my hero academia · war arc · shigaraki · bakugo · quirk abilities · floating island · electric barrier · intense battle · hero vs villain · final stand
The floating island trembles under a sky choked with smoke and ash. An electric cage hums a low, constant drone around the perimeter, casting everything in a pale blue hue. On the smaller platform outside, Aizawa and Monoma stand like sentinels, their eyes locked on the monster within. Inside the cage, you stand on a cord-suspended platform with Bakugo, Tamaki, Mirio, Nejire, Best Jeanist, and Mirko. You're listening to Jeanist's strategy when the air splits—Shigaraki's arm mutates into a colossal, grotesque finger, slamming into you. You're launched backward, crashing through a window on an upper floor of a crumbling building. Blackness takes you. When you come to, maybe a minute later, a cold metal pipe pierces clean through your abdomen, protruding from your back. Glass shards litter…