The TV had suddenly frozen, as if mocking Gran Torino with the image of his late best friend. Only it wasn't Nana. No, it was a plump woman with green hair… but the eyes, the nose even the style of her ponytail?

The shocked look on his face gave Mina the time to grab her phone from her UA case and pull up a photo All Might had given her to give to his dreaded sensei.

There had been little on Nimbus online for Mina to research. She had been in the top five of Japan and posthomusly been given the #1 spot for a year after she gave her life saving an entire neighbourhood from a freak factory implosion…at least, that was what the public reported; All Might's horrid face when he recalled what happened made it clear that All for One was involved.

The pink skinned girl compared the two images: Same hairstylebut different color , eyes that promised kind care….

"Wow, the resemblance to Mamadori is…wow!" Mina mused, otherwise lost for words.

"There can't be a resemblance!" her mentor shouted, trying desperately to deny what he was seeing. "He can't be Nana's grandson! She only had Kotaro!"

'Ungrateful brat.' The aged Pro thought to himself, recalling how Kotaro had sparked a Hero Hate online forum before he settled down, all because he had convinced himself Nana had abandoned him to go and protect others. While not entirely wrong, Kotaro (who had never been the sharpest tool) didn't see the sacrifice Nana was making.

"Well, did she…I dunno…donate her eggs or something?"

The aged hero opened his mouth to snap out a rebuttal…but then he recalled a memory:

Many years ago

Gran Torino sat with Nimbus, AKA Nana Shimura at a clinic. Earlier, her husband Roku, AKA En, had been with them, but he'd been called to deal with a Villain attack. They'd never see him alive again.

This was a dark day for them all. All for One was upping his movements close to the Shimura family. So, Roku and Nana had made some harsh decisions; donate as much of themselves to medicine and maybe, just maybe, produce an ideal holder of One for All via a desecdant for them or a successor to find.

It was a long shot, but they were desperate. The HPSC was starting to darken and firm its hands on heroes and how the acted. So unless some great symbol of peace came along and silenced their need for control? They needed to find time.

"Mrs. Shimura?" A nurse called out.

Nana took a deep breath and stood up, Sorahiko gently clapsing her hand and promising to help her any way he could.

His best friend then followed the nurse and did what she had to do.

Present

The aged hero made his way to his landline and dialed a number.

"I need a background check on the Midoriya parents go all the way to their great-grandparents." He ordered, then turned to Mina. "Wash up and then suit up kiddo. We're moving to phase two: Actual combat experience."

TSR

Unknown to the two heroes, one of Sorahiko's neighbors had made a call. A call to, unknown them, a certain symbol of evil.

Said evil did not like what he was being told, but still wired the informant some money in thanks before calling his doctor in.

"Ujiko...did you or did you not do something with the eggs we managed to acquire from that clinic?"

"Do you have the slightest idea how little that narrows it down?!" Ujiko snapped, but his annoyance was forgotten when All for One GRABBED his doctor and brought him close.

If the supervillain still had eyes, they'd be glaring through to the very core of the mad scientist's soul…whatever was left of it.

"NANA SHIMURA'S EGGS!"

As a matter of fact, that did narrow it down.

"Well, I threw them out." Ujiko confessed. "Well, rather redonated them to other clinics, but the most were destroyed. You do know I'm better with working with something from the get go…why the concern? We have Tomura to break All Might's spirit."

"Well, it turns out?" All for One began, half enraged at this lapse in Ujiko's judgement and the other half thinking up a hundred schemes a minute on how to use this information. "It turns out that Izuku? The boy Tomura is obessed with? He may be ANOTHER A HEROIC GRANDSON OF NANA! MY ENTIRE SHCEME TO BREAK ALL MIGHT IS IN JEOPARDY!"

"Is it?" Ujiko managed as he pulled out a remote. "he DID make Izuku a villain, after all….Come now, Master! we can still spin this to our advantage!"

Out from behind the two villains, a door opened, revealing two prospective Nomu.

All for One let his doctor go, giving the Nomu a look over. Oh, oh this would be so deliciously ironic!

"I want them ready in a week. And if this fails? You join your grandson."

"Yes, Sensei…" Ujiko nodded in understanding.

TSR

He was supposed to be heading home now. Oh well, the HPSC owed him overtime and he was his own boss. Besides, to put this aside would risk worsening the situation.

"Is the job offer still available?" Danjuro asked Nedzu over the phone.

"Yes, of couse." Nezu smiled. "Come on in, Aizawa will let you in."

He then made another quick call.

"Yes, Nemuri? I know you and Jin have plans, but I thought you might like to let him and Eri know that at least a few of their comrades are coming to UA."

"YAHOOO! Man, I was looking forward to whatever the plan was!" Twice beamed and then groaned on the other side of the call.

"We'll bring Eri; she's squeezxing in her last minutes of TV around now." Midnight smiled as she ended the call.

No sooner had Nezu reached into his desk to grab some paperwok for new hires, did Aizawa, now fully healed and looking annoyed, escoruted in the assembly that had been outside of UA:

Gentle Criminal.

La Brava

Magne

Spinner

XV-Ral.

"There, they're here and with extras." The annoyed Underground hero grumbled. "Now, let me ask a question of my own…..Where is Izuku?"

TSR

"Hello, Ka-chan." Izuku smiled as he paused the game, turning to greet his former bully with his scarred and blind eye clear to see. "I think its time we had a proper talk."

Katsuki had been looking forward to a night on his lonesome. No hag, no whimp, just him and cooking. That had quickly become his one reprive; everywhere he went, people called him 'villain-maker'. The parents of the extras at Aldrea blamed him for their children's humiliation and many a Pro that recognized him recommended he go into general or drop out to avoid scandal.

It was so stupid! He was supposed to soar and succeed! And all thjsi shit was happening just because Deku left his place and tried to steal the spotlight?

'You know that's not what happened.'

He ignored the voice, instead trying to figure out how to respond on his former friend, turned mortal en…No, bane of exis…No, no…villain. Yeah, that worked! Former friend turned to villain! How THAT was in his room, playing his videogames and above all, how the hell he'd gotten into the Bakugo home.

"You know? This place right here? Your room? It was one of my few safe places for so long, When we were here, you only teased lightly, we played games and you were gracious when I beat you, if a bit pouty." Izuku said, not looking at his former friend as he beat Katsuki's high score. "I think...yeah, that's it. That's why I held onto hope for so long. If you could be nice to me here? in this closed off space? There was a chance you'd see and become the great hero I thought you could be."

His wrist blades, at his side, where now thrown further into the room.

"So tell me...What the actual fuck happened to you?"

To be continued…

Forgive the delay, hope this was worth it!

There was originally the idea of All for One and Ujiko using a clone of Nana under another name to unintentionally create Inko and by extension, Izuku. But given the latest reveals we got the MHA manga, I decided against it. Besides last I checked, Ujiko has shown NO skill at cloning and the donated eggs works well enough.

Next time we'll truly get into the world shaking events! See you then!