Chapter Twenty-Six

Goodbye School Life

"Detroit Smash!" All Might said as his fist collided with the barrier. Upon impact, the pseudo servant was sent flying backward from the force behind the punch. Mina quickly slid over to where Lily was being sent flying to as she caught her. The moment Lily looked over to where All Might was, her eyes widened upon seeing him appear in front of them and tried to deliver another punch to the pseudo servant. She quickly brought up a shield as All Might's fist collided with it and sent the two flying backwards into a nearby wall.

"T-This is bad." Mina said as she staggered to her feet along with Mina. "There's no way we can beat All Might." She said before looking over at Lily as she pulled out three purple colored gemstones and a black gemstone.

"Barghest is on her way, but she along with Gawain were interrupted by some pro-heroes. It's going to take them a while to get here-" Lily was cut off by a pain she felt in her chest as she dropped down to her knees and began to cough a bit. The pink girl quickly moved over to check on Lily as she noticed the girl coughing up a bit of blood as it caused Mina to gasp in fear. "I'm really reaching my limit here. Avalon may have the ability to repair my body, but stamina is something that it can't repair. At least to my knowledge."

"Ah man, this is really bad. It's like fighting Superman, just without the flying, heat vision, and who knows what else Superman has power wise!"

"True...but the difference between him and Superman is that All Might is still human." Lily said as she stood up and summoned an executioner's sword into her right hand. She then reached into her pocket to pull out a purple colored gem into her left. She quickly placed the gemstone into the socket hole of the longsword as it gave off a sickly purplish black glow as she took up a fighting stance. The moment All Might dashed towards the pseudo servant, Mina quickly slid to the side as Lily quickly moved her head to the side to avoid the punching aimed at her head, and countered with quick thrusting strikes towards his chest and shoulder.

"Sorry All Might!" Mina said after sliding behind him as she brought her hands together. Acid started to form into a ball in her hands before thrusting her hands towards and fired a shotgun-like attack as small bullets of acid shot out and hit All Might from behind. "Acid Buckshot!"

All Might let an annoyed grunt from the pain he felt on his back as he turned his attention onto Mina. He was about to charge at her with a Detroit smash, but staggered forwards a bit from feeling Lily hit him from behind. He quickly heard the sound of water heading towards him as he brought up his hands to block a stream of concentrated acid heading towards his face. While being held in place, the pseudo servant quickly delivered quick thrust and slash attacks onto All Might's back as he started to buckle slightly from the pressure of the two attacking him.

"Keep up the assault!" Lily said as she continued to barrage his back with slashes and thrusting attacks. "So this is what the glorious All Might really is? A coward that sits off to the side and lets his fellow hero weaken the villain. I shouldn't be surprised, given how this is a hero society after all."

"You have no room to talk. Especially given what you and young Mina are doing right now.." He said before noticing the corrosive burn marks on his suit. "It was a mistake to bring you to U.A. I was hoping that maybe being in a different environment would make you change your mindset and become a proper hero for society. But I was wrong, you still have that mindset of thinking that the world is against you, refusing to tell us what we need to know, and worse of all you corrupted the mind of young Mina with your mind controlling quirk."

"For the last time! I am not under any mind controlling quirk! Nor does Lily have any mind controlling quirk. If anything, she's really good at bluffing or fooling people into thinking she has one." Mina said as she continued unleashing her acid stream onto All Might's arms.

"Given the facts and proof that she can read a person's mind. I will have to disagree with that." All Might said as he looked over at Lily from the corner of his eye. "You have the ability to take certain fragments of your memory and place them into a crystal from what Aizawa mentioned. It's proof enough that you have a mind controlling quirk of some kind. Someone like you out roaming the streets of Japan can not be allowed to cause trouble. That is why you will be locked away in jail and Mina will be going through rehabilitation to undo the damage done to her mind."

