Once again, I am absolutely FLOORED with the amount of support this story is getting. Like, seriously…. A-hem, anywho, before I get too sappy, I want to give everyone a heads-up, plus maybe a content warning…? I mean, if you don't like excessive violence then this chapter isn't gonna be for you. 'Cause, let me tell you… if you've ever heard of the term: "Black Air Force Activity", then you may or may not know what is gonna happen in this chapter.

Also, as I may have mentioned in the last chapter or not (I honestly can't remember/cannot be bothered to look right now) but I came down with some nasty ass illness that has been repeatedly punching me in the gut over and over again, so my bad if this chapter ends up coming out later than I wanted.

Another thing; seeing as it is December (already, fucking hell) expect me to disappear around the 20th to the 27th for obvious reasons. Then again, knowing my stupid ass, I'm probably going to post anyway, so perhaps ignore that last part.

One more thing before we start this chapter: Next chapter will be the end of "Season One" for All For Luz. It's gonna be a biggun, so be prepared. Also, Also, if you didn't already know, that means my geeky ah ass is probably gonna do some sort of "Fun Facts Chapter" before we jump into "Season Two".

Also, if you want more insight as to what "Season Two" is going to be about. The first half will probably be world-building and what happened outside of the Camp, while the second half will be the beginning of The Boiling Isles nonsense. I'm probably gonna have to rewatch The Owl House to do that, so I might be gone for a bit to sort my stuff out and at least TRY to follow canon a little bit.

That being said, before we begin….

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Before that, some clarification:

"Normal Speech" = Luz by herself

"All For One Influenced/Taking Control Speech" = Exactly what it says on the tin. The difference is the way she will talk. Also, she becomes a bit unhinged when the former happens. Think… Alucard from Hellsing Ultima, or Power Amped DIO from Part 3.

"Normal Thoughts"= Luz's thoughts, pretty self-explanatory.

"All For One Influenced/Taking Control thoughts" = Same as speech, though more self-contained to when All For One has taken over completely.

*Keynote: When I mean All For One takes over, I mean The Quirk, not the vestige, as it is stated with canon MHA that Quirks can sometimes have personalities of their own depending on how powerful they are and how they can also influence a person's persona; an example of this is Toga and her Transform Quirk warping her views on life and love*

That being said, let's jump into….

[The Hunt Begins – Part 2]

Kennedy stared at Luz, eyes narrowed, while Luz stared at him, eyes devoid of anything other than anger. Neither had any emotion strewn on their faces, though Kennedy had sweat dripping down the side of his face in the bucket loads.

Thomas was dead. He didn't even stand a chance. But that was fine. He had her numbered 20 to 1! He had a number advantage! Everyone knew that they outnumbered her! In reality, it should've been easy. If only the idiots would actually move! Why wasn't anybody moving? This was such an easy win, it wasn't even funny!

He looked at Emilia, who was wide-eyed and full of fear. She looked at him, then took a step back, muttering something while shaking her head. A bitter laugh filled the air, causing the two to look at Luz, who had an eerie, downright evil smile plastered on her face, all the while her eyes… her eyes that were supposed to be brown now gleamed with a bright, violent crimson.

"What's the matter…? A little blood never hurt anyone, right? Don't you all agree?" Luz said, sending a scathing glare toward everyone in front of her. Those that met her gaze walked backward, getting ready to run as Luz frowned, her eyes gleaming with… something. It wasn't anger, it wasn't joy either… it was almost like… indifference. No… not indifference, it was something else. Whatever it was, Kennedy couldn't put a finger on it. All he knew was that it disturbed him to no end, and fully cemented into his head that everything he had done in the last 48 hours was a goddamn mistake.

He just wanted the extra money, damnit! His family was dirt poor, barely surviving off of scraps, and this was the perfect opportunity to get that easy cash! So why did everything have to go belly-up for him? He would admit that what he did was wrong, sure, but this should've been easy! Maybe he went a little overboard with killing all of Alpha Squadron, but it was a failsafe in case they couldn't kill Luz—wipe out the competition! That was the point of the Game… right? He was playing by the goddamn rules!

Kennedy stepped away a little further than everyone else. He wanted to book it. There was something… off about the Leader of The Alpha Squadron. He didn't know what, but there was. And personally, he did not want to find out.

"Aw… has everyone's minds changed? Why that's no good!" Luz paused, giving an almost apathetic shrug of the shoulders, arms up and everything as her frown switched to that of a bone-chilling, teeth-barring smile. "I mean, you guys were so ready to kill my friends… my allies… my team. What's got you all jumpy now?" Luz sneered, taking a step forward as several people, Kennedy included, flinched.

