"-and after the recent incident at Tartarus the villain, Remnant, has-"
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"-at least a hundred injured said that they can't use at least one of their limbs!-"
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"-The only cell that was tampered with, what does Remnant want with the killer Lady Na-"
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"They're all talking about you." The lovely Lady Nagant, or Kaina Tsutsumi, changed channel after channel, most occupied by news talking about her new boss(?).
"Any fun theories?" Izuku asked, looking over his shoulder from adjusting his gear.
"One of them did say something about you doing this all for me from the way you broke me out of prison." Izuku only laughed.
"That's only slightly right, they're just thinking too small." Kaina watched as he got back to his gear. Izuku Shigaraki is a headache, that's the best way she can put it and it was only before he told her about the whole time traveling business, something she isn't sure if she completely believes yet.
"So, what's the plan?" She asked as Izuku put his gauntlet on.
"It's rather simple." Izuku turned towards her. "Obviously if we want to be able to make a new society we need to get rid of the others who would try to take control after the chaos we cause."
"All For One and the Hero Association." When she answered, Izuku nodded.
"Those are the big players but there's another group, they keep to themselves but their followers are nothing to scoff at." He grabbed a photo from the wall and passed it to her, it was an image of a man in a suit, their most prominent feature was their large pointy nose and the odd spots on his face.
"They call themselves the Meta Liberation Army, led by Rikiya Yotsubashi otherwise known as Re-Destro." Izuku explained. "He's our other target."
Kaina pursed her lips. "Looks simple enough, a penetration bullet should do good for him." But Izuku shook his head.
"No, if we take down Re-Destro like that then his subordinates will just take over, we need to take them all down and do it with a show of power, only then will they admit defeat."
"Hmm." Nagant hummed as she thought about it. "So if we put it together, how's it going to look?" She handed the picture back to him.
"Rather straightforward." Izuku moved to a large wall that he had started to fill with photos, red string and newspaper articles. "First, we need to take down AFO's successor, that's the easy part, after that I want to take down Muscular who's been rampaging around the city recently, taking advantage of the chaos I've caused to reveal himself."
"Why him? Feels out of place compared to everything else."
"Oh that one is personal." His words were sharp as a blade and ominous green sparks jumped from his fists, she didn't ask any further.
"Then we can focus on Re-Destro together." She passed over the image and he placed it back on his plan wall. "We raid their base, shout out our ideals and bring them down. We'll get rid of the competition and put more eyes on us, two birds with one stone."
"After that I would need to catch One For All's successor and take their quirk, that one might get complicated." Izuku looked at the newspaper articles with the headline 'Four UA students go missing!' followed along with pictures of his sister, Todoroki, Bakugo and Shinsou.
"Lastly, we will split up so you can take care of the Hero Association and I All For One, where we will both make our exit off the stage and the rest is up to Nezu."
"You know, I've never had to fake my own death, I hope it's fun." Her joke managed to get a laugh out of the boy, he looked so relaxed despite the fact he was making himself public enemy number one.
She knew he was doing all of this for the benefit of his friends which didn't sit right with her because everytime she looked at him all she could see was herself.
A young girl with the stars in her eyes ready to do anything to be a hero, pulled too thin until she snapped. And she wasn't sure if Izuku had already snapped or not.
She pushed herself off the couch she had been on and moved next to Izuku, she places her hand on his head and ruffles his hair getting her an odd look from him.
"Alright then, where are we going first?"
Tomura couldn't help but scratch at his neck as his thoughts kept racing in his head. Did they always have a mole? If so then why wasn't he informed!? And who does he dare call a brat!!
"Tomura." Kurogiri's deep voice brings him back to reality, the pure yellow eyes looking at him without any emotion. "It's almost time."
Right, his mission. Spread the Nomu's around the city, but…
"Did you know?" His voice comes out raspy as he addresses the pile of smoke. "Did you know about Remnant?" There's clear anger in his words but the intelligent Nomu doesn't react.
