Negative One

by jure rollo

Everything and everyone in the world was gone. With nothing left for him here, he goes back to fix everything, but his time as a villain has skewed his morality. The question now is, Which future is the right one? A Hero's or a Villain's? One thing is clear though, either way, there would be no one alive powerful enough to stop him. Time Travel fic with a twist.

15. Chapter 14: A Foreseen Threat Part 2

My longest chapter yet, which is odd because I made myself busy while I just got Covid so yeah, that's why this took so long. I'm writing this sick and I'm using my phone.

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The USJ attack created history with deaths, now Izuku watches as his actions create a different one than before.

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Tomura Shigaraki had always hated a lot of things.

He hates the NPCs that walk around the streets without a care in the world. He hated the heroes that went around and beat people up for praise. He hates how fucking itchy his neck gets sometimes.

But mostly the heroes.

The glorified people of everyday society. Literally, everything on the planet is connected to them; clothes, toys, commercials, billboards, even fucking video games.

And he just wants to turn them all to fucking dust with his Quirk: Decay, which turns everything and everyone he touches into dust.

But more than anything, out of all the things he hates in this world, there is one that he hates above everything and everyone else.

All Might.

He can't remember why, he can't remember when he even started to, but he knows that All Might is someone he wants dead more than anyone else.

Everything about him infuriates Shigaraki, his loud, bombastic, and annoying voice, his stupid fucking smile that always seemed to be on his damn face, the fact that he's the Number 1 Hero, and the way that people cheered his name with religious devotion.

It just made Shigaraki want to kill him more every day.

And now he has his chance.

With his Sensei's new Nomu and a plan to isolate him in the USJ, they had the perfect chance to kill All Might.

Not only does the Nomu have a huge amount of strength, enough to give All Might a run for his money, but it also has Shock Absorption and Super Regeneration. It's the perfect Anti-All Might weapon.

Now if only he could enjoy it without the other side bosses here.

He scratches his neck irritably as he watches Eraser Head just clean up the Mobs he brought along after Kurogiri left to block off the students' escape.

"Tch, I at least thought these guys would put up more of a challenge," He says to himself. "But I guess that goes to show how cool Eraser Head really is."

Despite his hatred of heroes, he couldn't help but admire Eraser Head's skills. This is perhaps the worst possible match-up for him, but he's still kicking ass.

For example, a Mutant Type Quirk user charges at him, despite being unable to erase the NPC's Quirk, Eraser Head countered the charge with a swift punch, and with one fluid movement, he uses his Capture Weapon to entangle him.

Then with a swing that shows how much strength he has naturally, he throws the tied-up NPC directly at another one that was behind him.

"So cool," Shigaraki repeated. "With his capture weapon, he can take down opponents bigger and stronger than him, and because of his goggles, you don't know whose Quirk is erased or when it's even activated. The worst part about heroes is when they actually live up to their hype."

Everyone else backed off from the Hero, wary that he took out a lot of them despite being at a disadvantage.

Eraser Head pulls back his Capture Weapon and his hair drops back to his he-

Wait.

His hair?

Shigaraki narrows his eyes focuses on that little detail a bit more when the NPCs all rush at him at once.

One of them throws their hands forward, but nothing happens.

"Shit! He's got me!"

Shigaraki notices the Hero's hair is floating just a bit.

"1, 2, 3…" He starts silently counting to himself.

Eraser Head goes back on the attack. He dashes forward and lands a kick straight into the face of one of the mobs then flips back to his feet.

"5, 6…"

4 villains rush the Hero and with minimal movements, he dodges all of their wild swings. One overextension and Eraser Head immediately capitalizes on it, he wraps his Capture weapon around the wrist and pulls them forward to block multiple attacks with the villain's face.

"11, 12, 13…"

Blindsided, one could not block a punch aimed at his nose-

*Crack*

-and after it broke, Eraser Head wraps two of the attackers' necks and bashes their heads together, knocking them out.

"15, 16…"

A few more punches and kicks and Eraser Head tosses the other two behind him with his Capture tool, right into two other villains that were trying to get close.

"21, 22…"

Eraser Head pulls back his Capture tool, and just like last time, his hair that was moving upward fell back onto his head.

"23, 24." Shigaraki stops counting just as he sees the teacher's hair settles down.

The one whose Quirk got erased?

"Hey! I got my Quirk back!"

Shigaraki gives a wide smile.

"Huh, that's interesting…"

'I might have just figured you out, Eraser.'

WITH IZUKU 1

"Yeah, saw that coming," Izuku says as he munches on his popcorn. "The other idiots may not have noticed, but that was a huge tell, and All for One made sure that Shigaraki could pick up subtle things despite being immature."

Izuku was watching everything through his laptop and he was commentating every chance he got.

He may not mumble anymore, but speaking to himself was something he just got used to doing after so many years alone.

Eraser Head was one of the heroes he didn't even have to study to find a weakness for. Shigaraki, just like last time, figured it all out on his own just by watching the Pro in action once. But Aizawa was still skilled and smart enough to survive longer than most.

"Still, his moves do look pretty cool. Old and unimpressive, but cool nonetheless."

Izuku had a lot of years as a criminal and most of those years were spent working under All for One. But every time he was offered a Quirk by the centuries-old Villain, he rejected the offer every single time. He only relied on his mind, his inventions, and his training.

And he trained harder than anyone else, in every fighting style that the world could offer and even some he's invented himself, and in many more skills that a normal person could acquire in a lifetime.

Then those skills skyrocketed after the nanites were invented.

'Are you talking to yourself again?' He hears Kaina ask him.

'Don't judge, we all do that from time to time.' Izuku responds. 'Why are you even listening in? Aren't you supposed to be busy right now?'

