The battles have been set and locked in, and it is time for Nine and his crew to face off against the students they have been tormenting this entire time!

OC broke over 400k words and over a year of posts just a couple weeks ago. Damn, its been a while heh. I still have plans beyond Kamino, but I will be taking a break after the arc is done to get some other things done and help me focus more on my future plans for the story. That said, it's not ending yet, so buckle up and I hope you enjoy!

"Alright. Let's do this guys!" Eijiro exclaimed, his teeth visible as he shook in place in excitement. His body was covered in a faint red fractal aura, less flickering than those around him but causing his body to glimmer in whatever light was visible in the dark.

"We should have a plan first, Eijiro," Momo gently admonished, already forming a staff from her arm. One For All made it trivial to create whatever she needed, and she was taking advantage of it as soon as she could.

"There are three foes, and five of us. One of us must take one of them on alone, at least at first. Preferably we can get them close enough to work together, but it seems they have split up for various reasons," Tenya mused, Koji's eyes in the sky keeping an eye on the three villains. From Koji's perspective, they seemed almost bored, mostly sitting about and watching the chaos unfold.

"I'll take the hair bitch," Himiko said, her eyes narrowed. She accepted the dozen knives Momo handed her, quickly storing them away. "You guys take the rest on. I can handle her."

"Are you certain, Himiko?" Shoto asked softly, concern filtering through his normal even tone.

She nodded. "Absofuckinglutely. I won't have any problems with her, promise."

"If you're certain," Momo replied, uneasily. She turned to Eijiro. "You and I take on Chimera then? I imagine with One For All you will easily overpower him, and I can provide support."

Eijiro clashed his fists together, his sharp teeth visible as he grinned. "Hell yeah Momo, let's kick his ass!"

"Then we shall take on Mummy," Tenya replied, nodding to himself and Shoto. "It should be no issue for us to bring him down." Shoto didn't bother replying, nodding along. The five classmates took a moment to share one nod, before all of them ran off in different directions to take down their designated foes.

Tenya blazed down the street, Recipro able to be on for hours at a time thanks to One For All. He had more trouble not moving at speeds beyond human visibility, but Shoto was able to keep up, One For All and his enhanced flames shoving him along just enough he could keep up with Tenya's lowest gear. Luckily for them, Mummy was not far, standing atop a short, squat tower near a junkyard. His masked face glanced down to see them, arching one eyebrow as they halted before him.

"...really? This is what I have to deal with?" the man drawled, sounding annoyed.

"Your reign of terror ends here, villain! Tonight, you will fall," Tenya snarled, pointing his hand up at the man.

Mummy let out a dry chuckle. "You sure seem to like your role as a dog for the government, doing whatever foolish task they set you to. I'm impressed."

"We're not here to debate your politics or personal beliefs. If you surrender, we'll take you in quietly. You stand no chance against us…we know your abilities, and they have nothing on our new capabilities," Shoto said softly, his voice barely carrying through the rain that was coming down in sheets.

Mummy's laughter grew louder, echoing around them. "Idiots, the pair of you. You think that we'd work for that bastard All For One and get nothing out of it? You shouldn't underestimate your opponents, kids…it might be the last thing you ever do!" with a snarl, the bandages came to life, wrapping about dozens of broken vehicles and forming them into his golems…before his bandages dove into the ground, glowing red for a brief moment…and then the very earth beneath their feet began to roil and buckle, orange glowing magma erupting from beneath their feet and forcing both Shoto and Tenya to bolt to the side to dodge it, Shoto trying to stifle it with his ice as Tenya sped around it.

There was no need to speak, the duo sharing their intentions through One For All's Vestige world with ease. Shoto needed a moment to try something new, believing that even with this villain's new powers, it would not take him long to bring him down if he could pull it off, but he needed to focus, and he couldn't do that while under threat. Tenya understood. With Gear Shift flooding his veins and his engines roaring, Tenya let out an uncharacteristic smirk (not unlike one Himiko would wear), and sped towards Mummy at speeds the villain could not hope to match.

