"Yes?" Kurogiri asked as he took a call. "I see. Yes. No, no, I can handle it. Thank you."

The smoky villain ended the call and cleared his throat to gain the attention of his charges just as one of his warp gates appeared on the floor.

"Special delivery for Puppetress and Tomura."

MH-PP

As his crate finally came to a stop, the man formerly known as Gallant tried to retrace his steps to see how it had all gone wrong so fast.

He'd had it all; born into a wealthy and loving family, a great Quirk [Dreamer] that assured him the coveted #1 Hero position and devastatingly dashing looks, along with the best teachers and equipment money could buy. He'd aced all the tests and accomplished All Might level feats, reduced Captain Celebrity to a joke, married a beautiful woman and had a pretty daughter...

And then, for some reason, it went all downhill. Bad enough Eniwa didn't get some badass quirk, but some silly strings that her mother thought was worth anything, but the brat had aimed to become like him. HIM?! THE #1?! The guy who knocked the Walkers off their high horse for two generations?

Yeah, no. He'd had to knock that out of her. Not his fault his wife tried to get in the way; sooner Eniwa was taught her limits the better off she was. Sides, his wife should've learned to stay out of his way; the definition of insanity was doing something over and over and expecting a different result, right?

Why couldn't they see it his way: He was making sure a REAL hero was in the minds of Americans; none of those Vought Test tube freaks that somehow 'legalized' their ways into Pro-Hood, none of those annoying immigrants who couldn't speak or understand how his country worked…A real man that came from all that made America great; old but tough money attached to a badass Quirk.

(AN: God, I feel sick even writing this.)

All he did how was he repaid: Dad beating him black and blue after he'd finally had enough of his wife's shielding Eniwa and then the brat's Quirk somehow made him reveal how he really felt about things, resulting in his divorce, his agency dissolving and himself destitute.

MH-PP

"Well, well, well...I've been looking forward to meeting you." Chuckled a raspy young man's voice as the bag was removed from Gallant's head, making him look up to see a pale-skinned face with chapped lips and small scars grinning wickedly at him.

"Gallant...meet my boyfriend, Tomura Shigaraki. I've been telling him all about you."

Gallant turned and saw Puppetress there, also grinning just as cruelly.

"And I don't like what I've heard."

He placed his hand on the former pro's shoulder, whose eyes widened in horror as that shoulder began to crack. Gallant barely kept his composure.

"You know? You remind me of my own old man." Tomura explained. "And I HATED. My old man."

Dabi smirked at that as Predator tossed a carving knife into Gallant's other shoulder before leveling a wrist blade above the American's mouth.

"I used to dream of hunting you: The #1 American hero? Someone on All Might's level? What a hunt that'd have been….! But now? All I see is wasted time."

The hunting teen then slashed at Gallant's brow and pulled out his knife, Himiko being quick to return to Predator's side. Gallant screamed, only for mud to gag him and send him upwards and then back to the floor. The former hero, his mouth now clear of mud from a glaring Mudslide, managed to look up to see Feedback kneeling in front of him, a sound bubble the size of a car floating beside him.

The punk styled villain said nothing as he snapped his fingers, willing the sound bubble to strike Gallant head on, causing him to be hit with the force of a bomb and getting him cut and scratched all over.

"That was for mine and Nat's dad." Feedback finally said.

Gallant and others had no time to inquire, as Carbonada smirked as the former Pro started coughing and choke as her fist turned black. She then delivered a brutal punch that SHATTERED Gallant's back, only for Chemistra to dash over and pour something on the dying man, suddenly bringing him back to full health.

"Subjects can't die too early!" She beamed before backflipping over to Twice.

"Lemme take the yank." Nightmare beamed as a shadow formed around her, the face of an elderly woman beginning to become clear. "I know just what you need…."

"Appreciated and normally approved Nightmare, but I'm a have to ask you to NOT use my wife's likeness for your beasties." A thick, western drawl cut in as Colonel Cash and All for One walked in.

"Sensei...!" Tomura silently gasped, seeing his master had returned.

"At ease, Tomura. You don't need to call me that anymore." All For One chuckled. "I am simply here to oversee your final ascension...and for a few toys to take and give as well."