'Busy?' She mentally scoffed. 'I got jack shit to do here until we're called for the attack, all I've done here is have pointless conversations with all the cops. I know way too much already about the other officers in this building. Apparently, Aiya Chairo has an admirer here and everyone else is supposed to know about it except her.'

He paused eating. '... Are you serious? That sounds like it comes from a sitcom.' Damn, he'd actually just rather watch a show like that than this.

'Nope, it's all real, poor guy looks like he's always one second away from exploding every time I get close. It was funny for a while but now it's just annoying.'

Izuku briefly chuckles at her annoyance. "Well, how's Viktor doing?'

'He's fitting in pretty well, our baby ASIA is really coming into her own.'

'Oh, that whole baby thing rubbed off on you quick huh?'

'She calls us her parents Izuku,' Her tone goes dead serious. 'I will sodomize anyone who dares to harm her with a hot iron poker, torture them for days, heal them, torture them again, kill them, clone them, then do it all over again with the clone.'

'...'

'...'

'...'

'Alright then,' He cheerfully continued. 'So you just wanted to have a chat?'

'Just checking in on what's happening there, any of the students got in more trouble than they can handle?' She also continues normally.

A brief look at the laptop and he could see that's not the case.

'No, they're just about to be warped away to the other zones after classic Bakugo and Kirishima jumped forward to throw hands against Kurogiri.'

He reaches on to the keys and with a few presses, the screen splits up and shows all the Disaster Zones of the USJ in different panels.

'And now.' He types a few more times on the laptop and on the screen, 3 words pop up.

NANITE HIVES READY

He puts his finger up above the Enter button on his keyboard and says, "Watch as I change history, with a single push of a button."

*Click*

ACTIVATE

/

"Thanks for the ride guys!" Midoriya said in gratitude as 2 of the water villains dropped him off near the Central Plaza of the USJ.

"Ha! The least we could do after you helped with those brats." A shark-headed villain joyfully says to Midoriya as he picks his teeth with a piece of bone that came from the short purple-haired hero student.

"Hey, you sure you don't want a turn with her?" The other one asks as he points a thumb behind him at the water.

The reddening water possibly filled with the blood of both students Midoriya threw in.

Mineta Minoru died fairly quickly, ripped apart almost instantly as he hit the water and the more animalistic Villains in the water ate everything left.

But in all honesty, he had the more merciful fate.

Midoriya doesn't know exactly what's happening to Tsuyu Asui after her paralyzed body was dragged under the surface, but he could take a few guesses.

Each is worse than the last.

Stomping down his disgust at the thought (and towards the villains), he puts up a smile and replies. "Nah, you guys just enjoy all the fun stuff you're doing there. I'm gonna tell the boss the good news."

He gives a wave as both of the villains turn back, probably to have a turn with Asui, whatever the fuck that entailed. He hears the titanic battle between All Might and the Nomu in the distance.

He walks towards the Center at a leisurely pace, whistling to himself a tune.

'For he's a jolly good fellow.'

'For he's a jolly good fellow.'

'For he's a jolly good fellow.~'

/

IN THE RUINS ZONE

Ejiro Kirishima would admit that attacking the Villain without knowing their Quirk beforehand, was in hindsight, a terrible idea.

"Alright," He groans while lying down on the ground after being dropped by the mist villain's Quirk, before getting up. "That wasn't very manly of me."

Kirishima is a muscular young man of average height and a rather impressive physique for his young age. He has red eyes that are pointed slightly inwards and a small scar just above his right eye. He also has small eyebrows and pointed teeth. His hair is somewhat long, dyed a bright red, and spiked away from his head at all angles with gel, two more pronounced tufts spiked on either side of his forehead like little horns.

He's wearing two dark red gear-shaped shoulder pads. A jagged sash joins the one on his left to the right side of his belt, which has a red "R" set into its center. Below this, he wears baggy black pants and a half cape with a ripped hem. He also sports dark red boots and multiple thick rings going around his calves, and he leaves his chest bare.

A lot of his body is bare because he does not need armor.

His Quirk is Hardening, which allows him to harden every part of his body into a jagged, rock-like substance that can take attacks with ease.

He has a wired guard that reaches from just above his hairline to below his jaw, an extra piece going over the bridge of his nose, and some spiked pieces around his mouth which resemble little fangs, but those were forgone for the rescue exercise.

But the rescue exercise is probably not going to happen today.

He shakes his head to shake off the dizziness of being transported somewhere else and looks around to see where he was sent.

"A rundown building?"

It was the best way for him to describe it. There was no furniture in the room he was in and no paint on the walls. Cracks litter everywhere though thankfully, everything still seems pretty stable. Some windows were slightly cracked and a door led out into the rest of the building.

"Where-" But before he could speak, he hears a familiar voice scream nearby.

"WHERE THE FUCK AM I!?"

Kirishima flinches at the volume and turns towards the culprit.

"Hey, Bakugo." He greets the angry Explosion Quirk user. "Glad to see you're alright."

Bakugo's wearing a tight, black, sleeveless tank top, with an orange "X" across the middle, forming a v-neck. There are two dots along the left line of his collar, and he also has a metallic neck brace worn with rectangular ends that have three holes on each side. His sleeves reach from within his large grenade-like gauntlets to his biceps. His belt, which also carries grenades, holds up his baggy pants with knee guards, below which he sports black, knee-high combat boots with orange soles and eyelets. He also owns a mask that is jagged and black, and as it goes around his eyes, a large, orange-rimmed flare shape protrudes from each side, but it was left out for the day.

Bakugo, instead of greeting him back, walked towards the nearest window and punched it.

Just punches it and shatters the window.

"It wasn't even locked, bro…"

Bakugo, again, ignores Kirishishima, and he looks out the now broken window and surveys their surroundings.

He scoffs and turns back.

