In Kamino's aftermath, our characters are forced to adapt and change to their new world and new setting, unsure of how to go forward in a world that has suddenly become so much more uncertain...
But then, a new threat emerges, making plans for their own.
For a great hunt has begun, in this latest arc: Hunted!
Several days after the Kamino Incident, the remaining students of Class 1-A and B, including Momo and Hatsume, all now having healed from the mass poisonings and injuries, meet up outside of U.A. with Peter and his friends at F.E.A.S.T., and discuss what to do next. The various members of the Future Foundation, both the ones in and out of U.A., would agree to continue their operations with F.E.A.S.T., and plan to carry on as normal. However, others counter that nothing for them can be the same anymore, especially with Peter's friends sneaking out and joining up with a known criminal in an act that was clearly vigilantism, and now being kicked out of U.A. for it, putting all of their futures in danger if not for F.E.A.S.T. and the Future Foundation's connections, as well as the support of Adriana. They're lucky as it is that they're not all in prison.
Iida is the one to spearhead this line of thinking. His unresolved bitterness over Stain would only grow with the anger, shame, and humiliation of being expelled from U.A., especially when he had never even intended on getting involved for fighting the villains to begin with. Even the comforting words of his friends would provide no medicine for his anger. As such, he begins to take it out on Peter and anyone who would go against the law, such as those who went to go after Peter and those who knew about their attempt but didn't do anything about it. Worse yet, his thoughts would begin to darken as well, as he wonders why Peter didn't just kill his villains and be done with it when they had the chance. He ends up sparking an argument within the group and leaves at its end, forcing the rest of the gathering to break up and go their own separate ways, left to ruminate over what they are supposed to do now.
But unfortunately, they wouldn't have long to think about this, as a new threat finally rears its head.
Kraven the Hunter, now with an army of hunters made up of the thugs and mercenaries who would've been in the USJ in canon, but now highly trained and armed with all sorts of weapons, has taken advantage of the chaos around the aftermath of the Kamino incident, and had begun a new hunt across the entirety of Japan.
Kraven is dying. He has been diagnosed with a neurodegenerative disease that is slowly eating away at him from the inside, and he has decided that he would rather die on his feet and in the thrill of a hunt rather than die in his sickbed.
This would be Kraven's Last Hunt, and it would only end when he had the head of this world's strongest warrior, or when one who was worthy of his life would grant him an equally worthy death.
Soon enough, Kraven would hijack the local news station, announcing his intent to the world and his declaration to fulfil his final hunt and be felled by whomever was worthy enough to be his killer, and he goes on to invite everyone and anyone to try.
Not too long after, Kraven's hunters spread out across the city, and begin several bloody strings of brutal murders on all sorts of powerful quirk users, hunting down and killing heroes, villains, and civilians alike, all in the name of finding more and more prey to take as trophies, and to find the perfect death as well.
During all of this, Peter and his friends would be forced to lock themselves away within F.E.A.S.T., unsure of whether they should be intervening against Kraven and his hunters in the wake of everything that happened in Kamino and their being expelled from U.A.. Peter would be the most torn about this, as he knows how dangerous Kraven truly is, but cannot help but ponder the consequences that would befall his friends if he was to go out and try to track him down once more. It wasn't like any of them had a choice in the matter anymore, as several pro heroes would be placed around their homes and F.E.A.S.T., making sure that all of their movements are monitored and that they don't go off on a vigilante spree again. Essentially, they were prisoners within their own homes.
Meanwhile, All Might and many of the top pro heroes would be sent out against Kraven's hunters, but even without his canon career-ending injuries and his Villainbuster suit, he is still injured from the battle, and is demoralised from his successor being kicked from U.A. and losing his quirk, and thereby his own leaving of U.A.. But even with that, he tries his best to take down the hunters, but Kraven and his goons would outsmart him every step of the way, Kraven himself enjoying the idea of confronting All Might and either ending his life or being ended by the number one hero.
Soon enough, Kraven and his goons would finally confront All Might, and despite his strength and power, despite his years of experience in fighting villains of all walks of life…
All Might would be defeated by Kraven, who used tricks, traps, and his cunning to defeat the number one hero.
The main reason for him being able to do this? All Might has decades of experience with fighting people, and as such always subconsciously pulls his punches. Kraven has decades of experience with killing them, and does not hold back his strength at all.
