"Ah, to be young again," Akumi said from inside the white box now toppled over with the glass side on the bottom.
"Akumi!" Izuku called out. All Might had let him and Kota down to deal with the nomus. Now that Eraserhead wasn't preoccupied staring down Akumi, Youta expanded his barrier to cover himself, Akari, Izuki, and Kota.
"Izuku, why are you so injured already? Well, it doesn't matter now that you're here we can get Akumi back," Youta states.
"Huh? What do you mean? What's going on with Akumi?"
Akari placed a palm against Youta's barrier. Her eyes glowed as they widened and tears fell from them, "We need to get the machine up and running! If we don't then Akumi! Akumi will! She will…"
"Akari calm down. Izuku's here. If we can get Izuku close to Akumi then—" A hole was blasted open from the top white box.
All Might, Midnight, Mount Lady, and Eraserhead had just taken down the last nomu when this happened. They all looked back at the white box.
"It's too late…" Akari places her other hand on her gauntlet in contact with the red barrier.
Akumi stood up from the hole in the machine. Eraserhead immediately activated his quirk to cancel her quirk. "That quirk eraser is quite annoying."
"Akumi!" Izuku called out again.
An ominous aura emitted from Akumi as she stretches her arms and legs. "Much better." Everyone watched as she climbed on top of the machine. "What do you think of my new body, All Might?"
"WHO ARE YOU AND WHAT DID YOU DO TO MY STUDENT?"
"After all these years. I change bodies and you don't even recognize me. Let me give you a little reminder." An intense bloodlust filled the air, one that All Might was all too familiar with.
"ALL FOR ONE!" All Might shouted in anger.
"How does it feel? Knowing your successor's beloved sister is now controlled by me."
"LEAVE HER BODY NOW!"
Akumi crossed her arm and put a hand on her cheek and said, "What exactly are you going to do to make me? Punch me with one hundred percent of your power. Go plus ultra. I quite like this body, but I don't know if this fragile body can handle all your girth."
"I'LL RESTRAIN YOU!" All Might zooms over to Akumi with blazing speed.
All For One anticipated as much. With a reaction just as fast as All Might they come together interlocking hands with the impact causing a shockwave. "You've grown so much weaker. This body isn't even close to being at one hundred percent but it can still match you with minimal effort."
"RETURN MY STUDENT AT ONCE!" All Might stared directly into Akumi's eyes which had now turned completely black.
"I own everything in this body so why would I have to return anything," a smile was on Akumi's face. She moved her head back as a projectile flew by missing her head.
"Give Me Back My Friend!" Akari shouted with determination pointing one of her gauntlets at Akumi with Youta holding her back, his quirk deactivated. Akari's eyes glowed a red color instead of blue. "Let Go Of Me Youta! If I could just—"
"Akari! Stop! Charging in like this is not going to help!" Youta shouts, continuing to hold back Akari.
"Those eyes…" Akumi said, staring at Akari. Kota standing behind Izuku. Eraserhead maintained some distance with Midnight and Mount Lady at his defense. All Might uses this opportunity of distraction to turn the tables and pin Akumi down. "I'd appreciate it if you got off of me." A surge of strength pushed All Might away and up into the air. Akumi got back up as All Might landed back on the ground, "I should be taking my leave. There's a better time to destroy you."
"I DIDN'T WANT TO HAVE TO DO THIS BUT YOU LEFT ME WITH NO CHOICE." All Might charges at Akumi, winding up a punch. Akumi with open arms welcomed the punch as it landed directly in her abdomen.
Gusts of wind blew back the branches of the trees around. With a shock on everyone's face, Akumi was completely fine. "That hurts so much," Akumi said sarcastically. "Here, I should return the favor!" Akumi punches with the same amount of force and All Might manages to block the punch before it could hit his old injuries to his stomach, but the impact pushes All Might back.
"Akumi! Please Come Back To Your Senses!" Izuku shouts slowly approaching Akumi.
"YOUNG MIDORIYA STAND BACK! THIS PERSON IS MORE THAN YOU CAN HANDLE IN YOUR CURRENT CONDITION!"
