Teana's Travels Book 39: Heroes' Trials

by D.K.N

Gamma Team and a few others find a world full of people with mysterious and diverse powers called Quirks, currently dealing with a minor Heartless infestation. They move in to handle the situation and help the locals, and thus are present when powerful villains begin their master plans. Rated M for violence and Bakugou's filthy mouth.

9. Inferno

It's like the more I try to make this fic's Touya heroic and recovering from his villain time, the more cruel, unstable, and too-far-gone the manga reveals canon-Touya to have become…

I can't remember where I got the idea for Fuyumi and Natsuo's Quirks in this chapter, only that I read it somewhere, probably in another fic's info…

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-CHAPTER START-

Realm BNH-52

In the aftermath of the taking down of the Shie Hassaikai, damage control and cleanup proceeded smoothly. Overhaul was dead, as was Rikiya who'd been fused with him, but the rest of the Eight Precepts were taken into custody. Izuku and Eri were both exhausted but otherwise unhurt. Due to the nature of Eri's Quirk, her lack of control over it, and how difficult and dangerous training it would be, it was decided that she would be in Eraser Head's custody for the time being, since his Quirk could shut hers off if she lost hold of it. The injured were tended to by the DDF; Kirishima and Amajiki weren't completely recovered, but they were well enough to at least return to the dorms.

When Izuku returned to the dorms the next afternoon, he was 'attacked' by the rest of the class cheering or reacting with awe. Apparently, the news cameras had caught his thrashing of Overhaul, so now the whole class was going on about how incredible he'd been, using Final Form and his uber-powerful Quirk in tandem, glowing with silver and emerald power as he flew through the air, and that finishing blow like something you'd expect from All Might when he cut loose.

After dinner, Izuku called the rest of the "Dekusquad" (Uraraka, Asui ["Call me Tsu"], Iida, and Yukino; the name was Ochako's idea) to his room, claiming he had something important to tell them.

"So, what's up, Deku?" Ochako asked.

"Not yet" Izuku replied. "There's… one more person I've decided deserves to hear this."

On cue, there was a knock on the door. Iida got up and opened it to reveal Aizawa-sensei, who raised an eyebrow.

"So whatever you wanna tell me is also something you trust your friends with?" he asked Izuku.

The greenette nodded. "I trust you too, sensei. And… as my teacher, this is probably something you should've been told a while ago."

The scruffy-looking Hero shut the door behind him and joined his students in sitting on the floor, while Izuku took a seat facing them all. Midoriya took a deep breath to calm himself and gather his thoughts.

"You guys obviously remember All For One, that supervillain with the power to steal other people's Quirks, right?"

"Hard to forget the man who leveled half of Kamino Ward with one attack" Shouto replied.

"Yeah, well… At some point, he stole an agelessness Quirk. As a result, he's been physically in his prime for over 100 years, possibly closer to 200. Back when he was first starting out, he had a brother – sickly and frail, and apparently Quirkless. But even with that weakness, his brother still had a strong moral compass and justice in his heart, and he did everything he could to oppose All For One's plans of world domination. Eventually, out of either mocking pity, lingering brotherly affection, an attempt to bring him to heel, or some combination of the above, All For One gave his brother a Quirk – one that stockpiled power.

"But it turned out that All For One's brother wasn't Quirkless. He had an 'invisible' Quirk, one whose only power was the ability to be transferred to others. That Quirk and the one that All For One forced upon him merged together, becoming a new hybrid Quirk – one that can be passed from one person to another, stockpiling power all the while, getting stronger and stronger. This Quirk is called 'One For All'.

