Author's Note: URGH! I am so sorry again that fF messed up the last chapter. I have no excuse. Hopefully it'll work this time.

Outside in the streets, the police were fighting off the Noomu things as they kept comin and comin out of the black sludge stuff. It was like a nightmare, even Endeavor didn't seem to be enough to handle em. As we watched, the rest of the villains disappeared like Bakugou into that black sludge stuff, as it came flowing out of their mouths, around their bodies, and warped them away from All Might.

"I thought they stopped that warp guy!" gasped Tsu over the phone.

We'd called up Mina, Jirou, Tooru and Kaminari at that point - they were hanging at the hospital - so through Tsu's phone I could hear their voices too.

"Something's up!"

"What's going on?!"

Everyone was panicking like crazy and I was finding it hard to keep it together myself.

Then all our phones buzzed with a text message from Yaomomo.

"We've got Bakugou."

I felt a gigantic wave of relief go over me. At first, it was total shock. You guys actually went?! But then 'At least they got him. I'd been freaking out on seeing the villains warp him away and all - right out of All Might's arms - like we were never gonna see him again, but now - now he was ok. I bet Deku had something to do with this, I thought, and grinned a little, trying not to picture Bakugou's face at getting saved by Deku. Bet he loved that.

But the TV station had changed location - and suddenly we were looking at something that brought my mood down right away.

We were lookin at a crater in the middle of the city, like a huge bomb had gone off. Only three people were visible in the debris - All Might, looking really beat up like he'd been caught in the blast, alongside another pro I didn't know, and some figure in a black suit floating above the ground - but not like I'd float, almost like he was suspended on a rope or something. He had a face mask and beneath it - even from a distance you could see - no visible face.

"We're here at this nightmareish scene!" cried the announcer. "Half of Kamino Ward was destroyed in the blink of an eye! All Might is currently exchanging blows with the villain behind all this destruction! It's hard to believe a single villain could obliterate several city blocks and go toe-to-toe with the symbol of peace himself!"

Oh man, oh man, oh man...not our sensei, not the world's top hero - he can't lose, can he?

The door opened and Mom and dad ran in to join me, and I felt my heart jump at the looks on their faces.

I'd always loved the happy look on their faces when they watched heroes doing their thing. And now...if All Might disappeared, disappeared for good...would I ever see that happy look again?

The villain had raised his arm - like he was about to fire off another bomb blast or something at All Might. And All Might didn't move - instead, he stood there and raised a punch to just take it. It was a gigantic blast - a huge, overwhelming something that made the camera shake.

The debris cleared away...

Standing in the wake of the debris was a skeletal guy - emaciated with long lank hair, in a loose-fitting All Might costume...

I was shocked at first, for a minute. Then suddenly it hit me that I'd seen that guy somewhere before.

What the hell...wasn't that the guy who was in Deku's hospital room? Back in the sports festival? What?! - but - how - how is that our -

"Um - what's - huh? A-are you seeing this, viewers?" said the announcer on TV. "All might's - all shrunk somehow?"

"Huh?" said Mom.

"Is that really - him?" said dad.

Have you been hiding this, sensei, all this time? Is this what you really look like? Were you there in Deku's hospital room that time? In this form? Does that mean Deku knew about it - before?!

And suddenly, All Might - this new guy who was it seemed All Might - was screaming, actually screaming like something the Villain boss had said had hurt him so much he just couldn't go on anymore.

No - he can't - he can't just lose! He can't!

"Even - even if he looks different - " gasped mom, "HE's still - he's still All Might, right?"

"That's right!" cried Mina's voice over the phone.

"He'll win, he's gotta," Tsu was muttering, and I decided there was only one thing to do -

I yelled it at the TV screen, and Tsu said it along with me:

"WIN, ALL MIGHT! YOU CAN DO IT!"

It felt like in that moment everyone in the world was yelling along with us.

And on TV we saw All Might actually buff his arm up - somehow only his right arm - to take a swing at the villain again. And once again he was smiling.

All Might was joined on TV by Endeavor and a couple other pros, and it looked like they were doing ok - but then the villain boss blasted them all away and raised his right arm. Which started twisting and morphing - it was the creepiest thing I'd ever seen, like his arm was being posessed or somethin - and turned it into this giant hideous monstrosity of metal rivets and extra hands and creepy flesh and I don't know what else, like something outta a total nightmare.

The villain was gonna hit All Might with that thing.

We all started screaming. Nobody knew what else to do. It was like nothing we could do could stop it - like we were about to see our sensei die.

That giant villain arm hit him and he took it and the camera was shaking with the pressure of the fight.

It looked like the hit had actually broken sensei's arm and it was flying backwards as he stopped - and suddenly added those muscles to the other arm! Like he was really planning to hit the villain with the other side the whole time.

Only to put the power back in his broken arm - to punch him with -

just like Deku would do.

Holy crap.

He'd done it - hit the villain with the crazy punch to end all of em with his broken arm - and pummelled him into the ground.

And with hte other one as the dust cleared, he lifted his fist into the air and buffed his whole body back up - to be All Might again.

WE all screamed out in excitement. Like nobody could quite believe how cool this was.

The villain was defeated and All Might had won.

Later on, as they were taking the villain to the Maiden to arrest, All Might Sensei - coughing up blood, and down to that small form again - lifted his hand to point at the screen.

We drew in our breath - what more?!

"Now -" he said slowly, then more clearly, "Now - it's your turn."

My folks started cheering again, but oddly my classmates were pretty quiet. I think cause somehow, we all knew what that really, really meant.

I've used up everything...