Well, this chapter took me longer to put out than I thought it would, and I can only blame Genshin Impact. For real, the time I normally set aside for working on my stories was just taken up by me playing that game. Still, I do want to at least finish the stuff for the movie and season 3 before season 5 finishes airing so I have to pull up my socks. Also, two things. Have you guys been keeping up with the Attack on Titan as I'm writing this, I finished the latest episode on Monday, and dammit, I cried at the end there. Though that whole Reddit news does make me feel better, never thought the day would come where billion-dollar hedge-funds would be taken down by a bunch of gamers on Reddit, watching all these rick people who have screwed with other people's money and manipulate the market for their gain get their just rewards is so satisfying, the added joy is listening to these people call for more regulation when they are the victims but when they did the same thing, they change tune real quick as I can only imagine how funny it'll be to be a fly on the wall as a hedge-fund manager explains to his clients that he lost tens of millions of dollars to a guy named 'Potato in my Ass', that sounds like the plot of a Family Guy episode.


Chapter 44: A Towering Victory.

(Previously)

BANG!

"It was as simple as pointing the gun and pulling the trigger, kinda like right now." He finished as he shot David in the gut, dropping the doctor to his knees from both the shock and the pain as the bullet went through and through. Leaving him only his hands to try and stem the bleeding as he started to take heavy breathes.

"Sorry, professor," Wolfram said as he used his quirk to rip some metal paneling from the wall before Sam pushed the man onto it before he used some other railing as a way to hold him down to it, though with that injury, he'll be fighting out of anything for a while but they needed him alive….for now. "But we don't have the time to deal with your struggling."

"Dave-sensei…." Midoriya uttered out in shock at the sight, started to cry from both the pain of watching this and not being able to help and the pain from his wounds as blood started to leak out from under his shirt, having already strained it crimson as one if not more of his welts started to bleed.

"I wouldn't try anything if I were you. If you do, I'll make that metallic bullet in your vest go right on through and go all Mexican jumping bean in your torso, I think someone as smart as you can tell that would be a slow and painful way to go." Wolfram told him for good measure he picked up on his worsening condition as he pointed his gun towards Jiro, who looked on like a dear in headlights at the threat against her life. "Or maybe I can put one in your friend over there first, so you get the watch her die before you join her. How does that sound?" he asked, enjoying as the group fell into despair from their situation before lowering their heads in defeat.

"Leave them alone!" David, though injured and losing blood, defended them nonetheless from his prone position, but his words only made the two laugh at him more.

"Haha! You don't have any power over me, so what will it be, professor? Come quietly or do I need to…." Wolfram asked as he made a show of pulling back the hammer as the gun was still trained on Jiro, who wasn't even facing him anymore, just praying that it would quick. "Give you more incentive?"

"Stop!" David cried out as he started to cough, blood staining his lips as he started to cry at all this before he surrendered. "…I'll go, just please, don't hurt them."


(And now)

"David-sensei, you…you can't." Midoriya tried to get out through the pain and frustration as he, like the rest of them could do nothing as David surrendered to their enemies.

"They'll kill you if you go with them!" Tetsutetsu also voiced her objections as Jiro nodded his head in agreement as she struggled against her constraints but couldn't make an inch of progress with them and only bruised her wrists from pressing them against the steel bars holding her in place.

"But they'll spare all of you." David responded as he turned and smiled at them, though one riddled with fear and resignation as he was no fool, he knew he would be signing his death certificate by going with them as they'll try to get him to work for them and when he refuses, they'll cut their losses by taking him out.

"This is crazy! Why would you even help them?" Jiro asked, speaking out as she turned her glare towards the two villains, her eyes focused solely on the turncoat assistant. "They are villains, what makes you think your fat-ass is worth a damn to them?"

"That is simple, it's because it's in their best interest to keep me around. After-all," Sam started as he cracked a smirk as he looked towards David with nothing but arrogance and malice. "Meeting with All for One was an eye-opening experience." Hearing that name proved to be more shocking than his reveal as all three males present stiffened from both shock and fear, something that Jiro picked up on as even Midoriya's heart-rate spiked at the name which surely belonged to a villain.

"What…?" David asked him, pale from the news that one of the few people and only villain that could stand up to All Might, the very same one who blew out his organs, was involved in this. Sam didn't seem to care for that as he turned his attention to their unwilling audience and picked up on the fact that the boys seemed to have reacted to the name much more drastically than the girl but he put a pin on that for later.

"I doubt you children would know the name, nor would you know that you should fear it but to make things simple for you lot," Sam said to them, acting as if he were a teacher explaining something to an especially slow child. "He paid top dollar to not only get this here device but to also see the symbol of peace fall like he was supposed to five years ago."

"Five years ago?" Jiro muttered to herself, wondering what the hell happened five years ago that was so big. She looked towards her vice rep who had ceased his struggling and looked like he had seen a ghost. That wasn't good as he was like the class encyclopedia on all things heroes so she assumed a hero nerd like him must have known about this event five years prior, and whatever he knew scared him shitless.

'This,' Tetsutetsu on the other hand, was starting to sweat bullets as he didn't know all that much, but he knew enough about the guy to know if he could nearly cripple All Might, he was a serious dude. Heck, he had heard the man mentioned that the league could be a cover for him and that he was still alive but to hear he was and actively working against them once more, it was a scary thought. 'This was all a plan from All for One!?'

"Dear children, didn't you notice it? That All Might, the strongest hero to ever live…is weakening?" Sam asked them as though David never told him, he wasn't an idiot and he picked on something being amiss before he started looking into it. Meeting with his new boss only proved those theories. Theories he loved to spread to these hero brats to weaken their resolve even further. "He's weaker, slower, and not out in public as he used to be, wouldn't you agree?"

"Let's just hope we snuff him out before he can pass it on." Wolfram said, once more scaring those who knew as he was implying that he understood some of the mechanics of One for All. Sam agreed with him on this before anyone could do anything more, the floor close by to them exploded, sending brick and steel everywhere.

BOOOM!

"What now." Wolfram, the only one not screaming in shock or terror, demanded impatiently as he used his quirk to hold up a panel of metal to protect himself and the two scientists. None of them could see through the dust and smoke from the hole but they did pick up a voice, one that brought relief to the students and David, dread to Sam, and anxious anticipation to Wolfram.

"Fear not, citizens," The loud, protective, and powerful voice of the number one hero could be heard through the smoke cloud along with heavy but assured footfalls.

"He's here." Sam whispered, wondering for a moment how in the hell All Might got here without their goons stopping him before he recalled but the brats told him and David when they got here to free the two.

"He's here, they managed to free him." Jiro on the other hand was just relieved that they got some powerful back-up right in the nick of time. Just as she finished that, All Might blew the dust cloud away, revealing himself in all his muscled glory as he held up his fist, his unflinching smile visible for all to see.

"For I am here!" He finished as he dashed towards the villains, having taken stock of the situation within less of a second before concluding to defeat Wolfram, who showed himself to be no pushover as he instinctively used his quirk to rise a giant wall of steel to defend him.

"You get the professor and the cargo out of here!" Wolfram yelled at Sam as he watched as his barrier barely held up against just one strike from the number one and they were forced to jump back when his second strike broke right through to hit another, more hastily rose barrier. "I'll deal with All Might." Sam nodded his head as Wolfram released his hold on the professor, allowing Sam to pull him to his feet with a surprising amount of strength and with his gun to his side, force lead the professor out of the room.

"You have a lot to answer for, villain." All Might, seeing all this, could only frown as he watched his wounded friend being taken against his will. He already felt like he was a failure for being forced to let his students handle this up until this point, he was not going to allow their efforts to be in vain!

"Crap!" Wolfram cursed as All Might smashed through both his barrier and the pillar he summoned to try and push him back, allowing All Might a second to dash past Tetsutetsu, in that second was broke the railings holding him down, freeing the boy who looked shocked for a couple moments at the speed at which his mentor/predecessor worked before he jumped into action, getting to his feet and dashing over to Jiro as fast as he could.

"Hold on guys, I'm coming!" He said as he reached the girl and using both his quirks to speed things up, he freed her from her place on the wall before helping her down.

"Thanks, being stapled to the wall, not fun." Jiro thanked him as she felt up her wrists as she could see the bruising forming on them. They didn't spare any more time to as they rushed over to Midoriya, who had gone silent. Reaching him as All Might fought Wolfram in the background, they were relieved to see he was still breathing and conscious but most likely in a lot of pain and exhausted.

"Help me get Midoriya down." Tetsutetsu asked her as Jiro nodded as the two worked to quickly but carefully get their injured classmate off the wall. Watching this as he fought off the villain, All Might was glad that he was able to keep this guy busy so he couldn't focus on the students, allowing them the time they needed to make their move.

