Swallowed By Darkness

Chapter 14

There are several people in the background of a damaged section of the city cleaning up and fixing things. In the foreground a younger blood reporter finishes his piece. As he does the footage returns to a female news anchor with a bright smile and short, dark hair that covers her ears. "Thank you for the damage report on city A, Hank. We're glad to see it progressing smoothly." Her enthusiastic voice caries over as she continues, "It's good to see that the Heroes not only take care of the villains, but they work alongside us to take care of the clean up as well."

The male reporter cut in, "In this case the damaged was quite large. During the fight Mt. Lady couldn't move well in such a tight area, in the end the damage kept increasing and other heroes had to capture the villains."

The Female spoke again, "But because Mt. Lady and the villains she was chasing were responsible for most of the damage she is helping out with rebuilding and cleaning up the damaged areas. I have to admit after watching that footage of her helping pick up that mess my opinion of her went up not down."

The male smiled, "That's for sure she's helping with the cleanup and has given several formal apologies for the mess she made. It's nice to see that she's taking responsibility even though she's still a rookie hero she's doing pretty good for herself."

"That's right Kirt, everyone starts out as a novice. I'm sure even All Might was like that when learning to use his quirk."

Behind the news anchors a video started to roll, "Actually Cherry, I'm glad you brought up All Might. There has been some breaking news on him. Behind us is some armature footage taking around noon today."

The footage moved in front of the reporters consuming the whole screen. A couple of heads blocked the way and lots of murmurs were surrounding an older man and a young boy. The boy looked on edge as he stared down the man.

"What's going on?" Someone next to the Filmer asked.

"Don't know but it seems big."

"A fight?"

"No, not yet."

"Whoa!" The cameraman exclaimed. The video shook a little in his hand blurring the picture momentarily. A large void appeared behind the young boy.

"What was that?"

"How should I know?"

Nothing happened, the two inside the crowd neither moved or spoke. The atmosphere made the mob even more restless. Then the kid laughed. He looked satisfied with himself before stepping all the way into the black hole. He sank into it and the smoke vanished, being carried away by the wind. The boy was gone as light rain started to drop; the kind that only last a while.

The man remaining stood still. The Filmer shifted to get a look at the man's face. The whole time he had been filming behind him. He pushed enough to get a side shot.
The man was scrawny with dark, glossy eyes. He smiled deeply, it was a familiar smile. One that filled hope into the hearts of the people. The man said it as soon as he recognized the grin.
"I think that's All Might."

"All Might? What's going on then? It didn't look like a fight. Do you think-"

"Shhhh."

All Might began to cough up blood, and fall to his knees. As he did a police officer swooped in to help him. He was shouting commands that could hardly be heard in the camera. However he was making a motion with his arms to make the crowd stand back and give the collapsing man room.

Over the camera other shouts from the crowd could be heard.

"Whaa! Someone call ×××!"

"Is any one here a doctor?"

"He needs help!"

The crowd begins to scattered as sirens are heard in the background. The people pull back and in the confusion the camera falls to a bunch of moving feet and blurry back shots of All Might who was now fainted.

"What just happened?" The Filmer asked while recording the ambulances pulling up.

The video dissolves and the news anchors reappear.

Cherry spoke first in rehearsed surprise, "Whoa, what did we just see here?"

Kirt looked at the camera, "Well Cherry we are still unsure as to what exactly happened to our favorite hero. The police are withholding information for not. We've tried to ask for an official statement but they haven't given us any answers to most of our questions."

"So that means we don't know what happened or why. We don't know who that boy was. We don't know what he vanished in. And we don't know how All Might is doing." Cherry confirmed.

"Actually," Kirt started, "That last one we do know. All though we do not know where All Might is recovering, we do know that his physical condition has become stable."

"Do we know if he's awake or not?" Cherry asks.

"Unfortunately no, but I hear that tomorrow the police are going to release an official statement at town hall. We will be able to report and update you then."

Cherry looks directly at the camera and so does Kirt, "Thank you for watching H.C.N. 2! I'm Cherry."

"I'm Kirt."

They both speak in unison, "Until we update you next time!"

The broadcast is cut off and a voice-over thanks the viewers and sponsors. Then it reminds the audience of when H.C.N 2 will air next. The commercials are turned on as the news broadcast officially ends.

Toga had the best aim out of everyone, but Kurogiri has really good aim as well.

Toga and Kurogiri have kept track and have a battle streak of who is winning at darts. Right now the wins are Toga 43 and Kurogiri 41 Toga likes to brag that she's wining by two games. But when it comes to pool Kurogiri is winning and Toga is failing miserably. (Dabi beats them booth at pool though)

Toga stole from Kurogiri's tip jar once. Kurogiri took her into the other room and she hasn't done it since. No one knows what happened in the room that made Toga stop stealing from the tip jar.