"YOU IDIOTS!" Bakugo shouted as he grabbed Kirashima's hand mid flight.
"Bakugo, on my mark you give us a giant—" Ida shouted.
"DON'T TELL ME WHAT TO DO, DAMN YOU!" Bakugo cut him off.
"Not the time to fight, you guys!"
Suddenly Izuku's body started being enveloped by a black substance.
"Midoriya!" Ida exclaimed, shocked by this.
Izuku didn't even have the time to respond before his body was fully enveloped and he vanished, leaving the others flying through the air without him.
Suddenly a hand wrapped around Midoriya's throat as he reappeared in the middle of the battle between All Might and the villains.
"Ah, here he is. This is your successor I presume, right All Might? Oh, don't look so surprised. I've done my research and I recognize One For All when I see it." All for One said in a malevolent tone.
"Let the boy go, All for One!" All Might growled furiously.
Midoriya was absolutely terrified, but he knew that so long as he was a hostage he was a liability. So he accessed One for All, going Full Cowl, and punched All for One in the face as hard as he could in an attempt to get away. Unfortunately, All for One seemed to have been expecting this and grabbed Izuku's hand before it could make contact with him.
"He's certainly got spirit, I will give him that. It would almost be a shame to just kill him as I was originally planning… Hmph… I suppose there is a new quirk I have acquired recently that I have been wanting to try out. This seems about as good a time as any to test it." Suddenly a blood red vortex opened up off to the side. "I couldn't use this to allow Shigaraki to escape as this portal leads to another world entirely. A reality not too unlike our own but still vastly different in many ways. I originally planned to conquer this world for myself but after seeing the dangers that lurk there I decided it was far too risky, even for the likes of me. And you know, if it is too dangerous for my liking I have to wonder how your successor will do there on his own. What do you think, All Might?"
All Might was scowling with a mixture of anger and fear. "Be reasonable about this… Just let the boy go…" He said in a cautious tone.
"As you wish." All for One said before throwing Izuku towards the portal.
"NOOO!" All Might roared, springing forwards to try to catch Izuku before he could go through the Portal.
All for One tried to intercept him, but All Might delivered the most vicious punch he had ever thrown before and sent All for One flying back at high speeds. Technically it wasn't nearly as strong of a punch as those he could have thrown in his prime but with him fighting to the absolute limits of his current abilities it was enough for him to get All for One out of the way, at least temporarily.
Unfortunately All for One had bought just enough time for Izuku to go all the way through the portal. Seeing this, All Might immediately jumped in after him.
They both landed in the middle of the street in an unknown city. The portal closed behind them immediately.
"Midoriya, are you okay?!" All Might asked after catching the boy before he could slam into a building.
"Y-yeah… I think so… All Might, where are we? W-was what All for One said true? Are we really in another world?" Izuku asked.
All Might sighed. "I don't know… But if it is, we have to be extremely careful."
"Hey, you two! I saw you come out of that portal thing. You capes?" Another person asked from off to the side in perfect Japanese.
All Might and Izuku looked over and saw someone approaching them. He was shirtless, had dragon tattoos all over his torso, and wore a metal dragon mask. "A pair of japanese capes on my turf… I'll give you a choice then, despite your ugly ass star spangled spandex. Join my gang, or die."
"Not very good at pitching recruitment offers, are you?" All Might quipped, setting Izuku down.
"It's the only choice you're going to get. So what's it gonna be? We gonna do this the easy way or we gonna do this the hard way?" The villain demanded.
"Well, considering I am a pro hero and my student here is also training to be a hero, we're going to have to decline." All Might stated. He then cracked his knuckles.
The villain pulled out a knife which immediately started glowing white hot. "Death it is then." The villain charged forwards and tried to slash at All Might who caught his arm mid swing before punching the villain in the gut with just enough force to knock the wind out of him and double him over. Not knowing how durable this villain was, All Might was intentionally holding back so as to not accidentally kill him.
The villain growled and scales slowly started appearing over his body. Fire enveloped him and he lunged at All Might again.
"Midoriya, stay back! I don't want you getting caught up in this!" All Might ordered as he kept responding to the Villain's attacks with a rapidly increasing amount of force.
"R-right!" Midoriya exclaimed before running to get a distance away from the fight. He was quickly stopped by more gangsters coming out of a nearby alleyway and blocking his path. All of them were pointing guns at him, much to his surprise. He thought guns were supposed to be rare even among criminals, so how had these guys gotten access to so many?!
