldives, the Plaza in New York, maybe even just a motel 6 somewhere random."

She scoffs. "You horny bastard."

"Hey, you to said to Kirishima that he didn't miss much. I'll give him something to miss."

She bites her smirking lip. "Why do we even have to go anywhere?"

"What?"

"There's plenty of spots out here."

"Wait, like, to..? Really?"

"I mean why not?"

"What if we get caught?"

"That's the fun part."

I shake my head. "You're crazy."

"Crazy for-" Her smile suddenly fades, and she looks up. "Do you smell that?"

I breathe in, and smell smoke. "Yeah, actually. It smells like something is burning."

I notice Kai looking above the trees, so I do too, and there's billows of smoke rising from the forest, along with the faint light of a fire in the distance.

"Oh, shit," Kai whispers, then grabs my hands. "Okay, where do you wanna go? Ritz-Carlton?"

"What? We can't leave now. There's something wrong."

"Who cares? Let's just go."

"Dude, no. We can't just leave. The forest is on fire. What if someone comes looking for us?"

"Who gives a shit?! We don't have to come back!" She leans in close, and lowers her voice. "Run away with me, Katsuki. We can go anywhere, do anything. Forever. You and me. Just name your place."

I raise an eyebrow. It kind of freaks me out how sincere she looks about this. I pull my hands away. "What the hell has gotten into you? I'm halfway through my first year of the top hero university, I'm not just gonna leave that all behind. Besides, we can't just leave. Something's up."

She turns away, buries her face in her hands, and starts to pace, muttering to herself like a lunatic.

"Dude, what's your problem? I thought you said you're not scared of anything."

"Katsuki, you don't understand. We have to get out of here," she says frantically, starting to breathe quickly.

"Whoa," I say, placing my hands on the sides of her arms. "Calm down. If you really want to, you can glitch back to camp, or wherever you want to go."

"No," she quickly shakes her head. "I'm not leaving you by yourself."

"Okay, great. We'll do this together. And look, who says it's villains? It might just be a fire."

Suddenly, we get a telepathic message.

Everyone! We're under attack by two villains, and there might be more out there! All those that can should get to camp at once! If you encounter an enemy, do not engage, just retreat!

"O-kayy, let's just glitch back to camp," I suggest.

"Wait, look!" she says, pointing down the path at someone from class B, passed out on the ground. Around him, a cloud of mysterious gas floats through the trees. "Do you think that gas is poisonous?"

"Probably. Go get him."

Kai glitches over to him and brings him back to me. "Okay, now let's go."

"But what if there's more people passed out? Are we just gonna leave them for the villains?"

"Ok, then I'll glitch him back to camp and we can-" she stops mid sentence and her eyes widen, looking at something behind me.

When I turn to look, I'm slightly disturbed. There's a freaky looking villain sitting about 30 meters away, hunched over and mumbling to himself.

That's when we receive another message.

Tell everyone in class A and B to fight back!

"Alright, I'll take care of this guy," she says, then glitches right next to him. She sticks her hand on the guys shoulder they both disappear.

She reappears back next to me in less than a second, looking at a pretty decently sized gash on the palm of her glitching hand with a furrowed brow.

"Whoa, how'd you get that?" I say.

"Bastard put up a fight. He had like, metal teeth or something."

"How'd you do that?" I hear a voice say from behind us.

I turn around and see Icy-Hot standing there, looking a little confused.

"Um..." she says.

"She glitched him underground," I lie.

I don't think her sending people to nowhere is a well known fact, and I'm pretty sure she wants to keep it that way.

She nods, letting out a small sigh of relief.

"Oh," he says. "New attack method?"

"Yeah," she says.

"That looked like farther than-"

Icy-Hot's prying questions are cut off just in time by yet another message.

Two of the villains' targets has been identified! It's the students known as Kacchan and Kai! Everyone get that?! Kacchan and Kai! Kacchan and Kai need to avoid battle, and not make any moves alone!

Suddenly, my blood fills with adrenaline, and it makes me smile. For some reason, that message gets me high.

Kacchan? What'd that little freak Deku go and do now? So I'm a target, huh? And they want Kai, too? We'll see about that.

"You and Bakugo glitch back to camp. I'll take care of this guy," says Icy-Hot, referring to the class B guy who's still passed out on the ground.

"Yap, yap, yap, inside our damn heads. First it's fight, and now it's don't fight, c'mon! I think I'll just do what I want! To hell with running away! We're gonna knock out as many of these bastards as we can."

Kai nods. "Yeah, there's other people in the forest. We can't just leave them here to fend for themselves."

Suddenly, we hear a loud rumbling coming from the forest, and Deku comes burrowing out of the trees, riding of the back of the guy with the arms. And behind them, Bird-brain's quirk is ginormous and seemingly out of control, going on an absolute rampage.

"Give us light!" Deku cries.

As soon as the shadow monster is close enough, me and Icy-Hot light up, and get Bird-brain back to normal. He apologizes profusely, and Deku and arm guy circle jerk about how "it's okay" and "good job guys."

"Kai," says Deku.

I narrow my eyes. Don't fucking talk to her, you twerp.

"Can you take Bakugo and glitch back to camp?"

She shakes her head and clears her throat. "No. I can't glitch someone else a bunch of times in a row."

Lies.

"Then you should just go, and we'll take care of Bakugo."

"Wait, what?" I say.

"No, I'm not gonna leave him."

"What the hell is this about?!" I shout.

"Okay, then we'll all move together. You and Kacchan stay in the middle of the group in case something happens."

Wh- in the middle?! Does this loser think that I need protecting from his scrawny ass?! Hell no!

"No one's protecting me, you dweebs!"

"Bakugo," says Icy-Hot, "It's important that you-"

"Hold my hand," says Kai, cutting him off. "There's no way they can get the both of us, not if we're together."

Oh, now she wants to be all romantic?

I roll my eyes. "I'm doing this for your safety, not mine." I say as I take her hand.

We carefully make our way through the woods, as quickly as possible, as silent as possible.

But then, for some reason, everything goes black.

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