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1. You'll have to wait and see what will happen in the Preparation arc which I have planned as a fill in for the time between the MVA and the PLF War. The said arc will show our characters preparing for the upcoming conflict and show them have some wholesome moments with each other before the depression that will come with the War arc.
2. You'll get your answer soon. Especially since a certain detective was hinted to be a member of the MLA.
3. Yeah. I know what happened to Toga in one of the recent chapters. I have a few ideas how to handle this matter once we will reach the Final War arc.
4. I see. Seems like an interesting premise for a story.
I recently got an idea with Marvel and Hell elements in it as well. This story would a what if scenario of a sinner with the Spot's powers would find himself in Hell. As the time would pass, the sinner! Spot would end up discovering the part of his ability which allows himself to travel between the universes and being done with the other sinners treating him like their punching bag, he would evolve his abilities, becoming a threat for Lucifer himself.
5. A lot of them would definitely do, kinda how the characters from AOT like the Marleyan general or Reiner's mother realized their faults in what they thought would be their final moments until the Alliance arrived to stop Eren.
6. You'll see his reaction to it in this chapter. :)
7. I dunno. I'm not familiar with any of these franchises.
8. You'll have to wait and see until the Dark Deku arc. Maybe it will be brought up during it or not, considering Gareth will be facing his own problems during this arc. You'll see :)
THE-Twilight-BlazeKnight: Thank you once again for leaving a review! I'm glad you liked the chapter :)
1. Glad you liked Ayaka making her return in the story. I've been planning to have her join the PLF as a member of the medical personnel ever since I gave her character more thought. Just like you said, the medical personnel part of the PLF was not mentioned in the manga/anime and Ayaka seemed like the best character to have it mentioned. :)
Funfact: The two MLA members who greeted her were not OC's. The man with a modified scuba mask was the MLA member who killed Midnight and the hodded man was the spider guy from Spinner's arc in the final war.
2. Glad you liked the inclusion of Minene in this chapter. With her becoming a reccuring character in the story, I felt like this was the best way of introducing her properly and her thoughts on Gareth.
3. I'm glad you liked the scene of Gareth and Origami confessing their feelings to each other. I was looking forward to writing it for a long time. I'm planning to have some sweet scenes between them in the upcoming 'Preparation arc." and one of those chapters may include them going on their first date as a couple with each other :)
4. Glad you liked those interaction. Writing all of them was fun. Poor Origami. Even after she gets together with Gareth, Toga still finds new ways to tease her, lol.
5. Glad you liked the interaction between Gareth and Shigaraki. Writing these two together is always fun and I'm really going to miss writing these two together, considering Shigaraki will be away for the 'Preparation arc'.
6. Yup. Izuku is in for a challenge when it comes to making Gareth leave his current life as a villain.
7. Thanks for pointing out the Toga part in the PLF introduction. I had a feeling someone was missing when I was reading the chapter before posting it, but couldn't figure out who it was, no matter how many times I re-read this small segment.
8. You're right about the last words of Shigaraki's speech. I made sure to change it :)
9. You'll find out how the PLF will be organized soon :)
10. I have in plans to do a scene or two with the POV from the hero side of the story during the 'Preparation arc'.
11. You'll get a chance to see Gareth's reaction and her ass kissing soon :)
shadowlight27: I'm glad you're liking my story and I hope you'll like the rest of it as well! :)
1. Glad you're liking the way I'm building up the LOV characters. Coming up with everything for them was so much fun. Characters like Magne, Mustard, Rappa and Tengai don't get much spotlight in fanfictions and I decided to finally give them spotlight in this story.
2. You will get more interludes soon in the form of the 'Preparation arc'. It will act as s fill in for the time between the MVA and the PLF War and it will show our characters preparing for the upcoming conflict and show them have some wholesome moments with each other before the depression that will come with the War arc.
3. Gigantomachia is like he is with Ujiko when it comes to Gareth. He acknowledges him as Shigaraki's second in command but doesn't respect him the way he respects Shigaraki and All For One. Just like Ujiko, Gareth would have to use recording of either Shigaraki or All For One's voice to make him listen to him.
4. Gareth and Origami's parents might be brought up again at some point of the story. You'll have to wait and see :)
5. Interesting idea for the Gareth vs Geten fight :)
6. You may get a chance to see how 'Save Gareth' squad looks like in one of the two or three scenes from the hero side of the story I have planned for the Preparation arc.
Gareth and Origami held hands with each other as they walked together down the hallway of the mansion, having said goodbyes with the rest of the League and walked off in the directions of their rooms where they would rest for the night. Having already taken care of all the business they had today with the formation of the Paranormal Liberation Front and making sure Ujiko will fulfill his deal of their deal, they and the rest of the League retired themselves for the night and went to their personal rooms.