"We're still inside the USJ." He growls out.

"Wait, really!?" Kirishima asks, he rushes towards another window and looks out (without breaking it), to see if it was true. He sees the roof of the USJ and gives out a sigh of relief.

"That means we can still meet up with the rest! Come on!" He starts running towards the door.

Then a thud sounded from behind the door.

Kirishima pauses.

Bakugo starts walking towards the door with a battle-ready grin on his face. "Weren't you fucking listening to that warp gate bastard? He separated everyone so they can be picked off by villains separately, which means there's a whole bunch of them right behind this door!"

The red-haired hero in training gasped as he realized that Bakugo was right, the last thing the mist villain said to them was that he wanted them to "meet his comrades".

'Then that means they're waiting to attack!'

"Bakugo wait!" He grabbed the blonde's shoulder to stop him. "If there are villains behind that door then we shouldn't just barge in there, they're probably ready to ambush us! We need a plan!"

Bakugo just growled and shook off his hand. "I don't need jack shit, I don't care if there's over a hundred of them out there," He continues stomping towards the door. "I'm going to beat the shit out of all of them."

Kirishima could only stare at his retreating back before clenching his fist and teeth, a bit of tear even falling from his eye. "Dammit, I hate how manly that was." He muttered, before following Bakugo. "Fine! But don't think I'm going to let you take them all on your own! I'm gonna help you, whether you like it or not!"

He knew that Bakugo is a jerk, it wasn't something he could deny even if he wanted to. Bakugo used excessive force in Battle Training the previous day, he acted like a delinquent the first time he stepped foot in their classroom, and Kirishima wouldn't even be surprised if Bakugo was a bully before he came to UA, and Kirishima disliked bullies.

But that didn't mean that he was just going to leave him in a dangerous situation on his own, that wouldn't be a very manly thing to do, nor would it be very heroic. Most of all, it's not something that Mina would do.

Mina would try to stick with Bakugo, befriend him instead of antagonizing him, and that's just what Kirishima plans to do. It's the manliest way of becoming a hero.

Bakugo stops then glances at Kirishima from the corner of his eyes for a brief moment, and with a scowl, he turns back around and scoffs. "Don't get in my way."

A few sparks from his fingers later and…

*BOOM*

"ALRIGHT, YOU MOTHERFUCKERS, WHO'S READY TO DIE!?"

"What he said except for the killing part!"

"AGH!"

The villain behind the door wasn't prepared for the assault, in fact, none of the villains behind the door were.

They don't know what happened, one moment they were waiting for some students to be dropped in with them, then the next they felt a small prick on their necks and a sudden onset of confusion swept them all.

COMMAND: ATTACK

Then suddenly, the confusion went away, and it was replaced with an overwhelming urge to attack.

With reckless abandon, a villain with a sword charged straight at the two Heroes in training.

"We've been waiting for you! Hope you're ready to die-"

*BOOM*

And was met with an explosion straight in the gut.

"WEAK! COME ON! ANYONE ELSE!?" Bakugo screamed in confidence.

"Who wants a piece of us!?" Kirishima challenged as he brought his hardened fists together, sparks coming off his sharp skin.

Instead of being intimidated, the villains follow the urge to attack with a single-minded focus.

So all at once, they charge.

AT THE FLOOD ZONE

"WAAAAHHHHH! WE'RE SURROUNDED!"

"I can see that Mineta, ribbit."

To be fair, they're still young and untrained, so panicking from being attacked by villains is pretty understandable.

But Tsuyu Asui knew that they had to stay calm if they wanted to survive.

While Mineta was crying about their situation (If Asui is being honest, she's not sure if he really was hero material.), Asui was looking over the side of the ship at the villains that were surrounding them. There are about a dozen of them, and they all looked like they have Quirks specifically effective around water, just like her. Their greater numbers though immediately remove the possibility of fighting back, she can't fight them all on their turf while protecting Mineta as well since he's not going to be very effective in the water.

Right now, they need a plan.

"WE'RE GONNA DIE HERE!"

Asui flinched at the volume of his voice.

"Mineta, calm down, we can't find a way to escape if you keep panicking, ribbit."

"CALM DOWN!?" Mineta shrieked. "HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO CALM DOWN WHEN WE'RE TRAPPED BY VILLAINS ASUI!?"

"I told you to call me Tsu." She calmly states, burying her fear to try and keep calm and think rationally. "And you need to take a deep breath, the villains still haven't attacked us for some reason, so we still have time to think of a plan."

"Our top priority should be getting out of here, let's tell each other what our Quirks are so we know what we can do. I'll go first, my Quirk is called Frog. I can do everything a frog can, obviously I can jump really high, I can stick to walls, I can also extend my tongue out for about 20 meters. Oh, and I can eject my stomach out to clean it, but that won't be very helpful right now."

Mineta looked over to the side and saw the villains glaring up at him, he gulps in fear at the thought of fighting them. He knew his Quirk would not help in this scenario.

"H-hey Asui, we don't actually have to fight these guys right?" Mineta fearfully asks. "Like, your Quirk is cool and all, but All Might is already here with us! He'll beat these guys up and save us no problem."

"I won't be very sure about that Mineta." Asui shook her head. "These villains knew the exact time that we'd arrive so they must've already known that All Might was going to be here, yet they decided to go through with it. Besides, you saw how happy the villain was when he saw All Might, they probably have a plan to kill him, that's probably why they're here in the first place."

"Kill All Might!?" Mineta asked loudly, shocked that such a phrase could even be said. "But that's impossible! He's the strongest hero around! If he dies then… Then…" He starts shaking and tears start to come out of his eyes.