"All For One's brother failed to defeat him, but he managed to pass his power on to a successor, who in turn passed it on to a third bearer, and so on. Because of its stockpiling nature, One For All got steadily stronger as it was held by and passed on to successive bearers. The bearers kept on fighting All For One, though none of them were able to defeat him, and they ended up losing their lives in the attempts. A few decades ago, the seventh bearer, Shimura Nana, passed the power onto her successor, a boy our age named Yagi Toshinori. Not long after, she went to fight All For One, using the residual 'embers' of One For All still inside her, aiming to defeat him so her successor could be safe. She failed. And she died. Yagi-san, the eighth bearer of One For All, went on to become one of the most outstanding heroes the world has ever seen. …You'd know him as All Might."

The Dekusquad murmured in shock, learning of the legacy that All Might had inherited.

"Midoriya…" Tsuyu spoke up after a moment. "…You're the ninth bearer, aren't you?"

Slowly, Izuku nodded. "I am the ninth. He picked me to be his successor after… I did something 'impressive' to try and save Kacchan."

"…That boy who ran out to save Bakugou from the sludge villain" Iida realized. "That was you."

"It wasn't exactly planned; once I saw that he was the one in trouble, my body just moved on its own."

"The immediate selflessness of a hero…" Shouto said. "That's what convinced All Might to pick you."

"Who else knows about all this?" Ochako asked.

"Principal Nezu," Izuku replied, "Recovery Girl, Gran Torino since he was All Might's old teacher, Nighteye since he was All Might's sidekick, Detective Naomasa found out about One For All before I came into the picture, and a little while ago, Kacchan managed to figure it out on his own."

"So, if that power we know you well for is the power inherited from All Might," Iida wondered, "what is your Quirk, Midoriya?"

Izuku flinched. "T… The first seven bearers all had Quirks of their own in addition to One For All, but… A-All Might and I were both born Quirkless."

There were a few soft gasps.

"…That explains some things about your mannerisms" Shouto said. "If you were Quirkless before All Might chose you as his successor. Back when he was kid, it wasn't as rare or stigmatized, but nowadays, Quirkless children are often treated like subhuman garbage, especially by their Quirked peers…"

Izuku curled in on himself. Ochako and Tsuyu immediately moved to hug him from either side, with Tenya and Shouto doing what they could, too.

"…Even if All Might hadn't chosen you," Aizawa finally spoke up, "I think you still would've gotten in. Your chance of passing the initial Entrance Exam would've been basically zero, but with your determination and your amazing analytical mind, you probably would've earned your way into the Hero course, like I did. …One thing bothers me, though, Midoriya: When exactly did you receive One For All? As in, what day?"

Then, Izuku got sheepish, knowing his teacher probably wouldn't like the answer. "Um… T-The, uh… day of the Entrance Exam… a few hours beforehand… I-I had to do 10 months of intensive physical training to be able to handle taking the Quirk without it blowing my limbs to bits."

"Wait" Ochako said. "You mean that when you saved me by wrecking that robot… that was the first time you'd ever used it?"

"Y-Yeah…"

Aizawa let out a long sigh, palming his face. "…I almost expelled you…" he muttered in a near-haunted tone. "I assumed you were one of those prideful kids who never bothered fine-tuning their Quirk training, instead of someone who'd just got their Quirk and had the same level of control of it as the average 4-year-old who's only just awakened theirs… I understand the importance of keeping something this big a closely guarded secret, but as your teacher, your trainer, I should have been informed. I could have adjusted your training regimen to help you gain control quicker, with less mangled limbs. We might've figured out that 'Full Cowl' trick Gran Torino assisted you with before the Sports Festival, even…"

"How much control do you have over One For All now?" Shouto asked Izuku.

"Um, when I use Full Cowl, spread it all across my body, I've got really good control – enough to adjust by 1% increments of full output. I can safely handle about 5-6%; I can ramp it up to maybe 15% if I need to, but it starts to hurt pretty quickly. As for using 'Smash' attacks, focusing the power into a single limb… I can only use it at 25%, 50%, 75%, or 100% power. And even 25% is enough to injure the limb."

