Just something to note! I haven't said what the "opening and ending" of "Season 2" was. So, I guess I should probably do that, seeing as I did that with "Season 1".
Opening: Trash Candy, By GRANRODEO
Ending: Veil, By Keina Suda
If you're looking for English lyrics to those songs, search those song names on Spotify or YouTube with "Studio Yuraki" next to them. They make amazing English Covers for Anime Openings. Amalee too.
Anyway, with that being said, let's get onto the chapter!
[Death To Normality – Part 2]
It is said, on August 15th, 2018, Gravesfield Connecticut was wiped off of the map. Casualties counted in the thousands. Out of the population of around 3,867 people, only 15 recovered. Nobody knew exactly what caused it, nor did anybody know what exactly transpired, as those who survived the atrocity kept silent.
For the third time that year, during the summer of 2018, another historical event occurred. The event was known as The Great Battle Of Gravesfield. There were only six known combatants that day, four of which were deceased by the end of it all, and two disappearing completely. The only one whose identity could be confirmed being that of, and coincidently was one of the ones that disappeared was…
Luz Noceda, alias All For One. Wanted Criminal, and Domestic Terrorist.
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The ball of energy that Sophia shot out launched toward Luz, who once again brought out a forcefield to protect herself. However, instead of one, she created two. However, instead of exploding like a bomb would, the ball of blue energy collided with the shield and crumpled it like a tin can.
Luz's eyes widened, as she attempted to jump back from the blue ball. Instead, she was pulled in, almost like the ball was attracting her to it, kind of like a vacuum. Once she got near the ball, she outstretched her arm to attempt to hit it point blank with a forcefield, only for her arm to begin to crumple and fold like a piece of paper being balled up.
Blood sprayed everywhere, getting her new stolen shirt ruined. Luz gritted her teeth, as the blue orb pulsed, and exploded outward, knocking Luz back deeper into the store.
As the dust settled, Luz coughed from the dust getting into her lungs, before looking at the damage. Her arm looked like it had been bent in every wrong direction imaginable. Not that it mattered, as in the blink of an eye, Luz's arm repaired itself. When it was fixed, she struck it outward and launched a barrage of Finger Spears toward Sophia.
As the bladed fingers encroached on Sophia, the woman dodged to the left, before firing another red orb at Luz. The second user of All For One cursed, attempting to avoid the attack. Instead, she was caught in the blast, knocking her to the right and through a wall, into another building.
Luz groaned as she stood up, not bothering to pay attention to the wounds she had garnered as she healed. Screams echoed around her, most likely from civilians running away from the oncoming fight. That was a good idea. The less collateral damage caused, the better. Although she had a feeling that it wasn't going to last long.
"With the amount of damage those red balls do, I wouldn't be surprised if Gravesfield itself is gone. If I don't cut this short, that could very well end up being a possibility."
"If I may…" Shigaraki began, as Luz narrowed her eyes. "You do remember what I said about mixing Quirks to create powerful attacks?"
"Yes?"
"I have an idea. Try activating both Multiply and Forcefield Projection at the same time, and see what that gets you. That might help."
Luz hummed to herself, rolling her right shoulder back into place. The moment she activated Multiply, several arms, around eight in total, came out of her back, which looked to be made of smaller hands and arms. Even the new hands looked like they were made of smaller hands. It was bizarre, but it worked.
Just as she did that, Sophia walked into the room, the woman scoffing. "What're a couple more hands going to do? What, are you going shoot more of those pathetic blades at me?" Sophia huffed, before outstretching her right hand out, a ball of red energy collecting on the end of her palm. "Make my job easier, and just die already."
In response, Luz activated Forcefield Projection on each separate hand she generated. When she did, Forcefields appeared, their yellowish hue glowing and shining down on Luz. Unlike when she would create multiple shields on one hand, these shields all retained the base strength of a singular shield, instead of being divided altogether.
As soon as that was done, Sophia launched Red. Luz had the forcefields lurch forward, the first four creating a barrier in front of Luz while the other four hung back, hovering just above Luz. When the red ball collided with the shields, it exploded. When it did, the first four forcefields were destroyed. Just as she had expected them to be.
Sophia narrowed her eyes, preparing to create a blue orb, when Luz launched the other four forcefields at the woman, uttering something. "Forcefield Cannon."
The forcefields slammed into the ground around and near Sophia, the resulting explosions rupturing the building and destroying the surrounding area to the point where both the building Luz had come from and half of the building she was were now nothing but a crater.