"Then we really are going to die! I don't want to die yet! I still want to be a hero! To grow up! I'll never get a chance to see any of the hot heroes again! I'll never know what the girls in my class will look like without their clothes! To grope wondrous breasts! To lose my virginity! I don't want to die!"

…

…

…

"Yeah, remember what I said about calling me, Tsu? Forget I ever said that, ribbit." This little gremlin will most definitely not be a friend of hers.

"Oh come on!"

But before they could say anything else.

*CRASH*

A large hand made of water suddenly attacked the boat and split it in half.

"Ribbit!?"

Seemingly running out of patience, some villains then started climbing on the split boat and went towards the young students.

"We had enough waiting! Time for you kids to die!"

"WAAAHHH!" Panicking again, Mineta started throwing his sticky balls towards the villains. This actually helped since the villains were then stuck on the ship itself. "S-Stay away!"

"What the hell!?"

"What is this stuff!? I can't get it off!"

Knowing that they're out of time, Asui knew she had to improvise, so she quickly said to Mineta, "Mineta, just don't stop using your Quirk at them!" Then she grabs him with her tongue and with a high jump, goes above the trapped villains and drops outside the circle the villains trapped them in. Then she swam as fast as she could away from the villains and into shore.

"They jumped off!"

"After them!"

COMMAND: REDUCE SPEED 25%

COMMAND: REDUCE QUIRK RANGE 25%

The villains didn't notice that they were moving slower than usual and that their Quirks' range was cut short, but that fact saved the two students' lives.

'TAKE THAT! TAKE THAT! TAKE THAT! TAKE THAT! TAKE THAT!' Mineta thought as he was dragged away by Asui under the water towards the shore, throwing his balls at the villains chasing them, slowing them down as they tried to avoid the balls.

These scenes are happening all across the Disaster Zones, various 1-A students were dropped off and attacked by villains, thankfully the villains were not trained at all so they had the advantage in those regards.

From the silent and brooding Shoto Todoroki, to the also silent but less broody Fumikage Tokoyami, they fought back against their enemies, some having an easier time than others.

Unknown to them all, the small disk-shaped devices that had been implanted all across the disaster zones released small machines in the shape of insects and these machines stealthily injected a certain someone's trademark nanites.

Not too many though, just a few thousand.

Certainly not enough to empower the ones injected, protect their bodies from harm, or even regenerate wounds.

But it's definitely enough to receive signals.

Signals that directly link to the brain.

/

'Which nobody can deny.~'

As Midoriya gets closer to the center he sees Shigaraki currently in a tussle with Eraser Head ('Like, Holy Crap! Eraser Head! How cool is that!?'), though tussle might be overselling it. Only one of them was in pain, and it wasn't Shigaraki.

Shigaraki was currently in a position where he was blocking an attack from Eraser Head's elbow with one hand and was holding a part of the capture weapon in his other hand, but upon closer look, both the elbow and capture tool in Shigaraki's hands were quite literally falling apart. The skin was rotting and fell off, revealing the red muscle and tendons underneath, and his Capture tool was turning into dust.

Midoriya doesn't know what having one's skin being flayed off feels like, but judging by the expression on the hero's face then it must feel like agony.

Though Midoriya was more interested in the Quirk.

He brings out his notebook and mutters under his breath as he writes down his observations. "Some kind of Quirk that decomposes anything he touches, does it work on his palm? Or does he need his fingers to hold them? If so, is 1 finger enough? Does it need to be 5 at a time? Can he control its speed? So many questions…"

*FWOOSH*

Then, in the blink of an eye, a blur passed by and tossed Shigaraki away along with knocking the hand off his face, then the blur knocked out every other villain in the Center Plaza and it stopped near the bottom of the stairs that leads to the Center Plaza with Eraser Head.

Quickly, any sort of excitement or intrigue that Midoriya might've felt was washed away as he sees who the blur was.

"I'm sorry, but I don't think you can be a hero."

Midoriya clenches his fist that was holding his pen, the pen shattering on his hand. He takes a few deep breaths to calm himself down.

"All Might."

Oh, how he wishes he could just shoot the smug hero in the face and kill him.

But he knows his limits, the gun he's invented would only be a slight inconvenience for All Might, but he's patient, he could wait.

He'll take this anger in his heart and release it somewhere else for now.

Maybe on a few Quirk-loving bystanders?

"No no no no no no no no," Midoriya hears from Shigaraki, he was covering his face with his own hand and he seemed to be on the verge of hyperventilating. He was walking towards the fallen hand(mask?) with tentative steps. "Why is he here? Why isn't he dead yet? Did the Nomu fail? It wasn't supposed to be like this."

He tilts his head in curiosity at Shigaraki's behavior. 'Hmm, so he has some kind of dependency on the hand perhaps?'

Then Shigaraki called the hand "Father.", and that…

That brings up so many questions.

But the answers can come later.

Shigaraki puts his, err, "Father's" hand back on his face, and his breathing slows down to a more calm pace. He then finally noticed Midoriya standing just a few feet away.

He gave Shigaraki a little wave.

"Aren't you that kid that wanted to be in the Flood Zone?" Shigaraki asked with narrowed eyes.

"Yep." He nodded enthusiastically. "Izuku Midoriya, pleased to meet you, I'd like to shake your hand but I don't want to lose it."

Before Shigaraki could respond, Kurogiri suddenly warped next to Shigaraki.

"I apologize Shigaraki, while I managed to severely injure Thirteen, one of the students was able to escape, staying here any longer would be unwise."

Shigaraki then growls loudly and starts to scratch his neck furiously, and just like a rabid animal, he starts to mutter out his grievances. "First, All Might shows up to stop me, now this? If you weren't our way out of here then I'd kill you Kurogiri." He started scratching even harder and his entire body was shaking, malice and hatred bubbling underneath the surface, just waiting to explode.

