Author's note : so.
update.
I had a depression. Thankfully, my family helped me and I lucked my way into a good job... So I am getting better.
Sorry for the wait, but here is your dose of crack !
Chapter 53: Exegol Part 4
The Big Three Rescue.
"We have to go back and…" Shouto wanted to continue to speak but Tomura grabbed his arm, making sure he lifted his pinkie.
"And ruin what little time your father bought us." Tomura was not having any of that. All they could hope was that Endeavor either managed to die heroically and took down All For One or that he tired the Evil King enough to buy them time.
The more Tomura thought about it, the more likely it was. If he was right, All For One, even with an immortality quirk, was still old biologically speaking. His quirk factor was insane but not infinite as otherwise, he would have succeeded in his summoning earlier.
Therefore, All For One was going to be a fair bit weaker afterwards. Hell, if they were lucky, Endeavor would have burned all of the Noumus, reducing the threat level a lot.
Shouto was understandably not happy with this and Monoma grabbed the other arm so they could continue running without Shouto doing something dumb.
"KIDS! COME BACK HERE! I PROMISE TO SPARE… WELL ONLY THE BLOND ONE AND IZUKU. ALL THE OTHERS ARE GOING TO BE FUCKING NOUMUS !"
The loud yell sank their hearts. It was All For One's voice, though he seemed tired. Compress used to say that yelling people were the ones who knew they were losing track of their prey, hence why you should usually enjoy them.
In this scenario, however, Izuku and the others could hardly feel any joy because it meant that Endeavor failed to stop All For One.
It didn't help Shouto's very mixed feelings about it either.
It was Tomura and Monoma who got the other two out of their stupor, pulling them. They needed to run!
*Ding*
Tomura checked his phone quickly and what he saw brought a smile to his face. Finally, they were there. They took their time, though.
"Our way out is here !" Tomura said before typing something on his phone, to make sure they didn't get caught in the blast.
Very soon after, they saw an explosion of blue fire 25m from them, piercing the wall. The floor was close to be lava.
"Boss! Are you there?!" Dabi yelled as his fire continued to burn around him. Behind the crispy man, Twice and two copies of Loony (and herself of course) were with Toga. As for her, she was ready with her knife while Spinner was nowhere to be seen, but Tomura had faith he was keeping watch.
"Over there Dabi! We have fucking All For One on our trails! We need to get the fuck out now!"
Dabi smiled as the maniac he was while cracking his neck. His fire intensified in his hands while his stare went past Tomura, stopped briefly on Shouto, before staring at the endless hall behind them.
"We saw Endeavor on our way here, flying to get here. Can't I…"
"He is dead. All For One got him first." Tomura didn't have time to spare Dabi's feelings, who received the news… Stunningly. As in "was left frozen in shock" stunned.
"Why the hell would you want to kill my father?" Shouto asked nonetheless, looking at the burned man with an equal fire in his eye. His father was a bad father. However, even with his anger against him, he knew the man tried to do the right thing the last few months.
Endeavor deserved that much respect as a hero.
"Wait what? DAD WAS MY KILL!" Dabi completely ignored his brother while Tomura and Monoma decided now was not the time for another familial reunion. What was next ?! Discovering Loony was related to Roger Rabbit and/or Miruko?!
Loony, meanwhile, was making sure with Twice's clones that her cartoon tunnels stayed open. She was a close range teleporter after all. So their solution had been to spam the black cartoon portal until they reached their destination.
"GET THE FUCK IN THERE, THE PORTAL IS GOING TO…" The Cartoonish rabbit was yelling at the dumbass humans to move their sorry ass as they were going to be trapped there otherwise. However, something cut her mid-speech.
"Laser Homing Drill. Makankosappo!"
Thanks to All For One's habit of yelling his combination of quirk and the fact that Loony was at heart still a rabbit, her reflex allowed her to jump outside of the beam's initial trajectory. The good news was the laser went into the hole and was lost outside. The bad news was… Well… Without the real Loony supporting the black hole, it collapsed on Twice's clones. The real one meeped when he saw a white haired man, colossal in stature and clearly not happy.
All teens and young adults realized they were in the same room with All For One, which was not a recommended thing if you wanted to keep on living.
"I… Am tired." All For One said before making his bones crack. He was too old for this shit. Usually, he had goons for things like that! Sadly, even his noumus were mostly dead. As a result, this old man was forced to go on the field, once again.
