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Vlad King's Green Bean

Chapter one-hundred and fourteen: Liberation, part four

Izuku stood on the roof of All Might's old hero agency building, looking down where some rebels were checking out a hut that Izuku had quickly thrown together with some slabs while loudly boasting how the people inside of the slab hut would be safe. The rebels tried to move the slabs, but they were far too heavy for them; clearly their group lacked a person with a quirk that granted at least some degree of super strength. The rebels around the slab hut were whining for the people inside the hut to come out so that they could get them, having no clue that they were talking to what was actually an empty diversion.

With Izuku on the roof were Fumikage, Fumikage's son Samidare, and Izuku's adopted younger sister Eri. Also with them were the guarding team originally set up to protect Fumikage and his group; Ochaco, Yaoyorozu, Tetsutetsu, Shihai, and Mineta. "...I just got it over the comm devices," Izuku said as he lowered a hand from his right ear, "Nagant and Toga's squad had just gotten to the Rebellion base where Boros and the other old HPSC members were all hunkered down. Boros and his fellows have all been killed, also Nagant and Toga were able to capture Hound Dog-sensei."

Shihai looked surprised by what Izuku had just announced. "The Old Rule Rebellion is going to fall wholly and for good once and for all, you mean?"

"Not quite yet," Izuku said, "We still need to capture Kan-sensei and All Might. Then that'll make all of the Old Rule Rebellion's leadership either captured or dead. Then we can put one part of this nightmare behind us.'

"Only one part?" Ochaco said.

"Hey wait," Mineta spoke up, "What about Yamada-sensei and Aizawa-sensei?"

Izuku let out a tired breath. "...Tenya and Kacchan were able to defeat and capture them with the help of Aoyama's elite thug Ryumaru. Reportedly, Ryumaru more or less defeated Eraserhead single-handedly, using only his kanabo."

"Feh, figures he couldn't use his quirk," Tetsutetsu remarked, his scoffing tone bitter, "Not while that unmanly bastard who's affiliated with the assholes who killed Kirishima was giving him the evil eye."

Shrugging, Izuku said, "Apparently, Ryumaru didn't even bother trying to use his quirk at all against Eraserhead. He just repeatedly charged him while swinging his kanabo around at him. Eraserhead in addition to being in his fifties is suffering from numerous old injuries that slow him down. Even the finest heroes can only take so much of a pummeling before they're overall strength and skill is permanently curbed." Turning to look at Ochaco, Izuku went on, "As for the other part, we need to locate and rescue the Asuis, then let Felgrand know that they're safe. Only then can Felgrand's rampaging that wrecking the Regime military bases can be brought to an end, and then the nightmare we're facing will be wholly settled."

Ochaco nodded once in understanding, aware of the fact that, even if the Old Rule Rebellion is brought down wholly and for good with the capture and or slaying of all of its leadership, so long as Felgrand isn't aware that the men who are holding his family hostage have been killed and his family was rescued, he'll continue to rampage across all of the Regime military bases in Japan as the Old Rule Rebellion had set him to do. Felgrand, who is Tsuyu Asui's younger brother Samidare, will stop at nothing if it means getting his family back, a family which means more to him than the rest of everything.

Gesturing to her husband, Ochaco asked, "Do you know where the rebels are keeping Tsuyu, her sister, and their parents?"

"Nagant and Toga told me over the comm device that they found one of Aoyama's spies in the Old Rule Rebellion when they raided the base, killed the old HPSC members, and took Hound Dog-sensei hostage," Izuku said, "Said spy knows that the Upper Crust gang had switched sides, and he knows where to find the base that the Asuis are being kept at." Shrugging, Izuku went on, "Conveniently, it's the same base Kan-sensei and All Might are at."

"We can end this war against the Rebellion for good!" Yaoyorozu said, "Wait, how much time do we have?"

Izuku took his phone out, used it to check the time. "...If the time table we were given still holds, we've got about an hour and a half before our peers at the Deika City Regime military base can expect to see Felgrand fly for them."

"Then we've got to get this show on the road, then!" Tetsutetsu said, "The longer we waste here with our thumbs up our asses, the more likely it is that Tsuyu's bro will wipe out the base at Deika City because he thinks the guys ordering him to do so are still around to order him to do so! If we don't get moving now, then who knows how far Felgrand will go while he's still under the impression the rebels will off his family unless he does what they told him?"

