"I'm pretty sure you guys know what to do... but still..." Tensei looked around as Shinsou and Midoriya followed behind him. The rest of Tensei's sidekicks were also roaming around Hosu, trying to find out the cause of several suicides that had occurred in the area.

Sure, Tensei hated to admit it, but suicides had always been common in large cities, but lately, the numbers had increased exponentially to the point that there were several incidents in a day. They had no idea what was going on, but they needed to stop this before it spiraled out of control.

There was also the fact that there was a villain called Mind Break running around, but from the reports he's seen, he's talkative and usually touched people to activate his quirk, so Shinsou would be a perfect counter to him. Not just that, but Mind Break was clearly not a physical fighter, while Midoriya was also great at fighting several opponents at one time and taking them out with little to no injuries, so if they needed to fight, Midoriya would also be able to handle it.

Midoriya raised his head slightly, and started observing his surroundings warily, and it seemed like Tensei had also sensed whatever had set Midoriya off, because he also paused.

"Get ready." Tensei ominously muttered, and Shinsou promptly slipped his voice changer on. Midoriya had already slipped a knife out of his sleeve, before a loud explosion rang out, just down the road, by the crossroads intersection.

"Come on!" Tensei yelled, and started running in the direction of the explosion, and Shinsou and Midoriya both raced after him, dodging past screaming pedestrians and panicking civilians.

It took them a minute to reach the scene, and Shinsou blinked, processing a bus that was lying on its side, smoke billowing out of the metallic vehicle. There were several people trying to get out through the emergency exit and shattered windows, and there was also a car that had been completely totaled, one side of it crumpled like paper with fire licking at the metal frame.

"I've just called the fire service, but we need to get them out of the vehicles, now." Tensei ordered, racing towards the bus, "Go check the car for drivers and any other passengers. I'll deal with the bus. Onemu Shinya and Enigma are in the area, and will be here in a few minutes. If you see them, direct them towards me."

"Got it." Shinsou nodded, and both he and Midoriya headed towards the car. He knew that Midoriya didn't like fire too much, but he also knew that the younger boy would always help others to the best of his abilities without any regard for his own safety or well-being. They had to get everyone else out of the situation first, then he could help Midoriya if the younger boy needed any help.

Midoriya stuck his hand through the broken window, being careful of the sharp glass shards still lining the rim of the frame, and he groped around blindly, before he finally managed to find the locking mechanism. He unlocked the door and tugged on it, holding it open so that it didn't swing shut while Shinsou climbed into the passenger seat.

There didn't seem to be anyone else in the car aside from the driver, and Shinsou hastily sliced through the seat belt with his own knife, freeing the driver from the chair, before he tried pulling him out of the car. They would have tried the driver's door, but that side of the car was so badly damaged that there was no way they could open the door without it being a hazard.

Shinsou carefully crawled out of the car, gently pulling the driver along with him. The man seemed to be barely conscious, with blood pooling out of a wound on his forehead, and the lavender haired boy gingerly stepped out of the car in order to remove the man from the wreckage of the car when suddenly, the man's eyes snapped open.

Stunned, Shinsou took a step back as the man ripped out a large shard of glass that had been embedded in his arm, and swung it at the boy, but Midoriya reacted quickly and smacked the glass out of his hand, giving Shinsou enough time to regard his bearings and knock the man out with a good hit to the head.

It probably wasn't the best course of action, and Shinsou glanced at Midoriya, not sure what to make of the situation, but the shorter boy merely shrugged, equally confused.

They still decided to drag the body out and hope that they didn't kill the man by accident. Then again, they had been defending themselves from assault, but neither of the students knew how well that would turn out.

It didn't take too long for Enigma and Onemu Shinya to arrive on the scene, and they helped Tensei to deal with the bus that was on fire before the fire department, ambulance, and the police arrived to finish everything up, and send all the injured people to the hospital.

"Man." Enigma sighed, as the five heroes and interns regrouped, "I did not expect the bus driver to attack me. I guess he panicked or something?"

Midoriya and Shinsou both froze up, and shared a knowing glance, before the lavender haired boy spoke up, "Ingenium... when we tried to save the car driver... he also tried to attack us before we knocked him out..."