"Hi Tired! I am DABI!" No points for guessing who said that as he jumped fearlessly to burn All For One who saw the blue flames coming at him. The old Demon Lord was clearly annoyed by this attack, thinking the young adult was a pain in the ass. Endeavor didn't do a good job raising him!
Oh wait. His daughter was responsible for that one.
"Oh fuck no! I had enough with Endeavor!" All For One's body shifted and his left arm turned almost eldritch, becoming bigger and weirder. Apparently, he kept in double the "mouth in hand" quirk he gave to Moonfish.
In this instant, Dabi recognized that jumping at an SSS-class villain without a plan might have been an oversight.
If Toga hadn't been lightning quick and kicked him out of AFO's attack, he would have been eaten.
Toga fell on her feet, Dabi in her slender yet powerful arms as they both got ready for the incoming fight.
All For One, his red eyes wide open analyzed the situation, the numbers in front of him… And more importantly, how everyone was standing by Tomura's side.
Everyone in the room stood still. Then, All For One smiled, kindly, and clapped. He sounded sincere in his endeavor and not ironic, which was to be noted.
"I am actually impressed, Tomura. I never expected you to command such loyalty from your pawns. You do have some leadership abilities, besides being an attack dog. Come back now and I will spare you and your friends." He was honest. Seikyo would need to corrupt him a bit but now, Tomura proved he had the charisma to be one excellent pawn under his orders. Not an heir, of course, but he could be his number 5.
"I was molded into your pawn, All For One. I had no choice but to take your orders to attack!" Tomura said, before Toga landed near him, with a huge smile and way too many teeth as she pulled her knives. Her boss was him, and he knew her. He knew how she felt and proved it with kindness. Warmth.
"Tomura understood what it was to be locked up in chains! We were fed but our hunger still remained!" She explained , as it was the only time she was properly fed in her life. That and when she met Tamaki when they were spying on Tomura's dates but that was something else.
Twice stood on Tomura's other side, making a shield with his body for Izuku, Monoma, and Shouto.
"I couldn't be content to live this way! Being led blind! So, sir, I think we are going to plan our dispersal and it's time to leave you behind!"
Dabi, grumbling and having some anger to exteriorize Why was he angry when he saw Shouto? and the fire dancing in his palms, he yelled :
"I AM BREAKING OUT OF MY PAIN BECAUSE OTHERWISE NOTHING IS GAINED. WE ARE OUR OWN MASTER! NOT YOU OR ANYONE ELSE OWN US!"
When he said that, a certain lizard man tried to do a decapitation strike by falling from the ceiling onto All For One, while his companions were showing their determination.
Sadly, a barrier seemed to stop the attack and Spinner quickly jumped back by their side.
Loony readied her hammer before smiling like a maniac at her best friend and boss.
"Bear the mark of our scars, All For One. We are done playing your game. We are going to shed blood, likely… But we will survive, somehow!"
All For One's smile, at seeing their determination, changed. It wasn't a kind smile anymore. It wasn't an angry smile either.
Instead, it was the most frightening, deranged, and ecstatic grin a human face could harbor, the darkest desire in his heart fully revealing on his face. His cheeks were inhumanly stretched by his pleasure for what he was about to do and it was the signal to everybody that he had a terrible thing in mind.
So he began to speak.
—--
K who was in a car outside of the blast was listening to the situation, updating the President in real time, and Stain too. The serial killer wanted to know how his protege was doing after all.
Then, All For One said a sentence he should not have known. A sentence that froze K's blood.
"Amaterasu, Tanuki, Foxtail, would you kindly make me an omelet with your heart?"
"HOLY F… CODE RED, I REPEAT, CODE RED!"
—--
When Seijin said she had prepared a gift for her dad in the shape of Tomura's companions, she wasn't joking and fed him all of her intel on them. She also gave him the "Password" to override them and force them to act according to his orders.
However, All For One made a little mistake, forgetting one safety measure Seijin told him.
To not use the command on Dabi if he was near a member of his family and if he was unstable emotionally.
Unfortunately for a lot of people.
—--
No one needed to be Nedzu to understand shit hit the fans as all of Tomura's teammates suddenly fell on their knees, visibly suffering. Well, except Loony and Spinner, who were visibly confused.
