Replies to my Reviews

Draegoon: No Shimura still alive except Tenko.

godess bubbles: Alex Armstrong is the Hammiest!

Hell blood dragon: I listened to it as I wrote that scene.

fencer29: Well, the portable heater thing might pop up later. Also, you have a point about, Olivier's tactics. I'll be highlighting them later.

TheGreatBubbaJ: Daigoro would strangle him. {Shock Absorption} can't do much against indestructible whips tightening around a neck. Nana... well you read her earlier threats. She's one pissed off grandmother.


Chapter 12: It's Time to be Heroes! III


"I had a bad feeling... so I tore away from my chat with the Principal and hurried here. I passed Iida-shounen on the way so I've gotten a rough idea of the situation." Each step the Symbol of Peace took sounded like a gunshot in the nigh silence, nearly every villain in sight paralyzed at the sight of him. 'Goddammit, it makes me angry, especially as my escalating gut feeling might have been {One for All} sending out distress calls through Midoriya-shounen and I's connection. Thinking of how frightened the students must have been... and how hard my colleagues must have fought... But that's exactly why that right now, I must proclaim for all to hear...'

"Have no fear, students." All Might (a.k.a. Toshinori Yagi) declared as he ripped his tie off like a pissed off dad, his very presence like a metaphorical star blazing away the darkness. "I AM HERE!"

"Ah..." Anarchy sighed, her sight focused completely on the Hero. "The 'Last Boss' is here. Berserker."

The Nomu gathered itself but All Might didn't even focus on it. In a blast of air pressure, Tsuyu Asui, Eraser Head (a.k.a. Shota Aizawa) and Minoru Mineta had been moved towards the stairs while All Might cradled the unconscious Master Breaker (a.k.a. Tenko Shimura) in his arms next to Izuku Midoriya.

"I'm sorry, Tenko." All Might apologized. "I should've been here."

"He'll be fine." Izuku(Alex) took All Might's attention. "He's always been strong."

"Y-Yes." All Might took a shuddering breath before double taking at Izuku(Alex)'s appearance. "T-That form!"

"Nice to meet you, Eighth." Izuku(Alex) saluted. "I am the Third. There are lots of words I've always wished to say to you but considering our location, I'll summarize it! WELL DONE!"

With that, Izuku(Alex) drew All Might (and the unconscious Master Breaker by proxy) into a bear hug.

"Right. Alex was always a hugger." Harumi Kiyama sighed.

"I'M HUGGING ALL MIGHT!" Izuku squealed.

"Oi! I really don't wanna know if it's possible to faint in here, Little Ninth!" Daigoro Banjo (a.k.a. Lariat) yelled.

"R-Right! Thank you! However, I must ask that you return Midoriya-shounen's body, Third-san. Let's not put him in more danger than needed." At the Third's nodding and shrinking, All Might cleared his throat and ordered the three students. "Everybody, back to the entrance! I'm leaving Master Breaker and Aizawa-kun to you all!"

After gently setting Master Breaker in Izuku's arms, he turned to face the villains and put himself between them and the students. A small distance from them, the optimistic and despairing villains laid down pretending to be unconscious when All Might hadn't hit them as hard as he'd hit the others on his way down. Neither was stupid to gain the attention of an All Might who was too pissed off to smile.

Izuku, holding Master Breaker over his shoulder and neck, was trying to dissuade All Might from going into battle. "That brain villain took {One For—}"

He stopped himself, realizing he was about to name his Quirk in front of Tsuyu and Minoru, before quickly correcting, "I-I smashed him with both {Stockpile} and {Pump Up}, but he wasn't fazed at all! He's too strong with {Shock Absorption} and {Super Regeneration}! Not to mention, the slime Villainess has all the powers of a Klynthar from that comic Tenko-nii showed me earlier and that Villain covered in purple mist is the one who brought everyone here with a warping Quirk!"

"Midoriya-shounen!" All Might cast his arm out towards the boy. The Hero then looked back at his Successor and made a 'Peace' symbol over his eyes while smiling reassuringly at him. "Your worry is appreciated but I'll be fine!"

"He'll be fine, Little Ninth. Right now, remember that you're still a learning student and leave it to him." Takashi Shigaraki ordered.

"Yeah. Toshi's gonna break them good." Nana Shimura (a.k.a. Djeeta Charger) cheered sadistically.

"...you disturb me, Nana." En Shimura muttered.

"...Alright then. Third used submission techniques so please try those." Still seeming unsure, Izuku nodded and started to head back to the entrance, Minoru coming to his side to help him with Master Breaker while Tsuyu followed behind with Eraser Head. "Pressure, not impact!"

