Nightmare AU

(Okay, but imagine this: Corruption. Murders. All these in Deku's nightmare, which seems too real to be true. I mean, it isn't true, haha... isn't it...?)

(I found this page and decided to go with it, I thought it was a pretty good idea for a "Nightmare AU".)

### WARNING: MENTIONS OF DEATH AND/OR HORROR. PLEASE REFRAIN FROM READING IF THIS TRIGGERS OR DISTURBS YOU.

(Please let me know if you are perhaps disrespected or offended by the way this "death" is handled. I will make the change promptly. Thank you very much.)

## Overview

Deku wakes up somewhere in darkness, having been rendered unconscious earlier. He has no memory of how or when he got there. Desperate to get home, he heads out of the "Void" - wherever he woke up in - and ventures into the outside. The outside could be considered a perfect replica of his world. The "Void" appears to be his home in Mustutafu, Japan, while places like Aldera Junior High and even UA Academy are intact. The only thing that appears off is that not a single person, not even Deku's mother, is present in the deserted city. The lights are all fused and darkened, and the sky is an odd black, save the blood-red full moon.

Deku's aim is getting to his true home safely amid this bizarre, even terrifying land, where everybody he has ever known become corrupted into all forms of beasts or monsters.

He does succeed, but in the end, before he gets to the exit, he wakes up again, this time in his seemingly normal home. He gets up and realizes that it is time for school; however, as he walks around the house, he starts to feel disturbed by the obvious signs of grief shown by his mother, who ignores him completely. Only when he turns to a photo on the wall does he understand what has happened - the photo is a mourning portrait of himself, suggesting that he has died in the Nightmare world, and now roams as a ghost.

* He has, perhaps, died for quite a long time now.

(Yes, I made this quite an RPG game-like AU.)

## Characters

### Izuku Midoriya (Deku)

The one who's stuck in this hell of a world. Let's all hope he makes out untraumatized.

### Class 1-A

The students are all corrupted. To name a few as examples:

##### Katsuki Bakugo

Bakugo is corrupted into a "slaughterman", wielding everything from grenades to axes. Fast and aggressive. Will stop at nothing to hunt Deku down, and only running through a certain alley will stop him from chasing.

##### Shoto Todoroki

Cold and unnerving; his face is shrouded in shadow in this AU, and does not speak at all. Deals massive attacks one after another in a strategic way.

##### Tenya Iida

Iida's voice is stuck as a voice tape, and can only replay certain sounds to make up words. He is still wearing half of his Hero costume, and the body parts in the costume are all crushed by metallic parts. (Concept is similar to Springlocks from the horror game Five Nights at Freddy's.)

(The detailed corruptions of all these students can be changed! This is merely my own depiction.)

### All Might

He is no longer in his "powered-up form". He remains a frail man, but his eyes are completely dark; the wound in his stomach is also showing and fresh. In this AU, he serves something as a "ghost of hope", an illusion that guides Deku through the corrupted world. He is mostly seen as flashes, accompanied with high, static sounds.

* Notably, he might be the only Hero present in the AU.

* Similarly, perhaps the Villains are absent in this AU.

## Ending (?)

Deku does succeed in finding the escape door, but in the end, before he gets to the exit, he wakes up from an apparent dream, this time in his seemingly normal home. He gets up and realizes that it is time for school; however, as he walks around the house, he starts to feel disturbed by the obvious signs of grief shown by his mother, who ignores him completely. Only when he turns to a photo on the wall does he understand what has happened - the photo is a mourning portrait of himself, suggesting that he has died in the Nightmare world, and now roams as a ghost. (Bad Ending)

The good ending version would be that instead of Deku waking up before getting to the exit, he actually does make it. After doing so he wakes up in his room to see his mother who was worried sick about him because he was sleeping for so long.