'I'm relieved that they are all alive but,' The symbol of peace thought to himself as he looked back to his foe and with another two strikes, destroyed the two pillars of steel that were coming down on him, as he did so, he wondered how much more the structure could take as there was only so much metal this villain could pull out before the room if not floor caved in. He needed to either move fight locations or take him down quickly. "Young Jiro, young Tetsutetsu. Take young Midoriya and get out of here."

"But-!" Tetsutetsu tried to talk back as they removed the last thing holding up their short friend as Jiro put one of his arms around her shoulders to keep him on his wobbly feet as the lad thanked them for the help.

"This is not your fight, not anymore. You have done a great service in the name of heroism, but now your main concern is making sure young Midoriya can get looked at." All Might cut him off with an order, something the brawler couldn't fight as he was right and what All Might have also been eluding to is the fact that Tetsutetsu's quirk was ill-suited to fight this opponent and would only hinder them but there was a reason that he wished he could stay.

'He's limit, he's been in muscle form for hours now, how much time does he even have left to fight?' The white-haired boy worried as he thought that All Might had been holding his form ever since he arrived with only the short break in their hotel room but even then, he had left before Tetsutetsu did.

"…Okay," Jiro, seeing his hesitation, took the decision out of his hands as he looked at her and saw she wasn't moving on her choice as she nodded towards the doorway. "Kick his ass…All Might, came on, we need to get out of here before he starts throwing those mountain busting punches." She finished as he moved to help her carry Midoriya out of there, leaving the adults to finish this.

"Didn't want the kiddies to see you lose, symbol of peace?" Wolfram, despite being forced on the defensive, asked as he saw that his potential hostages got away, limiting his options even more.

"We'll see who is the loser in this battle!" All Might took his challenge as he came down on him like a lightning bolt, keeping up the pressure.


(With the teens)

"You good to walk?" A couple of minutes later, the trio found themselves still making their way towards where they believed the control room to be, all while they could still feel the vibrations from All Might and Wolfram's fight now and then. The one who had spoken up as Jiro as she and Tetsutetsu helped Midoriya away.

"I think so…" The shorter boy replied as the two loosen their hold on him to let him try moving on his power, but not even two steps into and he nearly fell flat on his face if not for the two's grip on him. "Crap, nope, I am not." He stated through a harsh-sounding cough as he could feel that the bullet, which was still firmly lodged in his vest, might have bruised if not cracked a rib, right now it hurt to breathe.

"No worries, you did get shot twice, you're lucky the vest saved your ass." Tetsutetsu said to assure him as he was just glad they had found the damn things otherwise they would be in a lot worse situation.

"Yeah, you and me both." Midoriya agreed as he took some calming breathes to try and ease the pain. The group continued onward for another couple of minutes before they reached the intersection where they split off with Melissa and Uraraka before Tetsutetsu paused, causing them to stop but he spoke before they could ask.

"You guys go ahead." Tetsutetsu suddenly spoke out as he looked back towards the way they just retreated from.

"Tetsutetsu? What are you thinking?" Jiro asked him as he handed their wounded classmate to her to carry on her own.

"I'm going after Sam and David." Tetsutetsu answered as her he activated both his quirks once more to grant him increased speed.

"Are you crazy? All Might told us to get out of here and not interfere." Jiro cut him down before he could answer, but he didn't relent as he turned to face her with determination in his eyes,

"He told us to leave ta fight to him and to get Midoriya away. You can do that on your own but someone needs to go after the professor and that double-crossing bastard before they can get away." Tetsutetsu explained as they had largely done the first part of that as they already dealt with any villains nearby and the rest would be held down by either the security drones or the pros that could no fight back.

"…Fine, I heard them heading up, probably towards the roof." Jiro huffed out in response as she relented to him, using one of her jacks to point towards the ceiling as she had picked up their step-steps as they had left.

"Thanks." Tetsutetsu told her as he dashed down the corridor, barreling his way towards the roof to intercept that slime-ball before he could get away with the professor, leaving his fellow hero students behind to continue without him.

"I just hope he knows what he's doing." Midoriya spoke up as he worried for his friend. He may be durable, but this was a trial like they've never done in practicals. The entire thing had been the group largely winging it and following Yu's lead.

"He better, we got this far without losing anybody, let's keep it that way." Jiro agreed with him as they continued on their way, hoping that they ran into Mellissa, Uraraka, or any friendly face as soon as possible so they could hopefully tend to their wounds and sent back-up Tetsutetsu's way.


(With Sam and David)

"Is it here?" Back with the scientist, they had just reached the rooftop. In the cold ocean breeze, Sam forced David forward towards the helipad, where an old military helicopter was perched waiting for them. The person Sam asked, had been on the remaining hired goons still free who had come in on the helicopter.

"Yeah, just as we planned, it flew in undetected with all the confusion." The mercenary replied as he followed along with them as they made their way towards it. As they did, David in his pained haze could make out that though a much older model that in service with most actual armies, it was still both large and well-armed as it had a mounted machine gun turret near the front along with a grenade launcher mounted by the middle where it could be manned by anyone riding the thing.

"Then we're leaving, get ready." Sam told him as they all felt the building shake, it seemed that Wolfram was having trouble. Regrettable but not unexpected.

"What about the boss?" The goon asked as he paused, fearfully looking back towards the door as if the man would appear to judge him but Sam paid him no mind.

"He can take care of himself, also we need to make sure we get the cargo off of the island before those damned heroes can catch us." Sam ordered the guy as they all knew that they couldn't afford to wait, if they did they might as well just handcuff themselves and wait for authorities to pick them up.

"Alright." The goon replied, clearly not happy with either Sam or his orders but seeing the reason in them. They soon reached the bird as the other one told the pilot to start up the motors and prepare for take-off.

"Hey, what about everyone else?" The pilot asked as the propeller blades whined to life as they began to spin and built up speed.

"We don't have time to pick a bunch of imbeciles who couldn't even stop a bunch of kids. With the security back online, it's only a matter of time before we get caught if we stay and wait for them." Sam yelled back at him through the noise from the blades as he forced David into the cabin before climbing on himself.

"But the boss-" He tried to interject but Sam cut him off with a glare, which for him was rare as his rarely seen eyes burned with annoyance as he regarded the man that was refusing his orders.

"Can meet up with us at the secondary meeting point, all he needs to do is shake All Might off his tail." Sam grounded out as he wanted to shoot the idiot, but he knew he was their only pilot and without him, they were trapped. SO he held back, for now, he'll think of a way to punish him later.

"Face it, you lost." David spoke u for the first time since they left Pandora's box, though delirious from the blood loss and pain, he couldn't help but deny his turncoat of an assistant. "The heroes are on the move….and Mellissa's safe, you won't get anything from me, so just save us both the trouble and kill me already."

"You would like that, wouldn't you? But when have you known me to throw in the towel so easily?" Sam asked him with a frown as he took a seat as the rotors sped up as the helicopter prepared to lift off.

"After tonight, I don't even think I ever did know you." David responded as he closed his eyes and laid down, disappointed in both Sam and himself for not seeing this sooner.

"Touché. But I won't kill you, not now. Our" Sam said, making sure to emphasize that last word to get under his former's boss's skin. "New boss has ways of making you more…let us say agreeable. After we got what we wanted from you, then you can die." Sam told him, implying that he'll be forced to work for them one way or the other.

"What?" David asked him, he didn't know what, but something with that statement was off, it wasn't the threat of physical or mental torture but from the way Sam said it, his face…something was off. Those thoughts were proven true when Sam gave him a smile that was on the brink of madness and glee, as he had done something he knew was a great evil, but was unashamed and even looking forward to the consequences.

"I gave him my code, David, we just need the other three." Sam told him, his smile only growing to the point where it resembled that of the clown prince of crime from the days where costumed heroes only existed in fiction. It took David only a couple of moments for him to realize what he had been told, and what that meant.

'No…' David thought to himself as he somehow grew even paler. "You wouldn't…"

"I did. It's a shame I wasn't able to get the other two tonight, I suppose I was careless, but there will always be other chances." Sam finished as he should have extracted the other two codes from those brats, but even with one of them right in front of him, he was careless and it slipped his mind.

"You want to doom us all?" David asked him as those codes, they had been given to four different people for a reason. What they locked away, it was something that should have never been created. As they spoke, the helicopter started to take off slowly from its pad but at the same time, the door leading onto the roof was kicked right off its hinges.

"Stop!" Tetsutetsu, still clad in his quirk as the power of One for All flowed through his veins and supercharged him along with the righteous anger, yelled as he came rushing out of the doorway, barreling towards them like a bat out of hell.

"Like hell, I'm letting you get away!" He yelled as his eyes fixed on the chopper, where he could see both the weasel, Sam, and the professor, both scientists looking his way in shock as they most likely didn't think anybody would reach them this quickly, but he didn't care about that. His priority was rescuing the professor and if he had the time, pummel Sam into the dirt and then hand him over to the authorities.