When the dust settled, Luz expected Sophia to be dead. What she didn't expect, was for Sophia to be basically unharmed, sitting there with crossed arms. Luz blinked, as Sophia smirked.
"Blue. It acts as a defensive property and offensive, while Red is purely offensive. Effectively, when I have Blue out, all damage is sucked into it. While I can only use one at a time, I can effortlessly swap the two out whenever I feel like it."
As Sophia said that, her expression became dark, as a wide smile overtook her visage. "In other words, you can't kill me~!" It was at that moment that Sophia shot out another ball of red. Luz sneered, jumping up and floating in the air with Air Walk, creating five more forcefields and launching them at Red.
When they collided, a massive explosion overtook the surrounding area, knocking both combatants back. The damage caused by the single attack wiped out seven of the fourteen buildings on the street. Anybody who was caught in the crossfire had been blown to bits, and there was now a massive crater in place of where everything had been.
5% of all of Gravesfield had been destroyed thanks to two attacks clashing with one another.
Luz found herself in a small dividend in the ground, the minor cuts and scrapes caused by the collision of the two attacks healing over—and that wasn't an exaggeration either. The Forcefields and taken up more of the damage than Luz had expected.
As for Sophia, she had been perfectly fine. Right as she launched Red, and right as the four forcefields created by All For One connected with Red, Sophia created Blue to suck in all of the explosive force of the attack. The only thing Blue didn't do was not stop her from being knocked back.
Blue had a limit. Which was funny, considering her power was called Limitless. She had fun testing out just what the limits had been with Bombardier, and she calculated that it took about 200,000 Newtons of pure, unrelenting force to prevent Blue from sucking up anymore, filling it to its limit.
That kind of power could only be found in Hypersonic Cruise Missiles. She knew this thanks to Bombardier and her knowledge of her own power, and having directly compared her own attack to that of the aforementioned weapon. That kind of power could take out whole parts of a town. Combine that with Red, and, well… basically, she was asking far too much from Blue at that point.
As Sophia got up, she brushed herself off, staring off into the distance, watching as All For One got back up again. She looked as if nothing had happened, her expression sharp and her eyes red and narrowed. Red lightning coursed around her body as Sophia smirked.
Luz watched as Sophia raised her hand, another ball of Red forming at her palm. Luz narrowed her eyes, before flexing her fingers and casting out Finger Spears. Atop that, she created five more arms from her back using Multiply and sent out more Finger Spears.
Sophia jumped back as each spear landed, piercing the ground and cutting some of Sophia's skin, causing small lines of blood to drip from the wounds created. Nevertheless, Sophia launched Red, as Luz sneered.
Luz countered, once again firing off Forcefield Cannon, meeting Red halfway, but at the last second, Sophia snapped her fingers. When she did, Red changed to Blue, which made Luz go wide-eyed. The forcefields and spears were sucked into Blue like a black hole, forcing Luz to deactivate Finger Spears and Multiply.
Luz made a break for it. Running through the rubble caused by their fight. As she ran, Sophia fired off another Red, and when it caught up to Luz, the Dominican American attempted to activate both Multiply and Forcefield Projection, only for it to be too late.
Luz was hit point blank with Red, and once again, since she had been blown up by Riley, she felt pain. Her body seared in agony as her skin was practically boiled off of her body. Bones shattered, and muscles liquified. It was like being caught between a rock and a nuclear warhead.
Luz, or whatever remained of her body, was shot through the street, the impact dredging up the asphalt, and destroying the entirety of the road, along with any cars that had gotten in her way. Maple Avenue, if she remembered the name correctly, had now started to look more like a warzone than a street.
The second user of All For One felt her body regenerate the damage. Despite how much of her body had been missing, that being her right arm, the entire right side of her abdomen, and her legs, they came back rather quickly.
Luz frowned, narrowing her eyes as her body put itself back together. She looked over to the nearest person she seemed to be her age, lunged toward them, hitting them in the head, ripped off their pants, and put them on herself. A pair of black sweatpants. The other person still had underwear, she didn't. Why? Well, she just got hit by a massive ball of death. Her clothes, or what remained of them, had been vaporized. While she was at it, she took the person's shirt, too—a pink shirt with a unicorn on it.
As Luz finished re-dressing herself, she looked at the person she stole the clothes from, and sighed. It was only then that she recognized the person in question. A girl, and one with blonde hair. If she remembered correctly, it was one of the girls on the cheerleading team back at Gravesfield Middle School—Juniper, if she had remembered correctly.
