"The stage is finally almost set...Ujiko... How was Shimura's last appointment?" He asked curiously, looking over to the unaging doctor.
He perked up, turning around to the demon lord, and smiled. "Ah, he is as quirkless as ever... We should be ready to retrieve him in no time." He spoke as the demon king walked the lab to look at a vile. It held a quirk in it which had belonged to the boy, Tenko Shimura. "Float... takes so much after, dear Nana ... heh, I'm sure even All Might will be unable to deny it when he learns the truth." He mused, setting it back down. "My ultimate move is almost at hand. This future sight quirk certainly has made things easier." He hummed, delighted with how things were going.
"Oh, are we ready to set those nomu out? I have my eyes set for that Eraser boy... I think he'll be perfect for helping with Tenko." He said softly
He nodded. "Oh! Yes, of course Master. My babies will be happy to bring you whatever it is you desire." He replied with some pride in his tone as his fingers typed away onto the key pad.
Inside tube like containers were almost zombie like rotten corpses. As the water drained, the bodies became almost animated. The creatures eyes opened and seemed to glow with a yellowish gleam. Long hair draped over its chest as it stepped out of its containment mindlessly, looking to its master. Ujiko smirked. "Prototype Alpha... Please fetch the master the young hero in training known as Eraserhead." He spoke.
She groaned but without question obeyed her maker. It flew across the sky's of Musutafu and headed straight for where the young up and coming hero was patrolling.
Shouta and Oboro were on patrol. They'd been interning under Grin: the smile hero. Obviously, that wasn't Shouta's pick, but Oboro thought it was a great idea. "Uh... Im glad to be out of the office. One more minute of Emi's puns, and I would have honestly thrown myself out the window." He said, exasperated from all her lame jokes and insistence that they would be married someday. It was so presumptuous and annoying to him.
Oboro laughed to himself quite amused with Shouta's disinterest, "Ah come on, man. Miss Joke isn't that bad." He insisted as they walked "Plus she's like Grin's favorite intern."
"She's a shiketsu student. We're UA... Definitely the better options." Shouta protested laxly."We're from the better school, so clearly, we have more potential." He said.
Oboro almost cackled. "Man, when did you get so funny, dude? Haha It doesn't matter where you learn, dude. Just that you're the best." He said amused
Shouta rolled his eyes as he walked with him, his dark onyx eyes scanning for any suspicious activity. "I guess you have a point." He mused softly."I just can't stand her. She's so obnoxious." She explained.
Oboro laughed. "Yeah ma–" He was cut off with an explosion as the building before them fell apart. The sounds of people screaming enveloped the streets as his eyes went wide. "Whoa! Sho! We gotta get to it!" He yelled, forming a cloud as he hopped atop it with Shouta on the cloud with him as they flew in close to rescue civilians falling from the sky. "You see what caused that explosion, Eraserhead?" He asked hopefully.
"No... I dont see a damn– wait... what the hell is that?" He asked, seeing what looked like a bloated naked woman laying on the ground and slowly getting up. "Loud Cloud– drop me off and keep helping civilians! " He called as he jumped from the cloud using his support gear to swing himself down from the street lights.
"Hey, are you alright?" He asked her apprehensive. Her skin looked like she'd been drowned for months. He was unsure she was even alive at all.
She moved, not saying anything as she got up despite her arms and legs clearly being broken and her face being torn up. Her eyes gleamed as Shouta opened his eyes wide, letting them glow red, but... Oddly enough, it didn't stop this things quirk. A blast came shooting from her eyes like lazers shit whipping him into the wall behind him. He grunted as he tried to pull himself from the wall.
"Somethings wrong..." Oboro hummed, seeing the other wasn't stopping their quirk. He got the civilians out of the way as he shot a cloud down to cover Shouta.
"Huh? Oh... brilliant. Cloud cover will stop that thing from hitting me." He mused moving as he held tight to his support gear. The grappling scarf would be essential to stopping whatever the hell this was. He shot the scarf, but she dodged and shot another beam in his direction. He was able to evade, though. This happened a few more times before the building half toppled behind them shifted to crush them. She couldn't fly in her condition. Shouta heard the building shift and ran. He swung the grappling scarf to try and swing himself from danger, but there didn't seem to be a chance. He was sure he was doomed... he was about to be crushed when suddenly he heard the voice of his closest friend. "SHO! "
"Oboro?" Shouta asked, almost surprised, having accepted his fate. He looked behind him to see the smiling boy who had leaped off his cloud to try and save as many as he could. The cloud he'd been riding on moved to carry Shouta out of the way as the building collapsed. Wind and debre threw Shouta forward, breaking his arm amongst the rubble.