Tensei frowned, "That... that can't be a coincidence..."

Realization dawned on him, and Tensei glanced around.

The ambulances, the fire trucks, and most of the police cars had left the scene. Traffic had been disrupted, but traffic cones and tape had already been placed around the damaged vehicles and the remainder of police officers were either attempting to divert the rest of the cars, or trying to get witness statements from passersby.

"Look out." Tensei growled, and Onemu Shinya and Enigma both tensed up, looking around, "This might be the work of Mind Break."

"Correct indeed." A voice seemingly rang out of nowhere, and Midoriya turned to the source of the voice, noticing a man with a black hoodie, right across the street.

Cars continued to pass as Shinsou and the other heroes turned, and Mind Break chuckled, talking over the traffic, "Kind of slow, aren't you? Bet you didn't know my quirk has delayed activation either, did you?"

Drivers just seemed to notice the ongoing conversation, stopped, curious. Some of the smarter ones must have sensed the oncoming chaos, and promptly drove away.

"You mean -" Onemu Shinya was cut off as Mind Break let out a maniacal grin, "Of course. One guy I randomly brushed past at a grocery store, and I took the bus and paid my bus fare. All I had to do was... you know... make them meet."

Tensei glowered at the villain, but he couldn't act rashly; Mind Break never acted out in the open like this, so that meant that Mind Break either had a shit ton of back-up, or he had somehow broken his own mind.

The Turbo hero was pretty confident that it was not the latter.

Mind Break focused on the lavender haired teen, a smirk glinting beneath his hood, "We are quite similar... are we not? And you ended up in the Hero Course."

Shinsou narrowed his eyes and gritted his teeth, as Tensei whispered, "Keep a cool head. He's just trying to provoke you."

"Well... I guess I'm done talking." Mind Break muttered, and he lifted his head, his bright yellow eyes glinting in the light. He raised his hand, and all of a sudden, several villains started jumping down from the top of several buildings, and the heroes immediately directed their attention upwards.

Tensei promptly propelled himself into the air with his quirk, using his quirk to propel himself forward. He carefully angled his course, and slammed into a villain, knocking her off balance and into the ground. Enigma started ushering civilians away, and slowly started increasing in size to block off more villains who had dropped to the ground.

"Mind Break?!" A police officer stammered, and he took a step back, allowing a villain to creep up on him.

"Police! Get out of here. And try to divert the traffic away from this road for a block!" Onemu Shinya hastily ordered, as she rushed forward, drop kicking the villain in the face before he could attack a police officer, "We don't know if there are more subordinates, of if Mind Break has already touched someone and is waiting for an opportunity to trigger his quirk, but either way, the more crowded it is, the more likely it is for someone to get hurt!"

The police officers immediately started paging their superiors, and Tensei glanced at Enigma and Onemu Shinya. They hadn't been expecting to encounter Mind Break on their patrol today, and since all of their fighting styles were close quarters combat, it would be really dangerous if Mind Break touched one of them and tried to control them, especially Enigma, with her ability to increase her size.

Midoriya glanced at Shinsou, sidestepping a villain and kicking her in the stomach, knocking her out, and Shinsou used his capture weapon to lash two villains together, making them bash their heads together.

"You'll be okay?" Shinsou called out. They had already run through the plan back at the agency, in the event that they encountered Mind Break; Shinsou would be tasked with taking Mind Break out, since the villain was talkative, and the others would back him up. As long as Mind Break didn't get anywhere near Shinsou, he should be okay.

Midoriya nodded, and shifted his position, taking over Shinsou's spot and kicking two more villains down, giving Shinsou a breather before he tried to take Mind Break on. Shinsou's quirk was generally well-known, being a mind control quirk, but the activation of his quirk was still relatively unknown to those that Shinsou hasn't met before, or supposedly, the League of Villains, and Shinsou wasn't too eager to expose the inner workings of his quirk, so he usually held a conversation with the villains so that people wouldn't guess that responding was the trigger.

He also wasn't too keen on getting close to Mind Break; he had a mental quirk, and while he has never met another person who could mind control their victims, if there was one thing that Shinsou knew for sure, it was that mental quirks never meshed well together.

