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A/N: So the league is moving on Gang Orca who is ready to receive them, and Nighteye might have stumbled upon the true motivations of the League. Izuku on the other hand is trying to balance hero life and his responsibilities to UA.

Gang Orca glared at the group of villains before raising his hand and then dropping it. On his signal his sidekicks began firing their cement guns. Dabi growled as he whipped his arm around the group encasing them in an azure pillar of fire to block the cement shots. From out of the fire appeared two more Dabi as they rushed towards Gang Orca. "That won't work League of Villains." Gang Orca said as he rushed forward with a double lariat slamming into both clones, but to his shock only one burst apart.

The Dabi in his left arm smiled. "Got ya." He said as he burst into flame bathing Gang Orca in his blue fire. The hero hissed in pain as he felt his skin begin to sear, but this was Gang Orca he knew the importance of capturing these villains and he would not fail! Dabi's eyes widened as the arm locked around him hurled him back slamming him into the street railing causing him to flip over it and slam into a wall.

"BOSS!" His sidekicks shouted as Gang Orca sent out a burst of sound waves to disperse the fire before pouring water over himself.

"Don't falter! You know the mission!" He shouted as his sidekicks nodded and ran out into the street firing repeatedly into the fire pillar as they advanced. The closer the shots came the further they bore into the fire pillar until finally it dispersed the clone Dabi having been shot down. From the lingering flames Spinner appeared with his Odachi and swung it with incredible force. The closest sidekicks widened their eyes as the blade tore through them slicing them in half.

Toga leapt over the sidekicks and magnetized her knives each one glowing with a pink light and flew towards the sidekicks burying themselves into their backs. "I'll make you all bleed." She hissed.

Dabi stood up shakily as he wiped blood from his forehead and looked to Gang Orca who blasted sound at him. Dabi rolled to the side as the sound blasted into the wall and Dabi counter attacked with a blast of flame. "You ugly bastard!" Dabi hissed as he created balls of blue fire and launched them at Gang Orca.

"It's truly a pathetic villain that resorts to name calling." Gang Orca said as he rushed forward blasting sound to counter the balls of fire until he got in close with Dabi and threw a punch into his gut. Dabi gasped as he grabbed hold of Gang Orca's arm and blasted fire over it. Gang Orca grit his teeth as he used his other hand to grip Dabi by the neck and blasted him at point blank range with his sound wave. The patchwork villain felt himself losing consciousness before Gang Orca was tackled by a trio of Twice. Dabi fell to his knees and vomited as he started to get himself under control fighting the intense vertigo in his skull.

"Get out of here Dabi we can't do this!" Shouted Twice as Dabi stood up and wiped his mouth.

"Shut up Twice we're killing him here and now." He said as a wall of sound burst from Gang Orca throwing the twice trio into a wall causing them to splatter as Dabi tumbled head over heel backwards. Gang Orca stood up. His skin was dry and beginning to flake while his right arm was severely burnt with the flesh still there black and charred. There were spots of bone coming through the damaged flesh Still Gang Orca stood tall.

"None of you are going anywhere!" He shouted as more of his Sidekicks gathered behind him.

In the Kusanagi Mortuary the handle of the backdoor jiggled repeatedly before the door swung open and inn walked Mr. Compress with a bow. "Ahh no audience it's a shame a performer such as myself has been relegated to back stage operations." He said as he walked in and pulled out a piece of paper. He looked it over and then began walking down the cadaver coolers. This had been his task since the attack on Uwabami. Spinner and Toga would attack a hero and he would break into a nearby mortuary or funeral home to find a body with a good quirk. It was so nice of the heroes and police to evacuate the area whenever heroes engaged villains.

Apparently the doctor had a list of all Mortuaries to find interesting quirks. Of course this had only been told to Mr. Compress by Shigaraki. On the one hand he should feel bad for keeping this from his fellow league members, but Mr. Compress was a showman. As a magician misdirection was key and as the saying goes. You can't fool strangers if you can't fool your friends. Mr. Compress stopped at a cooler and pulled it open. "Ah there you are mademoiselle." Mr. Compress said as he looked over the cadaver before him.

Mr. Compress had no idea who this woman was, but her quirk was supposedly called Shaping. In her life she had the ability to reshape anything she touched even things like air and water. "This is rather interesting." He said as he touched the body and it turned into a shiny blue marble. "Now to exit stage left." He said picking up the marble before something impacted his hand. Mr. Compress heard the crunch of bone before the pain of his broken fingers reached his mind. "AAGHH!" He shouted dropping the marble as he looked at his rag dolling fingers.

