AN: Thanks for all the interest and reviews, everyone!

"Aren't you worried about your teammates?" Cathleen asked Rara who was still dangling on the wing, seemingly unconcerned about Tenko's attack.

"What kind of heroes would we be if we didn't have a plan for a giant laser?" Rara asked calmly. "Besides, I saw Mido tank worse just a week ago."

"You've faced worse?" Cathleen asked in disbelief.

"Yeah! Ochako down there fired her big laser at Mido when he was being stubborn. He took it and was ready for round two!"

Cathleen couldn't help but stare at the girl. Just who are these people?

"So, what do you think of our plan now?" Rara asked curiously.

"I think, if anyone can pull it off, you seven can."

"Great!" Rara responded with a beaming smile and a thumbs up. "That makes things so much easier! Let's stop All For One for good!"

Cathleen shook her head as she turned back to the action. For now, her part in the plan was simply to hang back with her boys. As much as she wanted to engage directly and help, it was personal for these kids.

After releasing his attack, Tenko was expecting the sky in front of him to be cleared of his pesky opponents, letting him turn his attention back to Star and Stripe.

So why were those six annoying pests still in the sky when the light faded?

"Huh, I expected better," Ochako said as she lowered her hands, a shimmer fading as the only sign that she had used a quirk to protect the group.

"Wow, no wonder All Might was able to defeat All For One so thoroughly if this is the quality of villain he wanted for his successor."

"I-I kind of feel bad for Zuzu now," Occhan said sadly. "If we knew how bad Tenko was with his quirk…"

"But this time we're here!" Mochi reminded her. "And we're going to stop this Tenko here and now!"

"Right!" Occhan steeled herself. "I won't let it happen again! Zuzu isn't alone this time!"

"You guys…" Izuku looked like he was about to cry, he was so happy. He steeled himself before he looked at Tenko. "Let's end this, once and for all!"

Tenko simply stared incredulously. "How? Why didn't you die!?"

"The answer's pretty clear," Chako said smugly as she crossed her arms. "It's a skill issue."

Despite the voice in the back of his head calling out to him, telling him to not let their goading get to him, Tenko saw red. With a growl, he directed his Nomu to charge the smug girl, determined to teach her a lesson.

"You really need to pay attention to your surroundings!" Chako said as she shot upward, throwing out Blackwhip and wrapping it around Tenko's outstretched arm.

Tenko wrenched his arm in an attempt to free himself, only to suddenly feel a jerk as his Nomu mount was pulled out from under him. Mochi and Occhan had attached cables to the Nomu and released their quirks and were quickly plummeting toward the ocean, their weight dragging the unprepared Nomu with them.

Mochi and Occhan watched the water racing toward them, both with their hands hovering over their arms as they approached the ocean's surface. While they didn't have Neko's confidence, they had been practicing with her and improving their split-second response time, trusting their quirk to keep themselves safe. They felt the Nomu thrashing against the cables, struggling to regain its balance with the extra weight.

"Now!" Mochi called and the two girls both activated their quirk, suddenly feeling their downward momentum halt with plenty of space between themselves and the ocean below.

The Nomu, struggling to compensate for the added weight and force, suddenly found itself rocketing upward. Seconds later it crashed into Tenko, who involuntarily reached out and placed a hand on the creature's back, his Decay going to work immediately.

The pair released the grappling hooks, preventing the Decay from spreading down them, before being caught by Izuku and Ochako, stopping their rapid ascent.

"Thanks, Deku!" Mochi said as she let herself linger in Izuku's grasp for a moment before letting go, her attention turning back to the battle.

Tomura was forced to stare as his ride was falling apart, his Decay overpowering the creature's Super-Regeneration. He leaped in the air to keep himself safe, activating his Flight quirk, only to hear a rush of air coming toward him.

"Something wrong with your ride?" Chako asked as she punched Tenko, sending him flying backward.