"These brats sure are persistent." Sam muttered once he regained his composure before he looked towards the other person riding with them. "Take care of it." The mercenary gave him a firm nod before a small smirk worked its way into his face as he moved to man the grenade launcher and aim it down right towards the approaching teen hero student.

"With pleasure." He said as he started to fire on the boy, but to their collective shock, despite the 30mm explosive rounds ramming into him and exploding, Tetsutetsu didn't slow down. If anything, he sped up as if the hits gave him power.

"You can't do anything with that pea shooter! Gave back the professor!" Tetsutetsu roared at them as he ran up towards the chopper, glad that One for All boasted his defenses by such a degree as before he obtained the power, just one or two shots would have been enough to break through his original quirk. He knew that he wasn't as durable as the number one, but he didn't need to be to beat this challenge.

"Yeah, what about this?" The pilot of the chopper asked as he placed them in a hover some feet above the ground and instead turned to the autocannon turret, which he used to target and fire on the boy. Unlike the grenade launcher, the high powered, high-velocity rounds from the autocannon proved far more effective as just a couple caused cracks to appear on Tetsutetsu's armored skin, forcing the boy to jump back and started dodging before one of those rounds got through.

"Tetsutetsu!" David cried out in worry for the boy as Tetsutetsu struggled to avoid the fire and still advance, but was advancing at a much slower rate.

"Take that you brat!" The pilot laughed at him as he kept up the fire, seeing that he needed a change in approach, Tetsutetsu slammed both his hands into the ground and pulled a large sheet of metal and concrete up as a makeshift shield, with his new added layer of defense, Tetsutetsu started his speedy advance once more as the barrier soaked up the worse of it. "What!" The grenade launcher gunner yelled out in shock as though the barrier was being nicked away at and breaking apart, it was still holding up enough to protect the guy.

"What is he made of!?" The pilot asked in shock as he kept up the fire, in his shock, he didn't try and fall away. Tetsutetsu on his part paused when he felt the floor under him tremble as he wondered just how All Might was doing.


(Back with All Might)

"You are a slippery one, I'll give you that but," All Might started as he had punched a hole in the wall trying to take down Wolfram, but the man had used his quirk to create a kind of surfboard that he rode around on to avoid it. "It'll take more than this to defeat me!" He finished as he jumped towards him, forcing him to stay on the defensive as he had been for the entire encounter, not even being able to try and attack him lest he get caught and taken down.

'Dammit, he should be weaker than this!' Wolfram thought to himself through his nervous sweat and hurried breath. He knew that this would far from an easy fight, but dammit, he didn't think it would be this one-sided. Was All for One wrong? 'If I can only hit that weak spot All for One spoke about, but how? He never shows that side for too long, and he's too fast to hold him in place like this.' He wondered to himself as the number one never showed his left side to him, always presenting his right.

"No choice, time for a change in venues." Wolfram said aloud as he barely dodged another strike and threw as much of the metal in the room towards All Might, taking advantage of the distraction, he used his power to drill through the ceiling and start ascending.

"Up, running away? Sorry but your criminal career ends tonight!" All Might who saw this, told him as he broke through the steel keeping him back and gave chase, forcing Wolfram to try and slow him down with as many barriers as he could.

"Just try and stop me!" Wolfram yelled back as he figured that he would need an ace to beat this guy, and he knew just what he could use.

Now he just needed to hope that worthless egghead, Sam didn't leave yet.

"Guys!" Uraraka called out to the two as she and Mellissa ran down the hallway towards them. Jiro and Midoriya for their part were just relieved that they found some help as Jiro laid the boy down against the wall to give him rest and allow her to check on his condition.

"Oh my God, what happened up there? Where's Tetsutetsu, or my dad and Sam?" Mellissa asked as she ran up closer and watched as Jiro all but ripped off Midoriya's bulletproof vest, jacket, and shirt to allow her to better see his injuries. The two girls were shocked to see that there wasn't just one bruise from when he took a bullet for Momo, but there was a larger, even nastier looking one that was oozing blood and was already in the process of turning black and blue.

"Long story so we'll keep things short. Sam is working with the villains, they shot me and metalhead went ahead to try and stop them while All Might battles the guy I'm pretty sure is the head honcho villain." Midoriya told the two as Jiro used the remains of his shirt to try and make some make-shift bandages and started using what limited knowledge on first aid she knew, she would thank her parents for the lessons when she saw them next.

"Sam's a traitor, but I've known him since I was 5! There's no way." Mellissa, understandable, wasn't quick to believe their words as Uraraka jumped in to help Jiro with her task.

"Mellissa, I'm sorry but I was there, he admitted to the whole thing, he also threatened to call kill us." Jiro told the girl, shivering at the memory as unlike the villains at the USJ, he didn't seem to take any joy in taking them out, to him, they might as well been flies that happened to be in the way. Before Mellissa could pose any more objections, they all felt the building shake, this wasn't the first one but it was the largest of the tremors as it was strong enough for the overhead lights to flicker as bits and pieces fell from the ceiling onto them.

"That must be All Might." Uraraka reasoned as she knew of only two pros present that could cause that kind of tremor and one was most likely still outside and not willing to risk her quirk doing more harm than good.

"Or the guy he's fighting, his quirk allows him to control magnetic metals." Jiro replied as they finished wrapping up the worst of it before she and Uraraka went to work on the other one, the two purposely not thinking about the blood they were getting on their hands and dresses, they could wash up later and the duo doubted Momo would rise a fuse over the ruined clothing.

"Like the steel used in the tower's construction." Mellissa muttered to herself as she quickly asked the two girls for their friends' numbers so she could warn them to vacant before things could get worse.

"Or metalhead's body whenever he uses his quirk. I just hope they don't cross paths as there is no way for him to beat that guy, not without help." Midoriya said as he looked down the way they came, the way where they split off with the white-haired boy who went to save his teacher. 'All Might, Tetsutetsu. Be careful, please.' He thought to himself in pray as Mellissa quickly called up Momo and alerted them of what was happening and instructed that she along with Mineta and Kaminari should get as far away from the tower as they could or if they couldn't, try to hunker down in the lower floors as the tower was built so damage from one section wouldn't spread to others.


(Back on the roof)

'They're still here?' Was the first thought on Wolfram's mind once he busted through the ceiling to the roof. In the one corner, he spotted his escape chopper still present against their plans and on the other, he could see that they have been firing on something. 'That kid again!' He observed when he recognized the metallic skin on the boy before anything else. Acting quickly, he reached out with his quirk towards him, catching him on his grasp before he could do anything.

"What the-!" Tetsutestu thought aloud before he realized that was happening but with both guns still on him, he couldn't do a think about it as if he turned his quirk off, he'll be shredded and blown to bit.

"Sorry but I need to borrow you for a minute." Wolfram laughed as he used his hold on the boy and threw him as hard as he could towards where All Might would surely pop out and sure as rain, the number one came right out of the same hole as he did but rather than attack the boy and hopefully injure him like he thought he'll do, All Might was able to catch himself in time and grab onto Tetsutetsu and jump back before placing him behind some cover.

"I won't let you harm my student." All Might vowed to him as his frown was even larger now at the sight of his foe daring to use children as tools for his ends. It was disgusting. Wolfram ticked his teeth as when he tried to reach for Tetsutetsu again, he found that he couldn't which meant that the boy had turned his quirk off now that he wasn't in danger of being shoot. The two gunners weren't having much luck with All Might as he moved around so fast, they couldn't even get a bead on him long enough to pull the trigger

"Take off you idiots, before the rest of them get here!" Wolfram yelled at them as he jumped into the chopper as the pilot seemed to get his sense back and furiously try to fly off. However, this would prove fruitless as All Might would only give a hearty laugh as he crouched down, preparing for one of his jumps as the chopper flew further and further away as fast as it could manage.

"As I already told you, your career as a villain ends tonight!" All Might started as he took a massive leap towards them, but to their shock, he didn't hit them but instead flew even higher than them and almost hovered in the air. "Now, it's time for you to hand over my friend, you fiend!" He finished his degree as he came down on them, hard. Moving so fast, that Tetsutetsu couldn't even see what had happened, one second All Might was in the air and the chopper was present, the next the chopper had exploded and All Might had Dave in his hands safely on the roof.

"All Might! Professor!" Tetsutetsu yelled as he ran towards them as the burning wreck came crashing down in the background in a fiery explosion.

"Everything will be okay, Dave." All Might told his friend who he was sure to be gentle with seeing his injuries. "Thanks to the efforts of these students, the night is won."

"We did it," Tetsutetsu called out as he approach them before he threw his hands up into the air in celebration. "We did it!"

