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The League of Villains Heroes Prologue 4

Author's Note: This is going to be a long, multi-chapter story about what happens after the end of the story, how the remaining members of the League of Villains adapt to their new lives full of therapy and new jobs and new relationships. But, when they get dragged into a fight against an ancient evil trying to take over the planet, this group of former villains might have to become a group of reluctant heroes.

No smut. Some strong language and violence in some chapters.

Prologue 1: Shigaraki Prologue 2: Dabi Prologue 3: Toga Prologue 4: Spinner Prologue 5: Mr. Compress

Shuichi Iguchi, who still insisted that everyone call him Spinner, drew his sword. In one clean motion, he struck down the rat that had emerged from the water in the sewer, hissing and trying to reach him with its claws. He spun around, slicing through the second rat that he knew would attack from behind. The motions were extremely familiar to him. After all, he’d cleared this first dungeon in the game several times by now.

Sitting in his shiny red and black vinyl chair with a controller in his hands, he glanced at his second monitor. He’d only begun the stream a few minutes ago and the chat was already lively, the text scrolling up almost too fast for him to keep up with. He caught a lot of the messages though, these past two years of being a streamer giving him a good eye for messages he’d like to respond to.

“Yeah, the whole killing rats in the sewer thing is so tired at this point,” he said, agreeing with a chatter who called this dungeon boring. “At least make the rats interesting, right? Maybe give them all funny hats.”

Several lines of “lol” and various laughing emojis slid up the screen.

He caught another message just before it disappeared off the top and addressed it. “Yes, LizardLoverGirl, I’m wearing the shirt you sent me!”

He paused the game and leaned back so the camera could get a better view of his hot pink t-shirt that read, “One Sexy Gecko” across the front. It had clearly been custom made and had been delivered yesterday to the address he had listed for his followers to send him gifts. Upon opening it, he’d burst into laughter for a good ten minutes, and then decided to wear it on stream.

Someone in the chat, a user name he didn’t recognize as one of the regulars, asked, “Were there rats in prison?”

The question didn’t bother Spinner. He’d been very open about his past and that included the eight months he’d spent in prison. In fact, his status as a former villain had led directly to him becoming the popular streamer he was today.

When he was looking for work and feeling lost about what to do with his life, he’d posted in an anonymous forum about being a villain fresh out of prison who’s only real skill was playing video games. Someone had commented that he should make a video about a recent game and call it, “Actual Villain reacts to new Heroes vs Villains game”. The game itself was a fighting game that pitted lots of fictional villains against fictional heroes. And while fighting games were not his forte, Spinner had played it competently while discussing the various villain characters and whether any of them would stand a chance against the real heroes he’d fought.

The video quickly went viral, launching Spinner into internet fame almost overnight. The outpouring of interest and attention had shocked him, and he’d started streaming right after, using the popularity of his video to gain momentum.

Now he was one of the top video game streamers in Japan, regularly pulling in millions of views. People seemed to like his candid discussions of his past as a villain, and gravitated to what they called his “down to earth attitude”.

So to answer the chatter’s question, he chuckled and said, “Didn’t see any rats in prison. I saw a few roaches though. Honestly I think that’s worse.”

The unfamiliar chatter immediately shot back, “I thought you eat insects.”

Spinner, totally accustomed to comments like that, didn’t even pause his game. “Haha, because I’m a lizard, right?”

In the corner of his eye, he saw a private message from one of his moderators asking if she should kick the chatter or mute them. He sent back a quick, “not yet”.

Spinner didn’t get this popular by avoiding these types of interactions. So he laughed again and added, “Actually I eat the same things you do, mc1300. Except I probably eat less ass than you do.”

The chat filled with laughing emojis and several heart emojis as his followers cheered his response.

The chatter, with the vague handle mc1300, was silent for a few minutes, to the point that Spinner wondered if they left. But then they said one more line. Just two words. “Fucking morlock.”

The chat went crazy with angry or shocked reactions. Spinner sent his mod a message telling her to go ahead and permanently ban mc1300.

“They’re permabanned,” he told his audience. “No slurs allowed in here.”

The term “morlock” had picked up steam lately among racist shitheads who hated heteromorphs. Apparently it came from an old comic book, used to describe a group of hideous mutants who lived underground because they were too disgusting to live among normal people.

It certainly wasn’t the first time the term had been thrown at him, and definitely wouldn’t be the last. Though he’d dealt with discrimination many times in his life, he’d never put a lot of thought into heteromorph issues or how to make things better. That is, until he’d been manipulated into leading a charge of angry heteromorphs to reclaim Kurogiri.

His memories of that day were extremely fuzzy. He remembered feeling the righteous fury boiling behind him as he moved down the street, but in that moment, his fucked up mind couldn’t even process exactly what they were angry about, even though he should have known better than anyone. After it was all over, after he was released from prison, he was occasionally stopped on the street by heteromorphs he didn’t recognize, asking what his plans going forward were, as if he were some activist working for heteromorph rights. It made him feel guilty, and he usually just told them he wanted to get his life put back together before he did anything else.

