Author's Note: We (Gfan97 and Chibikaty) are back with another Christmas movie collaboration. That's right, TWO Christmas fics for the price of one! ENJOY! Our first two collaborations are under Gfan97's profile on fanfiction dot not: "What is Wrong with You!–An All for One Christmas Carol" and "Home (Almost) Alone." Merry Christmas everyone!

Chapter One:

Am I really doing enough?

All for One had long thought of himself as the ultimate villain. A force of pure evil ruling the underworld with an iron fist, squeezing out all virtue and nobility within his mighty grasp. He was the maker of widows, the bringer of despair, the Symbol of Evil.

Or so he thought.

Throughout the generations, had he really made the world that much worse? After all, for the last few decades there was…peace. All because that infernal blond buffoon ruined everything while All for One stepped away for ten to fifteen minutes. Or years. Same difference. Even before that, would the Dawn of Quirks anarchy be the same without him?

Granted, All for One had recently plunged society into collapse and created a chaotic nightmare of crime and chaos. But if he could do that…why hadn't he done so earlier? Why had he allowed peace and goodwill to fester?

These thoughts disturbed him so much he'd left his cave to relax in one of his lairs. This lair was in one of the "safe zones." These existed because, over the last few weeks the Heroes actually managed to restore order to several areas, to the point where it was safe to be on the streets! Worst of all, with Christmas coming soon, most gangs had decided to tone it down?

There's no Christmas rush so there's no need to go on a crime spree, they'd said. Why not take time off during the cold weather, they said. Why ruin the Christmas spirit, they said. What was the world coming to, where villains were willing to tone down robbing, terrorizing, and murdering because it was Christmas? Perhaps All for One would have a clearer head after a good night's rest.

So, All for One slept peacefully in his giant mattress stuffed with the plucked feathers of bird mutants, dreaming about murdering All Might and conquering Japan. Until a ghostly wail dragged him out of his slumber.

Even before All for One sat up, his quirks gave him a complete visualization of his dark room. The ghost of his younger brother, Yoichi Shigaraki, stood over him, waving his arms dramatically, his long pale hair flowing behind him. "Merry Christmas, big brother! I'm here to give you the greatest gift besides the last volume of Captain Hero—a chance to see what the world would be like without you!"

This ghostly visitation was not entirely unanticipated. Last year, Yoichi had come to his brother on Christmas Eve with some hair-brained redemption scheme involving visits by three spirits. All for One only vaguely remembered it, the dreams fading away with the morning, preventing him from learning any useful information. But he'd remembered just enough to guess that his little brother might be dumb enough to show up around Christmas a second time. So, All for One kept his newly repaired Ghostbusters trap under his bed just in case.

Alas, All for One was too taken aback to reach for his trap right away. Yoichi had appeared in an angel costume: a pure white robe with a golden sash over his shoulder, and feathery white wings on his back that looked as real as Hawk's. He wore sandals and held a harp. A golden halo floated over his head, glowing.

All for One gaped. "You're cosplaying this year?" And he had wings too. How repulsive. All for One always made a point to avoid ringing bells to prevent angels from getting their wings. "Should I put on my demon king costume?" He moved toward his closet.

"No!" Yoichi stamped his foot down. "I'm playing the angel, and you're the ordinary man who will be redeemed by me."

All for One shuddered at that horrible word, redemption. "I see you've only grown stupider over the last year."

"That's what the other vestiges said." Yoichi hung his head sadly. The glow of his halo wilted. "None of them would help me this year. Even my dear hero said this was completely futile, and I was wasting my time."

All for One shuddered even harder. "I agreed with the brother thief about something, it feels icky." He rubbed the goosebumps on his arms.

Yoichi said, "I even had a big fight with my hero because he called me an idiot for wasting my power on another Christmas redemption attempt. That jerk knows I'm sensitive to insults about my intelligence thanks to a certain someone." That someone has good sense. "Accusing me of not knowing truth from fiction because of my dysfunctional childhood was a low blow." He eyed his older brother. "I really need you to go along with my plan so I can prove him wrong!"