Toga barely managed to say, weakly, "Run…" Before All For One pointed his finger at his targets and ordered his new hounds back in chains…
"Attack."
Her body moving against her will, Toga was the first to spring into action, her blade almost hitting Tomura. Thankfully, Spinner parried the blow. He was still surprised by the stream of tears flowing from her eyes.
"RUN!" She yelled again, her body already lashing out against Spinner who had a hard time to react: having a katana in close combat made it harder to parry Toga's fast blows with knives.
Shouto's, still his eyes on Dabi since he mentioned casually, and without caring about his own question, that he was his long lost brother, managed to react perfectly in time. A wall of ice managed to slam Dabi into the ceiling when his grin turned into a scary face Shouto only seen in some pictures, freezing his blood.
Dabi's smile was identical to the Ashen King's and he was staring at him… and more scarily, he was way too happy.
"Shouutooooo ! COME MAKE A HUG TO ME!"
The ice and fire teen suddenly understood why his dad forbade Dabi to use his fire. Endeavor also pulled him into his office, once, and explained why he should never marry a girl who had the ability to strengthen his fire ability. Almost like a quirk marriage but in the other way.
As disgusting as one might think it, if it was to prevent another Ember to be born, Shouto understood, now, perfectly.
The Todoroki's still had the Ashen King's ember in their blood… And Dabi was clearly loving each second of it.
All For One was smiling when he saw Twice grabbing Tomura by the sleeve. Good. The man had a weak quirk, unfitting the descendant of…
Wait.
"NOW WE RUN BOSS!" Twice said, while Loony readied her hammer in front of All For One and tried to smash him with it. He barely registered the bunny on his radar, wondering why Twice didn't do what he asked.
"YOU COME BACK THIS INSTANT, TOOL! YOU WERE SUPPOSED TO BE BROKEN!" All For One was yelling at this weaker version of a quirk he loved.
"YOU CAN'T BREAK WHAT IS ALREADY SHATTERED!" Twice yelled back, as he directed toward the windows Tomura and the other. If they wanted to attract some heroes, they needed to be seen.
"DABI! Follow them! You can kill your brother but spare the one with the green hair!" All For One said while Dabi got ready to move again, laughing maniacally. All For One wondered what it was about. It shouldn't be too bad.
—--
Chisaki looked at their screens, wondering why Garaki smiled happily as if Santa had come down to give him the greatest gift.
—--
"TOGA! Get a hold of yourself!" Spinner was doing his best, but Toga was pushing him against the wall. Literally. The fact he was trying to not hurt her was extremely important.
"I… Can't! Please… Run!" Toga's crying face wasn't something Spinner wanted to see. Not now and never again. The lizardman gritted his teeth before trying to swat Toga further. Loony was trying to buy some time against All For One but…
SHBOOM
Yeah, Spinner knew it was only a matter of time before All For One actually swatted Loony against the wall, like a fly.
"Loony, can you move?! I could use a hand!" Spinner yelled, hoping the hopping cartoon could move. She was extremely resilient after all.
"Ye… Yeah… Fuck. Someone saw the truck who hit me?"
As a matter of fact, it was indeed a truck that All For One used to free his way. Now, the old man was trying to run behind the teens. However, his lack of exercise was visible. The old Demon Lord may have one of the strongest Quirk Factor of the world, if not the strongest, but being lazy for a few years did a number on his physical stamina.
Toga, meanwhile, managed to strike Spinner… But thankfully, his scales protected him against the knife, making it slide.
She didn't want to hurt the Lizardman who often made her pizzas with some bloody ingredients… Or gave her pamphlets to let her know that her quirk wasn't evil.
He was caring. He was nice. Even now, he was trying his best to not hurt him.
Then Loony joined the fight and Toga's heart broke even more.
The Bunny was usually one of their more bloodthirsty opponents, being an actual animal. However, she also had a pack instinct and she adopted Toga as something like a small sister.
Which is why both of them didn't try to bash her skull against the wall.
Well, that was what she thought, until she saw Loony making her hammer roll in her hand, switching the side she used to hit people.
"Spinner! Grab her a second!"
The vampire tried to move away but Spinner actually threw himself at her, to prevent her from dodging.
"Sorry, it's going to hurt a bit, Toga!"
The next thing Toga saw was some stars, spinning around her head. Weirdly, it didn't hurt as much as she thought it would.
