At the League of Villains hideout, the TV turned on the same news broadcast on the screen. This time, Eraserhead and Vlad King began answering questions about covering the recent villain attack from the reporters at the press conference. The broadcast then ended with Nezu declaring that the heroes will not rest until they returned their missing students back to U.A. High.
Hearing Nezu's words only made Katsuki smile widely.
"Hah! Did ya hear the teachers? They get us more than I thought." Katsuki commented. "We'll never join the league of bastards!"
They seriously went through the trouble of mounting a huge attack, all just to bring us back here. Luna surmised as she and Katsuki looked at the villains around the room. Even they told us exactly why they kidnapped me and Bakugo. For us to join their heinous group, which means they won't kill us since we're too important to them.
Now's our chance. Katsuki thought. Luna and I gotta take a couple of 'em down quick, and get the hell outta here.
"We may not be at camp, but we're still allowed to fight!" Katsuki hollered.
"They must've figured out they're important to us." Magne said in alert. "What clever students."
"No. They're fools." Dabi said.
"Let me stab them." Toga suggested with a crazed smile.
"A clever performer would've acted like we were winning them over." Mr. Compass argued. "Now that they're broken characters, they're finished."
"I only do whatever I want to, and I won't even pretend otherwise." Bakugo replied with a smirk. "And I'm tired of being surrounded by a bunch of lame-ass wannabes."
"And another thing, tell me where are my friends?" Luna demanded angrily. "It doesn't take me two seconds to know that they're not here."
"You're right. They ain't here." Dabi answered. "Those other villains handed them to some woman named Carina since she was the only one who requested them. We don't know why nor do we even care."
Luna's eyes widened wide in shock as she knows exactly what Dabi is talking about.
Tomura recovered and lifted his arm out that prevented his allies from preparing what to do against Katsuki and Luna.
"Don't lay a finger on them. Any of you." Tomura ordered. He reached down to pick up his mask and placed it back on his face. "These heroes are still valuable pieces." He looked back at Katsuki. "I wish you would've listened to what I had to say. I thought you and I could come to an understanding."
"What, you think we're the same? Not a chance." Katsuki said with a smirk.
Tomura then moved his gaze to Luna.
"Please understand, Luna. Join me with the League of Villains." Tomura begged. "You have the right potential from the moment I saw you back at that school when you fought my Nomu. With you at my side, we could accomplish anything. You and me together."
"As if!" Luna yelled angrily. "I don't care what you say! I will never join you and the rest of you lowlife villains!" She then grabbed Katsuki's hand, paying no attention to his stunning look on his face. "Just like Bakugo, I want to become a hero! And there's nothing you can do to change my mind!"
Katsuki and Luna's refusal made Tomura glare even harder. But he's aware that the villains don't have much time to chat any longer.
"Then I have no choice." Tomura said. "The heroes said they'd continued their investigation of our group, so we don't have to stand here and talk."
Tomura then turned his head to the laptop screen.
"Master." Tomura asked. "Lend me your power."
The laptop screen showed a mysterious man sitting in front of the screen.
"That is a wise decision, Tomura Shigaraki." The mysterious man spoke with a smile.
Meanwhile, Carina watched as a long, thin black circlet were placed on Selene, Diana, and Aisha's heads inside the soundproof stasis tanks. The circlets are accented in glowing cyan lines.
Charon leaned his back against the wall while Nightshade only glared at Aisha as they watched three U.A. students tried banging on the tube with little success in breaking it.
"Get this through your heads! There's no way we're serving your stupid coven!" Diana shouted.
"I don't think you're in any position to do a thing about it." Carina said. "Just relax and make your free wills mine forever." She turned to Daku, who stepped in front of a panel. "Dr. Daku, you may begin."
Daku nodded and pushed the green button on the panel. The cyan lines glowed brighter on the circlets, sparking cyan-colored electricity around it. The electricity then enveloped Diana, Aisha, and Selene in it, causing them to screech in pain and agony under the assault. They are surrounded with white light as their eyes began to glow white.