"Ah, I suddenly feel better knowing I caused you to fight with the brother thief." All for One smiled, no longer reaching for the Ghostbusters trap with his foot. "I always want to prove fools wrong, so go ahead and show me whatever amusement you have in mind this year." All for One could always capture his brother after the visions were over.

"I knew you would agree if I put it like that." Yoichi beamed almost as brightly as his flashing halo. How disgusting. "I've figured out where I went wrong last year. You couldn't be redeemed by A Christmas Carol because you never even liked that story. It's a Wonderful Life was always your favorite Christmas movie!"

All for One laughed. "Yes, I love a story about a man who's virtue causes him to lead a pointless miserable life until he's driven to suicide. I always stopped watching a third of the way from the end so that I could pretend George jumped off the bridge and died." He'd even made sure to drive a kind-hearted Buildings and Loan owner to bankruptcy in real life this year to replicate the incident.

"That's just like you. Have you ever finished a single story in your long life?" Yoichi shook his head sadly. "You probably became evil because you never saw the end of the movie. Well, tonight I will force you to live through the last third of It's a Wonderful Life!"

This sounded so dreadfully boring that All for One reconsidered. But before he could grab his ghost trap, Yoichi raised his arms over his head. A brilliant light shone from his halo. Then All for One was sucked into a vision.

All for One was suddenly able to see again. His facial features were restored, from his curly white hair to his large nose. He seemed to be standing in a normal neighborhood in Mustafu City during daytime. All for One attempted to access his quirks to conquer this strange place, but alas it failed.

"Your quirks have no power here, big brother," Yoichi said. "Allow me to show you the ways the world has changed for the better."

"How are you doing this?"

"Through One for All and the spirit of Christmas, my brother!" Yoichi said, spreading his arms as an angelic light shone upon him (reminding All for One of something terrible he couldn't place).

"You don't actually know, do you?" All for One said.

Yoichi glared. "The spirit. Of. Christmas!"

All for One laughed at Yoichi's terrible explanation while Yoichi tried to strangle him like when they were kids. Eventually, Yoichi gave up, panting.

Looking around the neighborhood, All for One asked, "Is this the world if I'd never been born?"

"Ha-ha, no way." Yoichi snorted. "We both know that world would be better, thus defeating the purpose of a heart-warming Christmas movie."

"Not better for you, you'd be dead." All for One took no offense to the world being better off without him—it was true, and he was proud of it—but he never missed n a chance to rub his little brother's debt in his face. "I saved you from being eaten by rats after you were born. Then I swam five miles with you on my back. Back in my day, babies were expected to be self-sufficient from birth."

Yoichi glared. "I know you made up the story about the rats, big brother."

"But you believed it before!"

"When I was five."

All for One crossed his arms. "I was the one who raised you and kept you alive during the early days of riots."

"That's true." Yoichi's shoulders sagged. "I'll never forget that, so I'll never stop trying to redeem you."

Well that backfired horribly. "Please, don't," All for One groaned.

"That's why I'm going to show you the world where you became a hero—the world as it should have been!" Light blazed from Yoichi's halo, reflecting his enthusiasm. "Then you'll regret all your wrong-doings and try to atone for your crimes."

"Stop!" All for One wailed as if hot coals were being pressed to his face, which this felt about equivalent to. "We both know your plan won't work. This is just you trying to torment me, isn't it? Is this how you repay me for saving you from the rats, you ingrate?"

While All for One tried to fasten his hands around his brother's insubstantial neck, the door of the nearest house opened. A perfect double of All for One appeared—except this one had an intact face and a full head of curly white hair. He wore a black suit with a gray tie, and carried a briefcase.

Leaning out the doorway, Inko kissed her husband on the lips. "Have a good day, Hisashi. Will you be back in time for dinner?"

"Of course," Hisashi (clearly not an All for One) replied. "Izuku is coming back from the U.A. dorms to meet with us, I couldn't possibly miss it."

All for One gaped. "What is that moron doing wearing a tie?"

Hisashi got into his car and drove to an office building. The receptionist greeted him cheerfully and with genuine friendship. Just as he got into the elevator, another Yoichi ran up. "Please, hold it for me, big brother!" the living Yoichi shouted, panting.