She was simply stunned, her head feeling light suddenly..
Spinner, meanwhile, stared at Loony, who was wiping her hammer.
"I am a cartoon. Of course my weapons have a "funny wound" side! I simply never bother to use it usually." Loony explained, calmly. She was a beast. A good enemy was a dead one. Not one who would try to come back after them!
"I see. You hope it will do like in some cartoon and that hitting her like in a slapstick joke will make her come back to her senses?" Loony nodded.
Then they got interrupted by Twice, Tomura, Izuku, Shouto, and Monoma suddenly barging into the room, wondering how the hell they got there.
"... We turned twice left and twice right. How the fuck does it make sense?" Monoma pointed out, as they were trying to understand what happened there.
"My bad! I forgot I ate a quirk from a Yakuza, which allows me to fuse with the grounds and the walls. I did some shifting!"
The next moment, the doors were suddenly replaced by some walls. The room turned circular, while everyone stood once again in a long hall, the windows allowing them to see the sea and the floating lights outside.
All For One, with a rabid Dabi whose mental state was quickly degenerating by his side, began to hum in front of all the scared people in front of him.
"Aaaaah. It's a beautiful day outside. Buildings are crumbling, people are dying. On days like this, people like… Love to raise some hell!"
The moment he got ready to jump at them, Toga's cell phone rang. Everyone was surprised including All For One.
The blond woman was wondering what the hell was that about but All For One actually gestured her to answer. He even stood still, as his quirks kept flaring on his body.
"Please, do answer. I am evil, not rude. Besides, it's not like you can really run anywhere." The old man explained, stretching his limb a bit. He wasn't wrong.
Tomura was getting ready for a fight too, Izuku was already pulling some cards and Twice was making double of Dabis. Not like they had many options there.
Toga pulled out the phone from her pocket and answered…
"He… Hello?"
"Toga?! It's Tamaki! Where are you?!" There was a panic in his voice, almost as if he cared about her.
Oh right. The slightly older teen. The one who also had weird eating habits. He was often shy and didn't like to talk but… He was a good listener.
Toga felt internally that All For One was probably going to get all of them as if they were fishes. So, she tried to stop her tears.
"Somewhere bad. I am sorry. You were right. I needed help but I couldn't…" Damn. She would miss their talks. How much fun they had spying on Tomura and Nejire. She could feel the tears in her throat, gathering up.
"I am coming to save you. Where are you?" Oh. So he truly cared. The least she could do was make sure he wasn't in the fallout.
"Tamaki, you can't…" Toga tried to speak, tearfully, when suddenly an angry voice cut her off.
"I NEED THE FLOOR OR SOMETHING!"
Fortunately, Tamaki yelled strong enough for Izuku to hear and he threw a card at the tainted windows.
All For One hummed happily at the summon. It wasn't often you could kill an angel. He would grant you that Angewomon was a digimon and as a result far from a real angel. However, he was going to use that opportunity
"ANGEWOMON, DESTROY THE WINDOWS !"
The voice on the phone yelled something else and everyone on the hero's side obeyed the command.
"GET DOWN."
All For One almost went to destroy the Angel when his threat detector quirk warned him of an incoming danger. He barely had the time to summon his barrier when he got thrown through the wall because of the impact.
And the one behind it. And the one behind it. And the one behind it. And the one behind it. And the one behind it. And the one behind it. And the one behind it. And the one behind it.
"My back… Goddamnit…"
All For One was slowly getting up when suddenly, in the ceiling of his castle, he saw a smiling blonde face.
"Greetings!"
"... Hello?"
"I am here to take down criminals like you."
The next second, All For One had to parry a Mirio who ejected himself from the wall at full speed. Ok. That was new. Why was someone looking like Tintin who decided to go to the gym attacking him?
This actually confused All For One for a second before noticing another warning on his danger sense. OH COME ON! WHO THE FUCK WAS DOING THAT ?!
—--
Outside of the castle, lifted by his feet by Nejire, Tamaki who ate a lot of his emergency stock had a biomechanical arm.
Also, he was quite angry with several people and Nejire looked positively murderous.
—--
Looking at the scene, Izuku poked his cousin's side before asking him a crucial question.
"Did you ever tell Nejire you were a Vigilante?"