"Understood! Go, all of you!" All Might turned his attention back to the Villains, who had strangely been waiting patiently for him. Wary of Izuku's message, he then dashed forward with his arms crossed in front of him, hoping to target Anarchy with an air pressure attack.

"[Carolina Smash!]"

"Berserker." At Anarchy's voice, the Nomu swiftly moved and blocked the twin slash of All Might's arms with just his torso by simply standing there and taking the hit.

Great splashes of water burst into the air from as the force of All Might's attack disturbed the lake behind the villains. The Hero's grin faded in confusion as he straightened his body, seeing that his attack had no effect on the villain in front of him.

'{Shock Absorption} indeed, huh? Just as Midoriya-shounen warned, he's completely unharmed!' All Might leaned back to avoid a brutal bear hug from the Nomu, missing him by inches before his fist blurred with speed straight into Berserker's abdomen. The Nomu quivered at the moment of impact, but steadied and tried to slam its hands down on All Might.

"I can kinda see the necessity for Berserker's existence now." Anarchy muttered as the two titans duked it out, with All Might mostly keeping up an offensive that dealt no damage. "Even though his punches are doing no good, All Might's still fast enough not to get blindsided like the other two."

"It seems Midoriya-shounen's suggestions are the ones to go for!" All Might laughed as he ducked under a swiftly moving hand that had attempted to grab his face. He quickly got behind the Nomu, grabbing him around the abs, and lifted the villain off its feet. "All I have to do is render him unable to move as he wishes without relying on knockout power, and then it's on to you!"

"[Connecticut Smash!]"

All Might fell backwards to slam Nomu into the ground with a German Suplex, the force of the super move sending a massive plume of dust into the air that blocked them from sight and shaking the ground of the facility.

Izuku, Tsuyu and Minoru were all watching over their shoulders as they nearly reached the stairs.

"Are you guys seeing this?" Minoru asked excitedly. "That suplex looked like a huge explosion! All Might's on a whole 'nother level!"

"Hah! Keep preaching. boy!" Nana threw her head back in pride.

"Sorahiko taught him that one." En instantly popped Nana's bubble.

"Hold on, something's wrong." Alex reported.

"Little Ninth, reach out with {Danger Sense}." Hikage asked.

Izuku suddenly stopped, surprising Minoru and Tsuyu. "Berserker's grabbed that of all places?!"


All Might, bent close to bridge position, gritted his teeth and winced in pain as blood pooled around his lips.

"Oh, c'mon." He grunted over Berserker's face. "What kind of cheap move was that?"

Rather than being suplexed into the cement, a warp gate of Kurogiri's had activated in that spot, allowing Berserker's upper to half emerge below All Might's back and sink his hands into All Might's sides with its insane strength. Berserker's left hand squeezed down directly into All Might's scar, causing it to reopen.

"Hold him there, Berserker." Anarchy stepped forward and transformed her hand into giant sharp claws. Raising it up, she slowly dug in and ripped it across All Might's unprotected chest.

All Might growled in pain as his usually impenetrable skin and muscles were torn through with acrid smoke starting to come off as Anarchy's acidic biomass corroded what it couldn't cut.

"Hmm. I was able to cut through but not as deep as I wanted." Anarchy observed before turning to All Might's stunned face. "Surprised? The truth is even though Berserker here is the MVP, all three of us here have the potential abilities to kill you! Berserker's strong and fast as you are. I have my acidic biomass and Kurogiri... Why don't you explain your part?"

All Might grunted as he now had both of his hands on Nomu's, attempting to loosen the Nomu's grip to free himself.

"Normally, I would not want blood and viscera flooding the insides of my {Warp Gate}," Kurogiri told the Hero as he struggled to free himself from Nomu's grip, "but I will make an exception for a Hero as great as you. You are too fast for the human eye to see and too strong for any human to keep a solid grip one. Restraining you was the Nomu's job. Weakening you further to disable your escape was Anarchy's job, especially thanks to her acidic and body manipulative abilities. And after your body is pulled in halfway into my portal, squeezing it shut and tearing you apart is my job!"

"And with that, our 'potential' becomes 'certified'!" Anarchy finished.

"All Might!"

Everyone turned to see the approaching Izuku, who was running towards them in a panic. He then stopped at the sight of him and stretched his hand out.

"[Steal!]"

""WHAT?!"" Anarchy and Kurogiri yelled in shock as All Might literally disappeared from Berserker's grip to end up in Izuku's. Unfortunately, All Might's sudden and larger body weight brought them both down as he reappeared in front of Izuku.

"Another one?!" Anarchy yelled out in shock. "That's four Quirks, now! Are you one of Sensei's long lost descendants or something?!"