"You're not going anywhere, kid. Lung offered you a choice and you declined, that's not gonna fly." Said one of the gangsters who was pointing a .45 pistol at him.
Looking for other escape routes, Izuku saw about six more gangsters looking at him from various locations around the street. Pretty much all of them had guns, some were even carrying rifles.
Going Full Cowl Izuku was forced to dodge as the gangsters immediately started shooting at him. Not having much choice, he charged forwards and started trying to knock the guns out of their hands with a surprising amount of success. None of the gangsters except the one with the metal mask were displaying any quirks whatsoever. Were they all quirkless?
"Missouri Smash!" All Might roared as he rushed past Lung and stuck him in the head in an attempt to knock him out. The villain just barely managed to raise his arms in time to block this attack and was thrown backwards into a brick wall, which cracked from the impact.
Lung bounced off the wall and flopped onto the ground, growling in pain and visibly growing larger whilst the flames around his body started to intensify. His body was completely covered in scales at this point.
All Might jumped and shouted, "New Hampshire Smash!" before punching the air to propel himself towards Lung and smash into him with the full weight and momentum of his body.
Lung managed to push himself to his feet in time to catch All Might mid air and use his momentum to swing the Pro Hero around and smash him all the way through the brick wall.
Izuku was taking the time to smash the barrels of all the guns he knocked out of the other gangster's hands in order to prevent them from being able to pick their weapons up again and continue using them. As he was doing this, he punched a few of the gangsters and knocked them out. The rest quickly realized that Izuku had the advantage over them due to his quirk and started to retreat now knowing it wouldn't be so easy to kill or seriously injure him as they had hoped.
"Grrr! I don't have time for this!" All Might growled as he grappled with Lung while trying to mitigate his contact and proximity with the villain due to the steadily increasing fire. "Texas Smash!"
As soon as All Might's fist made contact with Lung, the villain was thrown several hundred feet down the street. Not giving him time to recover, All Might dashed forwards and punched Lung once again the moment the villain hit the ground shouting, "Detroit Smash!" This caused a fairly sizable crater in the ground. Even so, Lung was still conscious and was actively trying to resist so All Might continued to punch him with increasing amounts of force while his suit and skin burned from being in too close of proximity to the villain.
Eventually Lung grew to the point he was able to grab All Might and throw him off like a rag doll. He then pressed the assault. At this point All Might was the one at the disadvantage.
"All Might!" Izuku exclaimed, seeing his mentor being viciously burned and beaten by the now monstrous villain. It was then that Izuku noticed the red vortex All for One threw him through open up again though it was much larger this time. This time Mt. Lady, Endeavor, Best Jeanist, Kamui Woods, Gran Torino, Edge Shot, Gang Orca, the Dragon Hero: Ryukyu, Tiger, and Ragdoll all came flying through almost one after the other. All of them were beaten and bloody and only a handful were still conscious, some of them only barely. Tiger and Ragdoll came through last and as soon as they were through the portal immediately closed behind them.
Mt. Lady was severely injured but was still conscious though she appeared to be at her limits. Endeavor was bleeding heavily to the point Izuku was worried he might bleed to death if he wasn't treated but he was still fully awake and aware for the moment, if in a lot of pain. Kamui Woods seemed to have a broken arm and was bleeding pretty badly. Ryukyu seemed pretty battered but seemed the least injured out of all of them.
"H-hey! All Might needs help!" Izuku shouted at the three of them.
"From one villain to another…" Mt. Lady grumbled, getting up.
"That villain took my quirk… Besides which he's on fire… My abilities wouldn't be of much use here even if I still had them. Endeavor?" Kamui Woods added before looking at the number 2 pro hero.
"I see him growing and becoming more monstrous… A transformation and pyrokinetic based quirk? And he's putting up a very good fight against All Might… This won't be easy." Endeavor muttered. "Mt. Lady, Ryukyu, as much as I hate to admit it. I'm bleeding out. I'm going to need both of your help to end this as quickly as possible. If it takes too long, I'm going to have to tap out for a few minutes to have my wounds treated."
"Why don't you just cauterize them now? You have a fire quirk, right?" Mt. Lady inquired.
"That's exactly the reason! I have a fire quirk, meaning I myself am immune to fire and thus can not cauterize my wounds! If that were an option, don't you think I would have thought of that already?!" Endeavor growled.
"Now isn't the time to be fighting each other! All Might needs our help!" Ryukyu stated before transforming and flying towards the villain.
