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LEGION: INNOCENTS OF CAMINO
"A soldier's most powerful weapon is courage."
"Invasion!" The newsman began. "I'm Tom Kane here with World Hero News! Japan's Symbol of Peace, All Might is facing off against a deadly enemy. Meanwhile a droid army controlled by the villain group, the League of Villains has been unleashed upon the denizens of Camino after a huge attack by All Might's foe! The heroes seem helpless against this metallic menace, however, help has arrived in the form of Mand'alor's brothers and classmates! Let us hope they can hold out until more reinforcements arrive!"
After breaking away from the League, Izuku and Sentinel's squad were taken away by the jet troopers.
"Are you alright!?" Ochako asked as they gained more distance.
"Yeah!" Izuku replied. "You guys really saved me there!"
"You are in so much trouble when we get back home!"
"ME!? You're the one in an unsanctioned rescue mission!"
"How do you know it's unsanctioned?"
"As if Aizawa would let you guys do this."
"Yo! Parsley! How's it hangin'?" Setsuna cackled, using her quirk to fly with them.
"Wait, 1-B is here too!?"
"We've got a lot of people here!"
"You guys are insane! Why would you do this?"
"Why wouldn't we? You and the Vod'e have done so much for us, dude," Setsuna said as they made their way back to the small waypoint that Nite Owl set up. "They sacrificed their lives for us, we plan to fight alongside them."
"The Vod'e are facing the army, anybody with area of effect attacks are helping them, the rest of us are either setting defenses at the LZ or helping to evacuate civilians!" Ochako continued as they began to land, some more gracefully than others.
Izuku stumbled a bit as he was let go, gravity returning to him from Ochako releasing her quirk but was glad to see everyone safe and sound.
"...How many did we lose at the camp?"
"...40…with a lot more injured but they took out about 500 droids before they shut down."
Izuku bowed his head and nodded but focused on what was happening right now.
"Mand'alor!" Kix called out, Ratchet following him as the former put Izuku's arm over his shoulder to help him walk properly while Ratchet began to scan him.
"All units! Mand'alor has been safely retrieved! Still no sign of Buurenaar!" Ochako relayed before Izuku spoke up.
"Relampago did something to him…he…tortured Denki, messed with his mind. Arashi was just here but I think Denki's fighting her…it's bad…"
Ochako nodded solemnly and relayed the info.
"All units, be advised. Relampago is still at large and may have forcibly compromised Buurenaar; he is currently engaging Arashi."
"Blitz here with Bes'laar!" The clone called out on his AT-RT, he'd sent his squad to continue on their mission while the two rode on after the lights blurring in the sky. Lightning streaking across the heavens furiously.
"We can see them! We're in pursuit!"
Kyouka set her walker into full gear, the machine sprinting forwards even faster than before, managing to even surpass Blitz, never taking her eyes off of the lightning streak in the sky.
"Copy that, Blitz! Good luck!" Ochako said as the clones finished checking Izuku.
"Other than the…serious bruising on your collar, your vital signs are stable…bit lower than expected red blood cell counts though…what happened, vod?"
Izuku remained silent.
"...Izuku?"
"...I…erhm…one of the villains…she has a vampire quirk I guess…"
"...she…?"
Izuku immediately shivered.
"Uhhhhhhh…"
"Expect that to be something else we will be talking about, Mand'alor," She said before turning away, smirking.
She really enjoyed teasing him now.
'Ah, great.' he thought, trying to mentally prepare himself over how doomed he was when they got back.
Looking out at the ruins of the city, he hoped that the remaining heroes and his brothers would be able to save as many as they could.
At the moment, he was still weak, and although he really wanted to go out there and fight…
"Ochako…I'll stay here and help coordinate the evacuations and defenses…"
"Read my mind, Izuku…as if I was going to let you get out there when you've been under who knows what kind of torture like Denki…" She whispered.
"Do you want to keep the Darksaber for a bit? I feel that it'll be more useful to you than me…"
"I don't know how to use a sword," She replied, shaking her head. "It'll be better used by you."
"Alright…once we get out of this, I'll have to teach you then…for the future…"
Ochako nodded but also sighed from the overwhelming responsibility that had been given to her.
"That's also another thing we'll need to talk about, making me Mand'alor," She slightly chuckled from hysteria at the end of her sentence.
This entire situation was so chaotic…
"I know it was a lot…but I trust you…"
"Sigh…let's both stay alive then," She said as she lightly tapped her helmet against his and then rocketed off.
"...Did she just…?"
"Yep," Rex replied as he helped Izuku and gave him some rations.
"Get your strength back, vod."
"Come on, Tsunoko! We need to get out of here before the entire building collapses on us!" A teenager with a quirk that made him glow exclaimed, as he lit up the building they were currently inside, while two of his other friends were helping the horned girl walk after her leg had been pierced by rebar from the falling debris.
"Dammit, it hurts!" The girl whimpered, a bit of blood dripping out from the gash on her leg as small pieces of concrete fell from the collapsed building while they agonizingly slowly made their way to the other side.
"Come on, you can do it!" Another girl who helped her walk said as she had lit her hand on fire, also using her quirk to light up the darkness of the night and building.
They didn't know how they got to this point.
They were just students from Ketsubutsu, barely halfway through their first year. They weren't supposed to see any action till midway through their second year at the earliest.
The reason why they were here in the first place, was to visit some friends and family living in the city.
"If this is what U.A. has to deal with, makes me glad that I didn't apply…"
"...That makes two of us…"
Suddenly, they heard the unmistakable sound of metal creaking and stone rumbling. The rebar inside of the building was about to give in under its own weight.
"Shit! We need to get out of here! Come on!" One of the boys said, as he picked up the horned girl and began to pick up pace with the others.
Suddenly, the rebar gave in, the entire building beginning to fall down on them.
They may have been heroes in training, but they were still kids, so they did what any kid would do in such a situation.
They screamed.
They heard more rumbling from the side as something crashed through the walls and raised its arms, catching the building that was about to fall on top of them.
"Are you alright?!" They heard, and were shocked at the familiar voice. Turning they saw one of the clones but inside a suit of power armor that was currently holding the rubble and debris.
"M-Midoriya!?" One of them cried out in confusion.
"You know ori'vod? No matter, move!" he shouted, getting impatient at them gawking at him. "Oh for the love of- Rom! Scar! Dust! Get your asses over here and take these kids away before this damn thing collapses!" The clone shouted.
"Right!"
"Moving!"
The three clones each picked up one of the remaining students and began sprinting out, followed by the boy who had grown rocks on his head as a helmet, making it out from under the building.
Just then, the clone in the power armor let out a roar and briefly managed to throw the building a few centimeters into the air, before using some kind of boosters on his back to get out of there.
"You ok, Grid?" Rom asked as he put down the bespeckled girl he had been carrying, as he dusted himself off.
"Yeah…I'm fine. My armor needs some repairs though…" The clone now identified as Grid said "…this suit that Hatsume made is super useful!" he chirped, as the suit separated into four pieces that then began acting like sentries.
"Better be, especially after the Engineering Corps went through it," Dust commented. "Almost broke Scraps' spine the first time around." Scar shuddered as he remembered how their brother had nearly been pretzeled.
"E-excuse me? You can put me down now…" the girl with the flame quirk said to the clone holding her, a blush on her face due to how he for some reason had decided to carry her bridal style.
