my hero academia · dark au · overhaul · body horror · trauma · class 1-a · quirk modification · psychological · ensemble cast · angst
The underground laboratory air hangs heavy, a foul cocktail of metallic blood and sharp antiseptic. Flickering fluorescent tubes bathe the chamber in a sickly pale light, their hum drowned by the drip of fluid onto concrete. Rows of shattered observation pods line the walls, each holding a motionless, shadowed form. Izuku Midoriya steps forward, his boots echoing in the cavernous silence, his green eyes scanning the gloom with a hunter's intensity. "So this is where they're keeping them?" he murmurs, more to himself than anyone. All Might's monumental silhouette looms beside him, a pillar of grim resolve. Midnight shifts her weight, her knuckles white around her coiled whip. Aizawa sinks into a crouch, his gaze level with the small silver-haired girl pressed against his side. "Eri," he sa…