"We'll work on that" Aizawa replied. "I'll put together a training regimen to help you develop finer control over your Smashes' power output, as well as help you strengthen your body to safely handle higher increments of Full Cowl. Though, I think you'll have to wait until your puberty gets its ass in gear before you can safely handle all of One For All's power."

The 'meeting' wrapped up after that, with the Dekusquad swearing to support and assist Izuku however he needed, and assuring him that they didn't think any less of him. Aizawa, Iida, and Shouto left, but the two girls stayed behind, to Izuku's and each other's surprise. After an awkward silence between the three of them, Tsuyu was the first to speak up, the normally-calm girl's body language seeming oddly nervous and bashful.

"I wanted to say something… to both of you…" she spoke softly, hesitantly, averting her gaze and lightly grasping her arm as her cheeks went pink. "I have… developed an, um… e-emotional and physical attraction to… both of you…"

Izuku and Ochako both blushed very brightly as it sank in that Tsuyu was confessing to them – to both of them. Ochako fidgeted with her fingers as she worked up courage to speak.

"I a-actually stayed behind to… do what you kinda just did, Tsu-chan. Deku, I… I've k-kinda had a crush on you since you saved me from being squished at the Entrance Exam. And as I've gotten to know you better, t-those feelings have become… deeper, I guess. And… Tsu-chan, with all the time we've spent together… Now that you've told me your feelings and I think about it all, I t-think I've come to care about you a lot, too. I-In that way, m-maybe…"

Tsuyu's blush deepened a little as she realized Ochako might return her feelings. Izuku, meanwhile, resembled a strawberry right now – bright-red face topped by his fluffy green hair – as it sank in that two girls had just confessed to him (and each other!).

"U-Um… w-wow" he squeaked out. "I'm r-really flattered; I never t-thought anyone could… feel that way a-about me…" A near-giddy little smile was slowly forming on his blushing face. "I've a… actually always thought both of you are… r-really nice and fun t-to be with, and r… r-really cute a-and pretty…"

Both girls' blushes brightened.

"M-Maybe we could… give it a shot?" Ochako said, bashful and nervous.

After a few seconds of awkward yet pleasant silence, Tsuyu walked closer, grabbed Ochako and Izuku's hands, and led them over to Izuku's bed. Izuku yelped softly as the quiet girl gently pushed him down onto the bed on his back, and then Ochako squeaked as her froggy friend made her get into bed with him, and then climbed in herself. The two girls ended up partially on top of Izuku, laying their heads on his chest & shoulders, with all three of them blushing very brightly. Then, Tsuyu reached out and took hold of Ochako's hand, holding hands resting on Izuku's chest. After a couple seconds, the small boy shyly brought his arms up around the girls. The trio slowly relaxed, feeling warmth and comfort spreading inside them.

"Let's stay like this for a little while…" Tsuyu murmured.

The other two murmured their assent, snuggling closer.

-Break-

Yukino Rei was enjoying a nice, relaxing day with her sons and daughter. Shouto had the day off from school, Natsuo had no classes today, Fuyumi wasn't teaching today, and Touya had been let off-campus for the day on good behavior (and because the staff knew that spending a day out with his family would be helpful toward his psychological recovery). More of Touya's scars had been treated with DDF med-tech, and the UA/Yuuei Support Department were almost done putting together a 'Hero Costume' that would significantly protect him from his own flames and from overheating (along with a blue, super-fire-retardant version of his old black 'Dabi' longcoat).

The family had gone out to lunch and were now relaxing in the park. The sun was shining, the birds were singing, there were leaves drifting in the wind, there was a big-ass fireball screaming through the air right at them what the fuck-

Shouto formed a thick wall of ice that just barely managed to stop the fireball, and then he & Touya formed up to protect their mother and siblings, looking around to try and locate the threat. Soon, a towering figure wreathed in flames and a black aura of Darkness strode out, the trees smoldering from his proximity. Endeavor's eyes, yellow with corruption from the Darkness of his own Heart, glaring at his former family with disgust and hate. The quintet went pale and froze up with long-learned terror, but Touya was the first to break past that, fangs bared and seething with pure, choking hate. Shouto and Natsuo followed suit, their hatred for the man who'd tormented them for so long overpowering their fear; the younger boy's left hand glowed with golden Conceptual fire, while frosty mist wreathed Natsuo's arms and blue embers danced at Touya's fingertips.