Midoriya now starts to feel nervous, he could already tell that Shigaraki was not mentally sound, coupled with his dangerous Quirk then it was clear that a temper tantrum would result in a lot of things getting disintegrated, and it might include him.

He glanced at the purple mist villain, hoping that he had a way to calm Shigaraki down.

"Uh, don't worry Shigaraki! The Nomu has not been defeated yet. Checking on their fight, I saw that All Might couldn't actually damage the Nomu, so it's more than likely he just found a way to trap it. Just give me a few moments and I can bring the Nomu here."

Thinking quickly as he remembered why he went to the Center Plaza in the first place, he speaks to Shigaraki with a jovial tone. "Yeah, boss! You don't have to be so down," He points towards the mist villain. "This guy can just bring back that monster thing here to give All Might a wallop no problem!" He gives Kurogiri a look of, 'You better do it or we're dead.'

They both watched with bated breath as Shigaraki processed what they said, and slowly, Shigaraki lowered his hands from his neck.

"Find the Nomu Kurogiri." He calmly commands.

They both give a sigh of relief and Kurogiri replies, "At once, Shigaraki." And with that, he disappears again.

Now left alone with the blue-haired villain, Midoriya tells him one more thing. "Besides boss, even if we fail to kill All Might here," He gives a more genuine smile, one filled with satisfaction. "We've already damaged him much more than anyone else ever has."

"Oh?" Shigaraki sounded out curiously. "And how is that?"

Midoriya grins ferally. "Because he failed his duty as a hero today, and I will never let him forget it."

/

"That should hold you for now." All Might panted out tiredly as he looked at the buried Nomu. It was buried headfirst into the stone ground with only its feet jutting out.

All Might tried punching the thing as hard as he could, but every time he hit it, the creature would barely react like its skin was somehow absorbing the strength behind his punches. So if he couldn't hurt it, he had to try something else.

Thankfully, burying it in the ground seemed to work.

For now at least.

Steam started to emanate from his body and he clutched his injured side in pain.

'Damn, I only have about 20 minutes left in this form, I have to wrap this up fast!' He thought to himself.

He had about 50 minutes worth of time left in this form when he showed up for the Rescue Exercise, but pushing himself against the monster had made him put in more effort than he's done in a while.

With his super speed, he disappeared from the forest area of the USJ and ran towards the Center Plaza.

'Aizawa!'

Where he saw Eraser Head's arm starting to decay in the villain's grasp. Not only that, but from the edge of the plaza, he also sees Tsuyu Asui and Minoru Mineta jumping out of the water with villains close behind.

In a flash, he knocked away the villain holding Aizawa, knocked the rest of the villains out with lightning-quick jabs along with the villains chasing the two students, and brought all three to safety at the bottom of the stairs that connect to the USJ entrance.

Aizawa stumbled for a bit before noticing All Might and the other two students, he braced his arm in pain. "Ugh, took you long enough," He said to the top hero before facing Asui and Mineta. "Are you two alright?"

Realizing what just happened, Mineta went to his knees in relief. "Oh thank God! We're saved, I'm never going near the water again for a long time!"

Asui answered Eraser Head. "We're fine Mr. Aizawa, but we weren't the only ones separated from the rest."

"I know, I saw the warp villain take the other students away, if you're here then your classmates must still USJ as well."

"They're still here? Then I have to go and save them!" All Might declared.

*ROOOAAARRR*

"You might want to rethink that plan, All Might," Aizawa said dryly as he sees the Nomu get warped back to the center of the battlefield. "Because I don't think that thing will let you get to the others."

Aizawa looks at the two students and sees them staring shell-shocked at the monster. He could understand their surprise, but right now, time is of the essence.

"Asui, Mineta," He addressed them both, knocking them out of their shock. "Go back to the entrance of the USJ with the rest of your classmates and tell them to find a safe spot to hide in. Thirteen is still with them but the villain said that she was taken out, see if her injuries are fatal."

Asui stared at him for a moment before nodding her head. "Yes sir."

"Are you going to be alright Mr. Aizawa?" Mineta worriedly asked.

"Don't worry about me, I'll be fine. Now go."

A few seconds later, the two students went up the stairs to follow their teacher's orders.

He then faced All Might. "All Might, you keep that thing busy, I'll go and look for the other students."

"In that condition?" The tall blonde hero asked as he looked at Eraser Head's partially decayed elbow.

"We don't really have much of a choice, but I trust our students can take care of themselves, I'll only arrive as a backup just in case."

All Might gave him a look before nodding resolutely.

"Right." He then glared at the monster that's been giving him a hard time. "I got this."

/

"HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!"

Midoriya only stared at the maniacally laughing villain, awkwardly chuckling himself, he said. "Hehehe, you uh, really liked that huh?"

"ARE YOU KIDDING!?" Shigaraki yelled with insane zeal in his voice. "THAT SHIT'S HILARIOUS! HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!" He continues laughing.

The short green-haired villain could only shake his head at the villain's crazed laughter.

'Yep, he's absolutely crazy,' Midoriya thought to himself. 'But he's useful so there's nothing I can do about it.'

"What's so funny villain?"

All Might's voice was nothing like his original and boisterous self. For the first time since All Might left him on that rooftop, Midoriya heard something else in the hero's voice.

It wasn't the cold and factual tone he used back then to destroy his dreams, instead, this tone was something completely foreign to Midoriya's ears. Something he realized just as he's hearing it, that he fucking loves hearing All Might talk with that tone.

The tone of fear.

Shigaraki slowly calms himself down. "Hehehehe, oh All Might, today's a momentous occasion, not just for me, but for you as well!" He excitedly says.

All Might narrowed his eyes. "Explain villain!" He demanded.