The villanous couple turned the corner and walked into a long hallway, beginning to walk forward themselves along it. They stopped in their tracks a few seconds alter, having just reached an entrance to one of the rooms in the mansion. They stopped in front of it as they knew it was one of their two destinations because this was a door leading to the room which was given to Gareth back when the League was brought here following their fight with the Meta Liberation Army.
Origami shifted her gaze away from the door to Gareth's room to him and smiled at him slightly, "Looks like this is where we part ways for the night."
"Yeah." Gareth returned her smile, pulling his hand away from hers, "I'll see you tommorow."
Origami nodded at him, her smile growing slightly wider, "Yeah. Until tommorow."
They leaned towards each other, sharing a quick goodbye kiss as they wished each other a good sleep tonight. Origami turned away from Gareth and pushed herself into walk forward herself towards the room at the end of the hallway. Upon being informed everyone from the League will receive their own room in the mansion, Origami and Gareth asked if they could have their rooms next to each other and Re-Destro nodded at them with a toothy smile on his face and them rooms in this part of the mansion.
The black haired boy smiled to himself, watching Origami make her way towards the entrance to her room as he shook his head to himself. Despite week passing they confessed their feeling for each other, he still couldn't believe he was now calling Origami his girlfriend. He never would have guessed she would become someone so important to him after he encountered her for the first time shortly after the USJ. He didn't think much of it, though. He knew he loved Origami and he doubted it would change.
He turned away from her a second later and pushed the door to his room open. He walked into his room, closing his door behind him and was immediately greeted by the sight of a massive room. Gareth looked around himself in a small awe evident on his face as he still couldn't believe this room was his. It was even bigger than any of the rooms in his family home and he was certain some people would exclaim how this room itself feels like a mansion on it's own after they would see it for the first time.
Gareth to admit to himself, though. He was suprised by the size of his room when he was shown around it for the first time as he got a chance to see the rooms given to his fellow members of the League before he was taken to his room. This suprise was caused by the fact his room was slightly bigger than theirs. His suprise didn't last long, though as he got the answer to this question when he was shown around Shigaraki's room and saw how his room was bigger than his. When assigning the rooms for the League, Re-Destro must have taken the fact how Shigaraki is the leader of the League and Gareth is the second command of it into consideration and gave them larger rooms than the rest of the League because of it.
"A room fitting for a king. How nice." He recalled Dabi making this comment when the League was shown Shigaraki's room as his attention remained on his new room.
The room had a massive bed in the middle of it. The black haired boy was taken by suprise by the size of it, having not seen a bed this large in real life until last week. Before last week, he had only seen beds this large in movies and video games. The rest of the room was nothing extraordinary as it had the equipment you'd normally see in a room. Because of it, however, the room felt a bit empty as it left a lot of free space. After pointing this out to Re-Destro, the former leader of the Liberation Army told him he and the rest of the League will get a chance to arrange their rooms however they desired with his company.
There was one more thing worth noting about Gareth's room. That something was a single door in the corner of the room. The said door were leading to Gareth's personal bathroom as each member of the League had a separate bathroom connected to their room. The saying the black haired boy was suprised by this revelation was quite the understatement as the thought of him receiving his own personal bathroom along with him had never crossed his mind after he was brought here for the first time.
Not wasting any time, Gareth pushed himself into walk towards his bed and smiled slightly as he neared it, knowing he will enjoy his sleep on it. This bed was the most comfortable bed he had slept on for all of his life and sleeping or just laying it on was a pleasure for him and his back. He reached his bed a second later and kicked off his shoes before laying down on it, smilling to himself at how comfortable he felt right now. No matter how many times he laid down on his bed, the feeling was always as comfortable as if it was his first time.
He sat up on his bed shortly after, knowing he should start preparing himself for the night before going to sleep. He took off his vest, tossing it towards the chair close to his bed as reached for his mask, intending to detach it from his shoulder before he will take off his hoddie. After detaching his mask from his shoulder, he held it in front of himself and stared at the eyelids of it, finding himself becoming lost in his thoughts as the thought of this room being larger than the one he had back in his family home made him think about people he hadn't thought about in a long time.
"...I wonder what they would think if they saw me right now?" Gareth thought to himself, referring to his parents as his eyes remained set on the eyelids of his mask. He allowed himself to be left in his thoughts regarding his parents, realizing how it really was a long time since he thought about them like this in the process. Everything that had happened recently with Gigantomachia and the Meta Liberation Army must have made him forget about them for a while.
It was when a certain set of words flew through his mind. Despite him not hearing them for a long time, he knew there were always there on the back of his mind because of how many times he heard them from his parents whenever they lectured them about how useless he was and how badly he was making them look for not keeping up with their image of people of success. His current situation of Shigaraki appointing him as the co-commander of the Paranormal Liberation Front must have brought those words back to him.
"Is it really this hard for you to start making a name for yourself? Is it really this hard for you to start doing something with your life and stop making our family look like a laughing stock?"