Endeavor growled. "The traitor and the failures… Shouto" he snarled. "You were supposed to fulfill my dreams to surpass that wretched buffoon All Might. But instead you mutilated your DNA, removing my power from yourself, and in the process inspired some skulking spook to expose me! Now all the world sees me as a villain!"

"Because you are" Touya responded. "You always have been."

The fallen hero turned his hateful gaze to his forsaken eldest. "Touya… The flawed prototype, unable to use ice, unable to even handle your own fire… Always trying to defy me and pollute my masterpiece… Honestly, I'm quite surprised you survived that inferno of your own Quirk, when it was too hot for even me to approach."

"I'm a stubborn motherfucker, in case you forgot."

"Why are you here?" Shouto asked Endeavor. "You're a wanted man; I figured you'd want to keep a low profile."

"I will not stand for having everything so far out of my control any longer" Endeavor answered, black aura of Darkness seething around him. "I will not let over two decades of work be all for nothing. I will bring you to heel, Shouto, and restore my flames in you, no matter what it takes… and I will dispose of all who would influence you against me…"

At his command, the power of Darkness forged a dome barrier around 120 meters across, trapping them all in with him. After a few seconds of still silence, Endeavor fired a blast of flame at Touya, who dodged and fired a concentrated 'beam' of blue flames, condensed to minimize backlash – one of the tricks UA/Yuuei had helped him with to make up for Endeavor never bothering to teach him fine control and finesse. Endeavor dodged, realizing that trying to block Touya's blue-hot flames in such a concentrated attack wouldn't go very well for him, and jetted himself at the youth with a backwards flame burst, only to barely avoid slamming head-first into a wall of ice thrown up in his path by Shouto.

Natsuo joined the fray, sending a small wave of fog-wreathed ice at Endeavor, who did his best to not let it touch his bare skin; Natsuo's Quirk let him produce "dry ice" – frozen carbon dioxide, cold enough to cause near-instant frostbite on contact. Endeavor then narrowly dodged an ice kunai thrown at his throat by Rei, and then Fuyumi finally found her courage and launched a chunk of ice at him, and he really made sure to stay clear of it. Fuyumi's Quirk allowed her to produce methane ice, so letting it touch his fiery body was a bad idea, to say the least. He tried to fire flames at these worthless interlopers, only for his fire blasts to be intercepted by Touya's.

There was a shining light as Shouto unleashed his Conceptual "sacred" fire, gold-flecked white flames rushing at Endeavor. The fiery villain mostly dodged it, but the edge of the blast caught his arm, and because of his evil heart the divine fire burned him, painful heat spreading up that limb. Shaking off the pain, Endeavor fired concussive blasts of flame to intercept the bursts of Concept-fire Shouto flung at him next, and then he rushed at Rei, trying to smash her down with his big meaty fist, only to be blocked by a dry-ice barrier from Natsuo, giving Rei time to blast him back with a wave of water-ice.

Touya and Fuyumi fired blasts of blue fire and methane ice at Endeavor, the twins timing & aiming their shots to meet each other close to their foe. Endeavor was thus beset by multiple explosions that singed him and pushed him back, leaving him open to a jet of 'purity' flames from Shouto. Endeavor imbued the power of Darkness into a jet of his own fire, pushing against Shouto's attack, soon starting to overpower the boy. Shouto finally gave up and propelled himself out of the way, narrowly avoiding being cooked.