And match it he could not. Even with dozens of his mummified golems and spreading magma around, Tenya kept outspeeding him, able to leap clean over any gouts of magma erupting from the ground to land blow after blow. Unfortunately, Tenya silently had to communicate to Shoto that the villain either had some sort of shock absorption or regeneration Quirk, because nothing he was doing was keeping him down, just causing him to halt for a brief moment before returning to striking at Tenya's nearly invisible form.

Yet he couldn't seem to finally move the bastard! Tenya was getting frustrated. He was moving so fast, and yet he wasn't making any progress. Not to mention the bubbling magma was becoming a serious issue, fires beginning to stir up as it touched on broken wood and other flammable materials scattered about.

'Stop overthinking it, kid,' the gruff voice of Second said in his mind, an ethereal glowing version of him appearing next to Tenya as he ran to the left to dodge another one of Mummy's golems. 'Listen, between Gear Shift, One For All, and your Quirk, you are probably the fastest person on the entire planet right now if you wanna be. That gives you a lot of leeway in what you can do. You're holding back, kid. It's time to stop doing so.'

"I don't want to kill the villain!" Tenya protested quietly, now leaping up and kicking through one of the villain's golems, destroying what he now recognized as an SUV of some kind.

'Setting aside my feelings about killing bad guys, that's not what I suggested. Gear Shift lets you ignore inertia…it doesn't let you ignore the air. So use it. Go faster, go much, much faster, and use the wind that's fighting back against you to your credit. You're the fastest hero alive, kid…time to use that for what it's worth.'

Air, huh? Tenya thought to himself. With narrowed eyes, he decided to listen to Second's suggestions…so far, he'd been sticking to just his normal Recipro Turbo infused with One For All's power, and using Gear Shift piecemeal to corner better…but now, he'd kick it up to the maximum speed he could go.

He began to run about in a wide circle around Mummy, swiftly dodging more bandages, golems, and magma spurts as he went. Keeping his gaze focused on the villain, he poured more power into his engines, moving faster, faster, faster, faster, fasterfasterfaster, until everything around him was a blur, the air itself pushing back against him with a pressure he felt making it harder to breath. And yet…he could see it, see the trailing tunnel he was leaving behind, hear the sudden silence as he outpaced the speed of sound, see the destruction wreaked behind him when he broke the sound barrier and the sonic boom followed…and then he narrowed the circle.

Closer and closer he encircled Mummy, faster with each completed lap, narrowing the surging wind following behind him. He could see it, feel it, the way the wind was whipping up, the growing cyclone of air starting to surround the villain. He could see Mummy's eyes going wide and frantic, seeing the villain starting to have trouble breathing as the very oxygen itself was sucked up into Tenya's whirlwind…and then Tenya felt it. The confirmation in the back of his mind that Shoto was ready.

Tenya sent back his own confirmation, waiting for the single moment from Shoto that he needed…and he got it. As soon as he felt the power flood through the connection, able to feel Shoto's attack coming, he collapsed the cyclone atop of Mummy, sending the villain flying into the sky and snapping all of his bandages off as he did. Tenya leapt into the air, almost hanging above Mummy for a brief moment as he spun about, bringing his foot down for a powerful kick and sending the villain down to slam into the ground with concussive force…just as Shoto appeared.

Shoto's body was alight with a white flame, his eyes flaring with that same white smoke as Smokescreen billowed out from his body, a burning white cloud that erupted to fill the area. With a loud cry, Shoto unleashed his entire Quirk at once, fusing his ice and fire into one and combining it with the power of One For All.

In a single moment, everything crystallized. A massive radius of ice and snow, snuffing out every flame and flash-freezing the magma instantaneously. Every one of Mummy's bandages left burned with a white, wispy flame, every one of his golems freezing and then shattering into nothingness. Tenya skidded to a stop next to Shoto, having to use Gear Shift to avoid slipping, blinking rapidly at the massive devastation the two of them had left, as it was only now he could see the giant circle of destruction he had created with the sonic whirlwind he'd created.

In the center of it, frozen from lower body to his neck, was the unmoving form of Mummy, the villain hanging limply in the ice. For a brief moment, they worried they'd killed him, but a soft, visible breath misted out from his face and let the duo relax for a brief second.

