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Now for LEGION: ONE FOR ALL
"Our actions define our legacy."
"I have…never seen All Might this angry…" The reporter commented, a sort of awe and horror depicted on her face.
In truth, all throughout the world, people were honestly…terrified. Nearly seven billion people all over the world were watching the world news, and seeing All Might, the pillar and Symbol of Peace being reduced to this was harrowing.
In the United States, the heroes and military were gearing up, while the president and his cabinet looked to their own Number One hero.
"This is only a precaution…you know that, Cathleen."
"I know, sir. It's just…in all the years I've known him. He's only ever smiled…" Star and Stripe said as they looked at the still image on the screen in front of them.
All Might, roaring in rage as golden energy surged from his body, his eyes burning like a star exploding into a supernova.
"...this is…a lot to swallow…"
In other places of Japan, criminals were actually staying on the down low, regardless of the chaos going on, if All Might was so angry that he was demolishing that villain like that…what would he do to them once he won?
It was a sobering thought.
No, better for them to keep their heads down.
Just for tonight.
While the topic of All Might was the main focus, the American military and police departments on the other hand had their eyes on something else.
The weaponry of the Vod'e.
"We need to try and send another one of our delegations over there to negotiate a military alliance with Japan. We need those weapons. Just imagine what would happen if we managed to reverse engineer the technology." A General said to his command staff who all nodded in agreement.
"Negotiate? With Nezu? Good luck with that. By the time it's finished we'll have contracted our stuff to him…"
A sudden buzz went through their phones and they hesitantly looked at them.
'Don't give me ideas now, hahahahaha.'
"...Perhaps we should hold off for a bit…"
"Ya think?!"
Looking back to the screen, they sighed, fearing for the future of the world, yet also the possibilities of another country getting the contracts for the blasters before them.
Though their eyes were not the only ones paying attention, unfortunately, what Nezu predicted was coming to pass, Mand'alor was unknowingly becoming a major player on the international game board.
All over the world, eyes were falling onto the boy, both with good and bad intentions.
Nezu would do his best however, to protect and prepare him for such.
But for now, he would let he and his brothers rest to the best of his abilities.
Oddball was on his way back to pick up more evacuees from the city, before he noticed something in the distance. Something that looked like a battle taking place in the middle of the warzone.
Deciding to investigate, he flew the Negotiator closer to get a better look.
"Holy Mama Midoriya…" He muttered as he looked at the scenery below him, where All Might in his shrunken form were standing against All For One, with several people around the crater, seemingly cheering them on.
"I gotta do something… Broadside, zero in the guns on All For One. We'll give All Might some covering fire." He said, before he noticed something that looked like a legged vehicle on the ground that was burning slightly and scanned it, before finding his brother's names and serial numbers showing up from inside the downed vessel.
"Belay that order. We have brothers to save." Cancelling his first order and headed over, before landing.
The clone squad who got out were mainly composed of medics that had been onboard the transport to help treat the civilians and officers who had suffered the most injuries so they at least would be stable when back at the hospital.
One of them sprinted out faster than the others, carrying as much medical equipment as he could.
"Please… Let my brothers survive and recover to the fullest so they will be able to continue to live their lives to the fullest." He muttered in what almost sounded like a prayer as he began climbing up the hull while his brothers put out the fires.
"Doss! Check if whoever iz in zhe tower is ok!" Another mediclone, Overdose shouted as he, Kritzkrieg, and Vaccinator pried open the hatches and started pulling out the knocked out crew.
"Oh great All Mother… Give me the strength to save my brothers…" Doss kept on muttering as he pried open the canopy and pulled out his brother, who he noticed was Bullseye and put him into a fireman carry, before getting off of the downed walker and onto the ground where he began to apply first aid after removing his chest plate and preparing bacta.
"Come on, Bullseye… You survived being shot in the head back at I-Island, this should be nothing to you…" he muttered again as he kept trying to breathe life back into the unconscious gunner.
Putting his head down to his chest, he heard the still beating heart and breathed a sigh of relief, before he waited for the other medics to come over with a stretcher to safely carry away the concussed and bleeding clone.
"Come on! Up to the front!" Gree shouted as he and some of his brothers, along with Setsuna ran for cover amongst the rubble, the hero student sending out one of her eyes as she got sight of the enemy formation and possible villains amongst the droids.
"I see twenty droids, five nomu and about fifteen villains on this side, half on the other. We're outnumbered three to one."
"Then it is a fair fight." Momo said, creating a bo staff as Wolffe, Sinker and Boost readied their blasters, droid poppers and their vambraces, along with Domino Squad.
"We'll need to get their attention away from the civilians somehow… some sort of bait…"
Suddenly, all eyes rested on Droidbait.
"Oh no! I am not gonna act as bait again! Forget it! Nu uh! No way!"