"Ow! Hot, hot, hot!" Mt. Lady exclaimed as she tried to kick the burning villain off of All Might.
Endeavor launched himself forwards and assaulted Lung, completely ignoring Lungs flames entirely.
"Kamui Woods, these people on the ground! They're with the dragon guy! And just so you know, none of them seem to have any quirks but they may have weapons on them!" Izuku informed him.
"Got it. Even without my quirk, I can use their belts and such to tie them up. They won't be going anywhere until the police get here. You just stick with me away from the fight, kid. If things get too intense, the two of us are going to have to grab whoever we can and run for it. In the meantime, if you know any first aid, I would appreciate it if you could treat the ones who are unconscious. I'm worried some of them might not make it if they aren't treated soon." Kamui Woods ordered.
"I only know some very basic first aid, like wrapping wounds. We've only had a few classes on that in UA." Izuku said, running over to the other unconscious heroes.
"Good enough! Just do whatever you can until help arrives. I'll see if I can find a phone on any of these gang members so I can call the police." Kamui stated, approaching the unconscious gangsters before kneeling down and searching through their pockets. As he was doing this, he and Midoriya both heard what sounded like police sirens approaching them. "Huh. I guess I won't need to find a phone after all. So I'll just wrap these guys up until those sirens get here."
Meanwhile, All Might, Endeavor, Mt. Lady, and Ryukyu were all fighting for their lives against the dragon-like villain.
As they kept fighting the Vortex opened again several minutes later. This time Hawks appeared from the portal, unconscious, bleeding profusely, and half dead.
A few seconds later the portal opened again and Wash, Crust, and Yorio Musha appeared, only this time all of them were clearly dead.
The portal opened yet again and several more Pro heroes appeared. Izuku and Kamui Woods checked all of them and discovered they were all dead except for one. Izuku recognized the one who was alive as Mirko, a bit of a rising star in the pro hero community. Knowing she was alive Kamui Woods immediately began giving her first aid.
The portal opened one final time and deposited even more corpses. Izuku was absolutely horrified to discover several of his teachers and the staff of UA amongst the corpses though there were several other heroes present as well. Present Mic, Cementoss, and Snipe were all among the dead. Midnight, Ectoplasm, and Power Loader were the only staff members from UA who appeared through the portal alive, and only barely at that. Powerloader was unconscious and was moderately injured, Ectoplasm seemed on the verge of death but was still conscious, and Midnight was still conscious but was horribly injured.
"Mr. Ectoplasm, what's going on back in Japan?!" Izuku inquired, rushing over to him. Meanwhile, Kamui Woods rushed over and immediately started treating Ectoplasm's wounds to the best of his abilities.
"Things are bad, Midoriya… At this point that villain isn't even just killing any hero that tries to fight him, but he's scouring the city attacking any heroes he sees, period. Including the ones that are just trying to evacuate people or are saving civilians from collapsed buildings and the like… He's just taking quirks left and right and is dumping any bodies he no longer has any use for here, whether they're alive or dead… The Principal has already started gathering as many students from UA as he reasonably can and is having what's left of the staff split them up and lead them to a few hidden safe zones in different locations. Everyone from UA that you see here right now were just a sacrificial group meant to distract 'All for One', as he is calling himself, to buy time for others to escape. And before you ask, we all knew full well what we were in for the moment we agreed to this." Ectoplasm explained in an uncharacteristically grim tone.
"Things are really that bad…?" Kamui Woods asked in a solemn tone.
"Unfortunately…" Midnight stated defeatedly. "I mean… Just look at all the bodies… Fortunately Nezu is probably the smartest being in the world… If anyone can think of a way to stop All for One, it would be him… So, I see things aren't going much better here by the looks of it." She looked at the battle between the other Pro Heroes and the dragon-like villain who was now several stories tall.
"Unfortunately. And I don't think your quirk will be much help with him. So, I'm going to treat your wounds and afterwards I'd appreciate it if you could help us do the same for some of the other wounded. Ectoplasm, you're too hurt to try to fight him right now, so you just take a seat somewhere and rest for the time being." Kamui Woods stated.
Midnight just nodded and allowed Kamui to administer what first aid he could with the very limited resources they had available to them at the moment.
Ectoplasm did as he was told and rested against a wall in a nearby alleyway, trying to stay out of the line of fire in case the fight came too close for comfort..