Someone within the crowd seemed to snap out of whatever funk they had been in, and charged Luz. Kennedy smirked, knowing full well who it was who did so. It was Daniel, and with his power to triple the impact of whatever it was he touched or ran into, Luz was—

It happened in a flash. Literally, in a flash. Blurred movements, and one minute, Daniel was charging Luz, and the next, he was stopped dead in his tracks. Literally.

Luz's fist went straight through the boy's chest before he even had the chance to make contact with her, his heart in her hand as she tilted her head to the left. His body slumped over her arm as she shook her head. Luz crushed the still beating heart in her hand, before slinking her arm out of the boy's chest, her arm covered finger to elbow in blood as her face shrivelled up in disgust.

"Gross…" Luz spat, shaking her arm as her free hand caught the corpse's head, red sparks dancing off of it as she took the boy's Power. Kennedy only watched with wide, fear-filled eyes as Luz smirked. "Ah… so that was his power. He was hoping that ramming into me with such power would do me in. It's too bad he knew nothing of my Shock Absorption. It would've been a useless effort."

Luz looked at everyone, narrowing her eyes. "Well…? Who's next? Surely you all want to avenge your teammates, do you not?" Luz asked, eyes flicking from left to right. When her eyes landed on Kennedy, the blond took a step back, arms raised into an offensive stance. When her eyes landed on Emilia, she covered her mouth and physically shook in fear.

A disappointed gleam appeared in Luz's eyes, as she shook her head. "What a pity… oh well, I guess that just makes things easier for me," Luz stated, picking up the corpse of Thomas, before effortlessly crushing his head between her fingers, skull fragments littering the ground as the body caught on fire, reducing to nothing but ash. "I have no sympathy for cruel, heartless monsters such as yourselves." As Luz said, an oppressive air surrounded the base.

The next words that spilled out of her mouth no longer sounded like that of Luz's, but rather, of someone—no… of something else's. To call it human was wrong, and to call it demonic was far too insulting. "The moment you came here and needlessly slaughtered my friends…." Her tone of voice lowered, as shadow completely covered her eyes, only allowing her vengeful sneer to be seen by those in the crowd. "Your powers…. Your lives…. they became forfeit."

Black lightning travelled around her body like an electric current, as the blood that coated her arm peeled off due to the lightning. Underneath the shadow, the deep crimson-red eyes glowed so brightly, they looked nothing like eyes and more like orbs of light. And… parts of her hair seemed to go from light brown to white—but only some parts.

And then… it began.

To call what happened next a "battle" would be like calling the initial beginnings of D-Day to be a siege. Kennedy didn't know what the hell it was he had gotten himself into until the third person in the crowd met a twisted, grizzly fate.

In the blink of an eye, Jacob, a scout for Heavens Devils found himself picked up off the ground, consumed by black and red lightning, then dropped on the floor unceremoniously before having his head stomped in. If Kennedy remembered what his power was, it was some sort of forced power activation. Useless for combative situations, but perfect for times when others refused to use their powers.

One of his team's scouts, Darlene, ran at Luz with anger strewn across her face, along with another person from Emilia's team—the one with spring-like limbs, which allowed his limbs to coil like springs and launch forward, upward, or act like springs, basically.

Darlene shot her spear-like fingers at Luz, piercing her in the upper abdomen and lower chest. Luz grit her teeth, before shooting vines at Darlene, said vines wrapping around her wrists and crushing them, all the while pulling the finger spears out of her body, blood oozing from the wounds as Repair activated on instinct, skin forming over the wounds in seconds.

Taking notes from what Shigaraki told her about how she could combine powers together, she activated Flame, and much to her surprise and amusement, fire that appeared out of nowhere began to travel up the vines, making Darlene, who was still reeling from the pain of having her wrists broken, go wide-eyed.

It was a godsend for the boy with Springlike Limbs to come in and sucker punch Luz, knocking her off balance and causing her vines to retract, saving Darlene, whose wrists hung limply. Pain strewed across her face as she cried in pain. Unfortunatly, the reprieve wasn't meant to last, as the boy with Springlike limbs quickly went the way of the dodo bird, his face being grabbed by Luz as he was drained of his power, before then crushing his head between her fingers like silly putty.

One moment, Darlene was running for her life with everyone else. The next, Luz had jumped on her back using Springlike Limbs, bones cracking as blood spewed out of Darlene's mouth as she hit the ground. Grabbing the back of her head, Luz's blood-red eyes gleamed even brighter as she took Darlene's Power. Once the deed was done, Luz activated Super Strength and slammed Darlene's head into the ground once, crushing her head with one blow.