"I hate you guys!" Droidbait screamed as he blitzed through a path, bullets and quirks flying everywhere as he kept on jumping, ducking and dodging the red bolts and projectiles sent his way.
Luckily for him though, they were all lousy shots.
While Droidbait distracted them, the rest of the group readied their weapons and took aim from their positions.
Gree took aim and fired a shot, hitting a droid in the head and sending it to offline mode, with the rest of Domino squad and Setsuna joining in, the girl having borrowed one of their pistols to shoot with, proving herself to be quite the crackshot.
"One! Two! Three!" She counted, each being for a droid she took down while also sniping those closest to catching or hitting Droidbait.
While he kept on running, one of the bigger, gray droids and a nomu, the former with a cannon looking armo and the latter charging up an energy quirk and aimed it at him, noticing he was running towards the smoking wreck of the walker that had tried to attack All For One.
Their scanners and eyes then noticed the medics still being there and treating the injured they had managed to get out. Perfect. That meant more victims for the glory of their master and creator.
Just as they were about to fire, both of them were hit by a large, blue bolt, even getting the attention of the group of clones and Setsuna, who all saw one of the four ball turrets was smoking. The thing was still operational and had just fired, despite all of the damage it had taken.
"Holy moly! That thing is resolute!" Cutup commented as he fired his blaster again, before his helmet was shot off. "HEY! That one was my favorite!" He shouted, just as he threw a grenade, blowing up the droid who had shot his helmet.
Hevy ran out into the open, the remaining villains, droids and nomu targeting him, while Echo set up his vambrace shield, giving his brother some cover as he spun up his Z-6, before cutting down the remaining ones standing there, making sure to set it to a lower setting, which while made it more difficult to take down the droids, incapacitated the villains and nomu rather than killing them.
Finally being able to rest, the small group made their way over to the AT-TE and the mediclones, beginning to run the last distance as they waved their arms at them.
"Oddball! Overdose! Kritzkrieg! Vaccinator! It's good to see you're alive and well!" Setsuna called out as they arrived.
"Likewise, Tokage-san. Can you give me a hand? Bullseye needs to be stabilized," the mediclone asked, as the clone gunner was currently in need of blood.
"Right!"
The two worked tirelessly to help Bullseye, as more clones came up to support.
"Savage, Boltsaw, suppressive fire!"
"Copy that!"
"Roger!"
The two clones grabbed their weapons and opened fire on the droids that were approaching them as Gree gave out more orders.
A few were unfortunate enough to meet Savage's hatchets.
"Leo, try and get that gun working again!"
"On it!"
Said clone quickly climbed up the tank, slipping a bit on the way, but was able to make it to the gunner's seat.
"Ehhh…
A little bit of tinkering with some wires and admittedly more than a few strikes to the plating, and the gun was back online.
"WOOHOO!"
"Fixit! Think you can get it back up and running?"
"FIXFIXFIX!"
Meanwhile, they were finally able to stabilize Bullseye and drag him away from the fighting to behind some more cover.
Eventually, the AT-TE was able to get back online and to its feet. Heavily crippled, they decided to make their way back to the LZ to continue to provide support for the ships while placing injured inside it for protection.
Once they made it back, they discovered that things were more or less going well.
The other AT-TE pilot and gunner were working in tandem, it seemed that the droids, or whoever was in charge of them, had finally taken notice of the tank and were targeting it.
Firmly turning it on its side to protect the landing zone, the tank was under constant barrage of blaster fire but returned it tenfold with its cannons.
Civilians and injured heroes that were being loaded in couldn't help but gawk at the sheer ferocity that the tank was demonstrating as it defended them to the bitter end, not letting a single blaster bolt or quirk get past its armor or legs to hit the civilians.
Cannon shot after cannon shot peppered the droids, eviscerating them from existence, the LAATs and the Gauntlet providing more cover fire with their strafing runs as they continued to pick up civilians.
Students began providing more support as well, grabbing rifles and making encampments where they could open fire on the droids, heedless of the fire coming down on them.
Everybody was doing their part.
Tenya was blitzing across the encampments, providing supplies and munitions whenever there weren't ships to lead the civilians into, his own shoulder cannon had long run empty, but he used his blades to slice through any straggling droids that made it through, along with using his repulsor gauntlets to take out villains.
Ranger was currently sitting on top of one of the agile droids, or 'Commando Droids', as they had begun to call them, and beating it with its own sword, the thing being tougher than it looked despite each strike being to the head.
"Go." Whack "To."Whack " Sleep!" Slam "Go." Clang "To." Smack "Sleep!" He shouted, bashing its head again and again.
Momo had already rapidly depleted her stores of lipids, but still held on strong with her brothers as they returned to the frontlines, savagely beating back any droid that got close and decimating them with their weapons.