But eventually with a combined assault between All Might and Mt. Lady, with Ryukyu and Endeavor keeping Lung distracted, they managed to send the villain flying across the city. Looking over the tops of the smaller buildings that covered this portion of the city, Mt. Lady reported that Lung had landed in the ocean a fair distance away. Wounded as they were, they unanimously decided it would be a bad idea to try to give chase for the moment. So Mt. Lady shrunk back down and Ryukyu returned to her human form so they wouldn't be so easy to find again when Lung inevitably emerged back from the ocean, likely even stronger than he had been when they had knocked him away.
When Mt. Lady and Ryukyu were back to normal, All Might was enveloped by steam before being forced to transform back to his base form. Normally he would have tried to run and hide to keep his weakness a secret but he didn't have that luxury at the moment. He was not familiar with this city and if this truly was another world as All for One said it was then he didn't want to risk getting on the wrong side of the law by running away.
Everyone except Midoriya was immediately surprised by All Might's transformation. Endeavor was especially surprised.
"All Might?! What… What is this?! Why do you look so…?!" Endeavor demanded, in a state of shock.
All Might coughed up some blood before looking at him and saying. "Now really isn't the time, Endeavor… I'll talk to everyone here about it later. And that includes everyone who is unconscious… So please, just be patient. At least until everyone has been treated and wakes up."
"But…!" Endeavor started, only to be cut off as a man in strange blue armor pulled up on a strange police bike.
The man got off his bike and said something in English.
All Might, being one of the only people present who spoke English fluently, approached the man and said in English, "All of us are Pro Heroes from Japan, except that boy over there. He's a student at UA, a school for heroes. I know it may be hard to believe, but we were sent here from another world by a villain with a quirk that allowed him to open portals to alternate Earths. All of us can corroborate this. When we arrived here, we were attacked by that villain we just defeated. I think one of his underlings called him 'Lung'? Anyway, me, Mt. Lady, Ryukyu, and Endeavor subdued him. A lot of us need emergency treatment from our fight with the villain who sent us here."
The man in the armor listened the entire time All Might was talking. When he was finished the man said, "Acknowledged. I'm calling ambulances for all of you now. In the meantime, I would like a more detailed report from you about this villain who sent you here and your encounter with Lung. I have a universal translator built into my helmet so even if some of you don't speak English I will be asking each of you questions separately until the ambulances arrive. Is that understood?"
All Might nodded. "We understand. We will do everything we can to cooperate with you to the best of our abilities. The last thing any of us want right now is any extra trouble."
The man in the power armor, apparently known as Armsmaster, spent the next half an hour or so asking each of them who were conscious questions individually, while helping to improve the first aid they had administered to the wounded with the materials he had in an actual medkit in his bike.
Other police cars arrived first and the police began loading the gang members into the backs of said cars before driving them away. Then the ambulances arrived and all of them, including Izuku who wasn't seriously injured, were loaded into the vehicles and taken to a local hospital.
In the hospital they all received whatever treatment they needed before Panacea arrived the next day.
Panacea came to All Might's room first since the doctors told her that he was by far the worst off.
"You're Toshinori Yagi, correct?" Panacea inquired as she entered the room.
"I am." All Might stated, looking at her from his bed before coughing up blood.
"Jeeze, you are in bad condition." Panacea said, looking at the blood as she approached his bed.
All Might chuckled and scratched the back of his head. "Yeah… No denying that."
"Do I have permission to touch you?" Panacea inquired.
"Yeah, go ahead." All Might nodded.
Panacea reached out a hand and touched one of his arms. She immediately grimaced. "Oof… No wonder you're coughing up blood, your organs are practically destroyed! I'm surprised you're still even alive!"
All Might sighed. "I realize. I got that from a fight I had with a villain in the past. The doctors did everything they could but, well…"
"Uh huh… Well, I can fix it for you but you're going to need to do a few things. Specifically, you'll need to eat and drink a lot for a few weeks. Maybe a month or two. You'll need a lot of rest as well. Fortunately, while you're practically all skin and bone, you have just enough fat reserves to fix the organs you currently have, but I'm going to have to use some of your muscle mass to replace the organs you've lost. I'll be able to take the muscle mass from across your entire body, so it will take a bit less time to build back up, but you'll still need physical therapy until you're back at one hundred percent. Understood?" Panacea explained.
All Might stared at her in shock. "Y-you can really fix my organs…? O-of course! I understand perfectly! I genuinely thought I would be stuck like this for the rest of my life, so if you can fix me that would be very much appreciated young lady!"
