It was a beautiful day.
A clear sky, the bright laughter of children and excited chatter of adults.
The students all talked to each other with equal excitement and nervousness as the stadium began to fill, in some seats they could even see some pro heroes. If they did good enough they could even catch their attention!
The air was filled with energy as the speakers buzzed to life.
" WEEEELCOME ONE AND ALL TO THE GREATEST MOMENTS OF YOUR LIFE!!" Mic's voice boomed across the arena and everyone in the stadium answered back with their own screams of excitement.
" AS YOU ALL ALREADY KNOW " the hero continued " OUR STUDENTS WILL GO HEAD TO HEAD AGAINST EACH OTHER IN THESE TRIALS BEFORE MOVING ONTO OUR MAIN ATTRACTION, THE TOURNAMENT!! " The people burst into cheers, if the radio host knew how to do something it was getting a crowd excited.
" AND TO START US OFF! COVER YOUR EYES CHILDREN BECAUSE IT'S THE 18 HERO, MIDNIGHT!" somehow, the voices of the people became louder as the beautiful woman walked onto the stage whip in hand.
At the center front of the stage, she stood with a mic as she overlooked the determined student's, a fire clear in their eyes.
"Looking at so many passionate kids is making me all tingly~" Midnight's sultry voice echoed, sending a shiver through her fans' bodies "So to finish this boring introduction, let's hear a few words from the number one in this generation, Izuku Midoriya!"
The students clapped and cheered at their classmates name but none as loud as class 1-A. All of them expected that even if he wasn't going to participate, considering how extremely busy he had become in the past few days, they thought that he was definitely going to do something for the sports festival, although when asked he would stay quiet and say that it would 'blow their minds".
Bzzzt-
Suddenly, an ear piercing screech burst out of every speaker in the stadium, making everyone cover their ears and for any person with enhanced hearing to fall to their knees in pain.
When the noise finally stopped, a new voice that cut through the silence caught everyone's attention.
"Sorry about that, taking over these things is always a hassle" a tired but calm voice made them look around in confusion, was this still part of the event?
"Thank you Midnight for the oh so kind words. the voice purred "but I'll be taking over now."
The speakers went silent with a click, the people were still confused, who was that? Was that meant to happen?
"Hey, what's that?" One of the people asked as they pointed at the strange black spot in the otherwise clear sky.
Slowly, more and more people began to take notice of the dark spot in the sky, it couldn't be a faraway plane or helicopter since it was perfectly unmoving. The heroes, feeling the tension in the air, stood ready for anything.
Then the object began to fall.
As it began to catch speed and grow closer its form became slightly more recognizable.
It wasn't an object but a person.
The heroes took no chances and acted on the possible threat.
Mountain Lady grew in size as she made to grab the person only to miss as they somehow made a sharp turn midair.
All she could see after that was green sparks and the feeling of a truck hitting her full force in the face.
The giant woman stumbled back and clutched at her broken nose, blood dripping to her lip as she turned back to normal.
The second to try was Endeavor, his scowl deeper than ever before as someone dared to ruin the day his son proved to be better than everyone.
Using his fire to rocket himself forward he was ready to take down the mystery person with a powerful flaming fist.
Except that the stranger suddenly stopped their descent as if they were standing on something, making his fist miss.
Before he could correct himself, a strange black rope wrapped around his torso and began to spin him around like a toy before throwing him down into the earth next to where Midnight stood.
The spectators could only scream in fear as the heroes fell against this unknown threat, they began to leave their seats and run away in a panic.
Most heroes don't have much of a way to fly so the ones on the ground could only watch or try to help the civilians as the covered intruder walked down to their level.
Now with a perfect view of them, they could clearly see their outfit.
A black suit with teal-green highlights on the lines, equipped with black iron soles and black boots. Over their head is a black cowl covering the top of their face in shadow with bunny-like ear protrusion on the top of it, and covering the bottom is a metal respirator.
Midnight was about to rip a part of her suit to use her quirk but the intruder was much faster as one of those black tendrils burst from their back pierced her stomach.
"Really, no one wants to let me have a word, how mean." With a flick of their wrist, the tendril threw away Midnight like thrash, causing gasps and horrified screams to ring out and for some of the heroes to rush to her side.