Momo herself had created dozens of sets of whistling birds, firing them off in rapid succession into particularly stubborn groups of droids with Wolffe by her side with a Z-6.
Shoto had been creating ice walls and launching fire straight down the battlefield, torching droids; he'd also been instrumental in saving civilians and guiding them towards the landing zones by creating thick ice tunnels that provided extra cover.
Mina and Toru had dedicated themselves to evacuating civilians, but also helped fight back in their own ways, the former by creating the acid bombs for the jet troopers with Momo's help and the latter by infiltrating behind enemy lines with stealth troopers to find more trapped civilians and evacuating them.
The 1-B students were not idle either.
Setsuna had been spread across the battlefield, literally.
She'd strapped bombs and explosives to her body parts, float them to the droid positions and drop them off before getting her parts to safety and detonating them, she'd also been instrumental in scouting by maintaining a constant bird's eye view from above, calling out troop movements and redirecting forces to better help.
Shishida had grabbed the same cannon from the summer camp and had firmly planted himself to provide cover fire for clones; a few droids actually managed to get near him…
To which he roared and started to tear them apart by hand before charging the nomu, the two crashing into each other with crushing force.
The few clones that were nearby cheered him on as the nomu proved to be no match for Shishida who savagely began to beat it with his bare fists, the two beasts roaring in each other's faces.
He then finished destroying the nomu by slamming it into the ground before pounding it to a pulp with both of his fists and then roaring to the sky while pounding his chest.
…
…
…
"Eherm…" He sheepishly said as he came back to his senses. "My apologies…"
"Dude, you have nothing to apologize for, that was so awesome! So…primal!"
Shishida rubbed the back of his head as the clones continued to cheer him on before they got back to work.
Back at the LZ, Komori and Shiozaki were working together with the mediclones to provide first aid to the many injured people that were being rescued.
Shiozaki's vines worked as makeshift bandages once they ran out.
Komori's mushrooms were excellent natural anesthetics.
Together they were able to save many.
But not all.
"Come on, Ibara," Kix said as he gently guided her away from a victim who'd just passed from blood loss. "Put it away for now…we still have more people to save…"
Ibara could only shakily nod, whisper out a quick prayer for the victim's soul and moved to the next person.
Komori had to be guided as well, the last person dying from their injuries, although fortunately, not in pain due to her mushrooms.
Pony had joined Yuga in the skies, using her horns to help carry people to safety, or destroy droids by sending them flying around in the battlefield similar to whistling birds.
Tetsutetsu was actually helping to bring back injured clones to the landing zone, making sure to keep himself undercover as the few glancing blows had scorched through his steel skin.
After the first few blows, they'd given him some basic armor to put over his body, which helped with the shots.
It irked him, not that the clones were helping, but that he wasn't strong enough…
He needed to become stronger, for his friends, his classmates…
Thorn.
He would make sure his sacrifice wasn't in vain.
One thing that was in common with all the students however, was how they all refused to listen to the other heroes on site to leave the area, no matter what they said, threatened, or pleaded, not a single one would retreat.
They would stand united.
Shiyashin and her friend and cameraman, Eiga Tokudasu who had a camera quirk in her eyes, had decided to get an extra scoop by moving further into the city, her quirk telling her that a great story was right around the corner, the bob-cut woman feeling some excitement, yet also a great deal of fear.
That fear was well warranted, as the two women quickly found themselves grabbed with cold metal hands covering their mouths, before they were pulled into an alley and thrown into a pile of other girls, boys, men and women around their own age and younger, before some rebar was raised from the ground, a female villain with a ferrokinesis quirk being at work.
The two scrambled and looked around in a panic to see who had grabbed them, only to gasp in horror as they saw one of the numerous droids throughout the city, this one being one of the dark gray and bulky ones with wrist mounted guns.
This one however, seemed to be in a bit of a bad shape, if the gaping hole where its head was supposed to be was anything to go by.
Another person with some sort of device came walking and pressed a few buttons, before she went over to try and fix some of the damages and inserted a few chips.
"The weapon is working, but it's on the lowest power setting. Only able to barely crack something. At most, it will cause some burns." the woman muttered, cursing over the bad gear she had been given to work with.
The ring leader seemed to ignore her, as he looked at the trapped women.
"More fun for us…you nosy reporters, never know when to keep yourselves out of danger. However… With this little bird here, we could make some lasting memories…after we sell the rest of course," One of the villain, a man with an electric quirk chuckled as he approached Shiyashin who tried to back away but was grabbed and held in place by another villain whose arms curled around her own and held her in a full nelson.
She couldn't even scream
But she didn't need to.
From above, Orion burst through an awning, already on the move, shooting at the villains who were now scattering.
"My name is Orion! I'm here to help!"
