I sincerely apologize for the long wait. I had severe author's block with this chapter, and as I previously said, I was more interested in working on Zombies' Superstar Saga at the moment.

Either way, I'm glad to be able to get this out!

Chapter 34
Homecoming

Even though Mei hadn't recovered completely, she was already in a condition where she could actually walk. Because the students wanted to get back to their world as soon as possible, Batman arranged for her to be released from hospital already.

She was excited to be able to get back home, but at the same time, she was a bit disappointed that she wouldn't be able to stay longer and find out the technological wonders of this world. After being suggested that perhaps they could establish a connection between both worlds for easy access, she became more willing to return.

It was nighttime when the students were all gathered outside the Hall of Justice. Due to time zone differences between both countries, even if it involved two different universes, returning during this time of the day was the most ideal, as it would be morning or afternoon back in Japan, thus allowing them to get in contact with grownups more easily.

Superman, Wonder Woman, Batman, the Flash, Martian Manhunter, and Cyborg volunteered to go along with the students. The young heroes begged to tag along, and at first, the adult heroes wouldn't let them, but after much insistence and pondering, they decided that it wasn't a bad idea to take them along so that both sides could have a proper good-bye when they were going to depart.

Starfire, Raven, Kid Flash, Robin, Blue Beetle, and Beast Boy were the ones who decided to tag along.

Looking at the students, most of whom look excited, Superman said to them, "So you're all returning to day. I'm sure you're all very excited about this!"

"It has been fun and educational being in this world!" Tenya said to him. "We will never forget about the hospitality you showed us even after we go back, no matter how many years have passed!"

"I had a great time here! It was great seeing heroes from another universe and learning how they operate!" Izuku said to the Kryptonian. "Thank you for offering the chance to see all these great things, Mister Superman!"

"I'm glad that you enjoyed your stay here!" Superman said to him happily.

"And I guess it's your turn to guide us around in your world!" Wonder Woman said to the students.

"It is only fair that we do this in order to repay you the kindness you showed us!" Tenya said to her.

"I'm sure the heroes back in our world are going to be mind blown by everything we tell and show them!" said Ochako.

"I can already see the shocked looks on their faces! Heehee" said Mina while chuckling a bit.

"I bet they're going to be even more mind blown to know that we went on actual villain fighting missions without the supervision of adults!" said Katsuki. "They're gonna be jealous for sure!"

"All right, if you all are ready to go," said Cyborg as he raised his arm to input coordinates, "we'll be heading there now."

"Wait a minute!" called out male's voice. They looked and saw Green Arrow and Black Canary coming over.

"Oh yeah, Arrow and Canary! What are you two doing here?" the Flash asked them.

"Heard that these kids are going home at last?" asked Green Arrow while looking at the students. "We haven't really gotten to know each other, but I figured that I might as well come and see them off anyway, not to mention heading over to their place for a visit!"

"You two are coming with us?" asked Izuku, looking excited.

Black Canary nodded. "Yeah, but it's more of Green Arrow's idea. He heard that in your world, people with no powers cannot be heroes. He has a bone to pick with this, so he thought he should pay that place a visit to show them that such a mindset is wrong..."

"Yeah, look down on people with no powers, will you? I'll show them what I can do with just a bow and some arrows!" said Green Arrow.

"We have Batman here who can show them already..." Cyborg said to him.

"Wouldn't hurt to have more than one, right?" Green Arrow said to him. "Either way, not much has been happening in Star City as of late, and Arsenal can deal with whatever there is, so I'm tagging along if you don't mind."

"Nothing wrong with that! The bigger the party, the more fun there will be!" said the Flash.

A portal opened up in the middle of the day in the middle of a sidewalk. Out of it stepped the members of the Justice League and then the students of U.A. This phenomenon didn't go unnoticed, as there were some people around the place when this portal showed up, so they were surprised by such a sight and wondered was sort of Quirk created something like this.

The students looked around to verify their surrounding, and then most of them smiled. "This is outside our school grounds!" said Ochako happily.

"Yes! We're finally back!" said Eijiro as he threw his arms into the air. Pointing around the place, he said, "Yes, those are all familiar sights! We're definitely back!"

"So this is what your world looks like, huh? Not much different from ours," commented Kid Flash.