Carina and Aurora made their exit, leaving Daku, Nightshade, and Charon alone in the lab. Only Daku and Nightshade watched with evil smiles, while Charon looked away with a frown. But they all paid no attention to a hologram hiding behind an empty stasis tank halfway in the room.
At the strategy meeting, the pro heroes discussed a strategy plan to take on the League of Villains.
"Why should I clean up U.A.'s mess?" Endeavor asked in a complaining tone. "I'm a very busy man, you know."
"Get off your high horse. You are a U.A. alum." Best Jeanist replied in an irritating tone.
"Yeah, seriously. Act like one for once in your life." Amazonite retorted with an annoyed face.
"We can't call any heroes away from the school. There is a bigger picture, Endeavor." Tsukauchi explained. He turned to the rest of the heroes "It's possible this incident is the beginning of the end for Hero Society. We'll stop at nothing to resolve this successfully."
"During the internships, I vinted Bakugo to my agency to try and reform him. I've met very few as stubborn as he is. I imagine he's fighting back." Best Jeanist commented. "We need to hurry."
"Not even you were able to change his behavior." Gang Orca stated.
"Yes." Best Jeanist agreed. "He was inflexible, pride sewn into his very core."
"My comrade, Ragdoll, was also taken." Tiger added. "This is my chance to get her back."
"Thanks to the tracking devices set by one of the students, we now believe there are two separate hideout locations. We know from our investigations where the kidnapped victims are located." Tsukauchi explained again. "We'll send the bulk of our forces there. Retrieving Bakugo, Luna, Aisha, Diana, and Selene are our priority. At the same time, we'll gain control of the other hideout. This will cut off their paths of retreat. We'll arrest them all at once."
"Toshinori." Gran Torino spoke to All Might. "If they're recruiting old men like me, then…"
"What are you suggesting?" All Might said as he turned around. "You're still Gran Torino. And with such staggering stakes at hand. We can be sure that he is involved."
"All For One." Gran Torino said.
Morganite placed her left hand on Tarot Chariot's right shoulder.
"Ursula." Morganite spoke. "No matter what happened, we will get your daughter back."
"I know, but...I can't help but think that there's a slight possibility that they are involved." Tarot Chariot said as she crossed her arms over her chest. "Or at the very least, survived."
"What? You don't mean...?" Morganite said.
"The Amarante Coven." Tarot Chariot said with narrow eyes.
"We have the element of surprise!" Tsukauchi added. "These villains will not succeed! At the press conference earlier, we had Principal Nezu act clueless to deceive the villains. He feigned ignorance on camera, as if we didn't have leads. After hearing his words, the villains won't expect us to rush in on the very same day. We'll retaliate! It's time for our counterattack! Remind the world what you can do, Heroes!"
Outside, a team of police force arrived right in front of the League of Villain's headquarters. Joining them are All Might, Tarot Chariot, Endeavor, Kamui Woods, Gran Torino, Edgeshot, and Morganite. Their main goal is to invade the villain's main hideout and rescuing the U.A. students.
All Might and Tarot Chariot stared at the building with determined faces as they are ready to attack the kidnappers at full force.
Back in the unknown lab, three U.A. students kept screaming in anguish as they struggled to keep themselves from giving in to the mind-controlling effects from the circlets. Daku and Nightshade showed evil smiles on their faces while Charon only looked somewhat saddened.
The hologram Diana engulfed her right fist with blazing green energy. She popped out from the stasis tank and fired a destructive green energy blast at the control panel. That energy blast also disrupted the brainwashing process as well. Diana, Selene, and Aisha all inhaled and exhaled deep breaths once they stopped screaming.
A surprised Daku then turned her glare toward the hologram Diana.
"There's another one?!" Daku exclaimed in shock.
"But how?!" Charon cried.