Shiyashin recognized this clone. She had met him back at U.A when she visited the school with Riyo, and had bumped into him after having been chased throughout the school after the entire guard staff had begun chasing her.
One of the villains held Eiga in place with cement, but Orion was quickly able to free Shiyashin.
"RUN! Head down the alley to where the others are and call for reinforcements!" Orion said after blocking a blow and shooting one of the villains, sending him flying back.
Shiyashin nodded and ran down the street.
"After her!"
The group, confident that the other girls wouldn't be able to escape, began to chase after her as Orion faced off against another that came after him.
He roared as he uppercutted the villain before getting tackled.
"Weak!" He yelled as he got up and slammed a large pipe into him. He then parried a punch before slamming his fist into the guy's back. "PUNY!"
"Waste of human beings!" He growled as he dodged a back swing and swung with a right cross, using the momentum to activate his extended blade and heated vibroblade.
"Worthless villain!" He then yelled as he pierced the man through his shoulder and brought him to his knees and tore it out before elbowing him.
The man didn't even have time to react before he was flung over to unconsciousness after being slammed to the ground.
"Hold on! I'll be back as soon as I can!" Orion said to the women before giving chase. He cursed the fact that his own comms had been damaged in battle and that he couldn't call for reinforcements.
So he would be the reinforcements, even if he had to fight alone.
Shiyashin had barely managed to get any distance before being surrounded and forced to double back, barely managing to slide under one of them and running again, hoping that the clone would be able to save her.
"Come here, girl…" One of them growled.
Three villains began to chase her, with the reporter running into one of the destroyed buildings.
Orion came through from another alley, tackling a larger one with a growl with one arm and slamming him to the ground. The villain managed to roll and get to his feet, getting up and kicking only for Orion to grab his leg and elbow his knee before delivering a knee to the face, knocking him back.
The woman who made the rebar prison tried to swing around but Orion grabbed her and gave her a punch, stunning her before grabbing her neck with his elbow from behind and kicking back the villain who he hit earlier.
The woman tried to shoot rebar out of her hands but the spikes went wild in the air, before Orion heaved and threw her up before kicking her in the chin and knocking her teeth out.
The group kept on fighting, their focus now on Orion, who was their biggest obstacle to their prize.
"You shouldn't have gotten in our way, clone!"
Orion roared as he slammed one with his fists, knocking him back before taking a punch from the rebar woman, his head grabbed by the droid who had managed to sneak up behind him, as it shot into his side before he elbowed it and freed himself from his grip.
He tried to attack the woman but his fist was grabbed and she cut through the chest plate with a sharpened rebar spike before striking his abdomen, this time cracking the armor and striking him again after letting him stumble.
The larger villain then shoulder checked him before grabbing him from the back and lifting him, slamming him into the ground.
Orion was barely able to get to his feet before taking a kick to his helmet, the blow so strong that it broke the bottom half and shattered his visor.
"ORION!" Shiyashin screamed in fear.
They began to strike him more before the droid charged his blaster and shot him point blank, sending him flying.
"Pah…!" He spat out a tooth after landing.
That definitely broke something…
"Orion…" He heard and he looked up to see the women staring at him fearfully, looking up, he caught Eiga's eye, and unknowingly to him, she was still recording.
"You should have stayed out of this…maybe even just let us have fun with the reporter girl…after all, is your life not worth a single one of theirs?"
Orion got to his knees, his lone eye burning in righteous fury.
"You'll never stop at one!" He defied. "I'LL TAKE YOU ALL ON!" He bellowed, unsheathing his second vibroblade from his other vambrace as he spun back and charged the three.
He pierced the woman's arm and swung her around, sending her crashing into the large villain before cutting off the droid's arm, the limb randomly firing towards the villains, forcing them to dodge.
The woman tried to attack again, only for him to send her stumbling as he cut through the chest of the droid, making it stumble. Charging toward the woman, he then rolled over her back, dodging her rebar shots as he then threw his vibroblade at the droid, sending it to its knees.
Slamming his head into hers, most likely breaking her nose, he then caught the larger villain's kick before going around and striking the back of his knee before striking him in the gut, bringing him down.
Wrenching his shoulder, Orion delivered a quick blow to the face before uniting his fists and double-uppercutting the man.
The rebar woman tried to attack again, but he grabbed her arm and brought the full force of his armor down on her and broke it clean at the elbow making her shriek.
"My arm!"
Slapping her away with the rebar she'd just dropped, he then climbed onto the hulking droid that was trying to get close.
Getting on its shoulders he then pried his hands into the broken armor near its face and pulled, using all his strength as the metal began giving in, before tearing it apart and rendering it useless.
The droid began to tip over and Orion leapt off, grabbing it as he fell and using his momentum to toss it to the ground.