"You should be quiet, have some respect for the dead." Sir Nighteye said as he walked into the mortuary from the front. "Atsuhiro Sako also known as Mr. Compress." Nighteye said walking up to the criminal magician and produced three more stamps. "This will be your one and only warning, surrender." Nighteye commanded as Mr. Compress stepped back cradling his fingers as he looked at the green haired hero.

"H-how did you know I would be here?" He asked stumbling backwards into a tray of medical utensils. Nighteye adjusted his glasses and shook his head.

"That's not how this is going to work. You answer my questions not the other way around." He said stepping forward as Mr. Compress threw several marbles at Nighteye that turned into scalpels. When Compress had "stumbled" into that tray of utensils he'd compressed several of the tools before throwing them at Nighteye. Nighteye dodged the projectiles with ease and shook his head. "Magic isn't so magical when you can see through the tricks, once that happens it's nothing more than a tired gag." Nighteye said as he closed in on Compress and drove his fist into the magician's face his mask cracked falling apart as he stumbled back.

Mr. Compress looked up as his mask fell apart revealing his eyes to Nighteye. Compress grit his teeth as he stood letting his broken mask fall to the floor. "Well this is quite unfavorable, so I will…retreat!" Mr. Compress shouted as he dropped several marbles that broke apart to cloak the room in smoke. Nighteye stood where he was as the room filled with smoke before taking out one of his stamps and threw it full force. He couldn't see but he heard the soft thud of something striking flesh and a body falling through a doorway.

Mr. Compress coughed as he pulled himself off the ground. Whatever had hit him knocked the wind from him. It hurt to take deep breaths, but he did as he got to his feet. He was going to make a run for it but standing outside was none other than Lemillion. "You're right again Sir!" Lemillion shouted excitedly as Nighteye walked out of the smoking mortuary.

"Get on your knees Atsuhiro and release that body from your compression. Your show is over." Nighteye said ignoring Lemillion's praise for the moment. Mr. Compress looked between the two heroes before throwing three marbles. One at both heroes' feet, but the last one he sneakily threw under a nearby truck where Ujiko's tiny Nomu was waiting and after seizing the marble it warped away.

"My final trick." Mr. Compress whispered as Lemillion appeared out of the explosion and slammed his fist into Atsuhiro's stomach dropping the villain into unconsciousness.

Nighteye walked out of the smoke and locked a pair of quirk dampening handcuffs on Mr. Compress. "Lemillion go assist Gang Orca and the others I'll make sure Atsuhiro is relegated to the authorities." Nighteye said as Lemillion rushed off.

Toga, Spinner, and Twice were slowly being surrounded by Gang Orca's sidekicks. "Get on the ground villains its over!" One shouted. Toga and Spinner gripped their respective weapons as they looked at the encroaching heroes. Twice's mind was railing against this. I need to do something. I can't let the League end here. They were nice enough to take in a crazy useless guy like me. I have to pay them back somehow. Twice never had a place in this world not until he found the league, he didn't want that to end for everyone even if it would end for him.

"Spinner take Toga." Twice said as Spinner arched an eyebrow.

"What?" He asked more confused than usual at what Twice was saying, but Toga had an inkling of what was going to happen and tried to stop it.

"JIn what are you doing? You're not about to do what I think you are right?" Toga asked before Twice stepped in front of the two of them and then activated his quirk on himself. Each clone then made more clones of themselves.

"Bye guys." Twice said as his clones exploded forward and Spinner gripped Toga and ran away. "SAD MAN'S EULOGY!" Twice shouted as his clones began to overtake the sidekicks and made their way to Gang Orca who was just about to blast Dabi into unconsciousness. Gang Orca turned and blasted the twice clones that came at him splattering dozens of them who continued to pour towards him. In the confusion Dabi was able to get away.

Twice stood there as his clones ran around him and he felt himself slowly being lost in the crowd. "Am I the real one? Or is that the real one. I think I'm the real me, but even if I wasn't I would still think the same." He mumbled to himself unaware as Lemillion permeated through the horde of Twice before appearing from the ground with an uppercut to Twice knocking him out cold. As Twice slowly lost consciousness he smiled behind his mask. Well even if I'm not the real one. This still feels pretty good. He thought to himself before falling unconscious.