Gareth shook his head to himself, letting out a sigh as soon as those words flew through his mind. He remembered how many times his parents used words like this whenever they scolded him for not fitting to their standards or whenever someone went down between him and his bullies at school. He remembered how many times he felt by their words, how many times he forced himself to hold back tears and how many times he broke into tears after he was away from his parents, cursing himself for being so useless.
It made him realize how all the hurt he felt by it and the fear he felt towards his parents when they directed towards him was gone. It made him realize how little he felt towards his parents now aside from the anger he felt towards them for treating him the way they did. He spent all his life afraid of them and always was always terrified of their hurtful abuse and slaps whenever he did something to displease them during a lecture. Now all of those feelings were gone and he doubted anything would make them return.
"I guess I gave you what you wanted. I made a name for myself." He told himself internally shortly after those words flew through his mind, realizing how ended up making a name for himself, just like his parents were constantly telling him but didn't do it in the way they wanted him to. They will now always be known as the parents of the Mask and this thought alone was enough to make him form a smile on his face.
He smiled slightly to himself, thinking of how his parents must have reacted when the truth about him came out. He really wished he could be there to see their faces and reaction when the truth about him being the Mask came out. He knew their angered reaction for daring to do something to ruin their precious image and the fear caused by the thought their precious image being ruined would be a sight to see and knew he would enjoy every second of it if he actually got a chance to see it.
His parents weren't the only people he wished he saw the reaction of when him being the Mask became a known fact across Japan. He wished he got a chance to see the reaction of everyone. His teachers who always ignored what was happening to him. His classmates who liked to make fun of him and Izuku. His schoolmates who were a mixture of both. His bullies who always treated him like a sub-human. He wondered how did the react to the truth about him being the Mask and wished he was there to see their reactions to it. At least he got a chance to see reaction of one person and this person was Bakugo.
He shook his head to himself a few seconds later, pushing himself away from those thoughts as he knew he shouldn't be thinking about those people right now. He had a new family now. A family of people who cared about him and a family of people who he was ready to fight for to keep them safe and make sure they will have long happy lives now after they were spat out by the current system for not fitting their perfect image. Things like this were one of the things which were motivating him to keep doing what he is doing for the sake of his goal and what will keep motivating him to do it.
However, that didn't make him forget how much he wished the bullying he and Izuku endured at Aldera Junior High and how the teachers turned blind eye to it wouldn't remain covered up. When the truth about him came out, a part of him wished the truth Alder Junior High kept hidden from everyone came out as it would give him and Izuku some justice and show the public how people like them are treated nowadays. Unfortunely nothing happened and this truth remained hidden.
His eyes widened shortly after he thought about this, having just gotten an idea on how to deal with this. He could have make a video recording explaining everything about himself, including the bullying he suffered at Aldera Junior High and how the staff of the said school turned a blind eye to it and show it everyone in Japan. With him being now associated with someone like Skeptic, he could have easily distribute this video across Japan to make sure as many people as possible saw it and learned the truth.
He wasn't the only member of the League who could do something like this. With Kizuki doing interviews with everyone and Skeptic distributing it everywhere with his abilities, he and his fellow members of the League could share their histories and what drew them into becoming villains with as many people as possible. Origami would share the story of what she had suffered at the hands of her mother and in school. Twice would share the story of how he was abandoned when he needed help the most. Simply the stories of everyone from the League would be heard because of this.
The black haired boy nodded his head to himself, making a mental note of this idea for later as he knew he had to bring this up to everyone, no matter if they were from the League or from the Liberation Army sooner or later. He pushed the thoughts regarding this idea a few seconds later as he knew now it wasn't time to think about this. He knew he had to get some sleep for tommorow as he knew he had to be rested for the meeting he and Shigaraki had agreed to have with Ujiko tommorow.
He went back to what he was doing before he got himself occupied with his thoughts shortly after. When he was done a moment later, he was sitting on his bed in just his plain black T-shirt, his pant legs rolled up and was barefooted. He looked down at the clothed he will sleep in tonight, shaking his head to himself at them being just his regular clothes. He will really have to get himself some sleepwear as soon as possible. The same goes for him arranging the rest of his room. He will take care of it after his meeting with Ujiko tommorow, though.
Gareth wasted no time as turned around and crawled over to his pillows. After putting his mask on the cupboard next to his bed, the black haired boy laid down on his bed and covered himself with his duvet. He closed his eyes upon making sure he was comfortable enough, intending to get some sleep for his meeting with Ujiko tommorow and slowly drifted into sleep, ending the day for himself.
It was the next day and a portal opened itself out of nowhere in the middle of Ujiko's laboratory. Ujiko kept Johnny on his knees, watching how two familiar people in the form of Shigaraki and Gareth popped into existance right before him as he watched everything from his chair. Gareth and Shigaraki exchanged glances with each other upon finding themselves in Ujiko's laboratory and looked around themselves, trying to see if the laboratory had changed in any way since their last visit to it a month and a half ago.