Akumi looked towards Izuku, her left arm began to twitch for a moment, "Do you want to know why I was able to take control so easily? It was because of you." This statement stopped Izuku in his tracks. "Your sister has no ambition or drive to be a hero and is simply doing it because of you so it was quite easy to exploit her lack of resolve. It was because she wanted to be a hero with you she pushed the quirks to develop which in term awakened a certain dormant quirk she had locked away. A quirk if awakened makes her lose any semblance of control she has. And it's all your fault for pushing your idealism onto her."
"DON'T LISTEN TO HIM MIDORIYA! HE'S TRYING TO GET UNDER YOUR SKIN."
"Akari! Wait, stop!" Youta shouts because Akari managed to get out of Youta's grip by detaching one of her gauntlets.
"Akumi's resolve is Izuku!" Akari yells and in one jump she closes the distance between her and Akumi.
Akari tries to touch Akumi's body with the gauntlet she still has on but Akumi catches it by the wrist with her left arm. "Your family's eyes are quite special."
"Yeah and who asked!" Akari pushed a button on her boots and pressed the boot on Akumi's chest. High vibrations get sent directly to Akumi's heart.
Akumi then flung Akari up and let go of her after slamming her back to the ground causing a dust cloud."I would have let you touch me with that glove of yours but sadly she has some control after your little stunt. And you touching us would not be in favor of them," Akumi said as the smoke cleared.
A look of disbelief and terror showed on Akari's face as she gasped for air. Her red glow changes back to blue. Her determination to return Akumi to normal was broken, "That quirk. Why?"
"Why do you think her body was never found?"
"THAT'S ENOUGH OUT OF YOU! ALL FOR ONE!" All Might jump back in punching Akumi in the face, sending her into a nearby tree. Eraserhead moved to get visuals connected to Akumi and erased her quirk again. Midnight and Mount Lady took Akari, Izuku, Kota, and Youta evacuating them.
"I felt that one. It seems like you're finally taking this seriously but it looks like my escape route is here." A warp gate appears to the shock of All Might and Eraserhead.
"I WON'T LET YOU!" All Might throw a flurry of punches at Akumi but she dodges all of them.
"This body is also quite nimble you see. Ah, it looks like my signal went through." All For One see Eraserhead then moving quickly behind a tree with All Might's body blocking Eraserhead's visuals of herself for just a moment she says, "Bright Wind." A flash of light blinds All Might and Aizawa for just a second. When All Might and Eraserhead's eyes adjusted Akumi was gone.
"NOOOOO!"
"All Might!" Eraserhead shouts. "Calm down. Don't forget about the plan."
"Yeah, I know. But we wouldn't have to use it if I had just." Steam begins to emit off of All Might's skin as he punches the ground.
(Meanwhile Bokugo's events)
"Members of class A and B I hereby authorize you all for combat! We've Identified one of the villain's objectives! The student named Kacchan! Whoever Kacchan is! Avoid combat as much as possible. Refrain from solo movements!"
"I can focus if you get out of my damn head!" Bakugo said irritated hearing the nickname given by Izuku.
Sharp blades of teeth shoot at Bakugo and Todoroki blocks it with his ice. "Don't charge recklessly. Didn't you hear they're after you?"
"First run away, next fight, then run away again! I don't know how but I get this feeling it's Deku's fault!" Going to blow off one of the bladed teeth stuck in the ice. "I'll just do what I want! Whoa!" The teeth suddenly protrude towards Bakugo and he dodges it.
Todoroki summons more ice to the teeth connected to a man in a straightjacket, restricting his entire body except for his mouth which is forced open. "He's making great use of the terrain and his quirk."
"This freak looks like a scrawny little sidekick to me! Come on you bastard!"
"Show me… Flesh…" the man said.
Gunshots are fired off and bullets ping off the teeth. Looking towards where it came from Bakugo and Todoroki see Death Arms, Snipe, Shoji, and a giant-sized rampaging Dark Shadow following closely behind. "Bakugo! Todoroki! We need some light," shouted Shoji. "Tokoyami's on a rampage!"