"Just doing my job. Also, some parts of your D.N.A seem to be degrading and the decay is already pretty advanced. I don't know how far the degradation is going to spread but I'm going to try to repair what I can to prevent you from getting a serious case of cancer any time soon. Though I have to warn you, it seems like it's going to keep degrading no matter what I do. Now hold still for a few moments. This might feel a bit weird." Panacea told him.
After she was finished with All Might, she went to Ragdoll's room since she was apparently in the second worst condition. Fortunately the doctors had managed to bring her back to consciousness before Panacea arrived.
Activating the universal translator that Armsmaster had let her borrow, Panacea said, "Hello, I'm Panacea. I will be treating you today."
"Hello… Sorry, I'm not in the brightest mood today since I just woke up and discovered that I've lost my quirk…" Ragdoll muttered.
"It's fine. I understand. I assume your 'quirk' means your powers?" Panacea inquired, approaching Ragdoll.
Ragdoll just nodded in response.
"I see. Well, do I have your permission to touch you?" Panacea asked.
Once again, Ragdoll nodded.
Panacea touched Ragdoll's arm and quickly examined her. "Wow, someone really did a number on you… And, your D.N.A… Something's off about it. It seems… scrambled? What…? How did this even happen to you? I think I see how it was supposed to go together originally… Would you like me to unscramble it for you?"
Ragdoll shrugged. "Sure, I guess… If you think that would be a good idea. I'm not the doctor here."
"Well, I assume you don't want cancer so yeah it seems like a good idea. Alright, just give me a moment." Panacea said before immediately getting to work on Ragdoll's D.N.A. After about five minutes, Panacea looked back up at her and said, "Done. Feel any different?"
Ragdoll blinked in surprise. "M-my quirk… It's back! What did you do?" Ragdoll exclaimed, having cheered up almost immediately.
"I just healed the damage to your body and fixed your D.N.A. Wait, your powers are biological?!" Panacea said, shocked by this revelation.
Ragdoll didn't even respond before getting up from the bed and immediately wrapping her arms around Panacea in a big hug. "Thank you! Thank you so much! When… When I thought I lost my quirk I… I didn't know what I was going to do… And when Midoriya came in and let me know we aren't even in the same world any more… Thank you!" Ragdoll said with tears in her eyes, on the verge of all out crying. "I… I think the villain who sent us here took some of the others' quirks too… Do… Do you think you can help them as well?"
"Yeah, probably. If their abilities work like yours I mean… Uh… Could you please let me go now?" Panacea asked awkwardly.
Ragdoll gave her one last squeeze before releasing her. Sitting back down on the edge of her bed, Ragdoll said, "I'm sorry if I made you uncomfortable by hugging you… It's just… I'm so happy I'm not quirkless… If you really can help the others, please do."
"It's fine… You aren't my first patient who's done that and I'm sure you won't be the last either. And of course. I'll do what I can for them. Now, you should rest for a while. I have to deal with the others." Panacea stated.
After that, Panacea dealt with the rest of the Pro Heroes one after the other until she eventually got to Izuku, who was the very last on her list. The doctors informed her that he had some permanent damage to the bones, nerves, tendons, and ligaments in his arms but it seemed old. That was pretty much the worst of his injuries, beyond some severe bruising around his neck which fortunately wasn't life threatening. So she decided she may as well heal him while she was here but he was definitely the very last on her list.
When she was done with Izuku, she went back to All Might's room to talk to him again. This time she caught him while he was in the middle of eating.
"Excuse me, Mr. Toshinori? I think I may have figured out why your D.N.A. is degrading and what it might mean. It should only take a second to explain. May I come in?" Panacea inquired from the doorway.
All Might set his food onto a tray next to his bed and said, "Sure, I don't see why not. So, I don't actually have cancer like you suggested, do I? I'm not looking forward to the treatments if that's the case."
Panacea walked in and closed the door behind her. "No. At least I don't think so. When I was healing your friends I discovered that in some of them a specific portion of their D.N.A. was horribly scrambled. The same portion of your D.N.A. that was degrading. Apparently that portion was what was messed up when they lost their powers. So I'm assuming you were, or are losing your powers too. Is that correct?"
All Might's eyes widened and he looked at her in surprise. "I-it… It is… But, wait… You said you fixed my D.N.A. Does that mean…?"