"I had enough of this crap. While you're busy trying to capture someone that can take down the real threat to the world, that monster who attacked the USJ is going to attack the sports festival tomorrow. You think you idiotic heroes can take down a demon god pillar by yourself? You saw what happened to Aizawa and Thirteen. You saw what it did to that man who I don't know what he was before being turned into a monster. Gawain, Barghest and I saved class 1-A from lord know what Halphas was going to do to them. What can a man like you who couldn't be there for his students do to a demon that's not even from this world!?" Lily yelled as she and Mina stopped their combined attack upon the number one hero of japan.

"...You really don't have faith in heroes, do you?"

"Twice….Twice that hero society has failed me. Once at the orphanage, and during the USJ incident." Lily answered as she gritted her teeth and glared at All Might. "I'll place my faith in my own skills and comrades that I trust, then to rely on a hero like you." All Might stared at Lily for a moment. His serious expression softened rather quickly upon hearing this before looking over at Mina.

"And you young Mina. You think the same way as she does?" He asked as Mina looked away for a moment before letting out a sigh and looking back at All Might.

"With all respect, All Might sir. At first, I didn't think anything of this. I mean I tried my best to be a good person and help out as best as I can. But the way this world's rules are placed on people like me is a problem. People think that heroes can be there for them and save them from almost anything. I used to believe that until the USJ incident." She said before looking over at Lily. "The only person that saved class 1-A and I was Lily, Gawain, and Barghest. I won't discount Thirteen's and Aizawa's attempt to save us, but those three saved us from a fate worse than anything I can imagine. There's something going on in the background of hero society. And I'm going to find out what's going on. So I'm really sorry, but I'm going to have to side with Lily. Not for the sake of the world, but because she's my friend."

Lily stared at Mina for a good couple of seconds before turning her head to the side. Mina blinked for a moment and was about to say something, but soon heard the sound sniffing coming from the pseudo servant. A smile ran across her face upon hearing this as she tried her best to get a good look at her face, but Lily quickly used her arm to cover her face, which in turn caused Mina to huff in annoyance.

"I see...Then I am sorry for what I must do." He said before straightening himself up. "It pains me to know that hero society failed you...I failed you. But even still, I have a job to do. As the world symbol of truth and justice. You are both under arrest."

"Yeah, not going to happen." Lily said as she took the gemstone out of her sword and tossed it at All Might, only for him to catch it.

"It's nice to see you still have some energy to fight, but it's over now."

"Wait! Before you take us in, I only have three things to say." She said before pointing towards the gemstone he caught. "Tick, tick, boom." All Might looked over at the gem he was holding as it glowed for a moment before blowing up. Upon blowing up, it let out a smokescreen which quickly covered the area he was in as Lily took this as an opportunity to pick Mina up and bolted it down the mall. She quickly looked around for a place for the two of them to hide in for the time being as she noticed a perfectly undamaged toy store that looked like it was closed. A smirk appeared on her face, as she quickly headed over to the store and placed a hand on the glass as circuit lines on her hands appeared on the glass as it opened. She quickly headed inside as they closed behind them, and took cover behind what appeared to be a giant stuffed bear.

The moment they hid behind the stuff bear, All Might appeared right outside the store and scanned the area he was in for a good few seconds before darting off further into the mall. Mina let out a sigh of relief, but Lily knelt down onto the ground and vigorously coughed a small pool of blood.

"T-This place will keep us hidden for the time being." Lily whispered before leaning back onto the giant stuffed bear. "With that in mind. It's going to take a while for the poison to take effect on him. We just have to keep him running around like an idiot, then we'll be able to escape once Barghest gets here."

"How many plans do you have?"

"A lot. Not because of All Might, but because living on the streets and slums, you have to be prepared for just about anything." She said before looking at the gemstones she held in her hands. "The gemstone I threw at All Might, along with using it in my sword, is laced with a poison that will affect his motor functions and muscle control. It won't kill him, but he will be out of commission until he gets to a hospital."

"Okay, that's good to know. I prefer not to be labeled as the girl that killed All Might."