"I will not allow that!" Kurogiri suddenly stretched forward, his form widening over the {One for All} champions. "It looks like we now have legitimate reason to take this boy!"

An explosion struck Kurogiri a second before the Warp Villain was about to send All Might and his successor through another warp gate, the blast of fire and smoke surprising both the Villains and heroes. "Get the hell outta my way, Izuku!"

"Katsuki/Bakugo-shounen!" Izuku and All Might gasped as Katsuki Bakugo roared, bringing Kurogiri down to the ground with a firm grip on the villain's neck armor.

Ice shot across the concrete, freezing Berserker through the warp gates Kurogiri had created. Shoto Todoroki carried a stony expression on his face with narrowed eyes levied at the Villains. "One of your poorly trained thugs told me you're here because you think you can kill All Might."

"ORYA!" Eijiro Kirishima came down with a swing of his hardened arms but was easily blocked by Anarchy.

"Oi. You're in the way. Go away." Without looking, Anarchy's biomass surrounded Eijiro's arms before she threw him towards Katsuki. A quick block of ice stopped him from hitting Katsuki and forcing them to lose Kurogiri.

"Kurogiri." Anarchy's Killing Intent froze everybody. Her biomass started to trail off her in multiple miniature tentacles, giving Anarchy a demonic visage as her pale white 'eyes' glowed a bit. "How? How could you let yourself be captured by Kacchan of all people?!"

That revelation sent shocks through All Might and the students as Anarchy referred to Katsuki with his childhood nickname.

"Who the hell are you, bitch?!" Katsuki growled unsettled. His eyes went to look at Izuku but the Broccoli Kid's utterly shocked expression proved that he himself didn't know how she'd gotten that name either.

Kurogiri struggled against his grip but was quickly discouraged by Katsuki setting off a few explosions against his neck armor.

"Don't move!" The blond brought his face down close, giving the Villain a malevolent growl. "You try anything funny, and I'll blow your ass up right now, you got it? They'll be cleanin' you up for weeks!"

Anarchy calmed down and was almost annoyingly impressed with the way events had turned.

"They've escaped uninjured and captured my two strongest players." She thought out loud. "Plus, Deku's managed to safely retrieve All Might in an instant. Kids these days really are amazing. They make the League of Villains look like amateurs. I wouldn't mind that if it was Deku. But if Kacchan's having a hand in it..."

The Villainess turned to her ace-in-the-hole, almost literally. "Berserker."

In an instant and totally uncaring of how much pain it must have been in, Berserker pulled its body back through the warp gate, the Nomu's frozen right arm and leg falling off its body and leaving ice-covered stumps on its shoulder and thigh.

"Even though his body's frozen and literally broken..." Izuku questioned as he and Shoto gawked at the disturbing sight. "He's still moving? I thought the ice would at least numb his body a bit..."

"There's a good chance it's body has had it's sense of touch cut off." Daisy August grimaced.

"Makes sense." Nana agreed. "{Shock Absorption} wouldn't be that dangerous if he still retained his ability to feel pain from the impacts."

All Might flung out his arm to the side, commanding his students. "Get back, everyone!"

Everyone's eyes except Izuku's widened in surprise as the ice broke off of Nomu's amputated limbs, red muscle fibers expanding and growing from the area.

"And there's the {Super Regeneration} Midoriya-shounen warned me about."

"So Deku warned you, huh?" Anarchy spoke as the Nomu's muscle fibers and limbs reformed in seconds. "Well then, what now, All Might? How will a brawler like you beat what's essentially a sentient punching bag that was modified to take you at 100% and hits back just as hard? Even when you were warned, you still initiated with punches, didn't you? After all, suddenly changing your fighting style in a battle is something every experienced combatant knows not to do lightly."

The Symbol of Peace and his student grimaced at the words.

"A punching bag that hits back? Normally, that'd be good for training..." Takashi mumbled.

"First of all, taking back our gate is a priority. Berserker, be sure to splatter Kacchan on your way."

[Incoming danger to Katsuki!]

Even if {Danger Sense} warned him, it was still too fast for Izuku to react as the Nomu practically vanished from its position near Anarchy.

'He's fast!' All Might thought as Berserker charged at Katsuki in slow motion as he was able to perceive the speed the Nomu could move while his students were unable to act.

Berserker punched, creating a blast of dust that looked like a breaking wave exploding from his punch at Katsuki and smashing a body into a nearby wall.

Blown back by the power of the punch, Izuku and the other boys were now more than ten meters away from the impact sight in a close group. Izuku himself landed his butt on the ground, groaning.