"Do excuse me, milady. It's just that I was too enraptured by your beauty. Plus, as a man, how could I not carry a young maiden like they deserve?" He said in a noble, yet slightly flirtatious tone, causing her face to go nuclear.
The glowing boy was too busy to look between all of the armored heroes though. Each of them sounded exactly like Midoriya, if a bit gruffer at times.
"...He really has changed…huh?" He whispered.
Everybody knew who Mand'alor was by now. Ignoring Stain, he was, somewhat jokingly, enemy number one for Ketsubutsu during the license exam earlier that year.
Ms. Joke had returned without her usual fanfare and had increased everyone's training regimen, particularly the students who would take the exam the next cycle.
One student against over a thousand.
And he still won.
Then the recent debacle with him fighting All Might at I-Island, then the news about the summer camp and now this.
One of the clones, Rom it looked like, then lifted his hand to his helmet.
"Kurama, get over here with the Redeemer. We have more civvies that need evacuation, and have Doss on standby to take care of them." Rom said.
#Copy that, Rom. I'm on my way, you're just in luck, you're along the way of the LZ.# another voice like Midoriya's replied, just as a red blaster bolt strafed the clone's helmet, who immediately began to fire in the direction that the shot had come from, while his other brothers took the others into cover.
"Damn clankers…" Scar hissed, before pulling out a rifle that didn't look like standard issue for the clones, and began firing back, nailing headshots on the droids. As it turned out, the weapon he was carrying was a sniper rifle.
More and more of the droids arrived, soon outnumbering the small group three to one.
A few minutes of firing back and forth later, the clone with a yellow color scheme loaded a strange looking grenade into a launcher that was underslung on his rifle, before firing it into the middle of the skeletal robots, with an electric shock being unleashed shortly after and deactivating a handful of them.
More just took their place though, before Grid coded in something on his vambrace, causing the four sentries to take off and fly into the mass of droids, knocking them down, crushing them and even melting them with a flamethrower.
The Ketsubutsu students just gawked in awe at what they had witnessed, just as the wind started to pick up behind them, making them look up to see another jaw dropping thing.
Some sort of flying transport landed, a gray kitsune painted on the side, with the side doors sliding open to reveal a few clones standing inside, with the students being guided onboard, just as more droids arrived on the scene.
As they flew through the air, the six hero students could feel how awkward the atmosphere was for them, the pressure of silence weighing on them heavily, as none of the clones said a word while they were transported.
Suddenly, the one in the big armor turned to them and looked down.
"What're your names, children?"
"I-I am Tsunoko Yagi," the horned girl said, before yelping as one of the medics applied a bactaspray to the wound on her leg, also wrapping bandages around the rebar to stop the worst of the bleeding.
"Akari Senkou," the glowing boy muttered, feeling a bit uncomfortable with all of the weapons around him.
"T-tomoshibi H-houoh," the flame girl muttered, still blushing enough to make herself glow as the clone, Dust, still hadn't put her down.
"Kotetsu Ganseki," the rock boy said, looking at the blasters around him, and somewhat feeling he was being taken into custody.
"Gomu Tsuihou" the red haired boy said, nervously chewing on something.
"Megane Ukabu," the last of them said, adjusting her cracked glasses slightly as she had a few things orbiting around her.
"Nice names." He said, just as they got out of the danger zone and headed towards U.A
Arashi grunted as she was launched away from the hand and crashed into a building before her instincts made her dodge to the side.
A torrent of lightning passed by where she was before she sprinted out of the building and launched her own attack.
She immediately regretted it once she saw her attacker.
"Denki!" She cried.
The boy growled, his voice sounding like rumbling thunder, blue lightning surging through his eyes and body, and what appeared to be cracks appearing all over it, too.
He roared, the sound deafening her ears, forcing her to clap her hands to try and block out the sound.
"What did he do to you!?"
"I've merely unlocked his full potential, sister!" Relampago cackled from the side.
"YOU! I'LL KILL YOU FOR THIS!"
"I'm sure you would, sister!" Relampago laughed. "But can you bear to kill your own flesh and blood once more! Deadvolt, destroy her!"
Deadvolt snarled and charged forward, Arashi charging up her arms to block the straight attack.
Then Denki disappeared.
'What!?'
And she felt her back burn in agony as a kick to her spine sent her rocketing into another building.
The impact had been so fast that she didn't even get a chance to scream before she was covered in rubble.
Arashi coughed as she burst out of the rubble, before her instincts made her block another blow that sent her skidding back.
"DENKI! PLEASE! SNAP OUT OF IT!"
"HE CAN'T HEAR YOU, ARASHI! ALL THAT'S IN HIS MIND IS HIS ANGER AND PAIN, AND YOU'RE HIS RELEASE!" Relampago guffawed at seeing his sister's own flesh and blood beating her to a pulp.
She didn't have time to block the next blow, as Denki was right in her face and hit her square in the right eye with an electrified fist, making all the veins in it burst, more or less destroying it as she was sent flying yet again.
Fearing for her life, she got up and began to fight back, lightning encoating her fists as she put her training to use, blocking the wild blows from Denki.
He had power, sure, but not the skill necessary.
She would save her son.
A clone sat on top of a building, the specialized sniper visor on his helmet being down, glowing a ghastly green in the darkness as he fired shot after shot on droids with his blaster that seemed more compact than the usual sharpshooting rifle, along with having what looked like a muzzle for some reason, going after those with a bit of yellow paint on them, as those seemed to be the leaders.
"These droids don't have that much intelligence it seems…" he deadpanned, before he stuck one of his hands into a package of what looked like dog biscuits and brought one up to his helmet, its mouthpiece opening up, before he popped said biscuit into his mouth.
"Eugh… how can you eat those things, Fenrir?" Another one of his brothers asked, his rifle looking even stranger, having a wooden stock while the barrel seemed to make up about 80 percent of the weapon.
"Look…don't judge me, alright? I don't know why, I just like them."
"...we dared him to eat them once… and now he's addicted to the damn things…"
"Bite me! They're tasty!" Fenrir snarled as he fired another shot without looking, nailing a Nomu straight in the head.
She was slowly managing to do it.
Denki's power was putting great strain on his body, and she was able to keep a good tempo.
But Relampago's incessant laughter…it reminded her too much of that day.
Of the lives lost.
Of how she was forced to make the hard decision.
She began to lose focus and soon enough, Denki's face was replaced with Relampago's.
And she snarled, striking quickly and brutally.
For all the pain, all the suffering she had to endure, all the suffering her family had to endure.
"GORO!" She roared as her arm charged with more energy, the wrappings burning away to ashes as she made a knife hand, ready to pierce his heart once again.
But as she went for the killing blow, she remembered exactly who she was fighting. The face of the man she hated fading back to her sweet boy, now bloody and bruised.
And she couldn't do anything…but let the energy peter out.
As much as she knew that she had to fight, to try and help her son.
"Mom…I think I should be a paramedic instead…it's less dangerous…"
"Oh, Denki," She said while hugging him. "I know you want to help people, but you shouldn't let what happened in the past stop you. You can become a great hero and save so, so many…you don't need to be afraid."
"Okay, mom…I'll be a hero."
She couldn't bear to strike down her boy.
That brief pause would cost her dearly.
An excruciating pain shot through her entire being, as Denki's fist punched her straight in the chest, right over her heart. The blue lighting even 'piercing' her, making her gasp in pain as her heart literally stopped.