"Pretty sure that would fall upon me with that label. But right now our main goal is to escape, and that man is the only thing stopping us from escaping." She said before slowly looking over the giant stuffed bear. Upon doing so, she would see All Might standing in front of the store with his chest sticking out as a smile on his face. "And he's standing in front of the store."

"Seriously!? How is he able to find us so quickly!?"

"I know you're in there, villains! Come out now! There's no place to run or hide from me!" All Might yelled as Lily glared at him in annoyance.

"I beg to differ jackass!" Lily said before pulling Mina back behind the bear. "Cover your mouth and hold on tight to me." She ordered as Mina quickly took in a deep breath and latched herself onto Lily's back with her arms wrapped around her neck. The moment All Might smashed his way into the toy store, Lily moved from behind the bear, and threw another gemstone at him. All Might casually moved to the side to avoid getting hit, but soon noticed that the gem glowed for a moment before exploding causing a cloud of smoke to erupt once again. The circuit lines in her legs lit up as she quickly bolted past All Might, who was coughing from the smoke filling his lungs, and ran after the runaway former U.A Students..

"Clever trick, but not clever enough." He said before quickly running after Lily and Mina. It only took him a few seconds to close the distance between them as he attempted to pin them both to the ground. Only for Lily to quickly jump out of the way and start darting around him in mid air at blinding speed. All Might carefully watch the pseudo servant flying around for a moment before going into the direction of where she was about to land. The moment he moved there, Lily's eyes widened in surprise by this as she quickly pulled back before he could grab them.

"Artoria, where's Barghest?"

"Five minutes away from where you are. Hold out just a bit longer." She said as the divine servant noticed All Might lunging at Mina and Lily with his back turn. "Incoming!"

"New Hampshire Smash!" he yelled as Lily's eyes widened upon seeing All Might flying at them like a bullet. The circuit lines in her legs lit up as she quickly flew herself to the side of the oncoming man. She was able to dodge the attack, but felt her leg get caught as she and Mina tumbled off to the side. Lily let out a hissing noise from the pain she felt as she looked down to see that her leg was bent backwards.

"Oh I am so glad I have Avalon inside." She said as Mina covered her mouth in shock.

"Oh god! Your leg is bent backwards!." Mina said as her face turned slightly green from hearing the sound of bone cracking and repairing itself. "Oh I think I'm going to be sick."

"Throw up somewhere else." Lily said before noticing All Might coming at them. "Crap Baskets! He's coming this way!" The pseudo servant pushed Mina off to the side before summoning up a large shield. She was soon sent flying backwards from the force behind him shoulder tackling the shield as Mina started in both shock and surprise by this. She soon looked over at All Might who was staring at her with his arms folded as if saying 'What are you going to do now.' body expression.

"Okay, I know what you're thinking. Is she going to give up after seeing that...well to answer your question….Bye!" Mina quickly stood up and coated her feet in acid. She quickly ducked underneath All Might's attempt to tackle her to the ground as she quickly slid off towards the food court of the mall that Lily was sent flying off to.

"Stop!" All Might yelled as he quickly gave chase after the pink girl.

"Don't look back, just keep running." Mina said to herself as she heard the sound of footsteps coming up from behind. She looked over to see All Might heading her way as she put it into high gear and began to slip and slide her way down to the food court while trying to avoid All Might's grip. "Oh man! I can't avoid him!"

"It's over Mina Ashido. You and I both know you can't escape me." He said as he was inches away from grabbing Mina by the collar of her shirt. The moment he was about to grab her, a sharp pain coursed through his body as his speed began to dwindle. Mina took notice of this as she started to slow down a bit upon seeing All Might kneeling down onto the ground and coughing. "W-What's going on?"

"Haha! Lily's plan worked!" She yelled as she noticed All Might looking up at her. "D-Don't worry, she didn't poison you to the point of killing you. Just so you would be out of commission until you're taken to a hospital."