"Such force." He gasped and looked up. The dust cleared, revealing Berserker, fist extended while kneeling, one hand on the freed Kurogiri and Katsuki nowhere in sight. "K-Kacchan!"

[At your side.]

As {Danger Sense} decried, Katsuki was right there. Stunned, but right there with them, and not a bloody pancake. "Kacc-Katsuki?! You dodged?! That's amazing!"

"No, I didn't! Shut up, you damn nerd." Katsuki instantly replied. 'I didn't... No... I couldn't see anything...'

"In that case, then how...?" Eijiro questioned.

"Then that was..." At Shoto's gasp, their eyes went to the wall between sections that had a hole blown into it, skid marks in the concrete along with the smell of burned rubber. All Might stood in front of the ruined hole in the wall, his shirt torn around his biceps, coughing and panting from having taken that hit.

"All Might!" Izuku gasped. Anarchy narrowed her eyes as she realized what had happened. 'So that Angry Pomeranian was worth protecting, huh?'

Shoto narrowed his eyes and lowered his head towards Anarchy. He was prepared to finish this fight once and for all. "We've got them outnumbered 5-to-3."

Izuku nodded along in agreement. "And Katsuki knows Kurogiri's weakness!"

"These guys are crazy, but if we backup All Might," Eijiro readied himself in solidarity, hardened his arms and shifted his stance, "we can push them back!"

"No!" The boys looked over at All Might at his words. He held his arm out towards them, palm outstretched in a gesture to stay back. "Get out of here."

"All Might, when I came back, you were already in their clutches!" Izuku prepped himself, {Stockpile} coming alive in his body as {Black Whip} slithered off his arms. "You're injured and need help!"

"That was a different story but thank you, Midoriya-shounen." Izuku blinked at All Might's words as the Symbol of Peace changed his left arm from being in a 'stay back' gesture to a clenched fist in preparation for throwing a punch. "It's gonna be all right. Just sit back and watch a Hero give it everything he's got."

But Izuku still wasn't too sure. "But you're almost out of ti—" He gasped as he stopped himself, almost revealing the secret.

All Might popped the thumb up on the fist that he had formed, comforting his successor that it was going to be all right. He had this.

Anarchy had had enough of this. "Berserker, kill him. Kurogiri, take Izuku. I'll deal with Kacchan and the other two boys."

'It's true that I barely have a minute left, no thanks to that brain guy crushing my scar open.' All Might clenched his right fist as he thought to himself. 'My power's now declining faster than I thought it could.'

The Villains and the Hero students prepped for combat as Anarchy made it clear she wouldn't be excluding them.

'But I must do this. Why? Because I am...' All Might grinned in determination and Izuku gasped in wonder as they simultaneously felt the power of {One for All} surge into full throttle, nine different souls, no, Champions working together to form a star, born from a black void into a soft white, then electric blue, then crimson, leaf green, then orange, then indigo, then neon pink, then finally, a blazing golden comet of Power. '...the Symbol of Peace!'

Anarchy flinched from the sudden increase in pressure, turning towards the Hero. All Might tensed his legs and shot forward like a howitzer, with Berserker burring towards him, a constant wall of muscle and aggression.

Their fists impacted, a blast of air shooting out from the contact and a shockwave ripped through the air and rippled through Berserker's arm. Everyone but the two combatants was blasted back and away from the battle.

"Weren't you warned about the {Shock Absorption}?" Anarchy grunted as she righted herself in the air and landed on her feet, using tentacles to anchor herself to the ground. "After everything, you're still relapsing to your punches?"

All Might smiled mockingly at her. "Yeah? What about it?"

Grunting with effort, All Might fired another solid punch at Berserker, striking the Nomu in the arm that he used to block. All Might and Berserker exchanged another three blows before they each kicked it into high gear, throwing punches at each other so quickly that their arms were just blurs of speed and power.

"A head-on fistfight?!" Izuku yelled as he used {Black Whip} to anchor himself, while Katsuki clutched his shoulder to avoid getting blown away.

"It's a Pummel Duel!" Daisy roared as she cheered on the speed of their attack rushes.

"What Incredible Valor! What respectable muscles!" Alex praised.

"I-I can't get near them!" Kurogiri grunted as the wind blew away even his misty body.

The concrete cracked beneath All Might's feet as he and Berserker continued to trade blows. "Midoriya-shounen said your Quirk allowed you to absorb impacts, not nullify them! That means there's a limit to what you can take, right?"

Izuku and his classmates could only watch in awe as each punch parry caused trees to be uprooted and blasted into the air, solid concrete to be torn and tossed up like paper balls and a miniature hurricane to sweep around the plaza and prevent anyone from interfering.