"...let's restrain him quickly. The others could use our help," Shoto murmured, his voice exhausted. A second later, he slumped backwards, Tenya immediately moving to grab his friend and stop him from falling…but found himself losing his grip as his muscles locked up, the two boys now both falling onto the ground.

"Perhaps…perhaps we do so after a moment of rest," Tenya managed to gasp out, feeling like he'd just gone a hundred rounds with Izuku and lost every one.

"...yeah."

Momo felt like an idiot. She'd been so confident Eijiro and herself could handle Chimera…but that was before the villain grew to the size of a four story building! She leapt up once more, One For All empowering her movements to allow her to dodge the rain of giant fireballs coming from the monstrous villain's mouth, but still hadn't been able to come up with a plan yet. Eijiro was…well, he wasn't fine no matter how much he mentally insisted he was (being stuck beneath the villains massive foot as it were), but he also wasn't hurt since his Hardening was protecting him from being crushed, and his pushback with One For All was throwing Chimera off balance enough that Momo could try to devise something.

Unfortunately, she really couldn't think of much…except overwhelming force. Which she supposed with how big and sturdy the villain was, she wouldn't get in trouble for. He could take it, right? Mentally, she shrugged, feeling the agreement from Eijiro as she ran her plan past him. If Chimera wanted to go big…she'd remind him of that old phrase, the bigger they are, the harder they fall.

One For All's impact on Creation had been easy for her to decipher. Not unlike how Izuku's Quirk found itself lessening in cost when he got One For All, she found that it took very few lipids for her to create something far, far bigger than she could before. But she still needed about thirty seconds to create and aim her idea…and that was where Eijiro promised he could give her that.

A second later, as she finally found a spot where she could set up, she heard it as well as felt it within herself, the sudden crack of earth from where Eijiro was trapped. Glancing over, she could see it…red, faceted, almost obsidian-like textured panes visible surrounding the now crouching form of Eijiro, the redheaded hero student snarling as his body erupted into red, more and more and more visible. His body creaked and cracked, the hardening crawling across him, nails extending into claws, body becoming geometric and monstrous.

"You…will…not…break…me!" Eijiro roared, his hands planted firmly on the gigantic Chimera. Chimera wobbled in place, his expression confused and panicked for a brief moment as Eijiro managed to clamber to his feet. Eijiro locked eyes with Momo, her body glimmering with lights as she managed to finish creating what she intended, and grinned. With a grin, his body began to glow a different shade of red, one arm becoming covered in a red glow as Fa Jin finally had charged enough up.

With a single, focused punch, Eijiro slammed his Fa Jin empowered hand into the bottom of Chimera's foot, the loud sound of bones breaking audible to both of them as the gigantified villain was sent flying up and backwards, his body smashing into the ground and sending up a giant cloud of dust and debris. Quickly, he scrambled out of the way, rushing to Momo's side as she stood next to the thing she'd created, carefully inputting her target parameters as she swiftly handed a pair of earmuffs and safety goggles to Eijiro.

Chimera managed to sit up, shaking his head as he tried to clear it. With a snarl, he frantically looked around for his foes…only to hear a loud humming noise that snapped his attention towards…a railgun!?

"Momo…you sure about this?" Eijiro asked, a little bit intimidated by the massive metal contraption in front of him.

Momo adjusted her earmuffs. She could hear him through them, just barely, but it was enough to know what he was asking. She shrugged. "He'll live…probably." At Eijiro's wide-eyed stare, she sighed. "It's not nearly as powerful as a normal railgun, don't worry. I did the calculations, and Second helped me. Second was a physics professor before becoming a vigilante, after all."

"...what?"

The visage of Second appeared beside the duo, arms crossed over his chest as he glared at Eijiro. 'Hey! Revolutionaries need jobs too, you know!' He then turned to point at the slowly clambering to his feet Chimera. 'You're outta time. Shoot the fucker already.'

"Yessir," Momo replied, quickly taking one final check of her aim. She held one hand out to Eijiro, the teen understanding her request as he activated Unbreakable and quickly stepped behind her, gripping her tightly so the two of them would be stable as she fired it…before she pressed the button.