Dark Shadow slams down the unsuspecting man in the straightjacket then at the voice of Shoji. "Attacking indiscriminately? A good fire should—"
"Wait, you moron."
The man in the straightjacket lifts himself with his teeth saying, "Flesh. No good. Need Flesh… Can't forgive you." The man's teeth quirk extended with his sharpened teeth outwards at Tokoyami as he passed by. "I'll be the one to slice them open! Don't steal from me!"
Dark shadow blocks and ensnares the teeth within itself then slams the man down to the ground, again and again, tearing off the restraint on his head and breaking some teeth. From there, Dark Shadow threw the man unconscious with a wide swing knocking down all the trees in its path.
Bakugo and Todoroki take this moment to jump in with their quirk shedding light onto Dark Shadow and calming it down. "I'm your worst possible matchup," said Bakugo using his stun grenade.
"Thank you. I'm saved," said a kneeling Tokoyami. "Shoji. I'm sorry. My spirit is still lacking. I gave in to rage and unleashed Dark Shadow. It was the darkness of night and my anger combined to spur him into a frenzy. He grew beyond my control and wound up injuring you."
"Save that for later Tokoyami. We are not out of the clear yet," said Snipe. "We apologize for having to rely on you two Bakugo, Todoroki. But we just didn't have the equipment or quirk at the ready to help Tokoyami."
"We can hear all about it from them when we're in a safe area, Snipe. For now, we need to move," said Death Arms surveying the area. Then tapping an earpiece he says, "B Group, Snipe, and I have Bakugo's location secure. Now returning to the facility."
"This situation… The heroes seem to be a little too prepared for this. This has the work of that Sponge all over this," said Bakugo.
"Alright the coast is clear, let's go." Death Arms takes the lead in front and Snipe takes the rear. Walking back down the pathway they meet up with Gunhead, Uraraka, and Tsuyu letting their guard down for a moment.
As they approached Gunhead mentioned, "Death Arms. You said you and snipe had Bakugo secured. So where are they?"
"What are you talking about they're…"
"Looking for him?" A voice said from atop a tree. Looking up they all see it was a masked man with a trench coat and top hat holding two light blue marbles. "I've taken him with my magic. He seems like he belongs with us more than with you. So we're going to put him on a stage where they could shine together."
"Gunhead!"
"You got it!" Gunhead points his gun-like organs in his arms.
"Not so fast," the masked man throws a marble at Gunhead, and out pops Snipe as he collides with Gunhead. He then taps his earpiece and says, "Vanguard action squad. The target has been successfully captured! Short though it was, our mission has come to an end. As planned, be at the evacuation point within five minutes of this transmission."
"Get down from there!" Death Arm punches the tree knocking it down.
The masked man, not saying anything more, started jumping from tree to tree running away. Snipe and Gunhead reorient themselves but Snipe's guns were missing while Gunheads shots weren't hitting. Death Arms and Gunhead chase after the man leaving the gunless Snipe to watch over the group.
"Snipe, not just Bakugo but Tokoyami is also missing," said Todoroki.
"Don't worry. I'm sure Death Arms and Gunhead will get them back."
"Yeah, Todoroki. I interned with Gunhead so I know how strong he is," Uraraka reassured.
"Who we should really be worried about is Akumi," said Tsuyu.
"These pro heroes are really persistent," said the masked man.
"You're not getting away," Gunhead shouts, shooting his arm gun at the man.
Death Arms taps his earpiece, "B Group! In need of assistance. Bakugo has been taken. I and Gunhead are currently in pursuit. We need someone with speed or range."
Coming to the clearing, Death Arms and Gunhead get hit with blue fire. Before any lasting damage could happen they moved out of the way. The man lands down next to Dabi, "Mister. You got Bokugo?"
"Naturally." The man took out two marbles.
"Those things look important! Don't mind if I take them." Jackal Lanturn said, flying in on his light swooping in quickly and snatching the two marbles.