Whatever the case was, it hardly mattered now. She had a power, and seeing as she was knocked down. Well, she saw an opportunity, so she took it. Reaching out, Luz placed a hand on the girl's head, activated All For One, and began the stealing process.
Red lightning pronged off of Luz's arm and washed over the unconscious girl as she felt the transfer begin. When it finished, she shuffled around in her mind to pick out the newfound power. When she found the latest addition to her ever-amounting collection of powers, she activated it.
When she activated it, Red lightning danced off of her right arm. She was confused, up until she noted the strange pads on the ends of her fingertips. Before she could figure out what kind of power she had stolen, she was blindsided by another ball of Red making its way to her.
Not having enough time to activate both Forcefield Projection and Multiply, she settled for just Forcefield Projection. In an instant, she created 16 forcefields in front of her, Red effortlessly charging through the first 11 of the forcefields, before stopping at the 12th forcefield, the explosion dragging Luz back another few feet.
Frowning, Sophia was starting to get annoyed. "Even after hitting her point blank with Red, she's recovered almost completely. It was just as Bombardier warned. No matter how much punishment you dish out, she'll just come back from it."
Sophia looked around the street and saw the level of destruction her battle with All For One had caused, and smirked, looking back over to the girl in question. "You know, this is like something ripped out of one of those oriental comic books, isn't it? Two powerhouses fighting against one another. My Limitless versus your wide variety of powers."
Luz said nothing, looking at her hand. The pads looked like something one would see on a dog. She had no idea what this Quirk did, but at the same time, it felt familiar. She didn't know why, but it did.
Sophia, for her part, scoffed. "Not going to speak? Fine then," the black-haired woman said, creating another ball of Red. "Then let's get this over with, shall we?"
It was then that Luz leapt off to the right. She had finally figured out what it was that her new Quirk did. There was an intact building off to the right, along with a couple of destroyed cars, and a few heaps of rubble.
In the time it took to blink, Luz touched everything in that area, as they began to fly upward. As the objects floated in the air, a purple aura covered the objects. It ended with Luz touching her just underneath her chin, as she too began to float while activating Air Walk.
The objects floated behind her, and as they did, a large smile covered Luz's face, as she uttered the names of the Quirks she was using at the moment to make this entire scene possible. "Air Walk, Super Strength, and Gravity. Quite the combination, yeah?"
Sophia, instead of being intimidated, smiled. "Oh, now this just got interesting!" The black-haired woman exclaimed. "When I came to my Limitless, I thought that I would never have a decent fight ever again! But this…! This is amazing!"
Luz blinked, confusion taking up her visage. Whatever that was about, she didn't care, as Red came hurdling toward her. In response, she threw everything she had at Red, the veritable tornado of rubble and whatever else Luz could've found in that corner she got everything from. As she did, on instinct, she pressed both hands and spoke. "Release."
The moment she said that everything that had been hurdling toward Sophia picked up in speed, so much so that when it hit Red, the explosion that was created didn't destroy everything.
Sophia stared up at the oncoming debris that remained after the explosion, that being half of a destroyed car, and small chunks of building. She knew that if she attempted to bring out Blue, it wouldn't be ready in time. She also knew the same thing with Red. If that rubble hit, it was basically game over. She would be squished flat.
Sophia smiled, looking up at what would be her final battle. She had lived for fighting and had been training to be an MMA fighter. When she awakened to Limitless though, she pivoted. Not that any of that mattered. She was going to die.
Or at least, she thought so anyway.
A thick blanket of Purple Smog surrounded Sophia, and as soon as the debris made contact with the smog, the smog wrapped around it before tossing it in every which direction, creating holes in the ground and destroying parts of some buildings. Sophia blinked, as the smog retracted back to where it came from, which had been from behind Sophia.
Luz narrowed her eyes, seeing the person in question.
The man was tall—freakishly so. Much like Sophia, he had black hair. Unlike Sophia, his eyes were purple, and his skin was lightly less pale. He wore a mask over his mouth, connected by pipes and some kind of canister on his back. He also looked like a cowboy, what with the vest, boots, and hat. The leather pants didn't help much, either.
"Ya'll have caused quite the mess, doncha think?" The man said as Sophia frowned.
"Jonah… what are you doing here?! The Boss said that this was my fight!" Sophia complained as Jonah shrugged.