Endeavor went on the offensive, blasts and waves of fire and Darkness steadily pushing his former family back, wearing them down. Touya and Rei had both been undergoing stamina training, but they were already starting to run out of steam. Fuyumi, Natsuo, and Shouto had inherited their father's greater stamina reserves, but they were gradually being overwhelmed by the cruel man's steadily increasing force and ferocity. Before long, all five of them showing wounds, bruises and burns.

Touya doubled over after a blow to his solar plexus, and then a flaming fist hammered him down, laying him out and stunned. As he tried to get back up, Endeavor raised his boot high for a bone-crunching stomp, only to take a glancing hit from Natsuo's dry-ice to the face, leaving a frost-burn on his left cheek. Touya used the chance to roll away, and as Endeavor stomped towards Natsuo, the white-haired youth stood his ground.

"So this is really it, then?" Natsuo asked accusingly. "I knew you were a shit father, but you're really that heartless and single-minded that you'd attack your own blood? And this, all of this, the years of suffering and pain you've inflicted on us, because you're pissed that you can't outdo All Might! You wanna know why people have always called you second-best compared to him? It's not because of his prodigious power and ability. It's because he smiles no matter what, gives people comfort and courage, helps the community, speaks up for the less fortunate, saves lives and hearts, inspires people, gives the people hope!

"You never did anything like that! You just charged in, deep-fried the villains, and left with barely a gruff, grumpy word for the people! You became so obsessed with fame and victory and never gave a shit about actually saving people! And the people can see that! That's why, for all your power, you never surpassed All Might and never will. Even before you were exposed, you were a power-focused, glory-hungry villain at heart! And if you keep doing this, if you follow through with hurting us right now, that's all you'll ever be. Please. If there's any goodness left in that shriveled heart of yours, then just… stop. Just stand down, turn yourself in – or don't, I don't care at this point! –, and leave all of us alone and in peace! You've done enough to us already! Just leave us alone!"

For several seconds, all was still and quiet. Endeavor's body flames actually lessened in intensity, making the family wonder, dare to hope, that he might actually be considering leaving them in peace. …And then, Endeavor grabbed Natsuo's head in his big hands, flared up with evil fire, and with all his might he squeezed. Natsuo's scream was quickly cut short by a horrible squelching crunch and steaming sizzling sound, as Endeavor's burning palms crushed his own son's skull and literally fried his brain.

"That's one disobedient failure dealt with…" Endeavor snarled, tossing the corpse aside.

Rei and Fuyumi's screams of grief and horror were drowned out by Touya's howl of absolute fury, the lanky young man flaring up with blue fire. He threw both arms forward to unleash a roaring torrent of deep-blue flames straight at Endeavor, and his grief-stricken murderous rage boosted his Quirk to the point that the flames got even hotter, almost violet-hot. Endeavor countered with a wave of his own, white-hot flames, tainted by flecks of dark bluish-purple with the strengthening power of Darkness, and they appeared evenly matched.

And then Shouto's shock and horror at his middle brother's gruesome death at their own father's hands gave way to blinding rage. When he called upon his Conceptual flames again, the fire that appeared was not gold-flecked white. Instead, an explosion of pure black flames erupted and began steadily consuming Endeavor's fire, as Shouto's rage and overflowing hate led/allowed him to conjure the hellish fire of Amaterasu, the universe-old Concept of "fire as a burning, destroying force". The all-consuming, photon-destroying hellfire quickly drew closer to Endeavor, until he cut his attack off and launched himself upwards to evade.