"Technically, Fumikage, his son, and Eri are all still in danger," Izuku said, "The rebels by and large aren't aware that three of their leading members have been captured while all of their leaders who are old HPSC members are dead. The remaining rebels will still try to work to capture Fumikage and his group, so we need to make sure that, until this battle is ended and everyone settles down and stops fighting, Fumikage and his group are still protected."

The others all nodded in agreement with Izuku, who left the guarding team in charge of protecting Fumikage's group again before leaping off of the building, heading right for the rebels outside of the slab hut. He knocked all of the thugs out cold before rocketing away, using his comm device to hear where Nagant was saying the rebel base that the targets were being kept at was located. Getting to the Asuis, Kan-sensei, and All Might was vital to ending this nightmare, to ending the threat of the Old Rule Rebellion once and for all.

...Even though Izuku could tell full well that damage had been done to the point that things were never going to be the same.


Over at another rebel base hidden somewhere, the rebels were trying to fight off a surprise invasion of Regime soldiers led by Nagant and Toga. The rebels fought hard, but they were taken down due to a mix of overall superior power and the fact their invaders had the element of surprise on their side, catching the rebels unawares so that they weren't able to mount any effective defenses to try and keep the Regime forces at bay. The rebels, with all the disadvantages they had in their forever war with the Regime, relied on what little advantages that they did have to try evening the playing field so that they had a chance of winning in the end.

An end that, obviously at this point, was never going to come; the rebels at that base already got word that all of the leaders who were old HPSC members had been killed, and they were getting word as they were invaded that Hound Dog had been captured, as had Eraserhead and Present Mic. Only Vlad King and All Might remained as available leaders for leading the Rebellion, but the two of them alone could only do so much, especially given the fact that All Might's condition as of late was by no means friendly to his health; the former Symbol of Peace would by no means be of any help or use in trying to stave off the invading Regime forces.

Not only would it be game over for the Rebellion if Vlad King and All Might were at least captured, but Felgrand's family members who were kidnapped by the Rebellion were being kept at that base. Felgrand's family, the Rebellion's one saving grave that let them avoid Felgrand's ire while directing said ire at the Regime. If the Regime took Felgrand's family back and, worse yet, let the dragon know that all of his family was safe, then nothing would be stopping Felgrand from turning right back against the Rebellion and wiping them out to a man for having dared to kidnap his loved ones and using them to make Felgrand dance on rebel puppet strings.

Two rebels tried stopping a squad of Regime soldiers from entering a room, but Nagant shot one in the head from a distance; when that rebel dropped dead, it caused panicked confusion in the group that let other Regime members take them down easily. Once the rebels were taken down, they were cleared out of the way by all of the Regime soldiers there, clearing the way for Nagant and Toga to enter the room. When Nagant and Toga did so, they found the Asui family sitting in the room, all huddled together for safety and to be together in what they all were fearing might very well have been their final moments together in the land of the living.

Holding a hand to the side of her head in order to use a comm device, Nagant said, "This is Nagant. The Asui family has just been found, but we still need to work on clearing out the rest of the base that we're at. We also need to locate and capture both Vlad King and All Might. Toga and I will post some men here to keep the Asui family secured." Lowering her hand from her ear, Nagant turned her attention to the Asuis. "We need to get you out of here as soon as we can," Nagant told the froggy family, "Your son and brother is really upset by how you guys had been taken."

Tsuyu gulped a bit. "Y-Yes. I'm quite aware of what Samidare did while he was under the impression all of us were dead." Tsuyu had been able to keep up on the news while she was in hiding receiving treatment for her injury from the USJ attack; due to that, she knew what all Felgrand had done thanks to seeing it in the news. And the Asui woman knows now that Felgrand is her younger brother Samidare; although many of his actions back then were cataclysmic and horrific, they were, when you got right down to it, the suffering of a child who was having his whole world taken away from him bit by bit.

That suffering was now back and being used on full display, albeit it was now refined by the cool calculations of adulthood. Samidare's suffering had to end, because ending his suffering was the only way to end the suffering that all of Japan was undoubtedly going through right now. But the base that the Asuis were being kept at wasn't quite yet secured by the Regime's forces; they still had some men to suppress, as well as locating both Vlad King and All Might and apprehending the both of them at the very least. After all of that was taken care of, the Asuis could be taken out of there and to safety.