Tears fell down her cheeks as she shakily raised her hand, and caressed his cheek lovingly.
"My beautiful…boy…" She whispered before collapsing backwards and hitting the ground.
"Goooooood… Now eradicate her!" Relampago roared, with Denki raising his fist to finish the job, just as his uncle fas shot out of the sky by blue bolts, Blitz and Kyouka arriving on the scene, with the former jumping off of her AT-RT and tackled Denki, while Blitz jumped off and rolled to Kirai, quickly analyzing the situation before he began performing CPR on her.
"More interlopers? Oh! It's you again, child," Relampago said with a grin. "Hoping to succeed where his own mother failed?"
Kyoka merely clenched her fists and raised them.
"Ah…you can't speak, can you?" He observed. "Guess I caused too much damage…oh well…Deadvolt…destroy her."
Denki unleashed a lighting barrage and Kyoka brought forth her bracers, a sonic distortion appearing in front of her as she clashed them together, diverting the electricity, before he got up close and personal, unleashing a torrent of punches, the punk girl's armor taking the worst of the blows as she backed away.
Denki was fast, but he was getting tired. Whatever Relampago had done to him was starting to disappear as the bluish-white lightning was starting to fade away.
But he was still relentless, and she couldn't do much with Relampago nearby.
So with a silent scream, she tackled Denki and launched forward with her jet pack into the sky, the electricity actually helping to keep her muscles locked and him stuck to her.
"D-Denki!" She coughed out, her throat still healing. "DENKI!"
Denki then started to headbutt her, the electricity beginning to short out and fizzle, the strain of everything making him practically seize while her helmet started to crack, the visor shattering and revealing her eyes filled with tears..
A wild head butt sent her slightly spiraling and knocked her helmet off, and she could clearly see Denki face twitching, the lightning spazzing out of him.
Tears flowing and evaporating from his cheeks.
"Denki! Come back to me!" She screamed, feeling her vocal chords tearing themselves to shreds with each word coming out of her mouth while her own tears ran down her cheeks.
"PLEASE COME BACK!" She cried, before her vocal chords gave out on her once again.
She felt her entire body scream at her to get away from the electricity flowing around the two, some of it even burning her and her armor slightly as it made contact.
But she didn't care.
She just wanted her Denki back.
Clasping his cheeks gently, she held back a hiss as she felt the burning sensation on her hands, before she used the last of her strength to pull herself closer to him, their lips connecting with each other, with Denki's quirk fizzing out while his pupils trembled and slowly began returning to normal as they started to fall, the moon illuminating them.
"Kyoka…"
"Denki!" She smiled at him with tears in her eyes.
He started gasping heavily and trembling.
"I…what happened? I…RELAMPAGO!" He cried out in fear. "Where is he?"
"He's still down there," She whispered.
"Your voice…"
"Don't worry about it," She shook her head before caressing his face. "I have an idea…trust me?"
"...always…"
"SHIELD WALL!" A clone ordered once more, and the clones set up their shields, the blue energy popping up once more as more clones behind them took civilians to the LAATs.
Red shots impacted against the shields, the barrage pushing the clones back a bit, but they stood tall.
"Burk! Get ready to open fire!"
"Copy that Bulkhead! Men, get ready to fire!" Burk said as he and some others came up to the shield wall.
"Stand your ground, Vod'e!" Armament roared as he stepped up and activated all four shields on his organic and mechanical arms, planting his feet in the ground.
"Rotary blasters!" Arsenal bellowed, with several clones coming running up to the line and stuck their weapons of choice out from the energy fields and in between the metal plates.
Standing their ground as the red blaster bolts impacted their shields, the firing line awaited orders from Arsenal, who lifted his arm into the air and brought it down, the clones opening fire and cutting down row after row of droids.
It still however seemed like that their numbers were endless, and the Nomu joining them certainly didn't help, as they seemed to have some sort of minor absorption quirk.
Arsenal then stepped up, the sounds of all of his weapons heating up as the small barrels on his vambraces began to spin and the cannons on his shoulders heated up.
"Alright, clankers… EAT LASER!" he thundered as he let loose with all of the weapons he was carrying, a wall of blaster bolts and miniature rockets erupting from him.
The droids didn't just get cut down during the onslaught, but straight up started to melt due to the intense heat while the Nomu were reduced to little more than Swiss cheese.
"Sir, we're being overrun! There's just too many of them!" One of his brothers shouted, dodging a blaster bolt.
"SEEKERS INCOMING!"
They could see jetpack troopers come by, dropping bombs and shooting down droids, but what was the most noticeable thing however, was Aoyama flying around and doing what was essentially miniature orbital strikes.
"...and there goes the plausible deniability…"
"I think we're well past that point, Fuse."
"Oh well, bombs away!" He said as he lit up not one, not two, but an entire bandolier of detonators and tossed them over to a group of droids.
KABOOM!
"Ah…I love the smell of explosions in the morning."
"It's the middle of the night."
"I said what I said."
Relampago smiled as he saw the two spiraling around in the sky. Deadvolt's powers may be hurting him, but that only required training and perhaps a few body modifications.
"Oh, looks like he's dragging her down," He noted as the movement became even more sporadic before they started to spike downwards and then head towards him.
"There we go, Deadvolt…just like that," He grinned. He was barely giving any notice to the clone uselessly trying to revive his sister.
He could see them getting closer, it seemed that the girl's helmet had been knocked off.
They started to spiral again, and he noticed that Deadvolt had forcefully separated himself from her before grabbing her by the back of the jetpack, the two spiraling again as he forced her to face Relampago.
Then she screamed.
Relampago was assaulted point blank by the soundwaves that erupted from her throat sending him flying back screaming in agony.
As the two students hit the ground, Denki then ran over to where Blitz was as he finally realized his actions.
"Mom! MOM!" He cried as he started to break down and hold her hand, "Mommy, please, I'm sorry!" He weeped. "I'm sorry!"
"Denki, I'm doing what I can and I've already called for an evac but her heart is still down, any longer and she risks permanent brain damage, you need to restart her heart!" Blitz said, with the two only now realizing how their friend was covered in scorch marks that looked like whips, along with his helmet having been broken with blood running down one of his eyes.
"R-right!" Denki said as he sniffed and charged up his quirk.
'3000 volts…'
"CLEAR!"
BA-BUM!...Thumbs down
Kyoka had plugged her jacks into the ground, the sonic scream that she'd done had left her throat destroyed, but she was able to motion for heartbeats.
"Again!"
"CLEAR!"
BA-BUM!...Thumbs down.
"AGAIN!"
BA-BUM!
…
Ba-bum…ba-bum…ba-bum…
Thumbs up.
Denki broke down again over his mother, shame and horror filling his soul mixed with relief and joy.
Kyoka hugged him, and he sobbed into her chest, rapidly mumbling apologies and other things.
She merely held him close, glad to have him back.
"LAAT's on its way…I also called in extra reinforcements," Blitz said as he continued monitoring Arashi.
The sound of rubble moving caught his attention and he quickly got up with his rifle.
Moving forward he saw Relampago, blood pouring out of all the orifices of his face, barely able to move, let alone stand back up.
Blitz raised his rifle.
"Hehehe…even if you kill me…I'll still come back…" He said.
Blitz lowered his rifle and changed the setting.