When Kraven confronts All Might in his deflated form, he is not pleased with this hunt, but is enraged that someone who is so mortally wounded, as in missing half his stomach and with mangled organs, could think themselves worthy of facing him when they are not at full strength, and deems him not worthy of killing, leaving All Might behind to recover in shame.
Soon enough, Kraven begins to bring more people into his pack of hunters, including the likes of the Volcano Thieves and Curator and Bearhead of the Wild Villains, all with a particular vendetta against Spider-Man. Even worse, he orchestrates a massive prison escape of all of Spider-Man's minor villains (the likes of the Sinister Six, save for the uncaptured Green Goblin, had been thrown into Tartarus) and several others, but instead of setting them all free, he would have them all captured by his hunters for his own purposes, all for the sake of his final hunt.
Meanwhile, Peter would start to become antsy and desperate to try and defeat Kraven, especially when he hears of the prison breakout and subsequent deaths and disappearances of several heroes and civilians. However, he continuously finds his hands tied by the heroes, who are eager to stop him from running off and going vigilante once again. Worse yet, several heroes have begun to threaten F.E.A.S.T.'s operations, threatening to arrest the former villains, and anyone else, sheltering inside, and mocking the ex-students for being removed from U.A.. This greatly demoralises the former students, and leaves them without much of a future left for them, despite what their friends say.
Worst of all the ex-students is Iida, who's been left in a very dark place in the wake of his brother's death and his lack of resolution to his anger over Stain's death. His family agency has disbanded due to both Tensei's death and his expulsion from U.A., since the former was the driving force behind the agency in its modern day and the latter because such an expulsion was a black mark against the Iida family's pride, meaning that they couldn't have him take up the family mantle and inherit the agency, and as such there was no longer a reason to keep it together if he could no longer become a hero. As such, Iida is now considered the black sheep of the family and has left him with next to no people in his family to talk to and express his darkening thoughts and growing anger. His friends would try to talk to him about it, seeing how his rage and directionless need for revenge is beginning to consume him, but he just cuts them off and out of his life, wanting to be on his own now.
Unfortunately, Iida would not have much time left to ruminate on their thoughts, nor would Peter or the other ex-students. F.E.A.S.T. would be attacked by the hunters and soaked in sleeping gas, as would the ex-students in their homes, and other heroes and villains alike, and they are all kidnapped by the villains...
All for the sake of the greatest hunt that the world has ever seen.
People might be wondering as to how All Might lost to Kraven and might come to the conclusion that I am unfairly favouring one property over the other as a result of this, and you might not be wrong by coming to that conclusion.
In a straight fight, All Might would wipe the floor with Kraven, in the same way that Superman would turn Batman into a splatter on the wall if they were to square up in a straight battle. Hell, in the Deadpool manga, All Might showed up just to punt Thanos into space (look this up, I cannot make it up), so it's fair to say that in a straight, fair battle, All Might would easily defeat Kraven every single time.
However, allow me to make another comparison to a fight between Batman and Superman, and highlight how almost every single time, Batman, in all his powerlessness against the Man of Steel, comes out with the victory.
And the reason for this? Batman never fights fairly. He always finds a way to tip the scales to his favour, always seeks an advantage over his foes, and never fights without a backup plan and a backup plan for his backup plan. He'll use every trap and trick in the book to etch out a victory and will never even think about fighting any engagement fairly, especially against the likes of a nigh invincible alien from outer space.
Therefore, it is in my opinion that Kraven, who has been hunting and killing people, even superpowered mutants and so on, would apply the same methodology to the likes of All Might, always taking advantage of his weaknesses and claiming every advantage that he could get his hands on.
Plus, like I said above, All Might has experience in fighting people, whereas Kraven has experience in killing them. These are two very different fields, and it is why I feel that Kraven the Hunter has the advantage over All Might and takes the win from him.
Plus, I need to find a way to make sure that I don't just solve every problem that I present to the main characters with 'Throw All Might at it'. Seriously, All Might is so strong that it makes every conventional threat that Spider-Man and everyone else might fight almost silly and wasteful as you can just toss All Might at the problem and let him sort it out. Inuniverse, it's very handy, but from a writer's perspective, it makes it very difficult to write believable scenarios with a walking deus ex machina wandering about.
In the next arc, Iida comes to the forefront and is forced to make a decision that will shatter lives and change his life forever, as Kraven's Last Hunt begins...