Panacea shrugged. "I guess it does? I honestly have no idea. I've never worked with people whose powers were purely biological before. So I don't know what's going to happen to your powers. Though I do know that I wasn't able to figure out why that portion of your D.N.A. was degrading. So that's going to continue. And I'm not sure but I'm worried that it's just going to start degrading faster and faster over time. So while I think I may be able to stave off you losing your powers, at least for a few years, it's entirely possible that you're still going to lose them eventually. Just thought I should let you know all of this before I left since you were so close to losing your powers entirely when I fixed your D.N.A."
Hearing this, All Might immediately transformed and gave a booming jovial laugh. "That's perfectly fine, young girl! You have bought some time for me to continue my hero work! And any time I have left is more lives saved! Even if you never agree to repair my D.N.A. again, you have my eternal gratitude! I don't know how I can ever repay you for this but just know that I am forever in your debt! If you ever need anything from me, all you have to do is ask and I will do everything within my power to help you!"
"I'll keep that in mind. I would recommend scheduling an appointment with the hospital to speak to me again in a month or so, just so I can keep track of how much and how fast your D.N.A. is degenerating. From there I can tell you how long the intervals between appointments should be. Anyway, I'm going home now." Panacea told him before turning and walking back out the door.
After Panacea left, the hospital provided Ragdoll a very basic change of clothes and after letting all of them rest for a few extra hours and have lunch, as per Panacea's recommendation, they were all brought outside onto a couple PRT vehicles that were usually meant for transporting villains, though the PRT officers informed them all that none of them were in any trouble and these vehicles were just the only ones in their possession that had enough space to carry them all to the station in a practical manner without having to have what was essentially a convoy of three or four cars to do so.
When they arrived at the station, they were immediately greeted by Armsmaster. All Might, was at the head of the group, though Endeavor was standing directly next to him.
"Hey, you're that guy that met us right after we fought that big dragon villain! Sorry I've already forgotten his name… New world new villains to learn the names of, eh? Anyway, good to see you again!" All Might said with his usual heroic smile.
"I don't remember you being among the heroes who fought Lung yesterday." Armsmaster stated.
"Ah, that. I was the one you spoke to with the sickly and skeletal figure who was coughing up blood! After young Panacea healed me in the hospital I regained the power I thought I had lost forever. I haven't felt this good since I was in my prime!" All Might explained.
"Changer powers then. Noted. It's Armsmaster, by the way, since you've seemingly forgotten my name as well. Regardless, the director is waiting for all of you. Please follow me." Armsmaster stated before turning and leading all seventeen of them inside.
He led them all to a fairly large room that did not originally appear to be meant for such large meetings but seemed to have been converted for this purpose. There was a large circular table in the middle of the room, though it appeared to have seams in it that were intended to allow it to be folded up. Sitting in chairs at the far end of the table were two people. One was a man with dark skin. He had close cropped, coarse hair, trimmed eyebrows, thin lips and a cleft chin. The second was an obese woman with steel gray eyes and a bleached blond bob-style haircut.
Armsmaster walked around the table to stand behind the two people at the end of the table, while everyone else sat down in the seats around the table.
"I'm Director Pigot of the PRT. It would take too long for you all to introduce yourselves, and besides which I've already learned all of your names from the hospital. Before we begin, I want to hear more about this villain who sent you all here and dropped so many corpses in the middle of my city. What are his powers, what are his goals, and most importantly what are his intentions for Earth Bet?" Pigot said in a no nonsense tone the moment they all sat down. She was apparently using another one of Armsmaster's universal translators as everyone at the table understood her perfectly.
"I can answer all of those questions. He calls himself, 'All for One'. He has the ability to steal other people's quirks, a sort of slang term for powers in our world. He stole several of our quirks and he likely has dozens if not hundreds more by now. His goals are to conquer Japan and possibly our entire world. As for his intentions here, he seemingly has none. Supposedly anyway. Before he threw young Midoriya through that portal and I jumped in after the boy All for One told me he had originally planned to conquer this world as well, but for some reason he apparently deemed it too dangerous for his liking." All Might explained.
The man next to Pigot sighed and said, "Well… He's not exactly wrong. This world is extremely dangerous."
"Be that as it may, we have to treat this as if he is lying and he fully intends to invade us at some point in the future. Failing that, he may come here to steal people's powers. If he is telling the truth but managed to get hold of the powers of Scion or Eidolon then he may just try to conquer our world anyway. From the sounds of it, he's similar to Glaistig Uaine but more cognizant and without the requirement for whoever's power he's stealing to die near him. That makes him a trump 12 or higher, and possibly tens or twelves across the board depending on which powers he's stolen so far. So he's definitely an S class threat." Pigot said in a grim tone.