Green Arrow noticed all the people looking at them and asked, "Um... Is it all right we're attracting this much attention?"

"It'll be fine, since costumed superheroes are the norm here after all," Momo told him. "Just that they all have never seen you folks before..."

Izuku looked around with a large smile on his face, happy to know that they were finally back in their own world, and he couldn't wait to reunite with his teachers, classmates, and most importantly, his mother. Suddenly, he saw something that made him stop in his tracks. Noticing his strange behavior, Katsuki walked up to him while asking what happened, and then he, too, was surprised.

Everyone else noticed their behavior and so came over. The students now understood what made those two surprised.

There were many people, most of them were construction workers, standing just outside a part of the school wall, except the wall was no longer there. Instead, there was a pile of rubble.

The students rushed over to get a better look, and they were even more shocked to see what was in the school grounds. There were lots of cracks and craters on the ground, and even more shocking was that certain parts of the school building was destroyed!

"What... What happened?!" asked Momo in shock.

"Why is our school damaged like this?!" asked Fumikage.

One of the construction workers came over to them and said, "Kids! You shouldn't be here! This place is under construction and off limits!"

"What happened, sir?" Tsuyu asked him.

"Didn't you see the news?" the man said to her. "Villains attacked U.A., and the pro heroes here battled them. This resulted in the school being badly damaged."

"What... What happened to the students?!" asked a worried Izuku.

"No one was seriously hurt," replied the man. "Can't say the same about the pro heroes, though... From what I heard, quite a lot of them were injured, and I'm not sure if anyone died... Anyway, you shouldn't be here. We need to clean up this place!"

"We are students of this place, and we have been gone for a while, so we have no knowledge of everything that happened here!" Ochako said to him. "Are there are any staff members here currently whom we can contact? Please tell us!"

The worker was going to tell them to leave again when another person showed up, and the latter had a surprised look on his face as he looked at the students. "Midoriya! Uraraka! You all!" he said. "Where have you been?!"

The students widened their eyes in surprise and happiness upon seeing someone familiar after a long time. "Mister Aizawa!" said Izuku happily. Most of the students ran up to him, and Izuku even hugged him. "We miss you so much!"

"All right, all right... It's good to have you back," Shota Aizawa, AKA Eraserhead, said to them. "Now you better explain to me where you've all been all this time."

"We can explain everything, sir," said Superman as the Justice League members came forward. "Though I think you will have a hard time believing it."

Shota looked at the heroes with narrowed eyes and asked, "Who are you people?"

"It's... going to be hard to explain..." said the Kryptonian, looking a bit nervous. "Like I said, you're going to have a hard time believing it..."

"We went to another universe, Mister Aizawa," Izuku told Shota. "On the night of the night patrol lesson, we encountered actual villains that came to our world using advanced technology, and we ended up following to them to their world that has lots of heroes like ours!"

"Indeed! While we were there, these heroes took us in and cared for us, not to mention trained us!" added Tenya.

"We even fought actual villains!" said Katsuki in a way that sounded like he enjoyed it.

"What we said is true, Mister Aizawa!" insisted Ochako. "It may sound unbelievable, but it's definitely true!"

"And it's the best thing to ever happen to me ever!" said Mei excitedly.

Shota could do nothing but stare at the students and those heroes with an expression that seemed to be asking, "What on earth are you people babbling about...?"

"Okay... That's the craziest story I've ever heard..." he said. "Anyway, you should probably tell it to the principal."

"Oh right! Where is the principal and even all the other staff members of U.A.?" asked Izuku in concern. "And what happened here?"

"Villains attacked the place," replied Shota. "They were all led by All For One, who escaped from prison."

Hearing this, all the students were shocked. "All For One escaped prison?!" asked Eijiro.

"How can that be?!" said Fumikage in disbelief.

"Sadly, that is true..." said Shota. "He led an army of never-seen-before villains, all of whom appears to be from America, and attacked the place. They were powerful... Even Endeavor is no match for them... In fact, we would've been annihilated by them if it weren't for never-seen-before American heroes showing up to help us and sending them fleeing."

When the Justice League heard this, they were intrigued. "The American heroes... What do they look like?" Batman asked him.