"You think this poison is going to stop me from-" Another surge of pain coursed through All Might's body as he coughs even more before spitting out some purple ooze onto the ground.

"I'm really sorry All Might, really I am. But there's a huge threat about to attack our world, and Lily's the only one that can stop it. At least I hope she can." She said before sliding off towards the direction of where Lily sent flying to. Meanwhile, off in the food court. Lily was currently stuck in the wall in the kitchen of the food court. The pseudo servant had a deadpan expression on her face as she due to the fact that not only was her leg broken again, but both her legs were now broken along with her left arm.

"...I'm a kill'em."

"You're only angry because he broke your legs and arms. You don't really want to kill him."

"I'm a kill'em."

"Given your current state, you can't kill him."

"I can try dammit!" Lily said as she struggled to pull herself off the wall she was in and fell to the ground face first. "...It would be a dick move if you laughed right now."

"Pretty sure there are more important matters to attend to. Especially with two people coming over to where you are." Artoria said as Lily heard the sound of footsteps heading towards her. Looking forward she saw a woman with long, pale lilac hair, pale blue skin, and eyes similar to that of Mina's only that her irises were green. Next to her was a young woman with long hair tied in twin tails, she wore white attire leaving only a dark turtleneck sweater-dress under and a pair of black boots to be seen and a pair of glasses.

"Okay, I know what you're thinking. Let me assure you. We're not with the heroes, nor with the villains of any kind. At least by your standards of villains." She said before carefully walking over to Lily with her hands up. "I'm here to help you and your friend escape."

"...Is she lying?"

"She's telling the truth from what I'm picking up from reading her mind. Apparently she's part of an organization called the meta liberation army."

"...Should I be worried about that?"

"Not unless you're siding with hero society. Which I know you're not with them on the whole ideal hero stuff. All you need to know is that she's not your enemy and is willing to help you." The divine spirit said as she noticed the woman carefully picking Lily from the floor and into her arms, bridal style.

"Oh you poor thing. Look at what the heroes have done to you." Curious said as she examined her body a bit before looking over at her accomplice. "It's hard to believe that she was able to hold her own against All Might. You think she has some kind of secret tool or quirk that allows her to do so, Hinako?"

"Quirk...I doubt it." Hinako said before examining Lily's body up and down before noticing the magic circuit lines in her arm and legs glowing as the pseudo servant's limbs began to repair themselves. "So she's a pseudo servant. Which means she's the Grand Servant that the planet created to deal with the beast." She thought as a slight grin appeared on her face.

"Something wrong?" Curious asked as Hinako shook her head.

"No, nothing. We got the primary target. Now we just need to get the pink girl-"

."Hey! What do you think you're doing!?" Hinako turned her attention from Lily to Mina as a deadpan expression appeared on her face..

"Don't hurt us! I'm on your side! I'm here to help you!" Curious said as she gave Lily over to Hinako.

"Drop the fluffy bunny girl or else you'll get a face full of acid." Mina threatened as globs of acid started to form in her hands.

"D-Don't...they're...not with...the heroes." Lily said in a staggering tone as it caused Mina to blink.

"You're friend's right. I'm with the Meta Liberation Army." She said before carefully making her way over to Mina with her hands up. "My name is Curious and this is my assistant, Hinako Akuta."

"Okay...not to sound rude...but what is the Meta Liberation Army?" Mina asked as Curious was about to say something but stopped as she noticed a figure heading over towards them at blinding speed.

"I'll explain later. Right now we need to get out of here before we get caught." She said as she pointed a finger behind Mina. The pink girl looked over as her eyes widened upon seeing All Might heading towards them.

"How is he still standing!? Shouldn't the poison have taken its effect on him!?" Mina yelled as Curious and Hinako blinked in surprise at Mina.

"Wait, you poisoned him? How?"

"Well Lily poisoned him with these weird gemstones that she can make with her magic, but now's not the time for explaining! We need to run away!"

