MHA: I Am Homelander

The tunnels roared with rushing feet.

A stampede of panicked, injured students, elderly civilians, and sobbing children tore through the underground like ghosts in a nightmare.

No one spoke. No one cried out. Their breath came in short, ragged bursts as their eyes clung to the two figures leading the charge.

Yuto sprinted at the front, sweat slicking his face, constantly checking his wrist device. "Are you sure this is the way Mt. Lady told us to go?"

Kiyoshi, a few steps beside him, didn't break stride. "You tell me. I make the connection, she tells us the coordinates, you take us there. That was the plan."

Yuto scowled. "It's supposed to be here!"

Then, the ceiling trembled.

A wave of panic pulsed through the crowd as they abruptly stopped—screams were caught in throats, bodies ducked, bracing for collapse—

—but then light poured in from above.

A hatch creaked open. Fresh air flooded the tunnel. The ceiling lifted.

Kazuo grinned, panting. "We made it out, Loid—"

He turned.

"L-Loid?"

Loid wasn't there.

Kazuo's smile faltered. His head whipped around. "Loid?" he called out. "Loid!"

Others started to look too. Heads twisted left and right.

Nothing.

"I—uh," Kiyoshi began, scratching his cheek with a nervous chuckle. "So... I might've left something out."

Kazuo narrowed his eyes. "What."

"He told me not to say anything," Kiyoshi said defensively, hands raised. "He said he was going to help Kain. Told me to keep quiet. That we should all just leave while we had the chance..."

"WHAT?!" Kazuo exploded.

The others froze.

Kazuo's gaze darted to the rising ceiling, then back down the tunnel swallowed in shadow.

"Shit."

He spun and ran.

***

Loid stood firm.

Siesmurge loomed a short distance away, brow furrowed, arms raised as faint tremors wove beneath his feet. The air around his hands shimmered subtly—distorting as if resisting some force.

"You came back," Siesmurge snarled. "Brave or stupid? No... definitely stupid."

He threw his hands outward.

The ground responded with thunder. Spears of jagged stone erupted and surged toward Loid.

Loid didn't wait. His knees bent—he moved a split second before the strike launched.

A dodge, then another. Each movement fluid, narrow, precise—but only just.

Siesmurge blinked.

'He isn't fast. No, his physical skills are below average. So how's he dodging?'

Loid didn't flinch. His mind was razor-focused, his every muscle strained.

'The air... his hands... they ripple right before he moves.'

Loid noted the distortions, listened to the quake beneath his feet. He felt the tremors in the air, that alone enough for him to anticipate the next strike. The moment they aligned, he sprang—always ahead of the attack.

Another barrage. A dozen sharpened slabs of earth erupted—Loid weaved through them, barely nicked.

Siesmurge scowled. "What are you doing. Is that your Quirk? A form of precognition or something? You're moving before I even launch..."

But as if to answer his question, and maybe mock him a little, Loid snapped his head up, his eyes burning with red fury.

ZMMM!

A twin blaze of crimson split the air. Loid's laser vision carved through the next volley, disintegrating rock and painting the dust red.

Siesmurge's eyes widened—and in the same breath, he vanished underground.

Loid stood still.

The air was quiet. Until it wasn't.

"You're quick," came the voice, muffled but everywhere. "Let's see if you can keep up."

The earth erupted. From below, above, and every angle, layers of reinforced stone snapped into existence, one over the other until the entire chamber was fortified in a dome of living rock.

Massive pressure blanketed the field.

Loid's brow furrowed. This was different. Thicker. Heavier. Designed not just to kill—but to trap.

Siesmurge wasn't taking chances anymore.

From every crevice, hundreds of spear-like projections shot toward Loid.

He waited.

Let them come.

Inches from his eyes—

BAM.

Loid was gone.

Well, not quite.

He reappeared meters away. Breath steady, the boy's eyes dark.

Again. Spears launched—

BAM.

Gone. Dodged.

Again. Again. Siesmurge rose to the surface, sweat on his brow.

"What... what is this?"

Another volley. Each time Loid blurred, phased out of place, never quite where he'd last been.

"Teleportation? Superspeed? Not to mention his Laser vision and preemptive reflexes? Just what is this kid?!"

Desperate, Siesmurge flung both arms skyward. The distorted air cracked like lightning.

Then—

The walls shot outward, layers and layers of solid earth, ready to crush the boy between it until...

BOOM

Silence descended as Siesmurge resurfaced, panting but a grin plastered on his face. 

"Took me longer than I should have. Sneaky little bastard..."

"RAAHHH!!!!"

ZMMM!!!!

BOOOOM!!!

A boy with blonde hair and burning red eyes tore through the earth, his lasers blasting through the rock and damn near melting it. 

He rose from the dust and debris, his eyes shining bright in the dim surrounds.

Siesmurge stared, flabbergasted as the grin on his face dissappeard.

"W-Wha...how..."

Siesmurge stammered, summoning a spear of earth with a shaking hand.

He launched it.

It shattered on Loid's skin.

Didn't even scratch.

He fired again. Again. Nothing.

Siesmurge took one step back as he looked down, seeing his hands shaking, his heart feeling as though it would leap out of his chest.

'What is this...'

It had been a while since he'd felt it, much less been overpowered by it, but he still recognized the feeling enough to answer his questions shortly after.

Fear.

"B-Bastard...DON'T FUCK WITH ME!!!" He yelled, bringing down both arms with invisible force.

Layered slabs of stone cascaded downward, ready to crush all, the very ceiling bearing down on Loid like a mountain.

Loid stood beneath the shadow, unmoving until he raised a single arm.

BOOM

The avalanche stopped.

Held.

Held by a single boy.

Siesmurge's jaw trembled.

He stumbled backward, "Fuck this!" He muttered, burrowing down once more, hands tearing through the earth and vanishing below.

A part of him even thought he'd escaped until...

BOOM.

He felt it.

The tremor.

Another.

BOOM.

He was coming.

Siesmurge's Quirk rang out, warning him before his eyes could comprehend.

A voice echoed—low and certain.

"I understand it now..."

Siesmurge froze.

"He's...speaking?"

"I didn't quite grasp it before. Why my hands trembled... why my heart pounded after I'd killed. But I understand it now..."

BOOM.

The ground above shattered.

A crater ripped the world apart—a hollow where earth once was, the earth surrounding them no more as it was all destroyed.

Siesmurge, on his back, peeked past his hands raised before his face.

And there, rising through dust and ruin, was the boy.

Raising his hand, the boy slicked back his blonde hair, his eyes red like infernos as he took a deep breath.

"I LIKED IT!"

Loid yelled so hard his body curled forward and veins bulged in his neck, his very voice cutting through the air.

Siesmurge's ears burst, blood trickling down as his eyes rolled back to his skull.

Loid's voice didn't waver while a feral grin tore across his face, bearing his sharp teeth.

"The feeling of being stronger, the hopelessness in my opponents eyes as they recognize me as their inevitable harbinger of death, hell the very fucking smell of fear...I wasn't scared or guilty of my first kill, No, I liked it, hell, I loved it!!"

Loid grabbed the collar of the disoriented villain, puling him closer.

His fist rose, his burning eyes intensifying.

"So tell me—"

His grin widened, maniacal.

"HOW DOES IT FEEL TO WITNESS MORE?!"

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