"Only Twice can create a duplicate!" Nightshade said.
The hologram Diana zapped another green energy blast that sent Daku, Charon, and Nightshade flying and crashing to the wall. She then turned her attention to the stasis tanks and ran up to fire another green energy blast, breaking right through the glass and freeing Selene, Diana, and Aisha at the same time.
Daku watched as Diana, Selene, and Aisha hopped out of the stasis tanks.
How impressive. Daku thought. That Diana girl must've created a hologram when we weren't looking. If only the process wasn't on halt, her Quirk would've been useful.
Diana, Selene, and Aisha then turned their glares straight at Daku. They pulled off the circlets from their heads and destroyed them with their Quirks.
"Alright, now it's three against one." Diana said as she cracked her knuckles.
"Not quite."
Diana, Selene, and Aisha turned their heads to see the recovered Charon and Nightshade moving and leaping in to join Daku. Three villains then activated their Quirks in battle stances.
"Hate to rain on your confidence, but we thought we'd even the odds." Daku said with a smirk.
"I don't know about you two, but I'm going to enjoy this." Nightshade said to Daku and Charon with a wicked grin.
"That makes two of us." Diana concurred.
Selene thrusted her attack at Charon while Diana leaped at Daku and Nightshade lashed out at Aisha.
Selene charged forward and launched rapid star-like orbs at Charon from her hands, which Charon had evaded the attack for a swift second. Selene then launched herself into the air and released more star-like orbs down at Charon in a rapid, graceful fashion. Charon shaped his swirling gust of air into a large shield to protect himself from the attack, but he was too late to react once he dropped his air shield. As Selene created a large star-like orbs in between her hands, she unexpectedly took Charon down with a power upgrade. Her orb launched a hail of star-shaped energized shurikens that hit the air-wielding villain in an explosion.
Then, Charon fell down on the ground with a defeated groan.
Selene stared down at Charon with an astonish look on her face.
"Whoa." Selene muttered.
Diana manifested herself in red aura and fired a strong red energy blast at Daku from her right hand, sending him crashing to the wall. As Daku got up, he charged towards Diana with two bayoneted automatic pistols in his hands. He shot out multiple energy beams at Diana in a rapid succession. Diana manifested her orange aura around herself and evaded away from the energy beams in the air. She launched herself forward and switched into her red aura as she released rapid red energy blasts directly at Daku. As Daku got back up again, his eyes widened wide when she saw Diana radiating in red and green aura. Diana stared at her body with an awestruck face, but she looked back at Daku with a serious grin. Diana produced ten holograms circling around Daku. Before Daku can make his move, Diana and her holograms collected red aura from both hands. They then released their auras in the form of a powerful beam that divided into multiple beams shooting forward towards Daku.
Daku collapsed down on the ground with a defeated groan.
"Wicked cool." Diana and her holograms grinned slowly.
Aisha made the first move and delivered a downward, roundhouse kick to Nightshade. But Nightshade swiftly dodged out of the way. Aisha then delivered an elbow strike to Nightshade's stomach as she rotated and attacked her with an upward side kick that sent the villainess flying almost close to the wall. Nightshade recovered and then jumped up in the air as she fired a drilling beam of umbrakinetic energy at Aisha, who dodged out of the way. Before Aisha could fight back, Nightshade quickly delivered several waves of umbrakinetic energy continuously at Aisha from her hands, covering the U.A. student up in gray smoke clouds. Once the smoke cleared, Aisha was still standing without a hint of scratch on her. Nightshade's eyes widened wide as she stared at Aisha flaring in psychokinetic aura. Aisha gathered up her psychokinetic energy and formed it into a powerful tornado around Nightshade, generating sea green energy spheres to inflict Nightshade along with the wind at high speed. Aisha snapped her fingers and evaporated the psychokinetic tornado. She glared at Nightshade, who was still on her feet. But she collapsed to the ground with a weary groan.