"You're not going anywhere villains!" All Might said he quickly lunged himself towards the group with his arms up in a cross position. "Carolina Smash." The moment he was about to hit the group, the roof to the ceiling burst open as a giant hand came crashing down from above and slams down onto All Might, inches from hitting Lily and the other.

"A-About time…" Lily said as the others looked up to see Barghest towering over them.

"Apology for the wait my king." The servant said before tossing All Might off to the side as she entered the mall by breaking her way through it. "I had to make sure I didn't run over innocent civilians or crash into buildings with people in them."

"I-It's fine...get us out of here." She said as Barghest lowered her hand toward the group. Lily gave off a weak smile upon seeing this as she looked over at the other and noticed Hinako and Curious shocked expressions on their faces. "N-Now's not the time...to stare...we need to go now."

"R-Right, right." Curious said as she hopped onto Barghest's hand. She soon turned her attention onto Mina as she helped her up. She was about to help Hinako get Lily up onto the giant's hand, but it wasn't necessary seeing how the brown haired girl jumped onto her hand with ease.

"Where shall we go, my king? I don't think returning back to U.A High School is out of the question." Barghest said as she soon heard Hinako clear her throat to get the giantess's attention.

"I know of a safe house for us to stay in for the time being. An abandoned little bar in the slums that most people wouldn't think of knowing." She said as Barghest looked over at Lily with a raised eyebrow.

"They saved my ass...so they have my trust for now. I need a place to rest before tomorrow." Lily said before looking over at Hinako. "Lead the way, please."

"Alright, giant girl. Head down the street behind that tall building. Once there, make yourself small and we'll take the alleyways to the safe house." Hinako said as Barghest nodded and headed towards the direction she was given. While Barghest ran down the street, All Might pulled himself up from the wall he was thrown into and was about to give chase, but the poison that was flowing through his body started to take effect as she kneeled down onto the ground.

"D-Dammit. Not now, I have to get them before they get away." he said before trying to get up, but soon felt himself pinned to the ground by something heavy. He tried to pull himself up with what little strength he had, but whoever it was that's on top of him put more force onto him as he let out a low grunt of pain. He soon turned his head to the side to see a person wearing silver colored armor with pieces of crimson red cloth on it. The figure looked down at All Might as the helmet part of the figure's body revealed that it was a girl with blonde hair and green eyes staring down at him.

"And where do you think you're going~?"

"Another villain? How did she get by Sir Nighteye and the others?" All Might thought as he felt himself being kicked through the side of the by Mordred and tumbles outside into the open. Upon pulling himself up slightly, his eyes widened upon seeing the surrounding area destroyed and both pro-heroes and the police force fighting against an army of knights. Judging from the looks of things, the enforcement knights were winning the fight against the humans.

"Gotta say, you heroes did a number on the king. Which is something that is understandable given how currently weak she is." Mordred said as she made her way over to All Might. "And I really wish I can kill you along with these pathetic heroes, but I'm ordered not to kill you or the humans that Agravain is fighting with the enforcement knights. But that doesn't mean we can't get payback by crippling your attempts to try and go after her."

"Just who in the hell are you?" All Might asked as he pulled himself up from the ground.

"The Knight of Treachery, and the king's rightful ere to the throne. Mordred Pendragon." She said before aiming her sword at All Might. "You must be this country's champion, correct." The saber servant asked as she eyed him up and down. "You don't look that strong to me if my king was able to weaken you as you are."

"Tell me, villain. What is your goal in all this? What's the point of trying to save Lily?"

"Now why would I tell a weakling like you that? I'm only here to make sure the King is able to escape. Which means I'm going to be the living shit out of you and the rest of these wannabe heroes." She said before getting into a fighting stance as her helmet appeared back on her head. The moment the helmet appeared on her head, a burst of mana energy erupted from underneath herself and lunged towards All Might with the intent to impale him in the chest. "Get ready to lose, champion of Japan!"