"Time to show you what a real laser looks like," Ochako said as she released Occhan from her grip. "Heavy Payload, Light Manipulation, Quirk Enhancement times Four, Air Cannon." As she quickly recited the names of the quirks, her arms began glowing in a bright light before she fired her blast.

From within Tenko, All For One decided that desperate times called for desperate measures, and forcibly took control of his host's body. "Light Refraction, Scatter," All For One quickly called out, as he raised Tenko's hands in response.

He felt pressure in the back of his head as Tenko tried to rebel against his control, but he refused to let this upstart girl come here and destroy all of his hard work! Since that other version of All For One had the gall to come here and ally himself with One For All, he would just have to show him who was truly the better Demon Lord.

Sensei, I won't let you!

"What?"

All For One suddenly felt his control over his quirk waver. It was just a moment, but it was all that was needed. Ochako's attack broke through the barrier he had erected around himself, and he was engulfed in the blast. He screamed as he felt himself being burned. His Hyper-Regeneration was already working overtime to repair the damage caused by the laser, but the pain prevented him from rebuilding his barrier.

"Tomura, what are you doing?" All For One yelled.

That girl can use All For One and is still in control, why can't I be in control? The voice of Tenko Shimura asked petulantly.

"Because she is a mistake! A foreign invader seeking to destroy me- to destroy us."

Give me back my body!

"No! I spent the last fifteen years carefully cultivating you to be the perfect host for All For One! It's only a matter of time!"

What do you mean, cultivating me to be the perfect host?

"We're in the middle of a fight, we don't have time for this!"

Answer me!

All For One felt a searing pain in his chest as Hyper-Regeneration failed him and, for the first time in many years, he felt a new sensation.

Fear.

"Tomura, stop this rebellion at once!" All For One desperately called as he canceled Flight, hoping to use the same trick the girls used to drop below the laser's effect. "If you don't give me back control you'll die too!"

Or you give me control and I deal with them! It's what you 'cultivated' me for, right? To destroy anything I hate?

"This isn't supposed to happen! You're supposed to be weaker than this! All For One was supposed to consume you, leaving me in charge!"

I'll be sure to thank that girl later. In the meantime…

All For One screamed as he felt Tenko wrest control of his body away from him, only to once again wake up in the vestige realm. "Tomura, you fool!"

Meanwhile, the group saw the flailing body of Tomura suddenly stabilize near the water and begin to shoot upward in a sickly purple comet, his burns and wounds rapidly closing. "There we go, much better." Tenko Shimura said. "Now that Sensei's been put in his place, time to deal with the rest of you."

From their position on the back of the airplane, Rara and Cathleen watched Ochako's attack connect, and both were surprised to see the amount of damage it caused as Tenko began falling through the sky.

This was it!

"Now!" Rara called.

Trusting the girl's plan, Cathleen activated New Order, turning the sky itself into a weapon as she created a large golem made out of air.

"Everyone, fire at All For One," Cathleen ordered.

The pilots did as they were told, and began firing upon Tenko. Rather than using the same quirks he had previously used to reflect them, he opted to dodge them, flying between the attacks. "Oh please, you already know this doesn't work. Besides–" He twisted around to dodge between a laser. "-I don't just play RPGs, I've played shmups as well!"

The lasers did their job and distracted Tenko long enough for the giant golem to snatch him out of the air. He found himself pinned and unable to move when he saw Ochako slam into the arm of the golem, racing toward him.

"Damn you, let me go!" Tomura struggled against the grip, but his Decay was useless against the solid air.

"Game over," Ochako said as she skidded to a halt next to him. "Looks like I won."

"Clearly you've never played a video game," Tenko spat back. "The Gregorian music hasn't even started yet."

"Oh, you think you're getting out of this?" Ochako lowered her hand toward Tenko's face. "First thing first. I'm taking back Decay," Ochako said, as Tenko suddenly felt a sensation of a piece of his soul getting pulled out of him. "But don't worry. It won't hurt - much. You see, this was never your quirk, to begin with."