Using his arm, Hisashi kept the door open long enough for his brother to step inside. Once the elevator started moving, Hisashi clucked his tongue. "Little brother, you're a mess. Did you stay up too late reading comic books again?"

"Sorry, big brother." Yoichi hung his head. "I know work is more important." he sighed. "I love working with you at Japan's largest charity running homeless shelters and soup kitchens."

All for One choked. "This is a joke, right? Surely that knock-off—" He pointed at Hisashi. "—must be faking it to defraud the charity. Or they're all mob fronts!"

Hisashi pulled out a comb from his pocket and straightened his brother's hair, then fastened his tie around his neck. "See! Now you look handsome and presentable for our board meeting."

"What's he doing?" All for One wailed. "Get that horrible tie away from my handsome face!"

"I can always count on you, big brother," Yoichi said cheerfully.

Hisashi sighed. "Ok, what do you want this time?" he said, crossing his arms.

"Well…I heard one of your business partners was auctioning off his comic book collection. So—"

"You're right. We must obtain that. I will excuse you from your usual duties."

Yoichi pumped his fist. "Yes!"

"As long as you share half of your gains."

"Oh come on!"

Hisashi held out his hand. "Deal?"

Yoichi shook. "Deal."

Ghost Yoichi pointed. "See? We have a good relationship in this universe. I'm even alive. Didn't you want me to be alive?" His tone turned a little plaintive.

All for One groaned. "Even being able to boss you around isn't worth this horror."

Around five minutes into watching a board meeting about opening a new homeless shelter, All for One started strangling his ghost brother out of boredom again, so Yoichi fast-forwarded them.

The Midoriya family gathered around the dinner table. Inko sat on her husband's right, squeezing his hand. They gazed at each other with clear affection. Yoichi and Izuku also sat at the dinner table.

"How is school going?" Hisashi asked.

Izuku beamed. "Wonderful! I can't believe I'm being taught by the real All Might."

Hisashi said, "He's a very good friend of mine, I'm sure he'll give you the best guidance."

Standing ghostly in the background, All for One slapped his hands over his ears. "I didn't hear that."

Inko said, "That reminds me, Toshinori and the Shimura family invited us to dinner this weekend."

Hisashi beamed. "I do enjoy spending time with them. Nana is like a second mother to me."

All for One pressed his fingers into his ears even harder. "I. Hear. Nothing."

"You can't run from the truth, big brother!" Ghost Yoichi shouted. "In this universe, you're close with two One for All holders. Three if you count me."

All for One insisted, "The knock-off must be pretending friendship in order to assassinate them. He's playing the long game."

"That reminds me," Hisashi said, "The old man sent Eri's Christmas list. I'm sure she can't wait to get yours, Izuku."

"What about me?" other Yoichi asked.

"He told me to make sure you don't get her another sword."

"But she loves her sword!"

"That's the problem. Being a six-year-old, she creates enough messes without the ability to injure people. Even Chisaki would have quit if she spilled blood on the carpet."

"Please," Yoichi said, pouting. "Chisaki's such an obsessive janitor that he wouldn't take a million buck bribe to quit if a single grain of dirt remained."

"Both of you, calm down," said Inko. "Me and Izuku will go shopping for Eri this weekend."

"Yes Inko," they said.

All for One stroked his chin. "I don't know who this Eri is, but she sounds insufferable."

Meanwhile, at the dinner table, Yoichi coughed. "Do you think we'll be done with dinner in time for some…extra-curricular activities?"

Hisashi smiled. "Nana will even join us."

Izuku sighed. "I wish I could still go on vigilante missions with you two. But since I'm a hero student now, I need to follow the rules. Even so, Dad, I want you to know that you'll always be my favorite hero."

"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" All for One screamed. "Make it stop! The horror! That tie has completely cut off all the blood flow to the knock-off's brain. That's the only possible explanation!"

Ghost Yoichi poked his brother's cheek. "You became a hero! Neener-neener!"

All for One leapt on his brother's ghost and did his level best to strangle him for showing such an awful future. His hands sank through.