Despite all the fire being thrown around, the air temperature abruptly plummeted as a massive wave of deadly-cold, deadly-sharp ice rushed at Endeavor, so cold and so fast that it overcame his natural flame defense, cutting gashes in his flesh. A blizzard's wind howled around Rei, tears of grief and fury freezing solid on her cheeks, as she poured everything she had into trying to end the monster who'd just taken the life of one of her babies. Endeavor wreathed himself in hotter flames to weather the storm, but then ice gave way to fire as he was again beset by blue-violet flames from Touya and black & white Conceptual fire from Shouto. Blasting back or evading those attacks, he was then peppered by explosions as bursts of methane-ice from Fuyumi exploded on contact with his fiery aura. The young woman, tears of rage part-frozen on her face, then appeared in a burst of speed right beside him… wielding a water-ice hammer with a methane-ice head, now swinging right at him. On contact, a terrific explosion engulfed Endeavor as the frozen methane combusted all at once; a last-second wall of Rei's ice shielded Fuyumi from most of the explosion's force, though she was still knocked backward.

Then, Endeavor shot out of the smoke, a few new burns marring his skin, his costume singed away in places. Snarling in fury, he lunged forward and grabbed Fuyumi by the head, and she screamed in agony as a burning-hot palm seared the flesh of the right side of her face. A kick to Endeavor's wrist from Touya freed the stricken girl, who crumpled in overwhelming pain. Endeavor grabbed Touya by the leg and slammed him into the ground hard enough to shatter the concrete pavement, then tossed him at the charging Shouto. Rei rushed in on a plume of ice, but a concussive dark-fire burst shattered it and sent her tumbling, and then Endeavor's kick landed full-force into the middle of her back, and she felt her vertebrae crack and crunch and nearly shatter. With mother & daughter down, Endeavor charged at Shouto and Touya, brimming with Dark power, swatting aside the fire blasts the exhausted and wounded boys hurled at him…

There was a crashing sound as something blasted through the dark barrier, slamming into the ground in Endeavor's path in front of the boys, kicking up a wave of dust and forcing Endeavor to stop and get back. An oppressive, overwhelming aura of righteous fury was radiating out from within the settling dust, enough to bring most men to their knees.

"Young Shouto… Young Touya…" a familiar deep, imposing voice spoke. "It is alright now…"

A surging golden aura erupted, blowing away the smoke and revealing salvation.

"For I am here!" All Might decreed, teeth bared, glowing eyes gazing at Endeavor with the Light of justice and pure, unrestrained wrath.

"All Might!" Endeavor snarled. "This is all because of you! I was supposed to be the best, the undisputed champion, but then you came along! It was to beat you that I bought that woman and got children out of her! Going through three weak, disobedient failures, one of which was so inept he couldn't even dispose of himself properly! And now they're out of my control; everything's out of my control! But it ends here today! With this power, I will kill you, and kill them, and that weedy little protégé of yours, and then everyone will know that I am the strongest and the best!-!"

"Using your own family as tools… making them so miserable… becoming so consumed with envy and hate… murdering your own child for defying you… I never believed I would meet another man as twisted and evil as All For One… but it seems I was wrong… Your pride and jealousy have turned you into a pure monster, Todoroki Enji. And… I will not allow you to harm even one more soul!"

The two titans launched themselves at each other, meeting in the middle with a thunderous crash and booming shockwave. As they flew into a furious exchange of blows, two lightning-fast blurs of gold and green zipped into the battlefield as Fate and Might Guy grabbed the fallen Rei and Fuyumi, grabbed Shouto & Touya, grabbed what was left of Natsuo, and got them all clear of the fight and outside the dark barrier. They were all brought to waiting EMTs; apparently, a former top-ranking hero turned wanted fugitive showing up and attacking his family had been more than enough to attract a few news crews while the Yukinos were too busy fighting for their lives to notice, and now Fate was keeping nosy reporters back from the family while paramedics looked them over. One of them checked on Natsuo and then turned to the other EMTs and shook his head, signaling for a sheet to cover the body. Might Guy prepared to jump in and help All Might, but then the dark barrier repaired itself, keeping anyone else from interfering with the clash inside.

