Chapter 16: memories
"My little hero, ready for the tour?" I shacked my head hard "The hero is always ready for the action."
I ran and took her hand heading for the door and then to the street.
We walked to the train station, taking the train to Musutafu, where we were heading for the UA sports festival.
"My little hero, are you tired I can carry you?" We walked a lot and took our tour through every All Might shop that existed.
"No, the hero never feels tired of saving people so why do I get tired of some walking" I was enthusiastic about heroes I memorized every quote that I heard from All Might or any other hero waiting for the time I would use them.
"Come on let Mom carry her little hero before he becomes a big hero, and she becomes too old and weak to carry him" she tried but I insisted on walking.
We played in the streets while walking to the festival, we enjoyed our time probably.
We didn't have any short cut even if we missed the first event.
We continued playing in the street but when near a place I remembered very well "Midoriya, I will carry you, no comment about that" She didn't give me any choice and I knew that there was something wrong when she commanded me.
I listened and she carried me between her arms after that I saw that she changed her way.
Since I painted the map of Musutafu in my head, I felt that we were heading to the police station.
She started to raise the rate and I could see 2 faces never letting us from their sight.
She took a spin around a block twice and the two never let our back.
Then she searched for any police officer nearby or any hero but all around were civilians, no use for them.
After that, she saw someone standing in our way, so she came across him "Don't touch me" she screamed.
The people gathered around him, and I could see his hand changing however in a second when the people gathered, I found us lost in the crowd.
We lost them but not for too long she ran to the police station all was between us and it was 10 minutes, so she took a shot cut and that was the first wrong turn we took and the last one.
In the way stood someone with a raven musk on his face "Captain Inko! long time no see"
Her hand wrapped me tightly and she covered my mouth.
"Yes, long time no see you one of Shie Hassaikai's gang, are you still a thug or you are now one of the 8 bullets" She smirked in his face and searched for an exit, I saw it first, so I gave her a note.
She took the note and saw it too with the end of her eye without changing her sight of the thug.
"Don't you see the mask, I'm now one of the 8 bullets" he said in a comfortable tone after all he had the upper hand.
"Just wanted to confirm it, you just look as weak as the first time I saw you."
He laughed "I don't know how you can talk like that in a situation like that, I think the government put a lot of effort into you."
"It's just I'm a woman with balls that you don't have" That was a hard one on him.
The veins were seeable on his face "Oh talking about my balls, don't worry I will show you that I have more than what your husband had."
She grinned at him "If he was here even the whole underworld can't say what you said, you know that right?"
He took a step forward "But he isn't her" We could feel the smirk he had on his face right now under his mask.
She didn't wait for him to get closer with her leg a small rock flew to his face, but a barrier stopped it.
At that time, she was running at her maximum speed out of that alleyway.
She got out to see a big fist heading toward her, she bowed a little and continued running with me.
After that, there was a wall of armed men closing the way to the station and they were ready to shoot.
If she were alone, she could run to them and dodge what she could dodge, and the police would be there in seconds, but I was here consequently she chose to run oppositely.
She ran and they never shot they just followed us and when felt that she tried to get out of the silent alleyways they shot making some noises but that didn't attract anything.
It was a game of cat and mouse, and we were the mouse.
After more than 15 minutes of running, we found ourselves in an old factory, that was at the end of Musutafu.
She ran and ran, and we hid in that factory.
"Midoriya stay here and never get out whatever you hear if it wasn't my voice, never come out" She looked at me with those eyes that I couldn't disobey.
I cried, the tears escaping my eyes I knew that if they found her, she would be hurt or worse killed.
"Don't worry they won't catch me just stay here, I will make them hate the day they chose to follow us" She took me in a warm hug and then fast she got out and started to run.
I sit there hearing the shots from time to time.
With the shots and the explosions, I heard all kinds of things, I stayed there praying for whoever existed to hear me.
'Are Mom alright' I asked myself when the voices calmed for a while after the last shake I felt.
The factory shook but everything got calm after that.
I tried to stay there but the next shot forced me to get out and check after the scream.
This shot was too near, it was just a wall standing in the way.
I got out and headed there in silence.
Their voices got clearer.
"You still as tough as you were, I didn't expect you to kill all who were after you, and without your quirk" There was something like a remote in his hand.
She was lying there with a bullet covered with blood and a hole in her leg.
From a moment ago when the bullet pierced her leg, she pulled it out and that was what made her scream.
"let's stop playing, I will take revenge for everyone you killed from us Captain Inko" There was someone that got out of the dark it was someone big and black as the night.
He had a yellow beak of knives that could tear the metal and his body was as big as All Might,
Her eyes got bigger "That's impossible, he stopped the experiments."
"No, it's not, he never stopped, he just delayed them, the evil will stay evil! he can't change, don't worry what you see is a prototype we stool, and we will give it back once we are finished" he pated that big guy's arm because he couldn't reach for the head.
There was another one staying in the back with his pistol on my Mom.
I took a stone, a big one that filled my hand, and snaked behind him.