Looking at Batman, Shota said, "There are six of them. One of them is a black-haired man wearing a black suit with a blue bird-like insignia on his chest..."

Before Shota could continue on, Batman interrupted him, "Theory confirmed! Nightwing and the other heroes are indeed in this world."

"Well, that was fast and easy!" said the Flash.

"I take that you know who those people are?" Shota asked the League.

Wonder Woman nodded. "Indeed, those are heroes who come from our world, and as for the villains who attacked this place, I'm afraid they are from our world as well..."

Shota held up his hand as if motioning for them to stop. "I'm not going to bother with whether or not you're telling the truth. You should just tell it to the principal of the school instead, like I said earlier. He's currently in hospital."

The heroes wasted no time in rushing over to the hospital Principle Nedzu was currently in. Imagine the look on the anthromorphic animal's face when he saw Shota showing up in his ward with the students that went missing for several days.

The principle himself wasn't that badly injured. Other than some large but harmless scratches here and there, he was in a good condition and could in fact leave hospital tomorrow.

He had just finished listening to the explanation of the students about where they went all this time and their adventures in the other world. "Looks like you've been enjoying yourself all this time," Nedzu said to them. "Good to know that nothing happened to you!"

"Do you really believed everything we just said?" Mina asked him.

"It does sound very unbelievable, but with the advent of Quirks, I wouldn't say it's completely unrealistic," replied Nedzu. "Either way, I would like to meet these heroes from that other world."

"By the way, principle, how is All Might?" Izuku asked him, sounding worried.

"You do not have to worry about him," Nedzu told him. "Other than minor injuries, he is in a good condition. He is in this hospital as well, so I'm sure you will want to see him. He misses you students a lot and is even blaming himself for what happened! You should really go and let him know that you're all back."

"We definitely should, and then we must get in contact with our parents and classmates! Everyone we know of should be notified of our return!" said Tenya. "We have been gone for far too long and left them worrying too much. We can never make up for our absense!"

"You're making too big of a deal out of this..." an annoyed Katsuki said to him.

"All right, I'll take you to All Might," Shota said to the students. "And the other heroes can come in and speak with the principle."

Shota and the students exited the room, and a few seconds later, the founding League members came into the ward and greeted the principle. "Greetings, sir," Superman said to him. "I apologize if we are disturbing your rest."

"Not at all!" Nedzu happily said to him. "On the contrary, I really wanted to meet you after all that I've heard! Assuming everything I heard from the students is true, then I really have to thank you for taking care of them all this time!"

"What they said is all true," Superman assured him. "And we are happy to be of help!"

"Then again, I thank you very much for helping our students when they are in time of need and also bringing them back here!" the principle said to them happily. "We were already out of ideas on what to do to find them. How can I ever repay you?"

"Your gratitude is a good enough reward," Wonder Woman said to him. "We are glad to be a help!"

"So you believe that we do come from another universe?" Cyborg asked the principle.

"I consider myself to be well versed with all the pro heroes in the world, underground or not, not to mention several other unrelated news, so the fact that I have never heard of any of you despite all the feats the students told me about, I have no choice but to accept this as the truth," said Nedzu. "After all, scientists have been debating on the eixstence of multiverses for quite some time. We finally have proof that this is true! This finding will definitely make it to the headlines!"

"We prefer to not cause too much presence and leave as quietly and as soon as possible," said Batman. "From what we know, your school was attacked by a large group of villains, majority of which you have never seen before, and you all could've perished if it weren't for the assistance of heroes you have never seen before arriving unexpectedly."

"That is indeed the case," confirmed Nedzu with a nod.

"After hearing the description of those heroes from one of your school staffs, we can definitely confirm that they are from our world, having been brought here unintentionally by villains from our world, and it was our world's villains that attacked you, after teaming up with the villains of your world," continued Batman.

"I had the feeling that is indeed the case," said Nedzu.

"First off, we're sorry that our problem became your problem," Superman told the principle. "Since we are well versed with those villains, we will see to it that they get apprehended and brought back to our world as soon as possible. However, I must warn you that things may get rather catastrophic, considering we know the true mastermind behind this. That person is likely the reason your students ended up in our world as well."