Looking to Nagant, Satsuki asked, "What about Samidare? Is he alright? How is my older brother doing?"

Nagant gently shook her head, gave the youngest Asui sibling the best answer that she could come up with. "...He's suffering. Your older brother is suffering."

...

Deeper in that base, Sekijiro was trying to direct the men in fending off the Regime forces that invaded them all of a sudden. "How in blazes are we going to fend them off?" one male rebel said to Sekijiro, "They have the base surrounded, and they already secured our insurance against Felgrand! We have to get you and All Might out of here! You two are the only rebel leaders we got it aren't dead or captured! If the both of you are caught, then everything that the Rebellion had worked for over the last twenty years will have been for naught! The Regime will go on indefinitely!"

Sekijiro turned around to direct his attention to where Toshinori Yagi laid in a bed, an IV drip inserted into his arm. Toshi, once the Symbol of Peace more commonly known as All Might, was a shell of the shell that was his former self. He was even more skeletal, his yellow hair losing its luster, and he was slightly balding now, his hair line was receding. All Might's age and physical condition, even worse in both regards than that of Eraserhead, very clearly showed it that the former Symbol of Peace was not all that long for the land of the living, as sad as it was to admit.

The rebels were hoping that, by utilizing Felgrand since they found his one weakness and were able to exploit it, they would be able to overthrow the Regime once and for all and restore freedom to Japan, then the world after that, before the Reaper came to collect on All Might's tab. They were all thinking that it would be a treat for the former Symbol of Peace to see freedom restored to everywhere before he slipped from the mortal coil. For the pro hero who valued freedom for all more than any other hero before or after him to see everyone free from the oppressive thumb of the Regime, even if for a moment, before he passed would let him pass in peace.

But as the sounds of fighting drew closer, the rebels with Sekijiro, as well as Sekijiro himself, knew that such a dream would never come to pass. "...Grr, who was it that sold the Rebellion out?" one of the rebels with Sekijiro growled in frustration, right before the door leading into their room was busted down, then the shout of Regime soldiers shouting for everyone to yield sounded out as Regime forces began swarming into the room. Sekijiro, knowing by this point that it was game over for the rebels, stood in front of the bed that Toshi laid in weakly, his arms held out, prepared to use himself as a shield to buy Toshi even a few more seconds of life.

As the other rebels were all suppressed, Nagant and Toga came into the room. The sniper spotted Sekijiro standing protectively in front of a bed. She turned her gaze slightly to see an old and decrepit All Might laying in the bed. Nagant's calculating mind was able to quickly put two and two together. She turned her attention to the rogue Blood Hero. "...If you and all of your fellows play nice," Nagant said to Sekijiro, "Then those who play nice will not be harmed, only taken into custody instead. Is that sufficient for you, Vlad King?"

"I guess this means that the Rebellion's done for," Sekijiro said, looking resigned but... oddly understanding.

"The last thing we need to do before clean up is to bring it to Felgrand's attention that his family is safe," Nagant replied, "Only that will stop his rampaging. After that, things can be returned to as much of a sense of normalcy as what can be managed."

The rogue Blood Hero let out a tired sigh. "You will make sure that All Might gets proper medical treatment?"

"Given that he is technically a person of great interest, yes," Nagant answered.

"One... more thing," Sekijiro said, piquing Nagant's interest with his tone, "Would... would it be possible to arrange for Izuku Midoriya to visit me while I'm in the slammer? There's a lot that I need to apologize to him for, and it'd really only work if done face to face."

Nagant cracked a small, but sincere, smile. "...Knowing Green Bean, he'll wanna see you and All Might anyway." The fighting in the base went on for a few more moments, but after that the Regime had secured the base, letting them take captured prisoners and the Asuis out of there safely. Getting the Asuis out of there was espcially important, given what the final step of ending this war between the Regime and the Rebellion once and for all was.