It didn't took them long to realize how the laboratory had not changed in any way since the last time both of them were here. It was still filled with dozens of water tanks, each containing a single Nomu within it. After taking a quick look around the laboratory, both of them looked ahead of themselves as they remembered where Ujiko was the last time they were here. They were right to look in this direction at first as the said eldery man showed up in their view as soon as they did. Just like before, he was sitting on his chair in front of a set monitors.
"Good boy, Johnny." Ujiko praised Johnny for doing his work well as he gave the said Nomu an affecionate pat on it's head and gently set it down on the floor. He set his eyes on Gareth and Shigaraki right after, "Shigaraki! Gareth! Good to see you two in person again!"
Gareth nodded at him, returning his greeting, "The feeling is mutual, Doctor."
"At least we didn't see each other this time with a big gap between meetings, huh?" Ujiko asked, letting out a chuckle.
Shigaraki shrugged, "I suppose."
Ujiko stayed for the next few seconds after greeting his guests. He allowed himself to eye their appearances up and down, "My. Both of you have changed in your appearance since out last meeting. Especially you Shigaraki. You're starting to resemble All For One more with your new suit and your new white hair hair. Though, I have to say. I never thought I would see you in a suit like this."
"You're not the only one." Shigaraki told him, having lost the count of how many he was told this by someone who knew him. Most of the League had told him this after he approached him with this outfit on himself, "This is a common reaction to everyone who knows. Can't say everyone for having this kind of reaction to it."
Ujiko nodded at him and shifted his gaze to Gareth, "Gareth. You have changed slightly as well. Not as much as Shigaraki, though. I can see you've received a new scar on your face."
"Yeah." Gareth nodded in confirmation, unsure of how else he should reply to this as he ran his hand along the scar on his face. It was when his mind flashed back to Minene, the woman who had given him this scar back during the fight in Deika City. It was really an interesting turn of event with this woman as she now, according to everyone who had talked with her, became his number one fan after his rampage following the evolution of his Quirk. He still didn't got a chance to talk with her in person, though.
"Can we go straight to business?" Shigaraki wanted to go straight to business, "Your part of the deal. You told us you will fulfill your part of the deal when we talked with you last night. We're here now. Get to it."
"You don't need to worry about me not keeping my word, Shigaraki. I know what I told both of you during our conversation last night and I intend to fulfill it." Ujiko replied, brushing off Shigaraki's concerns as his chair moved across the floor closer to Shigaraki and Gareth, suprising them a little, "However, before we will get to it, there are a few matters we need to discuss."
Gareth looked at him in interest, "What do you want to discuss with us?"
"I want to talk with you about my beloved Nomus and tell you everything you need to know about them." Ujiko voiced his intentions to them, "I'm certain my beautiful creations will become handy to you after you will make your move with the Paranormal Liberation Front, whenever it will happen and you need to know everything about them for this."
"Fine." Shigaraki nodded, glancing to his side at the Nomu next to him, "It will be nice to finally learn more about those things."
Gareth nodded in agreement, looking interested to learn more about Nomus, "Yeah. Despite us using them since the USJ, we still don't know much about them,"
"Glad to see both of you are eager to known more about my creations." Ujiko nodded, pleased by both Shigaraki and Gareth wanting to know more about his Nomus, "Now, let's get to it, shall we? I hope you will listen to all of it and won't miss anything because this will be a lengthy explanation and missing one detail from it may be tragic in results."
Gareth and Shigaraki nodded at him, both of them making sure to listen to everything he would say to them about Nomus in the upcoming unknown amount of time as Ujiko's electric hair turned around, making him look at water tank with Nomu next to him right now. He put his hand in front of his mouth as he cleared his throat, looking rather excited to explain details about his Nomus to Shigaraki and Gareth and wasted no time when it came beginning his explanation of this topic to her.
The two villains exchanged glances with each other as the minutes passed and Ujiko went further into his explanation, sharing every possible detail about his Nomus with them he could. Neither Shigaraki and Gareth voiced their complains about him taking his time to explain everything to them and patiently listened to everything his explanation had to offer instead. Because of this, the two villains managed to learn some interesting facts about Nomus neither of them weren't told by All For One before and learned everything they had to know about certain types of Nomus.
The first type of Nomus were the Lower-Tier Nomus. They served as foot soldiers, and even though they were the weakest type of Nomu, they are still strong enough to overpower minor Pro Heroes and usually needed a voice command from a designated keeper to perform an attack. Ujiko made sure to give Shigaraki and Gareth an example of a Lower-Tier Nomu when he reached the end of his explanation about the said type of Nomu, pointing out how Johnny, the teleportiong Nomu, was considered a Lower-Tier Nomu.
