Izuku rode in the passenger seat of Kenji's patrol car. Throughout the drive he could hear Kenji's radio give live updates on the villain attack. Apparently, class 1-A and 1-B were in a forest lodge for training before Tomura and the rest of the League decided to crash their little training exercise.

Along the way there were various reports on the state and welfare of the students. Thankfully (at least to Kenji), none of the injuries that any of the students sustained were serious or fatal. Still, he was worried that reinforcements hadn't arrived yet to aid the students in their time of need. The police were told to establish a perimeter to allow the students to escape and to aid the wounded and to keep the villains contained within it.

"How far away are we now?" Izuku asked. He tried his best to sound concerned rather than impatient.

"About a half an hour away give or take," Kenji said. It was hard for Izuku to tell because they still hadn't even left the Tokyo city limits yet, but it wasn't long before they were finally headed off road.

But that was when Kenji's radio was flooded with reports of the winner of the sports festival, Bakugou, narrowly defeating a villain in single combat, an extremely powerful and dangerous killer named Muscular. There were many eye witnesses to the ferocious battle, since Bakugou bravely entered the fray to fight in spite of knowing that the villains had arrived to kidnap him. In his weakened state his classmates attempted to protect him, but he was captured by a villain that managed to transform Bakugou into a small, marble-like object.

Izuku figured that one of Tomura's new recruits must have done it. What was his name again?

Mr. Compress.

Yea, that was it. That was an impressive feat even if it was against a severely weakened Bakugou. He was never one to go down without a fight.

Yet the most startling report of all came when a frantic police officer exclaimed over the radio that….

"The heroes have arrived!"

A sinister grin crept up on Izuku's visage.

Kenji pressed on the gas pedal.

The training ground had turned into a war zone.

And one particular man was most displeased.

"This just will not do."

When he arrived at the training forest, he witnessed beautiful carnage and wonderful mayhem. It was a beautiful tapestry of bloodshed. The symphony of screams were akin to an opera to him, and it was most magnificent.

But then, those abominable heroes showed up and ruined the show.

Tomura and the rest of the League had come close to finishing their objective. Mr. Compress used his Quirk to compress Bakugou into a spherical object, and the group had nearly made it out of the forest.

Nearly.

Kurogiri was suddenly blindsided by an extremely quick sting to the back of his neck, courtesy of the slippery hero known as Edgeshot and his versatile Quirk - Foldabody. The stealthy shinobi managed to ambush the unsuspecting villains as they attempted to scramble to safety. But little did they know, the pro hero led them into a trap.

"Kamui Woods!"

Edgeshot shouted, and just as suddenly as the villains heard his name did the guileful pro hero appear from the dark void of the forest and entrench himself within the Earth. He dug his fists into the ground and summoned a swarm of vines from the ground which trapped the unsuspecting villains within a cage of wood.

"The targets have been captured."

A burst of flame spewed forth and illuminated the dark forest. It encircled the makeshift wooden cage so that the villains wouldn't attempt to burst through their prison - if they were even capable of doing so.

"Endeavor!" Tomura hissed.

It was indeed the number two hero, standing triumphantly alongside Kamui Woods and Edgeshot.

"Release the boy at once, or you will all be burned to cinders."

If any other pro hero were to make such a threat, a villain would assume that the said hero was bluffing. However, due to Endeavor's reputation, the League had to take his threat seriously - Endeavor stopped at nothing to achieve his goals, even if it meant that he could possibly harm an innocent bystander or a hostage.

Well, that was what his reputation suggested.

"Damn!" Tomura cursed.

"Damn! Damn! Damn!" How did they react so quickly? Had they been betrayed? By whom? Who else knew about their plan that wasn't present?

Who was the Judas?

"Compress! Give him the kid!"

"R-Right!" Mr. Compress tossed a red sphere towards Endeavor, who caught it in his hand. Once he placed the sphere back on the ground, it began to glow with a white light and after a moment had passed, it released Bakugou who materialized on the ground in a sitting position. At first he appeared confused, but after he looked around and saw Endeavor along with Kamui Woods and Edgeshot, as well as the villains in their wooden cage surrounded by a ring of fire, the only proper conclusion to make was that he had been saved.

