Despite the bustling bodies of pro heroes, police officers, paramedics and the likes who ran around me, shouting out to their colleagues, I wasn't broken out of my trance. I had walked through the halls of the hideout without noticing where I was being guided. I couldn't recount a single detail of the journey. I didn't remember Dad taking my arm and pulling me along since it was clear I wouldn't move on my own. I couldn't recall any of the soothing words he muttered, too lost in my mind. My mind was a vortex of pain. The slumped bodies of both of my parents flashed through my mind periodically. Hisashi's slit open neck, spewing blood like a gory fountain. My knife standing up at attention in the caricature of my mother's brain. The image wouldn't leave my mind! It was constantly playing on a loop in my head!
Hitoshi, Ochako and Tsu all attempted to talk to me as we were transported to the hospital to be checked over, but I didn't respond or even try to comprehend their words. It went in one ear and out of the other. Briefly, I pulled myself out of my mind for long enough to wonder where Kiri was, but that thought was quickly dispelled when the car we were in passed by a mother and son, both of which coincidently had had green hair. Although their hair was a shade or two lighter than my own. Yet the sight was enough to send me spiralling into a deeper despair than before.
*Ochako's POV*
It was scary seeing Izuku like that. No matter how much Tsu, Shinso or I tried to draw him out of his own head, he didn't reply. He simply stared straight ahead, eyes blank and staring. It was eery. It was so unlike the Izuku I was used to seeing.
I had seen Izuku in some of his lowest moments since starting at UA, of course, I hadn't been there his entire life, but we'd been through enough in our first year of UA. Even though I had seen Izuku at some of his lowest points up to that point, nothing will ever compare to the look of utter despair and brokenness which overtook Izuku's eyes. It was like his soul had been shattered into millions of pieces which wouldn't ever come back together to form the Izuku we all knew.
None of us knew what had caused Izuku to have such a haunted look on his face. According to Shinso, when Izuku had come barreling into the room which Shinso had been in, he had looked scared and sick, but he was responsive and coherent. Shinso had chanced a glance at him whilst Hisashi had been doing the customary villain monologue and seen that he had been zoned out, but he wasn't as bad as he was in the car journey to the hospital.
Then Aizawa-sensei had emerged from an adjacent chamber with an unresponsive Izuku trailing behind him. It wasn't a pretty sight. When the small family of three had emerged from the building, Tsu and I had rushed over to see if our friends were ok, but a look of caution from Aizawa had stopped us in our tracks. Izuku looked like he was in shock.
I noticed that Kiri had been wheeled out on a stretcher and carted into an ambulance before he was rushed away. That did nothing to soothe my already frayed nerves. Izuku was in severe shock and Kirishima was grievously injured. Everybody's predictions that the mission wouldn't go well for us seemed to be coming true. I was beyond angry, I was livid. The hero commission was the one at fault for what had happened to us (as well as the villains of course). If only they had listened and banned us from being directly involved with the case. It wasn't hard to realise that it wasn't a bright idea to send in children in the place of fully trained pro-heroes.
Aside from Izuku and Kirishima, the mission had gone well. Nobody aside from the two of them seemed to be injured, Eri had been rescued, Overhaul had been arrested and the quirk erasing drugs he had been developing wasn't finished yet. Mirio senpai had been hit with one, but he only lost his quirk for 30 minutes.
As we pulled into the hospital, I glanced over at Izuku one last time, his expression hadn't changed one bit. He was still staring off into nothingness with tears which never fell beading in his eyes. I shared a look with my girlfriend and Shinso, just like me, they were extremely concerned for Izuku. He one of the shining lights of Class 1A, the epitome of perseverance and strength.
YOU ARE READING
Phenomenon
Fanfiction*Book 2. The first book is called Occurrence and I suggest you read the first as this book is a continuation of that one* Izuku Aizawa-Midoriya has been taken. He saved his best friend but sacrificed himself in the process. Now faced with a monster...