"Grandpa!" Puppetress beamed as she hugged the older man, who hugged her back. "Are you feeling alright? No jet lag, I hope?"

"Eniwa, Eniwa, Eniwa you worry about this old man too much." Cash assured his granddaughter, messing with her hair. "I've been doing business for almost 300 years, I ain't so fragile a night or two'll knock me over."

"D-Dad!" Gallant choked out, only to be cowed by Cash's furious glare. In fact, aside from All for One, everyone scampered backwards.

"You. Waste. Of. Every, Thing." The older man hissed. "You wanted for nothing, ever. I never once struck you. I always encouraged you to think of others. I was PROUD to be your enemy! I thought I raised you well; your mama and I did all we thought was right….God, I can't believe I'm saying this, but I'm HAPPY she's passed; cause if she knew a tenth of what you've done, boy? She'd die of shame…And yes, die. You may have gotten a reality warping Quirk, but not even you could bring her back."

"…Reality what now quirk?" Spinner asked.

"[Dreamer], Gallant's quirk." Void answered. "As long as he dreams it up, it can and will happen."

"….And he still screwed up?!" Compress snapped.

"Never was the brightest lad." All for One mused quietly, wordlessly going over Nightmare and Carbonda. At least Ripper and Minotaur found good successors, he mused with a smile.

"All those years watching you rise to the top. What did we never teach you?" Cash asked. "What lesson did you not learn? Just because you're strong and rich doesn't mean you're the best! For crying out…you were such a sweet little boy…."

Puppetress raced to her grandfather's side, ignoring her father as he reached for her. Tomura however, saw this and grabbed the man's hand, turning it to dust and glaring at him with unfathomable rage and hate.

Cash cleared his eyes and gently pushed Eniwa away.

"Said it fore, I'll say it again. My son died a long time ago. Whoever you are? You ain't him….and you know how the Gulid deals with identity stealers, right boy?"

Gallant and the Guild members all tensed, some even gulping. All, save Crunch Chomp, who was smiling evilly.

"Oh ho, ho! I've been dreaming of having you for years, Gally!" He salivated. "Sides, Kai is getting oh so boring."

"No! No, wait! Not him! ANYTHING and ANYONE but him!" Gallant screamed.

"Just a moment." All for One commanded, placing his hand on Gallant…and there it was. Once the process was done, he flexed his fingers before clenching them tightly into a fist.! "Ah…such a wonderful quirk. As you were."

The cannibalistic butler then opened his mouth, from which emerged two giant knives that cut off Gallant's legs before he pulled the screaming man away.

"Have fun, Crunch!" Puppetress waved away. "Don't be gentle! He likes it rough!"

All Gallant could do was scream and sob as he was pulled away.

"…Well. At least Stars & Stripes is true and blue." Feedback mused. "That's a pro who deserves #1."

"Ah yes, All Might's protégé." All for One mused. "Wonder who America has to cover for her when we deal with her?"

"This asshole called Homelander who's been making waves back in America." Cash noted. "He can do pretty much everything Gallant could...but he also has Heat Vision, Super Hearing, and a scream so loud, it can rupture eardrums within a five-mile radius."

"I've heard of him." All For One frowned. "If he dares rise above his station, I say we pay him a visit..."

"Matters for another time." Cash assured his old friend. "Now kiddos, the reason Shigaraki and I came here was to let you know about the 'New Age' Plan us and the Cabal have been working on for years. Eniwa? Its time."

Puppetress became giddy at delight: Yes! Finally!

"But before that, you young-uns have to prove yourselves. And to do that? You gotta tame a real old, real strong and real loyal pawn of your sensei: Gigantomachia himself. And yes, he does indeed exist."

Predator let out a whistle as Chemistra began rambling about so may experiments and questions to run.

"I'd do it myself," All for One started. "But I feel this is to be your final test Tomura: You now have allies, you have a goal and you have someone at your side. Now its time to prove yourself to have the power to reach your goals.

"We won't be completely leaving you be. Our friends in the International Cabal will be supervising you." Cash added as the Guild/League all looked surprised.

"I say...the group of the greatest villains from around the world?!" Mr. Compress gawked behind his mask. "Truly an honor to have them aiding us!"