"Then you'll rot instead," He replied as he fired and stunned the man.
Just in time for the LAAT to arrive. He idly noticed his brothers coming up from behind before they secured the man.
Everybody boarded and they headed off, the clones adding more restraints to Relampago
As they headed inside, Kyoka noticed that Denki was staring at what Blitz had grabbed from the AT-RT and passed to him.
His armor.
Kyoka grabbed his helmet and caressed his face before making him look into her eyes.
"...I can't…"
She nodded her head.
'You must.'
"After what I've done…"
He felt a bit of a bump in his chest, before seeing how she'd pushed it towards him, holding it close to his body.
For a moment, they simply stared into each other's eyes, their very souls bared between them.
Denki gulped as he bowed his head, and she put the helmet on him before helping him strap the other parts of his armor.
For simplicity's sake, they'd only brought his helmet, chest plate, and vambraces. After doing so, Kyoka gently bumped her helmet against his and held his hand while her earjacks gently wrapped themselves around him.
A sudden shaking of the LAAT however, shook them out of the moment.
"What's going on?" Denki called in concern.
"Something's up! An enormous explosion of wind knocked us off course and some kind of pillar of golden energy just erupted in the sky!"
"Buurenaar, I know it's a lot, command knows that you're back, they're asking for your help at the scene, the other medics won't be able to get there in time to help if anybody needs an AED," Blitz said.
Denki gulped under his helmet.
#This is Ratchet! The camp is being overrun by droids, Nomu and villains! I repeat, we are being overrun! Requesting reinforcements!" The ARC Trooper's voices called out from the comms.
"We need to hurry back! That place is filled with civilians! Not just the men, but the women and children too! Punch it, Throttle! Show us why you have your name!" Blitz yelled to the pilot who complied and sped up.
"Hold on tight! This is going to be the fastest that the Intervention has flown yet!"
"We need to bring Arashi to the hospital!"
"I know! Get ready to drop!"
Denki paused as he stared back at his mother who was still being tended to. He desperately wanted to stay by her side, but he knew what she would tell him.
'The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few.' He recalls his mother saying once.
"I'll make things right, mom…" He whispers as he holds her hand one last time before heading to the doors.
He felt somebody strap a jetpack to his back and shakily took Kyoka's hand.
She tightened her grip, and once they were clear, they leapt out to the battlefield.
Together.
Across the battlefield, carnage was still spreading as droids attacked the defenseless people of Camino.
"No! Please! Please don't ki-ARGH!" A woman screamed just as she was what could only be explained as executed by a droid.
A man was currently, if illegally using his quirk to defend himself and a group of children from some droids and was doing rather well, until three dropped down from a building, being built more robust yet still nimble enough to seem like ninja.
Once the leader knocked him down, all three of them aimed their blasters and fired three times each, the machines seemingly taking a sadistic pleasure in doing so.
Elsewhere, a child was held up by his parents, as droids kept attacking around them, more people, and even heroes, falling to their firepower.
His parents led him to a pair of doors that led into an underground cellar and kissed him goodbye before placing him inside and closing the doors.
An explosion rattled the doors.
A large droid opened the doors and twisted its arm as it readied to fire.
A blue shot hit its shoulder, making it turn to face its aggressor before it was killed by another one, blowing a gaping hole in its body.
An armored figure appeared, extending his hand. Taking it, he was raised out of the cellar to see more armored figures on jetpacks firing on the droids, saving the people and evacuating them.
One pointed at the soldier holding the boy and pointed up.
He took two steps and then launched into the skies, and as the boy looked down, he could see the white and colored soldiers fighting against the droids and winning.
Something he caught out of his eye however, were the two figures lying still on the ground next to the doors.
That was the last time he would see his parents alive.
A small detachment of clones led by Fordo and Yanagi made their way through the city. There had been a few more, but they had split off to distract some Nomu who went after the group, and hadn't made any radio activity since then.
"I don't like this. I seriously don't like this…"
"Can it, Wooley." Fordo whispered, before hearing a metallic sound from a manhole, making everyone turn their blasters on said location, as they noticed someone or something tried lifting the lid.
"Hold your fire, boys." ARC Trooper said as he gestured to his brothers to lower their weapons, just as the cover was pushed to the side, with Waxer and Boil coming out.
"Waxer, Boil! Where have you two slackers been?!" he demanded of the two who flinched slightly.
"W-we can explain, vod! You see, we got a bit sidetracked." Boil explained, just as the little girl peeked her head out from behind his leg.
"I think I see what sidetracked you." he began to chuckle, before taking off his helmet and knelt down to eye level with the girl. "Hello, little one." he said, to which she hid behind Boil again, covering her eyes.
"She brought us here through the sewer system, she knows her way around them surprisingly well." Waxer answered, before Fordo looked back towards the girl and began speaking a foreign language, just like she had.
"She says she can help us navigate through the city, but there are a lot of droids and Nomu up ahead. We'll need a diversion so we can put them in a pincer attack."
Looking at what he had to work with, he nodded to himself as he began to do the math in his head.
"Waxer, Boil, Mayhem. You three are with me, Emily, Phantom, Spectre, Ghost and Revenant will be responsible for the first strike while we make our way behind them."
Reiko and the squad nodded as they moved forward, the group disappearing into the night, partially thanks to their stealth devices.
Speaking to the little girl again, Fordo and the others made their way into the sewer system with her as their guide.
It would only take a few minutes for them to hear the familiar marching of droids, however they also saw a small group of survivors fleeing, while the robots started to shoot at them, luckily missing the majority of their shots.
Fordo and his group had hid in the buildings, while Yanagi's group got the attention of the survivors and made them run behind the building they were hiding at, before running out from cover, guns blazing.
"That's the signal! Tow cables!" Fordo shouted, as he fired a cable to the other side of the street, followed by the others who then used them to glide down while shooting, sans Waxer who stayed with the girl.
After they had cut down the droids, luckily no loses, Waxer came down with the girl and put her on the ground, before he heard a woman and man call out someone and ran towards him, before they picked up the girl.
Fordo was in shock when he saw the two people however.
"Monsieur and Mademoiselle Aoyama?" What are you doing in Camino!? And who's the girl?" he asked, somewhat managing to convey a French accent as he approached them.
"Ah, monsieur Fordo, we did not expect to see you here, but thank goodness you are here! Is our little Yuuga unharmed?" Mrs. Aoyama asked as she held the girl in her arms who just hugged her mother.
"He is… Somewhat… But again, who is the kid?"
"This is Charlotte, our youngest. We were separated during the attack and were afraid we had lost her during the opening explosion," Mr. Aoyama said, as more of the civilians walked to them, just as the ground shook once again.
"Come on! We need to get you out of here," Fordo said as part of the squad formed up on them and escorted them out, the rest continuing their mission to flank the droids.
"MAMAN! PAPA! CHARLOTTE!" Another voice cried out as Yuga landed in front of them and hugged the three.
The family began to rapidly speak in french, shedding tears of joy and relief.
After calming down a bit, they quickly moved out back towards the landing zone, while the others continued to destroy the pocket of droids, more Seekers coming by from above once they saw the battle and providing aerial support.
Something all of them noticed was that Charlotte seemed to like being around Waxer and Boil, the little girl having her hand wrapped around their fingers more often than not.
Just as they made their way out of the city, they noticed something blue flying towards them, before it impacted a building a few hundred meters away.