"What?" Tenko asked. His confusion overrode the tugging sensation he felt as if a splinter was dislodged from his soul and pulled out of him.

"Oh, I guess All For One never told you? He found you, a quirkless four-year-old kid, and gave you a quirk. Too bad he didn't tell you how to use it."

"That's what he meant!" Tenko yelled. In a fit of rage, he found himself calling upon new quirks. Acting on instinct and rage, he screamed as his body began growing superheated spikes, forcing Ochako to jump backward. "I'll kill you! And then I'll dive into the vestige realm and kill Sensei! He took everything from me!" The spikes were enough to force the hand of the golem open, giving Tenko enough room to slip out as he shot upward. He stared at Ochako in hatred. "And you! Because you were nice enough to show me that I didn't have to give up control to Sensei, I'll kill you first!"

"Don't you dare touch her!" Izuku yelled as he came in with a flying kick. The mid-gauntlet wrapped around his leg was enough to protect him from the spike as he hit Tenko with a 45% kick, sending him flying. "You've done enough to hurt her!" Izuku rushed in and hit Tenko with an uppercut, sending him upward.

"And we won't let you harm Izu, either!" Tenko's eyes went wide as he saw himself quickly approaching Chako, whose hands were glowing pink as she raised them over her head. "Fa-Jin Comet Strike!"

Tenko felt the impact and started tumbling, before three cable lines wrapped themselves around him, holding him in place.

Give me back control!

"No!"

In an instant, Ochako was once again in front of him. With a savage grin, she reached her hand forward, and Tenko felt something else being pulled out of him.

If you don't let me take over we're going to die!

"This is your fault, to begin with!"

Ochako watched as Tenko appeared to be arguing with himself, while she extracted her other primary target: Hyper-Regeneration. When she finally felt the quirk leaving Tenko's copy of All For One and joining the collection of quirks inside of her instead, she began to relax. "Ok, now that the important ones are done, let's keep you from leaving!"

Tenko seemed to regain focus as she said that. "What?"

"You've got a really cool quirk in here," Ochako said cheerily as she started pulling out Dimensional Portal. "It lets you hop across dimensions. Too bad you never got a chance to use it."

"Sensei! You never told me I had access to a duplication glitch!" Tenko yelled.

I… may have forgotten I had taken that one. It seemed useless to be honest, not having a way to guarantee a way back.

"What kind of uncreative fool are you!" Tenko continued to rage. "Can you do something about him while you're here? He's really starting to annoy me."

Despite everything, Ochako laughed. "Sorry, you're stuck with him. Congratulations on beating him back though! Being stuck as a passenger is really what he deserves."

"Don't think I'm done yet!" Tenko suddenly lashed out, his eyes quickly shifting to show that All For One was once again trying to reassert control.

"Oh, you mean your other body? The one holding a copy of your quirk? The one that is significantly weaker than this body? Don't worry, we'll be coming for him soon!"

All For One screamed in frustration.

The heroes stood on the shore of Takoba beach, watching the sky anxiously for the results of the battle overhead to become clear. It had been several long minutes since the bright lights and flashing had finally stopped.

"There!" Jeanist said, pointing to a spot in the sky.

Sure enough, they saw three comets in front of several aircraft, all of them growing in size as they began to approach. They braced themselves, Endeavor supported Toshinori as the aircraft flew overhead, the bombers landing on the road that ran along the beach.

And then they saw Izuku and the group of Ochakos descending from the sky, along with two additional figures: Tenko Shimura, wrapped up in binding cloth, as well as the American hero Star and Stripe.

Toshinori's eyes widened in surprise as Tenko hit the ground in front of him before the group of heroes landed. "You actually pulled it off? You managed to contain him?"