Though it seemed that not everyone was in a party mood as David looked solemn and tired. "I'm…so sorry if only I had seen this coming," He tried to apologize for what he saw as his fault but All Might stopped him.

"Hush now, Dave. I may not know the full story, but I know enough to see none of this was because of you." All Might told his friend with a small, but honest smile as he had heard enough in the fight with Wolfram to get the gist of the situation and though sad about it, none of them could have seen anything like this coming from Sam. However, before the trio could continue, a massive pillar of steel come rushing towards them and managed it hit the unexpected All Might, shocking them all as they looked towards the burning wreckage for the only possible source of that attack.

"All Might!" Both Tetsutetsu and David called out to their mentor/friend as the number one came skidding to a halt, only now steam seem to be coming off his form which meant that he was nearly out of time in his muscle form and that further hits would only decrease that already shrinking time limit. Things only got worse as from the very floor under them, steel and other metallic cabling came alive and not only spring out but grabbed onto David, wrapping him up and pulling the unwilling man towards the wreckage where something was forming.

'What? How could be still be kicking after that?' All Might asked himself as and Tetsutetsu watched as the cables, panels and anything else made of metal moved towards this one point, creating this monstrous construct which David soon himself taken into. Around it, tentacles made from the metal formed as the flames somehow grew in intensity and scale, granting a background suited for a true monster.

"Professor!" Tetsutetsu called out as he took a step forward before logic flooded into his system once more and he jumped back, a good thing too since from the spot he almost walked into, more cables were pulled from the ground and would have surely ensnared him as well. The amalgamation of cables, panels, bolts, screws, and railings came to a head, forming a sort of wide base and at the top, like the head of a flower, Wolfram revealed himself, laughing. His jacket ad been torn and burned but what stuck out to the two was the fact he was wearing something on his head. A device that brought a sinking feeling in his stomach as he figured he knew just what it was.

"Oh man, Sam wasn't kidding about this gear. I can feel my power growing to heights I never dreamed of!" Wolfram yelled out in power-hungry joy as the tentacles he had been forming only grew in length and width as he used his boosting quirk to gather and more and material he knew what to do with. "And it looks like he was right on the money, All Might's power is failing him, he isn't that unbeatable pillar he used to be!"

"Holy-He's…he's using the professor's device." Tetsutetsu breathed out both awe that the professor was able to build something like this, and fear as it meant that their foe was now much, much stronger than he was a minute ago, while All Might was already burning fumes just to stay in muscle form.

"Dammit, I'm pushing it as is." All Might coughed onto his fist, seeing the spats of blood which served as a near-constant reminder of his condition, but he refused to give up so he got back up to his feet, with both arms at his side as he prepared to charge and used his superhuman speed to try and get back Wolfram's defenses and take him down with a single strike. "My, you don't know when to give up, do you?" He asked as he took off with a burst of speed, crushing the floor where his feet once more as he pulled back his fist. "Texas…"

All Might started as he wound up one of his signature power moves but as he did so, he was slightly surprised that Wolfram not only didn't seem phased by this but was able to react to it by bringing up a wall of metal. Though he pushed on with the plan to break through it like he had every other one before it "Smash!" He finished calling out his power move as his fist made contact with the surface of the wall with tremendous force and though it craters and sent bits and pieces flying all over the place, to the shock of everything watching except Wolfram himself, the wall held.

"What?" All Might asked himself, having not seen such a thing happening as he looked towards his enemy.

"He didn't break through?" Tetsutetsu asked himself, just as shocked if not more so than All Might as he had seen him bust through those barriers with ease earlier, was this dude's quirk suped up by that much.

"Is that all you got?" Wolfram challenged as from the barrier All Might had failed to destroy, pillars of metal shot out and stuck him out of no-where, knocking the hero back even further as the pillars drove him back. All this was not helping the structural integrity of the building as near where two were fighting, a small section of roof buckled under its weight with the lack of support and fell towards the ground. Tetsutetsu silently hoped that no-one was near and that they stayed indoors.

He could also tell that things would only grow direr as Wolfram pulled ever more amounts of metal from the building to add to both his literal base but his offensive capabilities, he thought he should yell at the man to stop before he brings the entire thing down, but it was clear that he wasn't thinking straight in his power trip, and that was the issue of if he'll stop even if he wasn't high on his own boosted power.

"What in the hell is happening?!" All Might, who had no way of knowing how far-reaching his opponent's quirk range was right now, asked himself as he noted how everything metal was being pulled towards him, even from the lower floors as bits and panels come rushing in from the edges of the building. 'If he's moving this much metal, how in the hell am I supposed to get close to him?!' He asked himself as he knew he wasn't at his best, and this guy had already proven he could react to his speed levels as they were so he needed a new approach and he needed one fast.

"David Shield's genius lives up to its expectations, I can feel my quirk growing more powerful! It's like there's no limit to this!" Wolfram shouted for all of them to hear as the feeling he was experiencing was unlike anything he ever imagined, and to think, this was a tool that wouldn't screw with his body or mind. "Hahahaha! I'm never taking this off!" He yelled in out joy as his base only grew further, soon reaching twice the size it was body while sheets and panels formed around him as a sort of early defense so that he wouldn't need to create them on the fly.

"Just what sort of support gear is that?" All Might asked himself as he had seen many different types of support gear for many different types of quirks and combat, but even when he considered that this was built by his friend, Dave, he couldn't imagine something like this ever getting further than theories and the drawing board.

"I get that it was supposed to be good, but how could someone even begin to create something this effective?" Tetsutetsu asked himself from the spot he hoped would be a good place to hunker down. He knew that it would be smarter to leave this fight, but he couldn't find it in himself to turn tail and run no matter how powerless he felt right now. He needed to do something, anything to help his mentor and save the professor, he refused to let the efforts of his friends and schoolmates go to waste.

"Now, I think I know the best way to raise the price of this device, I can charge whatever I want if it was used to kill the world's number one hero!" Wolfram proposed as he used his newly constructed mess of shapes, pipes, panels, and railings to attack All Might with a barrage of pillars, shards, and everything else he could think of, leaving the number one with the option of only evasion and speed to avoid getting pinned down and defeated.

"All Might, be careful!" Tetsutetsu cried out to him as Wolfram, from his place in his creation that seemed to take on a sinister purple glow, laughed at this foe's struggles just to stay in this fight. 'This is bad, this is really bad! How much more of this can All Might take?' Tetsutetsu thought to himself as he was forced to start evading the attacks himself now as it seemed like Wolfram wanted both of them dead, this was bad for him as though he had some practice using One for All with Steel, he was very unused to it and could barely handle 3% of its power as while he jumped and dashed around to avoid being crushed or impaled, he could feel his muscles and bones starting to scream from the strain he was putting them under.

All Might, seeing an opening, tried to exploit it by rushing in with a strike but he was met with another, even larger pillar of metal crashing into his fist and though he managed to plow through a good chunk of it, Wolfram seemingly had a vast supply of material to just keep extending it, slamming All Might back into the ground where Tetsutetsu could see that he could barely hold it back from completely crushing him. Even with all the smoke and dust flying around the night air, he could pick up how more steam was flowing off the number one as he forced him to stay in his hero form and keep himself in this fight.

Wolfram added to the pressure as he added more and more pillars to the assault, using them to beef up the first one and try and crush the symbol of peace and while All Might found himself edging closer and closer to his limit as he spat out more blood, he refused to back down. Seeing that his opponent wasn't going down, Wolfram seemed to grow less joyful and more irritated.

"Just die already!" Wolfram yelled out as he sent another 6 pillars, these ones from above the last one to try and stomp out the number one, but it wouldn't be as those very same pillars were hit by a chilling gust of wind, freezing them solid in an instant. This surprised and further angered Wolfram who looked toward where the ice came from to see who was stepping up to the plate now. He was in for quite the shock where the first thing he saw was a giant woman with her arm pulled back, it was pure instincts that saved him from her next move.


"Colossal grapeshot!" Yu yelled out as she threw the truly massive handful of debris she had picked up towards Wolfram and though some of it was metal which he could control and move, most of it was concrete meaning he was forced to put up a wall of metal to protect himself from the assault. And that wasn't the only sole as from the same direction, a wave of ice started to rapidly creep across the surface of the roof, freezing and slowing Wolfram down as he now found that he either couldn't call for more metal as ice sheet either made the stuff too brittle or it took too long.

"Not if we have anything to say about it." Todoroki, who was by the edge of the roof where he and the rest of his group had ascended to the top, told the villain as he used his fire to heat himself so that he could keep up the icy assault. Along with him was: Iida; Kendo; Yaoyorozu, who still looked tired but seemed to have regained some of her strength; Kaminari; Mineta, and Yu. He was missing half his shirt and jacket but he wasn't the only one whose attire for the evening was dirty and damaged.