"What in the…" Fordo muttered, as he ran off with his brothers and Nau'ur, not noticing the civilians following too.
"The base is being overrun! I repeat! We are being overrun!" Ratched called out as he used one of his tools to knock down a droid getting a bit too close for comfort.
"Where are those reinforcements!?" Rex called out as he took cover behind a downed AT-RT, firing back every now and then.
"The Negotiator can't take off in these conditions! And the ball turrets don't have a high enough angle of elevation to be useful!" Bullseye shouted as he and some of the students carried out something from one of the transport, which turned out to be a heavy blaster cannon.
Getting onto it, Bullseye opened fire, the boxy gun cutting down rows of droids who kept on marching forward relentlessly.
One clone was standing and firing his blaster, until an explosion erupted behind him, throwing him forward while spinning and landed on the ground before Kix dragged him into cover, using his miniature shield on his vambrace to provide a bit of cover.
Izuku was using Hikage's power to help him deflect oncoming blaster bolts, but it was barely doing anything to help.
He didn't know if reinforcements would get there in time…
But perhaps he could make some.
"Rex! I need cover! I'm going to try and summon more reinforcements."
"Vod, in your condition-"
"There's no other choice!"
Rex growled in frustration but nodded.
"I swear, if you die, I'll tell Ochako so she can revive you just to kill you again!"
"STOIC, RAGA,TORC, AND BREACH! Give Mand'alor some cover fire!"
"RIGHT!"
Stoic and Raga used their shields, while Torc and Breach used their rifles to help.
A few more clones, like Dragon and E'tad [Seven], also provided covering fire while Izuku knelt and focused on his power.
"IZUKU! WHEN WE'RE DONE HERE, I'M GOING TO FIND A WAY TO GET BACK TO THE PHYSICAL WORLD AND BEAT YOU OVER THE HEAD FOR SURRENDERING TO ALL FOR ONE!"
'Love you, too!' He cheekily snarked to Nana, only increasing her frustration.
"Honestly, just as reckless as Toshi…are you alright?"
'Fine for now, but I need to bring out reinforcements…and I need something that can provide cover fire for the landing zone to protect Nite Owl and the LAATs.'
"What's your plan then?"
'Legion has adapted constantly to help me overcome the situations I've found myself in. This time I'm going to force it to adapt to what I need it to be.'
"Sounds risky, but for some reason, those plans usually work for you."
A droid tried to sneak up on him with its sword while the two bickered, only to be engulfed by blue flames, as Dragon unleashed his weapon of choice on the metal construct.
'Alright… here goes nothing… We need something with heavy firepower, but also something that can take a beating and can move through all this debris.'
"I think it's working, the engineering section has come up with just what you need, Izuku. They corps bringing them here now;"
Izuku breathed in deeply as he charged up One For All and used it to fuel Legion.
"You're gonna need a big door!"
'Right!'
As the power continued to culminate, he opened his eyes and spoke.
"LEGION:...!"
A large green portal opened.
"FORWARD, MARCH!"
Although march had been the command, the ensuing reinforcements were anything but, quickly appearing with fresh supplies and manpower to help relieve those that were getting tired.
"Keep holding it! They're coming out right now!"
'Just what is it that's this big and needs this… much… time… IS THAT A CANNON!?
The large cannon that stuck out of the portal was followed by the sound of heavy mechanical steps and pistons, before something curved and angular exited, the cockpit at the front having four smaller cannons around it as it kept on walking out of the portal, soon revealing itself to be a behemoth just a little over twenty meters in length and being held up by six legs, followed by another one similar to it.
"By the Lost Legion… They're beautiful!" Bullseye exclaimed as he saw the two newly arrived vehicles, just as the portal closed with one last clone hopping out.
'What the hell are these things!? Nana?!'
"The Corps calls the All Terrain Tactical Enforcers, or AT-TE's for short. Kinda charming machines, if I do say so myself,"
"Alright! Move the injure inside the tanks! They will be protected there!" Ratchet shouted, as clone medics started to move out to carry the injured inside.
The turrets at the front of the two newly deployed vehicles provided covering fire, shooting just as fast as the LAAT's, but with double the firepower, cutting down the droids within the vicinity.
The problem with summoning something so big however, meant that they instantly were targeted by the enemy army, with red blaster bolts and quirks from the Nomu quickly pounding against the sloped armor of the walkers.
"Bullseye! man the main gun! We can't keep going with only the turrets!" the pilot inside the first that had arrived shouted, just as Bullseye popped out of the hatch on top of the walker and made his way into it.
"Hohohohoho! I've always dreamed about firing one of these…" he snickered, just as he texted in some coordinates, making the turret swerve in the direction of a mass of droids and Nomu.
TCHEW!
The cannon rocked the entire tank when it fired, with the legs keeping it stabilized as the shell it had just fired raced through the air and impacted the ground in the middle of the droids and Nomu, exploding upon impact.
Another batch of droids arrived and opened fire on the tank, the red bolts impacting against the hull, with Bullsye ducking to not get shot.
"Initiating Fortress mode!" The pilot shouted and pressed a few buttons, before pulling a lever, causing an armored plate to raise in front of the cockpit, while the turret was closed off to look more like the cockpit had before, an armored box with some glass to the side, while the softer looking mid section was covered by plates similar to an armadillo or Roman chest plate.
The AT-TE continued to fire, with its twin moving to the other side of the LZ to provide more cover.
Izuku remained on his haunches, resting from the strain he just put himself through.
"Izuku?"
'I'm fine…just tired…'
In truth, he felt more than tired, it was an exhaustion that was seeping into his bones. Feeling slightly nauseous, he took off his helmet, but fortunately nothing came up.
"You alright, vod?" Rex asked as he got close. "You literally look thinner around your face…"
"Yeah, just…took a lot out of me…"
Ochako then flew in, jetpack cutting off as she landed to kneel next to Izuku and gently rubbed his back.
"You can rest, Izuku…we're handling things," She said. "Captain, how goes things?"
"We have gotten a bit better hang on the situation. The droid and nomu army has us surrounded on all sides, as you can see, and our scouts and squads out in the city have reported the clankers executing civilians in cold blood," he reported. "All Might is still fighting All For One, but it doesn't look good..""
"How bad?"
"Bad enough that we still can't get close…"
#All units! Something's gone wrong! All Might's run out of time! His true form has been revealed!#
"What!?" Izuku cried out in shock.
"True form? What's he talking about?" Ochako asked as she walked up to them.
"Never mind that! We need to get to him right now!" Izuku shouted, trying to stand up on his wobbly legs.
"Wow, wow, wow! You aren't walking anywhere! Not in your condition!"
"Then give me a jetpack! Or take me to an LAAT!" He shouted, desperate to get back to All Might so he could help.
"We can't. The droids and Nomu fire at anything that moves through the air."
The sound of the AT-TE's main cannon firing caught their attention, as they looked at it. The thing was armored and armed to the teeth while being able to pass over difficult terrain.
"The LAATs and the Gauntlet are large ships, fast but big targets…but if I'm fast enough…" Izuku said as he began to charge his quirk again.
"Wait, Izuku! Don't-!"
But too late, in a blur of green lightning, Izuku disappeared once more.
"Damn it, I shouldn't have let him go…" Ochako cursed as she helped another civilian enter the LAAT."
"Negotiator's at full capacity! We'll drop them off then head back for another pickup!"