I attacked his hand with the pistol with all I could do.
The pistol was dropped, and he started screaming with all the dirty words he knew.
I ran to the pistol and held it "Leave my Mom."
I aimed it but actually, I didn't know how to react I just held it wishing they would get scared but that never happened.
"Your hands are shaking kid, but you have a lot of courage in you like your parents, and that's something you should be ashamed of" he started to get closer to my Mom.
"Do you want to watch one of the adult's shows, don't worry it will be fun however we are the only ones that will enjoy it" he started to get rid of his clothes except for a small one covering his organ.
My Mom never took any action when he tore her shirt and upper clothes, she was afraid for me.
I took my steps near him, I felt terrified, but did that stop me from taking that step that no one of 6 years can take.
I saw the tears in my Mom's eyes and that pushed me forward before he could move anymore "Move again and I will pierce you."
He didn't take me as a threat and started to show his dick and get closer to her.
In that second, I was close, and I knew where exactly to hit.
I shot and he started screaming after losing his small fifth limp "You, son of the bitch, motherfu…." he started to curse me hard.
I ran next to my Mom and aimed again at him "The next one will take your life, the hero is ready to get his hands dirty if it means he could save another life."
My hands were shaking but I was ready for what was coming, and I would never hesitate why because he hurt my Mom and made her cry and had dirty things in his mind, and a lot more than that he should have burnt in hell for everything he did.
"Nomu! Kill her and her son, shit" the nomu acted as he said.
He walked slowly towards us I was afraid "My little hero, give me the gun."
I did and gave her the gun, she aimed and bam, bam, bam, bam till there were no more bullets in it.
The head of the nomu was shattered into pieces the blood covered all that was behind him.
He fell with no life or that was what we wanted.
He stood up and started to destroy everything "No you stupid thing kill them don't" The head was being reformed, and he didn't hear anything that dickless man said.
he swaged his hand around and the walls collapsed there was still a place to run but that dickless would stand in the way.
She tried to think of any way to escape meanwhile the headless thing had his head again or at least what was enough for him to see us.
He attacked us and made a way to escape but that way was just for me.
She stood on his feet despite the pain she was through.
"Son, my little hero, live, get out of here, run." She screamed at me, but I couldn't obey this time because I knew the second, I moved I would lose her.
I shook my head in no "I'm not leaving you under any condition."
I held her tight at that moment I felt something I had asked for.
I felt something moving in me.
I thought that it was my quirk I thought I could save her and me.
I ran to him with my fist closed and ready to hit but that flood of power disappeared I could feel it that was a wrong warning.
I was foolish, I didn't know what made me move there was something wrong, why I did such a stupid thing.
I heard her screaming my name and looked behind her, just to not see her.
I looked again at the face of the nomu and saw him smiling.
He grinned at me with his knife teeth and smiled wide open to us.
After that I felt the soft arms wrapping around me, I felt a pain I hadn't experienced before.
I felt like a heavy hammer crashed into my head but again before the real pain struck, I felt the floor under us shaking.
Then the hammer that smashed my head got away and we fell
We fell to the ground and the wrecks covered us, we were buried under the ruins.
I felt the pain and that was all I felt till the moment she talked to me "You.. cah cah must…. live Midoriya"
Then the pain I felt was nothing to the feeling of the warm liquid that covered me
I opened my eyes wide to the arms that got weaker and weaker "lo..ok….for a…n….e…xit"
Her voice was getting weaker, and she couldn't collect her words "Live …. Happily .....l..v…" She smiled in the end but the next second that smile faded.
She didn't add a word, how can the dead speak! but I didn't know that yet.
I waited for her to talk, the pain in my head was powerful but for an unknown reason, I didn't feel it.
"Mom, are you ok" There was no answer and the red liquid that my eyes saw was a red flag that I didn't want to accept.
"Mom, do you hear me" I asked but there was no answer again.
"Mom, answer me are you sleeping" I started to scream as I felt her hands fall off my shoulders.
"Mom?" I didn't want to accept that so I asked again in the hope that she would answer me.
"Mom...Mom…..MOM....MOM, ANSWER ME MOM MOM PLEASE DON'T LEAVE MOM ANSWER…" I hadn't anything to do other than scream, so I screamed at her, but she never answered, I shook her, but she didn't react she just fell.
I looked at the hole in her stomach and my mind went black out of the signal.
I kept screaming the Mom Mom but she was already dead.
I spent hours and hours calling her and trying to close the hole in her stomach, but all was in the windway.
I slept from the crying and when I woke up, the pain in my forehead attacked me making me scream.
I took more than half of the next day screaming in pain until that pain started to fade or I just got used to it.
I looked around me there was no escape no entrance or exit nothing than a small hole that I felt the wind come from.
"HELP HELP IS ANYONE OUT THERE" I screamed for help with the idea that if anyone was near, he could help us and save my mother.
After the day ended without any meaning, I couldn't sleep that night I just sat there and watched my Mom and how pale her skin became "Don't cah cah worry, I will get help and save us."
