Hey, so apparently I've still got some ideas in a backlog, so I'll post these while I work on Legion, fortunately I've got a couple of extended weekends coming up.
I admit that I'm a bit stuck on Darth Kyofu, I'll still continue it! But it'll be a while.
Anyway, here's another idea I had after this entire GOW: Ragnarok craze.
Bear in mind that this is multiple universes inspired.
Support Course Izuku
"Mirio…what makes you so sure that Midoriya will be here?" Toshinori asked his successor as they headed toward the large forge at the outskirts of the city.
"It's where he and Mei reunited…"Reforging something that broke." He'll be here." Mirio said as they headed to the entrance of the forge.
Behind them, Tamaki and Nejire somberly walked behind them, all of them horrified by the recent events.
Opening the doors, the familiar warmth of the forge soothed them from the outside cold but did nothing for their hearts.
Clang!
Clang!
Clang!
They could hear the hammer fall, each strike monotonous, without the usual fervor or passion behind each swing.
As they walked forward, they were met by the sight of Mei's body resting peacefully on a workbench, some of her old projects on the floor next to her. Her arms were crossed over her chest with a single flower in her hand, the glint of her ring shining from the light of the fire.
Mirio gulped as he stared at her peaceful face.
He'd done this.
"Izuku?"
Izuku paused only for a moment before bringing his hammer back down on the project he was working on.
Clang!
…
Clang!
"Izuku…I…I'm so sorry-"
"NO!" Izuku growled as he kept hammering the metal. "No, I don't wanna hear it. You don't know what sorry means."
Clang!
Mirio took a breath before walking over to Izuku's front as he kept working.
"We're not letting All For One get away with this."
"Would that be the All For One you invited into my home!"
Clang!
"We were all fooled." Toshinori said and Izuku slightly stiffened at hearing the other man's voice.
"Oh," Izuku grimly chuckled as he finally set down the hammer and deigned to look at his former idol. "But some of us were bigger fools than others. Aren't we?"
Toshinori stayed silent, knowing that there was still much unresolved between the two of them.
Past grievances, thought to be forgiven, now all being dragged to the present.
Izuku finally turned toward Mirio, glaring hatefully at him.
"I gave you everything."
Mirio began to step back around the table as their eyes met, unable to stay near.
"My skills. My friendship. My home. My secrets, my treasures…and you just kept taking." Izuku said, his voice starting to crack.
"And now what have I got?" He choked as he leaned over Mei and gently cupped her face.
"Not even my family…" He weeped.
Finally taking a deep breath, he looked up at Mirio.
"You want sorry?" He asked, before stepping back and spreading his arms, showing the blood and soot that still stained him. "This is what sorry looks like."
Huffing in anger, he then returned to the workbench and picked up Mei's hammer.
"I…What can we do?"
"Heh. We? Heh…there is no "we." There's only you…only you and One For All." He spat out.
Mirio stayed silent.
"No matter what the cost."
Slightly huffing as he tried to keep himself together, Izuku gave his final retort.
"So what you can do…is get the hell out of my sight."
With a final glare and huff, he turned back to the metal.
Mirio could only stare at him in regret.
"Come, Mirio. Leave him be."
Clang!
"Mourn how you wish." Toshinori said, Izuku pausing for only a moment before returning to his work.
Clang! … Clang! … Clang!
Mirio stared at him for a few moments more before turning back toward his mentor.
"I, I thought we were his family too." Mirio said as Nejire and Tamaki leaned on him.
…
"We were."
And the group left, leaving only the sound of a hammer striking metal to fill the empty forge.
Clang!
Thor
The hooded figure before them set their hammer down on the table as a gesture of peace but Mirio waited for the other shoe to drop. He couldn't do much right now, not with the others inside the base. Then the door was opened and All For One, the greatest villain alive, grinned as he walked in through the doors.
Mirio tensed in fear, there were far too many people for this fight.
"It's been so long, little brother."
Mirio's right eye flashes green as the first speaks through him.
"All For One." He spits out.
"Now, now, is that all you have to say? And after all the years we've been apart."
"We have nothing to say to you, All For One." Toshinori's voice growled out and the hooded figure tenses, his hand curling into a fist on the table.
"Ah, Toshinori…I was hoping that you'd be there, after all, my friend has been waiting to see you again for such a long time."
They turned toward the hooded figure and emerald eyes glared behind the shadows, lightning crackling around them.
"Go ahead, reveal yourself."