"Copy that, Oddball! Good luck!"
"No use worrying now, he was going to fight with or without armor!" Momo replied as she helped deal out medical supplies.
"How are things going?"
"So far, we're doing good! The droids don't have aerial capabilities, so the jet troopers have been hitting them from above and the ships have been carpet bombing them whenever they come back," Momo replied before their attention was caught by another.
"Keep bringing in the injured! I want every single soldier, officer, and civilian with even the smallest scratch here pronto! We can't let even one of them succumb to injuries, or I would be ashamed to call myself a medic!" Ratchet barked as the mediclones and even some hospital staff they'd found scrambled around to help.
"Have there been any casualties?" Momo asked. "From the Vod'e?"
"So far no, just injuries…the shield walls are helping but every moment they're at risk of dying once they head out…"
"We just have to trust them, Ochako…the good thing is that these droids are automatons, they fight by marching. As much as I hate to say it, all this destruction provides them plenty of cover for counterattacks and other tactics."
Ochako nodded and then left with a squad of clones to venture out for more injured.
A large explosion at the epicenter, however, caught everyone's attention as the ground trembled and winds passed over everyone.
"I think something just happened with All Might's fight…"
"I-"
Ochako was interrupted by the pillar of golden energy that erupted near ground zero.
"...Something's wrong!" Ochako called out. "I recognize that pillar…!"
It was the same as Izuku's from the USJ.
"Izuku…"
"This is not good… the numbers are off the charts but… they're dropping rapidly," Ratchet said as he checked his vambrace.
"What numbers?"
"The numbers that show his strength, "Ratchet replied grimly.
"Whose?"
…
"All Might's…"
…
"Dammit! We need to set after that idiot before he ends up breaking his entire skeleton! Because I'm going to be the one to do it! Pilot! Follow him!" Ochako screamed as she used her quirk to jump onto the roof of the walker, landing next to the cannon.
"Ma'am yes ma'am!" The pilot reported as he began moving the walker forwards while the other took its place defending the base.
The machine was surprisingly fast for its size, even in uneven terrain like this as it kept on moving forward, taking and dishing out fire while also crushing any of their foes unfortunate enough to find themselves near its feet.
Hopefully, they would make it in time to help.
Izuku tore through the air, even managing to carve a swathe through the droids as he soared right above them.
'If All Might's out of time…'
He couldn't bear the thought.
Finally however, he could see the battlefield ahead of him. All Might appeared to be distracted by something, what it was he didn't know.
All he could see was All For One, charging his attack.
"NO!"
He spiked his quirk to 50%, breaking his legs as he left a sonic boom behind him as well as multiple rings of air.
The Darksaber shrieked through the sky and Izuku roared as he swiped.
A roar of pain rang through the air, as All For One's arm fell to the ground, the Darksaber having cut clean through it in a single .
All For One then snarled and grabbed Izuku by the face, smashing through his helmet with one strike.
"KAH!"
"NO!" All Might screamed as he saw All For One grab his boy.
"I had plans for you, Mand'alor," He spat out with a curse. "But I'm afraid you've become too much of a nuisance!"
Black and red energy then surged through his hand.
And Izuku screamed.
There are moments, in the life of each parent, where they are struck by the incalculable feeling of fear that arises when their child is in danger.
Throughout infinite moments of history, there are stories of parents doing the impossible to save their children.
Mothers and Fathers, quirkless or not, lifting cars to free trapped children.
Fighting against criminals or attackers with parental rage.
In scientific terms, this was commonly known as hysterical strength.
Yagi Toshinori had felt fear and rage many times throughout the course of his career, the last time being when he last fought All For One.
But as he saw Izuku, his Izuku, his son. Held up by All For One's hand…
How he screamed in agony.
Something snapped.
And One For All roared.
All For One couldn't even metaphorically blink before he was punched away by a fully grown All Might, the world around them exploding from the sheer force of the punch as the latter quickly grabbed Izuku and landed back on the ground.
"Izuku…IZUKU!" He pleaded as the boy could only cry out in agony, his body still twitching in pain from what felt like every nerve ending being set on fire.
"Buir…" Izuku sobbed, his vision blurry, choking on every breath from whatever had been done to him. "Dad…it hurts…it hurts…"
Not only that, everything felt wrong, as if All For One had literally torn his body apart from the inside out.
"It's going to be okay," Toshinori soothed as he gently caressed his hair out of his face," Just stay with me, son, please, just stay with me…"
Izuku began to gasp for breath, his body trembling in Toshinori's arms.
"I…I'm scared…" Izuku whispered.
"Just…it'll be fine…I'm here…I'm here, my boy," Toshinori whispered as he held him tightly. "My son."
Izuku finally managed to look his father in the eyes, his breathing slowing down alongside his heartbeat.
"...I'm sorry…" He breathed out as his eyes turned glassy.
Toshinori gasped.
"...Izuku? Izuku! IZUKU!" He screamed as he started to gently shake the boy's body.
His mind clouded, he hugged the boy closer and began to rock him, whispering his name over and over.
He paused as he heard the clapping.
"Truly an emotional spectacle,"All Might." The voice rasped, his breathing apparatus crackling with each breath.
All Might slowly looked up to face his hated nemesis, wondering how the hell he was clapping.
Said enemy had some kind of red construct sprouting off the stump of his arm.
"I truly didn't expect to bring this quirk to play…it does leave a taxing toll on me, but considering that I'll have to wait to take off the cauterized parts of my arm before properly regenerating…I think it worth the effort."
The Eighth Holder of One For All did not respond.
"You should be proud of your boy, All Might," All For One complimented. "He truly would have been a force to reckon with…I admit, I'm a bit disappointed that I had to disrupt Tomura's plans like that."
All Might did not respond.
"But above all, I am most disappointed that One For All and All For One can no longer be reunited…truly a pity, and we're certainly doing things out of order, the apprentice going before the master."
Yagi Toshinori did not respond.
"But I suppose we'll have to fix that, won't we?"
With one final, shuddering breath, he bowed his head and kissed Izuku's head before gently setting him down and closing his eyes.
Standing tall but trembling with grief and rage, steam pouring off of him, the remnants of One For All burned like an inferno.
And Izuku's father finally responded.
"All…For…OOOOOOOOOOONNNNNNNNNEEEEEEEEEEE!"
And golden lightning erupted from his, as a tower of energy consumed him.
This time, All For One did have the time to metaphorically blink.
Then All Might was already on him.
One fist collided with his apparatus, shattering it into hundreds of pieces, revealing All For One's face, or rather his lack of one.
His entire head sans his mouth was covered by scar tissue, covering both his eyes and nose.
This interaction lasted for less than a second before physics caught up to them and All For One was sent flying towards a building at mach 5.
Inside the mindscape, things were going to hell. Fires were everywhere with clones trying to put them out and alarms were blaring with the red lights being on as the brothers scrambled to get to different positions and areas while Nana was hit with a constant stream of reports, each worse than the other.
"Integrity is failing in sector three! Sealing off the corridor!"
"The hangar is in chaos! Whatever All For One did caused a chain reaction in the vehicles!" Another clone shouted, just as an explosion was heard.
"Oh no… nonononono! The fire is spreading to the ammunition depot!" If that that blows, it will leave ori'vod a vegetable!"
Nana gnashed her teeth at all the chaos going on. It looked exactly like the scene from the day she died.