The second type of Nomus were the Middle-Tier Nomus. Ujiko explained to them how those Nomus were more powerful than the Lower-Tier Nomus in terms of strength and many other things. After reaching the end of his explanation about them, he made sure to give them an example or rather examples of a Lower-Tier Nomus as well. The examples he had brought up to them were the Chainsaw Nomu from the time they attached U.A's summer camp and the Flying Nomu they released into Hosu City after their meeting with Stain.
The third type of Nomus were the Upper-Tier Nomus. According to Ujiko, the Upper-Tier Nomus could contend with top Pro Heroes, being even stronger than the Middle-Tier Nomus and each of them possessed the Super Regeneration Quirk. The last thing he told Shigaraki and Gareth about them was how this type of Nomus were at least as strong as ten average people combined. Afterwards, he gave them an example of such a Nomu and the example he gave them was the Nomu from the USJ, confirming to them just how strong this type of Nomu was.
The fourth type of Nomus were the High End Nomus. Those type of Nomus completely outclassed the other types of Nomus, possessing stats well beyond those of the Upper-Tier Nomu, with superior strength and possessing up to six Quirks. According to Ujiko, they could even overpower the top Pro Heroes. However, what caught Shigaraki and Gareth's attention about them was the fact they could talk and all of them had ability to think for themselves. Ujiko finished his explanation about them by telling Shigaraki and Gareth how without All For One's power, the production of the High-Ends was tremendously arduous and difficult. He followed this explanation by giving them an example of a Nomu like this and told them the Nomu 'Hood' he had Dabi and Mustard test for him was a High-End.
The fifth and the last type of Nomus were the Near High-End Nomus. They were an incomplete form of the top-grade Nomus, they were stronger than the Upper-Tier Nomus, possessing phenomenal strength, but couldn't think for themselves and hadn't entered their testing phase. They were said to possess the same level of strength and speed as the High-End Nomu, but they lacked their intelligence. Unlike the previous types of Nomus, Ujiko didn't gave them an example of it as the League hadn't gotten a chance to work with one before.
"...This marks an end of my explanation of my beloved Nomus to you. Now, let's move further into my laboratory and I..." Ujiko said, moving forward himself in his electric chair as Shigaraki followed him, wanting to know what else Ujiko was planning on telling him and Gareth.
Unlike Shigaraki, Gareth didn't follow Ujiko and remained where stood instead. He didn't listen to what Ujiko was saying right now as well, finding himself too lost in this thoughts as he stared at the water tankw ith the Near High-End Nomu next to him. He didn't know but he felt oddly drawn to this one Near High-End. He just couldn't understand why. It was a Near High-End Nomu like any other and yet something was drawing him towards it.
"Gareth." Shigaraki called out for him a few seconds later as Gareth broke himself out of his state and shifted his attention to him and Ujiko. He saw his partner looking at him questioningly, "What's up? You've been staring ahead of yourself for several seconds."
"I've been asking myself the same question. I was about to call out for you myself." Ujiko nodded in agreement, smilling slightly as he recognized the Nomu Gareth had been staring at a second ago.
"Nothing. I just lost myself in my thoughts. I'm sorry." Gareth explained himself to them, offering them a quick apology in the process as he made his way back to them. He shifted his gaze between them questioningly a second after reaching them, "Did I missed anything important in the Doctor's explanation. If yes, then I'm sorry."
Ujiko brushed his concerns, "You got lucky. What I just said to Shigaraki wasn't anything too important. I was about to tell him something important but stopped myself after seeing how you were not standing next to him."
"I see." Gareth nodded in understanding, happy he didn't miss anything important from Ujiko's explanation, "Can I ask you something before we'll get to it?"
Ujiko looked at him questioningly, "What is it?"
"What are the Nomus made of?" Gareth voiced his question to him, "I don't think I've ever been told this fact."
"Hmm. I see. Now that you mentioned it, you were indeed never told what my creations are made of." Ujiko hummed, putting his hand on his chin as he nodded at Gareth. Shigaraki rubbed his neck, having realized Gareth had indeed been never told what was used to make Nomus, "Very well. I'll tell you this. With everything I've told you and Shigaraki about Nomus, it would be foolish of me to keep this information away from you."
Gareth nodded at him, "Alright."
"The Nomus were from human corpses." Ujiko explained as Gareth's eyes widened at this information, getting a chuckle out of the eldery man, "Why do you look so suprised, Gareth? What did you think was used to create them?"
Gareth stayed silent for a few seconds, allowing himself to process this information, "...All of the Nomus here and all of the Nomus we used in the past used to be humans?"
"Yes." Shigaraki nodded in confirmation.
"Do you have any problems with it?" Ujiko wanted to know, looking at Gareth with a careful look on his face as Shigaraki looked at Gareth with an interested look on his face, interested in seeing what he will tell Ujiko.