"Piece of tin…" he murmured as he looked around for any more villains and Shiyashin.
"Shiyashin!? Where are you?"
The electric villain came from behind, Orion being too disoriented to notice and slammed his electrified fist into his back, making him cry out in pain as he collapsed to the ground.
"You're so weak…" The villain growled, despite the fact he and his gang less than a second ago had been absolutely bodied by him singlehandedly.
He raised his hand to kill him, the woman having provided him with a piece of rebar to make sure he would do the job properly.
Before he could stab him, however, he was shot from behind by a ring, knocking him out, just as a clone with rollerblades on his boots came in and slided on the ground, firing a tow cable around the woman's ankles and pulled, causing her to fall down and hit her head, knocking her out.
"You ok, Orion?" the newly arrived clone asked, as he put the ARC Trooper's arm around his shoulder and helped him up.
"I… Could be better, but thank you, Jazz… Your timing couldn't be better," Orion said as he was helped up, the last scraps of his chest piece falling off.
"You're lucky, thanks to the camera girl still being live, the Vod'e were still able to find you."
Orion then turned to see the girls and boys being released and evacuated by the clones, all of them looking at him in gratitude.
Shiyashin came out from the building and went over to Orion, worry still present in her eyes.
"Orion?" She asked.
"I'm fine…are you?"
"I'm fine…thank you…"
Orion merely nodded as they were led away.
As they walked, more clones soon joined them, the small group of villains being led beside them in cuffs or carried on stretchers that they were strapped to.
"Let me go! Put me down! I'll sue you for this! You hear!?" A voice called out, Orion and Shiyashin noticing the woman from earlier who had reprogrammed the droid being carried by a clone like a bag of potatoes, looking absolutely exasperated, even with his helmet on.
"Will you shut up?!" the clone painted primarily in red and black sneered, as he huffed hard enough for steam to come out of his helmet.
"Easy, Ironhide… Don't piledrive her into the ground just because she's annoying." Orion said, recalling how he had nearly done that to Monoma when he at one point had let his mouth run again.
"Right, sorry Orion…" Ironhide muttered, with the woman having now shut up due to not wanting to experience how being piledrived into concrete would feel like.
"Any news on Mand'alor?"
"Nothing good…he was hurt by All For One."
The Mindscape was still filled with chaos, as they desperately tried to quench the fires and restore power.
They managed the first part well enough, but restoring power to the facility was another matter.
"It must be symbolic, Izuku's heart is stopped and without blood flow we don't have power to the facility!
"Then we'll need to find a way to restart it!"
"Can we?"
"We must! Otherwise everyone in here and possibly the world will be doomed! Now get started! I want the engineering and research teams to work at full power!" Dandy ordered, as clones continued to move.
The Predecessors were not idle either, every single one, even the jaded 2nd and 3rd, although considering how Izuku had the balls to cut off All For One's arm and was a lot more pragmatic than the Eighth (as evident by the clones being unafraid to kill), they were rapidly changing their opinion of him.
First was helping Dandy direct the clone movements throughout the Mindscape.
Second and Third were helping break down doors and free trapped clones along with Fifth.
Meanwhile, Fourth and Sixth were helping with the fires while Seventh was helping with the protection of the younger clones.
To protect themselves, they went outside, although they kept to the main complexes of the Mindscape since outside was about as close to a hurricane that they were ever going to get to.
Extremely fast winds sent rain and hail battering against the surfaces, as thick heavy clouds swirled across the dark sky, lightning spreading across and illuminating the pitch black sea whose waves threatened to knock over the towers of the Mindscape.
"Is there anything else we can do?"
"No…I'm afraid that as for this…we need outside intervention."
Izuku felt like he was falling.
Falling endlessly even, with no rhyme nor reason to his surroundings.
It was dark too, only the faintest beams of grey light surrounding him, but they were…muted, as if part of a background.
Suddenly, he felt a hand being placed on his shoulder, followed by another, and dozens upon dozens more.
His eyes teared up…the physical sensation was there, but what was really important was how he could 'sense' the souls behind the hands.
Bottlecap.
Chord.
Quickfix.
Leadfoot.
Clocker.
And more…from the Lost Legion…
Thorn…
…Jango…
"Wake up, Ori'vod." The shadow of Jango whispered.
"Your fight isn't over yet." Chord whispered.
"You need to get up. Keep fighting." Bottlecap said, more and more of them encouraged him to keep on fighting.
"I…want to stay…" Izuku whispered. "Feels like home…so…tired…"
Denki and Kyoka landed quickly and made their way up the battlefield to where the clones had dragged Izuku's body, Ochako also helping them by having removed his gravity.
"What's wrong!?"
"What happened?"
"Vod cut off All For One's arm and paid the price for it, I don't know what exactly he did, but right now he's in cardiac arrest!" Ochako sniffed, desperately trying to keep herself calm.