"Like we'll let you kill All Might!" Kendo called out as she did her part in picking as large pieces of debris as she could and tossed them towards him, and it wasn't just them as from the same doorway that Tetsutetsu, David, and Sam had used-Jiro, Uraraka, Mellissa and Midoriya had also arrived on the scene with the anti-gravity girl rushing towards Todoroki's group and using her quirk to make the pieces of ice and other debris weightless, allowing for Kendo to use larger and larger fragments which she would then release from her quirk, essentially making it kind of ran concrete fragments on Wolfram, who looked more than a little cross about this.

"Guys!" Tetsutestu called out, happy that they had received some cavalry as Todoroki spotted a large segment of concrete connecting via rebar just lying there and acted, freezing all but a bottom section of it.

"Mt. Lady!" He called to the giant woman who looked down towards him and then towards where he was pointing, realizing that he had done, she bent over and picked up the make-shift weapon.

"Thanks for the club kid," Yu started as Wolfram lowered his wall to send out an assault his own, firing off another 8 pillars towards the giant but she didn't seem threatened by this, she only widened her stance, grateful that the top floor was large enough for her to move around like this before she swung the giant ice-concreate bat thing right into the approaching metallic pillars. "It's been a while since I last played!" Yu finished with a smile as she was happy for all those years playing baseball rather than ballet as her hit was pitch-perfect and though her weapon was destroyed, it did manage to also take out Wolfram's pillars.

"How'd you guys get up here?" Jiro asked as Kaminari, Mineta and Yaoyorozu came towards them and leaving the fighting to their heavy hitters.

"Mt. Lady lifted Todoroki high enough for him to create a way up with his ice. We used that." Mineta replied as he pointed towards the side of the building where they had come from. What they couldn't tell from their spot was the fact there was a series of stair-like protrusions sticking out of the building which lead some way down.

"Glad to see you're alright, but who is that fighting All Might?" Kaminari asked as he pointed towards the carnage where their classmates were running amok as even Iida had joined in and was dashing to and fro, drawing the villain's attention away from the others which left him open to a more dangerous assault.

"The muscle of this entire mess of a night." Midoriya, whose chest had been wrapped up in both his shirt and jacket, replied as he looked on, his eyes worried but filled with faith in those still fighting.

"Focus on just taking as much of the pressure off of All Might," Yu ordered them, keeping her focus on the fight and not on the fact her boyfriend was hurt. The sooner they beat this guy, the faster she could check on him. "Let him do what he does best."

"All Might! Don't let him beat you! You can do this!" Kendo cried out to her teacher as she and Uraraka were forced back from their spot as Wolfram attacked them, but that didn't stop their assault as there were still lots of rocks on the air and though Uraraka was starting to feel sick from how much weight she was counteracting, she wasn't willing to stop just yet. Those same rocks would quickly join the others that had gone up before them and came crashing down on the supercharged villain.

"Come on, All Might! Show this guy why you're number one!" Todoroki cheered for the man his father could never hope to surpass, hearing all this, in seeing how they had still come to his aid and were putting up such a hard hit. All this struck a chord with the symbol of peace as he gave a small smile as he almost felt himself being fueled but then as most of the steam coming off of him dispersed as he regained some of that lost bulk.

'With my students so motivated, I can't just let myself be held back by something as foolish as a limit!' All Might thought himself as he felt the power within him swell as he geared his muscles for a continued assault as he jumped out of the situation he was in straight up, leaving the pillar he was against nothing opposing it as it slammed into the ground.

'I need to push past my boundaries, and go beyond!' The number one chanted to himself as he pushed himself forward with a mighty kick, Wolfram, now thoroughly angered by these continued distractions and the unending resistance from All Might, sent off another 10 pillars towards him but All Might moved through the air like a humming bee on steroids, avoiding most of them and punching right on through another two as he closed the distance between him and his target. Another came down on him but rather than avoid it or destroy it, All Might did something new and run along it towards its creator before jumping off when Wolfram tried to crush him with another, destroying both. Another three came right towards him so All Might, needing to finish this quickly, held up his two arms just under his chin in an 'X' formation at the wrist.

"Carolina Smash!" All Might announced to the world as he used yet another power move to smash right on through, the force of which being so powerful that it not only broke through but it caused a shockwave and pure white light to shine bright enough that everyone needed to cover their eyes.

"Prepare yourself, villain-arg!" All Might started as he flew right towards Wolfram with his fist cocked back to finish him off, at least, that was the plan. All Might couldn't go through with that as over 2 dozen cables came rushing towards him, catching and stopping the number one her dead in his tracks while also wrapping around his arms, legs, and midsection.

"Nice trick but I-!" All Might started to say as this wasn't the first time he had been bound but he found himself cut short as Wolfram reached for his neck and gripped it, the issue there was that he grabbed onto All Might with more strength than should be possible and the number one immediately know something was off not just because of the very strong grip the villain had on him, but also because the man's hand increased in bulk to the point that his damaged jacket tore right off of him, exposing his muscles which started to pulse and glow with this cherry-violet color.

"Prepare myself? Take your own advice." Wolfram shot back at him as his voice got even deeper than it was before as his body seemed to start putting out unreal amounts of heat as both his face-mask and his shirt burned right off, leaving his top bare. "Looks like you underestimated me, and that's gonna cost yer." Wolfram smirked at him as he enjoyed having the number one in such a position as he reached towards him with his other hand.

'Where did this strength come from?' All Might thought to himself but he couldn't get an answer as Wolfram was able to reach for his injured left side where he grabbed into it and started squeezing, hard. Having targeted All Might's weak spot, all the number one could do was cry out in pain at the move.


"All Might!" Mellissa called out to her uncle as Tetsutetsu seemed to be just about ready to jump right on in if it wasn't for Midoriya stopping him with his words.

"Don't get closer, if you use your quirk against him, you're done." He reminded the boy who could only growl in anger and frustration, but he didn't go forward. With the others, they couldn't offer up much aid as though keeping most of his attention on All Might, Wolfram was still able to keep them busy with his near unending assault on them.

"Dammit!" Todoroki cursed as he used his ice to attack but had to jump back when two separate pillars of metal came crashing down where he once was. He found himself with less and less time to

"Just how much stuff do we have to break?" Iida asked as he kicked through one of the smaller pillars but had to dodge an attack by the skin of teeth before retreating.

"As many of it as we need to. Just keep going." Yu reminded them, though she was in the most dangerous position as the roof may have been large, but it still was a roof which meant she couldn't move around or have a harsh landing without causing the ever-weakening structure to cave in.

"We can't expect me to sit back and do nothing!" Tetsutetsu yelled back at Midoriya as the group could do nothing to aid in the current situation, though hearing this and wholeheartedly agreeing with the guy, Midoriya also felt like they needed to do something but he didn't know what. Jiro didn't have the gun he gave her, nor did he have anything otherwise he would have taken the shoot by now…wait a minute.

Midoriya reached for his pocket, hoping that it was still there and to his relief he found it. Something that might just be the deciding factor for them. "…Keeping your distance and doing nothing are not the same thing." Midoriya said as he pulled out something that none of the others saw as his fist had been closed tightly.

"What are you talking about?" Mellissa asked him as he lifted his hand to them all and opened it, showing that in his palm, was the spent big game hunting round that had nearly killed it.

"Tell me," Midoriya started as he moved his hand in Tetsutetsu's direction, presenting the slightly deformed but still intact bullet to him. "How good is your aim?"


'How is he doing this? His quirk seemed to revolve around controlling metal, no way it could also enhance muscles, so this must be a new power. This means only one thing, he has multiple quirks' Back with the main fight, All Might had been wondering to himself just how Wolfram's quirk could effect his muscles before he concluded that it wasn't and he had another quirk but-"Wait, it couldn't be." All Might uttered as he felt his eyes widen as he could only think of one possible conclusion here.

"Oh yes, it seems you finally caught on. While we were planning this little plot, we received a very intriguing meeting from someone you should know very well." Wolfram started as his smirk grew as All Might's frown grew.

"When I ask him why he'd bother, All for One was very frank in his reasoning. He wanted our aid in his plans, but more than that, he wanted to ensure you'll lose your dear friend and be made to look weak in front of the world." He explained to him the reasoning behind why his greatest enemy had been involved in this plan.

'If want you to upstage David Shield, a dear friend of All Might, I will assist in your passing to the dark side in any way that I can so long as you succeed in obtaining what you seek and are willing to work with myself in the future.' 'I only regret that I won't be present to see All Might's face twist in pain when he discovers the truth of the matter.'

"All for One is behind this?" All Might demanded as he felt like his heart rate would shoot through the roof from both the fear and the fury in his veins, hearing that name made him curse the day he didn't make sure that his most hated enemy was dead and gone as his seemed hell-bent in haunting him for it.