Gareth stayed silent for the next several seconds, allowing himself to think about his answer to Ujiko's question, before he will give it to him. Did he have a problem with Nomus being made of human corpses? This question flew through his mind many times as he left himself in his thoughts regarding this matter. As he continued to think about this topic, he recalled Ujiko telling him how he used corpses to make Nomus and this particular fact helped him figure out his answer to the question the eldery man had just asked him.
"...Were those people alive when you turned them into Nomus?" He asked, pushing himself out of his silent state several seconds later.
Ujiko shook his head, "No. All of them were dead. I did just tell you I used corpses when making them."
"I see." Gareth nodded in understanding.
"So do you have a problem with it or not?" Ujiko wanted to be sure if they just encountered a problem or not.
"No. I don't have a problem with it. You said it yourself. Those people were already dead when you turned them into Nomus." Gareth gave him an honest answer, letting him know he had no problem with how the Nomus were created as Shigaraki smiled at Gareth and his answer. Ujiko narrowed his eyes at the black haired boy, wanting to know if his words were genuine or not. He nodded to himself in a satisfied manner shortly after, seeing his words were indeed genuine.
"Very well." The eldery man nodded, satisfied by this answer as he went back to what he was planning to tell Shigaraki and Gareth before the latter brought up the matter of what was used to make Nomus to him. Not wasting any time, he voiced what he was planning to say to them as both Shigaraki and Gareth listened to him. Gareth saw Shigaraki smilling at him a few seconds later and Gareth smiled back at him, both of the proceeding to listen to Ujiko's explanation of something.
After giving Shigaraki and Gareth a tour across a good portion of his laboratory and explaining to them everything they had to know about the Nomus, Ujiko took Gareth and Shigaraki to the last part of their tour. The last part of their tour was an operation room where Ujiko will fulfill his part of the deal with Shigaraki and give him the power he had promised him back when the League encountered Gigantomachia for the first time and were told to fight him and make him respect Shigaraki in order to gain help from Ujiko.
The black haired boy shook his head to himself. He couldn't believe it happened only a month and a half ago. It really felt like it was much longer to him because of what happened with the Meta Liberation Army and the formation of the Paranormal Liberation Front. It sometimes suprised by him by how everything that happened since he killed Pro-Hero Cyborg happened in less than a year. It really felt like much more time had passed ever since it happened, considering every event he had been a part of since then.
He pushed himself out of those thoughts shortly after and looked around the operation room, allowing himself to get to know the place where Shigaraki will get his promised power better. If he was honest with himself, it looked exactly like he would expect from a room like this. The wall were mostly white and it was filled with various medical equipment he did not know the names of as he wasn't really an expert when it came to medical stuff. He will have to ask Ujiko what are the names of all this equipment if he wanted to know this.
"...In the previous battle. Your Quirk 'blossomed' so to speak." Ujiko's words brought Gareth away from his observation of the operation room as he shifted his attention to him, seeing the eldery man looking at Shigaraki as he went further into what he was saying right now, "Your decay is no longer limited to what you touch. Rather anything connected to what you touch will decay as well. You have become destruction incarnate. Forgive me for asking, but for what reason you seek power beyond even this?"
Shigaraki pulled out his face-hand and looked down at it with a smile slowly forming on his face, "Well, you said you'd give me power so I'm gonna take it. Sure. I might not need your petty trick anymore but the power is still far from unrivaled." He showed him off the damage his arm had substained when he used his power during his fight with Re-Destro, "Just look at this arm. It's like this after just one time at full power. How many people do you think they've got?"
The white haired young man glanced at Gareth a second later, taking a short pause in what he was saying to Ujiko as Gareth returned his glance. Both of them exchanged glances with each other and nodded, coming to a mutual understanding with each other without saying any words. Shigaraki went back to what he was saying to Ujiko right after, knowing exactly what he was going to say to the eldery man.
"...Both of us won't underestimate them again." He went further into his explanation to Ujiko, "Both of uf are going to crush this society and remake into something better. The next time will be the last part of the destruction part of our plan. Afterwards we will go straight to the rebuilding part of it."
"So you're gonna go full power against them, huh? You really take after All For One. Don't you?" Ujiko laughed as he stepped closer to a bunch of monitors, gesturing to them, "This research was originally started to support All For One. It is a Quirk that expands, so to speak. With each generation, it becomes more impure, more ambiguous and more powerful. Many manifestations are unwieldly. Though our minds are adaptable and expansive, our hardware can't evolve fast enough to keep up with such power. I have observed this progression and I call it. "The Quirk singularity.""
"The Quirk singularity. I've heard about this theory." Gareth stated as Ujiko stared at him silently. His eyes widened, having just realized something, "Are you the one who came up with this theory doctor?"
"Yes." Ujiko nodded in confirmation as Gareth's eyes widened further at this confirmation. Just as the black haired boy was about to ask him something, he added, "I'm certain you are wondering why am I still alive, despite all this time passing."