If it wasn't for Momo bracing herself against the wall that was Eijiro, she would have been launched far away, likely taking a lot of pain in the process. Even with that, and his sheer, One For All enhanced strength, he barely could hold on as the very air around them roared, the railgun launching its payload so fast neither could see its trajectory through the blinding flash of light that came with it and the booming, erupting cacophony of noise it let out. And then, the impact, a sudden surge of an eruption ripping up the debris and creating a blast that neither of them could see through.

'...I think you got him,' Second said quietly, his voice echoing in their heads as they blinked rapidly to clear the flashing lights. After a moment, where everything seemed to fall silent, Eijiro let go of Momo as she stepped forward, barely keeping her balance as she tried to see through the smoke and debris. Eijiro quickly stepped in front of her, reminding her silently he was more durable than anyone else, so he'd go check first.

Carefully he picked his way forward, keeping his hardened form active, until he found him…Chimera, his body smoking and steaming in the pouring rain, flat on his back with a massive burn mark dead center of his chest…but breath pouring out of his mouth in even, slow patterns. Eijiro's shoulders slumped with relief, feeling Momo's relief coming through over the bond as well. The bastard was down…now how the hell were they going to restrain him?

"One little girl is all I get? One who can't even fight by herself, she has to steal other peoples blood? Pathetic," Slice spat, glaring down at Himiko as she stood atop a shattered office building, her hair slowly flitting about around her. It was obvious from the moment Himiko approached that Slice was gifted other Quirks, with how small, fractal crystals seemed to appear around her body, forming some sort of protective barrier, and how her eyes were glowing a deep, unsettling orange.

Himiko didn't bother replying, standing there, her stance relaxed, her amber eyes focused on the woman before her. Slice narrowed her eyes at how nonchalant Himiko looked, deciding not to bother waiting any longer. With but a thought, the fractal crystals around her spun in place, shining a brilliant glow as a dozen beams of light fired from them towards where Himiko stood. Slice grinned, knowing she had no chance of surviving, those beams were so hot they'd cut right through…her?

As Slice blinked, clearing the afterimage of the beams out of her vision, she could only stare, aghast, as Himiko's skin shimmered with a rainbow color, the beams of light having somehow been absorbed into her? Himiko smirked, holding one hand up, palm facing forward, towards the red headed villain. A glimmer of light appeared around her hand as the beams rocketed back towards Slice, the woman being forced to leap out of the way. A moment later, she heard the roaring sound of engines, and saw a leg coming screaming towards her face at a speed that the blonde should not have been able to do. She brought her arms up to block, feeling her bones crack under the pressure as she was pushed back.

With a snarl, Slice formed her hair into a flurry of blades and sent a deluge of needles towards Himiko. The blonde simply lifted one hand up and a wall of ice formed, the needles simply sticking to the ice, before a burst of flame came rocketing towards her, forcing her to dodge yet again. As she tried to focus her glowing eyes on the blonde, Himiko grinned once more, her arms suddenly erupting into a dozen more arms, all now shimmering with that weird glow from the moment before. Knives pushed out of her skin and began firing towards Slice, a mirror of her prior needle attack, making the woman quickly form a shield with her hair to block them.

A split second later, she heard a hissing noise and watched, horrified, as her hair began to melt, acid clinging to the shield and melting it away, revealing Himiko before her, arms back to normal, standing there in the same, relaxed position as before, her fangs visible in a feral grin. Himiko finally chose to speak, her voice soft and sure.

"I don't care about your stupid insults, or the way you look down on me. You're just a sad, pathetic woman who thinks she's better than others. But you're not. You have nothing. And me? I have everything. I'm the hero who uses the powers of those she loves to stop people like you. I am Changeling…and you're gonna fall." Himiko began to walk forward, calmly, slowly, completely in control, the nearly two dozen quirks roiling within her awaiting her call, making her smile as she felt the affection and confidence from the people she cared about flooding through the link, each one hinting to her what to do and how to use their power to its fullest extent. Slice was going down, and then…Nine too.