Kurogiri just shakes his head. "No, but it is no surprise that the master has his own secrets." Tomura scoffs at this, he should know those secrets, didn't he say that he was going to be his successor!?
He needed something to distract himself, so he turned to the multiple lines of Nomu's that were awaiting his orders. That'll do.
"Open the gate." Kurogiri nodded as his body expanded and swirled in the air, he could feel his hands itch in irritation, maybe he'll join in on the destruction too.
Crossing the gate, he finds himself up above the sleeping city standing on the tallest building for the best view. "Hello Japan, a beautiful night isn't it?"
"And it's only going to get better." The Nomu slowly lumbered out of the portal behind him as he raised his arms up. "Make sure to go into the night with a beautiful cry for me to hea-"
"Booooo! You sound like an eight-grader!"
"Who said that!?" He turned around so fast that his neck cracked but he ignored it as he pointed at the main criminal himself. "You!!"
"Hello Tomura." Izuku gave the man-child a lazy wave. "Here to play with your pets?" He nodded at the Nomu.
"You bastard! Do you know the headache you have caused us!?" Tomura couldn't help but scream now that he had the one who had been a thorn in his side in front of him. "And you did a speech too!"
"Mine was much cooler."
"Irrelevant! Kill him!" The villain pointed at the white haired menace and three hulking Nomu dashed forward ready to tear him apart.
Izuku only chuckled. "That's no good, you need to keep your dogs on a leash or else…"
Bang! Bang! Bang!
Three shots rang through the air, and three heads exploded into red gore.
"They get put down." Izuku's smile widened at Tomura's confusion.
The three new corpses dropped to the ground like sacks of bricks as blood gushed out of their necks like broken faucets. "What!? Who did that!?" Tomura roared in anger.
"You were right." A voice said above them, a figure slowly descended from the sky and gracefully landed next to Izuku, her purple and pink hair moving in the wind. "He is loud."
"Who the hell is this!?
"Surprised, Tomura?" Izuku tilted his head to the side, his voice slow and soft as if he was talking to a baby. "Did you really think that you were the only one who could bring teammates along?"
The villain began to frantically scratch at his neck, jagged nails digging into his skin. "Shit shit shit! You were supposed to be some cannon fodder NPC, how the fuck did you turn into such a problem!?"
Izuku shrugged his shoulders with a smile. "What can I say, I've always been a problem child."
Bang!
"Ugh!"
Kaina acted faster than any of the villains could react and a bullet flew cutting the air, Tomura flinched and dodged to the side on instinct only to realize that the bullet had not been for him.
Behind him, Kurogiri fell to their knees as they clutched at their damaged collar as their mist form expanded and contorted, the portal the Nomus had been using closed, bisecting the one that had been crossing it.
"The best way to win a fight is to target the support first, right?" Tomura growled as he lunged for the younger boy, hands outstretched as he tried to grab at him.
Izuku, for his part, looked not like a man about to be turned to dust but like a disappointed teacher watching a child throw a tantrum. Tomura ended up swiping at nothing as Izuku easily dodged the large swipe.
Filled with rage, the hand-covered villain continued his assault noting how their female partner didn't seem to have any interest in them and kept her eyes on Kurogiri.
That's fine, he can deal with a 1v1.
Tomura, with his lanky body, was deceptively fast and flexible after having been trained since little, knowing how to move to try and grab his enemy without them noticing or when they least expected it.
The problem was that he was fighting Remnant.
The white haired youth easily dodged or blocked his every move. He sidesteps when he tries to grab his arm, ducks when he throws a kick at his head and even jumps out of the way when he turns the roof to dust, it felt like the worst game of cat and mouse.
While for Izuku this felt… rather sad.
Right in front of him was the person who had made three years of his life complete hell, the man who had once stood above all, who had torn and twisted his friends into beasts and forced him to put them out of their suffering.