"Catastrophe is what heroes are born to face, so you do not have to worry," Nedzu told him. "I'm sure the heroes of our world are more than willing to lend you their support in bringing down the masterminds behind all this! You do not have to burden yourself with everything just because the problem sprung from your world. Now that it came over to our world, it is our problem and responsibility as well."

A bunch of gangster were inside a dirty room of an old apartment, counting money they obtained from selling drugs and other illegal materials.

As they were enjoying themselves with booze and other activities, one of them suddenly rushed into the room in great panic. "Heroes! They found our operation!" he cried.

All the gangsters immediately stood up, some of them taking out guns, to get ready to take on the heroes. Some of them left the room and looked around with awareness.

Suddenly, a boomerang-like object was thrown at the sole light bulb of the hallway, destroying it and darkening the place. Even though it was daytime, it was still rather dark within the building.

Before the gangster knew it, someone armed with a pair of escrima sticks showed up and started beating them up with fast-paced hits, and none of them could fight back at all. The sound of the beating and the gangsters' screaming could be heard by the ones in the room, which was closed, and they were worried and even scared about the opponent they were facing.

Back outside, Nightwing was able to knock out all the gangsters with ease. However, one gangster he knocked down slowly got back up and faced the vigilante from behind with an angry look. He quietly got back up and then lengthened his nails, which glowed brightly with heat, to get ready to take on Nightwing. Before he could do anything, however, he was zapped from behind by electricity and then passed out.

Nightwing turned around to see Black Lightning standing there. "I knew he was getting back up, but thanks anyway," the former told him.

"I wouldn't want to be left out of this," Black Lightning said to him. The two heroes then headed for the room on the far end. Nightwing tried opening the door, which was locked. The two heroes looked at each other and nodded before Nightwing gave it a powerful kick to break it down.

When the two heroes entered the room, the gangsters armed with gun immediately recognized them as enemies and open fired. Acting quick, Black Lightning lifted his hand and filled the air with electricity, which caused the bullets to freeze when they came in contact with it and fall to the floor. The gangster kept on firing until they were out of bullets, and then Black Lightning shot beams of electricity at their weapons to disarm them.

There were four men not armed with weapons, and they stepped forward to face the heroes.

One of them had black, spiky hair and wore a white t-shirt and a pair of jeans.

The second one was a mutant type who looked like an anthropomorphic rhinoceros.

The third man was a muscular man with long brown hair wearing a white t-shirt and a pair of black trousers.

The fourth person was a woman with long purple hair wearing a blue vest over a white shirt and a pair of denim hot pants.

"Don't think you can barge in here and arrest us just like this!" the first man angrily said to them. "You'll pay with your lives for coming here!" He then raised his arms, which transformed into a pair of swords. "Prepare to die!"

Nightwing got into a fighting stance as he readied his escrima sticks and charged them with electricity. "I hear that being said to me all the time."

They both charged at each other and began clashing with their weapons, while the others watched. The man with sword arms swung his transformed arms wildly at Nightwing, who easily blocked them all. Due to being a skilled fighter, Nightwing could tell that this person didn't actually have swordsmanship skills but was simply swinging however he wanted to.

After dodging and blocking some of the sword swings, Nightwing trust his sticks against the man's abdomen, zapping him with the electricity. The man cried in pain and was zapped for several seconds before falling back onto the floor.

The rhinoceros man saw this and angrily said to Nightwing, "How dare you?!" He then charged at the vigilante, but was stopped when Black Lightning fired electricity at him. "YAAAAAAAAAA!"

Seeing this, the muscular man turned to Black Lightning and took a deep breath before blowing a large amount of air at him that sent him into a wall. He then turned to Nightwing and blew him into the wall as well.

The rhino man was still conscious despite getting electrocuted just now. He approached Nightwing and pinned him to the wall by the neck and readied to punch him in the head. Acting quick, Nightwing jammed his sticks against the rhino man's arm that was pinning him against the wall and zapped him, causing him to cry in pain and let him go. Nightwing then leaped up and kicked him with both feet to push him backwards several steps.

Just before the rhino man fell to the floor, Black Lightning zapped him with electricity and somehow managed to hold him in midair. The muscular man with strong blowing powers saw this and was going to blow air at Black Lightning again, but the latter swung the rhino man into him, sending them both flying across the room and hitting a wall so hard that they crashed through it and into the next room.