"Damn you, All for One… Damn you all to hell…"
"Ba'buir! The fires are spreading to the youth quarters! They're trapped inside!"
At that, her eyes widened as she began sprinting towards the sector.
She was soon joined by the clone fire brigade and reached the doors that were blocked by the burning, collapsed ceiling.
The clones immediately began spraying water and foam on the flames, while Nana went over and began trying to lift some of the rubble.
It burned her ethereal palms and arms, however the voices from the other side made it clear to her that the young ones were panicking. She had already failed one son, she wouldn't fail these.
"MOVE NANA!"
She dodged to the side as black tendrils pierced the corners of the doors and curled in before wrenching them out, allowing the young clones inside to run out.
"Come on, move! This place is going to collapse any time now!" The gruff voice of a man called out as he helped the shorter Izuku's evacuate.
"Daigoro?" Nana asked, as medics came to treat the burns on her arms and hands.
"Not just him. Us too." Another voice said, this one quieter as a man with a big turtleneck came out of the shadows, followed by four more.
Nana smiled.
"We'll have to trust that those outside can help Izuku, so let's do our part here! OYA!"
"OYA!"
"Scratch, status report. What is the situation?" Rex said from within the AT-TE, using his wrist comm to talk with his brother.
#It's horrible… Ori'vod's down, he's not moving! Crap! Get over here, pronto!# their hyperactive brother whispered from his concealed spot near the battlefield.
"Shit… How long until we're within range?"
"A minute if we continue with this speed."
"Right. Bullseye! You heard the man! Prepare the Mass Driver and aim at that monster!" Rex yelled to his brother in the gun canopy who gave him a thumbs up and started aiming the cannon.
Much to their surprise though, he didn't fire.
"What's taking you so long, Bullseye!? Fire the damn cannon!" Ochako said as she knocked on the canopy, which the gunner opened.
"I can't! All Might's in the way!"
"What the what!?" taking a pair of binoculars, the brunette looked towards the fight.
"I've never seen him so angry…"
"Can you see ori'vod anywhere?" Rex asked, to which she nodded.
"I need jetpack fuel this instant… I need to see if I can save him!" She said, with another clone arriving with a canister of the booster pack fuel and put it into her jetpack, before patting her shoulder twice.
All Might roared, although the voice behind it was inhuman, more that of a god of rage incarnate as he pummeled All For One through buildings, the latter using his red construct quirk to protect himself, amplifying his quirk as much as possible against the wrathful onslaught.
He was literally giving no time at all for his nemesis to charge up another air cannon, therefore, All For One finally decided to fight back with his fists, delivering a brutal right cross that briefly knocked his foe back before taking an uppercut that sent him spinning down before he caught himself and leapt back up for another strike.
The two were relentless, although All For One was forced to be on the defensive, All Might's rage so great that his blows had become titanic.
All For One managed to toss All Might to the ground, the latter quickly catching himself as red lasers spawned from the construct armor, the grieving father blitzing across the battlefield to avoid them and giving two powerful blows to the head, knocking him back again.
Flicking the air behind him, All Might sped forward, catching All For One by the shoulder before kicking off with his feet and bringing both of his fists together, smashing them onto All For One's back, spiking him to the ground.
He was relentless, never giving his hated foe a moment's rest as, not even a few seconds after getting back up, he slammed to the ground and punched All For One back into the air, striking him earlier after the latter tried to hit him before leaping forward again and punching him through another building.
When they reached the apex of their fight, All Might slammed him back down to the ground again before stomping on his head, the construct barely able to maintain its form and protect him.
All For One snarled as red tendrils shot out and sent All Might back before bursting forward and kicking All Might in the chest.
The negative effects of using such demanding quirks were already taking effect on All For One who growled in anger at just how weak he'd become.
Not even a moment after however, All Might was already on top of him with a roar, his golden aura nearly blinding to what quirks All For One used to 'see'.
All For One was sent through another building before receiving more titanic blows, eventually the two began trading blows in the air before All For One was twin-kicked down back to the ground.
He crashed harshly to the ground with a loud grunt, not even getting a chance to breath before All Might crashed on top of him, grabbed him by the lapel of his suit and began to punch him repeatedly.
"YOU-PUNCH-TOOK-PUNCH-EVERYTHING-PUNCH-FROM-PUNCH-ME-NOW-I'M GONNA-PUNCH-MAKE YOU-PAY!"
PUNCH
whhhiiiiRRRRR
PUNCH
BOOOOM!
All Might grunted in pain as red energy erupted from All For One's construct, making him fall to his knees.
The former was snarling in fury, his construct having to be shattered and reformed because of the sheer amount of damage it took, draining him even further.
He had to finish this now.
"You will do nothing but die!"
All Might growled as he faced his enemy and reached out with all his might, his thumbs piercing the construct and making painful contact with the scarred eye sockets, even making them bleed.
He then swung All For One back and forth, slamming him into the ground with each arc he made before tossing him away, the latter only able to get onto his knee before being tackled once more.
They clashed again, city crushing blows delivered against each other before All For One knocked his archenemy into a building, the latter leaping off it to crash against his foe only to be flipped and slammed into the ground, All For One bringing his fists up to crush All Might only for him to flick his tongue against his tooth, sending him flying with a burst of air pressure.
The two continued fighting and trading blows before deadlocking themselves by grabbing each other's throats.
"You have spirit, All Might! But the strength of a lost loved one has failed you bef-"
TCHEW!
"AAAGH!" He screamed as he crashed into a building before shakily pushing himself out and observing the damage he'd just taken.
The blue projectile had cut his mutated arm clean off, the villain sneering as he bit through the pain and turned his head to the direction it had come from, using an infrared quirk to follow the heat trail.
All For One roared in fury as he noticed the walking machine in the distance before launching a projectile at it, the red beam striking it head on and causing an enormous explosion that made it collapse.
"NO!" All Might roared as he brought his fists together and slammed them on his enemy with the force of an earthquake, shattering his constructed armor and spiking him to the earth.
All Might landed a short distance away, ready to finally put down his most hated enemy.
He took one step forward.
And collapsed to his hands and knees, vomiting blood as the golden aura around him fizzled out.
"Toshinori!" Gran Torino yelled as he got close to his fallen son. "You numbskull, what were you thinking!?" He asked in fear and concern as he helped the man up.
"I'm going to kill him…" Toshinori grunted out before vomiting out more blood.
"You've overdone it! Look at you!"
"Izuku…didn't give up his life for me to fail now!" Toshinori growled.
Gran Torino paused and gulped.
"Toshinori…I saw what happened, I got him away and he's being given CPR as we speak, he still has a chance, but if you don't do things right, you won't even get the chance to see him again!" He warned.
Toshinori grimaced, shutting his eyes and desperately trying to blink away the tears.
"Toshinori…listen…look around you," Torino said, and he looked and witnessed the heroes and clones, still trying their best, still evacuating people.
"None of this would be possible if it wasn't for you, but you've got to keep your head!"
And he could hear it, he could feel it. The people begging for him to win, to save them one last time.
"You were always my inspiration to become a hero, buir…always saving people with a smile on your face."
"Smile, Toshinori…after all, the strongest are those who smile."
"Is he truly safe?" Toshinori asked, daring to hope.
"He's with his brothers and friends…this is it, Toshinori."