Seeing that Shigaraki is still calming down, Midoriya decided to take the reins. He walks in front of the still giggling villain. "Oh let him have his fun All Might! He's just heard the greatest news that a villain like yours truly can deliver."

When All Might saw him, he could practically see the thought process in All Might's head, and all the emotions that came through.

Confusion as to why someone so young is here and wondering if he was a student.

Surprised in realizing that he was actually a villain.

Puzzlement because he's sure that he has seen Midoriya's face from somewhere before.

And finally, Shock as he finally recognized just who he is.

"Y-you?" All Might could only whisper in disbelief.

"I know it's been a while and you're a very busy person, I'm also pretty sure that I never gave you my name so allow me." He gives a slight mocking bow. "My name is Izuku Midoriya, the Quirkless villain, at your service."

/

'Finally!' Kaina exclaimed. 'UA finally made the call, and oh boy if you could see the buzz here.'

Izuku hums as he sips from an apple juice box, he's watching the students that were separated by Kurogiri and analyzing their current capabilities and how they compare with their future counterparts.

Well, some of them anyway, since a lot of them died before their first year was even over, and they were the lucky ones because some were kidnapped and turned into Nomus.

Though there were a few students of 1-A that deviated from the more terrible fates, it's really up to interpretation if they chose correctly though.

Some quit being a hero altogether.

And some joined the other side.

But of course, that future will no longer happen, but it was still something Izuku thought on and prepared for, just in case.

'You know, you think that the cops would get here before everything is wrapped up, but I guess that goes to show just how pointless their role has become.' Izuku pointed out.

'Even if the cops get there quicker, what do you think they'd do? Save the day with their Quirks, guns, and training?' Kaina sarcastically said. 'Literally, everything they have is subpar and pales in comparison to what the heroes get, they get less budget, less training, and way less credit. Yet somehow, I've noticed that everyone here is just fine with that fact.'

'They were all fed the same shit as everyone else, but hey, they're one of the members of society we'll improve, so they won't stay that way for long.'

He hears a crash from where All Might is fighting the Nomu, and what he saw gives him a strong sense of deja vu.

All Might was just told by Shigaraki of the Nomu's Shock Absorption Quirk, which was the reason why his attacks did nothing against it. Thinking of a plan he tried to apply his previous strategy in locking down the Nomu by burying it in the ground, but Kurogiri was prepared this time around.

By creating a portal underneath All Might just as he tried to suplex the Nomu into the ground, Kurogiri negated the impact and instead trapped All Might in the Nomu's powerful grip, they didn't even know that the Nomu was indirectly hurting All Might by grabbing at his weak spot.

'You see something that brings back memories?' Kaina asked as she noticed he went quiet.

'Everything about today brings back memories.' Izuku responded. 'I remember word for word what happened at this exact moment, and just how different everything now is because of my absence.'

He even remembers his arrogance of not hiding his identity for the attack, some misguided attempt of proving to the world that he's memorable, to show the world that the Quirkless can be something, to prove to everyone that has ever ignored and looked down on him that he can leave a lasting impact on society.

That he was more than just Deku.

He mentally chuckles.

'What is it?'

'Nothing,' He replied. 'Just reminiscing about my angsty thoughts.'

/

'You OK there All Might? That thing has a really strong grip on your weak spot.' Midoriya said as he noticed where the Nomu was grasping on and the blood coming out of All Might's lips.

"Weak spot?" Shigaraki curiously asked.

"Oh yeah," Midoriya said to the villain. "You didn't know? All Might has a big wound at the side of his body, it's the reason why he's so much weaker now than he was years ago. You see?" He points towards the hero's bleeding side.

Midoriya saw no point in not letting the villain know about All Might's weakness, after all, if All Might somehow doesn't die here then knowing about it would help them down the line.

"So he really is weakened," Shigaraki whispered in awe to himself. He had his doubts after seeing All Might survive against the Nomu, but now he has his proof All Might is weak.

But before he could swell on that even further, Midoriya suddenly feels something familiar.

After so many years of sticking close to him, of being beaten down by him, Midoriya had developed a basic instinct for his presence. Midoriya knows when he is close by, and right now he's close.

"Kacchan."

Midoriya brings out his paralyzer pistol and immediately aims towards Kurogiri's direction.

*ZAP*

Kurogiri dodges out of the way before realizing that it wasn't aimed for him.

"Shit!"

Bakugo brought up his arm to block the projectile with one of his grenade-shaped gauntlets, the force behind the shot slowing down his momentum of charging straight for the warping villain.

Midoriya then barely dodges a hit from a solid and spiky fist courtesy of Eijiro Kirishima, he jumps back from his red-haired attacker and joins up with Shigaraki and Kurogiri, who also both went to a more safe distance away from the students.

"Damn it!" Kirishima cursed when he missed.

Then, a crystalline sound was heard by everyone and the Nomu was suddenly half encased in ice, just stopping before the hand that's keeping All Might trapped. Midoriya sees the culprit, Shoto Todoroki wearing what Midoriya could only describe as;

A piece of shit costume.

Todoroki is a tall young man, heterochromia hair that's parted so it doesn't obstruct his vision, his hair is colored white on his right side and crimson red on his left. He also possesses heterochromia iridis, which causes his left eye's iris to appear turquoise, while his right is a brownish dark gray. He was pretty handsome, even with the scar on the left side of his face, which reaches from his hairline to halfway down his cheek.

But his costume is honestly one of the strangest and impractical things that Midoriya has ever witnessed. He wears a plain off-white shirt with matching pants and boots, with two gold-colored straps going over his shoulders. He has what appears to be a material resembling ice covering his whole left side, except for his face.

'What the fuck is the point of that? Armor? From the database, it said that his Quirk is Half-Cold Half-Hot, which sounds like an overpowered Quirk, but why is he covering his non-ice side with ice? Is he purposely limiting himself? Why?'