With the male villains down, the two heroes turned to the woman, who had been doing nothing all this time. "So... are we going to do this the hard way or...?" Black Lightning asked her in English, even though she likely wouldn't understand.

"Tsk... It just has to be me to solve everything all the time..." the woman said in a frustrated voice.

"You sound pretty confident," commented Nightwing as he got into a fighting stance. "Well, let's hope you can back up your words. I'm not trying to look down on you, mind you."

"Oh, you better not look down on me!" said the woman as she got into a running position. In a blink of an eye, she dashed into Black Lightning at a tremendous speed and left behind a trail of blue light when she did so. The electric hero never saw what was coming to him and got pushed across the room and slammed into a wall by her.

Nightwing was shocked by the woman's speed, and before he knew it, he fell victim to the woman as well when she dashed into him afterwards, also slamming him into a wall. The woman then threw him into the trail of light she created when she ran. When he flew through it, he felt a burning feeling all over his body. After hitting the floor, he got back up while groaning in pain and said, "A speedster?!"

"My Quirk, Break Speed, allows me to not only move at super speeds, but also leave behind trails of light that stick around for a few seconds and harms whatever touches them!" she explained. She saw Black Lightning firing a bolt of electricity at her, but she dashed out of the way in time and ran up to the hero in a blink of an eye.

However, when she grabbed him, the latter released electricity from all over his body, zapping her and making her pull back. He then shot her in the body with a blast of electricity to sent her flying backwards, crashing into a wall. Nightwing then threw multiple wingdings that separated into two but still connected to each other via steel wires as they flew through the air. Using these, he was able to bind the female villain to the wall.

She struggled to break free, but was unable to do so.

"That should do it," said Nightwing.

The man with sword arms was getting back up again, but Black Lightning zapped him again to knock him out. "So... we grab their cash and make off with it?" he asked Nightwing.

"As much as I don't want to do this, we have no choice, because it's the only way we can obtain cash to survive at the moment..." said Nightwing.

"Better than letting it fall into people like them, at least..." said Black Lightning.

Several minutes passed by, the police arrived at the apartment room after receiving an anonymous call about villains being subdued here and that they could come to arrest them.

When the police entered the room, they were surprised to see all the villains bounded and unable to move. Some were conscious, but some were still unconscious.

They looked around to see if the person who called them was present, but there were nobody other than the bound villains, so they wondered who could have called them and also subdued these villains.

On the rooftop of another building, Nightwing put the bag containing the money belonging to the villains onto the floor to show it to the other heroes. "I feel like a thief doing this..." he said.

"Hey, it can't be helped if we have to find a way to sustain ourselves until help arrives," Green Lantern said to him. "The only other option is to surrender ourselves to the law for being vigilantes so that we can get free prison food, but... I think we all agree that it's a terrible idea..."

"And like they can even contain me in the first place..." said Supergirl.

They were going to discuss what to do next when Nightwing's communication device in the form of a smartphone suddenly rang. Surprised, he answered the call. "Hello? This is Nightwing."

"Nightwing, it's me, Batman! Do you copy?" said the voice on the other end.

It goes without saying that Nightwing and the other heroes were surprised.

In the hospital Nedzu was admitted to, a nurse went up to a particular ward room and knocked on the door. "Mister Yagi, is it all right if I come in?" she asked.

"Come on in! Don't be surprised if you do!" replied a cheerful, masculine voice from behind the door.

The nurse wondered why the patient sounded high in spirits. She opened the door and went inside, and she was surprised by what she saw.

The students of 1-A and Mei were in there, looking in awe at a muscular man wearing hospital garb in awe standing before them. With his hands on his waist and looking proud, he said to the awed nurse, "As you can see, nurse, I am feeling great. Never have I felt better in my life!"

Izuku looked at the bottle that Kaguya gave her when he went to Gensokyo and said as tears of joy ran down his eyes, "It... It worked! It really worked! All Might... He's back to full strength again!"

TO BE CONTINUED

And there you have it, All Might is back to his prime again! I told you the trip to Gensokyo wasn't filler at all! It was all for this exact moment!