Behind them, Endeavor was trying to climb out of the hole his fall had made, only to be pushed back by a foot placed on his chest.
"I wouldn't do that if I was you." Even when he struggled, it was as if an entire building had been placed above him.
The speakers suddenly turned on.
"Now where was I?" Once again, their voice boomed through the stadium. "That's right, I should probably explain all this."
Spreading their arms wide, the intruder said "Welcome to the end of the line, this is where your world ends."
Their words caused everyone to fall silent, was it the fact that those words didn't make sense? Was it because he beat three heroes in less than a minute? Or maybe because he was standing over the number two hero as if he was a bug?
"Who- Who the fuck are you?" The struggling number two asked while still trying to move or even burn the leg over him to terrible results.
"Hmm…" the intruder pondered, putting a hand over their respirator in a thinking pose. "I guess I can use an old nickname of mine, not that any of you will recognize it."
"Remnant, call me Remnant."
Somewhere inside the group of trembling students, a boy with purple hair froze.
"And like I said before, this is where the world you know ends" Remnant launched back into his speech "Heroes and Villains, black and white, isn't that just a frustrating way to see the world?"
"We see heroes as paragons of good, angels and gods that can't do anything wrong! When in reality…" the weight over Endeavor's chest grew "they are the lowest of the low."
"They parade around their title thinking that it makes them untouchable, like they could get away with anything." While their eyes were hidden, everyone present could still feel how they pierced through them all "How many people have been wronged by these heroes only to be ignored by the world just because all of you couldn't accept the idea of them doing wrong?"
"And oh the villains! those evil and murderous villains!" Remnant wailed, anger clear in their voice "Don't make me laugh! How many of you here have been called monstrous!? How many of you were bullied for having a 'Villainous' quirk!?" many of the people and students flinched "All of you that are here are the lucky ones, the ones that managed to grasp that silver straw, so what do you think happens to those who didn't make it!?"
A girl with golden roots and green hair raises a trembling hand up to her mouth, not from fear but from the horrible realization that dawned upon her. Memories of a park fromages ago resurfaces in her mind, the days spent with a mask of a perfect little girl come rushing back. And a freckled face.
She makes eye contact with the purple haired boy, a similar look in his eyes.
"Discrimination for something that you couldn't control, persecution for something that should be seen as a gift." Remnant's voice is strained, anger, sadness and a thousand more emotions swirl around his words "People who are left behind by the world and left with no other options, those are the villains you despise so much!"
"This failure of a system is only worth pumping out heroes and villains for its own sake, bringing with it a never ending cycle of misery, which is why…" Remnant raised his hand "I will break all of it." They snapped their fingers.
UA went up in flames.
The sky was suddenly painted orange as the once outstanding High School became nothing but rubble, the aftermath caught up to them in no time. The force of the explosion sent everyone to the ground and the deafening roar that came after made the world fall into silence.
Even so, everyone's eyes were locked on the only standing person, Remnant, as their dark figure stood out with the unimaginable sight. A deep and all-consuming dread began to slowly rise in all of their stomachs as they slowly came to realize just who it was they were looking at.
"Good, Good!" Remnant, as if he didn't know or care about the horrified expressions, just clapped his hands "Take a good look! this is the scene I wanted you all to witne-"
DETROIT SMASH!!!
Remnant could barely get a word out before receiving a massive fist on the gut and thrown right back up into the air with the shock-wave letting out the sound of a shotgun.
Everyone watched the stunning figure of the number one hero, not a trace of a smile on his face but the seething rage in his glowing blue eyes.
For a second, a seed of hope bloomed in everyone's chests as they saw the body of Remnant fly into the sky.
"Hello All Might."
Until it was thoroughly crushed by the voice coming from the speakers.
"I was wondering when you were going to come" Once more, as if there was a wall to stop him, Remnant stayed floating in the air "Did you enjoy my little firework show?"
" You… " In a heated voice All Might glared " You are with him, aren't you? "
"With him? Who are you talking about?" Remnant feigned ignorance "Could you possibly mean… All For One ?"
The reaction was instantaneous, grinding his teeth even harder All Might had heard enough and jumped after the villain, shooting into the sky like a rocket, sadly even with his speed and strength All Might still lack the ability to truly fly so for Remnant, who could seemingly walk on air, it was a trivial task to dodge.