The Regime military base in Aquilonia City was under attack. The Aquilonia City Regime military base, boasted to be the overall largest, strongest, and grandest of all of the Regime military bases in Japan, was still little more than a toy play-set to be kicked over and wrecked as far as someone the likes of Felgrand was concerned. And that was about the level of concern that the dragon of the Regime had as he descended down upon the greatest Regime military base in Japan, instantly kicking up rolling waves of earth with his Earth Flow quirk the moment he touched down, as well as conjure up a pack of his earthen dragon constructs to help him lay waste to the latest Regime base that stood in his way to getting his family back.

It wasn't just Regime soldiers at the base in Aquilonia City either; there were also some pro heroes, and even members of the Upper Crust gang, including two of Upper Crust's elites, Queen and Pakura. The Regime soldiers were many of what made up the finest fighting force the world had, the pro heroes at the base were some of the finest capes that Japan had in the modern day, and even the thugs were some of the finest muscle that the Upper Crust gang had to offer, as Queen was ready to fire a concentrated beam of his sickening gas to try to bring Felgrand down with plague so that Pakua would be able to get in there and try to starve him out in order to further weaken the seemingly invincible enemy even further.

Before any of that battalion of fighters were able to fire any attack at Felgrand, he blasted them all with a swamping blaze of his Hellflame breath weapon, setting many of them on fire. It also turned out that Queen's sickening gas was rather highly combustible, as what gas he had conjured up so far had detonated, blowing him up to kingdom come and claiming his life as well as the lives of Pakura, four pro heroes, and eight Regime soldiers. Those who didn't die from the explosion were burned alive by the swamp of fire that was spewed down upon them by the dragon of the Regime. Felgrand simply flew overhead and past that fallen battalion, as if he didn't have even the slightest care in the world of the damage he had just wrought.

As the dragon proceeded to fly overhead to attack a command center tower, he heard a familiar male voice call out to him. "Felgrand, wait!" The dragon stopped, turned his head to see that Izuku Midoriya had come to confront him. With Izuku were Ochaco, Nagant, and Toga; Izuku was carrying everyone with Blackwhip, and Ochaco had lightened the load with her quirk. "Please stop this, Felgrand," begged the number one hero, "There's no more need for this mindless rampaging that brings nothing but pointless destruction to all in its wake."

The dragon growled dangerously as Green Bean and his party. "Oh, no no no," Felgrand said, "There is a point to all of this, the point being that the rebels get what all that they want. Until they are wholly satisfied, I cannot stop."

"The Old Rule Rebellion has just been defeated, Felgrand!" Nagant announced, drawing a look of mildly piqued interest out of the dragon, "The leading members of the Old Rule Rebellion have all been captured or killed! We've also rescued all of your family, they are no longer in any danger!"

This time, Felgrand's eyes widened considerably. "My... my family is safe...?" Felgrand was calmed down enough for Nagant to show him a video feed that showed all of his family was safe and sound under the watchful eye of trusted members of the Regime's Inner Circle. Nagant then pulled the screen back to switch to another feed, this one showing Felgrand all of the living rebel leaders before it switched to show all of the dead rebel leaders. Felgrand, with a surprised look on his face, took a couple of steps backwards, the look of realization clear in his dragonic features.

Quickly, Felgrand changed back to his true form, to Samidare Asui. The Asui brother fell to one knee and, his head hanging down, proceeded to cry loudly in relief, now knowing that his family was safe, that he no longer was the puppet of the Old Rule Rebellion. Izuku and his group all breathed sighs of relief, now able to put the whole of the nightmare that was started over twenty years ago to rest for good. A nightmare that started even before Dabi overthrew the Japanese government and went on to establish the first Regime that spanned over and ruled all of the world.

It was a nightmare that, not that anyone knew it, was started when a certain man made a certain choice.


Due to how severely Japan's ability to contain its problems was wracked when the now defunct Old Rule Rebellion was able to steal Felgrand's allegiance and turn him on the heart of the Dabi Regime, countries all over the world also started seeing nation wide rebellions; many smaller nations saw the Regime's hold overthrown completely, and even the larger nations eventually fell to rebel efforts. Effectively, after about a world wide riot that lasted close to nine months, the Dabi Regime, which had taken over the world and ruled for a little over twenty years, was finally done away with, allowing for freedom to once more return to the world.

But even though the world was going to get to return to the way it used to be run prior to the rise of the Dabi Regime, there would be a rather long period of turbulence as the various countries got used to it again that they were their own sovereign states. And although some folks never liked how a villainous regime had risen and taken over the world, there was no denying how the rule of Dabi's authority had fixed a lot of key issues that the world was facing; food shortages, shortages of materials like lumber and other consumables, even a generous portion of damage to the ozone layer had been undone.