"I guess I should thank you," Bakugou muttered faintly, only Endeavor could hear him. "Even though I had it under control."

Endeavor scoffed at the boy's statement. But then he turned to him and gave him a smirk. "You remind me a lot of myself."

"Tch, I've heard that one before," Bakugou said as he stood up onto his feet.

A team of paramedics arrived at the scene to escort Bakugou to safety as well as to treat his wounds. Law enforcement began to close in on the scene, clearing check points and tightening the perimeter ever so closely until the villains had nowhere out.

This appeared to have been the end for the League Of Villains.

This.

Would.

Not.

Do.

A dark figure of tall stature dressed in a black suit that was darker than the grim reaper's cloak descended from the sky like an angel of darkness. His face was unrecognizable, marred and scarred from his previous bout with the number one hero, All Might.

Civilians looked up at him with a pale face, and the pro heroes that were present, Endeavor, Edgeshot, and Kamui Woods looked on with trepidation plastered upon their visage.

The man, the boogieman that every pro hero told stories about, the only villain to push All Might to his limits and beyond, had appeared once more. He was in hiding for so long that most assumed that he had keeled over and died of old age.

Yet here he was, in the flesh.

Police drew their weapons and opened fire, but the fabled villain scoffed at their futile efforts as the bullets ricocheted off of him like paper mache.

"Gnats."

With one fell swoop of his hand, All For One summoned a gust of wind that sent a half dozen police officers flying backwards. If it wasn't for the quick thinking of Mt. Lady, who increased her size in order to safely catch the officers, the fall would have most certainly killed them.

"Hold your fire!" Endeavor ordered the remainder of the police force. "This isn't your fight! Fall back!"

The police force did as they were told knowing that this fight was far beyond their capabilities. Mt. Lady continued to escort the police and any student stragglers that she had found outside of the perimeter of what could be the final battle between the heroes and the League Of Villains.

Inside of the wooden cage the remainder of the League began to feel a sense of relief at the sight of their great leader, All For One. Tomura in particular was delighted to see him in action.

But unfortunately, he wouldn't get the chance.

Up close anyways.

Suddenly those trapped inside of the wooden cage began to convulse. Black gunk oozed from their mouth until it enveloped their very being into complete nothingness. The heroes were in shock at what they had witnessed, and Endeavor gritted his teeth in frustration.

Damn! They were so close! They had the entire League in the palm of their hands and they let them slip away in an instant!

"Now then," All For One began to say as he dusted off his pristine three piece suit. "Shall we begin?"

Kenji's police car arrived on the scene. He was immediately greeted by the triage officer who rattled off a list of updates to the canine officer as he stepped from out of his vehicle.

"So Endeavor, Edgeshot, and Kamui Woods are locked in battle right now with All For One?" Kenji asked. The triage officer nodded his head in confirmation.

"And the rest of the League escaped? How?"

Izuku perked a brow at this update.

"We don't know sir, but it seems that All For One somehow teleported them away."

Kenji placed his hand beneath his chin in thought. He then turned to Izuku and asked, "Do you have any idea where he'd teleport them to?"

Izuku shrugged. "Maybe their headquarters." . :

"We already have men positioned outside of their HQ sir, and I was just told moments ago that they have not sighted any of the villains there," The triage officer said.

"It seems that they have played their hand well," Kenji began to say. Still, he seemed rather confident.

"But we have aces of our own."

Both Izuku and the triage officer gave Kenji an incredulous look.

Aces? Izuku began to think. If he had to guess, then All Might would be one of the aces. So, who would the other aces be?

"Take me to the triage station," Kenji requested.

"Right away sir," the officer complied.

"You too," Kenji said to Izuku.

"I'll be fine here," Izuku said. He was adamant about remaining behind, because he knew that there would be….certain characters that he didn't want to see at the triage station. But unfortunately for him, it seemed that Kenji was reluctant to budge an inch.

"I insist. I must assure your safety," Kenji said.

Izuku sighed and followed Kenji towards the triage station, which was part of the perimeter that the police officers and the paramedics as well as the first responders established to assume safe passage for any of the emergency workers, as well as the civilians that may have been present and the pro heroes as well.