Lemillion stood over Twice as he handcuffed him and looked at the other heroes beginning to destroy the twice clones. The young blonde hero looked back at Twice. "You may have been a villain, but you were willing to sacrifice yourself to help your friends. Despite being a villain you were a good friend." Lemillion said looking down at the unconscious Twice.

School had let out and Izuku was released from his job as teacher's aide. He leapt into the sky creating wings of shadow to propel him over the city until he met up with Hawks who was sitting on the edge of a building eating a popsicle. "Oh hey JForce did school let out already?" He asked looking at his watch. "Oh man time really flies." He said standing up and finishing his Popsicle. "Well I've got good news." Hawks said as he looked at Izuku. "The league attacked Gang Orca, but that guy was more than ready for them. Also Nighteye found out the true purpose of the attacks and was able to capture Mr. Compress while Gang Orca and his guys were able to catch Twice." Izuku's eyes widened at this.

"Really?" He asked as Hawks nodded with the Popsicle stick in his mouth.

"Really, really. We haven't been just sitting on our hands you know. First time shame on them, second time shame on me, third time they're out!" Hawks said as Izuku thought about what this meant for the league. They're power had nearly been halved, but with Shigaraki having All for One, how much of a hamper had they really put on the league? He wondered. Hawks could see this on the young man's face. "Hey now I know the battle's not over or anything, but you can take a bit of pride in even the smallest victories." He said as he began to flap into the sky. "Now come on." Hawks said as he and Izuku took off into the sky.

"Thank you for coming Hound Dog." Nighteye said as Hound Dog the counselor at UA approached the pro hero in his office. Hound Dog nodded.

"Not a problem this is my specialty after all." Hound Dog said as Nighteye handed him Mr. Compress' glove. Hound Dog took a deep whiff of the glove taking in every scent that was there. Hound Dog's tracking ability was one of the reasons he'd been hired at UA his nose could pick up the faintest scents and Mr. Compress' glove might as well have been an itinerary to the dog hero. "Alright I've got it." He said handing the glove back. "They're staying in a derelict building. I can smell the mold permeating the glove. It was most likely an office building. There's a slight smell of ink. It's probably next to a Chinese restaurant that specializes in Szechuan cooking."

Hound Dog rubbed his nose as he tried to alleviate the burning sensation from the strong spices on the glove. Nighteye nodded as Bubble Girl took all this down behind him. "Good that will narrow things down by a lot. If they didn't leave by warping we would be able to have you track them." He said but then shook his head. "Never mind that you've done good work Hound Dog thank you. I'll enter this information and try to find the most likely place for their base." He said as Hound Dog nodded.

"It's probably for the best the Cultural festival is starting soon and Nezu wants security as tight as possible which means I'll be quite occupied." Hound Dog explained. Nighteye adjusted his glasses.

"I see well have fun I suppose." Nighteye said as Hound Dog stood up and left the agency with a wave.

"Will this be enough to find them sir?" Bubble Girl asked as Nighteye gave a sigh.

"It'll have to be neither Twice nor Compress will give up the league so this is all we have at the moment." Nighteye said as he and bubble girl got to work on compiling the derelict buildings that fit the description that Hound Dog gave.

Shigaraki stood before the remainder of his league as they looked at their boss. "So Twice and Mr. Compress were taken? That's too bad." Shigaraki said in a monotone voice before turning to the remaining league members. "Still Mr. Compress accomplished his mission, and Twice made it possible for you three to escape, so their sacrifice was not in vain. We must continue forward." Shigaraki said before there was a crash as Toga stood up throwing her chair back.

"What about Jin and Compress? We are going to get them back right?" She asked glaring at Shigaraki. He looked at her and shook his head.

"We can't afford to backtrack like that. We have to keep going. Over these past few weeks Compress gathered quirks while you kept the heroes busy. He also brought new members to our League. I won't let his work go to waste. The plan is almost ready." Toga clenched her fist.

"And what is this plan? You've had us running all over the country to attack heroes without telling us that Mr. Compress was working on other things at the same time. What is all this for?!" She shouted as Shigaraki looked at her before sighing.

"We're going to attack UA's culture festival." Tomura said bluntly. "I plan to utterly destroy UA's happy go lucky party and most of all I plan to kill Izuku Midoriya and claim the one thing my master was never able to." Dabi, Spinner, and Toga looked at Tomura.