Plenty of questions float around Midoriya's head as he analyzes the two-toned boy, he ignores it for now, but he has a feeling that the reason will be important later on.

"One of your poorly trained thugs told me that you're here because you think you could kill All Might, but the Symbol of Peace will not be defeated by delinquents like you." Todoroki states.

'Yeesh, talk about a Deus Ex Machina, where the hell did they come from?' Midoriya thought to himself.

"And here comes the cavalry, should've expected something like this," Midoriya exclaimed, annoyed that they were interrupted. "Hey, Kacchan!" He addresses the now dumbfoundedly staring blonde. "You sure know how to pick your friends eh?"

Bakugo doesn't answer, he only keeps staring in shock, which is understandable.

Midoriya had been missing for four months now, just up and left his mother (which he still feels a little guilty over), and disappeared without a trace.

Before that, at school Midoriya became more snappy, the fear that he was associated with seemed to just disappear, and he didn't care about any beatings or words thrown at him anymore.

He started studying something else other than heroes, he was always reading books about engineering or computers almost religiously. It's like he became desperate for knowledge, and in a way, he was.

And the day before he left, he did the one thing that Bakugo would never think he'd do.

He started a fight.

He just showed up and the second he saw Bakugo, he jumped straight for him. Bakugo defended himself of course, but Midoriya didn't care how many explosions left burns and bruises on his body, he fought like a rabid animal, punching, kicking, biting, scratching, spitting, and screaming the entire time.

He fought like a man with nothing left to lose.

When the fight was broken up, their parents were called, they were both told off by their parents, Inko Midoriya couldn't even believe what her son did.

And not surprisingly, the only one to get a mark on their record was Midoriya.

It didn't matter that the fight was the result of years worth of being bullied.

It didn't matter that Midoriya was the one that was hurt more.

All that mattered to the school was that Bakugo was their prodigy child and they wanted him to get into UA.

Midoriya disappeared from his home the next day, leaving no clues to where he may have gone.

This was the first time they'd seen each other in four months, and only one of them is enjoying the moment.

"D-Deku?"

Well, now neither of them is enjoying this reunion.

Midoriya's smile vanishes from his face and he glares in absolute hatred at Bakugo, causing the blonde to momentarily take a step back.

"Don't call me that."

"Bakugo, you know this guy?" Kirishima asked, he sees Bakugo practically freeze up at the sight of the villain.

Bakugo looks at Kirishima with a somewhat lost look on his face. "I-... He's…"

Before Bakugo could say anything else, All Might was finally able to escape from the Nomu's grasp and he went in front of the students.

"Students! Get back! It's dangerous here!"

"Great, now the brats got All Might free," Shigaraki states before giggling to himself again. "Doesn't matter, my mood can't be ruined now with such a small setback, Nomu, free yourself from the ice."

And what occurred next was so disgusting and cool that Midoriya knew he had to study whatever resulted in the Nomu's creation.

'Yeah, I want me some of that.'

The Nomu broke itself free from the ice, its limbs falling off its body, the flesh, and bone underneath having become brittle under the ice's temperature.

Before suddenly, everything lost starts to come back.

Bones, muscles, tendons, and skin, everything that fell off because of the ice started to rapidly grow back. The Nomu's unchanging face gives nothing away from what the regeneration feels like.

"I thought you said that this thing had Shock Absorption?" All Might demanded.

"I didn't say it only had Shock Absorption, it also has Super Regeneration." Shigaraki boasted.

"Super Regeneration, so that's what it's called…" Midoriya writes that down with his extra pen.

"What the hell are you doing here Deku!?" Bakugo finally shook off the shock of seeing Midoriya again.

Midoriya, in response, pointed his gun at Bakugo again and started firing at him, the shots were sloppy and imprecise so Bakugo and the other students with him were able to dodge the shots.

In between each shot, the young villain yelled out. "DON'T! FUCKING! CALL! ME! THAT!"

"Where the hell have you been!?" Bakugo ignores Midoriya's remark as he plows on with his questions. "Why the hell are you here!? Are you a shitty villain now!?"

"Shitty!?" Midoriya repeated incredulously before laughing uproariously. "HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Oh, Kacchan! You shouldn't say shit like that, you might just end up dead!"

"Just like… your two classmates, Kacchan."

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.

.

"What?" Kirishima whispered, horrified.

Everyone froze after Midoriya said those words, the heroes were left wide-eyed at his claim while Shigaraki smiled even wider, relishing in the heroes' expressions.

"Oh, you didn't mishear him, heroes," Shigaraki slyly said. "You have two students currently being fed to the fishies over there." He points towards the Flood Zone.

In the distance, barely noticeable on its own, was a large red part of the water, slowly spreading out more and more.

"Y-you're lying." All Might shakily denied, but it felt like he was trying to convince himself more than anything.

"Nope, you should remember this day All Might," Izuku spread his arms wide like a performer. "Because this marks the day where I, a Quirkless boy, killed two children under your watch, Symbol of Peace."

/

"PLUS ULTRA!"

With a colossal punch, All Might sent the near-indestructible monster flying into the air, higher, higher, and higher.

Even the concrete that makes up the roof of the USJ could not stop the force behind All Might's power, and the Nomu was sent into the horizon, disappearing into the sky.

Almost everyone watching was astonished by All Might's feat, the students were awed at seeing All Might's work in person, while the villains were shellshocked and afraid that the seemingly weakened Number One Hero was still powerful enough to send their weapon flying away.

But Izuku was paying more attention to the Nomu itself.

'Judging by its weight, All Might's current power, and the hit on the USJ's roof, it was sent around 412 meters away.' Izuku briefly calculated in his head.

He closes his laptop and gets up from the ground.