It was extremely crowded with civilians and reporters alike attempting to gander past in order to witness the battle that was taking place. They were praying, literally, praying for the heroes to win, and Izuku couldn't blame them for doing so. It was time for All For One to get what he had coming to him. All of his machinations, all of the events that he had set in motion in order to recruit Izuku into the League Of Villains would, ironically, result in his own demise by the very same boy he so desperately wanted to bring into his fold.

The reason why the pro heroes were fighting him in the first place was due to Izuku setting the events in motion by informing the police of their plan. Finally, justice would be served.

"D-Deku?"

Izuku turned to hear an all too familiar voice call his name. It was a blonde haired boy with piercing red eyes wrapped in bandages from his battle with the villain known as Muscular. He approached Izuku with wide eyes, appearing as if he had seen a ghost.

He was also Izuku's childhood "friend".

"K-Kaachan?"

Suddenly the ground shook, causing them and everyone else within the vicinity to lose their footing.

What in the world was going on?

"Do you truly believe that you have what it takes to stand against me?" All For One released a blast of wind from the palm of his hand. The shockwave managed to blow Endeavor onto his back, but Edgeshot and Kamui Woods were nimble enough to escape the radius of it just in the nick of time.

"I think it is about time we finish this-"

"All For One!"

From out of the sky like a meteorite headed for the Earth's surface came the famed masked vigilante of the Naruhata Ward. He had his right fist reared back and ready to land a devastating blow to All For One's visage.

And he did just that.

The force of his blow knocked All For One out of the sky and onto the ground with such force that it created a human sized crater on the ground. The earth beneath shook violently from the blow, and the three pro heroes could only look on with astonishment at what they had just witnessed.

All For One was motionless on the ground, so the pro heroes assumed that it was safe to speak as they approached his body.

"What took you so long?" Endeavor asked Knuckleduster.

"My ride was late, you know how he gets," Knuckleduster responded.

Endeavor looked up into the night sky. From his vantage point, he couldn't see him.

"He's still flying in circles up there?" Endeavor asked.

"Yep, he insisted on keeping a bird's eye of view," Knuckleduster told him.

"Hmph, he's just lazy," Endeavor scoffed.

Kamui Woods began to build a wooden cage around All For One's body, however, All For One's finger twitched, and Knuckleduster immediately knew that they had fallen for his trap.

"Everyone get ba-"

But it was too late.

Knuckleduster, Endeavor, Edgeshot, and Kamui Woods all collapsed onto the ground in a heap, each felled by a single strike to the back of their necks quicker than the eye could see.

All For One stood over their bodies and cracked his neck with his hand.

"Overclock. A quirk that accelerates the user's brain perceptions to superhuman levels, making the world appear to be moving in slow motion. I had forgotten about the Quirk I had stolen from you until your face reminded me of it, Iwao."

"Or should I say, Knuckleduster."

All For One approached the pro heroes's unconscious bodies and placed his hand over them. Before he could finish them off with his Air Cannon however, their bodies miraculously floated into the air and sped out of view towards the triage station.

On closer inspection, it was no miracle at all. The pro heroes had been pulled by the fabric of their clothes and it was tied off with denim fabric and interwoven together so that the force of the pull wouldn't cause it to snap.

Such proficiency could only be the work of none other than Best Jeanist.

"You take it from here…."

A large burly man with a physique that some considered to be the greatest to have ever been witnessed, dressed in his "golden age" hero uniform stepped onto the scene with a fierce look of determination.

"All Might!"

"It has been a long time, Toshinori."

"Not long enough, Shigaraki."

"Let's skip the pleasantries, and go right into it, shall we?"

All For One said as his right arm began to expand and grow in a grotesque fashion.

"My thoughts exactly!" All Might roared as he began to summon all of the power that he had left within him. Although he had passed his Quirk on to a worthy successor, and what remained of his own power were embers of a once raging inferno, he truly believed in his heart of hearts that if he dug deep enough within himself that he could defeat All For One with one final blow.