Despite its {Shock Absorption}, All Might's strength was just too much for Berserker to bear. "Made to fight me? If you can withstand me at 100%, I'll bring you down from beyond that!"

With a mighty roar, All Might sent Berserker flying and caused a rooster-tail of dust and rubble from his movement alone to follow.

"What… the hell?" Anarchy asked in a faint whisper as she witnessed the battle between All Might and Berserker ratchet from an even fight into a beatdown.

"A Hero can always break out of a tough spot!" He landed a Judo throw, sending Berserker away only to blitz past and meet the Nomu's face with an uppercut that launched him into the sky. "And is always ready and willing to Smash through any trouble!"

As Berserker flew high up to nearly reach the ceiling, All Might reached it in an instant, raised both his fists, clamped them together and slammed them into the Nomu. The attack hurled it downwards at devastating speed till it cratered the ground so hard the entire plaza shook from the impact, the ground fragmenting and rupturing like the surface of a frozen lake.

"Hey, villain. Did you truly believed that you could take on the Symbol of Peace...?" All Might landed in high speed just as the Nomu started to bounce from the touch down impact. He cocked his huge fist and gathered power. "Just who the hell do you I am?!"

"Look upon me and despair!" Once again, a golden aura blazed around him before concentrating into his fist. The overcharged fist blazed into actual golden flames and white steam as it slammed into Berserker, backed by the power of eight Champions and one Precedent, All United as One to break the limits of the Nomu's {Shock Absorption}.

"[WASHINGTON SMAAAASH!]"

An earth-shattering explosion of force bursted from the impact, sending Berserker flying into the domed ceiling of the U.S.J., turning the giant fixed lights into fireballs when it crashed through the five meter thick roof and shot into the sky, parting several clouds along the way until it became a twinkle in the sky.

"Did I get Isekai'd into a video game or something?" Eijiro mumbled faintly at the sight he and the others just witnessed. "That was a S-Grade Finishing move right there! That brute strength is so manly..."

"What insane power..." Katsuki commented. "Does this mean that he rushed at him so fast that his regeneration couldn't keep up?"

"That and he used so much power that {Shock Absorption} couldn't recover..." Izuku agreed.

"Take a good look, Little Ninth." Takashi smiled. "One day, you will be stronger than him."

'So this is the Hero He wants to surpass..." Shoto thought. 'I'd wish him good luck, but I hate Him.'

'Is this... the peak of the Number One...?' Katsuki wondered at how far he'd have to go be better than what he just saw.

"I really have gotten older and weaker..." All Might chuckled weakly from a cloud of dust and debris formed around him as he stood up from his punching form to clutch his shoulder. "In my prime, 5 hits would've been enough. But this took 308 hits!"

'And now...' Steam came off of All Might's neck, showing just how down to the wire this had gone. 'I'm seconds away from shutdown...'

"Now, villains..." All Might turned to face Anarchy and Kurogiri, the steam from his body mixing with the dust cloud to create an impressive visage. "I'd like to end this as soon as possible. Whether by your surrender or my fists, I'm fine either way."

Anarchy bared her teeth. "I should've known better. This is the Hero who ripped through Sensei's face and lungs after all... Still, if he's weaker now, what force of nature was he in his prime?!"


Mountain Zone


"Hands up and no Quirks allowed."

Denki Kaminari and Momo Yaoyorozu gritted their teeth as they stared down a villain who had taken Kyoka Jiro hostage.

"If you use your Quirks, I'll kill this girl." Tesla threatened as he held up Kyoka by her neck, her toes barely managing to scrape the ground as she nearly choked from the strain.

"Jiro-san..." Momo whispered.

"He got us. We completely ignored the chance that someone might have been resistant to my Quirk." Denki growled, releasing some sparks in his anger as he and Momo put their hands up.

"He was probably the one Todoroki-san said was jamming communications." Momo figured it out as Tesla brandished {Electric Charge} on his spare hand.

"I'm coming over to you." Tesla chuckled as he moved closer, occasionally displaying the electricity he took from Denki's attack. "Don't move."

As Tesla came closer to him, Denki suddenly had an idea and smirked. "Oi, skull head. Why don't you switch Kyoka-chan for me?"

Tesla stopped. "Hah?"

Ignoring the girls' looks of confusion, Denki pressed on. "As a fellow electric-type, I can tell. Your Quirk lets you harvest and manipulate electric currents. That's probably how you can even block something like electromagnetic waves passively. But there's a weakness, you can't generate any electricity yourself."

Momo and Kyoka startled in surprise then gasped at his next words.

"If you have me instead of her, you get to close that one chink in your armor."

"I see. As electric-types, we can intuitively scope our fellows' capabilities. You can discharge as much as you want, but lose control once it gets too far from your skin. We're practically opposites. But, still..."