"Ack!" Yoichi shouted. "It doesn't hurt, but it feels creepy to have your body overlapping with me. Stop it! Fine, fine, I'll show you a different universe. Maybe you'll like a good universe a bit more if you're a villain spy…"

The scene faded out, instead replaced by…the city looking the same as it currently did in All for One's world? The city was just as destroyed, the signs announcing this was a safe zone were there, there was even graffiti promising death on any who resisted All for One. "What gives, you said this would be one where I was a spy for the villains?"

"No, I said this is the one where you're a villain spy. There's a difference," Yoichi said. "I'm just not sure where it is? Ah, there!"

Himiko Toga was sitting near an alleyway, plucking petals from a flower. "He loves me. He loves me not. My boyfriend loves me. He loves me not. He loves me…and he's almost here," she said. She grinned at the sound of approaching footsteps.

"I feel bad for whoever she's, ahem, dating," All for One said. "Himiko Toga may have one of those 'tragic backstories' that are all the rage with modern villains, but she more than makes up for it by being an absolutely remorseless killer."

The new Ingenium raced around the corner. Toga gave him a flirty wave, then backflipped into an alley. Ingenium, aka Tenya Iida, followed.

"I have finally found you, Himiko Toga," he said, removing his helmet. "Now I'll give you what you deserve."

"Oh," she said with mock surprise. "What is that?"

He reached into his bag and pulled out a box of…chocolate?

"Chocolate, the sort of food one gives a significant other for Christmas!" he said in a stiff tone. "Additionally, I have a Christmas present just for you!" He chopped in the air, then gave her a gift box. Inside was a custom switchblade.

"Just what I wanted!" she said. "I got you two things!" With a bright smile, she pulled out a book. "It's the old code for Heroes written by Grand Shogun."

"Thank you! I am most grateful for your gift! What is the other one?"

Her grin became predatory. Now was she about to kill him? "This," she said. She lunged and…ugh she's just kissing him.

Ingenium pulled back and said, "We should not kiss here. It is most improper to kiss in an alley!"

"Just look me in the eyes and say you want me to stop, and I will."

Ingenium stuttered. "Well…I mean…"

"I thought so." She kissed him again.

All for One turned to his brother. "Ok, she's much less interesting of a villain here. But how does my being a spy make that happen?"

"Simple," Yoichi said, "Look."

Iida handed her a small note before running off. Toga skipped her way across the street to All for One's lair. She rang the doorbell, which set off the Halloween theme music. The door opened. Inside, she went to a room All for One recognized, his own. Everything was there. His weapons, evil contraptions, money, and of course, his merchandise. Sadly, no ghost trap.

Toga waved the paper in the air. "A report, boss."

An alternate All for One emerged from the shadows. "Excellent, Empusa."

She shrugged. "Whatever gets my record expunged. I will be cleared of those bogus and not-so-bogus charges, right?"

"Naturally. As was your deal. Have you given Hawks anything?"

"No, I report to you."

"Good."

Yoichi pointed at the scene and said, "In this universe, after Toga's psychotic break where she stabbed a student, she ran onto the streets. She met you while you were out on espionage business. Believing she'd be useful, you knocked her out and had her delivered to the HPSC. In exchange for having her record expunged, they recruited her as their spy, attributing various unrelated murders to her. The Hero student Tenya Iida is one of her contacts."

Alternate All for One opened the door and said to the much lamer Toga, "Tell the villains to use the Detnerat workshops to build more weapons for my armies. With the Heroes all fretting to and fro, we shall unleash chaos as it has never been."

Toga theatrically bowed. "Yes, my lord."

"Now leave me, I wish to be alone."

She rolled her eyes. "Yes, my lord."

Lame Toga closed the door. The alternate All for One drew back the curtain to his room, closing it before anyone could see his merch collection.

The real, much cooler All for One turned to Yoichi. "Seems normal enough for me. Are you sure this loser does anything useful for the heroes?"

"Wait for it," Yoichi said, but he sounded uncertain.

The alternate All for One pulled a book from the bookshelf, then lifted a panel hidden behind a poster on the wall, before pressing the button beneath. A hole opened in the floor, revealing a set of stairs. He strolled down to another room. This one was a bar, with a piano and whiskey. He opened a drawer and pulled something out.