The two of them stood glaring at each other, the battlefield silent apart from the distant screams of their own soldiers, heroes and Nomus battling it out behind them.
Shigaraki smiled, a wild and wide one that showed his teeth and fangs, as he looked down at Midoriya. His long pale blue hair gave way for his malice filled red eyes to shine from the light of the fire around them.
Izuku glared right back, nothing but cold anger in his dim green eyes as his hold on the yellow scarf around his neck tightened. His knuckles cracked as he stretched his hand, his support equipment battered and scratched but still holding on.
Both men held pieces of history, two fragments of an ungodly whole.
Shigaraki's body bulged and contorted as muscles and bones grew, metal spikes protruding out of his body, black energy moving around him like snakes.
Izuku pulled down his mask as his body was engulfed in blinding green lightning, pure energy running through his veins as Blackwhip shot out of his back like a spider, smoke beginning to trail behind him and Fajin begging to charge.
And only one would see tomorrow.
But now…
"Just stay still!!" The villain cried out, sweat running down their face as they jumped like a feral animal once more.
Their movement was basic, no strategy or even real danger in their attacks. He was more entertained by watching Nagant's fight.
The sniper gracefully jumped around in the air thanks to Air Walk, which he had given her, as she dodged another Nomu. Kurogiri lacked any actual attacks so instead he decided to send the nomus to fight her through his portals.
Sadly for him, he was fighting an expert. Kaina once more simply flipped in the air and raised her arm, a bang rang out and a body fell to the ground.
"Izuku." Nana's voice snapped him back to his fight only to find a panting Tomura glaring at him, he hadn't even used a quirk yet.
"Alright, that's enough Tenko." The villain snarled at the name.
"Don't call me that!"
"You can't win, even you should be able to see that." Izuku calmly said.
"Shut up! I just need one touch and I'll finally get rid of the bug!" He was losing it at this point, his words sounding more like an animal than a person.
Izuku could only sigh. "Let me put this in a way you'll understand." Green met red. "This is my New game"
"...What?"
"I've already done all of this. I've already played this game and won. All of this," He gestures to the fallen Nomus, to the struggling Kurogiri, to him . "This is just me trying to get a better ending."
"I know who you are, your plans and motivations and at this point I've already grown to a point that you can't win, so please," just one last try, one last chance. "Just give up."
"..."
For a blissful second, Tomura stopped. His hands to his side as he stared at Izuku completely wide eyed, and he thought that maybe he was going to take the olive branch.
"Ha… hahaha… hahahahHAHAHAHA!!"
Izuku frowned at Tomura's insane laughing fit.
"I get it now!" The villain screamed, his red eyes shining with glee. "All of this! Everything you are doing is to stop us!" He says as if it's the answer to everything.
"You are desperate! You went back in time because I won!" That simple fact makes his face light up. "I did it! I killed All Might and this entire stupid hero societ-"
Bam!
"Argh!" Tenko Shimura folded as Izuku's fist dug deep into his stomach, warm blood trickling down his arm as green lightning jumped around his arm.
"Y-you fuc-"
"Tenko Shimura." Izuku began. "You were the worst person I've ever met."
"You and the league made my life hell. You made me watch as I slowly lost everyone I ever cared for while you laughed above the ashes."
"Ugh!" Tenko grunts as Izuku twists his fist.
"You were the biggest threat the world had faced, destroying everything in your path." Forcing to push through the white hot pain clouding his mind, Tenko raises his hand and grabs Izuku's arm.
But nothing happens.
"And yet." In Izuku's grip, wrapped by invisible red strings, a small ball of gray light sinks into his body. "There was someone that always prayed that you would change."
"That somehow you would open your eyes and see the damage you had caused on yourself and others."
"Even now, she still feels guilty for not being able to be there for you when you need it." Izuku places a hand on Tenko's shoulder. "So know, Tenko Shimura, that you were loved."