He brought up a sparking hand to Kyoka face. "Do you take me for an idiot? All electric-types are capable of retaining a significant amount of excess electricity in their bodies. Do you think I wouldn't realize that you wanted to drain me and leave as easy pickings for these girls?"

Denki gritted his teeth as his plan fell apart.

"A kid's naïve thinking only works on dumb adults." Tesla explained as he moved closer. "Novice heroes shouldn't make light of villains with hostages. Still, your idea's got merit. If you let that skimpy girl knock you out, I'll exchange this punk girl for you. You don't have to be conscious for me to use you after all."

"S-Skimpy?!" Momo yelled in outrage.

"...no choice then." Denki sighed. In one instant, he had activated {Volt Armor}, causing yellow electricity to dance across his body and amplify his physical abilities. In the next instant, he had blitzed over to Tesla, grabbing his wrists and causing him to release Kyoka.

"W-What?!" Tesla was floored by Denki's sudden speed. "You damn brat!"

The two suddenly burst with electricity, Denki's bright yellow clashing against Tesla's dull yellow.

"Let's find out whose output is stronger! If I can't drain you, I'll overcharge you instead!" Denki yelled out as the two electric-types went all out, creating electrical arcs that ran across the entire zone, knocking out some of the villains again when they started to wake up.

Finally, it ended as quickly as it started, leaving a ringing silence and a smoke cloud.

"Whey"

"Tehehehey"

Kyoka and Momo blinked as both Denki and Tesla had short circuited themselves, with Tesla taking more damage and collapsing immediately.

"Whey!" Denki threw up his arms in victory before coming up to hug Kyoka.

"W-W-Who said you just hug me like that, Kaminari?!" Kyoka yelled, although this was mitigated by her blush. Momo on the other hand sighed in relief when she noticed a welcome sight at the U.S.J.'s entrance.


'I can't move anymore. That Berserker guy was too strong. Frankly, if I move even one step, I won't be able to keep up this bluff. I'll go back to my true form. Just a little more...' All Might thought. Taking a slight step, All Might shouted. "Well? What's wrong?"

"...I don't feel like attacking All Might any more." Anarchy's declaration caused a ripple of shock through everyone, including Kurogiri. "Let's go."

"What do you mean, Anarchy?"

"There's been a lot of changes from my scenario, Kurogiri." Anarchy slowly explained. "I need to go back and reconsider, especially with Deku and Kacchan's addition to the Hero Course. Plus, Nezu and his staff are almost here. I really don't want to test our mettle against both the Symbol of Peace and the Demon Chimera."

At Kurogiri's reluctant nod, Anarchy raised her voice while he formed a large portal behind her. "Hey! Any of you guys still conscious?!"

"We are!" The two ignored villains rushed forward. They had nearly pissed themselves from watching All Might and Berserker clash against each other and were now just glad their leader didn't forget them.

The two whooped as they rushed through the portal with Anarchy waving goodbye at Izuku as she walked through. "Bye, Deku! Don't get killed without my permission!"

Just in time, bullets peppered the area the portal had been just a millisecond ago.

"Bullets?!" All Might exclaimed in relief as he looked towards the entrance and smiled at the sight of Tenya Iida along with the U.A. Pro Heroes standing at the entrance to the U.S.J.. "They made it!"

Izuku sighed in relief before running towards All Might. He only made it halfway before his vision suddenly faded.

All Might, who was already halfway transformed, jerked at the sight of his Successor collapsing suddenly like a stringless puppet. "Midoriya-shounen!"

All Might's cry attracted Eijiro who gasped at the sight of his unconscious class president. "Midoriya!"

With speed he didn't know he had in his shrunken form, Toshinori was at Izuku's side, turning him over to see Izuku's empty orbs.

"Izuku!" Katsuki blew past Eijiro with his Quirk, his sights firmly set at the still steaming figure of All Might cradling Izuku. Suddenly, a wall of concrete came up in front of the two, blocking them from getting any closer.

"We want to make sure that all the students are safe, so please gather in front of the gate." Cementoss (a.k.a. Ken Ishiyama) instructed. "We will deal with the injured here."

Katsuki tched before heading back with Eijiro. All Might smiled in appreciation towards Cementoss before looking down on his unconscious Successor.


Slowly expanding into existence, a dark swirling warp gate formed just inside an empty well-kept bar.

""Freedom!"" Those two villains cheered as they arrived.