Gareth nodded in confirmation, "Yes. I was about to ask you about this myself, doctor."
"I see. Allow me to to explain it you and Shigaraki, then." Ujiko nodded back at him, clearing his throat, "You see, you two. The answer to this question is rather simple. My Quirk is called Life Force. It grants me an extended lifespan and a more youthful appearance than his true age, although I still appear fairly elderly."
Gareth nodded in interest, "I see. For how long have you lived, doctor? The person who came up with the theory of the Quirk singularity would have been over 100 years old at this point."
"Your guess was close to my true age, Gareth." Ujiko chuckled, his eyes not leaving the monitors in front of him, "At this point I'm over 120 years old."
Gareth felt his eyes slightly widen at this, "Over 120 years old?"
Shigaraki set his face-hand aside, crossing his arms, "Well, shit. I never thought I would say to you out of all people this but you look younger than you are."
"This is something you can thank my Quirk for." Ujiko chuckled, "No one took my research seriously, except All For One, of course. If our bodies can't harness memory and power, humanity will become unstable. Signs of this began showing up as early as the fourth Quirk generation. All For One recognized that the problem with capacity."
"How long will this take, Doc?" Shigaraki wanted to know how long it will take Ujiko to grant him the power that he had promised ihm.
Ujiko looked over his shoulder at him with an amused look on his face, "Aww. You're like a kid waiting for Christmas morning!"
Shigaraki smirked at him, "Can you blame me? I'm overflowing with beautiful dreams."
Ujiko chuckled, "It will take about four months."
"Four months, huh?" Shigaraki's smirk grew wider s he shifted his gaze to Gareth, "Good thing I already assigned someone as my second in command in the Liberation Front."
Gareth nodded at him, knowing four months was more than enough to prepare everything, "You don't need to worry about anything, Tomura-kun. I'll make sure to prepare everything for return. You'll see. The heroes won't know what hit them after we will begin."
"All For One was right to place both of you in the League together." Ujiko stated as Shigaraki and Gareth shifted their attention back to him, both of them looking at him questioningly, "I'll be honest with you two here. I had my doubts when All For One told me about his plans to place both of you together in the League because of how different you were from each other. I was afraid you two wouldn't work well with each other because of this and my worries only increased after I saw how the first interaction between you two went. I'm glad I was wrong, though."
"If you say so." Shigaraki replied as he and Gareth exchanged glances with each other. Neither of them said much about it as Ujiko had already told them something similiar to this during their meeting with him a month and a half ago and both of them had already accepted this at this point, "What will happen during those four months when it comes to you and me? Give me a hint."
"Such a curious young man you are, hmm?" Ujiko stated as Shigaraki rolled his eyes at him, "For those four months, your life will be one of hellish agony. When you come out on the other side, if you survive, the world will be in the palm of your hand. Even One For All."
Gareth looked at Ujiko questioningly, recalling Ujiko telling him about it last night after the formation of the Paranormal Liberation Front, "One For All? You mentioned it to me last night."
"Yes. Of the many designs your master had for this world, that power was the only one that didn't end up going to plan. was a serious one which needed to be remedied." Ujiko nodded as he shifted his gaze to Shigaraki, "Gareth. You may want to find a place to sit down. This story is quite long and I would like to share every possible detail of it with you."
Gareth nodded at Ujiko and looked around himself, trying to locate a place he could sit on in the room. It wasn't long until a single chair in the corner of the room caught his attention. He made his way over to it and sat down on it. He looked back at Ujiko again, wanting to tell him he can begin his story and saw Shigaraki taking his seat on the operating table in the middle of the room, silently wanting for Ujiko to begin his explanation. The black haired boy nodded at the eldery man right after, telling him to start his explanation of One For All.
Ujiko nodded back at Gareth, beginning his explanation right after. He told him everything. He told him about the story of All For One and his Quirkless brother Yoichi. He told him how All For One gave his Quirkless brother a Quirk and how this Quirk allowed him to stockpile power within his body. However, unbeknownst to either one of them, Yoichi already had a Quirk with no other power than that it could be transferred to another person. The transference Quirk and the power stockpiling Quirk merged to form One For All.
He went further into the story and told him how Yoichi went against his brother and failed because of the huge difference in their strength. However, it wasn't the end of One For All as the said power could be given to someone else by it's current user. It resulted in an on-going battle between the users of One For All and All For One as All For One sought out One For All and attempted to take it from all of it's users, resulting in all of the users passing the said Quirk to someone else and dying by his hand.
Gareth asked Ujiko just how many users of One For All were out there after this part of his explanation and Ujiko told him how the current user of it was the ninth one. He told him how the eight user of it was All Might himself and how he passed down One For All to a certain Quirkless boy. It was when Ujiko told Gareth who he and All For One suspected or rather were certain received One For All from All Might. This person was no other than Izuku.
