Chapter Two:
As Hisashi's lightsaber ignited, the dark corridor glowed crimson. He strode towards his old enemy, Jedi Master Toshinori Yagi. At the sound of his breathing mask, Toshinori's head shot up. Hisashi's rage reignited toward the man who had ripped off his face at Mustafar. Today, that old injury would be avenged, along with many others.
Toshinori's blue lightsaber sprang to life as he dropped into a guarding stance. Although Hisashi had lost his eyes, the Force let him trace out his opponent's body. From his scrawny, puckered chest, the Jedi still suffered from his injuries obtained at Mustafar as well.
"I'm surprised to find you here, old teacher," Hisashi purred. "I expected you to die of a broken heart after failing the Jedi Order so badly, but you still shamelessly survived."
A crack formed on Toshinori's calm face. "Don't you dare refer to me as your teacher, Darth Omnus."
"True, you have nothing left to teach me at this point." Hisashi's scarred lips smiled under his mask. "Perhaps I'll teach you despair before you die."
Their lightsabers clashed. They fought up and down the hallway. Hisashi had the upper hand and he knew it. Toshinori's arms had started to sag. As long as he dragged out this fight until the injured old Jedi's stamina failed, he'd be guaranteed victory. Much though Hisashi longed to murder his least favorite Jedi Master, he'd learned caution from their last fight. He moved carefully, watching as sweat dripped down Toshinori's nose.
Blazing pain seared his shoulder. Hisashi staggered backward, screaming, groping in the Force for this new attacker.
He found nothing.
His arm hit the floor. His arm. This invisible enemy had cut off his arm.
Since Hisashi used the Force to see, an enemy with no Force signature would be his greatest weakness. Hutt-spawn. He forced his mind steady. He pushed the screaming agony of his missing arm into the seething pit of the Dark Side of the Force. Instead of seeking out his attacker, he used the Force to feel the movements of air around the invisible person.
Hisashi made out the hazy outline of a human teenager. Facial features impossible to determine. This boy must be Toshinori's Jedi apprentice—a lightsaber had taken his arm—but he had absolutely no presence in the Force. He felt like a black hole.
Wait a moment. The boy's lightsaber. Through the Force, Hisashi recognized a very familiar crystal he'd found for his younger brother pulsing in the handle. Toshinori had let his new apprentice use Kazuki's lightsaber. How dare he!
Rage fully consuming his pain, Hisashi charged forward.
The boy turned and ran, calling, "Master Yagi, follow me!" His voice rang with impish triumph. Though Hisashi projected the full rage of a Sith Lord through the Force as he chased, the teenager didn't even flinch.
When Toshinori escaped with his student into hyperspace, Hisashi howled with fury. He'd lost his vengeance. He'd lost the chance to reclaim that lightsaber. But most painfully of all, seeing Kazuki's lightsaber in another's hands forced him to realize that his long-missing younger brother must be dead.
In his quarters with his arm stump bandaged, Hisashi poured over what little information he could gather on the boy with the lightsaber. No name: in his profession as a smuggler, he was only known as The Ghost. Age: late teens. Only recently affiliated with the rebels.
Hisashi slapped a bounty on the boy's head, much higher than his pitiful exploits deserved, and then put an even higher bounty on the lightsaber. It would confuse the hunters, and he didn't care. He wanted his lightsaber back.
Decades ago, after Kazuki had been unable to find a crystal for his lightsaber, Hisashi had given him one like a loving older brother. Later, after he'd decided that he no longer approved of his brother being a Jedi or the Jedi existing at all, he'd demanded the lightsaber back. By his reasoning, since he'd provided the key building materials, it ought to be his property. Kazuki had disagreed on this point and several others as well, despite Hisashi kindly attempting to explain to him how much the Jedi sucked.
Now Kazuki must be dead. Hisashi hated to acknowledge it, but he had no choice. His foolish younger brother had always been a fervent believer in the Jedi saying "your lightsaber is your life." He'd never have given it away. As much though Hisashi hated Toshinori, he had to admit the Jedi master wouldn't have let someone else use his former padawan's lightsaber if Kazuki was still around to claim it.
With his brother dead, that lightsaber was the only keepsake he'd left behind. That made Hisashi want it even more. He deserved it. He was Kazuki's only surviving relative.
Hisashi's hands trembled as his finger hovered over the button to cancel the alive only bounty on Kazuki Shigaraki. There was no hope left. Logic and the Force told him so. But he couldn't quite bring himself to push the button.
Alone in his room, Hisashi wept.
After the destruction of the Death Star, Hisashi nursed his damaged Tie Fighter to the nearest Imperial base in a horrific temper. His prosthetic arm had been blasted off and his stump throbbed.
When a young officer brought him a datapad with updated information on the Jedi apprentice who'd shot down the Death Star, he was tempted to slaughter the man just to release his rage, but restrained himself. Being Darth Omnus might require him to act the part of a mad dog at times, but he always kept his rage under control, a weapon at his service.
After throwing the ship's captain out of his quarters, Hisashi claimed the room as his own. He loosened his mask, sat down in an armchair with a bottle of Ergesh rum, and started reading.
Name: Izuku Midoriya.
Hisashi froze. His mind drifted back to an old memory. Lying on bed next to his wife, placing a hand against her still mostly flat stomach and seeking out that tiny spark of life. A curtain of green hair falling over her eyes as Inko whispered, "How about the name Izuku for a boy?"
It had to be a coincidence. His son had been stillborn on the day his wife had died.
But the Force whispered to him again, its Chosen One. It told him the truth. His son lived.
And he had an active bounty calling for his own child's death.
Hisashi leapt to his feet, running to change the bounty on Izuku's head to alive only, to summon the greatest bounty hunters across the galaxy, and to find his son no matter what. He couldn't lose his only surviving family member. Not again.
OMAKE TIME!
Omake: Toshinori Versus Obi-Wan
Obi-Wan: You were my brother, Anakin! I loved you.
Toshinori: (Pushes Hisashi the rest of the way into the lava.) Just die already, you stubborn asshole.
Hisashi: Never!
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Omake: Izuku Versus Luke
Luke: I hear you have a Sith father too? I feel your pain. The first time we met, my dad cut off my hand. But you're the one who cut off your dad's hand? That's so cool.
Izuku: Not to brag or anything, but I got a whole arm.
Luke: Let's be besties.
Author's Note:
All for One is a potato head in this chapter but not the first one because it all depends on who he confronts on Mustafar. If Toshinori plays the Obi-Wan role, then he rips off Hisashi's face. But if the First fights his brother, then he gets his ass kicked and damages his lungs. (Sorry, Kazuki, it's canon.)
The role of Obi-Wan is split between the two of them because they both fit different aspects of it. The First is All for One's brother, obviously, but I can't see him in the role of teacher for his own older brother. Likewise, Toshinori is the prime candidate to maim All for One, but I have trouble picturing the two of them as ever being like brothers. Those two are the hate-at-first-sight duo. Thus Toshinori got the role of the Jedi Master who really didn't want to teach All for One but was stuck by his deathbed promise to his teacher Nana and Kazuki is All for One's estranged brother.
Kazuki's old lightsaber symbolizes One for All in this chapter. It's the legacy that the First and Toshinori passed onto Izuku. Although in this case, All for One wants it for sentimental reasons, not because it's a particularly rare lightsaber.
As in Goofy Boss' original Star Wars BNHA AU, here the First was killed by Tuskan Raiders on Tatooine. The trauma caused Izuku to erase his own Force presence. That leads nicely into the very depressing AU next chapter…