Izuku pulled back his arm, blood dripping to the ground. Tenko's grip in his arm faltered as he tumbled back, only held up by Izuku. Unknown to him, Nana's ghost quietly cries over Izuku's shoulder.
His red eyes, already beginning to dim, locked onto his. "Fuck… you…" The words came out as a raspy last breath as his legs finally gave out underneath him.
And thus came the end of Tomura Shigaraki.
"Master Tomura!" Kurogiri screamed at the sight but was unable to do anything as all Nomu had been defeated and Lady Nagant had restrained him.
"Hey Oboro…" Izuku quietly said as he moved back to the struggling fog figure.
"I… I'm sorry, I still don't know how to fix you but I promise you that we'll find a way." His fingers elongated with black and red markings. "Soon you'll see everyone again, Aizawa, Hizashi and even Nemuri, so just… just sleep for a while." His fingers dug into Kurogiri but the pain didn't last as he soon fell unconscious.
Izuku took a deep breath as silence came back over them, his arm still dripping blood next to him.
Kaina looked at Izuku, their plan had gone perfectly, they killed the villain and captured the other one, they barely broke a sweat.
And yet he looked so tired. So used to it.
She hesitated as she slowly raised her arm, she wasn't going to lie and say she was good at this but she once fought to stop this, to stop children from being turned to the same killing machine she is.
But he is willingly walking down this path, and has already been in it for a long time. Someone that should have never been asked to carry a duty so heavy, who doesn't let so much of a single person see him cry.
So she reaches out, and even if it's not much, she softly places her hand on his back.
Right now, in the silence of the night, she is not a Pro hero, not a killer, not Lady Nagant; and he is not a Shigaraki, not a time traveler, not Remnant. She is Kaina Tsutsumi, the girl who tried to fight back against the system by herself because no one else would; and he is Izuku Midoriya, the child who despite everything still refuses to give up.
Right now, in the silence of the night, this is enough.
Aizawa glanced around at the other heroes present, the top ten and many after that were all here thanks to the urgency of the matter. Information about the main lab where the Nomu's are being made in Kamino was found thanks to Nezu's hacking, except that it was information Izuku gave them something only the two of them knew.
"Has everyone been informed as to why you are here?" All Might took the lead as the raid leader as there was apparently some information about Nomu's stronger than what they already faced.
The heroes gave a wave of affirmations. "Good, this here is supposedly the location of the main lab for All For One's human testing which is being led by a Doctor Garaki."
"The mission is simple, we will search and destroy any machine, document or Nomu we find and capture the scientist in the lab alive for later questioning." The heroes nodded. "We will split into teams and search the facility, you have all been given a communication device so if you ever need backup do not hesitate to use it."
"Is everything understood?"
"Yes!"
"Then I wish you all luck, and Plus Ultra!" With those final words, the raid began.
The building in front of them looked like any other apartment building, if only for the fact that the inside was completely empty. The entrance was as informed, underneath the building itself and the heroes didn't waste time breaking through.
The scientist that had been working that day panicked the moment the ceiling above them broke and the angry face of All Might came through the smoke.
None of them expected to fight the number one or any of the others so their first instinct was to run away into the deeper floors of the lab, surprisingly only one scientist stayed behind calmly looking at the heroes.
The man himself, Doctor Garaki.
"It seems that the jig is up." The doctor calmly stated, the sight of all the heroes seemingly meaning nothing to him.
"Did we underestimate you or…" the short man stroked his beard as a dangerous glint appeared in his eye. "Did I underestimate that child?"
"Hohoho." The doctor freely laughed even under the heavy glares of the pros. "This is the first time I've ever been outwitted by a child but I should expect nothing less from my master's son."
"These may not be finished yet but I am curious as to what they can do." The doctor pressed a button on the large console behind him as large tubes filled with liquid rose from the ground, inside were different types of Nomu's.
"So heroes…" the tubes let out a whistling hiss as the beasts inside opened their eyes. "Would you mind joining me for one last experiment?"
And the High-end Nomus were released.