His eyes widened when he didn't see Oboro anywhere. "O-Oboro!?" He called looking around as panic set in. "OBORO!" He screamed, moving through it all and shifting threw pieces of fallen building. Tears streamed down his face. "No... no no no no no! Oboro! Damn it! Please, where the hell are you? How are we going to open a hero agency if you're not here? You're wreckless idiot! Why would you do that..." he cried as he tried to search. Rescue heroes were quick to the scene as the forced Shouta into the ambulance promising to find Oboro... but they never did... only ever recovered his goggles when all was said and done...
The Demon king looked over the cloud users' bodies... he was still alive thanks to his own quirk, but with some modifications, he would make a fine caretaker... he was sure it would suffice. "Not the one I wanted but... He'll do, I suppose. Do be sure this boy won't be a problem. He's to watch my new body." He reminded Ujiko.
He nodded. "Of course Master. I have such plans for our new toy." He purred excitedly as he programmed the new collar to keep Oboro under their control... it would be perfect.
"I leave this in your hands then... I have a child to fix." He hummed, making his way over to the Shimura household. On his way, he saw a young girl walking home. "Oh my..." he spoke, allowed to catch her attention.
"Hm? What is it, sir?" Hana asked curiously, tilting her head.
"Oh... You just look so much like the hero Nana... Miss Shimura, though, was never a mother, I suppose." He said softly
"Nana... Shimura?" She asked curiously. "Do you know her?" She asked him curiously.
"Of course and more than as just a fan. She and I worked rather closely." Which was true despite it being on different sides of a battlefield. "You really are her spitting image, though." He mused.
She blushed. "Oh, well, I don't know her. I mean, my last name is Shimura, but my dad hates heroes, so I don't know how we would be connected." She mused.
He chuckled. "Ah, I see. That's a strange stance to have in this day and age. Maybe there's some secrets he keeps. Haha, you're a good kid for not snooping too deep." He said, leaving it at that as he seemed to leave, really just waiting for his plot to go into motion.
The idea of her father keeping a secret excited Hana. She somehow suddenly felt like one of those kids from the detective books getting to the bottom of a mystery. She hurried home on a mission just as All For One had hoped she would be.
Hana hurriedly snuck into her father's office. Luckily, he was working on location today, so he wasn't there to stop her as she stealthily flung everything in his office around digging for the proof of a connection to the former hero. She found exactly what she was looking for in a letter and photo in the office. Her eyes sparkled with victoriousness as she rushed to find someone to tell her news, too.
Tenko was playing in the backyard with monchan. He was so happy. He and his father had been getting along so much better lately. The world seemed to finally be going right as he pretended his figure was flying around the yard.
Hana called out to him, "Tenko! Come here, you gotta see this!" She said with great excitement, almost bouncing in place.
"Hm? What is it, Hana chan?" He asked, setting his toy down on the ground as he gave his big sister his full attention.
"Come here! I gotta show you a secret! It's so cool! You'll be so excited." She said happily.
He furrowed his brow but headed to follow her along back toward the house. The pair climbed the stairs and entered their father's study. Tenko noticed the mess as he looked to Hana confused. "Is the secret that you're going to be in huge trouble? This place is a mess." He said softly.
"No, no! Pay attention better! I'll clean up later, and daddy will never know." She assured him before showing him the picture, "Look it! There's dad at our age with Nana Shimura! She's a big hero. All Might's teacher!" She explained.
"Shimura? Like our name? Do you think it's a coincidence?" He asked, taking the picture in hand and looking over it curiously.
"I thought so too, but look! There's this letter! She was our grandma! Looks like she abandoned Dad... maybe that's why he's so weird about you being a hero, but it's in our blood!" She said emphatically. "No wonder you want to be a hero! We should be heroes together, just grandma!" She said with a grin."It can be our secret, and daddy will never have to know." She said with a giggle.
Tenko smiled brightly at that idea. "Really? We could? That would be so cool!" He said excitedly as he set the things down and went down stairs to play heroes with Hana, forgetting all about the mess their fathers office was reduced to.
A few hours later and Tenko was back outside when he heard his father pull up. He hurried to the door, excited to greet him when he came down the stairs, but the look on his face seemed so angry. "Who was in my office?" Kotaro demanded.
Hana was scared. She was just a kid, but the next lies from her lips would lethal. "TENKO!" she yelled instantly. "Yeah, Tenko! He went into your room saying something about our grandma being a hero. I told him to stay out of your office and that the heroes were bad. He just wouldn't listen." She cried, scared he would see through her lies, but Kotaro's rage blinded him to absolutely everything around him.