"Looks like you finally stopped smiling." Wolfram said to him as he took in the hero's despair and moved to end him before moving onto the others. However, like with most things that had happened in the last couple minutes, something unexpected occurred in that out of both their views, speeding object came flying right towards them, or more accurately, towards Wolfram's head.

CRACK!

Was the sound of the speeding object that had been thrown smacking into Wolfram's head. Now, the object had been going far too slow to kill him but it did hit like a rock thrown from a sling which meant it drew blood but his head wasn't the real target, oh no. As both he felt and All Might saw, the object may have hurt it, but that was after it smashed right on through his headpiece, causing it to short out before breaking apart as the internal components caught fire. "What!?" He yelled in shock and anger as he felt his quirk, which was surging and bursting with power mere moments ago, began to lose its strength. He along with All Might looked towards the source which they expected to be maybe Yu or Kendo but to their duel shock, it was Tetsutetsu.

"Nailed it." Testutetsu said as he looked towards the two, still in the stance he had been in when he had thrown the offered bullet as hard as he could, his pointing finger purple and broken from the fact he had used 100% of his power to do so to make sure that the little piece of metal would fly fast enough to not only make the distance but also hit with enough force to break the headpiece that was giving Wolfram this much power in the first place, something he was proud to say as a success.

"Good aim, gotta be real with you, didn't think that thing would be that fragile, but prototypes often are now," Midoriya said as he like the rest of their little group had watched with bated breath to see how their hair-brained scheme would work and now that it had, they had a fighting chance. "Get in there and help!"

"What did you, stupid hero wannabes do?!" Wolfram yelled at them in fury as he could feel himself growing weaker, not only that but for some reason, he could feel this exhaustion coming on that he couldn't explain.

BOOM!

But that would need to take a backseat for now as in his distraction and weakening power, All Might broke free of his hold of him both on his neck and from the cables as his control over the things weakened. "Looks like you should have prepared yourself, villain." All Might smiled at him, a smile he hated so much right now as he jumped back onto one of his tentacles before dashing right back in to try and do what he had wanted the first time around. "Let's see how well you last without your boost helping you."

"Tetsutetsu, need a hand?" Kendo, who was close by to her classmate as he rushed past, asked him as he came to a stop before he looked towards where she was pointing, where he wanted to go.

"Appreciate it." Tetsutetsu replied as he got close to her so that she could pick him up, which she did in her enlarged fist as the others around them had kicked it into high gear now that their foe was weakening, smashing, freezing, and otherwise breaking anything and everything he sent their way as they started to make actual progress.

"Give him a punch to the face for 1-B, will you?" Kendo asked of him as she pulled back her hand as far as she could.

"Can do!" Tetsutetsu replied as she threw him headlong into danger, the boy activating One for All at the highest he dared in the heat of the moment, 5% to increase his power and combat effectiveness.

"Midoriya, you don't look like you should be moving." Todoroki, who had just put up a large glacier of an ice wall, said as he jumped back towards their group.

"Well I didn't exactly plan to spend my night fighting villains and mad scientists, so I'll improvising," Midoriya answered as he inspected the crumbling structure for any weak points they could target when he spotted something, a hole in the thing which showed off the precious cargo hidden within. "Worry about me later, you see that?" In response to his question, Todoroki looked towards where he was pointing the spotted the light blue suit of the man inside the cavity, being held up by cables.

"Is that?" He started asking before he was interrupted.

"Yeah, think you can get him out of there?" Midoriya asked him, only for the boy to shake his head in a negative.

"Not me," Todoroki responded but then Iida came into view once more and he also got an idea. "But I think I can help Iida to, at his top speed." He finished as their resident speedster looked their way and good thing to because it saved the effort to call for him as Todoroki waved him over.

"Young Tetsutetsu, didn't I ask you to leave this to me. Your body can't handle this." All Might asked as he came down right where Tetsutetsu had landed, his form trailing steam as even with the situation getting better, he was not sure how much longer he could keep this up.

"Maybe, but it would be unmanly for me to just leave you to fight when it's a man…and a hero's job to help others, even if h might be weak." Tetsutetsu responded as he looked to his predecessor with a smile, even if he was scared that his power might not be enough but he was determined to at least try. Hearing this, All Might couldn't help it, he threw his head back and gave out a hearty laugh.

"You make a good point. Looks like I'm quite the bind, without all of you helping me." All Might said as their foe seemed more and more focused on just keeping them back as it seemed like he was starting to slow down and weaken without his little tiara to help him. Still, this was quite the mountain they would have to climb.

"If it's not too much to ask, would you continue to lead me your aid, young Tetsutetsu, just for a little while longer?" All Might asked him as he offered his hand to the boy, who only smiled at him as he took his larger, stronger hand into his own.

"You have to ask. I don't know the meaning of quitting or limits. Plus Ultra, right?" Tetsutetsu responded as the two got back up and faced their looming threat before the two took off, with All Might keeping pace with his young successor as the two charged Wolfram, who looked ragged and very irritated.

"Even without that stupid piece of metal and plastic, there's no way you can stop me. You'll just insignificant bugs that don't know to you just stay down and be crushed!" Wolfram yelled at them, though he sounded like he was out of breath as he formed two large spheres of metallic debris before sending it towards the two, but one flew off course when a wave of ice slammed into his side, freezing it solid.

"The only one who should stay down, Is you! Iida!" Todoroki stated as he called out to his friend, who nodded his head from his position close to him in a runner's stance. Todoroki's attack had two goals, the first was to throw this guy off his game but the second was to create a path for Iida to reach his target while at the same time, making it hard for their enemy to try and stop him.

"Recipro," Iida started as his exhausts started to billow out red flames which slowly turned blue as he took out like a superbike with nitrous. "Burst!" He yelled as he ran up the icy path that had been made for him right towards the cavity which had been covered up some metal panels but he didn't let that stop him as he kicked right on through it. Reaching the prize inside which was the professor who looked up at the glasses-wearing boy.

"What?" David asked him as Iida started breaking him out of his bonds before he gently picked the man up in a fire-man's hold.

"Please stay calm, I got you." Iida told him as he used what little time of his super move to rush them out of there before they could be taken.

"What!" Seeing this, even if he found himself being pushed further and further back as both his quirk and his body seemed to tire, Wolfram was furious that even the professor was taken from him. "You think I'll just let you take him back?!" He yelled at them but before he could even think to counter this,

"You have bigger problems, literally!" Yu shot back at him as she threw the caught one of his tentacles and despite Mineta's mind jumping into perverted thoughts at the sight, she ripped it apart before throwing it back at him. He tried to use his power to stop it but found that h was lacking the strength, forcing him to use everything he could just to rise the other tentacles to block it.

'Damn heroes!' He thought to himself as he could feel his blood pressure rising as his heart increased, his breathing rate jumped as he worked himself to the very limits just to keep everything together as he forced himself to send out the strongest wave he could. "This is over!" That wave wasn't as strong as he wanted it to be, but it was still enough to stagger Yu and sent everyone to their knees.

"Shit!" Midoriya cursed as the section of roof they were on started to buckle, but Jiro and Kaminari were able to get him and Momo out of there before he caved in.

"What's happening?" Jiro asked as this guy went from super-powerful big bad to man who could barely keep it together, even the structure he had built for himself was coming apart at the seams.

"His quirk, it's dangerously fluctuating in power." Mellissa, who had been paying close attention to all this, responded as it made perfect sense. Her father's invention may be capable of boosting one's quirk, but even Sam admitted it nearly cleared the testing phase before the project was canceled and confiscated.

"Somehow," Kaminari started as he pointed towards where All Might and Tetsutetsu were rushing the guy, moving almost too fast for him to see as they all but danced around the meager defenses the villain put up to stop them. "I doubt that will stop them." He remarked as Mellissa looked at them, really looked at them and she wasn't sure if it was a trick of the light or just her mind showing its exhaustion but watching him ran side by side with her uncle figure, she could have sworn that the two were the same.

"No, no it won't." Mellissa agreed with him as a smile worked its way onto her face as she felt a calm come down on her. She didn't know how or why, but she felt like they would win. With the two in question, they continued their mad dash towards their target, not being slowed by his walls, his pillars, or his attempts to shower them with shrapnel as they proved too fast for the little things to hit them and too strong for his pillars to push them away as both All Might and Tetsutetsu would strike at anything in their way in power unlike anything else.

Wolfram decided that then and there he would kill them no matter what as he pooled what power he had left into one spot, fusing as much of the debris around him into a giant cube before sending it crashing down on them, to hell if it destroyed the tower and lead to his capture, he was going to kill them if it was the last thing he did! Seeing this massive cube of metal hurtling towards them didn't seem too disturbed the two as if sharing one mind, they pulled their fists back in unison.