"So... what's your problem?" Shinsou asked, glancing backwards to check on Midoriya, but the boy was doing perfectly fine, kicking a villain in the crotch. The lavender haired boy reached up, seemingly to scratch his neck, but he activated a small voice recorder located on the bottom of his mask; he might be able to wrangle some important information out of Mind Break.

"I don't have a problem. The problem is with the rest of society." Mind Break chuckled, "You think you're the first person with that kind of quirk to try and get into a hero school?"

Shinsou raised an eyebrow, "I mean... I guess not? You tried before?"

Mind Break scoffed, rolling his eyes, "Of course. I tried for Shiketsu, actually, when I was younger. But nope, I got my rejection letter the very next day, stating that my quirk was unsuitable for hero work due to the "current political climate" surrounding several types of quirks... or the lack thereof."

"You are feeding into that so-called "political climate", you know? Hypocritical much?" Shinsou asked, slightly mockingly, trying to piss the villain off, but Mind Break just glared at him, "Silence. It's not just mind control quirk users that suffer, you know? Those with weaker quirks were shunned. Some people didn't have any quirks at all, and were practically banned from getting Master's Degrees or PhDs in university."

Shinsou just listened on in silence, as Mind Break continued, "Sure, people like you and me might be able to get into Hero Courses now. Those with weaker quirks might be able to find a way past those weaknesses. The quirkless might be able to get jobs. But the stigma still remains, and with it, the remnants of our broken past. Things have improved, maybe, but that doesn't mean things have gotten better. People deserve the right to use their quirks whenever they want; after all, quirks are extensions of one's self. We don't need more limitations on how to express ourselves."

"So... what's your goal with... all of this carnage?" Shinsou asked. He did understand what Mind Break was talking about, and he had always had that fear that the circumstances regarding his quirk would change at the drop of the hat, and no matter how hard he worked, he could never be a hero just due to a quirk that he had absolutely no say in having.

"People nowadays are so reliant on quirks. Those powerful quirks cannot help you if you are dead... or if your mind isn't your own." Mind Break shook his head patronizingly, grinning toothily at Shinsou, "I don't really care about hurting kids too much, let alone killing them, especially those who understand our plight. All your friends who were attacked... I'm sure they didn't mean to hurt them that badly, and that girl who was electrocuted, she's perfectly fine now anyways, with no lasting damage. You and your little friend can just step aside and not interfere with our work, and I promise we'll leave you alone."

Shinsou narrowed his eyes, "Wait... you know about the other attacks?"

"Of course." Mind Break snorted, "We planned meticulously for this, you know? But then again, with how much those heroes liked to bring you kids out for patrols, it really wasn't too hard to see your schedules and act accordingly. It was harder for some of you, given you kids really like to jump around a lot... but still, wasn't too bad."

"So you targeted us?"

"In a way, for some of you, I guess. I'm not too sure -"

Shinsou growled, and activated his quirk on the talkative villain, but much to his surprise, instead of being able to control Mind Break, he felt his own control over his own body being yanked away from him.

The lavender haired boy heard Mind Break's laughter echoing inside his head, and he nearly had a heart attack when he heard Mind Break "speak".

"Poor child. My quirk doesn't just require physical contact. You are aware that a "connection" can mean a mental connection, too, right? Your quirk is rather powerful... much easier for me to form a connection."

Mind Break's voice was so close, almost like the man was right next to him, reverberating around inside his head like a loud noise in a small room, but Shinsou could clearly see the villain a couple of feet away from him, a toothy smirk plastered on his face.

"I apologize for this, but I'll try to make sure you don't end up as mangled as my other victims."

Shinsou hastily tried to break off his quirk, but Mind Break's hold on his mind was strong, and it was just a mental struggle for Shinsou to figure out what thoughts were his own, and what were mere projections of the villain's will onto him.