"...And that's the story of One For All to this point." Ujiko finished his explanation of One For All to Gareth as Gareth stared silently at him, allowing himself to process everything he had just learned from Ujiko. After the black haired boy remained silent for the next several seconds, Ujiko called out for him, "Gareth. Are you there?"
"Yes. It's just. I have to process everything." Gareth pushed himself out of his silent state, putting his hand over his forehead as he allowed himself to process everything. He shook his head to himself as he couldn't believe such turn of events, "I just can't believe Midoriya-kun is the current wielder of this One For All."
Ujiko nodded at him, "Yes. I understand this information must have come as a shock to you. I'm aware of the friendship you to have had with each other before you encountered All For One." Gareth chuckled dryly, once again shaking his head as Ujiko raised his brow at him, "What's so funny?"
"It's nothing. I just realized how sick of a irony this is." Gareth responded and wasted no time when it came to explaining Ujiko what he meant as both Ujiko and Shigaraki listened to him in interest, "Both me and Midoriya-kun were born Quirkless and both of us ended up receiving our Quirks from someone. What makes this irony even more sick is the fact that people we have received our powers from are sworn enemies."
"I suppose you're right if you put it like this." Shigaraki admitted, nodding bis head.
"Even All For One was suprised at this turn of events. He never expected you would be friends with someone who would become the future wielder of One For All when he brought you in all this time ago." Ujiko nodded in agreement. He looked at Gareth questioningly right after, feeling like there was something he had to ask him about, "Tell me now Gareth. Now that you know about Midoriya Izuku being the current wielder of One For All, will it change anything in your and Shigaraki's goal?"
"No. It doesn't change anything about our goal." Gareth shook his head, "I already told this to my comrades from the League and I will say this to you. I'm not going to let my feelings and my friendship with Midoriya-kun get in the way of accomplishing our goals. Especially now since we have come so far and have a literal army under our command."
"What will do if you encounter him again, though?" Ujiko wanted to know, "I'm not talking about the way you encountered each other back at the USJ or U.A summer camp. I'm talking about the type of encounter when you will have time to talk with each other."
"I don't know. We'll have to wait and see how it happens. Whenever it will happen and whatever will lead to this." Gareth gave him an honest answer, "I'm certain nothing will make my abandon my comrades, though. The League gave me a place to belong and were the only people aside from him who didn't treat me like a sub-human. All of them were more of a family to me than my own parents were in my entire. They all mean to me a lot and I will not abandon them."
"Very well." Ujiko nodded, satisfied with his answer as Shigaraki directed a small smile towards Gareth and they way he talked about their comrades from the League. He clasped his hands together shortly after, shifting his gaze between Shigaraki and Gareth, "Well, that's everything. I fulfilled my part of the deal with you Gareth. Now all I need to do is to take care of Shigaraki."
"When will we start?" Shigaraki wanted to know, "I can start anytime."
"Soon. I just need to get everything ready for it and we can start." Ujiko replied as Shigaraki nodded at him. The eldery man shifted his attention back to Gareth a second later, having someone he wanted to ask him him about, "As I will prepare everything for Shigaraki's operation, there's something I need to ask you to do for me, Gareth."
Gareth looked at him questioningly, "What is it?"
"Let's just say I may have a job for you and the rest of your and Shigaraki's little organization." Ujiko explained as Gareth looked at him in interest, wondering what the job Ujiko wanted him and the rest of the League do.
Aaand with this chapter we have officially passed the mark of 30 chapters in this story! :)
We have officially closed off the MVA arc. I can definitely tell it was my favourite arc to write in this story so far, despite it being the most exhausting part of the story to write at the same time. The next chapter will cover the events of the second movie and afterwards we will get a few chapters of the PLF's preparation for the war, with some wholesome moments between our characters every now and then before the depression that will come with the War arc:)
The fourth MHA movie was announced and I'm interested to see how it will go. Hopefully it won't affect the quality of season 7.
Watched My Clueless First Friend. It was a nice wholesome show. It was definitely a nice change from the last anime I watched which was Happy Sugar Life.
Played My Friendly Neighborhood and had some fun with it. Good to finally get a mascot horror game that isn't a lazy cashgrab. I'm now thinking about buying this new Texas Chainsaw Massacre game.
Re-played the original Modern Warfare as well out of boredom and got an idea for a crossover story between the original MW Trilogy and Oshi no Ko. The story would follow an OC by the name of Dylan Owens codenamed Spider. This story would begin shortly after the events of the first game from original MW trilogy and would begin with the MC moving into an apartament he had rented for himself in Japan after events of the first MW Game to take a break from his work at SAS for his mental health. His apartament would happen to be next to Ai's and her family. The rest of the story would show Dylan's recovering from the events of the first MW game, ending with him getting an offer to join 141 and setting up a sequel which will cover the events of MW2 and MW3.
Hope it wasn't so bad. See you in another chapter.