He doesn't need to see what happens next because it's easy to predict.

All Might has around 5 minutes left in his buffed-up form and realizing that they're outmatched, Kurogiri will shroud himself and Shigaraki to escape, just as the teachers arrive.

The rest of the students were safe, the group far below him; Momo Yaoyorozu, Kyoka Jiro, and Denki Kaminari, were all in a bit of a pickle when Kaminari was held hostage by an Electric villain, but Aizawa's Quirk nullified the threat and the villain was swiftly taken out.

Izuku got what he came for; a different outcome of the USJ, 71 villains with minds at the palm of his hand which Kaina and Viktor will take care of, a summary of everyone's current capabilities and a solid understanding of their future growth, and one last thing to take.

The Nomu itself.

'Kaina, I'm all done here, I'm retrieving the Nomu. Remember your part?'

'Yeah yeah, help Viktor clean up the Nanite Hives and cameras, take control of the villains with my phone, and prepare to get us some inside info. You do remember that I'm just as smart as you right?'

'But apparently not as careful.' Izuku responded.

Izuku blitzed throughout the top of the mountain, taking all of his technology and leaving in a blink of an eye, nobody saw the nigh invisible blur that left the scene and went towards where the Nomu will land.

/

"Why?"

It was quietly spoken, and if everyone including himself weren't silently staring at the newly made hole at the ceiling then Midoriya wouldn't have heard it.

Midoriya looked at All Might, who was asked the question while panting from the fight with the Nomu. (Which looked cool as hell if Midoriya was being honest.)

"Why did you kill them? They did nothing to you, they were innocent, so why? Why did you do it?"

His tone was calm, like a man who has his emotions in check, but Midoriya could see the truth. All Might's fists were clenched, his teeth were gritted, and taking out his rage on the Nomu did not help.

Midoriya was looking at a rare sight of a pissed-off All Might.

"Innocent," Midoriya said the word as if he was testing it. "That word… Heh… You say it like it changes anything. Like being innocent is somehow a shield for people to have so no harm would come to them. Your students are dead All Might, their innocence doesn't matter at this point."

All Might glares harder, the young villain could see his fists shaking, probably resisting the urge to reduce him into a bloody mist with a single punch.

"So what? You kill just because you want to?" Todoroki threateningly asked, his right side cooling down and preparing to attack.

Kirishima didn't say anything, his body seemed frozen and shaking on the spot, his eyes were pinpricks and his breathing was becoming faster. His soft and caring heart is unable to cope with the thought that two people he knows are dead.

"You shouldn't have become a villain Deku," Midoriya snarls when that cursed name was spoken again. "Because now, I have a legitimate reason to kill you." Bakugo says with an uncharacteristically low voice, but his eyes still held the same glare.

Midoriya laughs dryly. "Just like old times, you mean?" He asks Bakugo before quickly looking back to All Might. "You see, that's my biggest fucking issue with this world All Might, you talk about how the innocent don't deserve to suffer, but what about me?"

Midoriya feels the anger, frustration, and hatred that had been fueling him ever since he snapped coming to the surface. The hypocrisy of All Might's statements, and that damn nickname that he just can't seem to fucking escape!

'I'm not Deku anymore. I'm not Deku anymore. I'm not Deku anymore! I'M NOT A SHITTY DEKU ANYMORE!'

"All I fucking wanted was to be a hero, it's all I ever dreamed of, it's all I ever hoped to be. But then one word ruined my life. Quirkless. Tch, then suddenly my 'innocence' didn't fucking matter to everyone! Suddenly, I wasn't even a fucking person anymore! No matter how nice I acted! I was ignored! Hated! Seen as a fucking freak!"

He furiously points at Bakugo. "What about him!? The guy who beat me! Insulted me! Who told me to kill myself! Are you gonna fucking stand there and tell me that he is innocent!? Fuck right off! He doesn't care about anyone but himself! But what does UA do!? Accept him as a hero! The villain of my life is living his greatest dream without consequence! All because he was fucking lucky enough to be born with a Quirk! What right did I have to kill those two!? Just as much as Bakugo did when he bullied me!"

He points at the shocked All Might. "And just as much as you did when you threw my hopes and dreams in the fucking trash! Because that's what this world is really like! If you can do something shitty and get away with it, then you fucking do it!"

*Pant*

*Pant*

*Pant*

…

…

…

"Hehehe," It starts off low.

"Hehehahahahaha," Then, slowly…

"Hahahahahahahaha!" It gets louder.

"HahahahahaHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!" And louder.

Until eventually, the whole USJ can hear Shigaraki's laughter. From the students that were still near the front entrance with the injured Thirteen, and to the other students that were still inside the Disaster Zones.

They all felt a shiver go down their spine at the sound.

The sheer joy behind the laughter was just off.

It felt wrong.

Shigaraki was having a blast.

"HAHAHAHAHAHA! OH, WHAT A GREAT HERO YOU ARE ALL MIGHT! LETTING A POOR SOUL LIKE THIS ONE FALL OFF THE DEEP END! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! OH MAN, THIS IS JUST TOO GOOD!"

The heroes don't move. Too stunned. Too surprised. Too… Guilty to do anything.

But one of them felt something else. One of them felt something after hearing what Midoriya said.

Todoroki felt something akin to understanding.

Shigaraki laughs for a while before he nudges the unmoving Kurogiri. "Hey! I like this guy! Let's get out of here with him!"

Kurogiri shook his head to ward off the shock and nodded. "O-Of course Shigaraki."

And as the mist encompasses the three villains, Midoriya says his last piece. "I'm going to kill you All Might, and I'm going to show the world just how unfair life can really be."

/

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Covid is a fucking bitch, but at least I got this done. The next chapter covers Kaina's and Viktor's role in the USJ aftermath.