He vaguely noticed a familiar black figure dropping down to smash a villain into the ground, and Shinsou pushed back against the villain's hold, doing his best to prevent Mind Break from turning his attention to the other civilians or heroes. He could sense Aizawa's presence, and he was sure that Midoriya had noticed it too. He just had to hold out long enough for Aizawa to notice the villain and use Erasure on him and this would all be over and -

Shinsou heard a sigh inside his head, as Mind Break spoke up again, "Well... this is getting a bit bothersome. Go attack that green haired boy behind you."

The lavender haired boy could feel his muscles tensing up, and his arms were twitching, so eager to just follow Mind Break's instructions, but the boy was trying his best to resist the command. Midoriya was his best friend. He was the first one that found him, the first one to offer him help, the first one who ever held a full on conversation with him.

Midoriya might not be the exact same person as he was in the past, but that was no fault of his, and Shinsou could never even think of hurting him.

Shinsou forcefully yanked back control over his own mind, and pain flared through his entire body, tingling down his spine and through his veins, and everything turned black.

Midoriya heard a loud thump behind him, and he turned around, punching a mind controlled woman in the face as he did so. He noticed that Aizawa had joined the fray at some point. The man must have been sent here to deal with Mind Break, or he was tasked to figure out who was the user of the quirk behind all those suicides; it only made sense, suicide rates didn't spike like that for no reason.

He didn't see Shinsou, and he looked down, noticing the lavender haired boy lying on the ground, unconscious.

Midoriya's heart clenched, and he immediately kicked the woman in the chest and into a lamp post, before he scrambled to Shinsou's side. There was blood dripping out of a wound on his head where he had hit the ground, and there was also some blood dribbling out of his mouth.

"Hito?" Midoriya shook the taller boy gently, but to no avail. The greenette growled, and immediately turned his attention to Mind Break, glaring daggers at the taller villain.

"What did you do to him!?" Midoriya hissed, feeling the fire in his chest grow larger and larger with each passing second. That was his friend, Shinsou was right behind him, he got hurt, and Midoriya didn't even notice it.

He got no reply, and he gently placed Shinsou back on the ground, and demanded, "What. Did. You. Do. To. Him!?"

"Idiot tried to break out of my mind control!" Mind Break growled, stunned, as he took a step back, reeling from the backlash of his quirk being broken out of. He knew what Midoriya was capable of, but he needed some time to regain his bearings, and if the boy tried to rush in and fight him head on after that, he had a good chance of taking control of him. He just needed to wait it out, and maybe piss Midoriya off to buy himself some time.

"Mental quirks don't mesh well. Anyone with a mental quirk knows that. Human minds are too delicate, and our minds can be broken in mere seconds." Mind Break spat, "That idiot should have known better than to -"

He was cut off by an inhumane, monstrous screech, and the next thing he knew, there was a knife in his face.

"Eraserhead." Tensei greeted, as he and Aizawa stood back to back, with Aizawa using his capture weapon to reel villains in for Tensei to knock out with powerful, Engine-boosted punches. They tried to be more gentle with the mind controlled civilians, but luckily, there didn't seem to be as many civilians as there were villains.

"Is Mind Break here?" Aizawa asked, and Tensei nodded. The Turbo hero was about to redirect Aizawa's attention to the exact villain he was talking about, when they heard a loud screech, full of anger and pain, and a powerful aura slammed into them, leaving them stunned for a couple of seconds.

"Midoriya?" Aizawa turned around, and noticed that smaller boy lunging at said villain, with Shinsou lying on the ground lifelessly.

"Hakryuen! Don't get close! His quirk works through contact!" Tensei yelled, but the boy didn't heed his warning, rage and fury burning within his emerald orbs.

The boy swung his blade at Mind Break's face, but the villain managed to sidestep in time, and reached out for Midoriya's face. The angered boy merely aimed his knife at Mind Break's hand, startling him, before Midoriya landed on the ground, slashing away at the villain who was just barely able to evade Midoriya's attacks.

Until Midoriya kicked it up a notch, and lunged forward, fainting an attack, before sidestepping, and kicking the villain right in the groin before kneeing the man in the face, completely breaking his nose.

The greenette bared his teeth at the downed villain, who now had blood dripping out of his nose, before the boy turned his death glare to the other villains in the near vicinity, the atmosphere around him so thick that it was almost hard to breathe. Midoriya was about to throw himself at the group of villains, as Aizawa rushed in to check on his kid, earning a sharp turn of Midoriya's head.

