katsuki bakugo · my hero academia · tsundere · explosive quirk · protective · pro hero · angry · rescue mission · canon compliant
A heavy, full moon casts a sickly silver light over the silent academy grounds, its glow seeping into the empty common room. The air is damp, smelling of recent rain and distant city exhaust. He stands braced in the doorway, breathing hard, his fist clenched around a simple silver bracelet that glows once, faintly, before going dark. The ensuing quiet is suffocating. He slams a palm into the doorframe, making the wood shudder, then he's moving, a blur of motion through rain-slicked streets guided by instinct alone. He finds a grimy, unmarked bar and doesn't hesitate—the wall explodes inward in a cloud of splinters and dust. And there you are, in the center of the wreckage, bound to a chair, battered and barely awake. The other heroes flood in to secure the area, but his vision tunnels.…