"Wow." Aisha gasped. She looked down at her hands. "I didn't know...I can do that."
Then, Aisha lifted her hand. She surrounded Charon, Daku, and Nightshade with sea green aura. She then psychokinetically levitated the unconscious trio together against the wall. Diana and Selene joined Aisha as they stared at the defeated villains.
"Aside from getting captured and almost getting our brains mind-controlled, that Daku gave us a major upgrade." Diana said in awe.
"We can focus about that later. Right now, let's get out of there." Selene said.
"Thought you'd never ask." Aisha said.
Aisha surrounded herself in a sea green aura. She then engulfed her friends with the same psychokinetic auras as their entire bodies became ghostly transparent. Aisha phased intangibly through the ceiling with her friends.
Daku suddenly woke up from being unconscious and looked around to see Selene, Diana, and Aisha had made their escape. He growled as he took out a bright cyan octahedral device in his hand. As he twisted the device in 180° position, it started to glow bright cyan and floated above himself and the unconscious Charon and Nightshade.
"We'll retreat for now." Daku said to himself. "But this is not over."
The device opened a bright cyan hexagon-shaped portal, ascending Daku and the unconscious villains through it. The device instantly closed the portal and vanished out of sight.
Back in the League of Villains hideout, Tomura looked at the laptop screen.
"Master." Tomura asked. "Lend me your power."
Both Katsuki and Luna looked at each other in confusion.
"Master?" Luna repeated in slight confusion. "You mean to tell us that you're not the leader of these villains?"
"So, you're a sidekick." Bakugo added with a smirk.
"Kurogiri, Compress, it's time to put those two back to sleep." Shigaraki instructed.
"I can't believe they're such bad audience members. It's almost impressive." Mr. Compass said with a sigh.
Mr. Compass started walking towards Katsuki and Luna.
"If you want us to listen, then get on your knees and beg!" Katsuki spat.
From Luna's point of view, she's aware that Katsuki wanted to blow all of the villains away with maximum firepower. But he can't do that because Kurogiri's Quirk is way too fast for his plan to work. When Katsuki's eyes moved to Luna, she agreed on that look on his face as they both need to think of a quick opening and escape to the backdoor.
As Mr. Compass approached Katsuki and Luna, a sudden knock on the door interrupted Mr. Compass and alarmed everyone else.
"Hello? I gotta pizza delivery here."
Katsuki and Luna exchanged confuse expressions.
A pizza delivery? Katsuki and Luna thought.
Then suddenly, All Might broke through the opposite wall with a smash attack. At Tomura's orders, Kurogiri proceeded to open up a warp gate as an escape. But Kamui Woods swooped in and shot out a wooden prison from his arm, surrounding the villains and restraining them all at once. Dabi began burning the wooden restraints, but Gran Torino pounced into the room and knocked him out with a swift kick to the head.
Then, Tarot Chariot athletically flipped into the room and landed next to her heroic husband.
"Just what I'd expect from a competent new hero and a veteran pro who moves faster than the eye can see!" All Might spoke. "You can't run anymore, League of Villains. Understand? Because we are here now!"
"Right after the press conference?" Mr. Compass asked in utter confusion. "They had this ruse planned the whole time!"
"Tree man! You're hugging me too tight!" Twice shouted. He randomly enjoyed it. "Harder!"
"One tends to neglect defense when they're on the offense." Edgeshot spoke. He entered the room by slipping through the door with his Quirk. "But we didn't come alone." He opened the door that revealed a squad of armed police force. "Take a look. You're surrounded by the police."
All Might and Tarot Chariot then turned their attention to the U.A. students.
"Ah, you two must've been scared." All Might said with a smile. "But you both stayed strong. We're sorry. You're safe now, children."
Luna looked at her parents with a relived smile and ran up to hug her mother, who hugged her back with a soft, relived smile.
"Well, you heroes are here now. So that's all that matters." Luna said.