Kyoka held on to Denki's arm and he nodded at her..
"Right."
They quickly peeled off the rest of Izuku's armor and continued applying CPR.
Getting his hands in the right position, he took a deep breath.
'I brought my mother back…I'll bring him back, too.'
"CLEAR!"
BA-BUMP!
"We need more power! Step on it!"
"CLEAR!"
BA-BUMP!
"AGAIN!"
"Wake up, Midoriya, DAMMIT!" Denki shouted, sending a shock through his friend's body again.
BA-BUMP! Ba-bump! Ba-bump!
"We're good!" Denki cheered in relief as the clones applied more bacta and treated Izuku's injuries.
He sighed and let himself fall back to his rear, he idly noticed Kyoka come around and sit behind him before leaning forward, her chin resting in his hair and her hands intertwining loosely in front of him.
He gulped as he took one of her hands, and held it gently, lightly squeezing the palm.
Considering everything…
He turned her hand and gently pressed his lips to the back of it and then kept holding it as they observed the rest of the battle between All Might and the villain.
"I…Did I do good…?"
He felt her stiffen before she hugged him and held him tight.
She couldn't speak, but her actions spoke volumes.
Her humming along with her jacks gently wrapping themselves around him was all he needed to hear.
"Power's back!"
"Sectors are reporting in! The last of the fires have been put out!"
"Lotta damage, but we're still good!"
Nana sighed in relief as she received the reports from the various clones.
"Power up Ori'vod!" One of the clones inside shouted, as the screens showed all sectors at full operational capacity.
"Don't wait for me, do it now!" Nana replied.
"Mand'alor, this is your wakeup call!" A clone pilot grinned as he lifted his arm, before slamming it down on a big, red button.
Izuku woke up with a gasp and a cough as tried to get up before hands gently pushed him down.
"Izuku!" Ochako cried out as she sighed in relief and held onto his hand.
"Easy, vod!"
"Stay down, don't strain yourself. You've just been brought back from the dead,"
"Huh… I…I thought…"
"What about your buir'e? What about your friends? What about Eri?"
"Gotta keep fighting, vod.
"Vod… Please tell Itsuka… That I'm sorry that I couldn't keep my promise…"
"We'll always be with you, vod…"
And then, he could see a kaleidoscope of colors, centering around One For All…
Izuku swallowed thickly, tears flowing down his cheeks as he remembered.
"Vod?"
"It's nothing…what's going on?" Izuku groaned, before their attention was caught by the enormous explosion that erupted a good distance away from them.
"Buir…" He whispered as he sat up, but couldn't move, not only due to his injuries but also with how Ochako was holding on to him.
"He's still fighting," She whispered. "He'll win."
"He always does."
"Impact Nullification!"
All Might grunted in pain as his arm began to spurt blood onto his face as he was forced back by All For One's strike.
"You're right…" All Might ground out. "I have failed as a father…which is why I can't die until I've raised him right!"
"Now I see," All For One muttered. "The weak embers that are going out without being blown on are resisting, huh?"
Like a lone flame under a winter breeze, with Toshinori protecting it with his own body.
"They're desperately resisting to keep from going out until they fulfill their duty…"
All For One roared as he pressed forward.
"HOW UNSIGHTLY!"
All Might's blood burst more as he screamed in pain, practically being dragged back by his nemesis.
"...when you think you're at your limit…remember…"
His foot moved back, grinding into the ground as he continued to resist.
"It's not because I'm a symbol…" All Might began as his eyes glowed blue once more. "Like my buir did for me…until I've raised him right…"
His foot finally stopped and the forces exploded outwards as they still continued to struggle.
"Until then…!" He said as his left arm sparked with One For All.
"For you to resist in such an unsightly way…"
"I can't…!" He yelled as he clenched his fist, forcing it to muscle form.
"I miscalculated…!" All For One gasped as he suddenly found himself moving forward, All Might's right arm moving out of the way as he came forward with his left in a brutal uppercut.
"I REFUSE…TO DIE!"
"You won't be able to get a good hit head on, you'll have to be tricky!" Gran Torino recalled telling him as he observed the fight.
'He put the power of his right fist into his left…he used his right arm as bait! But…"
All For One grimaced as he charged up his left arm for an attack.
"Little tricks aren't like you, a certain someone's been influencing you. IT'S WEAK!"
All Might's arm skinnied once more, making him gasp as All Might reared back his right.
"That's because I didn't put my back into it that time!"
And as One For All reacted to his desire to defeat his foe one last time, from the First to the Eighth.
Then the Ninth.
Izuku…
"This power has been entrusted to the next generation by many people, praying that it would work for the good of all."
And he could see her.
Nana.