Ochako cursed under her breath, spitting out a glob of blood that had pooled in her mouth. Nine had caught her off guard with a Nomu that had been sneaking around, and nearly broke her nose in the process even as she tanked every hit he threw at her. She was getting both frustrated and worried…Gear Shift was taking its toll on Katsuki, the blonde gamely acting like he was fine but he couldn't hide the pain seeping over the link, nor Second's quiet murmurs to him that he had less than a minute before he was going to collapse. Which meant it was now or never, and she wasn't sure how they were going to stop him.

Every tendril of Blackwhip she shot out, he managed to deflect. He dodged or blew up every building or piece of rubble she shot at him, and she couldn't get close enough to activate her Quirk directly on him with that stupid air shield that kept blasting her away! Katsuki couldn't even stand still long enough to pull off one of his bigger moves, because the moment he did, Nine was on him, the villain having quickly put together their plan and able to work against it.

The constant lightning strikes meant Denki was nearly forced into doing nothing but acting as a lightning rod, and while One For All helped him a lot with his issues, it wasn't stopping them, the electric hero's thoughts becoming more and more muddled and sluggish as time went on. It was getting so bad Kyoka and Fumikage were now defending him from Nomu, because he couldn't keep it up himself…and Nine seemed to recognize that as well.
Ochako felt like she was losing her grip on her Quirk, the nausea getting worse and worse as she kept lifting things far above her prior limit and throwing them, trying everything in her power to bring down the bastard who had done so much to hurt people she cared about. She didn't know what to do!

She felt it then…a sudden warmth in her chest, a sensation of trust, admiration, love, and she knew, just knew, that even across the city, even with his spirit determined and afraid as he faced off against All For One, that that was Izuku, paying attention, letting her know he was thinking of her and believed in her. A moment later, she felt even more…Himiko, Momo, Shoto, onward through every one of her partners, through the class, all of them showing their love and support as she felt herself flagging…and the sheer, unfiltered determination in Katsuki's heart. She closed her eyes for one second, losing herself in the feeling, in the faith and trust they showed her, letting it suffuse all of her, body and soul, and sent back her own love and care to each and every one of them, making sure they knew how much she appreciated them all…and that's when it clicked in her mind.

Across the battlefield, her eyes met the blazing rubies that were Katsuki's, her plan being silently communicated to him, making him go wide-eyed in sheer unadulterated shock at her gall…only to bare his teeth in a feral grin. She knew he believed she could do it…and with everyone else in her corner, now, she did too.

With a roar, she slammed her hands together, eyes closed, focusing all of her power, all of her Quirk, taking it and molding it into something new, something greater, something far beyond what she'd done before. As she concentrated, ignoring the way Nine suddenly turned to her in confusion, ignoring the way he pointed his fingers at her to send the lasers, she simply breathed deeply, breathing in the strength inherent in One For All and letting it fill her, fill her Quirk, fusing and twisting and changing.

Nine sent the beams of light at her, snarling, ready to finish her off so he could finally end this fight…only to be shocked stupid when the beams bent around her and flew off to land harmlessly in the dirt, leaving her unharmed. It was only now he noticed it…the ground around her cracking, the air shimmering, the rubble and dust lifting up and beginning to swirl about her. As she focused, her hands still clasped before her, he tried to move away…and found he couldn't. His feet felt like they were stuck, like his entire body was being squeezed, like he was unable to back away from her.

Ochako's eyes slid open, glowing pink and white, small black dots appearing and disappearing about her. Her body twinkled, as if stars were shimmering into existence around her. Nine could no longer lift his arms, panic visible in his eyes as he tried to call upon the hydra's and found them shattering as soon as they left his back, crushed beneath gravity's embrace. Ochako couldn't help but let out a grin, seeing the sheer panic on his face as she focused harder, opening her clasped hands and holding them out wide, every bit of rubble and suddenly freezing in place, a massive sphere about her and Nine, the two standing there, staring at one another.

Behind him, she could see it…Katsuki, spinning about as fast as he could, Gear Shift ripping him through the air and helping him pull more and more oxygen towards himself, the explosions shifting from brilliant orange to a shining, shimmering series of sparks. As he lifted into the air, the tornado of force all gathering about him, she decided now was the time.