He slammed the sliding door open so hard the glass shattered in it, and Tenko moved back to get away from him. He was shaking with fear before Kotaro grabbed hold of him, striking him as hard as he could. Bruises and welts formed all over Tenko as he screamed and cried for help, but no one moved they just watched. Silently. Not a single person moved to make it stop. When Kotaro finally dropped him, Tenko ran to Mon Chan, wrapping his arms around his beloved dog and sobbing into its coat as he shook. "I-I thought it was better... I thought things were okay. I didn't do anything, Mon Chan... why does he hate me so much..?" He asked through his tears as he scratched into his skin, making himself bleed.
Kotaro went upstairs to clean the mess with an annoyed expression. He exhaled a breath he didn't realize he was holding when Nao came in behind him. "I'm leaving Kotaro. You can't do that to him. You can't touch him like that ever."
"I- Nao, he– he was..." he tried to justify his actions, but in truth, he knew he went too far.
"There's no excuse! I can't believe you'd hurt him like that..." she said, unaware of the danger in her backyard.
The Demon king allowed a new quirk into Tomura and God did it make the itching that much worse as he gripped to Mon Chan and it decayed into guts and blood that spilled over him and stained his clothes. "M-Mon Chan?" He asked, shaking, unable to speak.
He heard Hana approach.. the sun had set by now, so the blood all over him seemed hidden almost. "Hey... Tenko, I'm really sorry about earlier... Daddy is just so scary like that. Are you okay?" She asked.
"H-Hana... It's okay. It's fine." He said nervously, getting up and reaching his blood covered hand to her. She reached for it before seeing the red in the glint of the moon light. She let out a horrified scream before turning on her heels. "Wh-what the hell did you do!?" She screamed as she ran from him.
"Wait! Hana, wait! You came to apologize! Just don't leave me again! Come back, please!" He screamed, chasing after her, unaware of what was happening.
Kotaro heard his kids scream and rushed past Nao just in time to see Tenko catch up with his sister. He watched as his daughter decayed to dust and burst in her brother's arms. Blood splattered the ground and covered even Tenko's face. Horror struck both Tenko and Kotaro. "Hana!" Both male voices rang out as Tenko collapsed to his knees with fear the ground beneath him decaying and breaking with each moment. His All Might toy crumbled into dust as he screamed. Nao was frozen with fear before running out to her son. "Tenko!" She screamed "baby please stop this!" She begged reaching for him but without even embracing him, yet she too burst over her son.
Tears streamed down Tenko's face as he had no idea what was happening. He swore it must be some attack from someone else. He couldn't possibly be the one killing them. He just wanted to be held by them. Why was this happening? Who was to blame? He didn't and couldn't comprehend.
Kotaro stepped out, grabbing the garden hoe from the porch. It was the closest weapon to deture his son from coming to close.
"Father! Please! Call the police call someone! They got them... momma and hana... and mon Chan! The heroes will save us, right? Protect me, please!" He begged scared he'd be next his heart racing against his chest as he approached his father sure that weapon was for the unseen attacker but sure enough the hoe brought down against his head "Get back you monster." He yelled and damn did it hurt as the metal weapon cut into his face. He groaned, and so much rage seeped through him as he rushed forward with hands spread our grabbing his father.
His body decayed bursting over him as Tenko laughed now with so much relief. Nothing was after him. This was his own power. His own freedom. His hands found their way to he ground decaying the house and his grandparents inside. He panted, shaking still covered in blood, and death surrounded him.
As his breathing steadied, only then did he realize what he'd done. That itching finally stopped, but at what cost. Horrified, he ran to look for help. His mind was a blur. He knew he'd done all of this, but at such a young age, it had to have been someone else, right? He tried to assure himself of this as he ran barefoot into the night. He caught a glimpse of himself and was terrified by it in the street shop window. His raven hair had gone white, and his once blue eyes now shown a crimson red. He wiped the blood and guts from his face before finally vomiting on the street at the thought of his families corpses.
He looked terrified and dazed as he begged strangers on the street for help. He was only met with assurance heroes were soon coming... none ever did come, however.
Three days passed. No heroes, no help, no sleep, no food... Tenko collapsed, exhausted. Tears spilled from his face as he sniffled, leaning his head against the garbage can in an alleyway.
"My my..." an elder man spoke kneeling to eye level with the boy on the ground."What have we here? A young boy all alone..? No heroes ever came to help you, but allow me to. My name is Kuroi Shigaraki... You'll be safe now, young one." He spoke in a reassuring manner, petting the small boys head.
Tenko's eyes glistened with new hope. This man stood so tall and how the sunlight hit him he looked like an angel. He had no idea he was the devil that caused his misfortune. He whimpered softly and nodded "Thank you... Thank sir..." he said softly as he shakenly forced himself up to follow in this man's lead.