"Boss said that you weren't gonna do it by yourself. Said someone needed to become backup. He doesn't trust Bombardier, so he sent me. If we both fail, Bombardier and Witch will come. If they fail with us, then he'll allow That Guy to come. He's the last resort," Jonah said, as the man chuckled to himself. "'Sides, If you were able to push 'er this far, I wonder what the two of us can do. Your Limitless with My Smog."
"Smog… Ah, yes. I hardly used that Quirk because it was too hard to control. It ended up being used on a project of mine. I died before I got to see the fruits of my doctor's labour. I wonder how it turned out? Either way, I wouldn't recommend getting it," Shigaraki said as Luz hummed in acknowledgement.
"So…" Luz drawled, staring down at the two assassins. "Should I expect any more interruptions?" Luz asked, a tinge of annoyance in her voice. Truthfully, this was starting to get on her nerves. Just when she thought she could've ended this fight, an unknown variable came in and ruined things.
She sort of regretted not keeping that intelligence Quirk, now…
"Shut it, Shorty," Jonah rumbled, before transforming his right arm into smoke, while at the same time, Sophia shot off a ball of Red. Luz, for her part, activated Multiply and Forcefield Projection, creating 30 pairs of arms, all folding them into one big arm quadruple the size of herself, and creating one massive forcefield that was about the size of a small building.
The purple smoke wrapped around Red, creating what appeared to be a cloud of sorts, turning the smoke from purple to black. A combination attack, it seemed. The smoke shot forward, hitting the massive shield. What happened next shocked Luz, as the smoke seemed to eat away at the Forcefield, creating a hole for Red to travel through.
In a bid to protect herself, Luz created yet another massive shield in the time it took to blink, narrowly blocking Red in the process. The explosion harmlessly cracked the massive shield, something she came up with on a whim. What she forgot, however, was the black smoke.
It widened, like a maw, and seemingly ate the first and second forcefield whole, making Luz glide backwards as far as she could. "Could Smog do that?!"
"Yes, it could. The problem with that attack, however, is that it takes the user's full concentration, which is why I never used it. It will eat away at anything it comes across. Thankfully, you still have regeneration. That being said, you don't want it to touch you either way. When I fought the original user in my world, I found that it bypassed Pain Nullification."
"Wonderful…"
The smog rocketed toward Luz, who created and shot out a forcefield, hitting the smog point blank. The smog seemed completely unfazed, as it travelled forward regardless. Luz swerved to the left, before firing once again at Jonah, who simply turned his whole body into Smog upon impact.
At the same time, Sophia launched another Red toward Luz, which made her glide over to the left and upward to avoid both Red and the cloud of black smog. At the same time, she activated Multiply and Finger Spears, creating around about 50 hands, individually this time, and shooting spears toward the pair.
The amount of finger-like spears heading their way was enough to overwhelm them, as Jonah evaporated into smoke, avoiding the attack. Unfortunately for Sophia, she was unable to dodge or create a Blue in time for the attack to land.
The result was Sophia being skewered in all of the wrong places. Her neck, her heart, her lungs, her legs and her arms. Luz, seeing an opportunity, rocketed forward as Sophia coughed up blood, her eyes glazing over, signifying her Death.
At the same time, the black smog followed after Luz, but at that point, it hardly mattered. As Luz descended upon Sophia's body, she outstretched her hand, grabbed Sophia's head, and activated All For One. At the same time, the black smog made contact with Luz's body.
Luz bit back a scream of pain as the black smog began to eat through her body faster than she could regenerate. Jonah smirked under his mask, preparing to launch another thick blanket of his black smog attack.
It was too bad then, that Luz had already finished stealing Limitless.
Luz kicked Sophia's body to the ground, before aiming her left hand behind her back and creating an orb of Blue, sucking up the black smog, before shooting the orb off into the distance, blowing it up and getting rid of the black smog.
The damage done to her by the black smog had left a sizable hole in her left abdomen, which her regeneration was working overtime to fix. Jonah glared at Luz, before sneering under his mask. He brought a hand to his ear and spoke.
"Oi, Boss, send'em this way. Sophia just got her power taken and was killed. I'm gonna need backup." As Jonah said that, he braced himself, as Luz stared at him, her eyes glowing a crimson red.
This battle was far from over.
-To Be Continued-
Ya like double uploads? I know I do! Expect another chapter sometime this week! If not, then assume that I got caught up in something big. Until then, see ya later!