Midoriya snarled at Aizawa, before he blinked registering who was in his space, before deeming Aizawa safe enough and turned his attention back to the villains and started plowing through them like a hot knife through butter, rendering the entire group of villains on the ground and twitching in pain in minutes, clutching their arm, stomach, or wherever Midoriya had hit them in pain, giving Aizawa the opportunity to look Shinsou over, gently taking the boy's mask off.

Shinsou was bleeding from the head and had some blood dripping from his mouth, but his heart rate was stable. His voice changing mask was also padded, so there weren't any lacerations or injuries caused from that, and Aizawa could not identify any other injuries. The Erasure Hero placed the unconscious boy's head on his lap, gently, cradling him so that he could protect him from any potential harm.

"Hakryuen?" Enigma blinked in confusion, before the boy sped off again, roaring in anger as he twisted over another villain, hooking his legs around the guy's neck and flipping the man into the ground. Midoriya was not letting a single person within a two meter radius of Shinsou, and growled at anyone who even tried.

Aizawa flinched as he heard the crack beneath the villain; he wasn't too sure if it was the road cracking, or Midoriya had broken the villain's spine, but one thing was for sure, and that was the green haired boy was pissed off. Tensei had already called for ambulances and police officers, and Enigma was trying to get closer to help, now that the villains were either petrified of the small green haired boy, unconscious, or on the ground, writhing and twitching in pain pathetically like cockroaches who had come into contact with insect killer spray.

It was really easy for Onemu Shinya and Tensei to take out the remainder of the villains. There was a villain who lunged at Midoriya and grabbed onto his arm, but the boy merely ripped her of him and slammed her into the ground so hard that Tensei swore he could have broken her neck if he angled the hit slightly differently.

The police and ambulances were starting to arrive, and Midoriya turned his attention towards the loud, noisy vehicles with blaring lights, and growled, but he must have deemed them as non-threatening as he stumbled over to Shinsou's side. He crouched down, right next to Shinsou's body, and he let out a stuttery, choked rumble from the back of his throat.

He glanced up at Aizawa, and the Erasure Hero looked back at him, then turned back to Shinsou, muttering, "It's alright. You tried your best."

Midoriya kept his eyes glued on Shinsou, seemingly stunned into muted silence, hardly processing what was going on, even when the ambulance started to unload the stretchers and take care of the injured villains and civilians, before Tensei directed the paramedics in Aizawa's direction.

The green haired boy barely reacted as Shinsou was loaded up onto a stretcher, and out of the corner of his eyes, Aizawa seemed to be talking to the paramedics, Shinsou's mask in hand, gesturing at Midoriya, but the paramedics all shook their heads. Aizawa glanced at Midoriya sadly, before he followed the paramedics into the ambulance, and the paramedics closed the doors.

Midoriya blinked, finally seeming to figure out what was going on, and he stood up, gazing at the ambulance, and Tensei rushed forward, wrapping his arms around Midoriya before he could move.

"Hitoshi!" Midoriya screeched, struggling in Tensei's grasp as he reached out towards the ambulance that was rapidly speeding away, and the Turbo Hero did his best to restrain the boy without hurting him.

He was pretty sure that if Midoriya wanted to escape, he would find some way to do it; he could say that with confidence from personal experience with the boy after the Kamino incident that the boy could wiggle out of anything if he wanted to. But the boy was worried, and was most likely not thinking straight, and it was actually pretty easy for Tensei to restrain Midoriya given that the greenette wasn't too bulky, nor was he too strong. He relied mostly on speed, and without the built up momentum, he really didn't have the physical strength to overpower Tensei.

"It's okay. Eraser's with him. Hitoshi will be safe, alright?" Tensei tried to calm the panicking boy, and it took some time until Midoriya's energy left him, and the boy slumped down in his arms tiredly, his eyes dull and lifeless.

"Hitoshi..." Midoriya faintly murmured under his breath, and Tensei closed his eyes. He could only hope that Shinsou would be alright.