I could tell that the sun rose due to the light that entered there from that hole.
I started to scream again but there was no answer.
I felt hungry and thirsty it was something new for me that level of hunger and thirst.
I felt that all what I was doing was useless, so I looked around me again in that small place.
There was nothing I could use so I kept screaming till the light disappeared.
like last night I didn't sleep I just stayed near my cold Mom and saw that her body was paler than yesterday, and her skin started to shrink I stayed and watched her change with just tears.
I started to scream at night asking for help until I saw the light come again from the hole, but the light didn't last for too long after some hours the light disappeared, and the water started to fill the place.
It was raining outside.
I started to drink hard I was dying of thirst.
I pulled my mom away from the water.
I touched her clothes and skin.
They were torn and rough also the dry blood on them.
"Mom, there's water do you want to drink?" I knew that she was dead, but I still asked, and she still didn't answer.
That day passed and with dusk, the rain stopped, and I started to scream again.
I looked at the hole and found that it was bigger than before and the gear in my mind started to run.
I put my hand on it, and it went to the other side "My mother cah cah talking is hard but if they didn't hear me, they won't come."
I pulled out and the idea of digging my way out lit up in my head.
That was the fourth day and my mind started to collapse even with that feeling that something was holding it together.
I started to scratch the hole with my nails, but they broke, in the process I saw it there was some hope I could pull and move some rocks and use force to move others.
I spent the night doing the same from watching for the wrecks to not fall and smash us under and digging my way out with my fingers as my nails were broken.
The following day I was starving, and my mind became more and more dizzy.
I kept digging, and I didn't neither see nor feel the pain and the blood that covered my fingers.
I had a string of hope, and I didn't let go that day I didn't see my Mom at all I just kept saying "Everything will be all right I will take us out of here" like a mantra.
At night I was thirsty that was besides dying from starve
I felt tired and I wanted to see my Mom and I wished I didn't.
She was where I left her but there was a company of the rot that was accelerated by the wet area and the worms spread all over her body.
The last sanity in me was on the cliff.
I rushed to her "Stop, you can't eat her no no no no she will need her body no Mom, don't let them eat you Mom please fight back MOM MOM MOM MOM MOM" I screamed with all that came to my mind while I was getting rid of the worms.
I started to scratch the worms rapidly and the tears poured from my eyes.
I started with what was left of my fingers to move them the worst part was the face thus I scratched it first, but I wished I didn't do it.
While scratching them I heard the torn sound, it was weak but hearable.
I couldn't look at the face of my Mom so I looked at my hand and I saw it, it was flesh, rotten flesh.
I then screamed and my eyes fell on the face of my Mom to see part of her check was missing and where it would be rather than my hand.
I threw it, went away from her, and started to scream and cry after balling myself.
"sorry sorry sorry sorry sorry sorry sorry sorry sorry sorry sorry sorry sorry sorry sorry sorry sorry sorry sorry sorry sorry sorry sorry sorry sorry sorry sorry sorry sorry sorry sorry sorry sorry sorry sorry sorry" I kept repeating with no excuse for what I did.
I spent 2 days in the same situation until my mind went off, I slept for a while.
It was the 7th day for unknown reasons I felt calm, and my mind was focused on getting us out of here.
By the afternoon it started to rain outside and that made it easier for me to dig it
Actually, I just tried, the water did everything, and I couldn't move a muscle.
I tried to scream but when I did all that came out were just coughs.
I put my hand on my mouth and cleaned it from the blood that I coughed.
I pushed the last wreck that was there between me and escaping.
I pushed and pushed and pushed tell I couldn't.
I sat down and looked at that wreck that lonely stone that stood in my way with hatred.
I stood or tried to my back was bowing and my legs shook hard I put my hands in front of me and walked to that wreck I couldn't run and pushed it hard till it moved.
When I saw that it was moved and there was enough space for me to get through and to take my Mom too
I cried with blood; my tears ran out long ago, but those tears were the most complex tears I had cried in my life.
Filled with happiness, sadness, misery, hope, and life besides death I cried with blood.
I returned to my Mom.
I tried to carry her but that was the 7th impossible of the 7 impossible.
I pulled her from her hand, and we got out of that place I started to search for help not remembering the exit or the way or anything my sight was in black and white.
I saw a source of light, so I rushed to it or that was my imagination that I rushed.
"What are you doing her-" I heard the voice of someone. finally, we were saved.
The light was too powerful for my eyes, so I closed it at first.
I took a step "he...hel.....lp ...my.....m.....om" I tried as hard as possible to say it right.
Mom needed help more than me I was walking after all.
I took the last step I could take and fell on my face "m...…..m...…..m...….om"
I continued to talk trying to tell her to save us but when all was done, I lost consciousness.
The view shifted to Uraraka crying and next to her the empty eyes of Manami the ghost that walked with me for a year or more, the sister of Akari Kanata the second one to call me a hero after my Mom.
She put her hand on my chest where my heart lay.