"Of course!" Ochako said in a too-cheery voice. "Once I pulled a couple of quirks out of him it was easy! Sure he's still super dangerous, but without Decay or Hyper-Regeneration, he can only do so much! Oh and there's the issue of who's in control."

Mochi and Chako stood Tenko up, and the pro heroes gasped as they saw his eyes were currently heterochromatic. "What is happening to him?"

"Tenko here didn't appreciate AFO's plan," Rara explained. "Especially once he saw that Ochako was in full control of herself. They've been fighting for control ever since we caught him. Really it's made things easy for us!"

"Why didn't you tell me you were training kids like this?" Cathleen asked as she landed next to the other heroes. "I wouldn't mind recruiting a couple of them to help me out back in the 'States!"

"We're sort of a package deal," Occhan said looking at her counterparts. "I don't think any of us are going to abandon Zuzu."

"Going to visit for an internship sounds fun though!" Chako said, with both Neko and Rara bobbing their heads in agreement. "If you'd have us, that is!"

"I'm sure we can work something out," Cathleen said with a bright smile, before turning to Japan's heroes. "Thank you for sending them, it would have gotten ugly up there without the backup."

"I'm sure you could have taken care of it!" Toshinori assured her.

Cathleen threw her head back and laughed. "Hopefully! This group made it seem easy enough!"

"We have been waiting a while for this," Occhan admitted. "He hurt a lot of us personally."

"Right," Cathleen looked at Rara. "You mentioned that it was personal for you. Is that related to the fact that there's six of you girls?"

"Yep!" Rara exclaimed. "We've been dimension-hopping, and it's mostly his fault!"

"Not all of us," Neko pointed out. "Some of us are just here for the ride!"

"You can't lie to us, you're here for Izuku, same as the rest of us!"

"Sure, him too!"

"It seems like Zuzu and Tenko were fated enemies," Occhan began to explain, ignoring the antics of her other selves. "Tenko would get All For One, and as All Might's successor, Zuzu was destined to fight him. They- they always ended up killing each other. And we were always too late! But not this time!" She pumped her fist. "This time we stopped Tenko, and Zuzu's still alive!"

"And once we get back to the dorms, I'm shoving Hyper-Regeneration into him!" Ochako explained. "So that he becomes a lot harder to kill!"

I'm also going to be shoving a spare copy of Life Force into him, too. She mentally added.

"You all really care about him, don't you?" Cathleen asked before she turned to Toshinori. "Do we have someplace to talk? I feel like there's a lot of missing context here, and it should probably be done behind closed doors."

"Yes," Toshinori turned toward Enji.

"You can send your bombers on to UA, there is space for them to land around the school," Enji explained before pointing to the muttering form of Tomura. "As for him, let's bring him to my agency. Between the police and my interns we can secure him there while we talk."

"Well then, what are we waiting for?"

AN: Inside the vestige realm, All For One and Tenko Shimura were busy punching and clawing at each other, trying to gain superiority.

"My my my," Their scuffle was interrupted by the voice of Shigaraki. "I knew my successor was better, but to think, she managed to inspire your successor as well, what a delightful twist!"

"Shut up!" All For One yelled. "This is all your fault! If we had allied!"

"Oh, but you see, I've already been reunited with my brother, twice over." Shigaraki gestured dramatically, and two forms of Yoichi Shigaraki suddenly appeared alongside him.

"While I'm not happy about this arrangement, I must say, it's better than the alternative. I'm tired of fighting, brother." One of the Yoichis spoke.

"You failed to learn the most important lesson of comics. That no matter what, the villain loses in the end."

"Why do you think I stopped reading the endings? I intended to rewrite the ending my own way! To show everyone a world where the villain won!"

"By not reading the ending, you also missed out on why the villain loses," Yoichi explained patiently. "In the end, the villain is always the architect of their downfall."

All For One screamed in frustration, only for the vestige form of Tenko to tackle him to the ground.