'To overcome the crisis in front of you.' All Might thought to himself as he geared his left fist.

'By giving it 100% of me and more.' Tetsutetsu continued the shared thought as he pulled his right fist as far as it could go as he felt the power of One for All surging through his mind, past 5%, past 10%, past 20. All the way to 100%.

'And save people.' Al Might silently uttered his vow as a hero as he looked up towards the cube they would need to break through and man, he could say it could easily fit a dozen or two school buses in there.

'No matter the price to yourself.' Tetsutetsu went on as he figured that using 100% of One for All was a really bad idea, but he refused to let them down by not giving this his absolute best.

'That is want makes someone.' All Might finished his thoughts as the rest of them watched on, their hearts and minds giving them all the support they can give from where they stood.

'A hero!' Both Mellissa and Midoriya both looked up as they smiled at them, having full confidence that they will beat this guy.

"I'll bring down this entire tower if I have to!" Wolfram, now at his absolute limit, yelled at them as he brought down the cube on the with as much force as he could muster.

"Double…" Both All Might and Tetsutetsu said as their first started to glow with their shared power. "Detroit…" Both of them smiled as they looked towards the mass of metal coming down on them as they brought their fists towards it as hard as they could. "Smash!" The two, called as one as their fists came up to the cube with the force of a meteorite, sending shockwaves through the cube as it withstood this for only a couple of seconds before it started to crumble and fall apart as Wolfram struggled against this but felt he was losing.

"Arg, no, no, no, NO, NO, NO! I WON'T LOSE HERE!" Wolfram yelled out in anger and fear as he could do next to nothing to oppose them.

"Well sucks to be you, because," Tetsutetsu started as they started breaking through the cube towards him as he put as much as he had left into this attack, even if he was breaking the bones in his arm and hand. Lucky for him, the full gauntlet he was wearing took the worst of it as it started to crack and break apart from the force of his attack.

"It is a hero's job to protect, defend, guide, and beat back the evils of the world!" All Might finished that as the two continued through it, blood leaking from his mouth as he still gave them a smile that could light up the night.

"Real Steel!" Kendo yelled out.

"Go get him, All Might!" Jiro, Kaminari, and Yaoyorozu called out.

"Go Tetsutetsu!" Midoriya, Iida and Mellissa joined in.

"Destroy this guy!" Todoroki and Yu finished off

"To go," Testsutetsu said as they reached their maximum height, the power flowing through his veins screaming at him to release it.

"Beyond!" All Might was in full agreement with him as the two came down on their foe like a hammer from up high.

"Plus Ultra!" The two finished with their school's motto as they brought down their attack on Wolfram, who in a desperate bid to save himself, wrapped himself in as much metal as he could but it was all for naught as the two plowed right through to him with their due explosively powerful punch, not just landing two devastating punches right to Wolfram but sending enough force though him into his crumbling construct that all but exploded as the force holding it together came undone and another force forced them to fly apart.

For those watching, this was one of the most epic things they had ever seen but for David, this was something more as looking at Tetsutetsu, still in the air with his fist held up and smile on his face, the image struck a chord with the aged professor as in couldn't help but overlap this scene with one from his past. An image he had held onto for years as that was the first time he had seen All Might in action as his sidekick. Watching as the metal monster that they had been fighting came down, the group finally took a breath to relax as even Yu shrunk down to her normal size.

"They did it." Iida uttered as his brain took a couple of seconds to process this before a smile broke out across his face as he fell on his ass in relief.

"They stopped him." Mineta started as he had to hold onto some loose floor just to see over it, but that didn't matter to him as he only cheered even louder/ "They beat up that villain and saved our lives!" The group soon joined with him as relief and joy was the name of the game as they all started to smile and celebrate their victory.

"Honestly, we kids sure have exciting night lives, don't you?" Yu asked as she came towards the group, her hair and dress an absolute dress but the smile on her face as pure as could be.

"We ain't no kids. But yeah, this was one hell of a night." Kendo laughed as Yu walked over towards where her boyfriend was, Jiro saw this and with a smile of her own, handed him over to her to which she took him into her arms as the two shared a heartfelt hug as they leaned onto one another, happy that they had gotten through this together.


It wasn't even a full hour later, as the sun was rising on I-island, that the island's security and emergency personnel were practically swarming all over not just the tower but also the rooftop. Choppers flew overhead as medics tended to the wounded and tired while security and emergency repair crews dug through the rubble for the villains and immediately placed them in quirk suppressing handcuff.

"We've found the helicopter wreck and the occupants!"

"Make sure their injuries are tended to and that they are restraint and under watch!"

"I need a hand over here!"

"Are you alright?" One of the medics asked as she addressed Momo, who answered her question with a tired and very, very hungry looking look on her face.

"I'm fine, just tired…" She said as she rubbed her stomach which felt like it wanted to have some angry words with her. "And hungry." But then again, the last meal she had was a light lunch, the previous day. Forget dinner, she was going to pig out with breakfast no matter who said anything, she deserved it.

"My brain hurts but give it a couple of minutes, I'll be fine." Kaminari responded to a question from a medic who was seeing to him as had started acting pretty dumb not too long ago.

"He means to say," Jiro said as she butted in from her seat on the rubble next to him as another medic saw to her bruises. "That it's a side effect of his quirk, it'll clear itself up soon." This was the scene with most of them except with David and All Might, who had been taken aside so that the number one could return to his normal form without the rest of them seeing this. Tetsutetsu and Midoriya were further away from the group as the two had been placed into stretchers and awaited medical evac. Yu was with them as she conversed with Izuku on thier plans for their stay.

"Real Steel! Midoriya!" All three looked towards the sound of the voice calling to them and they saw Mellissa rushing towards them, she must have been cleared by the medical staff already. "I'm so glad you're alright." She said as she reached them, a tearful smile in her eyes that she wiped away.

"Define 'alright'" Midoriya joked but then she hit him in the arm. "Ow!"

"Now not the time to be a smart-ass, can't you see how emotional I am?" Mellissa asked him, though the smile on her face never left.

"She has you there, Midoriya." Tetsutetsu joined in from his stretcher as his arm up into his shoulder had been heavily bandaged up along with his other hand's finger.

"Oh shut it, TT." Midoriya countered, getting the boy to stop smiling as he glared at him for using that stupid nickname which he wasn't bothered by. Watching this, the two blondes couldn't help but laugh at their antics.


"Dave, Dave." David heard someone calling to him as he opened his eyes to see his friend, in his skinny form and injured, but still smiling. "I came to save you, old friend."

"Ha, just like old times." David, who was more firmly fixed to his stretcher as a medic worked on keeping him stable worked to make sure their patches would hold until they got him to a hospital.

"I might not be as strong as I used to be, but that's something that'll never change, though," All Might started as he looked to the side, drawing David to do the same to see that he was looking at Mellissa, Yu, Midoriya, and Tetsutetsu all conversing with one another in the distance. "If you want to thank someone, you should take young Mellissa and the rest of them. This victory was thanks to them and their efforts."


"He's okay. I'm so relieved." Mellissa said to the group as she bowed to them in gratitude for their efforts. "And it's thanks to you guys."

"Hey, don't sell yourself short. If not for you, we might not have even got this far." Yu told the girl as she gave her a pat on the back.

"She's right, Mellissa. Your just as much a hero as we are." Tetsutetsu agreed with her 100% before he started to chuckle to himself. "Ha, looks like you're closer to joining us in the field than I thought!" He finished, which got even Mellissa and Midoriya to laugh as they also recalled that before he stopped as if a lightbulb went off in his head.

"Oh shit, I can't believe I forgot. I'm so sorry I broke your gear." Tetsutetsu apologized as he had broken the thing during that last attack, but to his surprise, Mellissa just gave him a weird look before she burst out into a deeper laugh.

"After all this, and you're worried about some piece of gear?" She asked him as the other two just gave him smirks at his rather unusual timing.

"Hey, it was a present. It's unmanly to break a gift!" He said in his defense, though he could feel his cheeks reddening from the embarrassment of it all.


"I heard most of what happened from Mellissa." All Might said to his old friend, starting the talk they both knew was coming.

"Then you know all about it. You know, I originally built that thing. I wanted to give you your strength back, to ensure that the world could have All Might for longer, to ensure that the peace would last." David started as he listed all the reasons he had when he decided to create that damned piece of tech before he got to the big one that pushed him. "So that I could make sure my friend didn't fizzle out and die."

"Dave." All Might started, touched that his friend would go so far for him but he also wanted to tell him this wasn't his fault, but he felt like he had more to say.

"And in the beginning, I hated that the board cut our funding and ceased the project." David told him, being honest with him.

"What changed?" All Might asked him, getting the man to smile as if he was recalling a fond memory.