"Before we begin I must inform you that I know that you have an ace in the sky, watching us all like a hawk. Regardless, I will still tell you my little secret-"

"My true successor shall be your undoing!"

"True successor?"

"You shall face him soon enough. Just know that it was thanks to your weakness that he fell right into my hands, Toshinori!"

Springlike limbs, Kinetic Booster times four, Strength Enhancer times three, Multiplier, Hypertrophy, Airwalk, and Spearlike bones.

Those were the ultimate combination of Quirks that All For One had at his disposal.

"Let us end this, Toshinori!"

"Farewell, All For One!"

Both behemoths clashed, their fists generated an explosion that caused the trees around them to become uprooted. A crater the size of a fallen meteor scarred the Earth's crust and gale force winds blew everyone and everything within a twenty mile radius away.

"United States Of Smash!"

Back at the triage station, the onlookers managed to regain their bearings after the sudden aftershock knocked them off of their feet. When Izuku stood back up, he locked eyes with Katsuki once more.

For a while they didn't say anything at all, that was, until Eijiro and Ochaco, who had came to check up on Bakugou were awestruck upon looking at Izuku.

"Hey, aren't you-"

Gale force winds summoned from the confrontation between All Might and All For One sent the pedestrians backwards, with some almost flying off into the sky until they were saved by Mt. Lady and Best Jeanist with the use of their Quirks.

As Izuku rose to his feet once more, he realized that Bakugou of all people came to check up on him. Why was he acting so kind all of a sudden?

"Deku…" Bakugou was at a loss of words. There was only one question that kept constantly flooding his mind.

"How? How are you still alive?"

"I-" Izuku was suddenly hit with an unexplainable urge to vomit. He doubled over and when he opened his mouth black miasma spewed out of it and encased his body.

Bakugou frantically tried to do something, anything to free him, but nothing was working.

"Help! Someone! Please! Help!" He roared in desperation. Eijiro and Ochaco both tried to help him free Izuku but it was as if their fingers slipped right through him. By the time Kenji arrived with Best Jeanist as well as a revitalized Kamui Woods and Edgeshot, it was too late.

Izuku was gone.

Bakugou fell down onto his knees and roared a gut wrenching cry as he slammed both of his fists onto the ground.

Izuku landed on the ground at an undisclosed location and began to hack and cough. He would never get used to that disturbing Quirk it seemed, especially since it always caught him off guard.

When the Quirkless boy looked up he saw a television monitor mounted on the wall with breaking news flashing on the bottom of the screen. It seemed that he was in a sports bar of some sort, and those who were sitting at the bar by the television were the League Of Villains.

At least, what was left of them anyways.

Kurogiri, Dabi, Mr. Compress, Tomura, Twice, and Spinner were all present.

Magne, Moonfish, Mustard, and Muscular had all been arrested.

What a shame.

The rest of the League were deathly silent as they stared at the news telecast in disbelief. In one mighty blow, All Might managed to defeat All For One, once and for all.

Tomura slammed his fist onto the table and stood up to turn around and face Izuku.

"The heroes knew where we were going to strike and when we were going to strike! Not only that, but they also knew where our headquarters were!" Tomura took his glove off of his hand and began to approach Izuku.

"Izuku…."

He continued to walk towards him.

"Did you betray All For One?!"

Finally, the climax of the arc and (perhaps) the climax of the entire story. I can't believe it's been over a year since I started this story.

First, I would like to say that I am doing well, my fiance is doing well, and I found out that we're having a beautiful baby girl! I can't wait to meet her, so most of my days has been unboxing all of the packages that my mom sent me and my fiance (she went overboard) and putting this new crib together that we got. We practically have an entire nursery already.

I would also like to thank the user who subrscribed to my blog! It's not finished yet, but that one subscription alone was enough to rejuvinate me. I will hold on to this feeling as long as I am alive.

Also, a quick shoutout to bauers374 for catching the MLK reference. I had actually forgotten that I written that in there, so when you mentioned it in your review comment I was reminded of it and had to give you a shoutout for it.

I hope you all enjoyed the chapter, because things will get even crazier from here on out.

Also, a question

1) Who do you think is the pro hero watching from the sky?