"One thing about that. Miss Panacea mentioned something I found interesting while we were in the hospital. She informed me that our powers were purely biological which she had apparently never seen before. So assuming people here have powers that are not biological in nature, it's possible that he may not be able to steal the powers of people from this world. That may be one of the reasons he decided this world was too dangerous to attempt to conquer." All Might added.
Pigot frowned at that. "So what you're telling me is that your powers could potentially be replicated by a powerful enough bio-tinker. Fuck. We'll have to keep all of you as far away from the Slaughterhouse Nine and Bonesaw as possible."
"Agreed… The last thing we need is that little brat figuring out how to give her monsters powers." The man next to Pigot said, looking at all of them warily.
"I'm sorry, who's Bonesaw?" Mirko inquired.
"One of the most dangerous villains in the world. You can read up about her and the Slaughterhouse Nine online." Armsmaster informed them.
"Great… So, what now? We have no way back to our world. I assume we're all going to have to get new hero licenses here before we're allowed to do any Pro Hero work." Gang Orca inquired.
"Not necessarily. If you plan on being heroes then you could join the Protectorate, which I would strongly recommend. You would receive a regular salary, benefits, funding for things such as costumes, legal advisors, access to Protectorate and PRT resources, and more. Or you could go independent and either join or form your own group like New Wave, which mainly operate on sponsorships. Though if you did that the assistance you would receive from the PRT would be limited. That being said, you. Izuku Midoriya, correct?" Pigot said before looking at Midoriya.
"U-um… That's correct." Izuku stated uncertainly.
"I assume your parents did not come with you through that portal. That means you're without a legal guardian, right?" Pigot inquired.
All Might immediately interrupted before Izuku could say anything else. "You are correct that his parents are not present in this world. However, in light of this, as it is my responsibility that he's here in the first place, and the fact that other than the other members of UA Staff that are present here I am the closest thing he has to a guardian in this world, I will be taking full custody of him. Just provide me with whatever legal forms I need to fill out and I will do so."
Midoriya was caught off guard by this. All Might was going to adopt him?! He would have probably been happy about this if it weren't for the fact that he would never see his actual parents again.
Pigot glared at All Might in frustration. "Very well… What I was going to say if he didn't have a guardian is that he could join the Protectorate through the Wards program. That would be the best option for a cape his age. He would receive professional training, a $50,000 trust, a base minimum wage salary which will be doubled on full membership."
"That's a pretty good offer, Toshinori." Gran Torino stated. "But I know you. The only way you would agree is if you yourself joined the Protectorate. Isn't that right?"
All Might chuckled. "You're right. Well… Under certain circumstances, at least. If I decided to go another route but young Midoriya decided to join this Wards program, I would not stop him. As it is, my decision for which route I decide on depends on all of you. Since we all come from the same world, I believe we should try to stick together as much as possible. So, if you wish to form an independent hero organization I would join you. But if you want to join the Protectorate I will do so as well."
"Hm… We don't have enough information to come to a decision as far as I'm concerned. Could you provide us with some information about the PRT, Protectorate, the Wards, and independent organizations, perhaps along with some basic information about this world, and give us a few hours to go over all the information and discuss the matter between ourselves?" Best Jeanist requested.
"I would have to go get them, but I could provide you with tablets with access to the internet and give you some recommended links that have the information you need. Fortunately, I think we have enough spare tablets here in the PRT Headquarters for all of you. Though I will have to take all of them back when you are finished with them." Armsmaster told them.
"That would be appreciated." Edgeshot said.
"Ugh… Fine… Try to come to a decision before sun down. I would prefer to have a response today." Pigot grumbled in annoyance. With that said, she and the man sitting next to her both stood up. They then walked out of the room, followed closely by Armsmaster.
"So, kid. What do you think, so far? You wanna join the Wards?" Hawks asked Midoriya while leaning back in his chair a bit.
"Er… I… I'm not really sure yet… Like Best Jeanist said, I don't really have enough information…" Midoriya muttered.
Hawks sighed. "Hey, fair enough. Sorry, just trying to make conversation while we wait."
"If that's the case, then how about we talk about you, All Might? What was that back there? Why did you look so frail and weak after we defeated 'Lung' or whatever his name was?" Endeavor inquired, looking straight at All Might.