The figure grabbed his hood and swept it down, revealing a scarred and freckled face with green hair and tired eyes.
"I…who are you?" They asked.
He merely huffed.
"Told you he wouldn't recognize me."
"Oh, he will…soon enough," All For One said as he walked around the table.
"What do you want, All For One?" Mirio said, One For All ready to activate at a moment's notice.
"To be honest, I want peace."
…
"What?"
"Surprised? I can see why, you see, I've got my own things to worry about after Tomura's little rebellion. I'd rather not deal with you at the same time, which is why I'm offering a deal."
"A deal?" Yoichi asked. "How unlike you."
"Oh, but I can be sensible, unlike you, Yoichi."
"Enough." Nana demanded. "What do you want?"
"It's simple, leave us to our own and I'll leave you to yours. At least until everything's settled down. Then we can finally have our grand finale. The last fight, All For One and One For All…just like the fairytales. Think about it, you can finally relax, why, you can even prepare! Train, get ready for our fight…just stay out of my business for now." All For One said as he walked around the room, staring at all the faces who were looking at him in fear.
"Of course, that does mean that the boy from Nabu, yes, I know he's here, it does mean that he stops his search for Hachiman." All For One said before staring at a corner in particular.
Said boy nervously came out, knowing that he was caught as even Mirio was glaring at him in frustration.
"Yeah, we know what you've been up to. Stop it." The mysterious man said.
"Hachiman is gone. You may have thought that just because he once served me that he would be your best ally against me, but he is dead."
"That's all I ask…you keep to yourselves, and I won't bother you. Best of all, you keep your friends and your boy safe, what more could you ask?"
Mirio stayed silent, the offer…was tempting.
But this was All For One.
"So, what do you say?"
Mirio stood tall and glared at the monster before him.
"No."
All For One sighed and walked toward the mysterious man, merely saying one final thing.
"Don't take all day."
All For One's ally sighed himself as he raised a hand and waved before letting it fall against his thigh.
Standing up, he cracked his neck and Mirio became more nervous.
'Mirio…get ready to permeate.'
'Right.'
"Ergh, 'bout time." He said, snapping his fingers as lightning surged and the hammer went to his hand and he swung.
Mirio tried to permeate.
It didn't work.
'I, I can't permeate through this!'
'It has to be All For One's work!'
Caught with the hammer under his jaw, Mirio almost blacked out from the sheer force and his unpreparedness.
Then the man came up to him.
"I've been waiting for this, One For All! All these years and I finally get to pay you back!"
Mirio freed his hand and punched at him, One For All bringing devastating force.
It still wasn't enough.
'Is he a nomu!?'
The two twisted and turned before crashing against a mountain and falling to the ground below.
"Come on out, All Might! I've been dying to see you again!" He roared as he placed the hammer on his waist and attacked, lightning surging around him.
"Who are you!?" Toshinori yelled as their hands collided and they struggled against one another.
"You still don't recognize me, huh? That's fine, let me introduce you…to your greatest mistake!" He yelled as he brought a knee to Mirio's abdomen and made him cough up blood.
'Permeation's not working against him at all!'
"Come on! I came all this way for you, the least you could do is give me a proper FIGHT!" He roared as he blitzed forward and punched Mirio with a lightning infused fist, the latter just barely able to block.
"Don't tell me you got so arrogant that with permeation and that hand-me-down quirk that you forgot how to fight!"
Mirio finally decided to just go all out, if this man wanted a brawl, he'd get one.
The two began to trade punches and much to One For All's astonishment, the man was holding up to it.
"Now we got us a fight!"
The two fought some more although the enemy was clearly angry over something.
"Come on! Give me a real challenge, where's Blackwhip, where's Float? Don't tell me that you can't even use 100% without breaking yourself!"
Mirio went for a punch only for it to be grabbed and for him to be punched away.
"Stop holding back!"
This time the hammer came at him once more and Mirio was barely able to dodge, only for the man to crash into him as he caught up to the hammer and threw him through the mountain peak.
Mirio groaned as the rubble fell around his landing spot and the man landed nearby doing nothing, even turning his back to him.
"Catch your breath. We're not through yet."
Mirio growled and grabbed a longer piece of rubble before slamming it into the guy's back and knocking him away.
He merely laughed.
"If you're not fighting dirty, you're not fighting, right?"
The man's power seemed to intensify even more as with every swing of his hammer, thunder and lightning erupted from it, destroying the landscape even more.
