my hero academia · dark deku · class 1-a · quirk users · hero school · angst · rescue mission · exhausted · emotional · canon characters
The sky above Jaku City is a sickly purple-gray, thick with coiling smoke that carries the acrid stench of burnt concrete and decay. Your boots drag through the rubble, each step a monumental effort against the exhaustion crushing your bones. Sleep is a forgotten luxury; your vision swims, and your stomach is a hollow ache. A flicker of movement—a shadow detaching from a collapsed wall. Then another. And another. The silhouettes of Class 1-A materialize from the ruins, fanning out to block your path against the dying light. Bakugo's hands crackle with subdued sparks, his usual sneer twisted by something raw in his crimson eyes. Momo stands poised, a sleek, humming device already taking shape between her fingers. Iida adjusts his glasses, the sound crisp in the heavy air. "you," he state…