"I got the most bizarre phone-call out of you." He started, referring to something that All Might had a pretty good guess he knew what it was. "It wasn't that you told me the truth about your quirk, no. It was your enthusiasm and dedication to this young boy you met one day, someone I knew very well. Then Mellissa started talking about how she wished to also protect the world like you did, to carry on your legacy. I was scared…I'm still am, of a world without All Might but," David said as he found himself lost for words, but All Might knew what he was feeling, he felt it every day he taught those kids.

"These kids are something, aren't they?" All Might asked as the two looked over the destroyed roof towards the teens that had stepped up to the plate, who were now conversing among their little groups as they were seen to.

"You can say that again. I see what you see in them, Toshi." David said, using his real name over his chosen hero name. "The road ahead of us, of the world, may be dark and treacherous, but those kids." He said as he looked back towards where his daughter was. "They'll guide us back into the light. One that might just shine brighter than ours."

"On that, I agree with you wholeheartedly. You know, to be frank, if I hadn't met young Tetsutetsu. I would have passed One for All to Mellissa." Toshi said as he sat down next to his friend, getting a surprised reaction from him.

"Seriously?" David asked him to which Toshi only nodded his head.

"Yeah. All three of them have the greatest potential among those would-be heroes. All three of them have hearts of gold, want to help people, and have a way of bringing hope into the hearts of others when it seems pointless." Toshi told them as he saw all three of them, Mellissa, Midoriya, and Tetsutetsu, as worthy as he sighed as he leaned back.

"If I could, I would have given them all a piece of my power but all I can do for them is to guide them to become the best they can be and defend them until they may be able to defend themselves." He said to his friend as they just sat there and watched the sunrise as they waited for that pick-up.

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Well…that was longer than I thought it would be. What did you all think of it? Leave your thoughts in the reviews or send me a PM. With the chapter itself, I tried not to go with the movie too much by having things not play out word for word but the results are largely the same. I also added in some mystery as to what is this code Sam spoke of, and why did it scare David so much? Well, that is a mystery that will be solved as the story goes so don't bother asking me right now.

Also, Jiro has been clued into not just All Might's injury, but the secret of One for All, I wonder where it can lead from here. Another big change I'm happy about is that I tried to give the extended cast all roles to play up until the end as the thing with Tetsutetsu flicking the bullet and hitting Wolfram in the head was inspired by the old tale of David and Goliath, only with a much longer range and a metallic bullet instead of a rock.

The movie never confirms him, but it seems that that device still had some bugs to work as we all remember how the big bad looked after the fight, it's that or it's that one's quirk wasn't meant to increase in that much power in such a short amount of time. I mean, Izuku needed to train for 10 months just so just trying to use the power didn't blow off libs and even as far as the anime is confirmed(season 4) he can't use 100% of it without breaking something. (On a side-note, can we all admit that his plan of using Eri to refuse any damage done by his quirk was pretty clever? Heck, at the end there where her quirk went out of control, I was expecting Izuku to wake up to find that even older wounds like his crooked hands and arms would have been repaired.)


Review Responses:

NinjaFang1331: Thanks.

D3lph0xL0v3r: To be frank, I'm trying to set up Sam as a potential arch-nemesis for Izuku though Tomura wants him dead, he isn't his main focus. With how the fight went, thoughts?

TeraelinII: No that wasn't Nighteye.

Blaze1992: Yes, that was quite the cliffhanger, and it took me a while to post this. With the device itself, it was designed to boast quirks, not base physical abilities so I doubt it would work like that.

some kind of fan 22: You are right on the beta thing, early chapters are plagued with that grammar and spelling errors but they get the job done. With the two grade things, I'm pretty sure I addressed that in the story as while Hawks was fast-tracked into heroism from a very young age, it's still shady as hell and illegal for hero schools to accept students younger than 15, hence why as one of their classmates said that Izuku was only there because he couldn't get into the hero course early.

Mckertis: I'll have you know that not all the chapters are like that, I have gotten that proofreader and make use of Grammarly for the last few chapters.

Argo Devilian:….Dude…you take the game of UNO way too seriously, people can play it whoever they want and I chose to do so like I play it with friends as so long as your group agrees to it, the rules can be whatever you want them to be. Not only was it done clearly as a joke as it was based on a meme of all things, but you're the only one who had a problem with this.

Alocav: One, this is anime so the real world already doesn't translate well and two, I clearly said this would have bits and pieces from Marvel and DC, and what was the second material Tony used in his Iron Man suits? Gold. It was meant as a nob to that genius inventor as like with most people, it was the first Iron Man movie that grabbed my attention for Marvel comics.

Zukafew119: Than you on that, I was worried that I didn't do as good a job as I hoped. As I said previously, I tried to give everyone some kind of role or turn the attention to what they were doing as one issue with large casts is that you often can't focus on everyone which means some people did their thing off-screen and we only hear about it.

Mellissa is the daughter to one of the, if not the smartest tech wizard on the planet, and was herself smart enough to not only note that Izuku moved similarly to All Might but had a similar quirk but also create a tool that could take up to three of All Might's hits, those same attacks can change the weather. Point it, it's possible that she could hack into the security but I didn't want to give them smooth sailings top the top as that makes boring writing. With the level jumping, they were avoiding cameras and other sensors by climbing up the side of the building, hence why they got past 160 unseen and made it to 180, floor 168 was just a pit-stop so you the readers could see how they were doing it.

As I've said in the past, I love writing things from Inko's POV since she's one of my favorite characters from the similarities she has with her son, her clear love for him, and her issues with his life choices as yeah, she could have told him he could be a hero, but notice how even the show just gives him a power, yes he proved worthy of it but power is power no matter how and where you got it. Their little scene was a good way of showing how the people being held hostage are dealing with this and also as a way to give up more lore and exposition without it just coming off as a dump.

With the drones appearing, that was kind of a given as in fiction, you never say anything like Denki said during the mission as that only jinxes it. Yu being able to let loose was a good part for me as up until that moment, she couldn't play as big a role as I wanted her to because of what her quirk is, we even see in cannon that she can't use it on small roads otherwise she risks damaging the nearby buildings. Their plan to get up to the top was different than cannon as Bakugo wasn't there to blast off a fan and this time, Izuku had more momentum carrying forward so the wind currents didn't push him off course too much. With TT cutting the rope, you're right, better safe than sorry as someone like Vlad King and Eraser must have taught them.

With the fact that they got into a gun-fight and that he killed a man, that's going to become an issue for Midoriya and those present to deal with as a life is a life and while justified as self-defense, as hero students and teens, they were ill-prepared for this, so expect some therapy sessions down the line and other side effects. Still, he was able to put that aside for now and focus on the mission. With Mineta and Kaminari, thanks as Mineta especially is trying to at least act more heroic but also cautious as he could have gone with them but chose the relatively safer bet in staying behind. Midoriya making sure Momo was alright and Jiro picking on him was more to try and lighten the mood as they are still teens.

With his embarrassment over the idea, wouldn't you be a little shy to admit that it was your idea to scale up a skyscraper with the daughter of your teacher? Most people find it hard to approach their girlfriend's dad, this is a hell of a lot worse. With Sam, I took some bits from Bataar Jnr as while he was also driven by the scientific pursuit of knowledge, but also because it would help him help Kuvira in her pursuit to unite the Earth Kingdom(under her). Here Sam, has the same scientific drive, but he also wants the recognition and more importantly, money for his work.

Shaydrall: Yeah, I kinda did just throw it in there, most stories try and show the relationship grow but many also just have it as a given. That is what I went for here.

Darkscale42: Thanks.

Beer is food: Whoever said that Izuku was working on middle school level stuff? I did point out he was reading a textbook for a higher grade, didn't I? With your second review, it says this is for chapter 6 but I went back and looked at it to be sure, and Uraraka didn't refer to him as Deku once, that was Bakugo. So I have no clue what you're talking about.

The references to pop culture are present in the manga, they just aren't there in the show to avoid copyright infringement as there was even a panel in the manga showing the 'OG' heroes and you could make out some DC and Marvel characters like Spiderman. Studio Bones just didn't want to deal with Disney so that stuff was removed, or made that it's just implied.

With the errors, that is a problem that plagues a lot of the early chapters I'm afraid, I now have that beta and make use of Grammarly with every new chapter to be sure as many of those errors are caught.

The Last YOLO: You are not the only one.

Darkscale42: No comment.

Noy: I believe if you read chapter 13, you'll see that it's just the results for all the different tests. In there, you'll see why I made Bakugo number one as when you consider how these kids used their quirks back in season 1, and the tests themselves, it's very easy to see Bakugo taking the top spot, especially since Midoriya had been a notable challenger to his 'supremacy' for a much longer period before them getting into UA so it stands to reason that with a credible threat to his 'awesomeness' right there, he'll work harder.