"It's about time for the second semester to start, right? Or has it started already?" the voice was calm, yet it was evident that it was also amused "Here I thought you'd be completely absorbed in their education but..."
The man grinned when he heard someone stop in front of him, only a reinforced glass separating them.
"What do you seek from me, All Might?"
The famous pro-hero, the one who had defeated the emperor of the criminal underworld, remained silent for almost a full minute, looking at his nemesis with eyes completely filled with repressed hatred and anger.
The guards, who were monitoring the meeting between the two, were uncomfortable seeing so much hatred in the eyes of a man like him, yet here he was: All Might, the former Number One Pro-Hero, looking at another man as if the hero had every intention of killing him with his own hands.
Clenching his fists until they bled, the former hero sat down, without ever looking away from the man immobilized against a wheelchair beyond the glass.
"I'm here to settle things, All For One."
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THE TITANS
PROLOGUE
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"Oh I'm sure you're here for that...but I don't know if you're here only for that." said All For One with an amused voice "Fortunately, science and the study of Quirks have made progress so as to allow my caretakers to recognize whatever type of Quirk I decide to use...so now I can serenely use some of them like Infrared Ray, Search and Detect Emotions." he imperceptibly tilted his head to one side "And right now I feel like...a disproportionate amount of hate and anger coming from you...and it seems that all these emotions are aimed to me. I wonder why..."
"You know very well why!"
The sudden outburst surprised the guards, but All For One didn't react to his words, merely smiling.
"Forgive me, All Might, but I've done a lot of things in my life that would deserve such emotions, so you'll have to tell me what you're specifically referring to..." he tilted his head so that it seemed that he was looking upwards, as if he wanted to remember something "Does it concern the moment when I killed your teacher...? Or maybe when I told you about her and Tomura's relationship? Or maybe...?"
A fist impacted against the glass, producing a dull and faint noise.
"Him! What the hell did you do to him?!" hissed All Might with burning eyes.
"All Might, please move away from the glass and do not touch it anymore, otherwise we will be forced to escort you out of the room." said a male voice from the loudspeakers positioned above them. The hero didn't seem to hear him but removed his hand from the glass anyway.
"Him...?" repeated All For One with feigned ignorance "Him...him...him...AH! Him! Midoriya Izuku, correct?"
If possible, All Might's gaze seemed to become even more furious and, without knowing it, some guards had been prepared outside the room, armed with rifles and soporific bullets. Slowly, the hero stood up, and the guards in the monitor room found themselves holding their breath.
"What have you done?"
"A simple question deserves a simple answer. I helped him." said All For One with a little grin.
"You didn't help him! You turned him into a-!"
"A what?" the villain cut him off with an amused smile "A monster? Oh no no no, nothing like that, please. I am a man of science, after all." his smile slowly turned into a triumphant grin "I call them...Titans."
"You ruined his life and that of other people! Now tell me how can I help them or I swear that-!" the hero was again cut off by the light laughter of All For One.
"You swear...what, All Might?"
In an instant, All Might turned from a skeletal and sick man to a mountain of muscle, whose face was a mask of rage "I swear that I will destroy this glass and put an end to your life, once and for all!"
"Oh that look so full of hate...I wonder what your teacher would say if he saw you like that..." the blind man could only laugh before returning to show his grin "You want to know how to help them? How to stop them before it's too late? It's very simple, really! There is only one way to help them, only one..."
He leaned slightly forward, ignoring the lasers of the automatic weapons surrounding him, just as he ignored the metallic noises of the bullets that were inserted in the respective barrels.
All For One's words were barely a whisper, but All Might heard them anyway and in an instant, all the fury and hatred burning in his heart were swept away by a feeling of fear and defeat.
"Let them fight."
TO BE CONTINUED...
ARC 1: GENESIS OF THE TITANS
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand yes, here we are...a new story!
Before you start throwing rocks, grenades, etc. at me, I would just like to say that my main computer is dead, so I can't work on the other chapters I was writing. So, waiting to get my computer back, I dusted off an old PC with Windows 7 still installed and started a new story.
I admit to being inspired by Godzilla for several things so you might notice some quotes (just a few and veeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeery small COFF sarcasm COFF), but anyway, I hope this first taste has intrigued you!
I also want to thank Saint Danielle for helping me outline some details of this fic! If you want to read a fic with Venom!Izuku a little different than usual, I recommend his 'Survival of Soul'!
As I said, I hope this story has intrigued you and, little spoiler: expect a lot of blood!
See you next time!
