"Bakugo! Y/n!" Kirishima came charging at us as we joined the line of the next ride, Katsuki looked highly irritated but upon seeing his expression we both frowned.
"What's the matter? Why're you panicking?" I asked, "Calm down and tell us what's going on."
And so he did exactly that.
"What?!" Katsuki roared before looking around, "bombs?!"
"Keep quiet!" Kirishima hushed, "we can't cause a panic or he could use it as an escape or a moment to set off the explosives!"
"You're right," I nodded, "and if we started the evacuation procedure it could end the exact same way. Damn--! This is an impossible situation."
"Midoriya thinks that he's a man in all black clothing," he told us, "can you help us try find him? You'll know its him if you see his face and its got a clown mask on."
"Right," we nodded.
"We'll help," I confirmed, "I'll alert the park security and tell them not to let anyone in or out but not to rouse any panicking."
"Then me and shitty hair will start searching for the bombs," Katsuki decided, "we can mark them on the map so we can see how many we're actually dealing with. Dunce face, pinkie, round face, deku and tape arms are searching for the villain so we can keep an eye out just in case but hope they find him first."
We nodded.
"Be careful," I told them.
"You too," Kirishima nodded.
"Don't you fucking die on me," Katsuki glared before we all ran off in different directions.
It didn't take long to get to park security.
"Excuse me," I walked in.
"Hello, miss, what're you doing here? Lost child? Lost items?" the bored guard at the desk asked.
I pulled out my hero ID and showed him it, he visibly freaked out before composing himself.
"Destruction!" he exclaimed, "what can I do for you?"
"I need you to close the gates, don't let anyone enter or exit the park. We have a Villain wandering around the park who is highly dangerous," I told him, "but we can't cause a panic or he can use it as a cover to attack. There are seven other heroes here in the park who are looking for him and trying to solve this. Can you help us by stopping anyone from entering and leaving?"
"Yes, ma'am," he nodded, "we can block all the checkpoints."
"If you see a man in all black wearing a clown mask, contact any of these numbers," I pulled out a piece of paper and wrote all of our work numbers on it before passing the paper to him, "I need to go and help now. But if you see him, do not engage, he's a highly dangerous villain and you can get yourself hurt if you try and interfere. Just contact us immediately."
"Of course," he nodded, "We'll get on it immediately."
"Thank you," I turned and ran out of the building and began searching. I paused as I passed a roller-coaster and looked up and stared at a large black box with a stupid flashing red light.
"Now that I know they're here... They're so obvious to notice," I muttered as I looked at the rides all around me to see identical boxes all over, "he must've snuck in as a worker and put them on disguised as repairs."
I looked around me at the crowds.
"This place won't stand a chance if they go off," I muttered before beginning to run around again and look for the man.
°🌺°
An hour later_
We all meet up in the quietest section of the park.
"We haven't found him!" Mina exclaimed.
"Every single ride in this damn Park has a bomb on it," Katsuki told us, "the larger one's have multiple ones on and even some of the food stalls and small game stands have small almost unnoticeable ones on them."
"The entrances and exits have been blocked by security and no one is getting in or out," I told everyone.
"This is so frustrating!" Kaminari exclaimed before his phone began ringing.
He pulled it out and showed us it. The ID was 'Unknown'.
"Answer it," Midoriya told him.
"Right," he nodded before answering the call.
"Heroes."
That voice.
"Shrapnel," Katsuki growled.
"Shall we play a game? By now I'm sure that you know there are bombs literally everywhere in this theme park. You have two hours to find me, after two hours, I'll set off a bomb every five minutes."
"If you do that, you'll injure so many people, kill them even!" Ochaco exclaimed.
"A few lives lost in this crappy world is nothing."
"Anyway, your two hours will begin as soon as this call is over. The rules are simple, you can do whatever you want, you can use your quirks but you can't alert any of the people working in the park other than the security you've already alerted. If you find me, which I doubt you will, I wish you luck."
We all listened to the call in frustration.
"Tick... Tock... Your time... Starts... Now!"
The call ended before we could say anything and we all looked at each other seriously.
"Alright, we need to think about this," I said, "think... Where would he be?"
"Somewhere where he can see us all?" Ochaco suggested.
"Security..?" Midoriya muttered, "no. That's too risky..."
"Somewhere high then," Sero said before turning and looking around, "but it wouldn't be a ride."
"But still really busy and filled with people," Kaminari added on.
"Is there something like that here?" I asked, Katsuki started at his phone before nodding. He turned it to us and pointed.
"There is. Right at the back of the park there's a hill with a bunch of kids rides and food and drink areas on it," he told us.
"Kids rides?" I hummed, "it would be the most busiest place if that's what's up there."
"The perfect cover," Kirishima added on, "there would be a ton of people so he could hide in the crowds easily but not only that but if we didn't find him, he could start with the bombs up there and it would cause a biggest disaster than in the main area because there will be a ton of families and people wanting to eat..."
"Then it's settled," Mina nodded, "we need to start up there."
"You guys go up there," I said, "Ochaco, come with me to the security station. We might be able to see him on the security feeds."
"Good idea," she nodded before Midoriya shrugged his bag off and opened it.
He started handing out earpieces.
"Let's wear these and keep in contact," he suggest as we all took one and put them in.
Once on we all tested them, once we knew they were working we all got serious and split up.
"This is crazy," Ochaco muttered as we ran to the security station again.
"What happened? I thought we caught The Shrapnel last year!" I shouted.
"No," she shook her head, "turns out he was just a fake... The real one escaped and we just thought he might have died from the wounds he sustained the last time we met him because they were pretty bad, fatal even."
"Guess he didn't die," I sighed, "we were just too ready to close the case and declare him not a threat."
"Seems so," she nodded as we reached the building before pausing, "y/n..."
I turned to her and gave her a curious look.
"Do you think this is revenge?" she asked, "...do you think he's getting revenge on us for what happened to him last year? If these people die it'll be our fault for not making sure that he was actually dead..."
I looked away and sighed.
"Even if we did look... We didn't know what his face looked like," I told her, "so we could never confirm it. But... I do think that this'll be revenge, we just have to work hard to ensure no one else gets hurt by him."