" Who are you!? Did he send you!? " All Might barked, anger clouding his mind as he focused on the multi-quirk villain.
Remnant only clicked his tongue "Fine, fine, I'll answer your questions, it's an insult to me if you think that I am on that man's side."
Slowly, Remnant descended from the sky still floating a few meters above the ground. "Make sure to listen well, I'm not going to repeat myself." taking a hold of their cowl "Burn this into your minds…"
Stark white curls fell over his green eyes, freckles covered most of his face while a strange black crack crawled over his cheek and over his left eye.
All Might's anger disappeared like a flame being snuffed out and instead replaced by a heavy weight in his stomach.
In the group of student's that hadn't run away yet, Himiko fell to her knees, her face having turned pale, tears forming at the corner of her eyes and an unfulfilled promise echoing inside her head.
Not far away was Shinsou who was trying to wrap his head around everything, his thoughts were a mess, so much was happening that he could barely hold himself up.
"I'm Izuku Shigaraki," Izuku introduced himself "the UA traitor and All For One's son."
He didn't move his eyes from the All Might,he couldn't bring himself to look at his classmates, would they be angry? sad? betrayed? He didn't want to know, he had already made up his mind about the plan and so far in it he wasn't going to falter.
"I used to work for my father alongside Tomura" a scowl formed on his face "but after that brat took that gamble with the USJ I realized that I would never accomplish my goals if I stayed working with them." Izuku's tone of voice was calm as if he hadn't just dropped the reveal of the century.
"So now I'm here, working for myself." Izuku causally shrugged as he finally touched ground "So don't take this personally."
"Y-young Mid-" All Might couldn't finish as black and green sparks took over his vision and it was his turn to be thrown as Izuku's fist connected, sending him flying through the concrete wall of the stadium.
Izuku shook his hand, even with his injury, that man felt like a thick wall of steel. "I'll say it once more, I'm going to dismantle this society. Heroes, villains, I'll break this stupid game of chess."
Everyone could only helplessly watch as the teenager jumped away, leaving behind his chaos and the stunned heroes and students.
The news didn't take long to spread, the festival was televised worldwide after all.
Every news channel was already talking about the new terrorist threat known as Izuku Shigaraki, classifying him as the second villain in the world to obtain the SS threat rank, only after the now known All For One.
But it wasn't only fear that his speech inspired.
In the small minority of people, those that were shunned away by the world and abandoned, they clung to the name of Remnant in the hope of a world that accepted them.
Growing courageous, these people began to protest, asking for answers from the heroes who left them. Surprisingly, one of the people leading one of these protests was a very familiar lizard-like young man.
Izuku smiled down at his phone, watching article after article villainize him, everything was going perfectly. Now all he needs to do is take down the kings on both sides of the board.
"Midoriya" Izuku crushed his phone, couldn't let anyone track him with that.
"It's Shigaraki now, Eraserhead" Izuku turned to look at his old teacher, the animal director in his scarf "I don't want to bring my mom into this"
"Sorry…" Nezu jumped out of the scarf and patted down his fancy suit. "Well, the first step is done, I've already erased any traces of Izuku Midoriya, your birth certificate, any of your school applications and any other small file with your name, you've basically become a ghost."
Izuku bowed "Thank you very much, and I apologize again for blowing up your school."
Nezu raised a paw "If it's for the greater good than it has already done its job," there was a glint of excitement in his small black eyes "and after all, I'm going to be promoted, aren't I?"
Izuku chuckled, ever the opportunist. "Yes, I promised to leave the reconstruction to your capable paws after all."
"And we got what you asked for." Aizawa pulled a small piece of paper out of his scarf. "It's her jail number, it took me a lot of connections to get it."
Izuku gratefully took the paper with a smile "Are you sure she is going to help?" Aizawa asked, not entirely convinced about the woman.
"Yes, don't worry." Green and black spark began to surround now that he had his destination. "Even with these powers, I can't be in two places at once and she is the best candidate for taking down the Hero Commision."
In a dark cell deep within the thick walls of Tartarus, a woman with short dark purple and pink hair lies, completely unaware of the situation on the outside world.
"After all, they have quite the history together."