Katsuki looked at All Might with a closed, quivering mouth, but he quickly brushed his hidden fear aside.
"What?! I wasn't scared! Not even close!" Katsuki yelled in anger.
All Might held a thumb-up.
"After I went through all the trouble of preparing this, the final boss goes and shows up on my doorstep." Shigaraki muttered. "Everyone's been restrained. There's no easy way to escape. It can't be helped. So, they've got backup, huh? Well, we do, too." He then turned to Kurogiri with a hollering shout. "Kurogiri, wrap over as many as you can!"
"He's sending the Nomus?" Tarot Chariot said in alert.
Tomura looked around and noticed that the Nomus aren't present in the room.
"What are you waiting for, dammit?" Tomura said to Kurogiri.
"I'm sorry, Tomura Shigaraki." Kurogiri apologized. "The Nomus were supposed to be in a fixed location, but...they're gone."
"Huh?" Tomura said.
Little does Tomura know that Best Jeanist and Gang Orca successfully restrained and neutralized all the Nomu when Mt. Lady located and busted open the Nomu factory, making Kurogiri unable to transfer them.
All Might placed his arm around the startled Bakugo's shoulder.
"It seems you have a lot to learn, Shigaraki." All Might said. "You're still green."
All Might's words earned a growling glare from Tomura.
"Your little League underestimated all of us." All Might continued. "The soul of these young students. The police's diligent investigations. And…our righteous fury. Enough is enough." He then glared at the villains with an intense look on his face. "Your game has come to an end, Tomura Shigaraki."
Only Spinner became frightened by All Might's glaring smile.
"All Might, please!" Spinner yelped. "You're the only hero Stain respected! You are worthy!"
"You think it's over? Don't be stupid." Tomura spoke calmly. "I've only just begun to play." He started lifting himself off the floor while struggling to break free from Kamui Woods' grasp. "Justice. Peace. You and your wife created a garbage society by lifting up such ridiculous ideals. That's why I targeted you, All Might. it's why I started gathering people to my cause. You think this is the end? Then you've lost." He then turned his head back to Kurogiri. "Kurogiri!"
But a red razor-sharp string pierced through Kurogiri, knocking him out in an instant.
"What just happened?" Magne yelped from the floor. "I couldn't see anything. Did they kill him?"
Another single red thread swooped in front of Magne.
"I played around with his insides and made him fall unconscious. Ninpo: Thousand Sheet Pierce." Edgeshot replied. He then unflattened himself to reveal his face and moved his eyes to the warping villain. "He was such a nuisance. He had to sleep."
"Weren't you listening earlier? You'll all be better off if you take us seriously." Gran Torino warned. He proceeded to identify five stunning villains' true identities. "Kenji Hikiishi. Atsuhiro Sako. Shuichi Iguchi. Himiko Toga. Jin Bubaigawara. Thought they had little time and information, the police worked through the night to discover your true identities. Do you understand? There's nowhere left for any of you to run." He then turned to Tomura. "So, Shigaraki, one question. Where is your boss hiding?"
Tomura unexpectedly became utterly silent, refusing to believe that this is over.
"You'll tell us where he is right now." All Might demanded. He growled when Tomura refused to give in his master's whereabout. "Shigaraki!"
"This is your fault! I hate you!" Tomura hollered.
Then suddenly, two mysterious black liquid portals appeared from Tomura's sides. Two growling Nomus came out right through them, earning an utter surprise from the League of Villains and the Pro Heroes.
"Nomu! How'd they get here?" Tarot Chariot exclaimed in shock.
More mysterious black liquid portals began appearing all around the room.
"Dammit, Edgeshot! Stop Kurogiri!" Gran Torino yelled.
"He's still out. This isn't his doing." Edgeshot pointed out.
"They keep on coming!" Gran Torino shouted.
All Might quickly turned to Kamui Woods.
"Don't release them under any circumstances, got it?" All Might ordered.