"Is Master Ripper there?" Nightmare asked as All For One and Cash nodded. "Good, just making sure."

"And Minotaur too." Cash smiled at Carbonada, who beamed in delight at that. "Oh! But! Nightmare and that Dabi feller will join ya later. A certain new number one is being tested as well…"

The aforementioned villains smiled evilly as they hurriedly ran out the door. Eniwas pouted.

"I wanted to see Endeavour crash and burn… But I guess fighting a giant is a close enough second. Everyone! Pack up and get ready!"

The Gulid all saulted her and did just that as Tomura looked to All for One.

"Sensei, I have one last request."

MHPP

As he laid on the floor of his 'room', broken and defeated, only twitching at random proving he was still alive, Kai Chisaki, AKA Overhaul's mind was all but gone. So many times he tried to commit suicide failed. And he'd lost count or care for what Crunch Chomp did to him. At this point, there was literally NOTHING that Kai hadn't been put through.

What a life: An orphaned brat abandoned for accidentally killing his parents when his Quirk awoke, living on the streets until Oyabun Kaito found and adopted him. From there, he'd gone to medical school and worked to repay the older man's kindness, even as the Yakuza dwindled to extincition thanks to Heroes.

'Heroes'; sick and delusional beings, corrupted by their Quirks and speeding up the end of humanity with how they continued to fester and grow! If Kai could put them out of commission; if he could bring the Yakuza back to full strength?

Then he'd have come close to paying Kaito back. And in that cursed child, Eri? He had found said repayment, even if the old man was too attached to her to see it.

Then two brats and their mentors came along, one thing led to another and the rest is history.

Suddenly, a dark portal opened up as a tall, shadowy figure stepped out. Overhaul couldn't see who it was from the darkness but he could feel the powerful aura radiating off the man.

"Kai Chisaki...how low you've fallen. It's a pity to see you like this but then again, you believed yourself higher than what your station really was." The man said in a cold, demeaning tone. "I've heard all about you from my protege and frankly...I'm not impressed. Quirks are no disease, they are a blessing, the next step in human evolution...but you could never understand that could you?"

Overhaul squirmed as the man crouched down and then put a hand over his head. The Ex-Yakuza Boss screamed in agony as he felt something being pulled out of him.

"There you go. Aren't you happy? I took away what was making you 'sick'. Now then, I believe you have a new playmate to keep you company as you rot. Farewell, Kai Chisaki...it hasn't been a pleasure."

With that, the man walked away back into the portal, which closed but not before another figure was thrown in, the man once known as Gallant. Then, the door opened as the man who had plagued Chisaki's nightmares stepped in.

"Oh, this is too much! An all-you-can-eat buffet for me~!"

At this point, Overhaul didn't even have it in him to scream, just curl up into himself and whimper like a broken child while Gallant struggled in his bounds before letting out a cry of horror and despair...

MH-PP

"Here you go, Tomura." All for One smiled as he lefted his hand from his apprentice's face. "I do believe this will suit you much better than Decay ever did."

Tomura looked at his hands; no difference physically, but they seemed…calmer. He spied a nearby wall and touched it.

The wall shattered before reforming now spiky. Tomura touched the wall again amnd restored it, a giddy smile on his face.

"Sensei. Come here." Tomura asked, no ordered.

All for One rose a non-existent brow, but did so and removed his mask….A second of pain passed before he could see and breathe again.

Knightmare Lord A/N:

I love seeing abusers suffer. It's the best kind of therapy for me.

And so, we're all caught up on the original Pen-Pal!

Anyway, we've got ourselves a right cliffhanger here, the League of Villains are preparing to confront the Meta Liberation Army with help from the International Cabal and Bobby's Family is here in Japan! What'll come of this, I wonder!

Also, did we mention Homelander from The Boys? Yes, yes we did. There's a reason for that you'll learn in the future.

Mrotrax A/N:

I will be keeping the original version up, as a reminder and to see how far I've come.

So…yeah, Tomura has Overhaul and has healed All for One, who now has a reality warping Quirk.

You may panic when ready.

Thanks again, Knightmare Lord!

Next time, we learn the whole story between the Walkers as Endeavour is given his first test as #1 Hero!

Keep safe until then.