Flames of Hope

Chapter 51

"Do you think the likes of you can defeat me?" His ears pick up one of the clones whispered,

"Destruction has arrived..."

Tomura looks up at the building, he'd reached it finally after disintegrating dozens of fools trying to stop him. Raising his hand, Tomura activates his quirk and places it one the building, watching as the building decays and collapses in on itself. A cloud of dust bellows out from the crash site, before a figure crawls from the ash and Tomura tilts his head, confused, saying;

"You... You're that man from the commercials... Detnerat?" Re-Destro cracks his neck replying cryptically;

"You won't get your answers."

Black energy leak from Re-Destro, making the man bulk up as the black stuff wrap around parts of his body and makes the man tower over Tomura, but the silver haired man looks at the bulky man impassively, tauting;

"What happened to your numbers huh? Where's all that confidence now?" The man snarled angrily,

"They won't matter when you dead, Tomura Shigaraki!" At high speeds, Re-Destro charges at Tomura, and grips the Decay user's hands, crushing them beneath his strength stating;

"That's for killing so many of my men." Re-Destro continues; "What are you going to do now? Your Abilities relies on five fingers to activate!" As the bulked up man taunts Tomura, he unknowingly knocks off some of the hands that Tomura wears, crushing them too.

Crimson eyes glared at Re-Destro, two fingers tapped on the black energy, and it decayed, causing Re-Destro to recoil, asking with confusion;

"Your ability shouldn't work without five fingers... Did we receive the wrong information?" Re-Destro studies the man in front of him and realises;

'It's not that... No, he's being LIBERATED! He's breaking free of his bindings and becoming more than he was before... A true Liberator!'

Tomura clutches his head, an unknown barrier crumbling before him, flooding his mind with memories long forgotten, long buried in the darkest recesses of his broken mind.

-A five year old Tenko Shimura cries as he's dragged by the man, he calls a father; he feels the fabric of his shirt dig deep into his neck as he's pulled along by his angered father. Tenko sobs, trying to beg his father for forgiveness, but the man glares at Tenko, biting out;

"Tenko. You should know that heroes are bad, and you can never be a hero. Never ."

He's tossed out into the garden, remembering how he had gotten here...

Wondering around his hometown, Tenko had stumbled upon a kitten trapped in a tree; being the hero wannabe he is, he went to get the kitten out, only to fall when he lost his grip. Before he could hit the ground, a tall man in a crisp black suit caught him, his white hair waving as a deep, soothing voice came from the man's mouth;