The earth rumbled and the air shook as All Might and Endeavor clashed at full strength, the fallen hero filled with hatred and fury as he tried his best to end the Symbol of Peace, who fought with righteous rage and laser-focused wrath against the man who'd tormented and tortured his own family behind closed doors for far too long and now coldly murdered one of his own sons. A punch released a blast of wind that extinguished an incoming wave of flames; an uprooted tree was set on fire and hurled at All Might with terrible force, only to be Detroit Smashed into a hundred burning pieces; costume and skin smoldered from a near miss of a flaming kick… (Endeavor was frustrated that he, like the rest of the world, had only learned of All Might's crippling injury and weak-spot after those extradimensional Quirkless interlopers had already fixed the damage with their med-tech.)

Despite Endeavor's power, skill, ferocity, and the boost from the power of Darkness, All Might steadily gained the upper hand, overpowering Endeavor's attacks and pushing him back. Desperation and rage drove Endeavor to fight like a demon, his flames white-hot and starting to edge towards blue. But All Might's righteous fury and recently-renewed power was proving stronger, wearing the fallen hero down.

"I will not go out like this!" Endeavor howled in rage. "I won't stand for being only second-best anymore! All Might! There will be nothing left of you!-!" Blue flames concentrated in his hands, power charging up, wreathed in black as Darkness surged around and from him. "PROMINENCE!-! PYROCLASM!-!-!"

He thrusted his hands forward, and an enormous surging explosion wave of blue flames erupted, barreling towards All Might and seemingly engulfing him.

"UNITED!-!"

Endeavor's face shifted to one of shock.

"STATES!-!"

Bursting through the flames and smoke, All Might flew forward, fist cocked back and glowing with One For All's full power.

"OF!-!-!"

Reeling from the recoil of his desperation move, Endeavor was helpless to do anything but roar in disbelieving fury, which was drowned out by All Might's call:

"SMAAAAAASH!-!-!-!"

The impact obliterated everything about 10 meters in all directions from ground zero, a hurricane of force rebounding up into the sky, the earth shaking and thunder rumbling. The dark barrier shattered like cheap glass, allowing the shockwave to buffet everything and everyone for a considerable distance. As the gales and dust began to settle and fade, All Might slowly stood in the center of a sizable crater, looking down at Endeavor… or rather, what was left of him. After committing so many cruelties, being consumed by envy, spite, and hate, trying to destroy his former family just for defying him… Todoroki Enji's sins had finally cost him his life.

-Break-

In the aftermath, the Yukino family was brought to the DDF for medical treatment. Med-tech meant that most of the huge-hand-shaped burn on Fuyumi's face was healed completely, with only a small, faint scar on her cheek. Mercifully, despite multiple damaged vertebrae, Rei's spinal cord was undamaged, and Kaede & Mai's medical ninjutsu was able to repair most of the bone damage. Shouto and Touya only had minor burns, abrasions, & bruises, exhaustion, and the skin of Touya's palms was mildly burned; even with his newfound fine control and the help of his suit, generating the hottest fire he'd ever made still hurt him.

Emotionally, things were another story. The man who'd hurt them was finally dead and gone, but he had killed Natsuo before going down. Fuyumi was virtually inconsolable; again, she'd failed to protect one of her little siblings from That Man, and now he was gone forever. Rei and the other kids weren't doing much better. And of course, the whole battle was all over the news – the fallen hero and wanted man Endeavor attacking his former family out of the blue with intent to kill them all, murdering one of his own children for trying to talk sense into him, and engaging in a furious battle against All Might where the Symbol of Peace finally struck him down – the first villain All Might had ever killed (though he'd tried to kill All For One in their first big battle years ago). Natuso's college classmates and professors were in shock and mourning, and his girlfriend was totally devastated.