"Are you serious?" Dabi asked as Tomura smiled maniacally.

"Yes I am. UA's cultural festival is the last leg they have to stand on. If we can wreck that then the whole world will know that there's no such thing as a hero. People will lose faith in them and they will be destroyed." Tomura said before looking at Dabi and Spinner. "But before that." He said pointing at the two. His fingers became red and black as they pierced the two villains and like Toga they felt something being forced into their bodies. The two fell to the ground as their new quirks were incorporated into them.

Tomura stood there laughing slightly. "Just wait Master I will take One for All and end it's line." He said through his laughter.

The days passed with everyone working towards their respective goals. Izuku patrolled with Hawks but after the incident with Gang Orca the league didn't surface anymore which worried the young hero as he returned to UA once more. He landed outside Heights Alliance to see Ashido teaching a dance routine to several of her classmates. Ashido was really good at this sort of thing. Her flexibility was top notch he could vouch for that.

Mina turned around to see Izuku and smiled. "Hey Midori wanna practice with us?" She asked as Izuku shook his head.

"I'd love to Ashido, but this is for students which I'm not, but if you need any material or anything I'd be happy to run and get them for you." He said as Mina cupped her chin.

"Wait if you can't be on stage as part of the act then could you help with backstage stuff?" she asked as Izuku bounced his head from side to side as he thought about that.

"I'm not exactly sure, but I don't see why not. I'll ask Mr. Aizawa to be sure. Why, do you need an extra pair of hands?" He asked as Mina came up to him and explained what they wanted to do.

"We just need someone to dangle Aoyama from the rafters, and you're the only strong guy who's free." Izuku listened and then nodded.

"Sure thing like I said I'll ask Mr. Aizawa, but if he's ok with it then I'll definitely help." He said as Mina jumped for joy.

"Yeah that's our teacher's aide." She said kissing him on the cheek and whispering in his ear. "If you want I could reward you later." She said before walking away switching her hips heavily. Izuku swallowed as he walked past the dance group and opened the door to be blasted by music. He walked in to see Jiro coaching the others through the song they would play at the festival. It sounded really cool and he couldn't help but stand there and listen. Of course the star was Jiro but a close second had to be Katsuki with his vicious drumming.

The song reached its conclusion and he couldn't help but clap. "That was amazing everyone." Izuku said as he walked into the room fully. He'd stayed back so as not to break anyone's concentration. "You have a really nice singing voice Kyo-Jiro." He said almost slipping up and calling Kyoka by her name.

"Right though? Who knew Jiro could sing that well." Kaminari said as others nodded. "Could you believe that she was trying to hide that from us and didn't want to be the lead?" Kaminari asked as Izuku shrugged.

"It would have been a waste if she wasn't." Izuku said as Kyoka blushed.

"Alright that's enough of that." She said as she picked up her guitar.

"I agree let's all take a break shall we. I'll make some tea that will soothe our vocal cords. I wouldn't want anyone to get a sore throat." Momo said as she began to brew some tea. Izuku's phone went off and he pulled it out. It seemed Hawks had sent him a video. It came with the text "we should keep an eye out for this guy." The video was of a silver haired man he was robbing a convenience store. Apparently he was called the Gentle Criminal.

Izuku watched the video several times to see if he could figure out what the man's quirk was. Izuku scratched his head before someone leaned on his shoulder. "What ya' watching there Midoriya?" Kaminari asked as Izuku looked up from the video.

"Hawks sent me a video of a villain he says we should be on the lookout for. He doesn't seem like a bad person, but he is breaking the law. I was trying to find some of his other videos for research, but they've all been taken down. I'll have to ask the police if they have backups of those videos. All I can really tell is that his quirk affects other things, so it's most likely an emitter type." He said as Katsuki scoffed.

"Calm down you damn quirk nerd!" He shouted as Izuku sighed with a smile. He wouldn't expect anything less from Katsuki.

"The video was taken down again Gentle, but don't worry I'll reupload it in a second, that way even more people can see your brilliance." A red haired girl with dark circles under her eyes said as she sat in front of a computer her fingers moving around the keyboard with enviable speed. Behind her stood a man with a teacup in one hand and a teapot in the other.

"Don't worry about it La Brava that video is already old news. Besides it will pale in comparison to what I have planned next." Gentle Criminal spoke gallantly as he poured tea into the cup, but spilled some on his hand that made him jump as the hot liquid seeped through his glove.