'Buir…'
"That all their hopes would become one…"
She turned to face him, smiling softly.
"Now it's your turn.
She extended her hand, and he took it.
"Do your best, Toshinori."
All For One smiled as he let loose his last attack.
All Might dodged.
He clenched his fist, the light peaking through his fingers as his arm buffed up once more.
Letting out a final roar of defiance, All Might cocked back his arm and moved forward, pivoting his foot, turning his torso, using every last bit of his body and soul into one final punch.
'Goodbye, All For One!'
As his fist impacted All For One's face, One For All burst into a bright inferno.
"UNITED…STATES OF…SMAAAAAAAAAAAAASSSSHH!"
All Might drove All For One into the ground with his fist, the ground cratering and the winds tearing apart the landscape as a tornado of wind dragged up rubble and threw back any who were near it, nearly throwing the news helicopter and the LAAT's out of the air.
As the tempest finally calmed and the last embers of One For All gave out, he could say only one thing to his oldest friend.
"Farewell…One For All…"
'Thank you.'
As the dust cleared, everyone was witness to see All Might still standing…the crowd held their breath, wondering if perhaps, this was too much?
If this final act would be his last as All Might.
All Might raised his fist, trembling with each breath.
But his heart was heavy.
And All Might's arm fell, as his strength failed him.
All For One's defeat was nothing more than a hollow victory.
Not with what he'd lost.
He tried to keep up the hope, but no one survived All For One's cruelty.
As his arm fell, a hand swiftly grabbed onto his wrist and All Might jerked in surprise as he saw the figure next to him.
Izuku smiled weakly at him, bloody and bruised, but alive.
"The Symbol of Peace should raise his fist one last time, shouldn't he, buir?"
Toshinori trembled as he let his fist be raised by his son, before quickly hugging the boy.
As the dust settled, the world saw an emaciated All Might hold on to the boy who was quickly making waves in Japan's history.
"Now…now, it's your turn," He whispered to Izuku, the latter nodding and shedding tears of both relief and resignation.
The camera from the helicopter couldn't see their conversation, but it could catch their actions.
The two nodded, and All Might buffed up, one final time, the two raising their fists in unison as the world cheered.
"ALL MIGHT…! The villain has finally stopped moving! Victory for All Might! He's standing in victory! Supported by Mand'alor!"
"Hey…he shouldn't be pushing himself right now," Edgeshot said, concern filling his voice.
"Let him be," Gran Torino said. "He's still working."
'It's his last job as the Symbol of Peace and the number one hero…'
And from here, they could even hear it, the world cheering him on.
"All Might! All Might! All Might! All Might…!"
As the dawn lit up the sky, more news copters, relief workers, heroes and more clones.
A headcount had also revealed the most miraculous thing.
Not a single brother had fallen.
Although several of them had been shot and injured. A few in more… unfortunate places.
Still they mourned however, for the lives they'd been unable to save due to the cruelty of the droids and whoever their creator was.
Snakes tasted the air and Uwabami was quick to point to where two people were trapped under the rubble as well as other places.
Heroes and clones worked together to continue evacuating them as a reporter gave ongoing news of the crisis.
"Although the Vod'e and the heroes were able to stave off the droids and evacuate the majority of them, rescue efforts are still underway and it is predicted that there will be a high amount of casualties, along with the loss of more than two hundred heroes in a single engagement," She then turned to look behind her. "The villain thought to be the ringleader is-Oh! They're leading him into the Maiden right now!" the reporter, Sakura Shiyashin said into her microphone as she looked over the landscape.
All For One had still survived, but was now rendered powerless, heavily injured, and weakened.
All Might stared at him stoically as he was finally imprisoned, Mand'alor by his side while the eerie looking clones in black armor and electro weapons walked with them as escorts of All For One, their weapons ready in case the villain tried something..
"Now, as All Might and the other heroes are in a state of high alert-!"
The reporter paused as All Might raised his finger to point at the camera, facing Mand'alor.
A few words were shared by them before the younger shakily nodded.
"Now…" All Might began as he held on to Mand'alor's shoulder as the latter turned, took a step forward and ignited the Darksaber, pointing it at the camera.
"Now," Mand'alor declared. "It's your turn."
The light of dawn spread across the sky and shone over the horizon, illuminating Manda'lor as All Might was left in his shadow.
Very few could miss such symbolism.
Something that was highlighted even further as the LAAT's landed with clones rushing out carrying medical equipment and more reinforcements for the outlying perimeter.
Ochako, Fordo and Yuuga soon followed along with all other hands that were currently available and in the vicinity, while more of the survivors assembled.
After the battle had finished, clones and heroes were walking around, checking for more injured and survivors, while also leading villains to the police along with salvaging droids, Wheeljack being very interested in the technology and programming.
A few clones from U.A. had recently arrived providing food and medical supplies for those on scene.