Then, after he started streaming, some heteromorph chatters would occasionally tell stories of being bullied or even assaulted, just for being heteromorphs. The stories disturbed Spinner, but they also made him feel like he should be using his platform to help in some way.

He’d started out small, spending one day out of the week not playing games but instead just talking about heteromorph issues, reacting to related news stories or just reading out stories shared by his followers. These segments had become so popular that he now devoted two days out of the week to them.

The reaction among his audience had been incredible. He’d expected the segments to be popular with the heteromorph community, but he hadn’t anticipated that his sizable non-heteromorph audience would also take an interest in the stories. By now, he’d lost count of how many fans had written to him to say they had no idea heteromorphs were facing so much discrimination and that they wanted to help in whatever way they could.

Over the past two years, Spinner had become a prominent voice online for discussing heteromorph rights, and he’d even been invited to speak on televised news programs. Many people credited him for raising awareness of, and helping to get approved, a new law. This law required all municipalities to have at least one heteromorph representative in local government for every ten percent of their population that’s made up of heteromorphs. It wasn’t a perfect solution to the problems faced by heteromorphs, but it was a step in the right direction to ensure they had a voice in local politics, even in rural areas.

Spinner also regularly did twenty-four hour charity streams to raise money for heteromorph charities and outreach programs. Last month Shigaraki had even come over and played a few hours to give him a break, though the former League leader wore a mask and kept a hood over his hair.

Still, it felt good to be doing something to help, even something as small as just talking about the issues.

As the afternoon wore on, the chat grew more crowded and more active. He talked back and forth with people while playing his game, and eventually someone asked a question he couldn’t resist answering.

“Tell us something interesting about each former member of the League of Villains!”

Spinner smiled. He occasionally saw this type in the chat, people who thought the League was cool despite their crimes. But he found the admiration amusing so he usually indulged them.

He paused the game and leaned back in his chair to stretch. “Let’s see… something interesting. Okay, Mr. Compress loves puns and ‘dad jokes’. He usually bombed but sometimes he’d say something really hilarious and we’d laugh about it for like an hour straight. Dabi snores, like, really bad. Every night one of us had ‘Dabi Duty’ which meant we had to go kick him or roll him over so he’d stop snoring for a while.”

Spinner watched the chat light up with various reactions.

“As for Toga, she was just a really chill, fun girl. When I first met her I could’ve sworn she’d be the type to call all of us creeps and tell us to stay away from her. But she wasn’t like that at all. Sometimes we all had to sleep on the floor in one room and she’d just crawl right in the middle of us. Of course she knew none of us would do anything inappropriate. We all viewed her as a little sister. But she never complained about being stuck with a bunch of smelly guys.”

More reactions, and several people saying, “What about Shigaraki?”

Spinner watched the chat scroll up for a moment, then said, “Shigaraki? Well I guess the most interesting thing about him was just how nice he was. I know that sounds crazy, but if he saw you as a comrade, he treated you well. He never bossed us around. He always treated us with respect. He was considerate, in his own way.”

And of course, some random chatter had to ruin the moment by saying, “Yeah, it sure was considerate of him to kill so many people.”

Spinner took a deep breath, then held up one hand in front of the camera in a halting motion. “Mods, don’t kick him yet. I wanna talk about this.”

He took a moment to compose himself, then spoke again. “Look, I know Shigaraki did some terrible things. So did I. But you have to understand that he was being manipulated by All for One from the time he was five years old. Five. Think about that. And he paid for his crimes. He served his time in prison, just like I did. He’s working hard to get his life on track. That, and he’s my best friend. We don’t allow Shigaraki hate here, so take that shit somewhere else.”

He paused for a second, then added, “Mods you can kick him now.”

For the next hour, the stream was relatively uneventful. No more haters trying to provoke him. No uncomfortable questions. Spinner was actually focusing on the game. Until he started noticing snippets of small conversations going on in chat.

Something about people going missing and strange purple lights. He started paying more attention, eventually pausing his game and asking for more details.

“You haven’t heard? Aliens are invading lol,” someone said.

“It’s not aliens! It’s a new villain!”

“How could you say that to our favorite villain?”

“He’s not a villain anymore, idiot.”

Spinner laughed and moved on. If there was a new villain out there, he wanted nothing to do with them.

His phone vibrated and he picked it up from his desk, absently opening it without paying attention to who sent the text message. His eyes widened as he read it.

“We’re having a little League reunion tonight at Chisa’s Bar. 7pm. Hope you can make it!”

Spinner grinned, knowing exactly who sent it without having to check. He sent a quick reply and turned to the camera. “I’ll be cutting the stream off a little early tonight. I suddenly have plans.”

There were some sad or disappointed reactions, but a few curious chatters asked if his plans involved “former villain stuff”. He laughed and said, “Maybe. Or maybe I have a hot date with mc1300’s mom.”

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