Darkside (BkDK)

~~** One step forward and two steps back.**~~

"For now let us focus on finding young Midoriya. Young Shinso and Hound Dog, would you two be willing to work together to come up with a way to get this Darkside to reveal her control word for him?" Two heads nodded in agreement with no hesitation. "Thank you. It won't do us any good if we don't locate the boy in either case so I'll contact Specter and make sure Might Tower is still on the search as well as the other agencies that have been put on alert." Turning to the irritated Katsuki still in the bed, All Might continued. "I know you are anxious to find him. We all are, though I understand for you the matter is far more personal. We WILL find him and we WILL bring him home."

"I do not wish to dampen the mood but I am very concerned about something she said. Darkside told us the quirk could be reversed but not the side effects. While we obviously don't know for sure what those side effects might be, I have some suspicions. The quirk manifests deep fears and insecurities so the recipient might develop physiological trauma as a result. You, young man, have already had experience on what the mind is sometimes capable of and know how to recognize the symptoms to a certain degree. You also have experience with their less direct effects but Midoria does not have experience with these things independent of this encounter. I do not want to scare anyone but you all need to be prepared. The boy may return, and we may be able to release the quirk influencing him, but he has been on the verge of a mental break for quite some time and doesn't even know it. There is a real chance he may be fundamentally changed by the end of this ordeal. It will be imperative that he has support from those around him or he will surely be lost to everyone he ever knew."

The silence that filled the room was heavy. Everyone gathered here had their own experience with mental health to one degree or another and they all knew the dog quirk holder was right. There was a next to zero chance of Deku ever being the same as he once was after all this. Not after having dealt with Darkside's quirk for months.

The next few days passed with no sightings and no luck with Darkside. She had grown wise after her first encounter with Mindjack and kept her mouth shut wherever he was in the room. Hero course students at UA were returning to their internships and regular classes tomorrow but 2A, soon to be 3A, plus Shinso would be having a rather unconventional continuation to their second term.

Each student would be working full time with their agencies for the last two weeks of February. Some would be continuing the search for Izuku, but others would be looking for the mysterious Igishi. Everyone was now operating under the idea that the missing boy would definitely be located by then. None wanted to consider the alternative.

Nezu, Specter, and Flurry had learned a lot from Squall about the man he had worked for over the last five years in his misguided attempt at revenge. They knew Igishi wanted to take down UA because he had a grudge against Nezu as well as what he looked like and how he communicated with his underlings. They also learned that Darkside had seen the man in person and confirmed that she had a physical relationship with him. With everything they now knew, Nezu narrowed down the possibilities to two people. It could either be a Villain he had helped shut down several years ago when he first became principal of UA or it was someone who had been turned away from entering the school and turned to villainy after that.

There were three agencies that would be looking into the two possible suspects while all the others involved would continue to look for Deku.

As another two days passed, many developments took place.

Shinso and Bakugo came up with a plan to get Darside to give up the key word for Deku that played into both their strengths. The woman had no knowledge of Hitoshi other than the first time they met so she knew nothing about his voice modifier. Dynamight entered the woman's cell and flipped a chair around before sitting on it and glaring at her. The purplette stayed by the door, leaning against the wall just watching with his mask. After several minutes of the blonde bombarding the female with insults he started in on his true plan.