It was agreed that, in the end, representatives of now free nations would meet with their masters who used to rule over them, and the two sides would work out deals to help the now free nations of the world prosper with plans that used the good points of both sides while tossing out as much of the bad points of both sides as possible. This was first seen in Japan, which had once been the heart of the now dissolved Dabi Regime's world spanning and ruling empire. What remained of Japan's free leaders met with what remained of Dabi's Inner Circle to hammer out the details of the plans moving forward to help Japan as a whole thrive in a post-Regime world.

The only living members of Dabi's Inner Circle, that being Spinner, Kurogiri, Felgrand, and every female member of the Inner Circle, met with the highest ranking political leaders Japan had left that weren't affiliated with the Dabi Regime in any way (those who were would be biased), with various pro heroes there to help mediate on a few points. The first main point was that a lot of the good things that were done under the Dabi Regime's rule were being kept, although some like the anti-quirkism laws had to be adjusted; said anti-quirkism laws were still going to be firmly enforced, but those who violated said laws wouldn't be punished anywhere near as severely as they would have been under the rule of the Dabi Regime.

Additionally, official pardons had to be issued to various persons to exonerate them of any and all wrongdoing; this mainly covered key persons from the Old Rule Rebellion as well as the surviving members of Dabi's Inner Circle. Speaking of, due to how utterly thorough Dabi and his followers had been in searching out and wiping any persons blood related to the Japanese royal family, there... well, wasn't anyone to fill the role of Japan's royal family anymore. It was quite the blow to the overall morale of Japan, that the bloodline of Amertaresu had been wiped out utterly.

Hence why the government of Japan decided that, in order to bring that morale back up, they would use the most distantly related person that they could figure out, even if said person wasn't related by blood, and make them the head of the new Japanese royal family. The person ended up being a woman, one Hinata Uzumaki, and having someone related to the Japanese royal lineage, no matter how faintly, helped to restore Japan's morale now that it was getting its royal family back. It helped that Hinata when she was discovered already had two children, one of which was a son; the rules of the Japanese royal family... rather favored male heirs.

There was also the process of making various persons from the old Regime official persons working in the free government of the new republic. Again, this covered all surviving members of Dabi's Inner Circle and various key Old Rule Rebellion members. Additionally, those same rather notable members of the Rebellion also had to be pardoned of their crimes against Japan back when they were rebels; this included the surviving leading members of the Rebellion, as well as former pro hero Siren aka Hitoshi Shinso. This allowed for those pardoned men to more easily help with the clean up and restoration efforts.

Speaking of Shinso, he met up with his wife Sakaki and son Aizawa; Sakaki first slapped him hard across the face before demanding what the hell he was doing, daring to have the nerve to show up after the Regime was taken down and the Rebellion wiped out. To Sakaki's surprise, Shinso showed up to offer Sakaki what she had been wanting to do; divorce from him. It took a few weeks, but soon the divorce was officiated and finalized, making Shinso and Sakaki ex-spouses. There was very little that Shinso was able to give Sakaki in the divorce proceedings, so he left what he could then, after his pro hero status was reinstated, he went into the world of being an underground pro hero.

The world of the Japanese underground needed cleaning up now more than ever, and it would take underground heroes like Shinso working non-stop basically to get things tidied up. Half of what income Shinso would earn would go to Sakaki due to the divorce proceedings, but due to how frugally Shinso learned how to live, it wasn't any real bother. It helped that he earned some respectable income from what all work he had to do, work that he was trained in by his mentor who trained him in those ways, Shouta Aizawa.

...A man who Shinso had sworn off all contact with from that point moving forward, once he confirmed that Eraserhead really DID treat the late Desumi Yango the same way other adults in Shinso's life had treated him. Part of why he respected Shouta so much was due to the fact that he thought Shouta was different, that he didn't label a person this way or that way solely based on their quirk. But finding out about how Eraserhead was blatantly quirkist against the necromancer girl was the final blow, and had Shinso known of Shouta's quirkism against Yango, then Shinso and Sakaki never would have gotten divorced because Shinso never would have offered Shouta even a modicum of aid. Shinso's hopes of meeting someone who truly believed that no quirk, no matter what that quirk just so happened to be, was evil in and of itself had been very much dashed.