"You fool…" Dabi states.
The man stretches his arm in front of Dabi stopping him, "No wait. It's been five minutes since the signal. Let's be off Dabi." Warp gates appear in front of Jackal Lantern and behind Dabi and the man.
"Hang on the target's still."
"It's a bad habit of mine. The tenets of magic states that flaunting a particular object is inevitably part of the trick." The man removes his mask to reveal two marbles in his mouth.
"Aw yes I know all too much about magic as a fellow magician myself," Jackal Lantern winks in a direction as he throws the marbles into the air right before they turn back revealing they were just tree trunks. Then a laser beam shoots out hitting the man's face, making him spit out the two marbles.
Dabi grabs one of the marbles in the air before it falls and says, "It's him. Go ahead and release them."
The man recovered and said, "Damn that pro hero. Trying to outdo my show." The man snaps his fingers and Tokoyami is on the ground and Dabi is holding onto Bakugo's nape.
"You're not the only one who can do magic with a snap," Jackal Lantern snaps his fingers and light enters the warp gate then pushes Dabi out of the warp gate and a barrier around Tokoyami.
"Nice try, but Mister. Marble it," Dabi said and the light gets marbled and Davi quickly drags himself and Bakugo into the warp gate before Jackal Latern can react.
"Crap… How am I going to explain this?" Jackal Lantern said, scratching his head as he looked towards Death Arms and Gunhead.
Through the warp gate, Shigaraki waited with the rest of the Vanguard Action Squad and did not have to wait any longer as here comes the man of the hour. "Katsuki Bakugo."
Dabi, his hand still on Bakugo's neck, said, "We should restrain him before talking any further. Who knows what she would do if he got tired of me holding him."
"Alright. I get it. Kurogiri."
"Understood." Kurogiri opened a warp gate and took out a metal restraint chair that would tie his legs to the legs of the chair. His hands are in a metal box in front of the chair and his lower arm is tied together. His torso wrapped around like a seatbelt of a car onto the chair.
"What do you bastards want with me," Bakugo asked.
"Lighten up a little. We only want to help you," said Shigaraki.
"Help me? Ha! With what?"
"We want you to join us." Another warp gate opens and the person walking out from it is Akumi.
"Join you? You're asking the wrong person."
"I already knew you'd be reluctant. But take your time to reconsider."
"You're gonna have to wait until I die before I consider any of your bull crap."
"Maybe having a familiar face would help change your mind." A warp gate then opens and Akumi shoots out from it hitting the wall.
"A-Akumi?" Bakugo questioned as Akumi got up, eyes shut, patting the dust off herself.
Akumi then walked over to Shigaraki and kneeled to him and said, "I have returned… Master."
"Stop with the pretend servitude. I know you're not mindless," said Shigaraki.
Akumi breathes in a sigh and got up opening her eyes revealing them to be red and looked at Bakugo. "Yeah. But didn't that make your heart race, Katsuki?"
"You took over again. Is this the side you mention? I joining the League of Villians. I thought you knew me better," Bakugo scoffs.
"No. I knew already that no matter what I say, it won't get you to join. But if I have some alone time to amplify that superiority complex of yours then maybe." Akumi goes to touch Bakugo with her right-hand but her left-hand goes held her back. "Of course, she wouldn't want that."
"So she's is still aware of her surroundings," Bakugo beings to laugh. "What is this some sort of sick revenge for all the bulling Deku?"
Shigiraki getting a bit irritated that this was getting nowhere said, "Kurogiri, I think we need to send our nomu to the doctor to get her to one-hundred percent."
"Yes, I agree." Kurogiri opens a warp gate.
"Ah, the doctor... I haven't seen him in a while. Welp, I'll see you when I get rid of her." Akumi begins to walk towards the warp gate.
"Akumi! If you can hear me! I just want to let you know that you're an idiot for thinking this would go as you planned!"
Akumi takes one step through the warp gate and then looks back with a sad smile on her face as her eyes turned yellow for a moment and she said, "I already know that you dumbass."