"Oi! Soup's got soup!" Soup called out as he and some other chef clones began to set up a site to distribute food and refreshments, having brought small cooking stations and tanks of clean water to the tired and hungry people, along with blankets.
Many of the clones were thanked by the populace, however there were a few who sent glares their way along with less than nice words.
"How many survivors have we saved?"
"Approximately a few thousand…however, it's nothing compared to what the population of Camino Ward was…" a mediclone sighed.
"Lantern, Scanner, found any others?" Scope asked as he used his rifle scope to look around."
"Nothing… no signs of life or movement in this section." Lantern said, as he used his helmet lights and those on his vambraces and armor to light up the ruins.
"My visor hasn't picked anything up either… these are the last survivors…" Scanner sighed.
"Reports are coming in near the outskirts and other areas, they're still finding people but…"
"It doesn't change the fact of how many were killed…"
"Maybe not…but as long as we keep working, we can keep the numbers lower, come on, let's head to the next section."
Another clone sat on top a pile of wrecked droids, each of them having been taken down by himself.
"Get down from there, Mortis, you edgelord!" One clone shouted, to which he got a severed droid head thrown down on him.
The next group of the civilians was being loaded onto the LAAT's headed back towards the hospitals, while the newly named Resolute had received the last of her makeshift repairs, being able to walk again somewhat, along with the newly named Defender that was covered in blaster and scorch marks.
As the Vod'e began to slowly return to U.A, Waxer walked over to the Aoyama's who were standing near the designated landing zone of the Negotiator that was currently on its way back, and kneeled down to Charlotte, gently ruffling her golden hair.
"See you later, little one," He smiled, as he began to walk, the little girl returning the smile, even with small tears forming in her eyes.
"Hey, Charlotte!" Boil called out, to which she turned towards the other clone.
"Stay out of trouble," Just as the words had left his mouth, she ran over and hugged his leg, tears running down her cheeks as the taller boy also gently ruffled her hair like Waxer had done.
"Don't be afraid, we'll see each other again soon, I promise," He announced, before beginning to walk with Waxer and the others back towards U.A with the Defender and Resolute alongside the students and their brothers.
Mr. and Mrs. Aoyama looked at their daughter with a smile, before she began waving after the clones and calling out the first words she had said to them.
"Frère! Frère! Frère!" She kept calling out over and over as they walked towards the sun.
"Nau'ur, what is that she keeps calling us?" Waxer asked Yuga who just gave them a warm smile.
"'Frère'. It means brother," He answered, the two stopping and turning around, waving to Charlotte again before they continued on their path back to the school, two LAAT's flying overhead as the two AT-TE's made their way over the rough terrain.
And thus ends the Camino arc!
It's been a wild ride and thanks so much for being patient with us throughout this arc.
NOTICE
Next chapter will be more of an interlude that will include some canon and non-canon elements before we head into the next arc such as the dorms and the repercussions of what All Might and Mand'alor just did.
As you all know…I'm in the military and I'll be heading to my next duty station soon, hopefully I'll have a bit of time before I'm deployed to write a bit more, but if I don't, expect the next chapter to take a lot of time.
I'll be posting this notice with each future chapter that I post.
But let me assure you, I will not give up on Legion.
Now, for an omake.
All For One (Short one though)
They had finally done it…it had taken the work of many heroes, but Shigaraki Tomura, the successor to All For One, had been defeated and arrested.
"Eraserhead…you do know that Sensei had multiple plans…right?" He muttered with a grin, the older man glaring at him.
"What?"
"Do you remember what I told you? All those years ago at the USJ?" Shigaraki asked.
At that everyone paused.
Shota's old students, now pro-heroes in their own right, warily looked at him.
"I'm not the final boss…"
And from miles away, the sky turned red as fire burned the heavens, a mushroom cloud rising high into the sky as all of them stared in horror.
That's when the shockwave hit, knocking them all off their feet.
A bright light suddenly hit the planet, beginning to lift boulders, trees and people off of the ground and into the sky, almost like one of those beams used in old alien movies.
Far away, on the other side of the city and inside the remnants of an entire ward, a man in a suit without a tie floated in the sky as if he was being hanged.
He bore a helmet and skeletal wings on his back, and although it did not keep him alive, he used it to honor his predecessor, his mentor, his master.
His father in all but blood.
Two horns protruded from it as well, as a reminder.
That all men are not created equal.
And that heroes are not gods.
He would have taken the name of his predecessor, but he felt that he needed to be his own person.
"It's all come to an end…thank you, Tomura…I now have the power to do what is necessary," Unicron declared as he observed the broken and dead heroes around him.
Very few were left alive.
Good. They would be made an example of once One For All arrived.
"Now then…shall we begin?"
He smiled under the mask.