All for One gasped. "Impossible!"

Alt for One slipped on a tie, effortlessly tying it around his neck. He then went to the piano and played the main sting from the James Bond theme. "Knock knock." He walked to the edge and slipped on a fedora, seemingly examining himself in the mirror despite his lack of eyes.

"Identification please," a female computerized voice said.

"Agent 236. Codeword, Demon Lord."

"Accepted."

The wall opened like a sliding door. Spy for One marched inside. It was a room straight out of a 60s (1960s that is) spy movie, with computers equipped with vacuum tubes, tape reels, flashing lights and elevated buttons. Spy for One sat down in front of the main computer and picked up a microphone.

"This is Agent 236 reporting in. I have a full report of the movements of villains across the country and am sending it to you now. Until now I've done exactly as I was told all those years ago when I switched sides. I've behaved as if I really was a dastardly villain, even to the point of throwing society into anarchy. However, lately I seem to have been too successful. Yoichi thinks so too. He's still playing his part as the Villain Geten."

"How can your alternate self be Geten?" All for One asked, turning to his brother. "Ice boy is a separate person in our universe!"

"Spirit. Of. Christmas," Yoichi growled.

"Fortunately he hasn't asked too many questions since I killed the original in cold blood and took his quirk," Spy for One said. "I just told him Geten was sent away to a nice farm for Villains where he wouldn't need his quirk. Spy or not, Yoichi is squeamish."

"Ha!" All for One said. "Your other self is still a moron! And you don't even know what's going on in this universe!"

"But he's supposed to be working for the Heroes!" Yoichi protested. "How can he kill people?"

"Have you never seen a spy movie? Like I don't know, James Bond or Jason Bourne?"

"James Bond is a shameless womanizer who breaks hearts and in some movies kills in cold blood," said Yoichi. "I read things like Spyman, friend of Captain Hero!"

"That explains so much."

Spy for One continued. "I can only guess this is part of your plans, since I've given you everything need to arrest the entire underworld. I'm trusting you to use it well. Anyway, the current villain positions are—"

All for One glowered at the imposter. "Seriously?! Ok, the room is cool, but a tie?! What is wrong with him? Perhaps that tie is cutting off circulation and that's why he's running with the Heroes." He shook his head. "Pathetic."

"But he's the ultimate spy who's got the entire underworld fooled!"

"He could be the ultimate villain instead! Though I do wonder why nothing has changed."

"Because," Yoichi said, then he lowered his finger. "Hold on, why is that? Let's see." The scene shifted from Spy for One giving his report to a computer room in the HPSC's current headquarters. On one computer, a green light flashed.

Agent Hiro Nakanishi walked by and noticed the light. He hurried to the computer, and pressed the ignore button.

"What was that?" said a fellow HPSC agent.

Hiro shrugged. "Just something from some old espionage division. It flashes every so often so we just turn it off and let it go into an old file. Hawks will give us anything we need anyway, that's why he gets Empusa's reports. At least I think he does. "

"Shouldn't we…check those old files?"

"Nah, no one's checked them in decades. Since that shuffle in agencies about seventy years ago. Besides, what could be in those files could possibly be useful? Anyway, I've got to deal with a rookie whose report was two minutes late." Hiro smirked with the confidence of a man who'd been promoted to get him as far away from field work as possible and was basically unfireable due to having blackmail material on several higher-ups.

"Didn't he have to fight his way through a villain group to get here?"

"Does that sound like my problem?"

All for One howled with laughter. "I can't believe it! No, I can believe it. All his reports, this massive threat to the underworld, rendered useless by bureaucratic incompetence! That's perfect! Hahahaha!"

"What is wrong with you?!" Yoichi screeched at the HPSC agents. "This was the perfect chance to upstage my brother! You had it right there! Use those reports and arrest everyone! Come on!"

"They can't hear you!" All for One said. "And here I was worried when this one put on a tie, worked for Heroes, and didn't vault his Yoichi, but this seems alright to me!" He continued laughing, reveling in his brother's misery even as Yoichi tried to strangle him. Eventually he tried to grab Yoichi to vault him, but this failed. "Admit it, your beloved HPSC is as evil as me."