This time it was All Might's turn to sigh. He transformed back into his base form, shocking everyone who was unconscious during the battle with Lung. "Right… It's a bit of a long story, and because I'm not sure if this room's bugged or not I can't really tell you all the details. I can't risk letting certain things get out for my own safety, because I'm sure there are people who would like to use certain pieces of information against me and since we're in another world we have no idea who may or may not be corrupt and working for or with villains. Call me paranoid. Anyway… As you can see, this is what I look like normally. That was originally thanks to an injury I received while fighting All for One a long time ago that wrecked my insides. Fortunately, Panacea healed that injury so I'm going to be able to build up the physique I had before I was hurt but that's besides the point."
All Might looked up at the ceiling and continued. "There's a reason I haven't talked to reporters, done very many or very long interviews, and why I always disappear so suddenly. Unfortunately, after that injury it seems that my quirk has started to degrade over time. So I was only ever able to stay in that form for a few hours. And, well, I couldn't exactly let people see me like this. After all, what 'Symbol of Peace' looks like this? If I came out looking like this to the public, they would have started to lose confidence while the villains would start becoming more confident. So I had to maintain the illusion that I was still in peak condition. Fortunately, Panacea was able to repair the degradation of my quirk! At least, temporarily. It's still degrading but the progress has been 'reset' so to speak. Though, Panacea suggested the degradation might speed up over time, so it's entirely possible that I will still lose my quirk eventually."
"Wait, if you fought All for One in the past then why wasn't it all over the news and why didn't you let any of us know about him or what he could do?" Power Loader inquired.
"It was intentionally kept off the record… And I had genuinely thought that I had killed him. If I had known that he had escaped alive… Well… Either none of this would have ever happened or it would have just happened a lot sooner. I'm not entirely sure which." All Might said, looking around at all of them.
"It's too late to worry about what could have happened. I'm more worried about what is happening as we speak back in our world." Gran Torino stated.
"Agreed." Ryukyu stated. "While I would have liked to know about All for One long in advance, it's too late now. Unfortunately I don't think there's anything we can do about it anymore."
"No, there isn't. At least not unless any of us can make another portal back to our world. We just have to trust that the heroes from our world can deal with it… Fortunately, Principal Nezu is probably the smartest creature on Earth and he's already making plans to deal with All for One. That's how me, Power Loader, and Ectoplasm ended up here. Principal Nezu sent us and a few others to distract All for One and buy time for the rest of the staff to evacuate some students from U.A. to a few different safe houses. Only, we didn't last quite as long as he was hoping, I think." Midnight explained.
"Er… T-there's something that's been bothering me about that… All Might and I were only in this world for a few minutes before you all showed up. But all of you were able to respond in a surprisingly short amount of time…" Izuku told them nervously.
"Are you suggesting there is some sort of time dilation between this world and ours?" Power Loader inquired.
"M-maybe? How long was it for all of you?" Midoriya asked.
"A few hours. Enough time to get most of the students with valuable quirks and their families to U.A. and enough time for us to intercept All for One while on his way to U.A. after essentially conquering half the city." Ectoplasm stated.
"Then there's definitely quite a bit of time dilation. Things must be moving faster in our world than they are here." Kamui Woods stated.
"Well… That's good to know… It's too bad we can't actually do anything with that information." Gang Orca stated.
They continued talking for a few more minutes until Armsmaster came back carrying a crate with tablets in it. After setting the crate down on the table along with a sheet of paper containing links to a few different websites, he walked back out of the room without saying anything.
Everyone got up and retrieved a tablet from the crate before sitting back down. The paper with the links was then passed around the table and everyone went silent as they began reading up on all the information they had requested.
My Notes: Hey! I hope I did okay with this story, though I'm sure I messed up a few things somewhere. It's just something I had on my mind and I thought I may as well write out. Please feel free to let me know what you think. Just so you're aware, this is starting like a year or so before Taylor gets her powers.
What do you think the heroes from My Hero Academia's ratings should be? I was thinking of giving Izuku a small Thinker rating like Thinker 1 due to his analytical abilities but I'm not really sure since that's not exactly a super power. Same with Power Loader and a small Tinker rating despite the fact any tech he can make can actually be reverse engineered so he's not actually a Tinker.
Oh, and more importantly, should the heroes join the PRT or become an independent group like New Wave? With the skill sets available to all of them, they could honestly do either one and be pretty successful at it.
Just a heads up, I'm pretty busy so I might not be able to update this or my other active story as often as I would like. Sorry about that!