"Nope." Tomura was feeling Nejire's glare from afar and knew that if he survived the situation… Well, Nejire was most likely going to kill him. "Also she might have tried to capture me a few times and I always escaped."
The fact she was literally bursting energy bolts from her was a good way to tell she was angrier at him than Nedzu was when he learned that his favorite tea was temporarily banned from Japan.
"TENKO, I AM GOING TO DESTROY YOU ONCE THIS IS DONE!"
Twice put his hand on his boss' shoulder and lifted his thumb.
"It was nice meeting you."
"INSTEAD OF TALKING, CAN YOU JUMP?!" Mirio said, being thrown by All For One who was back on his feet and with various veins pulsing on his forehead. Apparently, he was at the end of his patience and every fiber of Mirio's body was telling him to run to the center of the Earth.
"EARTH MANIPULATION, WEAPON CREATION, BIG HANDS…"
The fact he was once again pulsating from quirk sparks was extremely worrying. The fact he was creating a giant spiky ball was worse.
"Jump? But…" Monoma asked wondering their point. Sure, Izuku could probably summon something to cushion the fall but…
"Trust us, we have a plan!" Mirio said, eyes on All For One.
"Toga, Tenko! Trust us!" Tamaki said before shooting his last big shot. A second beam of light emanated from his cannon arm. His speed was absurd once again and no one could see it.
Such a blow could have maybe hurt All For One if he hadn't switched his all-purpose barrier for another quirk. The quirk that made most attempts to simply snipe him useless. He called it the Dune Shield quirk.
The ball made of light, energy, and various organic fluids stopped in front of him, its momentum dead. The Dune Shield allowed him to inverse the kinetic energy of any object going too fast at him. It didn't, for some reason, include whole humans, explaining why All-Might's punch could affect him.
All For One smiled even more before continuing his combo.
"Ultra Hand."
All For One began to mold both balls into one while the young people suddenly began to think the big jump in the void below was a better alternative.
"Now, children, it is time for a lesson. You call this a cannon, boy? THIS. IS. MY. BOOMSTICK!"
With a fiendish face, all care about restraining his strength gone, All For One morphed his right arm into a giant cannon, the molded ball being his ammunition.
Twice, Tomura, Izuku, and Spinner grabbed Toga, Monoma, and Shouto, before jumping, putting their faith in their friends.
"Also, I was forgetting! HOMING BALL!"
Seikyo suddenly remembered he needed Izuku so he used a quirk to add targets to his attack, before firing.
First target, the smiling hero who tried to find a safe place on the ground, swimming like a dolphin. The second target was this flying girl and the shooter. Then he would quietly grab the children and be done with this.
Then another silhouette appeared and patted Mirio as the shoot came.
"I am here."
Then, the man raised his hand in front of him.
—--
Izuku and his friends suddenly wondered what they were bouncing on. It was as if someone created a bunch of invisible… trampolines?
—--
At this point, All For One was seriously not surprised. It was like the 4th time someone interrupted his attempts to kidnap some children. Back in his days, you literally only needed a gray car and some candies.
Now, you have to fight a series of top heroes, apprentices, and now… Some kind of dandy man. Funnily enough, it didn'r ring any bells in All For One's brain.
"Don't take it the wrong way, but I have actually no idea of who the fuck you are."
Gentle, who had just stopped with one of his own barrier AfO's attacks before bouncing it back at him, slammed his cane on the ground before revealing it was actually a sword.
"Then you will."
He sprung against All For One who smiled, raising his arm ready to slam this impertinent unknown creature into the ground. At least, he recognized his opponent knew what "classy" meant.
To his surprise, Gentle bent at an angle which made an attack improbable before feeling something cold slice through his pants and actually leaving a red mark on his left leg.
"You will discover, villain, that I am more dangerous than you think." Gentle said before getting into a duel stance, his sword limp as he used his quirk on it. As a result, he had a surprise snake sword and Gentle was extremely good with it thanks to endlessly training with it.
He hoped he could buy enough time for the kids to fall safely on the ground.
"My love, can you say it please?" Gentle asked with all of his emotion in his voice before dodging an attack from All For One, some kind of black bladed tree sprouting from his body.
"... Gentle, I love you. So please. Come back." La Brava replied through his communication device in his ears.
It was good to be loved.
Then Gentle charged at All For One, bouncing as if it was the last time he could do it.