Predatory eyes landed on the next nameless target, and her smile widened. Said target ran like wind, all the while Luz stuck out her fingers as they shot forward, sharpened to the point of spears as they stabbed into the target. Like a fishing rod reeling in a fish, Luz did the very same with her fingers and took that target's power too—Forcefield Projection, before killing them via piercing of the brain.

Luz's eyes fell upon another target, a girl, Emilia if she remembered correctly, as she tripped and fell, scrambling away as Luz stalked toward her. "P-Please…! S-Spare m-me!" Emilia begged, as Luz's eyes narrowed. The teen grabbed her by the chin and wrenched her face up to meet her own.

"Give me one, really good reason as to why I shouldn't kill you like you did my friends?" Luz demanded as Emilia choked back tears.

"I-I never laid a finger on any of them…! It was all The Governor's idea!" Emilia stammered as Luz raised an eyebrow, which gave Emilia the sign to continue to explain. "H-He said t-that if we k-killed you, that he'd double the prize m-money…! B-But I wanted nothing to do with it! B-But my team… My team did… they heard the amount of money, and immediately took the deal without my acknowledgement. A Coup de' tait happened and I became a leader o-only in name. Then, we met up with the Heaven's Devils, and we joined f-forces… sorta. Our task was to kill you… but it was Kennedy's idea to kill everyone in Alpha Squadron…. I-I never wanted this…! I-I saw what h-he did to that Wittebane girl…! I-I… I'm sorry…." Emilia said, cowering into herself as she constantly whimpered "I'm Sorry" over and over again like a mantra.

Luz's eyes softened for a second, as they flashed brown for a moment, only a moment, before returning to crimson red. Her gaze hardened, fishing for a falsehood, only to find none, resulting in her letting go of Emilia's chin, and stepping away from her. Turning her back to the girl, she began to walk away, as Emilia called out. "W-Wait! W-Where are you going!"

Luz turned to look at Emilia, before frowning. "I'm finishing what was started. Now, I suggest you leave, before I change my mind."

Emilia didn't spare a second, scrambling from her feet and running as fast as she could. Luz did not look back, allowing for the girl to run away, as she continued to chase after those who wronged her. In the back of her mind, she could hear the more rational side of herself screaming at her to stop, to stop what she was doing and run; leave the camp and never look back. But the side that wanted vengeance, the louder, angrier side refused to listen.

"Look at what you're doing!? You're killing people! T-This isn't right! N-None of this is right!"

More screams echoed throughout the forest, as Luz caught, killed, and stole power from another person.

"Who cares if it's wrong! I know exactly what I am doing, and that's giving these monsters a taste of their own medicine!"

"N-No, please, I—AHHH!" Catch, kill, steal, repeat. Ignore their pain, ignore their suffering. It was not worth her time to hear it. They brought this unto themselves. She knew it, they knew it, so why bother trying to change it? This was their fate, to die by her hand, and she was damn well gonna follow through with it. No more begging, no more pleading, none of it. This was her playground, and everyone else was fodder.

"B-But… their families, w-what about—"

"They should've thought about that when they killed our friends. When they killed Julia. When they butchered everyone else."

More screams, more snapping of bones, more blood, more power. Punching, slamming, crushing, choking, burning—it didn't matter, none of it mattered, all that mattered was getting revenge.

"That still doesn't make it right!"

"It makes it right to us, they were willing to kill us. And besides, we said that this would happen if they did something similar. We're keeping to the rules we made for our group. Why the sudden change of heart?"

Black lightning, orange flames, burning trees, smoke, corpses, and one huge smile. It painted a pretty picture, one of chaos, one of pain, one of death, one of suffering—take your pick, because all were smart choices.

"Two wrongs don't make a right! Didn't our mother tell us that!?"

"I don't give a shit what that bitch taught us. She spat in our faces, betrayed us, kicked us to the curb and left for us to fend for ourselves in this hell hole! NOW BE QUIET!"

And thus, the rampage continued. Anybody who she saw got their powers taken and killed after the fact. Luz had run out of sympathy to give, and as far as she was concerned, everyone who got in her way deserved it.

Super Regeneration, Hyper Speed, Stamina Negation, Springlike Limbs, Stockpile, Deep Storage, Hyper Intellect, Longevity, Forcefield Projection, Airwalk, Force Power Activation, Kinetic Force, Force Multiplier, Scarlet Light, and lastly, as she stripped her hand away from a black-haired Asian kid, Pain Nullification, dropping his mangled corpse to the floor. But, notably, there was still one more person left. Or, well, two, but she couldn't find that other guy anywhere. He probably already escaped, but no… who she was after was someone else entirely.

Head turning to face a running blond-haired boy, a twisted smile came upon Luz's face, as she tilted her head to the right a little more than she needed to, resulting in her looking like a possessed demon girl. "Oh, Kennedy~! Where the fuck do you think you're going!"