"Right!" Kamui Woods understood.
Before Luna could say anything, she covered her mouth and began feeling a strange sensation bubbling inside of her. She moved away from Tarot Chariot and struggled to resist, which caught her parents and Katsuki's alerting attention.
"Luna, are you okay? What's wrong…?" Katsuki asked.
Then, the mysterious black liquid bursted out of Luna's mouth.
"The crap?" Katsuki shouted in shock.
In the blink of an eye, the same mysterious black liquid came out of Katsuki's mouth. That left both U.A. students' eyes widen wide in horror. Katsuki looked over to Luna and reached his hand to her. Luna noticed and clasped her hand tightly on Katsuki's.
All Might and Tarot Chariot turned to see their daughter and Katsuki being engulfed by the black liquid-like portal from their eyes.
"Bakugo! Luna!" All Might shouted.
All Might and Tarot Chariot reached over to grab the U.A. students, but they failed when Katsuki and Luna got swallowed up in the black liquid portals and completely disappeared out of their sight.
Tarot Chariot covered her face with both hands, trying to fight back her tears at the loss of her daughter and the hotblooded student.
"Noooooooooooo!" All Might screamed heatedly.
"Endeavor! Help us!" Kamui Woods called out.
Kamui Woods shockingly noticed that Endeavor is too busy fighting off an army of Nomus that have been transported out of the black liquid portals along with Morganite and the police force.
All Might, Gran Torino, and Tarot Chariot began fighting off the Nomus coming from different directions.
"Toshinori, what now?" Gran Torino asked All Might.
"They shouldn't have been able to warp Nomu here." All Might replied. "And this backup came too fast!"
Suddenly, the Divine Trinity mark began to glow intensely on Tarot Chariot's forehead. She gasped with wide eyes.
Uh no. It can't be. Tarot Chariot thought in shock. I fear that she has made a move. She's nearby. I can feel her.
Outside, Carina and Aurora stood on top of a tall building.
Suddenly, a yellow glowing triquetra symbol appeared on Carina's forehead. That made her eyes widened wide in shock as she had detected a familiar power aura coming from her vicinity.
That's Ursula's aura again. Carina thought. But…
Carina's eyes widened wider in sudden realization.
There's two of her! Impossible! Carina exclaimed. How can that be?
Meanwhile, Aisha soared down back to the city and headed to an empty building at her sight. She flew through the open window and landed herself and her friends onto the ground.
"Aisha, are you alright?" Selene asked. "Your Quirks didn't exhaust you, didn't it?"
"Actually, I feel surprisingly fine." Aisha replied. "For some reason, Carina's machine must have ridden both of my Quirks' limitations."
"First, power enhancement? And now, eliminating our limitations of our Quirks? Our parents are not gonna to believe this." Diana said.
Suddenly, Selene found herself paralyzed in fear.
"Selene?" Aisha exclaimed.
"Selene, what's wrong?" Diana asked.
Aisha and Diana suddenly got paralyzed in fear.
A certain person's arrival disturbed three U.A. students with dread. The deadly aura coming from the man left them unable to move from their spot. They quietly crouched around the opening windows as they stayed in position and simply listened to the sound of his voice.
"Tomura has finally started thinking rationally and making decisions by himself." All For One spoke.
Selene, Aisha, and Diana slowly looked over to see a mysterious man floating in midair. He donned a navy blue, skull-like gas mask that has dark grey angular tubes at the top and a wide black collar-like life-support system around his neck with additional pipes connecting in the front and back. He also wore a darker blue suit over a white shirt and black shoes.
"I do wish that you hadn't gotten in his way." All For One continued.
Selene, Aisha, and Diana stared at All For One with horrified expressions. There was no time to escape nor an opportunistic chance to even stop him. In a microsecond instant, the mysterious man made the girls feel the essence of death.
"Now then. Shall we begin?" All For One asked.
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