Chapter 32.
Levi swallowed hard, this might be impossible even for him. Aizawa, Lioness, Blizzard, Eclipse, Snakes, Sand Golem, Endeavor, Rio, Spartan, and himself had all arrived to fight Shigaraki. Aizawa took note of the bodies he saw.
"He killed Jaeger? Lady Liberty is down but I can't tell if she's dead or not, Yankee is nowhere to be seen ." He thought. He knew his quirk would be mostly useless here since it didn't work on All for One except for when he tried to take quirks.
"Ah everyone on my list is here." Tomura said wickedly.
"Jaeger!" Blizzard yelled seeing the dead body. "You bastard!"
"Klaus no!" Lioness lamented.
"There will be a time to mourn later. We have to stop him now!" Spartan said.
"None of you are going to see another day!" Shigaraki said as he charged forward.
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Izuku ran to the battle but kept getting stuck helping people who were trapped from debris. He was torn knowing Shigaraki would cause more death and destruction if he didn't get there quick but he simply could not leave someone to their death.
"Take my hand!" Izuku said lifting a large piece of rubble off a trapped couple.
"It's him! Midoriya!" The woman cried in fear.
"You're the one who caused all that damage!" The man said.
"I know, and I hate myself for it." Izuku confesses. "I wasn't myself, I know my actions can never be forgiven, you don't have to forgive me, just take my hand! Please! I'm going to save you all!" Hearing these honest words made the couple believe in him.
"Okay!" The man said as he helped his wife up. Izuku pulled them both out and checked to make sure they weren't injured.
"You guys good?" Izuku asked.
"Yes." The woman said gratefully.
"I was wrong about you." The man said. "You're right in what you did was unforgivable but, I see now you are trying to make up for it. Thank you."
"Don't worry, it will all be okay!" Izuku said smiling as he ran off to help more people.
"Was it me or did he remind you of All Might?" The woman asked.
"He sure did, looks like we'll be okay after all!" The man said. Izuku continued to help other people, pulling them out of fires and rubble.
"I'll save them all, I'll save them all!" He repeated to himself as he carried a child out of a fire. He carried on for ten minutes saving as many people as he could, heroic power coursing through his blood. He extended his arms out to a crying child running to him for help. He picked up the child and carried him to safety.
"I'll save them all! ILL SAVE THEM ALL!
"Midoriya!" Izuku turned to see Iida and his class approaching.
"I thought you said you weren't to fight him?!" Izuku asked. He was angered, they swore they wouldn't try to take Shigaraki down!
"We're not ribbit." Asui said using her tongue to pull a woman out of a hole.
"We can save them, go and take down Shigaraki!" Iida said. Izuku smiled as his friends got to work rescuing those who needed it. Now he could focus on Shigaraki. He could hear yells and explosions at the battlefield. He took off towards it as numerous bodies appeared on the way.
Jaeger, Izuku could tell he was already dead. Jaeger had helped him and supported him all this way, he did not deserve this. Izuku choked back a tear, As much as he wanted to mourn for him, he had to push forward. He let the cold acceptance of his death wash over him.
Next was Spartan, his lower body completely gone. He too had fallen, no doubt he went out in a blaze of glory.
Eclipse followed suit, her once happy and wholesome face decayed away.
Snakes and Rio, both with their heads severed. Izuku growled as a feared anger rose within him. He remembered all of them, their bravery and kindness, their laughs, their voices, this was hell. He now felt a huge moral dilemma, if he had ignored all the injured and ran to Shigaraki immediately, they might all still be alive. How can you make a choice in that situation? How do you level whose life is more important? How can you live knowing you sentenced someone to death because you went to help another? This was the cruel reality of heroism no one like to talk about
"I'm sorry I couldn't help any of you, I'm sorry I'm just running past you, I will defeat him I swear!" Izuku thought as he exited the path of death. He didn't see Yankee, LL, or Lioness' body and prayed for the best as he pushed forward. He could see in the distance, only Aizawa, Levi, Blizzard, and Endeavor were still in the fight.
Xxx
"Can't you use Polar Vortex?" Aizawa yelled to Blizzard as he dodged Shugarakis attack.
"No! I'll kill everyone else in the area if I use it!" Blizzard replied. Aizawa growled, Blizzards ultimate move would no doubt halt Tomura but they could not risk freezing any nearby citizens to death. Lioness and Sand Golem were out of the fight, still alive but badly wounded. It had been a slaughter, Shigaraki was pulling no punches. Nearby citizens watched as these former drones battled the villain. They began to ease away the hate in their hearts watching them fight so hard to protect them.
"DIEEE!" Endeavor yelled using his flames to attack Shigaraki. Tomura saw this and used a stone quirk to lift up the earth to block the hit. During this, Blizzard came around from the back trying to freeze Shigaraki solid. Tomura used his density quirk to float into the air dodging both attacks which made a steam screen.
"You got to be kidding me!" Endeavor yelled. "Levi! Isn't this your specialty? Why is he still breathing?"
"There's a reason All for One lived as long as he did, as much as it pains me to say it, even I am helpless against this kind of power!" Levi yelled, activating his dual blades. He couldn't even get close to this villian. Endeavor and Blizzard were the only ones capable of doing any damage here. Levi and Aizawa were mostly there to distract him.
"Enough!" Shigaraki yelled as he used a shockwave to knock all four to their feet. The shockwave was powerful, sending anything not deeply rooted to the ground very hard onto the concrete. Aizawa hit the ground hard as did the other three heroes. Eraserhead felt his world go faint and dizzy as he slowly got up only to feel a powerful hand grip his face.
"That's a good quirk you got there, I'll be taking it, Midoriya Will then be helpless against me." Shigaraki said. Aizawa gasped, if Shigaraki got his quirk. He immediately activated his quirk to stop Shigaraki from taking it, he looked around and saw no one was conscious to help. There was no escape this time…..Shigaraki would take his quirk, and use it to kill his student. He knew he couldn't keep his eye open forever. He sighed knowing what he had to do, to protect his students.
"If he gets my quirk, it's over, all of this will have been for nothing. All Might, Gran Torino, Jaeger, Yankee, Lady Liberty, Spartan, Eclipse, Rio, Snakes. They will have died for nothing." Aizawa reached down for a broken shard of glass. "My students, never give up, become the heroes I wish I could see." He thought of his students and how proud he was of all of them. Mina and Torus infectious positivity, Mineta and Kaminaris antics, Iida and Todorokis comical seriousness, Bakugos comedic bouts of anger. He wished he could see them grow ever more and see them save lives. But he knew what fate had in store for him, this was what being a hero was all about.
"It's over." Shigaraki said as Aizawa eye began to flutter. The erasure hero felt his quirk being sucked in. He then wasted no time.
"MMMMMMMMMMPHHHHHH!" He yelled, sticking the glass right through his throat. Shigaraki jumped back from the splash of blood thinking it was his. He moved away and checked himself for any injury. He then looked to see Aizawa bleeding out and choking on his own life force, he soon stopped moving.
"DAMN IT!" Shigaraki yelled. That idiot killed himself just to make sure he didn't get his quirk! He ruined everything! He was supposed to make Midoriya powerless so he could torture him! "Damn you! Where am I gonna find a quirk like that now?"
"You won't." Shigaraki turned to see an enraged Izuku covered in the aura of One For All holding Aizawa's body. "Don't you dare insult one of the greatest men I knew!"
Shits hitting the fan now! Poll to spare or kill Yankee and Lady Liberty is still open! DM me if you want them to live or die.
As for not showing the deaths of everyone mentioned. I feel it has more impact to see a dead body, knowing you weren't there to help then seeing it happen.
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