"Excuse me?" Yoichi recoiled. "I don't love the HPSC! But I thought they were a little more competent than this!"

"Whoa, where have you been for the last century?" All for One asked. "Oh, yeah! Dead!"

"Fine!" Yoichi glared. "I'll show you!"

"Oh?"

"I've tried to show you how the world would be better off if you'd turned good, how you'd be better off if you'd turned good."

"You've shown me a pathetic Hero who could have been the ultimate villain, and a spy who hasn't accomplished anything in years."

"Because of other people! Also both are happy and have family!"

"I could too if my family listened to me. The reason I don't is because of other people thinking they know better."

"You're the worst!"

"Now you're finally seeing the truth." All for One sneered. "I'm an irredeemable villain. I've brought nothing but pain and misery to the world. No matter how much Spirit of Christmas you have, you'll never, ever redeem me." He spread his arms dramatically, shoving his doubts away in favor of focusing on his brother.

Yoichi seethed. "You know what? Only villains try to change the endings of famous stories! We're going traditional It's a Wonderful Life. I'll show you! I'll show you that the world, or at least part of it, was made better by you being there! I'll show you that at least a few things are better off because you were born!"

"Oh? Do your worst!"

"So be it."

A gust of wind blew around them. Papers everywhere flew into the air. They swirled around the brothers, surrounding them both. Soon All for One couldn't see anything behind the screen of white. The papers then all fell away. Then the last and final universe stood revealed.

OMAKE TIME!

Omake: How Yoichi Realized that All for One was an Unreliable Narrator

Yoichi: I know my brother seems like a monster now, but once he fought off carnivorous rats to save me as a baby.

Nana: You don't have to make up stories to make your brother sound less bad. It doesn't work.

Yoichi: It's true! Then big brother swam with me on his back despite being a baby.

Second: If All for One was a baby in this story, how does he remember it?

Yoichi: Uh…

Third: All for One seems like the kind of person who would make up a villain origin story for himself.

Yoichi: He was just screwing with me! I'll strangle him!

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Omake: How Yoichi Got Help Creating His Costume

Yoichi: I bet my hero that if I couldn't redeem you, then we'd have sexy fun with the angel costume.

All for One: Ugh, I had a sudden and strange desire to be redeemed. It felt awful.

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Omake: Uninvited Guest

Yoichi: And here's the universe where All Might is Izuku's father.

Shouto Todoroki: (Breaking into the dreamspace through sheer force of will) This world is so much better! Can I have a new dad too?

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Omake: The Universe Everyone Hates

Yoichi: Here's the universe of Katydid's The Grandparent Wars, where you knocked up Nana Shimura and had All Might as a son and Izuku as a grandson.

All for One: ACK! My non-existent eyes! How was that supposed to redeem me?!

Yoichi: It wasn't. I was just annoyed and wanted to get back at you.

All for One: Where was this pettiness with people who aren't me?!

Nana: Yooooooooooichi, I'm coming to kill you.

Second: How? He's a ghost?

Nana: PLUS ULTRA!

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Omake: Victory

All for One: Nothing could be worse than that last universe you showed me.

Yoichi: Challenge accepted. Here's the Forgiveness is the Attribute of the Strong AU where All Might adopted your younger self and raised him to be a good person.

All for One: Urk. (Dies of a heart attack.)

Yoichi: Uh…I meant to do that!

Author's note:

So we see another half baked redemption plan from Yoichi!

Just so you know, this (and more importantly the previous story) were written before AFO's official backstory were revealed, so that's non-canon here. Another fun fact is that we'd written the scene with the incompetent bureaucrats already before realizing it'd be a perfect spot for Hiro Nakanishi from "The League of Vigilantes."

As for AFO being Izuku's father when the first story in the series left no hints of that, we have three explanations:

1. He was Izuku's father in "What is Wrong with You?!–An All for One Christmas Carol" and never bothered to mention it.

2. The authors retconned it and created an error.

3. THE SPIRIT OF CHRISTMAS!

The first two fics in the series are under Gran97's profile, delete the spaces to get the link:
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