The two fought, with Mirio still on the back foot until he finally managed to get a good blow in. The villain merely roared and grabbed his arm before throwing him across the area.
"Is this the great One For All? The successor of the so-called Symbol of Peace? Lemillion! The hero who'd save a million people?" He yelled as the hammer flew at him and Mirio pushed against it before simply letting it fall.
"What a joke!"
The hammer slammed into Mirio's back as it came back to the villain's hand with a snap of his fingers before he brought it down on Mirio who was barely able to catch it.
"I've been waiting for this, All Might! Tell me, after all these years, did you even think about that little quirkless kid you left on the roof? Did you expect for him to become the destroyer he is now?"
Mirio's eye turned a brighter blue, widening in shock and horror.
"It's you…"
Losing his grip, the villain took advantage of the fact and pushed him back before brutally striking him with the hammer and knocking him to the ground.
The world slowly turned black for Mirio as One For All screamed for him to get up.
…
"Oh, no…" The villain chuckled. "I say when we're done."
Mirio screamed in agony as lightning coursed through his body, forcibly restarting his heart.
"I'm not leaving 'til I see the real One For All. Get up!"
Toshinori weakly stared at him.
"Look, kid, I don't know what All For One did to you-" Mirio was forced to dodge a hammer blow.
"What he did to me? That's just like you, All Might! Running away from your mistakes! He didn't do anything, I chose this after YOU broke me!"
He then called the hammer and raised it, lighting surging in the air before coalescing at the hammer leaving it supercharged.
Lightning ran all around the man's body, his eyes glowing brightly as he grinned savagely.
"All All For One did was make me strong enough to return the favor! Here's my personal favorite, my own super move! INAZUMA…!"
Mirio had no choice and called 100% into his right arm.
"Detroit…!"
"SMASH!"
KRAKOOM!
Mirio's eyes slowly focused back to reality as he took in the damage caused. The mountain simply wasn't a mountain anymore.
"Hehehe…"
Mirio's eyes widened as he looked at his opponent, bloody and bruised but still standing. Quickly calling One For All to him, he stood as well but winced as he felt the damage to his arm.
"There's the real One For All…" He grinned as he called the hammer to his hand before using the other to yank out a loose tooth.
Mirio's eye turned blue.
"Midoriya…I remember now…I-"
"Don't even bother saying sorry…besides, that name died long ago. As far as I'm concerned, the name's Thor."
He smiled widely even with blood decorating his body.
"Be seein' ya." He said as lightning charged and he let himself be carried by his hammer.
A Different Successor
Izuku stared at the scars on his arms, the runic symbols that represented his burden.
"I did not wish this curse upon anyone, but these blades would have chosen the most bloodthirsty of your world…as such, I was forced to find a sacrifice."
His new…quirk.
"But why me?"
"Make no mistake. You are weak. You lack discipline. But you also have a pure heart."
"...Could I…become a hero?"
"That is up for you to decide. Not me, nor anyone else."
It'd most recently been registered as "Rage", and the doctors theorized that years of repressed anger had finally caused the catalyst needed to activate his latent quirk despite his biology.
"You must learn to master yourself. Only then, will you master these blades."
"I…what if I can't?"
"Then your world is doomed."
But as Izuku closed his eyes and took a deep breath, he found his center.
'These blades are merely tools, and as I master different aspects of myself, I also master the others.'
"Alone, the blades would overwhelm you, which is why these will also temper you."
Izuku traced the symbols that had been etched onto his body.
On his forearms were the Blades of Chaos, representing his rage, to be tempered by his composure.
In his right palm, the Leviathan Axe, representing his tenacity, impeded only by his irresolution.
On the back of his left hand, the Guardian Shield, to protect the innocent and himself, strengthened by his will, weakened by his fear.
On the back of his right hand, Draupnir. To be wielded to enforce Justice, wieldable only as long as he remained incorrupt.
And finally, on his right shoulder, the Talon Bow.
"This…will not unlock for you until you are truly ready. For it belonged to my son. It is he who blessed it so that it may guide those worthy to victory."
Izuku would prove himself worthy. He would prove that he could have been a hero regardless of Bakugo, All Might, or even what his own mother said.
"Master yourself, heed not the words of others, and forge your own destiny."
Izuku cracked his neck as the gates opened.
"I am the master of my own destiny."
So yeah, just some ideas I had in mind, I'll probably post a few more of these oneshots as I work on Legion and Kyofu, at least so that you guys don't have to wait so long between content.
Sorry that this was so short though.