Still, with All For One in supermax-security custody, the League of Villains in hiding, and Endeavor & Overhaul both definitively dealt with, things were finally settling down again. Most of the DDF delegation, including all the "big-names", were getting ready to head out and attend to other duties. In particular, the Midchilda Intermiddle Tournament was less than a week away; Fuuka was going to compete, as were Vivio and Einhart (with their Adult Modes to disguise their true ages; otherwise they'd have to wait over 1,000 years to be physically old enough to compete). And another DDF bigshot was going to participate as well, but not as a contestant.

"This will be the first time I've ever commentated for a tournament" Kakashi said. "Might be fun!"

The DDF promised to maintain a presence on this Earth and keep helping the hero students train and learn. Several experienced Keyblade-bearers would show up one at a time in rotation to help Izuku keep learning how to wield his weapon, and he was also welcome to visit the DDF's numerous other Realms to learn that way as well.

"I'm still not really sure I… deserve all this…" Izuku confessed, subconscious.

"Now, now, don't go thinking like that" Kakashi said with a smile (hidden by the mask, of course), patting the boy's fluffy head. "You're gonna go far, kid."

-CHAPTER END-

Next: A short bonus chapter showing a strategic development in another Realm, and then a data chapter containing the names of everyone's current Keyblades and which Pokémon every DDF big-name has so far.

Copy-pasting the big Author's Note here in case it got deleted for being a standalone author's note, and for the kind of readers who don't read standalone author's notes:

This Author's Note is concerning this fic's trope pages on tvtropes-dot-org, and a request to any registered tropers among my readers.

Recently, I finally found out about the mid-October scandal involving Rooster Teeth's Ryan Haywood, as well as the podcast where Jack Patillo claimed their intent to delete every video from their decade-plus library that Ryan had any significant role in, no matter how old or how popular the video was. Now, I agree that what Haywood did is deplorable and unpardonable, but I have always abided by "hate the artist, not the art"; JK Rowling being a transphobic asswipe doesn't make the Harry Potter series stop being good, the lead singer of Lost Prophets being a scum-sucking pedophile doesn't make "Rooftops" stop being a good song, and Ryan being a piece of shit does not make "I'm Still in the Air!", Edgar, and "Slenderyan" (G-Mod Stop It Slender, Halo 5 Slender) stop being funny (and that's not even mentioning the various jokes the other Hunters made in vids that Ryan just happened to have major presence in).

A couple days after I finally found that out, I checked Achievement Hunter's YouTube LP Minecraft playlist, and lo & behold, several videos were gone. Salty about that, I ended up going to the TV-Tropes page on AH Minecraft's Funny Moments and… doing something admittedly stupid. Days later, I got a TV-Tropes private message chastising me and telling me to come to an "ATT" and "explain myself". I had no idea what the hell an "ATT" is, and had real-life concerns I had to address at the moment.

By the time I finally got back to TV-Tropes hours later, found out that "ATT" stood for "Ask the Tropers", apparently a special kind of forum page thing, and followed the link there, it was too late. Now, I'm permanently banned from ever editing TV-Tropes again (in addition to having been banned on posting in the forums since a debacle in 2011).

As far as I can tell, I am the only one who ever made significant additions or alterations to Teana's Travels' trope and character pages. With me banned from editing those pages, they'll never get updated again. The list of fics and links on the main page won't get updated past Book 39. Characters will never be expanded upon. Explaining this, I contacted the mods, asking them to at least delete the pages since they'll never be updated again.

They refused.

Now, I am asking the tropers among you to please do something for me. Go to the trope and character pages, and post the following message at the very top, above even the opening description:

"IMPORTANT NOTICE: The author of this work has been permanently banned from editing TV-Tropes, and as he was the only person who made regular updates to this page, future developments in the series will not be reflected here," the next part only goes on the main trope page "and additional Books past #39 will no longer show up on and be described or linked on this page. Apologies for the inconvenience."

If one of you posts it and it gets deleted by the mods or whatever, somebody else post it again. Feel free to bring this whole clusterfuck up in the forums if you want/can, though at this point don't be surprised if they suspend or ban you even for just defending me.

Thank you.