"We're back!" Maishi Shigaraki sighed as Anarchy flowed off her, revealing her bluish gray hair. "I always feel so thirsty after I exercise with you~"

"So uh?" Maishi turned to face the two villains who came along, with the one in blue being pushed forward by the one in red. "I know we discussed a price of payment regarding the... mission, but considering how that went and factoring in my partner's stupidit-"

"We're willing to ignore all payment and speak to nobody about this if you let us leave with our lives and never contact us again!" The red one rushed out.

"...yeah, what he said." The blue one confirmed.

"...Kurogiri." Maishi motioned to the misty bartender, who was already behind the counter. "Pay these two half of the agreed reward. Also, Miguel. Tulio. I don't plan on letting you two go. Not in the slightest. When I call for you, you will come."

"Or what?" Miguel asked timidly.

Anarchy jumped from it's spot to Maishi's head. As the symbiote's tendrils poured onto her face, her head once again became covered in layers and layers of sharp teeth that looked very much like a shark's, and could easily rip a person into pieces with. The lens formed from the back of her head as well, and when the symbiote had fully bonded with Maishi, her voice changed from her high peppy pitch a deep growling whisper. "I will eat both your arms and then both of your legs and then I will eat your faces right off your heads. You two will be this armless, legless, faceless things, rolling down the street like a turd in the wind. Unless you both do as I say and come as I call."

"...fair enough." Tulio accepted quickly, grabbing a waving Miguel on the way out. "We'll see you another time!"

"Bye, Shigaraki-chan!" Miguel waved as if he hadn't just been threatened as they disappeared. A few seconds later, there was a sound of a rapidly fading motorcycle.

"Sensei." Maishi unfused with Anarchy turned to a small T.V. which was displaying a 'SOUND ONLY' call. "Even though All Might was weakened as you said, we lost. Plus, while we did leave with the rep of breaking into U.A., we definitely didn't leave on our own terms."

"It's alright, Maishi." A disembodied voice responded from behind the screen, out of sight, and somewhere disclosed. "We merely got ahead of ourselves."

"Yes, we underestimated him." A second voice joined in, more nasally than the deep tone the first voice had. "Good thing that League of Villains came cheap. By the way, what about Master and my joint creation, Nomu?"

"He was not retrieved?"

"Berserker's gone, doc." Maishi dropped without preamble. "A literal twinkle in the sky."

"What'd you just say?!" Doctor yelled as Sensei laughed in the background. "Preposterous! That is impossible! No one! Not even All Might could defeat him at his current state!"

"That is what happened, doctor." Kurogiri answered nervously. "More precisely, without coordinates to his precise location, I could not find him, even with {Warp Gate}. I did not have time for that, due to Maishi's order to retreat."

"You ordered a retreat, Maishi?" Sensei spoke- no, ordered. "Tell me why."

"Remember what I told you about Deku?" Maishi muttered while rubbing a finger on Anarchy's rippling but solid surface. "He's no longer Quirkless. Either he's got a really good copy Quirk or he's one of your descendants from whomever woman you did and ditched."

"…Oh?" There's was hint of interest in Sensei's voice.


"To think it was exhaustion of all things that brought me down. It's like that time when I overdid the All American Dream Plan." Izuku sighed in exhaustion from the surprisingly comfortable bed in the nurse's office with his arms bandaged while hooked to an IV. A heavily bandaged Toshinori laid next to him on his own bed. "Then again, it was the first time one of the Predecessors had to fight an enemy for my sake..."

Alex had already apologized to him in tears while bear hugging him tight in the {Hazy World}.

"Because of the situation this time, I can't really scold either of you…" Recovery Girl (a.k.a. Chiyo Shuzenji) sighed as she turned on her chair to face them. "Otherwise, you two might have died."

"...I'm not sure, but I think I might have shortened the time limit of my hero form again." All Might revealed with a sigh. "I hope I still have at least an hour..."

Izuku grimaced. In the {Hazy World}, Takashi had already revealed that due to Berserker worsening All Might's scar bad enough to reopen it, they had to cut down his time severely. If they didn't, All Might would soon be coughing up organs, rather than just blood. It was only thanks to {Pump Up} and his own willpower that All Might hadn't dropped dead a while ago.

From behind Recovery Girl, the door slid open, revealing Principal Nezu and Naomasa Tsukauchi.

"Excuse me. All Might, it's been a while." Tsukauchi removed his hat.

"Tsukauchi-kun! Principal Nezu!" Toshinori spat out blood as he sat up in greeting. "You're here, too?"

"Al- Yagi-sensei!" Izuku sat up abruptly. "Is it all right to show that form…?"

"Yeah, it's fine. Why? Because he's Naomasa Tsukauchi, my best friend in the force. And as the Principal of U.A., Nezu is also aware!" Toshinori explained to Izuku. "On another note, it's a bit weird to her the words 'Yagi-sensei'."