Slamming her hands together, bringing back all of the force she'd gathered, all of the gravity's embrace, she screamed into the night as Nine now felt the weight of the world snap into place, sucking him into the perfect centerpoint of Katsuki's explosion. "SINGULARITY!" she screamed, Blackwhip snaking out and pulling her backwards and away as quickly as it could, Ochako covering her face and closing her eyes to try to protect herself.

"Howitzer…IMPACT!" Katsuki's voice shouted, followed by the sudden surge of heat and light and explosive force that sent Ochako careening backwards, making her hiss in pain as she slammed into a low hanging wall. She bit her tongue in the process, but refused to stay lying down, awkwardly clambering to her feet and blindly stumbling forward, still unable to really see through the smoke and light and afterimages burned into her eyelids.

Coughing, she reached out mentally, trying to find Katsuki and make sure he was okay…the silence felt a bit worrying, but a moment later, she could feel his annoyance and surge of pain, which was more than enough for her. Blinking rapidly, she tried to clear enough of her sight to see, to check if they had managed to finally land a blow…and there. Laying on the ground, crumbled, clothes smoking, was the collapsed form of Nine, burns and bruises evident…but his chest still moving as if he were breathing.

Ochako collapsed to her knees, a tired smile on her face, one which she saw mirrored on Katsuki's face as he stumbled over next to her, falling over once he reached her. With one hand, he reached up and held it before her, waiting. Ochako stared at him blankly for a moment, confused, before she finally puzzled it out, and gave him the saddest, most exhausted high five she'd ever done in her life.

"Not bad, Cheeks. Not bad at all," he muttered, still gasping for air.

"Back at you, Kats," she managed to say, leaning back on her hands and trying to calm her raging stomach. A surge of emotion had her tiredly looking to the side, seeing Himiko dashing towards them both, the blonde nearly tackling her in a hug, before reaching down and petting Katsuki on the head.

"Slice is done and dusted," Himiko said, her own breath coming in pants. Ochako noticed a cut on her forehead, blood slowly oozing from it, and frowned at it. Himiko saw the glance and shook her head. "Don't worry about it, she got one lucky hit. I'm pretty much fine otherwise. Momo, Shoto, and Ida got Chimera and Mummy, they are busy restraining them right now and will be over soon. Momo said she got in contact with the police, they'll be moving in with some pros to slap some cuffs on these guys and get them outta here."

"Thank fucking god," Katsuki murmured. "Wasn't sure what the hell we'd do if these fucks woke back up."

"Put them back down, I guess," Ochako replied, leaning heavily into Himiko's side, her exhaustion evident. After a moment, she took in a deep, bracing breath and put one hand down, trying to leverage herself up.

"Woah, 'Chako, what're you doing?!" Himiko asked, eyes going wide.

"If these guys are taken care of, I gotta go help Izu," she replied, her arms shaking as she tried to push herself to her feet. Her stomach was tied in knots, her head was pounding, she was pretty sure she had double vision, and her legs felt like jello, but she was determined to try and help.

Himiko, quick as a fox, reached out and snagged Ochako's hand, pulling her into Himiko's side and holding her tightly. It was a testament to how exhausted the brunette was that she couldn't really struggle, just falling into Himiko's arms. Himiko ran one hand through Ochako's soaked hair and sighed. "I know you wanna help him, but all we'd do is get in the way in the condition we're in. I can't even help much…I still exhausted myself versus Slice. We did the best thing we could do…we took down these guys before they could hurt anyone else. And you and Katsuki avenged Izu! Nine's done. It's over. Once Toshi and Izu put All For One down for good, we're finally, finally free. It's okay…we can trust them."

Ochako's shoulders relaxed ever so slightly, her eyes fluttering closed as she leaned into the warmth of Himiko's embrace. Himiko glanced down at the still prone Katsuki and frowned…an extra pair of arms grew from her left and reached down, helping to lift Katsuki up and pulling him to her side as well, giving him something to lean against. He grumbled under his breath, but she could feel the appreciation from him of getting him off the cold, wet ground, and sighed, leaning her head back. It was out of their hands now, and into the hands of Toshi and Izuku. But Himiko had faith. She knew they'd finish this, and they'd all finally, finally get to go home.