At least until he was re-introduced to Izuku Midoriya, who reminded Shinso that Izuku himself could see ways to use quirks for good, to help any person become a hero no matter what they faced in adversity. Shinso ended up signing up with the GBA (Green Bean Agency) and did work out of there. It also had rooms for sleeping in, laundry rooms, kitchens, pretty much everything a person needed to live comfortably, so Shinso more or less lived at Izuku's agency until he found a small, cheap little apartment that he would be able to afford even with his garnished wages.

There were also a few weddings since the fall of the Dabi Regime; a few months after Shinso and Sakaki got divorced, Shihai and Kinoko got married, surprising a lot of their friends and peers. According to Kinoko, Shihai had been very kind, courtious, and caring towards her, not to mention how he was nothing but kindly towards Komaru. What really surprised people about the wedding of Shihai and Kinoko was that Shihai had made Mineta his best man. When asked about his choice in best man, Shihai said that he in a moment of cockiness made a bet with Mineta that he thought Mineta wouldn't win, but Mineta ended up winning said bet anyway. Shihai, wanting to set an example for his son Shiro and step-son to be Komaru, knew he had to be a man of his word and make the midget with purple balls for hair his best man.

That wasn't the only wedding to occur; Satsuki Asui got married to her longtime boyfriend Kota, but the reason for their semi-rushed marrying to each other was made apparent when Tsuyu and Beru were told by Satsuki in secret that she was pregnant. Satsuki's father Ganma, as well as Satsuki's older brother Samidare, made it clear to Kota that they expected him to take responsibility. Kota agreed, especially considering that one of the men staring him down was Satsuki's brother; knowing full well who Samidare Asui was, Kota did not want to risk drawing his ire.

The last wedding of note involved Samidare Asui; he married his fiance Eri, after they had been engaged for several months. However, due to the sheer amount of damage he had caused, Samidare felt that he couldn't stay in Japan, not while there were people hurting over his actions he was forced to carry out while his family had been held hostage. Thus, after celebrating their union as husband and wife with a night of passion that only rumors were heard of how passionate it was, Samidare packed a travel bag, donned a hooded cloak, and took off for a sojourn in an ever-spanning quest for redemption. However, Samidare left behind means for him to be contacted, in case the now free Japan ever again needed the might of Felgrand.

There... there was a lot of damage. Some that can never be absolved no matter the pardons. The most that could be hoped for now was for the world to heal; Izuku, from the top of his hero agency building, looked onward into the sunset, hoping that the sun would next rise on an era where as much as possible had been healed, that the peace that had been achieved would last, that no threats would rise up and wrack the world as threats of the past had done. Izuku knew that it was but a dream, that there will always be criminals and villains getting up to any number of discount dastardly deeds.

...But just as there would always be bad guys, there would always be good guys.

END, CHAPTER ONE-HUNDRED AND FOURTEEN

Author's notes;

This chapter sees the last of the final efforts between the Dabi Regime and the Old Rule Rebellion play out and end the fight between the two sides once and for all. Although it's the Regime that wins in the end and sees the Rebellion dissolved wholly and for good, due to the Rebellion's efforts in using Felgrand, so much damage had been done to the Regime that it soon dissolves anyway, paving the way for the survivors of both sides to come together and forge a new government for Japan, using the best points from both sides while discarding the worst ones. Similar events happen in nations all over the world, eventually leading to the whole world breaking free from the Dabi Regime and returning to... a variant of the way that the world was prior to the Regime's rise.

There's also a few settling points covered; various weddings, various persons on both sides being fully pardoned, Shinso and his wife Sakaki divorce, and Samidare Asui dons a hooded travel cloak and picks up a travel bag before heading out on a sojourn for redemption. Although Samidare does marry Eri first, and they have a whole lot of passion, and THEN the Asui brother leaves. However, he does leave behind means for him to be contacted should the people of Japan ever need the dragonic might of Felgrand to help them out ever again. An assistance that will be seen, at least to some extent, in the next chapter as a few last minute points are covered.

...What? Don't tell me you thought that the story was ending here, not while there's still a few points (especially a big one) to cover. Until then, take care.