"Ah! S-Sorry! I should-"

"It's fine, Midoriya-shounen." Toshinori waved away Izuku's apologies. "I was your Master before your teacher after all."

"Sorry to cut to the chase, but we could really use any details about Anarchy's connection to Midoriya-kun here." Nezu interrupted.

"I honestly don't know her." Izuku muttered as he recalled everything he could about her. As he looked down to his hands in recollection, Tsukauchi shared a brief glance with Nezu as he slightly pointed his face upwards. Truth.

"Although, there's something that bothers me..." This brought everyone's attention to a peak. "She called me and Katsuki by our nicknames... which implies closeness or familiarity..."

The door suddenly slammed open, revealing Katsuki. "Izuku! Auntie Inko's been calling you! Pick up your damn phone so that your mom stops calling mine!"

Izuku stared blankly at Katsuki's phone. Specifically, the wallpaper on it as he remembered something memorable happening that day. "AAAAAAAAAAAAAH!"

Toshinori startled along with the others. "Midoriya-shounen! What's wrong?!"

"Did you remember something important?!" Tsukauchi pulled out a notebook, ready to take down any important clues. However, Izuku pointed to Katsuki.

"She called us 'Deku' and 'Kacchan'!" Izuku yelled to his childhood friend. "All this time, I was thinking it was someone either of us knew! But it wasn't!"

"It wasn't?" Nezu frowned. "How would she know your personal nicknames then?"

"Because..." Izuku stared down Katsuki in the eye. "There's a place in which we never called each other anything other than those names. A place where everyone would instantly know whomever those names identified whenever spoken."

The others were understandably confused but Katsuki's eyes widened as well before narrowing in anger. "...Aldera."


In a random street, with several civilians moving about, a sudden news report appeared.

"In recent news, we have been alerted that Shinya Fukumatsu, a D-rank villain known as the Sludge Villain, escaped prison four hours ago, killing two guards in the process." The news reporter rattled. "Citizens are advised to be on the lookout for sentient sludge."


KingVessel: Dun, Dun, Dun! 'Aldera faces Consequences' Arc is Here! Along with a little Side Quest to for Katsuki to deal with! Please review! Also, I will soon be putting up a companion fic to Nine for All, which delves into oneshot backgrounds for whomever I choose. Check out this preview.


Before there was One... there was Zero.


"You have been charged with colluding with a Meta being. This is an act of treason against Humanity."

"NOOO!"

It was more of an execution than an assassination, with a disheveled man as the unfortunate victim as the prosecuted.

"I just gave them medicine to heal their wounds!" The man screamed as he clutched his bleeding shoulder. "Not all Meta beings want to hate humans!"

"As such." The Executioner continued with an empty tone, ignoring the man's pleas. "I sentence you to death."

"No, please! No! NO! NO! NO! N-!" The man's cries cut off as a bullet pierced his neck, leaving him to choke to death from his own blood. 'So this is an Executioner of Xeno... That group of Meta haters... How can someone so young look so cold...?'

The Executioner lowered her gun, not the tiniest change in expression or acknowledgement of her act. Only steel-cold responses were needed for the young blonde 10 year old girl.

Such was the creed taught upon an Executioner of Xeno.

Codename: August 5th


In the Age of the Quirk Boom, it really wasn't a safe time to live in.


"What good is a world where children, especially mine, can't smile freely?"

Those words were enough to stop her cold, impacting her as if she'd been shot by her own weapon.

"Sorry, but I'm not gonna hand you the answers you want from me." The woman said, walking over to the edge of the cliff before facing her again. "But I believe that one day... People can live again by their own free will, without any judgement."

August 5th was riveted, as she had never heard those words uttered in front of her. "Free... will?"

"Hey, Ojou-chan, don't you want to live a life with a smile on your face? Because if you do, you better not stay here."

With that, she smiled widely and threw herself off the cliff. It would be a while before a shaken August 5th looked down to search for the accuser's name, wanting to forever burn it in her memory.

Shigaraki, Sakura


Every legend has an origin... and that goes both for Heroes... and Villains...


"So." Daisy turned to face her stalker. "Are you here to kill me?"

The stalker chuckled, revealing himself to be a boy of teenagerhood even younger than her. "No, no, no. I'm just here for your Meta Ability. I need it for someone close to me."

"You want my services?" Daisy asked in annoyance as she gestured to her work uniform. "As you can see, I'm not free to be hired by suspicious characters."

"Sorry, I should have been clearer." The boy bowed forward a bit. He was dressed in a black zipped hoodie, white button shirt and black pants. "I'm here to take your Meta Ability. You don't need to come along."


One for All - The Zeroth


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