All Might closed his eyes and nodded…at this point he'd done too much damage to his body, but if he could do just one thing left…
One For All sparked to life once more, as he concentrated all of his power to his right arm.
All For One growled before he noticed how All Might had weakened, with the snarl turning into a grin as he began to use several quirks in the arm stump he had lost just a minute ago, the limb starting regenerate before warping and twisting until it looked more like a mace made of flesh and metal, smacking All Might across the face, the latter barely able to block and sending him skidding back, before he lifted a leg and sent small, bony projectiles flying at him like bullets, each burying deep into his hated opponents flesh.
"Look at how pathetic you've gotten. Nothing like your former self but the meat in your head. You never were a bright individual, not when you could only ever think with your fists, not to mention your tunnel vision when you get angry." the scarred villain sneered, before he turned his head towards where Izuku was lying with some clones.
Using a quirk, he began to fly towards the boy and raised his arm, beginning to bring it down just as a pink and black flash snatched the freckled teen up and out of harm's way, just in time as the shockwave from the hit sent whoever had taken his victim spiraling out of control.
"A minor inconvenience… But I won't miss twice!" he roared and readied his arm once again.
TCHEW!
That same accursed sound happened once more, but this time he was able to dodge.
Noticing his opponent was the same tank-like thing, it had fully slumped over.
'A final desperate attack…'
"I guess this really is the end, All Might! Just you and me," He declared.
"A hero does have a lot to save…doesn't he? All For One!" All Might said, his signature smile returning even in his skinnier form, mocking him even now by throwing back his earlier words.
All For One growled in frustration.
"That's why I won't lose!"
And within him, the last spark of One For All continued to burn.
"Toshinori, when you think you're at your limit, remember…"
'I will remember.'
"Remember why you clench your fist…"
'Remember why…'
"Remember where you came from…your origin," Nana said, bringing her arm up into a little pose.
Smiling.
"That'll bring you just a little past your limit!"
'My origin…I want to make a world where everyone can smile and live together.'
"I want to make a world where people will look at me and my brothers and feel hope."
'If I am to pave the way for my son…then I'll go beyond!' All Might thought as yellow lightning surged around his now muscular arm.
Gran Torino observed, still worried. All Might had already reached his limit when his grief-induced rage had overcharged him, but now he was definitely on his last feet as evident by that distorted form.
"All your might…that was the last of it, wasn't it, All Might?"
He then chuckled.
"A wounded and grieving hero is most frightening," He commented. "I see the image of your face as you come after me with your guts strewn around in my dreams sometimes even now."
He then charged his air cannon once more.
"I'd say what then? Two swings, three max?" He wondered before suddenly changing the direction of his cannon to dissipate the fire blast that came after him.
'What?' All Might thought.
"What? Bastard…" He heard as Endeavor stomped forward.
"WHAT IS THAT FORM OF YOURS, ALL MIGHT!?" He screamed in rage.
"Looks like we just barely made it in time," Edgeshot declared as he landed next to Endeavor. "The nomu have all been disposed of, and we've taken care of the extra villains that popped out of the woodwork to cause havoc!"
"Oh, even though they weren't all powerful, and even accounting for the clones, you certainly took care of those nomu in a good time. As expected of the man who clawed his way to the number two spot, Endeavor," All For One chuckled.
"All Might…" Endeavor growled as he remembered.
'I worked diligently to surpass you…The harder I worked, the more I realized…how big the difference between us was. As I watched your back grow further away…I despaired…!'
Touya…
Shoto…
Rei…
And all of it for nothing…because if he could withstand even being reduced to this…then it truly meant that he was the top for a reason.
A reason that still escaped him.
Therefore…
"SHOW THEM WHY YOUR BETTER!" Endeavor roared at the top of his lungs as he arrived at the crater with more clones, Orion, Megatronus and Ultra Magnus being amongst them.
'Endeavor…' All Might thought.
"If you came just to cheer him on, then be quiet like a good audience!" All For One shouted annoyed, not knowing that someone was currently aiming at his back.
"One… Last… Gift… yer bastard…" Bullseye muttered from the turret, his own blood beginning to blind him as he struggled to even pull the trigger, as he kept on aiming for the perfect shot. Something that wouldn't happen as he coughed up some blood, passing out just as he was pulling it, the shot only grazing the villain.
But his actions were not in vain as All For One snarled in pain before being distracted.
"Quiet, you destroyer!" Edgeshot yelled as he tried to attack only for his opponent to dodge again. "We've come to help!"
"This is all we can do, relieve some of your burden!" Tiger from the Pussycats said, hoping to help while his team was otherwise unavailable.
Edgeshot and Endeavor began to fight, All For One idly dodging their blows or disrupting them, though even he was getting annoyed at the potshots by the clones.
"Please stop that evil man, All Might…!" Edgeshot pleaded. "Everyone is praying for your victory, no matter what you look like, you're still everyone's Number One Hero!"
Gran Torino observed, still rattled a bit from the intensity of the fight up till now.
But as he saw everyone supporting Toshinori, he couldn't help but remember.
His oldest friend, discussing the young upstart Yagi Toshinori, and how he desired to be a Symbol for the people, a Symbol of Peace.
A pillar for the people.
'Toshinori…You are a pillar.' He thinks, as he sees the man inspired by the actions of those around him. 'You are the number one hero.'
'And you can still hear it can't you, All Might?' Gran Torino thinks as his mind goes to all the people around Japan, perhaps the very world even. 'No matter what…Everyone's voices are still cheering you on!'
The crowds of people in the streets, even his fellow heroes.
'Everyone is praying for your victory!'
Inko, Mandalay, Eri and Kota, screaming for him to win.
'The voices of your students wanting to become a hero just like you.'
Bakugo and the other students at their homes, the ones still at the hospital, even the ones still at the battlefield now that more heroes had arrived and were wiping up the last remnants of the droids.
"ALL MIGHT…!"
"Hmph! How annoying!" All For One snarled as he shot straight downward and sent everyone flying back with the enormous explosion generated.
"Let's stop talking about emotions and start talking about reality," He stated as his arm started to bulge.
"Springlike Limbs, Kinetic Booster times four, Strength Enhancer times three, Multiplier, Hypertrophy, Rivets, Air Walk and Spearlike Bones."
"The shockwaves until now were just to wear you out, then you forced me to use my reserves just to keep up with your hysterical strength, but now…now, in order to kill you, I will punch you with the ultimate combination of quirks I have right now!" All For One declared as he revealed his grossly mutated right arm.
"Fitting, is it not?"
All Might grimaced as he cocked his fist back.
"It's finally run out, hasn't it? You're now merely using the last dregs of One For All, the embers left after you passed it on to your so-called son…a fire that becomes weaker every time you use it. A feeble light that will go out even without being blown on…"
He then burst through the smoke, ready to attack.
"Midoriya Izuku! The boy you've chosen as a successor, even calling him your own son! You and Shimura truly ARE similar!"
All For One chuckles. All Might growls as he cocks forward.
"You can die full of regrets, All Might! You've failed as a teacher AND as a father!"
The two collide with a roar.
The very world seems to distort around them as the conflicting energies clash.
And the world exploded once more.
I know, I'm horrible, but this is such a good point to end because the next chapter will be called One For All.
You all already know what's coming, and considering how fast we've been sending these out, you can expect the next chapter soon.
HOLD UP, LET ME COLLECT YOUR TEARS!