Luz's fingers sharpened into spears, as blackish-reddish sparked over them. As she went to use the power, however, for a split second, her body writhed in pain. Spitting up blood, Luz fell to the floor and on her hands and knees, coughing repeatedly. The skin around her eyes and face began to crack, as blood leaked from it, pain washing over her.

"W-What the hell…!? Wh-What the hell is going on?!" Luz thought, shakily standing up. Her body felt like it was on the verge of combusting. She didn't know why that was the case, but it was. She quickly activated Pain Nullification to get the searing pain to die down and followed it up with Super Regeneration to patch up the skin. She'd have to ask Shigaraki what that was about at a later time.

Trying again, she used Spear Fingers to shoot at Kennedy, stabbing him in the back of the ankles, causing him to fall face first. Fire consumed the forest around them, as Luz marched forward, crimson eyes narrowing as that smile returned to her face. When she caught up to the crawling boy, she stomped on his back, hard enough to make blood shoot out of his mouth.

Kennedy turned to face Luz, who loomed over him. If looks could kill, Kennedy would've died 80 times over. "N-No! P-Please! I-I-I'll do anything! Anything at all! J-Just please, please don't kill me!" Kennedy begged as Luz scoffed, applying more pressure to his back.

"Funny… I bet that's what Julia said, too. Then you killed her and desecrated her corpse with that power of yours. A power you don't deserve…. And while I'd normally take it like I did everyone else's, yours revolts me. So, keep your power… it's not like you'll be using it for much longer, anyway." Luz began as she recoiled her right arm. "Heh… and here I thought diplomacy would've worked… what utter bullshit. Two days… two days and that's all it took for you to change my views on humanity, though the Governor didn't help matters much. But, I at least thought you would've been more humane than the bastard running this cruel joke. Guess I was wrong."

Super Strength, Force Multiplier, Springlike limbs, Kinetic Force, Sword, Vines, and Shock Absorption all summoned forth into her right arm as it bulged, and grew in size. Sword tips lined the outer edge of her arm as vines wrapped around it. Due to Super Strength, Kinetic Force, and Force Multiplier, her arm grew to the size of an elephant's leg in terms of raw muscle. And while it was only temporary, it looked absolutely disgusting.

Kennedy screamed as the fist made contact with his head. And when the punch landed, blood, brain matter, and skull fragments lined the floor, the sounds of the raging fire being more than enough to drown out the cracking and smashing of his skull. Luz loomed over top of his corpse, deactivating all of the powers she had called upon at that moment, her arm returning to normal as she stood up straight.

Her breathing was laboured, her energy spent, all the while the heat of the forest fire surrounding her was slowly starting to get to her. But, that was beside the point. It was over. This whole damn thing was over. Well… there was just one, tiny little exception.

She still had one more person to get rid of. And once she found where that rat bastard was hiding… once she got her hands on his throat… he was going to suffer.

Luz heard the sound of feet running up behind her. Spinning around on her heel, her crimson eyes met a pair of blue ones, as three people wearing military gear stood in front of her. They were armed, but they were pointing their weapons at the floor. The one in the middle, an older man, maybe in his late 40s, had a concerned, if not frightened look in his eye, though it was washed away a moment later. The other two were no older than 20, maybe 24 if she was being generous. They were wearing black uniforms and had helmets on—completely different from the armed soldiers in camouflage during the first day.

That being said, however, she didn't know whether or not these people were with him, or something else entirely. And as far as she was concerned, Luz wasn't about to trust anyone who was over the age of 18 for quite some time, and even then, that was a stretch. The only person she could truly trust at this moment in time was herself, and to an extent, Shigaraki.

And so, in that regard, Luz went to activate one of her many newly acquired powers, specifically Flame, but when she did… pain erupted from her body, as a line of blood and gore blew up diagonally across her body, cutting a few inches deep as her eyes widened in pain. The eldest man cursed, catching her before she could hit the ground. Super Regeneration and Repair activated at the same time, working overtime to patch up the wound.

Before she went unconscious from blood loss, the last thing she heard put her at ease, even if it was only a little bit.

"Command Base, we found the rogue sect… seems as if they were overlooking some sort of human experiment. We're taking those that we found alive back to base. Suspect Rodger Maxwell is currently being held in custody, over."

Good… then all of what she did wasn't for nothing…. Everyone who escaped got out just fine, and these people, whoever they were, found her…. Were they watching her the whole time? Were they aware of what she did? Whatever the case might have been, she was glad that at least these people weren't going to hurt her.

And with that, a soft blanket of darkness washed over her senses, as she drifted into unconsciousness.

-To Be Continued in – Betrayed and Alone-